Minerva Child

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Percy Jackson & The Olympians

Chapter 3

Genjutsu World

Naruto stood in a blank area as the scenery turned into a forest with large trees. Naruto watched as Mizuki was formed. Naruto had a laid back grin as look at Mizuki who had a large shuriken on his back. It was time to start the simulation.

Limited Tsukuyomi – Percy

Percy opened his eyes as he appeared in the Genjutsu World or Battle Simulation. "I'm in a forest?" He asked himself as he looked around before something screamed at him to duck and luckily for him he listened as he noticed a large shuriken planted on the ground.

"What the" Percy said before who he thought is Mizuki stood before him. Mizuki started to attack Percy who was currently dodging the attacks. He was unprepared for the fight.

Mizuki managed to get his large shuriken and began to spin it. "Die!" Mizuki said as threw the large shuriken again. Percy jumped to side thinking he was in the clear. "Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique)" Mizuki called out a jutsu making the single large shuriken turn into multiple large shurkiens!

Percy gulped as the shuriken's were spread out in a large range and he was in mid jump. Only one word came out of Percy's mouth as the shuriken's approached him. "Shit"

Limited Tsukuyomi – Nico

Nico appeared in a forest after opening his eyes. He was used to the battle simulations now, at least to the point of getting used to fighting immediately upon awaking.

Nico immediately crouched knowing the previous simulations he would be attacked immediately luckily he did as he dodged a giant shuriken. "Damn, I missed" Mizuki said as Nico looked at his opponent.

Nico's eyes widened as he saw the flak jacket. "He is making us fight a chunin or jonin!" Nico thought, he learnt from Naruto's stories that chunins and jonins of Konoha wore flak jackets making it difficult to tell them apart, Nico hoped Mizuki was a chunin.

"What rank are you?" Nico asked as Mizuki looked at Nico as he threw small shurikens at him.

"I'm not telling you shit!" Mizuki shouted as Nico dodged the thrown shurikens. Nico noticed that Mizuki was no longer on the branch where he threw the shurikens.

Nico turned around to see Mizuki throwing the large one again calling out a jutsu. "Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" Mizuki called out as the one large shuriken turned into many shuriken.

Mizuki grin fell as he noticed Nico wasn't there anymore, in the shadows behind Mizuki rose to show Nico. Nico had a sword that was given to him while they stayed in the battle simulation, it was a steel sword.

Nico swung his sword but the older man noticed him and dodged the attack. "Is he a Nara?" Mizuki thought as he glared at Nico. "When I threw the shuriken he must of went into the shadows and moved behind me" Mizuki thought.

Nico held up the steel sword and preparing to shadow travel if needed, shadow traveling was a taxing ability, each time he would travel via shadows he would always become fatigued afterwards.

Nico attacked with his sword as Mizuki blocked with a second large shuriken. Nico noticed the smirk on Mizuki's faces and jumped back only for Mizuki to laugh. "I can't believe you fell for that!" Mizuki said before he threw multiple kunai at him, which caused Nico to enter the shadows and reappear elsewhere not too far panting lightly.

That was when Nico noticed what was around him. The kunai were all spread out to where the shadows were! Nico's eyes widened as a paper tag started to burn before exploding.

Genjutsu World – Naruto

"Seems like they are having a bit of trouble" Naruto said as he watched Nico get blown up and Percy assaulted by shurikens. "Maybe, just maybe, my easy is different to their easy"

That could actually be the case. Naruto started getting bored of opponents as they were just too easy, fights lose all excitement when you can defeat them with one punch.

"Nah" Naruto immediately said even though he knew the truth. "They just need to get stronger" He said as he watched the two simulations.

"Maybe I should have made them fight a genin or academy student?" Naruto asked himself as he watched the two. "Nah, this way is way better for them. This way they will have to fight stronger opponents and it will bring down their ego a bit knowing that there will always be stronger opponents no matter how strong you get" Naruto said sagely.

Naruto sighed. "I wish that was the case for me"

Limited Tsukuyomi – Percy

Percy just got attacked hit by the large shurikens and somehow managed to drag himself behind a tree. "Why did it have to be in a forest, why can't a lake be nearby?" Percy mentally whined.

"Come out, come out, wherever you are" Mizuki said as Percy heard the spinning of the large shuriken.

Percy did wonder who was doing better, Nico or him, being a child of one of the big three getting into 'rivalries' as you can call them was highly expected. A child of Poseidon and a child of Zeus would argue and act more like rivals than with a child of Hades.

Percy looked around to see if he could spot some body of water and he was all out of luck. Percy decided to move from tree to tree to see if he could find a body of water.

Percy saw something sparkle in the distance and made the mistake of immediately running towards it. Mizuki spotted Percy making a dash for something and started to chase him as he threw his large shuriken.

Percy turned his head to see the shuriken. Percy then dropped and rolled to the side behind a tree as he exhaled a breath of relief… until he saw a second large shuriken go through the tree above his head causing the tree to fall over.

"Fuck that was lucky" Percy said as he suddenly shivered like something bad was going to happen to him for saying that.

Limited Tsukuyomi – Nico

Nico was now panting heavily as he shadow travelled again but had burns on him from the explosion. "At least I'm not dead immediately" Nico said to himself. "That's a new record"

"I hate this so much" Nico got up to his feet as he waited for his strength to return. "Not to self, when Naruto says something is easy make sure it is our easy and not his version of easy"

Nico kept his guard up just in case Mizuki was close by. "When I get out of here I'm NEVER going back in here" Nico said to himself as he peeked out from behind a tree scanning the area.

Nico held onto the steel sword as he saw Mizuki walk past some trees looking for him. He was actually really close. "This is my chance!" He thought. "I better not mess this up"

Nico got closer to Mizuki who stopped to look around holding the large shuriken at the ready. Nico stabbed his blade into Mizuki's back only to pass through…him? What!

Nico was then thrown into a tree as he felt a pain in his leg, a kunai was in it. "Hahahahaha I can't believe you fell for the Bunshin no Jutsu (Clone Technique)" Mizuki laughed, the clone technique was one of three jutsu that academy students learn.

Nico hissed as he got himself up holding up his steel sword and pulling out the kunai and holding it in his other hand.

Genjutsu World – Naruto

Naruto watched as the two still fighting Mizuki. Naruto just sat there watching the fight. He had a laidback expression and a carefree smile as he watched the two demigods fight Mizuki.

Who knew one chunin could (who is incredibly weak to Naruto) make children of the big three work so hard.

Naruto started eating popcorn that came out of nowhere as he watched the fight unfold. The food while not real or being able to satisfy his hunger, it did have the taste of real food and felt like it was actually feeling him up. But then again it was a very powerful illusion making the dream world just like the real world.

If Naruto didn't tell them about it and just sent them into the illusion, they would think like it was the real world. A powerful and near unbreakable illusion, the Limited Tsukuyomi was a prototype version of the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

It could show the person in the genjutsu their perfect world created by their desires and dreams, Naruto's modifications to the illusion let him control and modify the genjutsu along with making the illusion a world filled with dreams or a world filled with nothing but nightmares.

A perfect world, a world that is created to be perfect to the person trapped in the illusion. While the Limited Tsukuyomi was powerful thanks to the modifications made to it, the Infinite Tsukuyomi was much better but it had its own pros and cons, but that is for another day.

Naruto was just watching the two demigods fight Mizuki, this was also used as a learning experience for the two, like he said before with fighting always stronger opponents. They would have to adapt to their surroundings, have no clue of the enemy's abilities, always having to be prepared for combat, knowing that enemies will strike when they're not prepared or when they have their guard down, having their guard up, the list goes on.

That and Naruto was also amused at their efforts, he would gladly admit that he liked watching Nico fight Madara and failing. You could day that the sadistic interrogators Anko and Ibiki have rubbed off on him.

Limited Tsukuyomi – Percy

Percy was sent to the ground after he foolishly run towards whatever was sparkling, he was a good distance from it and he could see what it actually was now.

Water, a body of water! Now he just needed to get there. "Man I wish I had a weapon" Percy thought before he felt something fall out of his pocket.

Percy had a deadpanned look on his face as he look at a pen that fell out of his pocket. "It's always a pen! And why didn't I check my pockets for it!" Percy thought as he picked up the pen and rolled to the side missing a kunai.

Percy thought he that would be it for the kunai before he saw a piece of paper starting to burn. Percy's eyes widened as he got up and started running only for the tag to explode sending Percy flying, luckily for Percy though he was running towards the body of water.

Percy looked up to see that the pond in front of him was close now, very close but Percy felt pain in his legs. Choosing to look down he saw a shuriken in each leg above his ankles, he looked towards the pond. He just needed to reach it, just to jump in and let the water heal his injuries.

Mizuki walked up to the crawling Percy before pressing his foot into the son of Poseidon's back. "Looks like your life ends here" He said with a grinned that made him look like a maniac.

"I'm…so close…to the water" Percy thought as Mizuki pressed his foot down harder. Mizuki pulled out his large shuriken and raised it up in the air. While this was going on Percy noticed the pen that he picked up before the kunai exploded. "I hope this is an actually weapon right now" Percy thought before he made a horizontal swing as the pen became a steel sword.

When Percy swung the sword, Mizuki already brought down his shuriken, the two weapons clashed but Percy was able to cut Mizuki's leg. "You fucking brat" Mizuki hissed at him as he kicked Percy with the leg that hadn't been cut.

Percy went for another swing but Mizuki countered with his shurikens, he was holding the two shurikens in his hands now. Percy noticed he was closer to the water now. He raised his free hand to cause the water from the pond to send Mizuki back.

Percy then stood up and made a dive for the pond, as Percy dived into the pond he felt his wounds disappear and his energy returning. Percy decided to wait until for a while before saw Mizuki…walking on water? How? Was Mizuki a demigod? Percy had so many questions.

You see when Naruto told Percy about chakra Naruto never went in full depth of what chakra could do. Percy only knew that chakra was some form of energy. He didn't know chakra could be used for feats like walking on water.

Percy hesitated with his blade before he remembered two important facts. One Mizuki would kill him and two that is was a battle simulation, it was odd this illusion felt real, too real. It was like someone mastered Virtual Reality!

Mizuki was about to walk off the water until he noticed that his feet were trapped by the water itself. "The fuck" Mizuki said as he tried to get free, suddenly Percy came from the water as he pierced Mizuki's heart with the blade.

Percy pulled out the blade as Mizuki fell back dead as Percy looked at his hands, that felt too real, way to real! He had to think was it an illusion? Did he actually kill someone? No it was an illusion. Nico wasn't here so it had to be right?

A white light started to consume the world he was in before everything became a white void devoid of any life or scenery.

Limited Tsukuyomi – Nico

Nico ignoring the pain in his leg stood his ground opposite of Mizuki. He needed to finish this fight quickly. It was a competition after all.

Mizuki threw a shuriken one of his two shurikens at Nico and Nico jumped to the side and threw the kunai at Mizuki. Mizuki blocked the kunai with the second shuriken and noticed that Nico was gone.

"Where did that fucking brat go?" Mizuki muttered to himself as he kept his guard up. Nico was currently behind a tree and was about to attack until he saw Mizuki was about to jump to a tree.

Nico knowing about chakra and what they could do with it manipulated the shadows from a distance to pull Mizuki back to the ground when he jumped. "The fuck" Mizuki said as he was dragged back then he more shadows started to hold his legs.

Nico shadow travelled into the tree's shadow where Mizuki was being held and stabbed Mizuki only for to see he stabbed a log? Nico's eyes widened before he looked around feeling the effects of shadow travelling.

Mizuki threw his second shuriken at Nico but Nico ducked, he knew that jutsu thanks to Naruto, you could say in this little competition that Nico had a little more experience against ninja and some of the techniques.

"Using the Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Replacement Technique), I didn't expect you to use that jutsu" Nico said.

Mizuki just stared at the maybe Nara with a frown on his face. Nico however tried to conceal his panting, if Mizuki knew that he was almost out of energy then Mizuki would charge right in for the kill. He needed a plan.

Nico smirked as he got his plan ready. Holding his steel sword he blocked the attacks Mizuki was making with two kunai. Nico seeing his opening went for a stab in the neck but Mizuki jumped back only for Nico to smirk

The shadows were on the blade extended off of the blade piercing through Mizuki's neck. Mizuki had a look of shock as Nico's face held no emotions. Nico smiled, he managed to defeat one of the battle simulation enemies, the gap between Mizuki and Madara was way too large but Nico was just happy to actually win one of the simulations. Nico then covered his eyes as the whole world was consumed by a blinding light.

Genjutsu World - Naruto

Naruto had a carefree expression on his face as he smiled. They both defeated Mizuki, even though the two had trouble against Mizuki they managed to defeat him. Naruto also made a mental reminder to inform Percy about chakra and go a little more in depth with in besides just telling him it was an energy source that people in his world have. He also had to tell him about the shinobi ranking system.

Naruto couldn't stop a smirk from appearing on his face, what he was doing right now to the two. They shouldn't underestimate their opponent.

Limited Tsukuyomi

When Percy opened his eyes he was in another forest? But this forest seemed to be different. There were fewer trees for starters. "Percy?" He heard a voice and turning around it was Nico.

"Nico what are you doing here

Percy's eyes widened as he saw Mizuki walked out of a cave, Mizuki looked very different, no longer was he wearing the uniform from before but he looked more buff as well. He still had the shuriken on his back and was carrying a class of red liquid.

"Hahahahaha I was wondering who decided to come after me" Mizuki said as Percy held his pen that transformed into a sword as did Nico. Mizuki then held up the red liquid. "Beautiful isn't it?" He asked as he drank the potion leaving no drop left as the glass shattered on the ground.

"You should be honoured to be my first prey" Mizuki said as his body began changing. He became bigger, arms longer, weird markings on his arms and face.

"What the hell is happening?" Nico asked Percy who shrugged.

"Are you going to make a move or are you two too afraid?" Mizuki asked.

Percy and Nico held up their weapons before Percy sent Nico a look before Percy ran forward with his sword as Nico stayed back to support him only for Mizuki to disappear in a burst of speed and punch Percy into a tree.

"Percy!" Nico shouted before he heard a voice behind him.

"If I was in your shoes I would be more worried about myself" Mizuki told Nico.

"He's too fast!" Nico thought as Mizuki did a horizontal chop sending him away but the shadows managed to keep Nico from going too far.

Mizuki looked at his hands. "I'd become unstoppable, I almost scare myself" Mizuki said before looking at the two demigods.

Percy and Nico were glad that the injuries didn't carry over from the previous simulation. Nico went for an attack only to hear a voice behind him. "Your too slow" After Mizuki said those words he was sent crashing into Percy.

Percy and Nico stood up side by side as Mizuki stood across from them. "We need to work together for this one" Nico said. "No wonder why he put us together to fight this Mizuki"

Percy rubbed his arm. "Talk about stepping it up a notch" He said. "Got any bright ideas?" Percy asked.

Nico glanced to the cave. "That cave would have a lot more shadows to work with and it would give him less chance to use that super speed of his" Nico said.

"But how do we get him over there?" Percy asked.

"Naruto told me some useful advice onetime" Nico said gaining Percy's attention and leaned in a little.

"What is that?" The son of Poseidon asked.

"Wing it!" The son of Hades replied as he ran towards the cave as Percy ran towards Mizuki.

Mizuki in a burst of speed appeared behind Percy and went to punch him into the ground but only destroyed the ground. Percy was pulled towards Nico using some shadows a few lone trees gave.

Nico and Percy used the dust to rush into the cave, as the dust cleared Mizuki saw them enter the cave and appeared in said cave after them. Mizuki threw the large shuriken after he saw movement in the darkest corner of the cave only to be slashed from behind.

Percy held the sword that slashed Mizuki's back and Nico suddenly appeared stabbing his sword into his leg after appearing from the shadows. Percy then stabbed Mizuki in the chest when Mizuki was still registering Nico's attack.

Mizuki hissed out a curse and kicked Nico towards the wall and grabbed Percy's head and threw him to the same wall. They both saw steam erupt off his body and he started to change once more.

The two demigods have shocked looks as Mizuki basically turned into a were-tiger! Mizuki now had orange and white fur with black stripes, along with tiger ears. He was standing on both feet and still had his hair.

"I won't let my guard down again" Mizuki said to the two shocked demigods, they couldn't register what happened to Mizuki even though Nico knew that it was something chakra could only do. "I'm calling on all my strength to crush you! Now let's all have some real fun!"

Mizuki went for a punch that shattered the wall behind Nico and Percy who both dodged the attack. Nico's eyes widened. "Percy did you notice that"

"Notice what? That he transformed into a were-tiger? Cause if that is the question then yes, yes I did notice"

"No, not that" Nico said. "His slowing down his strength had increased tenfold but his movements are getting more sluggish and slow"

"So you think his trading super speed for super strength?" Percy asked as Nico shrugged as they both jumped to side the as Mizuki appeared before them both and went for an attack.

"We got to take advantage of the slower speed" Nico whispered as Percy nodded. "Follow me in a minute, I'll set something up"

Percy swung his sword at Mizuki but the older and more experience man…or now tiger grabbed and threw Percy back. Percy then ran at Mizuki only to run by him but when Mizuki looked down at his side it was bleeding.

Mizuki then started to chase after Percy and Percy took noticed at how slow Mizuki had become after transforming into a were-tiger. Percy ran out of the cave as Mizuki saw Nico standing at the entrance.

Nico waved his hand as a shadow threw Mizuki's large shuriken. Mizuki dodged under it only for to see exploding tags on the shuriken, Mizuki looked over to see Nico holding a match and his pouch. The exploding tags…well exploded causing the cave's entrance to collapse on Mizuki.

Mizuki removed the rubble that fell on him until he was pierced in the heart by Percy and stabbed downwards in the head by Nico at the same time.

"We did it" Percy said as he wiped away some blood dripping from his mouth.

"Yeah" Nico said as he sat on the ground. "To be honest… I'm exhausted"

"Same here" Percy said. "Is it me… or do you also feel a little stronger?"

Nico shrugged. "I guess" He said. "I'm not really sure but I do feel slightly stronger than before…or a lot stronger, it's hard to tell really"

"I guess your right" Percy said as he looked down at Mizuki who turned back to normal but looked shrivelled up. A white light consumed to the two before they had to cover their eyes.

Genjutsu World

The two demigods heard clapping. "Congratulations" They both saw Naruto sitting there clapping.

Nico smiled. "I finally defeated one of your battle simulations!"

"I know" Naruto said causing the two to look at him. Naruto sat down on a couch that appeared out of nowhere. "I was watching both your fights from here"

Percy and Nico looked around the room, it was a white void. "I have many other opponents for you two to fight" He said. "Now… I made Nico fight a man called Madara before you arrived and since only Nico fought him in simulation it would look like favouritism and would be unfair to the both of you so I want you to fight him"

Percy looked to Nico who had a stoic expression and nodded before Percy looked back at Naruto. "Okay, I'll do it"

"Great" Naruto grinned. "But first let me tell you about the shinobi rankings and uses of chakra" After telling Percy about the rankings and how chakra can be used to walk on walls, water and other things, Percy was shocked at the amount of things chakra can be used for.

Nico just smirked at Percy fighting Madara, it would love to watch that. The reincarnated shinobi was somehow immune to his control over the dead.

Naruto then sent Percy into the battlefield where he would fight Madara. Nico sat on the lounge next to Naruto and Naruto handed him a box of popcorn as a giant screen appeared in front of them.

Limited Tsukuyomi

Percy opened his eyes to see a desert like battlefield and he saw a bottle of water in his hand. Looking in front of him he saw a coffin before it exploded to reveal the man known as Madara.

When Percy looked at the man, Percy's body screamed to run away from the man, the man carried an aura about him that made Percy want to run away, he was afraid of that man in front of him!

It was strange, the auras between Naruto and Madara were similar but different at the same time, Madara's aura was cold and unforgiving while Naruto's was warm and caring.

Madara then made the first move. "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)" The Reincarnated Madara said as he expelled a massive orb of fire towards Percy.

Percy undid the bottle and the used the water to douse the fireball only for the fireball to go through the flames turning the water into steam. Percy was too shocked at how the fireball overpowered the water and soon he was engulfed by the fireball and he was then incinerated leaving nothing but ash.

Genjutsu World

Naruto and Nico watched as Percy was easily incinerated by Madara. Nico smirked, now he had something who knew of his pain of fighting Madara.

Naruto stood up as the lounge and screen disappeared, it was now time to return back to the real world.

Real World

Naruto removed his hands from both Percy and Nico's foreheads. "What the hell was that?" Percy asked as he woke up screaming, luckily no one could hear him scream! With the use of privacy/silencing seals he had at his disposal.

"That was Madara Uchiha" Naruto said. "One of the strongest shinobi to ever live"

"Now I see why you called it favouritism and unfair now" Percy said. It wouldn't be fair to Nico if Percy didn't fight Madara.

Naruto smiled. "You guys must be hungry" Naruto said. "Your friends will be here sooner or later" He said as he walked to prepare a meal while Percy and Nico both had an excited look on their face.

He was one of the best cooks in camp. They couldn't wait for the heavenly food.