The Greek Kunoichi

Chapter 14: Kyuubi no Naruto VS Polybotes: Fight!

Author's Notes: Here we are at the fourteenth chapter of The Greek Kunoichi! We finally see some more action. With Naruto as approved ambassador to the Romans, things will change, but some will stay the same. I also have decided that Naruto won't have access to Six Paths Sage Mode. It's a god level power up that I still don't understand well even after reading articles upon articles on the subject, so her Bipedal Kitsune mode will replace it. The Fourth Shinobi World War will be drawn to a close before anything at a godly level can be let out to play in this story. Now for the stats! We have 60 reviews, 272 followers, 256 favourites, 6 C2 communities and 28 012 views! Thank you very much! Now, on with the show!

While Reyna and Naruto had started to bond easily, the presence of a Greek demigod among them was not very well received by many legionnaires, but it was more background noise than anything else. A centurion of the First Cohort and the Augur, a young man named Octavian, who coincidentally was also a Legacy of Apollo, was literally enraged by the presence of an enemy inside their camp, he was, figuratively speaking, foaming at the mouth and demanding her expulsion or even her execution. That one earned him a jab of killer intent directed at him that made him flinch. The fact that Terminus confirmed the credibility of her credentials made him even madder since he couldn't just get rid of the Graceus. He would have attacked Naruto or more likely blackmailed somebody else to do it for him if not for the fact that as long as she abided by their laws, and they were honor-bound to explain them to her so she would not break them accidentally, she was literally and politically untouchable and he really didn't want to have the Gods' wrath upon his head. It was bad for the health. There was something else that was frightening the Augur almost as much as the possible wrath of the Gods. That barbarian Greek girl, a daughter of his Ancestor, Apollo, had the same look of a powerful predator in her feral blue eyes. He could see the stirrings of an ancient power deep into the girl and whatever it was; he wanted nothing to do with it. He had the feeling that should the girl, Naruto, what kind of name is that? - Unleashed that power, she could raze everything into her path. He was not the only one to protest her arrival, but since she had been vetted in by three gods, one Greek and two Roman, there was little they could do. Even if they took it to the Senate and they will, since she was here to establish a truce at least and a peace treaty at most between both camps, they could not evict her without good reason. Nothing was said in their laws against being petty and rude to her though.

No one was willing to offer her lodgings except for the Fifth Cohort and it was more a bunk than anything else. Since she was not a Roman demigod or a legacy (Well, she was but they didn't know it) and hadn't served ten years into the Legion, she was not permitted into New Rome with the exception of access to the Senate house for the debates. But Naruto, seeing Reyna's apologetic face, reassured her by saying

"It's fine. I have all my gear packed for a long term mission anyway. I will mount my tent outside near the road. I'm more of nature gal anyway. I'll take my meals in the mess hall with everybody. I don't want preferential treatment."

Naruto was also discretely observing and cataloguing everybody around her. The bigger threat to her mission was Octavian, the Augur. She didn't understand why he was called an Augur when he was divining the Gods' will by the methods of a Haruspex and not trough bird watching. Romans were weird. He was a skinny eighteen years old youth with blond hair, crazed blue eyes, and skin as pale as someone who didn't go out in the sun much. Already he was rubbing her the wrong way and Kurama was having way too much fun by letting his presence lurks in her eyes to scare the sensitive Legacy of Daddy henpecked. It was useless to try to stop the kitsune, at least he wasn't pushing for mass destruction, so better let him get his jollies through pranks. The ancient being had opted to stay with her when he was offered his freedom in a way that wouldn't kill her, his host, she could let him have his little quirks, she owed the sly old fox that much.

The Legacy of Apollo looked sceptic as to how she was packing gear for a long term mission since she was unharmed at first view and clad into civilian clothing with no luggage. He was about to let out a few unsavory comments, but she brazenly ignored him and everybody else, then grabbed Reyna's forearm and with a simple phrase, she had the Praetor's full attention

"Come on Rey-chan! Girl talk time! "

After all, it's been such a long time since Reyna had someone with who she could girl talk with; she had started a friendship with Hazel Levesque, the daughter of Pluto who came recently to Camp, but Hazel was a Probatio (A new soldier without any rank) and Reyna was Praetor, so it made things a bit difficult. So the daughter of Bellona followed Naruto without protest even if she was slightly surprised to be saddled with a nickname so soon.

When Reyna and Naruto were both outside and out of view, all the males around who were able to hear Naruto's declaration, no matter if they were straight or gay, let out some terrified shudders while the girls present rolled their eyes at the expression of their male counterpart. Boys will be boys. Girl talk was something terrifying for anyone of the male gender. A few curious stragglers whom followed the two outside were treated to the sight of the Greek girl bite her thumb on her unusually sharp canines to get blood and swipe said collected blood upon a tattoo on her right forearm they would swear on their honor wasn't there a few seconds ago. With a puff of white smoke, a scroll with Asian characters written on it appeared and Naruto put it on the ground after catching it. They were quite surprised; the Roman campers hadn't seen that kind of magic before. Before the Greek girl decided to proceed further, she directed her eyes toward them and lifted an eyebrow in a silent question. With Reyna adding a glare and an order of returning to their duties, they left grumbling at what Camp Jupiter was becoming. Letting a Graceus (Latin word for Greek) into their midst, for shame. Naruto shook her head. If they wanted her to feel unwelcome, well they would have to do way better than that. She was a war veteran, a very well trained kunoichi and had amply merited her rank of Tokubetsu Jonin. She would not fold under such puny peer pressure.

Reyna watched Naruto use her strange magic to obtain a scroll with Asian characters that was somehow stored into a tattoo inked on her right arm. She could deduce that the young woman in front of her had probably some Asian ancestry in her lineage, with her slightly slanted eyes even if they were blue and her petite stature, also with her Asiatic name and surname. Naruto Uzumaki. She was definitely a trained warrior, not one movement was wasted when she was moving. If she could still appear somewhat feminine, what with her long blonde hair, even dressed as a tomboy, it was sign that she was quite deadly and strong enough to permit herself some rewards by shedding some layers of protection that unisex clothing would have provided her with. The Praetor was quite impressed with what she saw. Naruto used her still bleeding thumb to swipe it against the now open scroll and after another explosion of white smoke, there was now a high quality tent made for survival in rough areas already up, only needing to be anchored, a full to bursting expedition backpack with anything a woman could need in the wilderness on the side of the tent. A few seconds later, the wound was closed like it has never been there. The daughter of Bellona was not naive, she knew that Naruto was showing some of her tricks to her to gain her voice in the future debates and she had to admit that it was working. She wanted to know more and in knowing more, they both would learn from each other. That daughter of Apollo was quite devious. In no time at all with Reyna's help, the tent was anchored.

Naruto also had to literally kick away one of the three fauns that came over to satisfy their curiosity which really didn't understand the meaning of "I'm not interested". They were flirting with her without reserves; one very audacious faun even went as far as grope her ass after a cheesy pick up line that even the most girly daughter of Aphrodite/Venus would found lame! Naruto was a free spirit, had a fairly open mind to new things and was also an adept of protected sex, but she was not into incest and bestiality. So the poor faun who groped her ass was sent away towards the Field of Mars with a bijuu chakra enhanced high kick. Kurama was very protective of his kit, thus perfectly willing to add some oomph to her kick on the furry pervert.

Reyna hadn't even to order the two others to disperse, because Naruto bombarded them with the killing intent of her foxy partner, making them flee, crying and baaing like they were pursued by Pluto/Hades' Furies. Well, it was official, Naruto preferred the Satyrs at Camp Half Blood! At least they were making themselves useful and understood the meaning of "Not interested". Bunch of horny goats, ugh! Needless to say, the daughter of Bellona was quite impressed by Naruto's tactics. She could use that to make her troops fall in line. Girl power for the win! She then said

"Nice kick! You have a lot of strength! It shows that you take your training seriously."

Naruto answered with a serious voice

"I'm not a wallflower and I didn't take shortcuts, I shed tears, sweat and blood almost by gallons to attain my current level and believe me, I don't intend to rest upon my laurels! Now, let's go inside, we can interrogate each other and putting things in order."

She finished and grabbed her rucksack, followed by an amused Reyna who answered

"We play the game of "a question and an answer each" then? I'm game, as long as it is nothing classified though. You seem nice, but you are still Greek and an outsider."

Naruto rolled her eyes and grumbled

"Yeah yeah, I know. Geez, you Romans are sticks in the mud! Live it up a little!"

Reyna answered with a mixture of amusement and fake outrage

"We are not! We are soldiers and we act like it, that's all there is to it! If anything, you are way too laidback for your own good."

Naruto answered with a childish grimace and an amused laugh.

On the Greek side of things, the construction of the Argo II was going well. Leo thought it could go better if he could pull his cabin into making all nighters and take the less breaks possible, but Kushina told him flat out that if he did that, she would summons one of her friends from Konoha, a hand to hand combat expert, to whip him into shape. He was quite runty for a son of Hephaestus in her opinion, could use a few more meals and relied far too much on his fire powers for her tastes. Maito Gai's training regimen would do him some good. After Apollo shared visualization with the impressed and also quite horrified campers of what exactly Gai was capable of and what his training did to his apprentice, they were in no hurry to push Kushina's patience and authority. Heck, even Mr. D was deeply disturbed by all the rants about the Power of Youth. To sum what he said before he decided to go take a nap to get rid of the disturbing image of two grown men dressed in form fitting green leotard hugging each other

"I'm way too sober for this shit."

A week before the Argo II was scheduled to be completed; Kushina had very good news to share with everyone. She was pregnant once again. Just to keep it a secret from her husband for a little while, she went to see Chiron just to be sure. She knew the symptoms of course, but the immortal centaur was the most experimented healer around with the exception of her husband, but since she wanted to surprise him, she couldn't ask for his help. After nineteen years, in nine months since she was a month along (A woman Jinchūriki's pregnancy take ten months), she would hold a new baby in her arms. Needless to say that Apollo was crowing with pride in an almost Peter Pan manner like once he found out and was the recipient of many manly slaps on his back and comments like "Good job, stud!" by the male population of the Camp while Kushina entertained all sort of questions from the female population of said Camp, ranging from if she already knew the sex of the baby to when said baby was made. Artemis also made a brief solo visit to Camp Half-Blood to talk with her sister-in-law. While she swore an Oath to be an eternal virgin long ago, it didn't meant that she couldn't shower her chosen and favourites with her favour. Thus another legitimate child from her twin brother warranted a brief visit. Too bad the eldest wasn't around; she had heard good things about her. A shame she was all grown up and no longer a maiden though. Naruto would have made a great addition for the Hunt.

Kushina and Artemis would likely never be very close; Artemis favored the younger girls who were still maidens and was very asexual. She understood the need to have an heir to continue their lines, it was the animal instinct to breed just refined by civilization, but it didn't mean she was interested in trying. If she wasn't also the goddess of childbirth, she would not associate with Kushina, but the woman was effectively pregnant, it was within her Domains and she could accurately feel it to confirm it. Kushina was also wild, unapologetic, and more or less short tempered, happily married and assuredly quite sexually active, since Apollo hadn't felt the need to go philandering since his probation on the "accursed couch" was over. But that woman was carrying the Moon Goddess' new legitimate nephew or niece and also they could bond on different ways on how to make Apollo behave. While the Huntress was a bit miffed about hearing about her brother's manhood, to hear that as long as he was in an immortal humanoid body and couldn't take his true form he literally couldn't get it up with anybody else than his wife was more than making it up since it was very hilarious! Best. Blackmail. Ever. Another thing in Kushina's favor! But what cemented Artemis' favor on her sister-in-law was her request

"Artemis, I would like to request for you to help me give birth when its time. My last pregnancy was marred by Apollo's old student attacking us and releasing the really cranky fox spirit jailed in me. He took control of it and teleport it into the village and let it destroy everything on his path. I truly wish to not have a repeat. With two Olympian Gods helping me, nobody would be foolish enough to try again."

Artemis had been briefed about Kushina's circumstances by her little brother, thus was in the know. She could understand that as a shinobi, Kushina would want to cover all her bases and have a powerful security detail when she was at her most vulnerable. Touched, the Huntress let appear on her face a true sincere smile and accepted the request.

"I will be there, as well as my Hunters. Nobody will release the Nine Tails under my watch and you will live through the birth, you have my word."

Kushina's smile was blinding and with emotion, she threw herself into the Moon Rider's embrace and squeezed her with all her considerable strength and gave her a big smooch on the cheek

"Thank you so much Datebane! You're a real sweetheart Big Sis!"

Apollo was doing his best to not laugh at the stunned face of his twin. She was laughing at him earlier from being booted into monogamy and married life heh? Well, now he could tease her about her reaction to Kushina's exuberance. Ah sweet blackmail!

Back on the Roman side of things, Naruto had her work really cut out for her. Octavian was looking at anything useful to discredit her and it was obvious, for her that is, that he had many people around the camp by the balls, so to speak. So far she had managed to talk a few times in the Senate and made her case heard clearly. Camp Jupiter wasn't sold on a permanent peace treaty but they were readily interested in a cease fire and an official truce. Naruto couldn't negotiate trade agreements since she wasn't aware of what goods each Camps could provide and also it wasn't in her mission parameters. She made a mental note to talk about it with Chiron once she was back in Camp Half-Blood. At her last audience, she had brought the threat of Gaia's imminent awakening and the Gigantes rising and also about the incoming of a flying ship with on board a delegation of Greek Demigods with Jason Grace, Praetor of the Twelfth Legion and Son of Jupiter also on board. A few days ago, Percy finally showed up carrying a disguised Juno, been pursued by the Gorgon sisters. The fact that the monsters were reforming that quickly was speaking loudly about something that happened to Thanatos and the Doors of Death.

A son of Mars and Legacy of Poseidon, Frank Zhang, was claimed after a war game where he was crown the Most Valuable Player (M.V.P) then sent on a Quest in Alaska to recover something and free somebody, soon after. He took with him his crush in Pluto's daughter, Hazel and Mars seemingly ordered that Percy had to go with them. She would not go with them even if she could have easily sneaked her way in the Quest, she was far too busy in Camp Jupiter to go gallivanting in the north, but she wished them good luck. Percy was mighty surprised to see her in the Roman camp the other day though. She also gave them the advice to take a more modern boat than the decrepit barge offered to them by the Senate, but the rest was up to them. She made relatively little progress in the Senate, until Octavian foolishly challenged her strength openly. With a feral smile, Naruto decided to show them what a true Sage could do.

Standing up from her seat, she became totally motionless. Her heartbeat slowed as well as her breath and closing her eyes, she opened herself to the world. One minute later, her eyelids became orange and her feral blue eyes became yellow and toad like. She was in Sage Mode. The Roman demigods and Legacies, having never saw something like that, were stunned. A daughter of Ceres and a son of Bacchus present in the audience could both feel themselves drawn to this strange daughter of Apollo. The Senators, speechless, had nothing to say. Octavian, in his case, was red in rage. That blasted Graceus Girl was hindering him at every turn with her exotic skills! How could some slip of a Greek girl have so much power?! What broke the silence was Terminus' voice.

"You! Greek girl! Explain! You are using a Faded God's domain! Where are you from? How are you managing such a feat?"

Naruto turned toward the Roman God of Boundaries and answered

"I was born and raised on Delos, the former isle of the Letoides. The island was enlarged into a continent long ago by the Titaness Leto and placed partially in a separate dimension. No mortals can leave or enter the moving continent on their own. Only gods and demigods can and it's not an easy feat. And I gathered Nature energy to enter Sage Mode. I was trained into the Sage Arts by the Toad tribe of Mount Myoboku."

Terminus was silent for a moment; said moment was enough for the nature energy accumulated by Naruto to being all used. With the lack of Nature chakra in her system, Naruto's features returned to normal. When the god decided to speak again, it was with humor in his voice

"So, you are Apollo's only legitimate daughter! Born from his wife when he was incarnated as a mortal, and his wife is really a twice born daughter of the Greek sea god and his queen! That was quite the show your mother and you put up at the Winter Solstice meeting! I never saw the Sun Rider so cowed before! So that's why you have so much power! You are a shinobi then! You can use chakra! A Sage?! By Order, It has been a millennium at least since I last saw a fully realized Sage. You said Gaia was awakening? Yes, I believe you. A Sage would feel her stirring. Camp Jupiter will stand with Camp Half-Blood against the Earth mother. Consider the truce offered now official and a temporary alliance will be discussed when our missing Praetor and the other Greeks will land."

After that, the Senate could no longer stale things even with Octavian whispering threats in the background. They were going to war against Gaia. With a quick command of the Boundary god, the session was drawn to a close and Camp Jupiter was ordered to prepare for war. Just in time it seems, since Polybotes and an army of monsters was seen by an advanced scouting party marching toward Camp Jupiter. At the rhythm they were going, they would be at their doorstep in three to five days. Naruto was a bit awed in seeing Reyna takes charge and ordering every able body to prepare for a siege. She would have made an excellent shinobi with the right training. Oh, Naruto knew that Reyna was a formidable warrior, they had spared against each other enough in the passing days, but the daughter of Bellona was lacking the training to "look underneath the underneath" as Kakashi-sensei was prompt to say when he was training Team 7. Well, nobody defined the notion of "paranoid" better than Shinobi. She made sure to not be underfoot, she even helped the Legion get ready by spamming a literal army of Shadow Clones to help once she obtained Terminus' permission.

Percy, Hazel and Frank even returned alive, whole and successful in their Quest and a day and half ahead of Polybotes and his army, having freed Thanatos in process and reclaimed the missing Eagle from the Legion, redeeming the Fifth Cohort's reputation in the Camp and Jupiter's eyes. Percy also seemed all ready to go fight the Gigante who was Poseidon's-his father and her grandfather- bane, created by Gaia to fight him and replace him, but Naruto pulled seniority on him. She said

"I've been here a few weeks and I've been dealing with Octavian's and the Senate's crap, I need to hit something and that Giant will do, so I call dibs. Sit this one out Percy and watch what happen when I go all out. Feel free to get rid of the other monsters though, I will be focused on Granddad's bane so If you would have my back, I'd appreciate it."

When she finished her speech, the Son of the Storm bringer saw her Feral blues eyes glow with barely restrained power and he could literally feel her lethality ooze out of her. Yeah, he could always take on another Giant some other time. His niece was not sidelining him, she wanted to let out some steam and asking him to have her back. He could do that. Let it not be said that Percy Jackson couldn't let others lead once in a while! He offered his hand to Naruto and both with a similar smirk, they gripped each other forearms in the old warriors greeting. Percy Jackson would have Naruto Uzumaki's back, come hell or high water! He knew she would do the same if the circumstances were reversed.

"Of course I will have your back! As long as you give that Giant a few good hits for me, consider us even!"

Naruto's answer was her famous fox like grin and a

"Sure! That freaky thing will regret ever waking up again!"

In the meantime though, he could use some grub, a long soak in the baths and a snooze and also some fresh clothes. He was beat! Seeing Naruto's nose scrunching, he knew he likely stunk, so to appease her sensitive sense of smell, he beat a hasty retreat before she decided to give him an improvised shower with the water she could manipulate with her Nejibana.

The day was here. Polybotes and his army of monsters were literally at a stone throw from the camp and Naruto was a bit further ahead than the first wave ready to fight to protect their home by putting their lives on the line, doing warm-ups. She had helped Reyna and the centurions coming with a strategy to fight off this siege and she would be taking on the biggest threat to their way of life. Oh, don't get her wrong, she wasn't doing it entirely heartily. She knew full well that doing this will cement her position and reputation among the Romans; it was another part of why she was volunteering to fight Poseidon's Bane alone. The biggest part of her reason was to let Kurama out to also let go of some steam. Her partner was feeling incredibly stiff and needed some damn exercise, being coped in the seal all the time. Yes, the new mindscape was better than the boiler room/sewer hybrid that the seal was when she was still a little girl, but he really wanted to feel the real wind on his fur. In fact, Kurama was waiting impatiently inside her mindscape, cackling gleefully and rubbing his clawed hands with anticipation. Finally a challenge worthy of his magnificence! Naruto turned toward Percy and his new friends, Frank and Hazel and told them

"Try to not die out here or I'm going down in the Underworld, I will find you all and I will kick your asses back to life then kick you back under! Survive and I'll pay the drinks at the bar we'll go celebrate to! Gotta go! See you later!"

With a chakra enhanced leap and not waiting for an answer she cleared the entrance quickly. Once she had put enough distance between her and the rest of the Legion, she quickly shifted gears into Sunlight Speed and was gone in a flash of solar light, bypassing line after line of enemies, letting them eat her dust with a feral smirk on her face.

Percy rubbed his new S.P.Q.R and trident tattoo; his mom would kill him for getting one before being eighteen, and looked around. It seems that Naruto had kept that card secret, for everybody was in awe at the speed she demonstrated. He really had difficulty wrapping his head around her abilities sometimes. From being trained as a soldier since her early childhood and sharing her soul with an ancient immortal Fox Spirit made of energy who shared his powers and strength with her, up to be able to gather sunlight of all things as fuel for her super speed. She was probably the most powerful demigod to walk the earth. Zeus would likely flip when he learns what exactly came out of Delos and it would cause massive amounts of damage. He was not the smartest person around, no that was his sexy wise girl, but he knew that Naruto would never bow to Zeus and the King will likely try to smite her for it. That woman was unpredictable and quite chaotic. Oh well, he had others things to do right now than to ruminate his thoughts about the future. Percy then said to his new comrades

"Let's go kick some monster's butt!"

Frank gave a somewhat feral smirk at that while Hazel seems a bit put out by the vulgarity of his speech. That girl was queasy about the weirdest things, but hey, he was glad that she had their back. So on Reyna's command, the Twelfth Legion was set on motion. The legionaries took place in formation, banging their glaive upon their shields.

Naruto ran all the way toward the Gigante. Man, was he ugly! He was a thirty feet tall Giant, with reptilian legs similar to a Komodo dragon. From the waist upwards, he had green-blue armor. He also wore a breastplate shaped with faces of monsters. He had a human face with wild green hair that had basilisks hanging down from it. The Giant was quite intelligent and ruthless, but even he was taken off guard when something glowing and going toward him at high speed jumped high enough to backhand him! More surprising, was the pain he felt after the blow and that said blow was strong enough to make him stagger a few steps backwards! The Bane of Poseidon shook his enormous head, making a few basilisks fall to the ground, before he put himself on guard. Something fast and powerful had hit him and he would make it pay the insolence. Another bout of pain took him by surprise at his right ankle, this time it was bloody painful! All he could see was a golden light zoom past, hitting him everywhere! He was regenerating with no problem, but he was still feeling it!

That damnable light was like an annoying fly or more like one of those annoying wasps that could sting multiple times! It was hurting like a bitch when it was hitting him, but he couldn't do anything to catch it, it was way too fast! If only it would stand still for a little bit!

Naruto was having a blast at blitzing the big green haired dude. She knew she wouldn't defeat him with that tactic, but she was letting out some steam. Dealing with Octavian's schemes, the Fauns' constant flirting and the blockheads in the Senate had let her quite frustrated. Needing to keep some of her skills for herself in case she had to flee should things turn sour, she couldn't use the Hiraishin to go share Sasuke's bed to obtain release and get rid of her stress. And she hadn't found any candidates passing her standards for a few one night stands in Camp Jupiter. If Terminus could analyse the space-time technique, he could probably came up with a counter for it, so she kept it as a mean to escape. If worse came to worse, she would have unleashed Kurama and go all out, but she didn't want that. Now it was time to go big or go home. The Legion finally managed to catch up and now that she had an audience, she could finally kick Gigante butt. She retreated well out of reach of her foe and down shifted back to normal before saying out loud with her trademark fox like grin on her lips

"Let's go Kurama."

"With pleasure!"

That was the only answer coming from her partner before they synchronize their chakra to go Kurama Mode and after then straight to Tailed Beast Mode.

An explosion of energy was felt by everyone on both sides of the battle. A brilliant torrent of golden flames shot out of the daughter of Apollo, covering her in some sort of energy cloak. The energy cloak parts down the middle and opens up into a full-length haori, revealing a black undergarment with three magatamas on each side of her high collar. The cloak also had numerous swirl patterns looking like the Uzumaki Clan seal; black circles, and the whisker-like markings on her face become thicker. Her feral blue eyes were now a reddish orange with slit pupils. But the transformation didn't stop there. The energy shot skyward, carrying the kunoichi with it, forming something big. Something that was truly gigantic. After a few minutes, where the Uzumaki was, stood now a gigantic and quite fearsome golden fox with black tribal markings everywhere on its body, long rabbit ears and nine tails swaying in the wind. With a challenging roar, the beast who was now bigger than Neptune's Bane charged the stunned son of Gaia and Tartarus. The appearance of the mighty kitsune on the battlefield made both armies stop and stare in equal awe and fright at this creature never seen in those lands of Western Civilization. Polybotes came out of his surprise just in time to brace himself against the charge of the nine tailed fox. Thus he had to let go of his fishnet and trident to wrestle it away from his neck, but it was easier said than done, the beast had incredibly dexterous arms and quite the jaw power! And the energy making its body was scorching his skin each time he was batting those jaws from his neck, face and throat! Finally, with a mighty punch that resonated all around the battlefield, the Gigante was able to pry the mythical beast of the East off him.

The team of Naruto and Kurama were not deterred by this small set back and since he was made of chakra and not of flesh and blood, Kurama hadn't felt the hit. In fact, they would have been disappointed if he fell so easily. Deciding to test the waters so to speak, Kurama sent a few tails to either skewer him or to trip him, but Polybotes was not stupid, he had enough presence to roll away and gather his weapons back. His booming voice was then heard

"Turn back creature of the East! This conflict doesn't concern you. We are at war against Olympus and their servants. The Shinto had nothing to fear from us. Go back to Inari the Fox Goddess before I chose to destroy you."

Kurama only answer was laughing loudly before saying with his feral and growling voice

"You are my prey, Gigante. I care not for your war against the Greco-roman pantheon and their servants. My partner and I are looking for a challenge. Fight us and die with honor or stay still and let me slit your throat with my claws or rip it open with my fangs, but give us a challenge before your death!"

Then the titanic fox decided to charge again, but what looked like a frontal assault ended up as a feint, for Kurama jumped behind his chosen prey and sank his powerful fangs in the left clavicle of his enemy, shook his head with a mighty amount of power and then tore away the flesh, breaking even the bone. Needless to say, Kurama wasn't there to make friends. He was here for a good fight and to let loose. But it was beginning to be very annoying. He was dominating the fight all along, since when Polybotes started to fight back he was jumping back to take some distance for a better charge, but every wounds inflicted were healing, even the most grievous ones! And he really didn't like the taste of the flesh of this one. The basilisks weren't even worth his attention, since his chakra body was melting them instantly when they made contact with him. The weapons were easily dodged or blocked; the trident was stopped by a tail or two and the fisherman net was way too small to capture him. Maybe it was time to take back the passenger seat and let Naruto decide how to end it? She was also redirecting sliver from his chakra to help the other puny soldiers fight and defeat the monsters. He had to give credit where credit is due though, the Romans Halflings were very good fighters. He didn't care about humanity in general; the only ones he cared about were his and siblings' late father, Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki (The Sage of Six Paths) and his current host, Naruto Uzumaki.

No, he would not let Naruto take back the driver seat immediately; he hadn't enough fun just yet. With a challenging roar, Kurama happily went back to fight Neptune's Bane.

With the Legion, the fight was a rough one, even if the enemy was disorganized and Lupa's wolves had thinned the size of the attacking army quite a bit. Hazel was quite useful, using her geokinesis to dig up large chunks of earth to arm back the catapults and dodging enemies coming to close by shadow travelling and dispatching them with her Spatha (A Roman cavalry sword) when they were distracted. She was also keeping track of Frank's position in this mess, letting her death sense guide her in case of an ally's life force weakening.

Frank was a shape shifter and took first the form of a Grizzly bear to fight when he saw that it would be more practical than regular combat, but soon chose a faster but as deadly form into a black jaguar. His claws and fangs were doing quite the clean up against the enemy. Seeing that bestial tactics wouldn't work any longer since the enemy was wising up, the Son of Mars took back human form and started to shoot the monsters at a distance with his bow and arrows. He was also keeping an eye on Hazel. She was more than capable, but he didn't want her to go back in the Underworld before they could see if their relationship would work.

Percy was more or less having a blast. Usually he was not a battle junkie, but now he could use all the new moves he worked on with Kushina and Lupa. Concentrating on the water in the air, he created a dense mist to hide. Gripping Riptide, he walked like a wolf, aka without a sound and with a swing of his Celestial bronze weapon, he fell a few southern Cyclopes, a Hell hound and an Empousa. Concentrating on his limited geokinesis, the scion of the earth shaker stomped the ground with all his strength, which created a deep fissure in which countless enemies fell. Before a voice in his head could manifest and tell him to close the fissure, Percy did so all on his own. Testing his reserves, he grimaced. Geokinesis was really costly and he was quite limited in control. He wasn't like Nico, who could lift a definite section of earth in the shape of his choice and use it like an elevator. Oh well, better stick to his water powers and swordsmanship. The last time he really let loose with geokinesis, he accidentally blew himself from a volcano and awakened Typhon. So you could forgive him for being overly cautious in case one of his stupid plans woke up another monster better left slumbering.

Back to the fight between Polybotes and the team of Kurama/Naruto, the bijuu felt they had milked every trick from the Gigante. He had tried to force his presence on them to make them back off and to instill fear, but Kurama was unaffected and trough him, Naruto was protected. It was the same when he tried to turn the water in her body into poison, as long as the chakra cloak and the fox avatar were active, the Gigante's power could not take hold. Bored of the lacking challenge, Kurama decided that Naruto could take back the driver seat. He had his fun, now it was time to wrap this up before Polybotes became truly desperate and activates some kind of doomsday device or self destruct magic spell. Sending the giant flying with a hit from all of Kurama's tails, Naruto took benefit of the situation and started to charge something that would make a lovely explosion. It was probably overkill, but better be safe than sorry. She then said in a clear voice somehow heard clearly by everyone

"Sorry Gigante. But you look strong. So I'm not going to hold back."

The daughter of Apollo released a concentrated bout of Kurama's killing intent and malice upon her foe so she could take the time to pray. She had figured that to defeat Polybotes, a God and a demigod had to work together, so she needed a little extra oomph so to speak.

"Granddad, it's me, Naruto. I'm facing your bane right now. Could you bless my technique please? I don't care if you are Poseidon or Neptune right now, you are still my grandfather and I love you."

Naruto then reared her hands back once her prayer done and the maw of the fox opened and a small ball of energy appeared in front of Kurama's snout. Once the ball of energy became the size of a sport car, the daughter of the Sun Rider moved her hands in front of her and with her movement; the energy ball was absorbed straight into the maw. With a triumphant roar and a bloodthirsty smirk, both Naruto and Kurama yelled together gleefully

"BIJUUDAMA!"(Tailed Beast Ball)

Kurama's maw was slammed shut around the energy attack and then opened wide. The technique was released. The purple-black orb had now a strange blue-green aura around it and managed to travel the distance between the Fox avatar and the Gigante in fifteen seconds flat! Polybotes, in full blown panic, yelled some expletives in Ancient Greek and tried to take the hit, block it with his hands. It was a fatal error. The corrosive energy exploded on him and literally consumed him. Once the explosion and the backlash of said explosion was over, the only thing left from Neptune's bane was a mass of seaweed, reptile skin, and poisonous goop. After such a show of force, the remnants of the enemy army literally turned around and fled for their lives. They had been mostly all decimated, leaving about two dozen monsters still alive, but they were picked apart by the Amazons, whom had been striking the enemy from behind. Now, everybody turned their attention toward the giant fox, only to see it shrinking and change back into the golden cloaked Naruto. Said cloak was turned off once she was certain that there were no more enemies around.

Seeing that everybody else was looking at her, Naruto asked

"What? Do I have something on my face? Why is everybody staring at me like that?"

The collective audience either sweat dropped or palm faced themselves or both. Was she for real? Gods!

Omake

War paint or makeup?

It was after coming back from rescuing Gaara from the Akatsuki's claws. Unfortunately, they hadn't been fast enough and the Criminal organization had managed to extract Shukaku from the Kazekage. After a lengthy battle where Elder Chiyo helped Sakura in sending Sasori to the Underworld for his long overdue meeting with the judges, they were relaxing in the Hidden Sand Village, hosted by Gaara whom had been brought back to life thanks to the Elder Puppeteer's sacrifice of her life force.

Now we have Kankurō, the middle child of the Sand Siblings, attempting to flirt with Naruto. Said Daughter of the Sun rebuked his advances in saying

"I'm not interested in boys who are pilfering from their sister's makeup drawer!"

He answered

"It's not makeup damn it! It's war paint!"

"Makeup!"

"War paint!"

"Makeup!"

"War paint I said!"

The argument could have lasted long into the night with Naruto in the mood to argue for no reason that she could, had Kakashi not given her one of his free coupons for a little special treatment at the local outdoor baths. With the ticket in hand, Naruto left the room with a parting shot

"See you later guys! Kankurō, if you want to have sex with me one of these days, stop filching Temari's makeup!"

Kankurō had to endure shots at his habits for the rest of the evening. Poor guy.

Omake #2

Kiba is doomed.

Kiba Inuzuka was doomed. He had a successful string of missions recently and a few were of the seduction kind. Normally it wouldn't be such a bad thing, since he remembered to use protection, since Shino told him flat out that the next time he caught crabs, he wouldn't use his Aburame talents to get rid of them. The problem was that in his testosterone induced ego, he made a prank on Naruto he shouldn't have. The poor Ninken user had the stupid idea to grab the back strap of her bra when they were eating at Choji's family restaurant during a shared few days of leave after her team's mission in Suna, stretching it and then let it go. Her surprised yelp was very satisfying. The killing intent she let out after the fact? Not so much though.

The pursuit after the act was amusing; since she was so mad she forgot to use her abilities. But she had the brilliant idea to frame him for Jiraiya's last stunt in the hot springs! Now, he had a mixed mob of enraged civilian women and deadly kunoichis after his hide, including his own mother and elder sister. May Apollo have mercy on his soul, because Artemis would surely not have any for him. He should know, after ditching the mob, he stumbled upon the goddess bathing! What saved his humanity was Naruto's brilliant idea. Note the sarcasm here. She had tagged him with a Hiraishin seal and had convinced the goddess to hunt the Inuzuka ninja. And to make things fair, if he survived until sun down, he would be spared. If she caught him, well, he didn't want to know, not with that terrifying smile of her!

Dodging a silver arrow that came pretty close of his butt with a terrified squeak

"Iiii!"

Kiba continued to run for his life and manhood into the vast forests surrounding Konoha. It was the day he finally learned that Hell has no fury like a woman scorned. Poor guy right?