Spirit of the Fox
(Two Days Later)
Captain James Gregory Cutter walked down the mess hall, glancing around every moment or so observing the crew members he watched over. They seemed to be a lot happier as he thought, glancing out the window seeing the slipspace tunnel go by, it would be another week to two days that they would get to Reach, and hopefully get this mess sorted out.
He could overhear the Marines and ODST's talking about kicking the Covenant's ass left and right. It was louder then usual, but he enjoyed it when his crew was enlightened. Some were even talking about the blond ninja Red Team had picked up. Mostly about how he fought in hand to hand against Elites no less, a feat only accomplished by a Spartan.
He shook his head amusedly, wondering how Lord Terrance Hood would take this information.
(With Naruto)
Naruto sat in the engineering section, idly watching holograms of a design for a shield generator for ships. Earlier, he had given Jerome a scroll that detailed the plans and safe to say, Cutter wanted it done but not out of selfish reasons, the main problem lay in designing it properly.
But the main problem out of the design was having the matrix of the generator absorb the hit of a plasma torpedo including pulse lasers from CCS class ships. That way, they would take the power and make it theirs, if he used seals that would help there, he mused that as he took away a portion of the shielding and tapped his fingers on the table in thought.
He made a few modifications and sighed aloud. That is until a hand placed a cup of coffee near him and he raised a brow looking at Professor Anders.
"It's late"
Naruto snorted in response as he took the coffee "So it is, looking for something to do?" he asked, Anders eyed the hologram which had a cylindrical type device with glowing strips of blue energy near each end, it looked to be about several feet long and two feet thick.
"Not even ONI was able to make shields for the UNSC" she sipped her own Coffee "What makes you think you can?" she asked while Naruto grinned slightly at the fact she was undersestimating him "Simple. Because I'm Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze" he retorted making her eyes roll.
"Of course.." she muttered but his sensitive ears picked up "Men".
He chuckled inwardly as he spoke "Don't get disregarded" he shot back, seeing her look "I'm not in this little war for fame or glory" he ended sighing as he took in a sip of coffee.
"Than what?" she asked curiosly, wanting to know the agenda of the blond. Naruto fiddeld for a moment before sighing, he brought up a hologram of his planet with the continents and ocean in view, and one massive dot that indicated a massive explosion.
"That's why" he gestured to his planet before getting up and swiping away the cup of Coffee and left the room while Ander's pondered the enigma that was Naruto.
(Mess Hall – Ten minutes later)
As Naruto walked on in, he ignored the stress as he snateched up and apple from the café area and sat down on a chair next to a small table. Taking out a coin, he moved it between his fingers in thought, more over as to weapon upgrades for the missles as they were called.
While yes, they did area effect damage, there was no point in firing one and hoping to take down a Covenant Super Carrier. That stopped him for a moment as he bit into his apple, he needed proper ordinance to crack open the shield of a ship, but what?
While his demon Youkai could easily do so, he couldn't supply an entire Fleet, a thoughtful frown marring his features before he lit up a little, before leaving Naruto, Kyuubi taught Naruto an invaluable skill that no Doton users would ever achieve, manipulation of atomic structure of materials. He could sink an area and make an entire mine, charging some Raiton chakra he could send it down to the mines and manipulate the earth by supercharging it and changing the area underground to make a perfect ordanance mater.
He smiled a bit before breaking of his thoughts upon seeing a Marine approach him "Yes?" he asked camly before the man spoke "Captain Cutter wants to see you, didn't say though. Head for the bridge" he saw Naruto nod his understanding before leaving in a flicker of wind that shocked him and damned near stopped his heart.
(Bridge)
The footage rewinded again and again as Cutter watched Naruto getting pierced with the Energy Blade. He frowned glancing to Serena as if he were looking for some answer.
"Sir, by all rights he should be dead" she spoke calmly though human and alien cultures intrigued her, this was rather interesting. "It pierced through a vital section of his lungs as well as his spine…"
Cutter was rather disturbed by this turn of events, even more so when he had offered a chance to build a shield for UNSC ships, not even the top spooks at ONI could do as such. He sighed a bit, while a worthwhile offer, the UNSC was desperate for new technological advances.
Red Team watched in silence as well too, contemplating this new development. Jerome looked at Cutter who had a thoughtful frown on his face, wondering what Naruto was mainly. He was human that was ecident. But inwardly? That was another deal.
"Sir…" started Jerome, breaking the uneasy silence that had clouded the bridge.
"I know" sighed Cutter as he rubbed his temples "What about his bloodwork, were we able to get some there?" he asked at Anders who shook her head in disbelief "Honestly, I can't find a single trace of bacteria in his bloodwork, he also has three extra chromosomes more than normal humans. I don't know what for, but it's odd to say the least".
Cutter's brows rose and he sighed aloud "Main reason being, what is he?" he asked to himself "Any trace of plasma in his circulatory system? Experimentation by the Covenant is possible" he pointed out at the end in a grim fashion.
"I considered that too" conceded Anders "But none were found, and I highly doubt he has scars if he's evaded the Covenant for no less than a year" that remark got raised brows thought no one saw it. At this point, Naruto walked into the bridge as the hologram was dispersed. He could sense the tension and raised a brow "What?" he asked as Cutter started "Naruto, were you injured during the battle?" he asked suddenly while the blond seemingly stared blankly at the old captain.
"If I was, I had it medicly treated" he retorted calmly.
"Spinal injuries and the lungs punctured?" Cutter didn't let up as Naruto paused and sighed aloud knowing he had been found out about the energy sword being stabbed through his abdomen.
"Fine, you want me to be blunt?" Naruto queried "I'm half human, I became what I am now several years back" that made him blink in surprise.
"Became what you are?" Anders echoed while Naruto nodded "I wasn't always like this, I was once fully human" he explained shortly while Cutter frowned.
"What then?" he asked crossing his arms while Naruto smirked "You wouldn't believe me, trsut me on that".
"I think we would" voiced Jerome coolly, drawing attention to him "Seals? You were able to make a shield for the Spirit of Fire" he stated the fact "Teleportation, along with your insane hand to hand combat skills against Elites, I'd think we'd be a little more open now".
Silence followed while Cutter looked at Naruto who frowned for a moment in thought "Fine, the other is half demon" he responded finally while more silence built up. The reactions varied but Naruto couldn't tell the Spartan's body language was being masked.
Cutter knew of mythologies from histories past, mainy demons and tapped the holodeck in thought. The blond didn't seem evil, but it explained his highly adept regenerative abilities.
Anders herself was skeptical of such a thing, this new revelation addig up with shields for UNSC ships. Red Team stayed quiet and to their thoughts.
"…Demons?" voiced Cutter, a skeptical/incredulous tone followed "I find that rather hard to belive."
"Yet you've had space ship technology for what? A two hundred years or so?" shot back Naruto before he shook his head "Does it matter whether or not you believe me? The point is you need someone with both my knowledge and expertise in technology" he looked at Red Team "And I'm more then ready to fight against the Covenant" a flicker of anger was in Naruto's eye but quickly disappeared, only Red Team caught it.
"Excuse me" Serena frowned slightly at being left out while attention was directed onto her "But what of the two energy sources that I detected?" Cutter thought about that and looked at Naruto who sighed aloud and started an explanation. Though the left alone thought was why Serena took charge of the situation.
"The two energy sources, Chakra and Youkai" he started "Chakra: it's a combination of mental and physical energies in order to achieve the abilities we have" he created a peace sign with his index and middle finger, parting, them, electricity built up between the two fingers while Anders looked interested and Red Team along with Cutter were looking on in both an impressed or awed manner, but the body language of the Spartans was hard to decipher.
"It allows us to increase our strength and speed, depending on the person in question using it" Naruto stopped the little demonstration "And as you saw in the holo recording, I was able to use Raiton Jutsu. Which is in English "Lightning Style"."
Anders thought that researching these would be benefical for the UNSC "What elements?" she asked, curiosity seeping into her tone and getting the better of her.
"All five, Raiton, Sution, Katon, Fuuton and Doton. This is allowed due to my being a half demon" Naruto explained "Youkai however, is completely different, it's about two thousand times more potent than chakra is" now that got some looks.
"That's the reason why a shield was able to pretect us from Covenant Plasma torpedoes?" asked Cutter while the blond nodded "Youkai is much more dense but easily manipulated to fit the situation. It also increases my healing abilty along with combat, making me a…bit…destructive to say the least".
"…Destructive?" Jerome asked a bit skeptical.
Naruto nodded "You see, I have this S-Rank jutsu, now this makes it a Kinjutsu (Forbidden Art). As a result, if I were to use it using Youkai, I could probably take down a CCS class Covenant Cruiser" at this, Cutter paled at the thought of such a technique while Anders looked gob smacked. Red Team didn't react but were rattled by this revelation.
Naruto held up his palm and half a second later a ball spinning at an intense rate appeared "This, is the base foundation technique" he dispersed it "The Rasengan, if you would".
Jerome had eyed the Rasengan and saw it spinning at a fast rate, his eyes were the sharpest of the group and he could tell that would do both internal and external damage to the body.
"What about the other elements?" Naruto snorted mentally at her curiosity getting the better of her "Do you want me to blow up/flood an entire ship?" he asked in amused manner while she looked slightly embarrassed.
Cutter glanced at Serena as if he was asking her about his heart rate. She shook her head discreetly. He was telling the truth, and no tensioning in his muscles as well to.
"Sir, if that's it. May I leave?" he nudged his head in the direction of the door behind him and Cutter nodded then went into deep thought not hearing the hiss of the door, indicating his leaving.
Red Team stayed silent as Anders asked Cutter "Sir?".
The old captain was broken from his musings "Perhaps…" he contemplated, rubbing his chin.
"You believe him?" Jerome asked tersely, crossing his arms. Cutter continued "For now, lets give him the benefit of the doubt" he said finally drawing nods of understanding before Jerome spoke "Sir, where are we en route for now?".
Cutter glanced at the Spartan "Reach" he said simply "Lord Terrance Hood will be there as our mission was known only to him and his aides" the Spartan nodded his understanding but Alice and Douglas glanced at each other, Reach was the training base of the Spartans and home of theirs, one that they'd fight to the last breath to defend.
(Naruto's Room – Ten Minutes Later)
As the blond entered his room, he began to contemplate heavily over his own world. He ignored the hiss of his door closing as the metal slab slid shut. Naruto sighed aloud before lying his back on bed, staring at the metal ceiling that made up the ship. Mostly, he was in his won world guessing theories as to what would happen to him once in the UNSC.
Had to admit, the ONI would sound quite fascinated by his abiltes. Naruto would spedn most likely six to eight months on the shield generator as he already had the prototype design done and materials planned. Then he would at least join in the fight and defense against the Covenant,
He smiled a bit at that, being able to help others. But then came all the bueracracy that he would face. he sighed once again thought as he turned to his side and looked thoughtful as he pondered over the death of the Zealot.
What did he feel? Happiness? Rather smug that he killed that Elite? He felt empty somewhat. He smiled in a grim fashion, was this what Sasuke felt like and buried all that emotion when he killed Itachi? The blond went down memory lane as to what triggered his killing the Elite.
About a year ago he started a prominent relationship with one Yugito Nii, the Jinchuuriki of Kumogakure no Sato. She held the Nibi no Nekomata, as a result of Kumo's knowledge of sealing, they had recognized her as a Guardian of Kumo. During his travels he had encountered and made friends with what people he knew he could trust.
He actually stayed in Kumo for a six month period before traveling again and over that time frame had become someone close to Yugito. He was planning on a more permanent station for Kumo but then the Covenant arrived by a coordinated attack upon all the Hidden Villages. Kumo went down first in a matter of days as did the other villages.
This forced Naruto into hiding but also the disabling of one of his life monitoring seals. It lead to a depression for him due to the loss of someone close, he was planning on exending the relationship he had with Yugito, but damned be the Covenant.
In a matter of two weeks, Naruto encountered no other forces or civlians that existed in Konoha, Iwa, Kumo along with Suna. He was the only one left. He since then survived through trials of combat and fire but had a wound quite with himself, one that he kept close.
Turing onto his back on the bed, he brought out a necklace that was a emerald stoned Ying Yang symbol. It was a gift from the blond haired girl he sniffed a little, taking in a scent that he recognized as her own. A sad smile grimaced his lips a bit of fond remembrance and a bit of bitterness. He clenched the symbol in his hand, he hated the Covenant deep down though he did not show he did.
A long sigh exited his lips before going to sleep
(Spirit of Fire – Captain's Cabin)
Cutter typed away on the report with a sigh included, he took in a sip of water from a glass next to him. How he hated the mission reports of this time, they had AI's along with the capacity to go into space, yet nothing to get rid of the massive amounts of reports the military had to do.
He smiled a bit in amusement as he next looked on the video reports. While he wasn't all to concerned about the Covenant footage, he was more worried about the one of the Flood as the Covenant called them.
He flicked it on and watched in a grim fashion wathing ODST squads fend off the attackers which was Flood, he turned off the sound when he heard flesh cracking and breaking and the Assault form of a flood broke through, the solider's POV fired wieldly at his infected comrade.
He turned it off with a sigh again, rubbing his temples. What were they? He finished up his report on the Flood and the Shield world. Giving credit to John Forge was the reason they were here. Along with Naruto, why did so many heros have to die? He leaned back In his seat as only his hologtraphic screen was on and alit the room, he watched the inky darkness of space with faint stars, many lightyears away from his postion.
John Forge would without a doubt get the Posthumeous Medal, a casket with no corpse as one was lanched not just a day or so after the man's funeral. Gave kind of an empty feeling if one knew it.
Then Naruto came along, his status would no doubt be on par with the legendary Spartans. Not to mention the morale he would bring to a battlefield, he was a Spratan in everything expect the experiments that Red Team had gone thorugh. It was without a shadow of a doubt that he knew Naruto would change things in the UNSC.
His technology knowledge was invaluable as well too, he knew much more of Covenant tech and was easily adaptable to humanities technology as well. He finished up his thoughts on the last part of the escape from the Shield World and moved onto Naruto's accounts as well as Red Team's from what they had seen and done with the blond's help.
Mostly noting the abilities Naruto had shown and the teleportation, he had to admit it would be a Shotout Corral. Then considering the fact Naruto's knowledge was on par maybe even surpass Cathreine Halsey, the genious behind the Spartan Project.
It would be a times a changing in his opinion.
He turned off the computer in a standby mode and sighed, it would be two more days before they got to Reach. He still had another day or so to finish their encounter with the Covenant Cruiser.
Deciding to got to sleep, he knew he would need it before the storm hit.
Authors Note
Hey everyone, new chapter, Naruto's inner emotions are revealed here and the status of his Half Demon being known is still on the thoughts of Red Team and Anders. Next chapter will deal with Reach and meeting the de facto leader of the UNSC – Lord Terrance Hood – Fleet Admiral of the UNSC.
And I am having trouble on the pairings, so I have decided to leave that to you.
Naru/Yugi – I have an idea of how I can work this one
Naru/Miranda – I have an idea here as well to
And if this does not satisfy you, i do not mind rewrite. Also, i have had an idea, i could have Naruto become the leader of Noble Team. Please tell me about this one as i do plan on having this story crossover into Halo:Reach
i will put up a poll as soon as i can, alright, if that's it, i'm logging out - this is Huntersshadow!