I really dislike finals in collage. I will not go on as those who know can agree that sometimes, that final you took effects your grade by making or breaking it. Anywho, here is the fifth chapter in this tell of Percy's little brother Naruto. Enjoy and please read the authors note at the end of this chapter. Thanks.

Naruto felt odd in his armor for capture the flag. One of the Strolls was helping him tighten and straighten his armor, while the other was checking the bags that they had brought for the game. Percy was on the other side of the table, trying to find a sword that he could wield.

"So what are the rules that Chiron forgot to tell us?" Naruto asked as he reached for his helmet after his armor was properly put on, although a bit big on him.

"Other then make sure that you watch your back for monsters that weren't cleared out, you should be fine. Unless the Ares campers use you to to back at your brother." Connor said as he handed Naruto a bag. Connor and Travis had taken Naruto in as their apprentice prankster after he had framed them for the paint filled water balloon prank Naruto pulled off. Looking inside the bag, Naruto saw that the brothers had filled it with pranking supplies for the game. There was a can of whip cream, some stink and smoke bombs, a water gun filled with paint, a bottle of itching powder, and...

"What is this?" Naruto asked as he took out a box with a word on it he didn't know.

Connor turned red in the face as Travis spoke in a tone that sounded serous. "They are balloons Naruto, a special brand that we smuggled into camp."

Mr. D who happened to be looking in the direction of Naruto started to snicker into his hand. Naruto, not seeing this, took one of the 'balloons' out. "They look strange for balloons." Percy was too busy talking to Luke about something and didn't notice the growing snickers as Naruto spoke in a loud voice, "Why is each a different flavor? Are they for making the water that is put in taste better or am I supposed to fill it with cream?"

Connor was trying to keep from bursting a gut as well as most of the guys who knew what Naruto had said unintentionally. The girls who also knew were too red faced to tell Naruto what he had could be taken the wrong way. Mr. D was making sure that he got this video taped for black mail or to use for the annual funnest Olympus home video showing for the next time the winter solstice.

The fun came to end do to Chiron taking away the box of 'balloons' and telling the Scroll brothers that they had to clean the toilets for all the cabins for a week for their stunt. Naruto protested, asking why the trainer was taking his balloons and to many of the campers snickers,watched as Chiron tried to come up with an answer to the innocent boy's request to have what he believed to be balloons.

Giving up he just walked away, with Naruto protesting until Liz, the girl who fixed up Kyuubi, distracted Naruto so that he would forget about the 'balloons.' Naruto quickly forgot about the balloons as Liz told him what he was to be doing.

"You will be sticking with me, Naruto. We'll be inside our territory as lookouts and distractions as the red team tries to get out flag."

"What about Kyuubi," Naruto asked as he lifted up his stuffed animal. A blue head band was around it's head and it wore a simple commando vest unzipped. Mark, an Ares camper, gave it to Naruto after Naruto bested the older boy in hand to hand combat. Liz did not know the details, as Mark was not forthcoming and Naruto was bribed by the older camper to keep quite. All Mark said on the issue that Naruto could be either an Athena camper or just a clever Are's kid.

"Kyuubi can, err, watch the game with Mr.D? The first part was towards Naruto and the seconds towards Mr. D. The gears in Liz's head were turning as she thought on how she could come up with a logical and pleasant sounding reasoning that would have Naruto leave his stuffed toy at the table or cabin. While her sister Annabeth was the cabin head, Liz was also a candidate for the position as the eldest child of the goddess and had the same amount of beads as Annabeth. The only reason she was not the cabin head was because she did not want it and she was gone from the camp until summer time as she was trying to become a fashion designer.

Naruto frown but nodded. Walking up to Mr. D, he asked the immortal if he could watch Kyuubi until he could collect it after the game. Mr. D rolled hid eyes and agreed. If only because Naruto gave him the puppy eyes and the feeling of Hestia looking at him as if to say 'you better do so or else.'

Soon after the game began.

Our hero Spaceman Sniff was hiding behind a rather large rock as he tried to find out what the evil Zogs were up too. His ally, the strange owl creature was nearby, perched on what looked like a rotten giant weed. The Zogs had taken our hero's ship and without it out hero could not escape this arena of doom.

"Gashf eafeh jjeras fii." The creature spoke to our hero as several of the Zogs came into view as they moved though the darken landscape. Taking out his Death Ray Zorcher, he set the level to 'Deep Fat-Fry.' Taking a close look at the approaching Zogs, he identified them as the seducer-swarm-maul class. Think back to his encounters with this type, our hero made a plan to avoid their attack of overly affection of death. Taking out a Demise-O-Bomb, he stepped out from behind the rock.

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"Hey it's Naruto!"

"Oooh I want to stroke his whiskers again!"

"Maybe we should capture him and bring him to the other girls. But what is he doing?"

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Blast it. The Zogs have noticed our hero and were heading straight for him, clearly to take him back to the nest for their horrible treatment before killing him. Acting fast, Spaceman Sniff threw his bomb yelling, "Take that you filthy creatures! Die!" The bomb hit true and out hero waited to see if it was effective. His ally let out an alarm as it was attacked by a bigger and bulkier version of the Zogs. She was doing well, but she was then attacked for the side from another the some class.

A low grow came form the smoke and our hero gasped as the trio emerged unharmed, but extremely angry. The one that closest hissed out at our hero. Not wanting to know what these ugly creatures wanted, Spaceman Sniff raced away on his jet pack, quickly and rapidly leaving the area.

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Liz and the sons of Mr. D looked at the rapidly fading form of Naruto running away, screaming as the girls from cabin ten raced after him.

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Oorks, it seems that the foul creatures have jet packs of their own. Our hero fires his weapon, only to find that it is only an irritant to his foes. "Gasd ourtr Spaceman Sniff!" One of the creatures roared at out hero as he raced away. Taking a look at his inventory, our hero quickly mixed the experimental powered into his blaster. Taking aim, he fired and to his satiation, one of the creatures went down.

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"Argh! That little brat if he wasn't so cute I would skin him alive!" Yelled Aphrodite's daughter number one as she rolled on the ground trying to relive the itching and stink.

Her sisters quickly hide behind a tree to avoid being hit. "I think that maybe I should use my charm speak," grumbled girl number two as Naruto took pop shots with his water gun. She quickly hit the ground and rolled as a paint filled water balloon broke over her head. Growling she came up with a plan. Telling her fellow sister next to her the plan, as their fallen member was out of it, they spilt up.

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Spaceman Sniff waited for the last two Zogs to show themselves as their fallen comrade was either dying or just faking its actions. Acting quickly he raced around the rock to attack the survivors. "Gadfa!" Yelled one of the Zogs as it captured our hero in its arms. The other appeared quickly, drawn in by its fellow Zogs cries of victory. The quickly took our hero's weapon and started to attack our hero by using their evil Zog seductions. Our hero must stay strong.

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"What is he talking about?"

"I have no idea, but I think that revenge is in order. Hold him still as I use my talent to make him surrender and follow us."

"Well hurry up, he's starting to kick harder."

"Spaceman Sniff will never surrender you evil hags-" Naruto yelled as he struggled against the far stronger girl.

"He did not."

"He did."

"..."

"..."

"I think that he should be proper punished." Reaching out, daughter number three stroked he's cheeks causing Naruto to start purring. Grinning she reached out and pinched Naruto's cheeks. "Owowowow!" Naruto cried as she pulled.

Looking at him dead in the eyes she asked with a smile and twinkle in her eyes, "I will let go if you promise to apologize for calling us hags."

Naruto tried to shake his said, as Spaceman Sniff would never surrender, but the second girl pinched his butt and he cried out in pain. The girl let go and slowly started to rub the area to calm the pain. The girl who was holding his face let go of his left cheek and started to rub his side. Other the stress of the pain and pleasure Naruto surrendered.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry." The girls grinned and let him go.

"No lets get you to prison and-" A horn blew though the woods, signing the end of the game. Rolling her eyes, Silena Beauregard looked at her sister and Naruto with a neutral expression. "Never mind, lets go see who won."

Naruto sighed as he walked aimlessly around the cabin green. Kyuubi was nowhere to be found as he said that he wanted to spy on the quote, 'Sexy dryads and nymphs who were bathing in the creek around this time,' whatever that meant. The Hermes cabin were in the middle of sword fight class. Mr. D's sons were with the Demeter cabin working in the strawberry fields. The children of Athena and Hephaestus were working together on some sort of project. The Apollo and Aphrodite cabins were split between doing a volleyball match (the boys) and getting a tan (the girls). As for the Ares campers... They were taking a special archery class with Chiron after one of the boys from the cabin tried to do a trick shot and nearly shot Chiron.

Kicking a small rock in his path, Naruto sat down next to the hearth. 'I'm so bored,' He thought as he closed his eyes.

"Need something?" Naruto opened his eyes and looked to his left. There off to the side was a girl that he had never really noticed. She smiled at Naruto as she tucked some of her brown hair out of the way with one of her hands ans the other poked at the logs with a prod. Her eyes seemed to reflex the fire in them, but at a softer and friendlier glow. "Or was that rock just in the way?"

Shaking his head, Naruto looked at her then huffed and turned away. "It's nothing."

"Your actions tell me that it is more then nothing. You want to talk about it? I have cookies." Naruto looked out from the corner of his eye and saw that the girl had pulled up a lunch box and placed it on her lap. Taking out a cookie she teased Naruto by slowly eating one right in front of him. "They always taste better with someone to share them with."

Naruto's tummy rumbled and he blushed. The girl giggled as he rubbed the back of his head. Walking over to the girl he sat down and took one of the cookies. After a bite his eyes started to water. "This," he started, "tastes like mom's cookies."

"I'll take that as a complement then." The duo ate in silence for a while before she asked, "is it OK if I brushed your hair?"

"Knock yourself out." Grinning, she took a brush that Naruto did not notice before and started on his hair.

"You need to either cut your hair or take better care of your hair." She said as she brushed. Naruto hummed as she stoked his hair with her brush. Naruto jerked as she brushed out a tangle. The girl hit him lightly with her hairbrush. "Don't move."

"Sorry." The duo were quite for a bit as she brushed his hair. "It's about my brother Percy."

The girl stayed quite as Naruto explained how his brother got to leave the camp and got to know who his father was, while as for himself had to stay at the camp and not know who either of his parents were. "... It's not fair."

"The world is, and never was, fair Naruto. Perhaps your godly parent wants you to grow stronger so that when you are claimed, you are given the honor based on your own merits."

Naruto pointed at the Hermes campers in the distance. "Many of them were never claimed. Why are some claimed and others not? I understand slightly that the gods do not want to play favorites, but aren't they doing so by claiming some but not others? Why is it that because that we are sired by them we have to listen to the gods?"

The girl was silent as she thought up an answer to the upset boy. "I can see your argument and I agree. But the gods are prideful, so if you want to do something about it, you will have to become a great hero."

"Then I will become even greater then even the legendary heroes of the past." Naruto declared with his finger raised up.

"Perhaps Naruto, but for now, let me finish your hair."

Note: So that is the ending of this chapter. As you all noticed, Naruto was not claimed. I want to hold off on having his parents claim him do to factors in the story. This will make the confrontation between the brother and Luke more interesting then in the Lighting Thief. As this story processes, I hope that I keep giving you all a good story. I'm not very good at this. Well, in any case, Naruto will play a role in the quest but in a way that I hope none of you will guess. So kick back, relax and review. Have a great spring break.