Chapter three.

Distance was shorter in the Labyrinth, so the others must've already be away from here.

Sorry if I disappoint you, but I'm not in a mood to do complex calculations again, so I decided I would just try (remember: TRY) to follow the guys through the Labyrinth.

Well, the entrance wasn't that hard to find. One only has to find a cell with torn apart bars and know the entrance to the Labyrinth is there.

I touched the letter Delta-Deadalus's mark-and it glowed blue. Some seconds after that, the door vanished to reveal a staircase. As soon as I started to go down the staircase the wall re-appeared, leaving me in darkness.

My eyes took some seconds to get used to the darkness and turned left.

"So we finally meet… Namikaze." I got shocked to hear that voice. It was cruel, icy and apathetic. I folded my arms and didn't turn around.

"Sasuke Uchiha, right?"

"Myself. I see Naruto has given you his memories."

"And told me some extra stuff." I said with a smirk.

"Like what, may I know?"

"How to control the Kyuubi, for example. I also discovered things about his life that he didn't realize." I then turned around and saw Sasuke wearing a black leather jacket, black pants and white Rebocks. "For example, that you killed Sakura. Right or wrong? Oh, by the way, nice outfit."

"Don't mention it, and yes, I killed that pink-haired bitch." He said matter –of-factly.

"Don't talk about Sakura like that, teme!" Naruto's voice came out of my mouth.

"The fuck is this?" I asked Naruto.

"Get outta my way, idiot. I want to talk to him!"

"Why don't you shut up? Your time to talk to him is gone, Naruto. To begin with, you should have killed him when you had the chance! So shut up!"

Sasuke raised his eyebrows.

"Naruto?" He asked.

"Not anymore." I replied.

"Shame." He said, returning to his monotone voice. "Well, I didn't come here to say 'hi' to you or something, I came here to say that… well, good luck in going on with your pathetic quest. You'll need it. And yes, be aware that we'll meet in the future, Namikaze. Prepare yourself, because I'll try to kill you." He finished, pulling out a little piece of paper. He then looked at it. "Yeah, I think that's all I had to say."

"You actually read what you have to say? Pathetic."

"You're the pathetic one here, sorry if I disappointed you."

"You're."

"You're."

"You're."

"You're."

"You're and that's it. Now's the part you teleport and leave towards your supersecret hideout, right?"

"I think so." He said, then vanished from sight. I sighed and turned around in order to continue my travel.

Within twenty minutes of travel I was bored.

Really bored.

Really fucking bored.

World sucks.

I suck.

Well, my train of happy thoughts was interrupted when I heard a voice I didn't hear in… 'kay, I'll stop with the drama. I heard Luke's voice behind me.

"What's that in your right hand? A scar?" He asked. I turned around.

"What are you talking about?"

"As I said, about what's in your right hand."

I looked at my right hand, and sure enough there was a white scar crossing it.

"I think it's because I grabbed that empousa's whip." I said couldly. "Now: what do you want?"

"Seems like you want to go straight to the point, right? Well, I want you to surrender or I'll be forced to kill Annabeth."

"Why do you want me to join you so bad?"

"Because," He said. "You're Zeus's son."

I had several things in my head right now, so I'll make a list.

A) How does he know.

B) I have to kill him as fast as I can.

C) I'm screwed.

D) I like pizza.

Where the pizza thing came from, I have no idea. Awkward.

I turned around.

"How do you know that?" I asked as if everyday your arch-enemy discovered you are son of the all-powerful god of the skies.

"I have my ways to find out about stuff."

"Right. By the way, you can't kill Annabeth. You love her too much to do that. Though not the same way I do."

Luke got closer to me until we were face to face.

"Never talk about Annabeth like if she was a slut, understood?" He threatened me.

"See? I only said I loved her and you got that as if I was talking like if she was a slut, which she isn't."

"You really super estimate yourself."

"Look who's talking, Mr. I-am-the-better-swordsman-ever-even-though-I-lose-to-a-twelve-year-old-untrained-prat. I think you remember that at my first day of camp, right?"

I then pulled my sword and pointed it at his neck before he could react, but he didn't seem scared at all.

"Is this all you can do? You'll have to get much, I mean much more than that to defeat me." He said, then took out backbiter and swung it at me.

I blocked it with ease, then channeled chakra to my right leg and kicked him square in the chest. Even though he now weighed twice his original weigh, I sent him flying towards the wall, making some cracks in it.

"You'll have to get much more than that to defeat me." I said with a smirk. Luke got up and charged at me again, but I just closed my hand and put it behind me. I gathered all lightning chakra I had in it and soon it was covered in lightning with a circle of lightning chakra around me. I dispatched my sword and waited for him to come.

He was getting closer… closer… closer… and closer until he was some fee away from me. I tried to punch him in the face with my chidori, but he dodged with incredible speed and cut me in both legs, making me fall. That blade… it had something that made the person feel more pain. Poison, maybe?

I grabbed my legs in pain.

"I told you you couldn't defeat me."

He had hit a point in the leg that wasn't vital to the body, but it sure provoked a lot of pain. I stood up.

"You're doing this just for fun, right?" I asked. Luke smirked

"Sure I am."

"Then," I said, lifting my right hand. "why don't you just go kiss your beloved master?"

As I was saying that I had channeled lightning chakra to my hand. I then released it and lightning bolts shot out of my hand, hitting Luke in several vital places. As I expected, I didn't kill him, but hey! Thousands of watts hitting you in all of your vital places do something.

Luke hit the wall hard and then vanished from sight. I was far too exhausted to keep walking as I had used all of my chakra with the lightning bolts thing. I walked some steps and then my mind went blue screen of death.

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"You sure he isn't dead?" I heard a voice say.

"Don't speak like that!" Another voice, this time feminine said… Annabeth. That was definitely her voice.

"Uh… interrupting the lovebirds," Said a third voice. This one was male, but a bit younger. "Yes, I'm sure he isn't dead. I can sense this kind of thing." That was Nico, the son of Hades. And I think the first one was Percy's.

I got up with a start and rubbed my eyes.

"Where am I?" I asked to no one in particular. No one in particular answered.

Instead, I was tackled on the bed and felt Annabeth hugging the life out of me.

"Vice! You're OK! I had been so worried! I thought you were dead for a moment!"

"Uh… Annabeth," I struggled to say. "If… you… don't mind…" I caught all the breath I had. "YouaregonnathinkI'mpermanentlydeadifyoudon'tstophuggingme!"

She must've understood what I had said because she released me.

"Oh, sorry." She said.

"It's okay, Anna. No need to apologize." I then leaned in and kissed her passionately.

"-cough cough-"

We broke apart to see a blushing Percy and an apathetic Nico. He grimly reminded me of Sasuke.

"Uhm… well Vice. I think you can explain us what exactly happened at the Princess Andromeda and why were you unconscious and with cuts in your legs?"

"Yeah," I then turned at Annabeth. "Annabeth, to explain a story I kinda need to breathe."

"Oh, right, sorry." She said, then got off me and stood at Percy's side looking-as him-as she couldn't wait for the story.

I told them my escape from the Princess Andromeda, how I didn't join the Titans and told them about my fight with Luke. I decided to not tell them about my meeting with Sasuke. I mean, how will you explain two people you care for that some three-thousand year old psychopath said he'll try to kill you? I think Oh, yeah. I also met a three-thousand year old ninja of some proud clan that wants to kill me. Don't worry about it! isn't a good way to explain it.

"Yor're wrong!" Annabeth shouted as I finished my story. "Luke would never threaten to kill me!" And with that she turned around and left the room.

That was the first time I noticed I was in a room. It reminded me of the big house. It was all white with greek architecture and several single beds. I turned towards Percy and Nico.

"You believe me now, right?" I asked Percy.

"Yeah, you can help us in the quest if you want." I nodded.

"And what about Nico?" I asked.

"I'll be staying here. It's the safest place of the Labyrinth." He replied.

"By the way," I said. "Where is here, as nobody answered that question earlier."

"This is Triple G-Ranch." Percy answered quickly.

"Thanks." I said and got out of the room in the search for Annabeth. I looked all around the building (that meant the two nearest rooms) and got out of it in the hopes of finding her near it.

The place was quite beautiful. There was a lot of grass and there wasn't any Labyrinth roof. It was open to the sky. There were many bright shines-probably to Apollo-and some stables.

I started to look around and finally found Annabeth brying hugging her legs at the side of a shrine. I sat beside her and wrapped an arm around her shoulders. She didn't seem to bother as she didn't glare at me nor tried to stab me with a knife. I wasn't the best kind of comforting person, so I stayed quiet until Annabeth stopped crying.

"Hey, Annabeth," I said. She then looked up at me. "How was Luke like before… well, before he betrayed us…"

Annabeth turned her head and faced the grass in front of her.

"He was a pretty nice guy. He taught me how to use a knife and most of all… he was like a family to me. Like a big brother. I even thought I had fallen in love with him, but then… well. Then I met you. When we were getting to camp he almost convinced Thalia to let him fight instead of her." She seemed to smile sadly at the memory.

"Luke seemed to be a pretty nice guy." I said.

"He was. Let me guess: you wish you could turn back time in order to be able to be on the run with us."

I glared at her.

"Dam daughter of Athena thing. Yes, you read my thoughts. I wish I could be there with you." She smiled when I said you. "It seems like it was the perfect time. But you know which time was perfect? Three thousand years ago, in the elemental countries, it was the time when my ancestral, Naruto, lived. The places there were beautiful. Mainly the leaf village. I can imagine us sitting there, under the shadow of a tree full of leaves in the forest, hugged… just thinking about life and us… and eating a bowl of ramen…"

She slapped me in the back of my head. Then she started laughing, and then for no reason, I started laughing too. Then I thought, if there was a perfect time, this moment would be it.

Hey guys, and of chap. Sorry it was too little, but I'm with no inspiration and almost sleeping by now. And yeah, can you bother to click on the little green rectangle just below? Thanks.