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.
Posted April 21, 2020 (Tuesday)
AN1: Guys the PM email notifications are NOT working right now. I heard FF took that function down. So, I am replying to everyone ok! You have to check your PM inbox like I do to see response any PMs! (go to your name in top right corner, left bar- Private Messaging-inbox and tada all the messages go through but you won't get emails saying it did! This goes for all my stories! Check your box for PMs and actually read them!
The reason this took so long (besides general laziness) is I was not happy with the extra details I added so I kinda wanted to skip it honestly. I can't write as good as the canon source but I don't want to rehash the entire underworld arc.
I had a subplot in mind where Naruto tells his feelings about Minato and Kushina (they are separate from Apollo and Artemis particularly in his eyes) but I decided I will add that in at some other point. I kinda want to move past the underworld arc pretty quick.
I HAVE NOT given up on this story! I actually like it almost as much as Six Paths Jinchuuiki but certain quest elements are harder to write about and kinda boring.
I KNOW its short but its been sitting at like 600 words for 2 months now and I am posting it so I can start moving on in the story!
I kinda want to bring Piper back for a cameo(s) (but not for the camp till HOO) what do people think?
Chapter 20 Getting into the Underworld
After finding out the current entrance to the Underworld was at "DOA Recording Studios" the group started walking there in a somber pace. Grover swore he felt something dark surrounding Naruto when the thugs threatened Annabeth while Percy was still shocked his dad helped create that monster Naruto killed. Annabeth was a bit shaken up about the experience with the thugs having a rough idea on what their intentions were if they captured her. She knew it was illegal for children to have sex but it was unspoken that it was done in the dark corners of the world.
Naruto saw Annabeth scared expression no matter what kind of neutral expression she tried to put on so he slowed down.
"Hey. Are you okay?" Naruto asked softly as Annabeth blinked trying to turn her frown into a smile.
"Why wouldn't I be?" Annabeth asked too proud to admit she was still abit traumatized from her experience. Grover sighed knowing his friend inherited the pride that Athena was well known for. Percy didn't really get what was going on so he stayed quiet.
Naruto grabbed her shoulder gently as she winced slightly. "Hey my mom and dad hates rapists above all else and I do too. Believe me I wanted to slice them to bits and I could have easily." Naruto said darkly as the 3 questors felt a jolt of fear go down their spines. "But killing someone especially a mortal is bad. Unlike monsters once their lives end there is no coming back." Naruto sighed as Grover and Percy blinked never really thinking it.
Grover had a nervous expression while Naruto sighed.
"Look I know Dad likely charmed women in the past whether they truly wanted to sleep with him or not is up for debate. So he might not seem to hate rapists but he would never take a woman who said no to him or use force against her. He might be a lot of things in the past but he would never lower himself to rape." Naruto said darkly as Grover gulped while Percy sweated. Annabeth had never met Apollo personally but she thought based on the stories he seemed pretty laid back compared to the more temperamental Gods. AN2:
Annabeth smiled abit and said softly "thanks for worrying but I really am ok." Naruto smile returned when he saw his friend abit better.
"I guess we never really thought about it since monsters always end returning but mortals and demigods only have one shot at life huh." Grover mused as Percy suddenly looked abit nervous before he eyes looked resolute again.
Naruto nodded as they continued to walk. "Yeah and that what makes monsters dangerous. They might not evolve like Gods and mortals do but they remember. Every time they die and return to life those experiences accumulate along with hatred and anger." Naruto said wisely.
The group remained silent for a few minutes until they reached a building called" DOA Recording Studios" before Naruto stopped them.
"Why are we stopping?" Percy asked eager to go down to the underworld and give Hades a piece of his mind.
"Ok I will be blunt. You guys have not been with Gods for your whole lives so you are still rather new at this to be honest." Naruto said neutrally staring at Annabeth as she was about to protest. "One rule is when you enter a God's domain they can and will sense you and have a vague sense of what you are saying and doing at all times. For example, you might now it but the Gods have been watching your quest the entire time." Naruto told them as Percy looked nervous and looked up at the sky. Annabeth and Grover bit their lips hoping they had not unintentionally offended the Gods during the quest.
"You mean they have been watching all this time as we risk our lives?" Percy asked angrily as Annabeth looked mortified while Naruto shrugged.
Naruto gave them a look of pity and said "Look you guys are looking at it from a mortals perspective which I suppose makes sense but Gods are inherently different." AN3: Before they could ask him anymore, he added "Look just be on your guard once we go down there. We will out of the scope of the rest of the Gods but every monster and bad thing you heard about is down there so we will be in much more trouble."
As the others gulped, they slowly descended down the dark tunnel till they reached what appeared to be a waiting room full of sad people although they were somewhat see through. A man waiting in a fancy suit looking bored was sitting on a chair reading a book with the door locked with a key on his neck.
Annabeth, Percy and Grover were naturally afraid of going to the underworld particularly in a way that meant they were not dead first. However, Naruto was calm as a cucumber although he did give the spirits of the dead a look of pity.
While the spirits were complaining the man in the suit growled and yelled "Shut up! The next spirit who complains will increase the wait time from a year to 10 years for this entire room!". This outburst made the spirits whimper but quiet down to his satisfaction.
Annabeth and Grover looked horrified while Percy looked ready to bring out his sword but Naruto quick glare made him halt his hasty movements.
The man finally noticed the new arrivals and did not look impressed although he did give a small sniff and give them a look of suspicion much to the group collective terror.
"Well well. New arrival and so young looking too." The man said with fake sympathy as Naruto resisted rolling his eyes. "First things first. Can you tell me my name?" The man asked pointing at his name tag.
Percy squinted and his ADHD and Dyslexia filled brain read something like 'Chirran' so his first thought was 'Chiron' but luckily Naruto coughed and decided to answer first.
"I believe your name tag says 'Charon' I believe?" Naruto said innocently enough as Charon eyes widened in surprise.
'Interesting. That one clearly does not have Dyslexia but he seems to be aware I am not human.' Charon thought to himself.
"Anyways how may I help you all tonight?" Charon asked with a fake smile as the spirits tried to gesture them to leave in a futile effort.
Grover decided to be the brave one and said "Sir we would like to go to the Underworld." However, his nervous feelings made him bleat almost like a gloat despite Annabeth and Percy looks of horror.
To the surprise of the questors Charon started to laugh slamming his fist into his desk at a joke only he could get. After a few minutes he calmed down and wiped away tears from laughing so hard.
"Gotta say never heard of that one before. Its always 'Its not my time!' or 'Please don't take me!' or 'Just let me go home!'. Never 'I want to go the underworld.'." Charon chuckled as the original questors laughed nervously while Naruto frowned at the man.
Annabeth tried to get things back under control by saying with a pleading look "Please sir we need to see Hades."
Charon eyes grew dark as he picked his nose. "That's LORD Hades girlie. Plus the only ones that go tot the underworld are those who are dead and you clearly are not." Charon told her with a glare as Annabeth reared back as if she had been slapped.
Naruto clearly was in a foul mood as he seemed to vanish and reappear before sending a swift but light kick into Charon sending the Immortal into the door with a thud.
Charon groaned as he tried to stand up only to meet cold blue eyes and a knife to his throat as he gulped.
'What the hell? This kid movements don't match his age! Hell, even demigods of Old don't have these kinds of skills!' Charon thought in fear. AN4:
Annabeth looked at with him fear and respect. 'Naruto? What happened to him? He is always so calm and nice but right now he feels like a…. wave threatening to crush us all.'
Grover was thinking 'Bah! Even the hunters can't move that quick! Is this the power of Lady Artemis and Lord Apollo child?'.
Percy was gaping with his mouth open. 'Naruto is so! He is like a superhero!'. Normally Percy would feel jealous but Naruto had been nothing but a true friend to him so he was more amazed than anything else.
Naruto said darkly as he carefully pinned the scared immortal to the door. "Look Charon if you need a dead person to enter the underworld I suppose you will do." Naruto showed his point by slowly moving his silver knife closer to Charon neck.
Charon despite his fear hissed "Lord Hades will never let this stand you brat!".
Naruto gave him a dark and feral smile as he said calmly "Oh in the months or years it takes for you to come back I am sure Lord Hades will find someone else to ferry to the underworld. Hell maybe they might even be better than you."
Charon eyes widened at the threat which could possibly happen as the last time he demanded a raise Hades threatened to toss him into the river Styx.
Charon demanded "What are you? You don't have the scent of a Demigod but there is no way for a human to move like this!".
Naruto smirked at the ironic statement AN5: before backing away slightly so Charon could breathe for a moment. He kept a hand on his knife and even twirled it in his fingers to prove he could easily pin down Charon in an instant again.
"I am the son of Artemis and Apollo. Naruto Uzumaki. Nice to meet you." Naruto told him with a smirk.
Charon gasped having heard rumours even in the underworld about the mortal son of Artemis appearing at Camp Half Blood. Now that he was focusing, he could see the same shade of red in Naruto's hair tips and the same silver glow in Naruto eyes.
If that wasn't enough Naruto's next statement sealed it for him. "Like Mother says. I have no time for petty males." Naruto said coldly with a glare. Charon at that moment swore he saw Artemis appear behind Naruto with the same stance and glare at him.
"So here are your options." Naruto told him. "One you refuse so I kill you and knock the door over." Naruto threatened as Charon gulped. "Or you let us in your boat furry us over and come back. Trying to believe this never happened." Naruto offered as Charon looked at Naruto's knife and back to his own hands.
"Just this once. Nobody hears about this you hear?" Charon said gruffly as he unlocked the door and glare at the spirits trying to rush into the door.
Naruto gently pushed his amazed friends through the door as it closed shut behind them. They followed Charon down the stairwell where his suit disappeared and his true form appeared. He truly looked like the 'Grim Reaper' in kids TV shows without the Scythe but with the Hood and Skelton face.
Charon soon reached the empty boat and sighed before entering.
"Quickly into the boat before I change my mind." Charon demanded as Annabeth, Percy and Grover scooched into the boat as far away from Charon as possible in the small boat.
Unbeknownst to the others Naruto threw a shuriken into the water and to his satisfaction the shuriken stayed afloat with a blue chakra aura surrounding it.
"Naruto what are you doing? Get into the boat!" Percy cried desperately as Naruto gave them a huge smile.
Naruto to the shock of others kicked the boat so it started to move without him. Before anyone could react, Naruto took a big step towards the water.
"Naruto!" Annabeth screamed in fear fearing for the worst.
"You fool! Nobody can survive contact with these waters!" Charon shouted in annoyance.
Before everyone eyes Naruto not only did not die from the water he actually stood on top of the water! He was walking on the water as if it was solid ground not deadly water that dissolved everything.
Naruto smirked as he was bombarded by questions as he causally walked besides the boat as it was floating across the River Styx.
"You're alive?" Grover yelled in surprise and relief as Naruto sent him a cheeky smile.
"That's impossible! Not even Gods can stand in the River Styx! No Godly power can make you immune to the River Styx powers!" Charon demanded refusing to believe this was happening. AN6:
"Well I guess my powers don't like to follow the rules." Naruto said vaguely as he saw the thing layer of chakra on the bottom of his feet keeping him elevated on the waters surface.
Percy was about to ask about himself before Charon gave him a nasty look. "Don't think just because you are son of Poseidon you are immune boy. No Sea Deity's powers work in the presence of the River Styx. Don get cocky just because it called a river." Charon warned as Percy inched away from the toxic looking water.
After a few feet Naruto decided he had his fun so he walked into the boat without any issue or even water clinging to him as the questors and Charon gave him looks of astonishment.
Naruto decided to joke "You might want to clean up the River Charon it looks pretty toxic.". This got a sour look from Charon as the questors gave slight laughs at the joke.
AN2: Look I know the Gods are pretty selfish but I cannot see Apollo ever using a 'dark' method to get a woman in bed. Plus Naruto is not blinded by love to see who his parents WERE. They changed because of him so they gave him pretty unbiased tales on their pasts and Naruto accepted them despite their pasts. They don't do that dark stuff anymore.
AN3: TO put into perspective: Percy kinda resents the Gods since his dad left them when he was born ancient laws or not, Annabeth respects and admires her mom to see Athena's flaws, and Grover fears the Gods spiting him at any moment. Naruto grew up with Apollo, Artemis, Hestia and Leto so he has a pretty good gasp on how the Gods perceive the mortal world but he is not so above it to show contempt towards people.
AN4: Just a generalization but I cannot think a guy who ferries dead people to the underworld would not have seen ancient heroes in actions.
AN5: He is smirking since his movements are pretty standard for ninjas but seem extraordinary for demigods.
AN6: Not saying Gods die in the water. It is rather unpleasant form them forcing them to teleport them away. Chakra has unique effects in the PJO world as it doesn't follow the standard 'rules' of that universe.
If Naruto had to describe himself as a 'species' he would declare himself "A chakra wielding ninja Hunter with Moon and Sun powers." (just a little bonus if you are confused on what he is).