Naruto: Prince of the Underworld

Chapter 22 We're back!!!!

Here it is people, the last chapter of this story. Now, I WILL do a sequel....eventually. So enjoy! Also, if you have not read my one shot called Darkened Heart, please do.

Percy met Annabeth and Grover at Thalia's Tree a few hours after he left home. He hoped his mom used Medusa's head on Gabe and his idiot friends. Looking at his friends, he noticed they were one short. "Hey, where is Naruto?"

"I thought he was with you." Annabeth said.

"He left to go home for a bit after we left Olympus." Percy replied.

"Oh, I am sure he is fine." Grover said.

Just after the goat boy said that, there was a flash of black fire. When it dissipated, there Naruto stood with black shades on and a foot on a boombox under his foot and it was playing a rock song. One that Percy recognized with a deadpanned face.

"Here I am!" Naruto sang his greeting with a shit eating grin. "Rock you like a hurricane!"

The three smiled, chuckling a bit at Naruto's antics before Annabeth pressed a button on the boombox to turn it off. "Nice to see you, ninja boy."

Naruto sealed away the boombox with a smile before taking off his glasses and said, "Well, I just wanted to make an entrance."

"You always seem to want to do that." Grover said.

"Hey, it is Naruto." Percy said with a smirk. "He may be the unpredictable ninja, but at least he is on our side."

"Got that right!" Naruto cheered.

"Right, let's get into camp before they wonder what happened to us." Annabeth said.

"Right, just let me talk to Thalia first." Naruto said, turning to the tree.

However, Annabeth grabbed the back of his shirt and said, "Oh no, we don't have time for that right now. You can talk to her later." That gained a groan from Naruto as he was dragged halfway down the hill to Camp Half-Blood before he regained his footing.

One by one, the campers noticed their arrival and begun to gather at the gates, congratulating them on a job well done. They were the first to come back from a quest since Luke. When Chiron and Mr. D came upon this scene, their eyes widened and the whole camp let out a gasp. Above the returning heroes' heads were their family symbols, but Grover of course didn't, so he did the next best thing. He gave a huge smile with the peace sign.

Though they had all seen their symbols before, there was something different about Naruto's. It had a fourth symbol, the symbol of Hera. It was a peacock feather. Looking up at it, Naruto just smiled, silently thanking Hera for trusting him. However, he would keep that conversation a secret for now.

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So, party of sorts was thrown for their return and they were treated like celebrities. According to camp tradition, they wore laurel wreaths to a big feast prepared in our honor, then led a procession down to the bonfire, where they got to burn the burial shrouds their cabins had made for their in their absence.

Annabeth's shroud was so beautiful-gray silk with embroidered owls-Percy told her it seemed a shame not to bury her in it. She punched him and told him to shut up. Naruto chuckled at that, wondering how he would get those two together, but then decided to let them deal with it. He didn't know what to do and it was too much work.

Even though Grover didn't have a cabin or was a demi god, he partied with his kind and forest. Percy's shroud was a joke and Naruto could not help but laugh his ass off. He was the son of Poseidon, so he did not have any cabinmates, so the Ares cabin had volunteered to make his shroud. They'd taken an old bedsheet and painted smiley faces with X'ed-out eyes around the border, and the word LOSER painted really big in the middle. Naruto could tell the water boy had fun burning that.