Chapter 4
Kasumi Goto was the newest member of the Normandy crew, she had spoken to Shepard when she first went to the citadel and was told to board the ship whenever she was ready. She was a master thief, not known by many and that was the way that she liked it. She couldn't be a thief if everyone in the galaxy knew of her right? She had been brought upon the Normandy and had instantly went to one of the observation rooms to only find that it was occupied already by a blonde who looked a year older then she did. The strange thing was that he was sitting on the glass that was of the window, his back was facing the ground while he was facing the roof. She had almost screamed when he bent his head back had rolled his eyes into the back of his head and muttered 'I'm going to eat you!', showing his grown canines she ran out of the room and went straight for the other observation deck, she could swear that he could shout after her 'that was meant for Shepard!' she was contemplating on whether or not to go down to engineering. She had told Shepard what had happened and she said that she would have a few words with the blonde about idiotic pranks, but Kasumi could see that she was trying to hide a devilish grin. That was two days ago.
Naruto was sitting in his room looking out the window into space, he knew that this mission was dangerous but he was never one to not look danger in the face and not continuously make fun of it for some idiotic reason, but he had yet to see what these Collectors where made off. He wasn't one for waiting even when he fought Madara he didn't really expect to survive he just charged in with the full force of Kurama's chakra from the beginning, he even fought recklessly against Sasuke hoping a hit would take his life but Sasuke was just to damn predictable.
"When are we going to get to fuck some shit up again?" The fox asked from within the seal.
"When we get another ground mission." Naruto replied.
"Teh." Was all he got in response.
"Naruto what are you doing?" Kelley asked from behind him. She had come down with some more data pads for him to read.
"Hey Kelly I was just thinking about some stuff, nothing important." He smiled at her. She smiled back and sat next to him cross legged like he was.
"I brought you some more data pads, there are a few more dossiers in there that the Illusive man has forwarded to the Commander." She continued to smile. "I heard that you and Garrus played some tricks on the Commander Yesterday." She smiled and she only got a devilish grin in return.
(Flash back)
Naruto and Garrus were on the engineering deck, looking through the shuttle when they heard footsteps behind them. Shepard was standing there in her usual attire that she wore aboard the Normandy most of the male personal were all on the engineering deck and she had no idea why, even Joker was down here, he had limped out of the elevator after she had when it came back down. She looked around to find all the male personal standing behind her.
"What is with everyone today?" She asked looking around and she could hear Naruto and Garrus trying not to laugh behind her. She looked back at the two and eyed them suspiciously before they broke out into full blown laughter. "What the hell is the matter with you two!" She growled. There was a loud wolf whistle from up on the balcony which came from the one and only Zaeed Massani.
"Nice panties there Shepard." He grinned as he walked back into his little trash room. Shepard glanced down and saw that there was nothing wrong but when she looked at her ass, both cheeks were fairly visible through the hole that had been cut with pink underwear with a logo saying 'Spank Me' in black letters printed across it. Naruto and Garrus continued to laugh and the rest even Joker bailed on the two.
"Your both dead!" She yelled.
"It was all Garrus idea!" Naruto yelled as he burst into smoke showing that he was a clone.
"Oh, you backstabbing ass monkey!" Garrus shouted as Shepard attacked him.
(Flash back end)
"yeah that was fun." Naruto smiled remembering how he had spanked her right on her left ass cheek that same night when she had started to leave after coming down to speak with him, only for her to look over her shoulder with an innocent look and a small pouting smile and say. 'Spank me Harder Next time' He was completely and utterly stunned by that as she left.
"That wasn't just fun, Kid, that was CLASSIC."
"And here I thought you were in a bad mood."
"Just bored."
"You two get along well, Joker and Garrus seem to like her smiling." Kelly said as she stood up. "It's late I should probably get going, Shepard has gone with Kasumi for a mission and when she gets back she is going to help Zaeed with a few things that he wants settled." Naruto nodded and she left after a while of thinking about what he was going to do after the final mission. He fell asleep after that and awoke when he had a dream of when he was a child and he was being beaten again. He sighed as he stood up and decided that he should work on his jutsu as they seemed weaker when he was inside his armor for some reason. He stealthily made his way to the engineering deck, hoping not to run into Garrus as he was not a very decent person in the morning's especially very very early in the morning. The engineering deck was where the training room was and he got into his armor. He had to chuckle as he looked at the red clouds he must say that they were stylish in there own way.
The room was quite large and had white walls, there were weapons along the walls and it was near indestructible. When he had first wanted to try out a rasengan in space this is where he did it only for it to be tiny. He stood in the training room and made a clone.
"After all these years I still can't make one on my own." He smiled to himself. He placed his hand out and the clone knew what to do as it started channeling it's own chakra along with Naruto's chakra and a small blue sphere started to create itself but didn't go past that. Naruto forced more Chakra into it along with the clone and his armor started to shock him visible lightning was manifesting itself in the small room, without warning the rasengan grew larger then it was meant to and exploded in his face dispelling the clone and sounding the alarm on the ship. Naruto was unconscious when he was taken to the med bay and Dr Chakwas was in shock when they finally got the ruined armor of him, his body was riddled with small cuts and his left side of his Torso had a massive scar over where his heart was and when she saw the back it went right through meaning that he should be dead. What drew the Doctors attention was that the new wounds that he had just inflicted on himself were already starting to heal at a massive rate. She was in awe.
It was four days before Naruto awoke and found that there was a weight on his arm when he opened his eyes he saw a mass of red hair and knew exactly who it was. She stirred in her sleep as Naruto saw where he was. "No matter where I go it's always the hospital." He sighed. Shepard was still asleep so he decided to let her as he rested his head.
"You know she has only left when we went to get Jack. And I must say I had to drag her out of here she was very reluctant." Garrus said as he entered the med bay. Naruto smiled up at him and Garrus yawned. "You were out for quite a while buddy, four days without you on the ship I thought I was going to go insane." Naruto chuckled at this. "I even just started to bang my head on the wall when Dr Chakwas came and found me." He grinned.
"So what's Jack like?" Naruto asked.
"Hell of a biotic but has the personality of a freaking psychopath, I swear she tried to kick me out of the airlock half a dozen times." Garrus sighed as he sat down in a chair. "I've come to find you as a friend Naruto, I was the one who dragged your mangled ass up here. What happened down there?"
"I was trying to get my jutsu to work in my armor." Garrus looked at him oddly.
"It didn't work?" Naruto shook his head. "Biotics work just fine with them, why wouldn't this chikra?"
"Chakra." Naruto corrected. "I don't know, I might ask that Salarian scientist guy about it. He might know." Naruto said as he felt Shepard stir again.
"It's been a while since I have seen her that calm and relaxed, probably before Virmire." Garrus said as he looked towards the sleeping Shepard. "I'm glad your the one to make her happy Naruto." He smiled. Naruto looked to the woman to his side and smiled himself.
"Maybe we should stop playing pranks on her?" Naruto asked.
"It probably would be for the best..." Garrus started.
"Nah." They both said at the same time and grinned. Shepard stirred and her eyes fluttered open as Garrus left the room and she instantly stood up and slapped Naruto across the face.
"Not quite the reaction I was hoping for, but I think I deserved that..." Naruto trailed off as he felt her arms wrap around him.
"What the hell were you doing!" She said and sounded to Naruto as if she was trying to hold back sobs. "I...I...can't...not again, Naruto promise me you won't do anything reckless ever again!" Naruto pulled back from the hug and looked into her blue eyes.
"I promise." Naruto replied with a smile as she hugged him again and he could feel that her tears were wetting his shirt. "I would never do anything to hurt you." He whispered to her.
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The planet Korlus was all but dead, there were ruined buildings and that was all Naruto needed to have some fun with, he was with Garrus scouting out some area while Shepard, Miranda and Mordin were going the more direct way. It had been two days since Naruto awoke and he had gone to see Mordin almost immediately, he told him of what happened and the scientist immediately had started running test on the Chakra system and was amazed, he was even able to modify Naruto's armor so that he could use his chakra to it's full potential again. Naruto and the Scientist were best friends after that. Well Shepard came first then Garrus then Mordin. It was a long list of people before the Salarian, but at the moment he was in the top three. Garrus was amazed at how much power the chakra system gave Naruto it was like he was a biotic god or something but there was no blue light. They had come up against three heavily armed merc groups and over a dozen mindless Krogan that Okeer must have created. They had easily dealt with all of them, Naruto even wanted to try hand-to-hand combat again but Garrus reminded him of his promise to Shepard not to do anything reckless so he pouted and took them out with his sniper rifle.
As Naruto jumped over a crumbled wall Garrus followed while watching the blonde and could easily see that there was something on his mind and didn't know whether to approach the matter or wait until they were out of combat.
"Naruto?" Garrus started while the blonde looked back.
"yeah what is it?"
"What's on your mind, you seem a little bit out of it." Garrus said as he looked around making sure everything was clear.
"Nothing is wrong Garrus lets keep moving." Naruto replied as he looked ahead.
"Naruto..."
"I said lets keep moving."
"Damn it Naruto what the hell is the matter with you!" Garrus yelled at the blonde who sweat dropped when he heard a few voices over a wall.
"Well there goes being subtle." Naruto replied as he ran to the wall and Garrus thought he was going to run around it but he channeled chakra to his feet and ran up it and jumped over it and started shooting. Garrus could see the enemy's fire as it went upwards then stopped. "Garrus next time there are enemies near stay quiet would you." Naruto said as he walked around the side of the wall. Garrus sweat dropped and nodded as he followed the blonde.
"Garrus what is going on over there?" Shepard asked over the radio.
"Ah nothing just a small squad is all." Garrus replied as he followed Naruto to a near by building and they both entered it and headed for the stairs. "I think we are nearing the labs to where Okeer is."
"Good we are just about to get through some more mercs we will meet you outside the door we will wait for you." Shepard replied and the radio went quiet. Garrus and Naruto both made there way up the building to one of the higher up floors of the building which was open and they could see the remains of the dead mercs that Shepard's team and gone through and knew they were on the right track.
They followed the trail of dead bodies and soon found the three talking with an Asari. Rana Thanoptis was back on Virmire and let Shepard and her team back into Saren's lab and she was able to escape the explosion.
"Rana it would be best if you got out of here." Shepard started and the Asari nodded as she ran out of the room. The three watched and saw that Garrus and Naruto walked in after she had left.
"Making friends, again, I see." Garrus chuckled.
"And I thought we were the only friends she needed." Naruto pouted.
"Shut it, You two." Shepard growled as she opened the door and found a Krogan standing next to a terminal next to a Krogan inside of a tank filled with suspicious looking liquid. Naruto immediately ran over to the tank and looked inside face pressed up against the glass. He ignored what was being said and he had to remove himself from the glass when he heard an explosion and looked out the window which looked out onto more tanks and a blonde woman standing down there in what looked like blue suns armor.
"You need to stop Jedore, she will ruin everything!" The Krogan now known as Okeer said. "I will stay here...and finish what I started." He finished as he turned back to the terminal.
"Move out we have to take Jedore down and get back here. All of you with me, who knows what that crazy bitch has got down there." Garrus and Naruto just smirked as they followed the Commander down the stairs. Miranda and Mordin shrugged there shoulders and left the lab and followed after the group.
"I want them dead!" Jedore yelled as more and more Krogan piled out of there tanks and took up arms (A/N Did anyone else think why the fuck did they come out of there tanks with weapons and armor? Or was it just me?) Shepard and Garrus took some cover over the far left of the room leaving Mordin and Miranda in the center with Naruto on the right on his own.
"Fuck this I'm doing it my way! Reckless or not! Ready, Fox?" Naruto screamed to himself.
"Fuck yeah lets blow some shit up!" The Kyuubi yelled and Naruto could just smirk as he holstered his pistol at his hip. He rushed out of his cover and he heard a yell for him to get back into cover from Shepard but didn't listen as he started to head for a Krogan who had dropped his weapon and started to charge at the blonde. The Krogan was sloppy compared to Naruto as Naruto slid on his side and kicked the Krogan's legs out from underneath him and the brute went upwards and started to fall onto the blonde only to receive a kick to his midsection from underneath him. Naruto couldn't help but Grin these Krogan were meant to be warriors from birth but they were just like the rest. The Krogan stood up and another charged at the blonde from behind who back flipped over him making both Krogan collide. There was a ear splitting yell as the first Krogan's spine snapped underneath the force from the other Krogan.
"My bad." Naruto said sheepishly as he summoned three clones and headed for the Krogan who shook his head and swung at one of the blondes only to get it kicked away and another foot into his face from another clone which sent him sprawling into the other two who had a blue sphere in his hands with a grin on his face. "Rasengan!" The blue sphere completely tore open the Krogan's armor and blood spurted out when Naruto removed his hand, he drew both of his pistols and ran towards the remaining three Krogan. He stepped up on a dead Krogan and launched himself into the air in a reverse back flip as he glided over them he shoot down on the Krogan's killing them instantly all with head shots he landed next to the heavy mech only to get punched by it and sent flying into a nearby wall.
"Naruto!" Shepard yelled trying to see if the blonde was ok.
"Miranda! Take down his shields!" Garrus ordered. Miranda nodded and sent an overload from her omni tool towards the mech and the shields dropped and everyone sent there rounds towards it making it fall to it's knees and blow up. Shepard jumped the cover she was behind and headed for the other side of the room to where Jedore was and found her hiding behind a crate. She snuck up behind the crate pulled out her shotgun and stood up right much to Jedore's shock and fired a round at point blank range killing her instantly and leaving her in a mess. She ran over to where Naruto collided with the wall Garrus, Miranda and Mordin were already searching through the rubble and the sight that they found was gruesome.
Naruto's left arm was broken and his bone had forced itself out of the skin and past the armor, his face had bruises which were already starting to heal and they all flinched even Mordin after they saw that the bone retracted into the skin. Naruto grunted at the pain and then stood up.
"I'm going to be sore in the morning." Naruto said as he looked over his armor. His arm was already starting to heal itself.
"Wh-what was that?" Miranda asked a bit shocked.
"Shepard you need to get back to the lab the alarms have gone off." EDI's voice came over the radio. Shepard looked to her team and they all nodded and headed for the lab, just to see Okeer slump to the ground from his terminal.
"If I knew anything about the collectors I would tell you but I do not, take this grunt..." Where Okeers last words from the terminal. Shepard looked into the tank looking at the Krogan.
"Shepard we have no idea what this Krogan is like he may not even be stable." Miranda said.
"Get him on board and we will see what its all about." Garrus said looking at Naruto's arm.
"Joker we need a pick up and he's a big one."
"Bow chicka bow wow." Naruto said and was slapped up the back of the head from Shepard.
"Naruto...THAT WAS AWESOME TIMING!" Garrus shouted making Naruto grin. In the seal, the fox was rolling.
"Oh yeah." Naruto laughed as he leans back against a bench his hands behind his head.
"I thought I told you not to be reckless Naruto." Shepard said as she sat down next to him.
"I'm just so use to hand to hand combat and as you can see I heal very quickly." He chuckled.
"Yep, hand to hand combat is the old school way to kill your enemies. Killing a man with your bare hands says 'We're all equals as men except I'm slightly more equal because I'm still alive and your dead.' Of course dropping a nuke on them from fifty thousand feet is totally acceptable. I mean let's face it, there's just not enough time in this galaxy to show everybody the courtesy of a good strangling" Garrus firmly stated and all Shepard and Naruto could do was laugh while Mordin and Miranda sweat dropped.
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"Shepard I would not recommend awakening the Krogan at this time." EDI said over the radio.
"This is my ship now give me the controls." Shepard ordered.
"The controls are yours along with the consequences." Shepard opened the tank and the suspicious liquid drained out of it. The hatch popped open the the Krogan fell forwards. He looked around with his blue slitted eyes and saw Shepard and immediately rushed her and held her up by the throat.
"Human. Female. Before I kill you I need a name." The Krogan said he felt a tap on his shoulder and he looked to his left and saw Naruto with a shit eating grin on his face as he punched the Krogan square in the face. The Krogan stumbled backwards and held his hand up to his face. "I like you, but you are not human."
"You can tell that?" Naruto asked as he raised an eyebrow.
"You do not smell like a human. I still need a name."
"Well Okeer's last word were along the line's of Grunt."
"I like it, who is your female subordinate?" This caused a tick to form on Shepard's head and Naruto to chuckle.
"I am Commander Shepard and Naruto is my subordinate."
"I see... Before we test our skills as warrior's where am I?"
"You want to fight?" Shepard asked.
"I was bred to fight. I have the minds of the most feared Krogan Warlords. I crave the feeling." Naruto patted him on the shoulder.
"I feel the same, but Shepard here gets her enemies from some shop called 'galaxy killers 'R us'. I say that you help us against the collectors and you get your fill of battle."
"I will help you Shepard and blonde." Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"My names Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze. If you want to spar later let me know." He said with a foxy grin and left letting Shepard talk with the Krogan.
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Naruto stood looking at the Galaxy map and not noticing Shepard come out of the elevator behind him. She strolled up behind him and wrapped her arms around his waist.
"If your going to be reckless can you let me know before hand so I know that shit is going to go down?" She asked as she nuzzled her head into his shoulders. He relaxed and sighed.
"Of course, just if things get to hectic I want you to get out of there, I don't want to lose you." He said as he placed a hand on one of her arms that was around him. He could slightly feel her nod in agreement.
"Ahh...Commander there is a request from the illusive man, I'll patch it through to the meeting room." Joker said. Naruto looked up down to where Joker was sitting and could see that he had a light smirk on his face. Naruto growled and Joker immediately turned around and looked out a window.
"Duty call's I'll see you later." Naruto nodded and continued to look at the Galaxy map. He looked over his shoulder as Shepard walked into the army to go into the meeting room and smirked, he waited a minute before following her and opened the meeting room door and saw Shepard standing the the center of the room where the table usually was and an orange grid pattern surrounded her. "What is she doing on Horizon?" Shepard asked. Naruto looked at the grid as Shepard had yet to notice him and stuck his head in and could see what looked to be a dark room with a few orange computer panels a large blue and red sun behind him. There was a man sitting in a chair and looked like he had synthetic eyes like Sasuke but these eyes were blue and more noticeable.
"Shepard who is that?" The man in the chair asked. Shepard turned around and looked at Naruto and he just gave a sheepish grin.
"This is one of my crew and has saved our asses a number of times." Shepard replied.
"So your the illusive man, what's with all the secrecy seriously. I once knew a guy who liked to keep a little Uchiha in his basement and let me tell you that was just wrong, you remind me of that guy." Naruto smirked, Shepard had to fight down a laugh t the elusive man's reaction as he was speechless. "Well it was nice meeting you, hope I never have to look at that shitty looking fake smile that you are now sporting. Bye now." Naruto made a mock bow and left the grid and headed for his quarters. Shepard finished talking with the Illusive man and headed straight for the galaxy map and plotted a course for Horizon, she wanted to see Ashley it had been two long years without her friend.