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: The Timeline is abit messier as I forgot there are several "lessons" before Capture the Flag so I think I will try to put them all in one chapter so next one can be the highly anticipated Capture the Flag. (I hope)
Also since this is my newest update. I MIGHT be posting a Naruto/Bleach Xover soon. (I love Bleach after all). I don't know if it will be updated regularly I just wanted to give you guys a heads up (for people who read this story).
Chapter 10 Percy tries to fit into Camp
The next day went interesting for Naruto and Percy. Naruto had made his daily burning of food for his parents and Godmother at each meal. When people weren't looking, he stared at the sun during the day and stared at the moon at night. He knew his parents were watching him but he still missed them. Due to how active the camp was he had not the chance to get a chance to use the Hearth in the middle of camp to talk to Hestia. He did notice her for a minute where she gave a wave and wink before giving an odd look at Percy. He did think Percy blink in confusion but he waved it off.
He predicted Percy just could not get a handle on archery. On his first lesson with Chiron Percy arrows viewed off course consistently and even hit Chiron who was behind him. As Percy apologized profusely Chiron just gave an amused look as he plucked an arrow out of his tail. Naruto and Grover had a hearty laugh at their friends' expense.
Suring their wrestling class Percy was pinned easily by Clarisse while Naruto was easily able to reverse any Ares boy who tried to pin him down to everyone impressed whispering. Neither of them had any real good hand at forging but to the curiosity of the Hephaestus kids neither Naruto or Percy seemed bothered by the intense heat of the forges. Naruto knew his immunity came from his adoption by Hestia a Goddess of the Hearth and flame. However, this still made him curious about Percy and his parentage.
Despite both Percy and Grover being left behind by Dryads in foot racing, Naruto easily kept pace with Grover being in disbelief.
"How is he doing that?" Grover demanded as he watched in envy as Naruto sat with a pretty dryad talking and with her giggling at Naruto.
"Doing what?" Percy asked in confusion as he looked at his new friend in some confusion.
"Keep up the Dryads? I mean none of us can since they have been running off from Love Sick Gods!" Grover explained as he grumbled that Naruto was 'too popular' making Percy Laugh.
Luke the head councillor from the Hermes Cabin and Annabeth both walked in as they greeted Percy and Grover.
"Percy this is Luke Castellan." Annabeth said with a warm smile being around her childhood friend as Percy and Luke exchanged a high five. AN2:
"Hey Percy. I am guessing you are having a hard first couple of days?" Luke asked sympathetically as Percy nodded his head glumly.
"Yeah. Everything is so new here and I don't seem to be good at anything really." Percy said with a scowl as Grover pat him on the shoulder.
"Hey. We all feel like that our first days but than we learn we are a huge extended family." Luke told him kindly as Percy felt a smile appear on his face. "It seems like your friend Naruto is doing fine though." Luke pointed out to the happy Naruto and Dryad.
"Yeah Naruto seems like this is all second nature to him despite him only being the same amount of time as Percy." Annabeth remarked with curiosity.
"Yeah he seems like something else." Luke said offhandedly as nobody noticed the dark glint in his eyes as he took a quick look at Naruto.
After a minute Naruto said bye to his new Dryad friend and rejoined his group of friends including meeting Luke.
'Luke seems nice enough but for some reason I feel like he is hiding something big.' Naruto thought to himself suspiciously as it almost seemed fake how nice Luke was being. Apollo assured him he did not have the gift of prophecy but his parents both agreed he had sharp instincts and should follow them.
Their next lesson was swordsmanship and Naruto was quick to note it seemed it was much more popular class than the others. It seemed like all if not most of the demigods were there with a lot watching eagerly. Luke was the instructor of the class so he ordered each demigod to pair up for sparring.
Naruto was matched up a Son of Ares who he hadn't met before but judging by the look of hatred directed at him his siblings were more than wary of him. Naruto spent several minutes just blocking effortlessly not really wanting to put any real effort into it. He decided to end it by ducking underneath the slash and knocking the Ares kid's sword out of his hands.
"Yield." Naruto said as he stared flatly at the angry eyes. The Ares son reluctantly yielded and walked back to his siblings with his head held down. Naruto than heard a bunch of clapping from his siblings as everyone was shocked at his level of swordsmanship.
"How did he do that?" a boy shouted.
"Beginners Luck?" Somebody suggested.
"I thought Apollo kids weren't suppose to be good at sword fighting?" somebody from the Athena cabin remarked.
Naruto knew better as his parents refused to let him go into the world without preparing the best he could so every day since he was a kid he had sword fighting with wooden swords and eventually real swords with his dad and the hunters.
Naruto just shrugged all these comment s off and went back to the bench to watch how Percy was doing. Percy was trying to spar with Luke but unlike Naruto was covered in bruises and sweat. Naruto frowned when he noticed how odd Percy was holding a training sword.
'Maybe Percy needs a speciality weapon?' Naruto thought despite himself being capable of using any bow or sword with relative ease.
It did make him feel better to see Percy seeming to be genuinely happy at sword fighting. Despite being injured he looked focused and happy.
"Ok 5 min break!" Luke announced as water bottles were handed out. Percy gave a sigh of relief as he dumped some water on his forehead and felt much better than before.
"Ok this move is called disarming. No laughing at Percy as it is hard for anyone of their first time!" Luke yelled as Naruto noticed several kids who eh assumed were Hermes kids holding back grins. He thought they probably had to do what Percy did and were happy to see it done to someone else.
Luke showed off the move on Percy in slow motion and sure enough Percy's sword fell out of his hands. "Ok we are going to in real time so prepare Percy." Luke said as Percy looked determined.
Everyone looked in shock when Percy managed to block Luke's first strike with even Luke eyes widening. He narrowed his eyes and started pressing harder with Percy starting to have a harder time blocking until he decided to risk it all. He did the disarming move and to his surprise and everyone else he managed to hit Luke's sword and make it fall out of his hand.
He pointed his own sword at Luke's throat and there was silent for a minute before he said meekly "Sorry." He was not used to large crowds and peer pressure.
Luke blinked and gave a huge grin and said "Sorry? You did great!" This got some claps as people were still trying to process how Percy did what he did. "Ok let's try it again." Luke said as eh picked up his sword.
This time it was no contest as Percy was instantly disarmed but Naruto did notice that he seemed even more exhausted than before he had that burst of energy. After a few minutes Luke announced the lesson was over.
Percy and Naruto could hear whispering asking if it was fluke or just beginning luck. Percy tried to explain but Naruto just told him to ignore the gossip as he was doing.
Their next class with Ancient Greek where they learned Annabeth was the teacher. She was blunt but fair in her teaching as Percy slowly learned how to read Ancient Greek. His parents told him that demigods due to their partial Godly blood did better with Ancient Greek then English. They had a condition called 'dyslexia'. Naruto did not have that issue but could read, write and speak English, Ancient Greek and Japanese with no problems. Naruto decided he did not want to make his new friend feel bad so he pretended to stumble with words too but Annabeth knowing look told him she did not believe him.
Luke had split from the group after the combat lesson due to being able to read Ancient Greek well enough and wanting some time to himself. Annabeth decided to stay with the boys as they did Canoeing. Naruto canoed as well as anyone could expect of a normal person but Percy seemed to instantly get it making much longer strides with no visible efforts. Naruto knew Percy felt good having something he was good at while Naruto thought it was a minor skill at best.
Afterwards the trio as Grover had decided to run after Dryads again had decided to just relax by the lake. Percy decided to ask a question that was nagging him for awhile.
"Annabeth. What is this capture the Flag you want me and Naruto to be on your team for?" Percy asked as Annabeth blinked before realizing nobody told the boys.
"You see it's a game we have every Friday. It is a team-based game where you try to capture the opposite team's flag." Annabeth began explaining as she also mentioned how teams were selected by Cabins uniting on one side in exchange for the chance for cabin rights for the week. She briefly explained how there was 2 flags-one for each team- and how the goal was to take the opposite team flag past the river in the middle of the forest.
"Naruto will be on my team as I convinced Lee to join the Blue Team which is my cabins for this week. Percy since you are in the extra Male Cabin you are also on my side." Annabeth explained as Percy looked confused at something.
"I might be missing something but why is there only 1 cabin for all the guys who are not in the other cabins?" Percy asked finding it abit unfair that everyone who wasn't claimed or a child of one of Olympians had to sleep together despite not being siblings.
Annabeth suddenly looked nervous while Naruto looked stoic. "You see before 5 years ago everyone who wasn't claimed on had parents in a named cabin had to bunk with Hermes cabin." Annabeth said with some regret. Percy looked appalled while Naruto frowned.
"You mean everyone had to sleep in that one cabin?! There is no way one cabin could hold everyone!" Percy said in outraged.
Annabeth looked around expecting thunder but she was pleased to hear nothing. "Yes, nobody knows the reason but 2 extra cabins were added so consider yourself lucky Percy. Before there was so many people there wasn't even beds for everyone. If you knew you slept in a tiny corner on the floor." Annabeth warned as Percy gulped. Sure, he had to sleep in a sleeping bag in the male cabin but at least there was enough space to walk around in.
Percy was depressed at that thought until Naruto and him noticed 2 teenager girls sitting on the bottom of the lake. They looked like pretty regular girls with blue jeans and green shirts. They seemed to have no problem breathing and talking underwater with even some minnows swimming around them happily.
The girls spotted Percy and waved at him like he was a long-lost friend as Percy waved back in a daze.
"Be careful those are Naiads. They are terrible flirts." Annabeth warned with a blank face.
When the girls spotted Naruto they instantly started giggling and pointing. They gave him a wink and wave as Naruto waved awkwardly back with a slight blush. He remembered hearing about them from his mother who seemed particularly annoyed with them. Unlike Dryads who seemed to want to be his friend, Naiads seemed to think of a next 'big thing'.
"That goes for you too Naruto." Annabeth said with a frown. AN3:
Ok this is insane. Can I go home now?" Percy said after a moment.
"Percy this is home for us. There is nowhere else safer for Demigods. We have a barrier to keep monsters and mortals out." Annabeth told him with a slight look of pity.
Naruto did his best to look interested instead of smiling. Despite his training and many abilities Artemis had assured him by Godly hierarchy he was mortal and not a 'true' demigod.
Naruto decided to change the subject "So there will be a capture the flag game in a few days?" he asked Annabeth as today was Tuesday.
"yeah and I expect you both to do your best and help me when." Annabeth told them pridefully as Percy and Naruto sweat dropped. The dinner bell had rung so the trio had said their goodbyes as they went back to their own tables to eat.
Naruto breakfast was French toast, maple syrup and pancakes. Naruto's lunch was steak, fries and mixed veggies. Naruto's supper was the same as lunch but in a bigger portion. He had given his daily offerings to his Godly family. He was excited for Capture the Flag in a couple of days with him assuming he would eb asked to do archery for his team. He also made a promise to himself he would watch out for Percy since it seemed he would be targeted by the Ares cabin like himself.
AN2: In this universe Annabeth does not have a crush or Luke or Percy or even Naruto. She will not find interest in romance or even crushes in the first book. Although her feelings to Naruto might change as she is curious about him.
AN3: Annabeth is jealous as she hates to share her friends. (she was being abit overwhelmed last chapter with the hand holding as she is still a girl after all)
Next chapter will be capture the Flag (sorry if I slightly butcher it) along with Grover talking about Percy's possible heritage (as it will be before the game)