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Chapter 9

The Last Son of Echidna

Well, I am working on the future quest with Burnning Truth. Chm01, thanks for the help as well. Of course, this won't be till after the 4th book and…heh, he will be getting Thor's daughter. Also, someone mentioned the songs. It won't happy every chapter. But I will have a song for each girl. You already saw Clarisse's song, won't say I am in Love. I have the perfect ones for Thalia and Zoe. I am still debating on whether or not Bianca will be with him…so I'll put up a poll.

"Hey uh, any clue as to why your dad would be here?" Naruto asked his partner.

"You're asking me?" Clarisse asked in shock. She really had no clue, but she might have an idea….especially about what happened a few minutes ago.

They could not ponder to long because the God of War landed on the water next to their stopped boat. The man's chariot just floated on the water like it was weightless. He then got out and walked over to them rather casually, building up the suspension.

Soon, he was right in front of the two, towering above them with a smirk. Naruto, being who he was, was not that afraid and smiled. "How are those ankles holding up?" Naruto asked, which got Clarisse to look at him in shock and fear for his safety.

Ares, face still set in a smirk, put his hand down on the blond's head before lifting him up so that they were eye level. Then he said, "Pretty good…punk." Before dropping the blond back on the hard metal of the boat. "I guess I should say thanks for knocking me out of the mind control, BUT I will have a rematch with you one of these days."

"Oh? Looking to get humiliated again?" Naruto answered smartly.

"Watch it brat. I could turn you into a harpy if I wanted to." Ares shot back.

"What's stopping you?" Naruto smirked.

Ares glared at the blond for a moment before he turned to Clarisse. "Go below, I want to talk with your partner about a few things. Don't worry; I will take good care of him." Clarisse, hesitated for a moment before going below the deck, hoping her crush would live through whatever Ares had planned for him.

Turning back to the blond he said, "Again…I would have loved for there have been a war to break out, but it would have been for stupid reasons. Thanks again brat, never thought a child of old corpse breath would defend a friend and fight me to stop a war."

Naruto laughed. "I am not like my siblings, if you have not figured that out yet. Seriously."

Ares seemed to roll his eyes. "There was another reason I came here." He said before he suck punched the blond, making him fall on the ground before he put his boot on Naruto's chest. "Now, I know you have a thing for Zeus' daughter and it is annoying. That's because she is in a tree and it is very unlikely that she will be revived any time soon."

At this, Naruto glared at the man. "Says you. I don't give as easily as other people."

"Tch, you really do have what those ninja's back in your world call, the Will of Fire." Ares said. "Admirable, but annoying. I will warn you now, if you cannot revive in just a few years, give up. I am a father after all and I do want to see Clarisse happy."

"She's my friend, I'll make her happy." Naruto glared.

"Good." Ares replied, knowing that was what he would get out of this conversation. He then held out a hand for the blond to take, helping him up. "Glad you see it my way kid. But if I had actually hurt you, Aphrodite would have me in the dog house."

"Ha! Man, you are whipped!" Naruto laughed.

"Heh, maybe I am, you will be too when the time comes." Ares argued back. "Still it is not all bad; I am with the most beautiful woman in the world."

"Ok…" Naruto said.

"Yeah, now, she would really have my balls on a plate if I killed you." Ares replied with a shiver, making Naruto smirk at how his grandma really scared this man…the freaking God of War!

"Hey, you mentioned the Will of Fire. What did you mean by that? It seemed like you knew something more about it." Naruto commented.

"Of course I know about it." Ares snapped. "I was there when Hestia gave it to the First Hokage."

"Wait what?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah. The Will of Fire was something she gave to him when she saw him fighting for…peace. You have it in you because you fight hard for your precious people and your new home. You want to make everyone happy" Ares paused before he looked right into Naruto's eyes. "And thanks to me, it can be used as attack."

"How is that possible?" Naruto asked.

"It fuels some of the users most powerful attacks." Ares replied. "Some of the best warriors in your village use it and don't even know."

"Why are you telling me this now?" Naruto asked.

"Because, you will need to know this when you fight the last son of Echidna tomorrow. I want you to win this battle for me because I still want to fight you. I want payback!" Ares growled.

"Heh, fair enough." Naruto chuckled at Ares' childish reasons.

"Remember what I said." Ares said seriously before he walked over to his chariot and road off.

"Yeah…" Naruto said, thinking about Thalia and Clarisse as he went below to tell his partner that he was ok and to get some sleep.

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Orochimaru and Echidna appeared on a beach in North Carolina. Looking around at the unfamiliar place he was in, he contemplated walking to see the sights. Echidna had other plans. "My son, you will get your time in looking around in your life. Even IF you are killed at the hands of the Death God's son, you will just be reborn again in a few years, like all my children."

"I see." Orochimaru replied, happy that he could live forever….even if he was killed. "When shall I battle this weak little genin?"

"Do not underestimate him my son. He has already defeated one of my other child." Echidna snapped before her face began to smile. "Tomorrow, he and another will pass this spot on a metal vessel. You battle will begin then and be sure to kill him in the most painful way you can think of."

Orochimaru chuckled evilly at that. "And his friend?"

"That would be up to you. I care not of the fate of a daughter of the God of War." Echidna replied before she disappeared, leaving the snake like man to his thoughts

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Naruto was on edge. What Ares said last night made him so. Today he was to fight the last son of Echidna. He had no clue who it could be, but they were from his world and he knew not to take a fight like this for granted.

Clarisse looked at her friend in worry. She had no clue what her father said, but it put the boy on edge and that was never good. When she heard that bump last night, she was afraid that her father might kill him, but he didn't and he just came down with a red jaw, where her father punched the blond.

"Naruto. What is wrong?" She finally asked.

Naruto sighed. He had not told her about the conversation at all and he regretted it because eshe was unaware of what was about to transpire. "Remember that passage in the prophecy?"

"Yeah, you have fight the last son of Echidna." Clarisse replied. "What of it?"

"Your dad came to want me about it. Today is the day I will fight it." Naruto sighed. "To be honest, I am not sure I have the power to take it on."

"Oh? And why is that?" Clarisse challenged.

"Because, it is from my world and well, I have not fought a ninja in a long time." Naruto said gloomily. However, before he could say anything else, she smacked him. "Wha….what was that for!"

"Are you listening to yourself!" Clarisse raged. "I may not have known you very long, but this talk is NOT you. You fight for your friends, no matter the enemy. You are the best fighter in camp! If you don't lose sight of what you are fighting for, you will never lose!"

Naruto blinked stupidly as Clarisse panted from her rant. "Heh, you're right." Naruto laughed. "I guess I just need to be reminded every now and then." He then hugged her in thanks, making the girl blush at the contact while he thought about the same incident before the chunin exams. Hinata had to remind him of the same thing.

"N-no problem." Clarisse replied before he turned away from him so that he would not see the blush. However, it quickly went away when she saw a lone person on a nearby beach, staring right at them with a sick smile. "Who is that?" She asked aloud.

"No way." Naruto said with eye wide eyes before they both fell to their knees under the overwhelming pressure of the man's killing intent.

No freaking way. This is….THIS IS MADENING!Clarisse thought in panic before she heard metal slicing into flesh. She thought that the man had hurt her, but she felt no pain. That it hit her. Naruto. The sicko had hurt Naruto! I'LL KILL HIM! Oh yeah, that brought her out of her fear induced trance, only to see that Naruto had stabbed himself to regain himself.

Naruto looked to his partner and said, "It is Orochimaru. An S class ninja from my world. I'll handle this."

"Are you fucking nuts? We gotta get the hell out of here!" Clarisse roared, but she soon calmed down when Naruto put his hand on her shoulders, making her look in his eyes. "I have to do this. He will just follow us anyway. I'll be ok."

The girl sighed before saying, "But if you get hurt on my watch, I am kicking your ass myself!"

"Heh, then I better not get hurt then." Naruto laughed before he jumped off the boat and walked towards the snake like man on the beach, who was smirking the whole time.

"Naruto-kun. It has been awhile." Orochimaru stated.

"Snake freak…" Naruto ground out. "I am kind of glad it is you that I have to fight."

"Oh? And why is that Naruto-kun?"

"Pay back for doing what you did to Sasuke!" Naruto roared.

"Oh, the boy wanted power and I gave some to him. He chose to leave on his own free will." Orochimaru replied with his everlasting smirk. "He has sooo much potential! He is already so strong that I doubt you could even touch him. You are the same. You have potential, but do you have want it takes to beat me?"

"We'll see!" Naruto shouted as seals appeared over his clothes and his ANBU armor appeared, along with his ninja gear, making the man raise an eyebrow. Naruto then took out the minotaur blade, hoping to distract the man for a bit.

The snake man was indeed put off by the strange bull like creatures before him. There were ten in all. "What in hell are these things?" he asked aloud.

"It is the minotaur!" Naruto replied awhile adding chakra to the blade and thrusting it forward. "Death Style: True Minotaur Control!" The giant beasts in the illusion all froze up before the spirit of the beast went into all ten of them. "You may have attacked me and Percy before, but thanks to dead, I have control of you." Naruto said to himself. "Charge!"

Orochimaru's eyes widened as he had to dodge to the said a few times when the beast came charging after him. It seemed that with Naruto's knowledge with in them, they were able to fight better this time. A few nearly gaze him, but Orochimaru kept getting out of the way in time. That is when he noticed that only 9 were actually attacking him, but before he could think more on that, he was pounded on from behind as it horns pierced through his stomach.

Crying in out in pain, the snake man quickly got off the horns before back flipping and bashing the thing on the head with his strength. He was caught off guard again when he was caught in between to more pairs of horns. He growled at that. He was sannin for kami's sake! He regurgitated Kusanagi, sliced through the heads of the three around him before using the Temporary Paralysis Jutsu to stop the rest of the strange beasts and then he killed them as well.

Naruto glared at the man. He knew it would not have been that easy. So he charged in himself, raising the Minotaur blade to strike at his foe. Their blades connected in the middle and Orochimaru almost thought he had to dodge another minotaur, but after a few more connections of their swords, he found that they were illusions, meant to confuse and scare the enemy. "Oh very intriguing Naruto-kun. A sword like that could win you a few battle back home. But not this one!"

Orochimaru then used his superior strength to knock the blade out of his hands, sending the minotaur blade spinning to the boat, embedding it in the metal just a few feet from Clarisse, who paled at that, however, she paled even more when the snake like man slash vertically, slicing Naruto in half.

"NARUTO!"

There was a poof of smoke and a piece of drift wood appeared him his place and it was in half. Orochimaru looked back to the water to see the blond standing there, panting. "Show me more Naruto. You are starting to interest me!"

"Fine! Chaos Style: Chaotic Construction of Doom!" Naruto shouted as a greenish black blob appeared above them before it exploded, sending the same color hands and twisting spears at the man.

Orochimaru actually had a look of fear on his face at this attack. To him, it seemed so unpredictable and he was right. The hands came at him, with him dodging them all, but they twisted back around. The spears, however, caught one of his hands, piercing right through it before jetting into the ground and staying there. Four more hit the ground, but he was able to dodge them with the use of shadow clones. He tried to get out of the trap, but as he passed through two of them, he was bounced back to the middle of the trap. It sent a shock through him so bad that he never noticed that it had cost him a foot.

Soon, the construction looked like a messy ball of yarn in a five point fence. Naruto quickly let the jutsu dissipate as it was very draining. When it cleared, he was pleased and a little sick at what he saw. Orochimaru's sword lay on the ground as his clutched at the stump of his right arm. Heck he too was on the ground because both of his legs were gone and a part of his chest was blown out. "O-oh m-my Naruto –k-kun. You actually seemed to have damaged me." Orochimaru managed to spit out as blond poured from his mouth. "But this is far from over! Body Shedding!"

Naruto's eyes widened when he saw Orochimaru…climb out of the mouth of his old damaged body. "What in the hell?"

"Now we fight for real, Naruto-kun. I know not to take you lightly." The snake man said before he rushed the blond with the Grass Cutter and swung down vertically. Naruto did not dodge or replace himself this time. He blocked the man's power strike with both Fear and Destruction. "What's this. More blades, oh I would love to see what these do!"

Naruto pushed Orochimaru back and slammed both of his blades down on him, but the snake man blocked easily. What Orochimaru didn't account for was that Naruto would slide one of his blades outward to him, creating sparks. The man moved his head away from the blade, but he still got cut….actually his ear was split in half.

Angry, Orochimaru knocked away Naruto's blades and stabbed the blond in the shoulder, making him cry out. "Ah, your death will truly be fun!" Orochimaru shouted out before he took the sword out of Naruto's shoulder.

"You bastard." Naruto growled. He swung Destruction and yelled, "Chaos Wave!"

Cursing under his breath, Orochimaru use the substitution to get away from the wave of energy that literally destroyed everything in its path. "I will not lose to a brat like you. Formation of Ten Thousand Snakes!"

Naruto grimaced at that. Thankfully his quick healing let him use his shoulder again and he dropped his blades to perform another jutsu to get rid of the damn snakes. Seriously, the man had a fetish for them. I don't know how well this will work during the day, but what the hell. "Darkness Style: Nyx's Judgement!"

Darkness appeared in a dark mist all around the blond before it shot off toward the snakes, eating them up like acid, however, a few survived and struck out at the blond with swords coming out of their mouths. Naruto glared that them before he took up his swords and sliced them to bits.

This angered Orochimaru. "I don't what you did, but now I don't care. I will kill you one way or another and mother didn't I could or could not kill the girl on the boat. Maybe i could use her in one of my experiments that I'll be doing in this strange land!"

"How about…FUCK NO!" Naruto growled. "I won't let you hurt any of my precious people!" Clarisse smiled when she heard that. It was the first time she actually smiled in this intense battle. It was wrecking her nerves, with her hoping that Naruto would be ok

"Take this! Death Style: Popping like Daisies!" Naruto shouted. It grew quiet at that, the two others processing what he just said.

"WHAT KIND OF NAME FOR AN ATTACK IS THAT?" Clarisse yelled out comically, also voicing Orochimaru's thoughts.

Naruto didn't say anything as the ground around the snake man shook violently before hands shot out of the ground, all dead and rotting. They also caught Orochimaru's legs before pulling themselves out the ground. "What madness is this?"

"Oh just a gathering of our friendly neighborhood flesh addicts." Naruto smiled cheerfully as they bit down on the man, making him scream out in pain before that face full of terror froze and then melted into mud. 'Really…this again?" Naruto groaned.

"Oh yes, I will so enjoy killing and then taking all your jutsu out of that dead brain!" Orochimaru shouted with a crazy look on his face and drool coming out his mouth as he popped out of the ground.

"You know, for an old man, you are pretty good."

"Why thank you Naruto-kun. But you are wrong…I AM THE BEST! SUMMONING JUTSU!" In a large poof of smoke, nothing appeared. "What the? Why can't I summon Manda?"

"I have a theory." Naruto replied. "When you became the monster and crossover, your contract with the giant snake is over! Unfortunately for you, I can summon Gamabunta, but I feel he will be of no use in this battle. I am going to end this when something that my father told me about. So let's get Kraken!" He joked playfully at the end.

"Oh and what can you do that will kill me just like that?" Orochimaru growled, but he didn't let Naruto answer because he rushed him with the Grass Cutter, clashing with Naruto's blade in a flurry of motion. Their attacks giving off sparks as their foot work lead them onto the water. In a wide open space, a good distance away from the boat. Naruto smirked as he sent chakra to his arms to knock away Orochimaru who looked at him warily, the man back to the wide expanse of the ocean.

Naruto smiled. "The energy of Kraken flows through these blades."

"Kraken?"

"You know it better as the Ten Tails. And now I will release it to destroy you!" Naruto shouted as he slammed the hilts together, creating a double sided sword before it glowed in red and white energy as he spun it around until it became a blur.

Orochimaru's eyes widened when he heard that and he panicked in fear for a second. He quickly regained himself and hoped that his next jutsu worked. "Summoning Jutsu: Triple Rashomon!" Thankfully for him, it worked, the three gates rose out of the water rose just in time.

Naruto let the spinning blades go as they spun on their own. "Time to end this. Ultimate Tailed Beast Ball!" Naruto shouted as it became a large sphere and he slammed his fist into it. That was the breaking point as a massive amount of energy shot forward and obliterates the gates like they were wet paper, traveling off into the ocean.

Naruto panted as that took a bit of his own chakra to pull off. But it was all for not because he heard clapping and laughing that sounded dark. He looked up to see a wet Orochimaru. The man had escaped the attack by diving into the water! "Ah…shit."

"Truly a fun battle, bit it is time for me to end this myself!" Orochimaru roared as he transformed into his huge snake with many snakes along its body. "Time to DIE!" It roared as t lunged at the blond, who curse his luck.

"Damn, so this is his true from! SHIT!" He yelled as he dodged left and right, trying not to get hit, but it was pretty hard with all those other snake lunging for him as well. He could barely strike back and set up and Flying Thunder God seal on the man. "Screw this!" He yelled as he managed to kick the monster back enough so that he could perform another jutsu. "Hellfire and Darkness Style: Wings of the Fallen Angel!" The dark fire wings formed on his back, sending him into the air just before Orochimaru lunged at him again.

He sighed in exhaustion, as he flew into the sun's light, making him look like a true angel to those looking up. "Orochimaru, you may be from the same village as me. But you are nothing like ANYONE in the village! We fight for our friends! We fight for peace!" As Naruto yelled, wispy red energy swirled around his being. "I will protect my friends from people like you! I will not lose for I have the Will of Fire!" The red energy burst all around him at this point, not that he noticed, but the others did.

"This…is so awesome." Clarisse said from her spot, with the undead confederate soldier nodding dumbly. They had actually begun watching half way through the battle. Clarisse herself had stars in her eyes.

Orochimaru froze at that. What the hell was going on? This brat had never been this powerful before. All throughout the battle he had been throwing out all these crazy jutsu and sword skills. Now he was speaking like the Hokages!

Uncle Poseidon, please keep him still. Naruto prayed to his uncle as he held out his right hand, forming a rasengan, but it was red, like the energy surrounding him. "I am going to end this…now." With that, Naruto flew down at high speeds.

Orochimaru tried to get out of the way, but for some reason, he could not move…AT ALL! "NO! NO! NO! NOOOOOO!" He screamed as Naruto got closer.

"WILL OF FIRE RASENGAN!" Naruto screamed out as he slammed the swirling mass of energy right into Orochimaru's snake face, making the man scream out in pain as his face was twisted beyond believe, it was blown inwards and the energy shredded through the rest of the body, utterly destroying it.

Panting, Naruto tiredly looked around; making sure that Orochimaru was finally gone. All that was left was a familiar floating sword. Spoils of war. He thought as he took the blade before lowly flying back to the boat, the wings barely flapping due to the little chakra he had left. As soon as he landed, the wings dispelled and he felt himself falling back, but Clarisse caught him before he hit the ground. "I got ya."

"Heh, thanks. Remind me to thank Aunt Hestia the next time I see her." He said with a tired smile. "I am so tired….man that was a chaotic battle."

"Did someone say Chaos!" The voice rang out happily.

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Well, there you go, the next chapter. Can anyone guess who the voice is? I'll give you a hint, she is in the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. Now Naruto has a new blade. Please tell me what you think of the battle Too rushed?

I hope it was good, I have been rather tired to day, so it was a pain to write this.

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