The Sleeping God

One Black Coffee

Percy and co left Kiri soon after that, only staying long enough to give the city leaders instructions on just how he wanted his temples run, based off of the ones in Uzu. The city officials were quick to comply. 

"So where to next?" Ayako asked, gliding lazily through the air, Sharringon and Percy both sitting in human form on her head. 

"I want to return to my mountain." Sharringon said, looking pensive. 

"I think it's time for Ayako and I to head back to Uzu anyways. I want to check on the temple, make sure it's still running as Estelle would have wanted it to." 

Ayako nodded, almost throwing her riders, and readjusted their course. 

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"Your all so adorable! I'm adopting all of you!" Ayako shrieked upon seeing the latest batch of priestesses. 

It was an exercise in dejavu, Ayako landing in the temple courtyard after flying over the city, Sharringon already having taken off for Uchiha Mountain. 

"Please remember that they are already related to ypu." Percy said, sipping a glass of sake the head priestess had given him. 

"Like you don't think the same thing." Ayako teased. 

Percy stood, red haori rippling in the sea breeze. 

"Where are you going?" 

"To find some aspiring swordsmen." 

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Percy grinned, spinning on his heel as he delivered a powerful blow to the Uzumaki warrior, her matching grin just as wide. 

"Careful, Oji-sama. Your starting to show your age." 

"Oh it is on, whippersnapper." 

They continued to dance, back and forth, blades singing in the sunlight of the training grounds as they sparred. 

Her name was Akari and she was the best warrior on the island. 

It really made Percy happy, seeing the equality among men and woman on Uzu, where anyone could do anything. 

The spar ended when Akari was disarmed and Percy had his sword tip resting on her collar bones. 

Something sparked. 

Percy sat up quickly, hair at weird angles from his not so gracious landing. "Did you seriously set off a bomb?" 

Akari straightened up, a smug look on her face. "I designed it myself. A one way concussive blast, should anyone manage to do what you did."

She held up her hand, where the swirling lines of fuinjutsu snakes from her elbow to her palm. 

"Consider me impressed." Percy said. "Tell me more." 

Akari's face lit up and Percy got an explanation that brought back fond memories of Lou Ellen and Annabeth, learning about advancements of the art since he had first introduced it to the Uzumaki. 

Ayako was smitten when he introduced the two, and they stayed in Uzu for several years, learning from the more specialized styles of their family. 

Percy even learned more hand to hand, helping to develop Uzu style, a fluid defensive technique that had been based off how he spun around his opponents back before Uzu was an island. 

Sharringon was okay with their decision to stay for a while, deciding to take a break himself and study smithing under his great ×23 grandson. 

"It's...interesting, to see creation from fire, instead of destruction." 

"How many swords did you make?" Ayako grinned. 

Sharringon refused to answer, which meant too many to count. 

A decade after that, they were traveling again, this time to the other side of the world where Percy was intrigued by strange stones that adsorbed natural chakra and granted strange abilities depending on where they had formed. 

"Weird." Ayako said, looking at a stone they had taken from the neck of a woman who had seen their foreign features, (the people there were predominantly European looking, with light hair and eyes) and promptly turned into a bat and attempted to murder them. 

"Yeah." Percy said. "It absorbed her life force. This can't end well. Let's go rock collecting." 

It took almost 200 years but they finally managed to not only collect most, if not all of the stones, but prevent society in that corner of the world from collapsing. It was hard work. They seemed determined to hoard the stones and set thousands of people between their hoards and the dragon's. 

Ayako had fun though. Arson and threatening people into compliance were her hobbies.