The Greek Kunoichi

Chapter 17: The big quest resume and special delivery.

Author's Notes: Here we are on chapter 17. A little warning for those who follow canon like a strict guideline, the rest of the Quest against Gaia won't be described very much and won't last much longer, maybe one or two other chapters. I have two original story arcs in mind once the main quest will be over; the Seven Heroes will have a much merited vacation without annoying monsters or meddlesome immortals or obnoxious gods getting in their way and also an original Quest for Naruto to occupy herself since a bored Naruto is a dangerous daughter of Apollo. XD Now let's takes a look on the statistics. We have 74 Reviews, 346 Followers, 350 Favourites, 7 C2 Communities and 46 819 views. Once again, thank you everyone for your patronage. Also for the omakes, it's getting quite tiresome to remold the canon timeline to include the changes of Orochimaru no longer in the picture and Sasuke not going rogue, so I'll skip ahead a few arcs to find something enjoyable and that can be omake material. Now enough with the chit chat, let's go to the chapter.

Naruto ended up stuck in bed for three days straight. She slept like a log for two while her chakra reserves replenished themselves and made such a nuisance of herself the whole third day with her escape attempts to go outside, it went to the point that Apollo had to use his divine strength to make her obey by making her forcefully submit. He was feeling somewhat guilty to use such an underhanded trick on his proud and wild daughter, but she had left him with no other choice. She had enough Fuuinjutsu knowledge to remove every binding he put on her no matter how complex they were and had enough power in her body to blow the house sky high, so he couldn't really lock her up in her room. He wished she would have wore something else than a loose tank top and panties though. While many of his divine family had no problem with incest, he wasn't one for it, so seeing his nubile and admittedly quite beautiful daughter in her undies had not been a nice experience, but he really had no other options available to him. There was no way that she would have obeyed him even if he had pulled the Hokage rank if he did not prove to her that he was more powerful than her. It was one of the secondary effects it gave her by sealing half of the most powerful Fox Spirit of all time in her at birth.

She was proud, very mischievous, extremely free spirited and also very stubborn. That one he was putting the blame on Poseidon's blood. No one was more stubborn than Uncle P. He would even say that sometimes Naruto was feral, savage even. How the structured military life of being a shinobi hadn't clashed with her personality was something he was asking himself every time he saw her whip out insane Ninjutsu techniques. Seriously, a double lariat, one arm infused with wind chakra and the other with water chakra? Where does she find her ideas for things like that?

He still couldn't believe that his little girl had managed to complete the Rasengan twice over! A wind style one and also a water style one to booth. Sincerely, Apollo though she was his most powerful child in eons and she was still mortal! It filled him with so much paternal pride to see her standing tall and defeat every foe stupid and/or suicidal enough to be in her path. Now that she was released from bed rest, he could examine her strange ability that she had named "Sunlight Speed". He had to say that it felt good for his ego to have an ability named for one of his domains, but how had she gotten that power? He didn't remember granting it to her and it wasn't something his children ever had inherited from him before. She was now meditating on the roof on a well used spot and the sunlight was literally entering her pores, making her glow like his car. If she had been conceived into said Sun Chariot/Chick Magnet, he could have understood but he remembered clearly and very fondly that she had been conceived on his desk in the Hokage's office in Konoha when he was Minato.

If Helios hadn't faded, he would have thought that it was him who had bestowed that ability on Naruto for shit and giggles, but his teacher/wing man was gone. From what she had explained to him, she could "shift gears" in two different ways. If she had accumulated enough sunlight she could start running in Sunlight Speed immediately or if she had used all her "fuel", she had to start running normally and accelerate until the gears would be shifting by themselves. The signs that the gears were close to shift were usually an intense and sudden acceleration and a aura of sunlight was seen appearing all around her body and becoming brighter and more intense the more she came close to the necessary speed.

Once the gears had been shifted, she would then be engulfed into a fully fledged sunlight aura and would now be able to use it at will. Proving without any doubts that it was a sun blessing, she couldn't access the ability at all once the sun was set, even if she had stored enough sunlight beforehand. The only thing that made sense is that he must have either been high as a kite when he thought that blessing and then bestowed it on her or it was a gift from his Roman self. Tired of trying to poke his Roman Mode for an answer and not receiving any, he decided to do something else. Deciding that testing the fighting prowess of his daughter was a great idea for entertainment, he told her

"Naruto, go put something on and meet me on the training grounds will you? It's time to see with my own two eyes how you fare against a Kage level shinobi in combat."

His previously meditating daughter opened her eyes thus snapping out of her trance and with a familiar and somewhat foreboding fox like grin, she said with so much sugar in her voice that it was making his body hair stand still

"So daddy dearest want to be schooled like a green Genin hmm? Are you really sure of what you are asking? I talked with Aunt Artemis the other day and she said that before we came back into your life, you had let yourself go considerably. She thought that your level had dropped to the point that even Eirene could defeat you easily and she's the Goddess of Peace. Ah well, who am I to refuse to kick your ass if it will help you in the long run? I'll be right back!"

She disappeared into a familiar flash of yellow light, showing that she was able to use his signature technique. Apollo shook his head with exasperation and walked away towards the training grounds on the other side of the house. Naruto was partially right, he had let himself go but he felt he was still quite strong enough to school her and knock her down a few pegs. After all, it was his duty as her father to teach her humility. Not that he had much to talk, since before this particular "lesson", he was also due to be brought down quite a few pegs. Apollo was brought out of his thoughts by feeling her daughter's chakra signature reappear near him once he was at destination. When he saw her clothes, his left eye began to twitch. Why was she wearing such an atrocity for his sight?

She was wearing a two pieces jumpsuit that was a burnt orange color. Her pants were of the same color, her footwear was a pair of black ninja sandals and she was also wearing a burnt orange and black jumpsuit jacket. Her long hair was put into two loose pigtails but he wasn't fooled. Jiraiya had taught her some tricks on the side, like how to infuse chakra into her hair to harden them into deadly spikes. She had a kunai and shuriken pouch strapped on her left thigh while he could guess was a first aid kit or a scroll pouch on her right thigh. Why was she wearing so much orange? By her feral smirk, he would not get an answer right way. She did ask him something before the fight could begin while she was doing some warm up exercises

"Any rules, dad?"

He thought about it for a minute and said

"No killing blows evidently. I want a good training session, not a fight to the death. Ah, don't use your feminine wiles on me; it's creepy enough seeing you wrap the Uchiha boy around your little finger. Other than that, go wild."

She was quick to answer about the last one though

"EWWW! You're disgusting dad! You're like, about a gazillion years old! First of all, I don't flirt with old men; you're way too old for me. Second of all, you're my father! I'm not into incest, thank you very much! I'm not like Pervy King! Talk about the ultimate man-whore! And third, you're mom's bitch. I'm not into the habit to go hunting for dates on other's territories! Moving on, I do have a rule to add. I don't want you to use your divine authority as my father to force me to stand down unless it's an emergency. Otherwise you would have such an easy win, it wouldn't even be fun! You're okay with that?"

Apollo's twitching eye became worse when he heard his daughter comment on his age and felt somewhat insulted to be referred as someone's bitch, but even if she was crude, Naruto was right in a certain sense. Man, he was so whipped it wasn't even funny. Kushina had always been wearing the pants in their relationship since day one and if she could have gone without burning the paperwork for shit and giggles or use them as makeshift explosive tags in place of completing it, Hiruzen would have likely made her the Yondaime (Fourth) Hokage in his place. Deciding to teach his smirking brat a lesson, at some unseen signal, both fighters sprung from their positions with a chakra enhanced leap and met in the middle of the field. Quick as lightning, both father and daughter exchanged kicks, punches and parries. It was clear that Apollo was the strongest due to his physical age and the fact that he was a male, but to his great consternation, the Yellow Flash was outpaced in sheer speed and agility by his own child! And she wasn't even using the fox's powers or her demigod abilities!

During a parry, he marked her with a Hiraishin seal but just as he was about to teleport to it, she dispelled it. Not letting her take some ground so she could evade, he charged her with a one handed Rasengan the size of a basketball and shunshined (Body Flickered) directly inside her guard. But Naruto wasn't called crafty as a fox for nothing, she had the time to replace herself with a Shadow Clone and gained the much needed ground before she incanted out loud

"Shifting gears; Sunlight Speed!"

Apollo, God of the Sun, was quite ironically blindsided by the bright light that emanated from his own child! Before he could do anything else, Naruto was on him in a flash and began to pummel him with powerful punches and kicks! She was hitting hard the crafty little vixen! He had regained just enough sight to dodge a near shot at his crotch with a girl-like squeal of fright! Not his jewels! His precious family jewels! Glaring at his snickering daughter, Apollo growled out with a glare added to his sky blue eyes

"That's it, no more mister nice God!"

Grabbing one of his Hiraishin kunai by the ring and spinning it in manner to have the handle in a stabbing hold into his hand, he stayed on the defensive, waiting for his daughter's next move. She didn't disappoint, but he was put on guard when he felt her shifting back to regular speed. He had a hard time to not girlishly cry out loud in panic and fear when he saw golden glowing chains with sharp tips erupt from all over Naruto's body, flying towards his direction from every angle! She just had to inherit that cursed talent from her mother! Chakra chains were evil! Naruto did a rather good job replicating her mother's fighting style, but when he was Minato, Apollo had trained intensively with the lady of his heart, thus he could easily deduct that their baby girl wasn't as skilled as her mother with the Adamantine Sealing Chains. He managed, after a few minutes of playing a deadly game of cat and mouse, to find a gap in the technique and using his genius mind to find a strategy, Apollo found a small window where he could slip through without receiving damage. Once he was near, he managed to hit and cut Naruto quite a few times, since she wasn't able to create more chains without a full concentration.

Managing to escape her father's revenge, Naruto recalled the chains and stayed on guard, trying to find a plan of action after spitting a glob of blood on the ground while her superficial wounds were steaming and healing at an accelerate rhythm. Her father was too experimented to be freaked out with her feral gaze, he had found out her weaknesses with her copy of her mother's style and she wasn't nearly dumb enough to fight the Yellow Flash of Konoha with his own fighting style. He was its creator after all. Deciding to play to her strengths, that is her supernatural speed, agility, great endurance/stamina and unholy large chakra reserves, she smirked at him, showing of her fangs before making her favorite hand sign for one of her signature techniques

"Tajuu Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" (Mass Shadow Clone Technique)

The training fields were engulfed with white chakra smoke and when it dispersed, Apollo could only gape at seeing thousands of doppelgangers of his daughter! He had totally forgotten that she could do that. He then got working at busting heads. It was an army of cannon fodders, since they only needed a few good hits to be dispelled but they were a great distraction. Now what was she planning? She surely knew that she wouldn't be able to win with that move only. His answer came when he managed to glimpse a few clones staying away from the melee, sitting in a meditating position without moving so much as a centimetre. Then he felt it. It being Senjutsu chakra gathering around their location! His beautiful daughter was a Sage! By the lack of amphibian traits on the clones gathering Sage chakra, she was a fully realised one to boot! He of course remembered that he could also tap into Sage Mode, but his version wasn't combat worthy since it took him at least ten minutes without moving to gather just enough to become an accomplished sensor and to have the physical signs appear. Dispelling the last clone, he then chained quite a few hand seals together then expelled a Katon: Karyuu Endan no Jutsu (Fire style: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet technique) from his mouth. Of course, he was met with a cry of

"Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu!" (Water style: Water Dragon bullet technique)

His flame dragon bullet was met and canceled with a water dragon bullet cast by Naruto. Of course, she had a water affinity. Damn blood of the Sea. He went to prepare a lightning jutsu when her voice interrupted him

"Hey dad, did mom told you the name I made for myself? Do you know what my epithet is?"

Curious, Apollo decided to take the bait. After all, it was only a training session, not a fight to the death. He also decided to weird her out by mentioning his bedroom activities with her mother

"She did mention that you had made a good name for yourself, but to be honest, I was more fixated upon seeing your mother bounce up and down on my lap during our physical reunion, so I pretty much forgot what it was."

Seeing her disgusted grimace was worth it. He had to force his snickers down. Ah the good old tactic of "Yes, your parents are still sexually active". It worked every time like a charm! She then fired back

"You're disgusting, you know that? The people who made the Bingo Book decided to call me Kyuubi no Naruto. (Naruto of Nine Tails) Let me show you exactly why."

Naruto was glad that her misdirection had worked. Mentioning her epithet had made him forgot to deal with her clones gathering Senjutsu chakra. She could keep Sage Mode and Bipedal Kitsune Mode in reserve, just in case. But now, it was time to go to the next level. She could have kept fighting in Human Mode quite easily, but she had to gain more fighting experience in her alternate Modes, so with a Fox-like grin, she declared out loud and triggered the transformation

"Partial Kitsune Mode, online!"

As soon as she finished announcing her Mode change, she did something that made Apollo gulp out loud with nervousness and fear. She became a fox/human hybrid! Hair much fluffier, two twitching golden furry ears on top of her head, whiskers birthmarks on her cheeks darker and wider, her upper fangs were poking out of her lips, and her feral blue eyes had became more animalistic with a slit pupil. Her short trimmed finger nails had became bona fide claws and there was now nine fluffy blonde and white tipped tails moving randomly after appearing from her tail bone! To understand why Apollo was now such a nervous wreck, you have to go back into the distant past for a little while. You see, Apollo in his youth had done something very stupid and very dangerous for his health.

He tried his newly acquired flirting skills on Amaterasu, the Shinto Goddess of the Sun and Inari, the Shinto Fox Goddess by proposing them a threesome with his illustrious self. Needless to say it didn't end well at all for the young Greek sun deity and Zeus had to fast talk something fierce during the Council of the Gods to save his son's immortal hide. As it is, Apollo had been cursed with total impotence for an entire century for his indiscretions. The curse was not limited to his fertility though. For a whole century, he couldn't get it up at all when he was taking a mortal form! And even in his true godly form, he was still sterile for exactly one hundred years!

It was a hard lesson for the Sun Rider but he learned it well. Leave the Shinto goddesses alone. Râ hadn't ceased to mock him for hours at end during the next Council of the Gods with the Egyptian Pantheon a few years later. Damn bird brain. So seeing his daughter look so much like Inari did back then had him all sweaty and nervous. He did retake his aplomb when he heard Naruto's next words though.

"Surge, Water and Heaven, Nejibana!"

She had taken her odd necklace and it became a fantastic weapon! But another thing made him gulp in fear. Around the trident's teeth, it was not water or wind flowing around, but golden Fox Fire! Damn, where and when did she learn that!? He dodged her lunge by taking a back leap and tried to put his head back into the game. She was a master at pole arm weapons, he could see it in her stance and how she was using the advantage granted by the G-forces after twirling her weapon to add momentum to compensate for her lack of upper body strength due to her gender and build. She was extremely dangerous with that weapon and he could feel the alloy of celestial bronze and chakra conducting metal. So with her trident, she could fight mortals, immortals and monsters alike. It was very clever.

The deadly dance continued and Apollo was forced to admit to himself that he was in fact very rusty. His reflexes were still as deadly as they were when he was Minato, his mind better now that he truly was Apollo, but his fighting prowess had really suffered. He could materialize his bow and arrows, but each time he tried to make some distance between them, Naruto kept closing in, making him choose between the supernatural fire and the barbed teeth of Nejibana. Really tough choice! And now, his vixen of a daughter had upped the ante by sending her chakra infused tails to try to either pierce his clothes or trip him at random intervals! Tired of being on the defensive, he tried to think of something to change the situation. There was not much he could do, even if he started to launch high level jutsu after high level jutsu at her. Naruto could dodge them or cancel them. With Yang Kurama in her, she wouldn't get tired anytime soon. In the end, their little sparring/training session was interrupted by Kushina's loud voice who called

"Breakfast is ready!"

Both father and daughter disengaged, Naruto dispelling her clones and storing the Senjutsu chakra gathered inside her coils for later use and releasing her Partial Kitsune Mode and letting Nejibana going back into its necklace form, much to the inner relief of Apollo. When they entered into the kitchen, it was to a somewhat amusing scene. Percy was trying to convince Kushina to serve him blue food, while Leo and Frank were snickering, Annabeth was face palming at her beau' odd habits and Hazel was trying to make sense of everything. Coach Hedge wasn't caring one way or another, since his plate was full of fresh exotic fruits like pineapples and grapefruits accompanied by tin cans. Jason was better, but still prompt to sleep in, like today. His wound had healed nicely, but he wouldn't come back to full strength until he made his decision. That was Apollo's diagnostic. His soul was unbalanced. Was he Roman or Greek? His time at Camp Half-Blood, memory loss aside, had been liberating and the best months of his life. Until then, he hadn't known he was getting grinded up by the expectations put on him at Camp Jupiter because of his lineage as a son of Jupiter. Once he made his decision, he would heal and the Seven could go back to Greece. It was their luck to have a nice and safe place where to recuperate.

Back to the blue food debate, Kushina shot an irritated glare at Percy, said green eyed glare was enough to make her little brother cower, sit down and shut up. Taking a kitchen knife, she carved into his pancakes the kanji for "blue" and said once they were in his plate

"Here's your blue food, now stop being a bother and eat all there is on your plate or so help me I'll make you work on some college maths problems and ask Annabeth to recede your boyfriend's privileges."

Percy's eyes became wide with fear at the mention of his arch nemesis and the possible loss of his privileges and he started digging in into his pile of pancakes with gusto, under everyone's laughter. It was odd for the Seven, being in such a peaceful place. They had explored the surroundings somewhat, but they didn't stray very far from the propriety. Percy was often seen training in the water under Kushina's guidance. Usually she would have trained alongside her brother, but since she was on a pregnancy leave and three months pregnant, she couldn't train much for fear of injuring her babies. She did work out lightly every day, but no more heavy and intensive stuff. He hadn't learnt much new stuff with Kushina, but she made sure to polish every skill of his that she could help with. He was now able to gather a thick mist and sneak up on his foes with an underwater attack. His victims were shadow clones henged into various monsters. Naruto then started to nickname him "Kiri no Percy". (Percy of the Mists) Where did she finds her inspiration for such epithets, he had no idea.

Annabeth was the one whom had gone the furthest, hiking to the other side of the jungle like forest to the village. It was a good fifteen minutes of walking along a well beaten path. So many different cultures merging together, it was something totally baffling for the Architect of Olympus. There was somewhat of a language barrier though. Most people only talked in Japanese or variations of it with other Asian languages mixed in it. The few people who talked English on Horaijima were at Kushina's house or the various Nereids, the Sea nymphs who were seen milling around the Market Place. There was also the problem of currency. Uzu No Kuni was only accepting Drachmas, mortal precious materials like gold and silver or the Ryō. Since she only had a small number of Drachmas on her, she couldn't go wild for books and thus even when she found the bank, she couldn't make the money exchange. The American dollar was practically unknown.

Frank was usually found practicing his archery alongside Apollo during the day when he was not flirting tentatively with Hazel, said god who was glad to give him tips to get better or the son of Mars was also seen keeping up his level of fitness with calisthenics. After all, there was a reason why Naruto called him Frank the Tank. She tried to call him the Frankenstein monster a few times, but he was not letting her stick that ridiculous nickname on him. He could live with being jokingly called a Tank, but not a fictional creature made by an insane scientist though. She could make a pout all the way to Japan and back for all he cared; he would not become the creature of Dr. Frankenstein. Then he blinked at her question

"Hey, Frank, I was wondering something. If you can shape shift into any animals you see, do you understand their language when you're human? If so, maybe if the whole Centurion shtick doesn't work, you could always become the new Doctor Doolittle! "

That one threw him for a loop. Where does she get her crazy ideas from? He decided to answer her quickly before she could take it too far.

"No, I can't understand the animal speech when I'm human and no, I'm not interested in becoming the new Doctor Doolittle as you say. If Centurion doesn't work, well, I'm not sure what I would do, but I'm sure I'll find something interesting."

He felt somewhat proud of himself of having taken the winds out of Naruto's sails by seeing her joyful face fell apart. Not that she stayed depressed for very long. She was always bouncing back.

Hazel had been baffled and very embarrassed when she saw what was passing for swimwear in this time. She was doing better now that Kushina had explained how modern women were now freer to enjoy themselves and in almost all domains they were now equals to men. She was still too shy to expose herself into a bikini or even a more modest two pieces, but she was bold enough to swim into the bay into a modest one piece that was still clinging to her budding curves. Frank's gaze had not left her for one second and it made her feel proud that even if she was not as stacked as Annabeth and Piper, she could keep his attention. The sandy beaches had also been good for her to practice her Earth based powers with the tutelage of the (in) famous Super Pervert himself!

Jiraiya was a pro with Earth techniques and was glad to give pointers to the daughter of Pluto. The Toad Sage had survived his clash with his old student Nagato, but not without consequences. His left arm had been severed from the elbow and if Naruto hadn't sneaked a Hiraishin seal on him before he left for Amegakure no Sato (The Village Hidden in the Rain) he would have died there. Since when she felt his life force decrease to a dangerous level, Naruto Hiraishined to his location, asked the two Elders toads on his shoulders enabling him to use Sage Mode to dispel and then she only had just enough time to give the pursuing Paths of Pain the two fingers salute and Hiraishined back to Konoha with the delirious with blood lost Toad Sage in tow or they would have been caught.

But even with only one arm left, Jiraiya was still the splendid and extremely powerful shinobi that he had become during his long career. He was now on medical leave while Tsunade was making some research on the side of her Hokage duties to come with a revolutionary prosthetic arm. Thus he was regaining his forces by soaking some tropical sun in Whirlpool Country. Hazel had been quite leery at first to learn under a guy who peeped on bathing women, but just like Naruto said, he had strong morals and a firm code of conduct. Sadly, his sense of humour was reminiscing of Naruto's when she was making sexual comments. But she had to admit, he knew his stuff.

Leo also made great strides with his powers since both Apollo and Jiraiya possessed a powerful fire affinity. He had learned how to better control his fire and how to start it from almost nothing. Since his big weakness was his lack of taijutsu, both men helped him to develop a way to create fire daggers and how to channel his powers safely into his weapons of choice. But he still hadn't learned when to keep his mouth shut. He had laughed at Jiraiya and Apollo's unease in seeing Naruto sunbathing into a rather modest but quite fetching orange two pieces swimsuit and also had steadily refused to go swimming. Naruto, the crafty and slightly insane vixen, decided to teach him a lesson. Acting innocently, she discreetly created seven Kage Bunshins and had them wait in an ambush while Leo sat himself upon an empty barrel placed under the gutter to catch the rain water, taking a break of the tropical sun, thus lounging into the shadows.

When he was distracted by Kushina who was pursuing a fleeing for his life Jiraiya with a water nature chakra enhanced frying pan, Naruto put her plan into action. All seven clones pounced upon the unsuspecting Leo, restraining him in a manner that he couldn't move, but not before circling him for a minute, whistling a little ditty. Of course, the son of the Smith was protesting and struggling, but in vain. Once near the beach, two clones took him by the arms and legs before swinging him in a rocking motion into the water! Their task done, the clones high fived each others with the now trademarked fox like grin on their lips before dispelling. It was under the laughter of everyone; even a still somewhat weak Jason who was fussed over by fetching bikini dressed Piper in a lounging chair, which the now dubbed Waterlogged Leo came out near the beach. He pouted and then declared vengeance on Naruto, tried to tackle her into the water, only for him to be caught by a kitsune tail around his waist and casually thrown back into the drink, to the amusement of everybody. Leo was not alone much longer, since a screaming like a little girl and beaten black and blue Jiraiya was rocketing into the air toward their destination. He skipped on the surface of the water like a skipping stone for about five bounces before crashing near the son of Hephaestus. Everybody was stunned speechless, before Leo started laughing his ass off at the Toad Sage and everybody else followed.

In the end, Jason was the only one to not have lessons with the shinobis, since he took too long to make his decision. But he had finally chosen. He wanted to be Greek. He wanted to give his developing relationship with Piper an honest try. Stepping down from his position of Praetor, he nominated Frank to take his place, proud of the Son of Mars' progress. He had also sent a letter to Reyna to inform her of his decision. The day after Jason made his final choice; he had healed completely and was again at one hundred per cent as if he had never been injured in the first place. They stayed one more day to take the time to restock and to make sure everything was functioning at full capacity before leaving. There was the question about how they would leave, for if Naruto was to repeat her last feat, she would be out of commission for three days straight and expecting Hecate to cover such a thing again so soon after the last appearance of Kurama into the modern world was asking for unaffordable trouble with the Goddess of Magic.

It was unwise to do something like that again, even after Naruto sacrificed to said goddess one of her few and precious Sage Haori as a thank you for her help. (Naruto was not a very materialistic girl, thus she did not have much to sacrifice in the first place.) In the end, Apollo came with an easier and less costly solution. Since he and his twin sister were the Top Dogs on Delos, he could temporarily bypass his father's Decree on him and use his full divine powers as long as he was still physically on the moving continent. He opened a portal big enough for the Argo II to fly through. Due to those pesky Ancient Laws, he couldn't help the Seven directly into their Quest, thus he couldn't open them a way directly to the old lands. The closer he could take them was to Crete. From there they would be on their own. Once the ship passed through, the portal closed behind them as if it has never been there. Neither of the Seven would forget their time in Whirlpool Country but they were sworn to silence in exchange for a true vacation in the Archipelago in the near future if they survived Gaia.

Naruto stayed with her parents a few more days, before returning to the United States after a quick detour to Konoha to go fetch something that had been promised to Hades and also to eat a few bowls of Ichiraku Ramen of course! You could never go wrong with Ichiraku Ramen! It wouldn't do to keep the God of the Underworld waiting too long and Naruto had no intention to be the one to receive the ire of the Rich One. Hades had struck a deal with Hiruzen after the end of the Fourth Shinobi World War since he had been around to deal personally with the army of reanimated ninjas and their summoner. Needless to say, nobody dared to get in his way, especially not with the rather foul mood he was on, since it was the second time he had to come in person on Delos to deal personally with a similar problem. In exchange for enough years left to live to see his grandson become a man, Hiruzen was to arrange the complete and total destruction of everything concerning the Edo Tensei everywhere on Delos except the original notes of Tobirama Senju on the technique and also arrange for said original notes to be brought to him in person. No shipping via Hermes express for that parcel. Since the technique had been marked as forbidden by its creator soon after its creation, the information hadn't spread too far, thus Sarutobi's part of the bargain was easily kept. Of course, the Silent One did leave a pendant with the Helm of Darkness graved on it as a safe-conduct. The messenger would have to wear it or he or she wouldn't be allowed to enter and leave unmolested.

Those notes were an insult to the balance between life and death and as such, he would deal with them personally since Thanatos couldn't be bothered. Lazy, good for nothing and annoying Death God! Since Orochimaru was now working for him full-time (Such a good worker! He was always so imaginative when it came to torture those damned souls into the Fields of Punishments and you could always count on him to trade interesting tips and ideas with.) And Kabuto was feeling his displeasure in the Fields of Punishments, without anyone else living having such knowledge; he could then be assured that such violations of his Domain wouldn't happen again and the balance of the world would still be conserved.

He had enough on his plate with the Realm of the Dead without having to deal with the surface also. Since the Konoha shinobis in general had been nothing but respectful and that it was one of Persephone's favourites places to go when they could wrangle an authorization, he decided to be generous and gave the old monkey three years to make the delivery himself or to send someone trustworthy. Needless to say, Naruto had taken the offer, if only to be able to say that she had visited the Underworld to appease her curiosity.

To prepare herself for a good round about trip to the Underworld and back, she had worked with the Hephaestus Cabin to modify a motorcycle she had bought legally so to not have to deal with the God of Justice. She brought them from Delos some unrefined chakra metal and the instructions on how to temper and mold it so they could modify the bike so she could channel her chakra into it for various uses, like surface climbing and rolling on water. They had also modified the radio with more powerful speakers and included a CD player with the anti-shock system of course. Since Naruto would be channelling essentially what could be described as her life force into the machine, the Hephaestus boys had to shield more heavily the motor and sensible stuffs like the carburetor and the spark plugs. It took them a few weeks, but she had left them the project a bit before she went to do her ambassador duties over to Camp Jupiter.

Now we have Naruto, dressed as a biker with blue leather clothes that hinted at her curves without being indecent, who almost decided to screw her free entry for show boating, but decided to play it safe. Needless to say, Charon wasn't very inclined to ferry the young woman and her motorcycle even with the free pass. So she bribed him with forty drachmas. Twenty to ferry her and the bike to the shore and twenty to keep the "doors" open for half an hour. Needless to say the Ferryman of the Dead and the Greek God of Boundaries accepted the deal. So when she was safely on shore, he turned the barge around, signing some Elvis Presley after wishing her good luck. The daughter of Apollo mounted her bike, put on her helmet, and then kick started it. When the motor was warm enough, she activated the CD player with the tune she was saving just for this occasion and put the volume to the maximum. With a few flexes of the accelerator, she was now ready to roll. The sounds of electric guitars echoed all around her and as she accelerated, the whole Underworld could hear the song as she was signing along out loud at the same time of the lead singer.

livin' easy
lovin' free
season ticket on a one way ride
askin' nothin'
leave me be
takin' everythin' in my stride
don't need reason
don't need rhyme
ain't nothin' that I'd rather do
goin' down
party time
my friends are gonna be there too
I'm on the highway to Hell
on the highway to Hell
highway to Hell
I'm on the highway to Hell

no stop signs
speed limit
nobody's gonna slow me down
like a wheel
gonna spin it
nobody's gonna mess me around
hey Satan
payin' my dues
playin' in a rockin' band
hey mumma
look at me
I'm on the way to the promised land
I'm on the highway to Hell
highway to Hell
I'm on the highway to Hell
highway to Hell
don't stop me

I'm on the highway to Hell
on the highway to Hell
highway to Hell
I'm on the highway to Hell
(highway to Hell) I'm on the highway to Hell
(highway to Hell) highway to Hell
(highway to Hell) highway to Hell
(highway to Hell)
and I'm goin' down
all the way
I'm on the highway to Hell

Naruto had dodged skillfully every security ghouls sent after her and even the Furies themselves by dodging with street address, doing impossible things for a mere mortal. One time, when she was cornered, she channelled a big chunk of chakra into a shield dome and rammed her way through the improvised police barricade! To dodge Cerberus, she literally rode on the walls and the ceiling of the cavern! She used Kurama's chakra for a more powerful shield when the armed skeletons close to the palace decided to destroy her. The face the Furies had when they saw the munitions bounce back when they hit the golden dome was hilarious! She then finished her crazy stunts with a controlled skidding towards the now wide open gates to stop only a few metres from the thrones.

Since it was now summer, Persephone was not there, but she wasn't worried. Hades couldn't just atomize her for her stunt since she didn't challenge him directly and it wasn't written anywhere that it was against the law to ride on a legally bought motorcycle in the Underworld. (She also had her official driver's licence in her wallet.) Naruto had made sure to not initiate physical contact with the god, since it could be consisted as defying him. If the situation took a turn for the worse, she could just use the Hiraishin to get away. She could feel the marker she left near the entrance of D.O.A Studios. Dismounting after putting the peg leg and cut the contact, she removed her helmet then greeted him calmly and cordially with no far at all

"Good afternoon, Hades. What's up? I'm here for the delivery of the notes on the Edo Tensei. Sarutobi-jiji was feeling his advanced age so I'm afraid he's not really apt to travel."

She had no need to introduce herself. After all their first meeting was when he broke the "deal" between Apollo's mortal persona and Thanatos, which was what created the seal containing both Yin and Yang Kurama inside her mother and herself. After all, the "payment" was never met, since when Minato "died", his soul wasn't taken to be judged but Apollo emerged once again. Thus when in case of non-payment, you take back the merchandise. Both Yin and Yang Kurama had chosen to stay two separate entities in place of combining again and they had also chosen to stay with their current Jinchūrikis. So the mental spaces of the seals weren't prisons anymore, but were now their dwelling places. The second meeting was during the famous Winter Solstice where Apollo saw the wife and daughter he left behind eighteen years ago. Needless to say, everyone except the Sun Rider really enjoyed that show. So Hades decided to take in stride what the sun kunoichi did and shooed away his servants with a lazy wave of the hand.

He had to give credit where credit was due though. The sun brat was bringing entertainment and a change of pace. So he said with his oily and unctuous voice

"Well, I have to say that it is not everyday someone make such an entrance. No need to explain, I can deduce easily that you must have bribed Charon to ferry your vehicle. Otherwise, free pass or no he would not have taken you across with it. You did shake up the dust of my servants though. So, let's finish the transaction. The notes. Now."

He was somewhat disappointed to see that his usual intimidation tactics weren't working and she was not shy to tell him all the while unsealing from a storage seal painted on her left bicep a scroll of massive size with Asian characters all over.

"Seriously Hades, you're going to need something more than projecting fear and power to intimidate me. Kurama used to literally drown me into malice and killing intent when I was a child when we would meet into the mindscape of the seal. At your next visit to Konoha, you should schedule an appointment with Morino Ibiki, the Head of our T&I Department. (Torture and Interrogation) The guy really knows his stuff. Not that you don't know what you're doing, but if you want to make shinobis break without using your divine powers, you'll need some new tips or let Orochimaru play with them beforehand. Seriously that guy is like the boogeyman of ninjas."

Hades hummed thoughtfully to that. It was doable. With a firm voice he then ordered

"Approach me Uzumaki and deliver the scroll."

Naruto looked up to him, gave him a look that was all but saying "Duh" since he was in his giant form and then she said to him with a deadpan voice

"Yeah, fat chance of that. I'm not an idiot no matter what that stupid prejudice about blue eyed blonds says. If I ever made skin contact with you, you could consider it as a challenge and I'm not nearly crazy enough to challenge one of the Big Three to a fight on his home turf. I'm powerful yes, but not that powerful. If you want to spar with me, let's go back to the surface. I'm not going Kunoichi on your ass down here! For the scroll, I'm willing to make it roll to your feet, throw it in your face or deposit it in your hand with a chakra claw. Take it or leave it."

Hades only answer was a good natured laugh. Ah, that spawn of Apollo was very entertaining! He only extended his hand once calmed, but gave no further instructions. Naruto decided that throwing it was maybe rude, but at least she wouldn't accidentally challenge a foe against which she could absolutely not win. She was rude, not suicidal. So with a deft swing, she sent the big ass scroll to the god, who caught it quite easily. The Rich One opened it and perused its contents. He would never admit to anybody but his wife that he didn't understand one word of what was written but he knew it was not a trick, since he could feel the purpose of those notes since it was a technique digging into his Domain. Once the transaction was complete, she was now free to go. Oh she could have taken the road back in the other direction, but she was feeling the negative emotions of every security ghouls, skeletons soldiers and also the Furies. If she concentrated, she could also feel Cerberus and his bad mood. One look to Hades told her that he wasn't interested to make it easy for her to leave. Great, just great. Another God who was taking his jollies by watching her struggle. She gave him a polite salute with a wave of the hand; no need to insult somebody who outclasses you so badly it's not even funny, she mounted her bike, kicked started it, then Hiraishined away out of the Underworld.

The score? Hades 0, Naruto 1. Ha take that you sadist!

Omake: Itachi learns something disturbing.

The trio of Naruto, Sasuke and Itachi were facing off in a Genjutsu of Itachi's creation inside a nameless forest. The elder Uchiha brother was curious as to why his younger brother didn't attack him. He was sure that the suggestions he had implanted into his subconscious the day of the Clan's massacre would still be in effect. After all, he had taken the blame for the good of the village. But the youngest was staring at the eldest with only a bit of anger. The delicate looking hand of Uzumaki Naruto on his torso was probably a big factor to this calm meeting. It was Naruto who take the parole first

"I want you to know that the Kyuubi (Kurama doesn't deign the Uchiha worthy of knowing his real name.) is only humoring you by letting the genjutsu still affect my senses. He's not found of the Uchiha Clan you can imagine. Are you ready to tell the truth about the night of the massacre? I investigated you know. It doesn't fit your profile at all what happened. Even as powerful as you were back then, you would have never been able to take on and vanquish so many able shinobis all on your own. You have finesse, control, speed, but you lacked the chakra reserves and the stamina."

Then a strange smile appeared on her face and she said, much to the consternation of the younger Uchiha brother

"Talking of stamina, Sasuke has it to spare! He literally rocked my world last night in bed!"

Itachi was then taken by a series of wet coughs, his stoic onyx eyes tearing from having swallowed in the same time he took a breath. That was too much! His baby brother was bedding a girl? Deep inside, Itachi was jealous of his younger brother. While he had a girlfriend before he had to execute her, they were too young to have done anything sexual. Itachi Uchiha, the kin slayer, was a virgin!