I don't own Naruto or Mass Effect. This is a fanfiction only.

Wrex sat down on a chair as I rejoined the table with Garrus and Nihlus. "So Naruto what is the first order of business?" I looked at him, Nihlus and Garrus. I could not believe he actually never realized why we came into this bar in the first place.

"The very first thing I am going to do is finish my drink, I had a quite stressful day and if I don't have my drink I will not be able to put up with the nonsense the Alliance, the Citadel Council, and who knows what else is going to happen in my mission."

Wrex laughed as I took a drink from my glass. "Naturo I been around for more time than most humans, I might not look it Naruto but I am a few thousand years old. Hope you realize that I am probably older than any member of your entire species."

Nihlus and Garrus couldn't help bursting out laughing their heads off, I swear they always spilled their drinks as they laughed and began hitting the table with a fist each. I looked at Wrex and tried to remain calm, boy these kids don't have any respect for their elders.

"You might think Naruto here is a guy that looks like his late twenties Wrex, but if you had known how old he actually is, he was around before your entire species could form a tribe. I swear he makes Asari Matriarchs look like a bunch of teenagers by comparison." I sometimes wish Nihlus would ask me before he told something that private or embarrassing.

I took another sip from my drink and I looked at Nihlus, "I swear you kids simply don't know how to show respect to your elders. If I didn't care about the lives in this galaxy, I would have told the council that I was too old to deal with this shit."

Wrex asked the same question I was asked before, and Garrus was kind enough to have kept a copy of the result of the test the Council did to check my age. "Why don't you look at the carbon dating they did on him, the Council wanted to know how old he was so you know it is reliable."

I saw Wrex look at the displayed document and began to count numbers as he pointed at the zeros on the display, he apparently was counting them. He finished and he looked at it again, then he looked at me.

"By the looks of it Naruto I was thinking that I might teach you a few things, since I thought that you were just so young to take on something this monumental, but it turns out the one that is going to do the teaching is you and I might actually learn a thing or two."

I had finished half my glass when he said that, I put the glass down and looked at him. "You don't need to worry about much Wrex, I take care of my people, and I keep my friends safe. We just need to stop a racist Turian, no offense, an army of killer Geth, and keep an entire galaxy safe and secure, so no biggie. It will be more of a headache than trouble."

I finished my drink and paid for my drink and the others, "If anything you should pray for the idiots that try to harm my friends, my crew for they are precious to me, and I show no mercy to those that harm my precious people. Friends are like a treasure, you must always cherish and protect them or you will be on your own. I been alone for thousands of years and let me tell you life gets dull that way."

Wrex seemed to understand what I was saying, at least better than the two Turians sitting with us. "So tell me Naruto how is it that a human lived as long as you have? Please don't tell me plenty of exercises and a good diet, I heard that from my long dead lover and I don't ever want to hear it from anyone again."

I looked at the waitress as she brought back my receipt and I got on my feet, "A long time ago, I was a simple, quite brash human, I went through some of the most painful and horrible times of my life, eventually I met the man who was revered as god by my people. I became his successor and I eventually was worshiped as my predecessor."

I made sure my armor was clean and I looked at them, "My people eventually died out, and I went on living, I was eventually worshiped by some people, and called a devil by others. That relative of Anderson made that thing about the Sage of the Six Paths, most people, especially kids love it. Most adults think it a pure work of fiction, but it's not entirely fiction since I am the Sage of the Six Paths."

Wrex finally began to put two and two together and he began to follow me and Garrus towards the Spectre Requisition office. "I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you lived so long, don't deities tend to be immortal?" I told him that yes gods were indeed immortal, and some even were immoral but that was a story for another day.

As I looked at the Turian behind the computer terminal I couldn't help but to wonder why he looked unhappy to see me, I guess the news of me exposing Saren travels fast. "Naruto Uzumaki, Alliance Military, Is that about right? First time on the station it seems."

I wanted to correct him but guess he was not at fault for not knowing everything that happened to me today, he must be pretty busy if he is the requisitions officer for all the Council Spectres. "Actually I am no longer part of the Alliance Military anymore, I been sent to receive current equipment and weapons allocated to me by the Council."

He began shaking his head and typing something on his terminal, "I am sorry Commander, but you see I am the Spectre Requisitions Officer, so you see I don't think I have anything for you. I will check just to make certain. Don't want a political incident with the human ambassador now do we?"

He began to look and the more he looked the less happy he seemed to me. As he looked I got the memories of the twenty shadow clones I released as soon as we boarded the station. It seems they managed to help quite a few people, some of them were rather odd, the whole scanning of the keepers and the murderous AI were not so bad compared to other things people asked my shadow clones to do.

The whole business between the Elcor, Turian and Asari love triangle was nothing to sneeze at, and the fact that I even helped out in a C-sec sting operation should have made me better received that the way the Requisitions Officer did.

"There must be some sort of mistake, Spectre, I see you are the one that exposed Saren's treachery to the council. You must forgive me Mr. Uzumaki, I am too busy with the inventory and making sure all Spectre agents are properly geared to actually pay much attention to the outside world. Come to think of it I also have a form you need to sign to transfer and register ownership of your ship."

He walked over to a terminal and pushed a button. A large box came out and was placed before me. He then walked over to a nearby filing terminal and pulled up the form I needed to sign. The form was signed rather quickly thanks to the station having my biometric signature. The large box contained a new set of armor, a pistol, a rifle and an Omni tool. I looked at the gear and using only my speed I changed into it. I had to admit this armor was feeling quite nice.

"That should take care of my gear, now if you could tell me where do I send a form for potential repairs, and possible be able to purchase gear for my crew." He nodded his head and walked over to another terminal.

"As a Spectre, you are given access to our suppliers, and as such, they will give you a substantial discount. After all keeping the galaxy safe and peaceful ends up helping in their business transactions."

I bought a few sets of human armor, a set of Turian armor, a few sets Krogan armor and a few Quarian armored environmental suit. The weapons were simpler than that, a dozen pistols, rifles, shotguns, machine guns, sniper rifles, amp boosters, and Omni-tools. Good thing I made wise investments in my life, if I didn't have that source of income I would never be able to pay off the bill for all that.

As we walked on the ship I felt something I had almost forgotten the feeling, the feeling of guilt. I felt guilty, it almost like I was stealing the ship from my good friend. I half expected to see his smiling face as I walked into the CIC.

The walk towards the helm looked like the fabled walk towards my execution, and I walked towards our ever friendly and joking navigation officer. "Why the long face Naruto? You should be rejoicing, instead, you look like your best friend has died."

I looked at Joker and I couldn't help but shake my head at his choice of words. "I don't know Joker, it feels like I am stealing the ship from Anderson, almost like it should be him standing here, and not enduring the hell that must be working for a scumbag like Udina."

Joker turned around his seat and looked at me with a smile, "Udina is an asshole, there is no way to deny that, but it wasn't your fault. We are behind you all the way Skipper, there is no finer Captain in the entire galaxy as far as I and my mates are concerned. If the entire galaxy turns on us, I will personally get you an eye patch, a parrot and paint the Jolly Rogers on the side of the ship!"

I smiled as I realized he must be joking, but it did make me feel better. "Open up the communications Joker, I better address the crew." With an almost wicked grin, he shouted Aye, Aye Captain as he turned the intercom channel open.

"Crew, this is Naruto Uzumaki speaking, as far as I know the Alliance has given me the proverbial boot. I will understand if some of you wish to disembark, you may do so now before we leave space dock. For those that remain, I have some good news and some bad news."

"We are tasked with hunting down and stopping a renegade Spectre and stopping the end of life of an entire galaxy. I will not lie to you crew, this mission is more than likely one of those missions that we will see hell before we get this mission finished."

"We will have everything against us, and nobody expects us to succeed. The man we are going up against is a living legend among the Spectres, and he knows we are coming. We will have to fight him, and every single thing he has by his side, which includes an army of homicidal robots, a few thousand mercs, and a giant dreadnought that makes this ship look like a tug boat."

"Now for the good news, we have the best trained, most skilled crew in the entire Alliance. They may know we are coming but I will tell you this, we will stop them. They think the mission is impossible and we will fail? I don't care what they think for I know we will prove them wrong."

"We are not doing this just for humanity, we must do this for all live on our galaxy. Failure in this endeavor means extinction of all intelligent life in this entire galaxy. I promise you this we will not fail, no matter the obstacles and no matter the challenges we the crew of the Normandy shall overcome and we will do so and live!"

I looked at Joker and he was really smiling like he was really pumped for this mission. "Turns out skipper nobody is going to jump ship. Like I said we are behind you all the way!"

I began walking towards the CIC and couldn't help looking at the crew as they saw me walk past them, The first planet might as well be that planet that has Matriarch Benezia's daughter. Chances are that she shared some information with her daughter and that will give us a clue about how Saren will try to find the Conduit.