The Greek Kunoichi
Chapter 13: Training with Lupa and Hello Camp Jupiter.
Author's notes: Now is where the timeline get screwed. I can't find an accurate time line that describe the events and since I can't get through my pet peeve of reading a book written into the first person, my sources of information are the tidbits I picked from the various Fan fictions I read over the years and also the official site and the Percy Jackson wiki, so forgive any discrepancies that can creep up. The Seven Heroes prophecy and their accomplishments will mostly be in the background; while Naruto does her own things on her side. Also, I jump around with the terms "Nature Energy", "Senjutsu Chakra" , "Nature Chakra" and "Sage Chakra", they are one and the same, I just wanted to avoid repeating the same term over and over. Now let get this show on the road!
A few days after their arrivals, the three newbies got the season's quest. Jason was also claimed by Zeus and Piper by Aphrodite. The new girl almost came to blow with the present head counselor, Drew Tanaka, quite a few times. Drew wanted to get her hooks on Jason and while Piper's mind was still a bit addled by the Mist, there was definitely something between Jason and her. Everybody could see it. So a new girl encroaching on her territory was not welcome at all. Not that Jason was giving Drew the time of the day, but still! Piper forgave Naruto quickly because she clearly saw that she was not the type of girl to mess relationships, established or in construction by purpose and she seemed to be somewhat of an airhead sometimes; but Drew was using shallow reasons to get near to Jason and her version of the rite of passage of Cabin 10, breaking hearts for the sake of breaking them, was something that was going against Piper's own values. To make it more interesting, they were both gifted with Charm speak. Drew, of course now knew better than to use her mother's gift on both Naruto and Kushina though. Kushina was quite nice about it and simply told her that it wasn't working and warned the girl with a stern tone of voice that at her next attempt she would be seriously disciplined. In Kushina's eyes, Drew was in need of a good spanking or three. The next time she was on Olympus, she would have a friendly chat with Aphrodite. She was sure that she could give some tips for the goddess on how to deflate a few egos from a few of her more high-strung children before it becomes a liability and somebody got maimed or worse, killed.
Naruto was not as nice as her mother was about it though when Drew tried it on her though. She was quite a bit wilder than her mother in her nature, what with having an ancient kitsune sealed in her only a few hours after her birth. So Drew became Naruto's training partner/dummy for the day. Needless to say, the daughter of Aphrodite learned her lesson. So much that she even stopped calling her a savage. Not that Naruto was much bothered by the opinion of somebody that was not part of her family though. Drew tried to use the Quest to save Hera/Juno to get near of Jason, but a subtle killing intent directed only to her by Kushina made the daughter of Aphrodite shut up quickly. Good girl, she was learning! When Leo, Piper and Jason got back successfully from the Quest about a week later, they were accompanied by Gleeson Hedge, a bloodthirsty satyr who was protecting them at the Wilderness School but had been taken by the wind spirits. When Jason's true sire was revealed, Jupiter, Zeus' Roman equivalent, it caused problems with Athena's children, since the Romans of old had stolen the Athena Parthenon when they conquered Athens and took Athena's war goddess status away when they assimilated the Greek pantheon. Minerva was a craftswoman and had NO children at all and nothing but scorn for the Romans. Of course, Kushina had to physically intervene to stop the entire cabin from trying to expel Jason by force. They were in a mob mentality; heck a few had even gotten a few pitchforks and torches! Single handily, Kushina took apart their best fighters without using Ninjutsu and as consequences for their actions; she dunked them for an hour or two by the feet with her Adamantine Sealing Chains in the cold waters of the Sound, all the while singing nautical songs. Annabeth was wearing racy white underwear's that day, too bad Percy wasn't there to see them! Better luck next time!
Jason, once reassured that nobody else had anything against him for being Roman and frankly wary of incurring the redheaded wife of Apollo's wrath, had proposed to extend a hand towards Camp Jupiter during a war meeting, to obtain their help against Gaia, the Earth primordial who was in the process of awakening. This is where Naruto's mission was revealed. She had her Greek credentials as Ambassador from Hera and as Leo and Cabin nine, which he was put in charge, against his will because he wanted to rebuild Festus, his bronze dragon, would build a flying ship; Naruto would go train with Lupa, obtaining her Roman credentials once said training was over and broker a truce between the two camps before their arrivals.
Piper, having a Quest under her belt, challenged Drew, who didn't have one, for her role of cabin's Head Counselor. Drew was reluctant to step down, having taken a liking to power, but she had enough common sense to know that her methods weren't working. And quite frankly, Kushina's wake-up call on Athena's cabin was something she really did not wish to experience. Under Piper's authority, in one week only, she had restructured the cabin's inner workings to a well working unit. Their fair shares of chores in the camp were done with efficacy and the cabin's interior was neater than ever. (Naruto had undone all her fox illusions on the mirrors at Piper's request) Though she was really about to tear her hair off on one thing, the majority of her charges refused to train at all! Left with no more choices, she then went to the only person left willing to help; all others had long given up on the children of Aphrodite, calling them useless and other derogatory names. Well except Chiron, he was too nice for that and Apollo, who said he was not touching that problem with a ten foot pole. Naruto was gone, Sasuke was not very sociable and he had his hands full with his more rambunctious siblings, then it left only Kushina. Seriously, that woman was everything the female heroes could aspire to be! Naruto was a good example too, but Piper was quite fed up to blush every time she was the recipient of threesomes' comments! At least Kushina wasn't over sexualized! So the plan devised between the two was really simple; Piper was to open the door of the cabin the next morning once everyone would be back from breakfast and let Kushina drag everybody kicking and screaming to the arena for training. Only a few, like Lacy and Mitchell were following Piper and Kushina willingly, thus on their own power. The others were yelling every excuse they could find to not train in vain, but the redhead was immovable as a mountain.
"Training means sweating! I just finished my makeup! It will all melt if I work too hard!"
"Fighting is so against love! I have gossips to gleam! Let me go!"
"Mommy! Help us! The mean lady is hurting me!"
"You're not the boss of me! I'm not training whatever you say!"
"Training is for the losers! I have to get ready for my beauty contest! Let me go you savage!"
"Ruffian! Tomboy! Shame on women! Barbarian! Savage!"
"Chiron said that we weren't obligated to train! I want to go back combing my perfect hair!"
"Piper! You're a traitor! We are meant to look good; we won't look good at all covered in bruises, sweat and dirt!"
"Listen here, lady! You're not my boss! If I decide to not train, I will not train! I already did my workout for my muscles last week!"
It was the day that Camp Half Blood in its entirety learned that Kushina was a woman of one word. She gave it, she kept it. No excuses. Cabin ten denizens were seen trudging back to their dwelling, everybody covered in sweat, dirt and bruises. A few looked more roughed up than the others and another few looked like they found out the secret to a self applied makeup!
Eventually every cabin had a session with the kunoichi and sometimes Apollo was helping. Even if he was not driving the sun, he had the responsibility to see to his domains, so when he was not begging for sex and off sulking after being told no or doing his job or looking after his kids, he was helping his wife to whip the camp in shape.
On Naruto's side of things, after two days of travel at Sunlight Speed and camping at night, she arrived at the Wolf House. Or rather what was left of it? Porphyrion's resurrection (The king of the Gigantes) and Hera's rage once freed from her cage had blown it to bits, but Naruto was used to make camp outside with all her different missions in foreign countries. Lupa was very interested in seeing the progress of the kit that was harboring Kurama or more precisely his Yang half. Yes, she was somewhat knowledgeable in eastern ideologies. Blame both modes Apollo, Artemis/Diana does, so it works. So she made Naruto show her everything she had. The chakra cloaks and the avatar in shape of a giant fox with tribal markings all over the body were very interesting and almost intimidating, she had to give the old spirit that much, but she would never tell him out loud though. He already had such an ego! But what was the most interesting to the wolf Goddess, was the partial physical transformation! She could become a full bipedal kitsune with the right training and the mother of Remus and Romulus was a being who could give the girl such training. That one skill set had so much potential! She knew that Naruto could fight against some Gods and win in her other modes if she took them by surprise or trick them, but call her vain; she wanted to see the kit take the shape of a full bipedal nine tailed fox. The thing that almost make Lupa drop her jaws to the ground was learning that the Delos denizen was a Sage! One trained by the Toad tribe of Mount Myoboku even! Such a rarity! A fully realized Sage with that! Not an imperfect one who did not manage to perfectly balance his inner energies! (Jiraiya in such a case and also Minato/Apollo when he was human)
The last real Sage she met was more than a thousand years ago. That little slip of a girl had accomplished something that so few have done and made it look easy! Had she not been a goddess, she would have been subjugated to Naruto's will like the rest of her pack when she showed them Sage Mode! The thing that made her holds her tongue and put her in indecision between genius and idiot was the fact that Naruto had never thought she could use Sage Chakra when in Kitsune mode. Hello? She could use it when she was in her chakra cloaks modes, why would she not be able to use it in a physical transformation to enhance it even further? Lupa then told Naruto once she said that Sunlight Speed and Senjutsu in general weren't compatible, so she thought, incorrectly, that the Sage Arts weren't compatible with her Demigod's powers, like her Bijuu Chakra. Thus Lupa explained why her reasoning was wrong.
"The only reason why you could not use Senjutsu with Sunlight Speed was that you needed to be completely still to gather Senjutsu chakra and your Sunlight Speed required you to run to at least a certain speed before engaging or to gather sunlight in your body similar on how I saw you gather natural energy."
Naruto had discovered early on that only the original could access her demigod supernatural speed, as they were only copies, they did not possess her genes thus no Sunlight Speed for them. They were plenty fast when they used Sealed Hatred Mode though, so it was no biggie.
Thus goddess and demigod discovered what was missing for Naruto to take her Bipedal Kitsune Mode to the next level. It wasn't easy to gather nature energy in a hybrid form, far from it! As a hybrid, she had a really hard time to empty her thoughts and she could not rely on Kurama to gather Senjutsu chakra for her, since he was the one who was permitting her physical changes in the first place. So she was on her own; she had to learn how to tame her animal instincts the hard way. It was a dangerous gambit, one slip up and she could end up a stone statue for taking in too much Sage chakra or if she let the animal instincts run wild, she could became feral and forgot who she was. Kurama was not actively hindering her this time, it was helping matters, but the instincts were only natural this time, not forced. She had to accept that in Bipedal Kitsune Mode, her values and morality as a human being would be severely downgraded, even more than in her Partial Kitsune Mode. She would also have to get used that she was a predator and thus if she didn't want to chase after the Satyrs to eat them or for the thrill of the hunt, she would have to refrain from transforming all the way in their presence. For the prankster side of things, Naruto was already heralded as an agent of Chaos since she could run, so it was not a problem for her. Naruto was a good person at the core and even if she was wilder than a normal woman, she was still raised in society. To achieve her goal, she would have to let go of those earthly concerns. She had a big advantage with Sage training to be able to sit totally still and let nature fill her up; she would just have to learn how to take it to the next level. It was easier said than done though. Naruto then whined
"Why does every specifics trainings I go through are so tricky? Couldn't one of them be easier for once? Is it payback for all trouble I caused for my superiors in Konoha? Like the time I redecorated the Hokage monument?"
Lupa answered
"Maybe, maybe not, who knows? It's called "karma" for a reason, kit. The Fates love to mess with heroes. Now shut up and get back into the swing of things if you want some meat tonight."
Naruto answered wearily
"Yes, Lupa-sensei, I'll get back into it right away. Well, here we go..."
Naruto returned into her meditation position after assuming again her hybrid form.
The weeks passed and turned into months. Winter was gone and gave its place to spring. The training was arduous; the hardest was not the physical aspects but the mental ones. But on May 1st, Naruto finally managed to balance correctly her animal instincts and Senjutsu chakra. The transformation then happened progressively. Sun kissed golden fur first sprouted from her skin and raced quickly all along her body with a few white spots of fur on her throat, at the end of her nine tails, around her navel following the spiral groove of her seal which housed Kurama, a few patches on her feet and on the upper side of her breasts and some tufts on top of her ears. Her arms and legs shifted accordingly, then her head. In her new form, she was six feet two inches tall or one metre and eighty seven centimetres in the metric system. Her non retractable claws on both hands were a silver color and those at her feet were black as night. Damn, now she would have to get custom made clothes to not destroy them while transforming! Tch, it was annoying, but when you have unique powers, you do with what you have. While Naruto was not a prude and in fact she was quite proud of her body for she had worked extra hard to push it as close as perfection as possible for a shinobi, she was not an exhibitionist. Only her chosen partners or another woman with some sort relationship with her, be it family, friendship or more, could see her naked without wicked retribution. She took two more weeks to get all the kinks out of the transformation and Lupa literally fell on the ground rolling around and laughing out loud when Naruto accidentally found a shortcut to Bipedal Kitsune Mode that would not have required all those long months of training. Or maybe it was safer to find the hard method first before the shortcut...It was still humiliating though...Add to the fact that even Kurama was laughing at her inside the seal, she was not in a good mood.
If Naruto was in Sage Mode before physically shape shifting, she could easily go all the way to her goal without any physical drawbacks, as long as she had enough Nature Chakra in her system. They had found out that the animal instincts were dominant only after her head had shifted, probably a quirk of genetics. As both of them weren't doctors, they couldn't really find a more specific explanation and Apollo was too busy to look into it. They could maybe pass it on to Asclepius? It was food for thoughts. When she ran out of Sage Chakra, her transformation would reverse to the Partial Kitsune Mode automatically. One second she was a fully anthropomorphized fox, the other one of those fox girls you see in some mangas and animes. But she could plan ahead and leave shadow clones hidden to gather Senjutsu chakra to refill her tanks if she needed to go in a big fight.
Now came the fun part of the training! Revenge on Lupa! Naruto took benefit of being already transformed to jump on the still giggling Wolf Goddess with a playful snarl. They fought like cat and dog or more accurately like dog and fox for a while and it was great fun for the shape shifting kunoichi and the wolf Goddess. They had so much fun in letting lose like that without fearing to hurt the other too much! Of course, Lupa won in the end, she had way more experience than Naruto and was more powerful physically, being a giant wolf. But the legitimate daughter of Apollo had her revenge anyway. She finally found out why she could make the she wolf play fetch like a dog when she was a kid! Lupa was quite sensitive to nature energy since even if she was a goddess, she was an animal and Naruto's young age had her humoring the girl the first time they met. She was also saturated by the energy of her surroundings, so much purer on Delos than in North America, so the she-wolf was caught off guard. This time though, Lupa had made the mistake to explain how she was tricked to her pupil. Finally a way to get payback for the training from hell!
Naruto bent down and took a stick lying on the ground nearby and carefully channelled some of her own nature energy around the branch. As soon as the bit of wood was encased with nature chakra, she whistled loudly and got the giant wolf's attention. With a smirk, she waved the branch slowly from one side to the other, using the baby talk most people used around their family pet. Lupa's head was following attentively the movements made by the branch and her tongue was out while she was breathing quickly!
"Lupa! Here, wolfy wolfy wolfy! Here, girl! Look! The stick! You want the stick? You want it girl? GO FETCH!"
During Naruto's speech, Lupa folded herself frontwards, her back end in the air still, her tail waving like mad. She even started to bark like a dog a few times, then when the stick was thrown, she leaped away to fetch it barking all along the run! And fetch it she did! The she-wolf brought it back to Naruto and let it fell at her feet. Laughing and smiling softly, Naruto took the branch again and after teasing the wolf, she threw it again.
So the she-devil Naruto managed to made the Roman Wolf Goddess play fetch for about an hour and even managed to record it on video as blackmail on the sly, having set the camera beforehand an hide it nearby under a genjutsu! Naruto was by no mean very good with genjutsu in general without her kitsune powers, but Kurama was willing to help this time because he wanted payback on one of his old rivals and seeing the terrifying she-wolf act like a pet was quite hilarious! Screw the no technology rule. The daughter of Apollo was strong enough to beat about anything in her way and it's not like there was many gods, except maybe Ares-Sensei who was always looking for a good fight when he was not on duty or on a booty call, who would make a detour to fight because a half blood was using mortal technology. That recording was pure gold material and was totally worth the headache she would get by listening Chiron lecture her about how she was playing with fire and other stuff she had taken to consciously block from her hearing! Maybe she could barter something with her dad for it? After all he said that he wanted to raise his reputation from the ground it crashed on after the stunt at the Winter Solstice where her mother, Sasuke and she made their grand entrance. Hmm, it was worth a shot. Oh well, now with her training complete, she could go to Camp Jupiter, but first she had people to contact.
Getting a bit away from Lupa who was sulking after realizing that she had been made a mockery once again and felt glad that none of her pack mates had been around to see that, Naruto summoned a messenger toad and placed an order for custom made clothes that would fit her when transformed to her regular store. Well, she filled a form for it that she had taken with her since she knew she would be away from Konoha for a long while and could possibly needs something from there and then also signed a check from her bank account in Konoha with a big enough sum to make sure that the command's cost was covered. She also paid the messenger with pocky (a Japanese snack food produced by Ezaki Glico), the younger toads really liked sweets, to stay in the human realm long enough to wait for the order to be ready and to come back with the delivery once made. It would take only a few days, the shop with whom she was making business with was used to shinobi deadlines and she had paid enough for it to be considered a rushed order.
Once the toad was gone in a puff of chakra smoke after saluting her with a cheeky wave, she went to the creek nearby to make a stream of water move around under the direct sunlight to create a rainbow, and then she made an Iris Message to her mother. Technically, Kushina was the team leader and the person with the highest rank on the field, since she was a full jonin and both Sasuke and she were Tokubetsu jonins. If Apollo hadn't been legally declared dead, she would have reported to him since he used to be the Yondaime Hokage.
"O Iris, Goddess of the Rainbow, please accept my offering."
She threw a golden drachma into the mist and said
"Kushina Uzumaki, Camp Half-Blood, please."
"That's the dumbest way of contacting someone I ever heard of. Talking through a rainbow, what's next, talking through mirrors? And believe me; I saw a lot of dumb things in my long life."
Naruto ignored Kurama's comments in her head and waited for the connection to be established. He had a point though; there were more efficient ways to contact people. The children of Hephaestus and also of Athena should get together and found a solution for the problem that using mortal telecommunication cause. Otherwise, soon they wouldn't be able to stay hidden from the regular people for much longer. On the shinobi side of thing, they had developed a nifty little genjutsu that even she could use to bypass the problem, so it was only the regular demigods who would have to pick up the slack.
Naruto saw her mother, she was on the veranda of the Big House, meditating. She then called out to her
"Hi mom!"
Startled by her daughter's voice, Kushina woke from her meditation and was on her feet in one second and in another, she was in her taijutsu stance, ready to fight if need be. Wanting to reassure her, Naruto continued
"Mom, it's me. I'm calling you with an Iris message. I wanted to brief you on my training. It's complete! I did it mom! I can shape shift into a fully bipedal kitsune! It's an awesome feeling! It's as if a whole new level of freedom opened to me! Lupa and I made tests and all of my Kitsune powers are notoriously stronger when fully shifted."
Kushina calmed herself after hearing her daughter's voice. They did see each other every other day, so there wasn't enough time apart to build a sense of miss. Lupa was often gone hunting a few days at time and needing somebody who could knock the Natural Energy out of her body when she messed up, Naruto couldn't train without supervision. But it was always such a pleasure to hear and see her baby girl.
"You really did it?! Oh, I'm so proud of you honey! Your father isn't here right now; it seems Artemis felt slighted by Onoki, the 3rd Tsuchikage's, attitude about women on the battlefields and she decided to go pay him a visit that he won't forgot anytime soon. So Minato tagged along to make sure she doesn't go overboard. I'm not sure what is up with that goddess; she is very temperamental these days, maybe her Roman self is getting difficult? Anyway, I digress. Well, don't keep me waiting, brief me on everything, you know the procedure Honey."
Kushina knew that her husband's name was really Apollo, but after growing up with the man, she sometimes still calling him by his mortal name. After briefing her mother on everything that needed to be said and wishing out loud good luck to her father, Naruto cut the connection. She then contacted Hera with another Iris message; said goddess was Juno and not Hera today and Naruto told her everything the goddess needed to know about her training. After getting the green light from the goddess and gifted with a purple drachma with a peacock on one side and the symbol of Olympus on the other as proof to give to Terminus with Lupa's drachma already sealed in a scroll expressly for that occasion, she was finally good to go. The Wolf Goddess gave her the best itinerary to follow to get to her destination quickly. Now, the question was how to get there? She had several means of transportation available to her. She could do this legally, but where was the fun in that? Steal another car maybe? It was fun, but it would be a repeat performance at best and the Romans were renowned sticks in the mud, they would not appreciate her entrance like Camp Half-Blood did. Mm, so maybe not a hijacked aka stolen, car then. She recently got a written notice from Ol' Pervy King himself the other day. Said letter was warning her that the next time she stole something big without just reason (He was not going to get involved with petty crimes, like a stolen chocolate bar, he was a god for Order's sake, not a police officer busting down juvenile delinquents), like a life or death situation per example, he would not cover it like the theft of the Chevy and she would have to deal with the mortal authorities. He had waved it the first time as a reward for the fantastic show on the Solstice meeting for their introduction, but that was all she would get from him. Seriously, Grandpa Zeus was such a kill joy! Granddad Poseidon was so much funnier to hang out with!
Back to the problem at hand, she could always go full speed ahead in Bijuu mode, but the Mist would have to work overtime by covering a glowing giant Nine Tails fox for a few hours and then it would be the goddess Hecate on her case. Sure, she could always run there in regular ninja speed or in Sunlight Speed, but she was not really into the mood for it. Maybe she could bug her dad so he could go in Roman Mode Apollo and drop a Hiraishin kunai in the Caldecott tunnel or place a Hiraishin seal marker in New Rome? She wanted to test if a magic boundary could repel a space/time ninjutsu. She knew that the barrier at Camp Half-Blood wasn't doing anything against the Hiraishin. Then, a wicked idea took hold in her brain. She turned back toward Lupa and she gave the goddess a Fox like grin of which only Naruto Uzumaki had the secret. In one of her breaks at camp, somebody had put the movie "Princess Mononoke" in the DVD player when it was movies night in Apollo's cabin. Seeing San, the Wolf girl, riding bareback on those gigantic wolves made her wants to try it herself! She could always henge herself with the same clothes, with the same fur cape and clay mask to go with the look! So she gave her idea to Lupa, who was part amused, part intrigued and also part affronted by the very idea.
You see, Naruto's ideas were always at least entertaining, so she let the girl rambling more often than not for a quick laugh. The intrigued part of her was wondering at the mechanisms behind such relationships between said human girl who was raised by wolves' spirits because she had reared countless pups in her long life, be they a wolf or a human. But was quite affronted by the mere idea of letting a human ride her like a horse!
"I'm not a horse you can tame, train and mount girl. If you want to recreate the scene from your movie, be my guest, I won't stop you. But I will not be your mount. I am Lupa, the wolf Goddess, not a domestic animal. Ask another one in the pack if they are willing to entertain your idea."
In the end, the idea was shot down. It was too dangerous for an approach by a Greek. Terminus might see it as an attack and order the Legion to attack her, if so, her entire mission would be a failure and she could not afford such a catastrophe. While she would be able to escape quite easily since she was an escape artist since she could walk, she had only one chance to enter legally and for that she had to forgo her grandstanding tendencies. She could always wow them later, once she was inside. So Naruto decided to go the normal way. She applied the genjutsu that hid her demigod scent and left the Wolf House with her one set of good civilian clothes in direction of San Francisco. Once near a payphone, she called a taxi and went shopping a bit. She had grown up a few centimetres this year in height and also a bit in cup size, so she was due for a shopping trip anyway. Too bad Sasuke wasn't free; she would have loved to tease him with some lingerie! He was so amusing trying to stay stern and emotionless while ogling her. Hum, maybe she will have a few interesting nights with a few Roman legionaries? Who knows? Well, the Fates would maybe know but they sure as hell won't tell. So after sealing anything she didn't need and unsealed her credentials, she entered the Caldecott Tunnel and found easily the hidden entrance. Once outside of the tunnel, she was finally in front of Camp Jupiter.
Said camp was more like a walled city with a river between the tunnel and the city. There was a bridge and a statue of a man bust, with no arms, of some kind with some Latin engraved near the base of it that was guarding the bridge. Dispelling the genjutsu hiding her scent and the one hiding her whiskers birthmarks, Naruto advanced with a determined gait toward the bridge. Just before she could put her feet on the bridge, the statue came to life and ordered
"Halt! You are not welcome here, Greek! State your purpose and be gone before I smite you."
Naruto raised one fine golden eyebrow at the welcome she received. So that was a Roman god? The way he said "Greek" was like he was cursing or something. Yeah, he had a stick up his ass somewhere. She was now glad to have taken the regular method to come here. But she answered none the less politely
"I am Naruto Uzumaki, daughter of Apollo and granddaughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite. I was sent here by Hera, Juno and Lupa to act as Ambassador between Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter. Here are my credentials. May I know to whom I am speaking, sir?"
She retrieved from the right pocket of her blue jeans the pouch in which was the two drachmas given to her by the Goddesses and showed them to the guard, not waiting for an answer.
The Roman God of Boundaries inspected the drachmas that this Greek girl was presenting to him and he could tell that they were the real deal. That girl born from Apollo's loins was telling the truth. He could also feel that she was different from any run out of the mill daughter of the Sun Rider. She had some sort of power to spare for once, an enormous amount of it and he could feel that she was able to tap into Faunus' (the Roman equivalent of Pan) Domain. And her gait screamed trained warrior. But she was dressed as a civilian. If he could afford such things, he would even admit that she was quite the dish. There was something missing though. She was clearly not from around here, those marks on her cheeks looked like tribal markings, but he could clearly see that they were birthmarks by the grooves into her skin. Her sky blue eyes held a feral tint and when she spoke, he could also see that her canines were more developed than what was usual on a human. Since he was a God, those introspections did not last more than a second. Finally, he said
"Be welcome into Camp Jupiter, daughter of Apollo, Naruto Uzumaki. The guards will escort you into the Praetor's office. I, Terminus, God of Boundaries, bestow you Ambassador Status. Do not make me regret the decision to let you in, Greek. For it would be the last mistake of your life."
Once Terminus had stopped talking and his bust was no longer animated, she stepped forwards onto the bridge and somehow, she felt liberated. It was as if some bonds she didn't knew she had, had been undone. Frowning, she asked her partner mentally
"Kurama? Do you understand what happened?"
"I'm not sure. The water of this river has some strange proprieties but I can't make head or tails out of them. It's probably godly stuff, since it's not chakra related. Be careful and don't go swimming in it until you have more information."
"Gotcha. Thanks buddy. I promise to let you out for a bit once I'm sure it's safe enough."
Kurama grunted his acknowledgement, but said nothing else. Once the doors were open, she was met by two legionaries in full golden armor with purple shirts under it. They were younger than her from a few years, since she was taller than both of them. They did not answer any of her mundane inquiries, but her left escort scolded her right for ogling her chest. She sot the poor embarrassed guard a crooked smile, but didn't press more since he took his eyes off her assets. She had to say that her black AC-DC t-shirt and her jeans jacket made her look pretty fine. She was escorted into the office of the Praetor and the guards were dismissed. Hum, the praetor was a girl. It was nice to see a woman in charge. Girl power for the win!
The girl was about sixteen, with piercing black eyes and glossy black hair worn in a single braid. Like all the demigods in Camp Jupiter, she has SPQR branded on her forearm and Naruto could see four bars, so four years of service. A crossed sword and torch was on top of the SPQR, probably the symbol of her godly parent, whoever it might be. Naruto had to admit that she was not the most knowledgeable of the Roman pantheon. Chiron and Annabeth's lessons didn't manage to keep her interest for long with the long lectures and over the top descriptions, for she had also A.D.H.D but was even more hyperactive with so much energy flowing through her veins with her lineage and her partner. The praetor was also wearing a regal purple toga decorated with gold medals over her own Imperial Gold armor. All in all, Naruto would not say no to a tumble between the sheets with the girl.
On Reyna's side, she had been made aware of the Greek side of the supernatural once she ascended to her current post. She was relaxing after a hard day of running things by herself and grumbling about Jason's top secret mission that was taking so long and also having to deal with that pest of an Augur, Octavian, alone. Then Terminus told her that that Hera, Juno and Lupa had sent a Greek ambassador to Camp Jupiter. She was pleasantly surprised to see a young woman, a few years older than her, dressed in civilian, been brought to her. Reyna was a strong young woman and was not impressed by much, but this girl, no this woman before her, she was more than she looked like. Long blond hair in lazy pigtails falling to the small of her back, big sky blue eyes with something more an oval shaped face with a pointed chin, three whiskers like marks on each cheeks, a small nose, lipstick-free lips turned into an easy smile. She was on the petite size, but still somewhat tall, not thin but not an ounce of fat anywhere. The daughter of Bellona had to give it to this girl, she was a very good actor, not giving anything away, but a warrior recognizes another one. The ambassador chosen by the Greeks gods and vetted by the Romans gods was a warrior trough and through. She could see the callused hands of a woman who trained with a weapon and not afraid of hard work.
The Daughter of Bellona took parole
"Welcome to Camp Jupiter. I am Reyna Ramírez-Arellano, daughter of Bellona, Praetor of the Twelfth Legion."
Reyna then extended her hand to shake Naruto's. Said Jinchūriki knew that the girl before her had pierced her disguise of been a regular girl. She was a sharp one. She then answered all the while shaking the hand presented with enough force to have respect but not enough to damage
"Well met Praetor and thank you for the welcome. I am Naruto Uzumaki, daughter of Apollo, Tokubetsu Jonin of Konohagakure No Sato. I have been sent to negotiate peace between the two camps or at least, broker a pact of non aggression."
Nobody but the Fates would ever know, but this meeting was one who forced every player in the game that was the Gigantomachy to throw their hands and the deck was reshuffled. Naruto was not one to be bound by a destiny. She was one to shatter those kinds of bonds. She was a force of nature, a veritable maelstrom. She was Kyuubi no Naruto, Naruto of Nine Tails.