Two days had passed since Aphrodite's first training; Naruto literally pushed her through hell with his extreme training method. Apparently he didn't think much about her words, which was: she was a lover not a fighter. He pushed Aphrodite to the limit of her godly strength and then more, doing feats that were impossible even for the highest caliber Shinobi, even Naruto himself.
Other than Mount Myoboku, the two of them took the Central Park on Olympus as their training ground and Naruto make sure not to let anyone see Aphrodite train. He wanted to make this a surprise to the other members of his big family.
Training her like this, Naruto could finally get a good look at what goddess like her capable of. Because Aphrodite never used her godly strength for anything extreme for more than three thousand years, she became weak and seemingly physically weaker than the weaker goddesses. But overall, Aphrodite could handle at least ten Gamakichi on her shoulder, like Artemis who was only pissed off after being sat on by a gigantic toad after he fell down from above, getting no injure than pride injure.
This feat was more or less normal; Aphrodite was a goddess but in term of power she could be even more than the other Olympians because she was born from Ouranos himself. From what he read, Atlas, a titan could hold the entire sky on his shoulder so ten Gamakichi might not be Aphrodite's limit.
Right now, he was working on Aphrodite's stamina. By having his brother created special bracelets and anklets that could contain endlessly amount of weights, to make a godly version of Rock Lee's method of training. Naruto put four of them on Aphrodite's body and each was holding at least the amount of weight inside them that even in Sennin Modo, Naruto would have problem carry.
For Gods, this was an ultimate test of stamina. Naruto was wearing his forehead protector on his head and dared Aphrodite to touch it, even just slightly.
"I will let you kiss me if you can touch my forehead protector" That was his promise to her and to say the goddess was extremely fired up was a huge understatement.
However, no matter how she tried, Naruto was impossible to catch, let alone touch his forehead protector. The goddess of love doubted even without the weights on her arms and legs, she would be able to make it before her stamina finally ran out. Naruto wasn't only fast but he could also foresee all of her attempt to touch the metal plate he wore in front of his forehead, allowing the prince to toy with her, taking this matter very lightly.
Of course, all knew Naruto would agree that he was a man of his words. He would only promise something like that to the goddess of LUST after he was a hundred percent sure she wouldn't be able to touch it, even slightly.
"Please stay still" Aphrodite groaned out tiredly as she let Naruto pulled her up to her feet.
"Sorry, no can do Aphrodite" he said "This is also a part of your training"
"Seriously?" The goddess asked "but it is impossible" she cried
"Nothing is impossible, you will have to figure it out away to touch this" Naruto pointed to his forehead protector and smiled "and in order to figure it out a way, you will have to grow stronger. Now you have a goal to archive, I'm sure you will able to do it"
"Sooner or later I will get that kiss" Aphrodite said strongly, pointing her hand at him "you wait for it"
"Oh ho, keep talking" Naruto smirked before helping Aphrodite removed the bracelets and anklets around her wrists and ankles.
"So? What're we going to do now?" She then leaned forward and pressing her large breasts against his arms, holding back only by a sport bra "you want to hang out with me for the rest of the day?" she tried to wrap her arms around his strong arm, but Naruto quickly removed himself from her, saying
"Not so fast girl. We'll get to the next part of your training"
"Aw, can we just do something else?" Aphrodite pouted.
"Artemis is starting to adapt to my fighting style, which is not a good thing for you" Naruto said. It was the truth, in two days the goddess of the moon made huge process in adapting to the way Shinobi fight in a battle, after the embarrassingly humiliation Artemis became sharper, more caution and especially came up with a way to resolve his tricks every time he pulled one of them. While he was still sticking to Sennin Modo while training with her, with this speed of improving soon he would have to use the stronger form to handle Artemis, and Bijuu Modo would be overwhelm and each attack could seriously hurt Artemis if he is not careful.
But still, everything would be different if he began to use Rasengan.
"You're the one who pull me into this!" Aphrodite cried with her arms crossed underneath her chest.
"Dud, it is good for you, you know" Naruto said blankly "Alright, that's enough for today, you can leave now"
"Thank you" Aphrodite cried out happily and wrapped her arms around his neck in a tight hug, Naruto was surprise at first but he patted her on her back nonetheless. Even though the training was harsh and almost impossible for someone who didn't want to fight like Aphrodite, she did try her best in training and didn't try to run away and hide from him a single time.
Aphrodite let go of Naruto and teleported away, returning to her duty as the goddess of love and beauty while her body was as sore as hell.
But she couldn't help but admit that it was quite fun doing something like this.
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Naruto was walking toward the Big House when he suddenly saw something interesting on the sky.
Pegasus, a pure white Pegasus was flying on the sky, with a camper sitting on its back. This wasn't the first time Naruto saw one of them but no matter how many times he did, he could never stop the feeling of amazement swell up inside of him.
"They look delicious, by the way" Kurama chuckled darkly inside of his head.
"Knock it off Kurama, they're not foods" Naruto chuckled and turned on his heel, making his way over to the stables. He could fly with the his Rikudou Sennin form, but Naruto wanted to find out what it would feel like to ride on a flying creature, plus the sky was his father's domain, maybe it was the time to try it out.
The stables were made of wood that was white in color. It also had a mix of brick and stone but everything look a little bit old. There were lot of hay and vegetables lying orderly over the place, brought to the place by the children of Demeter. He heard that some of the children of Aphrodite lent some help in taking care of the stables and pegasi, so the place was a lot cleaner than most stable had seen.
There were many pegasi standing inside and Naruto couldn't help but think how beautiful they're, the pegasi got various kind of colors from white, brown to gray. Their wing folded up on their sides just like that of a bird, silently enjoying the jay and vegetables the campers brought to them.
"Hold" when Naruto was about approach one of them, he heard a shout and the white pegasus he saw before flew down and landed gratefully on the ground outside the stables, running for a few meters to slow down before finally stop "Good girl" the camper who was riding the pegasus said while patting it neck gently.
Silena Beauregard got down to the ground and gently led the white pegasus into her stable, but stopped when she saw Naruto standing there looking at her with curiosity.
Of course, having someone like the Prince of Olympus looking at her like that, being the daughter of love she couldn't help but blush a little.
"Hey Silena" Naruto was the one who broke the silence between them by smiling at Silena, the head counselor of Cabin Ten "nice ride"
"Thank you" Silena smiled.
Naruto smiled at her. Silena Beauregard, as far as he knew was hailed at Camp Half-Blood's hottest girl, Naruto would be blind if he couldn't see why she earned that title. Silena was one of the only girl among Cabin Ten inherited the curves of Aphrodite's true appearance, she looked like a carbon-copy of her mother, with the only exception for her black haired and brown eyes Silena must be one of the most beautiful girl he had ever seen in his life.
However, no sooner than he thought that, the color of her hair and eyes changed, become blonde and blue like her mother. With another blink everything turned back to normal.
"Could you stop doing that?" Naruto asked, slightly amuse by this kind of ability "that...change the color power"
"Oh, sorry..." Silena gasped lightly "every demigod has ADHD, but I was also blessed with one of my mother's powers as well. It is the power to change my physical appearance as will, but like with ADHD, I can't control it" she said apologetically "the Mist will make the mortal and demigods see only one color, but because you're a clear-sighted mortal..."
"I will see your hair and eyes changed rapidly" Silena nodded, right now she had black hair and dark purple eyes and it seemed to stay that way.
"So, what brought the Prince of Olympus to this dirty stable?" Silena asked, walking pass him and led the white Pegasus into her stable.
"I was thinking about testing my luck with flying" He said, following Silena inside "I heard that you're an expert rider, right?" Silena was the one in charge of teaching new campers like Percy how to ride a Pegasus properly; she was by far the best pegasi rider in the camp.
"Everyone said the same thing," Silena smiled "but I think it is because I can understand them better than anyone, that's all" she smiled "If you want, I can show you a few trick"
"Really? I don't want to bother you..." He trailed off but Silena already grabbed his hand and pulled him to the back of the stable.
"I think he will suit you" Naruto and Silena stood in front of yet another beautiful white Pegasus, but this one was a little bigger than the one Silena rode on. The creature looked at Naruto for a moment with its big black eyes before nudging him gently with its head.
"Oh" Naruto smiled and put his hand on the animal's head, patting the Pegasus gently "hey buddy"
"I think he likes you" Silena said and put her hand on the horse's neck, running her hand on the beautiful white horsehair.
"What's his name?" the prince asked, smiling at the beast.
"Peach" Naruto turned to look at Silena with an amused smile "What? He looked like a peach when he was younger"
"Oh yeah" Naruto chuckled lightly before letting Silena opening the stable's gate, letting Naruto guide the Pegasus out.
Almost instantly, the horse neighed loudly, raising its front hoof and flapping its unfolded its wings, flapping it wildly. This of course shocked Naruto a little as he stepped back in caution; getting kick in the face by a Pegasus would be the last thing he would want right now.
"Hold hold" Silena stepped up and raised both of her arms, saying loudly to the winged horse "Easy boy, easy" she said comfortingly, surprisingly she calmed the overreacting horse down. The white Pegasus acted like a puppy dog under the hand of Aphrodite's beautiful daughter.
"What the hell just happened?" Naruto asked, cautiously approaching the horse.
"I forgot to tell you that Peach is quite wilder than the other and he doesn't like stranger" Silena said "I will pick another one for you" she started to guide Peach back to his stable but Naruto stopped her.
"No, I want this one" He said firmly with a grin.
"Are you sure?" Silena asked.
"Yeah, bring it on Peach" Naruto said challenging to the horse and walked outside with Silena, Peach followed behind her closely.
The road to get to Peach's back was a little harder than Naruto thought, as the horse didn't intent to stay still for him to climb on to. Whenever he was about to get on his back, Peach turned and shook his body, making Naruto fell down to the ground on his butt. This of course made Silena laughed.
Ten minutes later, Naruto finally got on the beautiful white Pegasus back, with his legs put on the spots in front of Peach's wings.
"You can hold on him here" Silena pointed to the horse's neck.
"Don't worry about it girl" Naruto winked and gave her a thumb up, Peach might be a wild horse but by the time he was able to get on his back, with his chakra trick he would never fall down.
"Because this is your first ride, you want me to help you out?" Silena asked hopefully.
"Sure, why not?" he smiled at her and offered Silena his hand, which the girl took it and let Naruto pulled her onto Peach's back, right behind him.
Naruto blushed a little at the feeling of her ample breasts pressed against his back, as Silena wrapped her arms around his waist and moved closer to him. Talking with her so casually and normal like that; Naruto almost forgot that this young lady was the daughter of Aphrodite.
To say Naruto was surprise to see a child of the love goddess wasn't an air-head was an understatement. Silena seemed very nice and kind, very different from her siblings. She wore clothes stylishly but unlike her sisters she didn't have the twenty four hours make-ups on her face.
"Okay, let's start shall we?" Silena spoke up cheerily and before Naruto could say anything, she nudged Peach's side gently.
The Pegasus neighed loudly, raising both of his front hoofs up and shot forward, running on the ground for a few seconds before spreading his wings and took off.
"Holy..." Naruto cried out excitedly "THIS IS AMAZING!" he shouted out "C'mon buddy, get higher!" He said to the horse and it only did just that. Looking around, Naruto couldn't help but feel amaze by the amazing view of the North Shore of Long Island, while it might not be able to compare to Konoha or Mount Myoboku, it was still a sight to behold.
Looking down, Naruto smiled when he saw Camp Half-Blood became smaller and smaller, with campers as small as ants doing activities below. This was by far the first time Naruto went on such a flight like this., closing his eyes Naruto let the wind strongly hit his face, yet he didn't feel uncomfortable by it at all. Sky was also his father's domain, so maybe it was the reason why he was feeling so refresh, so calm like this.
"You handle him quite well" Silena shouted so he could hear her voice "you're a natural rider you know"
"Sky is my father domain, so I guess flying is only natural to me" He told her, smiling.
Silena couldn't help but smile as well. This was the first time she hanged around with the Prince of Olympus, but she already really liked the way he interacted with everyone. Naruto was kind, caring, full of passion...he cared for her and her siblings while no one did, looking pass the bad reputations of being the children of the goddess Aphrodite and did everything he could in his power to help them improve, so that they could be respect like any other demigods.
Silena couldn't help but admit that she was starting to have some feeling for this young man, who was hailed at the Prince of Olympus. It was so strange, only after a small amount of time getting to know Naruto, Silena started to like him more than she should.
'He's mine, don't touch him'
Suddenly, her mother words returned to her and Silena's eyes became a little sadden by this.
Of course; someday, sooner or later he would become a god...seriously relationship with other women other than goddesses was strictly forbidden by the ancient laws. So the chance for her or any mortal girls who taken the interest in Naruto was very slim, if not wanted to say non-existed. She should have seen it coming when her mother told her to tell the girl about her plan for the prince. It would only hurt those who fall for him that wasn't immortal.
Not that she thought Naruto would be like his father and had tons of demigods after becoming a god himself, but being the daughter of love she knew love was a very powerful thing, no one could control when they would feel in love. Becoming a god meant Naruto would get all the time in the world and who knew, this decade or the decade after he would fall in love with a beautiful mortal woman and had his first demigod.
Silena closed her eyes and rested her head against his back, for now; let's just stay like this and she should also be careful with her own feeling.
"Hey Silena" Naruto called out when Peach did a brake and started to return to the Camp "Thank you"
"It's my pleasure in satisfying Lord Naruto, the prince of Olympus with the best of my ability" Silena said before slapping playfully on his back when the blond jerked his back "relax, I was just kidding"
"Haha, very funny" Naruto chuckled "Okay, lower down Peach" He told the Pegasus and Peach lowered down a little.
However, right at that moment, Naruto's instinct alerted him.
But he didn't have any times to react; all he saw was a blur of silver, an arrow shot from the forest below and the next moment, Peach neighed painfully when the arrow pierce through his right wing. Naruto widened his eyes in shock when the winged horse's body bucked powerfully, Naruto with his chakra could stick to his body no problem but unfortunately the buck sent Silena off his back and to the air.
"NO!" Naruto screamed when he saw the girl fell down to the ground hopelessly with her eyes wide in shock. Peach was also falling and Naruto knew he only got less than five seconds to save both of them.
Naruto pulled out a kunai in a flash and through it to Silena, he didn't aim her but the space beside the falling girl. Naruto then disappeared in a flash of yellow, bringing Peach with him to the inside of Cabin Two. Peach crashed into the bed but quickly stood up, folding one of his wings while the injured one was still spreading.
'Sorry mom' he didn't know if his mother like having horse inside her cabin or not, but now wasn't the time for it.
Naruto disappeared again in a flash of yellow, this time he reappeared next to Silena and grabbed her, wrapping his arms around her body protectively, shielding her from the tree they were falling onto before quickly teleported into his mother's cabin at Camp.
Naruto fell down to the ground hard with Silena, perfectly okay in his arms. Blowing leaves out of his mouth the blond immediately sat up and looked at Silena, checking her to see if there was any injures.
"You okay Silena?" the girl only nodded her head, still couldn't believe what just happened.
Naruto sighed in relief and let the girl rested against the wall, letting her take her time gathering herself together before walking to Peach.
"Hey hey, it alright" Naruto said to the Pegasus before grabbing the arrow from the underneath, blood tainted the pure white color of his wing "I have to pull this out" he told the horse and pulled the arrow out instantly.
Peach neighed loudly in pain but Naruto quickly put his right hand on the wound, closing his eyes and in just a matter of second, the white' Pegasus' wing healed up.
"You're fine now" Naruto smiled to the winged horse and saw Silena walking toward him with a rather pale face from the near death experience.
"W-What happened, Naruto?" Silena asked nervously.
"Someone attacked us" Naruto said simply, looking at the silver arrow in his hand.
"Is that...Lady Artemis' arrow?" Silena gasped in shock. There was only one group used silver arrow, and that was Artemis and her huntresses.
"Yes, this is Artemis' arrow" Naruto nodded "but...this is also the same arrow she shot to my shoulder the same day Percy and his group left for the quest. Someone picked it up after I went to bit them a good luck" he remembered letting the arrow on the table, but when he returned it had disappeared. Artemis was very careful, if he did not want to say rather skimp with her special arrows, she always gathered them back after archery training so he had thought there was some magic placed on them so the arrows would return to her quiver, to help her do the gathering faster.
Only one person came to Naruto's mind, the Lightning Thief.
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