AN: This one-off is more or less a sneak peak at another story I've been working on.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Percy Jackson.

Traveller's Son

In a cave on the side of Mount Cyllene, a woman hummed as she brushed her hair. Curtains of yellow were brushed softly, each stroke made them brighter than the last until they nearly matched the same radiance of the sun. The brush, made of bronze and detailed with an eagle on the back, was set on a wooden desk as a gust of wind made itself known. The woman allowed a smile to cross her face.

"Why, it's been a while since you've come to visit me, Hermes," she said as she turned in her seat to face the god in question. Golden eyes met with sky blue orbs filled with despair and her smile vanished. "My son, what troubles you?"

"Mother," Hermes said softly as he walked in. He was dressed traditionally as a Greek god was expected to be, sandals, simple cloth and bronze armor, but in his left arm, opposite of the right which wielded the Caduceus, was a bundle that fit snugly where it lay. Hermes approached his mother, the goddess Maia, with a look of depression etched in his face. "I don't know where else to go...My son, born of a woman I thought already had given birth, is now motherless."

Maia frowned and stood. She approached her son and peered down at the occupant of the bundle, a babe with hair as yellow as her own and skin as fair as her son's slept easily in Hermes' arm. The only things off about him were the faint marks that looked like whiskers. With a light coo, she took the babe and traced his face with her hand. "He's precious, Hermes...What happened to the mother?"

"Childbirth proved to be too much after ten months of carrying him," Hermes said with a guilty frown. "I had assumed she would be like the other mortals and left her alone at the due date."

"Assumptions, dear, assumptions," Maia said chidingly. She looked up and put a hand on Hermes face. "I will care for him."

Hermes lit up and took his mother's hand in his own. He left a kiss on her palm and smiled at her. "Thank you, Mother. His mother named him Naruto."

Maia's golden brow arched up. "An oriental name?"

"Kushina Uzumaki was exotic," Hermes said with a sheepish shrug. "Red haired, fair skinned...oddly named. You know, like a rare gem."

"Greedy boy," Maia said with a smile as she took her hand back and returned her attention to Naruto. "Off with you, Hermes. I'm sure there's a delivery to be made somewhere."

"Farewell, Mother," Hermes said. He stole one last glance at his son and then turned to leave. Hermes vanished with another gust of wind and Maia sighed.

"Poor boy, first May's curse and now the loss of a mother," Maia said with a sad frown. She brushed her hand over Naruto's whiskered face and smiled. "But at least he knows how to care for his children. A mortal orphanage would've eaten you up!"

The baby fussed about lightly and Maia calmed him with a touch. "Now, now, none of that. Grandmother is here."

Maia rocked the baby back to a settled sleep and went over to where she kept mementos from the past. A small simple bronze crib set off to the side was pulled off and dusted with a wave of her hand. Maia smiled down at the babe that slept peacefully in her arms and carefully laid him in the crib. "There we go...You look just like your father, Naruto."

Naruto gurgled in his sleep and Maia giggled. Much like Hermes, the baby was a natural attention thief. She rubbed her hand over Naruto's light hair and leaned down to kiss his head. "Sleep, little maelstrom. May Morpheus grant you pleasant dreams."

Content that her grandson was rested, Maia returned to her desk and began to search through it for a notebook. When she found it, Maia cracked the book open and began to write down a list of things to obtain from the nearby town. Unlike herself, Naruto was half mortal and needed mortal nourishment in order to survive. With a list of things to obtain, Maia donned the appearance of a mortal and left the cave, but not before she set up a barrier to keep monsters from getting in while she was away.

About an hour after Maia left, Naruto awoke. Blue eyes wandered the roof of the cave, curious about the environment around him. The eyes landed on the side of the crib and Naruto reached out for it with a coo. A tiny pudgy hand grabbed the side and, rather intellectually, clung to it tightly. Within a few minutes, Naruto had rolled onto his side and latched on with the other hand. After he experimented with his hands for a bit, Naruto discovered that his arms bent and could be used to pull himself towards the edge. Now, one would think that this was rather fast for an infant newly born, but then again, one had to consider that this infant was born of a god and an exotic woman.

So, it's not too much to expect the boy to discover that he could leave the crib. It took him a total of fifteen minutes, but Naruto managed to pull himself over the edge of the crib and land on his back on the ground. Surprisingly, the cave's floor wasn't hard rock as one would expect, but a soft, thick, layer of sand that acted as a cushion to the infant's fall. With his freedom, the whiskered babe laughed joyfully and squirmed around on the ground. However, he was still limited to one spot, which was just not acceptable, and the baby started to fuss. His arms smacked the floor and his legs kicked awkwardly at the air.

It was at this scene that Maia returned.

"Naruto!" The grandmother dropped her grocery bags and rushed to the baby's side. She picked him up and rocked him while he cried. "Shh, shh...There, there, little maelstrom. It's okay...it's okay..."

As the infant calmed Maia looked to the crib and wondered if it had been cursed. "First Hermes and now you...Well, at least you didn't crawl to Thessaly."

"Why do they keep following us!?" Naruto asked his friend. True to his word, once they left the restaurant Billy led Naruto out of the city and then ditched his disguise. The tennis shoes on his feet came off and the satyr pitched the metal poles around his arms. Unfortunately, once they left the city, the winged snakes – which Billy said were Arabian in origin, due to their six feet in length and the two sets of feathered wings; he figured they must've migrated back after the winter left – found them and resumed their chase.

Billy, who had to restrain himself from leaving the blond in the dust, panted and ducked under another serpent's dive. "It's because you smell!"

Naruto frowned and quickly juked left to avoid a serpent and a tree, the serpent didn't have the same luck as he did. "But I take baths all the time!"

"No, Naruto, your blood smells!" Billy grabbed the boy's arm to pull him back on the right trail.

"Oh!" Naruto nodded and then frowned. "...But that doesn't make sense!"

"That's the summary of our life for you, deal with it!" Billy pulled Naruto down just as another serpent chose to dive at them. "You didn't pick up any weapons to use?"

"Well, I've got one..." Naruto said.

Billy stared at him for a moment. "What!? Why aren't you using it? We could kill these things and then go without trouble!"

"It's too light!" Naruto said. "The guy I got it from said it was bronze, but it was way too light to be bronze!"

Billy gaped at Naruto. "Guy? Naruto show me the weapon."

"Okay...but you'll think it's useless..." Naruto said. He pulled his bag around and unzipped it. He reached in and begun to dig around in his bag. "Nope...no that's bread...that's an apple...that's my quarters..."

"Hurry up, I think they're circling around us," Billy said. He kept his eyes on the snakes and swallowed at them.

Naruto strained to stretch his arm in deeper. "I think...yeah, there it is! Almost got it..."

"Come on...How deep is that bag?" Billy asked urgently.

"Grandmother said it was never ending," Naruto said with a grunt. "Got it!"

The blond pulled out the bronze club that Periphetes once used and Billy stared at it in shock. Naruto held it out to Billy. "Here, see? It's too light to be bronze."

The satyr grabbed the club, but once Naruto let go, he fell to the ground with a wheeze. That club had to weigh at least two hundred and fifty pounds! Billy let go of the club and looked at Naruto in disbelief. "Naruto, this is Celestial Bronze! How the heck can you carry all of it!?"

Naruto frowned. "It's really light."

"Trust me, it isn't," Billy said with a groan. He let go of the club and rubbed his arm. "I think I almost dislocated my shoulder..."

Naruto grabbed the club and once more lifted it with ease. "But if it's so heavy, why can I lift it up?"

"Well, your dad was said to-Wait, swing it around! Swing it now!" Billy dropped to the ground and covered his head as Naruto spun and swung the club. A winged snake that had its maw opened wide was suddenly sent soaring in the opposite direction by the blow. It dissolved into dust midair and the other three snakes hissed in anger.

"Naruto, do you know what baseball is?" Billy asked from where he was on the ground.

"Yeah, its where you hit a ball with a stick, right?" Naruto had seen a game with his class in first grade and had even played it once. But he had to sit out the next game because he was accused of cheating. It wasn't his fault he ran faster than the other kids in school! ...Or that he actually stole second base...He didn't know that they didn't mean it literally!

"The other snakes are balls, swing away! Go for the grand slam little man!" Billy cheered. The satyr watched the nine-year-old swing when the serpents tried to dive at him all at once. The bat flew through the air and connected with a loud crack with the first snake. The second had a similar sound as did the third, but it oddly sounded like when you clapped two halves of a coconut together, due to the collision of the heads.

The snakes turned to dust, their skulls likely shattered from the impact, and small bottles of dark liquid were left behind in their absence. Billy got to his hooves and pat Naruto on the shoulder with a grin on his face. "Nice job, Naruto! You'd be a shoo-in for the Yankee's one day."

Naruto shrugged and dropped his club to the side. "I don't really like baseball. It's no fun."

Yeah, I'll bet. Billy thought with a chuckle. The satyr gathered up all of the bottles and brought them back to Naruto so he could put them in his bag.

"What are they?" Naruto asked as he held one up.

"Arabian Winged Serpent venom," Billy said. "The poison is one of the most deadly in the world. You could trade these for a high price at camp or save them for later. Heck, I'm sure Apollo wouldn't mind an offering of one. It could get you something nice one day."

"Why don't I just give one to him?" Naruto asked with a tilt of his head. His eyes looked up at the sun. Before Billy could stop him, Naruto held the vial up. "I don't really want anything, but here!"

The bottle vanished from existence with a small pop and Billy shook his head. "That wasn't very smart, Naruto. You could've used that someday."

"I have three other ones, and besides, he's my uncle right? Grandmother said you should always be nice and give gifts to your family," Naruto said as he put the other three in his bag. "And Dad gave him the lyre."

Billy rubbed his face. "Yeah...sure he did. Whatever, kid. It's your trophy, I guess I shouldn't tell you what to do with it."

Naruto zipped his bag up and pulled it back on. He looked at Billy curiously as he carried his club on his shoulder. "So, why is the club so light for me, but so heavy for you?"

"My guess is it's because of your father's strength," Billy said as they started to walk once more. "Your father was said to create the first tortoise by lifting a nymph's house from the ground over his head and tossing it atop her. He cursed her to always carry it with her because she refused to leave it when Zeus called all the animals to a meeting."

"Ohh...So I can lift a house?" Naruto asked. If that were the case, he could just carry his home whenever he traveled.

"I wouldn't try it," Billy said. "You probably got a small fraction of Hermes' strength."

"Aw...Well, maybe at camp I can get stronger!" Naruto said with a bright smile. Billy laughed and ruffled his hair.

"That I've no doubt about," the satyr said with a smile.

The fifteen-year-old Naruto Uzumaki was back in the Big Apple, the teenager wide-awake at the ungodly hour of eight o'clock. He had jimmied the lock to a small apartment on the edge of the East River and now relaxed on the couch with Kurama in his lap. He had a good few days to spend here before he had to be on his way, as the owner would return from his trip soon. His arms stretched above his head and he listened to the stock exchange report on CNN. The newscaster was relatively pretty, though she looked like a younger Sigourney Weaver with shorter lighter hair.

"Man, Motorola needs to get itself together." Naruto took a sip of the coffee he had made earlier. Commercials came on and Kurama let out a yawn. Naruto nodded in agreement. "I know bud, but mortals have to get their products seen by the world somehow, otherwise, what's the use of trying to make money?"

There was a sudden boom and the apartment shook. Stuff fell from the shelves and Naruto hugged Kurama to him to keep him safe. The fox yipped in shock and fear while Naruto tried to soothe him with gentle strokes of his red fur. When it was all said and done, Naruto went to the window to try and find out what happened. The neighbors shouted and children cried once the boom ended. Naruto growled in frustration, unable to see anything that had happened from his window.

The commercial on the television suddenly cut from the creditor ad to a Breaking News bulletin that read "World Trade Center Disaster." Naruto rushed to the remote, his fox on his lap and turned up the volume.

"...a obviously very disturbing live shot there. That is the World Trade Center and we have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center," the voice of a female reporter said. Naruto took in the image of the tower with the enormous hole in the side and the smoke that rose from it. He grabbed his bags and ran out of the apartment, Kurama hot on his heels. The whiskered blond ran to the nearest stairwell and ran up at least five flights of stairs. He burst through the roof entryway and swiveled around until he saw it.

Disbelief washed over him and Naruto let his hands go to his head. The smoke began to fill the sky and Naruto ran his hands down his face as shock filled him. "Holy shit...What the fuck...?"

Kurama yipped and Naruto took note of several monsters fleeing the area by the rooftop. He ducked into the stairwell, not at all prepared to fight. Some hellhounds rushed by without a second glance and Naruto heard a cyclops as it ran past.

"Human disaster, can't hunt or Hades punish me! Run faster, Largo! Run faster!"

"That's interesting, huh boy?" Naruto asked his vulpine friend. When the monsters' stampede was finished, Naruto turned back to the towers. He reached into his modern bag for the bag his grandmother had given him several years ago. He dug around for a bit before he pulled out a watch and strapped it to his wrist. The time read 8:52 am.

"Man...I hope no one's parent worked there," he said softly. Naruto frowned as he felt a small stab of guilt in his heart. He should hope for more than just the demigods here. Naruto clenched his fist and he ran back to the stairway, intent on doing something. Kurama followed him down all the way down to the street, along with several other tenants that were equally disturbed and curious. As he ran towards the building, a large bird-like shape caught his eye and he gasped as a plane ran straight into the other tower.

"All those people..." Naruto's eyes were wide in horror and words failed to form on his normally silver tongue. He heard people scream and yell. It was sheer chaos. Naruto went up to the nearest payphone and worked his magic on it to get a free call to Camp Half-Blood.

"C-Camp Half-Blood...Chiron speaking."

"Chiron! Are you watching the news?" Naruto asked as Kurama climbed to his shoulders. He put his hand over his other ear to better hear Chiron over the sirens.

Chiron sounded relieved to hear his voice. "Naruto! Hold on – Janet, gather the counselors! ...Just do it and tell the others to stay in their cabins! Have satyrs on full alert and, dammit Mr. D! Could you for once in your life take your job seriously!?"

"Excuse me!?" the god sounded outraged.

"You heard me! I will make note to Lord Zeus of your indifference at this time!"

"...Fine, this will not be forgotten Chiron..."

"You can smite me later!" Naruto was in awe at how angry Chiron was over this. To yell at Dionysus...The centaur had to be infuriated with the mortals. Or scared for his pupils. "Naruto, where are you?"

Lie or tell the truth? Lie or tell the truth? Lie or-fuck it. "I'm there, Chiron...the Towers..."

"Are you safe?"

Naruto nodded. "I'm fine. So is Kurama. Just thought you should know, any monsters in the area are heading your way and fast,"

"I'm aware. Tragedy makes the Underworld a busy place, and the additional demigod souls usually pile up along with mortals. Monsters who kill during a tragedy like this one earn Hades' ire for millennium. Are you going to be on your way?"

Naruto knew the centaur had his best interests in mind, but he knew he was going to be needed here. He could feel it. "No, I've...I've gotta help."

"Naruto, this isn't a monster fight! I'm not asking anymore, I'm telling. All demigods of camp age are to come back this instant!"

"Wonderful!" Dionysus groaned in the background.

"Not now!" Naruto could hear the frustration in Chiron's voice. "Naruto, this is a mortal incident. You will come back to camp!"

"No can do, Chiron. I'm a hero, and you taught me that heroes save lives even at the cost of their own," Naruto said determinedly. He left the phone and let it dangle from where it once hung

"Against monsters, not natural disasters or mortal skirmishes! Naruto! Naruto Uzumaki!"

Naruto, dressed in blue slacks and a red Flash shirt, smiled as he walked through Sandy Springs, GA. There were no monsters to be seen since Kronos' defeat in Manhattan a few months ago and Naruto was glad that OURANUS had finally decided to lay low while the gods and campers recovered from the second Titanomachy. So with his free time, Naruto decided to come home for Thanksgiving.

"It's great to be back, huh Kurama?"

The red fox looked up at him with a yip. Naruto grinned and kept his hands in his pockets while he walked towards his apartments. As he rounded the bend that would put them in sight, his eyes widened and he stared in horror at the multiple crushed buildings and fires set around his home. The bag that hung lazily from one arm dropped to the ground.

"No..." Naruto ran through the wreckage, many mortals already on clean up, and bee-lined for his house. What he saw made him infuriated, disheartened and even more horrified than before.

His home was destroyed. There wasn't a scrap of it upright, and in front of where the front door once was laid a very familiar form. A woman with blonde hair the same shade as Naruto's, her skin covered in a light sheen of dust. Maia was on the ground, her head tilted to the side and a bit of golden ichor pooled near her mouth. Her eyes were closed and his heart clenched with worry.

"Grandmother!" The blond burst into a run towards her, his eyes never left her form.

"I don't think so!" A surprise bitch slap from a massive hand knocked Naruto into the air with a spiral. He landed and created a small trench from the kinetic force that sent him back. Naruto scrambled to his feet hurriedly and glared daggers at the giant that stood between him and his unconscious grandmother. The giant had oily black hair, pure white eyes and was dressed in a tracksuit that looked very expensive. Around his neck were several gold chains, which topped off the mobster-like appearance.

The giant frowned. "I was hoping that little runt of a mailman would be here...Give him a good thrashing before I left...Granted, a demigod is nice too. Especially one of his kids."

Naruto's hands reached to his hips and grabbed the bronze axe heads that hung there. He brought them out, prepared to use them like brass knuckles, and glared daggers at the giant. "I'll kill you!"

"Cliché much?" The giant taunted with a 'bring it' gesture. Naruto charged at him with his fist brought back. He swung and hit air. Confused, Naruto stepped back and looked around. The blond doubled over as the giant, now at half his original height, reappeared with his fist imbedded in the blond's gut. "Keep your eyes on the prize, hero!"

An uppercut sent Naruto back to the air, where he arced and landed on the ground with a rough slam. Naruto pushed himself back up to his knees when he was blindsided by another punch that had him fly away a good ten feet. Once he got back to his feet again, Naruto looked up through one eye and glared at his attacker. He charged at the smug giant with both handles pulled up over his shoulder. After he swung, the giant vanished once more and reappeared behind him.

"Eight ball, corner pocket!" A hard kick to the back sent Naruto through one of the half-destroyed buildings in the area. The blond crashed into a large boulder and crumpled to the ground. As Naruto tried to push himself to his feet, the giant laughed and cracked his knuckles.

"Oh, this feels so good!" he said. "What the hell is Enceladus so worried about? Mother's going to rise, the gods are hiding away in their mountain and the demigods are ours for the taking!"

Naruto coughed up some blood and slowly got back to his feet. He wrapped his right arm around his stomach and side with a wince. At least five ribs were cracked, if not broken. He grit his teeth, stained with blood, and steadied himself.

The giant grinned at the sight. "You've got spunk, kid. I respect that. You're going to willingly face me unlike your yellow daddy. Punk ass used the Underworld King's helm to kill me with that demigod's sword."

"Why...does every monster with a mouth...like to use it?" Naruto asked through labored breaths. He brought his arms up, fists tight around the handles of his axe blades. Naruto's eyes squinted from the pain of trying to breathe.

The giant's grin widened. "What's wrong kid?" He vanished and reappeared with another fist in the blond's gut. "Having breathing issues?!"

"No..." Naruto winced as the lie left his mouth. He dropped his weapons and grabbed onto the giant's wrist with both hands and tugged him back. Naruto drove his foot into the giant's stomach and used the momentum from the pull to throw the giant. The giant flipped in the air and landed through the wall of another building on his back.

Naruto used the time to get some air and dig around in his pocket. There had to be a cube...please, Tyche let there be a cube!

Bingo! Naruto pulled the small cube of ambrosia out and popped it into his mouth. He quickly chewed and swallowed the godly food before he got back to his feet. He felt his bones knit together and he heard the cracks of his ribs as they righted themselves.

"Clever," the giant said, once more somehow in front of him without a sound made. Two hands a bit larger than his head grabbed him by the shoulders. "Quick on your feet. But are you quick enough? Let's have some fun and find out!"

Before Naruto could retort, he was suddenly pulled off the ground and slammed through several walls before he was unceremoniously dropped to the ground. Naruto climbed back to his feet just in time to be picked up by the giant once again, his head in the giant's massive right hand. The giant seemed to have grown once again.

"Pain train, coming through!" The giant cackled when he began to slam him through several trees as he ran in the woods.

Naruto was slammed into one more tree before the giant tossed him to land over by the entryway to the apartment complex. Naruto groaned and looked through a squinted eye to find his pack on the ground where he had dropped it. The blond struggled to army crawl towards it, his back throbbed with each pull and he could barely feel his legs. He reached out for his pack. If he could get a larger dose of ambrosia or nectar–

"Ah, ah, ah!" Naruto was kicked onto his back a few feet away from his pack. A thump made the ground shake and then something was shoved through his right thigh. Naruto threw his head back and screamed in pain. A fist cracked him across the face like it was shot from a cannon and his scream ended. Sound was muted and his vision went dark. Finally he could see shapes and heard muffled noises.

"Get off of me, you rodent!"

Naruto groaned as he returned to his senses and the buzz in his ears went away. A yelp had him look to his right and see Kurama land in a roll a few feet away. Naruto groaned and sat up. He looked at his leg, pinned to the ground by a steel pole about fifteen feet long. Naruto grabbed the steel and tugged on it. It wouldn't move. Gritting his teeth, Naruto tightened his grip and ripped the pole out of his leg. He screamed and grabbed at the open wound. That was without a doubt the most painful thing he'd ever done!

"Oh? Still alive are we?" The giant that had handed him his ass several times over sauntered over to the blond with a massive spear in his hand. "Tell me, demigod. Would you like to live this day?"

Naruto settled for a tired glare as his answer.

"I'll let you live." The giant smirked and turned away. He began to walk over to Maia. "But only after I kill the mother of Hermes...I gotta send him a message somehow, y'know."

Naruto tightened his hands into fists and struggled to get up, the hole in his thigh made it nearly impossible. He watched with anger and horror as the giant came to a stop beside the Olympian's mother. The spear went up and time seemed to slow down for Naruto.

No...If only I was just a little faster!

The spear slowly descended towards Maia and Naruto tried with renewed energy to get back to his knees.

Just a little faster!

Naruto pushed down on his bad leg and slowly rose to his feet. A spark appeared in his eyes.

I just need to be a little faster!

The sandals on his feet started to glow and Naruto's leg started to heal at a rapid pace. Naruto didn't even feel it. He didn't feel anything.

"Run. Naruto, Run!"

The voice, familiar and angry, ordered. Something clicked in the back of Naruto's head and he moved. The dirt on the ground was tossed up as he took one step and he wound up a foot away from the giant and his grandmother. Naruto's arms reached out just as the tip of the spear was an inch away from its mark. His hands touched Maia with half an inch to spare.

There was a loud crack in the air followed by the sound of dirt being pierced by bronze metal. The giant looked around in shock. "What the-Where'd the bitch go!?"

Another crack echoed in the air and the giant stumbled back with a yell. His spear and from the middle of his forearm down had been cut clean off. They were a few feet behind him on the ground. "My arm!? Who dares-!?"

Another crack and his other arm vanished from the elbow down. It was several feet beyond the other arm. The giant let out a cry of pain and crumpled to his knees as his regeneration slowly kicked in.

"What is this!?"

Naruto ran, his legs moved faster than ever before. His hands once more wielded the bronze axe heads that he had dropped during the fight with the giant. He shot over the Pacific Ocean, the water shot up in a spray behind him as he made a wake. A boom followed him as he pumped his arms. That boom signaled his destruction of the sound barrier, how he knew that, he didn't know. All he knew was that he had to run.

Faster!

A louder crack echoed in the area and more of the giant's left arm came off completely. The giant roared as his regeneration was cut off and started from scratch.

Faster!

The ground split apart beneath his feet. He absentmindedly noticed that the great pyramids looked kind of cool. Hawaii seemed nice also. A spark of energy jumped off of his body.

Faster!

"What is happening?!" The giant roared again as his right arm joined the left.

The sights became a blur and Naruto lapped the world once over, then twice, then five times, then ten. There was a new trench that spanned across the ocean floor, and the water had parted.

"I don't understand." The giant groaned as he knelt on the ground, his arms gone and hundreds of gashes on his body that were slowly knitting together. His expensive tracksuit was gone, tatters from the assault he underwent. There was a boom and he looked up at the blond demigod he had beaten into the ground moments ago. "You? What are you?"

"I'm the demigod that killed you," Naruto said, his voice echoed as his body vibrated. He looked like he couldn't stand still if he tried, and lightning or some similar energy came off him in arcs. His body was cracked all over and leaked red with blood from the wounds. He brought his right hand back, the bronze axe-head gleamed in the daylight though it looked ready to fracture with the next blow, and it began to vibrate at a high speed. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki and I'm the son of Hermes!"

"NO-O-O-!" The giant's yell was cut short as his head was cut off. The head landed in the dirt and the body dissolved into dust, sent back to the Underworld where it belonged.

Naruto's weapons exploded into dust and the blond fell to his knees, still vibrating. His shirt burst long ago from the strain of the speed and his jeans were tattered and torn from the friction. Blood leaked from his body and his eyes, bloodshot to the extreme, rolled into his head as he fell forward. Finally, he went still, save for the occasional arc that went over him.

AN: Now, remember I said this was a preview of what I've been working on.

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