"The End…", was what Naruto thought while he laid dying in the middle of the scattered landscape that was formerly known as Frost Country. It was nearly five cruel months ago when everything seemed to go downhill. Madara had declared the 4th shinobi war and despite their differences the five great hidden villages stood together, united with a common goal. Since that fateful day so much seemed to have happened, massive Battles were followed by small skirmishes, the ruthless destruction of villages and cities and the tragic death of so many. Despite their best effort the United Shinobi Alliance couldn't stop Madara in his relentless advances to collect the Jinchuriki, just a week ago Killer Bee had fallen in his fight against Pain and Gyuki was sealed into the Gedo Mazo. Naruto has known since the beginning that they eventually would come to get him and when the tragic news of Bee's death arrived, he knew he was next, but he wouldn't go easy on them. He had trained hard for this day, he used countless Shadow Clones to master not only as many Ninjutsus (Ninja Techniques) and Genjutsus (Illusionary Techniques) as possible, but also to bring his Taijutsu (Body Technique) up to par and to study Fuinjutsu (Sealing Techniques) from his father scrolls. But most importantly he learned Senjutsu (Sage Techniques) despite his young age of only 14 years. In addition to this he let his Shadow Clones work on all kind of Bukijutsus (Weapon Techniques), like Kenjutsu (Sword Technique), Shurikenjutsu (Throwing Weapon Techniques) and even Kyujutsu (Bow Techniques), something, while not often used by shinobi, he found quite valuable and seemed to have a natural skill for. When he saw the black cloak with red clouds of Akatsuki, he truly felt that he had a chance to come out on top, but Madara had done the unpredictable and, despite the Kyubi being sealed in Naruto, resurrected the Jubi, partialy at least.

When he saw the mighty body of the Jubi, he knew that all his training still wasn't enough, so he turned to the source of his problems and confronted the Kyubi – no, Kurama he reminded himself. He had learned his name after befriending him – or at least establishing a partnership with the fox. Seizing the fox's power was rather easy in retrospect. Despite what many thought demon chakra wasn't evil or vile, but more like the essence of rage, for Naruto to effectively use that power he had to embrace the rage and use it as a weapon. Together they fought and succeeded, at least to some degree. Madara laid dead to his feet as did every other remaining Akatsuki member, but with it came the cost of two of his most important people, Kakashi and Tsunade had sacrificed themselves to finish both Pain and Obito respectively. But even after all was sacrificed, the Jubi was still rampaging, and Naruto did the sole thing that was left for him to do, he used the same Seal his deceased father did so many years ago, but instead of a newborn he sealed the Jubi into himself. He would take the beast with him to the stomach of the Shinigami, even if it would cost his life.

Despite his imminent death, despite his friends dying like flies, despite the sacrifice his sensei and Tsunade had made, he could still smile. Most of the Konoha 11 were still alive, Konohamaru would become the Hokage, the world was safe, no child would have to carry the burden of being a Jinchuriki again, and while his body would fade with him, he was sure that he had been acknowledge like he dreamed. Saving the world, even if it meant his death, was really something Naruto had happily done.

Therefore, when he opened his eyes to see a white plain, he was truly and deeply surprised, he always imagined the stomach of the Shinigami as a black void and for a moment he asked himself if he did something wrong.

"You did not, son." A gentle voice said behind him and as fast as possible he spun around to see that there truly was his mother, Kushina Uzumaki, that had spoken to

"M-Mom?" he stuttered, "How was that possible? His father should be in the Shinigami's stomach, not his mother."

"You're right my son, but we aren't in the stomach of a Shinigami." Kushina explained his thought. "You might want to sit down for this." And as soon as she had said this a plush chair appeared behind Naruto.

The Red-head took a deep breath and looked her son straight in the eyes, "Naruto, my son, I imagined meeting you since I left your world, I thought about what I would tell you first, how I should explain everything to you, but I never came up with a satisfying idea. I can't even begin to describe how proud I am of you; your whole life had been a challenge most couldn't stand a day and still you overcame every obstacle in your way." She said with a gentle smile, " I'm Kushina Uzumaki, but I'm furthermore Artemis the Greek Goddess of the hunt…"

And so his mother began to tell Naruto her story, how there are different Dimension and that there is one where gods, like herself, exist, hidden from most of the humans in the world, and how deities where able to visit various dimensions, but could only do so while leaving their powers behind. She told him that she was born into the Uzumaki Clan, how she spend her childhood in Uzu and then in Konoha, how she knew that she was a Goddess in a different dimension but didn't care about this here. And how Minato had altered everything. That despite her oath, that she had kept for millennials, despite her hate for most man, Minato was able to change everything and that she genuinely fell in love with him. And more importantly that, while she loved Minato more than anyone before, that she cherished him, Naruto, more than even him, more than her life itself. When she recalled how she was forced to leave him behind she tears started welling up in her eyes. She explained to him that despite their power as gods she could only visit every dimension once and despite her best effort, she couldn't travel to Naruto nor could she get him to her. After a moment to calm themselves, she told him a great deal about gods and monsters, the current time and how humans lived in her world.

"When I told you before that you couldn't have come to my dimension that, wasn't complete true Naruto, there is an old technique that let a person pass from one dimension to another, but the problem is that you need the support from not only one primordial but two, one from each world to make the transfer complete," she stopped again and collect her thoughts, "over the course of the last year I was able to make a bargain with Nyx, the primordial of the night, to lend me – us - her help, seeing as you have the Jubi sealed inside you, you have also the support from a primordial of this world – as unwilling as he might be. Naruto you have two options now. You could stay on your current path and go to the Shinigami, or could come to my world, but I must warn you something dark stirs there and it's likely you could lose friends again." Artemis finished and looked at her son.

Naruto didn't need to think long about this, "While I don't like the thought of losing precious people again, I would rather be with them for a while and try to protect them and even if I don't know anybody there, yet I still have to protect you." He exclaimed with a smile. And as soon as he said this his mother began to smile brightly, "OK, then I suppose we best get started on teaching you some important things you need to know."

"Right now? How much time do we have?", asked Naruto

"Not nearly as much as I would like to spend with you, I'm needed on Olympus in a couple of weeks, we just killed a dangerous enemy and I immediately left afterwards, so they will be busy with celebration for some time, but I'm still needed at the next solistice. Luckily time flow different here, we will have a couple of months at least."

"That's great! What do we start with?"

"Well, English, of course."

And so, Artemis began teaching her son as much as she could in their time together. As she had told him they started with English and thanks to his Kage Bushins, he was able to get it down till he spoke like it was his native language in a short time. Next Artemis had him read all kind of books about history, society, and science of the world, while she herself told him about the Greek gods and taught him the most substantial things she had learned about the fight against monsters as the goddess of the hunt.

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It was an feeling unlike any other he had felt before, traveling to a different dimension was a brand-new experience for him. Afterwards he couldn't tell if it took seconds or centuries, he didn't feel pain, to be precise, he didn't feel anything. It was as if his whole body had gone numb, but unlike usual, when a limb got numb, it wasn't discomfortable. As soon as he landed in the world, he simply knew that this place was different then the Elemental Nations. There were so many smells he hadn't experienced before, there was less nature chakra around him, he could even feel that the air pressure had changed. He observed all of this before even opening his eyes, when he did so he saw that he laid in a room that, despite being indoors, felt like it was outside, the walls along with the ceiling had different forest motives on them, alongside with a few scenes he knew from the tales his mother had told him and paintings of different animals.

On the table to his left, was a simple envelope, on top of a box, that were both addressed to him. Naruto set up and started reading the letter inside.

Dear Naruto,

I'm sorry that I departed from you without an explanation after bringing you here, but while I was away an oracle communicated a new prophecy, that without a doubt, foretold a future war. While I would have loved to spend some more time with you, that unfortunately must wait till a later point. I know that I have briefed you before, but please remember to keep your heritage a secret, until I claim you. You are currently at a hideout of my hunters in New York and should be capable to reach Camp Half-Blood easily. You can use this place whenever you are in the city.

In the apartment is some equipment that you are free to use, some of the things are what me and my Hunters use regularly, but alongside them I added several shinobi weapons made from material that can defeat monsters, including Kunais, Shuriken, Ninja Wire and some of the swords that are similar to the ones you are used to. The cabin holds some cloths that resemble the ones of your world and some other supplies like ink and brushes that you might find useful. In this box is a special gift for you I managed to acquire, it's the bow of Odysseus and like in the past only he was capable to draw, now you will be the only one that can use him. The bow fires arrows at a speed far faster than normal and whenever you draw him an arrow will appear. Take as much money, cloths and equipment as you want and make sure to make it to Camp Half-Blood safely.

It saddens me greatly, but before you go I must tell you another thing, while I don't like to make fast conclusion, it's very likely that you are the "Child of the Prophecy" again, and that the burden to save this world will be yours again. As I have told you before, most will be astonished and confused when I claim you, and I have no doubt that Monsters will try to taunt you with your heritage, but know this, despite what will happen in the future you are my most precious thing in this and every other world, more so than your father was, more than my brother and father is and even more than my Hunters. I love you.

Artemis

While reading the letter Naruto began to sob silently and tears began to flow from his eyes, his mother had told him this things many times before, as Kushina and Artemis, but despite all that he still had some fear that she resented him for being a man and would chose her Hunters over him. To have her stated the exact opposite made him all but forget about the possibility of war, or the burden he might have to carry, that alone was enough for him to save the world ten times.

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The atmosphere, at Camp Half-Blood, could be best described with the word awkward, when the news regarding the destruction of the Princes Andromeda and the banishment of Kronos to Tartarus reached the Camp, everyone was extremely delighted, but the good mood had settled quickly after the information about the new prophecy, that apparently spoke from another war, had spread. Now everyone was confused if they should celebrate the prevention of a potential catastrophic war or fear the outbreak of a new one. To this gloomy mix of emotions was added the fact that since the destruction of Luke's ship, no one had seen as much as the tail of a single monster, and while normally half-bloods wouldn't complain about this fact, it nonetheless felt like the calm before the storm.

One of the few bright points in recent camp history, at least for the half-bloods, was that after 52 defeats in a row, they were finally able to win a capture the flag game against the hunters, who had, to their own and the campers' displeasure, stayed in the cabin 8 since Artemis had left them after the fight against Kronos. and while they all knew that there Lady could protect herself, they still where worried about her.

Currently the whole camp alongside the Hunters were celebrating the construction of the new Hades cabin, that was created for both Nico and Bianca, and the new cabins of some other gods and goddesses that claimed there Childs recently. Apparently, Zeus had decided that it would be beneficial for them if most of the Half-Bloods would be loyal to them, even more so with the upcoming war.

But the joyful mood was interrupted by a voice suddenly screaming, "We are under attack!"

o0o0o

"Wow!" was the sole thing Naruto could think when he started to inspect the apartment, if you could call it such. Calling it an armory would have been more fitting. When he prepared for his final battle of the war alongside Tsunade and Kakashi, he could freely use Konoha's ANBU armory and was even allowed to wear one of the special ANBU armors, that normally was limited to members of the Special Unit. He was shocked when he had seen the amount and quality of weapons and equipment the ANBU had, but it paled in comparison to the arsenal of the Hunters. There were rags with what he would call the finest bows possible, tons of equipment, from ordinary camping stuff to clothes and even what he was able to identify as some high-tech or magical camouflage net. True to his mother's words, he took a large amount of the equipment the Hunters used, that he first stacked in the middle of the room. Next he opened the lockers and like Artemis had said there was every weapon a ninja could dream of. He added roughly a dozen holsters, filled with Kunai and Shuriken made from what he identified as Divine Silver, a metal that looked similar to normal silver, but was even whiter. To his confusion, there were also three holsters with Kunai and Shuriken made from what he believed to be regular metal. It bewildered him because his mother told him that everything else than Celestial Bronze, Imperial Gold, Stygian Iron and Divine Silver wouldn't harm monster and could only be used against demigods and regular mortals. Despite his confusion he flung them on the stack. Alongside the throwing weapons he grasped 10 pieces of ninja wire, made from Divine Silver, that together added up to more than 2 km in length and a bunch of brushes with nearly a liter of ink.

After he had gathered what could best be described as basic equipment, the pile was spread all over the floor. To prevent it from being damaged he gathered chakra, for the first time, and likely even as the first person, in this world and created a Kage Bushin, that promptly after his creation began to draw storage seals on the original's body. Thanks to his intense practice in Fuinjutsu with his Shadow Clones he was able to finish the seals in under an hour and stored the items that were formerly at the floor on different parts of his body. Once again, he thanked Jiraya for forcing him to study seals. Not only wouldn't he be able to transport his equipment without them, but also, he essentially couldn't lose it, if no one cut of his limb, a truly amazing branch of the shinobi techniques.

After he had finished his mediating about the awesomeness of Fuinjutsu, he turned to the part he was secretly most excited of. At first, he took the cloths that were in one of the drawers, sealed a few sets of them into himself, and dressed in the last one. True to his mother's words, the cloths were a lot like the ones he had worn during his final battle, a black short-sleeved shirt with an Uzumaki Crest at the front, that was concealed by the grey ANBU armor he wore above it. On his legs he wore simple black ninja pants, with white bandage above his black sandals. On his right leg he had two holsters, one with Divine Silver and one with regular metal weapons. Afterwards, he got to the swords and found several blades made from Divine Silver, he took a 60 cm long katana that he would were at his left hip, two 48 cm ninjatos that he straped on his back with the handles showing over his right shoulder and finally one 26 cm long tanto that he could strap to his right thigh. After he had finished attaching his weapons, he took them off again to draw several complex containment seals that would allow him to hide them if not needed and to let them appear where they meant to be, when he needed them. Finally, he opened the box with the bow and discovered a truly magnificent weapon. Even without his training in Kyujutsu, he would have been able to tell that it was perfectly made. The bow was made from wood and had a simple string but despite his ordinary looks it had a aura of beauty, that portrayed the deadliness alongside the magnificent of the weapon. Like his other weapons he sealed it, this time on his left hand. Before he left the apartment, he had decided to clutch a hunting knife like the ones his mother used and strapped it to his lower right leg.

And so, Naruto Namikaze took his first step into the new world and before he had time to take in the full scene, a black blur raced towards him and a female voice screamed "Look Out!".

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[A/N: I hope the explanations I gave for everything that has happened are understandable, if not feel free to ask anytime. There were some changes in Naruto's world that differ from canon, but most of the things stayed the same, Naruto is 14 years old and his birthday in the new world would be 10th October 1992, making him nearly a year older than Percy and Annabeth, which were born on 18th August 1993 and 12th Jule 1993, respectively. He comes to the world on 21st June 2007, the day of the summer solistice.]