Hello readers and welcome to my new chapter. Before I began, I like to discuss something
I want to talk about the Naruto not killing the well-known leaf shinobi. In hindsight, I should've explained it to you guys before, but I'm going to now.
The people he fought during the first SFCW story are his friends, some he view as family. Despite this Naruto being different from canon, he's the kind of person that can't kill his friends. And before you point out Team 7, they retreated before Naruto could get the chance. So stop complaining about Naruto not killing his friends. It's not gonna happen. Plus, Naruto is a champion of Athena, someone who thinks things through in this story. He knows if he kills every shinobi that goes after him; it will endanger the leaf, and everyone in it. That includes his precious people. So he's not about to destroy the village.
So, with that out of the way, let's get to the chapter. On this one, Naruto will be meeting different ninjas that aren't from the leaf. So, enjoy.
P.S. This will be the last time I tell readers what plans I have for stories. Yeah, very bad idea. Especially if writers want to change their ideas.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Percy Jackson.
Chapter 11: The Cloud Village Strikes
"Wow, first day at camp and we're already on the mission." Leo said, though he looks excited. He and Piper are at the back of the car while Naruto and Thalia are in the front. "Plus, we get to do this in style!"
Piper rolled her eyes before looking at Naruto. "Why did you pick us for this quest anyway Naruto? We aren't even experienced in combat all that much, except when you trained us, not to mention that templar incident."
"That's one of the reason I chose you two. To give you two experience." Naruto admitted to them. "The other reasons are for your individual skills that are useful in the fight. Leo's ability to fix and build things is even better than mine. Also, your charms can help us get out of sticky situations if we need to. While you don't know it, even now, your charmspeaking ability is more powerful than your brothers and sisters."
Piper blush at the praise of her brother figure while Leo grinned. "Glad to see your acknowledge my skill with machines Blondie!"
"Don't get cocky Elfie. I still can kick your ass in more ways than one." Naruto shot back, causing Leo to slump with a groan and the girls to giggle or snicker. He's not about to let any of his students get cocky or arrogant.
Those things will lead you seriously injured or dead, two things Naruto refused to let happen if he can help it. Especially the latter.
With that, everyone drove in silence. Naruto glanced up in the sky, wondering why nothing has happened yet. There's no shinobi trying to take him back home, no monsters trying to eat them, no Zeus trying to blast his ride sky high. Though he'd probably have Athena or Artemis to thank for that.
Still, something in the back of Naruto's mind was telling him not to let his guard down. And his gut instincts haven't failed him yet, so he's still got his guard up.
"Soooo, what's our mission again?" Piper asked, breaking the silence. "Just want to get a reminder. Oh, and what are we going to face?"
Naruto drove to a gas station before stopping at a tank to refuel. "We're going to set up a meeting with my former village." Naruto told her, looking at the back. "First thing we do is that we are going to the place where I will set it up. Then, get the village to be in the meeting."
"How are you going to do that?" Thalia asked him, causing Naruto to give her a dull look.
"You do realize that they send their shinobi at me daily right?" Naruto deadpanned, causing Thalia to punch him in the arm in embarrassment.
"Shut up, Whiskers." Thalia muttered, crossing her arms. Naruto chuckle before getting out the car to get something to drink. Thalia picked up her soda she got from the car's boot and took a sip when Leo spoke up.
"So, you like Blondie huh?" That caused Thalia to take a spit take, eyes wide and her face red.
"W-W-What?!" Thalia stuttered, still blushing. "What the hell are you-?"
"Don't deny it chica. A lot of people saw it and my siblings told me that you, along with several other girls, like him." Leo said, putting his hands on his back. "So, what's the deal? And which are the rumor girls actually do like him?"
Thalia looked at the back of the car with a glare while Piper looked mildly curious as well. "And why do you care?"
"Cause Blondie is my brother, both figuratively and literally." Leo pointed out. "I want to know what girls like him. Plus, it wouldn't hurt to make a betting pool on which girl he'll be with." He got an electric shock for his trouble. "Ow! Ow! I'm just saying!"
"I can't help but be a bit curious as well." Piper spoke up, getting a stare from Thalia. She raised her hands up in surrender. "Not to bet on who gets with Naruto, like Elfie here-"
"Oh come on! Not you too Beauty Queen!"
"-but I want to make sure it isn't anyone I would dislike." Piper ignored Leo's cry. "Naruto is also like a brother to me and I want to make sure no jerk would be after his heart." That caused Thalia to stop staring and hit the back of her head back on her seat with a huff.
"Okay, I'll tell the both of you." Thalia said. The elf better vote for her for her troubles. "The other girls that like him are Clarisse, Silena, and Bianca. I suspect Zoe does as well, though I'm not too sure since she's a hunter."
"What about the blonde hottie?" Leo asked, drawing another glare from Thalia. "I heard that she also have some feelings for her fellow blonde."
"First of all, say that again and I'll fry until you are well done." Thalia warned, making him shrink back a little at the intimidating glare. "Second, it looks like more of a hero crush than actual feelings, so don't get your hopes up if you want to bet on her Elfie." Leo groaned at the nickname, mentally cursing his blonde half-brother. "Beside, Annie seems to develop some feelings for my water boy cousin."
That was something she noticed during the party at Olympus. She, along with a few others, spotted her and Percy dancing with one another after she danced with Naruto. She also noticed little signs of Annabeth liking the boy, especially this week, when she was a bit hostile towards the clear sighted mortal.
"Okay, but there are three more people that people rumored that they like Naruto." Leo said to her. "They're-"
Before he could finish, the car they are in suddenly started skiing to the side, causing the three to scream in shock. It stopped when the wheels hit one the sidewalk. "What the hell?!" Leo exclaimed, looking out the window. He paled when he saw a giant hole in where the car was at and standing in that hole was a giant man with white sleeveless clothing, sunglasses, and some facial hair.
(Naruto, before the attack)
Naruto was lost in thought as he filled up the gas. And his thoughts were based on his former village.
He wondered how the negotiations will work out. No doubt Tsunade will be willing to listen, but there are others who won't just let him be. One of those people is Danzo.
Also, there is a chance that it might get violent. If someone say the wrong thing, especially at the Roman camp, then it's gonna get messy. And maybe another group, whether shinobi or monsters, might interrupt the negotiation.
His thoughts drifted off to his friends and his surrogate mother. He hoped none of them held a grudge for kicking their asses. But he really didn't want to go back to the leaf, especially with the new family he has now.
Before his thoughts could turn into something else, he heard a sound of a whistle from above. "Everyone look, everyone see. The strength and might of the stinging Killer Bee, Weeee." Naruto cursed loudly before kicking the car, causing it to slide away from the gas station before jumping away. Suddenly, something dropped down on the ground and caused a small crater to be form.
Naruto breathed out in relief before glaring at the man. Why is everyone keep targeting his ride?!
"Hello Naruto, long time no see. You mind telling me where Mr. Eight might be?" Naruto groaned, knowing exactly who that was. He's one of the five Jinchuriki he met in the elemental nations.
"If I knew Bee, do you really think I would tell you?" Naruto asked the man, now known as Bee. "I'm not about to let the Akatsuki, nor any other major villages, get their hands on the tailed-beasts again. That's why I got the tailed-beasts out of all you before the Akatsuki could get the chance to take them. And I doubt they would think about your lives."
"Still, we would've liked to be informed about it before you did it." A female voice dropped. Three more cloud ninjas joined Killer B, one of them Naruto easily recognized. A blonde haired girl, with the Cloud Village uniform and hair tied up in a ponytail.
"Hey Yugito, long time no see." Naruto said, before getting his Kasai and changing it into a staff. "And sorry about that, but dad and I needed to do it before the Akatsuki discovered our plan. Though it was all for naught."
Before she could say anything, one of the other cloud ninjas spoke up. "Enough. You will give us the eight and two tails or we will take it by force."
Naruto roll his eyes. "What is it with you people? Always assuming you will beat someone that is way above your level. While Yugito and B can face against, the both of you are probably cannon fodder." That got two tick marks from the two cloud shinobi.
"Well let's see if you keep up that talking after facing all four of us." The last shinobi said, all of them preparing to fight. Yugito gave him an apologetic look before taking battle stance. "After all, it's one against four."
"Actually…." Naruto drawled out before he heard Thalia, Leo, and Piper run over to him. The three got to his side, all of them taking out their weapons. "It's four against four."
"Hey Blondie. Thanks for saving our necks." Leo said, gripping on his hammer. "Though next time, a little warning would be nice okay?"
"Sure pipsqueak, if I have the time." Naruto retorted, before looking at the cloud ninjas. "I'll be taking on B, the one with the sunglasses. Thalia, you take the woman, Yugito. Piper, Leo, you fight the last two."
"Got it Whiskers."
"Okay Naruto."
"Piece of cake Blondie."
With that, the four ninja, 3 demigods, and one ninja demigod clash against one another.
(Piper and Leo vs the Cloud ninjas)
Piper and Leo had to dodge several swipes from the two Cloud ninjas, or block them. One of them was using a regular kunai while the other was using a short sword.
Piper ducked from another strike before using her whip to snag the shinobi's ankles and throw them high in the air. The two shinobi manage to get back balance, but was unprepared for a ball of fire to be thrown at them. They didn't have the chance to dodge and the shinobi was blown out the sky, landing on the ground hard.
The shinobi groaned as he saw Leo and Piper running towards them, hammer and whip in hand. One of them managed to get back some sense to backflip and dodge the hammer, which caused a large crack on the ground, while the other rolled to the side to dodge the whip crack from Piper.
"Aw man, I thought I had you." Leo said in disappointment, but then he readied his weapon with a grin. Piper snapepd her whip back, ready to fight. "I'll make sure to give a nursing headache this time."
"Like a bunch of snot nosed brats can beat us shinobi." One of the sky ninjas said, arrogantly. He would soon eat those words, along with his teeth.
(Thalia vs Yugito)
Thalia grunted as she flipped and dodged from several claw attacks from Yugito. The blonde seemed to have the ability to grow claws on both her hands and feet, making it difficult to block her. So Thalia stuck to dodging.
After a few more dodges, Thalia encased her spear with electricity before blocking the next swipe with her spear. That resulted in a cry of shock from Yugito when she grabbed it and forced her to jump back.
Thalia charged forward, sending out several stabs and swings from her spear. Yugito used her cat-like flexibility to dodge each attack, not wanting to get shocked from it again.
"You're good, I admit that." Yugito said, getting ready to fight again. "But I'm better." With that, Yugito charged at Thalia and started performing several swipes at her in rapid pace.
Thalia was forced to dodge every one of them, careful not to get scratched, but she lost her footing as she kept stepping back, and when she stumbled, Yugito swept in for the kill. Thalia was forced to block with her arms, giving Yugito another opening.
Yugito, using her flexibility, perform a roundhouse kick on Thalia, knocking her to the side and giving her scratches from the nails on her feet.
Thalia slowly got up with a grunt. 'Okay, this cat is going to get it.'
(Naruto vs Bee)
Naruto grunted as he crashed through a stop light and landed on the road with a crack. When he saw Bee jumping high and aimed to body slam him, Naruto back flipped and let Bee hit the ground, creating a crater.
Naruto flipped his staff before charging at B, sending barrages of strikes at him. B countered with blocks of his swords. The two of them were blurs, if anyone tried to watch, then they could barely see them fighting in the speed they were fighting at. Naruto ended the duel by hitting B in the chin, sending him up high.
Naruto jumped up, bursting out of fire to boost him up, to catch up to B. When he readied his staff to strike him back down to the ground, B twisted mid-air and kick Naruto down. Hard.
Naruto crashed into the ground, his body hopping two more times, before landing on his stomach with a groan. The results were three more craters made.
Naruto chuckled slightly as he got up. He forgot how strong B can be, even without some of his jutsu. B landed near Naruto as the boy slowly got up. "If there's one thing I miss from the elemental nation, other than my precious people, are the spars you give me B." Naruto said, changing his staff into his signature double axe.
Gaara wasn't the only Jinchuriki he met. When he discovered there were more like him, he went out on his own to find those people, with Tsunade's permission of course. It's easy to trick somebody when they're drunk.
Yugito and B were the first people he met up with in his travels. He made a strange friendship with B, despite the man being older than him, while Yugito is like an older sister to him. He also met Utakata as well in the Mist Village, along with Fuu in the Waterfall Village. All the while, he made sure to hide his Namikaze status from each village. He didn't bother going to the rock village to look for the fourth and fifth tail. That would be suicide for him.
"It's been fun sparring with you Uzumaki. But prepare to feel the might of the Killer B." Naruto dropped his head with a groan.
One thing he doesn't miss about him was his rapping. By Olympus, he's worse than Apollo when the god does haiku!
And that's the end for right now. I hope you all liked this chapter, as well as the introduction of the Cloud shinobi. Also, you got more information about Naruto's past. Hmm, should I show Annabeth's group in the next chapter or continue on with the fight here? Maybe show what's happening at camp, with the other leaf shinobi? Oh well, I'll cross that bridge when I get there. Review, favorite, or follow, and I will see you later.
