Naruto moved his head, his eyes shut. Then his eyes fluttered open and he rubbed his eyes with a hand.
"Naruto," Someone said as he woke up, "So glad you're alive."
Grover walked up, wearing a leather chest plate.
Naruto sat up, holding his head. "Ow," He muttered.
Naruto finally looked around and took in his surroundings. "Let me guess. I'm in the infirmary." Naruto said.
"Yeah." said Grover
"Ugh," Naruto rubbed his head, as he felt like he had a splitting headache and he wasn't sure why. He'd have to figure that out later. "Listen, uh, could you see if you got any more of that medicine you gave me?" Naruto had been in and out of it for a few days but remembered them spoon-feeding him something.
"Nectar," Grover corrected. "But sure, I'll get it. You just sit tight." Grover returned pretty quickly with the nectar and gave it to his black-haired friend. Naruto drank all of it in one gulp.
When he finished, Grover asked, "Was it good?"
"It was amazing." Naruto said with slight bliss.
"What did it taste like?" he asked, sounding wistful.
Naruto was wondering why Grover didn't take any for himself.
"Sorry," Naruto said. "I should've let you taste."
Grover's eyes went wide. "No, man! That's not what I meant. I just… wondered."
"Like Ramen" Naruto told him with grin.
Grover sighed. "And how do you two feel?"
"Like I could benchpress Mount Rushmore." Naruto answered as he pulled the covers off and sat up, grabbing the horn of the Minotaur.
They started walking outside as Grover and him talked. "So, this is Camp Half-Blood." Naruto said, as he looked around.
"Yep, this is the place I told you about." Grover laughed and slung an arm around Naruto. "Look, but you're not alone. There's hundreds, if not thousands of demi-god's in the world. Some leading normal lives and some I'm not allowed to name become very famous. Like White House famous."
Grover thumped Naruto's chest. "See man, this place right here... its where you learn how to harness your powers. Everyone is training to become leaders, warriors, and heroes."
Grover and Naruto headed over to a small area of grass where there were a lot of demi-gods sparring. "This is where a lot of demi-gods do their training."Grover informed him."Come on, let's get you to Mr Burner."
The first thing Naruto noticed about Chiron was that he was sitting in a wheelchair. He wore a tweed jacket, had thinning brown hair, and a scraggly beard. Naruto recognized him easily.
"Mr. Brunner." Naruto said. The man looked at them with a twinkle of mischief in his eyes.
Mr. Brunner chuckled and said, "Naruto, here I am called Chiron."
The look on Naruto was priceless. He was still smiling but he had the 'oh shit' smile. "Oh, so where is your horse half?"
"This is a magical wheelchair to when I want to go out, I use this to hide my true self." The now dubbed Chiron replied.
"That makes sense. So, how long was I out?"
"You just got here last night!"said Grover.
"Oh…well, I have always been a really fast healer. I thought it was because of the fox, but…" He trailed off as he saw Grover gave him a look of confusion while Chiron had a serious look on his face.
"I take it you have no clue what I am talking about."
"No." the satyr said.
"I have an idea. Fox is known as the Kyuubi, correct?" Chiron asked.
"Y-yeah, How do you know about that in this Universe?" Naruto asked with narrowed eyes while Grover looked even more confused.
"Naruto you forgot who I am.I know the existence of the Multiverse and Gods of different Pantheons and also Eons ago when Gaea and Tartarous created Typhoon, they also created a being that rivaled Typhoon.That being was Kraken a terrifying primodial force of Nature.He was ironically after its defeat was banished to your realm and he later became a tree.He Eons later once started to cause havoc across the Universe. Though he was defeated again thanks to a man called Sage Of The 6 Paths, he seperated them in 9 living beings.They were known as the Tailed Beasts and the Kyuubi was the strongest of them all." Chiron explained. "They even spoke of people who were forced at birth to hold these beasts in their bodies via a seal and you were one of them."
"Yeah." Naruto said still in shock to learn about the origins of the Tailed-Beasts whileGrover was in shock and awe when he learn about such things.
"Only a powerful being can handle the power of the Kyuubi and you have more denser divinity than an average Demi-God. Meaning you might be a child of the Big Three….or ones descendents.If you are indeed a child of the Big Three, then you might be the one to decide the fate of the world at a later time as said in a Prophecy of the Oracle."
Naruto said"What the Fuck?"
"And just know that the Prophecy says the time will come when the demi god is 21, so we have time." Chiron replied.
Naruto's eyes widened and he inwardly groaned before saying, "Just fucking great"
"Also, being one of the Big Three's kids is kind of bad." Chiron stated as Naruto raised an eyebrow.Although he already know about his father's identity.
"Because, they swore an oath after World War II that they would not have kids anymore."Grover answered for him.
Naruto snorted. "Well, we can see how that worked out."
"Yes" Chiron smirked.Then a girl came interupting their conversation.
"Sorry Chiron but the Hermes Cabin has done it again," The girl spoke in an annoyed tone, "they repainted the Ares Cabin during the middle of the night neon pink." Naruto couldn't help himself from smirking from hearing the Hermes kids prank, he would have to meet these "geniuses" soon he thought quietly to himself. "What's even worse, the Ares Cabin is declaring war on them with Clarisse demanding their blood!" The clearly upset girl cried out while unknowingly tugging at her hair.
Chiron could only chuckle before rubbing his chin in thought. "Well I can't say that the Hermes Cabin doesn't deserve to be punished, I still cannot allow needless violence to occur in this camp regardless. Even so, I compromise that Clarisse and her cabin not hurt any Hermes children until Friday." This declaration made Naruto frown in thought, what was going to happen on Friday? Another thing, what day was today? He'd have to ask Chiron later about it.
"Of course! I'm so stupid! Why didn't I think of that! How could I possibly be one of Athena's children if I can't even think of such a simple solution." The girl muttered into her hand that was currently being used to hide her anguish on her face.
"Now, now, don't be so hard on yourself Annabeth. You are still by far the smartest person here in the camp." Chiron said patting her hair while trying to reassure the troubled girl. Looking up from her recent meltdown, she could only smile gratefully at her father figure.
"Thank you Chiron. You truly are the wisest here." Annabeth complimented back making the Centaur smile in appreciation.
"As you are wise also." The girl nodded back before taking a glimpse at Naruto and leaving.
"That was Annabeth Chase.One of the smartest girl of the Camp." said Grover to Naruto who nodded his head understanding.
Chiron called out to a he saw a girl walking by, "Clarisee! Come here please!"
The girl turned her head and saw Chiron and one of the new guys everyone was talking about. She smirked and walked over. Naruto noticed that she was pretty tall, strong looking, She was not totally ugly, she looked gruff and had the look of a fighter. "What?" came her response when she arrived.
"I would like for you to show Naruto here around the cabins for the moment." Chiron stated.
"Fine, gotta welcome the newbie anyway." She said with an evil smirk.
Naruto raise an eyebrow as that. He knew that smirk, he used it when he did a prank. He guessed the she was 'welcoming committee.'
"Well come on!" She called out, already walking away. He and Grover followed her all the way to the middle of the arc of cabins. "Ok, listen closely cause I am only going to say this once! There are 12 cabins in all. Each one represents the Greek Good it was made for. Their kids are the one who live in there. Since you and the runt are new and have not been claim yet, you two will go to Cabin 11, the Hermes Cabin."
Naruto nodded, Hermes did shelter a lot of people, so it made sense. "And the one you're in?" he asked nonchalantly.
"The God of War's cabin!" She proclaimed while point to a red cabin.
"Cool." Naruto replied.
"Right, now we have the other cabins. We got Demeter, Dionysus, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hera, Zeus, Artemis and Poseidon." She said pointing to each. He looked at Zeus and Hera's and quirked an eyebrow. They got some pretty fancy cabins for nobody to use. He noticed that a Hades cabin was not there…odd since he was part of the Big Three. He also noticed a big space between Poseiden and Zeus's cabins. Maybe they planned on making one and forgot since they never got any kids from Hades."
"Now….it is not to 'officially' welcome you!" Clarisse called out, making a lot of people look toward them and they grimaced. Clarisse was breaking in another newbie, Grover felt sorry for him. She quickly reacted out and tried to grab him by the collar. Key word here is tried. She along with everyone else gasped as she grabbed a log of wood, stumbled, fell to one knee.
What the hell?She screamed in her head. Before she could get up, she felt cold metal against her neck. She glanced to the right to see Naruto was facing the other way she was and looked at her from his side and with a smirk on his face, similar to her evil one earlier.
"For someone born from War….you have slow reflexes." Naruto said releasing a small bit of killer intent while still smirking. They heard a lot of people asking others how he did that and to Clarisse of all people. Some noticed that he had his kunai pouch on and that he didn't have that before. Deciding to scare them, he withdrew his kunai from her neck, put it in his pouch, sealed it away, earning a few gasps of shock as it just disappeared. He shocked them even more as he stepped back and offered a hand to help Clarisse up.
Awhile that was happening Clarisse was in deep shock.The hell, I have never been bested like that!"She then noticed the hand a quickly took it. She nodded her head and they walked back to the big house where Naruto came out of. Along the way, she was thinking deeply.He could be an Ares kid…if he is not I am not sure what else he could be! He beat me and could have killed me with me knowing it!
"Come on, let's get you over to the Big House. Our camp activities director awaits." said Grover
They walked over to the Big House. Down at the end of the porch of the Big House, two men sat across from each other at a card table.
The man facing them was small, but plump. He had a red nose, watery eyes and curly hair so black it seemed purple. He looked like your average gambler, yet Naruto had a feeling that he could outsmart even the most serious gambler. He wore a tiger-pattern Hawaiian shirt.
"That's Mr. D," Grover whispered. "He's the camp director. Be polite. It will save you some trouble down the road. And you already Chiron."
"Naruto, I would like you to meet these two." Chiron said. Naruto took a look at them both. One had a surfer's build and had a lot of eyes all over his body. The other one was an old fat man. "These two are Argus and Mr. D repectively."
Naruto just nodded because Mr. D looked very tired, or was it bored? "Well I guess I must say it. Welcome to Camp Half-Blood."
"Nice to be here." Naruto smiled and it was infectious because the man smiled….but it was small. Thinking back to all the Mythology he had read, though that would shock his friends back home. Anyway, he did know a lot or remember a lot of people that started with a D. So that brought out the thing he was about to say. "Hmm Mr. D, I don't know a lot of Greek History but there is one guy whose name would fit with you, but names are powerful so I will just say that you are the Wine God."
"Well, you are a smart boy. You are correct." Mr. D replied, gaining some respect for the blond.
"Wow, Granny Tsunade would love you then. She drinks all the time! Oh and since your other power is similar to her family's Mokuton power, are you guy related?"
Mr. D blinked a few times before laughing. "Well, I can honestly say that I have never been to your world that Chiron told me you were from. Now, I have heard about it from the other Gods. Now, if I ever get away from this place, I might just take a look! Oh and to answer your question, no I am not related to her."
"oh" said Naruto
Naruto was starting to enjoy his time here in Camp-Half Blood.
