Fortune Favors the Bold

by darthwizard

No one had worse luck than Naruto. Cursed with a demon fox, a home that despised him, his "best friend" betraying him, Akatsuki, countless enemies, and now... food for bloodsucking vampires. He should have died, instead he woke up in Manhattan. Thrust into a world filled with gods, magic, monsters, and the internet. Maybe he was wrong? Fortune always favors the bold! Sea of Monster

6. Camp Half-Blood

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Percy Jackson. If I did I'd be making serious bank off of this. I wish because I can always use the money. Anyways just came back from a concert with a professor and it went pretty well. Let me tell you, professors sure know how to party. Reminds me of the time a former mercenary allowed me to stay at his place one night, who happened to be a professor of Latin American Literature. True story. Pretty chill and very awesome dude from Chile. Shout out to you, you gave me a place to crash when I was homeless for two days. Loved talking to you about South America, Venezuela, your travels in Bolivia, Peru, and your time under the rule of Pinochet.

This chapter is dedicated to those who have taught us from day one, whether it be our parents, professors, teachers, maybe that guy by your corner, or even that boss at work. You can learn more from someone stupid than anyone smart on any day. I just want my readers to know that one lesson. Maybe the greatest life lesson you will learn from me. Some of the best advice I've ever gotten has been from a disabled man in a Steven Hawking type wheelchair who doesn't at all work a glamorous job. Let that sink in.

Anyways on to the story.

Camp Half-Blood

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Police sirens wailed across the Meriwether parking lot. Over a dozen police vans surrounded the school's perimeter in the hopes of keeping order and chaos at bay. Giant red fire trucks parked at the entrance to Meriwether Prep. Men and women dressed head to toe in fire retardant clothing were rushing through the school's main lobby pulling a long hose. Some were holding onto menacing-looking steel axes all the while the ladies in the front lobby gawked at the firefighter's stormtrooper looking helmets.

Naruto stood by the entrance to Meriwether Prep, all the while waiting patiently for the parade of authority to pass on by. Never in his life had he seen such a display and instant action to a fire in his entire life. Hell, he remembered very vividly when he accidentally caught the academy rooftop on fire. There sure as hell wasn't such a rush to put it out compared to this. If there had been then Naruto wouldn't have had to commit to over a hundred humiliating hours of community service for it.

Naruto performed the Meisaigakure no Jutsu and just hoped this wouldn't take more than say eight minutes. All he had to do was sneak on by to his locker get his backpack, which contained only three of his mother's books, two pairs of spare t-shirts, a pair of shorts, some underwear, a scroll containing his Lil' bastard prank kit, along with his most prized possession. It currently was delicately stashed inside of his wallet, which was sealed away in another sealing scroll.

While waiting in his invisible state Naruto quickly changed his now ruined gym shorts for his light blue jeans. Not long after he finished, the crowd of people rushing into the school died down. This was his shot.

Naruto rushed inside of the main lobby and nearly crashed into a growing mob. A small crowd of very angry parents had now formed a semi-circle of madness around poor Mrs. Mitchell the school lunch lady. She had four huge beauty marks on her face. The biggest one of which lay directly by her nose on her left cheek. The thing had to have been the size of a quarter with several hairs sticking out of it.

"As I said you can check your kids out once the police have finished conducting their investigation!" Shouted Mrs. Mitchell her pudgy face nearly purple and her beauty marks completely camouflaged.

Several firefighters stared at flying papers in the hallway, as a gale of wind blew past them on their way to the gymnasium. They continued to stare at the apparent apparition, but only to shrug it off and continue on their job to save the day. Naruto rushed out of the commotion inside of the school lobby and made his way over to his locker in less than a minute. After dialing out his locker combination and retrieving his crimson backpack he made his way back to the lobby.

Everything seemed to be going according to plan. Until his eyes met with a pair of beautiful light orange pupils. His stomach churned in his chest as Naruto once again came face to face with someone he never thought he'd ever see again. Time slowed down to a standstill. The air grew warm and humid making him sweat. Happiness and joy were at the forefront of his mind during a time like this.

The goddess of Dawn and mildew stood right there in the middle of the Meriwether Prep lobby, accompanied by three menacing-looking goons wearing black business suits. The goons were roughly six feet tall with matching yellow and red striped ties. They each were busy scanning the crowd of angry parents looking for something or someone.

While the goons accompanying Eos may have been off-putting. Once again seeing the beautiful breathtaking goddess in the flesh, may have been the last thing on Naruto's mind though. Even though it was the last thing on his mind. Nonetheless, Naruto couldn't help but take in her very presence. She now stood in front of the checkout desk in a tight-fitting yellow summer dress. All of her assets, curves, and methodical features were on full display.

Especially now that it was around noon, Naruto now felt like running into her arms. He wanted to latch onto her waist, grasp those rosy fingers, stare in those wonderful light orange eyes. Kiss her one more time. Be hers forever.

"Hello there." Spoke Eos in her sweet almost orgasmic voice full of hope and happiness. The whole crowd of parents ignored the orange-haired woman, who had just pushed her way past them in order to get in-front of lunch lady Mitchell.

"What is it?" Mrs. Mitchell croaked authoritatively with her eyebrows slanted.

"My sweet little boy needs to be checked out immediately." Replied Eos her eyes nearly ablaze.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah! Think I haven't heard that one before Miss?" Spat Mrs. Mitchell completely oblivious to who she was talking to.

"Dawn." Said Eos who looked at the lunch lady mischievously, "I didn't just miss work just to come out of here empty-handed. I want my little boy."

Naruto shivered as the lobby turned far more humid as if the AC stopped functioning. Eos had a malevolent aura to her, as Naruto continued to watch the whole exchange play before his eyes. He so desperately wanted to rush to the poor lunch ladies aid, grasp Eos by the arms, make her understand the woman was just doing her job. He didn't want this whole situation to turn ugly, but instead he stayed put. He felt powerless in Eos's very presence for she was the most amazing being he yet had the pleasure and displeasure to have encountered. The room began to rumble and the light fixtures cracked as Eos starred Mrs. Mitchell down like public enemy number one.

Mrs. Mitchell looked at the woman in front of her in complete fear. She didn't want to sit at the lobby desk and handle any issue that Mr. Bonsai the headmaster should have been doing. It wasn't her fault that more than half the teachers in the school were all in code red. All due to the unfortunate circumstances, of some stupid kid burning down the gymnasium. She may have been given one job, but she never once in her life budged. Why should she budge now?

"I'll tell you what I've told everyone else. Wait until Mr. Bonsai comes back. Who is your son by chance?" Mrs. Mitchell asked in almost a whisper.

"Naruto Uzumaki of course. You have ten minutes to get your act together and if I don't hear back from you or anyone else. Well… I'll let you figure that one out." Spoke Eos venomously as she stared the impudent mortal in the eyes.

"Is that a threat Mrs. Uzumaki?" Replied Mrs. Mitchell.

"You heard me. All of these poor parents have been waiting here worried about their kids. And what do you have to say for yourself, but speak the jargon that your superiors feed down your throat!" The crowd of pissed off parents agreed with yells and murmurs.

Naruto slowly walked through the lobby as Eos left the front desk to return to her three goons. Chaos would soon break out. One way or another. Naruto wasn't sure when, but he sure as hell wasn't going to stick around to find out. Before Naruto walked out the front doors his eyes met with light orange and his heart stopped.

He had faced many things in his life. From Zabuza, Haku, Orochimaru, Gaara, Tsunade, and his best friend. None of them could compare to Eos, she had to have taken the cake for maybe the most intimidating opponent he had yet to face, and Naruto absolutely didn't want that to happen in Meriwether of all places. Unlike the opponents he faced back in his home-world, Eos had the ability to transform him into a coward just from gazing into her light orange eyes. The door stood a foot away by the door. Yet he stood petrified by her staring into his soul.

"I want you three to fan out and find Kronos's new weapon. Hank wants the boy alive one way or another."

Eos counseled her goons who nodded and replied back to her demand with, "Yes lady Dawn."

Her spell, yet again shattered, and Naruto rushed out the door of Meriwether with his backpack around his shoulders. The last thing he needed now was the Kronia on his back again.

Naruto sprinted from the school property in quick haste. He didn't care about sticking around the Big Apple for Luke to finish making his move in and around Manhattan. New York City, once America's beacon of hope, felt more like a powder keg ready to be ignited. There was no time to wait for things to calm down. Eos was here looking for him, the Kronia were making their move, monsters ambushed him and his friends, and he had left them selfishly along Church Street to likely get caught. He needed to find them, and fast.

Sprinting onto Church Street Naruto dropped his Meisaigakure no Jutsu, causing him to appear visible once again. Onlookers looked at the blonde boy in confusion. Just a second ago… no, they likely were imagining something else.

Naruto continued to sprint at full speed. Chakra flowed through his limbs as his shoes clattered against the concrete sidewalk with each step. The wind brushed his hair back and cars fell far in the distance behind the fourteen-year-old genin. If Naruto needed too, he'd run straight across America using his willpower alone, in order to find Percy and Tyson. Naruto pushed his palms together and released all the chakra flowing from his limbs in maybe the greatest chakra pulse ever recorded, which traveled across Manhattan in a mile-long radius. Feeling tens of thousands of various chakra signatures all at once could have been summed up as a pretty bad sign of what he had just unleashed.

Naruto nearly tripped as his head screamed. Every little hair, every single nerve, every cell felt like it had just been assaulted. The numbing pain was comparable to thousands of fire ants crawling inside of his body while chewing on whatever they came across. Naruto tried to ignore the worst migraine of his entire life. Unable to stop for some rest with an angry goddess of dawn right on his heels, Naruto simply bit his tongue drawing blood. The rough iron taste filled his mouth, but it kept him from stopping. A minute passed, and still overcome from sensory overload, he simply chose to close his eyes for however long it took for the pain to diminish.

Naruto's tennis shoes continued to skid and clatter against the concrete. Darkness and pain were now his only guides. Right until he smashed into something along the sidewalk of Church Street. Picking himself up, Naruto laid eyes upon a high school kid with various hairs sprouting out along his chin. The kid had a very tanned olive complexion and wore the same shirt he saw on that Annabeth girl.

"Camp Half-Blood." Naruto read as he eyed the kid who he knocked to the ground.

The guy had shaggy long brown hair that went down to his shoulders as if he listened to way too much Jim Morrison. The kid's huge doe eyes dug into Naruto's warm sapphire eyes in complete interest and shock. Naruto shook this strange encounter off, and was about to leave when he heard the kid say in a thick voice, "Wait just a minute!"

Naruto turned around completely agitated and vehemently yelled, "What Now! This better be important!"

The kid picked himself off the ground and walked closer to Naruto. He had a happy grin on his face as if he had just won the lottery. The kid brushed some dirt off of his body and looked at Naruto's ruined Meriwether hippie shirt with an even bigger grin, "It is after all my duty to protect you until you we get to safety. And by the state of that bloodied shirt, I'd say you are in need of some help."

"Exactly who are you?" Questioned the golden-haired genin at the turn of events, "I mean, I got places to be and friends who may or may not still be waiting up on me."

"The names Billy," Began Billy while rubbing his forehead, "The best damn tracker Camp Half-Blood employs. The fates must have been having a slow couple of months because I was supposed to bring you into camp around late June. Guess it's better to be safe than sorry with that fire burning down Meriwether."

"Well, you can blame those Lasigorians things or whatever for starting that fire." Shot back Naruto while turning his head behind him.

"You mean Laistrygonians." Corrected Billy with eyes wider than dinner plates.

"Yeah! And did you say camp?" Naruto questioned while scratching the back of his head, "You mean Camp Half-Blood. I met a girl earlier named Annabeth who wore a shirt very similar to yours."

The tanned, shaggy-haired Billy, with a weird scraggly beard, looked Naruto in the eyes completely shocked, "You know Annabeth?"

"Well no." Started Naruto, "I mean I met her like half an hour ago. But it's not like I have her number right off the top of my head."

"Hahaha. You know, I'm glad Chiron sent me to get you Naruto." Laughed Billy while slapping a hand against his jeans.

"Exactly how do you know my name?" Naruto questioned with a raised eyebrow.

Billy turned slightly pale and before he could answer they both heard a white SUV honk with the words Delphi's Strawberries on the side. Naruto took out his keychain and held his space gun in his hands.

"Our rides right on time. I'll explain everything in the car." Began Billy who held a hand out toward the back seat of the car.

Naruto instead walked around to the passenger door and opened the door while yelling out, "Shotgun!"

Billy angrily got in the back seat of the SUV and shook his head at the demigods completely disrespectful actions. Inside the car, Naruto turned his head towards the driver who had long surfer blonde hair and hundreds of light blue eyes all over his body. Naruto shivered and gave Billy a questioning look as several dozen eyes stared Naruto down. Feeling very unnerved Naruto thought about leaving but instead said, "Alright could you guys take me back to my apartment."

The weird blue-eyed monstrosity shook his head and Billy simply replied, "No can do. Camp Half-Blood is the destination."

"Not part of the deal. I will get out of this car one way or another. So let's go to my apartment so I can get my clothes and I'll go to wherever this Camp Half-Blood place is." Naruto confidently said with cold ruthless sapphire eyes.

Billy looked at Argus and back at Naruto in complete and total confusion. Chiron wanted Naruto to arrive at camp ASAP, but it broke nearly every rule a searcher abided by to simply kidnap a possible demigod. Argus held his hands on the wheel and his foot hovered over the pedal. What to do?

"Okay we'll go back to your apartment, but we gotta be on the way over to camp in about three hours so you'll have to gather your necessities in about fifteen minutes. The longer we wait the more likely a group of monsters will attack." Spoke Billy making the drivers eyes roll in a swirl of madness.

Just then a gray car zipped on by the three of them in a flash. Naruto looked at the blur confused, but he figured if that Annabeth girl was from Camp Half-Blood and Billy was too. Then they were likely going to end up at the same destination. One way or another at the very least. Naruto honestly didn't want to give his chakra pulse another try for a while in hopes of pinpointing them in his mind. So to hell with it, he would meet up with his friends one way or another.

"To the Fortis Apartments!" Naruto yelled with a finger pointed at the windshield causing his two-car companions to look at him in confusion. He then shook his head and grumbled out, "It's along 43rd Street in Manhattan."

The SUV lurched and they went on their way towards Naruto's home.

About fifteen minutes later the white SUV came to a stop in front of a red light. Naruto groaned, they were only three streets away from his apartment and his two companions were already boring him to death. The man with a million eyes drove the car completely silently, and Billy kept pestering Naruto about stupid issues. When the golden-haired boy already had enough on his plate to focus on anything.

"Anyways I'm just wondering why Chiron sent me to get you?" Asked Billy who kept on trying to start a conversation.

"Wait a minute…" Naruto sent out a very weak chakra pulse that only covered the interior of the car, and realized something, "You have been following me for the last few weeks haven't you?"

Billy looked as if he caught phenomena just by how he received Naruto's comment. His eyes turned dire and color faded from his face. The driver, on the other hand, eyed Naruto suspiciously. If anything Naruto felt more uncomfortable by the driver eyeing him than the blatant fact someone may have been spying on him.

"Well, I mean… look… it's just that when a searcher is given a job we ah, uh, how do I say it. We have to make sure to well ease whoever we're looking for before bringing them into camp." Stammered Billy.

"Sounds like a bunch of creepy business to me." Countered Naruto who squinched his eyes at the stupid explanation.

The SUV came to a stop in front of the Fortis Apartments. Opening the car door to the warm humid Manhattan air Naruto snaked his head in the car and said, "When I get back you better explain everything!"

Billy Nodded. The driver just rolled his eyes in a swirling whirlpool of light blue. Naruto shivered once again and felt a little off about going back to his apartment. After all, he still had the opportunity to get Deci's card from the duffel bag that the mercenary had left for him in case he needed a quick way out of Manhattan. Naruto figured the smart thing to do would be to simply go up to his apartment, call Deci, and wait for the chain smoker to get him the hell out of there. Then again his friends still weighed around in his mind.

Naruto rushed away from the SUV and rushed into his apartment complex. He ran past Mr. Chen who was busy talking about money in the lobby with the janitor. As soon as Naruto reached apartment 1215, he opened his door and rushed inside of his bedroom. Naruto began stuffing extra pairs of underwear, socks, four more of his mother's books (all except the one on speaking English) inside of his backpack, and he even shoved a weapons pouch containing the three small marbles that Eos gave him. Naruto's backpack was nearly filled to the brim and right before he could grab anything else he stopped. He felt his gut clench and quickly made the hand signs for the Meisaigakure no Jutsu.

Upon completion, the door to his apartment slammed open and he didn't need to release a chakra pulse to know these intruders weren't friendly. The sound of heavy footsteps echoed across the apartment as the intruders scanned the whole place up and down. The smell of heavy tear-inducing nicotine drifted through the air as Naruto silently hid in the corner of his bedroom. He didn't dare to make a sound. Who these people were and what they wanted interested the blonde haired jinchuriki more than a needless fight. Ero-sensei would have been proud of his star pupil if he saw him now, all he needed to do was remain completely inconspicuous. Naruto could barely hear the footsteps and shuffling of his various belongings over the heavy thumping of his heart.

Smoke drifted into his bedroom as Naruto saw several men enter his bedroom. They wore business suits with red and yellow ties and had vicious scowls as if they were ready to tear whatever they faced apart. Behind one of them walked a chubby, tall, and surprisingly intimidating man. He had light brown hair, a very thin beard, and may have been the spitting image of Eric Cartman if he had grown up to be less fat. The Eric Cartman looking man took out his Churchill cigar from his mouth, blew a cloud of smoke, before saying in a thick southern accent, "Fan-fuckin-tastic! Lord Kronus's weapon isn't here!"

"Should we wait for the boy?" One of the goons asked with a short buzz cut.

The man with the cigar opened the duffle bag on the bed and pulled out a business card. The man's eyes narrowed and with a growl, "No sign of the kid, right?"

"No sir, we checked the whole apartment including every possible hiding place! Tom even found no trace of the boy in the vents." Spoke another goon his hands grasping a Beretta M9 pistol with the barrel pointed at the ground.

"The kid hasn't gotten all of his stuff, which may mean he was fixin' to. But I'm pretty sure he's already gone." Spoke the man with the cigar, his eyes shining curiously as he looked at Naruto's already opened dresser.

"But sir, how can you be so sure?" Said the goon with the handgun, his eyes still scanning around the room. Naruto's heart skipped two beats as the goon's eyes hovered over his invisible sapphire ones for ten seconds. Although the man couldn't see him from Naruto's perspective it seemed almost surreal.

"Cause his apartment door was open." The cigar-smoking man walked over to Naruto's dresser and rummaged through underwear and socks. When he pulled one hand out it held a single pair of socks. The man smirked, "Also the kid remembered the most important rule always bring extra socks and underwear."

The goons looked downcast as they watched their leader snuff out the little butt of cigar on Naruto's dresser. The cigar-smoking man smirked and said to his cronies, "We've done fantastic today. The Pansies are now completely extinct from the state of New York. Their bases have been raided by the FBI and we were able to catch ten members. Our operation within the rest of New England has resulted in the capture and killing of fifty Pansys in just one day. Wherever the brat is at the moment he ain't here. So let's just give this place a good ol' taste of some classic Texas Barbecue. We'll capture the little brat in the future and lord Kronus wull be forever pleased with us."

One of the goons brought out a white plastic chunk of some sort in the shape of a rectangle. An electric timer ran horizontally across the plastic slab. After pushing a few buttons the timer started counting down from 3:00 minutes. Naruto's sweat dropped to the floor and a goon noticed it... but then shrugged it off. Before the party left one of the goons laughed, "Lord Kronos's future weapon should get the message real soon Mr. Hughes."

With that little comment, the intruders left Naruto's apartment as if they were taking part in a triathlon. Naruto quickly dispelled his invisibility jutsu and ran back and forth around the room trying to decide what was most important to bring wherever he was going. Ignoring the duffel bag Deci had left him, ignoring the rest of his favorite clothes, ignoring the remaining money he had in his safe, and he instead grabbed a scroll hidden in his dresser from the book Sealing, Ninjutsu, Genjutsu,Taijutsu, and all the ins and outs on Chakra Theory, which contained various ways of creating sealing paper and various sealing exercises. Right as Naruto was about to abandon the room he spotted the book Alice In Wonderland and threw the book in his almost stuffed backpack.

Hearing the timer count down closer to zero. Naruto rushed into the kitchen with his backpack still open and shoved at least three dozen instant ramen packets with various flavors into the open bag. The timer hit zero and the golden-haired genin looked on in horror as his whole apartment became engulfed in near-instant plumes of fire. An ear-shattering Kaboom blasted out across all of Manhattan.

Billy turned his head to the twelfth floor of the Fortis Apartment complex as glass fell to the streets below. Smoke drifted from the now windowless wreckage and flames roared across the building. Before Billy or Argus could react a loud knocking sound rang desperately against the passenger door of the SUV, which brought them back to reality. Their hearts nearly exploded in shock as Naruto climbed inside the SUV covered head to toe in soot and yelled, "We gotta go!"

"Wait a minute how the hell did you?" Billy stammered out completely shocked.

"No time huh… huh, they are after me." The look of complete desperation shone in Naruto's warm sapphire eyes as Argus started the engine and slammed his foot on the accelerator.

The Border Wars

Driving to Long Island Sound should have been an easy and simple trip for any mortal. Instead, Argus kept his foot slammed down onto the accelerator, while his two passengers yelled and complained the whole way. This was the giants curse when it came to transporting demigods to and from camp at the behest of mother Hera. While the SUV drifted past the many Summer homes and skidded across various country roads. Several hours of constant speeding, and miraculously the car stayed at least twenty feet away from two Colchis Bulls who tore up the asphalt with every stomp of their massive hooves.

"How much farther are we from this place!" Naruto yelled while peering out of the rear-view window of the SUV.

"We are about a couple of minutes away! If we didn't stop at your stupid apartment we wouldn't have attracted more monsters now would we!" Billy countered while he held three fingers over his heart.

"Yeah well… I got a magical necklace that protects me from monsters and the forces of evil! Maybe the bull wants you!" Naruto said confidently while holding out his Companion's necklace towards Billy. The leather cord strained against his tanned neck in a line of white and Naruto smirked.

Billy simply shook his head and sharply snapped back, "Monsters are always after demigods. You Naruto are a demigod and a pretty powerful one because those monsters have been chasing us since we left Brooklyn! And may I ask how you gained a necklace belonging to The Order of Alexander!"

Naruto stared at Billy slightly confused and before he could reply back. One of the bulls opened its gargantuan jaws and breathed a long great line of white fire. The heat, intensity, and magnitude of the flames made any sort of flame thrower look like a water gun. The back of the SUV creaked and groaned as metal and paint evaporated under the intense heat of the stream of fire. Sweat billowed and dripped from the occupants of the car as the other bull roared. In response, Argus applied more pressure to the accelerator. The SUV began to gain distance away from the two Colchis Bulls, but before anyone or anything could naturally react, Argus dragged the camp's car straight on through a white picket fence.

Wood and scrubs scratched and scraped the white SUV, and the car soon came to a complete stop at the bottom of a large hill. All of the occupants scurried out of the now smoking SUV as one of the fire breathing bulls charged right into it. Metal scraped upon metal as the bulls strong bronze coat glistened as it crushed the car under its weight. Naruto watched as Argus ran up the hill faster than Rock Lee opening the third gate.

Billy followed the hundred eyed man while yelling, "Naruto Argus will arrive in five minutes with reinforcements just hide!"

"Rraarammmp!" Bellowed one of the bronze bulls as it charged the blonde genin who simply rolled to the side.

The bull ran halfway up the hill and turned straight into a forest full of evergreen trees the size of those found within the borders of Konoha. The trees crashed down under the bronze bulls weight and the bull released steam from its nostrils as it rampaged around the woods. The other bull focused its time on finishing what was left of the now pancaked SUV. Naruto dashed behind a tree, crimson backpack slung over his shoulders, trying his best to think up a good strategy for how to combat two elephant-sized bronze bulls that had the ability to breathe flames hot enough to melt metal.

Naruto crossed two tiger seals perpendicular to one another in the shadow clone hand sign and yelled, "Taju Kage Bushin no Jutsu."

Around a hundred clones appeared within a large cloud of smoke. Naruto wasted no time and ran up the tree he had been using as cover until he reached the top. One of the Colchis bulls seemed completely unfazed and breathed a plume of flames that scorched nearly the entire smokescreen of clones.

Any clones unlucky enough to not make it out of the barrage of ember popped. Not a single trace of white smoke appeared in the nearly unbearable heat. Naruto watched the bottom of the hill turn red and orange in a blaze of complete and utter doom. Naruto took out the keychain Deci gave him and pulled the trigger on his space gun. In less than a second, it morphed into a deadly sharp bowie knife.

If only his main element turned out to be water then those bulls would be nothing but rust. Instead, he had wind and the fact nearly every monster in this world breathed fire made the golden-haired genin grumble.

While Naruto held onto the top of the tree for dear life, several dozen clones began their surprise assault against the giant metal behemoths. They charged heroically into the fire breathing Colchis Bull from all sides by throwing their bowie knives or even stabbing futilely against its hard bronze sides. Despite their heroic act, it was all for nothing.

The bull only roared in anger as the bowie knives scratched its thick bronze hide. All of the heroic clones that even got close enough to stab at the beast were simply either burned or they left barely a dent in its side. The bronze behemoth simply charged and roared further down into the now scorched Earth. Remembering something very important Naruto bit his thumb.

When the necessary blood appeared he made over a dozen hand signs and slammed his hands against the bark of the tree yelling out, "Kuchiyosa no Jutsu!" (Summoning technique)

Expecting Boss Toad or a really big toad with a Warhammer powerful enough to smash a bronze bull.

"Dizz!" The noise made Naruto sweatdrop. A small dud cloud appeared and nothing. Naruto wasted roughly a third of his entire chakra reserves on nothing.

"I probably should have tried that out a long time ago, huh."

"Surprised you waited until now to be an even bigger fool."

"Hey!"

"Oh come on! You should have known that to transport something from a completely separate dimension to wherever we are is asinine!"

"I don't know what asinine is but-"

With Naruto's attention directed away from the battle below and now towards the internal struggle with his occupant in his head. He failed to notice or realize a giant elephant-sized bull charging straight into the bottom of the tree trunk. Wood exploded and the tree fell in near free-fall as Naruto lost all of his remaining balance. Flung into the air Naruto formed the shadow clone hand sign and a single clone appeared by his side.

The clone grabbed his wrist and with both blondes held together, a bright blue orb appeared Naruto's right hand. The fall felt like an eternity. In reality, he dropped straight down into the aggressive Colchis Bull's head in less than three seconds.

"Rasengan!" A great flash of light appeared as Naruto's swirling light blue orb of condensed chakra came into contact with the bull's bronze back.

An explosion rocked Long Island Sound and Naruto fell to the charred forest floor in a daze. A massive hole the size of a car ran down the now wounded automaton from the impact zone. The bull's bright red eyes turning black was the only sure sign of Naruto's victory.

Murmurs and cheers brought Naruto back from the land of confusion into reality. Seven heavily armored people around his age dressed in traditional greek battle armor emerged from the top of the hill. These seven mysterious individuals wore intimidating Corinthian style bronze helmets with red-colored horse hair plumes running vertically at the back. They carried large round bronze shields in one hand and held thick seven-foot-long pikes in their other. Two lightly armored archers accompanied these seven ancient-looking greek warriors on their flanks with composite bows in the shape of a U in their hands.

"Clarisse did that newbie just destroy one of the Colchis Bulls!" Spoke one of the armored pikemen in complete praise.

The group neared Naruto's position by the smoking wreckage of the Colchis Bull with the archers on the flanks scanning around for the other bull. Naruto heard light flute music picking up from the very top of the hill. The sounds of crackling flame snickered and snacked around the wreckage. One of the armored individuals looked Naruto through the slit eye-opening in the helmet curiously the rest simply stood there stupefied.

"Are you the idiot I was told to escort back to camp!" Snapped the armored individual with a boar shaped Corinthian helmet and red-dyed greek battle armor. Whoever may have been behind that boar shaped helm stood as tall as a professional basketball player and were as well built as a rugby player by the looks of it. They also had a somewhat feminine voice.

"I guess that's me." Replied Naruto who must have looked like an abandoned kitten by now. His gym shirt pretty much was torn to shreds. Bruises, cuts, and dried blood covered his now tanned muscled chest. Naruto's light blue jeans were ripped in several places unintentionally, likely from the whole bull charging into the tree fiasco. Wood splinters and cuts lined his legs. He likely didn't look impressive, but the looks the warriors shot him were nothing but full of admiration.

"Fine then let's get the hell out of here before more-" Began the feminine sounding armored individual.

A loud mysterious and spine crawling horn blew out in the distance. The nine warriors stood still upon the wreckage. Naruto saw fear in their eyes that bled into his spirit. He turned around and nearly fell into the simmering bull at the sight. Nearly a hundred lightly armored soldiers with glowing green eyes and sickly black rotten skin made their way across the country road with two demonic looking flying creatures above them.

The crowd of glowing green-eyed warriors hollered and yelled various battle cries as they came closer to the bottom of the hill. Their stench was unbearable. They must have eaten nothing but spoiled milk and eggs because Naruto's eyes watered as they came closer. The flying demonic monstrosities brought nothing but hunger, pestilence, madness, and doom. They wore disgusting rusty battle helms and dark armor. They hovered over the battlefield screeching causing fear to spread below.

"Keres!" Yelled one of the archers who let loose several bolts of arrows into the charging mass making their way closer and closer to the nine warriors on the ground.

"Get your ass behind our line!" Yelled the boar helmed woman.

Naruto slipped on by behind the newly formed battle line if it could even be called that at this point. There were only ten of them and nearly a hundred undead warriors now charged at full speed to break up and envelope their flimsy battle line.

"Phalanx formation!" Yelled the boar helmed warrior her red-dyed armor now glistening in the late afternoon sun.

Naruto watched the seven warriors form a close-knit shield wall with their round shields. Their long seven-foot-long pikes poking through gaps in the formation like porcupine needles. Naruto readied his bowie knife. The two archers on either side of the flanks had already shot down around eight of the rotten charging enemies. The zombie's eyes, which glowed a bright green diminished with every fatal blow until they burst in a rain of yellow dust. If only they had more troops on the field.

Naruto realized something and formed the shadow clone hand sign and yelled, "Taju Kage Bushin no Jutsu!"

A great line of white smoke appeared around the small phalanx. Eighty clones in total. Now they were completely even. One of the warriors turned their head back in surprise, while Naruto called out commands, "Support the flanks! Make sure to break off into equal regiments and spread out far at an angled battle line!"

"What the fuck did you just do!" Yelled the boar helmed warrior in complete awe at the magical spectacle.

"I'm saving your lives. There is no way we will be able to hold a phalanx formation with just seven warriors and two archers on our flanks. We'll be surrounded, overrun, and butchered. I'm buying you guy's time to funnel the enemy to your front." Reasoned Naruto. He rubbed his evil eye necklace in worry as his clones quickly sprinted into the new formation.

Only one very frightening thought entered Naruto's mind. His stupid attempt at the summoning jutsu had nearly wiped almost all of his remaining chakra reserves and he only had enough chakra in him to make possibly thirty more clones. This was his gamble. A great gamble, but a much-needed one nonetheless.

The undead horde crashed into Naruto's clone army along the outstretched forward flanks of the phalanx. The sound of swinging blades clattering against metal rang through the ears of the defenders. Naruto's clone army stabbed their bowie knife blades forward into the enveloping army of zombies. Exactly in the style Deci showed Naruto many months before. Explosions of yellow dust erupted along the lines. The defender's archers fired volley after volley at the now clumped horde of dead soldiers roaring in glee.

More bursts of yellow dust flowed below the hill. It all worked perfectly almost too perfectly. Until Naruto's clones succumbed to the hordes blades. Dozens of white clouds appeared along the thinning white flanks. Naruto watched in complete horror as the horde started to cut through the flanks. One of the Keres flying above dipped on down. It dove and charged into a group of ten clones who instantly popped upon impact. The horde on the other hand were funneled into the sharp pikes in front of them resulting in more disgusting yellow dust clouds to form around the defenders.

Lightning shot forward into the crowd of zombies. The boar helmed warrior stabbed at dozens of undead in glee while yelling, "This is the best you got Aargh!"

With that loud proclamation, the horde broke under the nearly horrendous battle conditions they were under. The remaining regiment fled from the warriors who cheered. At the very bottom of the hill, Naruto saw three familiar faces run up it. The broken army ignored them chanting, "Run! Run for your lives!"

The Keres flying overhead soon took off in the routing armies direction. Percy, Tyson, and Annabeth looked at Naruto in fear and surprise. Maybe seeing your best friend from middle school commanding around twenty clones in a hardened bowie knife equipped army shakes the past foundations a bit. Well, maybe more than just a bit.

Naruto placed his hands in the shadow clone hand sign to release his awesome clones, but stopped when he heard an explosive, "Rraaapammmp!"

The unbreakable phalanx broke, while the second Colchis Bull charged behind the warriors whose flank was exposed. Only two of the seven warriors stood firm and turned around with their spears and shields out towards the elephant-sized bull. It's horns rotated like the plastic lines of a weed whacker.

"Charge!" Naruto's clones followed their leader in the hopeless gambit he now had taken part in.

The bull smashed through and past the dozen clones in its path. They each popped in clouds of white smoke. The boar helmed warrior held her pike out towards the metallic beast as a final last stand. Her companion stood vigilant like a statue with their pike and shield pointed in the direction of the beast.

In a blaze of everlasting glory. A final stand the gods would cheer and lament for eternity finally came to fruition. The bull slammed into both of the warriors and Naruto rolled to the side. His bowie knife flew out of his hands as the bulls boiling hot presence ran past him. He picked his bruised head from the warm ground and gasped. The bull simply roared in anger, frustration, madness, as it rampaged around the bottom of the hill. A gnarly wound fizzed and cracked from where the boar helmed warrior had stabbed her pike at the beasts metallic hide.

Both warriors were dazed and barely seemed capable of continuing this fight. The Colchis Bull continued to tear up soil and charred earth. Naruto knew he had to do something. Naruto grabbed one of the cowardly warriors round shields in one hand and the thick seven-foot-long pike in the other.

The metallic ox scraped the earth with it's left hoof and charged at the other warrior. Whoever they were lied petrified on the ground with their shield raised over their body. The boar helmed warrior tried to desperately pull their body up but fell back to the ground in vain. Their arm must have broken during the charge.

Naruto bolted and stabbed the metallic beast with his spear. The bull roared in what must have been agony for a walking piece of metal. Naruto landed a perfect strike into the bull's ruby right eye. Sparks shot out around it and before the bull could charge forward, it quickly changed targets. For something more blonde.

Naruto had barely any time to react to this new development. As the bull changed targets Naruto's thick wooden pike snapped and the only weapon he had on his person was the round bronze shield he recently picked up.

The bull smashed it's razor-sharp horns into the shield causing it to dent. Naruto flew back to the ground and held his shield high above his body, bracing for impact. The bull simply knocked Naruto at his side with a single jab of its head. He tumbled to the left. Steam shot from the bull's nostrils as it's one ruby eye narrowed in on its target.

Naruto quickly picked himself off of the ground. The world shook and wobbled with each step. Naruto grabbed the now heavily dented shield and secured the strap with two hands. Whatever kept him going must have been sheer willpower. For he felt exhausted, low on chakra, pitiful, and close to death.

The fast-moving bull smashed its long razor-sharp left horn through Naruto's round shield. The shield creaked as the silver metal horn went straight through and slashed into Naruto's chest. Blood poured from Naruto's flesh in bursts of dark crimson. His now ruined tye-dyed Meriwether gym shirt turned black and red from the now flowing river of life. His life.

(Immersion- Comfortably Numb- Pink Floyd)

The bull charged past Naruto leaving its now fallen foe to die. Annabeth shouted in complete desperation, "Hey stupid!"

The bull made a complete one-eighty and charged at the honey blonde girl only to see her disappear.

"Border Patrol retreat to the top of the hill that is an order!" Yelled the boar helmed warrior.

Blood continued to pour and drip onto the crest of the hill from Naruto's open wound. Naruto watched the world around him turn blurry as various figures move around him like claymation statues. Delicate but willfully strong hands brought him to his feet and Naruto was half-dragged up the hill. Flames covered the crest of the hill in more plumes of red and orange. The other warrior pushed him against a thick pine tree and laid him under the shade.

"Stay by his side!" Yelled the boar helmed warrior who rallied nine other greek battle armored warriors to her side.

The bull charged up the hill and past the pine tree and then started breathing fire all around Naruto. He wanted to help. He needed to help. He had to do something. However, the pain all around his body and especially from his long open wound simply kept him under the shadows of a wilted pine tree.

Some girl shouted something along the lines of, "We can't fight it without Media's Sunscreen SPF 50,000. We'll get burned to a crisp."

The warrior took off their Corinthian battle helmet and Naruto's heart quickened. In front of him, just a foot away was maybe the most gorgeous woman he had ever laid his eyes upon. She had black flowing hair that blew in the wind. Her light pink eyes glistened against Naruto's warm sapphire eyes. She had a slim body but made up for it by being curvy and menacing in her greek armor.

"Are you okay?" Spoke the beautiful woman in front of Naruto, her hands shifted behind her back.

"Wh-wat...wh." Naruto croaked. His parched mouth and the angelic woman in front of him kept any reasonable responses at bay.

The girl in front of Naruto placed one of her hands against his cheek. Her slightly tanned, rosy soft, and apricot smooth skin felt like the embrace he needed more than ever. Her soft, caring, worried, coral pink eyes dug into Naruto's soul like a virus.

"Stay with me. The last thing I need is another camper dead." Spoke the beautiful woman, who snapped several times in front of Naruto. His mouth remained open. His eyes glazed in front of him. Naruto's burned, bruised, and bloody body laid peacefully below the shady pine tree, on the thin line between the pleasures of life and the quiet encroaching dark veil of death.

The woman in front of Naruto placed her hand against his chest. Naruto's head shot up and various warriors fighting for their lives turned around at the sound of, "Aaaahhhh!"

"This is bad." Naruto's lips moved, but he couldn't say anything, "Stay with me! I'm not going to let you go until you stand on your feet."

Several seconds later she held out a small golden square in her palms and said with much concern, "Eat this it will help."

Naruto tried in vain to hold his arms up but only raised one hand up barely ten centimeters off of the ground. Naruto wanted to ease her worries after all he had suffered far worse. The Kyuubi must have been having one of those days because Naruto's healing abilities felt almost stalled. Maybe his injuries were so bad that the Kyuubi was working overtime just to keep his host alive. Either way, Naruto felt horrible. He could barely feel the pain, much less process his surroundings say for the woman in front of him. Her worried, pleading, angelic face kept him awake and his eyes open.

The girl shook her head in frustration. She opened Naruto's mouth with her sticky blood-covered hand and placed the cube along his tongue with the other. Naruto drifted against the oak tree as he tasted the best bowl of Ichiraku's ramen the chef had ever made for him. The great blue sky overhead turned red, purple, yellow, and various other colors in a spectrum of beauty. The girl in front of him became even more beautiful as if she was an angel sent from Kami, Mithras, or even Sezu. Colors, shapes, figures with horns entered his vision in a splendid veil of what reality should look like. Was this all real? Lying back Naruto closed his eyes comfortably numb of the everything.

Memories shifted in his head. The many times the chef and his daughter risked their livelihood for him. All the times they gave him scraps, warm bowls of ramen out of pity, the moments they took him in to hide him from mobs, and to that cold snowy day where Mr. Ichiraku fed him his first bowl of ramen. He owed everything to that family. Now, Naruto's head rested against the rough bark of a pine tree, unable to do anything. Before he left on his training trip, Naruto remembered one important promise. In fact to him it was as important if not more so than his promise to Sakura. It was that he would one day come back to Konoha not only eat another bowl of delicious ramen but to also make sure they would have the money to one day move out of the slums of westside Konoha.

"I give Tyson entry into camp!" Yelled Annabeth.

"Percy needs help!" Cried Tyson as the sound of metal being crushed echoed.

Naruto's eyelids opened and closed as he heard many people surround him and the girl in front of him yelling, "He needs to be taken into the Big House!"

"Stay with me!" Cried the girl in absolute desperation. She sliced off Naruto's shirt leaving him shirtless at the top of the camps most valued hill. His blood dripping below the roots into whatever grand tree lied overhead. She tightened the long ruined t-shirt around the deep gash against his torso.

Naruto saw Percy shoving the warriors out of the way. His face pale and his eyes horrified. Naruto wanted to tell them it was alright. He felt comfortably numb after all.

His eyes closed as sweet memories swirled around him. He was comfortably numb.

(End of Immersion)

Camp Life

Naruto watched cannons roll up a fortified hill alongside a river. Thousands of men wearing bright light blue uniforms with long Marge Simpson style helmets waited patiently behind sandbag batteries with their rifles slung down. Hundreds of horses heaved and whinnied under the weight of the straining harnesses. The wheels, supporting the great guns, creaked for several minutes until it all came to a stop overlooking what Naruto now found to be a crystal blue harbor.

Seagulls cried overhead as Naruto made his way closer to the artillery guns. An average in height black-haired man with short curly hair barked out orders to various men under his command. They quickly placed sandbags and adjusted the height and velocity of the guns with each and every order. A taller brown-haired man arrived by the black-haired man's side.

"Sir! Are you sure it is wise to not move the revolutions heavy howitzers and sixteen-pound guns from La Montagne and Sans-Culottes?" Spoke the brown-haired man in French.

Naruto surprisingly stood by them with an open jaw. Ignoring the dumbfounded golden-haired boy who just watched the scene unfold before his eyes. The two men continued to argue and jester in French. Naruto just couldn't believe this, he would have failed his German class at Meriwether had it not been for the school's wonky grading system. And here he was completely understanding their every word.

"No don't underestimate the will of the French brothers serving under the Revolution Monsieur Emile." Spoke the black curly-haired man with fire and complete determination as if this was a personal game of chess or a deadly game of dodgeball, "Or underestimate the range of our guns."

"But Monsieur Bonaparte if we had more powerful guns we could obliterate the entire Royal Navy. We need more time to bring them forward to Little Gibraltar and then Toulon will be ours." Replied Emile almost begging Napoleon to listen to reason. Naruto noticed what Napoleon likely noticed. Fear.

"No, they already have fled Fort L'Eguilette a day ago and have been alerted to forces on the ground. If you want to be responsible for failing the Revolution I'll make sure to send you to General Dugommier. We have good heavy howitzers at the ready Major Emile." Napoleon Bonaparte answered, who held a cane with more force. Naruto realized Napoleon must have suffered a long deathly looking wound on his thigh. It was completely bandaged with blood-soaked linen, "Let's give those lobsters a taste of French perseverance!"

With that Emile left Napoleon's side with a scowl. The most famous military commander in history barked out orders to the gun crews to better aim their guns. Naruto watched the dozen large ships of the line along the harbor of Toulon with their Union Jacks blowing against the wind. The city of Toulon was surrounded by large thick walls with guns and batteries placed around it.

"Feu!" Yelled Major Bonaparte.

The whole city of Toulon awoke to the explosions of dozens of cannonballs sailing across the harbor into the British ships of the line. Naruto felt pain, comfort, and the sound of someone saying, "He'll be alright! It's stable."

Naruto opened and closed his eyes as bits of light flashed before his very eyes. A soft hand caressed his forehead as Naruto started to wake up. Frank Sinatra music boomed around him. Naruto pushed himself up from where he slept causing whoever was holding his forehead to gasp, "No, no, no. You need to rest!"

Naruto sat up in the soft comfy bed. The beautiful breathtaking girl from before stood over him. Her hands rested against her hips and her brows narrowed in a frown. She looked different without her menacing greek battle armor, but the look she gave Naruto made it quite clear she wasn't the type of gal one would ever want to mess with. Whatever Naruto did, he sure didn't want to be on her bad side.

"Uh… sorry." Naruto responded without thought or reason for why he should be sorry. It just felt like the right thing to say.

"Don't apologize." Spoke the girl who looked away from his gaze, "You helped to single handily save the one place I cherish more than anything in this world and…"

Naruto tried to look her in the eyes but failed miserably. She was now wearing far more casual clothes. She had a bright orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt tucked underneath a pair of tightly worn grey jeans, which were rolled up just underneath her knees. She wore brown leather boots that went as high as her ankles and a matching brown belt keeping her outfit together. Her black hair from before now flowed down to her belt buckle in flowing curls. She had three pink bracelets around her left wrist. Everything about her was breathtaking. Her almost flawlessly smooth skin, her elegant posture, her slim waist, her curvy body, her taunting red lipstick covered lips. Naruto stopped breathing as he stared completely entranced by what he saw. No one, not even Eos took his breath away, but this girl did.

The girl noticed Naruto's awkward gaze and smirked a little. He was a teenage boy after all, and every boy at camp gave her a similar look at least once. She turned towards the golden-haired whisker marked boy when he said, "Don't sweat it one bit. If anything you have done more for me than anyone I know. Most people I know would have left me below that hill to get crushed, but you went out of your way to save me… I guess I just wanna say. Thank you."

The girl's eyes turned wide as she said, "I did what any sensible camper would have done. We're all family here."

"Family?" Naruto repeated.

"We'll you know to a very literal distant extent." Remarked the girl with her index finger against the bottom of her red lipstick covered lips.

"So ah, what is your name and where are we?" Asked Naruto who sat up straighter.

"My names Silena Beauregard, but just call me Silena. I'm the cabin counselor for the Aphrodite Cabin." Naruto listened intently at the edge of the bed with his knuckles under his chin, "Now the second question is a little out of my expertise maybe Chiron could give you some advice before he leaves."

"What do mean when Chiron leaves? He's the guy who sent Billy after me."

Silena raised an eyebrow, "Chiron sent a satyr to bring you into camp? Are you sure about that?"

Naruto growled in frustration, "Why would I lie about how I got here. I mean I ran into Billy and some guy with a million eyes in Manhattan. And they ended up saving me from possibly getting captured. Hell! They drove me to my place to get some belongings and from there we ended up bringing those firebreathing bulls from god knows where? All the way here."

"Wait, wait, wait, hold up! You gotta slow down. Exactly what were Billy and Argus saving you from? I mean I figured Argus wouldn't mind helping Billy before he leaves, but what's this all have to do with Chiron?" Asked Silena completely bewildered by what Naruto had to say.

"Well long story short-" Before Naruto could explain his encounter with the Laistrygonians, his near kidnap with Eos, and Hank Hughes blowing up his apartment. Both Naruto and Silena heard someone yell, "Pony!" down the hall.

"Clarisse said you were, you were-" Called Percy from another room.

"Fired." Said a man with a strong sage-like voice.

Naruto tried to get up from his bed only to fall to the floor with a loud thud. Silena placed one of her arms around his shoulder as a crutch for support. Naruto blushed at the close contact between them, especially now that he felt two large soft pieces of… wait a minute.

"Stop thinking perverted thoughts! Stop thinking perverted thoughts!" Thought the golden-haired genin who now realized he was shirtless and in nothing but his typical toad boxers. Silena brought Naruto to his feet and he cursed Ero-sensei wherever he was for corrupting him to the point of possibly having an embarrassing scenario with maybe the most beautiful girl in the whole universe. Luckily she wasn't noticing Naruto's major problem or he hoped she wasn't noticing it.

"Look you really need to rest longer, ah, Nate is it?" Asked Silena with pleading eyes.

"The names Naruto. Naruto Uzumaki." Replied the golden-haired fourteen-year-old who clutched his now painful wound across his chest, "Exactly how long was I out for anyways?"

"That's the thing you were only sleeping for about an hour before you just woke up like some sort of idiot. I don't know how you were able to make copies of yourself or just survive a blow from a Colchis Bull like it was nothing, but most people would have passed out for at least a day with wounds as bad as yours. You're maybe the strangest demigod to appear at our doorsteps since Thalia." Spoke Silena who started blushing at how little dressed the boy was.

Naruto didn't know who or what Thalia was. Whoever they were, he could tell just from Silena's voice how much that person meant to her. He already had enough questions to lead him down multiple rabbit holes. The one problem with this world and Naruto already figured it out. With every answer to a question he received. Two maybe three more questions took its place.

Naruto dressed quickly into his pair of light blue jeans and an orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt. Of course with the help of Silena who didn't seem to mind too much. Looking less naked, the duo made their way over to an apartment-sized room blaring Frank Sinatra's That's Life off of an old vinyl record.

"Swear you will do your best to keep Percy from danger." Insisted a long curly brown-haired man with a thick beard, "Swear upon the River Styx."

Now Chiron should have been the least surprising thing Naruto laid his eyes on this very troubling day. If anything two bronze elephant-sized bulls with the capabilities to breath fire, the goddess of Dawn, and maybe his apartment blowing up were enough to keep a dive bar interested. Any one of those three would be distinctly life-altering, but none of them prepared Naruto for actually seeing a man with the body of a horse. He remembered reading up on such creatures in one of his mother's books, but couldn't remember the name. Ceniles? Sounded right.

"I… I swear upon the River Styx?" Annabeth exasperatedly said, causing thunder to boom from afar. Naruto jumped a foot and nearly lost balance, almost reopening his foot-long Colchis Bull inflicted wound. The searing hot pain in his chest wasn't half as bad as before, but Naruto couldn't help gasping for air.

Everyone within the room turned their heads to Naruto in surprise. Unpredictable and punctual as always, Naruto simply stood before Annabeth, Percy, the mysterious horseman Chiron, and Tyson who now only had one eye. Huh, was there always just one eye? It was big and brown like a calfs. Naruto sure was out of the loop now.

Chiron hoofed his way towards Naruto and despite looking slightly relieved by what Annabeth said. He looked at Naruto oddly. Not in any bad way. Just oddly. Almost as if in a way he just couldn't believe he was actually there. Everyone present seemed a little on edge by the silence. Every second felt like hours. No one dared to make a sound or breathe loud enough to break the mystical bond Chiron had over the Camp's new arrival.

"Hmm, Naruto I didn't expect to meet you so soon. Most demigods would have passed out for a day from just one square of ambrosia. Nonetheless, you are here and I'm most glad you're still in one piece." Chiron's words seemed to not only unease the tension, but also comfort Naruto, "I've heard so much about you over the last year. I had to go out of my way and around Mr. D's back just to make sure you didn't get killed or worse."

"Wait a minute. Naruto I never expected you to be a demigod too?" Asked Percy in complete bewilderment.

"I had my doubts, Percy. I'm sure Naruto has his doubts too. If anything the fact he even entered our borders despite it's weakened state is only a sign. Maybe not the greatest sign, but a sign we can't ignore." Everyone including Tyson looked at the horseman completely intrigued.

"Mr. Chiron, what is this camp? Why did you send Billy to get me? Am I really like a demigod or something? I know gods and monsters exist. I've encountered many, but this can't be right! I'm from another world. I shouldn't even be here!" Naruto practically shouted the last part. He probably shouldn't have yet for many almost a year of holding in these thoughts. It felt right, but even Silena glared at him and Naruto felt more guilty as a result.

Percy, on the other hand, wasn't sure what to make of his friend's statement. So to throw a knife in the dark, "Naruto you're joking, right? I mean I saw you use magic at school to take down one of the Canadian giants. But another world?"

"There are forces in this universe Percy far more mysterious. Far more frightening. And far more far fetched than a demigod being sent from one plane of existence to another. You five may not be able to see or smell it or even know about the powers and the hold of Chaos. Yet our dear young hero of the day is surrounded by it. I've come across a few people and monsters from different planes throughout the ages. The gods usually don't stand for it. Naruto is different. He holds claims from two different worlds. Few demigods, if ever hold such claims." Chiron held a knuckle under his chin as he finished talking. Everyone present looked at the philosophical creature further confused.

"Exactly where is Naruto from?" Asked Annabeth completely intrigued.

"Well, I was born in a country called Hi no Kuni. In a hidden village called Konoha. Really it's uh, more like a secret military city. People called our continent the Elemental Nation. I guess just cause every nation and country specialized in a different way and form of using chakra. It's not the same as magic, but quite similar... I think. We called our world Jharo in our tongue." Annabeth raised a honey blonde eyebrow, "It translates to Earth… Annabeth alright. Look! We're kind of getting off-topic here. Exactly why is everyone after me?" Chiron gave Naruto an amused but warm smile. Not in anyway blatantly mean.

"Naruto I think you may already know the answer to the question you seek. The best thing you can do for now is to stay here at camp with your friends and hopefully survive the summer. I'm afraid that the army of zombies and the sighting of the Keres is an omen or even just the tip of the spear for what is to come." Answered Chiron causing all present to look at him in worry, "Perhaps my name will be cleared and I'll be able to return to camp soon. In the meantime, I'll go visit my kinsmen in the Everglades. It is possible they know of some cure for the poisoned tree that I may have forgotten. In any event, I'll stay in exile until this matter is resolved one way or another."

Annabeth stifled a sob. Chiron patted her shoulder awkwardly. Silena's eyes watered and Naruto felt horrible. He had just met this strange creature, yet he held more wisdom, compassion, understanding, and sway than any teacher or mentor Naruto had ever met in his entire life.

"There now child I must entrust your safety to Mr. D and the new activities director. We must hope that they will not destroy the camp as quickly as I fear." Naruto looked at Chiron hoping for more guidance.

"Who is this Tantalus guy anyway?" Demanded Percy while brushing a strand of black hair from his eyes, "Where does he get off taking your job?"

A loud horn blew across the fields and through the walls of The Big House. Even Frank Sinatra seemed to have fallen out of synch with the great summoning call. Naruto looked around confused as did Tyson.

"Go! You will meet him in the dining pavilion. Percy, remember what I said? The Titan lord hasn't forgotten you since last Summer. You are in grave danger if not more so than ever before. Naruto I want you to stay safe and hopefully enjoy the many luxuries of camp. I must depart and you all must be hungry." With that Chiron grabbed his bags turned off his vinyl player and left.

Tyson cried, "Pony you can't go!"

Dinner

The trip to the dining pavilion while accompanied by Silena, Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson should have been an easy objective. After Naruto borrowed a pair of socks from one of the Wood Nymphs in the Big House. He quickly and willfully pushed his body over to the dining pavilion at the top of a hill overlooking the sea. Naruto's brown leather chukka boots crunched against the soft green grass. It was a better alternative than his now tattered and blood-soaked tennis shoes from his encounter with those fire-breathing bulls.

Silena explained to the best of her abilities the history of Camp Half-Blood. It boggled Naruto's mind more and more that this wasn't a dream. His encounters around Saturnalia weren't a weird lucid dream, nor the events prior to his almost certain death with those vampires. None of this really made much sense to the sapphire-eyed boy. What with gods getting horny over mortals and siring children. A camp of kids training to become heroes among men. An army of zombies waiting outside of the boundaries of some sort of magical forcefield. A girl being turned into a tree creating said forcefield.

While this all did seem bonkers what was the blonde boy to complain about. After all, he did come from a world where twelve-year-old kids murdered each other with knives while using crazy insane magic-like abilities.

The dining pavilion had no walls nor a roof. Dozens of large marble smooth columns surrounded twelve tables all surrounding a giant bronze brazier the size of a bathtub. Torches blazed from the attached holders along the column walls as each cabin group soon filed in. Naruto slumped against a cold white column completely out of it. He needed to sleep and the furball in his gut would make sure he was up to full strength by morning. It was the same old routine from his childhood. Still, it didn't mean that the pain still wasn't throbbing along his wound.

Annabeth left Percy's group as soon as she saw her cabin mates. A dozen boys and girls with matching honey blonde hair and grey stormy eyes. Silena rubbed Naruto's shoulder and gave him a worried look. Naruto wondered why? Until he realized his right hand kept hovering all along his now canyon wide wound.

"Naruto I gotta go and get my cabin ready for dinner. Just hang in there alright. You should come on over to the Pegasus Stables tomorrow. Maybe I can make you into an expert horse rider like Percy." Percy blushed at her compliment and Naruto only gave her a reassuring, yet heavily strained forced smile.

"Don't worry I'll be fine. I've suffered far worse." Silena didn't seem to like that comment with an even more worried glance. Naruto cursed under his breath. Why did he always have to say the wrong thing?

"I like how the only woman who seems to have a legitimate interest in you is a goddess. And a very beautiful and powerful one at that."

"No thank you. Not only is that particular woman fucking crazy, but every man she's ever been with has been cursed, killed, and far worse. Also, she betrayed me and set me up to get captured by Luke."

"And who got you out of that mess."

"And who got me into that mess."

"Next time you need my help you can figure it out for yourself brat. You disgust me in every possible way. If I wasn't connected to you, I would have laughed while you bled to death from that duck ass haired Uchiha."

Naruto focused on the groups of campers filing into the pavilion. He'd rather focus on the eminent problem of what would become of him at Camp Half-Blood. Rather than waste a single ounce of thought on a demonic creature with the power level of three full-sized Godzilla's.

"That's pretty conservative. I could take on fifty Godzilla's and still take on Konoha."

"Yet a single man defeated you."

"That wasn't a regular man."

Naruto could care less about the Kyuubi's excuses. Right then and there a tall girl the size of a basketball player and built like a rugby player walked through the Pavilion. Similar looking cabin mates with tall, gruff, and intimidating features followed the girl to the Ares table. The girl had a sling wrapped around one of her arms and a gash mark under her chin. A piece of paper with the words "You Moo Girl" was taped to her back. Her cabin mates didn't seem the least bit interested in telling her about it. Naruto vaguely realized this was the boar helmed girl from earlier who led Camp Half-Blood's border guards.

Right after the Ares kids came the Hephaestus cabin. Their leader was a black fifteen-year-old kid with hands as big as catcher mitts and a face hard and squinty.

"That's Charles Beckendorf. Everyone at camp calls him Beckendorf. Rumor has it he can craft anything." Said Percy as Charles Beckendorf led his cabin to their table with downcast faces.

The other cabins filed in soon after. Demeter, Apollo, and Dionysus cabins soon filed in not long after. All of the campers had seemed a little off as if they had lost something. Aphrodite came in soon after led by Silena and all of her brothers and sisters looked almost as stunning as the beauty that helped save him from before. The Hermes kids were the last cabin to file into the pavilion and they were led by two nearly identical boys. They were tall with mops of brown curly hair and mischievous elvish features like almost all of their siblings. Many of the Hermes kids had blue or brown eyes, yet many of them looked completely different from the others and there were a lot of them.

As soon as every cabin sat down at their table. Percy, Tyson, and Naruto made their way over to the head table in front of a man with an orange jumpsuit with the numbers 0001 stitched under a pocket. The man had long grey hair that seemed sporadically cut and blue baggy eyes. The man sitting next to him had a leopard patterned Hawaiian t-shirt, a chubby belly, and black almost purplish hair. He looked like a Las Vegas tourist who spent way too much time at night at the slot machines and got lost along the strips between the casinos after a night of partying.

Conversations faltered and the dour mood among all the tables stopped. Heads turned as Tyson made his way over to the main table with his friends accompanying him.

"Who invited that?" Yelled one camper from the Aphrodite table. Silena seemed slightly upset by the comment, yet she said nothing.

"Well, well, if it isn't Peter Johnson my millennium is complete." Spoke the cherub looking man with his purple sneakers tabbing the stone-cold pavilion floor.

"It's Percy Jackson sir!" Replied the jet black-haired son of Poseidon.

"Yes as you young people say today. Whatever!" Replied the cherub looking man while sipping from a can of diet coke. A wood nymph who looked completely uncomfortable aggressively peeled with much precision every single grape in a large cluster of red grapes. Naruto felt sympathy for the creature, remembering his days doing stupid D-ranked missions for rich landowners within Konoha. Such as having to pull the weeds of a 10-acre plot of land, by hand. Better yet Team 7 often was hand selected by Jiji for the loathsome job of capturing the dreaded evil cat Tora. Who by the way escaped on many occasions! The blonde dropped those thoughts when he saw the cherub looking man point a stubby finger at Percy.

"This boy, you will need to watch out for. Poseidon's child you know." The new camp activities director raised an eyebrow at that. Naruto could see much pain emanating from the man's eyes as if he hungered for anything. His eyes leaked frustration, hunger, madness, and pain in every conceivable form.

"Oh, that one. The name's Tantalus. I'm the new Activities Director for the camp." Tantalus smiled coldly, "I'm on a special assignment until lord Dionysus says otherwise. And you Persius Jackson are to refrain from causing any more trouble. And you!"

Both Tantalus and Mr. D who was the god Dionysus looked at Naruto venomously.

"What?" Naruto demanded.

Mr. D snapped his fingers and a newspaper popped into his hands. It was the latest addition of the New York Post and the front page had a picture of the Fortis Apartment's emblazoned in flames and smoke with large hoses shooting water into the inferno. Naruto tried to decipher the title, and the only words he got from it were Naruto Uzumaki. It probably went along the lines of "Fourteen-year-old hoodlum savagely blows up apartment in terrorist attack! Landlord Watches!" it made Naruto's already battered body feel weightless.

"You both have caused plenty of trouble! You, Percy, caused plenty of it last Summer." Growled Tantalus with his dirty fingers tapping the table.

"What exactly did you do?" Naruto asked completely oblivious to his friend's past deeds.

"Long story. I'll fill you in tomorrow." Spoke Percy who stared at Tantalus furiously.

A satyr placed a platter of ribs dabbed in sauce in front of Tantalus who licked his lips. He held out his empty goblet and said, "Root Beer. Bar special stock 1967."

The goblet instantly filled with foamy soda. Mr.d had a sparkle in his eyes as he said, "Go ahead, good fella. Perhaps now it will work."

Tantalus grabbed for the goblet but it swept across the table right before his fingers wrapped around it. He growled in anger as he tried to stab at a slab of sticky barbecued ribs. The plate simply left for the coals of the now roaring brazier at the center of the pavilion.

"Well give it a month maybe the curse will be gone by then. You'll find that this place is like torture in no time." Spoke Mr. D who looked like he was trying to hold in a terribly funny joke.

Naruto and Percy stared at the whole scene in complete fascination and Percy even accused Tantalus of being some being from the underworld.

"Peter maybe you should go to your table. You know the one where no one sits at. As for you Nato. You are a special case indeed. We haven't had a demigod with your particular situation in the existence of our camp. So you'll be sent to the Hermes table with the other unclaimed children. You look terrible and with this monster in our midst. I'll hold up on having to explain your origins for tonight. So off you go." Spoke Mr. D with a smirk. Naruto wondered who Nato was and stood where he was until Mr. D said, "Off you go. Don't want me to notify Zeus to strike you down now do we."

"Ah, sir. Are you really the god Dionysus?" Naruto asked in complete bewilderment and slightly confused on who Mr. D was talking to.

"Naruto go!" Pleaded Percy as Mr. D sent Naruto a malevolent look.

Naruto was escorted to the Hermes table by a wood nymph in quick haste and the whole table stared at him in wonder. Naruto, on the other hand, felt like he got the short end of the stick with his camp welcome. In the end, Percy went to a table off in the corner all by himself and Tyson was forced to sit by Tantalus who stared at the one-eyed boy hungrily.

Everyone became quiet and stared at the whisker marked boy in wonder. Whispers whirled around Naruto's ears as nearly five dozen kids stared and nudged each other at his very presence. Naruto who was used to this sort of treatment only smiled in return making several campers to look at him in wonder. Food soon spread around the table, yet no one dared to say a word directly to the blonde. All except for one of the twins from before who looked slightly taller than the other, "The names Travis Stoll this here is my younger brother Connor!"

"Hey! I'm not that much younger!" Spoke Connor causing the Hermes kids around him to laugh.

"Anyways we're both the head councilors of the Hermes cabin. So, Let's all remember our manners and welcome the latest addition to our cabin!" Answered Travis who now got the attention of the surrounding tables.

The whispering stopped and everyone's attention soon turned towards their new brother. They all clapped and hollered causing the whole pavilion to look at the Hermes table in complete interest. All with the exception of the Demeter table, which glared daggers at the loud outburst.

"Is it true you defeated a Colchis Bull all by yourself?"

"I heard you literally created an army out of thin air to defeat a whole horde of monsters. That's so cool!"

"You gotta show us some of that magic I heard the Apollo kids talk about."

"If you can fight an army of zombies and scare away a Keres… maybe we don't need Thalia's tree."

The questions became numerous. Little Hermes kids around seven and ten years old practically clawed over one another to get Naruto's attention. Naruto simply smiled stupidly at all the attention he was getting. Never in his life had any people gawked at his very presence. It felt like a dream. While one Hermes kid held out a pack of Mythomagic cards in front of Naruto's face to show off or explain his similarities to Achilles. A heavy tan-skinned boy with sharp eyes and brown hair silenced the crowd of campers swarming Naruto.

"Hopefully you'll be claimed by father Hermes. You look like the spitting image of Luke and with your magic behind our backs. We will bring honor back to our cabin and make father proud." The whole table pondered the kid's statement. Murmurs and whispers soon followed behind.

"Wait a minute. Luke was once part of the Hermes cabin. Like the same Luke who is siding with Kronos and the Kronia?" Asked Naruto.

"You know Luke?" Spoke one of the recently introduced Stoll brothers with a raised eyebrow, "He left camp last summer after his attempt at murdering Percy Jackson. He survived, but still, things haven't been the same since. I mean just look around. Thalia's tree is dying. The Camp Store hasn't restocked with any cool merchandise, Chiron and Argus have been fired, and we're just a few permits away from becoming an official military base."

"Who are the Kronia and how did you meet Luke?" Spoke the other Stoll brother in complete fascination by what Naruto may have to say over their now defected brother.

Naruto spent the next ten minutes while the food was being served explaining his encounters with the Strix along Broadway, his meeting up with the Hetairoi, Eos, and the Saturnalia meeting. The Stoll brothers and the whole table were so captivated, everyone forgot about the food in front of them and the customs of throwing the food in the flames.

The Hermes cabin soon crowded around the roaring brazier. A nine-year-old kid explained to Naruto the customs of throwing a portion of the food in the flames in order for the gods to receive your blessing. Naruto never the type to throw away food, but still wanting to at least get some closure from his mysterious mother. Brushed off half of his plate filled with expertly cooked mash potatoes leaking with butter, succulent BBQ bathed ribs, and delicious olive oil covered asparagus.

"Mom wherever you are please acknowledge me. I love you so much. I just want you to know that."

Naruto spent more time than was usually customary staring at his burning food, which smelled like a bountiful Thanksgiving feast. One of the Hermes kids nudged him back to his table when the kids from Ares Cabin surrounded the brazier with looks of complete madness. Their leader the boar helmed girl, which one kid said was Clarisse sent Naruto a peculiar look. Naruto didn't want to poke an already damaged bear so he departed back to his table in order to dig into his food.

A camper explained how things worked. Like with the goblets and how they were enchanted to fill with whatever liquid the camper wanted. Naruto grabbed the goblet and grinned, "Root Beer. Bar Special Stock 1967!"

The glass filled with sweet foamy soda. Mr. D had a surprisingly large smile as he watched Tantalus fume at the below the belt insult. Not long after, Tantalus ordered a satyr to sound the horn causing all present to turn towards the new activities director in interest, "Another fine meal or so I'm told."

Tantalus glared directly at Naruto as his hand inched towards his now refilled dinner plate. It shot away from his hand down the head table in front of Tyson.

"I would like to say how much of a punishment it is to be here. Over the course of the Summer, I hope to torture, ah, I mean interact with each and every one of you children. You all look good enough to eat!" After a lackluster amount of awkward applause, Tantalus continued, "Now for some changes. We will be reinstituting the chariot races. Now I know these races were discontinued years ago due to some technical problems."

"Three deaths and twenty-six mutilations!" Spoke a camper from the Apollo table, who Naruto realized was one of the archers from the battle earlier.

"Yes, yes, but I'm sure you welcome me in bringing back this camp tradition. Golden laurels will go to the winning team. And did I mention the team that wins won't have to do any chores for an entire month!" Cheers and heavy applause soon followed that announcement. Naruto looked around completely bewildered by the change of tone.

"What about border patrol?" Asked Clarisse who seemed ignorant of the snickering from the "You Moo girl" note taped to her back.

"Ah, if it isn't brave Clarisse who single-handedly helped to save this camp from an angry horde of zombie warriors and Colchis Bulls brought here by the newest addition to our camp. Don't worry this is a Summer camp and we're here for some fun."

Clarisse blushed and Naruto wanted to go up there and smash Tantalus's face in. He was the one who not only defeated one of the Colchis Bulls but also made sure the border patrol wasn't butchered by the horde of undead warriors.

"I don't deserve all the credit. The new kid-"

"Ah yes and modest too. Now there have been reports of Keres accompanying this army of undead zombies. The Keres are spawns of Nyx, just spotting one is a terrible omen. Now I think this omen may be referring to the newest additions to the camp. Especially this here Cyclops sitting by my side. Brought to this camp by Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase!" Everyone glared at Percy Jackson, but Naruto made sure to give his friend an encouraging glance.

"Now what to do. We can't stick it around at the stables he'll scare the horses. How about the Hermes cabin. You have accepted that blonde brat. Why not accept one more?" Naruto sent a pleading look to both Travis and Connor Stoll. Both sons of Hermes looked down at the table cloth.

"No! I have an idea. We can send it into the woods. Form a good bonding exercise by chasing it with pointed sticks and torches." As soon as Tantalus finished. A green holographic trident appeared over Tyson's head. Tyson tried swatting it with his hands while Tantalus laughed, "I guess I now can see the family resemblance."

Percy held his head down as everyone in the pavilion laughed at his expense. Naruto wanted to leave the Hermes table and help his friend out. While the pavilion kept on laughing at Tyson and Percy's embarrassed face, Naruto only asked a Hermes camper a question, "What happened?"

"He just got claimed by his parent. Seems like there are now two sons of Poseidon."

"Wait a minute? When does that happen?"

"Maybe never some kids in our cabin have been waiting years for their parents to claim them. Welcome to the cabin of misfit children."

Naruto stared jealousy at the holographic sign. Why didn't his mother claim him? Did she lie about how he was her favorite child? Naruto looked around at his fellow Hermes campers who laughed, pulled on each other, and some even waved at Naruto happily to get his attention.

The rest of the night Naruto was hounded around and shown the ropes of Camp Half-Blood. His fellow cabin members gave him not a single moment to himself. Naruto forgot about his friends, about Silena, and about being unclaimed. This was what it was like to have a family.

Naruto followed the Hermes kids over to his new cabin. One of the Stoll brothers handed him a sleeping bag and the blonde boy entered the brown nearly dilapidated building with all of his new smiling family members around him. Despite how much pain he felt. Even though he was left unclaimed by his mother. Naruto slept after lights out with a smile he never once had. It didn't matter who or what may have been against him. The whole world was always against him.

For once in his life. As various brothers and sisters within his cabin joked, argued, pranked one another. Naruto felt like he was a part of a family. A family he never asked for, but one he desperately needed. Even though they may not all be his blood.

Something fired within his now battered body. A will of fire stronger than the one back in Konoha. If anyone or anything came for his new family. He would be there to protect his new precious people.

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Training Trip Week 3 ½ Part 2

Jiraiya placed what appeared to be half a piece of the infamous stone tablet of Sezu inside of a sealing scroll. Meanwhile Indio occupied his time by counting every single ryo as if he wasn't completely sure if Ero-sensei genuinely handed him money. The goons on the other hand stood still, their eyes watching the two Konoha shinobi for any wrong moves. Naruto wasn't too fazed by their whole facade, he could easily dispatch them in a second. Still the entire process was both stressful and annoying. The blonde haired, sapphire eyed jinchuriki wondered just what this whole treasure hunt or who this Sezu was even about. He had many reasons for becoming a shinobi. Part of it was to gain fame, respect, admiration, and power from everyone within Hi no Kuni and to have them notice him for who he truly was. If Naruto had to be truthful, most of his ambitions lied with the goal of him becoming Hokage, a position that offered all of those attributes, yet adventure and wealth were strong temptations too.

When he was small boy. Adventure, wealth, and love were the only things he truly sought out. Naruto smirked under the candlelight as Ero-sensei placed the sealing scroll containing the stone tablet in his jacket.

"Well it appears you didn't grift me this time old friend!" Proclaimed Indio, which only forced Naruto to shoot his sensei a disproving look.

"Uh, ah, umm, well... hey remember what you told me when I got you off the hook from that pirate raid on those Oster Reich shipping boats!" Spouted out Jiraiya with his index finger pointing straight at the infamous spy of Konoha.

"Let bygones be bygones!" Both men said together, before giving one another a strong hug.

"Hahahaha it really is great seeing you again Jiraiya! Now come with me," Spoke Indio who then got up up from his throne. Naruto was about to stay put before he heard Indio yell, "Where's that blonde hair, blue eyed, student of yours?"

Jiraiya quickly shot his student a commanding glance and waved for his student to follow. Not really having a choice and not wanting to insult Indio, Naruto followed his sensei and the shady spy up a stone staircase. He followed them to the very top floor of the warehouse, down a short hallway, and into one of the most splendid rooms Naruto had even been in. The room itself was surrounded by large glass windows that overlooked the Emerald Bay merchant wharfs and the never ending sea going far into the East. Out in the distance lied the behemouth stone lighthouse of Emerald Bay which was roughly 230 feet high (70 meters high). There was a large ebony wooden desk at the very center of the room. Indio and his guests all comfortably sat in large cushioned velvet chairs. Naruto looked around the room spotting the eye candy of various different oil based paintings depicting warriors on horseback from hundreds of years prior.

"Sit down! Sit down! Now Naruto is it?" Began Indio who took out a large bottle of rum and began pouring three full shot glasses worth of alcohol.

"What is it sir?"

"No need for the formalities little one. You must be very important for your master to have you tagging along. Especially for whatever adventures lies ahead! Jiraiya I know you aren't much of gambler because you've wasted enough ryo to buy me another fleet of trading schooners. I'm very curious for why you two would sail halfway across the world for something that likely doesn't exist?" Asked Indio handing the blonde boy a shot glass full of rum.

"Well Indio if you really are that interested you are always welcome to come." Spoke the hermit sage.

"Ha, I leave the treasure hunting to men of vision. My vision has always been closer to reality. Non stop sailing for nearly a month, terrifying typhoons, endless deserts, tribes full of bloodthirsty killers, bandits, pirates, war-torn nations... and that's just to get to Alleppey." Finished Indio causing Naruto to grab his shot glass in his right hand and stare at the spy in both wonder and uncertainty. The sapphire eyed genin knew little of this supposed Sezu or how these stone tablets would lead to a supposed god's realm. All three men clinged their glasses together and drank the rough liquid. Naruto could only get half his shot glass down before coughing like he had a cold. His body started feeling warm and light, which started to pass on by because of the Kyuubi. Still coughing Indio started laughing and said, "Has your pupil ever tasted the nectar of a woman?"

The blonde haired jinchuriki coughed out the rest of his drink as both older men began laughing. Ero-sensei shook his head and said, "He has yet to read and appreciate my works... so no."

Indio filled Naruto's shot glass again and all three men kept taking shot after shot. The sun was slowly setting below the horizon and Naruto was entertaining the two men with a story, "So I transformed magh, mah, I transfamed myself into a woman! A SEXY WOMAN! Jiji couldn't fucking take it and it was as easy as that."

Ero-sensei and Indio slapped their knees laughing and hollering from Naruto's account of him stealing the forbidden scroll of sealing. The sapphire eyed jinchuriki had drunk almost an entire bottles worth of spiced rum. There were several empty bottles around the room and Naruto just wondered how long they'd been at this game of nonstop debauchery. This was the first time he'd ever gotten drunk and it was amazing, no wonder adults loved alcohol! The room was shaking, he felt happy, excited, euphoric, and completely sick. Luckily they weren't yet on the move because he doubted he could make it more than ten feet without throwing up.

"Hahahaha! Let's go to the club and let the brat put those harlots to shame!" Cried out Indio.

"Yes! Come on Naruto were going to Nemo's Casino!" Proclaimed Jiraiya while yanking his star pupil by the shoulder who quickly vomited out a large puddle of brown and yellow bile.

Naruto received several lap dances from various workers at Nemo's and soon was pressured by his sensei to perform his Oiroke no Jutsu (sexy technique) to a growing crowd of onlookers. Various gamblers, sailers, traders, and just about everyone within the strip club was drunk while gawking at the strange spectacle.

"So Jiraiya..." The hermit sage was completely wasted but turned his head towards Indio who looked at him with a smirk, "So your pupil is the jinchuriki of the Kyuubi and the son of Minato Namikaze, is he not?"

"Wh-wha-what are you getting at?"

"Hahahaha there were strange men in black jackets with red clouds asking for both of your whereabouts a week prior. Don't worry old friend... several of my associates told them off, but they already know you plan on taking the troublesome brat outside of Hi no Kuni. Last I've heard they were spotted going north toward Yuki no Kuni (Land of Snow). You're lucky you responded to my message when you did... after-all there are a good many within Konoha who'd gladly pay to see him dead." Indio was pushed against a wall far away from the crowd of onlookers.

"Naruto isn't some beast he's a good kid. DON'T think I'm some stupid Akatsuki thug that can be trifled with," Jiraiya looked his spy in the eyes who only continued smirking.

"Because of me Emerald Bay was spared and those men are gone. Although they'll be back and it's not just them... from what I've heard the boy put on quite the show during the last chunin exams. We both know Akatsuki aren't the only ones searching for him. A week from now there's a fine cruise ship leaving Emerald Bay for the western nations. Take it and leave... I like the brat, he reminds me a whole lot of his father." Indio smirked when he felt his master drop his hold on him.

Jiraiya looked over to his pupil who had dropped his jutsu. His student had a long line of blood running down his nose, all caused by several beauties caressing him, "Hopefully he doesn't share the a same fate."

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Well, I'm now done with chapter six. Very sorry for the late post. I have worked almost every day I've spent working on this chapter and I usually work 5-9 days straight in terrible intervals with my hours being between 8-10 hours every day.

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I will say I'm not in the best of moods lately. Mostly because the day I went to the concert an associate who I trained, worked with, and spent much time with, committed suicide. There is so much I want to say about this incident and I wished I didn't go to the concert and was there working that day. Maybe I could have been there, said something, maybe have helped him not decide to walk out and just kill himself. I write these stories as a way to let my stress out and to make sure my readers leave every chapter happy, sad, angry, and wanting more.

When you've spent time with someone and they die so soon and at such a young age. It just makes me angry. Mostly at myself, like I could have done or said something to have helped him out. This young kid reminded me of myself. He was always happy, joked around, told me of his pranks in high school and I would tell him of the ones I did in elementary and middle school. I don't want any of my readers to ever die of their own self accord. Suicide is never the answer, and I will admit as an author when I was once a kid I also tried to commit suicide. I didn't in the end cause I realized just how much my parents, friends, and everyone would feel with my selfish actions if I didn't take that cord off around my neck. I haven't felt any tendencies since that day and have always been happy. I live to bring everyone happiness, but when someone close like that just does kill themselves I will admit it makes me feel sad. When I was a child my parents went through a tough divorce. My dad physically abused my mom and my siblings, including me, almost every day. When my parents finally divorced the kids at school made fun of my situation, I got bullied a lot, I felt like everyone and everything was against me. I remember once having to steal water from the local elementary school because of my families situation, and how much shame my mother felt at that action.

What I want my readers to know from my experiences is to live life no matter what is thrown your way. If you take the easy way out like my friend at work. Then you'll only make everyone worse off. People love you even though you may not even know it. I thought at one point in my life no one liked me. Now I have more friends than I can count, girls annoy me with their personal issues, women put me in awkward situations, my family is there for me now more than ever, but I wouldn't ever give it up for an easy way out. This is the most honest I have been with anyone in my life and these events just tear me up like someone kicked me in the balls twice and laughed. Sorry for the depressing authors note. I just wanted to clear this up and I'll dedicate the next chapter to my coworker.

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Now onto more happy topics. I have gotten a ton of reviews after chapter 5. It almost has as many reviews as chapter 1, which surprisingly I keep getting reviews for and fans keep asking questions that have been explained in succeeding chapters. I plan on making chapters 6 and 7 a lot shorter. Turns out chapter 4 is one of the longest chapters in Sea of Monsters and maybe the most important. It literally explains the story, plot, and many things to come later down the road for the entire Percy Jackson and the Olympian series. I thought about cutting this chapter halfway through on a cliff hanger and posting the second part sometime later on. I still want to finish Sea of Monsters by chapter 16 or 17. I'm now already a quarter of the way through the book where the story stands atm.

I want to thank all of my readers, followers, and reviews for their support. Now onto some review questions.

Autismguy593 and Royal Bioforge - Matt Sloan was punished. I felt that was the best way to write that asshat out of the story. The Unrelenting Force Jutsu was taken from one of my old stories from my middle school days.

Haruka001, littleboyblack17, and ElonMuskOfficial -Thanks for all the kind words of support. Onto Percy swearing, if your friend was about to do something really retarded would you just say kindly not to do it. No, you yell, slap them, or just make sure they don't do it. (Also shout out to you ElonMusk love your cars even though I haven't driven one. First off, I'm glad you brought up Naked Cowboy. Like almost every character I bring into this story not from canon. He is based on a real person who I saw in Manhattan at the age of seven. He was getting arrested by the NYPD on that day and I thought I imagined it. Turns out he was real and goes by the Robert John Burck. Look him up on Wikipedia. I thought about having him play a bigger part, but since he's a real person I thought otherwise. Who knows he might show up in Book 3 when I get there. Book 3 begins hopefully this January if I keep the pace of this story up.)

Theronjohn325 - I have granted your request. I like my stories, fanfiction wise, to be new, original, and to have many twists. When you read a fanfiction story most of the time it is very predictable or even pretentious when the author doesn't think outside of the box. This is why I have added the Kronia and The Companions to this story. I plan on creating massive battles that will use real ancient, modern, and cunning military tactics. There are so many greek myths, monsters, and tales many people aren't exposed to.

Guest - Naruto created a thousand shadow clones, summoned the boss toad, and used every trick in his book to defeat Gaara. Naruto will be very powerful and this chapter is a testament to his growth as a strategist and warrior in combat.

Lara5170- Naruto will play the most important role of any character in this story. Like I said before I'd rather a character's growth be shown than them showing off without the much-needed development. Naruto and the Companions will play a major role (if not the most important role) and I'll explain near the end of Sea of Monsters why the Hetairoi and Camp Half-Blood don't really trust one another.

P.S - I'll need a beta reader so PM me if you can.