Chapter 1: I Think I Crushed My Pre-Algebra Teacher,
On the Ceiling...
"Character Speech"
'Character Thought'
"Monsters/Summon/Jutsu /Deity Speech"
'Monsters/Summon/Jutsu /Deity Thought'
Disclaimer: I don't own Nothing of Naruto or Percy Jackson.
It has been a three years since Naruko arrived in this new dimension. Learning a new language had been a breeze seeing as she already knew it thanks to the language seals. For her this world was more peaceful and advanced than Elemental Lands. She had trained every day to improve and master her new skills especially bending. She would often spent time learning sword fighting and different Jutsu from Kurama.
She had met to very friendly people in this time at school. There Names were Percy Jackson. He was twelve and had black hair and sea green eyes. Who hated school. His reason was that random Paranormal stuff just kept happening to him there and that made a lot of people dislike him and call him a freak and all sorts of names. Sort of like her child hood in the Elemental Lands but on a lower scale. Two of them get along very well. Despite the fact that no one besides Kyuubi had seen under her hood. Ever time a teacher asked she would cast a genjutsu to make them forget. No one had actually seen her face... or most of her body besides her arms for that matter...
Next there was Grover Underwood. Naruko had met the boy when he bumped into her on enchilada day, despite being crippled and having to use crutches that boy could run like his name was Usain Bolt when food was involved... He had mocha skin colour with curly short brown hair and warm chocolate brown eyes. He was also a bit of a hippy he thought because of the fact that he almost never ate any sort of animal and by the way he dressed. Though all in all, Grover was a very sweet guy.
Today was there trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Naruko was wearing a short sleeved hoody with a pair of boy shorts that ended at her knees, Ignoring the heat quite successfully as Mr Brunner there history teacher drowned on in the background, Naruko had her headphones in listening to a summer mash-up of all the latest songs of this year with her hands in her pocket.
Naruko was standing next to Percy who was wearing a orange shirt, slightly faded blue jeans, and some black and white Addidas high tops. She turned and looked at Grover and took in what he was wearing, he of course had his crutches, a honey yellow shirt and some bootleg pants that disgraced fashion and hid his shoes.
Nancy Bobofit a red-headed, freckle infested, kleptomaniac girl who couldn't keep her hands to herself, although it wasn't her fault. Picked up her sandwich and threw it Naruko, Grover and Percy, Naruko dodged it making most of it hit Grover in the back of the head. The chunks of peanut butter and jelly and of course bread make a huge sticky blob in the back of his head.
Naruko turned to the red head and glared making the girl stop laughing and shrink back with her so called friends, turning to Percy she read his lips as he said "I'm going to kill her,". Naruko nodded in agreement making the two boy face her with a questioning look, they could only see her mouth because of the hood but they could clearly see the smirk on her face.
Grover shook his head before trying to calm Percy down. saying "It's okay. I like peanut butter." This made Naruko frown, she felt bad for Grover as she turned to glare at the girl once again,'Bitch' Naruko thought.
"Nancy I can see you so you better stop" Naruko said in a cool calculating tone which if possible made the temperature in the room drop, her back was turned to the frizzy haired red head, who immediately dropped the food she was about to throw and as a shiver teared through her spine, she nodded meekly before taking a unnatural interest in the ground. Smirking at her work, Naruko went back to listening to her music, They continued walking until they got too the Greek Mythology section, turned their attention to Mr Brunner, he was a thirty-two-year guy in a motorized wheelchair. He was slightly balding and a messy beard that definitely needed a trim, or shape up or something... and a old tweed jacket that Naruko thought needed to be burned with her orange jumpsuit. Naruko looked around taking in all the marble statues and glass cases full of really old black, red and orange pottery..
Mr Brunner went on about Greek Mythology which Naruko, noticed oddly enough caught Percy's which in it's self was a miracle yet everyone else around him was talking and having their own conversations. 'Weird' thought Naruko.
Naruko felt a heated glare directed at her, she turned around and looked behind her to see the other teacher, Miss Dodds giving Percy and her the evil eye. She was this midget math teacher from Georgia who always wore a black leather jacket, even though she was like fifty years old. She had come to Yancy halfway through the year. She hated Naruko, Percy and Grover, since day one but loved Nancy Bobofit, ans sometimes even encouraged her to annoy them while she turned a blind eye, she Irked Naruko to no end.
Naruko turned off her headphones to be welcomed by Mr Brunner talking about Greek funeral art. In the middle of the Mr Brunner's speech, Nancy-The-redheaded annoyance-Bobofit snickered something about the naked guy chiseled onto the stone slab, and Percy being as rash as he was yelled "Will you shut up?" at her. But like most annoying and embarrassing moments in any teenagers for some reason everyone went silent at the same time making it sound louder than it was, the echo wasn't helping.
The whole class started snickering at this, some not even bothering to hide there laughter. Mr Brunner stopped his story and him being a teacher just had to pick Percy out. "Mr Jackson, do you have a comment?" he asked his scruffy eyebrows raised. Naruko put his hand over his mouth stopping anything stupid from coming out.
"No sir, he doesn't, do you Percy" Naruko asked, Percy shook his head before taking Naruko's hand of his mouth.
Mr Brunner then pointed to one of the pictures on the wooden slab, "Well then, what is this picture show Mr Jackson?" he asked
"That's Kronos eating his kids, right?" Percy answered
"Yes," Mr. Brunner said, looking unsatisfied with the answer. "And can you tell me why?"
Seeing Percy have a hard time answer that question Naruko piped up and decided to intervene. "He ate his kid because it was said in a prophecy he got that the would one day over throw him" Naruko answered, earning a sigh of relief from Percy. "He The Titan Lord went and got all flustered and stressed so he ate his kids, and because of that all, he really did was set the prophecy in motion and dug his own grave, because his wife hid her last born son, Zeus and gave him a rock to eat. How the hell he mistook a Baby for a rock is beyond me" Naruko wondered allowed, which made a lot of people laugh, including Mr Brunner. "Anyway, when Zeus was all grown up he poisoned his dad and threw up all his brothers and sisters and well….the war between Titans and gods begun, and the gods won" Naruko finished.
Nancy didn't try to hide the boredom in her voice as she mumbled, "Like we're going to use this in real life." while folding her arms and folding her arms.
"Why don't you answer, Miss Uzumaki, Mr Jackson, Do you have any answer for Miss Bobofit's excellent question. Does this matter in real life?" Mr Brunner said putting them on the spot.
Naruko answered first saving them both "Well if you run into a Greek Monster, and you weren't listening to how the past hero's fought it Good luck to you" she laughed at the end unaware of the truth to her words. Mr Brunner's and Grovers face went pale before going going back to normal laughing with rest of the class, both of there reactions surprisingly went unnoticed.
"I see," Mr Brunner said, "Well half a credit to you both, Zeus did feed Kronos a mixture of mustard and wine, which made him disgorge his other five children, who of course, being immortal Gods, had lived and growing up completely undigested in the Titan's stomach. The gods defeated their father, sliced him to pieces with his own scythe, and scattered his remains in Tartarus, the darkest part of the Underworld. Moving on it's time for lunch" Mr-Brunner smiled. The class went, the girls muttering about how things were gross, and the guys acting like dumb-asses trying to peak up the girls skirts.
Naruko drifted in her own imagination only to be broken out of thought Mr Brunner "Mr Jackson, Miss. Uzumaki." he called. They told Grover to keep one going while they handled whatever wheels was going to say to them. "Sir?" Mr. Brunner had this look, like he knew a lot more then he let on and that had seen too much.
"You two must learn the answer to my question, and take things more seriously" Mr Brunner scolded.
"About the Titans?" Percy asked.
"About real life. And how your studies apply to it." Mr Brunner corrected
"Oh." he mumbled, though Naruko had a strange feeling that the man was talking about both things.
"What you two learn from me," he started, "is vitally important. I expect you to treat it as such. I will only accept the best from both of you, Percy Jackson, Naruko Uzumaki." This made Percy slightly angry at the man, sure he was cool in class when he set up those tournament days, but the man was pushing them to hard.
Percy mumbled something about trying harder while Naruko just nodded her head as they left to go eat. Naruto noticed that Mr Brunner gave a long sad look at the stele. It was odd to say the least. The class was gathered on the front steps of the museum, where they could watch the crowded traffic along Fifth Avenue. They noticed that storm clouds were brewing. "Hey Naruko, what do you think is going on…with the weather and all?"
Naruko gave the boy a 'Really' look despite them not being able to see her face. "Really? you're asking me? How am I supposed to know" she answered. With that, the two off them joined Grover as the fountain and sat down to eat. It was away from the others so they would not be bothered and the fact that Percy didn't like being part of the school in the first made it seem that were not part of the school for freaks. Of course, Naruko wasn't bothered.
"Detention?' asked Grover.
"Nah," Percy answered, "Not from Brunner. I just wish he'd lay off me sometimes. I mean…I am not a genius."
Naruko rolled her eyes at the boys before listening to her music once again. For a while they stood there in awkward silence, Then Grover asked for Percy's apple and the boy gave it to him. Percy seemed a little lot in thought. "Thinking about your mother?" Naruko asked knowing all to well dispite never meeting the woman.
"Yeah, we are kind of close to her place. I hope she is doing alright, I mean she has been living with Gabe after all." Percy said, a little angry about her still with Gabe.
"Percy, I am sure she is alright. She put up with that slob this far, I am sure can do it a little bit more. Still don't see what she sees in that guy though from what you've told me about him." Naruko commented, pausing her music quickly.
Percy nodded and was about to unwrap his sandwich when redheaded monster Aka Nancy Bobofit and her annoying friends came over and got brave by dumping her lunch on Grover, making Naruko and Percy glare at her.
"Oops." She drawled out while smirking at Percy, as if daring him to do something about. Naruko could tell that Percy was pissed and was trying to keep his temper down and was obviously failing miserably. Then something weird happened. The water from the fountain rose up and pushed her onto her butt. He saw it perfectly because it had pulled his shadow up to hit her.
That is not what she saw though. "Percy pushed me!" Then that old wind bag, Miss Dodds came right up to them with a hard heated glare. Around them they heard whispers of what happened. Apparently, Naruko and Percy was not the only one to see the water and the shadows move.
After the old crone had made her way to Nancy to see if she was alright, she turned the two three of them and started off with that "Now honey" crap, but Percy beat her to it.
"I know." Percy grumbled, "a month of erasing workbooks." Naruko just sighed shaking her head.
Though, it would seem that was not the right thing for Percy to say. "Come with me!"
"Wait!" Grover spoke, "It was me! I pushed her!" both Naruko and Percy stared at Grover for that Naruko with her eyebrows raised and Percy stunned into silence that Grover was trying to cover for them. Naruto was put off that Grover wanted the punishment for them.
The old crone didn't seem to by it and gave him a glared so heated that his chin trembled. Naruko Intervened going in front of grover and glaring at her making the wind seem stronger and colder than before. Miss Dodds broke away after ten silent awkward seconds "I don't think so, Mr. Underwood."
"But-" Grover tried but was cut off.
"You Will Stay Here!" Miss Dodds forcefully said each word with anger, making Grover shrink a bit.
"It is ok man." Percy said to his friend while Naruto nodded.
With that, they left with Percy giving Nancy an evil glare while Naruko turned to her with a angry glint in her eye making the girl pale. That by it'self made Naruko smirk. Though, when they looked back to Miss Dodds, she was already at the entrance of the museum. One thing was going through Percys mind 'What the hell?', were as Naruko's eyes narrowed while thinking 'What is she?'.
They kept walking deeper and deeper into the museum until they were back in the Greek and Roman section. Except for them, the gallery was a ghost town. Miss Dodds stood with her arms crossed in front of a big marble frieze of the Greek gods. She was making this weird noise in her throat, like croaking or...growling. "You've given us problems, honey," she said to Percy.
He looked at her and said, "Yes, ma'am."
She tugged on the cuffs of her leather jacket. "Did you really think you would get away with it?" The look in her eyes was beyond angry. They were evil.
'She's a teacher,' He thought nervously, reminding himself he was safe. 'It's not like she's going to hurt me.'
"I'll-I'll try har-harder, ma'am." Percy stuttered
Suddenly, Thunder shook the building. "We are not fools, Percy Jackson," She said. "It was only a matter of time before we found you out. Confess, and you will suffer less pain." This made Percy looked her as if to saw 'What-The-Hell'. "Well?"
"Ma'am, I don't..." he was cut off.
"Your time is up," she said and hissed ominously. Then the weirdness came. Her eyes began to glow like barbecue coals. Her fingers stretched, turning into talons. Her jacket melted into large, leathery wings. She wasn't human. She was a shrivelled leather bag...uh... hag with bat wings and claws and a mouth full of yellow fangs. She was sure as hell not human, that was for sure.
"Miss Dodds?" Percy whisper/squeaked as he saw his teacher turned Monster.
"Where is it?" She asked and tried to attack on him, but somehow he dodged her. He tried to run away from her. "I won't ask again. Where is it?"
'What the hell is she talking about?' Percy thought to himself. He brought out of his thoughts when he heard the screeching of wheels get closer to him. He looked over he was surprised to see Mr Brunner there in his wheelchair.
"What?, Percy catch!" Mr Brunner shouted, and threw an item to him.
Percy looked down to see what he caught and saw that he had a gold ballpoint pen in his hand. "What the Hell, what am I supposed to do with a pen?" He shouted. Percy didn't know what to do. So he decided to press down on the cap of the pen. Then pen suddenly became a sword."Whoh!" He said.
Percy attacked shakily toward Miss Doods. He simply swung the blade diagonally, hoping to wound her, but she dodged his attack and before he could react, she hit him in his chest. This sent him tumbling to the floor.
"Die Honey!" Miss Doods yelled as she spread out her wings and began to flap over towards him. Suddenly, the ground Miss Dodds was flying over flew up crushing her against the ceiling, making her combust into yellow powder before the ground went back down to were it had been. Naruko ran to Percy from the side where she had earth bended crushing the hag from hell against the ceiling. Helping Percy up one thing came to Naruko's mind 'I guess this dimension ain't as peaceful as I thought...'.
"Come on lets go" Naruko urged, "and where the hell did you get that pen...sword thing?" Naruko asked.
Percy looked dazed for a moment before answering " Mr Brunner"
"Mr Brunner!?, What the hell" Naruko muttered.
When they finally got outside, it had started to rain. Grover was sitting by the fountain, a museum map tented over his head. Nancy Bobofit was still standing there, soaked from her swim in the fountain, grumbling to her ugly friends. When she saw me, she said, "I hope Miss Kerr whipped your butt.
"Miss Who?" Percy and Naruko asked sync there voice's laced in confusion.
"Our teacher, Duh!"
'We have no teacher whose name is Miss Kerr.' Percy thought, Naruko simply raised her eyebrows before going into her bag pack and taking out a book to read. Funny enough even when they were running her hood stayed on... He wanted to ask Nancy what she was talking about. She just rolled her eyes and turned away. He walked over to Grover and he gave him the same answer but he was stuttering slightly so Percy knew he was lying. Thunder boomed overhead. Percy saw Mr. Brunner sat under his red umbrella, reading his book, as if he'd never moved. He looked up, a little distracted. "Ah, that would be my pen. Please bring your own writing utensil in the future, Mr. Jackson," He said.
Percy handed his pen. "Sir," He said, "Where's Miss Dodds?"
Mr. Brunner stared at him blankly. "Who?"
"The other chaperone, you know, Miss Dodds. The pre-algebra teacher."
"Percy, there is no Miss Dodds on this trip. As far as I know, there has never been a Miss Dodds at Yancy Academy. Are you feeling all right?"
"Huh?" Percy replied
"You may have just got the Miss Kerr's name mixed up with someone else, perhaps an old teacher from a previous school," Mr. Brunner said before wheeling off.
Percy just sighed. "Let's go, Naruko, Grover" He sighed, as the three of them walked along with the school group.
Life after the field trip went on like normal, well as normal as school could get. For the rest of the year Percy were a bit put off by the revelation that Miss Dodds never existed. In her place was a perky blond woman names Mrs. Kerr. Percy still would try and bring up Miss Dodds randomly to try and trip them up. It seemed like the only ones that remember her were him, Naruko and what seemed like Grover and his bad lying skills.
Naruko did ask Kyuubi about it when she got home though, she knew he was watching the whole thing...
Flashback
"I'm Home" Naruko shouted through the huge Mansion like house she called home. Walking up the stair's and into Kyuubi's room, opening the door Naruko went and sat on the bean bag chair.
"Hello kit" Kyuubi smiled walking out the shower.
"Did you see it" Naruko asked looking up at her So called Big-brother, Kyuubi nodded opening a can of grape Soda "So what do you think about it, because around here it doesn't seem normal" Naruko sighed.
"I think...I think we are going to be sucked into something big, annoying and dangerous, so I'll keep an eye out to protect my baby sister" Kyuubi broke out into a smile ruffling Naruko's hair.
"Hey!, stop that, and you know your meant to drink milk not soda when you come out a bath or shower right" Naruko asked arching a eyebrow.
Kyuubi sighed "Tomayto, Tomato" he waved dismissively.
"Uhh no, tomato, milk" Naruko sighed. before they both decided to go down stairs and make dinner.
Flashback Over
One thing Naruko had noticed was that Percy started feeling cranky and irritable most of the time. His grades slipped from Ds to Fs. He got into more fights with The Bobofit brat and her friends. He was sent out into the hallway in almost every class. Naruko was in some of Percys classes but she didn't seem bothered by the Bobofit bitch. Something odd was going on and Percy, Naruko were somehow affected.
Though when Percy got in trouble for calling their English teacher a old sot, What ever that meant, the school sent a letter his Mother telling her that Percy would not be allowed back next year, the boy's mood got better….but just a little bit. Naruko could tell Percy missed his Mother because he hated that fact that she was with Gabe of all people. The poor guy was homesick, no surprise there. Naruko sighed when she was torn out of her thoughts, exam week was coming up soon, not like she cared though, the exams here were so easy, she doubted they could last five minutes in the First stage of the Chunin exams.
Naruko was sitting with Percy at the desk in his dorm room trying to wedge so information into his head Naruko sighed, trying to calm Percy down when he finallly asked "What the hell is the difference between Chiron and Charon?"
"One has a 'A' and the other has a 'I'" Naruko answered smirking slightly under her hood.
Percy looked at Naruko "You know what I mean!" he exclaimed, making Naruko giggle behind her hand.
"Come on I guess thats enough for tonight we need our rest" Naruko said yawning, before she stretched and picked up her books and bag.
"Ok I'll walk you too the gate" Percy said getting up, they walked down the hall talking about random stuff when Percy asked "Why don't you Just stay in the dorms?"
"Because people tent to get curious about my face" Naruko answered simply. This made Percy raise a eyebrow, he was about to open his mouth but was but of by the familiar voice of Mr Brunner. They walked downstairs to the faculty offices in silence. Most of them were dark and empty, but Mr Brunner's door was slightly ajar, light from his window stretching across the hallway floor. They were three steps from the door handle when the two of them heard voices inside the office.
Mr Brunner asked a question. There was also A voice that was definitely Grover's that said "... worried about Percy and Naruko, sir."
The Percy froze at that, and Naruko stared impassively at the door curiosity being filtered into her gaze. They looked at each other before nodding and leaned in to eavesdrop, not that Percy did it a lot but Naruko was Naturally curious, as specially when a friend is talking about you to a teacher, you'd want to what was going on.
"... alone this summer," Grover was saying. "I mean, a Kindly One in the school! Now that we know for sure, and they know too—"
"We would only make matters worse by rushing them," Mr. Brunner said. "We need Percy to mature more."
"But the two of them may not have time. The summer solstice deadline— " Grover insisted
"Will have to be resolved without them, Grover. Let him enjoy his ignorance while he still can."
"Sir, they saw her... ." He continued
"Their imagination," Mr Brunner insisted. "The Mist over the students and staff will be enough to convince them of that."
"Sir, I ... I can't fail in my duties again." Grover's voice was choked with emotion. "You know what that would mean."
"You haven't failed, Grover," Mr Brunner said kindly. "I should have seen her for what she was. Now let's just worry about keeping Percy and Naruko alive until next fall—"
The Mythology book that Percy had brought with him fell to the floor and Naruko's eyes widened in panic as all went silent. As soon as Percy grabbed the book, Naruko grabbed Percy Jumped on the ceiling using chakra in her feet to stay there. Percy saw something larger than Mr Brunner come out of the room. A few seconds later they heard a slow clop-clop-clop, like wood blocks hitting the ground, then a sound like an animal snuffling right outside the door. A large, dark shape paused in front of the glass, before it then moved on.'Idiot' Naruko thought, 'Why would he chose to drop his book here and now of all times, why'd he even bring the book with him'. Naruko dropped to the ground without a sound holding Percy over her shoulder before putting him back on his feet. "Go" Naruko mouthed silently to Percy who nodded wide eyed before running back to his dorm.
Naruko stayed behind staring at the door Impassively, her stare unreadable, before merging in with the darkness. Gone.
The Next afternoon, both finally got out of there three hour exam 'my eyes swimming with all the Greek and Roman names I'd misspelled' Percy thought, while walking out only for Mr. Brunner to call him back inside. For a moment, Percy was worried he'd found out about his and Naruko's eavesdropping the night before, but that didn't seem to be the problem. "Percy, " he started, "Don't be discouraged about leaving Yancy. It's ... It's for the best. "
'Gee way to list his spirits Mr. B' Naruko thought, Even though he was speaking quietly, the other kids finishing the test could hear him clearly. Nancy Bobofit smirked him which made Naruko glare at her, before doing, The Smile, It was something everyone hated, and the teacher asked her to stop doing, everyone in the room shivered despite it not being directed at them. "Miss Uzumaki, could you please not, do that" Mr Brunner asked, Naruko stopped and everyone sighed relieved before Percy and Mr Brunner went back to there Condensation
"Okay, sir." Percy mumbled
"I mean ... " Mr. Brunner wheeled his chair back and forth, like he wasn't sure what to say. "This isn't the right place for you. It was only a matter of time. "
Percy's eyes tarted to water, but who could blame him, Here was his favorite teacher, in front of the class, telling him I couldn't handle it. After saying he believed in him all year, and now he was telling him that he was destined to get kicked out.
"Right, " Percy said, Naruko noticed he was trembling.
"No, no, " Mr. Brunner said. "Oh, confound it all. What I'm trying to say ... You're not normal, Percy. That's nothing to be-"
"Thanks, " Percy blurted. "Thanks a lot, sir, for reminding me.
"Percy-" Mr Brunner tried to reason, but he was already gone.
"Nice Mr. B real nice" Naruko said shaking her head, before running after him.
On the last day of the term, Naruko sat on the side and watched as Percy shoved his clothes into his suitcase.
The other guys were joking around, talking about their vacation plans. One of them was going on a hiking trip to Switzerland. Another was cruising the Caribbean for a month. They were juvenile delinquents, like him, but they were rich juvenile delinquents. Their daddies were executives, or ambassadors, or celebrities. This greatly depressed Percy from what Naruko sensed from his emotions, he obviously thought he was a nobody, from a family of nobodies. To bad Neither of them knew how wrong he was...
They asked turned to ask Percy and Naruko what they'd be doing this summer, Percy said he was going back to the city and Naruko shrugged, before saying "I want to go to the beach, but my brother gets angry when people see me in a swimsuit saying stuff like 'They undress me with there eyes' whatever that means". This of course made the boys curiosity burn, wanting to see under hood, or at least see her face.
But what Percy didn't tell them was that he'd have to get a summer job walking dogs or selling magazine subscriptions, and spend his free time worrying about where he'd go to school in the fall, of course Naruko knew this, yet she also knew Percy didn't want her help.
"Oh, " one of the guys breaking them out of there thought said. "That's cool." They went back to their conversation as if Percy'd never existed, trying to convince Naruko to take of her hood, who'd of course ignored them.
The only people Percy dreaded saying good-bye to was Grover, and Naruko but as it turned out, he didn't have to. Naruko was coming with him, to do god knows what and Grover booked a ticket to Manhattan on the same Greyhound as he had, so there we were, together again, heading into the city. During the whole bus ride, Grover kept glancing nervously down the aisle, watching the other passengers. It occurred to Percy that he'd always acted nervous and fidgety when we left Yancy, as if he expected something bad to happen. Before, I'd always assumed he was worried about getting teased. But there was nobody to tease him on the Greyhound.
Finally Percy being a idiot, and Naruko being asleep, wasn't able to shut him up as he asked "Looking for Kindly Ones?"
Grover nearly jumped out of his seat. "Wha-what do you mean?"
Being Percy he confessed about eavesdropping on him and Mr. Brunner the night before the exam, good thing Naruko was asleep, because Percy would have been dead for telling Grover about her being there too. Grover's eye twitched as he glanced nervously at Naruko . "How much did you hear?"
"Oh ... Not much. What's the summer solstice dead-line?" Percy answered
Grover winced. "Look, Percy ... I was just worried for you, see? I mean, hallucinating about demon math teachers ... "
"Grover-" Percy started only to be cut off.
"And I was telling Mr. Brunner that maybe you were overstressed or something, because there was no such person as Mrs. Dodds, and ... "
"Grover, you're a really, really bad liar. " Percy stated ending Grover complaints.
His Grovers ears turned pink, it was a cute sight to see, From his shirt pocket, he fished out a grubby business card. "Just take this, okay? In case you need me this summer.
The card was in fancy script, which was murder on my dyslexic eyes, but I finally made out something like:
Grover Underwood
Keeper
Half-Blood Hill
Long Island, New York
(800) 009-0009
"I want one", said a now wide awake Naruko.
Scaring them slightly, Grover went in his bag and brought out another one in Greek this made Naruko raise a eyebrow it was a good thing she knew Greek. But the question was why was it in Greek...
This one said:
Half-Blood Camp,
Half-Blood Hill,
Long Island, New York
(800)009-0009
"What's Half-"
"Don't say it aloud!" Grover yelped. "That's my, um ... Summer address. "
Percy's heart sank. Grover had a summer home. He'd never considered that his family might be as rich as the others at Yancy.
"Okay, " he said glumly. "So, like, if I want to come visit your mansion. "
He nodded. "Or ... Or if you need me. "
"Why would I need you?" Percy said harshly. By his face it obviously came out harsher than I meant it to.
Grover blushed right down to his Adam's apple. "Look, Percy, the truth is, I-I kind of have to protect you, both of you. "
Naruko rolled her eyes at the two before going back onto her Ipod.
Percy stared at him.
All year long, he'd gotten in fights, keeping bullies away from Grover. He'd lost sleep worrying that Grover would get beaten up next year without him. And here he was acting like he was the one who defended him. "Grover, " Percy said, "what exactly are you protecting me from?" Before he could even attempt to answer, There was a huge grinding noise under there feet. Black smoke poured from the dashboard and the whole bus filled with a smell like rotten eggs. The driver cursed and limped the Greyhound over to the side of the highway. After a few minutes clanking around in the engine compartment, the driver announced that they'd all have to get off. Grover and Naruko and Percy filed outside with everybody else. They were on a stretch of country road-no place you'd notice if you didn't break down there. On there side of the highway was nothing but maple trees and litter from passing cars. On the other side, across four lanes of asphalt shimmering with afternoon heat, was an old-fashioned fruit stand.
The stuff on sale looked really good: heaping boxes of blood red cherries and apples, walnuts and apricots, jugs of cider in a claw-foot tub full of ice. There were no customers, just three old ladies sitting in rocking chairs in the shade of a maple tree, knitting the biggest pair of socks any of them had ever seen.
I mean these socks were the size of sweaters, but they were clearly socks. The lady on the right knitted one of them. The lady on the left knitted the other. The lady in the middle held an enormous basket of electric-blue yarn. All three women looked ancient, with pale faces wrinkled like fruit leather, silver hair tied back in white bandanna's bony arms sticking out of bleached cotton dresses. The weirdest thing was, they seemed to be looking right at Percy and Naruko. Percy looked over at Grover to say something about this and saw that the blood had drained from his face. His nose was twitching.
"Grover?" Percy and Naruko said in sync said. "Hey, man-" Percy continued
"Tell me they're not looking at you. They are, aren't they?" Grover asked, looking terrified
"Yeah. Weird, huh? You think those socks would fit me?" Percy joked, Naruko glared at him sensing Grovers fear and discomfort.
"Not funny, Percy. Not funny at all. " Grover muttered, The old lady in the middle took out a huge pair of scissors-gold and silver, long-bladed, like shears. I heard Grover catch his breath. "We're getting on the bus, " he told them "Come on. "
"What?" Percy said. "It's a thousand degrees in there. "
"Come on!'" He pried open the door and climbed inside, but Percy and Naruko stayed back.
"What the hell was that about" Naruko asked.
"Hell if I know" said Percy
Across the road, the old ladies were still watching them. The middle one cut the yarn, and Percy swore he could hear that snip across four lanes of traffic. Her two friends balled up the electric-blue socks, leaving Percy wondering who they could possibly be for-Sasquatch or Godzilla and Naruko rolled her eyes at how stupid the situation was. At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered, and the engine roared back to life. The passengers cheered. "Darn right!" yelled the driver. He slapped the bus with his hat. "Everybody back on board!" Once they got going, Percy, as if he'd caught the flu, and Grover didn't look much better. He was shivering and his teeth were chattering.
"Grover?" asked Naruko "You alright?"
"Yeah?"
"What are you not telling me, Us?" Naruko asked
He dabbed his forehead with his shirt sleeve. "Um... you guys, what did you see back at the fruit stand?"
"You mean the old ladies? What is it about them, man? They're not like ... Mrs. Dodds, are they?"
"I don't get why you're worried, this is just over the top and stupid situation" said Naruko, her arms expression was hard to read mostly because of the hood, Percy got the feeling that the fruit-stand ladies were something much, much worse than Mrs. Dodds. "Just tell me what you saw. " Grover exclaimed
"The middle one took out her scissors, and she cut the yarn. " Percy admitted
Grover closed his eyes and made a gesture with his fingers that might've been crossing himself, but it wasn't. It was something else, something almost-older. "You saw her snip the cord. " he said quietly.
"Yeah. So?" But even as Percy said this, he knew it was a big deal.
"This is not happening, " Grover mumbled. He started chewing at his thumb. "I don't want this to be like the last time. "
"What last time?" Naruko asked, 'If this has happened before then...'
"Always sixth grade. They never get past sixth. " Grover mumbled
"Grover, " Percy said, because he was really starting to scare him. "What are you talking about?"
"Let me walk you home from the bus station. Promise me." Grover urged, This seemed like a strange request to him, but I promised he could.
"Is this like a superstition or something?" Percy asked.
No answer.
"Grover that snipping of the yarn. It means than someone is going to die doesn't it" Naruko stated, recalling what she had learned recently, He looked at her and Percy mournfully, like he was already picking the kind of flowers he'd like best on their coffin.
"Shit" Naruko said suddenly, "It's a good thing Neji isn't her to say I told you so, because fate, or in this case Fates are coming for us..." her mind going a mile a minute.
Chapter One FINISHED!
Who do you think Naruko should be with?
Not Nico or Kyuubi, I have Plans for them.
Some parts may be a little different from the book this chapter because of the fact that I couldn't find my Percy Jackson book series at first but Yea!