Hello readers and welcome to my new chapter. So, deciding what to do was a bit of a pain, but I finally finished this chapter. Here, we're gonna check up with Annabeth's group, then the fight between the Zombie Duo and Naruto's group. So, I hope you enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Percy Jackson.
Chapter 27: Endurance
(With Annabeth's Team)
So, Grover and Tyson separated from them. They found the forge location, as well as a group of monsters called telekhines. The telekhines then spotted him, and Percy was forced to run. They found out that they're trying to make weapons for the Titans, and now, they're about to deal with some angry hounds.
Yeah, the mission isn't going well so far.
As the telekhines try to figure out where to charge, Percy turned to Annabeth, Nico, and Lacy. "Nico, shadow travel with Annabeth and Lacy! Get out of here!"
"What?!" Annabeth shrieked. "No! I'm not leaving you."
"We won't." Nico agreed, just as reluctant.
"I've got a plan to distract them. Try to get back to Hephaestus with the metal spider. You need to tell him about what's happening here, and protect Nico and Lacy."
"But you'll be killed."
"I'll be fine. We don't have any other choice Annabeth."
She glared at him. Percy expected her to hit him or something else. But she did the last thing he expected her to do. She kissed him. Nico's and Lacy's eyes widen in surprise as well.
Once she ended the kiss, she said one more thing. "Be careful, Seaweed Brain." She then grab onto Nico's hands. The son of Hades was hesitant, not wanting to leave his cousin and brother figure, but knowing that Lacy can't escape on her own forced him to shadow travel out of here.
Percy would've stayed at his spot, trying to get his thought process back to work, but the sound of the sea demons got him back to reality quickly.
"There!" One of them yelled. The telekhines soon started chasing after him, causing Percy to run for the middle of the platform, surprising the four elder sea demons. The surprise caused them to a drop a weapon they're making, six feet long and curved like a crescent moon. It was the most terrifying thing Percy saw.
Unfortunately, the elders got out of their surprise quickly. They blocked the four ramps leading off the platform, stopping Percy from making an exit. The tallest of them snarled. "What do we have here? A son of Poseidon?"
"Yes." Another growled. "I can smell the sea in his blood."
He transformed his pen into his new trident, Earthshaker.
"Strike one of us down boy, and the rest will attack." The third one growled. "Your father betrayed us. He took our gifts and said nothing as we were cast into the pit. We will see him, and all of the other Olympians, torn to pieces."
Percy wasn't lying when he said he got plan. But it's probably the craziest and most suicidal plan he ever conducted. At the least, he will be critically injured. At most, dead. But he'll at least take down these monster with him.
"No, you won't." Percy declared, holding his trident. "Cause I'm taking you with him!" At that statement, he launched Earthshaker down into the ground.
The moment he did, he felt it. His earthshaking abilities, as Hephaestus mentioned. He didn't hesitated to start up an earthquake.
"What are you doing?" One of the elders growled, feeling the earth shake. "Quickly, kill him!"
One by one, the telekhines started gathering lava and threw at Percy. But the demigod instinctively summon the water from his canteen and swirled it around him, blocking the lava. But that also resorted into making a rock like shell around him.
And what happened next was indescribable. An explosion. Screaming of monsters. Percy thought he himself scream. An eruption. And as the son of Poseidon felt himself being quickly rise up from the ground and up to the top of volcano, everything went black for him.
(Camp Jupiter)
Hidan is fairing well against the son of Jupiter and son of Hephaestus. His unpredictable fighting style, along with his immortality, made him nearly impossible to defeat. But Naruto's own unpredictable fighting style, as well as Jason disciplined fighting style, help made sure they didn't even get a cut from Hidan.
Anko is still even against one of the Kakuzu's hearts. She summoned a giant white snake in order to defend against attacks before using several other small snakes to attack. She knew that if she tries keep dodging, she's going to end up losing energy. So, she decided to use a defensive attack, with attacks that won't waste her chakra for now.
Leon and Piper are struggling against their opponents. The two of them are losing stamina, from Leo trying to smash the tendril and Piper dodging the water attacks. Soon, they might end up making mistakes.
Meanwhile, Thalia charge at Kakuzu, her spear still encased in electricity. Kakuzu dodge every stab Thalia attempted, with the occasional blocks. After a moment, he grabbed the spear after she sent another jab, and sent a haymaker at Thalia, throwing her onto the ground.
Reyna quickly replace Thalia's position and sent several jabs and swipes at Kakuzu. The bounty hunter surprise at all by this and easily dodge those attacks. "If you think I will tire out from this, your severely mistaken." Kakuzu said coldly.
Reyna narrowed her eyes, continuing her attack. When Kakuzu prepared another counter, her demigod instincts kicked in, which caused to move to the side, dodging a kick from him.
And also dodging the lightning bolt Thalia sent.
Kakuzu grunted as he was pushed back by the attack, sliding backwards on his feet before stopping. As the man attempted to recover from the attack, Reyna use this time to grab Thalia's spear and throw both of their spears.
But Kakuzu didn't live this long for nothing, and grabbed the two spears in his hand. "Is that the best you can do?"
"No." Reyna replied back, performing hand signs. "This is. Ninja Art: Shadow Sword Jutsu!" Several swords formed and came right at Kakuzu.
Kakuzu's eyes widen in surprise when he saw swords coming at them and quickly use the two spears in his hand to block them all. Just as he finished block the last sword, Reyna came at him, two swords in hand.
'Damn! This child is relentless!' He blocked the sword strike from Reyna with his two spears and the two ended in sword to spear combat. Kakuzu may not have experience using many melee weapons, but he isn't a slouch and is able to keep up to Reyna.
They continued fighting for a few minutes before Reyna brought her swords up and brought them down. Kakuzu quickly block them with the two spears he gotten. "For a child your age, you are quite skilled." Kakuzu complimented. "But that won't stop me from completing my mission."
"I will not let you get Naruto." Reyna growled. "We romans defend our own to the bitter end, and Naruto is our own. Our mentor, our friend, our parental figure, and more. He will not be given to the likes of you!"
"Let me see you back that up with action, child!"
"I plan to!" Reyna push him away, just as Thalia jumped up, spear aimed at him.
Kakuzu narrowed his eyes. 'Where did she get that spear?' He didn't have time to think on it, cause the daughter of Zeus threw the spear right towards him. He didn't hesitate to move to the side and just as the spear was about to hit the ground….
….It transformed form into Thalia.
"What?!"
Before he could do anything else, Thalia encased her hand in lightning and stabbed Kakuzu right through his heart. "Chidori!" She grunted.
The technique, chidori, was something Naruto taught her. It was something his former rival and former teacher has used, and since it was similar to the rasengan, he taught her how to use it. Being the daughter of Zeus, it was easy for her to learn the technique.
She doesn't use it much, mainly because she doesn't need all that much, as well as the fact that Naruto's former rival almost killed Naruto with this technique. Suffice to say, it made learning the chidori a little less awesome for her when she found out.
But now she's glad that she learned it. "A-A transformation jutsu?" Kakuzu groaned. "W-When?"
"When we were fighting." Reyna answered, smirking and pointing her swords to the ground. "More specifically, when I summoned all those swords."
Kakuzu's eyes flickered in understanding underneath the pain. "So not only did use it to summon weapons for you to use, you…."
"Use it to give Thalia the opportunity to make a transformed clone." Reyna completed. "That's correct."
With that, Thalia took her hand out of Kakuzu's chest, resisting the urge to shudder. Killing someone with your bare hands is far from a pleasant sensation for her.
The bounty hunter went crumbling down. "Damn you brats…." Kakuzu groaned in pain.
As the man started dying on the floor, the other masks stopped fighting their foes. They looked towards their host. Their stopping caused their opponents to stop as well, and look to where they are looking at.
"Alright!" Leo cheered, holding up his hammer in the air. "The guy is toast!"
Suddenly, the tendrils went flying to Kakuzu and went into his body. His body started going through a sudden transformation, causing Thalia and Reyna to step back in surprise.
After the masks got back into his body, the tendrils came out of his back once again, but stayed there this time. His arms suddenly splitted into four parts, the tendrils keeping them together and making his arms look longer. And tendrils started coming out of his mouths, finishing his horrifying experience.
"...You just had to jinx it, didn't you Leo?" Piper deadpanned, though doesn't look less horrified and stared.
"Okay, yeah, I'll shut up now." Was Leo reply.
"I underestimated the two of you, slightly." Kakuzu stated. "You brats are clearly skilled. But I won't be underestimating you again."
With that statement, his tendrils got longer, forming an octopus shape around him. He used that shape to smack Thalia and Reyna away from him, sending the two girls stumbling towards their allies.
Anko didn't hesitate two summon several snakes and sent them at Kakuzu. But the man merely used his tendrils to pierce the snakes, causing them to evaporate.
Without slowly down, he grabbed all five of them with his tendrils, dragging them to the ground. All of them struggled through, panic and fear in Leo's and Piper's eyes and face, while Anko, Thalia, and Reyna looked startled.
"No more games. I'm going to kill you all." Kakuzu stated. "Well, except for the Mclean girl. I still need her alive for my bounty."
(Naruto and Jason vs Hidan)
Jason and Naruto pushed Hidan back with their individual weapons. Just as they did, they saw their friends getting dragged by tendrils. "Crap!" Naruto exclaimed. "They're in trouble!"
"Don't forget your opponent you bastard!" Naruto was forced to duck from a scythe from Hidan. "Once Kakuzu is done with them, your toast!"
Naruto tsked. They need to incapacitate this guy quickly.
With that in mind, he jump above Hidan and activated his devastation form. When he punched the air, a crack formed in it and pushed Hidan on his back. It also burrowed him in the ground.
"Ow! What the fuck?" Hidan cried out in shock and pain. He cried even more when a spear was suddenly embedded in his chest.
"That should hold you for a while." Naruto stated. He turned to Jason. "We need to get to the others quickly."
"On it." Without any more words, the son of Jupiter took to the sky and flew quickly towards his comrades.
(Anko, Leo, Piper, Thalia, and Reyna vs Kakuzu)
After capturing all five with his tendrils, he brought them up off their feet. All of them are still struggling, with Leo and Thalia trying to burn through the tendrils. However, Kakuzu saw that coming and countered with his water and wind ability.
"Now, let finish this." Kakuzu growled slightly. He turned his head towards Thalia. "Starting with you. I'm going to take your heart and replace one of my own."
Thalia eyes widen, fear crawling in her heart, as she struggled even more. Kakuzu prepared his tendrils to dig through her organs and grab her heart. However, before he could do that, a gust of wind suddenly blew around them and the tendrils keeping hold of his five opponents.
"What?!" Kakuzu exclaimed in shock. The five dropped on the floor, with Reyna and Anko managing to land on their knees. The rest fell on their backs or butts.
Jason slowly land in front of his comrades. When he landed, he glared at Kakuzu and pointed his sword at the hunter. "If you think you're gonna kill me friends, or take one of them as a bounty, you are surely mistaken. And I especially won't let you use my sister's heart for your own."
Kakuzu narrowed his eyes. "Then let me take yours!" He send several tendrils towards the son of Jupiter. However, Jason didn't flinch and, after gathering up wind in his sword, cut them down.
Kakuzu's eyes widen. 'This boy is powerful. I never seen someone this skilled with wind chakra, at that age.'
"No, you won't." Jason held his hand to the side. "In fact, your not about to take anyone else's heart again." A rasengan starting forming in his hand. But that wasn't the end of it. Slowly, wind started gathering around the spiralling sphere and caused it to form something new. It's an emitting some kind of screeching sound, like blades dancing around.
Kakuzu narrowed his eyes once more. Something is telling him that if he gets hit by that attack, he's going to get hurt. Badly. With that in mind, he prepared his tendrils to stop the attack.
But before he could, he heard a similar sound coming from behind. He turned to see his target, Naruto, making a similar attack. 'Damn it! Two of them from behind! Guess attacking out of the question! If I do, it'll just give the other time to hit me!'
"Ready Jason?" Naruto called out. The blonde nodded.
"Ready." Then, at the same time, the two yelled "Wind Style: Rasen Shuriken!" and threw their attack.
Knowing that the attacks are going to be devastating, and seeing them go in different directions, twisted his body and tendrils to dodge the attack.
He didn't expect the two attacks to expand.
"Holy shit." Leo breathed out in shock as the two attacks consumed Kakuzu. The bounty hunter screamed in pure agony as the two rasen shurikens cut through all his nerves and chakra points, and thoroughly eradicating his hearts. Thalia, Anko, Piper, Reyna, and Leo are staring at in awe, shock, and/or horror.
Eventually, the attack died down, and Kakuzu landed on the ground, on his stomach. Through all odds, he's still alive, though barely. His clothes are tattered, whatever tendrils left limped in his body, and his insides fried.
As Kakuzu attempted to move, Naruto slowly walked over to the bounty hunter. "How?" Kakuzu groaned. "I was able to match Hashirama in combat. How I was beaten so easily by a bunch of brats?"
"So that's how old you are, huh?" Naruto commented on casually. He stood to the side of the prone body. "Well, we may look like a bunch of kids to you now, and you may have faced the First Hokage before. But to us, your an old man. A relic in the past. This generation surpassed the old generation."
He held out his hand and formed a rasengan. "Now, it's time for you to finally die. Rasengan." With that, Naruto drove the jutsu into Kakuzu's final heart, killing him instantly.
Slowly, Naruto took his hands out of the man's chest. As he did, the others gathered in front of them. Piper grimaced at seeing another dead body. So far, she's have been doing good at the site of the dead, but it slowly starting to affect her.
"That double attack was awesome!" Leo said in amazement. "Where did you two learn that attack?"
"Naruto taught me." Jason said, smiling. "In case I needed a heavy attack."
"Self taught for me, but got some help from our old man." Naruto informed Leo. His gaze then turned serious. "But we can't relax now. We still have one more person to face."
That said peson slowly got himself out of the ground, grumbling to himself. "Those damn blondes." Hidan grumbled. "They're going to pay for that."
When the others looked to where Naruto is looking, Leo's eyes popped out. "Um, is that guy moving like he doesn't have a spear in his chest?" Leo questioned, shakily pointing a finger at Hidan. "What the hell?"
"Is he a monster?" Piper questioned, a bit fearfully. "If so, then why isn't he evaporating?"
"He's immortal." Jason explained. "Nothing can kill him, not even imperial gold or the celestial bronze you have."
"You have got to be kidding me." Thalia stated in annoyance. First a guy with five hearts, and now a full on immortal?
Hidan groaned in pain as he took out the spear in his chest before throwing it to the side. As Hidan moved towards, his eyes widen when he spotted Kakuzu's corpse. Then it narrowed in anger.
"I'm gonna make you fuckers pay for this!" With that statement, he threw his scythe at the group. All of them move back or to the side, but as Naruto moved back, he got snipped by one of the blades of Hidan's scythe.
The blonde landed on his knee before glaring at Hidan. "If you want more than a cut on the cheek, you have to do better than that." Naruto taunted.
Hidan grinned. "One hit is all I need."
Thalia growled at this. "You bastard!" She then rushed Hidan. The immortal just laughed and kicked the girl away from him, whilst Jason attacked him from behind. That caused the other young demigods to charge him, and forcing to the immortal to dodge or block.
Anko narrowed her eyes. What was he doing? He could kill those kids easily. She pondered this until she saw his foot dragging across the ground. Her eyes widened.
"No!" she shouted and threw kunai and shuriken at Hidan.
"Too late bitch!" the Akastuki member shouted, liking Naruto's blood off his scythe. "Curse Technique: Death Controlling Possessed Blood!" Instantly, his skin turned black, with certain parts of himself turning white, making him look like a skeleton.
Anko stared at the immortal in horror, something Naruto noticed. "Mom, what's wrong?" Naruto asked her in concern.
Before she could answer, she spotted Thalia charging at Hidan from the side. "You're dead!"
"No! Wait!" Anko tried to warn her, but she was too late. Thalia aimed her spear to Hidan's head, but the immortal blocked the attack with his arms. The spear stabbed right through it.
Naruto's eyes widen before crying out in pain, gaining the attention of everyone else. The demigods' eyes widen when they saw blood forming under his sleeves. "W-Whiskers?" Thalia stuttered out, shock at what she's seeing. "What happened?"
Hidan grinned. "This jutsu is one of my favorites." The immortal stated sadistically. "For the one who's blood I ingested, whatever hurts me, it'll hurt them." Thalia's eyes widen in horror at this.
The others' eyes widen at this. "Um, he's joking right?" Leo questioned. "That gotta be a joke, right? A bluff?" He's sounding a bit desperate now.
"It's not a joke." Anko said gravely. "I heard about the jutsu from when I was still with Orochimaru. When he makes that symbol and ingest the blood of his victim, when he gets injured with, the injury comes right back at the victim."
Everyone is more than a bit pale now. "That's right. Now, I suggest you back off and get that spear out, unless you want me to severe my arm." Hidan suggested savagely.
Instantly, Thalia took out the spear, drawing a cry of pain from Naruto. "Sorry Whiskers!" Thalia exclaimed, jumping back from Hidan. A look between worry and anger cross in her eyes.
Hidan then focus his gaze on Naruto. "Now, are you going to cooperate and come with me, or," He pulled out a sharp metal spear. "Will I have to make you half-dead?"
Naruto narrowed his eyes. "I don't ever give up you psycho zombie." Naruto stated. "That technique may hurt me, but can you say that when I get you off that circle?"
As Naruto began to perform a jutsu, Hidan lift his spear up. "Oh no you don't!" He stabbed the spear into his hand, the effect transfering to Naruto.
Naruto's eyes widen in pain and held the hand that been stabbed, resisting the urge to cry out. "So, guess we'll be doing this the fun way then." Hidan grinned got wider. "I'm going to enjoy this."
He pulled the spear out of his hand before stabbing it through his calf, causing Naruto to land on his knee. "Naruto!" Everyone yelled. Fear and worry crossed everyone's faces, even Anko, Reyna, and Thalia.
Slowly, Naruto stood up and glared defiantly at Hidan. "Is that the best you got?" Naruto dryly asked. "You're gonna need to do more than that to defeat me." Slowly, he limped towards Hidan.
Hidan tsked. "Tough bastard, huh? Well, let's see you hand this." He sliced his abdomen, enough to hit the nerves, but not enough to disembowel himself.
Naruto gritted his teeth as blood seeped through his stomach, but kept walking. Hidan's expression of glee turn to annoyance when he saw him still walking.
"Damnit! Can't you just stay down?" Hidan then stabbed one of his arms, causing more pain in Naruto. But the blonde soldiered on. "Stay down! Stay down you piece of shit!" He stabbed through his other calf, causing Naruto buckle on his knees. The blonde is breathing haggardly, blood seeping through his wounds.
Piper covered her mouth, tears slowly coming down her cheeks at the site of her brother figure like this. Leo and Jason clenched their fists, wanting to go and help, but knowing they can't without risking Hidan stabbing himself in the heart.
Anko felt her herself shaking, tears swelling in her eyes that she refuse to let out. She never thought there would be someone she would hate more than Orochimaru, but Hidan proved her wrong. Very wrong.
Thalia and Reyna are shaking and clenching their fist, fighting the urge to go and stop Hidan. If Hidan see them making the wrong move, they have no doubt the immortal would not hesitate to stab himself in the heart. They doubt his mission would stop him from doing that. Tears swelled up in both their eyes, feeling helpless in the situation.
Shakily, Naruto stood up, breathing heavily. The fact that he's still standing shocked Hidan. "Why?" He questioned. "How the hell are you standing?" He stabbed his leg repeatedly, and yet, Naruto continued walking. "Stand down, bastard!"
Naruto smirked. And almost instantly, he propelled himself to Hidan using his Devastation form. He slammed his head onto Hidan's propelling the immortal off the circle and a few feet away from the ground.
Naruto ended up on his knees, his breathing haggard. A head wound formed from the headbutt he gave out. Hidan looked at Naruto in shock, anger, and a bit of fear. "How the hell were still walking?" Hidan repeated his question. "I stabbed you in both legs, multiple times! So how?"
The smirk was still on his face as blood slid down his left eye. "We Uzumaki have an extreme amount of endurance and stamina." He said, pain laced in his voice. "You can stab our legs, cut our arms, or even shove a lightning encased fist to the chest. We're gonna continue fighting."
Hidan is shaking a bit. "And now, let see you survive this attack." Slowly, he held out his hand and formed a rasengan. Lightning slowly formed from the front and back of the sphere.
"Let see you survive this." Naruto said, putting as much chakra into the attack. He gritted his teeth as electricity shot through his body, but endure through the pain.
And soon enough, he made a big rasengan, the sphere in the middle while the lightning in it form a bolt. "Lightning Style: Rasen Rakurai" With that, he threw the rasengan.
It was fast as lightning. Hidan didn't even have a chance to dodge. The lightning rasengan hit the immortal straight on and engulfed. Hidan screamed in pain as the lightning shot through him, turning him into ash from the inside and out. And after several more minutes, the attack faded. What left of Hidan was nothing but ash.
Naruto grinned. "I like to see you get up from that." Suddenly, he felt a jolt, making the blonde pause. The jolt then turned to electricity shooting into him, causing him to cry out in pain.
"Naruto!" His friends and mother figure ran up to him as the blonde collapsed in pain. Thalia was the first to get to him, and she spoke in anger. "What the hell were you thinking?!"
Naruto breathed haggardly. "Didn't have time to think." He said tiredly. "Couldn't teleport to him without him doing something drastic. Couldn't form jutsu without risk of him cutting off one of his hands. Had to get close enough push him off quickly. If the distance was wider, he may have gotten more time to stop my propell attack by stabbing something vital."
"And that last attack?" Reyna questioned, the next one to get to side. Anko, Jason, Leo, and Piper soon followed. "You know how dangerous using that attack can be if you aren't a child of Jupiter."
"Didn't have a choice." Naruto retorted. "It was the only attack that would turned him into ash immediately." Naruto weakly smiled. "Besides, it cauterized my wounds. I needed that."
They all looked at his wounds to see that indeed, his wounds are cauterized. Anko shook her head. "That doesn't mean you're out of danger yet."
"I know." Naruto agreed. "The damage is bad. Internal organs fried….a lot of blood loss….extreme amount of pain…." He coughed a little. "It's only thank to endurance….and chakra that I'm still standing."
Naruto felt himself getting close to unconsciousness. "Take me back to camp….something there that will help with the injuries." Naruto instructed his team. "I'm gonna keep myself alive until then….but we need to go now."
They were about to ask what is it when they noticed Naruto's eyelids starting to close. "No, no, stay with us Whiskers! Don't you dare die on us!" Thalia ordered him, the tears coming back to her.
Naruto chuckled. "Don't worry….I'm not gonna let myself die yet." He reassured her. "Just….hurry." With that, he closed his eyes.
And that's the end. I hope you guys enjoy the chapter. Yeah, I'm a bit of sadist when it comes with the main characters. I just love putting them in critical state like this. Also, I felt like Hidan needed to showcase his jutsu before getting defeated, and I felt like Naruto was the only person that could endure his attack, being an Uzumaki and all.
No flames please. Next chapter, Naruto's team is going to speed their way to Camp Half-Blood while nursing Naruto at the same time. Review, favorite, and follow and I will see you later.