Chapter 3: Bull Shit!
"Character Speech"
'Character Thought'
"Monsters/Summon/Jutsu /Deity Speech"
'Monsters/Summon/Jutsu /Deity Thought'
Disclaimer: I don't own anything of Naruto or Percy Jackson.
So far these are the people that have been voted to pair with Naruko:
Percy – 19
Luke - 7
Apollo – 8
Hermes - 7
Artemis – 10
Connor - 3
Annabeth – 2
Zoe – 2
Silena – 2
Thaila – 2
Piper – 2
Clarisse – 2
Kate - 2
Travis – 2
Harem's
Harem with Percy, Luke, Connor, Travis, Apollo, and Hermes – 17 (A/N : This is still my favourite harem other than one with Percy, Apollo and Luke.)
Percy, Apollo and Luke - 12
Naruko with Annabeth, Zoe, Artemis, Silena, Thaila, Piper, Reyna, Clarisse, Calypso and Katie - 9
Ok the reason I didn't have this up two weeks ago was because my Laptop died and the insurance people took TWO HOLE WEEKS to fix it, so I apoligize for how long it's been so here you are.
Chapter 3:Bull Shit!
They tore through the night along dark country roads. The wind slammed against the Camaro. Rain lashed the wind-shield Percy didn't know how his mom could see anything, but she kept her foot on the gas. Every time there was a flash of lightning, Percy looked at Grover sitting next to him in the back seat and he wondered if he did go insane, or if he was wearing a shag-carpet pants.
"So, Grover you and my mom—know each other?" Percy asked to finally find his voice.
Grover's eyes flitted to the rear view mirror, though there were no cars behind us. "Not exactly," he said. "I mean, we've never met in person. But she knew I was watching you."
"Watching me?" Percy asked
"Keeping tabs on you and Naruko, Making sure you two were okay." He said.
"Grover when were you going to tell us this" Naruko asked, who seemed to be the one Person in the car that was calm.
"That doesn't matter right now." Grover said, Making Naruko stare at him her now icy blue eyes staring hole in his head..
Percy decided to intervene there mini staring competition "It doesn't matter? From the waist down, my best friend is a donkey—"
Grover let out a sharp, throaty, "Blaa-ha-ha!"
Percy had heard him make that sound before, but he did always assume it was a nervous laugh. Now he realized it was more of an irritated bleat.
"Goat!" Grover cried.
"What?" Percy asked
"I'm goat from the waist down." Grover corrected
"You just said it didn't matter."
"Blaa-ha-ha! There are satyrs who would trample you under hoof for such an insult!" Grover continued
"Whoa, Wait, Satyrs. You mean like Mr. Brunner's myths?"
"Were those old ladies at the fruit stand, a myth, Percy? Was Mrs. Dodds a myth?"
"So you admit there was a Mrs. Dodds!"
"Of course."
"Then why—"
"The less you knew, the fewer monsters you'd attract," Grover said. "We put Mist over the humans' eyes. We hoped you'd think the Kindly One was a hallucination. But it was no good. You started to realize who you are."
"Who I—wait a minute, what do you mean?" Percy asked
"So does that mean were...GROVER!, when were you planning to tell us" Naruko scolded.
"Uh whe-"
The weird bellowing noise rose up somewhere behind them, close, very close. Whatever it was, it was close, and seemed to be on their trail.
"Percy," his mom said, "there's too much to explain and not enough time. We have to get you two to safety."
"Safety from what? Who's after us?" Percy asked while Naruko frowned.
"Oh, nobody much," Grover said, obviously still miffed about the donkey comment. "Just the Lord of the Dead and a few of his blood-thirstiest minions."
"Grover! you baka, you should have told US or at least me" Naruko shouted not realising she shouted at him partly in Japanese
"Sorry, Mrs. Jackson. Could you drive faster, please?" Grover replied ignoring them.
"What, you mean Hades?" Percy replied and the ground shook a bit and Grover nodded a little panicked.
While Percy were trying to wrap his heads around all this madness, Percy's mom made a hard left. They swerved onto a narrower road, racing past darkened farmhouses and wooded hills and 'Pick your own Strawberries' signs on white picket fences.
"Where are we going?" Percy asked.
"The summer camp I told you about." His mother's voice was tight; she was trying for Percy's sake not to be scared. "The place your father wanted to send you."
"The place you didn't want me to go."
"Please, dear," his mother begged. "This is hard enough. Try to understand. You're in danger."
"Because some old ladies cut yarn?" Percy asked and Naruko just sighed.
"Percy if you paid more attention in class you'd understand that is bad." Naruto said. "When they cut the yarn…that means someone is going to die! you BAKA" she shouted the ending in Japanese once again.
"Exactly." Grover said, "the fact they appeared in front of you two, they only do that when you're about to ... when someone's about to die."
"Whoa-you said 'you'!" Percy freaked.
"No I didn't. I said 'someone.'" Grover replied.
Naruko smirked slightly her eyebrows raised at the two, looking completely amused.
"Yeah, you meant me!" Percy said.
"I meant you, like 'someone.' Not you, you."
"Boys!" Percy's mom said. She pulled the wheel hard to the right, and they got a glimpse of a figure she'd swerved to avoid—a dark fluttering shape now lost behind them in the storm.
'The hell was that' Naruko thought.
"We're almost there," Mrs. Jackson said, "Another mile. Please. Please. Please." They didn't know what 'there' was but it had to be safe from whatever the hell was chasing them.
The hair rose on the back of Percy's neck. There was a blinding flash, a jaw-rattling boom, and the car exploded. It was a freaky feeling to be blown up, like you were, weightless, hot, cold, falling and floating all at the same and somehow different times. It was like sky diving, or that fan thing.
Percy peeled his forehand off the driver's seat in front him as his mom called out to him. "ow" He said.
He heard Naruko groan as they noticed the car was still intact because it was in a ditch. They sighed in relief that weren't dead. While Naruko was stretching her arms which she had put in front of her face to stop the contact, Percy noticed that Grover looked unconscious. "Grover!"
"Food…" He groaned.
If Naruko could, she would have sweat-dropped at that. Yeah, Grover was alive and definitely going to be fine.
"Percy," his mother said, "we have to ..." Her voice faltered, because when the lightning flashed, they saw a huge figure through the mud splashed window.
"Guys," Percy's mother said, deadly serious. "Get out of the car." She tried the driver's said but all the mud was blocking their way out. "Passenger's side. Get out now and run to the big tree!" She yelled pointing to a large tree in the distance as they got out.
"What?" Percy replied, confused until the lightning flashed and a large pine tree in the distance appeared and that thing was huge!
"That's the property line," his mom said. "Get over that hill and you'll see a big farmhouse down in the valley. Run and don't look back. Yell for help. Don't stop until you reach the door."
"Mom, you're coming too."
Her face was pale, her eyes as sad as when she looked at the ocean.
"No!" Percy shouted. "You are coming with us. Help me carry Grover."
"Food!" Grover moaned, a little louder.
Naruko groaned and yelled above the storm. "Give him to me, I'll carry him!" Percy nodded and gave Grover to Naruko and turned back to his mother, only to see the creature coming towards them. It was huge! That and it seemed that it had fur on it!"
Naruto turned to look at it and yelled, "This is utter bull shit!"
"He doesn't want us," Mrs Jackson called out. "He just wants the two of you. Besides, I can't cross the property line."
"But..."
"We don't have time, Please. Both of you. Go."
He climbed across Grover and pushed the door open into the rain.
"We're going together. Come on, Mom."
"I told you—"
"Mom! I am not leaving you." Percy didn't wait for her answer. He scrambled outside, Naruko holding Grover over her shoulder. He was surprisingly light.
Glancing back, Percy got my first clear look at the monster. He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the cover of Muscle Man magazine—bulging biceps and triceps and a bunch of other 'caps, all stuffed like baseballs under vein-webbed skin. He wore no clothes except underwear— bright white Fruit of the Looms—which would've looked funny, except that the top half of his body was so scary. Coarse brown hair started at about his belly button and got thicker as it reached his shoulders. His neck was a mass of muscle and fur leading up to his enormous head, which had a snout as long as his arm, snotty nostrils with a gleaming brass ring, cruel black eyes, and horns—enormous black-and-white horns.
Percy recognized the monster, all right. He had been in one of the first stories Mr. Brunner told them. He blinked the rain out of his eyes. "That's—"
"Pasiphae's son," Sally said. "I wish I'd known how badly they want to kill you."
"But he's the Min—"
"Don't say his name," she warned. "Names have power."
"Percy, why the hell would you look back at a time like this!" Naruko shouted.
The pine tree was still way too far—a hundred yards uphill at least. Percy glanced behind him again. The Minotaur hunched over the car, looking in the windows well... not looking, exactly. More like snuffling, nuzzling. Percy wasn't sure why he bothered, since he was only about fifty feet away.
"Food?" Grover moaned.
"Shh," Naruko told him.
"Mom, what's he doing? Doesn't he see us?" Percy asked
"His sight and hearing are terrible," Sally said. "He goes by smell. But he'll figure out where we are soon enough." As if on cue, the Minotaur bellowed in rage. He picked up Gabe's Camaro by the torn roof, the chassis creaking and groaning. He raised the car over his head and threw it down the road. It slammed into the wet asphalt and skidded in a shower of sparks for about half a mile before coming to a stop. The gas tank exploded. 'Not a scratch,' Percy remembered Gabe saying.
"You guy need to stop looking back, it's slowing you down" Naruko scolded.
"Percy, Naruko" Sally said. "When he sees us, he'll charge. Wait until the last second, then jump out-of-the-way— directly sideways. He can't change directions very well once he's charging. Do you understand?"
"How do you know all this?"
"I've been worried about an attack for a long time. I should have expected this. I was selfish, keeping you near me."
"Keeping me near you? But—"
Another bellow of rage, and the bull-man started tramping uphill.
"He'd smelled us."
The pine tree was only a few more yards, but the hill was getting steeper and slicker. Looking behind them they saw the bull man was picking up pace and getting closer and closer to them.
"Go, Percy! Separate! Remember what I said" Sally shouted out, exhausted
Percy sprinted to the left, turned, and saw the creature bearing down on him. His black eyes glowed with hate. He reeked like rotten meat. He lowered his head and charged, those razor-sharp horns aimed straight at his chest.
Percy thought, 'Were, never outrun this thing.' Naruko ran up and put grover higher up to safety,Percy held his ground, and at the last moment, he jumped to the side.
The Minotaur stormed past like a freight train, then bellowed with frustration and turned, but not toward Percy this time, to his mother, Sally, who was setting Grover down in the grass.
They reached the crest of the hill. Down the other side Percy saw a valley, just as his mother had said and the lights of a farmhouse glowing yellow through the rain. But that was half a mile away.
'We'd never make it,' Percy thought.
The Minotaur grunted, pawing the ground. He kept eyeing Sally, who was now retreating slowly downhill, back toward the road, trying to lead him away from Grover.
"Run, Percy!" She shouted. "I can't go any farther. Run!"
The Minotaur charged her. She tried to sidestep, as she'd told Percy to do, but then he had learned his lesson. His hand shot out and grabbed her by the neck as she tried to get away. He lifted her as she struggled, kicking and pummelling the air.
"Mom!" Percy yelled.
Sally caught Percy's eyes, managed to choke out one last word "Go!"
Then, with an angry roar, the monster closed his fists around her neck, and she dissolved before Percy eyes, melting into light, a shimmering golden form, as if she were a holographic projection. A blinding flash and she was simply gone.
"No!" Percy cried out.
Naruko ran next to Percy, just in time to see what happened. "Percy we need to get to the boarder " she shouted, the hood sticking to her face. Percy shook her off and gave her a determined look that made Naruko sigh. She knew she would have to help him fight this thing and survive, not for her, not for him, but for his mother.
Percy stripped off his red rain jacket and did one of the worlds dumbest things. "Hey!" he screamed, waving the jacket, running to one side of the monster. "Hey, stupid! Ground beef!"
"Raaaarrrrr!" The monster turned toward them, shaking his meaty fists.
Naruko knew Percy had an idea, it was probably a stupid idea, but better than no idea at all. He put my back to the big pine tree and waved my red jacket in front of the bull-man, thinking I'd jump out of the way at the last moment. But it didn't happen like that. The bull-man charged too fast, his arms out to grab them whichever way I tried to dodge.
'He must think this is loonytoons' Naruko thought.
Time slowed down. Percy's legs tensed. I couldn't jump sideways, so I leaped straight up, kicking off from the creature's head, using it as a springboard, turning in mid-air, and landing on his neck.'How did I do that?' Percy thought, but he didn't have time to figure it out. A millisecond later, the monster's head slammed into the tree and the impact nearly knocked his teeth out. The bull-man staggered around, trying to shake him. But Percy locked his arms around his horns to keep himself from being thrown. Thunder and lightning were still going strong. The rain was in their eyes. The smell of rotten meat burned their nostrils. The monster shook himself around and bucked like a rodeo bull. He should have just backed up into the tree and smashed Percy flat, but Percy was starting to realize that this thing had only one gear: forward. Meanwhile, Grover started groaning in the grass. Both Naruko and Percy wanted to yell at him to shut up, but the way Percy was getting tossed around and Naruko was concentrating on getting a opening without hurting Percy, as well as if Percy opened my mouth I'd bite my own tongue off. "Food!" Grover moaned.
The bull-man wheeled toward him, pawed the ground again, and got ready to charge. Percy thought about how he'd had squeezed the life out of his mother, made her disappear in a flash of light, and rage filled him like high-octane fuel. He got both hands around one horn and he pulled backward with all my might. The monster tensed, gave a surprised grunt, then-snap! The bull-man screamed and flung him through the air. Percy landed flat on his back in the grass, His head smacked against a rock. Unconscious. This is when Naruko took her shoot, summoning her sword from the storage seal in her wrist, Naruko charged at the beast ducking under the swipes as she jumped up to take a shot and the beast slashed his claws against her stomach making a big gash, that started bleeding heavily. Angrily Naruko took her sword Fire bending so it looked like the blade was on fire and rammed it into the beast's heart making him combust in yellow dust only leaving a horn, which Naruko picked up horn storing the Katana back into the storage seal, she ran and picked up Percy, and then Grover.
'It's like fricken Horns 'R' Us' Naruko thought tired.
When they got to the pouch, It seemed that Percy was just barely keeping conscious. The weight of the two and the battle was getting to up, Naruko saw the familiar face of Mr. Brunner, who was giving them a serious look. He also a blond haired girl. "One of them has to be it….they just have to." The girl said.
"Silence, Annabeth," Mr. Brunner said. "He's still conscious. Bring them inside."
"Yes…they would be very helpful if you don't mind." Naruko replied weakly, catching them off guard. Going inside, Naruko helped the girl named Annabeth put Percy and Grover on different cots in the room.
"Um…my name is Annabeth Chase by the way." The girl said with a small smile.
Naruko held the side she got cut and weak smile, "Naruko Uzumaki," Annabeth looked at Naruko and saw her gash, Naruko fell forward, being caught just in time before losing consciousness. Annabeth placed Naruko on the bed, and looked at her wound, as it started to close. The fat, muscle tissue, and skin heal until nothing was left, not even a scar on Naruko's creamy smooth skin all within a few seconds. Annabeth stared in shock before placing her on the bed.
Naruko woke up with a start half an hour later, as she jumped up and out of the bed she was laying in, her shinobi instincts kicking in. She stayed still taking in her surroundings. Her body tense, it wasn't until she heard a fox yip, that her body relaxed. She scowled down at the small fox, who's nine tails were swishing behind it happily, "Kurama where were you" she hissed at it.
"I went to get some spicy chicken wings" Kurama smirked, "I knew you wouldn't die, and I was hungry"
Naruko glared at him "So WHAT, what kind of older brother" Naruko trailed off. Kurama transformed into his human form, He was wearing black jeans, and Armani Jeans Patent Black Mid Top Trainers. With no shirt... The whole thing scared the crap out of Annabeth, who was feeding Percy ambrosia squares.
"Oh my gosh" sighed Annabeth holding her heart.
"Oh sorry for scaring you" Naruko said sitting down on the side of the bed. She turned and saw the horn she got from the fight last night on the side table next to the bed. "Last night was major bullshit" she sighed.
"Indeed it was" said Mr. Brunner walking...um... wheeling into the room.
"How long was I out" Naruko asked.
"Half an Hour, I don't even know how your awake with that gash you had, but then it suddenly started healing" Annabeth answered.
"Yea I'm a really fast healer, at first it was because of him" Nauko said pointing to Kurama who was leaning against the wall.
"Ahh so this is the infamous Kyuubi no Kitsane" Mr Brunner said, Naruko looked at him.
"You Know of the Elemental Lands?" Naruko questioned
"I the gods talk about it when I go to summits" Chiron answered. "Only a child of the Big Three or one of their descendants can be what the call...Jinchuriki" he continued. "You are indeed a child of the Big Three, or at least a descendant, So this is very bad for you, your pretty much in the same boat as Percy"
"Why is that" Naruko asked.
"Because, the big three swore an oath on the River Synx after World War II, that they would not have any more Demigod spawn with a mortal." Chiron answered.
"Well, look how it turned out for them, they're basically denying something in there Nature anyway" Naruko snorted.
"Indeed" Chiron chuckled "Annabeth, could you please bring some Ambrosia and Nectar. It should help her energy faster replenish."
"Ambrosia, In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods or demigods, often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whoever consumed it. It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves, so it may have been thought of in the Homeric tradition as a kind of divine exhalation of the Earth." Naruko said reciting what she had read in the Greek Mythology book when she first came to this world.
"Very good Naruko, but it does not grant Immortality to whoever consumes it and only demigods can eat it, It kills Mortals, demigods too if you take too much. Also there are no doves" Chiron corrected. Naruko nodded storing those facts in her memory. "Oh and I almost forgot. These are yours now, use them wisely." Chiron said as he took out a shiny twin black daggers, handing them to Naruko she pressed the top and they turned into two black bracelets on her wrist, one with a black Sakura tree petal and the other with a rose. "Your father had the Smith God forge them from its raw power, these are extremely powerful, holding up to three quarters of the krackens power. Use them wisely" Chiron answered.
'How many weapons am I going to get, but this is very' "Interesting" Naruko muttered, Annabeth soon entered the room holding a bowl golden slices, and a cup with golden liquid. Naruko reached in and took a out a slice, taking a bite a familiar flavour filled her mouth making her smile, 'Ichiraku's ramen' Naruko thought, most of Naruko's best memories were there.
"How do you feel?" Chiron asked.
"Awesome!" Naruko answered with a smile that would put Apollo to shame.
"Good to hear." Chiron commented with a smile of his own. "I'll have a camper show you the cabin for later. You may come back here. When Percy wakes up I will tell more about this as I don't want to repeat myself." chiron continued. Naruko blinked, he was sounding a awful lot like Sasori from the Akatsuki. Naruko nodded as she and Kurama follow him out of the room. "Annabeth, please continue to watch Percy please." Chiron stated.
"Sure" answered Annabeth
Once they had gotten outside Naruko turned her head to the side in wonder. This place was bigger than it seems. She looked up at the hill on the far side of the camp only to be welcomed by the sight of the very pine tree she was fighting next to last night. She felt curious when she looked at it, there was a strange force both protecting and inside of it. She made a mental note to check it out later before looking straight ahead to see a load of cabins set in a U shaped arc.
Chiron, regained Naruko's attention when he called out to a he saw a girl walking by, "Clarisse, Come here for a moment please!"
The girl turned her head and saw Chiron and one of the two new demi-gods everyone was talking about. She smirked and walked over. Naruko noticed that she was pretty tall, strong looking, and probably a year or 2 older than her. She wasn't ugly in any-way, but she looked built and gruff like those weight lifting women. "What?" she asked once she arrived.
"I would like for you to show Naruko here around some of the cabins. I will have Annabeth show the both of them around camp later when the boy wakes up." Chiron stated.
"Fine, gotta welcome the newbie anyway." She said with an evil smirk.
Naruko raised a unseen eyebrow. Must have thought 'welcoming committee.' would work on her.
"Well come on brat!" She called out, already walking followed her all the way to the middle of the arc of cabins. "Ok, listen closely because I am only going to say this once! There are 12 cabins in all. Each one represents the Greek Good it was made for. Their kids are the one who live in there. Since you and the runt are new and have not been claim yet, you two will go to Cabin 11, the Hermes Cabin."
Naruko nodded. "And who is you godly parent" she asked, although she already had an Idea who it might be.
"The Ares God of War" She smirked proudly while pointing towards the red cabin.
'Knew It' Naruko thought smirking.
"Right, now we have the other cabins. We got Demeter, Dionysus, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hera, Zeus, Artemis and Poseidon." She said pointing to each. Naruko looked at Zeus and Hera's and stared. They had some greatly decorated cabins that weren't meant to be used. She raised an eyebrow when she saw there was no Hades cabin there; it was quite odd considering he was one of the big three.
"Now….let me 'officially' welcome you!" Clarisse called out, making a lot of people look toward them and they grimaced. Clarisse was breaking in another newbie. They felt sorry for the new kid, although they had yet to realise Naruko was a girl... Clarisse pulled a fist back to punch her only for Naruko to put her index finger out and stop it just in front of her face. Clarisse along with everyone else gasped as Naruko pushed her back using only the one finger. Kyuubi yipped once again in his fox form as if to be laughing. It was mostly Kyuubis chakra helping her do this.
Naruko suddenly disappeared and before Clarisse could get over her shock, she felt cold metal against her neck."Nice try, you're a good few thousand years to early to hurt me" whispered Naruko.
'Just what is he' Clarisse thought falling back. As if sensing her thoughts Naruko helped her up and asking "Clarisse, you know I'm a girl right" Clarisse gaped "Um sorry" she said looking at her feet, the people who knew Clarisse were stumped. 'Clarisse, Apologizing. Impossible' was what most of them were thinking.
Arriving at the Big House, Chiron looked out and saw that Naruko looking well he couldn't really tell because of the hood but Classire was looking Apologetic? Chiron had a feeling something Naruko was gonna start some mayhem around here if she had already got Clarisse to apologize...At any rate, he would probably hear what happened from camp gossip. Chiron was even more stumped when Naruko appeared in front of her in a flash of light via shunshin. "Well Naruko, Since Percy won't be fully awake until tomorrow, I would like for you to try not to leave the camp" asked remembering when Naruko somehow disappeared in a whole class detention when she was sitting in the front row...
"Fine" Grumbled Naruko. "I'll go exploring Inside the camp then" she pouted "Ja Ne...um I mean bye". Chiron sighed shaking his head before looking down to where Clarisse was only to see her looking at Naruko in with admiration and Awe with a slight pink tint on her cheeks. Now that made Chiron shake his head while muttering something about 'needing to go rest his head' and 'too much going on and changing in one day'
With Naruko
Naruko walked up to the great pine tree, curiosity clocking her face, Placing her hand on the ruff warm wood she shut her eye only to be welcomed to the once place she had spent years in...limbo. Naruko sighed in defeat before looking around; there was not much to be seen apart from endless, nothingness. It had no beginning and no end everything was white. Looking about ten degrees up and to her left Naruko's eyes caught on a girl about her age she has shoulder length pin straight black hair, and electric slightly paler blue eyes paler than Naruko's. She was wearing Punk rock clothing, black jeans with two studded belts overlapping each other and a black shirt that said 'Fear is good! It means you're listening' and a black leather jacket and a spiky NY hat. She was looking down at Naruko in shock. Naruko took her hood of her head and stared at the girl in equal shock. One this came out of both of their mouths as they stared at each other.
"Who the hell are you?"
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