----------------------------------------------------------------------------------In the realm of the Greek gods----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Demon/Monster Talking"

'Demon/Monster Thinking"

"God/Goddess Talking"

'God/Goddess Thinking'

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A/N: I know, I know, I said I was only going to do one story. I just read the last book of the Percy Jackson series...and it sucked (for me anyway). The book may have sucked, but I just love the premise so much, I can't help myself.

I'll admit, I'm getting board with my other story. Its just so repetitive. I try to be unique, but there are just so many Naruto/Bleach stories and many of them are SO good. It's impossible to be unique, and its hard to live up to the standards so many other written have laid down. The anime/anime xovers get old to write after awhile, and I really needed something else to work on. I really am sorry... It just that there are hundreds of Naruto/Bleach xovers, and frankly, I can't think of a plot that hasn't been done about a million times before.

I do hope you enjoy, hopefully I'll be able to stay inspired for the duration of this story. If you haven't read the Percy Jackson series, I heavily recommend it, it is very good (at least, the general plot is, some of the books leave much to be desired).

I own neither Naruto or Percy Jackson and the Olympians

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Chapter 1 : Exit, entry, and all the jazz.

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Yellow, slitted eyes looked around their surroundings. Bodies were strewn about, and the stench of blood and death permeated through the air. The figure, to whom the yellow eyes belonged was looking about, eyes shedding no tears at the horrible sight, they no longer held the capability to do so, long ago did they dry out. His eyes closed for a couple of seconds in a long blink, and when they re-opened, cerulean orbs that looked dead to the world took the place of the yellow eyes.

"Report" he said firmly in a tone that left no room for questioning, His crimson cloak fluttering slighting in the breeze.

Beside him, a man with gravity defying hair wearing a set of navy blue pants and a greet vest with a headband over an eye spoke up. "Our forces sustained heavy losses. With assistance of Kumo reinforcements, the Hachibi no Kyogyu was successfully detained and destroyed."

"How many" the blue eyed man interrupted hoarsely "How many had to sacrifice themselves for the destruction ritual?"

"Two" the silver eyed man answered solemnly "The Raikage insisted he be the one to do it. He and another Kumo nin named Samui preformed it themselves. By releasing all eight of the celestial gates, their chakra was enough to utilize the jutsu."

"They did it themselves?" the blue eyed man mused, surprised, raising a blond eyebrow. "How could only two people power the ritual I wonder?"

"Will power" the silver eyed nin solemnly answered as though the question was directed towards him. "They did it for their country, their brother, their mentor. They squeezed every last ounce of chakra out of their body. I shudder to think of the amount of pain it would involve, every cell in their body would have been ripped apart by the force of their chakra. A truly terrifying death."

"Will power eh?" the blue eyes, blond haired man said, wistfully looking at the bloody moon in the air. Oh how he loved the look of the moon, no matter what happened, it was always peaceful looking. It seemed to soothe his soul. "Yes, it was a worthy death wasn't it? A death fitting for a kage."

"Kakashi" the blond haired man spoke out suddenly, after a few seconds pause. "Gather the remaining forces, I want every last shinobi that can fight. We're going to end this war."

The silver haired nin's single eye widened slightly as he heard this proclamation, though he quickly gathered his wits. "Yes" he said quickly, bowing "Hokage-sama" he finished, vanishing in a poof of smoke, leaving the gruesome scene behind him and leaving his kage alone, pondering how the next confrontation would go.

The blond haired Hokage gave a sigh as he looked towards the battlefield, littered with bodies. Crows and other scavengers had found them already, and the reek of death and decay was now accompanied by the sounds of flesh being ripped apart. 'Shino was here I believe' he thought to himself, thinking of the bug user andfellow member of his graduating class. 'He could have died and I can't even shed a tear over it. Dad, it this what you meant when you said that as long as shinobi existed, peace could never be achieved?' he thought, recalling the conversation he had with his father in his mind. 'Is this the cycle of violence you knew would always happen as long as shinobi exist?'

He was the last of the kage level shinobi. Garra had perished in an epic battle against the Ichibi no Shukaku. The battle had changed the makeup of the desert itself, whole mountains of sand were moved, and in the end, the Kazekage had defeated the demon that had plague his existence for so long. The entire area of Suna had to be evacuated after the battle. The intense chakra of both Garra and Shukaku still lingered in the desert, trapped in the sand. The chakra caused intense, non relenting sandstorms to occur and in the end, the area was deemed uninhabitable.

The Tsuchikage, Mizukage, Tsunade, even the old war hawk Danzo each played their part. Now that the Raikage had been killed. He was the last of the shinibi at kage level in the alliance. It was up to him to defeat Madara, the final member of Akatsuki. It was his duty, to his people, his allies, his comrades, and himself. His destiny was unfolding before him.

He wasn't really sure how long he stood there. Watching the morbid scene of the scavengers picking apart the dead bodies. They had long ago lost the ability to field enough manpower to bury them and using Katon jutsu wasn't really an opinion either. You never knew when the next battle would take place, chakra had to be preserved, plus the sheer mass of bodies was just to great. The man watched as a raven swooped down, and plucked a brown eye out of some random Konoha chuunin and as it flew off.

"This will end" he whispered as he clenched his fists tightly, knuckles turning white from the pressure. "One way or another" he promised himself.

"Naruto" a hoarse female voice spoke up from behind him. Turning around, the blond haired, blue eyed ninja now known as Naruto caught sight of a head of sandy blond hair.

"Temari" he acknowledged with a slight nod. "Have you all gathered?" he asked, more of a formality than anything else. He was the last kage, there was no one who would oppose him.

"Yes" the women, Temari answered with a nod and saddened eyes. They had been that way ever since the death of Garra. That, added with Kankuro, who had perished stalling for time while Suna forces had engaged the Sanbi no Kyodaigame had almost broken her. "The remnants of the Suna forces are ready, as are all the others. The Konoha and Kumo forces have combined, to many were lost in the last battle to form seperate battle groups."

"Good" Naruto said, closing his eyes and taking a deep breach, almost wincing at the palpable taste of death. Tell them to begin marching, we're going to re-take Konoha."

--(Two Days, Fourteen Hours, Twenty Five Minutes and Thirteen Seconds Later)--

Naruto's labored breaths echoed throughout the cave like area he was in. The battle wasn't going to well for himself. The remaining alliance forces clashed with the mercenaries and missing-nin Madara has recruited a little over two hours ago. He himself had dispatched dozens of them before he had been forced to engage Madara himself, who had finally showed his face at the battleground after his forces began to get pushed back. That was how he now found himself in the catacombs underneath the Hokage monument fighting for his life.

"You have been a pain in my side for far to long" the old Uchiha hissed, his aged features and single sharingan eye standing out. He had lost his orange spiral mask fairly early on in the battle, a casualty of a rasengan that had just missed.

"I could say the same" Naruto remarked, looking rather haggard. His clothing was shredded, his hair was in tangles, and his eyes were bloodshot. He was utterly exhausted. The continuous fighting of the war had left him in less than ideal shape, added to that two days of marching and then a couple more hours of solid combat...well, you can imagine.

'This isn't looking to good' he thought to himself dryly and with a sigh 'I didn't really want to have to use this jutsu'

"Whats the long face?" Madara sneered at the blond, loathing clearly audible, "Finally realize your fighting a hopeless battle?"

"I suppose you could say that" Naruto replied, almost sounding amused as he steeled himself for what he was going to do next "I guess I was pretty foolish to think I could leave this battle alive."

Madara began to laugh insanely as he heard this "So, you truly realize the despair you found yourself in?" he asked with glee "How hopeless your situation is."

"Not really" Naruto replied sarcastically, glad Madara had taken the time to boast. It took a lot of time to gather the nature chakra he needed for the jutsu, hell, he didn't even know if this was going to work.

Placing his hands in a ram seal, he activated seal he as been working on for quite awhile.

"Gah" Madara screamed as he felt his body go numb. "What did you do" he screamed, finding only his mouth able to move.

"Its a seal I placed around you." Naruto replied, approaching the frozen man making some hand seals. "It was designed by my father to freeze the nervous system. I was lucky you didn't notice the seal array, otherwise, I have no doubt you would have been able to avoid it. I didn't actually believe in the power of your sharingan, it far exceeds anything Itachi or Sasuke could have obtained. Because of this, I think there is only one way to kill you."

Finally reaching the last of the Uchiha clan, he placed his hands on his shoulders, and screamed out, "Shiki Fuujin" while spiking his chakra, combined with his nature chakra to the max.

"I knew this would be difficult" Naruto screamed as pain racked his entire body "Your chakra is unlike anything I've ever felt. Even with my nature chakra, it is difficult to contain it. Its live a raging ocean, every time I think I have it under control, it rebels"

"This won't work" Madara screamed, fear lacing his body as he felt his chakra weaken, and his soul leave his body. He felt himself go ashen as he saw the figure of a being thought of as a myth. The god of death, the Shinigami appear in front of him.

"You're truly foolish then!" Naruto yelled with a last ditch effort, his chakra spiking to such a degree that every living being in the elemental countries could feel it. He felt all resistance break, and he watched in morbid fascination as as the dark, sickly purple colored soul of the most evil man in history leave its body.

"Its the end" he muttered as he felt his vision begin to blacken. "It seems your eyes weren't able to see everything after all, Madara..." 'The legacy, the destiny of the Hokage has been fulfilled. The Uchiha clan is no more, and all of us shall rest of the Shinigami's stomach as a result. Curse them, curse those damn Uchiha.' Were his final thoughts as he felt his body go limp and vision blacken, unable to hear the cries of his comrades as they still battled on, fighting to the death and unable to see the world, he helped save.

The heavens poured down rain that day. The alliance had won. It had cost so much, but they had won. A new age was entered, and the time of shinobi soon ended. The harbinger of change had brought peace to the ninja world. By destroying the ninja system.

--(Somewhere else)--

All Naruto could see was blackness, unable to move his body. Screams of tortured souls rang out throughout his eyes.

'Where is Madara' he wondered, confused and more than a little bit weary. Something wasn't adding up here. 'It seems like what the Shinigami stomach should be, but shouldn't I be fighting against Madara for all eternity? That's what the thrice damn contract said.'

"You have arrived I see" a dark, powerful voice spoke up, the sound echoing throughout the area.

"Who are you?" Naruto questioned, not trying to sound as freaked out as he felt.

"I am the being you humans have taken it upon yourselves to call, Shinigami." the voice replied in the same powerful voice. It was impossible to tell if there was any emotion present. The voice sounded darker and older than even the Kyuubi no Kitsune.

"S-Shinigami" Naruto said, not being able to stop himself from stuttering. "Why aren't I fighting Madara?" he blurted out, trying to sound polite...and failing miserably.

The voice chuckled slightly, though if anything it freaked out the blond haired kage even more. "You humans are always impatient" it said "though your lifespans are so short, I guess its understandable. As for your question, you are not fighting Madara because there are several...unique circumstances around you"

"Unique circumstances?" Naruto questioned, raising an eyebrow. "Like what?" he asked bluntly, not bothering to care he was insulting a deity. What worse could he do to him than the eternal torture he had prepared himself for anyway?

"For one" the voice spoke out patiently "You have already been touched by my power, such an occurrence has never happened before. Not only that, the fates have taken quite an interest in you, I'm afraid I cannot simply take your soul." the voice finished, almost sounding sad at the end.

"B-But the contract said a soul for a soul" Naruto spluttered. It wasn't like he wanted to die, but once you psych yourself up for it, well this was just plain weird. If it wasn't for the fact that his whole body hurt, he would have thought he was dreaming. Well, that and the fact that not even he could dream up something this bizarre.

"Yes, that is correct" the voice, err...Shinigami said. "Luckily, you happen to have two souls in your body. The Kyuubi no Kitsune gave me a complete set."

"A complete set?.." Naruto trailed off in shock, hoping against hope it wasn't what he was thinking.

"Yes" the Shinigami replied. "The Biju make such nice pets" it mused. "Anyway" it said, quickly changing the subject. It could see the image of the Biji as housepets disturbed his guest and if their was one the the Shinigami was, it was a polite host. "As you are subject to the fates, blah blah blah, you must remain alive." here the voice paused, as if unsure how to continue "Here is the hard part, I'm not really sure what to do with you. You cannot return to the elemental countries, that much I am certain of, yet you cannot die. What to do, what to do" it finished humming, deep in thought.

Now, Naruto was panicking. It wasn't the fact that he could only see black, that he could hear the screams of tortured souls, or even that he was in the presence of the Shinigami. Granted, those didn't help, but they were not the main cause of his troubles. No, it was the fact that the Shinigami sounded...well normal, for now at least.

"Oh?" The dark voice of the Shinigami said, as though it was listening to someone whispering in his ear. "Yes..." he hummed, apparently in deep thought "That would work out wouldn't it?"

"I imagine it would..." A serene, decidedly female voice spoke up, interrupting the Shinigami.

"Amaterasu" the Shinigami growled out. Naruto could just imagine his eyes narrowing in anger, though he still couldn't see anything. "Why have you entered my realm?" it asked, as if forcing his voice to remain polite, though still grounded out in a channeling tone.

"Why, to see the human for myself of course" The female voice replied, still in the same calm voice. "Uzumaki Naurto." It said, focusing all of its attention on the blond Hokage. Naruto could almost feel a set of eyes on him, looking int his soul "I must thank you" the voice said slowly, after a few moments of silence. "The Uchiha class was a stain upon the world, a stain we should not have let live on the Earth."

"We've been through this a thousand times" the Shinigami interrupted, seemingly bored. "The accord we passed over fifteen thousands years ago stops us from interfering in the mortal world" he explained as if talking to a child. "You were the one who pushed for the accord in the first place."

"Others shouldn't have been forced to suffer for HIS mistake" the female voice argued. "Giving those Uchiha a portion of his power, how could we have let that happen" she screamed back.

"ENOUGH!" the Shinigami said firmly. As he said this, Naruto gave a huge start and he could have swore he saw the darkness around him begin to move in excitement. "You dare intrude upon my realm and cause such a ruckus?" The Shinigami asked, almost hissing at the end and throwing dark energy around like crazy.

After this outburst the female voice became quiet, as if unable to muster of the courage to counter back. She knew better than anyone else who held the power in the current situation. Intruding upon another god's realm stripped her of much of her power.

"Now, You" the Shinigami said, rounding on the blond Hokage who was trying his best to remain inconspicuous. "For some damn, unknown reason the fates have decreed you must live. Not only that, they have ordered me to acted as a damn messenger. ME! The god of death." he said, almost sounding like a rant at the end.

"Errr...okay" Naruto replied, unsure of what to say. At the Shinigami's latest outburst he felt as if all the air had been sucked out of his lungs. The amount of power he released even if only mildly annoyed was incredible.

"I won't go into to many details, your puny human brain may explode." The Shinigami began in a bored tone. In truth, he didn't even know half of what he was talking about, but what the fates wanted they got, that much he knew. "And don't interrupt" he added, seeing the blond begin to open his mouth. "In the beginning, when the Creator well, created the universe he divided up realms and gave control of those realms to their gods. As he did this, the Creator also created three other beings aside from the various gods. They are the fates, the controllers of destiny. They oversee the entire universe, and for some reason, they have decreed you cannot die here and now. They have decided that you will be transferred to a new realm to live out the rest of your days." he finished rather bluntly. "Quite frankly, I don't care. Sure beats me trying to figure out what to do with your puny soul."

"Naruto" the female voice spoke up softly. "This is a truly unique event. The fates have spoken to myself as well, this is the first time that such an event has happened. While I am grateful for your destruction of the Uchiha clan, that is not the entire reason I came here." Ignoring the response of "Eh? Really?" from the Shinigami, she continued. "The fates operate in strange ways and they try to hide as much information as possible. What they did tell me was this, your elemental ninjutsu will no longer work. What you may not know, is that the elemental gods, such as myself, allow you humans to preform your jutsu by giving use chakra as a sacrifice. Apparently the gods where you will be going are not so generous." she finished, somewhat lamely.

"This is all a dream" Naruto muttered to himself, eyes bearing a lost look. "This is totally not happening." As those words left his mouth the most concentrated burst of killer intent he had ever experienced hit him head on.

"Such an ungrateful child" The Shinigami said in a dark face and Naruto could almost feel the gaze of narrowed eyes on himself. "I truly have no idea why the fates have chosen you as their chosen, and frankly I don't care, but you will NEVER ignore us." he said as more dark energy was gathered around the blond. "Is that understood human?"

"Y-Yes" Naruto stuttered, sweat pouring down his face as his whole body shoot from unbridled fear. He had always been a brave child, someone who was willing to take on the world. This was something he never experienced. Zabuza, Orochimaru, Itachi, Pein, Sasuke, even Madara never made him think twice. This was something completed different. It was then he truly realized who he was facing. Zabuza has fancied himself a demon, Orochimaru an immortal, Pein and Madara even thought as themselves as some sort of pseudo-gods. This was different, these were heavenly figures. These were the famed figures of all the legends across the the Elemental Nations. These were true gods, and next to them, he was nothing. He no longer had friends and family. Never again would he see his comrades and he would never see who had lived, and who had died.

"I understand" he said in a small voice, unlike anything that he had uttered in his life. Even through the fourth great shinobi war, never before did he sound as defeated as he did now.

"HAHA" the Shinigami laughed as he heard the defeated voice of the blond. "That's right little human fear the despair. You are a failure. I wonder what kind of fools would follow you into battle, they must have been even greater fools! I remember though, It took longer to break the your peers. The other Hokages even tried to fight me, as futile as it was. They lost of course, and I ate them. I took great pleasure eating your father in particular, I even think he was still half alive when that old geezer came here with two others. Then there was that other blond, what was her name again..ahh yes, Tsunade. It was rather...fun breaking her, she even came with the pink haired girl as an appetizer" he finished with a gleeful laugh.

As he heard this, Naruto clenched his fists so hard they began to bleed. "Shut up" he said, head facing down. "You can ridicule me however you want, but never talk about my fellow Hokage's like that."

"Oh?!" the Shinigami roared with rage, more of his energy spiking than at any time previous. "You wish to challenge me child?!"

"Never talk about them again" Naruto whispered, though his voice echoed loudly for all to hear. The pressure of the Shinigami's energy didn't effect him, this time. As he looked up into the darkness, you could see his eyes glowing a brilliant, bright blue with waves of chakra rolling off him.

"Never talk about them!" he yelled, his chakra spiking to match the energy output of the Shinigami. "They were far greater than you will ever be!"

What Naruto wasn't aware of, was what was happening around him. The darkness that had previously encompasses him was dissipating, and the Shinigami's influence itself was beginning to unravel.

However, before the two forces could meet, Naruto lit up in a flash of blue, and was gone to the world.

The Shinigami gave a a huge scream as this happened, and the area that the blond had been occupying immediately was once again covered in darkness.

"Pathetic human" the Shinigami muttered as it regained control of its own realm. "And damn those fates."

"You felt that, didn't you?" the same female voice spoke up.

"Amaterasu" the Shinigami said slowly, "You're still here I see."

"Of course" Amaterasu replied, in a smug voice, "And don't change the subject, I know you felt that. For just a moment, his power equaled yours and was going higher."

"Che" The Shinigami replied. "That was a mere fraction of my power of course. If he ever steps a foot into this realm again, I will destroy him."

The female voice, Amaterasu gave a chuckle. "You never change Shinigami."

"Why are you even here?" the Shinigami asked in annoyance. "The fates could have just as easily relayed a message through me, why did you have to appear."

"Oh you know..." the Amaterasu replied, almost teasingly. "I really did want to thank him of course. The Uchiha's strong fire affinity is my fault and I was rather embarrassed with how they turned out. Also..." she continued in a much more serious tone "I thought I would leave him with a going away present." With a wink, or at least it seemed to be a wink, the voice disappeared in a flash of fire, leaving the god of death to his own thoughts.

The Shinigami remained there, in his realm of complete darkness, thinking. It was disturbing, the power held from within that human. Sure, humans could be strong, almost irritably so, as evidenced by those Hokages as they were called. He wasn't lying when he said he had eaten them, the boy's father had even managed to scratch his fingernail with that blue ball of his. Sure, he had only shown a fraction of his power, but that should still have dwarfed the human's power.

'The fates are up to something' it thought with a frown. This had never happened before and frankly, he had no idea what was going on, something he didn't like.

'Oh Well' it thought, retreating back into its deeper domain. It was none of his business now.

--(Who knows where?)--

'This is your second chance' a voice whispered in his ear, nearly to quiet to be heard.

With a thud, Naruto impacted the ground, a flash of light marking his entrance.

"Ugh..." he groaned, face into the grass below. "Please tell me that didn't just happen" he mumbled, voice muffled by the ground beneath him.

Slowly getting up, and wincing as he heard his joints give a series of pops the first thing he did was try to gain his bearings.

'This isn't right...' he thought, immediacy becoming alert. 'This nature chakra, it feels so different than it should. Did those things really happen?'

Seeing a terrain totally different than he was previously in, he gave an unholy scream he slammed his fist into the ground.

"Why the hell does this crap always happen to me." he snarled as he stared at the four foot wide crater his punch made as he clentched his fists so tightly they began to bleed. "I never wanted to have to order my friends to their deaths." as he said this, images flashed through his mind. Iruka, half his body shredded apart. Kiba, whose face had been torn apart to such an extent, it took his mother and her ninken to distinguishes him. Ino, screaming insane as she clenched her head before he own father had killed her to end her suffering. Lee and Neji, who had every single bone in their body broken, with what remained a body mess. They all died on his orders, the order of their Hokage.

'Honor them' the quiet voice whispered in his head again. He was far to deep in turmoil to think that the voice was something amiss. 'Honor their memory. Show them what you can become.'

"What honor?" Naruto whispered in despair. "Their all dead. Souls lost and memories forgotten, how can I honor them. I always swore I would protect them, I swore I would always protect the people closest to me."

For the first time in weeks, tears began to flow down his face. The severity of what had happened over the last year of war was catching up to him.

"Their all gone" he whispered at the sky above him as his body felt like it turned to lead. It wasn't only his mental state that was catching up to him, but his physical as well. "Maybe those who survived will be better off without me, I only caused them pain."

Sinking back to his knees, and falling face first into the lush grass below him he could only think of one thing before darkness claimed him. 'Do I small strawberry's?'

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That's all folks...

How was it? I think its the longest chapter I've ever written. How were Naruto's interaction with the gods. My take on the gods is that they are a lot like children. While they are old and wise, they've never really had to grow up, because no one has ever challenged them. That is one of the reasons they are a bit spontaneous and can change moods so quickly. The gods in the Percy Jackson series are kinda the same way (though to a much, much smaller extent). Frankly, this is the most inspired I've ever been with a story by a long shot and this story will become my focus. Sorry for those who liked Naruto, Life Despite Death, but its hard to write if you can't think of an idea. I hope you will stay along to read this story.

Naruto's character will be interesting. He will not be like canon (at least mostly). He was elected as Hokage after Pein's attack, and his personality has changed a lot during the war. He had steeled his heart during the war, and it is only not that it is beginning to all come out.

I hope you like, please review and thank you for reading.