Naruto/Smite/PJO (Earlier this Year)
The Smite Tournaments
Chapter 1
Origins
It had begun so innocently, following the Kyūbi attack on Konohagakure no Sato, a new idea was paraded throughout the Elemental Nations. The idea of the Smite Tournament, a grand plan that would take over a decade of preparation and would change the way wars and other problems were resolved.
The Smite Tournament involved creating Divine Warriors crafted in the image of a God or Goddess. These warriors would be incredibly powerful and kept Immortal by immensely complex and intricate Fūinjutsu Arrays. Each Pantheon/Village would have a Primary Base, Forwards Bases, Specialized 'Titan' guards, Uniquely colored Phoenix Guards, Themed defensive Towers and themed Fūinjutsu Golem Minions. Each battle would either be a Conquest style fight, where each team of five gods would defend their bases from three different 'lanes' of Attack. Joust style where there was only one 'lane' or Arena battles where two teams of five would fight to exhaust the others Energy reserves.
The idea was based upon some scrolls that washed up upon the shores of the Land of Water, they told of powerful pantheons of Gods. With the scrolls was a rough idea of the Smite Tournament, it was complex and intricate, however the Five Hidden Villages gathered together and decided to put it into play. Each village took a Pantheon, Suna took the Egyptian Gods, Kiri chose the Roman Gods, Kumo commandeered the Chinese Gods, Iwa elected for the Mayan Gods and Konoha requested the Greek Gods.
After that each village made their own rules for the selection of their Divine Warriors, most of their rules were based on the presence of Bloodlines and clan relationships. Konoha however didn't want to sacrifice too many Shinobi, so they instead did an inversion, Each God was represented by a Kunoichi and each Goddess represented by a Shinobi.
Konoha's line up is as follows:
Zeus: Sayuki Uchiha
Poseidon: Ino Yamanaka
Hades: Yakumo Kurama
Athena: Shikamaru Nara
Ares: Tenten Hitsugaya
Artemis: Naruto Uzumaki
Apollo: Hinata Hyūga
Aphrodite: Sasuke Uchiha
Amphitrite: Sora Nara
Charon: Yuki Yamamoto
Demeter: Tenzō/Yamato
Dionysus: Sakura Haruno
Iris: Kiba Inuzuka
Hermes: Hana Inuzuka
Hephaestus: Kasumi Hitsugaya
Hestia: Chōji Akimichi
Hera: Lee Rock
All of these children were Volunteered for the first wave of Divine Warriors, a second wave would start training three years later.
Using beyond complicated Fūinjutsu arrays tattooed onto the backs of each Divine Warrior in the shape of their Gods Symbol, each Divine Warrior was infused with the power of their God's domain.