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Co-Written by Engineer4Ever
Fils de l'Amour: Mark of Athena
11: Dreams, Clouds and Barriers
Immediately after Morpheus drew Naruto into his realm, Naruto realized that once again he was not in his own body. Again, he was dressed in the awesome sunset tunic. His movements belonged to somebody else.
Talk about annoying.
"This...does not bode well." The words left his lips, but Naruto didn't know why they were said. The eyes scanned the area and Naruto mentally gaped. He was literally standing on a starry sky. How the hell was that possible?! Before Naruto could think anymore on this, the gaze went down to the blue, green and white planet he stood over. Naruto marveled at the sight of the planet he and the rest of humanity called home. It truly was beautiful from here. "I cannot let it happen. I will not lose Gaea."
Lose Gaea? What was this guy talking about? Naruto could only watch as his body strode down an invisible pathway to the rock that was home. Within seconds, he was back on Earth, a proud and powerful stride that made large lizard-like animals scurry away from him.
"Beloved!" There's a voice that sounds familiar. Naruto's head turned and he felt a smile spread across his face as the young and, oddly enough, beautiful primordial of the Earth quickly approached him.
"Gaea." The voice greeted happily when the powerful arms captured her in a tight hug. When Naruto's body pulled away, the eyes met with Gaea's beautiful green. "Are they-?"
"All healthy and happy. Come see, come see!" Gaea was elated and bright with her excitement. She dragged Naruto over to a small alcove where three nude infants sprawled on the ground. Oddly enough, they looked like they were growing larger with each second. The smile that was on Naruto's face fell as the infants turned and looked up at him, each with one single green eye in their heads.
"...They...are not like us," the voice said, a bit disappointed and almost wary.
"Nonsense!" Gaea rebuffed. "They have your shape and my eye!"
"...They are missing an eye. And their fingers are larger than ours." Naruto wanted to roll his eyes. Of course the fingers were larger, babies fat primarily to cushion their bodies until the muscles finished developing.
"Why does it matter?" Naruto had to side with Gaea on this one. What was the big deal?
Naruto's body was still for a moment before he felt tense and the sky become dark. "I do not want to see them."
"They're your sons-!"
"They are no sons of mine!"
Naruto wanted to ask for popcorn, this was getting heavy. He felt his hands clench and his legs move forward. Unable to do anything but silently protest, Naruto felt himself gather the three infants up in one hand by their ankles. Their cries made the sky crack, crafting the first lightning bolt. Naruto felt his eyes narrow and his gaze harden.
"No! That's not-!"
"Be silent, Gaea!" Naruto mentally grimaced at his words. Whoever he was, this guy was a dick. The glare that was set on the Mother Earth cowed her significantly well and Naruto felt himself turn to the edge of where Gaea's domain ended and a dark pit opened. Naruto absently thought it was a stupid place to raise children. This thought was enhanced as he was forced to live through tossing three innocent Cyclopes into the abyss, they cried out for their mother as they fell.
The vision became clouded and the dream slowly faded, but not before Naruto heard and felt one last sentence leave his lips: "I do this for you, Beloved."
Well, if that didn't raise more questions than it did answer them, Naruto would stop eating Ramen altogether.
The dream didn't end, as Naruto thought it would. He awoke in the body that was not his own, somehow aware that time had moved forward. Again, the body faced Gaea, and again, there was rage that trembled through his form.
"Why!?" Naruto heard himself demand. "Why are our children so...so...Hideous!?"
Before Naruto were three men that stood easily as tall as the sky, a hundred arms on their torso while fifty heads were piled atop one another like strangely crafted pyramids. Hundreds of warm brown eyes stared fearfully at him while he scowled at them. Naruto looked them over once again, and their feet had eight toes each. Sixteen toed giants. That's a new one.
"Beloved, please, they are your sons!" Gaea pleaded, with a hand gripped onto his arm. "Briares, Cottus and Gyges just want to know you as their father."
Naruto raged and again the sky darkened. "They are foul-smelling abominations, Gaea! Don't you see what they could do?!"
"They've made you a gift! A gift for a king!" Gaea looked to their children and the middle giant with fifty pairs of teary eyes stepped forward hesitantly. A bronze staff that Naruto recognized instantly was held out to him.
"Father-"
"You, monster, are no child of mine!" Naruto heard himself hiss. He grabbed the staff and held it over his head in both hands, then it was brought down over his knee and snapped in half. His action made the triplets cover their heads and duck away, their whimpers booming as the sky thundered. Naruto threw the staff pieces to the edge of the cliff so that they'd fall into the abyss where the cyclopes had gone – seriously, why did Gaea insist on having the kids here?!
Naruto's next action wasn't much of a surprise to him. Like with the three Cyclopes, Naruto grabbed them by their ankles. He pulled them from the ground and let them tumble into the abyss.
"They are not the monster, Our-!" The name Gaea used was partially muffled, but Naruto filed the part he heard away for later. Something about the 'our' and this whole situation was familiar to him, but for the life of him he couldn't place it. Gaea's words stirred Naruto back to the situation at hand. "You are a monster!"
"I?" Naruto returned heatedly. "I who loves you, Gaea?! I who cherish you more than anything?! I who protect you from what your children are?! I am the monster?! No!" His eyes narrowed and Naruto sneered at the sobbing mother. "I am your partner, Gaea, and I am doing what's best for you!"
Gaea's green eyes glared at him, the added tears made her eyes look like the planet he saw not so long ago in the last vision. "Leave! Begone! You are no longer welcome to my plane without my explicit permission!"
Naruto scowled as he suddenly left earth, the last image of the beautiful world being the heartbroken Gaea. He reappeared on the starry sky and stared down at the earth that was hidden by darkened clouds and shook ever so subtly. His scowl deepened and he turned from the planet.
"You will call me back, Gaea. Who will protect you if not me?"
Naruto's eyes closed and he crossed his arms. With his eyes shut, an image that Naruto found enlightening and disturbing flash in front of him. It was a shadowed creature that had several sets of arms and had a tight grip on Gaea's arms, pushing her back. Naruto felt his teeth clench and his hands tighten on his arms.
"I will not lose you, Gaea. Family comes first, and while those things are not my family, you certainly are."
Naruto's eyes opened and he sat up with a soft groan. He rubbed his head and recalled the dreams he'd just had. What did it mean? Something to do with Gaea, sure, but why did he see what happened to her kids?
"Have a nice nap?" Kurama asked with a snort. "Any interesting dreams? Any more visions of Madara?"
"No, Kurama. You didn't see the dream I had?" Naruto asked with a frown.
Kurama growled lowly. "As with the last dream, no I have not seen it. As long as it does not contain any shinobi, I could care less."
"Wow, way to be a team player."
"Shut it, brat. I'm helping you, the other meat bags on this boat are not my concern."
Naruto arched a brow. "Hostile, aren't you?"
Kurama snarled at him. "While you were in la-la land, I was stuck translating and running this meat sack you call a body. After about three hours, the sea urchin realized that I was the one pulling your strings. Isn't that right, you no good calamari?!"
"Piss off, Kurama!" Gyuki called distantly. Naruto snickered at the siblings' interaction and he looked at the door as Kirabi walked in, a small smirk on his face.
"Glad to see you're up, Mr. Nine. Those girls been worrying 'bout whether you fine," Kirabi said as he offered his fist in greeting. Naruto grinned at him and bumped knuckles before he got up and stretched.
"How'd you know they were worried?" Naruto asked the rapping shinobi with an arched brow.
"Like yourself, Naruto, B is very empathic. Most Jinchuriki tend to be able to sense and discern emotions, but not on the level you can." Gyuki explained through their mental link.
Kurama gave a distasteful snort. "Most likely due to his bitch of a mother."
"The goddess of love? ...Yes, that could make sense. I'm surprised you took notice of it, Kurama. Then again, you always were the most emotional of all of us." Gyuki added as an afterthought.
Kurama snarled. "Come in here and say that to my face, Gyuki! Then we'll see who is the most 'emotional'!"
"Let's all settle down," Naruto said with a chuckle. Last thing he needed was for the two strongest Biju to get into a fight with him and B stuck in the middle. Naruto looked at Kirabi. "So, where is everyone?"
"Puppet dude's checking the ship's engine while the hotheaded Iwa girl is training," Kirabi said with a grin. "Chōjurō's on the deck looking through some seals and I'm back down here to grab my own meal, whee~!" Kirabi scratched his tattooed cheek and chuckled awkwardly. "But, uh, with all the commotion from before, I remembered that I don't know where to get food any more."
Naruto laughed while Gyuki groaned in their heads. Kurama released his own snort of amusement. Apparently he took solace that his brother suffered as he did. Naruto opened the door and led Kirabi to the dining room, where he found Percy, Annabeth, Jason, and Piper.
"Naruto!" Piper expressed her relief with a sigh as she got to her feet and gave her brother a hug. Naruto hugged her back and then poked her in the forehead with two fingers. He chuckled at her pout.
"Hey, Imouto. Anna-baba," Naruto said with a nod to the daughter of Athena. He rubbed the back of his head. "Sorry about passing out like that. Like I said, I was exhausted."
"Exhausted my tails. You were pulled into sleep." Kurama grumbled.
Gyuki sighed. "Must you always be snide to him?"
"Must you always be a dry rag?"
"Fuck you, Kurama."
"I'm not into tentacle porn, Sea Urchin."
Naruto and Kirabi burst into laughter while Gyuki roared in outrage at Kurama's retort. The demigods watched as the two shinobi tried to pull themselves together, both greatly amused by the Kyubi's comment.
Percy frowned and looked at Annabeth. "I don't get it. Did I miss something?"
"For once, Seaweed Brain, you're not alone in that." Annabeth returned, a frown on her face as her nephew and the shinobi she really didn't like chattered together in the language of the Elemental Nations. She really should've taken Japanese when it was offered at her school.
"Want to let us in on the joke?" Jason asked the duo.
Naruto opened his mouth, but remembered who was in the room and quickly decided to say something else. "Our, uh, Biju are just talkative."
"Our Biju?" Percy repeated. He glanced at the tall muscled and shade wearing shinobi. "Right, he's like you...He's got the Hatchet in him."
Annabeth rubbed her head with a sigh. "Hachibi, Percy. Hachibi. It means eight tailed."
"His name is Gyuki." Naruto clarified while Kirabi nodded.
"Stronger than I, he's my most powerful ally!" The Kumo nin crowed happily.
Gyuki groaned. "I take it all back, Kurama. You must kill me."
Kurama snorted. "And miss out on listening to you suffer? Hell no."
Guys, c'mon. Naruto pleaded. It was already difficult switching from two languages mid conversation, but he didn't want to add having three conversations at once.
"Right..." Jason said to Kirabi's rap. He looked at the skull pommel on the bandaged sword and then looked at Naruto. "So, what's with the bandaged weapon? Some kind of ninja tool?"
"That's Samehada, the Shark Skin sword," Naruto said nonchalantly. With its name said, the sword let out a hissing growl and shifted on Kirabi's back.
"...Uh..." Percy looked at Naruto. "Did it just move?"
"Yeah, Samehada's alive." Naruto nodded. He looked at Kirabi. "Wanna show them?"
Kirabi shrugged as he reached up and grabbed the handle of the sword. "Ain't got nothin' better to do. Just make sure he doesn't try to make a meal out of you."
Kirabi pulled Samehada from his back and then spun the handle in his hand so that the bandages began to unravel. What was revealed to the four demigods made their jaws drop. The sword was scaled from the hilt to the tip, but rather than a regular point at the top, a toothed mouth greeted them. Three scales in particular looked like fins, so that in hole, the sword looked like a scaled shark.
Kirabi grinned as the eight foot long blade jumped from his hand to the floor and slithered around at his feet. "Take a walk Samehada, stretch those legs, but remember you gonna go back into sealed mode again."
The sword shuddered and shrieked softly at Kirabi's words before it shuffled over to Naruto and began to sniff his leg. Naruto arched a brow as some chakra was drawn from him and looked at Kirabi.
"Isn't he full from your chakra?" Naruto asked, not caring that visible blue energy was absorbed from his body into Samehada's mouth.
Kirabi chuckled. "Samehada likes to taste, even when he's not hungry. Should've seen it when it wanted a bite of Omoi, that was funny."
The demigods were not as amused, as when Samehada finished, it turned its attention on them. Samehada's tongue came out and swirled around the mouth, like it licked its lips.
"Holy Hephaestus!" Annabeth jumped from her seat with Percy and both stepped away as Samehada moved on from Naruto and shuffled towards them. There was a sniffing before Samehada whined and moved towards Piper and Jason. Another round of sniffing came.
"Naruto, get it away from us," Jason said as he fingered his sword.
Samehada shuddered and shrieked loudly before it turned back to Kirabi and Naruto. As it shuffled towards them, Percy frowned.
"Hey! What is that supposed to mean!?" he demanded. Percy lifted his arm and checked his scent. "I don't smell like processed meat!"
"...Percy, you can understand it?" Annabeth asked. She gave Kirabi and Samehada a wary glance.
Percy looked at her, like he was about to say something, before he caught himself and blinked. "...Yeah? I guess so."
"Cool. What'd it say?" Naruto asked when Samehada released a heated hiss. He was curious what a sentient sword would be angry about.
Percy crossed his arms and glared at the sword. "Well, I'm sorry we don't have cat-tra or whatever the heck it's called. I think we all smell just fine!"
"Should've seen that coming." Naruto muttered.
Samehada shuffled and shrieked again. Percy's eye twitched.
"I'll show you a real swordsman," he said with a scowl as he drew Riptide. Samehada let out a low shriek and Percy's eyes narrowed in hate. Annabeth grabbed the son of Poseidon under arms and held him back while he tried to charge at the sword. "Let me go, Wise Girl! I'll cut that thing into fish sticks and serve it to the Giants!"
Naruto scratched his head and looked at Kirabi. "Any idea what he said?"
Kirabi shrugged while Gyuki sighed. "It called the boy's mother a cheap chakra-less sow that's only good for repopulating."
Kurama burst into laughter while Naruto arched a brow. He said all that in one shriek?
"That was the gist of what I understood. I could be paraphrasing." Gyuki rumbled. Kurama laughed harder while Naruto palmed his head. That figures.
"That wasn't nice, yo. Talkin' bad about some kid's Mom is a huge no-no." Kirabi grumbled with a small frown directed at his weapon. Samehada whimpered at him and Kirabi shook his head. "Like bro said to me: If ya can't play nice, you can't play at all. Next time we fight, I'll give ya a call."
Kirabi grabbed the bandages and started to restrict Samehada again while Percy glared at it. If looks could kill, Samehada would no longer be sentient and Naruto was pretty sure that Kirabi would be without a badass living sword.
"I'm gonna get some grub, Mr. Nine. Maybe you should go check out what Chōjurō's doin' with his time," Kirabi said as he pointed a thumb at the fridge and kept the bound Samehada on his back. Annabeth started to pull Percy out of the room, all while the boy grumbled and glared at the sword, who shuffled as well as it could in its bindings.
"Sounds like a plan to me, B," Naruto said with a light grin while their Biju groaned.
Kurama snorted. "Great. Your container broke mine just as he was starting to become bearable. Way to go, Sushi Steak."
"It's not my fault Kirabi's a fool! From what I understand of his history, his father was similar. It's probably genetic." Gyuki quickly rebuffed.
"Uh-huh. Sure. You have fun with that fantasy." Kurama retorted.
Play nice, guys. Naruto thought as he left the dining room and went topside to the deck. When he finished his trek up the stairs, Naruto saw Kurotsuchi as she went through a few kata near Festus' head while Chōjurō looked at a few sprawled out scrolls while seated behind the mast.
"Yo, Chōjurō," Naruto said with a grin as he approached the swordsman. The spectacled warrior looked up and smiled lightly at him.
"Naruto-sama." He greeted.
Naruto frowned. "Don't call me that. I don't like honorifics."
"You are the Hero of the Shinobi World, Naruto-sama. It would be rude of me to speak lowly of you," Chōjurō said firmly. "If one does not show respect to others, how can one expect to be respected in return?"
"By pulling the stick out of your ass and hitting others with it?" Kurotsuchi asked from where she performed a high roundhouse kick.
Chōjurō rolled his eyes while Naruto tilted his head in thought. Both had points that he could understand, but if he chose a side now, he'd be drawn into an argument that wouldn't get him anywhere. Instead, Naruto just shrugged and fell into a cross-legged seat with an easy-going grin aimed at the Kirigakure shinobi.
"Well, if you're going to be that way, fine. So, you said something about a translation seal?" Naruto asked as he peered at the scrolls. He hummed and tilted his head. "That's an interesting translation formula, though wrong."
Chōjurō blinked. "Wrong? This was made by some of Kirigakure's best seal craftsmen."
"Yeah, but this is translating what the ears hear. The ears don't process sounds, the brain does." Naruto explained. He spun the scroll around and picked it up. "And there's nothing about visual translation, either."
"We were going to use a separate seal." Chōjurō gestured to one at his side. He scratched his head. "And then once we perfected them, get them into one."
Naruto sighed and shook his head. "Man, why is it everyone thinks seals are that simple? Ero-sennin wasn't surprised when he learned I hadn't had any training in it, but when I thought it'd be easy..." Naruto shuddered. Those first few storage seals were murder...all the explosions. He had to wear a hat a lot to cover some bald spots.
Kurama laughed. "I almost forgot about that! Ah, you looked ridiculous!"
Shut up, Fuzzball! I still became a better seal master than Ero-Sennin! Naruto thought with a scowl as he looked over the visual seal. "Again, this uses what the eye perceives as the focus, not what the brain registers. Our best bet would be to start with a combination of the two into a universal translation seal and then work on minimizing it."
Chōjurō frowned. "But wouldn't we need to know other languages for that?"
Naruto sighed. "The goal isn't to learn other languages, it's to understand them. Thankfully, I know the two languages we want to deal with. We can start there and, if need be, work our way to other languages later down the line."
Naruto sat back and set the scroll down. He summoned a clone and sent it to his room to get his things. The clone returned quickly and it, along with other clones Naruto summoned, began to search through Kirigakure's notes and seals for inspiration.
Fifteen minutes in, Kurotsuchi had stopped training and watched the many clones work on one seal. She looked at Chōjurō, who was just as flabbergasted, and arched a brow. "This is why our countries destroyed Uzuoshigakure no Sato."
"It's like they're just writing a report..." Chōjurō muttered. He could see why the Uzumaki Clan as individuals and as a whole were feared. If Naruto was capable of getting further than his village's experts were within an hour, which he was, then imagining a clan – no, a Village with the innate ability in the art of Fuinjutsu was absolutely terrifying. No wonder it took three of the five Great Hidden Villages to destroy the Uzumaki's home, the casualties on the three villages side had to be enormous.
"And Konohagakure was the smartest of them all," Kankuro muttered as he joined the two. His war paint was washed from his face, revealing quite similar handsome features his father and brother were known for, and a light frown crossed his face. He fingered his sealed puppet containing scrolls. He looked at the complex formulas the many whiskered blonds were developing and sighed. "The Sunagakure sealing knowledge is nowhere on this level. Konoha is the go to place for seals because of their vast records given by their allies."
"Uzumaki seals are no joke. Meet one on the battle field and you're smoked!" Kirabi nodded from where he stood. "The cloud's forces were dwindled by the Habanero's traps, and they always were moved before we could put them on maps!"
"Hey, you guys mind?!" One clone glared at the four from where he was hunched over a scroll close to them. "This stuff is tricky and one slip up co-!"
The clone was forcibly dispelled as a drip from his brush onto the formula he had started caused him to explode. The rest of the blonds shivered as the memory came to them. The one they presumed to be the original stood up.
"Okay, anyone else notice the seal he was in the midst of adding?"
The clones nodded.
"Don't add that one."
The clones saluted. "Right, Boss!"
Kurotsuchi shook her head as the original sat back down and was lost in the sea of blonds. She looked at Kankuro and arched a brow. "So, what'd you figure out from the layout, Puppet Boy?"
"The engines are powered by some sort of chemical combination that I'm not familiar with yet." Kankuro frowned, a bit miffed that there were some ingredients he didn't recognize, which meant more work for him. "And their design...far more advanced than anything we have back in the Villages. Well, anything that's not classified."
Kirabi hummed and decided not to mention his brother's latest project since the discovery of more godlike entities.
"And you?" Kurotsuchi looked at Chōjurō. "Figure out some of this 'Ancient Greek' stuff yet?"
Chōjurō crossed his arms. "I've found a few books in Naruto-sama's room, but nothing noteworthy. From what I can gather, they're mostly storybooks about myths or some sort. I mean, there was a picture of a three headed dog."
"It could be a book on the Inuzuka," Kankuro said thoughtfully.
"I doubt it." Chōjurō muttered. He looked at the oddly silent Jinchuriki of the Hachibi. "What have you discovered, Kirabi-sama?"
"The kids on this ship have a lot of woe, it makes sense since they face a huge foe," Kirabi said smoothly. "Each has their own secrets that they hide, but none hold grudges or amnesty to our friend, Mr. Nine."
"We had to be sure," Kurotsuchi said with her arms crossed. "I'm not going to risk losing the hat because some brat wanted to off the Savior of the World."
Kankuro snorted. "Like that punk I knocked out. Pretty sure he was hostile."
"Guys, seriously?" A clone to their left whined. He gestured carefully at his work. "I'm trying to focus here!"
"Yeah!" the rest of the blonds chorused.
Kurotsuchi rolled her eyes. "Deal with it, Uzumaki. We were sent here partially to be your bodyguards. Part of the job is hovering over you." The Narutos grimaced and got back to work while Kurotsuchi smirked. "I knew you'd see it our way."
"I pity the guy that marries you," Kankuro said under his breath.
"Like you're going to be a better husband to your wife." Kurotsuchi huffed.
Chōjurō sighed in dismay while Kirabi snickered at their banter.
Two hours passed before Naruto declared that he was finished. He applied the first seal to Kirabi, to see if it messed with his Iron Armor Seal. Then he called the demigods out to see if it worked.
"So what exactly is a seal supposed to do?" Leo asked as he munched on a breakfast bar.
"Anything you design it to do." Naruto returned as he double checked Kirabi's seal and the seal he placed.
"...So, basically it's a computer?"
"No. It's Fuinjutsu, not technology."
"But they do the same thing."
"Leo, please don't start an argument just because you're bored." Piper sighed. She'd seen it happen when they were at the Wilderness School. Leo just grinned as he took another bite.
"Whatever, Beauty Queen."
Kirabi looked at Naruto as the blond backed away and clapped his hands into the Ram hand seal. "Alright, let's see if it works. Ready, Octopops?"
Kirabi let a grin cross his face and held a thumb up.
Naruto grinned back as his chakra flared. "Fuin!"
Kirabi grunted as he felt Naruto's chakra invade his system. A minute passed and Kirabi grinned again. "Not even a single squeak, nice job with the ink!"
"...Does he always speak in rhyme?" Hazel asked at the odd method of speech.
"Rhyme?! Little girl, that wasn't a rhyme! The Killer B's Raps happen all the time!" Kirabi frowned and crossed his arms over his chest.
"I like him." Leo grinned.
Kirabi grinned back at him while Naruto looked at the rest of the shinobi. "Okay, who's next?"
Within the next twenty minutes, Naruto had applied the translation seal to the rest of the shinobi. Conversations ensued, and Naruto watched the interactions between cultures with a smile on his face. He laughed as he shamelessly eavesdropped on the group.
"Your hair is naturally blue, huh?" Percy asked Chōjurō, who was talking about his sword with a very impressed Annabeth.
The swordsman looked at him and slowly nodded. "Yes. Why do you keep going back to that question?"
"No reason..."
Annabeth rolled her eyes. "You're not allowed to dye your hair, Percy."
"But Annabeth!"
"No."
Chōjurō frowned as Percy sulked mildly. "Is he okay?"
Annabeth waved Percy's depression off. "He'll be fine. So, how exactly was the Hiramekarei forged again?"
Piper and Jason listened to Kirabi as he described the Lightning Armor technique to Jason. "The power of the sky covers your body, making it nearly impossible for anyone to stop you, even me!"
"...But how does he cover himself in lightning?" Jason asked.
Kirabi shrugged. "Dunno, man. Never gave it a try. Last time I did, bro made me cry."
"...You use puppets?" Frank asked Kankuro.
Kankuro sighed. "For the hundredth time, yes. I use puppets. I'm the only active expert on puppeteer warfare in Sunagakure no Sato. Puppets can not only be entertaining or distracting, but deadly when the right poison or tools are applied to them."
Frank stared at him. "...But why puppets?!"
"Why do you insist on using a bow?" Kankuro asked in return. He looked at Hazel. "And this guy's your boyfriend? Seriously?"
Hazel flushed and frowned all at once. "What is that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing. He just gets really focused on one thing far too easily." Kankuro shook his head. "Kids today, I swear..."
"You're not that older than me!" Frank returned with a frown.
"I've been apart of an invasion on another country, threatened from age three to fourteen with death, and fought against immortal undead shinobi in the last war, including my own father. ...Well, I never fought him directly, but I was there in spirit when my brother and sister did..." Kankuro mumbled. He shook his head and glared at the young archer. "Who are you to judge me, furry boy!?"
"...Wait, what's a furry?" Hazel asked.
Frank flushed brightly as Kankuro stared at her and then looked back at Frank. "...Okay, starting to see why you two are together now."
Leo and Kurotsuchi, however, probably stole the show.
"So...You're hot and I'm hot..." Leo waggled his brows at the Iwa kunoichi.
Kurotsuchi glared at him as hard as she could with her pink irises. "Shrimp, you've got three seconds to find a new place to stand, or I'm going to melt you."
"You've already melted my heart."
"One..."
"So feisty~!" Leo grinned at her. "I like that."
"...Okay, new plan. I'm just going to throw you off the ship into the ocean." Kurotsuchi decided as she held her hands out to wrap around Leo's neck. "First, you've got to lose consciousness."
"Ocean?" Leo blinked and looked around Kurotsuchi to see two large pillars that reached from the ground to the top of the Argo II. "Hold that thought, Hot Stuff."
"Hot Stuff! You little-!" A few chakra strings held Kurotsuchi back from closing the distance between her and the Latino captain that rushed towards the controls.
"Brace for breaks! All hands hold fast!" Leo cried as he ran into his control room. Naruto and the other shinobi clung to the ship with chakra, but the demigods lost their balance and fell as Leo slammed on the breaks.
"Huh, seems like we've reached the Mary Sternum." Naruto noted.
Jason groaned. "Mare Nostrum."
"That's what I said."
AN: Ah, I'm late. Sorry, got caught up in almost being done w/ Summer classes, finding a temp job, and just playing video games.
So...yeah...
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