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Reading: Fils de l'Amour: The Lost Hero
Chapter 11: The Number One Knuckleheaded Shinobi
Athena smirked as she
began the chapter.
The half-prince was quiet
after his nest-sister left with the other predators. I did what the sage
would've wanted and consoled him with my presence. His shoulder was smaller
than the sage's, and uncomfortable, but bearable for his sake.
"The half-what and
nest-who?" Percy scratched the back of his head.
Athena frowned, wondering
who was narrating.
The fire-thrower was a
relief for me.
"Okay, that's
me." Leo pointed to himself.
He took up the
responsibility of cheering the half-prince up.
"Half-prince is
me…" Jason said and blinked, "Guy's, I think this is Miu."
"Huh, that's
new." Frank said.
The sage's nest-sister
helped even more when she returned to the group.
"So, if the sage is
Naruto, I'm the nest-sister. So that first nest-sister was Thalia." Piper
nodded in understanding.
The satyr was
counterproductive and rude as always, just as the First Feather said they were.
"First Feather is
clearly Dios." Zeus murmured.
When we left the cave, I
took to the skies, flying around the mountain to find the sage. There was a
crater, large enough to become a new, if not small, lake. I believe I can
assume that the sage won.
"Hell yeah he
did," Leo grinned at the guns Naruto was packing in the form of chakra.
I called out for him, my
voice echoed in the cool air.
There was no response.
No matter, I pushed my
worry down and returned to the sage's group. I am sure that we will meet later.
First Feather always said it was easy to find his master because of their bond.
I will find mine in the same way.
Zeus smirked at that while
his brothers rolled their eyes.
For now, I will watch the
sage's nest-sister, the half-prince, the fire-thrower and the satyr for him. It
must be difficult being a land walker. The poor sage's talons must get
exhausted after he goes for his 'morning run' around the half-blood nest. And
now his nest-sister has to climb a frozen path. A shame they cannot fly like
me.
"I can fly,"
Jason corrected.
"Not
indefinitely," Piper reminded him, since it made him tired.
I perch myself on a statue
of the Wind Lord, a friend of First Feather, and wait for the land walkers to
come back outside. A breeze picks up and ruffles my feathers. Annoying.
"Glaucus gets like
that," Athena smiled lightly.
"Annoying little
thing," Ares growled,, it always pooed on him!
I brush them back down and
look up when a tittering laugh echoes around me.
"Well now, aren't you
precious?" I turned to the owner of the voice, a woman with red hair and
purple eyes.
"Aphrodite,
huh." Hephaestus commented.
"What are you doing
there?" Zeus questioned and the love goddess just shrugged at him.
My head tilted and I
observed her, looking directly at her eyes.
I chirped and left my
perch to land on her outstretched arm, careful not to damage it.
She is First Feather's
sister, the Olympian.
"What?" Apollo
blinked.
"I thought Gaea
created Dios?" Artemis questioned, but her father made an iffy motion with
his hand.
"It was
debatable." The king of the gods said.
"You must be
Miu," she said. Her finger trailed down the side of my beak like the sage
does. I lean into it, comforted. She tittered again. "Are you the one
watching my baby?"
I answered yes
proudly.
"An ego to match the
domain she's from," Poseidon muttered to Hades, who nodded.
I tell her that I was
chosen by the First Feather to watch over the sage.
"Dios wanted to watch
over him?" Zeus asked.
"I wonder why?"
Athena smiled, eager to know more.
She just smiles and says
nothing else, tapping the bottom of my beak. My head tilted and she laughed.
"Keep up the good
work, Miu," she said. "A big strong eagle lies in your future."
"Even for an
eagle?" Artemis questioned dryly.
"Love doesn't
discriminate, unlike you, Artemis."
"Why you-!"
"Enough," Zeus
said in a firm tone, silencing both goddess for now.
First Feather was right,
his sister is very strange.
"Now, listen
up." I straightened up when the Olympian spoke again. "I can't stay
long, but do you remember the mall?"
"Sending her to fetch
something?" Athena asked her fellow goddess.
"Seems so~" the
lady of doves smiled.
"So...About what
happened at the Cherry Bomb..."
There was a burst of
snickers from that as Athena pursed her lips, a dark glint in her grey eyes.
"I said I don't want
to talk about it," Naruto said. He was running again, sprinting through
towns like they were moving backdrops. From the store he had grabbed some
jeans, a black shirt with a weird smiley face that had two X's for eyes
"Nirvana, nice."
Thalia smirked, such a good band.
and an orange jacket from
the clothing store. He didn't bother with shoes, mostly the chakra cloak
protected his feet. In his hands was a crumpled up map. "Just passed a
sign saying California."
"I know. For what
it's worth, I think you were stunning."
"He needs a
muzzle," Athena stated, getting a nod from Annabeth.
Percy's laughter beg to
differ.
"I so don't want to
hear this, Kurama!"
"Could've used
something like that one girl did with the pervert back when you were on the
training trip."
A glower leaped from
Athena's throat at the thought of the man that trained her son and her
grandson. Aphrodite was giggling over the fact.
Naruto pushed those
memories to the back of his mind and fought down the blush that was crawling
its way up his neck. "Shut up."
"Or at least
teased them with that flex thing Kirabi showed you."
"We agreed never to
speak about that!"
"This should be
good," Leo smirked.
"Left here."
"Don't change the
subject!" Naruto turned left.
"Hell, you
could've at least gotten a kiss. I mean, there are like three kisses
total that actually count in your life and two of them were with the
Uchiha."
"Ooh," Aphrodite
looked instantly interested.
"No," Athena
glared, her legacy was not going out with some delusionary psychopath with
mental issues.
"Hmph, love is pure
in any form, Athena. You're brain babies are a good example of that."
"…The fact
remains-"
"That I want to hear
the story," Hermes complained and Athena quickly continued, not wanting to
talk about this.
Naruto wiped out again.
"Granted the
second one probably wasn't a real kiss. That was just misfortune."
"Stop talking about
that! Ugh, I think I'm going to puke!"
"Isn't your mother
the goddess of love?"
"I may love Sasuke
like a brother, but that's as far as it goes."
Athena looked smug now as
Aphrodite pouted.
"I dunno...You
sure chased after him a lot..."
"He needed to come
back to the village so someone could undo the brainwashing!"
"Sounding real
defensive here, Naruto."
"He is," Nico
nodded.
"I've had sex with
a woman, Kurama!"
"First of all,
that wasn't sex, that was a hooker.
The less mature gods
snickered at that along with the love goddess. Athena just frowned at the
reminder.
Secondly, you could be
bisexual. Never know until you try."
"Exactly!"
Aphrodite nodded, "Finally someone says it."
"They love me in
Cali," Apollo grinned with a sparkling smile.
"I don't." Hades
muttered, too bright.
"I...I'm so done
talking about this with you."
"Aw, did I make
you mad?"
Naruto didn't reply.
"Oh, come on. I
was just kidding around, Naruto. I know you don't like the Uchiha! You have to
admit though, to the outside viewer..."
"Ooh, give us more,
Kurama," the lady of doves ushered on.
"Just stop..."
"He didn't react
to your Oroike no Jutsu, so it's easy to assume the Uchiha might like
you."
"That sexy
jutsu," Apollo grinned, he wanted to see it.
"Neither did
Octopops!"
"Yeah, but he did
ogle Matatabi's Jinchuriki's chest..."
Naruto let a grin cross
his face at that memory. "That was one of the best fights ever. Man, too
bad Yugito died."
"What's this?"
the goddess of the demigod grinned.
"Mom, take it
easy." Piper sighed.
"Don't want to."
"Oh ho...so he
likes older women, does he?"
"No! I, uh, it's just
I would've liked to train with her."
"Train...Suuure,
yeah, that's what you meant."
"I can think of some
training to do with a girl like her," Apollo grinned as they showed the
image.
"I'm being serious
here!"
"It's okay,
Naruto. I'm sure someone will love you and she'll even have dentures,
too."
Naruto gagged. "Ugh,
you're gross."
"Too old? Okay,
narrowing down the age range."
"We're not talking
about how old I like my women!"
"Yugito Nii was
around thirty..."
"Shut up."
"And that was when
you were fifteen..."
"So about a good
twelve years older as a minimum." Aphrodite nodded.
"Stop."
"So...carry the
seven..."
"I think he fails at
math," Annabeth frowned.
"I can relate,"
Percy nodded in sympathy.
"Where the hell did
you get a seven!?"
"Add in the two
kisses with the Uchiha at age twelve…"
"Hey!"
"Those do factor
in," Apollo nodded.
"Stop."
"You stop, I told you
I don't want to talk about this anymore and-!"
"No you idiot!
Stop, as in, we're here!"
"Aw," the love
goddess pouted, she wanted to hear more~!
Naruto scowled and came to
a halt. He looked around and scratched the top of his head. "What do you
mean? I'm standing at the base of a mountain."
The Trio frowned at that
mountain.
"Exactly. We're
here."
"In Oakland?"
Naruto asked.
"Close enough to
it," Kurama said. "Your half-sister told you she was
at the top of a mountain, right?"
"Yeah, so?"
"Think, Naruto,
think. You're smarter than this."
"He is," Athena
insisted.
"You said that quite
fast."
"Silence Barnacle
Beard."
Naruto hummed and looked
up at the mountain before looking down at the map in his hand. An idea hitting
him, he pulled the edges open and looked over the green and slate colored
paper.
"We're at the base
of Mt. Diablo."
"Thanks," Naruto
said as he found the mountain. He traced the mountain to the bay with his
finger and blinked. "The Bay Area. And Oakland. All in the line of sight
from this mountain."
"Exactly," Kurama
said. "Your half-sister's father is at the top of the
mountain."
"Easy," Naruto
said, smirking. He prepared to jump when the chakra cloak cut out. "Hey!
Kurama, what gives?"
"Naruto, think
about this. If you shot up there glowing like the sun itself, the mortal would
be dead in a second," Kurama said.
"Such a Percy
move," Nico shook his head.
"Hey!" the sea
child frowned.
Naruto winced at that.
"Yeah, and I'm pretty sure Piper wouldn't forgive me if I got her dad
killed."
"Not really,"
Piper frowned.
"Your mother would
possibly be a bit miffed, too."Naruto looked at his hidden navel and
Kurama elaborated. "Goddess of love. She probably loves all her
children's fathers in their own way."
Aphrodite nodded to this.
"Huh, I never thought
of it like that. Hey, for the embodiment of hatred that was pretty deep."
"Tch, don't look
too deep into it. Know thy enemy and know thyself."
"Good call,"
Athena nodded to herself, who knew what was going on in that love obsessed
head.
Naruto just smiled and
folded the map up, tucking it away into his back pocket. He cracked his
knuckles and ran at the mountain's rocky face, finding some grips before he
began climbing, using just a bit of chakra to cover his hands and feet. He was
going to go in slow and steady, conserving most of his energy for the rescue
and the fight that would most likely follow. All of his rescue missions
resulted in some giant fight anyway.
"I hear ya,"
Percy nodded.
Now he just had to
literally fight one.
"No pressure,"
Leo said.
"Oh man, I'm not dead
am I?" Piper asked out loud once she woke up.
The last thing she
remembered was Aeolus flipping on them with apologies, saying that his orders
came from someone higher up. Of course the dream she had before she died wasn't
so bad, the fake memory of her and Jason's first kiss.
The couple had small
smiles at that memory, even if it was fake. It was still a nice one.
Piper frowned a bit at the
memory and scowled at her surroundings. Medea's Mall, the last place she wanted
to see.
"No, sweetie, you're
not."
Piper spun around and
stared at who had to be the most beautiful woman she had ever seen on the
planet.
"I try," the
love goddess smiled, no humility in her voice whatsoever. Not like she would
need it.
Absently, Piper wondered
if the woman was an actress, because she seemed really familiar. The woman was
elegant and fashionable without really trying, having a natural beauty that
Piper was a bit jealous of.
Piper's cheeks pinked as
her mother giggled lightly.
She smiled and her eyes
changed, darkening to purple and then lightening to blue. Her previously
chocolate hair lightened to a light red and then darkened again to a balance
between amber and a vibrant red. Piper blinked, thinking she imagined it before
the woman's features changed again, her face rounding out a bit and then
reverting smoothly to the model-like face it was before.
"Sorry, still
cooking," the woman said.
"You? Cooking?"
Demeter questioned doubtfully.
"I dabble."
Aphrodite huffed.
"Aphrodite,"
Piper said. "Mom?"
"Bingo!"
Aphrodite tapped Piper on the nose with a smile, walking past her to the
nearest shop. She stopped and turned to look at Piper. "Well come along, I
haven't got all day."
Piper numbly followed
after her. "You're here...why are you here? I thought Zeus-?"
"Don't bring him
up," Aphrodite said, rolling her eyes. "'History repeats itself.
Let's hide away so she'll go back to sleep!' Brilliant idea, obviously working
out for us."
Zeus grumbled at that as
his family snickered a bit.
"Who will go back to
sleep?" Piper asked.
Aphrodite brought her palm
to her forehead. "Sorry, Piper, I'm normally much more composed than this.
My mind's a bit scrambled since I made my big gambit."
"I thought you were
always a scatterbrain?!" Artemis mock gasped. Aphrodite glared at her.
"Gambit?" Piper
frowned. All she was getting were more questions instead of any answers.
"Your brother,"
Aphrodite said,
"He certainly is
one," Jason admitted.
grabbing a yellow top and
holding it up to her chest. "A nice deal, but would look dreadful on
me."
"How can anything
look dreadful on you?" Piper asked.
"Depends on the body
I'm working with," the love goddess waved off.
"And what has Naruto
got to do with anything?"
"Natural beauty is so
hard to come by, Piper," Aphrodite said. She set the top back on the rack
and grabbed a red one. "Oh, this is cute."
"But you're the
goddess of beauty," Piper said. "How can you not be naturally
beautiful?"
"Goddesses can change
their appearances with but blink of their eyes," Aphrodite said, smiling
as she put the red top away. "So finding the right thing to wear is always
so hard. I have to know what I'll want to look like at a
certain time. Believe me it's not easy."
"So true," the
lady of doves groaned in agreement.
"I'll take your word
for it," Piper said, frowning. "What does Naruto have to do with
anything?"
"Your older brother
has a lot to do with everything."
"Oh, do tell."
Athena inquired with interest.
Aphrodite kept looking
through clothes. "You see, after the most recent fight with the
Titans–"
"The second
Titanomachy," Piper said. "Hephaestus told Leo about it."
"Humph, taking the
fun out of our meeting," Aphrodite said. "Anyway, Hera has decided to
play a risky game against her husband's wishes. However, I can see her side of
it. The gods need the heroes to come together. However, she's putting a lot of
faith in two boys who barely have had the same experiences that your brother
has."
"I saved the
world," Percy pouted as Hera frowned at Aphrodite.
"So did Naruto,"
Annabeth pointed out, "And he's older too."
"Jason and that Percy
guy, right?" Piper asked.
"Indeed."
Aphrodite smiled as she pulled an orange shirt out that had a small frog on it.
Piper looked around, wondering when they wound up in the baby section of the
store.
"Maternal
instincts." Hera smirked as Aphrodite smiled too, it was a cute little
shirt.
"You see, Piper, your
brother is quite possibly the strongest son I've ever had, rivaling your divine
brothers."
"Bull!" Ares
fumed.
"Not really, you've
seen what the boy can do. And he's not a god." Athena
smugly said.
"You're
kidding!" Piper gaped at that.
"No. And not to brag,
but I'm fairly certain he's stronger than Zeus', Poseidon's or Hades'
children," Aphrodite said. She was smirking proudly at that.
The Big Three frowned at
that as did their children, looking put out.
"I could take
him." Percy said.
"Did you not see
him make a crater, I saw that." Leo said.
"…I could still take
him."
It was then Piper noticed
that the shirt in her hand was gone and they were back in the women's
department. "Oh yes, Naruto has definitely surpassed Aeneas in strength,
but he is not my only strong child this generation."
"There's
another?" Piper asked.
"Yes," Aphrodite
said, smiling. She pointed at Piper.
"I had no
idea?!" Leo gasped and got a mock slap from Piper.
"It is true,"
the mother said with pride as Piper smirked at her.
"Me?"
Piper fumbled for words. Aphrodite had to be wrong, she was just Piper. Can't
run with a dagger without risking impaling herself, hypothermic-prone,
ankle-twisting Piper whose dad was kidnapped by a giant.
"The
negativity…"
"Oh hush Hazel,"
Piper pouted at her friend.
"No, I'm not, I
mean..."
"You're strong,
Piper," Aphrodite said, cupping Piper's chin. "You're not afraid to
get your hands dirty, you're clever and you're gorgeous to boot. A trifecta if
I've ever seen it."
"A model of love-like
fury," Annabeth nodded as Piper gave her a sly smile.
"But Naruto can
multiply and do all these ninja things!"
Aphrodite laughed lightly.
"You think this makes Naruto one of my strongest? Piper, there has not
been a son of mine with a heart as pure as his in eons. Naruto is strong
because he follows his heart and doesn't let anything get in his way.
"Amen," Percy
nodded, liking this Naruto once again over Apollo Naruto.
Admittedly he got some of
Athena's hubris, but what's a demigod without some pride?"
"Knew it,"
Poseidon said, getting a flat glare from Athena.
"Right..." Piper
frowned, still unsure.
"Piper." Piper
looked up into her mother's eyes. "As we speak, your brother has gone to
save your father."
"What?" Piper
blinked in surprise.
"The oddest
thing," Aphrodite said. She pulled out a blue dress and looked it over
before looking back at Piper. "After he defeated Lyacon, he got up and
left, heading off to California. A misadventure here and there,
"A hilarious
one," Leo snickered.
but I overheard him
mention your name and the word father several times to himself. Always the
hero, much like his own father. Self-sacrificing...Of course, that's why Athena
doesn't like Percy Jackson! The same fatal flaw as Minato."
Athena frowned deeply at
that while Percy looked wide eyed.
"I thought you all
had Hubris," Percy asked his girlfriend.
"Not really, it's
just the most common," the daughter of wisdom said.
"Fatal what?"
Piper asked.
"Nothing of
importance, Piper," Aphrodite said. She hung the dress back up and they
wound up in the potions department.
Piper frowned at the red
vial that displayed itself so readily to the room, wishing she could grab it
and give it to Jason.
"Right, she doesn't
know about it," Jason murmured as Piper pouted. That could have helped
them heal from their hypothermia!
"Now, now, stop
thinking about your boy and listen to your mother," Aphrodite said. She
smiled and Piper knew that a blush had crawled up onto face. Aphrodite grabbed
a small vial and offered it to Piper. "You must meet Naruto at the mountain
and give him this. He will give it to Tristan after he rescues him."
"Right, that
potion…" Piper sighed sadly.
"Why can't I do it? I
want to help rescue my dad!"
"I know,
sweetie," Aphrodite said sadly. "This is a task that only one of
Athena's can do properly. The giant who holds Tristan is her opponent, you
know. Bred specifically to fight her and her kin."
"And Naruto will slay
him," the wisdom goddess smiled.
"So I wouldn't have a
chance..."
"Not true. Any
demigod with the help of the giant's opponent would emerge victorious,"
Aphrodite said. "It is just easier if you let Naruto take this fight. He
will ensure Tristan's safety, Piper, you can put your faith in Naruto. Many have
and they have yet to be proven wrong."
"He is someone you
can just believe in," Hazel nodded after seeing just what he can do and
how he acts.
"I do trust
Naruto," Piper said. She bit her lip. "Will he be okay?"
"I've told you that
Naruto is the strongest son I've had in eons, if not the strongest demigod
alive today," Aphrodite said.
Percy and Jason looked put
out by this.
"He is
impressive," Reyna added, there was no denying that.
"Your boytoy,
Jason,
"He's not a boytoy,
mom."
"I beg to
differ."
comes in a close second,
but he is hindered by a life he does not remember. Naruto has lived through
war, war that not even Ares has seen, and defeated a being that would be on par
with some of the minor gods, if not one as powerful as I, loathe I am to admit
it."
"The Rabbit
Demon?" Piper asked.
"Kaguya Ōtsutsuki was
a daughter of Zeus," Aphrodite said.
Zeus' interest was piqued
at this while Hera rolled her eyes.
"Somehow she obtained
power that nearly placed her in the same level as her father."
"Wow, way to
go," Poseidon mocked, great, just what they needed.
"So typical of them,
ambitious little…" Hera shook her head.
...Naruto killed Jason's
sister...
"Huh, he did."
Nico blinked in surprise, not really bothered by that as Zeus had a deep frown
on his face.
The thought was surreal,
impossible even, but it was true. There was nothing else Piper could say,
nothing she could think of. Naruto said he had defeated a god, or whatever came
close to it, and there was no way Piper could see herself doing the same."
"I did." Percy
commented as Ares glared heatedly at him.
"Like hell you did,
you got lucky you little shit."
"I'm up for round
two."
"Gladly!"
"No," Zeus
frowned as his son seethed at the denial and Percy smirked.
"Now," Piper
looked back at Aphrodite, "When you awake, you'll be close to him, but do
not join him. This is his test and my own."
"Wow, no
pressure."
"Unlike you and I,
stress does wonders for Naruto's complexion."
Piper made a gag noise
while Aphrodite giggled.
"A bit more than I
wanted to hear, Mom."
"Almost there,"
Naruto said, pulling himself to the top of the mountain. He stopped on the edge
and hung for a second. After adjusting his grip, Naruto pulled himself up to
look over the edge covertly. His eyes continued to go up when he found his
target.
"The time is almost
on us, human," a deep baritone voice said. The owner chuckled, his
dreadlocks dancing atop the bronzed head. Weaved in them were white objects,
which Naruto decided were bones and did not want to know where they came from.
The thirty-foot tall monstrosity was human in appearance from the waist up, on
the other end it was scaly and two draconian feet acted as trunks for the
giant, keeping him upright. The human half was protected by gleaming bronze
armor and in his left hand was a flagpole staff.
"There you are…"
Athena smiled like a predator.
"Walk into my parlor
the spider said to the fly," Poseidon said, getting a dirty look from his
rival.
"So that's what a
giant looks like? Ugly bastard, isn't he?"
Naruto said nothing,
merely narrowing his eyes on Enceladus. He was looking at a man dangling from a
crane, his arms chained above his head.
"Okay, that's
scary," Annabeth frowned, if that had been her dad…
That had to be Piper's
dad. A grunt got Naruto's attention and he looked down, blanching at the twenty
something men walking around. Each had six arms and wore only loincloths.
Piper and Leo gagged at
seeing them again, so gross.
"...Well that just
makes it all the more interesting,"Kurama said.
Again, Naruto remained
quiet, returning his attention to Enceladus.
"Three hours for your
darling daughter to save you," Enceladus said. He smirked, the smile
reaching up to the solid marble white orbs that had locked onto Tristan's body.
"And then, after she has tried, I will kill her. Only then will I allow
you to die."
"Charming fellow for
someone who is your bane, Athena," Artemis said flatly.
"I know, isn't
he?"
"That was
the worst line I've ever heard. And you fought a guy that
spoke in the third person and called himself a 'good boy'!"
"Burn by the
fox," Leo snickered.
Naruto bit on his lip to
keep from laughing. He hated Tobi at the time, but now, looking back, the guy
was a riot. If only Obito hadn't fallen victim to the curse of hatred, then
maybe he would've been like a second uncle to Naruto. The blond shinobi shook
his head, this wasn't the time to think about that.
"Indeed, I will kill
you, your daughter and those two heroes...But first I will attend to my
guest," Enceladus said, turning to meet Naruto's gaze.
"Uh-oh," Thalia
said, "Spotted."
"Quick, hide in a
cardboard box!" Leo cried out.
"That only works in
video games." Frank rolled his eyes.
"It works, I've done
it!"
"Well, there goes
the stealth route."
"Never my strong suit
anyway," Naruto said. He pulled himself completely onto the mountaintop
and settled into a fighting stance.
Enceladus arched a brow.
"Well, aren't you the machismo? Tell me, boy. What brings a young lad like
you to a place like this on a day like today?"
"Oh, you know. A
casual climb and save the day thing, the usual," Percy shrugged.
"You've got my
sister's dad," Naruto said. His eyes narrowed. "I'm going to take him
back."
"Are you now?"
Enceladus chuckled. "And how, pray tell, do you plan on doing that, young
demigod? There's only one of you."
"Nonsense, he's a one
man army," Athena smirked.
"I'm never alone,"
Naruto said. He flipped his hands into his favorite seal and grinned. "Taju
Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
The side of the
mountaintop Naruto occupied was engulfed in a cloud of smoke that blew away
with the breeze, revealing fifty or so clones of the demigod. Enceladus' smirk
fell and he gained a stern glare before pointing at Naruto with his finger.
"Kill him,
Earthborn."
The six-armed men ran
forward dutifully, yelling incoherently while the clones gave their own war
cries.
"Blood!" Ares
cheered wildly.
Naruto and several of his
clones hung back and fell into meditative positions, Enceladus watching
carefully. After a moment and about half the clones had fallen, the meditating
blonds had gained orange pigmentation around their eyes, which snapped open to
reveal the golden eyes of a toad.
"Now!"
All of the clones went up
in smoke, leaving Naruto alone. He grabbed onto Kurama's chakra and pulled it
out. It burned at first, but then the malicious chakra and nature chakra
balanced out. Gold and orange flames engulfed him and Naruto glared at the giant
with his four-pointed pupils.
"Ooh, sexy
eyes." Aphrodite said with a giggle.
"They are, quite the
eye catcher."
"Was that a joke
Reyna?" Jason asked, getting a frown.
"No, I was merely
saying it drew attention."
He had done this only once
before and Kakashi had remarked how his eyes looked like a compass.
"Humph, a child of
Apollo."
"I wish." Apollo
pouted, his Naruto did it like, a hundred times cooler!
Enceladus snorted and
pointed at Naruto with a scowl. "I'm the Anti-Athena, boy! You should run
off and wait for Orion to show his face."
"Oh, I eagerly await
that," Artemis seethed for what he had done to her hunters over the years.
"Same," Ares
glowered since that nut job went after his honorary daughters, the Amazons.
"I'm not a son of
Apollo. I haven't even met the guy!" Naruto scowled. "I'm Naruto
Uzumaki, son of Aphrodite, legacy of Athena and next Hokage!"
"A legacy?"
Enceladus arched his brow. "Only a legacy? I'm insulted.
"You should be
grateful that's all you get," Athena sniffed since he originally had
gotten bested by a Roman of all things.
Earthborn! Rid me of this
pest!"
"Bring it,"
Naruto said, bringing his hands up to flip through hand seals. "Senpū:
Daitoppa!"
Naruto reared his head
back as chakra built up before he expelled a giant wave of golden wind from his
mouth. The foot soldiers that remained were forced off of Mt. Diablo, soaring
for quite some time.
"That was cool,"
Jason said, wondering if he could do that too.
Enceladus narrowed his
eyes. "How did you do that?"
Naruto just grinned at
him.
"Bah, no
matter." Enceladus spun his spear around and expelled purple fire at the
glowing demigod. "I may not be the largest of my brethren, but I am the
smartest!"
"He brags like you as
well."
"Be silent,
Poseidon."
Naruto jumped to the side,
his eyes on Piper's dad where he was dangling for his life over the edge of the
mountain. He had to make a big distraction for this to all pay off. Naruto
grinned at the thought and bit his thumb. He ducked down again to avoid another
blast of fire, his hands blurring through seals. The left hand slammed down and
Naruto shot up.
"Kuchiyose no
Jutsu!"
Enceladus sent a burst of
fire to disperse it. From the smoke a deeper voice shouted out. "Suiton:
Suidan no Jutsu!"
"He gets bested by a
toad…oh this just far better," Athena grinned.
A large ball of water came
out and met Enceladus' flames, extinguishing them. The mountaintop shook
lightly and Enceladus blinked once the smoke cleared. Naruto grinned and
crouched down, patting the fifty-foot tall dark red and blue toad on the head.
The toad moved his giant cigarette around and rolled his golden eyes to glare
up at Naruto. "You summoned me to take care of a shrimp?"
"I am loving
this," Piper whispered with a smirk.
"Hello to you, too,
Gamakichi. Still have an ego that matches the size of your head, I see,"
Naruto said.
The son of Gamabunta
smirked. "Don't insult me. My ego's larger than that."
"Befitting for the
boy's lineage," Poseidon nodded.
"I quite agree."
Hades smirked as Zeus and Athena frowned at that with looks on their faces.
"What in the depths
of Tartarus...?" Enceladus looked like he was unable to comprehend what he
was seeing. The surprised look vanished in a second and he smirked before his
dialect matched theirs. "Japanese, eh? Interesting."
Naruto blinked. "Huh,
someone speaks it?"
"Why wouldn't
he?" Gamakichi asked. "It's the world language, isn't it?"
"He wishes,"
Hermes snorted.
Naruto laughed sheepishly.
"Right, world language...Gonna have to take some maps back to Konoha with
me..."
"Whatever, Naruto.
Let's hurry this up so I can go home and play cards with Tatsu," Gamakichi
said, reaching onto his back and pulling out his large tanto. "He's got a
few packs of my favorite smokes and I want them back!"
"I know the
feeling," Ares nodded and glared at his brothers, always winning his
stuff. It sucked!
Naruto shook his head.
"Where did