Konohamaru had his hand up but Iruka was already getting up and taking the book from Tsunade before returning to his seat. Konohamaru pouted and crossed his arms but it did not stop him from listening as Iruka started,

Chapter two; Something weird is going on

It has been a few months since Naruto arrived in this new land. Learning a new language had been surprisingly easy. Though he did find out that he was dyslexic in this world also but he knew he how to deal with it.

The group was surprise to hear Naruto learned a whole new language easily and the fact he was dyslexic. Ino blinked, "Wait he is too?"

Sakura look at her, "What do you mean too?"

Ino blushed, "I have a hard time reading, the word keep swimming before my eyes. It takes me forever to read anything. That was why you did better then me with reading and test in the academy."

The group blinked before Jiraiya chuckled, "That's because it the mark of a half-blood. You are dyslexic because you brain is hardwired to read Ancient Greek. You can read that as clear as day."

Ino blinked at this new information.

That was not all bad, for you see; he had met a boy with the same problem. His name was Percy Jackson. The two got along very well. They were both impulsive and that hated being in school. Naruto's reason was because of his experience in the academy back home, while Percy's reason was that weird thing happened to him and always got then blame. Now, Naruto being himself did not really give a second thought about that. That and the fact that he told Percy about his ninja abilities only strengthened their friendship. Percy wished that he could make Shadow Clones to do his own homework and often begged Naruto to use them to help him out in school or when they were handing out.

Iruka frowned, "He should really do his own homework."

Kakashi chuckled, "Well that is Naruto for you. Plus it does not matter really. Anything the clones do is sent back to the user. You can do a lot of paperwork with a couple of clones."

Tsunade felt like hitting herself for not realizing it sooner.

Then through that friendship came another. Through Percy, he had meet Grover Underwood. The boy was a cripple because he was always seen with crutches. He was also a bit of a hippy in his opinion because of the fact that he barely ever ate meat and by the way he dressed. Naruto thought his outfit back home was way better, (This cause those that knew his fashion sense to shake their heads) and showing the guys it cause Grover to just laugh. Though he was pranked after words. All in all, Grover was a very nice guy. He usually looked out for Percy and himself the best he could, of course being crippled made him a bit weak.

Now, however, our trio was on a bus to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They were taking a trip to learn about Greek Mythology, not that Naruto needed it since he knew a lot already. Sitting in his seat, Naruto saw what Percy was wearing for today. With his dark hair, he wore an orange and red shirt, blue jeans, and some black shoes. Grover, who was sitting right next to Percy, had his usual crutches, a tie-dye shirt and some oversized pants on that hid his shoes. Naruto was still considered the odd ball of the group. He wore a pair of black sneakers, some ripped jeans, and a black shirt on that had a picture of blue flames coming from a bluish silver dragon jaws.

This cause Ino and Sakura to blink, there were surprise to hear he wore something beside orange let along something that actually looked good. Konohamaru thought the book sounds cool, which his friends agreed and Hinata blushed as she pictured him dressed like that.

His train of thought was broken because Nancy Bobofit was throwing wads of her peanut butter and jelly at Grover, who was acting like nothing was happening to him for their sake. Percy was already on probation because of the odd stuff that happened to him some of it was him helping Naruto. Naruto, however, was not and he could do anything within reason. He smirked in anticipation.

"I am going to kill her." Naruto heard Percy mumble.

"It is okay. I like peanut butter." Grover commented as he had to dodge piece of Nancy's lunch.

"That's it!" Percy growled out as he started to get up but Grover kept him down. That is when Percy saw the look in Naruto's eyes and smirked.

Iruka sighed as he read and knew that his favorite student was up to something.

"You're already on probation." Grover reminded Percy. "You know who'll get blamed if anything happens."

Percy smirked and said, "Only if I am the one doing it."

That statement made Grover suddenly look at Naruto and he was about to warn his other friend in the seat next to them, but he never got the chance to because at that moment, Nancy threw another piece of her lunch at Grover. Naruto, who had been fiddling with a paper shuriken, immediately threw the paper projectile at the wad and it caught the piece of sandwich and kept on traveling to the window where it struck through a bit.

"Hey Nancy Drew" Naruto started with an annoyed smirk as he made fun of the girl's name. "Please stop that."

"Nancy Drew?" Kiba asked aloud, causing the others around him to shrug.

Iruka notice another foot note at the bottom of the page, "it say that Nancy Drew is the star of a series of mystery book. I guess Naruto found out about them and made fun of her name before they are so close."

Kakashi chuckled, "That's Naruto for yea."

"Why the hell you care Uzumaki! Who are you to tell me I who can mess with?" The red head questioned.

"Because they are my friends and better people then you are." Naruto said with a glare that sent chills down the girl's spine. "Now please stop or you will be my next target."

Nancy paled at this. She knew what happen to those he targets. The last girl ended up tied upside down to the flagpole in her underwear, so she nodded her head. "Good girl." Naruto said making a lot of the students around them laugh, included Percy and Grover.

The girls frowned at what Naruto did, Hinata then muttered aloud, "Maybe the girl was a bully. Naruto is not the type of person to do that for no reason."

The girls muttered to themselves, "I guess," Temari muttered, "He never seemed like a pervert to me anyways."

Jiraiya smirked thinking that Naruto maybe be thought yet, until he remember he was by his mother and figure it would not happen.

(Scene change)

Mr. Brunner led the museum tour. He rode up front in his wheelchair, leading the group through the big galley, past marble statues, and glass cases full of really old black and orange pottery. Naruto could not help but chuckle at the choice of colors.

This caused the group to sweat dropped. 'I guess he did not change that much,' Kakashi thought.

Naruto looked at Percy and saw the boy was blown away by the fact that this old stuff was in good condition. "Dude, you mouth his hanging open." Percy's face went red as he closed his mouth. Naruto just laughed at his friend's expression.

"Sorry, it is just that this stuff is really old."

"Heh, well, when you have fanatics looking for this stuff, they find it and try and bring it back to the condition it was once in." Naruto said.

Percy looked at Naruto oddly before shaking his head. "I keep forgetting that you are one of those fanatics. I mean you read about all that Greek Mythology all the time."

This caused Naruto's old classmates to blink at that line. "Really?" Choji could not help but ask.

Sakura was stunned; as long as she had know Naruto he was never interested in reading. "It makes sense," Kakashi said making everyone turn to him. He glance at them, "Think about it. Naruto has always been alone with no one to help teach him. There were even those that look down on him and went as far to ignore him, even some of the sensei in the academy. But when someone believed in him he fought even harder then he did to prove himself not just to him but to the person who believed in him. The third Hokage, Iruka, me, even master Jiraiya. But here he was asked to study from his own mother. Someone he wanted to know for a long time now. It is not so far fetch for him to try so hard."

The group was silent, the sand siblings amazed at the strength Naruto had with the odd against him. He did not seem like much when they first met but he went through a lot and was strong in the heart even before they met him.

Lee was crying hard, "Naruto's flames of youth are burning bright Gai sensei! I must work harder so my flames may be a match for Naruto's!"

Gai have Lee his trademark glinting smile and thumbs up. "Of course Lee! We will begin training at once."

Lee jumped into the air, "Gai sensei!" as his sensei copied him crying out, "Lee!"

But before they could go on and lead to their special sunset backdrop Tsunade was between then and hit both of the fools on top of the head. They crashed to the floor moaning in pain, as Tsunade ordered, "I do not want to see that at any time while we are here. You try that again and I will be giving you two the most un-youthful missions I can think off for a year."

Lee and Gai were bowing before Tsunade apologizing before she had them take her seat. Tenten and Neji watched this thinking she may have been a little harsh but they did not mind the results.

Iruka smiled, feeling proud of Naruto and how he must have improved even if he was still himself. He went back to reading wanting to know more of what he went through.

"There is some pretty interesting stuff." Naruto shrugged as they walked with the group to where Mr. Brunner had stopped. "Besides, Mr. Brunner is under the assumption that we should both know about it all." Percy just rolled his eyes.

"Easy for you to say, you're interested in it. I mean that class, biology class and PE is what you excel in, the others are miles behind, like me."

"Well he has improved but he is still Naruto," Iruka said with a smile causing the group to smile as well.

Naruto replied with a shrug. Percy usually tried his best but thanks to his Dyslexia AND ADHD, he had a hard concentrating on much of anything at school. So the guy just didn't care much for them.

'That made a lot of sense,' those that were in the academy with Naruto thought. even Ino thought how much they were alike as she also had ADHD but she work with it and made herself busy and figured it must be a half blood thing.

Turning their attention to Mr. Brunner, they went quiet, listen to the guy tell them about the ancient gods and other stuff like that. He had gathered them around a thirteen-foot-tall column with a big sphinx on the top, and the man started telling us how it was a grave marker, a stele, for a girl about our age. He told us about the carvings on the sides.

Naruto noticed that Percy was actually paying attention but the idiots around them would not stop talking for one second and Percy told them to shut up. For some odd reason Ms. Dodds, the annoying substitute math teacher, would give the both of them the evil eye. It was like she expected them to do something bad. That annoyed Naruto even further and he kept getting a bad vibe from her. Her chakra was odd too; he knew he would have to keep an eye on her.

This cause the adults of the group to look at one another, "So a monster you think?" Jiraiya asked to which Tsunade nodded, "Seems like it."

The younger members looked worried about this.

Grover noticed this as well and we both nodded to each other. This was someone they would keep an eye out for because when Percy told them that he thought she was not human, Grover gave him a very serious look like he already knew and agreed with him. Naruto just didn't like her because she was an old hag!

Que sweat drops.

Anyway, Mr. Brunner just kept on talking about Greek funeral art. When Nancy blabbed about a naked man on the Stele, Naruto saw Percy snapped and practically yelled at her to shut up.

"Mr. Jackson." came the voice of Mr. Brunner, "did you have a comment"

"No sir." Percy replied, embarrasses by his outburst, which made Naruto shake his head. Sure, he was going to say the same to the red head but Percy beat him to it. Cause he would embarrasses her but say she was a pervert for eye the statue.

Jiraiya and a few guys laughed before they stopped with the glares from the females members.

The wheelchair man then pointed to one of the pictures on the stele, asking Percy what the picture meant.

"That's Kronos eating his kids, right?"

"Wait what?" Moegi asked startled and she was not the only one.

Iruka looked at her, "They are explaining it now. I am sure it is not that bad."

'I wouldn't bet one it,' Jiraiya thought as Iruka started again.

"Yes," Mr. Brunner said, looking not that satisfied. "And can you tell me why?"

Seeing Percy have a hard time answer that question, Naruto decided to intervene. "The psycho ate his kids because there was some prophecy telling him that his kids were going to take over one day like he did." Naruto explained, getting a sigh of relief from Percy. "He was the Titan Lord so went and got his panties in a bunch and ate his kids because of that, but all he really did was set the prophecy in motion and screwed himself over because his wife hid her last born, Zeus and gave the guy a rock to eat. Talk about bad taste." Naruto joked, which made a lot of people laugh, including Mr. Brunner. (He also got some giggles from the group as well.) "Anyway, when Zeus was all grown up he tricked his dad into barfing up his brothers and sisters and well….the war between Titans and God came to be and the Gods won."

Even Iruka had to look sheepish at that, "Okay maybe it is a bad as it sounded."

"Eeew!" one of the girls commented on the barfing part.

"Of course in my opinion, I find it odd that even if the gods were immortal, that they survived in rock head's stomach all the those years. They must have been really annoyed and was like "little brother, what took you so long? Do you know how boring it is inside a stomach?" Naruto joked, making people snicker.

Sakura rolled her eyes, "Yes because that was there biggest concern."

Behind the two everyone heard Nancy Bobofit mumble, "Like we're going to use this in real life. Like it's going to say on our job applications, 'Please explain why Kronos ate his kids'."

"And why, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Uzumaki." Mr. Brunner said, "To paraphrase Miss Bobofit's excellent question, does this matter in real life?"

"Busted." Grover muttered

"Shut up!" Nancy barked at Grover, her face going redder then her hair.

"I don't know." Percy shrugged, a little relieved that Nancy was picked as well.

"Ya got me." Naruto said, "Maybe if we go to Greece we need to know this stuff."

"I see." Mr. Brunner said a bit disappointed.

"So I take it he knows of the gods as well?" Sakura asked catching on, "and he believes that Naruto and Percy are half-bloods as well."

"Looks that way," Tsunade said smiling at the fact Sakura was able to catch that,

"Well half credit to you both. Zeus did indeed feed Kronos a mixture of mustard and wine, which made him disgorge his other five children, who of course, being immortal Gods, had been living 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. On that happy note, it's time for lunch. Mrs. Dodds, would you lead us back outside?"

The class drifted off, the girls holding their stomachs, the guys were rough housing like normal and acting like idiots. Grover, Percy, and Naruto were about to follow when Mr. Brunner said, "Mr. Jackson, Mr. Uzumaki."

They told Grover to keep one going while they handled whatever he 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."

"About the Titans?" Percy asked.

"About real life. And how your studies apply to it."

"Oh." The boys mumbled, though Naruto had the sinking feeling that the man was talking about both things.

'Good instincts Naruto,' Kakashi thought.

"What you boys 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, Naruto Uzumaki." This made both of the boys a bit angry at the man, sure he was cool in class when he set up those tournament days, but the man was pushing the two of them a bit hard. Naruto felt like he was training with pervy sage; telling him what to do, not how to do it. The only improvement was that Mr. Brunner didn't ignore you for some pretty girl.

Tsunade glare at Jiraiya who was chuckling nervously and sweating a little.

Percy mumbled something about trying harder while Naruto just nodded his 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. Heh, maybe the guy knew the girl…..not likely.

(Scene change)

The class gathered on the front steps of the museum, where they could watch the foot traffic along Fifth Avenue. The boys noticed that storm clouds were brewing. "Hey Naruto, what do you think is going on…with the weather and all?"

Naruto gave the boy an 'are-you-serious' look. "You're asking me? I am not a weather man, but odd stuff like this has been going on for a bit though. You see it all over the news nowadays. Strange this is no one else seems to notice the clouds other than us. It's like an otherworldly power or a Genjutsu."

'He must have told his friend about them,' Kurenai thought, 'at least what they are basically.'

With that, the two boys 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, Naruto didn't care but he was at first cheesed that he had to a school like this.

"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."

Naruto rolled his eyes and said, "Heh could have told you or him that. But it is like he knows something about us. Hey, maybe we are related to some old Greek God or something." The boys looked at each other and then burst out laughing, though for Grover it was a nervous laugh.

Kankuro laughed, "Of course he would make a joke that is right on the button."

Temari rolled her eyes before then said, "It seems that Grover also knows of the gods. Or at least has a clue."

"Looks like it," Shikmaru muttered.

"Where do you come up with this stuff?" laughed Percy holding his sides.

After bit, they were quiet. Then Grover asked for Percy's apple and the boy gave it to him. Percy seemed a little lot in thought. "Thinking about your mom again?" Naruto asked.

"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.

"Dude, I'm sure she's alright. She put up with that slob this far, I am sure can do it a little bit longer. Still don't see what she sees in that guy though." Naruto commented.

Percy nodded and was about to unwrap his sandwich when Nancy Bobofit and her annoying friends came over and got brave by dumping her lunch on Grover, making Naruto and Percy glare at her.

"Oops." She drawled out while smirking at Percy, as if daring him to do something about. That and Naruto did not have a paper shuriken help some. Naruto could tell that Percy was pissed and was trying to keep his temper down and was failing miserably. Then something weird happened. The water from the fountain rose up and pushed her onto her butt into the fountain.

The group was shocked, "Looks like Percy is the god of a water god." Tsunade said.

That is not what she saw though. "Naruto and Naruto pushed me!" Then that old witch, Miss Dodds came right up to them with a hard glare. Around them they heard whispers of what happened. Apparently, Naruto was not the only one to see the water move.

After the old crone had made her Nancy was alright, she turned the two boys and started off with that "Now honey" crud, but Naruto beat her to it. "I know." Naruto grumbled, "A month of erasing workbooks." Naruto just sighed; this old hag was probably going to give him something worse.

Though, it would seem that was not the right thing for Naruto to say. "Both of you come with me."

"Wait!' Grover spoke, "It was me! I pushed her!" We both started at Grover for that. Naruto was stunned that Grover was trying to cover for them. Naruto was put off that Grover wanted to take the punishment for them.

Kakashi felt a bit of pride at this from Naruto. Sakura however was worried, 'He knows something and does not want Naruto and Percy alone with her.'

The old crone didn't seem to by it and glared at him so hard that his chin trembled. He was scared of the old crone after all. "I don't think so, Mr. Underwood."

"But-"

"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 Naruto slowly took out a paper shuriken, making the girl pale. That only made Naruto smirk. Though, when they looked back to Miss Dodds, she was already at the entrance of the museum. The boy's looked at each other, thinking how the hell did she get over there so fast? Naruto got a gut feeling that this was not a good thing.

(Scene change)

The boys walked to the end of the entrance, thinking that the old crone was going to make them buy a shirt to replace Nancy's wet one but that seem to not be the case because they walked right passed the gift shop. 'Something is not right here. How far into the museum does she need to take us to bitch at us? Why do I have this feeling that I'm in for a fight?' Naruto thought as they walked deeper into the museum. He looked to that Percy had the same thoughts as him.

The group was tense wonder what would happen.

The small group made it back to the Greek and Roman gallery of the museum to find the place completely empty. They heard her growl as she looked at the marble picture of the Greek Gods. "You boys have been making trouble for us." She said suddenly. This made the boy's look at her oddly. Percy was thinking about the candy he was selling while Naruto was thinking about the way he has been doing his homework and selling some of it to people who did not do theirs. "Well?"

"Uh, I am not sure what you are talking about." Naruto replied.

"Ma'am, I don't…" Percy started but the old crone didn't let him finish.

"Your time is up!" She hissed ominously. Then the weirdness came. Her eyes began to glow like barbeque coals. Her fingers stretched, into talons. Her jacket melted into large, leathery wings. She was not human that was for sure. She was pretty much an old bitch with bat wings and craws and a mouth full of yellow fangs and it seemed that she was the boys as her next meal.

"What is that?" Kiba was the first to ask as everyone was shocked. The Konohamaru corp. were huddling together scare that such a monster was real but they knew that their boos could handle it.

"A monster of that world," Jiraiya said "but I am not sure which one."

"If we keep going then we can find out," Iruka said before he started again.

"Please tell me you see that too." Naruto whispered to Percy to fearfully nod. "Good, then I know that I'm not insane then." That is when things got even weirder, because Mr. Brunner, who had been reading a book at the entrance, was at the entrance of the gallery with a pen and two silver and black rings in his hands.

"What ho, boys!" The man yelled to them as he threw the items at them.

That was when the old crone lunged at Percy. Naruto, thinking fast, made a seal appear on his pants and kunai holster appeared. He then took out two kunai and threw them at whatever Miss Dodds had turned into. "Get away from my friend you vampire reject!" while the old hag dodged that; he then saw Percy catch the pen, but the odd thing was that it had turned to a goldish sword. He then caught the rings in time to flip out of the way of Miss Dodds' claws.

Percy's eyes widened when he saw his friend's new weapons. In Naruto's hand were two identical twin blades, they were two and a half feet long and curved. Bronze and black metal mixed seem to be the blades.

Tenten blinked before she leaned forward with stars in her eyes thinking of such unique blades. 'Where can I get blades like those?'

Naruto rolled over to where Percy was and looked at Miss Dodds. She was getting up from her strike at Naruto and she looked pretty intimidating. Percy looked shaken by this, and it did not help that Naruto was a bit scared too. He had never fought something like this before! Then, she charged at the boys and they only they thought of were to stab her and they did. Just as their blades met, the old crone burst in a shower of yellow powder. It was like she vaporized on the spot with nothing but the smell of sulfur and a dying screech that sent chills up their spines. There was an evil chill in the air, like those creepy eyes were watching their every move.

"What happen to the monster?" Shino asked, speaking the first time. "I take it that what happens to monsters when they die?"

Tsunade nodded, "Their body break down and their souls go back into the darkest pit of the underworld. Where they are reformed and come back."

Hinata gasped, worried that the monster will try and get Naruto again.

The boys were now alone in the gallery once more. They looked back to their weapons and were shocked to find something different in their possession. Percy had a gold ballpoint pen while Naruto had the rings in his. "Ok…." Naruto said out loud, "I think we should get back to the others….something odd is defiantly going on here."

"Right." Percy agreed when he saw that Mr. Brunner was not in the room they were in.

Back outside, it had started raining. Grover was using his museum map as a tent to keep himself from getting too wet, while Nancy was still wet from earlier. She looked to them and smirked. "I hope Mrs. Kerr whipped your butts!"

The group was quite confused, who was Mrs. Kerr?

"Who?" Percy let out.

"Our teacher, duh!"

The boys blinked, asking who that was but all she did was walk away. They asked Grover where the old crone was, but he just gave them an odd look and asked, "Who?" But he did pause first before saying it, like he knew something was going on.

"Not funny man." Percy said, "This is serious." He didn't answer as thunder boomed overhead.

Shaking his head, Naruto lead Percy over to Mr. Brunner, who was under a red umbrella reading his book, like he never moved. He looked up distracted and asked, "Ah, My pen and my lucky rings. Please bring your own writing utensil in the future, Mr. Jackson. Oh and thank you for finding my lucky rings, Mr. Uzumaki." He said as they boys handed the items to him.

"Sir," Percy started, "where is Miss Dodds?"

"Who?" He said with a blank face.

"You know, the other chaperone, the math teacher." Naruto explained.

"Boys, there is now Miss Dodds on this trip, nor is there one in the school. Are you boys feeling alright?" He asked concerned.

"It is as if a Genjutsu was placed over the class," Kurenai said.

"But who made it and why?" Asuma asked wondering what was the point.

"I do not know but I am sure we will find out." Kakashi added

The boys just sighed and left, making their way back to Grover. On the way back, Naruto muttered out, "Is it me or is something going on here and we're missing it."

"Not just you thing time Naruto." Sakura muttered.

Iruka closed the book, "Well that is it for this chapter."

Konohamaru stood up, "But what as all that about and why are they forgetting everything?"

Iruka looked at his student "I don't know Konohamaru but I am sure the book will explain it or Naruto will be told."

Hinata looked down before she got determined and raised her hand, "May I read next?"