"Ok, Naruto, what would you like to start with", asked Annabeth her fellow blonde, who just shrugged and responded, "I don't know. What do you guys usually do?".
"That's different for every camper. We normally train at the things we have a talent for, but we can probably do every activity that we have in camp during the next two or three days," answered Percy. "Yeah and it will be good to see you using a bow again Seaweed Brain," Annabeth teased the dark-haired boy, who blushed and muttered some things about annoying bows and how they seemed to attack him every time he was holding one.
Thalia lead the foursome towards, their first activity for the day, sword fighting. "So, Naruto I think you are quite a decent swordsman from what I have seen before. Percy here is the best we currently have at the camp, do you have your own sword?", Annabeth told him before looking him over, she could have sworn that he had a sword when he was fighting the monsters.
"Yeah, I have trained in Kenjutsu, do we use our real swords or blunt weapons?", Naruto turned towards Percy to ask his opinion. "We usually spar with our real swords, but we can use blunt ones if you like."
"No that will be fine, I will just have to remember that we spar and that you aren't an enemy."
"Well I don't think that will be too hard, seeing that I'm not really looking like a monster."
Hearing that made Naruto give a pained smile to the boy in front of him, before he sighed, "I have come to experience that humans can be even worse than many actual monsters."
The other demigods looked at him in worry, "He had to fight actual humans, did he…, no."
Naruto who could tell what they were thinking quickly unsealed his katana, before getting in an opening sword stance to direct the thought to different territories.
"So. Are you ready?"
Instead of answering the question, Percy asked one himself, "You use a single edged sword? And what material is that I don't think I have seen it before."
Annabeth and Thalia looked even more confused than before, both could guess what material the sword was made of, "You have seen it before, it's Divine Silver, the sacred metal of Artemis, her Hunters use it for their arrow tips. That raises the question of how you got it. I thought that no one outside the Hunt was allowed used it."
Naruto, instead of answering her, just taped his nose and grinned. Before making an incredible slow, at least from his perspective, strike at Percy with his sword. The Half-Blood had to react as quickly as he was able to, drawing Riptide and blocking the fast strike just before it cut him in half. Without saying another word Naruto tested Percy's defense for a few moments, before nodding to himself and starting to deflect and dodge each of Percy's strikes with just the slightest movements to get a reaction out of his opponent.
He was disappointed, because after minutes on the offensive Percy yelled in frustration. The demigod had been attacking since Naruto's first few attacks, but no matter what he did, Naruto dodged or blocked every single strike, while seemingly standing still. Before he could come up with a strategy to get his opponent to at least move from his spot, Naruto was on the offensive again and had the tip of his sword at Percy's throat, after a few strikes, in which he disarmed Percy before going for the potential lethal blow.
Naruto, for his part, was quite amused by the fight, he hadn't expected Percy to land a hit on him, but the Half-Blood was still better than he had thought. But now he could feel the annoyance of the son of Poseidon with each of his senses, which caused him to grin again, before saying, "You are quite decent Percy, I have trained with my swords for what would have been years."
"Would have been years? What do you mean with this?", Annabeth asked, the odd statement confusing her.
"Ah, well, you see one of my… extraordinary abilities allowed me to train different things at the same time, but don't worry about it. What's next?", he asked before sealing away his Katana again, which in turn resulted in another moment of confusion for the demigods, before Thalia chose to speak, "I think Chiron's archery lessons start shortly, sounds good?"
"Great than I can embarrass myself even more," muttered Percy.
"Yeah sounds good," Naruto answered before looking at Percy, "Percy, I have told you, you are a really good swordsman, it would have been impossible for you to reach my level, there are certain things that forced me to learn so quickly. Don't worry yourself, you are probably still better at every watery-thing we might do," that actually got Percy smiling and before they began to set out for the archery range.
o0o0o
Some people had seen the end of Percy's and Naruto's spar and now a rather big group was following trying to discover new things about the blonde and possibly determine who his godly parent was, through his skill in the different activities. Right now, both Ares and Hermes, for his swordsman skill and his apparent mischievous respectively, were considered alongside some minor gods. Someone even asked if he could be a son of Heracles.
Naruto on his part was happy that they didn't bother him to much with questions about all the weird things he had done, like killing dozens of monsters, catching Clarisse of guard, defeating Percy rather easily and the apparent secret he had talked about with Dionysus. Apparently being a demigod made you able to just shrug of the weirdest things that happened.
o0o0o
"Damn it!", Percy yelled in frustration, it was apparent to everyone that his arching skills hadn't improved the slightest. "You need to be calm before firing the arrow" Chiron tried to explain to his student, but said student chose to give up instead and now looked at Naruto.
The blonde ignored the stares he got from nearly every half-blood in the clearing for a few seconds before sighing, far quicker than anyone could follow he had drawn several shurikens and threw them at the targets, each hitting bullseye. A small smile crept on Naruto's face, he couldn't deny that he liked to play the mysterious stranger at least for now, but the excitement of training always destroyed every appearance of the level-headed shinobi he was from time to time.
Most of the onlookers were slightly slag-jawed, from the pace, and accuracy Naruto had. Naruto decided to show of some more and pulled nine Kunai from his holster and started to spread them throughout the clearing. When he got back to his former spot, eight Kunais were in clear sight, but one would be out of reach for a normal throw. Naruto took a deep breath, pulled out 10 Shurikens from his pouch, jumped in the air and started throwing them quickly. The last shuriken he threw hit the first, and before he even landed 9 metallic clinks could be heard, each from a shuriken hitting a kunai. At this everyone, including Chiron went slag-jawed, they thought that it wouldn't be possible to hit so many targets at once let alone a target outside of your reach. Naruto smirked at this, truthfully, Sasuke's Shurikenjutsu had always been a sore point for him, he had envied the Uchiha for a long time, and dedicated countless shadow clones to reach this point.
"Don't be shocked. I worked hard to come to this far. Unfortunately, it turned out that, while it looks impressive, it isn't useful at the battlefield, because it takes far too much concentration," that calmed done the campers somewhat and some even began to chuckle.
"What about archery?" asked one of the Apollo campers, eager to see if the newcomer might be his brother.
"Hmm, do you have a bow for me Chiron?" Naruto asked. He could have used Odysseus's bow, but that would have been overkill and would lead to even more questions.
After he was handed a bow, he took several arrows, stabbed them in the dirt before him, before drawing the bow back to test it. After taking a deep breath to calm himself, the blonde gripped an arrow, drew back the bow and aimed at the line of targets. He let the arrow go before quickly loading a new one, in a few moments he had fired all 5 arrows and hit bullseye on every target. He smirked at the dreamy expression the Apollo campers had, they thought that he was their brother and they would win every future capture the flag battle. "That was very impressive Naruto. I might be able to guess who your father is now.", Chiron said impressed by the blonde's skills.
"Nah, I don't think you know," said Naruto while dismissingly waving his hand, grinning to himself. He had cheated a little bit when firing the arrows and coated them in wind chakra to prevent them from changing the course because of sudden air streams. It was another thing he couldn't really do in battle, because unlike with chakra blades, it reduced the piercing power of the arrow. "Doesn't matter, I could probably hit them even without using chakra." Naruto thought to himself, "It would be embarrassing if I couldn't, seeing as mom is the best archer in the world. But on a second thought I might be able to use the wind chakra to make pierce through the air instead of correcting the course, maybe that would even increase the power instead of decreasing it."
The super excited Apollo kids dragged him to their first aid lesson to further prove that he was their brother. "I hope cousin is good enough for them."
o0o0o
To their dismal it quickly became evident that Naruto wasn't a natural at healing, not at all. In fact, Lee Fletcher even said something about giving their dummies some day off for the torture Naruto brought about them. "Baa-chan and Shizune would love this,", Naruto thought happily remembering his two favorite medics. What Lee had said wasn't over exaggerated, Naruto had always healed too quick to bother for first aid, and Sakura was one of the best medics in the Elemental Nations. That he sucked so much at healing had at least the one positive effect that the jealousy that had settled into some was quickly gone and they instead laughed about the jokes Naruto made about his clumsiness.
o0o0o
Dinner had come far quicker than Percy had hoped, first aid had been the last activity for the day. Thalia, Annabeth and Percy had gone to take a shower after they had introduced him to the now, not so much overpopulated Hermes cabin, Naruto chose to look around the camp for some time. And got to the dining place when he heard the camp horn. After he had set down with the other campers from Cabin 11, Dionysus stood up and begun talking, "As you all have noticed we have a new camper here today, Naruto Namikaze.", he stopped for a few seconds until the murmurs about Dionysus saying the real name for once had settled down. "I will come straight to the point: you have seen how good Mr. Namikaze had fought and probably concluded that he had some training before. That is true.", he stopped for a second before remembering what he wanted to say, "Ah yes, and he is a ninja from another dimension of course." he ended as if this was self-explanatory. Every camper made a double check if today was April 1st, it was not.
Seeing that Mr. D. was finished Naruto stood up, and walked towards one of the pillars while talking, "What Mr. D. said is true, there exist at least one other dimension, that is called the elemental Nations, and it's my home place. Gods can visit the place but lose their power for the time they are there. Normally mortals can't pass the boundaries between two dimensions, but thanks to the help of two primordial I could." He reached the pillar and started walking it up, which got amazed looks from everyone, "In my home place, many people have what we call chakra, it allows us to do some awesome things, like wall walking,", he pointed at himself, " or elemental Ninjutsus.", he said before breathing out a small stream of fire. "I suspect that you still have some questions, well probably a lot, and I will try to answer them later, ok?" That got nods from everyone, they were still too astonished to speak.
Even the normally calm Zoe had lost her cool alongside the other Hunters. After Naruto had settled himself down, they began to eat, and while he could feel the questions the others had, he chose to ignore them for the time being and started to devour his food after sacrificing some for his mother. The only complains he had was that Dionysus apparently didn't allow alcohol, because he couldn't have it himself. Naruto liked to drink some sage in memory of both Tsunade and Jiraya, and thanks to the Kyubi and probably to some degree, his Uzumaki genes, the only sake that made him tipsy was the one the toads produced.
o0o0o
The whole camp alongside the Hunters, was seated at the campfire and waited for Naruto's story, after said blonde was practically dragged from the mess hall by some campers. He was currently sitting somewhat in front of them and thought about how to tell his story.
Naruto cleared his throat before he began to speak, "I think it would be best to start with some quick history of the Elemental Nations first.", he got some nods in response and slightly sweat dropped seeing some of the Athena kids pulling out notepads to write down what he was writing.
"Ok," he cleared his throat again, "a long time ago, maybe millennials, maybe just centuries there was a primordial beast called the ten-tailed, it rampaged constantly, and the humans could do little to stop it, no one had chakra let alone could use it, at some point somewhere a princess was born, she was kind and wanted to protect her people. She knew that in order to stop the ten-tailed she needed to have some sort of power, so she did what no one was brave or perhaps stupid enough to do before her and ate a fruit of the Shinju, the god-tree, another primordial. This fruit gave her enormous powers, she became the first person who could use chakra alongside some other incredible abilities. In fact, she was so strong that she was considered a goddess. As time went by, she had two sons Hagoromo and Hamura, both longed for peace, the first for the whole world and the second for his clan, sadly Kaguya, the princess, had gone mad from power and her sons were forced to fight her in order to preserve the peace she once searched to create," he stopped for a brief moment and took in the absolute quietness the campers were in before continuing. "At some point in time, Hagoromo had sealed the ten-tailed into himself, preventing it from rampaging and bringing a new era of peace, he began teaching people Ninshu, the first form of chakra manipulation and gave them chakra in hope they would use it for good. While he lived, a previously unknown era of peace reigned in the Elemental nations. He was a god for some and quickly was called the Sage of Six Paths, a nickname he got thanks to his abilities. Unfortunately, he died at some point, but to prevent the Jubi from rampaging again he split it into nine separate beings, that came to be known as the Biju, tailed-beasts, who unluckily would become to be known for bring the same damage the Jubi once did. When the Sage died the era of peace ended quickly, his legacy, the Senju and Uchiha Clans, formed by his sons, began to be rivals, most of the chakra users started to use it as a weapon instead of a helpful tool and so the perhaps darkest ages of the elemental nations began, the waring states era," he stopped again and looked around, everyone seemed to be so wrapped up in his story that they didn't even wanted to interrupt him to ask questions
"I honestly can't tell you much about the waring states era, no one cared enough to write down the history and all we know about it are from some stories the clans told their kids. We can't even say how long it lasted but we know how it ended. You remember the Uchiha and Senju Clans, the descendant of the Sage?", he asked to get nods of recognition from everyone.
"It was roughly a hundred years ago, when a new heir to the Senju clan was born, his name was Hashirama and he grow up to be one of the best shinobi the elemental nations have ever seen, he had an unique ability, called Kekkei Genkai, or bloodline, that allowed him to manipulate wood, normally bloodlines were as the name suggest inherited by blood, but Hashirama was the only one to ever show this ability naturally. Despite his strength even in young years Hashirama was one of the kindest people to ever live, he hated the constant fight his clan was in and wanted to stop it. Luckily, he had met Madara Uchiha, heir to the Uchiha clan when they both were children, and even through there clans have been rivals since their founding, they banded together and founded the first shinobi village, Konohagakure no Sato, the village hidden in the leaves. In the following years many other shinobi villages were founded, after a short time each of the five major powers, the land of fire, water, earth, lightning and wind, had their own village, and for a short time thing seemed to become better." Naruto sighed before shaking his head
"I won't tell you the whole history of the shinobi villages right now, because it would take way to long, but as you may have suspected within a few years wars started to spread out again. To simplify it, there have been four great shinobi wars alongside some smaller conflicts since the founding, each war was more devastating than the last, and after the 3rd war things had been peaceful for a long time.", he sighed again, the next part would be the hardest for Naruto to tell because he had experienced it himself.
"Long story short, the Kyubi no Kitsune or the nine-tailed fox, attacked Konoha. My father, the Yondaime Hokage, fourth Fire Shadow, was forced to stop it and made me a Jinchuriki, something that had become quite 'popular' since the founding of the ninja village. Sadly Madara Uchiha, yes the Madara from the founding of Konoha, don't ask me how he survived so long, had planned to cast the whole world under an illusion…" Naruto proceeded to tell them the full story of the 4th shinobi war and how Madara's genius plan was to resurrect the Jubi. Finally, he stopped to let them process what he had told them and to answer the questions that were sure to come.
Surprisingly the first to ask something was Percy, "Ehm, what is a Fire Shadow?"
Naruto chuckled before answering "The Fire Shadow, or as we called it Hokage, is the leader of Konoha, each of the major hidden villages have their own Kage, most of the time this is the strongest person in the village."
"So, your father was the strongest?", Percy asked astonished.
Naruto just shrugged and said, "Depends, he took out an enemy army on his own in the 3rd war, but it is really hard to measure the strength of Kage-level shinobi"
"What means Jinchuriki?" asked Annabeth
"Jinchuriki, the literal translation would be 'Power of Human Sacrifice', it describes a person that for some cause had a tailed beast sealed inside them."
That shocked the crowd. "Naruto was a sacrifice?"
"How is it?", asked Annabeth shyly
"Being a Jinchuriki, it depends.", he said with a shrug, "We aren't the most liked people, the tailed-beast are mostly quiet and can even be a great help if you are fighting, a friend of mine could grow tentacles to attack, and I heal extremely fast, to the point that I never get a scar, no matter the wound. The major down point were the crazy overpowered criminals wanting to rip the Biju out of you, killing you in the progress."
"So how did the war end?" one of the Hunters asked.
"Some pretty awesome fighting, me, baa-chan, ahem the Fifth Hokage of course, and my sensei, took on the last remaining bad guys," he stopped for a moment suppressing the tears that started to flow up in him, "They both sacrificed themselves to take out or give me a shot at killing one and when the last enemy laid defeated they were dead too."
Everyone was quite from the sad story for a few moments before a barely audible camper asked, "And the Jubi?"
"It's gone", Naruto said with a shrug, he already thought the campers could take a lot, but him having a primordial within could very well be too much.
After a few moments of silence on of the campers had the courage to ask a question again, "So what cool ninja moves are there?"
"Well, the most common branches are Taijutsu, Genjutsu and Ninjutsu.", he said and explained some things about the most basic ninja skills. "Then there are Bukijutsu and Fuinjutsu." the shinobi explained some more, some of the campers got stars in their eyes at the thought of either all the weapons ninja used or the storage scrolls to carry so much stuff. "And of course summoning and Senjutsu.", Naruto started to explain just to be interrupted.
"Summoning for real? Like Bears and Tigers and Dragons?" Nico asked excited
"Not quite young one, but the most awesome of all summoning clans, the mighty Toads of Mount Myoboku.", the blonde answered in a Sage-like tone, every single person, except Dionysus, sweat dropped, "Toads for real?", they thought.
"Oi, don't look at me like this!" Naruto said before quickly doing some hand-seals and shouting out Kuchiyose no jutsu (Summoning Technique) and a little Toad appeared. "Hey Gamakichi what's up!"
"Yo, Naruto, Pops wanted to speak to you, but he said something about 'Not summoning him now, because he still needs to adjust to this new dimension' I guess you will have to wait for some time."
"You have changed dimensions too? I thought Mt. Myoboku was on an alternative Realm already."
"It's but we also have excess to the Realm our summoner whiles in."
"Does that mean I still can go back to Mt. Myoboku? And do you know anything about the Elemental Nations?
"Yes, you can visit any time, but sadly we were disconnected from any news considering the Elemental Nation as soon as you left.", the young Toad said with an apologetic lock.
Naruto's mood instantly saddened, and he looked down into the fire, struggling to keep the tears that were flowing up, down. His last hope to connect with the Elemental Nations had been cut.
"Oi, Naruto, I'm sorry!" Gamakichi said, for a few moments everyone was silent, until Naruto shrugged his head and gave the Toad a smile.
"It's nothing."
"Thanks Naruto, but I need to go back, the new world still puts some strain on me" he said and was already making the reverse summoning hand-seals until he remembers something "And Gamatopo told me to tell you that he still has the eye if you need it."
Naruto gave a curt nod, the eye, Gamakichi referred to was Obito's Mangekyo Sharingan, Gamatopo was one of the aces Naruto had up his sleeve in his final fight.
Flashback
They had fought for some time now. The remaining Akatsuki members against the best Konoha had, when suddenly Naruto saw the opportunity for one of his plans to work.
Obito was somewhat standing still now, in a fierce Ninjutsu battle with Kakashi, and wasn't paying his surrounding much thought. Naruto quickly did the necessary hand-seals and summoned a new toad. Like many other toads, Gamatopo, wasn't necessarily specialized on battles. But he had a move that Naruto thought was quite helpful against Doujutsu users like the Uchiha's.
"Now Gamatopo.", Naruto yelled and to the surprise of everyone said toads tongue lounged forward, aiming at Obito's eyeball, to plug this eyeball straight form the user into the stomach of the toad, before said toad reversed summoned itself to Mount Myoboku.
It was a complete unheard of move that wouldn't work a second time, because it was the pure surprise that had allowed the move to succeed.
With his eye lost, Obito was in serious trouble now, something Kakashi used to kill his former friend.
Flashback End
After zooming out for a bit Naruto focused on the campers again, just to see them looking at him with all sorts of expressions.
What no one had noticed above the odd conversation was Mr. D who started at Naruto with hearts in the eyes before asking "S-so y-you ar-r-re a S-ummoner of the Toa-ad Clan of Mount Myo-ob-boku?", the campers were shocked to see Mr. d stuttering like a school girl
Naruto nodded, which was followed by Dionysus crying out, "Please let me taste the Sake of the Toads again, please!"
"What's so great about it?", one of the campers asked.
"What so great?!" both Mr. D and Naruto thundered.
"It's one of the few things that nectar can't taste like, you could say it is better than the dishes of the gods," Dionysus said.
"Perhaps we can arrange a deal at a later point?", asked Naruto which was followed by a neck-breaking nod from the wine god.
Chiron coughed before saying, "I think tonight has been eventful enough. Surely we will hear more from Naruto in the future but for now it's time to go to sleep."
With some murmuring all Campers made their way to their respective Cabin, none of them noticed the blonde slipping away into the forest, to spend his night exploring the surrounding area.
[A/N:]
#1 To clarify things, the story begins in the third book, nearly everything happened like it did in the first and second book. Before the third book starts, Kronos is defeated, the current time is during the summer of the third book.
#2 Some people were concerned that I would nerf Naruto to much and while I kind of like Mary Sue and God-like characters, in this story Naruto won't just kill everybody with complete ease. But he is way out of the league of most characters, like seriously he IS a fucking ninja.
#3 If I remember corectly from the PJO books, the blessed Metals are the only thing that can really damage monsters, I don't try to make him weak. Naruto will mainly use Weapons against monsters and the other shit , like Ninjutsu, against mortals, demigods, etc., none of his skill will be useless.
#4 To Kuro: Muchas gracias! No habra ningun harem. Mi espanol esta un poco oxidado. Hace dos anos, que yo no tengo esto en la escuela. (I hope you could understand what I was trying to say, it has been some time since I last spoke/wrote spain. In case it wasn't: There won't be a Harem.)
#5 Thanks for all the ideas for a pairing, unforutunately it just make it harder for me to decide. One of my favourites right now is Naruto/Piper like a Guest reviewer suggested. It would fit really well into the second part of the story. What do you think about this pairing?
#6 I'm felling like I'm making constant grammar errors (mostly tense), I would be incredibly thankful for every pointer or if some would beta read this.