CHAPTER 4 Return To Reach

"alright I have controls over the engines and slip space drive where to first?" cortana asked the chief from her hologram on the counsel of the covenant flagship.

"Reach, we are headed to reach." The chief answered.

"wait didn't we just come from there and from what I've heard it was over run by the covies, why are we headed back?" Kiba barked with concern

"because I said so, and we may be able to acquire a UNSC ship so we can take back to covenant held space." The chief answered

"why don't we just bring this ship there besides wasn't that our job to begin with?" kiba asked with some temper

"because we can't clear this entire ship with just the small amount of us, and you want to take the risk of some elite finding out where earth is and then escaping and telling his split chin buddies where it is?" the fox scolded from naruto's shoulder

"oh didn't think about it that way." Kiba replied

"course you didn't just leave the planning to the intelligent ones and we will leave the blowing shit up to you, alright." The fox said which just pissed of kiba who was about to give a comeback but was cut off by Naruto

"alright fox play nice." Naruto scolded the AI "but any way there is another reason for going back to reach any way isn't there chief." Naruto said looking over at the chief with a raised eyebrow but received a cold stone stare from helmeted giant.

"and that would be?" Kiba asked

"his team is still there even though the planet was most likely glassed the chief wants to see for himself incase of the slightest chance he can find and save them." Naruto said looking over at the Chief "isn't that right chief?" but only received a nod in acknowledgement

"you guys done up there?" Asuma called over the radio

"yes what is?" Kakashi called back

"well we checked out these cryo tubes the chief had on his long sword and well the chief might want to come and check this out?" Asuma replied

After hearing Asuma's report the chief and naruto's team headed back down to the hanger bay while Kiba's team along with Haverson, Locklear, and Polaski stayed on the bridge


The squad entered the hanger the chief moved over to the crashed long sword against the wall, Ino jogged off to meet up with her team, while naruto and Kakashi went over to the pelican to check on Sasuke.

"sup man how you holding up?" naruto asked as he walked into the pelican he saw Sasuke on the floor and Sakura bent over his face changing his bandages, and her helmet sitting in one of the seats

"well my eyes are melted so I can't go anywhere or kill anything, I'm pretty much a glorified paper weight that can yell out insults, other than that it's all shiny, how was your day." Sasuke said sarcastically in a pissed off tone

"well at least you got a hot nurse to take care of you." Naruto chuckled which cause sakura to blush a bit

"well can't really enjoy her hotness if I can't see it now can I?" Sasuke retorted causing Sakura to blush even more but conflicted on whether to take it as a complement or be offended by the sexism of the comment

"haha, well maybe if your lucky she'll give you a sponge bath later, anyway here's your SMG back." Naruto said as he walked over to Sasuke and set it down on his chest and he reached up and grabbed it by the handle with his left hand and slide his pistol back in its holster with his right then whispered in sakura's ear "take it as a complement." Getting a feeling she didn't take their conversation the right way

"what the hell do you want me to do with this?" Sasuke asked

"well it is yours." Naruto said as he walked over and opened an overhead compartment and then pulled out a DM rifle and grabbed a few mags for it and put them in his pouches. "and I only needed it for clearing the ship can't really use this in close quarters can I?" he said holding up the DM rifle

"what the hell is 'this' I cant see what you showing me remember jackass eyes are jelly remember?" Sasuke said pissed off now

"oh right." Naruto mentally face palmed "it's a DM rifle single shot mid to lon…"

"I know what a DM rifle is." Sasuke cut Naruto off starting to lose his patience with the blonde "now just get out of here I'm getting annoyed by your presence."

"fine alright I go see what the chief is checking out then." Naruto said as he started to walk out of the pelican

"good I need privacy for my sponge bath anyway." Sasuke yelled after him hearing his footsteps leave the pelican "so how bout that sponge bath then?" Sasuke said with a smirk

"ha you wish." Sakura said in a fake upset voice holding back a smirk of her own

"what are you mad at me for it was that idiots idea I just…" Sasuke began but was cut off by Sakura's soft lips on his quieting him

"maybe later" she said as she brought he lips away from his "I want to go and see what is going on out there anyway I'll be back in a little while." She told him as she stood up and started to walk outside but stopped as she felt something tug at her foot

"don't take too long ok." Sasuke asked in a bit of a pleading voice

"ok I'll just go out and check what is going on then come back alright." Sakura said with a smile

"ok" Sasuke answered and let go of her leg

'yep he's all mine.' Sakura thought with an evil triumphant grin as she walked out of the pelican to see what was going on

Outside the pelican everyone had gathered around the long sword looking at something Sakura walked up to the group and found it was three cryo tubes they were looking at two had a marine in each but the third which everyone was more interested in contained a Spartan.

"what's their statues?" the chief asked Ino who was crouched over the pods checking their statuses

"well the two marines are dead lost pressure and didn't make it, as for the Spartan she is alive but needs some medical treatment but should pull through if me and Sakura get he out of that armor and patch her up." Ino said as she stood up turning toward the chief

"very well just get her ready cause we'll be at reach in a few hours, and we'll need all the help we can get." The chief told her

"roger that chief, sakura some help over here please?' Ino asked looking over at sakura then crouching down to get the Spartan out of cryo.

"right." Sakura said as she walked up to the tube as it hissed releasing the pressure and the doors opened up

"hey Spartan you ok?" Ino asked as the Spartan began to look around a bit. "can you stand up?" Ino asked

"I think so" a feminine voice replied from the giant as it sat up a bit rolled over and pushed herself up only to get on her feet and start to stumble and be caught by a green flash "john is that you?" she asked

"yeah Linda its me." The chief responded

Linda looked around at the hell jumpers around her and asked "what happened where am I, where is the rest of the team and who are these…"

"I'll debrief you in a little while as for them they are friends and these docs are going to patch you." The chief cut her off "where are we taking her" the chief asked Ino

"ah Cortana is there a med bay or something similar nearby?" Ino asked the AI through her radio.

"yes sending dirctions to you HUD's now" cortana said as an light up in Ino's HUD

"alright good can you also send Hinata to meet us there I may need her help as well" Ino asked Cortana

"she will meet you there." Was Cortana's reply

"good." Ino said as she led the way then looked over her shoulder and said "hey Sakura come on it'll probably take all of us to patch this one up."

"right I'll be right there." She called to Ino then turned to Kakashi and Naruto "Hey can you help me move Sasuke up there was well? It'll be easier to treat him if he is in an infirmary." Sakura asked

"hell do you even need to ask no problem." Naruto said with a grin

"yeah let's get him up there" Kakashi said and they headed in and grabbed Sasuke on the stretcher and brought him up to the infirmary


Naruto's team arrived at the same time as Hinata and all went in to find Ino, Chief and Linda where already at a table and the Chief was helping Linda remove her armory so they could work on her.

"just put him on that table over there I gotta go help with the Spartan, come on Hinata" Sakura said pointing at one of the tables on the other side of the room.

"alright" Naruto said as him and Kakashi walked over to the table and set Sasuke down on it. "there got a nice comfortable bed for ya." Naruto joked

"feels like a metal table." Sasuke said

"well this ain't the Ritz you get what we can find, beggers can't be choosers." Naruto said in a fed up attitude

"yeah yeah I'm just joking no need to get your panties in a bunch." Sasuke said with a chuckle

"but maybe you can convince room service to give you sponge bath." Naruto whispered into Sasuke's ear which only made the blind man blush a bit at the thought of it again

"well see ya man I'm gonna find a place to catch some Z's before we get back to Reach." Naruto said as he walked away from his friend

Naruto walked to the wall next to the door they had come in to and found what looked like a bench, well close enough to a bench for him, and sat down and began to take off his armor and laid down on it and fell to sleep but made sure his pistol was still on his leg and his rifle was within arms distance


After a while Naruto woke up to someone shaking him, and he shot up and his hand went straight to his pistol pulling it out half way

"wow wow wow easy now its just me." Naruto heard a female voice say as his eyes focused and saw Sakura standing in front of him with her armor off as well just wearing her urban digital camoflaged pants and black under armor shirt

"sorry reflex." Naruto said sliding his pistol back into its holster

"its alright" Sakura said "bad dreams?" she asked

"naw not this time just a weird one where I was a half retarded ninja that wore bright orange and a ridicules catch phrase." Naruto said shaking his head "but any way what's up?"

"oh I was just letting you know we patched up the Spartan and she should be good to go by the time we make it to reach they are fast healers." Sakura said with a quick smile "any way speaking of dreams I had one about how I got off of proxy." Sakura said looking over at him but all that did was make his face go gloomy

"I try not to think about that place… no offence I know it was your home world and all but I have tried to block most of my time there from my memory but lets just say I will always be at there." Naruto said with a sad tone

"well when the covenant attacked me and Ino had been lost but were saved by two marines. Thing was I never found out there names so I could never find a way to thank them." Sakura said

"really well a lot of people fought there so doesn't surprise me how did they save you?" Naruto asked

"well we were running from some brutes and they killed them and brought us back to their base and got us on a pelican they said they were the first responding ship to the call." Sakura said seeing if she got a reaction from and got small realization look from him

"huh makes sense you did say you were on the first wave right?" Naruto said "that would have been the same ship I came in on cause we were the first ones there they say what unit they were from." Naruto asked

"ah I can't remember." Sakura said and trying to remember her dream. "ah oh yeah they called themselves pup's or something." At that naruto just froze and stared at her

"wait pup one and pup two?" Naruto asked in disbelief

"yeah that was it they were snipers one had brown hair and the other kept his hat on I only caught a glimpse of him once but I think it was blonde like yours." She said getting the reaction she wanted

"wait I remember that now two little high school students, yeah that was me and Konohamaru, hehe small galaxy huh." Naruto said

"yeah when I had the dream I didn't know what to think of it whether it was just a dream and my mind put you in it or if it was actually you that saved us." Sakura said with a smile just then Ino and Hinata walked over from the table the Spartan was on

"well she seems fine now just sleeping it off what where you two talking about." Ino aksed suspiciously

"well remember how I asked you if you remember how we got off proxy." Sakura asked Ino

"yeah some of it was coming back to me" Ino said

"remember the guys that rescued us from the brutes." Sakura says

"yeah what about them?" Ino asks as she gets shiver down her back remembering the brutes that were planning on eating them

"Namikaze is one of them." Sakura says in an excited tone

"what no way." Ino said in disbelief

"well I do happen to recall bringing some slutty looking high school girls back to base for evac but that was a long time ago and I have tried blocking most of poxy from my mind." Naruto told her

"what did you call us?" Ino said giving naruto a death glare "I never dressed like a slut." She said defensively

"that is what they all say." Naruto said with a chuckle thankful to get off the subject of proxy.

Ino just got more mad and was about to rip into him but heard cortana come over a PA system "we will be arriving at Reach in a ten minutes prepare to exit slip space."

"well you heard the lady lets get ready I highly doubt reach will give us warm welcome since the covies took it." The fox said appearing on Naruto's data pad on his armor on the ground trying to save Naruto from the hole he just dug himself

"well I gotta agree with the fox on this one, and it's rare for us to do that to so yeah later." Naruto said as he threw on his gear and headed out the door to the Bridge. leaving a dumb founded and still pissed off Ino in the infirmary.

"wait get back here." Ino yelled after him

"forget it he knows when to get out of a bad situation just grab your shit and lets get up there as well" Sakura said with a chuckle as she grabbed her gear to "you too Hinata lets go." She called to the quite girl standing next to Ino."

"right coming." She said as she grabbed her stuff

"and Spartan, Linda was it cortana sent the directions to the bridge to your HUD so just put your stuff on and head up there alright." Sakura called over and got a thumbs up from the giant woman sitting on the table

"and Sasuke don't go anywhere." Sakura called over with a slight chuckle

"oh hahaha lets all make fun of the blind guy why don't we go fuck yourself." Sasuke called back and the three docs left headed toward the bridge


The docs walked on to the bridge and saw everyone else looking at a screen of what looked like a tunnel made of light

"exiting slip space in five, four, three ,two, one" Cortana said as the lights faded away replaced with black space and a planet surrounded by destroyed ships

"holy shit." Naruto said with a shocked tone

END CHAPTER 4

A/N alright got some of the mysterious past out the way I know this one took me awhile to get up but still please review or message me always like to know what you all think