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Organic being, talking. "Hello"

Organic being, thinking. "Whatever."

Non-Organic being / Demon talking. "Assimilation completed."

Non-Organic being / Demon thinking. "Sure"

Techniques. "Katon Goukakyuu no jutsu."

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto nor Mass Effect. Credits to their respective owners.


Chapter 8

A few hours later - Normandy

A few hours have passed since the moment Naruto had left the Normandy to go to Fehl Prime. It was like 4 in the morning, and Shepard was ignorant of it.

She was in her bed, resting to replenish the energies that 'Mendori-sama' had taken away with that tremendous blow. She lay there, trying to ignore the discomfort of the training weights while slowly getting used to them and drifting off to sleep.

However, to her chagrin, she had felt in dreams that someone was whispering her name as he touched her shoulder gently. With annoyance, she slowly opened her heavy and tired eyes. "Shepard. Hey, wake up, Shepard. It's time for your training."

She instantly recognized Naruto's voice, but she didn't want to pay him attention, and with a sound of annoyance, she turned and completely covered herself with her blanket. "Leave me alone; I'm still sleepy." She spoke and closed her eyes.

However, she felt a strong pull that took her blanket away and immediately felt a great stream of nearly freezing water falling on her. Yelling due to the cold, Shepard got up from her bed, watching Naruto with one of those strange hand poses and smiling slightly at her.

"Y-You're crazy!" Shepard exclaimed, stammering due to the cold.

Naruto smiled, but then his expression changed to a more serious one and shouted. "Silence! I want five hundred pushups right now!"

Shepard blinked a few times, thinking he was crazy. "You must be kidding, that amount..." but she couldn't finish as she felt that her body weight increased considerably, which made her fall to the floor.

"I didn't give you permission to speak, Genin! I want my five hundred pushups now!" He exclaimed again with that expression that seemed straight out of a military movie. Naruto, meanwhile, was smiling amusingly inside.

Shepard groaned for several reasons. First due to the way he had woke her up, and secondly due to how bossy Naruto sounded — that reminded her of some of her instructors from N-School— and thirdly due to her current weight, though it wasn't even close to what it had been hours earlier.

Thus, very slowly, she folded her arms, stretched her legs out and placed both wet palms on the floor. Very heavily and slowly, she stretched her folded arms, taking her up to the required height. "O-One..." she said before falling due to her own weight.

Sighing wearily, she prepared herself to do the next one. But much to her dismay, Naruto stood in front of her to exclaim again, "You call that a pushup?! Even an armless child could do it better!"

"A child like you, surely." She declared, disagreeing with the words of Naruto, who, for his part, felt cornered. "Uhm, uh. Well, you do have a point there."

"I-I knew it. No one can make that amount of push-ups in a row." She added, now enjoying the comfort that the floor gave her.

She closed her eyes slightly, ready to recover more energy, but she quickly sank back into her dreams.

However, before she could do it completely, Naruto's voice stopped her. "The amount isn't impossible, but I think I went a bit too far with the weight of your wrist guards. Now ... OPEN YOUR EYES AND GIVE ME THOSE FIVE HUNDRED PUSH-UPS!" This time he had yelled almost in her ear, and Shepard, unable to hide her surprise, began to make quick pushups due to inertia.

Naruto nodded in satisfaction and waited until the moment Shepard reached her limit to give her another 'nice' surprise.

Three hours later - In the dining room

Tired, shattered, completely mangled. Those were some of the few sensations that Shepard could describe after the intense training that Naruto's clone had given her.

As the clone had guessed, Shepard had failed to reach the five hundred pushups. Therefore, he had told her to do five hundred sit-ups, which she had also failed. This routine continued for hours, and in each of them, Shepard was taken to her limit.

But to no avail, since there was no way that she could accomplish those exercises with her current capacity, and Naruto knew that very well, but he was confident that it wouldn't take long before she met his expectations.

As for the clone, the original had sent him while he continued his affairs in Fehl Prime, which would take some time since he didn't want to draw the attention of the colonists, much less the Collectors and therefore the Reapers.

Regardless, when the clone had concluded that Shepard had had enough, he had offered to get her breakfast.

She accepted without thinking because she felt hungry after the arduous training, although she had almost told Naruto to pick her up.

However, Naruto, knowing the state in which she would be, saved her the shame and did it without her asking it. Shepard didn't deny the aid help leaned on the back of Naruto when he knelt so that she could get up.

Upon reaching the third deck, Naruto sat Shepard at the head of the table, before leaving to fetch her meal. Behind him, Shepard slumped to the table as she tried to regain some energy.

For this, the clone approached Gardner, the only person in the room because he was preparing breakfast for the arrival of the crew.

Their expressions changed as their eyes met, neither wanting to be the first to break their gaze. Meanwhile, the first to approach the dining room was Garrus, who sighed because he sensed that both would fight over food again.

He decided to ignore them and walked to the table. There he could see a very unkempt Commander Shepard, who could hear a chair at her side moving and a person sitting in it.

Suspecting it was Naruto, she made a sign as she raised her head and opened her mouth with closed eyes. "Food ... Hungry ..." she said, lacking the energy to open her eyes, much less eat on her own.

Garrus instantly chuckled, which made Shepard realize that she had guessed wrong. Therefore, blushing slightly because of it, she opened her eyes and spoke. "Garrus ... I thought you were Naruto."

Garrus laughed again and this time spoke. "Yes, I thought so. I don't think there's anyone else you would have the confidence to ask to feed you."

Again, Shepard felt embarrassed due to Garrus' deduction. He was a person who could read others very quickly, after all.

However, she decided to add. "Don't get so sad, Garrus. I would ask you too, of course, if I didn't have both arms."

They both laughed, and then Garrus asked out of curiosity. "And what did happen? You weren't like this yesterday, and you didn't do any mission if I recall correctly."

Shepard felt nauseous as she remembered the reason for her fatigue, but she decided to answer with a single word. "Naruto..." Then, Shepard released a moan because she felt a pulse running through her entire body.

Garrus when hearing that and seeing her reaction, he couldn't avoid misinterpreting things and open his eyes a little bit. "Wow, I didn't think you guys would go that far. I guess, congratulations."

Then he turned slightly and looked at Naruto, who had casually looked at them. Therefore, Garrus gave him a thumbs up, which Naruto didn't understand why. However, he responded with a smile and a sign of victory.

Shepard, at first, didn't understand what Garrus was implying, but after raising her head and seeing the signs that both individuals were sending at each other, she quickly decided to correct Garrus before a rumor could spread like a plague through the ship, "No! You've totally misunderstood it," she said, shaking her hands in front of Garrus, who saw it from the corner of his eyes.

He turned around and heard Shepard continuing. "We were training. TRAI-NING." She syllabicated at the end, to avoid any more confusion.

Garrus then understood it but decided to keep bothering Shepard. "Some people call it differently, but if you want to call it training, who am I to say no?"

Her palm landed on her forehead as she shook her head, but before she could say he was wrong again, another person had joined the dining room. "What's going on here?"

They turned their heads, just to see Zaeed taking a seat next to Garrus, who without wasting time, whispered a few words in his ear.

Shepard stared with narrowed eyes, seeing the first signs of the plague, threatening to infect the entire ship, and who knows? Even the whole Galaxy (although this was somewhat exaggerated).

Zaeed, realizing the situation, decided to join Garrus; one never ran into good opportunities to annoy someone like Shepard, and he was bored and wanted to clear his mind a bit. "That guy amazes me every day. And how was it, Shepard? Did he do it as a loving teenager or as a fully-fledged mercenary?"

"Oh my god!" Shepard thought, starting to get a headache, even more after hearing someone exclaiming. "Commander! Don't tell me you seriously took my suggestion to marry the guy with the whisker marks?"

Garrus and Zaeed turned their heads, seeing Kasumi turning visible after saying those words. She had also heard what both had said, but like the others, she also wanted to join the game.

Shepard, with much effort, got to her feet, and with the little strength she had left, she hit the table. "Enough. Naruto and I didn't have sex." She ground out with a stern expression, which made the others mentally smile at seeing her losing patience so quickly.

"Why did you say that?" They heard a familiar voice, so they turned and saw Naruto accompanied by some clones — an ability that no longer surprised those present — bringing breakfast to the table.

The 'culprits' instantly looked away, pretending not to understand.

Shepard, seeing herself cornered, only leaned back, falling heavily on her seat, "Enough, I don't want to talk about it; just bring the food," she ordered; the fatigue and the prank of her team had put her in a bad mood.

Naruto and his clones shrugged and put the food on the table. Kasumi sat next to Zaeed, just to receive a tray from one of the Naruto clones.

Once everyone had their food, Naruto sat in front of the others, right next to Shepard. It caught their attention that he was the only one who didn't have anything to eat, which incommoded some of them.

Not Zaeed, who had no trouble asking. "And why aren't you eating?" He asked as he shoved some pancakes in his mouth.

Naruto, who had been frowning for quite some time, replied. "The Cook has a problem with me."

"Food..." Garrus added, eating his special food for turians. The others didn't know the reason for the fight, but Garrus did because he was very close to the kitchen and sometimes he could hear both of them arguing.

"Exactly. And I don't understand why; he has never cooked anything I asked him." He finished, crossing his arms.

Kasumi, lowering her glass of juice, added. "I believe that the amount of bowls of Ramen that you ate at the Citadel have something to do with it. He probably thinks that you'll end up eating all his reserves if he prepares something for you. Besides, I remember hearing from someone that you gave him an impressive amount of supplies to make food just for you. "

Naruto after hearing those words had a revelation. However, he dismissed it. "No. I think he just doesn't like me." He replied, crossing his arms again.

"If I were you, I'd make him understand the difference between a real soldier and a simple Cook," Zaeed added, tucking another pancake into his mouth.

Kasumi giggled and talked. "If you were him, you would probably attempt to dominate the galaxy or something like that."

"Of course. Although I would primarily make Vido suffer in unimaginable ways." Zaeed answered, without fear of saying what he would do with Naruto's powers.

Zaeed turned his head to Kasumi and continued. "Though you wouldn't be any different. You would probably steal everything in your way."

Kasumi giggled again. "You flatter me; you seem to know me very well... What about you? What would you do?" She asked looking at Garrus, who instantly took his fingers on his chin.

"Hmm, I don't know. I would probably try to help, something similar to what Naruto is doing, but on a smaller scale. I'd take care to do a thorough cleansing of the unwanted ones."

"Boring…" Kasumi and Zaeed simultaneously said.

"Not so much, it's a noble thing," Naruto added, joining the conversation, causing them to repeat themselves.

Garrus didn't bother because he wasn't ashamed of saying it or having people know. It was his nature.

"By the way, what would you do, Shepard?" Naruto asked, now looking at her.

Shepard, who was chewing with a scowl, swallowed, turned her head and looked into his eyes. "I'd give you a beating," then continued eating.

Naruto nervously scratched his head, while the others smiled and Kasumi asked out of curiosity. "Seriously, why are you so unkempt? We were just playing with you earlier, but what actually happened?"

Shepard felt nauseous again, but not enough to ruin her breakfast. Regardless, Naruto replied. "Well, I made her do some workout routines. Around five hundred repetitions of each of them, but since she couldn't complete them, I kept ordering her to do other routines. Then I forced her to run for over six hours straight."

The three of them opened their eyes in shock, and only now they could understand why Shepard was in such a mood. "That sounds intense, but I thought that your N7 tests lasted more than 20 hours straight. Are you out of shape, Shepard?" Garrus asked.

Shepard sighed exasperatedly. "Yeah, try to do workouts with thirty kilos of weight on each limb, before running in the same way without stopping at a place where the temperature is above forty degrees Celsius and where you seem to be at a height of four thousand meters, so the air hardly gets to your lungs. Yes, Garrus, I'm out of shape." She finished, tilting her head and staring at the vigilante with disbelief.

Garrus excused himself instinctively. "I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to offend you."

Shepard, noticing her behavior, sighed and apologized. "No, I'm sorry. It's just that I'm too tired; I can barely keep my eyes open. I think we won't do anything today..." Then she tried to get up with difficulty, but she couldn't due to the fatigue and because Naruto grabbed one of her hands.

"Wait, Shepard."

Shepard saw Naruto's hand shining, feeling what she had felt the night before when Naruto healed her shattered wrist. She felt revitalized almost instantly, with enough energy to do anything. Naruto, realizing this, pulled his hand away and continued, "The boss already told you yesterday, Shepard. You don't have to worry about wasting your energy when training."

Shepard, clenching her fists and stretching her arms slightly, could swear she felt stronger right now. Surprisingly, it even repaired her muscles and gave them the rest they needed.

Then she looked at Naruto and spoke. "You could have done this from the beginning," she said smiling, for the simple reason that she just liked that feeling in her body after Naruto transferred his vital energy; it was so relaxing that she couldn't help it.

The others watched with confusion, because until a few moments ago, Shepard seemed to have one foot in her grave. But now she looked like a child with enough energy to annoy her parents an entire day at the amusement park, although they assumed that the brightness of his hands had something to do with it.

Naruto chuckled and replied. "Well, I wanted your body to experience the feeling of working hard for a while. I'm not saying you haven't done it before, but I wanted you to have a slight idea of the Shinobi training."

"I see. Well, I'm going to prepare myself. Zaeed and Garrus, get ready, we're going to talk to a krogan. Perhaps your faces will scare him enough so that he doesn't try to be a problem." She joked at the end.

Neither of them took it the wrong way, they only chuckled, but Kasumi said. "If you want to intimidate him, why don't you take Naruto? I'm sure that one of his techniques would be more than enough to do it."

Naruto turned his head toward Shepard, who spoke before he could say something about it. "Because Naruto isn't imposing at first glance. Moreover, some people come to confuse him..." She replied, referring to the times when people compared him to a 'kitten.'

Naruto released a sigh while the others smiled slightly. Zaeed, however, added. "You're right. That day when he said that it wasn't necessary to hurt the batarian, I was about to punch him in the face. But when I looked at him... Let's say that I concluded that it wouldn't be wise."

"A wise decision." They heard the voice of someone approaching from the infirmary. They looked there and saw the Doctor Chakwas wandering to take a seat next to Naruto, who greeted her with a smile, and she responded in the same way.

The others also greeted her, and she continued. "Well, I can see that you're about to leave. But never mind, I will share the table with the rest of the crew. They will arrive at any time."

Shepard thanked her for understanding and rose from the table as the other two were going to the next mission. Regardless, Naruto, to not be rude, moved at high speed and brought two breakfast trays. He gave one to an impressed doctor, who swore that the tray had just appeared there, and the one remained in his hands.

"There's your breakfast, Doctor. I hope you enjoy it." The clone spoke, bowing his head slightly.

Kasumi, not understanding what had happened, asked. "Wait, was that your ability to create things out of nothing? I heard something about it."

Shepard thought it was, but Naruto contradicted. "No, I just brought two trays from the counter. I suck at creating cooked food, for the simple reason that I have no knowledge of how to do it. I can't even cook with that ability... Maybe I should take some classes." He said the latter reflecting to himself.

"I could teach you." Kasumi offered, "I'm a good cook. Well, my mother instructed me very well in it to 'please' my husband when I found one. Too bad, her daughter became a kleptomaniac, but the food is never a problem when I'm on my missions. "

"Really? Will you show me?" Naruto asked, appearing beside her, which again surprised those present. "Y-Yes, but only if you and the commander manage to complete the favor I asked of you." She added, a little scared at first after seeing him appearing so suddenly.

Naruto left the tray on the table, stood firmly and made the typical military salute. "Yes, ma'am!"

Shepard smiled at Naruto's enthusiasm; it made her happy to see him that way. She wasn't bothered by Kasumi's offer because she didn't feel any malicious intentions from any of them. Besides, something made her think that Kasumi was in love with someone else. But hey, it was just a feeling.

Naruto grabbed the tray again, and when he was about to say something else, he heard Gardner's voice exclaiming. "Hey! You could, at least, ask for my permission before taking food from my station!" He had finally realized; it was natural that he wouldn't because Naruto's speed and the distance between the dining table and his position.

Then Naruto turned his head and crinkled his face. "I just took two trays! And none of them are for me, so don't get angry! And soorryyy! I won't do it again!" He spoke with annoyance at the end.

"That's better; I don't like when people touch my station materials without my permission," the Cook added before proceeding to prepare breakfast for the rest of the crew.

With a sigh, Naruto turned and heard Shepard asking. "If it isn't for you, then for whom?"

"For the woman you recruited yesterday. I'm going to introduce myself." He replied, and without waiting for an answer, he immersed himself in the floor towards the engineering basement.

With eyes wide open, Kasumi spoke. "What I wouldn't give for a skill like that ... There wouldn't be any vault safe in the galaxy. I should ask him to be my partner once we finish this 'suicide mission.'" She thought aloud, and this last comment bothered Shepard a little bit.

"Well, it won't happen, Naruto will stay here." She added, unable to contain her opinion.

"Oh? Jealous, Commander?" She asked with amusement.

Shepard instantly turned around. "Of course not, I'm just telling you what will happen. Naruto will stay here until we defeat the Reapers, he said it himself. I'm only telling you, so you don't get your hopes up," she stated and then walked to her cabin.

"That woman is indeed crazy over that man," Zaeed affirmed, standing up from his seat before going to get ready in his room.

"You read my mind," Garrus added, doing the same.

Kasumi did it too, saying goodbye to the doctor while the other crew members gathered at the table for breakfast. She had nothing to do but had a desire to find out more about the relationship between Naruto and the Commander. But at the moment, she didn't feel like it; she would wait a little longer before analyzing them both.

Perhaps the upcoming mission would be a perfect starting point; now she simply had to wait for that day.

Meanwhile, Naruto continued descending. He didn't see the engineers because both had gone to breakfast before beginning their duties.

Therefore, he wasted no time and silently approached where Jack, who was lying on her bed and quietly reading the data she had obtained about Cerberus.

However, her surprise had been great at the sight of a silhouette descending just above her. She instinctively grabbed the gun hidden under her pillow and shot a few times at the strange silhouette, which seemed to be a hologram as her bullets went through it as if it weren't there.

Naruto, realizing that he had disturbed the 'resident,' descended rapidly and stood right next to her bed. "Sorry for bothering you, but I brought breakfast." He spoke apologetically.

"What the hell?! Cat Man?! How the hell did you do that?" She exclaimed turning to him; the surprise was great, after all.

Naruto almost dropped the tray when he heard Jack's nickname for him, but he avoided it nimbly, making Jack look at him in disbelief due to the surreal way in which he had moved.

"Please, don't call me that. My name is Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki," he corrected with a visible eyebrow tic.

"Whatever... Explain yourself, now." Jack ordered, dismissing his order.

Sighing, Naruto put the tray on the table beside her bed. "What's your problem?" he asked, now crossing his arms.

"That none of your business. I've asked you a question, and I want the answer," she spoke in a dismissive tone again.

Naruto narrowed his eyes, not with annoyance, but because he sensed — after analyzing her facial expressions — the reason for her behavior.

He could confirm it by accessing her mind, but he had learned to respect the privacy of others thanks to Shepard. "I think I understand it..." Naruto spoke.

"What do you understand?" Jack asked.

"You don't trust me... No, you don't trust anyone on this ship. Maybe Shepard, but I don't know. The reason? I don't know that either, but that glow in your eyes... I know that very well. The eyes of suspicion, mistrust, hatred and bitterness. I know them very well, and that lets me guess the reason for your attitude. Am I wrong?" He earnestly asked.

Although she wouldn't admit it, Jack was surprised at how easily he had seen through her; it wasn't something that people could achieve because she had excellent defenses against it, but this person before her had demolished them with great ease.

Hiding her surprise, she snorted. "And what are you, a kind of psychologist with super powers?"

Naruto chuckled and sarcastically spoke. "Yes, I even have X-ray vision; now I see you almost naked." He had said that because her clothes left little to the imagination.

With a snort, Jack replied, "Well, I'd rather dress like this than a ridiculous outfit like yours."

Naruto almost fell backward. "Why do people keep saying that? My suit represents the title I've earned, of a sage..." He said opening both hands and pointing them toward his body.

Jack laughed mockingly and continued, "Sage? Hahaha, you must be kidding, you can't be more than 26 years old."

Naruto chuckled, "I have more years than you could count before getting tired."

Jack released a similar laugh, thinking that he was again speaking sarcastically again. Therefore, she didn't pay much attention to that statement and continued. "Anyway, now tell me, how the hell did you get through the roof of the ship as if it were nothing? I even saw you floating, and there was no sign that you were using biotics. So, who the hell are you?"

"First of all, eat your breakfast. It'll get cold," he spoke as he grabbed the tray and handed it to Jack, who reluctantly grabbed it and placed it on her lap as she watched Naruto, waiting for his explanation.

While carrying the food to her mouth, Naruto briefly explained his place of origin, the reason for being in the Normandy, and what Jack had been waiting to hear, the explanation of his abilities.

Curiously, Jack remained silent throughout the story. However, Naruto could see that smiles of disbelief crossed her face at times.

Once Naruto finished his story, he saw that Jack had placed the tray on the nightstand before lying back on her bed and grabbing the tablet that contained the data of Cerberus. "Hey, Cat Man. If you didn't want to tell me, you should have just shut your mouth rather than making up that fantasy story. But hey, I'll give you something, they were entertaining stories. You would earn good money in some bars on Omega, with magic performances included. You would be quite the attraction."

Even though Naruto knew she was joking, he contemplated the idea. "Hmm, maybe. I should ask Aria to help me out. Although I don't know, I would call too much attention." He thought with his fingers on his chin.

At the mention of that name, Jack pulled the tablet away from her face and turned her head slightly toward him. "Do you know Aria?"

"Yes, I visit her occasionally. Although for some strange reason, the boss doesn't want to, just us."

"Boss? Ah, the Illusive Man." She added, speaking with contempt at the end.

"Of course not. My boss is the original. I'm a simple clone," corrected the clone, to avoid misunderstandings.

"A clone? Did Shepard agree to put a clone aboard this ship? I heard that the clones were dangerous because of their lack of identity," she said with narrowed eyes.

The clone smiled slightly and replied. "While the clones that the boss usually creates have their own personality, even then we are bounded to him, and we can't do anything that could harm him. So we're not a danger, and in the unlikely that we could, he could simply make us disappear by just thinking it. "

Jack looked at him with a look of "What the hell?" having no idea what he was talking about. "You're out of your mind," she declared, thinking she was talking to a madman.

The clone sighed and turned his head to the right, making a puff of smoke appear at the moment, and seconds later, a perfect clone of himself.

"Damn!" Jack exclaimed in shock, not believing what she was seeing.

She approached slowly and touched the new clone, noticing that it was solid and not just a hologram or some kind of trick of the light. "Are you really a ninja? Hell, I thought you were making it all up," she expressed, now moving away a little.

Naruto nodded slightly, so she said. "Hmm, interesting. This mission may be fun after all."

"Oh? Did you believe me already? Won't you ask me for more tests?" This time, he asked with interest.

Jack shrugged. "No one can create clones of themselves like that. So your story fits. I'm not a person who denies the facts once I have them in front of me."

"I see. People usually tend to be more skeptical. But it's good to know that you've believed me, it would have been problematic if you saw my skills on a mission and lost focus from it," then he looked at his clone and made it disappear.

It was then when Jack understood what he meant by 'make us disappear at any time.' "Hey, Naruto, right?"

"Yeah?" The clone asked, watching Jack sighing. "I think I misjudged you. You're not one of those lackeys of Cerberus, like the cheerleader. When I boarded a Cerberus ship, I thought that everyone would be members of that organization. However, I can see that I was wrong. So I owe an apology for my attitude earlier. "

Naruto smiled widely and answered. "Of course. Some of them have joined only for the Commander; give the crew a chance."

Jack nodded, but there was something that pissed her off. "But get that stupid grin off your face. It's not like we're friends or anything, I just said that I misjudged you. Don't read any more into it."

"Sorry, sorry." He apologized scratching his head, "I think I should go now. See you later, or in some mission if Shepard wants to. Well, goodbye." With that said, he turned around and almost floated away to Miranda's room to talk to her, when Jack's voice stopped him. "Hey, wait a minute. I have a favor to ask you."

Naruto said he would gladly listen. Therefore, Jack looked at him with seriousness. "Wanna fuck?"

Choking on his own saliva and coughing because of this, Naruto mouthed the words with difficulty. "Why do you ask that so suddenly? It's not like I don't want to, but why?"

Jack smiled at his behavior and spoke with extreme sweetness and sarcasm. "Oooh, what happened? Does the old man has been so much time without having sex that he blushes at the first mention of it?"

Naruto instantly changed his expression. "Please, I? Blushing? Do you want me to teach you what blushing really is?" He challenged, stepping forward.

"Show her, boy." Kurama encouraged, quite attentive to the development of the conversation.

Jack got up from her bed and stood in front of Naruto, only now realizing how tall Naruto was.

Not paying much attention to it, she answered the challenge. "And what will you do? Will you teach me your techniques from a hundred thousand years ago when you didn't even know the right place to put it?"

Naruto, with a vein marked on his forehead, stared into her eyes and spoke in a threatening tone. "You've played with fire, now..., get burnt," consequently, and before Jack could react, Naruto moved his right hand and held her arm firmly.


Afterward, Naruto proved his point in a way that Jack would never forget.

Meanwhile - Planet Korlus.

After going through a contingent of Blue Sun soldiers plus furious krogans, Shepard, and her squad entered the room where Okeer stood.

There, the radical militant and the Commander engaged in a conversation about his potential participation in the 'suicide mission.' Okeer mentioned that he was immersed in an investigation, in the key to his 'legacy.'

Specifically, a pure krogan, who was in a tank of the room. Shepard said she could use a soldier like that on her team, but Okeer flatly refused. However, he stated that they could reach an agreement in exchange for a ride off the planet.

However, negotiations stopped because, Jedore, the current commander of the Blue Suns, had called "blank slate" on the project. Therefore, her subordinates released toxic gasses in the rooms of the cloning facility.

Okeer, not wanting to lose the fruit of his labor, asked Shepard to take care of that problem. She had no problems and soon managed to stop the spreading of the gas while taking out Jedore and the rest of her acolytes.

They went to Okeer's room again, but upon arrival, a recording of him greeted them. It said that he had no idea what the Collectors wanted, but he also thanked her for giving him enough time to save his prototype in time, his legacy.

And now they were there, looking at the tank that contained a krogan that looked so different from those that Shepard had seen so far in her life. Shepard didn't know how a 'pure' krogan would be, but something, besides the continuous remarks of Okeer, made her believe that this krogan was one.

However, she stopped paying attention to his physical appearance when she heard Garrus saying. "Why would someone so fanatical sacrifice himself for one krogan?"

Shepard turned her head toward him, listening Zaeed continuing. "A bullet in his brain would save us a lot of headaches." He suggested as a course of action to avoid the trouble of carrying a highly dangerous species aboard the Normandy.

Shepard, on the other hand, shook her head. "A 'pure' krogan could pack a hell of a punch. We can always use another heavy hitter."

"If he'll help. I doubt anyone's asked for his opinion." Garrus added instantly.

"That we'll find out ..." Shepard replied, now moving her hand to her helmet communicator. "Normandy? Okeer is a no-go. But we have a package that needs retrieval... And he's a big one."

At that moment, she heard the voice of Joker. "Roger that, Commander."

Then she turned around and looked at her companions. "Another successful mission. It's time to go..." But she suddenly stopped there. For two reasons.

First, because she heard a cackle, and secondly, because she saw a hen at the end of the room. And it wasn't just any hen; it was 'the' hen, and, therefore, Shepard stared at her.

Both men looked at Shepard with a raised eyebrow, not knowing why she had suddenly stopped and why she was looking into that direction. They also turned their heads and could see that hen, with strange eyes, was pecking at the floor of the room. "*Cluck-Cluck*."

"Shepard?" Garrus spoke with confusion.

"You two, stay away. And for your welfare, don't disrespect that hen." She whispered, cracking her neck and doing some stretching.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Zaeed asked. "It's just an stu..." But he stopped there because Shepard had turned and pointed her weapon at him. "I told you; don't disrespect her. That's not just any hen; Naruto created her. You can get an idea what that means."

Zaeed snorted and continued. "You think too highly of that guy. What does it matter if that's a creation of Buddha himself? It's just an stu..." he was interrupted again, but this time, it wasn't due to a gun, but by the hand of Shepard. "Okay, okay. Get close and tell her what you think, but don't complain to me later."

"I'll show you how to do things." Zaeed expressed, taking a few steps forward towards the hen.

Shepard just smiled, and just then she saw Zaeed pointing his fingers at the hen. "Hey you!" He exclaimed as he came closer.

Mendori turned her head toward him, hearing him continuing. "You are an stu..." And again he couldn't finish what he had in mind. This time, because something had sent him to the other end of the room at a rate of knots.

He crashed hard into the metal wall of the room and crumpled to the floor; a single header of Mendori was enough to knock him unconscious. "Damn," Garrus whispered, impressed by what he had seen.

Well, he didn't see the hen moving at all, only Zaeed flying because something had hit him, but concluded that it had been the hen as she had landed to continue pecking.

Once Shepard had finished warming up, she turned to Garrus and said. "Take him back to the shuttle; I'll catch you up soon," she said the latter because Shepard knew she wouldn't be able to grab the hen, but she would still give her best.

Garrus shrugged and then placed Zaeed's arm around his neck before leaving and from there going toward the landing craft.

When just the two of them were there, Mendori approached Shepard to say. "So, you have already learned to respect your superiors, eh? *Cluck-Cluck*" she cackled.

Shepard wanted to be honest, but she swallowed it and replied as she bowed her head slightly and took her hand in her chest. "Yes, Mendori-sama."

She had learned the honorific from Naruto, who after hearing about the first meeting between the two of them, couldn't help laughing, but he told her to use that honorific at the end of her name in order to appease her.

Mendori flapped, but this time for the joy of seeing a 'fool' human acknowledging her position. "I like you. After all, you're not like the rest of the mindless humans. *Cluck-Cluck*. You have some intelligence, unlike the others, enough to learn good manners."

Shepard, with her head down, gritted her teeth and thought. "Stupid hen, just wait. When I have enough strength, I'll make you eat your own words." Then she got it up and looked at Mendori. "Could it be that your Creator isn't a human being? Is he just as dumb as the others?"

If she could growl, the hen would have done it, but she simply cackled as she flapped rapidly. "Don't ever compare Naruto-sama with your kind again! He is practically a deity; it's a concept that your kind will never succeed in conceiving! *Cluck- Cluck*." Exclaimed the altered hen.

Shepard rolled her eyes, and words escaped from her involuntarily. "Shut up." She whispered, but Mendori managed to hear. "What?!" She asked, stomping the floor in a threatening manner.

"No, nothing. It was just curiosity, Mendori-sama." She answered, mentally sighing when seeing her calming down.

Mendori nodded and turned. "Well, it's about time; I hope it won't be as disappointing as yesterday. Such being the case, I'll be much more rigorous from now on." This time, there was no clucking, only the serious words of a dangerous and devilish opponent.

Shepard just nodded and prepared her muscles for the race of her life.

Once Mendori noted that Shepard was ready, she ran to an unspecified direction, followed closely by a very, and rightly, irritated Commander Shepard.

Four hours later – Normandy

Tiredness and pain; that was all Shepard could think of after returning to the ship. They were four hours of uninterrupted running, except at times when Mendori lunged toward her to attack her.

Naturally, she had been unable to defend herself against the attacks of the fast hen, but she noted however that her body would very quickly become used to her blows, until the point where, although she still received them, she could endure them much more.

That continued during those four hours, and Garrus had left the planet along with Zaeed — who was still unconscious — when the Normandy sent another shuttle to pick up the krogan.

She had obtained several bruises and lacerations from this small skirmish, although the only thing in Shepard's mind was the result that Naruto's training would give her. She couldn't deny that she felt excited to see her first signs of progress.

Nonetheless, Naruto had told her that Shepard wouldn't notice them until she got used to her weights, which, without Shepard knowing it, increased in weight by themselves as she got used to them.

Not exponentially, but gradually, so that she couldn't notice the 'trap' that Naruto had installed on his tools.

With her right hand over her ribs, she hobbled toward the bridge. The voice of Joker reached her and asked if she had been fighting the Reapers unbeknown.

Shepard replied that it had been an even more terrible opponent, and kept walking, this time towards her cabin. However, before arriving, Jacob had told her that he intended to talk to her in the communications room on the 'package' that they had retrieved from the site of her last mission.

With a "later" and "sent Naruto immediately to my room" she took the elevator to get a quick shower upon reaching her destination.

Once she felt clean enough, she went to her closet and put on her duty clothes. After that, she went to her couch and sat there until Naruto's arrival.

Looking at the clock, Shepard got some nervous tics because thirty minutes had passed since she left the bathroom, and there were no signs that Naruto would appear. She found herself wondering why he was taking so long.

There wasn't an impending threat; she had neither heard that someone from Alliance had come aboard, much less that he had gone to work as superhero around the galaxy or something like that.

Inevitably, her irritable state increased. She growled and got to her feet as she thought. "What could he possibly be doing? Damn it, does he believe that training with his hen is easy or what?"

She walked towards the door, still deep in her angry thoughts, causing her not to pay attention to where she was going. Therefore, when the door had opened, she inevitably crashed against something that made her fall back on the floor.

She rubbed her butt and looked up, seeing a familiar face along with a hand in front of her face. With a grunt, Shepard took his hand and stood up. "Why did you take so long?" Shepard spoke, looking at Naruto with that feeling that was afflicting her since she had woken up.

Naruto, scratching his cheek, walked toward the couch in the room. Reluctantly, Shepard followed him and sat on the sofa in front of him, waiting for him to speak.

"Sorry for the delay, Shepard. I was talking to Miranda until recently; she had something important to tell me. Do you remember?"

Shepard recalled that moment and asked with crossed arms. "And about what?"

"That, well ..."

Minutes before

After Naruto had finished that extraordinary meeting that Jack would never forget, Naruto had walked up the stairs towards the elevator. Before he could reach it, he saw two blushing engineers who simply couldn't look him in the face.

Everything indicated they had heard their screams when he was down there, so he strongly encouraged them not to talk to anyone about it, but he had winked at Daniels, who naturally blushed even more, but it caused no significant impact on Donnelly.

After he had arrived at the elevator, he remembered what Miranda had told him the night before. Therefore, he selected her deck and walked to her cabin.

The door automatically opened, so he went in without words. There he saw Miranda, sitting behind her desk and typing on her console.

Miranda stopped when seeing Naruto standing in front of her, and turned her chair toward him. "Thanks for coming by, I was waiting for you," Miranda spoke first.

Naruto saw her standing up and walking to the back of her cabin, where a couch was, inviting Naruto to sit next to her.

Naruto nodded silently and sat down. He met her eyes, seeing some regret in them. "This is something that I told Shepard, and I'll say it to you now." She started, sighing at the end.

Naruto remained silent, not wanting to say anything that might make the task of expressing her thoughts more difficult. "I-I wanted to apologize. At first, when I realized the intentions of the Commander, I thought that you wouldn't be suitable for this mission."

Naruto raised an eyebrow but didn't open his mouth and allowed Miranda to explain herself. "You're probably thinking: 'Why do you say that if you showed yourself very interested in my skills, to the point of telling them to your boss?'"

Miranda realized that her deduction was correct, as she saw Naruto nodding. Therefore, she resumed. "It wasn't enthusiasm; I was cautious; I didn't want you near this ship. I thought if I informed the Illusive Man, then he would have been able to do something about it. However, it seems that I was totally wrong."

With a small pause, she continued. "Before I tell you the reason, I'll tell you why I didn't want you to be part of this mission."

"Go ahead."

Miranda sighed as she ran her fingers through her forehead. "You must know that you're someone very dangerous, deadly, a man capable of ending our armies alone." Those were the words that she had chosen to begin her speech.

Naruto felt a little disappointed by these words, but Miranda continued before he could get the wrong idea. "I deduced that very quickly when I saw you fighting that beast. That's why I couldn't avoid asking myself. What is he? What are his intentions? Why should we trust him? What if he is just using us? What could we do in that case? As you can see, I had many doubts about the Commander's decision to make you part of the crew. But I said nothing about it, and I'm not ashamed to say it, because I was afraid that you would retaliate."

Surprised, Naruto just nodded; he didn't know he had caused those feelings in her because he had never inquired much on the feelings or memories of the crew members.

"Wow, I didn't know that. I'm sorry," he laughed at the end, scratching his head.

"Don't worry; that's one of the reasons I realized I was wrong."

He looked at her, hearing her continuing. "That ingenuity of yours isn't something that one can find in these parts of the galaxy, let alone in someone of your abilities. Even the Commander isn't like that. But it isn't something wrong, but quite the opposite. That quality of yours made me realize that you didn't have bad intentions and that you really wanted to help this galaxy. Although I believe that the Commander had a lot to do with that." She deduced the latter.

"What do you mean?" He asked, out of curiosity.

"She has a fire, a fire that would make people willing to follow her into hell itself," she answered.

"I couldn't agree more," the clone indicated, smiling slightly.

Miranda also did it and continued. "But you, you don't have a fire, you have a flare. I'm sure you don't think as I do, but I have to defer. Since the moment you offered to hear me out, despite what I had tried to do, I realized that other peculiarity of yours. I apologize again for misjudging you."

Naruto quickly waved his hands since he felt a bit embarrassed. "No, it's also my fault. I didn't talk much with the rest of the crew. It's true that I didn't think about my condition. In my world, it wasn't uncommon to see people of my kind, and therefore, people didn't have many problems with us, less so if we were part of a village. But things are different here; I had to explain myself better and talk more with all of you so that there were no misunderstandings. Hence, I also apologize for the trouble I've caused you. "

This time he got to his feet and bowed apologetically, which brought a smile to the Cerberus operative. "You didn't have to do that, but I guess it's a tradition of yours." She said that because everyone on the ship already knew that the customs of his planet were quite similar to those of Japan.

Naruto raised his head and continued. "You have a point, but I wasn't like this before; it started from the moment I had responsibilities. I had to grow."

"Was it when you became the leader of your planet?"

"That's right, it wasn't just me anymore, but everyone."

Miranda nodded and stood up to return to her desk. "That was all I wanted to say for the moment. If I feel the need to talk to you again, I'll let you know."

Standing up, Naruto nodded. "Okay, I'm usually in the ship's hangar. I'll be waiting there."

They were about to say goodbye when they heard EDI's voice. "As you both have finished talking, I have to inform you that the Commander has requested your presence in her cabin, Naruto-san."

"How long ago?"

"About thirty minutes ago."

Naruto sighed while scratching his head. "I'd better go; she'll be upset." He bowed slightly and left the room after Miranda told him goodbye.

Back to the present

"And that's what we talked about," Naruto said, already returning to the present. "So, why did you call me?" He asked.

Shepard, sighing and rubbing her body, replied. "I need you to heal me."

Naruto smiled and spoke as he stood up and walked toward her. "Did Mendori-chan treat you badly? Did you treat her respectfully as I told you?" He inquired with a smile, already standing and kneeling in front of her to bring his hands to her.

Shepard laughed ironically, but then leaned her head on the couch and closed her eyes, shuddering again when feeling the relaxing sensation invading her body. However, this time, it was different because some pain and fatigue had remained even Naruto ended with the technique.

"Why do I still feel pain and fatigue?" she asked, confused.

Naruto replied thoughtfully. "I can't make you get used to this method, if I do it, you'll become very intolerant to pain, and that's something that will negatively affect your training. I'll only heal you completely when you really need it. Right now there's no need for it; you're not very hurt."

Shepard wanted to protest, but she knew that Naruto was right. Therefore, she sighed in defeat. "You always find a way to shut me up." She pointed out amid sighs, now looking into his eyes.

Naruto smiled slightly and added. "So do you. We're somewhat alike in that."

Shepard just smiled, but with the passing of seconds, she stood up from her seat. "By the way, any news from the original?"

Shaking his head, the clone replied. "No more than what I've already told you; he's still investigating, although he has already spotted the person in question. However, he hasn't yet seen anything suspicious enough to get involved. He doesn't want to expose himself until the right time..."

Shepard nodded and walked toward the exit, followed by Naruto, who didn't want to stay behind. "Well, let me know when you have news. Now, shall we train?"

The clone smiled at Shepard's willingness, which made him nod. "Okay. Get ready... to suffer." He finished, chuckling like a 'madman.'

Shepard swallowed hard and kept walking. The result; that was all that mattered.


Notes:

First of all, I'm sorry for censoring the Lemon, but I had to. So many stories have already been deleted because of that that I don't want to suffer the same thing.

If you really want to read it, please, leave here your reviews and go to my Fanfiction profile to get the link for the uncensored version or add me on my Facebook to ask me there for the link.

In this chapter I focused on what people were asking, that Naruto gets more involved with the crew. I hope you've enjoyed the talks that took place in the chapter.

By the way, I doubt that anything can happen between Kasumi and Naruto, Naruto perhaps comes to see her as a "sister" or something like that. But you should know that she's in love with someone else if you don't know who, then play the game. : P

First Lemon of the fic. And although it was a little short, I hope you've liked it (if you have read it). I haven't written any lemons in almost two years. Therefore, you will judge its quality.

Do you think it was somewhat forced? Well, the truth is I don't believe it. In the game, Jack tells Shepard that if he wants to fuck, he just have to ask. And then... xD

Shepard will continue to be beaten, but hopefully, we'll start seeing the fruits of her 'suffering' soon.

That would be all, until the next delivery.

Special thanks to "eluguy" and "Ten-Tailed-God".