The Greek Kunoichi

Chapter 11: To Camp Half-Blood we go.

Author's notes: Here we are! Chapter 11! Don't worry; you'll see more of Apollo the house husband in the future! I have so much fun with a cowed and henpecked Apollo in my head who mope around the house but answer everything Kushina told him with a "Yes, Dear."XD Now, we enter into the Lost Hero. I will give Percy a few days of training with Kushina before he leave, then we will follow roughly the same timeline as canon. For Naruto's gathering of sunlight, imagine the scene in Fate/Zero when Saber charges Excalibur up to noble phantasm level to get rid of Caster. Now, our trio will arrive in style! On with the show!

Sasuke blamed Naruto. She came up with a crazy plan to go to Camp Half Blood and like a fool, he folded. Needless to say, Naruto knew how to use her feminine wiles to get whatever she wanted from him. It wasn't fair that she would not give him his release when they were intimate if he did not fold to her demands. Evil woman. They could have used the Hiraishin seal she left into the woods to teleport there directly like Kushina and Apollo did; they could have run at chakra enhanced high speed all the way there if she wanted to take the scenic route. But no! Naruto, in her "infinite wisdom", stole an old 60' Chevrolet truck that only had two places into the cabin. They were now riding it hard towards the camp and while Naruto knew how to drive safely, he could have done without her idea of fun by driving recklessly while he was the default sniper against the monsters who were chasing them! They had forgotten to apply again the genjutsu hiding their scents, but now was not the time to reapply it, they were on plain view of most of their pursuers, so it would be pointless. After dusting a hellhound who got to close for comfort with a Chidori senbon, he said to Naruto, irritated

"Can you stop your joy riding, Naruto? It's hard enough to kill the monsters at a distance without your needless movements of the steering wheel to add to the difficulty level!"

"But Sasuke! Its way more fun like that! If I wanted to drive normally I would have stolen another type of car!"

Was her cackling answer. He sighted. His teammate was insane. She swerved again, but this time she sent a blade of wind from her left hand outside the window to bisect a few Empousi at the waist. Hopefully they would arrive soon; he was starting to get tired after using so much chakra. His wish was seemingly heard when they engaged on the farm road leading to Delphi Strawberry Service. Naruto flat out put her foot to the floor, laughing like a maniac when they passed a sign saying "no Trespassing". As if a little crime like that would stop her! They had left the slower monsters in the dust, only the hellhounds were still on their trail, but Sasuke was tinning the pack with his long distance lightning techniques. Suddenly, a good song came on the radio and Naruto, like the adrenaline junkie she was, put the volume to the maximum. Seems they were on an Aerosmith marathon on this station, since the success song they took back in 2004 was playing and Naruto was signing along out loud when she was not cackling like an asylum escapee after she did some crazy stunt manoeuvres to make three hellhounds collide together. The song started a bit before they started cresting Half-Blood Hill and then played all along their mad zigzagging descent.

"You gotta move, you gotta move
you gotta move, you gotta move
Oh, when my God gets ready
you gotta move, you gotta move

You may be high, you may be low
you may be rich yeah, you may be poor
Brother when the Lord get ready
You gotta move, you gotta move

Yes
you may be old, you may be young
you may be weak, maybe high-strung
Brother when the good Lord get ready
you gotta move, you gotta move

You see dat woman who walks the street
you see dat cop man who walks his beat
but when the Lord gets ready
you gotta move, you gotta move, you got to, yeah

Yeah I was hangin' with the Devil when we made a pact
I'm drinkin' welfare whiskey smokin' food stamp crack
It was one part sour, two parts sweet
Three parts strong and four parts weak
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself
Than to be crowded on a velvet cushion

You may be bad, you cannot see
you may be deaf, it's all meant to be
now when the Lord get ready
You gotta move, you gotta move

You gotta move, you gotta move
you gotta move, you got to know
When the good get ready
you gotta move, you gotta, you gotta move

You gotta move, you gotta move
you gotta move, you gotta move
you gotta move, you gotta move
you gotta, you gotta, you gotta move!"

The final of the song was mysteriously timed with a controlled drift that stopped them at a few feet from Kushina near the Big House and the volleyball court, who was definitely not amused by her children's behaviour if her frown and her hands on her shapely hips were any indication. Due to her Uzumaki blood, even if she was in her forties, Kushina didn't look a day passed twenty two. At this point, she considered Sasuke her son more than Mikoto's, may she rest in peace. Apollo, in the contrary, was doing his best to not laugh out loud at how cool his daughter's entrance was! She was definitely his kid! She had the show in her veins! He was so damn proud right now! He would definitely share that stunt with Hermes! Chiron, who had come to see what that ruckus was about and was been briefed about Apollo's presence before said ruckus, was quite conflicted. That was the first time two demigods managed to end inside the Camp's borders with an old 60' Chevy truck of all things. He was glad to see two more children alive and whole, but he had the feeling that he had gained a duo of headaches inducing ones. It seems that most of the camp had assembled when they started to hear that loud rock n' roll song from earlier and the truck's sounds booming from over the hill. The teens got out of the fuming truck and Naruto, as casual as she could, said

"Hi mom, hi dad! How it's going? I really hope the Mist is up to the task today. We got mobbed by monsters of all sorts as soon as we got out of the highway. So there's many supernatural road kills in the last few Miles. "

She finished by snickering, said laugh was shared by her father, who got glared at by his wife, which made him stop quickly like the henpecked husband he was. Sasuke shook his head in exasperation at his lover's nonchalance. She would never change. When she finally saw Chiron, she blinked and said

"Wow, a centaur! That's new! I never saw somebody like you before. And I thought Delos was the center of weird stuff! Oh well, who am I to judge? My name's Naruto Uzumaki and the sourpuss over there is Sasuke Uchiha. What's up?"

She finished by pointing Sasuke with her thumb. Chiron was now officially confused. Delos? Wasn't the moving continent declared off limits by Artemis' decree? Once done greeting the new arrivals, he turned back toward Apollo, who said

"Artemis is a stick in the mud but I also have jurisdiction there. Let it be for now, Chiron. I will explain everything later, I promise. Better let them breathe and let the claiming go underway so the Camp can resume their activities and Kushina can scold her daughter for being reckless on purpose."

The centaur acquiesced and ordered everybody back a few paces. They didn't have to wait long. Two symbols appeared above Kushina's head. Poseidon's trident and Amphitrite's circlet of polished red crab claws. A twice born demigod! Chiron bowed and said out loud

"All hail Kushina Uzumaki, daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, rulers of Atlantis. Hail!"

Once everyone had bowed and stood on their feet, it was Sasuke's turn.

"All hail Sasuke Uchiha, son of Ares, God of War. Hail!"

Again, everybody bowed to a blinking in surprise, Sasuke, when a glowing red spear appeared above his head.

But it was Naruto who got the most shocked eyes. Daughter of the sun rider and a twice born demigod of the sea? What kind of mix it represent?

"All hail Naruto Uzumaki, daughter of Apollo, granddaughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite. Hail!"

Needless to say, the fact that three new demigods arrived safely, three adults, one who got to enjoy motherhood and married life was a hot fact in camp for a long while. Kushina slipped into a role of teacher and unofficial second mother for every child in need of affection or simply an ear to listen, quite quickly and easily. Apollo was restricted in his powers, but not to the point of impotence, so he could also offer his knowledge when he was in the mood and not being bossed around by his wife. To please his wife and to frankly be able to afford a bit of private time, he conjured them a nice cabin at the edge of the woods. They could have taken a room in the Big House, but with Chiron, Mr. D (who took pleasure in mocking Apollo for being henpecked) and young Rachel as the new oracle already living there, it was not crowded per see, but with all the come and go from the campers, they would not have been able to get any privacy to work out their issues. Naruto fitted pretty well with her siblings. They were genuinely interested in the facts that she was from Delos and a kunoichi. She was offered the role of Senior Counselor as she was the oldest of the current generation, been eighteen years old, but she refused it, saying that it wouldn't be fair for Will who was doing such a good job and others who had more seniority. The next morning at sunrise, everybody who was awake and outside were treated to a special show.

Naruto was sitting on the roof of the Big House, dressed in simple black spandex shorts and a matching sport bra. She took a stance similar as to when she was accumulating natural energy to enter Sage Mode by meditating, but it was not natural energy who was absorbed into her being. Somehow, she was absorbing the light from the sun! The sunlight was dancing across her skin and entering her body by the pores. Chiron, who had been leaving the Big House for a morning trot to get the blood flowing, was totally stunned. He had trained countless children of Apollo in his long years, but absorbing sunlight was never a trait passed to his children! It was like a maelstrom of light was raging around the girl, but it felt so peaceful and not dangerous at all! She seemed to know what she was doing. It would take a few days to find what Sasuke and her knew and designs a schedule to help shore the holes in their education. Kushina has taught them well as a good mother should, but he was not the trainers of heroes for nothing. He knew his stuff. He would ask her about this power later. He took off and his mind returned to the discussion that lasted long last night.

Yesterday evening, Apollo had explained Kushina, Sasuke and Naruto's background to him. Needless to say he was intrigued. A land where only the basic technologies of today's world were active, it was hard to imagine truly. No cars, no planes, a few isolated trains. They had electricity and modern kitchen and washing/drying appliances, but TVs were only for the wealthy or for private discussions between the lords of the land and the head of the military villages. The people there had focused on evolving the body to be able of supernatural feats more than technology. They were also highly spiritual, having built temples for the letoides and their mother for worship all over the continent. Shinobis and samurais were the two more known castes of soldiers followed by the ninja monks serving and protecting the temples. The continent of Delos was full of anachronisms and a savant mix of different Asian cultures with a bit of westerner here and here. It seems that it was the same everywhere; when you learn a new language, you learn first the swear words. Just before bed, he had heard Naruto said something to Sasuke in what he would swear was rude Polynesian and she was answered in rude Japanese!

Still, the most amazing and terrifying of all of that was to learn of a practice he would gladly condemn. Jinchūriki. Power of human sacrifice. On a technical, scientific point of view, the fact that they existed techniques (most of them forbidden) able to divide in two an intelligent and sentient great being whose body is composed of raw energy shaped into a mystical animal and then sealed it into a living person was nothing more than formidable! But on a humane point of view, doing that to a child was unforgivable. When Chiron gave a piece of his mind to his teacher for doing that to his newborn daughter, he finally saw something in the incarnated god's eyes he never saw before. Regret and self loathing among many others were waging war inside the god's conscious. Even if he was on the couch, they were still married and Kushina did genuinely love Apollo, so she took one of his arms, snuggled close to him and let said arm fell around her waist. Apollo didn't have a choice at the time. Kushina was giving birth and at birth was when a female Jinchūriki's seal was at its weakest. An intruder had killed their protection detail and kidnapped their new born baby girl. He has saved her, of course! But the intruder had escaped with Kushina and forcefully released the beast she was holding, and then hypnotizing it to attack the village.

As the Hokage, the leader of the village, his duty was to his people, but as a husband and father, his duty was to his family. At the end he had to call Thanatos and in exchange for his soul, the Death God divided the fox in two and sealed away half into Naruto and half back into his wife. The only problem with his supposed "death" was he had sealed a part of his soul into his daughter to help her when the time came to fight her inner demon for the right to use his full power or to use as a fail-safe in case the seal would broke. He had made a mistake, easy explainable as his mortal body was dying, he sealed away his mortal memories with Naruto and when he awoke as a God, he had forgotten his life in the Elemental Nations. As for why he didn't manifest himself when he regained his memories, he frankly answered that he was terrified of what was surely waiting for him; he was busy with the second Titanomachy and he had to deal with Artemis' moods and frankly unreasonable decrees for Delos. One day she wanted to forbid men to touch women because she wanted more virgin candidates for her Hunters. That one he shot down harshly. The continent was always plagued with conflicts somewhere with death on all sides, so her decree of imposed chastity for the mortals would have been a demographic nightmare. Another time he had to force her hand was to give Hades access to a battlefield where some idiot necromancer had again used the Edo Tensei, but this time in mass. Needless to say, Hades wasn't pleased at all with said necromancer (Kabuto) and to been stuck cleaning a mess of resurrected souls stuck in hosts made of clay and ashes. If Tobirama Senju hadn't already paid his debt for inventing such a technique, he would have stuck the emotionless prick into the Fields of Punishments! As it is, he was still trying to prove that his daughter Melinoe gave the OK for the technique.

A few days passed and the camp was returning to routine or as close as it could for the days are not alike. Chiron had learned that Naruto could convert sunlight in energy to achieve great speed. With the power of the sun in her, her senses also stretched to compensate for the tunnel vision it would give her normally. She had explained to him how she had different set of skills with her powers, but could not use them all together. For example, if she was using her chakra cloaks, she could not use her demigod powers except the passive self healing and could not physically transform since the chakra that was usually physically present, was now in her system. The centaur had learned the hard way in diverse spars with the lass why her moniker was Naruto of Nine Tails/Kyuubi no Naruto. She could push her physical metamorphosis to such a point where she looked like a meld of fox and human! Furry fox ears atop her head, dangerous clawed hands, prominent canines, whiskers birthmarks a tad darker but more sensible, her hair fluffier and of course, nine blonde and white tipped fox tails waving at her tailbone. It was, in his book, a very good thing that she could only use one skill sets at time. Another thing they had found out by sparring together, when Naruto was this much transformed, she could no longer use her ninjutsu repertoire. Her chakra became far too dense for techniques conceived for human shinobis and her clawed hands did not kept their finesse for quick hand sealing. She was not defenceless, by the gods, far from it! But she could no longer spam Shadow Clones for a cannon fodder army or creates a water dragon or spat a giant fireball.

She could also infuse her chakra into her tails to make them deadlier and use them as spears. They were also fully prehensile. So she liked to use them to try to skewer him on them and she also had access to Fox fire. He loathed Fox fire! Burned centaur was not a trend he wanted to promote! And Naruto knew it by the vulpine grin on her face! She could still form a Rasengan but could not put her wind or water elements in it and he was getting really sick of her damn fox illusions! She had bonded with Annabeth and a few older campers, a few of them who still remembered the prom dress incident years ago and she was adamant to keep showing him an illusion of what he looked like after that particular prank! He would never admit out loud that striking her across the face hard enough to jar her concentration that she lost her hold on her metamorphosis to the point of reverting to her human form felt that good for his ego though. She was a quick little thing this Naruto girl. Chiron thought it was better for his health to make her work to control her predator aura. The sheer intensity of the aura when she was transformed to the maximum of her capacities was enough to make him quite uneasy! And she had eyed the satyrs as if they were prey!

Sasuke was easier to train with; he was quite possibly the less hotheaded son of Ares he ever met! That boy was always calm and only Naruto or Kushina's teasing seemed to really affect him. Kushina had beaten the "emo" out of him at a young age and Naruto had thoroughly trashed the power lust out of him when they were thirteen. Sasuke would never forget being batted away from one side of the Valley of the End to the other until he had not even enough strength to stand! And Kushina's disappointed face had hurt the boy even more. His beating at Naruto's hands at been very rough for his ego but had put his head straight again, but when he saw Kushina in tears because she felt she failed him as a surrogate mother, he had been deeply ashamed of himself. Once he was healed, Sasuke abandoned all of his dignity and in a fit of inspiration, he had thrown himself at her feet, begging for her forgiveness, apologizing to her because he had been such a bad son to make his mother cry and he had forsaken his sensei's maxim in a hair brain scheme for obtaining enough power for his revenge against the kin slayer. Those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their comrades are even worse than scum. There was a lot of crying done this day, but all three healed over time. Sasuke never left his family again. He learned that day that power for the sake of power is toxic.

The boy was excellent with his chokutō and had inherited his grandfather Zeus' affinity for lightning and his mother's affinity for fire from what he had been told. He could channel both through his sword, but seems to prefer lightning. Sasuke had inherited the eyes of his clan and Chiron had to admit that those were terrifying tools. This son of war had inherited the usual abilities of children of Ares, but he seemed reluctant to use the boost of power wrath could give him. Learning about the Curse of Hatred bred into the Uchiha clan, Chiron could understand why he was always in control. If he loses it, he could seriously hurt his loved ones in search of power and he had no intention to earn another "Beat the "emo" and the avenger out of Sasuke" session. Two such sessions was enough, thank you very much.

Chiron's training sessions with Kushina were on another level all together. Where her daughter had power to spare but was lacking finesse, Kushina was the same but had sharpened all of that into a deadly combination. Being a kunoichi for over thirty years would give you that. Her mastery over water and wind was something he had only seen in gods before her. Her mind was more analytic than her daughter, who had still the impetuosity of youth. Kushina was a middle aged woman who had fought and survived in two continental wars. She was more adept to battle with seals, something Naruto could only do outside of combat or on very close quarters. What scared the trainer of heroes though was the deadliness of her adamantine sealing chains. He now understood why Apollo looked close to defecate on himself when they were brought out and her temper was inflamed. That temper of her, it seems she had inherited it from her godly father and mortal mother. She was adept at all standard shinobi weapons and quite decent with a sword, but she had her own style build up and being an Uzumaki and also a Jinchūriki, she had stamina to spare, something Apollo was crying about because he couldn't experience it. Seriously, his teacher was such a drama queen. Kushina only needed to familiarize herself with the more recent events and practice her ancient Greek, for it was rusty and he had nothing more to teach her. When he asked why she let Naruto's mischievous streak grow so wild, she gave him a "duh" look and plain told him

"I was the same when I was her age and we both hold a part of the most powerful fox spirit in the universe. It was bound to happen. If it's not enough, did you see the drama queen who sired her? We Uzumaki don't do normal."

Chiron had to give it to her; Apollo was prompt to act with drama or mischievousness. Kushina was quite devious too, for he had heard, much to his chagrin, that she had caught her husband masturbating in the toilet and while she was kind enough to help him finish, for she was not cruel enough to blue balls him on top of his actual punishment, the devious Uzumaki vixen put a seal on him so he couldn't get it up for other ladies! Apollo was now assured to be monogamous for a long time! Something Ares and Hermes liked come to visit to mock him about. Minato was calling his brothers a few unflattering nicknames, but the word "jerk" came back quite often in the discussion. He Who Got the Couch got vindicated though, when Kushina said out loud in the two other gods' presences that she was helping Hera design a godly chastity belt and that they would be their test dummies. They couldn't leave fast enough after stuttering excuses after excuses. That one made him laugh. Young Rachel, who was playing pinochle against Mr. D and said god too were laughing very hard to the point of tears. It seems that Apollo's drama queen acts were very entertaining for those old enough to understand adult humor.

Once the winter holidays started, Percy Jackson came to Camp Half Blood for a visit and he was gaping like a fish for ten minutes straight when he learned that he had a big sister who was old enough to be his mother! Of course, Rachel took pictures as blackmail material. Percy, selfless as he was, asked if she needed protection from Zeus, since she would have been conceived when the Oath of The Big Three was still in effect. With a smile, Kushina told him that their father had circumvented the oath by blessing her mortal parents with his wife's help to permit them to conceive her. She had two sets of parents, one set mortal who were dead and a divine set. Kushina did told Percy to be ready for a hard regimen for training his water abilities. She could not help him with his geokinesis though; she had not inherited that part of their father's powers. If he wanted to play with wind, she was his gal, for earth though, he was on his own.

Percy's jaw hit the floor literally when he learned he had a total babe of an older girl as a niece! Oh, he was totally smitten with Annabeth, but that didn't mean he was blind. Naruto was not interested and said so clearly, so it was why they could hang out without it being feeling weird. Naruto admitted that she was an adept of free loving and been bisexual, like her father, the henpecked Apollo (Hey!), but she had a code. She never went after somebody who was already in a couple, family was off limits since incest was not appealing to her and all her masculine partners were required to wear protection. No protection? No fun. It was as simple as that. She was barely eighteen years old; she was not ready to be a mother. Sasuke and Percy were not really getting along, Sasuke was not the social type and his attitude was very off putting to the son of Poseidon. But he was like that with almost everybody; he was a natural stick in the mud. But someone needed to be the logical and rational one in the group. They were civil with each others, if anything; Sasuke respected Percy's strength and moral fiber.

Now, both Naruto and Percy were on the top of the canoe lake, both grinning like loons at each other. Percy had Riptide ready for his match with his niece and he was even more excited when he saw her call her weapon.

"Surge, Water and Heaven, Nejibana."

Then her strange necklace was illuminated with a bubbling blue-green light and changed into some sort of trident. Nejibana was a very beautiful and quite deadly weapon and with that, she had the advantage of range. It was not all, Naruto had a predator like smirk and Percy soon found out why. She had similar water powers than him! Water was coalescing around her trident, helping make her blows even stronger with the force of crashing waves! Sword and trident collided multiples times; both sea descendants were having so much fun! Percy found out rapidly that being a boy gave him a certain advantage physically even though she was older than him. But damn if she wasn't quick to dodge and attack at impossible angles! But he was using waves to repulse her when she was too persistent or came to close for comfort. She could manipulate water, but not as well as him. When he tried to hijack the water around her trident, he had a nasty surprise though. That water wasn't obeying his wishes! Naruto was nice enough to explain

"It's because I put my chakra, my inner energy if you prefer, in it. My demigod affinity with water is not that strong, I'm more geared towards wind, but if I use air with my Nejibana, it won't be a spar anymore. I mean, I'm trained to sharpen the air around my weapon and I don't want Betty Boop (her surname for Annabeth*snickers*) to be mad at me for having now only half or a quarter of a boyfriend!"

Percy shivered at that, yeah, let's stick with water. He could tank the concussive force of the blows. As soon as he had boasted that out loud, Naruto had a feral smirk on her face and started to twirl her weapon at insane speeds to use the momentum for an attack from above! He only had enough time to put his sword Riptide upside his head and grab the handle with his two hands to parry the blow! He barely managed to hold on! That was crazy! And he was still sent away with the wave of water that came with the blow! She disengaged, twirled the trident again and went for a horizontal sweep aimed at his legs after speeding towards him! Percy yelped in alarm but made the rookie mistake to jump into the air in place of diving. Naruto was quick enough to bash her opponent in the stomach with the pole section of the weapon in another horizontal sweep. Had it been a fight to the death, she would have eviscerated him with the teeth of Nejibana. She told him that much. When he complained about bruises, she told him flat out he could just have a dip into the lake or the ocean to heal or have Betty Boop kissed them better. She even offered him to hurt him around his crotch to give him an excuse for oral sex. That one brought a big red flush on his face and Naruto pounced on it.

"What, don't tell me you never...By the Gods! You're still a virgin! So that's why you're so red! I would have thought that either Betty Boop or you would have jumped on the other by now! Man, she's practically asking for it with her "fuck me" eyes when she looks at you! If the other girls hadn't figured you belonged exclusively to Annabeth, some would have already dragged you away for some fun times! Heck, just before the start of our spar I overheard some daughters of Aphrodite were planning an orgy with you as the sole male if Betty Boop and you ever went in separate ways if your couple doesn't work! Look, if you need condoms I can easily loan you a few but the next time that you're in town you've got to buy some back to replace those I gave you."

Naruto was almost as devious as her mother, for she used Percy's sputtering and denials as a lack of attention to bash him solidly on the head after a complete rotation of Nejibana, making him sink like a stone in the waters! As a son of Poseidon, he would be fine, heck he would be back on the surface in no time. Of course, she had lied about the orgy with the daughters of Aphrodite, but it was fun to mess with him. He was so adorable when he was sputtering denials! She then had to jump away, because Percy decided to make an underwater assault by creating a whirlpool to bring her under. As Poseidon and Amphitrite's granddaughter, she could breathe underwater for a few hours without problem, but getting out of a whirlpool or worse, a maelstrom, was outside of her nautical abilities. Deciding to see how Percy would react to ninjutsu, she changed back Nejibana into its necklace form and molded her chakra with different hand seals and then declared once she was on her last hand seal

"Suiton: Five Man-eating sharks Jutsu!"

A group of five sharks were created from her chakra in the water to surround and attack the enemy relentlessly while he is submerged. Let's see him deal with that. Of course, she knew that he could command the real deal to leave him alone, but she had enough faith in his prowess to deal with water constructs. She was still prudent and did not put much chakra in them. It was a spar, not a death match. Without much chakra, Percy could dispel them easily. She was not mistaken, but when he emerged, he was looking at her with a new respect. That last technique had scared him good! They both decided to end things there, it was a good spar, but if they continued, their competitiveness would force them to go overboard. They were talking of this and that when they come across the Big House. Sitting on the veranda was Kushina and all around her was a group of young children, ten at most, five at least. She was combing the hair of one little girl and singing a old song passed from generations in the habitants of Horai Island, the main island of the Uzu No Kuni archipelago.

"Father once said to me
Many moons ago
A demon hand will defend
Mother said one day
There is more that you must know
A mortal hand will sustain
Two hands together
Incomplete alone
Balance and union
And the gate will open
Go my children go
Go to crimson flames
To save our children
The lights of memory remain"

Naruto had heard the song before, but was as captivated as the first time her mother sang it to her. Her grandmother had told her about the long buried past of Horai Island. Way before the other islands had emerged from the sea floor, before the Sage of Six Paths, when the goddess was still a little girl; Horai was a sanctuary where youkais and mortals could live in harmony together. Youkais and humans would marry and found families. It was only natural that in time, Hanyōs (Half-demon) were born and treasured while in the outside world they were reviled. The story was much longer, but that was the basics. The Uzumaki clan had youkai ancestry, mixed with chakra; it gave birth to their resilient bodies and many traits.

Percy had also been captivated by Kushina's voice. The song did not captivate him as much as Naruto, but damn if it wasn't something nice. He then looked at Kushina ten at Naruto and asked

"Hey, I was wondering, why is it your mom's hair is red and yours' blond? I heard something about the dominance of colors once or twice and red is dominant on yellow no?"

Naruto smiled and answered

"In simple terms, red hair is weak thus it looses the genetic game against any other colors. So that's why my hair is blonde. But if you make a joke about dumb blondes with blue eyes, I will tie you up on a chair and force you to read a college level math exercises book! Got it?"

Percy couldn't nod faster if he wanted. Math was evil!

A few days later, Percy found out how much Kushina was a slave driver when it came for training. With all the exercises she was making him do, he could understand why Apollo was so henpecked with his wife. She had a larger than life personality. Now he was tasked to make different constructs of water, since Kushina said that water fists were so much unimaginative and he could do better. Thankfully she wasn't prompt to make sexual innuendos to make him react like her daughter. After copying many water dwelling animals, she put him to task in now trying supernatural ones likes drakons, hellhounds and pit scorpions. After that, he was set to do Calisthenics using his powers to stay on top of the water! And when he complained, she created water whips to "motivate" him! Evil woman! He was immune to water, true, but not to the pain the collision to his skin was provoking! She did give him a few good ideas, like to use the water in the air to create a dense mist to sneak on his enemies. He was not sure how to implement them, because Kushina was more used to the ninja way of doing things and she was using more her chakra than her demigod's abilities, but she said she has faith in him to figure things out. It was kind of distracting to see her switch moods so fast. She was such a slave driver a moment, and then motherly the other. Oh well, back to the grind stone before Kushina bust out again the water whips. Or worse, the calculus book! *Shudders*

Omake: The training trip.

Naruto Uzumaki was confused. She was called to the Hokage's office, so as usual she entered through the bay window, called Tsunade old to her face, dodged the stack of paperwork thrown to her face and after a routine of threats with no meaning or will to back them up, she finally realized that Pervy Sage was also in the office. After greeting him with his nickname and ignoring his rumblings about his greatness and what not and asked clearly

"So, why did you called for me Granny? An awesome mission perhaps? If it's about the beating I gave the other day to the Water Country Ambassador's son, he had it coming! The creep had the gall to offer me money for sex! Do I look like a hooker? He was lucky it was me who gave him the beating, Anko was near when he made his offer and her killing intent spiked to insane levels! At least I left him alive, Anko would not."

Tsunade had to wince at the last one. Yeah, the boy had it coming and the ambassador was not at all offended, on the contrary, he was glad that his son learned that it was dangerous to piss of a shinobi. But that wasn't what Tsunade called her to the office for. In short, Jiraiya wanted to make her his apprentice and take her outside the village for a two and half years training trip. When it was confirmed that they would be alone, she surprised everybody with her decision.

"No thanks. I can get stronger on my own or with mom's help. I'm not in the mood to be Pervy Sage's baby sitter for two and a half years nor been the peon on which he mooch money on. I also don't want to put my career on hold for so long. Maybe when Jiraiya grows up I will think about it, but right now, Konohamaru is more mature than he is. So if that's it, I've gotta go."

Tsunade dismissed her and the girl shifted gears into Sunlight speed after a parting shout

"See you later, Granny!"

Tsunade's insults at been called 'Granny" were drown by Naruto's laughter. Once serious once again, she told her old teammate

"I told you that she would refuse, yes you are an excellent shinobi, but she see your facade as the real you and I think she don't want to deal with that more than necessary. Seriously Jiraiya, you really let your mask consume you."

Said Toad Hermit didn't answer, he was too busy pouting and peeking into her shirt. When Tsunade found out, he was punched into orbit through the open window and landed somewhere into the Forest of Death. She then resumed her feelings into two words.

"Damn pervert."