Well it is 2019 and this is the first update of the year. I had wished I had chapters of other stories ready but I have none to give. I rather like to start this year on a high note so I got two ideas to show today. One is a new idea for a possible story and the other is an extra scene for an idea already shown before but one I think you would all enjoy.

This one is the new idea and is also a Naruto/Percy Jackson story but a little different. Not much else to say besides enjoy the preview and pay attention to the note at the end of the chapter.


The Sage of the Goddess'

Inside a gleaming chrome dinner many families were eating burgers while drinking malts or sodas. Inside one booth was a group of kids, two boys and one girl. Percy Jackson, Grover Underwood, and Annabeth Chase were relieved when they found the dinner, now able to something to eat and plan their next move. They only had seven days to complete their quest to find the master bolt and still had a way to go. When a waitress came over she raised an eyebrow at them. "Well?"

"We, um, want to eat dinner?" Percy offered.

"You got money to pay for it?"

Before they could answer the bell rang as the door opens up. Everyone seem to into a trace as they all stood up and stared. When Percy glanced over his jaw dropped. Walking into the dinner was a beautiful woman that looked like a model Percy use to have a crush on a year ago. But if anything this woman seem to have no imperfections whatsoever. But then her hair color changed from brown to blonde and went from straight to slightly curly. She wore a fluffy white blouse under an open pink jacket and matching pink skirt. She made her way over to them, everyone seem to follow her before amazingly enough she stopped by them and sat into the booth right next to Grover, who seem like his face was turning red. The woman snapped her fingers and everyone sat down again while the waitress' mind seem to restart, "you got money to pay for it?"

"It's on me" the woman proclaimed in a soothing silky voice. "I need two burger meals with sodas, one large salad and I'll have a milkshake."

The waitress wrote their order down and left them. Percy was more confused then ever and the fake the lady's looks kept changing didn't help matters. Finally he asked, "I'm sorry but who are you?"

"Percy" Annabeth hissed looking at the woman as if she was going to attack them.

The woman however giggled and waved her hand, "I know Percy here has only known the gods for about a few weeks so I won't demand for him to know who I am at our first meeting unlike your mother." She gave a dazzling smile, "my name is Aphrodite."

Percy blinked, "the love god?"

Again Aphrodite giggled, "that's right. And I'll say that it seems you three need some help."

"What makes you say that?" Percy asked.

Aphrodite just smiled as their food arrived. The goddess handed the woman a golden card before taking a sip of the milkshake. "Mmm, this is good." She then nodded her head to Percy, "as for why I said that, you three don't have a ride to continue your quest. So I'm going to help you."

"Lady Aphrodite," Annabeth said being as respectful as possible. "Why are you helping us?"

The goddess smiled sadly, "I don't want this war to happen. So many life lost, so much love ruined. I can't let that happen."

Annabeth narrowed her eyes, "you never had such a problem before. From what I know you love drama with peoples love lives. A war between the gods would do just that."

For a moment Aphrodite didn't say anything, leaving Percy to only stare as he snacked on the food while Annabeth wondered if she went too far. However Aphrodite closed her eyes before leaning her head on her hand and sighed lovingly. "Let's just say someone opened my eyes."

Everyone stared, not sure what to say. The goddess seemed to be lost in her thoughts before Percy cleared his throat, "umm, how will you help us?"

Aphrodite blinked before she focused back on them, "I can get you a ride that should take you all the way to the end of your quest. I just need you to do one little thing for me."

Percy frowned hearing this, "of course we have to do something for you."

"Percy," Annabeth hissed "nothing is ever free."

"Well you are partially right," Aphrodite started with a shrug. "I would have no problem just getting your ride for nothing but the others won't let it work like that."

"What do you mean?" Percy asked confused.

She smiled at them, "the gods have rules of our own so we can keep the balance and also so we don't end up destroying everything. On quest it is suppose to be done on the half-blood's merits and not ours. We can help but we can only do so much without breaking the rules. And since neither of you are my children I get more leeway then Poseidon or Athena."

"But he wants to meet me on our way to Los Angelous" Percy pointed out.

The goddess smirked at him, "did he tell you himself or was it from a member of his court. Since your father is part of the struggles on this quest and the war if you fail he can't do much without getting in trouble with the others. But he is able to send member of his court to aid you if needed. If you go on another quest where he is not involved then he will be able to help more."

Annabeth was quiet while Percy frowned, "if that is all true and you are able to help us then why do we need to do something for you?"

Aphrodite sighed, "because as much as I want to give you a ride for free I can't show such blunt favoritism. The other would bitch and moan about it, mostly Hera and Athena, and I don't want to deal with it." Here she smirked, "however if you are doing me a favor, then I will be rewarding you and they can't do a thing about it."

The three half bloods were surprised by this idea. Annabeth wasn't sure if the goddess came up with this loophole herself or just gave the reason for it. She knew the gods have heroes tasks for their help before so she concluded that it was nothing new. Percy thought it over and figured they had no choice really. "What do we have to do?"

Aphrodite beamed and clapped her hands, "perfect! I'll let you finish eating, and get your strength back. But I need you all to head to the close water park near here. I was with a date and we were having a private moment in the tunnel of love. Unfortunately we had to leave suddenly and my date's jacket got left behind. I just need you three to return it to me. You can even keep anything of mine I might have left as well."

"That's it?" Percy asked her surprised, "just get a jacket?"

Aphrodite nodded, "just that, you already have enough on your plate anyways. I remember on a quest or two ago Apollo had some half bloods get him some fancy bread for a sandwich he wanted to aid them on their quest. Like I said it's a simple task as a formality so the others can't complain."

"Why did you have to leave?" Percy asked her before Annabeth could stop him, "you said you left suddenly. There's not a monster or something there once we get there right?"

The goddess shook her head, "oh no monster is dumb enough to try and attack one of the Olympians. But I was suddenly called back to Olympus and we left in hurry. And there shouldn't be anything there. The park is closed anyways so getting in shouldn't be hard."

Percy thought about it, not sure if he should believe her or not. But there was something else bugging him, "why take your date to a closed down water park?"

"Oh because they've never been to one as a child or an adult really," Aphrodite explained with a small smile. "I wanted to do something nice so I got my husband to teach me how to turn a few things on and then surprised!" She said this with a giggle, thinking back to when she made her surprise known.

Annabeth and Grover stared, completely taken by surprise by the explanation. Percy however focus on someone else, "husband? You're married and yet went on a date?"

Aphrodite gave him an amused look, "you know that several of the Olympians are married yet still have half bloods. Even your father is a part of that group. But my marriage is more a formality. When I first came around I caused a lot of gods fighting for my attention. This would have destroyed the order or Olympus so I was married off to one of the gods that wasn't interesting in using me for a rise in power. But while we are married we never really have done anything together nor do we love each other, we both know this and don't hide the fact from each other or the other gods. I don't do anything to one of the girls he has taken an interest to and he doesn't do anything to one of the guys or girls I am interested in at the time. It's one of the reasons why we each have our own group so demigods from our affairs. We have a very understandingly open marriage really."

"Yet he trapped you and Ares in an invisible net when he caught the two of you together," Annabeth reminded her. "And still sometimes leave traps for the two of you."

Aphrodite waved her off, "that's only because he doesn't like Ares. But that is the only one he does that to, not to any of the other gods or goddess I've slept with or any mortal. Like I said we have an understanding with each other and our children. He sometimes provide a tool or weapon to help protect my children and I make it out of my way not to mess with their loves lives or give them a fairy nice one and not heart broken."

The three stared at her, clearly not expecting this. Aphrodite wasn't offended by this as she waved her hand at them, "now eat up you three, once you're done I give you directions to the start of your mini quest."

Annabeth frowned as she took a bite of her food, clearly not liking how the goddess named her task. She must have noticed as Aphrodite gave her a small smirk before drinking more of her milkshake. The daughter of Athena personally thought that the goddess was acting strange, even if she haven't had any experience with said goddess. But from what she has read about and from hearing from the other campers that have interacted with her, this is not how she is suppose to act. She kept her suspicion to herself for now as she didn't want to cause trouble since they didn't any other options. They ate their meal in silence, even if Grover kept missing his mouth half the time, but this seemed to amuse Aphrodite. Once finished the goddess gave them the instructions as well as directions to the water park in general.

Once they left the dinner Aphrodite's smile fell into a scowl, the thoughts of her stupid husband and the trap he made in the very water park the children were heading too. She recalled how her date was going so well until she noticed the trap in the tunnel of love, how in her panic she teleported them both out of the area and since they were half dressed she forgot her love's favorite jacket in the boat. Aphrodite was extremely embarrassed at how her date was ruined, even if her love was so forgiving, and still made the most out of it. That didn't stop Aphrodite from marching herself into her husband's forge and giving the god a piece of her mind. And the nerve of him saying he thought her date would be with Ares. Aphrodite huffed as she finished the milkshake in hand. She hasn't even given the war god so much as a look in the pass decade or so. To some it matters little to an immortal like herself but from what she had in mind she wouldn't have any time for Ares for eons to come.

A smile reappeared on her face as she thought of her beloved. She wished she would be able to be there now but with the tension between the gods and the threat of war she knew she had to do something. But while she didn't know who stole the master bolt, she isn't one to miss an opportunity like this since it will help her beloved down the road. She giggled to herself as she ordered a refill, 'Oh I am so bad.'

(Scene change)

Over an hour later Percy, Annabeth and Grover returned to the dinner to find Aphrodite outside, waiting for them next to a large RV that has chipped orange and white paint and seem to be old but had many years of fixing up done to it. Percy stepped forward with a scowl on his face and a long red color jacket with black flame design on the bottom as well as some symbol on the back in Japanese, not Chinese as Annabeth corrected. The son of Poseidon glared as Aphrodite beamed and clapped her hands rapidly, "yes you got it!"

"You knew it was a trap," Percy accused, much to Grover's and Annabeth's horror, "didn't you?"

"Yes I did" the goddess admitted without shame. "If I told you in the first place you might not have taken the quest. Plus think of it this way; you got some experience from it all."

"How the hell did it give us 'experience'?" Percy asked angrily.

Aphrodite just gave an amuse smile at him, "hero face danger all the time on quest, that is one aspect that hasn't ever change. You no doubt faced your own on this quest before I gave my own."

"We should have been warned," Annabeth added, both upset with herself for not realizing it was a trap and the goddess for sending them in blind.

Aphrodite shrugged, "the trap wouldn't hurt you at all and you would have learned from the whole thing. It's clearly a win-win. And now I got you three a ride for the rest of your journey."

"Where?" Percy asked, wanting to get this over with.

Before Aphrodite could answer the door to the dinner opened up and someone called out to them, "wow you were right Dite-chan, these milkshakes are good,"

They three younger members of the group looked around the frozen goddess to see the new girl that called out to them. She was a tall woman with fair skin blond hair kept in two long pigtails. She has bright blue eyes, three lines on each of her cheeks that made it look like she has whiskers. She had a figure that would normally been seen on Aphrodite covered by a tube top with a mesh armor underneath that showed off her midriff and shorts that hugged her curves with open toe sandals to compete the look. The woman in question barely noticed them as she took an other sip of the milkshake she just got.

Aphrodite seem to unfreeze as she jumped over and swiped the jacket from Percy before turning around and skipped over to the woman, all the while calling out in a sing-song voice, "Oh Naru-Chan! Look what I have!~"

The woman blinked before she saw what the goddess had in her hands, "My sage coat!" The woman quickly ran over and took the coat from the goddess and looked it over before she sighed in relief. "Thank goodness. I was worried what I would tell Ma if I lost it."

Here Aphrodites's beaming look turned into a scowl, "I don't like how those toads would go around treating you like that. Bad enough they try to make you eats bugs of all things."

They watched as the woman pouts at her before she puts on the coat over her outfit, "Dite-Chan we've been over this. Ma and Pa are the elders of my summoning contract and also taught me to be a sage. I know you don't like them but try and not insult them in front of me."

Grover, Annabeth and Percy all stared, trying to wrap their hands at what was happening. The goddess was pouting as she was being scolded by the other who seem to be the owner of the jacket. Before Percy could get their attention the goddess herself seemed to remember they were there, "oh everyone this is my sweetheart, Naruto Uzumaki."

"Yo" Naruto greeted simply, taking another sip of her shake.

Aphrodite smiled back at her, "I was wondering if you can give these kids a ride for me."

Annabeth, waited for the woman in question (who confused Annabeth to no end on what she was really), to ask why or the reason why Aphrodite wanted this or who they were in general. But to her and the boys' surprise Naruto answers with a "sure no problem."

"Huh?" Annabeth asked, unable to stop herself. "Just like that?"

Naruto shrugged, "yeah, I don't see why not."

Annabeth felt a headache forming as she tried to figure this woman out. "Well we did get her coat back" Grover reminded her to try and be the voice of reason.

"You did what?" Naruto asked before turning her narrow eyed at Aphrodite, who was looking off and whistling innocently that wasn't fooling anyone. "Dite-Chan" Naruto drew out in a tone that reminded Percy of his mother when he was in trouble. "What did you do?"

Aphrodite giggled nervously, which surprised the three younger members of the group. The goddess finally admits her guilt, "I might have gave them a small task for me in order to get you to give them a lift."

"Why would you do that?" Naruto asked in an astonished tone. "You didn't need them to do anything for me. You could've just asked and I would have done it. And I could have gotten back my sage coat when I had the time."

This stunned the kids, Annabeth starting to feel dizzy as she tried to figure out the woman's angle. There is no way she would have helped them if they simply asked for it. "I'm sorry baby," Aphrodite almost cooed as she hugged the woman and rubbed her cheek against her's. "But if I didn't then the other gods would make a fuss and I didn't want them to bother you."

What happen next seem to take all the surprises the three had today and up the anti when Naruto gave the love goddess a small bop on top of her head. The goddess gave a small squeak and held her head while Naruto chided her like a child "you dummy. You didn't have to do something like that."

"I'm sorry," Aphrodite moaned, trying to get back on Naruto's good side.

Naruto however however raised a brow, "don't apologize to me, it's them you should be apologizing too."

Aphrodite pouts again before she sighed and tuned to the three stunned half-bloods and said, "I'm sorry for the trouble I gave you." She even gave a small bow to add to the effect which made the moment even more unbelievable.

"There," Naruto said happily, not noticing Percy's, Grover's and Annabeth's jaw dropping. "Now everything fine. So who are these kids? Are they yours?"

Aphrodite shook her head, "oh no. These aren't my babies. This is Percy, son of Poseidon, Annabeth daughter of Athena and Grover their friend and satyr."

"Nice to meet you," Naruto greets again before she turned to Aphrodite, "I still wish to meet your kids."

"I know," the goddess said, the soft smile on her face telling them she was telling the truth. "But with tension between the other gods and the threat of war, I didn't think it would be a good idea to let anyone else know about you."

Naruto seemed to roll her eyes but studied the three, "okay now that the air is clear, where do you guys need to go?"

"We need to get to LA," Percy said firmly, hoping to get back on track.

Naruto nods, "cool. If you guys got all your stuff then we can get going."

"Just like that?" Annabeth asked, unable to believe it was that easy. "Not going to ask why we're going there or the quest that we have to complete?"

The woman shrugged and started off to the RV, "I don't really care about any of that. I see three kids that need an lift and Dite-Chan is vouching for you guys so it's cool." She finished her milkshake before pausing to give the love goddess a kiss on the cheek, which made her giggle. Once done she open the door and climbed into the RV, "okay, palm aboard the Rust-Bucket."

"Rust Bucket?" Percy questioned aloud with a raised brow. "That doesn't sound safe."

"Hey!" Naruto called out to them from the open door. She poked her head out and scowled at Percy. "You better not be making fun of my baby. Otherwise you can walk the whole way there."

"Sorry," Percy muttered, feeling like her dodge a bullet when she went back inside. Grover and sexy started to climb in while Annabeth paused. She looked up at Aphrodite and asked, "Lady Aphrodite, who a Naruto really?"

Aphrodite just had an amuse smile on her face, "She's a mortal dear, a one of a kind mortal."


And done! What do you all think? This one needs a little explanation but Naruto is pretty much just the female version of her cannon character and not the daughter of a god like other stories. I won't reveal how she got to this world, but she is dating/sleeping with Aphrodite and is actually changing the goddess for the better even if some of them aren't realizing it. Naruto in this story will be more a teacher, a comrade in battle and a friend to Percy and the others and won't be paired with any half-bloods. Though Naruto will have someone else with her besides Aphrodite but that will be immortals and I won't be saying who they are. Hopefully this will gather enough interest to have others want it to be its own story.

Speaking of which; another reason why these updates came up. I am thinking of doing one of the stories from the selection of ideas but I also want to know what you guys want to see. So I posted a poll allowing all my viewers to vote on what story they wish to see. You can vote for more than one story so pick the ones you want to see most.