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She. Was. Exhilarated. And. So. Dam. Pissed. Off.

Dianna spat out the mud from her mouth as her target raced away in a mixture of laughter and outright screams of terror. She had thought that this little hunting game she challenged the demigod was going to be easy. She was, after all, the goddess of the hunt. But after several hours it had become clear to her that the boy wasn't easy prey. In the back of her mind she could feel Artemis watching her hunt fail as she tried to capture the demigod. Her blood pulsed in her rage and joy of a worthy hunt after so long that she was determined to not kill him.

But this humiliation had to stop and she was going to make him pay.

Wiping the mud from her eyes, at least she hoped it was as the alternative was far worse, Dianna wondered how long sense she had a hunt like the one she was on. She loathed the idea that she was flailing in her game, one that she should be winning at the moment!

"I will make you beg for mercy demigod. NO one, NO ONE! Gets away with what you did without punishment." Standing up she raced after the demigod and in her angry state did not bother to be as stealthy as she could have been. But after the horrors the boy pulled on her it was to be delicious when she had him in her claws. The idea of making him beg at her feet, the power she will have over him... Making him do whatever she wanted...

Dianna blinked as she and Artemis wondered where that train of thought came from. Stopping where she was she puked her last meal up as the disgusting idea that she had in her head was replaced by other, less pure ones. She paled when both sides of her persona, Roman and Greek, came to the same conclusion.

'Order, she must be getting to me!' She thought in horror at the idea that the goddess of love was under her skin now more then ever. Returning to the chase even more determined then ever to finish it before he survived till the deadline, Dianna wondered if the fates were making it hard on her after so long having done a proper hunt. The moon glowered brighter as her ichor pulsed thought her veins and arteries as she wished in secret that this game wouldn't end so soon as she was having too much fun.

Not that she would admit it.

Further along in the forest of Yellow Stone, Naruto finished making another trap to delay, humiliate and piss of the goddess in their game. He wasn't going to lose this game to the goddess of the hunt. She may have an advantage as the goddess of the hunt, but she wasn't the goddess of victory, games or challenges. And he had a plan that he was sure was going to make her suffer for challenging the greatest prankster of the demigods in history!

...

Two demigod sons of Hermes sneezed as they awoke with shivers going down their spine.

"Travis, I think someone is going after the prankster demigod in history right now." Connor mumbled out as he was half asleep.

"As sons of the great prankster Hermes we must defend the title of the greatest for all our fore-brother's and sister's pride!" Travis agreed.

"So what do you want to do about it?"

"...Let's deal with it in the morning. We have time to plane during our shift defending the border tomorrow."

"...Night..."

"...Zzzzzz."

...

Naruto finished his trap just as Dianna fell from the sky. His face paled several shades of white as the goddess's feet left cracks in the earth as she stomped towards him. The story of his life flashed be fore his eyes and he wondered if it was a good idea to have given Hermes' porn stash to Hestia to feed the flames of the heath at the camp.

'Mr. D seemed to have had a heart attack when he saw that I was removing the vintage magazines from the attic. I didn't know it was his stash till Hestia began crackling like a mad lady as she burned them and told me what they were. Today I could have given them to the hunters for kindling. I could have made a fortune in those magazines. Also D asked to buy them from me for twelve bars of gold and three bars of silver, all pure, for them. But it was for a good cause and those cookies she cooked in the hearth were amazing.'

"FOUND YOU YOU RAT!" She roared as she closed the distance between them. Finally after all those humiliating and aggravating traps she had him cornered. "No where to run from me now demigod."

"Hold it! Take one more step or you will regret it." He declared as she got closer. Dianna paused as she she did note the hastily covered pit trap. "Surrender and give me your private stash of Hestia cookies as my prize as promised!"

-Hours ago-

Naruto opened his eyes and got up as he felt the urge to pee. After making sure he was dressed decently, he really had to go but he didn't want have a shorter life span with all the hunters around him, he walked out of the tent. All around him were the hunters of Artemis, either waking up like he was or going to sleep after their shift guarding the camp. his eyes flickered back and forth as he tried to figure out if he should ask for a direction for somewhere that wouldn't be weird or creepy for everyone... But it was hard as he had to go.

Seeing a passing huntress he shyly spoke up. "Ummm, excuse me but.. Um..."

The huntress looked at him before noticing that he was shifting his weight around. "That need huh? Guess I'm the lucky one this time... Figures. Follow me and do keep up. we don't causally let anyone wonder though the camp and I was going to head there in a bit myself."

"T-thank you." Naruto didn't know what to expect from the hunters and by his experience so far he was unsure what to do. Following her though the camp was not easy for him as the huntress had to avoid her sisters groggy selves as they went about their business. Wanting to end the awkward silence, in his mind, he spoke up. "Um, I'm Naruto and you are?"

"...Naomi." Naruto winced at her short and to the point answer. tuning her head to look at him Naomi signed. She did not like interacting with children as they reminded her too much of why she joined the hunt int he first place. Even if she and the rest of her fellow hunters looked like they were teenagers, there were decades if not more years in age. The fact that Naruto was a boy made it more weird for her as usually not allowed in the camp and even then not for long. Pursing her lips she chose to continue the conversion before the child made it harder for her. "So ...Naruto, what brings you to Yellowstone?"

"I'm on a mission!" He exclaimed happily as he avoid being ran over by one of the camp's pups. His brows bunched together when he noticed something. "Wait... This is Yellowstone? As in the natural park near the other side of the nation?"

Resisting the urge to groan or slap her face Naomi stopped walking. "Why is it your going to say something along the lines that you had no idea where you are?"

"I'm in the camp of the hunters of Artemis... Are you alright?" He asked as the hunter slammed on her face in anime style.

"I'm ok." She moaned up as she got up. Rubbing the spot where is landed she lead Naruto to a portable restroom. At his confused look and knowing that he was going to ask she spoke up first. "Yellowstone remember? There are several rest areas around and this camp spot is reserved for us."

"Naomi! When your done here bring the boy to the breakfast area. Or mistress is interested to knowing why he is here and not at camp! Also if you see- THERE IT IS GIRLS! GET IT!" Naruto blinked as the girl who was wearing a tiara around her head and walking towards them shot several arrows at a fox that was racing away with a string of sausages in its mouth. He watched as several girls followed after the thieving fox who had a mischievous look in its eyes.

"... I'll be back after I help them caught that fox.

'I miss Kyuubi.' He thought as the hunters spat out curses as the fox made off with it's prize. Entering the restroom he wondered if he would ever see his friend again.

"You know kit I wasn't expecting you here."

"Kyuubi!? Naruto exclaimed as he saw his friend.

"...And that is how I got here. Looks like without me you can't help getting into trouble kit." Kyuubi half joked as he finished up his tale after listening to Naruto's adventure when they were apart. looking at Naruto's confused face he became worried. "Kit?"

"That was gross Kyuubi!" Naruto made a barfing face as he tried to get over the lovely-lovely story of his friend and the Teumessian fox met. The love struck face of his friend and the idea of him being enraptured by her green eyes and silky fur made him physically ill. Their hunter escort walked behind them in confusion as she was sure that Naruto was talking to an inanimate object and holding a descent conversation with it. To make it more painful for her mind every few seconds, she could swear on her oath, that the stuffed animal cast a larger shadow then it should.

'And where in the name of the gods did it come from?' She wondered as they made it to the cooking pit. Several other hunters were there after dealing with the monster fox that stole their sausages. Their dirty bodies were ignored by the goddess who sat eating her meal, amused at the morning drama. To Naomi's surprise as Naruto was a Greek demigod, it was Dianna who was eating. This also set a more tense tone as more hunters came to eat a meal before going back to sleep or patrol then what it would have been if it was just a boy eating with them.

Signing to Zoe to ask what was going on she had one of her fellow hunters help serve Naruto breakfast. [What is she doing? There is a reason that the two groups were separated! We don't need that kind of trouble right now!]

Zoe rolled her eyes as she singled back to her fellow huntress. [She's interested and curious about him. Also she and Artemis said that they wanted to pull off a prank. Something along the lines that the boy hasn't figured out that Artemis is the Artemis he befriend at the camp.]

[The Roman gods aren't know for their humor unless it constituents as something that they set up or a situation.]

[I still don't like it. She risks her fathers wrath and the rest of the gods if-]

[She knows what she is doing. Besides, better her then the other Roman gods. Jupiter is more vicious then Zeus on things that piss him off.]

"Umm, where should I sit?" Blinking, Naomi looked down to see the boy looking at her with two plates of food in his hands. "Also, I got you some too Naomi!"

"Thanks... Naruto. You can sit other there."

"Naomi, bring him over here. That way I can talk to him while we eat." Dianna's commanding voice made the hunter wish that Naruto survived the encounter even if the goddess wasn't about to try and kill him. Naruto followed her and bowed to the goddess, not noticing the quirking of her lips. Sitting down on the opposite side of the goddess Naruto looked at her in confusion as the huntress motioned for him to eat. "Normally you would make a sacrifice to the gods boy, but right now you must be hungry. Nectar and ambrosia may heal a demigod, but it does nothing for the hunger and need for a true meal after being sick."

"So your not going to punish me for me being in your camp?" Naruto shyly asked. He was scared and he knew that unlike her half-brother Hermes, the goddess before him had no problems in ending his life.

Dianna snorted in a dismissal. "Normally you would be healed and placed somewhere safe to go along on your journey. I do not like it when my hunters let one as young as you go untreated or harmed. You are too young to understand and are in my eyes still innocent to the world around you."

"And if I was older..?" He asked.

"Then I would have you either killed, transformed or healed and left to fend for yourself. Luckily for you that wasn't going to happen even if you were older as you are on a quest to find what Hermes lost." Dianna took a sip of nectar as Naruto began to eat his meal with earnest hunger. Not eating for several days other then the food of the gods to heal made a mortal very hungry.

As he ate Dianna studied him. She could sense his immortal blood legacy and noted that he also had something else. Her brother had mentioned that in the east humans had discovered chakra and had learn to use it in their martial arts. But while she had gone to the east in her travels as the goddess of the moon, she never felt chakra like this. It felt off, as if there was a hidden dept within him of power. Power that would make him either a great hero or villain one day. The stuff fox also was interesting as she could not feel anything strange about it... Other then it seemed to be eating and leaving a mess on it's face every time she looked away.

In fact she could swear that it was mocking her. Closing her eyes she rubbed her head as she felt she was getting antsy after the Cadmean vixen, Teumessian fox as the Greeks called it, stole one of her favorite meals items. At least she had some as the rest of her hunt was forced to have less then usually given out amount. She clenched her jaw as the urge to find and kill the monster came over her, but she knew that she could never kill it. She, her brother and their anti giant hunter working together for a few hundred years could not kill it.

"Kyuubi! Stop making faces at her!" Naruto hissed at his friend as the nine tailed fox mocked the goddess by making faces when she wasn't looking.

"I know you want to do so too brat. How many can say that they did this to her and got away with it?"

"Your going to get us killed!"

"Go and try on a hunter tunic if your so protective of her."

"So Naruto, how did you come to the state of Wyoming?" Dianna asked after rubbing out her headache. Naruto blushed at muttered out something that she couldn't hear. "Say that again please, I don't think I understood you."

"...I was kidnapped by a lamina who is my friend who wanted to make me her mate and escaped though the labyrinth with the help of another demigod who showed me the way out." All chatter ended as all the hunters stared at him. Suddenly the hunt was in a fit of giggles at the misfortune of the boy as Dianna made him tell her the full story from beginning to end. When it was over for Naruto he was red with embarrassment as the hunt was trying and failing to breath from laughing too hard.

Rolling her eyes as she also tried to contain her amusement, Artemis had no issue and was rolling in the back of their shared mind in hysterics, Dianna summon her personal stash of cookies for the boy. "Here you go. Cookies made from the goddess of the hearth herself. You can hav-"

Naruto's hungry expression and reaction to the box of cookies made the goddess question her decision to bring them out. Eyeing him like she would one of her hungry wolves she moved the box away from him.

"Now Naruto-"

The goddess twisted her body as the boy tried to tack her to get to the cookies. This lead to several minutes of Naruto tried and failing to get to the cookies and the goddess showing how flexible and determined to not let him take all of her private stash. It finally ended with her sitting on him to prevent him from moving and eating them with him watching with an increasingly angry look. While she was giving a look of indifference, her he mind she was amused by the antics of the boy.

"So you want my cookies Naruto?"

Grrrrr

"Mmmm, they taste so good~. She doesn't make any mistakes when she makes cookies that's for sure."

Grrrrr

"If you ask nicely I may share a crumb with you."

Naruto began to claw at the earth to escape her. Waving a cookie in from of his nose and eyes she continued to mock him

"Doesn't smell soo good? No visible flaws.."

Now Naruto was using his demigods powers to help him escape and steal the cookies from the goddess, but she flared her power to cancel his out.

"You must really want one huh?"

Grrrr

"How about a game? Winner gets the box of cookies and also if you win I will grant you a knife and an archery set."

"...What's the game?"

Grinning she stared him in the eye. "Why the only game that I enjoy. I give you till sunrise tomorrow to avoid me and I hunt you till then. No one other then us in the game, using our skills and no powers at all. You up to it?"

Naruto consisted it. "Swear on the river and yes... After you get up and I finish eating... Also I get a head start."

Dianna's shitting eating grin only matched his as she agreed.

-End flashback-

"Surrender and give me your private stash of Hestia cookies as my prize as promised!"

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