Chapter 8

The next day after Naruto retold his experiences from the Wave mission that went over great with the entire camp,everyone began gearing up for the big event of the day. The capture the flag match.

From what Naruto and Percy understood about the game it was held every Friday and there were two teams each with their own flag and the goal was to capture the other team's flag and bring it across the border. The game would be held in the forest where anything was allowed. Any weapons, magic items, skills, everything was legal except no killing and if possible no maiming which didn't exactly help Percy's nerves.

Though when Naruto heard he was excited. It had been a while since he had a good decent match or mission and this capture the flag was just what he needed to cut loose a bit. Chiron said the capture the flag came helped give campers firsthand experience in combat and it is beneficial because it provides the demigods with real life training needed in order to survive in the world.

Right now lunch had just past and all activates had stopped since Chiron let the two separate teams begin preparing for the evening game and discuss tactics and who would do what job.

The blue team was comprised off the Athena Cabin, the Hermes cabin and the Apollo cabin. By the looks of things their team had the best archers, the brains and the sneaky tactics. That and they knew with Naruto they had an advantage since he actually had real life experience in battle. The Hermes and Apollo cabin were the two biggest cabins and therefore made up for the numbers on each team.

Then on the red team were all the other cabins which was made up off the Aphrodite, Demeter, Hephaestus, Dionysus and the Ares cabin. With those cabins they had defiantly had the most physical fighter if the size of most of the Ares and Hephaestus cabin was anything to go by. However from what Annabeth told him about the cabins The Aphrodite cabin would mostly sit out and watch along with some of the Demeter cabin. There were only two in the Dionysus cabin and four in the Hephaestus cabin. This mainly meant that the main obstacle would be the Ares kids who were led by Clarisse.

Right now Percy had left to go and talk to Grover trying to calm his nerves for the game later tonight while Annabeth and Naruto were walking in the opposite direction side by side.

"So I take it you have a plan?" Naruto asked Annabeth as they walked towards the small HQ the blue team had set up with the Athena cabin supplying maps of the area that they would be fighting in. He saw many of Annabeth's brothers and sisters huddle around maps trying to decide which was the best method of taking the red teams flag while a group from the Hermes cabin were discussing what traps they should lay for the other team.

"Of course" she replied back with a grin on her face. "Athena always has a plan."

"Well that's reassuring" he said getting a playful slap on the arm from Annabeth. The two headed into the small set up camp and walked over to Luke who was sitting by himself practising with a small knife in his hand.

"Hey Annabeth, Naruto. You ready for later Naruto? It's yours and Percy's big debut into capture the flag" he said grinning.

"You know it. I have been itching for something like this since I got here."

"Well I'm sure we won't disappoint. It can get pretty lively but thankfully we have not had any casualties. Well not for few years anyway" Annabeth deadpanned get small sweat drops appear behind Naruto and Luke's head.

Annabeth then laid out a similar map that the other Athena group was looking at and she and Luke began discussing how to go about getting to the flag. They both knew that Clarisse would no doubt be their biggest obstacle. Then they mentioned another boy they called Beckendorf who was a member of the Hephaestus cabin and apparently was the next big threat towards them due to have both the muscle and brains.

"We can't make any full proof plans until we actually start the game. We have to find a way to discover who is in which group. Who is defending and who is attacking."

Luke nodded whilst Naruto over heard what they said and a big grin made its way to his face.

"If intelligence gathering is what you need then I'm the man for the job" he said getting odd looks from the two blonde.

"Luke you know that clone jutsu I used the other day when you found me sparring in the arena" he asked getting a nod in response. "That particular move was mainly designed for intelligence gathering. Meaning I can create as many clones as I want and I can send them off to get information for us. When they dispel everything they learn comes right back to me, the original" he said tapping his head get wide eyes from the two.

Annabeth stared at him with a million things buzzing around in her head and she played scenario after scenario of tactics and plans they could use. Then her face broke out into a giant smile and began hugging Naruto to death.

"That's perfect. There are so many things we could so with this kind of skill. The information we gather could be crucial. You're a genius" she said.

"He he that's a first. Never been called that before" Naruto said as he scratch the back of his head a little embarrassed at being called a genius.

"Luke do you know what this mean?" she said. "When the hunters come over Naruto will be our trump card. We might finally beat them" she said with excitement getting confused looks from Naruto so she quickly explained.

"The hunters are a group of all girl warriors under the command of Artemis. They visit from time to time and when they do we always have a capture the flag match against them. The hunters have one the last fifty five times."

"Ouch" Naruto said. Losing that many times could not have been easy and was no doubt a hit to everyone in the camps pride. "There that good?" he asked.

"Despite us having the home advantage the hunters fight and survive in the forests. That and they know teamwork and are trained by Lady Artemis herself. Their all immortal due to being bound to Lady Artemis and therefore they fight monsters for a living and many have decades or even century's worth of experience."

Naruto whistled. Deadly was the only thing he could think off that described the hunters. The way Annabeth described them they sounded like a well oiled machine. Plus being trained by a goddess would no doubt have its perks.

But when Naruto looked over at Luke he noticed Luke had a dark look on his face when Annabeth mentioned the hunters. No doubt Luke must have had a run in with them in the past and it did not go to well.

Whilst Annabeth began letting her siblings know about the new skill their team had Luke took Naruto to where the weapons and armour was being kept.

"This is yours" he said picking up some bronze coloured armour that covered his chest and stomach but left the shoulders and arms bare.

Naruto looked it over. It was simple but effective. He put it on and fastened the straps. It felt a little tight around his chest and it was slightly heavy but that didn't really bother him all that much since he guessed it was suppose to be like that.

"We all have one. Chiron had both yours and Percy made since your armour is specially fitted for you and only you. Also here is your helmet" he said pointing over to one of the old Greek helmets Naruto saw at the museum with the long blue horse tail plume on top. Naruto looked at it before turning back to Luke.

"I think I'll take my chance without the helmet" he said getting a chuckle from Luke.

"Yeah you're not the only one" he said before giving Naruto a bow. "Here since Chiron said you did so great with a bow you can use this. Hermes cabin aren't the best with bows and we don't use them much so you're welcome to use it" he said while also handing over a quiver stocked with arrows.

"Thank man; appreciate it" he said before asking another question. "You don't by any chance have any long hunting knives do you?" he asked getting an odd look from Luke.

"Hunting knives huh?" he said before walking over to a stock pile up swords and axes and began rummaging through them. After about a minute and a few hisses of pain from Luke he pulled out an old pair of hunting knives. They looked simple and standard with black hilts with about twenty inch blade on the end. They were not as long as the ones he had used in the museum against the Fury but they would do. If anything they were like a slightly larger pair of Kunai.

"Thanks, I'm still getting use to using a sword and these are close enough to kunai that I should be able to use them pretty well" he said getting a nod of understanding form Luke.

"Stick with what you're best at until you can improve on the other skills" Luke said getting a nod from Naruto. "Makes sense and its smart. No point in taking chances, especially when we're up against Clarisse and the Ares cabin. There not children of the War God for nothing."

"You want me to get Percy so he can try his on?" Naruto asked but the older blonde shook his head.

"He can try them later. I should go back with Annabeth and start thinking of plans for that little clone thing you can do."

Naruto nodded and Luke exited and went back to the HQ tent. Naruto carefully took of the bronze coloured armour and put it back on the weapons bench with the other pieces of armour for everyone else.

He walked out and headed back over to the cabins. As he made his way back he got waves and hellos from those from the other cabins, even ones that were not on his team.

"Naruto" a voice called getting his attention and smiled when he saw Katie skipping over to him once again with a basket in her hand.

"Hey there Katie. Now should you really be talking to me since we are on the opposite teams" he said teasingly getting a bright smile form Katie.

"It's okay, I'm not playing. Not really my thing so I just watch with some of the other Demeter girls and the Aphrodite cabin."

Naruto nodded in understanding. Katie was only eleven and he didn't really want to have to fight her if it came down to it. If she was and he came across her he would make sure he was the one that fought her so that he could easily knock her out so she wouldn't have to feel any pain or get any wounds. It just was not in him to hurt kids like that, especially little girls.

"I just wanted to wish you luck. I know you will do great since you are a ninja after all. You will kick all kinds of butt" she said causing Naruto to break out into a smile as he ruffled her hair causing her to now have an adorable pout on her face.

"Oooooh I'll get you for that Naruto, your just lucky I have to get these over to the big house" she said shaking the basket of strawberries.

"Oh I'm sure if you didn't I would be in a world of trouble" he said getting a nod from Katie.

She gave him a quick hug before running over to the big house. "By the way your friend Percy is at the docks" she said before leaving.

Naruto said his thanks before making his way over to the docks. It only took a few minutes before he saw Percy sitting there with his legs swinging over the side with Grover sitting next to him.

"Yo" Naruto said sitting down next to them with them saying hi back. "What you doing?"

"Panicking over tonight" Percy answered with a nervous look on his face.

"You will be fine. You're not fighting alone you know. You'll have me, Annabeth, Luke and the others all with you."

"Yeah but you don't have a giant daughter of Ares gunning after you and who wants to pound you into the ground."

"I Guess that's true" Naruto said making Percy face palm.

"But don't worry so much. There will be so many battles going on she won't even notice you, so calm down. The more you get worked up, the worse you will do in the game. You're getting yourself worked up over nothing" he said.

Grover agreed and the two began calming Percy's nerves which the twelve year old was thankful for. Most people forgot that he was new to this and he was only twelve. Annabeth was confident because she has experience and had been here a lot longer than Percy had. Just because Naruto was okay with everything and fitting in well, didn't mean Percy was doing it as quickly.

The three sat in silence before Percy began asking about the cabins and why so many were empty. Grover explained to him about the pact of the big three and that none of them had any kids in the last sixty years. Well almost everyone.

When Percy mentioned the Zeus cabin a sad look crossed Grover's face.

"Not quite. A few years ago everyone found that Zeus fell off the wagon and had a child with a mortal woman. Some eighties TV star that was too good for the God of the Sky to pass up. They had a little girl who they called Thalia."

"Thalia" Naruto thought and immediately recognised the name. "That's the name you said on the bus the day we left Yancy Academy. Then Luke mentioned a Thalia that he was coming to camp with along with Annabeth. Is this the same Thalia?" he asked surprising Grover by what he knew while Percy was listening intently.

"Yeah it's the same Thalia. Thalia met with Luke and Annabeth and the three became close, like family close. I was assigned to get them and bring them to the camp. But we ran into problems along the way."

"Hades found out about Thalia being Zeus's daughter and was enraged. He sent the worst creature from the underworld after her. All three kindly ones and masses of hellhounds were sent out after her. They chased us all the way to the camp. Just when we thought we were safe a huge horde came out of nowhere and attacked us. Thalia told us to run and that she would fight them off on her own since it was her they were after."

"I didn't want to leave her but I had Luke and Annabeth to worry about. She fought with everything she had but eventually she was overwhelmed. Afterwards Zeus came down and found her near death and took pity on her. He turned her into the tree that's on top of Half blood Hill and it protects the magical borders."

"Thalia" Naruto whispered as he said her name and stared up at the great pine tree on top of the hill with both sorrow and amazement.

Sorrow for how the girl had to meet her untimely death since he would be about the same age as she was when she made her sacrifice. And amazement at her bravery and courage. He would have liked to have met her. Very few have the guts to give up their own life for others and true friendships were something Naruto valued greatly.

"I wish I could have met her. She would have been a cool friend" he said getting a grateful nod from Grover while Percy didn't say a thing and just continued to think over the story.

Naruto's gaze then went from the pine tree on the hill back to the cabins. Or more importantly right back to cabin eight. The cabin just kept drawing him in and he felt more and more eager to actually go inside. At Night he noticed the entire cabin glowed silver just like the moon. It was beautiful and it only added to Naruto's amazement.

Grover who glanced at Naruto looked at where he was gazing before he gave a dry chuckle. "You have to stop staring at that cabin. Nothing good can come to a boy who stares at that cabin."

Percy then joined into the conversation. "Is that the goddess who doesn't like boys and doesn't have kids right?" he asked getting nods from both Grover and Naruto.

"Well not biological kids anyway but I guess she would see her hunters as her own children since she usually lives with them and trains them which is sort of what a parent would do" Grover said.

"It's good of her to do that. I doubt many of the other gods would do that right?" he said getting a nervous nod from Grover. "For her to take in girls and give them a home and a purpose is beyond kind and generous. She has my respect for that even if its just girls she does it for."

"I guess" Percy said not really all that into it but Grover was a little surprised. It was not often to see a boy who would talk about Artemis with respect like that since most boys frowned at her name due to her prejudice against boys. But then again Naruto was different to most, especially since Grover had heard Mr D had even taken a liking to Naruto and actually showed the boy some respect and some manners.

The three didn't stay at the docks for much longer before they moved off. Grover went into the strawberry field to help with growing strawberries with his reed pipes despite not being all that good with them while Naruto and Percy just hung out and made conversation for the rest of the day.

Soon the day became the evening and the time for the capture the flag game was near. After dinner a loud horn called out through the camp and Chiron stood at the front of the pavilion everyone telling them that the game would soon begin. Everyone stood around theirs tables and the plates magically disappeared.

First came the blue team flag which had Annabeth and two of her siblings running in with a ten foot banner. It was made of silk and was glistening gray, with a painting of a barn owl above an olive tree. All in all it was a very beautiful banner.

Then came the red team flag which was being led in by Clarisse along with two of her siblings. Their banner was the same in length except it was blood red that was painted with a bloody spear and a boar's head. Creative was the thought running through Naruto's head when he saw it.

Everyone began cheering when the flags came in and many of the taunting was beginning again just like earlier in the day.

Chiron who was watching with both pride and amusement clapped his hands before the tables filled up with equipment.

In front of Naruto was the armour he had tried on earlier, the bow and arrows Luke gave him along with the pair of hunting knives. He looked them over again and nodded knowing they were good enough to use.

He strapped on his armour and strapped the quiver of arrows to his back along with his bow. He sheathed his hunting knives to his sides. He looked over to see Percy struggling to put his armour on so he helped the younger boy into them.

"Thanks" he said before his hand traced over the armour. "It's really heavy. Do we have to wear these?" he asked.

"It's either wear that or get yourself killed Percy" Luke said appearing next to him.

"Heres your helmet" he said giving handing over a helmet with the blue horse hair plume on top.

"Great" he said taking it from Luke's hand and putting it on. He couldn't help but feel silly wearing it. He looked at Naruto and saw he was not wearing one. "Where's yours?"

"If you think I'm going to be wearing one of those helmets then you have another thing coming" he said getting a chuckle from Luke and a dead panned look from Percy.

It was then that Chiron hammered his hoof on the marble floor drawing everyone's attention to him.

"Heroes!" he announced. "You know the rules. The creek is the boundary line. The entire forest is fair game. All magic items are allowed. The teams banner must be prominently displayed, and have no more than two guards. Prisoners may be disarmed, but may not be bound or gagged. No killing or maiming is allowed.

Naruto herd a lot of groaning and mumbling from that and noticed it was mostly the Ares cabin that said it. He also noticed that Clarisse and a few of her sibling were glaring right at Percy with smirks on their faces. He knew that was not a good sign.

He then heard Chiron mention that he would be the field medic and wished everyone good luck in the game before everyone marched off to their side of the forest. The blue team had the south side of the forest while the red team had the north side.

Percy was walking next to Annabeth no doubt asking what the plan was and saw a small scowl appear on his face. He removed away and retreated next to Luke. Naruto took this chance to appear next to Annabeth which startled her a little.

When she saw the look in Naruto's eyes she knew something was up.

"What is it?" she asked. He looked over at Percy which she caught on to and then motioned over to Clarisse's retreating form. She quickly put two and two together and understood what he was implying. She then groaned as if knowing something like this was bound to happen.

"She said she would get her revenge for the bathroom incident. I'm guessing now is the time" Naruto said getting a nod of agreement from Annabeth.

"We will figure it out when the game starts" she said before the two lapsed into a comfortable silence as they made their way over.

Mount Olympus

High above the clouds on Mount Olympus one certain goddess was sitting in her temple as she had a window like object project a video feed of the about to begin capture the flag game at Camp Half Blood and had it focused on Naruto.

She was currently wearing a simple white greek dress that stopped just above her knee's and wore silver sandals with moon symbols on them. She had auburn coloured hair that flowed down to the middle of her back and had silver coloured eyes. She looked about eighteen years old all together. Her hands were settled in her lap as she sat down on a silver couch.

She took a deep breath since she had been waiting for this day for a very long time. The day that she could finally reveal to the world who Naruto was and show them all that he was hers. Although she was excited she was also nervous. She knew full well many of the other gods were also watching like Apollo, Ares, Athena, Hephaestus, and Demeter. She was not sure about the rest but she tried not to think about it.

A hand appeared on her shoulder and she looked up and smiled gratefully at who she saw.

The newly arrived goddess looked about the same age as she did but she had this aura of wisdom and warmth around her. She had brownish coloured hair that had a red tint to it and had brown doe like eyes. Her skin was slightly tanned compared to the other goddess's milky white skin and wore a simple brown dress.

"It's going to be okay" she said getting a smile form the auburn haired goddess and linked their hands together for support.

Despite knowing things would be okay, she was also very nervous not only about the god's reactions but about the reaction of another certain group since she was not sure how they were going to take this.

She closed her eyes and mentally asked Iris, the Goddess of Rainbows to create a viewing window for said group so that they could watch this game.

Yellow Stone National Park

In the middle of the Yellow Stone wilderness in a forest that was unseen by mortals was a large campsite that contained various different sized silver tents pocketing the area with a big camp fire in the middle. There was a pen that had a pack of wolves stationing in it while in the tree's all around them were all sorts of different birds of prey that looked as if they acting like scouts and lookouts.

All around the campfire were girls all wearing silver parker jackets that were huddled together eating away at their meal. There was about twenty of them all together and they all ranged from the ages of ten to sixteen.

At the head of the campfire was a girl with copper like skin with black lush hair that was tied into a braid that draped over her right shoulder. She also had brown eyes and unlike the other girls she wore a silver circlet around her head.

The girls were talking away quietly as they ate while the copper skinned girl watched with a smile on her face before they were interrupted by a light in front of them.

When the light died down they saw the same viewing like window that the goddess's were using however they all scowled when they saw it was off camp half blood about to have their next capture the flag game.

"Why is it showing us that ridiculous camp" one girl screamed out.

"Someone get rid of it. I don't want to look at any boys while im eating" another shouted out.

"Enough" the copper skinned girl said with a voice of authority quickly silencing the shouting group of girls.

"But Zoë"-

"But nothing. There is no doubt in my mind that thou Lady is showing us this for a reason. Therefore we shall watch and we will not complain. Understood?" the girl revealed as Zoë said.

Quick murmurs of understood came from the girls before they sat and watched the game, many with frowns on their face and not happy with it.

Back at camp

Naruto stood with Annabeth and Luke as the horn signalling for the game to begin sounded out through the forest. Naruto had learnt that Percy had been given patrol duty over at one of the creeks. Annabeth figured since Clarisse was going after him, if he was out of the way it would draw her away from the main fighting.

While Naruto agreed he didn't like the thought of Percy having to fight Clarisse and some of her siblings alone so he told Annabeth once he finished the scouting and relayed the information to her he would go and watch over Percy and help him with Clarisse and the other Ares kids.

As soon as the horn went off Annabeth gave Naruto the nod. Naruto nodded back before he brought his hands up to make the ram sign before saying shadow clone jutsu. In a few puffs of smoke, ten Naruto's were now standing in front of him shocking everyone except Luke since he had already seen it.

"You guys know what to do" he said to the clones who all gave him a salute and shouted of yes sir before they leapt up into the tree's and sped off. "Now we wait" he said as everyone behind him began to get ready.

While Naruto did that many of the gods that were watching along with the hunters were in disbelief at what he just did. The gods realising that he was from the Elemental Nation had surprised them all except for two and wondered how he ended up in their world.

Meanwhile the girls in yellow stone were staring wide eyed having never seeing anything like that before. A boy who could make copies of himself would not be on their favourite list.

Back with the blue team they patiently waited for Naruto to receive the information while a few were beginning to get angsty.

Annabeth who was stood next to Naruto tapped him on the shoulder.

"Naruto how much"-

"Got it" he said and immediately everyone began paying attention to what he said.

"Okay there are four different groups. One group is going down the left side of the forest in a group of twelve. Their being led by that big Hephaestus camper" he said making everyone realise that was Beckendorf leading them since he was the biggest of the Hephaestus kids.

"Another team of the same amount is going to come from the right side. It looks like they're going to try and sandwich us in when they get to the flag. "

"The third is what we suspected" he said glancing towards Annabeth. "Clarisse and four of her sibling from the Ares cabin have gone straight on to search for Percy."

"Other then that the rest appear to be guarding the flag" he said while everyone else was beaming at him.

"Naruto this is fantastic. Thank the gods your on our team" Annabeth said giving him a quick grateful hug before she began formulating plans and separating people into groups to combat the opposing groups.

One group that was going to be led by Annabeth's brother Malcolm would go against Beckendorf and his group to the left of the forest. Connor and Travis would lead another group against the group from the right while Annabeth and Luke would lead a battalion against the forces around the flag.

Naruto would go and watch over Percy and help him when needed while the rest guarded their flag.

"Alright everyone good luck" Annabeth said before everyone split up while Naruto dashed into the forest and went to where Percy was located. He leapt into the trees and headed over to Percy's location which thankfully was not that far. It was just on the boundary between the blue team's territory and the red teams at a small creak.

Naruto arrived after a few minutes and saw Percy standing there with his sword and shield. The shield looked far too big for Percy and the helmet with the giant blue horse hair plume just looked ridiculous in his eyes but he kept quiet.

He would watch over Percy from the shadows in the trees and step in when necessary.

He wanted Percy to learn to fight his own battles and Naruto not have to come in and save him. Naruto knew he was not always going to be there to save him and when that time came Percy would have to rely on his own strength to survive.

While Naruto watched over Percy he made a few clones and sent them out to see how the other groups were doing. He could hear the sounds of metal clashing and shouts and taunts being thrown around.

When he got the memories back he saw that Annabeth brother and his squad had ambushed Beckendorfs group and while they managed to take down his group easily enough, Beckendorf was putting up a resilient fight.

Connor and Travis and their group were still engaged with theirs but were gaining the advantage quick. Annabeth and her group with Luke were about to surprise attack and get the flag but he could not quite find Clarisse and her small group.

As the memories ended he was brought out his musings when he heard twigs being snapped from the thick bushes coming from the left of Percy. Percy also seemed to hear it since his head cocked over to the side. Then what sounded like a growl ripped through the air before Naruto heard big footsteps heading away from the creek.

Both Percy and Naruto wanted to go and see what was making those noises before five figures suddenly jumped out wearing red shirts and helmets with red horse hair plumes on top. Both Naruto and Percy immediately recognised it was Clarisse who was at the front wielding a long spear.

"Cream the punk!" Clarisse screamed as she and her siblings charged in but as soon as they got close Naruto dropped out of the tree's and stood side by side with Percy who jumped a little when he appeared.

"Woh Naruto, where did you appear from?" Percy asked greatly thankful that his friend was here with him.

"The trees. I was making aura you were okay and when I saw war girl and her sibling turn up I thought you could use a hand. This makes it a little more fair don't you think" he said unsheathing the knives from his their sheaths.

"Out of the way Ninja boy. This is between us and him" she said pointing her spear at them with the spear tip crackling with lightning.

"Sorry War Girl I can't do that" he said causing Clarisse to growl a little.

"Fine then. You four take him. Prissy is mine" she said but frowned when she saw them hesitate, fighting Naruto had not exactly been on the to do list. "STOP BEING COWARDS AND GET HIM" she shouted as the four charged Naruto.

"Let's go" he said as jumped back making room to fight as Clarisse immediately went after Percy.

The group of Ares sibling charged and one brought his sword up to Naruto head. Naruto ducked the swing and kicked him in the stomach sending him stumbling back. While a second thrust his sword towards him but Naruto managed to stop it with one of his knive.

He twisted the sword around in the Ares boy's hand where it eventually fell out of his hand and Naruto punched him in the stomach before kicking him to the other side of the creek.

The first Ares boy recovered from the punch to the gut and when to attack Naruto again but Naruto used his superior speed to appear behind him and whacked him on the back of the head with the hilt of his knife knocking the boy out.

He looked over to see how Percy was doing and saw he was now standing in the creek with a few scratching on his face and a big cut on the top of his right arm that had blood flowing freely down it.

He was brought of his musing when the remaining two Ares kids attacked him and swung their swords at him which got deflected by both his hunting knives. He managed to equal them in strength thanks to the numbers of hours of rigorous training he was doing.

He pushed one away causing him to stumble while he kicked the other one away. When the two stood next to each other he quickly put his knives and way and got his bow out.

Within second he shot four arrows towards the boys with two arrows each piercing through the fabric of their clothes and pinning them to the tree behind them. When they tried to get out Naruto appeared in front of them with his two knives back out and held them to their throats.

"If you knows what good for you, you won't try and move" he said giving both boys a cold glare which immediately caused the two to go pale and shut while nodding in acceptance knowing they were beaten.

Naruto took a deep breath. The four Ares kids had been easy enough to beat since they just rushed him and didn't think things through and hardly used any teamwork either.

"You idiot! You corpse-breath worm!" Clarisse suddenly shouted getting Naruto's attention. He was surprised to see Clarisse now holding a broken spear with a look of pure rage on her face. He guessed that was her favourite spear.

As she went to attack Percy again Percy dodged the punch she threw before whacking her in the face with the blunt end of his sword. Clarisse went down like a sack of potatoes as she landed on her butt next to the creek.

As the small battle died down shrieks and shouts could be heard and when they looked over Naruto and Percy grinned when they saw Luke with the Ares flag with about a dozen blue team soldiers around him to fend off any red team soldiers.

"NO" Clarisse shouted but it was too late. Luke had managed to arrive in the blue team's territory signalling the blue team had one. The banner then changed from the red Ares cabin flag into a silver flag with a caduceus symbol on it.

The moment it did all the campers around him cheered and picked Luke up on their shoulders.

Chiron then wandered over and blew the horn. "BLUE TEAM WINS" he declared getting another round of cheers while the red team all groaned.

"That was some pretty good fighting boys" a voice said form behind. When Percy and Naruto looked over they saw Annabeth shimmer into existence as she took of a New York Yankees hat.

Naruto looked on impressed. "Invisibility hat. Cool" he said getting a nod and a smile from Annabeth.

"You put me here because you knew Clarisse would come after me, while you sent Luke to get the flag. You had it all figured out didn't you?" Percy said while Annabeth shrugged. Naruto felt a little bad for helping but he did watch over him and make sure he was okay which he was in the end.

Annabeth shrugged. "I told you. Athena always, always has a plan."

"A plan to get me pulverized."

"I came as fast as I could but I knew Naruto was here and let's face it with him with you your going to be fine."

Percy knew that was true but it didn't make him feel any better.

"How did you do that?" Annabeth said walking up to Percy and examining the cut on his arm.

"Clarisse's spear got me."

Naruto walked over and understood why Annabeth looked so surprised. It was because the fresh cut had already begun to heal. There was now just a white scratch. The two watched as the white scratch eventually faded into nothing.

"Woh" was Naruto and Percy's first thought but only Naruto expanded on them. "That's similar to the fox's chakra healing me" he thought.

"Step out of the water" Annabeth demanded to Percy. While Percy looked at her in confusion she grabbed his arm and dragged him out. When she did Percy slumped to the ground but was caught by Annabeth and Naruto.

"Oh, Styx," she cursed. "This is not good. I assumed it would be Zeus..."

Both looked at her in confusion before a light began to shine temporarily blinding everyone. It drew everyone else towards them including those who were only watching and they watched the light above Percy. The light was bluish green and then took the form of a three tipped spear. A trident.

When it did many gasped when they saw it.

Even Naruto knew what that symbol was but it was Chiron who voiced it. "It has been determined."

"My father" Percy said getting a nod from Chiron.

"Poseidon" Chiron said. "Earthshaker, Stormbringer, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God."

Many began to kneel to Percy and Naruto figured he should do the same. However just as he was about to he heard twigs being broken. The direction was where he heard it before from the bushes on the edge of the creek. He sniffed the air and could smell small traces of death, embers and dog. Not a good combination.

He stood up and looked over towards the bushes and could hear rapid footsteps getting closer.

Many saw him stand up and wonder what he was doing. "Naruto what are you"-

Annabeth stopped speaking when Naruto formed a rasengan in his hand that quickly got everyone's attention.

"Naruto why are you"- Chiron was about to talk before a growl ripped through the silent air causing everyone to tense and look over to where Naruto was looking.

Then out of the bushes surprising everyone jumped out what looked like a giant dog that was easily the size of a car and had eyes that looked like pools of lava and fangs easily the size of a dagger. Many panicked while others got out their weapons including Chiron.

"A hell hound" someone said as the dog lumbered forward towards them. However Naruto noticed that its eyes were locked onto Percy and knew he had to step in now.

It launched towards Percy but just before it got close enough Naruto appeared in front of it and shot the rasengan forward.

"RASENGAN" he shouted as it impacted right onto the hell hound's face which sent in spiralling back knocking down tree after tree before it stopped when it hit into a boulder.

When everyone looked over they saw half the hellhound's face had pretty much been blasted off from the attack and was thrashing around wildly in as its face slowly began to heal since monsters could only be defeated by celestial bronze. However none the less that rasengan to the face had to hurt like hell.

Deciding to put the creature out of its misery Naruto pulled off his bow from his back and put two arrows on it. Then as quickly as possible he shot two arrows towards the hellhound and hit the beast in the throat and in the chest. The hellhound stopped moving immediately before it's whole body began to sink into the floor before nothing but one of its large fangs was left.

Naruto took a deep breath and turned back around to see the gobsmacked looks of the campers. "What?" he asked raising his eyebrows at them.

"That was amazing" he heard as so many looked at him in amazement at how quickly he managed to defeat the hellhound and all being awestruck at the move he just performed. Everyone wanted to ask questions and wanted to swarm him before a bright light appeared above Naruto's head just like it did Percy.

"Am I being claimed?" He thought as he realised he could finally find out who his mom was.

"HE'S BEING CLAIMED ASWELL" Annabeth shouted as she looked on in excitement as did everyone else so they could finally see who Naruto's godly parent was since it had been a topic of many conversations through the camp. Especially with the girls since many were hoping they were not related since many were developing crushes for Naruto.

Naruto looked at everyone faces as they stared at the light which slowly began to form into a symbol. When they did however Naruto saw their faces change from amazement, to shock and then to disbelief. He saw all their eyes go as wide as possible including Chiron's who even dropped his bow from disbelief.

He looked up and his eyes widened. The symbol that had formed above him was giving off silver flicks of light and Naruto could make out the symbol as a bow and arrow with a crescent moon behind it.

He knew that symbol from the text books and since it was on the cabin that he stared at almost every day. He knew who it belonged to but he was struggling to find the words. Never did not think this was even possible. He had never even considered that she could be his mother since the chances were all but zero.

"There has to be some kind of mistake" Clarisse said voicing everyone's thoughts. Silena in the crowd looked at Naruto in sheer amazement. He told her his godly parent was his mom and by his features she just assumed he was most likely a child of Athena. But she certain didn't expect this.

The entire camp was now there and they just murmured that what they were seeing was not possible. That there must have been some kind of mix up but everyone knew there was never a mix up.

"It can't be" Annabeth said in a whisper as she stared at Naruto with disbelief written all over her face. "He can't be hers. She couldn't. She wouldn't."

"She has" Chiron said finally speaking up when no one else would.

"But her oath" she said before being startled by Mr D appearing.

Mr D who had been watching from the big house appeared next to him with sheer amazement on his face. "I never imagined I would live to see this. Never in my wildest imagination did I think she would have a child and a son no less."

Grover who now appeared next to Annabeth looked at the symbol and immediately dropped to his knees and bowed as far down as he could as did all the other nature spirits and satyrs that had begun appearing.

Everyone began to mimic the actions as Chiron voice out "Hail Naruto Uzumaki, son of"-

But before he could finish another light went off getting everyone's attention again. It was not as large as the first but it appeared above the crescent moon symbol and flickered in an orange light. The symbol was that of a hearth.

When that second symbol appeared all remaining colour in everyone's faces just drained away and many dropped to the ground in more disbelief. Many knew what they were seeing was a historic moment. Even Mr D and Chiron who were shocked at the first symbol and from Percy's claiming were not prepared for this either.

"I don't believe it. To think she too broke her oath and is related to this young man" Chiron said.

"This-This is amazing" Annabeth said while Luke appeared next to her with the same kind of expression on his face. "This is beyond what I imagined."

"What does this mean?" Naruto said looking towards Mr D and Chiron who began to bow again towards Naruto while Mr D just continued to stare at the two symbols.

"He was strong before but now he could quite possibly have the same status as a child of the big three, if not greater" Mr D thought as began imagining what the reactions of his fellow gods would be.

Many followed Chiron's example and bowed once again. Chiron's voice then boomed out across the area breaking the silence as he said the words he never in all his years alive imagined he would ever be saying.

"Hail Naruto Uzumaki, Son of Artemis, Goddess of the Moon and the Hunt and descendant of Hestia, Goddess of the Hearth."

Chapter Eight Completed

I hope you all enjoyed the claiming. Also if you were wondering what the reactions of the others gods were going to be then don;t worry. In the next chapter it will start off with the gods as well as the hunters reaction watching Naruto get claimed so don't worry about not being able to see that in this chapter. The campers reactions I feel were enough for this.

I put descendant of Hestia since Naruto does not know that Hestia is Minato's mother but most likely will in the next chapter.

Also their are images on my profile from deviant art to show the characters appearance.

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