The Hope of The Moon and Sun
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Percy Jackson. Naruto is owned by Masashi Kishimoto and Percy Jackson is owned by Rick Riordan respectively. Certain elements were inspired by various Naruto/Percy Jackson crossover fanfictions.
AN1: Thanks for all of the reviews/follows/favorites! To be clear, I stated Apollo and Artemis are weaker than Zeus not weak (it is canon that the Big 3 are stronger then Zeus's Kids). Just wanted to clear it up… Guest reviews you know?
Hestia I just implied she THINKS of herself (which is stated in the canon Percy Jackson Greek Gods book) as weaker than her siblings. We shall never know for sure since she doesn't fight (but her presence along with Poseidon was enough for Zeus to keep a calm head instead of "boom first think later")
Just wanted to clear these points as Guest reviews I read them ok? I just can't reply back.
One of the main reasons Zeus was so reasonable was because he could see a civil war was going to happen if he killed Naruto last chapter. He also softer because of how Artemis loved Naruto along with his lingering feelings for not raising Thalia. (plus Hestia really hit the nail when she described killing Naruto would be the same as Kronos eating his children)
I was going to a time skip right to the beginning of the Lightning Thief but I felt this chapter had to be done in "present day" for the flow of the story so enjoy!
Chapter 4 The First Day with the Hunt
Artemis and Apollo had teleported with the wide-awake Naruto to some woods about 1 mile away from the current location of the Hunters camp ground.
"Naruto time to meet your sisters!" Artemis told Naruto happily but her surprise Naruto started whimpering and looking around. He was nearly at the point of tears as the worried mother tried to soothe her baby. "Naruto what's wrong?" Artemis asked Naruto worriedly nearly at the point of hysterics until Apollo coughed getting her attention.
Artemis was about to shout until she saw the baby bottle filled with warm milk. "Sis Naruto hasn't eaten since he was born. Of course, he is hungry and scared." Apollo said calmly as he handed the bottle to the relieved Goddess of the Moon. Apollo had basic knowledge of babies due to his domain of healing and usually sticking around a day with his mortal lovers before leaving them in accordance with the Ancient laws.
Artemis gave her brother a look of gratitude before she gently put the bottle into Naruto mouth making Naruto's cries stop instantly as he got fed for the first time. Apollo smiled at Artemis look of pure happiness and serenity as she fed her baby for the first time. She watched him as he continued to take bug gulps of warm milk.
Apollo smiled but said "Artemis I think it would be best if you go on ahead and explain to the Hunters our situation. Just send a signal when it is all clear and I will come with Naruto ok?" Artemis gave him a look of surprise for his calm and rational side but nodded gently handing back Naruto who continued to feed in his daddy arms.
Artemis gave one last look to her baby before she sprinted to the hunters camp ground within a few seconds. As soon as one of the Hunters saw their Goddess arrive, she gave a cry of happiness and sounded the hunters horn. This made all 20 hunters along with her clone arrive (AN2) to where Artemis stood there with a smile. Her clone nodded to her briefly before disappearing getting all of the memories in a few seconds.
Every Hunter bowed on the knees as Artemis sorted through the 23 years (AN3) worth of memories her clone gave her. She noted that not much had happened while she was in the Elemental Nation world besides monster activities being relatively the same, no hunters were gained or lost and that her uncle was telling the truth about a young Daughter of Zeus being born several years ago.
"My Lady you have returned." Zoe Nightshade said respectfully as she smiled happy to see her mistress return fully. Zoe was a beautiful copper skinned Demi-Titan whose father was the Titan Atlas. She like all hunters appeared to be in their teen years with her looking like 14-16 teenage girl with a silver circlet in her hair signifying her rank as Lieutenant of the hunt. She had long black hair and dark brown eyes.
"My Lady is it true you became mortal in that other world?" a young voice said excitedly as Artemis smiled at the owner of the voice. It was rumoured that going to that realm as a God made your mortal with any damage not transferred over when they returned.
"Chloe be respectful!" Zoe chided the younger hunter as Artemis raised a hand.
"Zoe be calm. Yes, Chloe I did become a mortal called Kushina Uzumaki while I was in the Elemental Nations." Artemis confirmed as the Hunters rose with Artemis giving a hand signal. The hunters started to whisper in excitement with most of the chatter wondering how many men she killed in that realm. Artemis sighed as she no longer felt the same hatred or mistrust for males, she had prior to being Kushina. She learned that men could be good and women be evil watching the war-torn world show no discrimination based on gender.
"My dear hunters. I have treated you as my sisters and in some ways my daughters." Artemis started as the hunters beamed in pride and happiness. "However, during my stay in the Elemental Nations, I fell in love and had a child." Artemis said as she raised a hand at the shouts of outrage from her hunters. This made them quiet instantly due to years of travelling. They knew when their Goddess wanted to talk, she had the floor. "Since this child was born when I was mortal my vow remains as I did not lose my Chasity in my Godly form." Artemis was quick to explain. "After some consideration I decided to bring my child over and with my father's permission I am allowed to raise my child here with my Hunt." Artemis finished waiting to gauge her hunters' reactions before revealing more.
Along a few minutes of discussion Zoe nodded and said "Although we are shocked my lady, we would happy to welcome our new sister as part of the Hunt especially as she is technically your blood." Zoe said with a smile as the Hunters cheered.
Artemis sighed and thought to herself 'Here goes.' "My sisters my child is a male and his name is Naruto Uzumaki." Artemis finished as she braced herself for the screaming. The hunters instantly swarmed her questions of outrage.
"This is a mistake my lady!"
"This must be a trick!"
"Our Lady would never welcome a male as her own!"
Were just some of things she heard as much as understood their plight enough was enough.
"Quiet!" Artemis said calmly but with her voice of authority as the hunt instantly grew quiet. Some of the older hunters remembered as nice as Artemis was to them her punishments for even Hunters were legendary and when she spoke in that voice, they knew she was angry.
"I know this is a surprise and I understand this is sudden. However, I will not allow any harm to come to my child. Naruto was certainly a surprise when I awoke as myself but he is NOT a mistake. I have chosen to accept him as my child and care for him so he can be the first decent men and I will not accept any harm to come to him at all. Understand?" Artemis demanded with a glare at her hunters who reluctantly nodded.
"My Lady who is this child's father." Zoe asked carefully. She didn't instantly hate the child as she understood he was innocent but she would watch him carefully for her Lady sake.
"Apollo also went to other world and became a man called Minato Namikaze who became my mortal self husband. Meaning Naruto is our child born from love and marriage. Apollo is not my lover or husband but he is still the father or my child." Artemis clarified as her glare prevented any more responses.
The hunters were of course outraged at the possibility that Apollo 'took advantage' of their Goddess while she was mortal but Artemis told them explicitly it was a true case of love which no longer applied in their Godly forms but Apollo was not to be blamed or harmed.
"Now I am going to bring Apollo and Naruto here so Naruto can be introduced to his sisters. NO harm shall come to either of them or whoever is to blame will be banished from the Hunt with no exceptions." Artemis warned with her summoning a bow to show her resolve. The hunters gave her looks of fear hut swore on the Styx to neither harm them or reveal Naruto's existence till he was claimed by Artemis herself.
Artemis aimed a silver arrow into the sky and dismissed her bow as Apollo entered the Hunters camp with Naruto safely in his arms. The Hunters reluctantly bowed as much as they disliked Apollo and unsure of Naruto, he was still the child of Lady Artemis. Several hunters like Zoe noticed to their shock Apollo did not flirt or barely look their way only focusing on Artemis who had a happy smile seeing her child.
"As soon as he fed, he was looking for you the entire time!" Apollo told Artemis with a dramatic sigh but huge grin on his face. He handed Naruto back to Artemis who to the shock of the hunt had a huge motherly smile.
"Naruto did you miss your mommy?" Artemis asked with a coo as Naruto happily giggled at his mother. Zoe was most shock as she was the oldest current Hunter and she NEVER saw her lady this soft and affectionate before. True she was kinder to younger hunters like Chloe but she never acted like a mother to this degree to anyone before.
'My Lady must really love this child. Perhaps he can be different if raised by my Lady and us.' Zoe thought as she continued to watch the Goddess happy with her Male child in her arms.
"Ok ladies since I am Naruto's father, I will be sticking around so he can have both his parents growing up." Apollo declared. The hunters were about to shout their disgust and disagreements so he added with a sigh "Fine, I swear on the River Styx to never look at, speak to or flirt with any Hunter of Artemis inappropriately while Naruto is alive." Apollo swore with mild thunder sealing the oath. This made the hunters gasp as swearing on the River Styx was serious even for Gods. They all knew he would never try to seduce them due to their oath but to swear to not flirt with them was uncharacteristic on him.
"Also, Lady Hestia is going to be his godmother so she will stop by once in a while to spend time with Naruto." Artemis announced as Naruto cooed and raised his hands happily hearing this. "You like Hestia, don't you?" Artemis cooed in response happy Naruto already loved his 'Aunty'. This warm display warmed the heart of several of the hunters to see their Patron so happy and to see that Naruto was not a 'despicable male' as they met but an innocent child that brought out true smiles out of his mother.
"Who would like to say hello to their new brother?" Artemis asked as she turned Naruto so he can stare at the hunters with his innocent blue eyes. The hunters were reluctant to volunteer despite them accepting that their Goddess had a child that was male most of them were not eager to accept him right away as part of their family.
However, one brave hunter was thrilled. Chloe immediately ran Artemis and gently cupped Naruto's cheek squealing in delight when the adorable baby started babbling and rubbing his cheek against her hand. Chloe was a daughter of Demeter who was physically only 8 years old before she became partially immortal. Her father had died protecting her from monsters and left with few options Demeter had asked Artemis to take her daughter as a hunter which she accepted. Due to her loving father Chloe never developed the same hatred for all males as most of the hunt did and simply shunned having romantic relationships forever. Chloe was a petite 8-year-old girl who had long black hair and forest green eyes.
Seeing Chloe accept Naruto right way made a smile appear on both parents faces and seeing she needed to make an example Zoe stopped forward. She bowed to both gods before she stared into the curious eyes of Naruto.
"Hello Naruto I will be your sister Zoe and teach you how to treat girls right." She declared as she rubbed his head getting coos in return before Naruto yawned.
Artemis thanked both Chloe and Zoe before she took Naruto into her tent and laid Naruto in his crib letting him suck on her finger before he fell asleep. Good night my little Star." Artemis told Naruto gently. Artemis summoned another blanket on top of Naruto that was silver and had written 'Mommy loves me.'
The rest of hunt seeing Zoe and Chloe example had decided to give Naruto a real chance as Zoe was their second in command and she set the example for the rest of them. Apollo had made his own tent appear and already summoned dozens of toys for Naruto to play with when he got abit older.
Artemis knew 13 years would not be enough time with her child but vowed to make evert second count with her child.
AN2: Ok I will explain this here: when Apollo and Artemis went to the EN their domains did not "stop" or anything. Their "main bodies" went into the EN and became mortal while the Sun and Moon continued to run due to mortal belief that they were required. A clone of Artemis was made to guide the hunters and due to the overall strength of the Hunt nobody died even with the main Artemis being in the group. Any time somebody prayed to one of the Twins a part of their consciousness answered back. As Gods can be in multiple locations at once due to their Godly nature.
AN3: I am guessing Kushina was that old when she gave birth to Naruto. Just for this story k? They never specified ages just said Kushina and Minato died far too young.
I did have a more confrontational Hunters meeting planed but I couldn't get myself to write it so you are stuck with this. His relationships with the hunters will become sibling like by the time of the LT but it will mostly be hinted at in random talk from Naruto. Next chapter is the time skip!
Hope I didn't make the hunt to OC but there is only like 4 named hunters in the series and 2 of them aren't even there yet. They are respectfully because of Artemis mostly.