Alright then got a computer for the time being so here is the eighth chapter in the story Reaper Threat. This chapter is defiantly going to explain why Naruto will not use the Kyuubi form any further more. Some of you may not like why and some of you might think it's alright but this is what I wrote so yeah. The fight scenes in this one are pretty rushed so bare with me and I do apologize for them but I hope you read the chapter anyway. Some heart wrenching stuff if I do so say; so I hope you enjoy. To all those that reviewed and have taken the liberty of putting this story on there alert list I thank you on my own behalf probably means diddly squat but hey feel appreciated will you. You've earned it.

Chapter 8: End of the Vacation, a Triangle is Formed?

Shepard stood in the middle of the Uchiha main house glaring at Garrus who had just failed at another attempt prank on said Commander. It just wasn't the same without Naruto.

"Can you prove that it was me?" Garrus asked as he looked at her with the best puppy dog eyes he could manage.

"I saw you do it!" Shepard yelled at him. Ashley was to the side laughing at her turain friend she had seen him start the prank and warned Shepard about the whole thing. "That's it you and Naruto are not allowed to pull any more pranks!" She continued to shout.

"Oh come on its just harmless fun!" Garrus shouted back.

"Garrus it is fun but there are limits and I guess Naruto needs to learn these limits." Shepard grinned evilly. There was a knock on the door and Miranda went and opened it to find an ANBU member standing out the front.

"Can I help you?" She asked.

"Commander Shepard, please report to the Hokage it is very urgent." The ANBU replied as he disappeared Shepard looked around and nodded to Garrus who stood up and left with Shepard to the Hokage tower. Tsunade had a very distant look on her face like the one she had when she found out about the news on Jiraiya

"Commander, good to see you, but unfortunately this is not good news." Tsunade sighed as she rubbed her forehead.

"What do you mean Lady Tsunade?" Shepard asked.

"It's the stupid council they want Naruto to stay in the village and say that he is not allowed to leave with you." She sighed again.

"But you're the leader of the village can't you do something about this?" Garrus asked Tsunade looked over to the Turain and smiled a sad smile.

"I wish I could but unfortunately Naruto is head of two clans now. The Uzumaki clan and the Namikaze clan."

"Isn't there any other clan members that could take his place for the time being?' Shepard asked.

"No he is the last of both clans and by village law he is meant to be stuck in this village until his first son can bare a child."

"So there is nothing that you can do about it?" Shepard asked as she started to feel like he was being taken away from her just like everyone else in her life. First it was Alenko then members of the Normandy crew, then if it wasn't for Naruto she probably wouldn't have got Ash back either and now she was losing the most precious person to her.

"There is something that I can do." Tsunade told her and she perked up at that. "You see Naruto wasn't here long enough to say he was a citizen of the hidden leaf. So there for he is still a missing-nin which means he has no alliance to any village."

"But won't people come after him then?"

"They will but there are two things stopping them from killing him, firstly he is the head of the two most powerful clans in the five ninja nations and he won't even be on the planet he will be with you guys." Tsunade smirked at them. There was a tap on the window which was a messenger bird. Tsunade opened the window and looked at the letter and she was shocked.

"Is everything alright Lady Tsunade?" Garrus asked.

"I wish it was my Naruto's last mission has gone wrong in so many ways."

"Does he need backup?" Shepard asked and Tsunade nodded. "Where are we headed then?"

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A few hours Earlier Naruto had reached the edge of Wind country where he was escorting Gaara back to the hidden sound village when they were ambushed by s-class missing Sand ninjas who had fled the hidden sound after Gaara had become the Kazekage. All five of them were quite powerful but both of their honor meant that they would not run from a fight and they both knew it.

"So what do we do?" Gaara asked the now thinking blonde.

"Well we could attack and might lose or we might win the odds aren't in our favor so it's hard to tell weather we would win or not." Naruto replied. Gaara nodded at his reasoning when he spoke once more.

"Well I was getting sick of the job of being the Kazekage anyway to much paper work." Gaara smiled as the missing-nin surrounded them both.

"What are both of you discussing!" One of the shinobi shouted he wasn't a patient man by any means.

"Nothing my good man but there are a few things that me and my friend must discuss so how about you be on your way and let us settle things." Naruto responded with a smile which took the others off guard and all of them missed Gaara's hand signs.

"Sand Style: sand burial!" Gaara called out and before any of them knew it three of the rouge shinobi were killed by suffocation from Gaara's attack. The other two were already in combat with Naruto, he was in his armor which made it slightly more difficult for him to maneuver but managed to stab one of them in the eye making him cry out in pain as Naruto stood over him with one of his pistols in his hand and pointing down at the guys skull.

"How can you move in that?" Gaara asked.

"Well you know, it's a bit hard but you get use to the limitations of it." Naruto smiled again, the other ninja was on the ground cowering as he watched Naruto pull a trigger on the strange weapon and watched as his friends head exploded seconds after.

"You, tell the people back in the village that I have decided to resign." Gaara said as he stepped next to Naruto. Both of them watched as he nodded his head and ran off towards the hidden sand. "So what now?"

"Well..." Naruto grinned.

"Well what?" Gaara asked.

"I saw you checking out Miranda the other night so why not come on this mission with me you get cool gadgets." Naruto smiled. Gaara had to turn his head away he did find the Cerberus officer rather attractive and they both had some things in common there fathers wanted them as a legacy that would be remembered and they both found each other fascinating, they could learn much from one another. "So what do you say?"

"Well I guess I have no where else to go now I'm just like you a missing-nin." Gaara responded.

"You just want the super cool gadgets and to be a hero the whole galaxy would know of because that is what sold me." Naruto grinned and Gaara had to laugh at Naruto's point that the gadgets that he had were quite awesome and the whole hero charade. That was just the start of there troubles they traveled around not wanting to go straight back to the hidden leaf and wanting to make some trouble for some bandits that Gaara had heard about in the last few months that had come into a massive crime organization in a short period of time. That were the trouble started and in a big way. They had no idea that some other villages had infiltrated the organization already and they completely wiped out a third of the entire organization in just over an hour after scouting out there surroundings. That's when shit hit the fan. There was a powerful rouge ninja that founded the organization and he was on a par with Naruto this caused trouble because when they met the whole organization was fighting shadow clones along with Gaara's sand clones. So when the big boss came out Naruto went straight for him not knowing of his strength.

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Sakura and Sasuke were leading the group that consisted of Shepard Garrus and Ashley they weren't able to use chakra to enhance there speed so they were traveling at a slow jog to keep there energy encase they needed to enter combat. Sasuke was concerned he knew that Naruto would never back down from a fight and the leader of the organization had even beat him, he may not have his Sharingan any more but he is still useful in a fight and was on par with Kakashi and still lost and was spared as the man was somewhat merciful. Sakura was just completely worried she had heard from Sasuke that Naruto didn't care if he lived or died any more so she was scared that she may forever lose him. She would rather him hate her then never be able to see him ever again. Garrus knew what Naruto was capable of but had no idea what anyone else on this planet could do so he was on his guard along with Ashley she wouldn't admit it but she actually liked Naruto. Shepard was the most worried she didn't want him losing any sought of control out here.

And that's when they heard the explosion and the burst of red and black energy that went into the sky and they all saw a red head jumping back from tree to tree.

"Gaara!" Sakura called out. Gaara looked over his shoulder and if he could show some sought of emotion his jaw probably would have dropped but he kept his cool and slowly dropped to the forest floor and approached the little group.

"What are you doing out here?" Sasuke asked.

"Well..." Gaara started.

"Is Naruto with you?" Shepard asked.

"He was with me until a few moments ago." Gaara sighed.

"What do you mean was with you?" Garrus asked.

"Well you see..."

'ROAR'

"Does that answer your question?" He continued.

"How many?!" Sakura ordered.

"How many what?!" Garrus yelled at her.

"Tails, she wants to know how many tails Naruto has taken the form off." Sasuke answered.

"Tails? Ashley asked at once.

"We don't have time to waste here!" Shepard ordered.

"What aren't you telling us Commander?!" Garrus yelled.

"He told you!" Sakura shouted at the Commander.

"As Shepard said we don't have time for this he has six tails at the moment, and we need to get the fuck out of here." Gaara said after he was done catching his breath. "Especially you two." He said gesturing to Sasuke and Sakura.

"Why them?" Ashley asked.

"He has a long history with them that didn't end so well." Shepard told the gunnery chief and she nodded her head when there was another explosion and three mutilated bodies hit the ground around them leaving indents in the forest floor. There was another Godly roar and another explosion and they got the first sight of Naruto in his six tails form off in the distance. The deep red of the skin which looked painful and the white bones that had been created over him.

"Is that Naruto?" Ashley asked. "He has control right?" She asked again.

"Yeah, he went through a series of training to get control. Well that's what Lady Tsunade told me." Sakura said as they started to run in the opposite direction but they had no idea of what was about to happen. The sound of there footsteps on the forest floor were not even heard by them who made it but it was caught by the current berserker Kyuubi container. Over the last few years the seal had started to weaken again and the transformation that Naruto had taken on at Iwa had tore it even more and now it was just a matter of time before the Kyuubi was going to get out again like in the fight with Pein.

Naruto roared again and within seconds he had locked onto the smell as he could no longer hear them even with his heightened sense he wasn't in control as he barged through the trees after the fight with the ninja who had forced him into this state. He let out another godly roar and came across a field where he saw the two people who had caused him so much pain in the years that he was with them and now he could take his chance. The Kyuubi was whispering in his ear to kill them to mutilate them and lose control the promise of power the promise of immortality. They broke through the blonde's barrier and once again he roared as he ran towards them with incredible speed as the seventh tail sprouted out and more bone like appendages came with it.

Sakura was petrified she couldn't even take a stance to defend herself. Sasuke's eyes opened wide when he saw Naruto charging he had no idea what to do against such a powerful foe, he only defeated Killer Bee by shear luck and even then he still escaped. Sakura closed her eyes hoping that it would be over quickly and that she would not feel it. But it never came the thundering of his footsteps had stopped abruptly and the demonic aura had been lifted. As she opened her eyes and looked around she saw everyone looking on in shock and she even gasped when she saw what had happened.

Shepard had stepped in front of the charging beast not knowing what would happen and wrapped her arms around him. She had skidded back as Naruto stopped charging she had to suppress the urge to scream when the skin burned at her armor and began to melt it away. But the burning lessoned as Naruto began to change back to normal his eyes were the last to change from the complete red and the black back to the sapphire blue that she loved him for.

"Naruto are you ok?" Shepard asked as he fell into her arms. He didn't look up at her he looked completely and utterly defeated. He felt ashamed that he was losing control again and he could only manage a single sentence before he passed out.

"Forgive me."

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Tsunade was shocked at the report, she thought that it had all been done and finished with but the way Naruto was acting it clearly wasn't, he hadn't said a word since he woke up in hospital, and he just couldn't bring himself to do anything he felt so ashamed of what he has become. Ash and Grunt had tried to cheer him up with some spars but he just declined. Garrus wanted to help but had no idea what he should do for his friend. Shepard was in the hospital herself for the severe burns that she had gotten and Sasuke and Sakura hadn't left there homes since the attack. Gaara sought of had an idea of what he was going through so tried to help. He and Naruto were walking through one of the many parks that Kohona had to offer.

"So is this how you felt?" Naruto asked as they looked over a lake.

"You could say that. But you have people trying to help you I only had you to help me." Gaara smiled at him. "It's easy to block others but hard to let them get to know the real you. You taught me that Naruto."

"Could you give me some time?" Gaara nodded his head as he left Naruto to his thoughts. The rage came back to him as he saw a young couple happy on a date and he had to cover his eyes as they had turned red and slit.

"Why fight the inevitable!" Kyuubi shouted in his mind.

"Go to hell!" Naruto roared back. Red chakra started to fuse once more around him he was lucky that he was alone.

"The slightest bit of your unhappiness makes me stronger! Through your whole life you have had nothing but pain! Why not slaughter them all like you did back in Iwa you knew there were others still inside you could have waited longer but you relished in killing the innocent didn't you!"

"No!"

"Of course you did! Your own words were 'this is awesome!' Were they not, you loved the power the control of another person's life and you always have, even when you first found out about me and you beat the living crap out of that teacher of yours you wanted more! You wanted to tear out his throat didn't you?"

"No!"

"You have always wanted revenge on the village why not take my power and do it now! Even your Father cursed you, so did your Mother! Why would someone do that to there own flesh and blood they said they couldn't do it to another's child yet they could do it to there own what type of monster would do this to there own child I wouldn't even go that far!"

"You're lying! Stop it leave me alone!" Naruto continued to shout as the red chakra kept flowing out of him.

"NO! I have been denied to long! You will listen! Even the old man didn't care for you! He gave you a run down apartment in the middle of bum fuck no where, did nothing about the attacks on you when you were younger the very ANBU that he sent to help you did nothing and watched as the villages attacked you and guess who was one of them Kakashi Hatake your fathers very own favorite pupil your very first Sensei out of that god forsaken academy sat by and watched as you were beaten stabbed and even for Kami's sake crucified!" The Kyuubi roared. Naruto knew it was all true. "Then we have your so called friends! Sakura the stupidest little whore in the whole god damn world! Asks us to get back that fucking Uchiha who if it wasn't for him you wouldn't have two scars across your chest! Then the rest they say there your friends and do nothing to help you! Your only true friend is Gaara and he fears you as much as you fear yourself!"

"You're wrong!"

"Prove me wrong then!"

"Shepard, Garrus, Kelly, Ashley, Tali, Jack, Grunt, Joker everyone aboard the Normandy is my friend, I had Jiraiya I have Tsunade I have everyone that I need and id rather die then destroy what happiness that I have left just so that you can get what you want!" Naruto roared back at the fox. The red chakra started to fade away as Naruto started to gain control and faded into his mind scape to face the fox. The bars of the golden gate had been damaged the seal was torn almost the whole way through. Naruto walked up to the gate pulled out a kunai and sliced his hand as he placed it on the seal and it started to react to the blood and began to repair itself.

"NO! What are you doing?"

"What my father should have done!" Naruto yelled at the fox. The golden bars stretched out toward the fox and held it to the ground. "They will slowly suffocate you then you will die and I will forever be rid of you!"

"You need me!" Kyuubi shouted as the bars held the beast to the ground.

"And why would I need you!"

"You cant live with out me you are to use to my healing power!" The fox smirked before it saw Naruto's shit eating grin.

"I forgot to tell you that everything you have given me that I have had since birth I will keep meaning the strength, your healing power, my heightened senses everything I will keep. And you will die!" Naruto shouted and the Kyuubi's eyes flew open and for the first time in its demonic life felt fear as everything does before death takes them. He struggled under the weight of the bars but they just kept pressing down and soon the Kyuubi No Yoko was dead. Naruto sighed as he was thrust out of his mind scape. It was now dark and was probably approaching midnight meaning he has been fighting with the fox for hours. He headed back to the Uchiha estate and found Shepard sitting in the lounge room with a cup of coffee in her hands.

"Jane?" Naruto asked as he entered the room.

"Naruto your back!" She yelled as she wrapped her arms around him.

"I thought you would still be in the hospital." Naruto said as he placed his arms around her returning the hug.

"I got realized this afternoon, I'm so happy that you're ok." She sobbed into his shoulder. "I don't want to lose you Naruto I can't lose you I don't think I would be able to take it." She cried even more.

"I'm not going anywhere Jane." He smiled at her and did one thing she was not expecting kissed her full on the lips. She was completely shocked she was not expecting it but soon returned the kiss with more force then Naruto started with pushing him up against a wall. They finally broke the kiss after a few minutes and both looked in each others eyes.

"What was that for?" Jane asked as she rested her head on his chest.

"I figured were to short lived species might as well make the most of it." He smiled down at her. "Go get some rest, I say we leave in the next two days, I don't want to be here at the moment." Shepard nodded her head and headed for her door. She leaned up against it half her body inside and her other half outside with the Japanese style door resting between her breasts and she looked at Naruto with an innocent smile.

"Sleep with me tonight?" She asked and Naruto made his way over to her and nodded as he bent down and kissed her again and got into bed and genuinely slept in each others arms the entire night.

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"What's going on in here?" Garrus shouted sarcastically as he walked in on Naruto and Shepard gaining everyone's attention that made them all curious and Garrus just had his usual shit eating grin on his face as he saw Shepard sit up in bed groggily as she wiped the sleep out of her eyes. Naruto was still asleep to her side. "So what is going on?" He asked with all seriousness.

"I'm actually not sure." Shepard replied as she scratched her head. "Things just kind of happened last night."

"Bow chicka bow wow." Garrus replied still smirking. "Anyway, Joker is hobbling back to the Normandy with the rest of the crew, they said that they will pick us up tomorrow around midday." Shepard nodded and glared at Garrus who took it as his queue to leave and did so as Shepard once again was warmed with Naruto's embrace and sighed in relief. Naruto shifted in his sleep and Shepard couldn't help but run her fingers over the whisker marks on his cheeks and a slight purr could be heard as he tried to nuzzle into her hand and she had to suppress back a cute little giggle. Naruto's eyes opened slowly and looked at Shepard who was smiling back at him.

"Morning Naruto."

"I didn't do it!" He shouted out of impulse as he sat up quickly. Shepard laid a hand on his shoulder and pulled him back down to the bed and laid her head on his shoulder.

"You need to learn that if you wake up with a woman by your side that you didn't do something wrong. Ok." Shepard told him and he dumbly nodded his head.

"Wake up love birds!" Garrus shouted.

"We're up!" Shepard yelled back as she reluctantly stood up from her position on the bed.

"What is it Garrus?"

"Lady Tsunade said that Tali's ready to come out of isolation." Garrus smiled slightly.

"Are you serious?" Garrus nodded his head. "Naruto get dressed were going to be the first people in the galaxy to see what a quarian looks like in over four hundred years." Shepard smiled. Naruto was up in seconds ever since he had met Tali he had wanted to know what she looks like under the mask. Garrus and Naruto walked side by side as Ashley and Shepard walked behind them.

"So what happened last night Commander?" Ash asked.

"I'm not sure, one minute we were talking then the next he kissed me, and I can tell you I have never been kissed like that before." She smiled with a dreamy look on her face.

"I'm not talking about that I want details of last night!" She ordered in a whisper.

"Nothing happened." Shepard replied.

"Are you serious I would have, I mean have you seen that kids ass its like it was carved by a god or something look at it!" She said as her eyes were glued to the backside of Naruto, Shepard couldn't help but look either and had to smirk as a blush covered her face. "I can't believe you didn't get with that."

"What! Since when do we talk about each others love lives?" She shouted a little too loudly making Naruto and Garrus look back at them with questioning looks. "It's nothing just admiring the view." Ash smirked and they continued on there way. "How about you just yell out to the whole god damn planet that we're talking about what could have been your steamy hot night with one smoking ass guy." She chuckled.

"Oh shut up, let's go see Tali already."

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For the past three days Tali had been under constant tests but was assured by Tsunade and her assistant Shizune that they could bring her immunity to bacteria and all other diseases back up to at least eighty percent so that she would not have to wear her environmental suit all the time and could breath pure oxygen again and it was all a success. The young Quarian was so excited to be out of her suit without the risk of getting sick that she ran around the hospital room practically naked in nothing but a dressing gown. Shizune said that she should rest but she was too excited and Tsunade said that it would cause no damage and she could rest later. Tali had told her that she was for ever in her debt and Tsunade just waved it off saying she was a friend of Naruto's and there was no need for thanks. Tali collapsed on the bed when she was finally out of breath her long dark purple hair covering her face as she was laying face down giggling. This is what Shepard and the others walked into find.

"Tali are you ok?" Shepard asked and Tali instantly looked up and everyone gasped. She was completely beautiful, her skin was a light shade of purple, and her eyes were completely white with an eerie glow to them. Her long dark purple hair came down past her shoulders and she had the most beautiful-est smile you could ever lay your eyes on. (A/N that's right I'm a Tali fan lol)

"Shepard look at me I don't need my mask or my suit!" Tali said jumping for joy.

"Tali, you're beautiful." Shepard replied and Tali blush a light shade of red.

"Y-you mean it?" And Shepard nodded her head along with everyone else in the room, both Naruto and Garrus had to pick up there jaws off the floor when the both first saw her and are still trying to keep them in place.

"How can you hide such a beautiful face from the galaxy is beyond me." Naruto smirked making her blush even more.

"Thank you Naruto."

"Are you ready to move out Tali we leave tomorrow?" Shepard asked.

"I would like to stay in the hospital one more night to say thank you to everyone who helped me." She smiled and Shepard nodded.

"We will come get you tomorrow then." Tali nodded and continued jumping around for joy and enjoying the touch of everything new on her face that she had never felt before. The others left her to her joyful jumping and since they were the only ones left along with Gaara in the village they decided that they would spend the last night that they had together and have fun as they didn't know when they would be able to relax again if ever but they would at least spend one last night having fun and that's what they did. Shepard for once in a long time didn't have Reapers or mission objectives on her mind; Garrus didn't have the memories of the betrayal he had survived through. Ash didn't have the usual mission or military priorities to deal with, Gaara for once smiled a genuine smile to have new friends and that he no longer had to do blasted paper work and he said as much and was happy that Naruto got over what had happened. Naruto, he was happy for the first time since Jiraiya had died, he was smiling happily and the others could tell that this was not a fake smile or a mask to hide behind but it was the true Naruto.

Tsunade had ordered all the Anbu to the front gate during the day to make sure no council members tried anything with Naruto leaving or Gaara for that matter. She was sad to send him off again and this time she knew that there was a chance that he would never come back. Sakura and Shizune were by her side talking aimlessly waiting for the rest of the group to arrive which consisted of Garrus and Naruto who were already twenty minutes late as the Normandy was already there. Shepard had been talking with Tsunade and she was getting glares from a certain pinkette and she was getting sick of it and Tsunade could tell that she was too and hoped Naruto would get here soon. Kakashi arrived and made sure that he kept well away from Tsunade after Naruto's little prank that he pulled and Kakashi was unable to get a word in edge wise when Tsunade had started yelling at him about it so he got blamed for it and was unable to get Naruto back. Sakura glared at Shepard again and she snapped.

"What the hell are you looking at?!" Shepard yelled making the surrounding people look at her.

"I thought we were friends!" Sakura screamed at her.

"I thought we were too, but apparently you think different!" Shepard yelled back at her.

"You took him away from me! I had told you how I felt about him and yet you're with him now!" Sakura screamed at Jane once again as tears fell from her eyes. Shepard knew that she was talking about Naruto who else could she be talking about. When they first arrived on this planet and Naruto led them to the village and after they talked with Tsunade and were given a residence for there stay Sakura had confided in Shepard and told her and Miranda about her feelings for the blonde. "Why!" She screamed again as she cried even more. Ino was by her side trying to comfort her friend as she cried onto her shoulder. Ino knew most about what Sakura was going through as Sakura went to her for all the advice that she would need so that she could get Naruto to forgive her and Ino didn't have the answers to her questions.

"Damn Shepard want to make some more alien lollipop girls angry at you while your here?" Jack laughed at her from the doorway of the Normandy. Miranda and Garrus were standing next to each other and you could tell that they had no interest in what was going on as they were stealing glances at one another. Grunt was bored and looking over his weapons along with Zaeed. Katsumi was looking bored as she was eyeing an ANBU member's sword and was wandering how she would steal such a beautiful weapon in broad daylight. Tali was looking around as she stood next to Shepard trying not to be brought into the conversation and Ash was smirking at the pinkette she didn't like the girl at all. When Naruto was quiet she had asked Miranda and Jacob about Naruto's past and the relationships that he had. Jacob didn't have much information as he tried to stay away from the blonde but Miranda was able to shed some light on the topic. The rest of the crew was aboard the Normandy waiting for the command to take off and return to there mission.

Still Naruto and Garrus had yet to be seen and things were heating up between Shepard and Sakura as they started to yell at each other once again. Most of it was incoherent as they were both shouting at the top of there lungs at the same time. Kakashi had even stopped reading his little orange book and looked over as Sakura raised her hand to slap Shepard and aimlessly stopped the pinkette before she made a mess of things.

"Now Sakura that's not very nice." Kakashi said as he let his hand drop releasing Sakura's hand in the process. "I mean what would have happened if Naruto saw you hit one of his precious people?"

"If it wasn't for her I might be in her position right now!"

"If it wasn't for me you would have never seen him ever again!" Shepard yelled back at her. "I mean seriously in the four years that you didn't see him how many times did you go looking for him! And if you did you didn't do a very good job!" She continued and Sakura held her head in her hands as she cried more. "If I wasn't here you still wouldn't be with him even if he returned to the village think of the way that he has reacted to you both this time and the last time you saw him! He has out right ignored you except a promise he made to someone named Kokoshi or somebody."

"It's Kakashi." Kakashi told her.

"Right what ever." She growled at him. And Kakashi slump his shoulders and pouted. "Other then that he hates you and mostly everyone else in this village he has told me himself so even if I wasn't here you still wouldn't be in my position!"

"But he has loved me for so long and as soon as I feel the same way you step in and ruin everything!" She screamed at Shepard again. Shepard slapped her right across the face and even Kakashi couldn't stop the movement.

"Grow up he moved on, how long did he wait for you! He is over you he wants nothing more to do with you so drop it." Sakura was holding her cheek where she was slapped covering the red mark that was now forming. Everyone was shocked at there fight now. Let alone Garrus and Naruto who had been watching the whole thing from atop the Normandy in deck chairs that they got from who knows where. They both started applauding and stood up while everyone looked up at the two.

"I couldn't have put it better myself." Naruto said as he jumped down followed by Garrus who had to climb down the ship.

"Naruto you don't mean it do you, you still love me right!" Sakura cried as she went to run for him and the look on his face made her stop a few feet from him. "Naruto?"

"I don't love you any more Sakura I was a fool to ever love you."

"Naruto!" Sasuke started.

"You shut the fuck up I'm getting to you!" He yelled at the Uchiha who immediately backed down. "Since the academy you have done nothing but hit me, tease me and just down right put me down for years! I saved you from Gaara in the sand invasion, saved you from drowning I have put my life on the line just to bring back Sasuke to you and not once was I thanked for any of it! So no Sakura I no longer love you!"

"Naruto please! I love you Naruto please don't leave me I want you to be mine!" Sakura screamed at him.

"I was yours since I was eight! I did everything that I could to be yours I let you hit me tease me and everything else I put up with so that I could show you how much that I loved you! But you didn't care until I was gone!"

"No Naruto! It just took me longer to realize my feelings!" She screamed again and once again she was slapped but this slap had so much force that she fell to the ground.

"I want nothing to do with you ever again." He growled at her and she balled her eyes out as she lay in the dirt.

"You went to far Naruto!" Sasuke shouted at him. Naruto turned to him only to look at him with full and utter hatred.

"I went too far! What about you one Chidori wasn't enough to get the job done you had to use two! I was on the brink of death and you still kept coming at me with your full power and I still kicked your sorry ass!" By now Naruto had marched over to Sasuke and was yelling in his face as he reared his fist back and punched him in the gut in a quick movement nobody saw coming. Sasuke hunched over and was kneed in the head sending him flying backwards into the dirt with a bloody face. Naruto stood above him he wanted so much to just repeatedly punch him in the face over and over again but he didn't and walked away apologized to Tsunade and walked onto the ship with the others and they watched as the Normandy ascended into the sky above and out of sight.

"That went well." Kakashi said.

"Shut your mouth!" Tsunade growled at him as she told Shizune to take them to the hospital to make sure they were both alright.

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Aboard the Normandy Naruto went to his quarters he actually missed the Normandy in its own little way it was his home. Garrus wanted to speak with him about some things and Shepard had told him that he needed some time alone before anyone spoke with him and Garrus decided to show Gaara around the ship but Miranda had already taken the liberty of doing so and left Garrus alone doing nothing and Garrus alone doing nothing was a dangerous combination. The course of the Normandy was set for Illium for the Justicar and the assassin which joker wasn't all to please about. It was night well that's what the clock said anyway it was hard to tell up in space the temperature never changed it never got dark or light there was no seasons changes that you could physically seen or felt it was all desolate and to the blonde felt somewhat comforting. He was sitting in a relaxed state his leg stretched out his arm resting on his other knee that he had pulled up to his body as he sat in front of the large window that was in his room. He felt at peace for the first time in a long time. The door slid open and he was half expecting to see Shepard come in with a smile on her face but it was Ashley. She entered in her alliance uniform and sat in the same position just with both knees pulled up to her chest and resting her head on them. They sat in silence for a good ten minutes before she spoke up.

"Are you going back?" She asked and he glanced at her with a raised eyebrow. "I mean with everything that has happened, why would you?" She said and he sighed.

"I'm not sure. Hell I'm not even positive that were going to survive this mission." He said as he rested his head on the hand that was on his knee. "I mean that Shepard is getting the best team I have ever been in and all but I've read up on the omega 4 relay I'm just not sure it's possible."

"So your not continuing is that it?" She asked.

"What no I'm going on with the mission until the end it's just to god damn fun so far." He chuckled and Ashley had to smile at him he could look death itself in the face and could come out on top with nothing to lose he was the one that Ash found comfort in talking to about anything she was worried about and this was why she had come down to see him.

"I want to talk to you about something Naruto and I'm not sure on how to approach the subject." She said as she tilted her head on her hands as she looked at him. "So just bare with me when I approach this and don't say anything ok." Naruto nodded his head. "Ok then here we go. I know what you and Shepard have is something unique right." Naruto nodded again. "The thing is that for the length of time that I have known you, you have done so much for me if it wasn't for you I would have probably gone back to the alliance and may have never seen Shepard again never went to your world and never would have met you." She smiled at him. "I've been thinking when we were back at your planet that you had a lot on your mind with the party with of your friends and your missions so I didn't bring it up. But the thing is I'm grateful for what you have done for me in the short amount of time that I have known you. I know that you have this thing going on with Shepard and I'm not sure that you or her know where it is exactly going but I know one thing I want to be apart of it. Shepard is my best friend I was devastated when we heard news that she didn't survive but now I know the truth of what happened I was so mad I thought that she had joined up with Cerberus I felt betrayed annoyed and angry. But back on Horizon I realized that she wasn't and that her idea of just working along side of Cerberus was a whole different matter plus your eyes told me that it was true." She sighed again as she looked forward out the window. "I want you to know how I feel is all Naruto. I want you to feel the same way about me that you do Shepard and I don't care how long it takes I want something like you have." Naruto looked surprised at her confession he had no idea how this would even work with the three of them and he had no idea what he and Shepard had they had yet to discuss it and that is why he had thought that is was Shepard that had came down instead of anyone else let alone Ash with something like this. Ash looked at him again and saw his expression that he had. "Naruto? Are you ok?"

"Umm I'm completely and utterly confused at the moment." He smiled at her and she smiled back at him.

"All I'm saying is that I want there to be us and I want to be in your life and if Shepard is willing to share then I can too." She smiled at him as she stood up. "I'll go pitch the idea to Shepard." She said as she left the room.

"What the fuck just happened?" Naruto asked himself as he thought over what Ash just said.

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"Say what?!" Shepard yelled. Ashley was in her quarters sitting on the Commanders bed while she was standing at the fish tank that occupied a large portion of the wall on the right side of the room. "What do you mean you approached Naruto on us?" She continued to yell.

"I'm sorry Commander, I just thought..."

"Thought that it would be alright to get in on the personal life of the crew!" She yelled as Ash hung her head totally missing the grin that speak across Shepard's face.

"I'm sorry Commander." She said as she looked up to the grinning Commander.

"Ash we're not on an Alliance frigate any more this is more of a luxury ship with built in weapons." She smiled as she walked down the short hall way and sat at the side of the gunnery chief. "Fraternization means nothing on this ship hell I doubt I'm apart of the alliance any more." She smiled again.

"So you're going to give it a chance?" She asked with some hope in her eyes.

"Damn straight sounds hot." Shepard smiled back at her and they both laughed at one another.

"Ah Commander there has been a slight delay we won't reach Illium for another two days."

"What's the matter Joker?"

"Ah engine troubles or something Tali is looking over it right now."

"Thanks for the update Joker." Shepard replied.

"What do you think is wrong with it?" Ash asked.

"I don't know. Tali will be able to fix it with Ken and Gabriela if she will even let them near it." Shepard grinned.

"It's like half of your crew don't like Cerberus Commander. I don't even think Naruto knows what Cerberus is." Ash laughed as she stood up from the bed and headed for the elevator.

"Where are you off to?" Shepard asked.

"Well I thought I might go inform Naruto." She smiled. "Care to join me?" Shepard shook her head.

"I'm going to get some shut eye and figure out what Tali found when I get up, ill talk with you later." Shepard said as she walked Ash to the elevator.

"You know I didn't know if you would agree to this." Ash said with an embarras look and Shepard decided to make her even more embarrassed and kissed her on the lips.

"You know you talk too much." She smiled at her friend and she dumbly nodded her head as she backed into the elevator and caught Shepard wink at her just before the doors finished making her blush even more.

"Oh my god I just made out with Shepard." Was all Ash could think.

"I can't believe that just happened." Shepard thought with a smile.

Well alright then newest chapter up and rearing to go so I hope that you enjoy this got a computer so I'm already and have already started to think about things for the next chapter. There was a bit of Naruto/Shepard/Ashley in this chapter and for the next chapter there will be some more Tali/Naruto even though there hasn't been a hell of a lot which is going to change very quickly and there will defiantly be more pranks and I will even put in some Miranda/Gaara in for those who would like to see the outcome of that. Please forgive me for any and all spelling errors new computer means new ways to spell crap and it's really annoying trying to remember how you spelt the word in the previous chapters and all but enough about this and let me know what you think about Tali's appearance I saw a fan photo with this sought of description and thought what the hell I might as well use that. Can't remember where I saw the photo but it was probably on deviant art.

Anyway I thank everyone that has continued to read and review and even put this story up on there alerts it means a lot to me that people actually like my writing so for the mean time I will continue on an expect the next chapter in the next few days and hell if you want to pitch me some ideas go for it. Hell, even if you just want to say 'hi I like your story' send me a message and I will reply and yeah I'm friendly to those that are nice to me.

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