Chapter 11: Jerkules

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It took a few minutes for Percy to emerge from the well he was in. he had also relayed to them that an agent from his father told them to head to Santa Monica where his father would give them something to help with the quest.

Shaking it off for now they decided to walk towards town where they would look for a place to message the camp.

Eventually they came across a closed car wash station where they decided to break in to get inside.

"Um guys should we be doing this?" Percy asked as he saw his buddy's just break into the carwash as if it were the most normal thing to do.

"Remember Percy we are on a quest most rules of mortals do not apply to us any longer the mist covers it up with a more reasonable thing for them to perceive so worry not about doing anything strange during quests. However off quests we simply try to behave like mortals but we are not like them we are different we simply try to blend in for their sake if nothing else remember that" Naruto explained as Annabeth and Grover went to look for something to make a spray of water.

"Found it! Ah darn I need some coins do any of you have any?" Grover said as he held up a spray connected to a machine with various options.

Naruto than handed him a quarter which Grover graciously took and used it to set the spray to fine mist.

"Hey guys what are you doing with a hose?" Percy asked.

"IM ing" Annabeth answered simply.

"Instant messaging?" Percy asked cluelessly.

"No Iris Messaging , Iris is the goddess of rainbows and she allows gods and demigods to use rainbows for communication for a small price." Annabeth explained as she threw a drachma into the mist.

"Camp Half-Blood please" Annabeth asked just as the spray of water shimmered before sowing them a view of the camp.

"Hey Luke" Annabeth called out with a slight blush as she saw Luke pass by the IM mist.

"Hey guys been a while we were beginning to get worried over here" Luke said with a smile as he turned to face the IM mist.

"Um Luke where's Chiron we need to talk to him?" Annabeth asked.

"Oh he's busy settling some fights between the Ares and Hermes cabin at the moment. It seems the details of your quest was leaked and the whole camp is picking sides the Athena, Hermes, Demeter, Apollo and Aphrodite cabins have allied with Poseidon. Ares, Hephaestus, and Dionysus cabins have gone with Zeus so it's kinda messy back here I hope you guys find his master bolt soon." Luke explained to the four.

"I see well than I guess we better hurry" Naruto said seriously.

Just than a car moved near the car wash blasting their tunes out for a whole block to hear their irritating mix.

"I'll take care of this please finish relaying our status" Naruto said as he moved towards the offending car.

It was there he saw it was a simple car that had two men in it listening to their music without a care in the world. It was times like this Naruto had to agree with his sisters in the hunt that men really were scum with no care for anything other than themselves.

"Excuse you're disturbing everyone mind turning it down?" Naruto asked politely holding back his irritation.

"Screw you kid why don't you just walk away and go back to your mommy huh?" the guy in the driver's seat answered rudely.

"Perhaps you didn't hear me I said turn it down please." Naruto said a little more forceful this time.

"And I said screw you now since you don't wanna leave why don't me and my buddy teach ya some manners." The driver said as he got out as well as his buddy both opening a switch knife.

"That's all you have? Pathetic mongrels" Naruto said angrily having been flipped of twice and now they come at him with knives? Oh the insult if only they knew.

Moving quickly for them to see he grabbed the hand of the driver which held the knife and threw a punch to the drivers gut making him keel over in pain and drop the knife he was holding.

"Hey Maurice you alright? Damn it kid I ain't going easy on you now" the other guy said as he tried to stab Naruto from behind. Emphasis on tried, Naruto simply sidestepped the attack and as he passed by Naruto simply extended his foot outwards making the guy trip and fumble to the ground dropping the knife somewhere on the pavement.

Standing up the guy than tried to punch Naruto out only for Naruto to knee him in the gut making him double over in pain clutching his stomach.

Seeing his opponents defeated Naruto looked through the open door and shut of the music from the radio.

"You see if you simply turned it down this wouldn't have happened stupid mongrels." Naruto spat as he walked away his objective finished.

"Was there any problems?" Annabeth asked as she noticed Naruto's return as they had finished telling Luke what had happened so far.

"No problem come on let's get to a diner to get something to eat for now huh." Naruto said as he led the three into a nearby diner.

"Hello how may I help you?" a waitress asked the group as they entered.

"A table for four please" Naruto said nicely with a smile making the waitress blush at his attractiveness.

"R-right this way please follow me." the waitress said with a still present blush on her face as she led them to a nearby table that overlooked the street.

"Please call me when you're ready to order." The waitress said as she walked away from the group probably to serve more costumers.

Just as the group was about to order a Harley motorcycle pulled up on to the driveway parking near the diner and as he got out Annabeth, Grover looked confused as he had the same energy as a god but they did not recognize him. Naruto on the other took one look at him and balled up is fists and growled loudly making the other three flinch away from him slightly they had never seen Naruto this angry before.

Entering the diner the motorcyclist saw the four demigods and pulled up a chair nearby to sit with them.

"What are you doing here Herakles?" Naruto asked angrily with a lot of venom laced into his words. Shocking the other demigods the man before them was Herakles the legendary demigod? And to Percy's man he was a hero making it seem strange why Naruto was treating him with such anger.

"Now now brat I haven't even introduced myself yet you spoiled my entrance" Herakles said with a smile on his face evident that he was aware he was pissing Naruto off by the second.

"Get to the point you thieving mongrel I shouldn't have time to waste with you unless it was to finally kill you." Naruto said with such anger making Annabeth and Grover worry for Naruto since he was pissing off a minor god but still powerful enough to kill mortals.

"Heh still got your balls on you huh I woulda thought your time with those sluts of Artemis would have taken them away I guess I was wrong" Herakles said sounding praising yet insulting at the same time.

"Don't you dare speak about my sisters that I way! Now tell us why you're here or I swear on the river styx I will make you fade here and now." Naruto said full of anger.

"Heh good you'll need all your energy for this I want you three to go fetch my kanabo at the water park" Herakles said ignoring Naruto making him angrier.

"Fine we'll fetch your stupid kanabo it's not like you'll get anything better" Naruto said standing up from the table followed by Annabeth, Percy and Grover.

"You know I will strike you down one day for your insults" Herakles said before he vanished.

"Damn mongrel" Naruto cursed as he walked out of the diner followed by a confused Annabeth, Percy and Grover.

"Hey Naruto wait up what was that all about?" Annabeth asked as she placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder turning him around taking a calming breath Naruto answered her.

"He is the cause of all my strife and problems when I was a kid and now I found out he was also the cause of my sister losing her natural immortality." Naruto answered.

"What?" Annabeth asked still confused.

"Remember when I showed you my memories?" Naruto asked getting a nod.

"Well the Kyuubi that my father sealed into me was not an accident the Kyuubi was set loose on Konoha by Herakles. My birth mother Lady Hecate before she left the dimension checked the dwelling place of the Kyuubi only to find it wrecked and the only thing she could find was pieces of lion hair and the dead corpses of the Kyuubi's mate and children. How does this lead to Herakles you ask? Well he is known to constantly wear the vest made from the Nemean lions defeat as a trophy and the fact the Kyuubi's mate and children looked like they were bludgeoned to death by a high impact weapon? That is all mother needed to know it was him. He caused all the hatred directed at me as a child simply because he had grown bored of the game in this world. Another thing was that the Kyuubi remembers the smell of his families killer and he pointed out it was Herakles when we met before. And just recently I found out he stole my sister's weapon which she forged from her own divine power rendering her mortal from his theft until Lady Artemis found her. I will never forgive Herakles and he is the only god I will never tolerate for whatever reason." Naruto answered as they walked to the water park.

No one had it in them to tell Naruto to calm down as his story had put Herakles before a jury's stand marking him guilty on all counts.

As the group arrived at the gates of the water park they saw a woman standing there waiting for them.

"Lady Hera what do we owe this pleasure?" Naruto said as he bowed as did Annabeth and Grover while Percy had to be dragged down to kneel.

"Rise Naruto had I known Herakles was going to come to you I wouldn't have done this. I am the one who took his kanabo in hopes he would get it himself though now I see he was just as cowardly now as he was then" Hera said in a shockingly kind tone directed at Naruto making Annabeth and Grover wonder what was the deal with Naruto and the gods.

"Well it was no problem at all I hate the bastard and I would do anything to annoy him as well so I would have done the same in your shoes Lady Hera. So if it's fine may I have the bastards kanabo back so I may return it to it's stupid owner" Naruto said with respect to Hera all the while cursing Herakles since he could not do anything to Naruto even if he heard Naruto due to Hera's prescence.

Hera on the other hand was smiling at the young demigod it was nice to know there was a demigod who was not taken a back with Herakles's achievements and saw him as he was a bastard and a thief.

"Of course young Naruto I shall give you his weapon back in return I want you to do something for me" Hera said as she handed the kanabo to Naruto.

"Of course Lady Hera what is your wish?" Naruto asked.

"I want you to throw it as hard as you can to his testicles" Hera said with a sadistic smile on her face which was matched by Naruto .

"I would be very happy to Lady Hera" Naruto said as he bowed in glee.

"Now take care you lot" Hera said as she vanished into thin air making Annabeth and Grover gape at how friendly Hera was being to them.

"Well let's get going shall we?" Naruto said as he started walking back to the diner whistling a happy tune as he did.

"Um Naruto what was that?" Annabeth asked.

"Oh I guess our mutual hatred for the bastard makes her like me or something? I'm not sure yet" Naruto answered as he was confused as well.

Annabeth only nodded not wanting to get any more confused than she already was.

Arriving at the diner they saw Herakles standing by his motorcycle.

"Here you go mongrel" Naruto said as he threw the kanabo with his full strength at Herakles's crotch as per request of Hera making Herakles keel over holding his crotch in pain.

"That was from Lady Hera by the way" Naruto said glaring at Herakles.

"Damn punk I will get you back for that now take your reward and leave there's your ride." Herakles said as he vanished leaving a backpack and looking where he was pointing was a trailer truck.

"Well let's go I guess?" Grover said as he picked up the backpack followed by Percy.

"Fine' Naruto said as he and Annabeth walked up to the trailer followed by Percy and Grover.

The three other demigods still reeling from the events of today meeting two different gods one who was unnatural kind and another who turned out to be a jerk.

Who knew being a demigod let you learn more than what was written in mythology books? Surely not them.

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I hope you like this chapter. And just to make it clear I am bashing Herakles in this story.

Thanks for reading until next time.