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The Undetermined Demigod

Part I: The Champion of the Huntress

Chapter 3: The Goddess of the Hunt

Three months had passed since Naruto had arrived in this new land. The old man who had found him on the beach had taken him in, treated his wounds, and gave him food and new clothes. Over the time Naruto had learned that the man's name was Ben and that the language he was speaking is English which was why he couldn't understand him. But the old man was so kind and help him to learn a few word so he could understand simple things. Of course Ben had asked him who he was. What had happened? Who his parent are and where they are? Or where he came from? While Naruto tried to answer the man's question as good as he could he still couldn't answer them completely, as he as well didn't know the answers to all of them.

When Naruto had tried to ask Ben where Konoha was he received a questionable look from the man. Only after Ben had showed him a map of the world Naruto realised that he couldn't find anything that resembled the Elemental Nations and that he had no way to return home.

So Naruto decided to stay by the old man for the time being until he would have figure out what to do next. It was around a month later when thinks went wrong. Naruto had a nightmare of the night the hooded man had attacked him and about the ship he was kept on. With sweat running down his face and screaming he woke up. It took him a while to realise that it was all a dream, but what really made him remember where he was, was the coughing of Ben who was lying on the ground in front of his room. Naruto didn't hesitated as he went straight to Ben's side. As He was kneeling next to the man he felt something wet under his legs. Ben coughed again and more of the liquid was flowing on the ground. Naruto turned on the light to see what it was and to his shock it was blood. Ben was coughing blood, but Naruto didn't knew why. The man was healthy and didn't showed any kind of symptoms of being ill in the first place.

Naruto tried to help him, but no matter what he tried it was useless.

After Ben had passed away Naruto decided it would be best to leave. Like Shin and Haru had started their travel Naruto thought it would be best to do the same. He had to figure out what he should do from now on and by traveling he hoped he would find his way.

Currently Naruto was running through a forest at night. Behind him was, what he would describe as a one eyed giant. Naruto had a few run-ins with this guy and it appears that he was following Naruto, but the young boy had managed to escape him all so often. However ever since the last big city he wasn't able to get away from him.

Naruto hide behind a three as he listened to the footsteps of the monster getting closer.

"Where yummy demigod are?" The monster said as he stopped walking. "Yummy-dummy demigods taste always nice mmh. Me can't wait."

Naruto closed his eyes in hope the monster wouldn't be able to see him. His heart was beating so fast that he was afraid the monster might hear it. He could hear the sound of the monster smelling the air before it moved on, the sound of it grinding its club behind it was heart for a while before it completely stopped.

Naruto let out a breath he didn't knew he was holding. Now that he had gotten rid of the monster he moved in the opposite direction. Soon he came to a small river where he could drink and rest for the time being. It was then that he heard a woman singing.

The way the woman was singing sounded familiar and Naruto had to remember the woman with black hair and silver tips. Could it be that this was the same woman? If yes then she could help him to get back to Konoha. After all she had come to his apartment, so she had to know, right? Without a second thought Naruto followed the small river in the direction where he had heard the woman's voice coming from.

He had to push a few bushes out of his way before he had a good look at a lake of medium size that was connected to a waterfall, where Naruto was standing at the top right now.

Bathing in the lake near the shore was a woman with auburn hair, as far as he could tell in the dark, and she seemed to be in her early twenties. Naruto was so caught up in her singing that he didn't noticed that he was leaning forwards too much until it was too late and he felt down into the lake. Taken by surprise he started to scream, causing the woman to stop her singing.

Before he knew it he was underwater. Naruto tried to swim back to the surface, but to his surprise every time he made it up it was like someone was pushing the water at him, pushing him down so he would stay underwater. For Naruto this didn't made sense. He knew how to swim but yet it was like he didn't. He had already swollen a lot of water and he wasn't sure how much longer he could take it. So naturally he thought he would drown this time for good, but just when he was about to give up he felt a small hand griping him by the collar of his sweater and pulling him out of the water, saving his life.

Naruto was roughly thrown on the shore and as soon as he hit the ground he coughed violently to get the water out of his lungs. When he was finally able to breathe to some extent normal again he looked around to find his saviour, only to face a group of girls that was surrounding him. Most of them were a few years older than him and were all wearing the same clothes. Some were wearing simply withe shirts, even thought it was a bit cold in the night to just wear a shirt while others wore silver jackets over their shirts, but all of them were wearing silver camo pants and black combat boots. All of them had their bows pointed at him ready to shot him. It was then that he was pulled up by one of the girls again who hold him by his hair while putting a hunting knife at his throat ready to slice him up to let him bleed out.

"What are your orders my lady?" The girl behind Naruto said. Naruto only recognized a few of the words the girl used but not enough to make sense out of them. Naruto tried to look at her what was quiet difficult, because she had a firm grip on him and didn't allowed him to move much. But what he could make out was her ginger hair.

After Naruto had given up on trying to get a better look at the girl he turned to the direction she had talked to. A giant cloud moved in front of the moon turning the world below into almost completely darkness. Naruto could see the silhouette of the woman, who he had heard singing before, leaving the water. From what Naruto could tell she didn't seemed to wear anything and didn't bothered to cover any of her body parts for that matter of fact. She slowly walked over to him as two of the girls ran over to her, a silver robe in their hands. Both of the girls helped her putting on the robe on as she pulled her hair from under the rope so it was falling down her back. With one simply movement she closed the robe and walked into the moon light. This was the first time Naruto had a clear look at her and he had to say she was truly a beautiful woman, but what fascinated him the most on her were her piercing silver, yellow eyes.

"Don't kill him Phoebe." The woman said. "It's a beautiful night and I don't want it to be more ruined by spilling the blood of a mere boy." She said the last part in discuss as she looked Naruto in the eyes.

Naruto could tell that she wasn't happy to see him he had figured out by the way she had said boy, which was one of the few words he had learned, and the hatred she had in her eyes for him that she didn't liked him.

"But before I will give you your punishment for not only spying on me while I was taking a bath and seeing me nude," The woman said remembering the last time someone had dared to look at her while she was taking a bath. Let's just say it didn't end well for the man. "But also for ruining my first day off in years I want to know what you will have to say to stop me from turning you into an animal."

Hearing their mistress saying this made the girls smile they loved how every male begged their Lady for forgiveness and mercy. That they would change and never do the same mistake again, becoming a better man they would say. It was hilarious how their mistress was toying with them. First she would give them a little bit of hope only to crush it shortly afterwards and either kill the men or turn them into animals.

But to their surprise Naruto didn't said anything. He only looked at her waiting for her to do something.

"Answer our Lady, boy!" Phoebe hissed at Naruto, putting more pressure on the knife making it almost draw blood of his.

"It's alright Phoebe." The woman said in a calm voice.

"But Lady Artemis."

"No buts Phoebe. He seems to have more back bone than most other males. I am not quite sure if it's a good treat of his or not." Artemis said eyeing Naruto and trying to find out why he didn't behave like other males in her presence. "Well not that it matters… let get this done, shall we?"

And with that said Artemis put her right hand on Naruto's forehead. "Let's see what kind of animal you are…" A bright light enveloped them all. None of the girls seemed to be worried about what was happing as they have seen it many times before.

Artemis had just put her hand on the boy's forehead to turn him into an animal, as she could feel a strange power interrupt her to do so. Now she was getting really mad. First she was interrupted while bathing and now some kind of power was saving this boy from his fate to be turned into an animal. She had to find out what the source of this power was.

The next she remembered was that she had found herself in a huge room that looked like it was a part of a sewerage. She was standing up to her ankles in water, which only caused to annoy her even more. Looking around she found a giant cage on the opposite of the room. In the centre on the cages doors was a piece of paper she couldn't read, but knew it had to be Japanese as her brother had shown her many documents with similar symbols on them. But what gave her an uneasy feeling were the hundreds of chains in front of the cage that in addition prevented, what was ever behind these doors, from escaping. She had never seen something like this ever before.

Moving closer to the cage Artemis tried to get a better look at what was inside the cage and what she saw was something she hadn't expected to see. Lying behind the gates of the cage was a giant fox with nine tails. Artemis was completely captured by the creature's beauty, and the moment she saw him she made up her mind to add his fur to her collection.

It had its eyes closed and Artemis assumed it was in a deep sleep. However this was proven wrong as she saw the fox barely opened one of his eyes, showing a bit of its blood red eye.

"I assume that you're the one that had interrupted me from turning the boy into an animal, right?" She said without showing a hint of emotion.

Don't get me wrong I would love to see the boy getting turned into a skunk, but as long as I'm sealed inside of him I can't allow him to get harmed in any way. Even if it is quite difficult since this man had put these chains in front of my prison.

Artemis got more interested by the mentioning of sealed. Her brother had told her about the ancient technique in sealing evil spirits away. She tried to feel how strong this fox might be but she was only disappointed as she could only feel his weak present as if he was old and just about to fall asleep again. Maybe the chains where keeping his powers in check, but Artemis doubt that the fox might be as strong as less of a tenth of Thypon's strength, maybe even less.

She really would like to get a new challenge in hunting an exotic creature and this giant fox was truly one of a kind, he had already proven that to her by preventing her to turn the boy into an animal. Artemis hadn't such an opportunity in ages and she would gladly free this fox for her enjoyment. But before she would make up her mind she had to make sure she wouldn't waste her time in doing so.

"Tell me fox when you said sealed inside him what did you mean by that?"

At her question the fox had to laugh quietly with a lot of effort, of course. He could tell that the goddess in front of him had some interest in him and he might use this to his advantage, but he had to do it right or he might be trapped in this mind until the boy would die. And given his current situation he wasn't even sure if he would get his freedom even then.

Aren't we a bit cocky? Why should I answer you?

"Because I'm Artemis; goddess of the hunt, Chasity and Maidenhood. You will answer me monster." Artemis answered the fox with a stern voice.

I know that you are one of those so proclaimed gods. The fox said in disdain. The boy had a run in with one of your kind only three months ago and see what it had led to; the boy has lost his ability to use his chakra and I have to suffer from it, so no I don't have to answer you.

Artemis frowned. If she wanted answers she had to gain the monster trust, luckily she could offer him something she would do either way.

"Well if you tell me why you're sealed in the boy and what exactly happened I might consider freeing you."

And why would you do this if I might ask? He wasn't a fool. The fox knew that she was up to something. He couldn't trust anyone, it didn't matter if they were a god or a human. The only person he could trust was his father.

Artemis had to smile a little bit at that. This beast was good. She hesitated to answer, should she lie or should she tell the truth and may risk her chance to hunt such an exotic creature. In the end she decided for the last of her options. The fox had already figure out that she was doing this for a reason so why not go all the way now.

"I see you're not like these brainless monsters I have to deal with daily. It's true that I want to free you for a reason and that reason is that I want to hunt you." Artemis paused to see the reaction of the fox, but when she couldn't see an anything that was telling her that he was displeased, she continued. "You see you're something I have never seen in my life and because I have already hunt every living creature that is known to mankind, I would like to challenge myself by hunting you. The fact that you were able to notice I was up to something only proves that you're worth of my time and that it will be difficult to hunt you."

Flattering me won't help you. He said trying to play along so the goddess wouldn't notice his true intentions. Just when he could see the displeased look on her face he continued. But I think I have no other choice if I want to be free once more. All I have to do after that is to escape you, that shouldn't be too difficult. He said mockingly.

Artemis was full of anger. She couldn't bare it to try and flatter a monster just to hunt him afterwards. But getting mocked by his arrogance was too much. She had to remember why she was even doing this to be able to continue.

The fox had to smile at this everything went according to plan and if it would turn out like he thought it would, he might didn't even need the boy to use his power to weaken the seal to free him.

All right I tell you my story and how I ended up in this boy.

And with that said the fox started to tell Artemis about how he was first sealed by the Shodai Hokage. After he was used by Madera as a weapon. He told her how the Shodai Hokage had claimed his sealing would be for the best of the world, but nothing changed and instead his hosts were often seen as the ultimate weapon for the village in times of war.

Artemis expression changed of one of anger. Now she had more reasons to hate men. Men always thought they could control everyone and everything in the world only to fail miserable at it in the end.

The fox also told her how he was resealed into another person and how he ended into Naruto. He of course didn't told Artemis how strong he really was he let it seemed like he was the victim and from what he had found out by listening to what happened outside of his hosts mind he knew that Artemis had a dislike for men which made the whole story a lot easier for him.

When he came to the part where Naruto encountered the hooded man he started to explain what the man exactly did.

I don't know what his real intention were, but what I know is that he must have known about me which is why he took the boy's chakra and used it to strengthen my seal.

"So these chains in front of your cage are the manifestation of the boy's chakra?"

Yes. I don't know why he didn't just kill the boy, but by using the boys own chakra to strengthen my seal he had weaken the boy and me immensely at the same time.

"Is that all?" Artemis asked the fox who didn't made a sound signalising her that he was. "Then tell me how I free you from this boy." She demanded eagerly.

First you have to break the chains. Someone like you should be capable of doing so. He said mockingly.

"Of course I can!" Artemis returned in anger.

This only caused the fox to smirk at the short temper of the goddess.

I might tell you that by doing so you might kill the boy.

"I couldn't be care less what happened to a boy. I would have killed him after the failed transformation either way."

Not wasting any more time then she already had, Artemis moved closer to the chains. She closed her eyes to better concentrating on her godly powers. It took her a few seconds before she was sure that she had focused enough of her godly powers to break the chains. Opening her eyes again she released her power. But what happened next was nothing like she had hoped for. Instead of breaking the chains, her powers were repelled and returned to her. Hit by her own powers Artemis was sent back against the wall on the other side of the room. The force was so strong that even the goddess of the moon had to wince in pain.

When Artemis had overcome her shock of not being able to break the chains, she saw that some glyphs came visible after her attempt to break the chains. It seemed like they were preventing her from doing anything to get rid of the chains or… they had a complete other use.

"What is this?" Artemis asked no one in especial. "It was supposed to work just fine."

It seems like the one who did this wasn't as stupid as I thought he would be. The fox said while wondering what the glyphs were supposed to do exactly in the first place beside to protect someone from breaking the chains in front of his prison. You have to find another way to break the chains.

"That would be a problem."

Why so?

"The glyphs that are preventing me from breaking the chains are like your own seal I either need the help from one of the other gods or someone more powerful than a god to break it." She said unhappy of the outcome of her trying to get a new challenge.

And I can assume that you don't ask one of the other gods, because it would become complicated and you might not be able to hunt me as you have planned?

"No, I just don't think they would show any interest in your problem." She lied. If one of the other gods would find out about the fox she doubt she would get a chance to free him and then to hunt him down. They would kill the boy from preventing to free the fox of unknown origin. Especial her father wouldn't let the boy live, because of his paranoia. She had to find a way to break the chains on her own, but that would take a while and then there was the boy. What should she do with the boy?

"No matter how you look at it, it would take me a while to find a way to break the chains. And because I can't kill the boy without might killing you I have to let him go, but then I have to go through the trouble and look for him. And I doubt he would let me even near him after tonight's event." Artemis didn't know what to do in this kind of situation. She really wanted to get her challenge, but she had to let the boy live to do so. She really hated males even if they seemed to have some use to her they turn out to be just problematic.

How about you keep him close to you for the time being this would give you more time to examine the glyphs and find a solution to the problem. The fox said while thinking. And it would make sure that I get out of this prison much sooner than I had hoped for.

"And how should I do this?" she asked, not worrying about her hunters for the time being they just had to accept her decision for now.

Give him that what he always wanted.

"And what would that be?"

The love of a mother.

Silence.

"You want me to play mother for a boy?" Now Artemis was starting to get really angry.

It's either that or you won't be able to free me.

She really didn't liked the thought of pretending to be the mother of a boy. Not that she wasn't able to be a mother. No she was already a mother to her hunters, that is. She would never have children of her own, but to take in a boy into her little family was unacceptable. However she wouldn't do this for long as soon as she would have find a way to free the fox the boy would die and she could hunt a monster she had never hunted before.

She took a deep breath, preparing herself of what she was about to say. If you can't sacrifice something you can't gain anything, right?

"Alright I will take the boy in for the time being, but don't expect me to be friendly to him right away."

As I have already told you I couldn't be care less what happened to the boy. Just make sure he trust you enough. And if I might suggest start by teaching him your language that will make it a lot easier.

"I understand, so that's the reason he didn't answer me." Artemis said to herself before talking to the fox again. "By the way how are you able to speak English while the boy isn't?"

I'm much older than the boy so I know how to learn a language, besides it does help to be trapped in his mind so I'm able to hear everything that happens outside.

"I see. I will take my leaf then and show up again as soon as I can."

And with that Artemis left the mind of the boy and the prison of the giant fox to return to the boy and her hunters, where only a few seconds had passed.

As the goddess faded the fox could only chuckle. Things had turned out better than he had expected and if the goddess was really able to break the seal he would be finally free.

And when that time comes the young Huntress will be the hunted.

When the light faded again Naruto, who was supposed to have turned into an animal, hadn't turned into one. Instead he was still the same and still looking at Artemis with big eyes. They all couldn't believe what was happening and wanted to know what had happened, but before any of them could ask their mistress, said mistress started to laugh in a soft and quiet manner. It had been a long time since they had last seen their Lady so happy.

"Haha…" Artemis slowly stopped her laughter as she put her hand away from Naruto's forehead. "That is really interesting…" she said to herself before she spoke to her subordinates. "Girls! It seems like we have a guest for a little while. Bring him to the camp and make sure he won't be able to escape. We will see what to do next in the morning, but for now let us call it a day we have to move out in the morning if we want to reach our destiny like planed." With that said she made her way back to her camp.

"But my Lady, why would you spare him… why would you spare the life of a… a boy?" one of her older subordinates asked her.

"That is not for you to know at the moment. Just trust me. When the time comes I'll tell you and believe me when I tell you that I don't spare his life his fate is just delayed. And make sure to tell Zoe about the boy when she returns with my chariot."

The girls didn't said anything after this. They trusted the judgment of their Lady and they knew that in due time they would know why their Lady had spared his life for the moment.

"Yes, my Lady your wish is our command." The girls bowed to her as they made their way back to their camp.

"Move… boy." Phoebe gave Naruto a push so that he would start walking.

Naruto didn't protested he obeyed her command and followed the pretty lady. As he walked past some of the girls he looked them in the face one of them would stay in his memory forever. He just didn't knew it at that time. The face of a fourteen year old girl with long brown hair and her dark brown eyes that were almost black.

Meanwhile Artemis, who was walking in front of the group thought about what had happened a few seconds ago. The smile she had never leaving her face.

Well that was fun. I hope you like the way I pictured Artemis as a cold hearted, selfish, confident and arrogant goddess who believes she is superior to Kurama, but in reality she is being used by him instead.

Let me know what you think of this chapter especially the conversation between Artemis and Kurama.