Journey of a Demigod

Chapter 1

Wow, been while. Almost a year since I got a new job in the form of a credit union teller, and I got a raise, so I am pretty happy with my 11 dollar an hour job. Not much to some but the most I have ever had.

But I am back with stories again. The three to come out are of course this one, Journey of a Demi God. In the Shadow of a Perfect life, which is another spin on the main story. And finally…something you have all been waiting for…FOXFIRE PART 2! I will be working those for the time being as I don't want to overwhelm myself again. But you won't be getting that one until after the weekend….after I get my wisdom teeth ripped out of my skull.

Ok, this is something I have wanted to work on for a long time. It is a Naruto/Percy Jackson crossover where Naruto is the twin of Annabeth, effectively making him a son of Athena, but with a twist for both of them. I will reveal it in this chapter, but it sheds some light as to WHY Frederic Chase loved old war machines so much.

Pairing is not decided yet and I am stuck between two characters. One is an old friend of Naruto in this world and his not affected by her powers. The other….is in the other camp. Meh….i'll put up a poll in my profile.

Anyway, Enjoy.

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Naruto Uzumaki. Ninja. Hokage.

This was a man of legend as he stood atop the Hokage monument. However, as he gazed at this village, the sun flashed, blinding him to the huge ball of black flames that slammed into him. As he was lifted off his feet, the world broke away and shattered and the black flames turned white and then into a figure of a woman as Naruto turned into a ball of light. The woman, who looked of royal decent, smiled at Naruto's small form and then gave it to a wise looking woman who took it to a Greek city on a top of a large mountain.

Then that ball of light is flying down the mountain as it turns into two people. One is of course Naruto, while the other is a girl named Annabeth, who looked no older than 7 years old. The two 7 year old ran along the terrain even as it flattens out and turns into grassy fields and rocky landscapes. They keep running as they are joined by three other people. Luke, Thalia, and Grover. They soon add running and fighting to the journey as a darkness chases them.

Soon, they come upon a hill near fields of strawberry and a familiar camp. Talia looked back at the darkness behind them and smiles sadly and then tells the others to run to the camp. All but young Naruto runs in fear of the darkness, but the young blond stands ready to fight alongside a friend with a crudly made but working gun. Talia shakes her head in the negative as she gives the young blond a parting hug and begins to push the boy away to safety. With tears, the young boy forces the gun into Talia's hands and runs off.

Talia closes her eyes as a tear escapes her eyes before combining the gun with her shield and spear to fight the darkness but is soon swallowed by it. The sky booms and a bolt of lightning crashes down into the darkness, blooming into a grand tree.

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Time passes as the group is still close, surrounding Naruto. More join and stand next to the blond as Annabeth looks happily at her brother finally making friends

However, Luke steps away from the group and gains a scar across his face and then sees two symbols of power and reaches out to them. One is a golden sarcophagus while the other is a pentagram version of the Star of David.

Soon, Luke turns back to Naruto and with a smirk of deceit, offers a hand to the younger blond, who never takes the hand, angering the boy, but he then just walks off into the darkness to begin his journey.

Soon, Naruto is on his own journey and he leaves camp with a sendoff hug from his sister and their friends while a girl none of them expected wishes the blond good luck with a kiss to the cheek. A girl named Drew.

The blond's journey takes him to the Capital of the U.S. where he is ambushed by a giant golden lion and they fight as green fire overtakes them both.

Those flames turns black and explodes into hundreds of black birds with a strange metal on them as they dive bomb the blond, who now has a lion's pelt on him. He then takes out a pair of black and white guns with the wind violently whipping around him and shoots at the birds, creating black smoke.

Out of the black smoke, Naruto is joined by Zoe Nightshade and Artemis at his sides. They find themselves in the middle of a city being attacked by screaming wraiths. Naruto just nods to them as the camera pans out to show the rest of the huntresses as they hold up shields made of mirrors, Spartan Style, and the glare blinds everything until it just shows one mirror with Naruto in it. The blond points the gun out with a look of insanity and shoots, shattering the mirror.

Naruto is then seen defending himself from a well dress teen with a wicked looking staff in a rotting forest only to be separated by a large geyser of water that turns into an eight headed snake and bats him away. A hand offers itself and he takes it to see a man in Jackal mask. They then face the beast with shadows at their backs, a humanoid lion and jackal respectively. Naruto raises a hand and a bolt of lightning crashes down blinding everything once more.

On his knees, Naruto riaseas he he followed by the shadows of his friend and staresat the challenges ahead of a determined loo. All ranging from a camp made from Roman architecture, giant beings that should be long dead, the lord of Monsters in Typhon himself, and finally to a boy walking through the desert.

That boy is Luke, he is seen walking through the desert towards a darkened temple surrounded by a raging sand storm. He looks out the corner of his eye to Naruto and he sees one sickly yellow eye as he smirks and continues walking as the sand storm obstructs all view of the boy.

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June 30, 2012~ Forest Near Zeus' Fist

Naruto breathed in calmly as he got ready for another one of his training sessions. However, due to Chiron's worry over his use of his special weapons and the way he used them, he had made Naruto be watched by one of his friends in case he hurt himself. She was currently sitting on a rock not that far away looking bored as she checked her nails.

Another one of his friends, Juniper, a wood nymph, along with her friends where helping Naruto with his training this time as they had set up a few targets for him to take care of. He, of course, was always grateful for their help. Juniper did because she was his friend, but the others were a mystery to him as he thought they were just juniper's friends who were bored. However, Juniper knew the truth as a few of her mythical friends had a crush on the blond.

Juniper is small and petite, with wispy hair the color of amber, and a pretty elfish face. She wore a green chiton and sandals. Naruto knew his friend, Grover, had a crush on the girl, but wasn't making any moves due to his shy and somewhat cowardly nature. Grover didn't think he was good enough for the wood nymph, but Naruto thought he knew the girl shared his feelings. However, Naruto was not a son of Aphrodite, so he was not well versed in helping them get together.

"Ok, we're ready." Juniper stated, making the blond nod. Said blond was spiky haired that confused his siblings as none of them had that type of hair. In addition to that, he wore the camp's orange T-shirt since it was his favorite color. Over that, he wore a faded blue hoodie that was half zipped with the hood up. Next was a pair of blue jeans and a pair of black tennis shoes. And another off feature about him were his eyes. Sure they were stormy like his siblings, but his were blue while other were grey.

"Let's do this." He said calmly with anticipation in his eyes. Juniper nodded while the other girl on the nearby rock looked up briefly and nodded that she was 'paying attention' and then went back to checking her nails.

"Start!" Juniper shouted, which alerted her friends as well.

Naruto shot off through the forest, heading towards the clearing that held the landmark, Zeus' Fist, which in his and everyone else opinion looked like a pile of deer dropping. Reaching into his hoodie's pockets, he took out two key chains shaped as pistols, which then enlarged into real life six shooter pistols. He, of course, made this with the help of Charles Beckendorf, a son of Hephaestus.

As the first target materialized next to a tree and he shot it down with a bullseye and then as he looked for another target, he thought about his choice in weapons. Back when he and his twin sister, Annabeth, were looking for places to stay and hiding from monsters that wanted to eat them, he knew that at the tender age of 7, he was too weak to fend them off normally. Luckily, he had an interest in sling shots and often used that as a distraction for him and his sister to get away safely.

Two more targets were shot down as they hung from the trees at this point and he let his anger fall though as he sharply spotted two more and harshly shot them apart. The reason for his anger was the trip it took to get to camp half blood. At the time, he and his sister were picked up by two other people like them, demi-gods apparently, One was the now traitor Luke, A son of Hermes, someone his sister had a crush on and wanted to turn him good again…..like that would happen. The other was a crush of his own at the time, Thalia, a daughter of Zues. And finally their Satry friend/protector, Gover. They had become like family in their long trip.

Along the way, they came across a few TVs that showed off cartoons….old violent cartoons called the Loony Toons. That was where he got the idea to instead try and use guns instead of a sling shot. They were much more effective after all. However, there was a problem. As a child, he couldn't go and buy a gun; the shop owners all laughed at him and told him to go away. So he….stole a toy gun, they were on the run and had no money, and on their trip, he slowly modified it to work like a real gun. Of course he just found rusty nails and screws as ammo, but they did their job for the most part.

A tear escaped his eyes, causing him to not hit the bulls-eye this time, but the target was shattered nonetheless. In their final moments with Thalia, who told them to run the final stretch to camp while she held the massive amount of monsters that had followed them, Naruto had given her that gun to help protect his crush turned older sister figure that he respected greatly. She had smiled at him sadly as she took the gun in her shielded hand and then gave him a final hug.

Naruto ran through the targets with ease as he made his way into the clearing. He had blamed himself when Thalia died and was turned into a tree by her father out of pity. It was irritating, but he had finally accepted it that deep down, he couldn't have helped her more that he already had. He had missed her deeply though but he was beyond happy that she was alive thanks to the Golden Fleece.

Naruto jumped up high as a target appeared high in the trees. He shot it and kept on going until he landed on the nearby landmark. Looking up at it, he thought, I made a promise Lord Zeus, that I would not let anymore friends die. That is a promise and I swore on the River Styx, so I must not fail when the time comes.

"Hey idiot! Watch out!" came the voice of the girl watching him in a panic.

"Wha- Whoa!" Naruto shouted as he dodged to the left as a giant claw of a particularly large scorpion monster tried taking his head off. Damn, how could I forget these are stocked in the forest. I am pretty deep in it after all. No matter, I need to take this down quick.

Naruto ducked another claw swipe and dropped his six shooter pistols as they would do little to pierce this monster's thick shell. My greatest advantage against these things are their horrible vision during the day, so I need distance, which I am well versed in.

The blond did a backflip just as the tail of the scorpion monster came down to try and impale him. Backing up a bit more, he glared at the creature. Reaching into his hoodie's pockets once more, took out two more keychains, this time in the shape of a couple of Glocks. They were perfect for this situation as the bullets could hit the eyes if need be.

Taking a few shots, he did manage to shoot an eye out, enraging the beast and making it stupid.

Before he could think up a plan on the fly to take care of the other eye and then the beast itself, he was struck with a sudden pain in his head that he was all too familiar with. You see, while he may have been born in this world, he often got visions of his past self, it just decided to come at the most inopportune time. In the middle of a freaking fight for his life!

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The past Naruto was fighting another monster, but this one the current Naruto knew to be as Gaara of the Sand, someone who would later become a friend to the past blond. But why was he getting a memory he already knew of?!

The scene played out like it did before, with his past self getting the shit beat out of him by sand shuriken. Then, Naruto pulled off a strange combination of shadow clones for him to land a blow that was basically an enema, with his kunai getting stuck in Gaara's sand armor near the rectal area. Then, it exploded, breaking apart the sand armor with ease, making it a lot easier for the past Naruto to manhandle Gaara for a short time with his multitude of clones.

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With that, the strange and random memory vision stopped, leaving Naruto to ponder what the vision was telling him. If he was correct in his assumption, he thought it was telling him to find the weak point of his opponent and then preform a similar experience. Yes, he had an exploding tag in his pocket, how could he not figure out how to make one from all the random memories of his past self he got. They were used everywhere by everyone at some point in them.

If that was what he had to do, then fine, but this creature's weak point was not near its rectum, but on its face. Sure, there were always chinks in the armor of scorpion monsters, but swords were used to get at that weakness. Wait, he was just in a fight, right? Then where-?

"Oh you idiot, this is why Chiron worries his ass off about you!" the female voice that warned him about the scorpion sounded again before he was tackled out of the way as a tail strike cut into the ground where he was just at.

Looking to the girl on top of him, who was now gripping about the dirt on her new shirt. This girl was Drew Tanaka, an obvious daughter of Aphrodite. She, of course, wore the orange camp t-shirt that was oddly tucked in her short….shorts with a pink belt on along with stylish shoes…that were now dirty as well. In addition to her tight clothing, she wore a lot of jewelry, mostly bracelets on her arms and a pearl necklace. Being a daughter of the love goddess, she was naturally very beautiful. She, as her name depicts, was an Asian girl and around her eyes, she wore pink eye liner. Her hair, which was still in pristine condition, was dark black in a ringlet style. She also had sparkling brown eyes.

Shaking himself out of his observation, Naruto noticed that the Scorpion was coming for them again and grimaced. When the monster reared its tail back to prepare for another strike, Naruto roughly grabbed Drew by the shoulder and they rolled out of the way, with Naruto on top this time.

Drew smirked up at him and said, "Oh? Finally making your move on me, hon?"

Naruto glared down at his friend before roughly picking the both of them up. "Listen, I have a plan now, but I need you to distract it for me. Use that charmspeak of yours."

Drew looked a little panicked, she had forgotten momentarily that the Scorpion was there. "Alright I guess, but you know I hate fighting."

"Tch, I said distract it, not fight it." Naruto replied in an annoyed tone. "I can handle the fighting."

"Fine, but you own me." Drew pouted before she smiled at the creature. "Come big boy, focus on me, but please don't attack me sweetie?" The monster stared at the daughter of Aphrodite for a moment, creeping her out before it let out a strange sound. She took it as an affirmation. "Now sit down and be a good boy." It just plopped down, its legs flatting out.

Naruto sweat dropped a bit at that. He knew charmspeak was powerful, but damn, this girl made it look easy. Shaking his head, he reached inside his hoodie again and took out a single piece of paper and then ran at the beast from behind. Jumping over its tail, he managed to slap the tag right between its eyes.

With a smirk, he backflipped and landed next to Drew. "In the immortal words of a nut job in my memories, Art is an EXPLOSION!" a sudden look of madness took over his face as he forced the tag to explode, blasting the face off the creature, which in turn, made it cry out in terrible pain. Still, with that look and giant smile on his face, he pointed his glocks at the creature and proceeded to shoot it till it finally died. The bullets bypassed the severely weakened shell of the creature, tearing it asunder.

But….he didn't stop shooting until all the bullets had been used up. When the telltale 'click click' sounded, he went back to normal and looked at his guns in confusion before looking toward the girl next to him to see she had a fearful look on her face. He looked down in shame, angry with himself. "It happened again, didn't it?"

"Y-yeah." Drew replied weakly. "It's really scary, ya know?"

"I'm sorry." Naruto replied quietly, a look of anguish on his face.

Drew took a calming breath before smiling at him, lifting his chin up to so he could see that she wasn't scared anymore. "Don't think too much on it, I know you can't control it that well yet. Scary it may be, but I know you. You'll bounce back and be you again. Besides, you are not scaring me off."

"Heh, figures." Naruto replied with a sad smile. "But thank you Drew."

"Don't mention it." Drew replied with a smile before that turned into a deadpanned look. "Like ever."

The blond nodded and they began their trek back into camp while Naruto took out a small notebook out of one of his pockets, he didn't even bother to pick up his spoil of war. Juniper noticed this and quickly took it and subtly giving it to Drew and then left. He flipped through pages of sketches, diagrams, and heavily worded texts. He had detailed every single memory that came to him, whether big or small. The memories were sporadic, jumping from early points of his life to his later years, without rhyme or reason.

He had gathered enough info to try and use ninja like moves now and then and he only succeeded because he had done some research on gods and demi gods. They too used energy much like chakra, but different at the same time. Naruto had dubbed it as Divine Chakra. It was how they use their domains. They used their energy to manipulate them to do their bidding. However, demi gods could use that energy, but they barely ever used it, that was why they didn't become that strong. Naruto was different. With research, he found that even Demi-Gods possessed Chakra and to a point, even Divine Chakra. He found that he could use both and trained in them to use them effectively. The results were interesting to say the least but that was for another time.

Drew noticed the book and saw that he went to a specific section of his early life….or should she say, his other self's early life. Man, that was just confusing. "What memory was it this time?"

"My battle against Gaara, but this time it only focused on me using that enema explosion." Naruto answered.

Drew burst out laughing at that. "Man, your past self was such a dork! Using a variation of a jutsu that was used on him!"

"Indeed, but the attack did have some merit and it translated into this battle we just had, which I must ask, flirting during battle, really?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow, not truly understand the need for it.

Drew blushed angrily. "Oh come on you brain, I am a daughter of Aphrodite. It is my specialty, so sue me." She then got a coy smirk on her face. "But one of these days, I will capture you."

Naruto snorted as he made a note in his book. "Not likely." He replied. Now, one might find it VERY odd that Naruto was even friends with a girl like Drew. In fact, a lot of people saw her as kind of a bitch, who uses men and then breaks their hearts for fun. After all, as a daughter of Aphrodite, that was what she thought she had to do. Make boys fall hard for her and then break their hearts.

But no matter what she did, her charms and her charmspeak could not get through to Naruto and that frustrated her to no end. However, she often wondered if it was because of want happened earlier….The Madness. No, that couldn't be it. He was just dense in the area of love and lust.

So she let him befriend her. She at first thought he was just another nerdy son of Athena, but he was much more than that. He was a good person. He even told her that Love was not how she views it and he was determined to show her what it truly was. Was that why he rejected her offers? No, he just didn't want her to break his heart and be done with him. Of course, at first, she was planning on doing that to this challenge, but he wormed his way into her life with his kindness and they became friends, accepting the good and the bad each had. Even with his own denseness towards love thrown at him, he was pretty knowledgeable, as expected of a son of Athena.

She looked at her friend with smile and said, "So other than the incident, how do you think you did, hon?"

"Despite the incident near the end, I feel that my training was sufficient." Naruto nonchalantly as he continued to look over his book. Like a natural son of Athena, he usually got engrossed in his work…ie, reading. "I know you feel that it is a waste of time, but you should continue training with your special weapon. You can't rely on the camp to keep you protected forever. Especially after what happened when Tantalus was here."

Drew scowled at that name. "Yeah, but that jerk is gone and Chiron is back, so what is the big deal?"

"You know that is just a crutch right. With possible war on the horizon because of Luke, Chiron might not be able to protect all of us." Naruto replied as he put his notebook away. Of course, Naruto would be the realist here.

"Fine." Drew sighed, "But I still say that weapon makes me look like a sadist." She paused to smirk at her friend, "Or do you like that sort of thing? BDSM? We could always try it."

Naruto stared at her for a moment before shaking his head with a strained smile. "Seriously?"

"Like I said, quit trying to fight it." Drew nonchalantly replied with a shit eating grin and her hands behind her back. The two friends were usually like this that it was common place and Naruto was practically used to her quips. He wasn't embarrassed anymore.

"But seriously." Drew started up again with a serious face. "You need to be more careful in battle; these random memories could get you seriously hurt or killed one of these days and then Clarisse will kill me because I was watching you!"

"Oh come on, my aunt is not that bad." Naruto replied waving it off until his friend just stared at him. "Ok she is a bit overprotective of me."

"A BIT?" Drew raged. "That is an understatement! She dragged you on her quest for the fleece and treated you like a little kid. She may have trained you to be a better warrior, but damn, it is a bit much."

"She just cares too much." Naruto replied with an uncomfortable shrug. He loved his aunt, but while she was a bit rough around the edges, she was very protective of him….and Annabeth to a point. Maybe it was because he actually accepted the fact that is grandfather was Ares. That….or the Madess.

"Damn right!" Clarisse replied, coming up behind them with a smirk, scaring the two and making them realize that they were back in the main area of camp, near the big house. She then narrowed her eyes on the two. "You two weren't doing anything bad in the forest, where you?"

Naruto sighed, "Nope, I was training myself on the running target practice with Drew observing. I also had Juniper and her friends help me a bit."

"Which I had to then save your butt from a scorpion because you were distracted. Twice!" Drew added with a smirk. She enjoyed making Naruto suffer sometimes. This was one of them. "Oh and you just left your spoil back there, so here." She said as she took out a bullet….made from the poison gland of the beast.

Clarisse shook her head as she watched Naruto take the bullet, muttering about having more back at the cabin. "I thought I taught you better than to be distracted like that on the battlefield." She said while crossing her arms in a menacing way, making Naruto very nervous. "Or maybe it is your company?"

"Hey, don't look at me. He sure wasn't." Drew replied with a pout.

Clarisse's eyebrow twitched in annoyance. "Fine, whatever. Naruto, Chiron sent me to get you, seems that you have a quest."

Both teens' eyes widened at that as the stared at the older girl. Finally, Naruto spoke, "Well….Annie is not going to be happy about that."

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…A few minutes earlier on Mount Olympus…

Zeus was abnormally quiet as the other gods and goddesses chatted with each other. This of course was noticed by his wife, Hera and his two brothers, Poseidon and Hades.

Finally, Poseidon spoke, wanting to know what the heck was with his brother. "Zeus, what is eating at you? You've been quiet this whole time and you are the one who called us all here."

"I was enjoying the quiet, why did you have to get his attention." Hades complained.

If Zeus had been annoyed by that comment, he didn't show it and that managed to worry the eldest of the gods. Zeus calmly looked to his court and family and sighed. "I was thinking about recent events. I am worried."

"Oh come on pops, why are you worried?" Apollo asked in a joking manner with his sister looked at her father in concern.

"Heh, I find it humorous that you, the 'all mighty god of all of us', are worried." Poseidon joked as well.

"Dear, what is it?" Hera asked, sending a glare to her brother and step-son.

Zeus sighed. "Our father has been proven to be manipulating recent events in his favor. What, with him darkening the mind of a Child of Hermes." At that, the Messenger God gained a sad look. "And him orchestrating my daughter's return along with Poseidon's son being around, I feel that we….no…I might have doomed us all."

"Wait, I am the doom and gloom brother, what the heck are you going on about?" Hades asked, paying more attention now.

"Our oath on the River Styx has been broken and we all know bad things come from that. I feel that it choose this situation. The return of our father and the war he will bring upon us all."

Poseidon grew serious. "So our mistakes are coming to bit us in the ass. This is not good, even you have to admit that our strength has diminished over the years."

Zeus' fist clenched in anger. "I know that, and I am to blame for our current situation. I had another child and then you having another demi god child did not help our situation! However, I doubt the presence of Hades' children that are stuck in the Lotus Hotel have contributed this this problem." Hades looked shocked that his brother knew about his decades old children. "Don't give me that look brother, I am the King of the Gods, of course I have known about that, but do not fear, I hold no ill will towards them."

"I can't say the same for my daughter though. She will not take kindly to you cheating on her again. Still can't believe you took her from me and she is not enough for you." Demeter replied as she glared at her brother.

"Sister, now is not the time for this age old argument!" Zeus snapped at his cereal obsessed sister. "We must come to a solution."

"You all know I love war, but fighting against him again is going to be tough." Ares replied seriously. After all he was manipulated by his grandfather as well.

"True, but I would rather just leave the work of it to our brats." Dionysus replied boredly.

"They will have their own part in this I am sure of that since that Luke kid is being used by our father." Zeus replied sadly as he saw his son flinch at the name. "We must prepare for when he does rise."

"I agree." A soft voice replied from the hearth in the middle of the room. What looked to be a young girl stroking the flames. She was Hestia, the kindest Goddess amongst them. "But we have another problem. When our father does rise, he will inevitably search for his weapon, that very weapon you three used to chop him to pieces with."

Hestia was of course talking about Cronos' legendary scythe, made out of one of Gaia's strongest metals, adamantium.

Zeus sighed, how could he have forgotten about that? Oh right, after they had hidden it away, they asked Hecate to wipe their minds of the location. "Then I suggest we have one of our kids to go and find it."

"That's a fool's errand and you know that. We could have hidden that anywhere. I doubt a demi god would find it all that quickly. In fact, it could take years!" Poseidon yelled.

"Well, we probably have a few years before Luke revives gramps." Apollo replied with a shrug.

"You are not helping!" Poseidon growled. "Also, it could be more perilous than any other quest we have given them. If Zeus says we have gotten weaker over the years, what does that say about our children?!"

"He has a good point." Hephaestus replied.

"I could take the Hunt on a search for it." Artemis offered. After all, why have just one hero do the job when a whole group of highly trained hunters was capable of the task.

Zeus rubbed his temple in annoyance. "Ugh, I am afraid that won't work. We worked with the other pantheons to hide the damn weapon and…well, as Children of Cronos, we sort of made it so only a demi god could find and retrieve it."

"Ugh, that was the stupidest thing we could have done." Poseidon replied. "And we only have enough memory of the events to provide clues…I think I wrote it down somewhere."

"At the time, we thought it was a good idea seeing as we never thought our father would have a chance at returning. I mean, look at all the time that has passed." Hades replied gruffly.

"Might I suggest a demi god then?" Athena finally spoke up, having deduced the perfect person for the job. Zeus nodded and smiled at his daughter. Both of his daughters were brilliant in their own ways and he was very happy about it. "I suggest one of my own, Naruto Chase."

"HA! I like that kid, but my daughter babies him." Ares replied with a laugh. "Maybe now I can give him those weapons…"

"In any case, I feel that he is the one best suited for this quest. He is a very smart son of mine and he has cracked the code as it were to getting stronger as a demi god." Athena replied.

"Heh, I bet that is in part to the boy's strange birth." Poseidon muttered.

Athena glared at the Sea God before thinking back on the boy's birth. Originally, she was only supposed to have Annabeth from Frederick, but then that Shinto Goddess intervened and asked for a favor. That favor lead to Naruto being born alongside Annabeth…not that she was complaining. Maybe this was planned. What was really going on? She would have to look more into that later.

Zeus smiled at Athena's choice. It was a good one as he liked the boy. Since he himself was not allowed to have children anymore and Artemis wasn't going to give him any grandchildren, he looked to Athena's brain children for comfort. They were great kids and he like how different Naruto was compared to his siblings. "Very well, I agree, but I do have concerns. Will his condition prevent him from succeeding in this quest?"

Athena's face darkened at that. The Madness was a rare product in her children. While most had the Fatal Flaw of Pride like her, some had Madness and most lost themselves to it. Naruto, however, seemed to be dealing with it well like his strange memories of his past self, a product of that Shinto Goddess no doubt. But….was the Madness…was it from her, Ares, or that Shinto Goddess? It was very concerning. "No, he should be fine and I have complete faith in him."

"Very well, Dionysus, return to your camp and inform young Naruto of his quest. I am sure the Oracle can point him in the right direction. We'll talk more about our problem later." Zeus replied as he dismissed them.

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Ok all, that was the first chapter. I hope you all liked it and please tell me what you think. Yes, I know A LOT of people hate Drew, but like I said, Naruto does want to prove to her that her version of love is wrong. That led to a weird friendship between the two. Yes, she is a potential love interest. Originally, I wanted him to be with Zoe for….reasons. Mostly, how they interacted when Naruto was younger. A brother/sister relationship that could have evolved down the road, but I thought better of it as I have a better plan for her down the line. Plus, she won't die in this fic. Thalia was another potential pairing, but I thought better of that one too along with Clarisse.

So then, you are probably asking WHO could be the other candidates for a potential pairing for this Naruto? Well, due to how the story will go, I have found 3 others in addition to Drew. One is the other daughter of Aphrodite in Piper, but I kind of do like the Piper and Jason pairing. Another is Reyna herself due to a story arc where Hera has Naruto do something for her, plus note that arc will be kind of long. Finally is Hazel…this time in a favor to Hades.

So yeah, Drew, Piper, Reyna, and Hazel are the potential pairings. I don't really want to do a harem this time as it is counterproductive to the story. Oh! I just forgot, I do have another, but that pertains to Norse Mythology…and Marvel. Oh well. I'll just set up a poll to see what you guys' opinions are.

Also, I will trying to get the second chapter out this weekend….right after I get all four of my wisdom teeth ripped out of my skull.

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