Fury of Eternal Maelstrom

by Ornstein the Dragon Slayer

Category: Halo, NarutoGenre: Romance, Sci-FiLanguage: EnglishCharacters: Didact, Naruto U., ShionPairings: Naruto U./ShionStatus: CompletedPublished: 2014-07-30 18:06:54Updated: 2014-08-18 17:40:57Packaged: 2016-04-27 04:11:26Rating: TChapters: 16Words: 30,097Publisher: www.fanfiction.netSummary: A boy with the body of a human, yet he is not, he willbecome great, greater than any Promethean. Raised by the Iso-Didact,he will carry the legacy of the Forerunners and their ancestors inthis world that knows nothing but bloodshed. With him by his side,his lover, his life, a woman with the gift of foresight. Everyjourney begins with a single step.

1. Chapter 1

**NA: I really wanted to get this out, it was such a brilliantcombination I could not resist writing this. This will most likely bemy greatest creation! Naruto once again is older in here, but theKyuubi still attacked during the day of his birth, I did this to fitthe story.**

**I just came up with the story last night, it just came to mesuddenly.**

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><p><strong>-Story Start-<strong>

**Prologue**

Pain, anger, resentment, sorrow. Emotions that ran through thisbloodied child as he ran through the streets of this village, cryingas he ran for his life. "Why!" he screamed, clutching his left arm asblood poured out. His blonde hair covered with blood, his sky blueeyes filled with terror.

"Get the demon! Today we finish what our beloved Fourthstarted!"

The cries and roars of the people soared through the streets as they

held makeshift weapons, cleavers, and torches. Some shinobi as welljoined in. The boy ran and ran as he made for the village gate, notlooking back at the mob that was out for his life.

"Do not let the demon escape!"

The boy managed to run past the gate, but the mob did not stop, theycontinued on, intent on killing him. So he kept running, even whenhis legs wanted to give out. He ran and ran and ran, until he reacheda cliff, his running had come to end. He clutched his left arm as hestepped back towards the edge of the cliff; the faces of the peopleglaring at him were filled with hate and anger. The shinobi withinthe mob grabbed their kunais and threw them at the boy. The boy triedto dodge them, but to no avail, as one blade struck his chest,sending him down to the ravine below.

"We have killed the demon! We are heroes!" the people roared with joyfor murdering an innocent child. Humans… such a cruel race theyare.

As the child fell, he wondered, if he could finally meet the parentshe had always wanted to know. Did they love him? Did they want him?Did they? His body struck the water, blood flowing as he is carriedby the current of the river, he began to lose consciousness as hestruggled to stay awake.

The water carries him further, deep into the river, until a handgrabs him. It showed a man of at least ten feet tall with strangegray armor, orange light glowing on the trims, and metallic platesthat seemed to float above his shoulders. "You look human, yet youare not." The deep voice of the man calls out.

He picks up the boy and carries him through some kind of green light,disappearing from the face of the planet. The man places the boy on atable, "Guarding Light, I am need of your services." The man calledout once again.

A spherical object with a bright blue light entered the room,"Iso-Didact, may I ask why is there a human child aboard thisship?"

"He may look it, but he is no human, scan him and you will see why heis not." The spherical object known as Guarding Light did so, thesphere gasped.

"By the creators, what is he?"

"I do not know, but we must tend to the child's wounds, he is dying."Iso-Didact said as he felt the child's breathing becoming lessfrequent.

"At once Didact." Guarding Light made a nodding gesture as machinesand floating objects neared the child, light shimmered upon the boy'sexposed skin, closing their wounds. "The entity residing within seemsto be helping with the healing process, fascinating, he has the bodyof a human, yet he is different entirely. What do you plan on doingwith him Didact? Surely you brought him aboard for a reason."

"Yes, this child has power I have not seen in over a thousandmillennia. He will become my legacy, my greatest creation." Didact

declared.

Guarding Light paused for a second before continuing with his work,"I see, true that he has power, but is it wise to entrust him witheven more power?"

Didact nodded, "I along with our warrior-servants and Prometheans maybe the last of our kind Guarding Light, I wish to leave him with ourlegacy, I will teach the ways of combat. While you, will teach moresubtle education, I have seen what the humans had done to him, tothink their cruelty stretches to that of children. What this boy willdo with that power, is up to him. As long as our legacy lives on, Icare not what he does with this world."

The sphere nods, "Understood, Didact."

The Didact's helmet opened, revealing humanoid looking man, but witha face of that of an alien. "This boy, will become the greatestPromethean. Even greater than that fool Ur-Didact."

The boy wakes up on a soft bed, wearing clean white clothes, "Ah youare awake." A voice calls out to his side. "Hello little one, I amGuarding Light, I was responsible for tending to your wounds."

The child was shivering, the floating object in front of him scaredhim a bit, "No need to be afraid child, I will not hurt you, you aresafe, far away from those cruel humans that made an attempt on yourlife. Now come, my creator who saved your life wishes to speak withyou."

He could only nod and follow the floating ball of light, passingthrough the beautiful hallways, he gasped as he looked out thewindow… he could see the world below. "Ah yes, you are aboard aship that travels through the stars. Now come little one, my creatorawaits."

The went past the last hallway, the boy walked into a room wherethere was a seat with multiple controls and holographic screenspositioned in the center of the room, overlooking a window, this wasthe ship's bridge. "Ah you are awake." The man seated on the chairturned to him, revealing his humanoid looking face. He had a fewhairs protruding from the back of his head, his face was not that ofa human, "Hello young one, I am Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting, oryou can simply call me Didact. I am a Promethean of the once proudForerunner race."

"F-Forerunner?" the boy softly spoke, still quite scared at thenon-human he was looking at.

"No need to be fear child." Didact smiled softly, "You are here for apurpose. You are to be the greatest Promethean this age will everknow, and I wish to guide you, to teach you, to nurture you. In away, I will become your father."

"F-Father?" he muttered, tears flowing from his eyes. Didact liftedhimself from his seat and knelt down in front of the boy, and gavehim a gentle hug. He may be a Forerunner, but all sentient beings arenever exempt from emotions and feelings.

"Yes… my son, you will become my legacy. Now what is your

name?"

"Naruto Uzumaki." He spoke softly.

Didact smiled, "Naruto, in your tongue it means Maelstrom, yes…that will be your Forerunner name, Fury of Eternal Maelstrom,signifying your new life as my son."

**End Prologue**

**XXXXXXXX**

**Thirteen years later**

**The Land of Demons**

A young man around 6 feet in height walked through a snowy citywearing a cloak. Inside the cloak was armor his father had createdfor him, it was the armor a Didact would wear into battle. Heapproached the cities palace as guards approached. "Halt! State yourbusiness."

"I have come here at the request of your daimyo." He pulled out ascroll and gave it to the guards.

The guard who took the scroll read it, he then nodded, "You may gothrough, he has been expecting you."

The man went through the gate and went up the large stairs that ledhim to the palace entrance. The doors opened revealing a beautifullybuilt structure, bright and elegant. The cloaked man walked throughhall, approaching a woman sitting on a throne. "Ah Naruto, it is goodto see you once more. My daughter has missed you greatly."

"Lady Yagyu." Naruto bowed, in the thirteen years he had spent withhis new father, he had learnt a many great deal from him and GuardingLight. He learnt the ways of war from his father, and other forms ofeducation from Guarding Light. He had grown tremendously over theyears, he became a master tactician, a warrior… a Promethean. Hewould soon become a Didact as well like his father, he became abrilliant commander thanks to the knowledge his father passed down tohim. Commanding a contingent of Promethean Knights, his personalguard. "How is Shion?" he asked, removing his cloak and revealing thegrey armor much like his father's with its floating shoulder guards.Many of the servants and guards who had never seen him in his armorgasped at the beauty of the armor, like an angel from heaven had comedown to visit them.

"She misses you a great deal, refusing to meet other suitors. I mustthank you once again for defeating the demon."

"Think nothing of it your highness, I only did what I thought wasright." During his time in the city, he helped stop a demon goingrampant, the city would have been lost were it not for Narutodefeating it. Because of his actions, he saved a great many livesthat day.

The priestess laughed, "You are too modest sometimes Naruto, are yousure you do not wish to take your father's name, theNamikaze?"

Naruto nodded, "I am sure your highness, I do not wish to take it yetas it will bring unneeded attention, for now I will keep it asecret."

"Wise words young Naruto, but enough of this, Shion has been awaitingyour return for quite some time now."

Naruto bowed and proceeded to walk to the palace gardens; thereseated on a bench was a beautiful young woman at the age of 17. Shehad beautiful blonde hair and purple eyes that shined like agemstone. She was next in line to become the next priestess of theLand of Demons. He met her five years ago during his travels aroundthe country, she was coming back from a trip when the carriage shewas in was under attack by bandits and luckily he was nearby. Movingin to help them, he pulled out his pistol and fired a few shots atthe bandits, getting their attention the bandits foolishly charged toattack him, angry that they ruined their fun on planning to ravagethe blonde girl, he activated his energy blades and slashed at them,because he was a Promethean, he had telekinesis, lifting one of thebandits and choking him to death, the rest was a blur as the banditswere ripped to pieces. Unfortunately Shion's guards were all killedin the attack as they were caught off guard, Naruto in turn offeredto escort her back to her home, she graciously accepted as shecouldn't keep her eyes off the blonde, his beautiful face, hismesmerizing blue eyes, his sun-kissed blonde hair that shines whenthe sun touches it. What caught her eye as well was the strange butbeautifully designed armor he was wearing, it was gray but glowingblue energy shining within the armor's trims, and the weapons hecarried that seemed to stick to his back and sides when not in use,what astonished her were the shoulder guards that floated above hisshoulders. All in all, he was her knight in shining armor that cameand rescued her.

Over the five years, they had been seeing each other, going out a fewtimes, the Didact was amused with their relationship and courtship,and approved of it, the girl had strange powers of foresight. Theygrew closer as they spent more time together, until they had theirfirst kiss in this very same garden. And now it had been six monthssince they had seen each other, and he was back to see her oncemore.

"Shion…" he softly called out to her.

"Naruto-kun!" Shion jumped from the bench and fell into his embrace,passionately kissing him. "I missed you."

"And I you my love."

"Will you be staying long this time?" Shion asked him with a pleadinglook.

"Yes, I have come to like this country, and its people, but mostlybecause of a certain special someone." Naruto said, kissing her oncemore.

"Fury of Eternal Maelstrom, to think that there are beings from otherworlds." Shion's bloodline granted her the ability of seeing multiplefutures, or basically different outcomes of a future. One of them wasa vision of beings from another planet with technology and power that

rivalled that of the demons of their world. She was the only one whoknew Naruto's Forerunner name because of those visions.

"There are more than that Shion." He said while cupping her face,"And I cannot wait for you to see it all."

"And I cannot wait to see it Naruto. Are you sure you will be comingback to Konoha for the Chunin exams?" she said with worry, she wasaware of the history he has had with them, and the pain he endured,she did not like the idea of him walking the streets of that villageagain.

"I will, but not as their shinobi, but as a shinobi of the Land ofDemons. As your shinobi." He took her hand and kissed it, smiling athis lover, savouring the scent of her hand. "I love you Shion."

"I love you Naruto." She said leading him to her room, her eyesgazing at him lovingly. "Stay with me tonight."

"As you wish."

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><p><strong>NA: Oh I think I did a pretty good start for this. Yes heis older once more; I think he is a better character if he is older.So I paired him with Shion who is older as well, one of my favoriteNaruto girls.<strong>

**He is wearing the armour much like the Didact's from Halo 4, justcustom fitted to his size and frame. His weapons are the Z-130Directed Energy Automatic Weapon or the Suppressor, the Z-110Directed Energy Pistol or the Boltshot, and wrist mounted energyblades. He will sometimes switch to a Z-250 Directed EnergyEngagement Weapon or LightRifle if need be. His armor energy andweapons glow blue instead of Ur-Didact's orange.**

**Yes he is a Shinobi of the Land of Demons or Oni no Kuni. I doubtthis has ever been done before or much.**

**I will see you guys later!**

2. Chapter 2

**NA: Am I the only one who thinks the Boltshot is overpowered? Imean it can kill in a single shot at the correct distance, then againthey did nerf it. But it is still powerful. Well enough of the rantand let's get on with the story. So the terrain and climate of theLand of Demons will be different compared to canon, it will locatedto the north, and it will be a snowy region, I just thought it wouldbe more fitting.**

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><p><strong>-Story Start-<strong>

Morning had come in the snowy city of the Land of Demons. The countrygot its namesake for imprisoning a demon at the center of thecountry. It then somehow escaped, but thanks to Naruto it was foreverdefeated thanks to his powers. A demon was no match for a Promethean

who is also a demon container.

On the bed with his combat skin lying on a table, a beautiful blondeyoung woman snuggled onto his chest. Their naked forms covered onlyby the sheets of the bed, sleeping peacefully. Despite the coldclimate the people were used to it. The sun's light revealed itselfinto the room, passing over Naruto's and Shion's faces. Theyfluttered their eyes and slowly opened. The first thing they saw waseach other, Naruto with his hand on her shoulder caressed it. Shionmoved a bit up and kissed him on the lips. "Good morning." Shefinally spoke.

Naruto returned the kiss, "Good morning my princess. I wouldn't mindwaking up to this every morning."

The blonde princess giggled but then tilted her head in confusion,"What do you mean?"

"I mean, living here, with you."

Shion's eyes slowly widened, "Meaning, you're staying here?"

Naruto nodded with a smile, caressing her beautiful face. She put ona smile and embraced him, after all these years he finally decided tostay here, with her.

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Lady Yagyu, Shion's mother wasn't surprised to say the least, sheknew he would decide to live here eventually, after all she was theone who offered him a place here. "So you have finally made yourdecision to stay."

"Yes, there is no other place I would rather be." Naruto smiled, hisarms around Shion's hips as she lay her head on his shoulder.

"Well at least with you here, you can scare off those annoyingsuitors always vying for her hand in marriage." Lady Yagyu jokinglysaid.

"Suitors?" Naruto turned to Shion, "You never told me about thesuitors?"

"They weren't important." Shion argued, "Besides I have younow."

Naruto grumbled, "You should have at least told me, I could havedealt with them."

"No, no you are not killing them; it would look bad on all of us."Shion chastised her lover.

"Very well." He sighed in defeat.

"Now then you two lovebirds, shall we go have some breakfast? Thefood is ready." Shion's mother asked them, at which they both noddedand followed her to the dining hall.

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**1 month later**

A month had passed since Naruto decided to stay and live in the Landof Demons, the people were floored at the sight of the _Fury'sAscent_, a massive starship of epic proportions descended from thesky and stopped right over the mountains. The ship was over 142.7kilometres long, 138.6 kilometres wide, and 371.4 kilometres high. Itwas one of the three remaining ships of its class. The other twobelonging to the Ur-Didact and Iso-Didact. Naruto's father theIso-Didact had named him Novi-Didact and gave him the _Fury's Ascent_as a gift. Naruto was saddened that he had to leave and explore thestars, but was also happy that he had been given charge of his ownship. The many Promethean Knights at his command were also at theservice of Demon Country, since they swore allegiance to it. LadyYagyu may had been shocked to say the least, never in her mind wouldshe such a sight.

_Flashback_

_1 week after Naruto decided to stay_

_"Lady Yagyu!" a guard called out from the door, "Lady Yagyusomething is coming out of the sky!"_

_"What?" Lady Yagyu and her daughter said in unison, they were justcasually talking on the balcony. The guard pointed up, and what theysaw was a sight to behold, a large metallic object came down from thesky. It was like nothing they had ever seen. The people down at thevillage just looked up and thought a deity had come. The massiveobject just stopped and hovered over the mountains. Naruto flashedinto existence behind the two women._

_"Naruto! Are you seeing this?" Shion said with her eyes widening,waving her hands and pointing at the large object in thedistance._

_The Novi-Didact just laughed, "No need to panic Shion, it's just myship."_

_"Eh?" the two women turned to him with a dumbfound look, "What doyou mean your ship?" Shion asked, she was now confused._

_"The Fury's Ascent, a Forerunner dreadnought created over a hundredthousand years ago by my Father. He gave it to me as a gift before heleft to explore the stars." Before he continued a spherical objectappeared before them, it had a bright blue light at its center. "Ah Iwould like to introduce to you all to 097 GuardingLight."_

_"Greetings, as the young master has said, I am 097 Guarding Light, Iam both a wartime and a lifeworker Ancilla."_

_"L-Lifeworker? A-Ancilla?" Lady Yagyu stuttered, she was stillshocked by this whole ordeal._

_"An Ancilla is what you people call an Artificial Intelligence, weare artificially created sentient beings. And a lifeworker is someonewho specializes in medicine and study of life in all its forms." TheAncilla explained._

_"This… is so amazing." Shion breathed heavily as she looked at theFury's Ascent and then back to Guarding Light. "So that ship is overa hundred thousand years old?"_

_"Yes." The Ancilla nodded, "I too am also a hundred thousand yearsold, in a way I have helped raised the young master here and helpedshape him into what he is today. While his father taught him the waysof combat as a Promethean, I taught him in the ways of a lifeworkerand academics."_

_The two women were shocked beyond belief, in front of them was anancient being, someone far older than the Sage of Six Paths. "The whyare you here?" Yagyu asked._

_"The young master has told us that we can call this place our home.The young master had been named Novi-Didact of the Promethean forcesinside the Fury's Ascent; in short he is their commander. if youwould permit, we would like to call the Land of Demons our home aswell, and swear to protect it." The Ancilla explained tothem._

_Yagyu was speechless, a contingent of a highly advanced ancient raceswearing allegiance to her country. She was in a dream she must be!She slapped her face, trying to wake herself up. Naruto chuckled,"Lady Yagyu I can assure you this is no dream."_

_The high priestess started mumbling in gibberish, Shion was renderedspeechless. Once again her lover had done the unexpected. He trulywas an unpredictable man._

_End Flashback_

Shion was looking into the distance, gazing at the magnificent shipthat is the _Fury's Ascent. _Naruto walked behind her and placed hisarms around her by the waist. "Magnificent isn't it?"

The princess sighed in awe, "It is, I don't think I'll ever get usedto seeing something like that. An ancient ship with advancedtechnology this world has never seen. And it'syours."

"Ours…"

"What?"

"Shion in the five years I have known you, I have grown closer toyou, I have grown to love you more and more as time passed by. Youfilled the void in my heart, something that I have longed for. Youhave become my love, and my life." He dropped to one knee, opening asmall box, revealing a ring of Forerunner design, the ring was white,a light illuminating on the top. Shion gasped, bringing her hands toher mouth, eyes watering but showing joy.

"Princess Shion of the Land of Demons, will you be my wife?"

Shion breathed hard, and then….

"Yes… yes I will marry you."

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The entire city celebrated. The hero of the Land of Demons betrothedto their princess. From simple cheers to a festival, the city wasalive. Music, dancing, and food were everywhere. Inside the mainhall, tables were put out for the guests as they enjoyed their food.The many suitors who tried to get Shion's hand in marriage werepresent as well, they were all jealous that he of all people waschosen to marry her. But how could they match him? He defeated ademon, his prowess in combat was unmatched. And he had the command ofthe most powerful army in all the Elemental Nations. Although onlythe country itself knew of their existence. Thanks to advancedForerunner technology, the _Fury's Ascent _can cloak and renderitself invisible to the naked eye. Then again Demon Country barelygets any visitors to begin with as to the rest of the world, theyweren't that special.

Naruto had been preparing himself for the Chunin exams that would beheld in that accursed village he once called home… Konohagakure. Hewas already the Novi-Didact, commander of all Promethean forces inthe Land of Demons and to extension the entire star system, so therewas really no need for him to become participate in these exams. Buthe wanted to show them, he wanted to make them see, how powerful hewas. He wanted to see the regret in their eyes, the guilt. But mostof all, he had questions he needed answered from the old man himself,the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, for lying to him about hisparents. He knew his father was dead, but as for his mother… he didnot know whether she was alive or not. So he needed answers, and hewill force it out of him if he has to.

Right now he sighed in content with his wife to be as they ate theirfood. Another thing Naruto never expected was his status as aJinchuruki. The people praised him that such a man could hold themost powerful bijuu back. The country's seal masters were amazed bysuch a complex seal being used, especially the female seal users whowere eyeing his abs where the seal was located… Shion got irritatedand many of the female students of the seal masters received abeating from the princess for trying to feel him up, claiming theywere 'examining' the seal.

After the dinner the soon to be wed were on the balcony looking intothe distance, where the _Fury's Ascent _was currently hovering abovethe icy mountains. "So a new chapter of our lives begins." Narutosaid.

"Do you have to be so formal sometimes when you speak?" Shiongiggled.

"It's how I was taught to speak by my father."

"I like it, makes you unique, one of a kind." Shion snuggled onto hischest, he wasn't wearing his combat skin at the moment. "I loveyou."

"And I love you."

Shion frowned a bit, "Tomorrow you go to Konoha, do you haveto?"

"Yes." Naruto nodded, "I have questions that need to be answered, andthe only place I know that can be answered is within that accursed

village. I do not even know if my mother is alive. Uzushiogakure hasgone dark, I know my clan is there and alive, but they refused toallow visitors in. And I know that they will be sending their geninteams, that is why I need to go there. I have to know if my mother isalive or not. Once the finals begin you can come and watch if youlike, feel free to stay in the _Fury's Ascent, _it is your ship asmuch as it is mine."

"Mmm." Shion hummed into his chest. "I really hope your mother isalive, I want to meet her."

"I do too."

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><p><strong>NA: And there you have it! Chapter 2!<strong>

**The ship Naruto has is the same class as the Mantle's Approach fromHalo 4, same size, same weaponry, and I added the Promethean Knightsinto the mix, but they were loyal to the Iso-Didact, Naruto's adoptedfather.**

**Novi is Latin for New. Just like Ur is Latin for Original, and Isois Latin for Equal.**

**NO! I will not make this a harem, it is strictly NaruShion! Singlepairings for life!**

**Hope you guys enjoyed it and I will see you guys nexttime!**

**Current Character ages:**

**Naruto: 18**

**Shion: 17**

**Konoha rookies: same as canon**

3. Chapter 3

**NA: I love the LightRifle, it's so much fun to use. The suppressoras well, just spray and pray. I really don't care about weapons thatrequire little skill to use, as long as they are fun to use, that ismore than enough. Enough of this, let's get it on!**

**Character Ages:**

**Naruto: 18**

**Shion: 17**

**Konoha Rookies: Same as canon**

**Jonin Senseis: Same as canon**

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><p><strong>-Story Start-<strong>

**Fire Country**

**Outside the village of Konohagakure**

A bright blue flash of light appeared in a clearing on a road. Stoodthere after the flash was a hooded man wearing a large gray cloak. Hewalked for a few more minutes and spotted the village gates, seeingother Shinobi teams from other villages as well, he walked forward."Haul, state your business!" the two village gate guards toldhim.

"I am here for the Chunin exams, I am from Demon Country." The wordsthat came out of his mouth brought chills down the two gate guards'spines.

"R-Right, just register here for the exams and you may go in." theone with a bandage on his face stuttered and handed him a clipboard.The hooded man signed his name and went through without sayinganother word.

'Fury of Eternal Maelstrom.' Was what he wrote on the registrationpaper. The two gate guards looked at the name strangely, but decidednot to think too much about it, just seeing that man was creepyenough.

The man gazed at the Hokage tower, _'Not for another day until theexams begin, I still have time.'_

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Hiruzen Sarutobi was sitting on his desk, he stamped a few papers forthe exam, but sighed in the end. _'Oh Minato, you would be sodisappointed with this village. Kushina wherever you are, forgiveme.'_

"Why so down old man?" a voice came from the shadows.

"Who is there?" Hiruzen stood from his chair and scanned the room. Ahooded man walked in, pulling it down, revealing familiar blondehair, and blue eyes.

"Minato?" Hiruzen was about to have a heart attack, like he wasseeing a ghost.

The man chuckled, "Please, I am not my late father…_Jiji._"

"Naruto…" he breathed a sigh of great relief, "You're alive." Hequickly approached him. But was stopped when Naruto raised a hand forhim to stop where he was. He then realized something, "Wait… howdid you know that Minato was your father?"

"I put two and two together. But that is not why I am here, I havequestions, and you will answer them. Now first, you lied to me aboutmy parents… why?" Naruto's voice was deep, enough for any sane tobreak out in cold sweat.

Hiruzen gulped, "I… did it for your protection, they had enemies,many enemies. If no one knew who you parents were, you would be safe

from their assassins."

The walls and floor began to crack under pressure from Naruto'spowers, he growled, "And I was safe within Konoha, did you notremember I nearly died the day I turned five, thanks to those damnedvillagers I fell off a cliff! Now tell me, what of my mother is shealive, and if she is where is she?"

The Third Hokage flinched, honestly he did not want to tell him, apart of him thinks he is still an asset to this village because ofthe Kyuubi. Kushina fled after she was told both Minato and Narutodied. Fleeing to Uzushiogakure with Naruto's twin sister, where shestill had family left. "I don't… know." He hesitated on that lastpart. What he got next was Naruto using his telekinetic powers andholding up on the, slowly choking him.

"**Liar**…" he said with his voice sounding demonic, his eyes goingred with slits. "You will tell me old man, or there will beconsequences. If you will not tell me, not only will this villagesuffer, but your family as well."

"You wouldn't…" the old man's voice going hoarse from the chokehold.

"Are you so sure? I have complete control of all nine-tails of thefox. Do not underestimate me, I am more than willing to finish whatthe Kyuubi started if I don't get what I want. **NOW. TELL. ME."**Red chakra began to seep out into the room from the Didact's body,whisker marks began to appear on each cheek.

"Uzushiogakure, she fled to Uzushio with your twin sister. They willbe coming here soon for the Chunin exams. They should be here now…"he was then interrupted, such impeccable timing. Through the door twored heads with three genin. "Kushina…"

"Sarutobi, what is going- Naruto?" Kushina could not believe hereyes, in front of her was her supposedly dead son, there was nomistaking those whisker marks. But something was wrong, the redchakra within him was seeping out. "The Kyuubi's chakra. The sealis-"

"Worry not about the seal." Naruto said, the chakra going back in,his eyes going back to normal and the whisker marks disappearing. "Ihave complete control of him."

"How, they said you died!" Kushina said.

"They said the same thing to me about you." Naruto glared at the oldman who was on the floor gasping for air. Kushina glared at him aswell.

"What is the meaning of this Sarutobi?" Kushina growled.

"We needed the power of the Kyuubi, we were still recovering from theattack…" he was then picked up by the throat again, this time byNaruto's own hands. Kushina was shocked by his strength at how easilyhe was holding the man up high.

"So I was nothing but a weapon to you!?" the Didact growled, "Give meone reason why I should not destroy this village with my own hands!?

Give me one reason why I should not unleash the powers of the demonand finish what it started!?"

The younger red head was at a loss for words, here was her older twinbrother leaking out so much killing intent she was having a hard timeto breathe. "Naruto… calm down… please. I know you are angry buthis is not the way to go." Kushina pleaded with her son.

He let go of the old man and dropped him on the floor, coughing andgasping for much needed air. Konoha had created a monster. "Begrateful old man that my mother arrived at such impeccable timing andgranted you mercy, for I have none." He walked out of the door,Kushina glared once more at the old Hokage and followed her son, herdaughter and genins following suit.

Out in the hallway, the Didact stopped, "Naruto?" Kushina's voice wastrembling, her hand slowly reaching for him, she gasped when shesuddenly caught in an embrace by her son, hearing his sobs.

"For so long... for so long I have wanted to meet you, ttebayo." Hesobbed on her shoulder, it was rare for him to show any vulnerableemotions such as this, but this was an exception.

"I'm here… I'm here my baby, my baby boy." Kushina began to tear upas well, "You even inherited my verbal tick."

"I thought I outgrew that." He replied with a slight chuckle throughhis sobbing. They broke the hug and Kushina looked at him.

"Look at you, you look so much like your father."

"You have no idea how many times I have been mistakened for him."Kushina laughed at those words. Naruto then looked at the younger redhead, his twin. She was an exact copy of Kushina.

"And this is my sister?"

Kushina nodded, "Akane, meet your older twin,Naruto."

"Onii-chan?"

Naruto nodded, "Yes… imouto."

Akane immediately grabbed in a tight hug. "They said you died when wewere born."

"I am not dead, it takes more to kill an Uzumaki." Naruto chuckled,stroking his sister's hair.

Kushina chuckled, "That's right, we Uzumakis are resilient after all.We are still going to rent a hotel room. Would you like to joinus?"

"I have a better idea. All of you, grab my hand." They were allconfused but did as they were told, they then disappeared in a flashof blue light.

**XXXXXXXX**

Kushina opened her eyes, and what she saw made her drop her jaws. Outthe window she can see that they were high above the clouds."W-What… where are we?"

"Ah young master welcome back! Oh and you brought guests, I shallinform the young mistress." The spherical object with a blue light atthe centre came in.

Akane was gazing at the floating ball of light. "Onii-chan what wasthat?"

"That is an Ancilla, his name is Guarding Light. And to answer yourquestion mother, you are all aboard my ship, the _Fury'sAscent._"

"Your ship, a flying ship?" Kushina stammered, she looked out thewindow once more, the view was breathtaking. She heard the doorbehind her hiss, and walked in was a beautiful blonde woman in agreen kimono, she had purple eyes that shined like a gemstone.

"Oh hello, my name is Shion, Naruto's fiancé." She bowed to them ina formal manner.

"F-F-F-F-Fiancé?" Kushina stuttered, Akane was speaking gibberish,opening and closing her mouth like a fish out of water while thegenin team was still looking out the window, ignoring the rest.

"Yes mother, Shion I would like you to meet Kushina Uzumaki, mymother." Naruto laughed, "Come I will explain everything as we eatdinner."

**XXXXXXXX**

The sentinels in the ship's dining hall placed down plates of foodfor them. Naruto explained what happened to him for the past 18years, how he was chased out of the village, the Forerunners, tomeeting Shion, and then finally gaining command and ownership of the_Fury's Ascent._ "So that's everything. You know I fell in love withyour father when he saved me from when I got kidnapped."

Shion blushed, looks she too had a hero complex. "Oh don't be soembarrassed Shion-chan! It's perfectly normal to fall in love withyour hero." Kushina chuckled, then looked around the room, "Still,it's hard to believe there was an ancient civilization that had suchadvanced technology."

"It is at first, but the mystery I want to solve is who is the Sageof Six Paths? Was he a Forerunner or an ancient human from the oldempire?" Naruto said as he took a bite from his curry. "There are somany variables and theories, that is why my adoptive father left forhis journey to Charum Hakkor, to solve the mystery how humans on thisworld gained the abilities of chakra."

"I still want to thank him for raising you." Kushina said.

"He is not the only one who raised me, he may have raised me andtaught me the ways of war, but it was Guarding Light over here whotaught really helped me grow as a person. In a way he was more of afather to me than any one." The Didact patted the Ancilla.

"Please, if I could blush I would, I am not used to such praise." TheAncilla replied.

"Thank you Guarding Light…" Kushina spoke up.

The Ancilla nodded, "It was my pleasure lady Kushina, he is truly aremarkable man. Now will you still be attending the examsmaster?"

"I will, I have a feeling that something big will happen during theexams, and I want to be there. Besides my family will be there aswell." Kushina smiled at that.

"Onii-chan, where did you get the super cool armor?" Akane askedwhile eating her ramen.

Naruto chuckled at her bluntness, "We call this combat skin, it waswidely used by the Forerunners a hundred thousand years ago. Thisparticular armor is worn by the Didacts of the Forerunnermilitary."

"Didacts?" Kushina tilted her head in confusion.

"They are the equivalent to a commander of an army. As you can see Icommand the sentinels and the Prometheans inside this ship." Narutoexplained.

A burst of pride came up within Kushina, her son a commander of apowerful army_. 'Minato you would be so proud.'_

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><p><strong>NA: Yay they are complete! Up next is the beginning ofthe Chunin Exams Arc. Did I make Naruto a bit too harsh on this one?I mean he did just threaten to kill Sarutobi's family if he didn'tanswer his questions truthfully.<strong>

**See you guys later!**

4. Chapter 4

**NA: I just watched Guardians of the Galaxy… it is AWESOME! BESTMARVEL MOVIE YET! Everything about it was amazing, action, drama,comedy, GROOT. I am Groot.**

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><p><strong>-Story Start-<strong>

The written exam was pathetic, a Forerunner child could answer theseall easily, honestly he could not blame these people, standards forKonoha shinobi had drastically dropped ever since the death of hisfather at the hands of the Kyuubi. All the genin along with Narutostood there together looking at the man giving them the first part ofthe test. When he removed his toque revealing his scars, Naruto couldnot help but frown at the brutality and cruelty the people of thisworld are capable of.

They simply passed because the decided to stay instead of backing

out, that was a sign of faith and courage for these genin.

And then… something unexpected happened…

'INTRODUCING: The Sexy and Single Anko Mitarashi!'

_'What in the ancestor's name, was that?' _he thought to himselflooking at the pathetic sight of an entrance. The woman had purplehair, wearing wire-mesh armor, a sort of skirt and trench coat. Hehid behind a chuckle under his cloak. "Alright kids! Welcome toTraining Ground Forty-Four! Also known as the Forest of Death!" Ankoannounced.

Many of the young genin grimaced at the name of the forest, Narutostayed neutral about the whole thing, honestly the forest itself wasbeautiful, to think that such beauty held such dangers. "Alrightkids, I want you all to sign these waivers." The waivers were justagreements that killing is permitted in this part of the exam.Another barbaric thing, letting children kill children, the Mantledoes not permit this.

After signing the waivers Anko grinned once again, "Alright for thenext five days you will be in the forest surviving and trying tosteal a scroll you need for the one you already have."

"What about food!?" a chubby looking Konoha genin cried out.

"There are plants and fruit trees in the forest, you can also huntfor meat if you want to. Alright kids get going!" with that shedisappeared in a cloud of smoke.

The genin teams approached their respective places to enter theforest, they all entered in running into the forest, hoping to bedone with this quickly.

**XXXXXXXX**

Naruto was walking in the forest, observing the plant life. Beingtaught by a lifeworker Ancilla, he could not help but take samplesfor him to study, these plants were intriguing. A rustle among thebushes signalled someone was nearby, a crack of a mall branch on theground says they are nearing him. Out through the bushes was a teamof Iwa genin, "Alright, if you know what's good for you, you'll giveus your scroll and we won't have to hurt you, too badly."

_'Fools.' _He said to himself. The Iwa genin did not even bother,they just went for the attack. The lead Iwa shinobi immediatelyjumped at him with a kunai in hand. Naruto just caught him by thethroat with his telekinesis, shocking him and making gasp for air. Hethrew him to a tree, knocking him out.

The rest of the Iwa team were shocked at the sight, their teammatewas being held up in the air by some kind of ability from the cloakedman. "You bastard!" another Iwa genin called out, lunging at him withhis sword.

Naruto activated his hard light wrist blades, and sliced the sword inhalf, using his telekinesis once more, he chocked him tounconsciousness and placed him on the ground. The last one wasfemale, she was frightened, never in her life had she felt so

frightened. Naruto just reached his hand, telling her to hand oversomething. The kunoichi nodded frantically and handed him a heavenscroll… just what he needed. After that he disappeared in a brightblue flash. The Iwa kunoichi widened her eyes even more, that abilitylooked familiar, like what the greatest enemy of Iwa used during theThird Shinobi War.

The Didact reached tower, his time in the forest was only a mere fivehours, he wanted to study the plant life some more. But of course hecan do that after the preliminaries. He laid down the earth andheaven scrolls, and poofing into existence was his sister, that'sright she was a jonin like their mother. "Onii-chan, I thought youwould get here faster."

"Apologies sister, I wanted to study the plant life of this forest,they are fascinating."

Akane pouted, "Mou, onii-chan stop getting distracted! You can studythem later!"

"Right, now then, is mother's team done already?" his sister noddedat the question.

"Mhmm, they just arrived half an hour ago."

The Didact smiled and nodded, "That's good, now then we should go andmeet them."

**XXXXXXXX**

"Sochi, I thought you be here a lot quicker, did something hold youback in the forest?" Kushina asked, raising an eyebrow.

"No mother, I was simply fascinated by the plant life of this forest.Being raised by a lifeworker Ancilla does that to you. The samples Ihave taken are quite fascinating." He held out a vial of some plantsthat had regenerating properties.

Kushina's genin team, here was probably the most powerful man inexistence, and he is easily fascinated by plants. It was anall-female genin team as well, it impressed Naruto. Female inForerunner society were highly respected, but here in this world, itwas conflicting, many of them viewed as objects and property for themen to use as breeding tools.

The mother chuckled, it cannot be helped. Her son is a knowledgeseeker as well as a military commander after all. She cannot wait forher son to show this village what he can do. Plus she has eighteenyears to make up for him.

**XXXXXXXX**

An incident in the forest had occurred; apparently a man by the nameof Orochimaru attacked one of the genins and placed a mark on theboy's neck. The Sandaime decided to go on with the exams, not wantingto make the village look weak. The fool he was, prioritizingreputation over the safety of his people.

Due to the large number of genins this exam, they had to dopreliminaries. Kushina's genin team faced off against Kumo shinobi.

All three were kenjutsu specialist thanks to Kushina. Mariko was themedic of the team, while Hikage and Mitoko where the hard hitters.All having red hair as they were from the Uzumaki clan. It was aneasy win for the three of them, Kumo also had sword users but theywere clearly the better ones.

Sasuke Uchiha who had been marked earlier insisted that he continueon with the exams. He faced Yoroi Akudo, a fellow Konoha shinobi. Themarch started when started draining the Uchiha's chakra. Because ofthe seal on Sasuke, he could not use any chakra based techniques. Hewas at a disadvantage. Using taijutsu instead, he had to copy atechnique from one of his fellow rookies, throwing his opponent intothe air and then slamming him onto the ground, gaining him victory inthe end.

The next matches were impressive, a sound shinobi against a Konohashinobi who used insects. That intrigued Naruto, to be able to useinsects and control them at will. Another match was with a puppetuser from Suna. He used chakra strings to control the heavily armedpuppets. The next match after that was pathetic, two girls who werepractically fan-girls to the Uchiha boy fought, in the end theyknocked each other out, barring them from moving onwards to thefinals.

Now came Naruto's turn. The people were confused at the namethough.

'Fury of Eternal Maelstrom VS Kiba Inuzuka.'

"Yahoo we have an easy win Akamaru!" the dog boy declared, earning abark of agreement from the puppy.

Akane snorted, this boy was an idiot. The Didact simply walked downthe arena casually. Kiba laughed, "You are so going down!"

"Are you two ready?" the proctor Genma asked the two.

"Oh yeah!" Kiba roared.

Naruto just nodded, still wearing his cloak.

"Very well then… begin!"

Akamaru immediately transformed into Kiba, the two of them charged atthe Didact, only for their attacks to be blocked effortlessly."What!?" Kiba was a bit stunned, he thought he would have an easywin. He was immediately back-handed by the Didact. Using histelekinesis, he picked up a chunk of concrete from the floor, andthrew it at the two, still being dazed by the back-hand. They wereimmediately knocked out as Akamaru transformed back into dog form.Kiba's sensei Kurenai went down to check on her student, glaring atNaruto.

"Was that really necessary to beat him like that!?"

"Pathetic, your student is pathetic to have underestimated me. Andfor that he paid the price. Do not worry, he is not dead." With thathe walked back up into the platform. Kurenai grit her teeth, Genmaplaced a hand on her shoulder and shook his head. She then carriedhim into the infirmary.

The next match was a family feud, Hinata and Neji of the Hyuga clan.It appears there were two branches of the family. The main and thebranch houses. The branch houses were subjugated by having a seal ontheir forehead that when activated, it gives them immense pain.Naruto frowned at this, no one should be subjugated like slaves. Theyhad a bloodline ability that gives a 360 degree view of theirsurroundings.

The match went poorly for the girl, being psychologically assaultedby her cousin. It was then that she found strength in herself andbegun her attack. They were equally matched in terms of hand to handcombat. Dodging and striking at each other, but in the end Nejigained the upper hand by striking her arms and rendering immobile. Hetried to kill her but was stopped by multiple Konoha jonin, becauseof the interference Neji gained the victory by default.

"That was just horrible." Akane muttered, Kushina and Naruto noddedin agreement.

"Indeed, to think their clan could be so cruel, especially to Hinata,she seems like a sweet girl." Kushina replied.

"Dishonorable is what their clan is, they care more about reputationthan family, I can tell Hinata is being pressured and ridiculed byher clan for having a gentle and kind hearted soul." The Didact said,"That boy tried to kill his own blood, that is unforgiveable, inForerunner society that would not go unpunished."

"Easy onii-chan, we don't want you doing something right now." Akanereminded him, Naruto just smirked.

"I know, I just hope that I get to face him in the finals."

The last match went badly. A boy by the name Rock Lee got his legscrushed by the Suna shinobi who seemed to love bloodshed. He tried tokill him even after the match ended, luckily Lee's sensei blocked theattack. Gaara asked why he protected him, only for Guy to reply thatLee is someone precious to him. Naruto growled at the Suna shinobi,that boy was a Jinchuruki like him.

All the genins that won picked numbers on who would they be facing.Naruto grinned and got his wish.

**Fury of Eternal Maelstrom vs Neju Hyuga**

**Uchiha Sasuke vs Gaara no Sabaku**

**Kankuro no Sabaku vs Shino Aburame**

**Temari no Sabaku vs Shikamaru Nara**

Akane chuckled, "Onii-chan got what he wished for."

Kushina laughed, "That Hyuga won't know what hithim."

**XXXXXXXX**

All genin teams were given a month to train and prepare. Shion

finally arrived at Konoha and was given a royal welcome by theSandaime and Naruto himself. Hiruzen was shocked that she wasNaruto's wife to be. The old man had been trying hard to get Narutoto stay in Konoha, but it just got harder with Shion in the mix, sheis a princess, the next in line to lead the Land of Demons. Therewere rumours that white demons had sworn loyalty to the Priestess andthe Princess. If these rumours were true, it would be catastrophic ifShion were killed.

Shion, Kushina and Akane were enjoying their bath in the local hotsprings. Naruto was standing guard somewhere outside, when it came tohis lover bathing in a public bath, he was paranoid. He did not showit but Shion could tell it made him uneasy.

"Is he really that paranoid?" Akane asked her future sister-in-law,enjoying herself in the warm waters. The princess sighed.

"You have no idea, I was in a public once, and an assassin came afterme. Naruto of course dealt with him personally, but after that hewould always feel uneasy. Especially here in Konoha knowing thattheir council knows that I am his fiancé, I have no doubt thatsomeone would be out for my life. That Danzo person, I have a feelinghe is more than what he seems to be."

Kushina nodded, "I never liked him, the day he found out I waspregnant with the twins, he forcefully tried to convince to give themto him after I give birth, he still has his ROOT active I just knowit. Well at least with him standing guard along with his Prometheans,I don't think we really have to worry."

**XXXXXXXX**

The Novi-Didact was patrolling around the hot springs, hisPrometheans and the other Forerunner warrior-servants still aliveafter their empire's downfall were standing guard. They swore loyaltyto their new home, and they would be damned if they let that bedestroyed as well. Loyalty is important in Forerunner society. Unlikethe Prometheans who were loyal to madman Ur-Didact, these were loyalto the late Librarian and the Iso-Didact.

Naruto patrolled around the area when he spotted a white haired mansitting on a tree branch, he pulled him down with his telekinesis,making a loud yelp. "What do you think you're doing huh!? Can't yousee I was enjoying my paradise!?"

"You were peeking on my fiancé, my mother and sister." He activatedhis hard light sword. A double edged blade made of pure light."Unforgiveable."

A few seconds later multiple Prometheans teleported into thevicinity, LightRifles and Suppressors at the ready. "You haveviolated her highness and the Didact's family." A Promethean officersaid as he pointed his Boltshot at the pervert.

"Woah now guys, I can explain!" the white haired man began to panic,waving his arms like a fool. The three women walked out wearingnothing but towels.

Two warrior-servants carried extra towels and covered them even more,"My ladies please, you are both indecent right now. Please return to

the hot springs, we will deal with him."

"No…" Kushina said sternly, turning to the white haired pervert."It's been a while Jiraiya, I should have known that you would goahead and peep on us while we bathe."

"I was giving you three a compliment!" the man named Jiraiya tried tojustify his actions. The Prometheans and warrior-servants growled andpointed their hard light weaponry at the man.

The Didact on the other hand, was furious. "You dare…"

"Wait, wait, wait! Don't do something you will regret youngman!"

Kushina scoffed, "Jiraiya, that young man, is Naruto, yourgodson."

"What!?" Naruto hissed, "You are telling me this pathetic excuse fora man is my godfather!?"

Jiraiya's eyes were bugging out, "N-Naruto, wow you grew!" the nextthing he saw was a fist coming from his godson, and everything wentblack.

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><p><strong>NA: Yep that's Jiraiya for you. The Prometheans and otherwarrior-servants are living breathing Forerunners. They were the oneswho were loyal to the Librarian during the Forerunner-Flood war anddid not go through the composition of turning into Knights. There area few Promethean Knights among their ranks as they were turned loyalby the Librarian after she imprisoned her husband.<strong>

**Naruto in himself is a Forerunner in a way thanks to the geneticengineering from Guarding Light during his time growing up. It willbe explained in the next chapter.**

**See you all later!**

5. Chapter 5

**NA: Just updated the looks of Naruto and Shion with their combatskins. Check them out in the profile.**

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><p><strong>-Story Start-<strong>

"Ugh…"

Jiraiya grunted, he was lying on the grass as he fluttered his eyesopen. "Well, it seems the pervert has awoken."

The perverted toad turned his head to find a man 6 feet and 7 inchestall. Wearing beautiful white armor with blue energy glowing on thetrims, he had floating shoulder pads and his helmet also had whatseem to floating blue gems on top. The helmet retracted and foldedinto the armor, revealing a blonde man with blue eyes.

"M-Minato?"

"No Jiraiya, I am not my father."

Jiraiya widened his eyes as he sat up, "How did you know about youfather? You weren't supposed to-"

"I wasn't supposed to know? Is that what you are trying to say? I puttwo and two together when I was only eight years old. The old foolSarutobi claimed it was for my own protection, I wasn't safe in thiswretched village, so when I turned five, the oh so _wonderful_villagers tried to take my life, they thought they succeeded when Ifell of that cliff with that blade embedded in my chest. Luckily Iwas saved by my adopted father."

"You aren't a shinobi of Konoha?" Jiraiya was beginning to dread,Minato wanted him to be seen as a hero of Konoha, but everythingseems to be falling apart with this.

"Why should I be a loyal soldier of a village that wanted me dead?"Naruto asked, "Why should I live in this village that has scorned me,that saw me as the Kyuubi incarnate? Tell me Jiraiya… why?"

"You are a Jinchuruki Naruto, you know that now! If word got out thatKonoha lost its Jinchuruki it would destroy the balance of the fivegreat nations!" Jiraiya argued… those were very poor choice ofwords.

"Are you telling me my son is nothing but a weapon to you!?" Kushinawalked in, her hair turning into nine tails, furious at what she justheard.

"I meant nothing like that Kushina!" Jiraiya shouted back, this wasgoing very badly. "I merely meant that because the village was stillrecovering from the Kyuubi's attack, and if word got out, Iwa andKumo would not hesitate to attack us! Furthermore-"

"I think we have heard enough." The Didact raised his hand, orderinghim to stop talking. "It is clear to me that you have no excuse forneglecting your responsibilities, neither you nor the old man told methat my mother was alive, only wanting to keep me here as thevillage's weapon. I have no love for this village, nor do I owe thisvillage anything. THEY. OWE. ME. I will enjoy seeing this villageslowly die."

"I think we can agree to that sochi." Kushina smirked "After theExams, Uzushiogakure will be demanding compensations for keepingtheir heir from them. I have already sent word to my father on whathappened to his grandson."

"Kushina you can't be serious! This is the home of your husband!"Jiraiya screamed, this was bad, very bad for them.

"He would be disappointed of what this village had done to his sonJiraiya." Kushina growled, leaking out killing intent. "Like whatNaruto said, they owe him."

"Now… get lost Jiraiya, and forward this message to the old manabout our demands." Naruto said as he raised his arm, multiplePrometheans and warrior-servants appeared in the area pointing their

hard light weapons at the toad sage.

Jiraiya bowed his head in shame, walking away. He did not expectNaruto to be this powerful.

"Soon… this village will be a shadow of its former self." Narutomuttered with a smirk. He turned to his mother, "So, has grandfatheragreed to the Alliance with Demon Country?"

"He approved of it right away, after the exams he can't wait to meetyou, as well as my mother." Kushina giggled. "When he heard that youwere betrothed to the princess of Demon Country, he was soexcited."

"I guess that means that our marriage will also be a political one,not that I mind of course." The Didact chuckled,

"Iron Country has also agreed to the Alliance. They were impressed bythe warrior-servants and the Prometheans, 'Never had I seen suchhonorable warriors.' Mifune-dono said." Guarding Light suddenlyappeared before them. "They were more than happy to join us."

"That is good news." The Didact smiled. "What of our sentinels thatwe sent to Charum Hakkor?"

"They have excavated many intact warships from the ancient humanempire." The Ancilla replied. Kushina gasped at this.

"Ancient Humans?"

The Lifeworker Ancilla nodded, "Yes Lady Kushina, a hundred thousandyears ago, the humans of that time had technology that rivalled thatof the Forerunners. Although they began to decline from the war withthe Flood and the Forerunners unfortunately. It was because of theFlood that we resorted to extreme measures."

Kushina was awed and let the Ancilla continue, "As I was saying, manyintact warships were preserved from the war underground. We will besending our Huragoks right away to retrieve them and bolster ourfleet. Iron country will also like them once we teach them how to usthem. Many of them range from capital ships, battleships,dreadnoughts, carriers and so forth. Unfortunately the cities on theplanet's surface did not fare well, they will have to rebuilt laterin the future."

"I see, at least that is good that we recovered the ships. What ofInstallation 07?" Naruto asked.

"We can begin moving it here into orbit, decommissioning thesuper-weapon within it and converting it into a shipyard and smallcolony. Although colonization will take longer, the conversion willonly take a month and a half with our Huragoks, I apologize if itisn't fast enough."

The blonde shook his head, "No matter Guarding Light, that is stillgood news, change is coming to this world, and many are resented byit, wanting to hold on to their outdated ways. We will notparticipate in their petty conflicts, we are no longer the ones holdthe Mantle alone, the Mantle is for all sentient life touphold."

"Yes Didact, we will begin right away." With that the Ancilladisappeared in a blue flash of light.

Kushina who watched the whole conversation had her jaw dropped. Thiswas amazing, other worlds, ancient human civilizations. This was alsooverwhelming for her. "Mother are you alright?"

"Y-Yes, sorry this is just all so overwhelming, I mean ancient humancivilization with advanced technology, I mean… wow." Kushinabreathed.

The blonde nodded to his mother, "I know, but you will get used to itsoon, I hope the Huragoks did not make you uncomfortable."

Kushina chuckled, "It takes some time getting used to being aroundthem, I mean they don't really do anything besides fix things andfloat around."

"Yes…" Naruto laughed, "They act more like computers than livingbeings much to our dismay. Now come, best we get back to theship."

They then disappeared in a flash of bluelight.

**XXXXXXXX**

**Unknown Ship**

**Nearing the Shinobi World**

"Captain, how was cryo sleep?" a white female looking AI hologramappeared in the ship's bridge. An aged man walked into the bridge, hewas a senior officer and captain of this ship.

"Good Serina, and you?"

"I am surprisingly well captain, I mean I show no signs of rampancyor decay for some reason. It's strange, I think our encounter withthat Forerunner shield world did something to me when I connected tothe Forerunner network." The AI known as Serina informed her captainwith a cheery look.

"That's good at least, what of the crew?"

"They are beginning to wake up sir, Professor Anders is already onher way here." Serina notified the captain.

Within seconds an Asian looking woman with black hair and brown eyeswalked in, "Captain Cutter, good morning I guess."

"Morning to you too Anders. Serina what is our current course?"Captain Cutter said.

"We are approaching a planet as you can see over there, we will bethere within a week or so, and… hmm." Serina placed a hand on herchin.

"Serina what is it?" Ellen Anders asked the AI.

"Detecting slipspace ruptures..."

"Covenant?" the captain asked with worry, this was not a good time.Serina shook her head.

"No… captain, they are…"

"Forerunner…" Ellen muttered as she looked out the window, multipleDreadnought type ships she saw in the shield world they were inappeared out of slipspace and approached the planet, escortingunknown designed ships with them. They did not pay mind to them andsimply passed them. The ships they were escorting them were huge. Butnot as huge as the one they saw coming from the planet.

"My god…" James Cutter said with disbelief, "Serina are you seeingthis?"

Serina nodded dumbly at this, despite being a Smart AI, "Yes sir…the Forerunner ship from the planet is 142.7 kilometres in length,height is at 371.4 kilometres, and width is at 138.6 kilometres… isit okay if I start freaking out now?"

Ellen was staring at the behemoth before them, the ship seems to beretrieving the Dreadnoughts as the unknown ships formed kept onmoving towards the planet, entering the atmosphere. Then they heard avoice from the ship's comm. "Greetings Reclaimers, welcome to ourhumble home, I am 097 Guarding Light, Ancilla to the _Fury's Ascent_and the Didact."

"This is Captain James Cutter of the UNSC _Spirit of Fire_. We thankyou for your welcome."

"It is of no worry Reclaimer, please dock into our ship, the Didactwould wish to speak with you." With that the communication wentoffline.

"My god, are we going to meet an actual Forerunner?" Ellen gasped,but then her face went sad. "I wish John was here."

James sighed, "I know… Serina plot a course to that ship's dockingbay. We have a meeting to attend to. By the way, how long have webeen in cryo?"

"27 years, 5 months, 2 weeks, 6 days, 5 hours, 30 minutes and 25seconds." Serina replied.

"27 years… my god." Ellen gasped, "We've been gone for thatlong?"

"At least we can hopefully get help from these guys." James sighedonce more.

**XXXXXXXX**

"Wow we're really in space!" Akane said out loud in the observationdeck, "And we're meeting other humans with their own spaceships!"

"It seems so…" Kushina was still processing this whole thing,

unlike her daughter who is enthusiastic about everything. She can bereally slow sometimes.

"Sensei, are you okay?" Mitoko asked while sparring with her fellowteammates. Mariko and Hikage were looking at her worriedly aswell.

"Yeah I am, just overwhelmed by all of this, I mean my son is thecommander of probably the most advanced race in the galaxy." Kushinasighed.

"Well no need to really be so overwhelmed about it though, we'reprobably going to be seeing more of this anyway." Hikage said bluntlyand with a straight face.

"You're probably right." Kushina replied.

**XXXXXXXX**

Guarding Light floated down into the docking bay where the Reclaimership was docked. He spotted a couple of them coming out of it andimmediately approached them, "Ah welcome Reclaimers to the _Fury'sAscent._"

"And you must be Guarding Light?" Ellen asked the Ancilla.

"Yes, once again I am 097 Guarding Light, Lifeworker Ancilla to thisship and the Didact."

"About the Didact, is he a Forerunner?" Ellen asked with a hopefullook.

The Ancilla looked at the woman, "Only 70% of him is Forerunner, 5%of him is human and the 25% is unknown at the moment, we are stillinvestigating that last part, his blood adopted father though isForerunner, but he left the galaxy a few years ago."

"Only 70% percent? His father is a Forerunner? Uh…" Ellen despitebeing a researcher on Forerunner was having a hard time to processthis.

"She means why only 70%?" James cut in.

"He was originally human when we found him, but he was gravelyinjured, we had to reconstruct most of his body, and the previousDidact who was his adopted father donated some of his blood, wantingto take him in as his son. He suffered massive damage to his body andlost an extreme amount of blood, although an unknown entity withinhim began to heal him, it was not enough to save him, so we had toessentially modify his genes in order to accept the Forerunner bloodbeing transfused into him. After that, despite his appearance, thereis very little percentage of human left in him." Guarding Lightexplained. "His wife to be also has Forerunner blood in her becausethey 'mated.' It probably had to with the unknown 25% within him andthe entity as well."

"Amazing…" Ellen came out of her daze, "Advanced medical technologythat rewrites DNA."

"Indeed, but please follow me, the Didact awaits your meeting. No

need to come in armed, this ship is very secure."

"It's just protocol." James said.

"Understood Reclaimer, now please follow me." The Ancilla floatedaway with the humans following suit.

**XXXXXXXX**

Naruto in his combat skin was standing in the meeting room, lookingout the window. Shion walked in wearing her new combat skin with acertain glow in her face. He turned to his future wife with a raisedeyebrow.

"My love what is it?"

Shion's eyes started to glow and water as she gives him a huge smile."I'm pregnant."

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><p><strong>NA: YAY! The Spirit of Fire has arrived! Shion and Narutoare going to be parents! WEEEEE! If you guys want to take a look attheir combat skins, check my profile.<strong>

**The Didact is already bolstering their strength, preparing for thechange that is coming to the world.**

**See you guys later!**

6. Chapter 6

**NA: I just started getting back to playing War Thunder again,REALLY fun game. Now that I have 3 variants of the Panthertanks.**

**If you are wondering how a massive ship like the ****_Fury's Ascent_****can be in the atmosphere while not disturbing the weatherpatterns, please remember this is sci-fi, I practically threw realismout the window. Not to mention Forerunner tech is not fullyunderstood by us inferior humans. On with the story!**

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><p><strong>-Story Start-<strong>

"I am going to be a father?" Naruto stared at his love.

"Yes Naruto, we are going to be parents." Shion walked up to theDidact, wrapping her arms around his waist and placed her head on hischest. "We are going to be parents."

"You, I do not deserve a woman as perfect as you."

"Oh stop it you…" Shion sniffed, "I love you too. Now theReclaimers will be here any second now and we are both beingemotional." She dried her tears, "I will be back in a few minutes tochange to something more comfortable."

"How long are you now?" Naruto asked her.

"3 months, the sentinels in the medical ward told me that firstpregnancies have a tendency to not show that much." Shion smiled athim.

The Didact knelt down and placed his head on her stomach, "My child,oh I cannot wait to meet you."

She patted his head, "Alright then, they'll be here soon, I am justgoing to go change." She walked out of the room, leaving a smilingDidact, were it not for his helmet, he would be seen with tears ofjoy rolling down his cheeks. He deactivated his helmet and wiped histears, he did not want the Reclaimers to see him likethis.

**XXXXXXXX**

"Oh my god…" Ellen gazed at the warrior-servants guarding thehalls. "Forerunners, captain those are Forerunners."

The captain of the _Spirit of Fire _nodded, "Yeah, how many of themare alive in this ship Guarding Light?"

"Thanks to the efforts of our previous Didact when the installationsactivated, over more than half a million warrior-servants andPrometheans are in this ship, our warrior-servants are both male andfemale while the Prometheans are al male, over the few years ournumbers grew thanks to procreation." Ellen blushed at how blunt theAI can be, "The rest of my creators left the galaxy, as for wherethey went, I unfortunately do not know." The Guarding Light told themas they walk through the hallways. A few more minutes passed and theystopped in front of a door, "The Didact is waiting for us behind thisdoor."

**XXXXXXXX**

The door swooshed open revealing a male and female human and threegreen armored humans behind them, "Welcome Reclaimers, to the _Fury'sAscent, _I am Fury of Eternal Maelstrom, you can simply just call meDidact." He bowed to them in greeting.

"Wow the AI wasn't lying when he said you look human." The man said,"I am Captain James Cutter of the UNSC _Spirit of Fire._" He held outa hand.

"I have 70% Forerunner in me because of the bodily reconstruction Ihad to go through when I was a child, 5% human is all that's leftwhile the unknown 25% is still there." The Didact explained as hetook his hand.

"With all the mixed genes inside him and the unknown 25% in him,effectively creating a new race entirely alongside his wife to be."The door opened revealing a beautiful light blonde young woman withpurple eyes. "Ah young mistress Shion, Reclaimers, I would like tointroduce you all to Lady Shion, the Didact's wife to be."

"It is nice to meet you all." Shion bowed to them and took a seatbeside her lover.

Captain Cutter and the rest bowed back in greeting, he then turnedback to the Didact, "Didact, I would like to ask you what thoseunknown ships were that were being escorted by your ships before theyentered the planet's atmosphere."

"Ah those, you would be surprised to know that those are AncientHuman Ships from Charum Hakkor, your race was once a proud empire."He said while smiling to them.

Ellen gasped, "I did not know about that."

"Not many know, as their history was lost to time when the Halo Arrayfired, it was all because of the Flood." The Ancilla finished.

"Now then, I wish to ask how you all came here, it seems that yourship is without a slipspace drive." Naruto said, placing his arms onthe table.

"That's right." James then explained to them about their war with theCovenant, how they ended up in a shield world, then it'sdestruction.

Naruto sighed, "Unfortunate that one of our shield worlds wasdestroyed, but it was necessary, the San 'shyuum have changed overthe past hundred thousand years. They used to be in an alliance withthe human empire back then, it seems they were angry that humanity isto be the successor of the Forerunners."

"So all they want is our your people's technology, and they gotjealous?" James asked with a hint of disbelief in his voice,"Unbelievable."

"Indeed, well then, we will be more than happy to repair your shipand install a slipspace drive, our Huragoks and sentinels are alreadyrepairing as we speak." The Didact informed them with a smile on hisface.

James sighed in relief, "Thank you Didact, this is a huge help. Iguess we can also have a bit of shore leave, it's been a while sincethe crew has had a break, and we can rest easy now. You have no ideahow happy we are."

"Well then, if you need anything, just look for me or Guarding Light,if you will excuse me I have matters to attend to down on theplanet."

Ellen nodded, "Of course Didact, thank you once again."

Naruto stood up and noticed his gauntlet blinking, the Ancilla turnedto him, "Ah Didact, Installation 07 has arrived, decommissioning ofthe array's weapon has been completed and conversion to a shipyardwill begin momentarily."

"That is good news, now then I should be heading back. Come my love."he took out his hand for her to take, they walked out of the room andwent to meet with Kushina.

**XXXXXXXX**

**1 month later**

Naruto and Shion with the rest of the Uzumakis teleported down backto Konoha, a month had passed since then and the finals were nowunder way. They teleported once more into the place where it wasbeing held. Shion's pregnancy had finally begun to show, with her areseveral Promethean escorts, to protect their Didact's pregnant loveris of utmost importance, for they are the start of a new race, andthe legacy of their race as well.

The crew of the _Spirit of Fire_ were enjoying their shore leave inthe Land of Demons, their ship had begun refitting with Forerunnertech as is the will of the Librarian to help them. They decided tostay here a while until they leave for UNSC space along with theDidact to meet with the rest of the Reclaimers. They were surprisedas to how similar the world`s culture is to Japan. Another shockingthing was the abilities the people exhibited, they had fasterreflexes, higher strength, and elemental abilities as well others.Their combat prowess rivalled that of the Spartans. James inparticular was worried if the ONI found out about this, they wouldmore than likely try to annex them, if they refused, he didn`t wantto think about that one.

Back at the arena, Naruto approached the proctor of the finals, "Am Ilate?" he asked Genma. The Proctor shook his head.

"No, you're a bit early, we are just getting everyone ready at themoment, go ahead and step into the arena if you want to." With hiscloak on once more, he stepped down into the arena, the audience weremurmuring about him, who this unknown foreigner was and how hereached this far.

_'Foolish villagers of Konoha, I will show you all.' _He inwardlygrowled, he really hated this village. A few minutes later everyonewas finally here, along with the other Kages of other villages. Shionwas among them with the Promethean escorts. The Kages heard about theLand of Demons boost in economy and military power, and now for thefirst time they are seeing them, strange dark armored people, tenfeet tall holding weapons they have never seen before. Guarding theheiress of the country, and seems to be pregnant. She was wearing anelegant pink kimono, her hair flowing freely down to her back. Manywomen were jealous of her beauty while the men were eyeingher.

Sarutobi was worried even more now; there was no doubt that theprincess of Demon Country was pregnant with Naruto's child. And herprotection was of utmost importance to be guarded by 5 ten feet tallsoldiers wielding strange weapons. It scared him even more thatUzushiogakure were now notified of Naruto being alive, the Uzukagewas glaring at him, he was also Kushina's father.

Shion looked at the Uzukage and nodded to him, at which the elderlyman nodded back with a smile. "Lady Shion, it seems the rumours ofyou being pregnant with my grandson's child is true, this iswonderful news."

"Thank you Uzukage-dono, I cannot wait to be a mother." Shion saidwith a smile. "Ah it seems it's starting."

**XXXXXXXX**

Back at the arena Neji stepped down and dropped down to a Jyuukenstance, waiting for the match to start. "Give up foreigner, fate hasdecreed that I would be the victor of this match."

"Your belief of fate is meaningless in battle boy." Naruto removedhis cloak and tossed it into the ground, revealing his bright whitearmor with blue energy glowing. His helmet with floating gems on topalong with his floating shoulder guards. "Fate is meaningless here,there is only battle."

The audience were awed at the sight of this armored man, standing atalmost seven feet tall because of the armor, it was like seeing anangel.

**XXXXXXXX**

The Kages were shocked at the sight, to see the rumored white demonof Demon Country in the exams.

Sarutobi was worried once more, Naruto was the white demon. Shion wassmiling down proudly at her lover. The Uzukage was impressed at thesight, to think that his grandson was the white demon himself,entering the exams to show them his power.

**XXXXXXXX**

Naruto looked at the Kage stands, more specifically his lover,"Shion, my love and my life, I dedicate this battle to you."

This shocked the audience, this here is the lover of the Princess ofDemon Country. Many of the women jealous that someone would dosomething like this for his lover.

Naruto turned to Neji, "I am Fury of Eternal Maelstrom, Didact andsupreme commander of the military forces of Demon Country."

Neji scowled, "Hmph, you are underserving of such introductionspeasant. Fate has decreed my victory."

"Very well boy, you will know that fate is meaningless."

Genma cleared his throat, "Are you two ready?" both participantsnodded. "Hajime!"

Neji was the first to move, "Forfeit! You cannot win!" he struck atNaruto, only for him to disappear in a bright blue flash and appearbehind him.

**XXXXXXXX**

"What is the meaning of this Lady Shion, how does he know _that_technique!?" the Tsuchikage Onoki glared at the princess.

"How he knows it is none of your business Onoki-dono." Shion kept astraight face, but was inwardly cheering for her lover. Her escortstensed and glared at the short old man.

"I would watch your mouth little man, do not disrespect Lady Shion."The leader of the Promethean escort growled at theTsuchikage.

Sarutobi on the other hand was sweating, not only does he know hisheritage, but his father's technique as well. And the Land of Demonshas him. Inwardly he was seething.

**XXXXXXXX**

The audience was stunned at the sight, someone besides their belovedFourth knows the technique, instead of yellow it was blue.

_'Fools, this is not my father's technique, it's just a standardissue Forerunner teleporter.' _He smirked behind his helmet after hereappeared behind Neji.

The Hyuga in question turned his head only to be backhanded by him,hard. He flew for a few feet and landed on the ground a good twometres away.

"You said I cannot defeat you, and yet I drew first blood boy, whereis your precious fate?" the Didact taunted the Hyuga.

"Shut up! Eight Trigrams, 64 palms!" he growled and used his clan'stechnique on him, creating a dust cloud.

"1 palm."

"2 palms."

"4 palms."

"8 palms."

"16 palms."

"32 palms."

"Eight Trigrams 64 palms!" he finally finished, "I told you, fate hasdecreed I would be the victor. Proctor call the match."

"You are over confident boy." Naruto called out within the dustcloud. The dust cloud cleared and revealed that not even a scratchwas on him. "Did you think really such a primitive technique wouldwork?"

"Impossible…" Neji whispered, "IMPOSSIBLE!"

"Let me show you how wrong your fate is." He held out his hand, hisblue energy turning red. A red energy ball appeared on his hand,getting bigger and bigger. It got to the size of a diameter of 10metres.

The Didact only whispered one word…

"**BIJUUDAMA**"

"Rotation!" Neji screamed, hoping the attack would get deflected, butno avail, a large explosion occurred at the center of the arena,after the cloud cleared, Neji was on the ground bloodied and beaten,trying to get up, "No… fate has…" he didn't get to finish as helost consciousness.

**XXXXXXXX**

The Kage were rendered speechless at the spectacle. The battle didn'teven last 10 minutes. Shion was cheering happily for her lover,clapping her hands.

The Hyuga clan who watched the battle was seething, someone morepowerful than them defeated their prodigy so easily. The rest of theaudience didn't even know what to do; the entire arena was quiet atthe display of power.

**XXXXXXXX**

Genma finally found his voice, "Winner! Fury of EternalMaelstrom!"

There were no cheers besides the Uzu Shinobi and Shion. He teleportedinto the Kage booth and knelt down in front of Shion, "Are youpleased my love?" he took her hand and caressed it.

Shion smiled, "Yes my love, well done." He caressed his cheek whenhis helmet folded into the combat skin. Onoki widened hiseyes.

"You! You are his spawn aren't you!?" the old man growled at theDidact, "I should gut you where you stand!"

The Prometheans pointed their hard light weapons at the old man, "Youwill threaten our Didact like that!" the lead Prometheandeclared.

Naruto raised his arm, "Lower your weapons Prometheans. Onoki-dono,it is true he is my father, but choose your words wisely if I wereyou, you do not want to risk a war you cannot win."

Onoki knew he would not win, not with the Demon Country's increase inmilitary power along with the Alliance with Iron Country andWhirlpool. He sat back down in defeat, seething.

Sasuke's match was postponed, Naruto scoffed that they were stillpampering the Uchiha's as always. The next match after did not happenas Kankuro forfeited. The next one was awkward, a lazy pineappleheaded boy named Shikamaru not wanting to fight because his opponentwas a girl. He was thrown into the arena by one of his teammates, thefight was boring… in the end the he forfeited as his chakrareserves went low.

"Sorry! Are we late?" a silver haired man with his headband coveringhis right eye poofed into existence along with Sasuke.

"You are, be lucky the Hokage decided to postpone your match or Iwould have disqualified your student." Genma said with an irritatedlook.

"What!?" Sasuke growled, "You cannot disqualify me! I am anUchiha!"

"Be quiet! I out rank you genin!" Genma scolded, "Now get your assinto the arena, your match is about to start."

**XXXXXXXX**

"The match between Gaara no Sabaku and Sasuke Uchiha is about tocommence!" the announcer said.

Naruto and Shion sat down together observing the match, the Didactcould sense that Gaara was a Jinchuruki like him, exhibiting an aura.Thanks to Guarding Light and the Iso-Didact, he had complete controlof the Kyuubi's powers and senses, while extracting the beast'sconsciousness and imprisoning it. The Kyuubi himself was furious thathe got an even worse prison, with the Iso-Didact taking it with himwhen he left the galaxy. Leaving only the chakra and its powers withNaruto, without the beast to hinder him, he had unlimited access toall nine tails at his disposal.

"Are both of you ready?" the nodded, "Hajime!"

Sasuke was the first to move, activating his Sharingan he begun tomove at extreme speed. "Wow his speed is even faster than Lee's!"Tenten said with surprise.

Sasuke got closer, throwing punches and kicks only for Gaara's sandto block all the attacks. The Uchiha then sped up even more, as hisattacks also gained more speed.

The sand kept blocking the attacks but it was getting more difficultto keep up, until he was finally struck by a punch to the head,sending the red head boy flying onto the ground a few metresaway.

Gaara had a sadistic and almost insane look on his face. He sat downand created a ball of sand around him, with an eye made of sandappearing above it. Seeing that there was nothing else that couldpenetrate the barrier, a torrent of lightning appeared on theUchiha's right hand. He charged at the ball of sand and struckit.

"CHIDORI!"

He screamed, spikes of sand went to defend and striking a few partson his shoulders and face, only drawing blood as the lightning attackgot through. He jumped back and gazed at the whole. He swore he sawan eye in it.

What came next was a monstrous roar, and a flare signal in theair.

**XXXXXXXX**

"Kukukuku, it seems the invasion has begun, sensei." The 'Kazekage'chuckled at Sarutobi as he removed the robes, revealing a pale manwith snake like features on his face.

"Orochimaru…" Hiruzen growled.

"Well this is unexpected." Naruto looked at the snake man, he turnedto Shion, "My love return to the ship, I will handle this." Shiongave him a kiss and disappeared in a bright blue flash. "Summon morePrometheans, we are under attack, and have the _Fury's Ascent_ come

here and ready its weapons."

"Yes Didact." The Promethean nodded. A hundred more Prometheansappeared in blue flashes around the stadium, fighting off the Sandand Sound ninjas.

"Now then." He looked at Gaara down at the arena and then back atOrochimaru, a Promethean gave him a LightRifle and pointed it atOrochimaru. "Let us show you the power of the Preservers."

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><p><strong>NA: Wee! The invasion has begun! Now the<strong>**_Fury's Ascent _****will make its debut in Konoha! See youguys next time and don't forget to review!**

7. Chapter 7

**NA: Firefall and the ability to throw bombs like a football exactlylike what Liberty Prime did in Fallout 3, AWESOME! Now all I need todo now is shoot lasers out of my eyes and all will be complete.**

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><p><strong>-Story Start-<strong>

Orochimaru had not calculated the arrival of an army with advancedweapons. He had not calculated the son of the fourth to be such apowerful man. He was hoping to take Shion as a hostage, but shedisappeared in a flash of blue light. And now he was down to hisfinal plan, way ahead of schedule. "Dammit!" the snake cursed, as hesummoned a single coffin, the other two were destroyed by explosionscaused by the ten feet tall soldiers.

"That coffin…" Jiraiya muttered, "Orochimaru you bastard! Youcompleted that jutsu didn't you?"

"Yes…" Orochimaru grinned and then frowned, "But thanks to his son,I have to speed up my plans if I am to win! **Kuchiyose: EdoTensei!**"

The coffin opened up revealing a blonde man very much like Naruto's.Said blonde growled, "You summoned the dead to do your bidding,dishonorable." He materialized a crimson blade with a large circle inthe middle. "I will gut you, you snake. But first, a family reunionis in order." Just in time Kushina and Akane arrived but their eyeswidened in horror at the scene, the Snake had used a forbiddentechnique to revive Kushina's husband and fight them.

"Stay back mother, sister…" he did not leave them any room toprotest, "I will fight him. All sentinels on standby, do not strikeuntil I give the order."

The sentinels that arrived alongside the Prometheans beeped inacknowledgement.

Minato's eyes opened and the first thing she saw was Kushina and ayounger version of her. "Kushina, Akane…" his eyes went to a whitearmored man, his eyes widened when the helmet folded back into the

armor, revealing a blonde young man with blue eyes,"Naruto…"

"Father…" he was about to continue when something unexpectedhappened, instead of a body like those of the Edo Tensei, Minatostarted getting more colour back, the cracks on his bodydisappearing, "Mother what is happening."

Kushina's eyes started watering, "Minato, he's been revivedcompletely; I think it's because of the fact that the Shinigamiabsorbed his soul. The Edo Tensei brought him back." She ran andcaught the collapsing Minato, still awake but weakened from thecomplete revival.

"No! No! This was not supposed to happen!" Orochimaru roared, glaringat Naruto, "Damn you!" he lunged at the Didact.

Naruto rolled his eyes and readied his bade, he stepped to the sideand made a swing, cutting off the snake's left arm completely.Orochimaru roared in pain, and fell to the floor. He got up andlunged at the Didact once more, completely disregarding the fact helost an arm. "All sentinels, subdue the red headed girl withinOrochimaru's Sound Four." He said as he made another swing of hissword.

**XXXXXXXX**

The sentinels complied and approached the red haired girl, "What thef*ck! Get the f*ck away from me!" the girl had such a mouth.

The sentinels performed a web and drew closer to her, at contact shewas rendered immobile by the hard light web. "Let me go! Let me goyou f*ckers!" she completely stopped what she was doing when a hugeshadow cast over them, her eyes widened at what she is seeing. It wasa ship of epic proportions, "What the f*ck…"

**XXXXXXXX**

Minato looked up as he lay on his wife's lap while watching Narutoeffortlessly beat Orochimaru. The snake was on his knees once more."What is that?" he said looking up at the sky.

"That is our son's ship, a lot has happened while you were goneMinato-koi." Kushina said sadly at the last part.

"Otou-san…" a voice came from their left.

"Akane-chan… look at you, all grown up." Minato groaned, still inexhaustion from being revived.

The younger red head simply covered her father in an embrace as hewept on his chest. "Otou-san!" Minato simply placed his hand on herhead, stroking it gently.

"I'm sorry Akane, I left you guys."

**XXXXXXXX**

"You… how are you so powerful!?" Orochimaru growled inpain.

"Simple… I am a Preserver." He pointed his Boltshot right at hisface, charging the gun. "For your crimes against the people of thisworld, you have been judged." He pulled the trigger, releasing ablast of blue energy, disintegrating the snake. Naruto watched screamin pain as he was being turned to ashes by the energy. He turned tohis gauntlet, "_Fury's Ascent,_ charge the Decomposer and target allSound shinobi only within this village minus the ones we havesubdued…"

**XXXXXXXX**

The rest of the Namikazes watched as the massive ship started glowingat lower center of its hull. A bright blue energy glowing brighterand brighter, and the sound growing louder and louder. The many ofthe Sound shinobi who were fighting started to feel a massive burningsensation, their hands burning a bright blue and turning to ash.Minato and the rest of his family could only watch as the screamswere being heard all over the village, turning to ash.

"My… kami…" Minato muttered, in just mere seconds the Sandshinobi were in full retreat out of fear of what is happening, theirallies turned to ash by blue light.

"Naruto…" Kushina said to her son, "What was that?"

"That would be the Decomposer, an anti-infantry weapon designed toeliminate ground troops and the crew of enemy ships, minimizingcasualties as well." Naruto explained. "It was designed to eliminatethe Flood threat should the need arise. Right now, I used it toeliminate the enemy. With that the invasion is over."

Kushina looked at the ashes left in the streets, being swept away bythe wind. "It's scary if you think about, that such a weaponexists."

"Indeed…" Naruto nodded, "But some measures are necessary in orderto save more lives."

"Naruto…" Minato began.

"I know, we will talk more in my ship." He grabbed all three of themand disappeared in a bright blue flash. The Prometheans disappearedas well as the Sentinels flew back to the ship. Leaving the denizensof Konoha in shock, Jiraiya especially. And now they were without aHokage as Hiruzen was killed by Orochimaru in a surpriseattack.

**XXXXXXXX**

"This is an outrage, we have been humiliated by these foreigners!Doing our job in defending Konoha, and now they have some kind ofweapon that can destroy an entire army, we must take it from them!" afact civilian roared in anger.

"And how do you suppose we do that?" a man said in a bored tone, hehad the same pineapple hairstyle like Shikamaru. "You do realize thatDemon Country is now the most powerful nation in the world?"

"No, I refuse to accept that! Konoha has been the most powerful

military in the world, and we are not going to sit by as somebackwater nation take that from us!" another civilian roared inanger. "And I thought we killed that demon? To think he is stillalive and living in Demon Country, fitting for a demon to livethere."

"But he leads a powerful army, not to mention he commands that largeflying object in the sky. Face it, he is far more powerful than anyof us." Shikaku said, "You shouldn't have tried to killed him, andnow look where it got us."

"I am agreement with Shikaku-san…" Inoichi Yamanaka said, "That boywas an asset to this village, he had the power of the Kyuubi at hisfingertips, and now we are without a Jinchuruki, we have beenweakened greatly today."

"For now we recover…" Danzo said, "And I will be acting Hokage asof this moment since Hiruzen died in battle by the hands of thesnake. I will lead this village to greatness."

**XXXXXXXX**

Minato opened his eyes, he was in a white room on a soft bed, Kushinato his left and Akane to his right smiling down at him. "Kushina,Akane… where am I?"

"You are aboard the _Fury's Ascent,_ Naruto-nii-chan's ship." Akanereplied with a smile on her face. "It's a ship that can go tospace."

"Wha-" he was interrupted by the door opening, walking in was Narutowith a blonde young woman with purple eyes wearing a pink kimono, herswollen stomach showing she was with child.

"You're awake that's good, I would like to introduce you to Shion,princess of Demon Country, and my future wife.

"Your fiancé… kami I've missed so much, I'm so sorry." Tearsstarted trickling down the blonde man's face.

"It is not your fault father…" Naruto began, "Were it not for youthough, despite the horrible childhood I have lived, I would not bewhere I am today, I would not have met Shion, my love and my life."He knelt his head onto Shion's scalp. "And she is pregnant with mychild, your grandchild."

"I'm going to be a grandfather, the villagers did not honor requestdidn't they?" Minato said with a grim look.

"No they did not, they saw me as the fox incarnate, they saw me asthe monster that nearly destroyed them that day, and for that… I amgoing to watch as the village slowly and painfully dies out." Narutodeclared.

"I don't blame you, I just wish that…"

Kushina shut him up with a kiss, "It's okay Minato-koi, he knows…we're together now, and that's all that matters. Right now we have tofind Tsunade, they will no likely try to find her and bring her backto Konoha, we can't let that happen."

"Agreed, I will be at the bridge, the _Fury's Ascent _will arrive atTanzaku Gai soon, that is where Tsunade has been spotted by mysentinels. If you are also wondering about what happened to Suna'sJinchuruki, my Prometheans defeated easily and was in retreat thanksto Guarding Light's research on chakra suppression, he was fascinatedby chakra that he came up with a way to suppress chakra flow,rendering an enemy shinobi immobile, it seemed that it also works onJinchuruki, if you wish to know more you can find Guarding Light inthe medical ward." He walked out of the door leaving Shion with hernew extended family.

"Minato-san, it is nice to meet you." Shion said, "I would have lovedto bow in greeting but, as you can see…"

"I know Shion-san, I just can't believe I'm going to be agrandfather." Minato said with a smile, "How did you twomeet?"

"Well…" she giggled, "that was almost 5 years ago…" Shion thenbegan to tell them the tale.

**XXXXXXXX**

Despite Danzo taking over after Hiruzen's death, Konoha was in astate of chaos, many of the business areas were in ruins. And thenthere was the demand for compensation from Uzushiogakure for the liesthat were given to them about Naruto. They personally went to thefire daimyo about it as well, Konoha had no choice but to hand them90 million ryo from each of Konoha's clans as compensation. Needlessto say Konoha hit a recession, they were extremely low on cash as theamount of money they had to hand over to Whirlpool was extremelylarge for a village. "Damn you Kyuubi brat!" Danzo growled.

His forces were wiped out during the invasion, burns on the bodies ofthe ROOT shinobi were evident, his underground base destroyed duringthe invasion. He was sure Naruto was the cause of this, no one elsehad weapons that burned to the touch like this. "I will get you forthis Kyuubi brat, and I will take your beloved Demon Country formyself!"

**XXXXXXXX**

In Demon Country the crew of the _Spirit of Fire_ were enjoying theirmuch needed vacation after all this. Ellen especially as she studiedthe ancient human ships that were docked in Installation 07. She wasfascinated at how technologically advanced they were, rivalling thatof the Forerunners. She continued studying them, this time withunrestricted access to their records and technology, she was in cloudnine, she now has more knowledge of Forerunner technology than Dr.Catherine Halsey.

**XXXXXXXX**

In Tanzaku Gai, a buxom blonde woman looking she was in hermid-twenties, with her was a young woman also in mid-twenties holdinga piglet. "Tsunade-sama please, this is your tenth bottlealready!"

"No, I haven't got my fill yet…" she was drunk, there was no doubt

about it. "First Dan and Nawaki, and then my son Minato and mygrandson Naruto… I didn't even tell him he was myson."

"Tsunade-sama…" Shizune looked at her sadly, it was true, Tsunadewas actually Minato's mother, Dan being the father. But she didn'ttell him out of fear that he would react badly to it.

Then the people outside started gathering together by the townsquare. "Kami-sama look at it!"

"Huh?" Shizune tilted her head, she walked outside and what she saw,she couldn't believe her eyes, the rumoured object from Demon Countrywas floating above, shadowing the entire town of Tanzaku Gai."Tsunade-sama…" she looked at her, her head on the table as shefinally lost consciousness. Shizune sighed, "Tsunade-sama…"

Inside the inn they were in a bright blue flash appeared, the lightdissipated and revealed a man clan in beautiful white armor withglowing blue lights glowing on it. "Are you Tsunade Senju?" the manasked, unaware that she was unconscious.

"Yes she is… she is out of it at the moment, she had drunk toomuch, and who are you? And how did you appear from the blue flash?"wait… flash? Only Minato knew that kind of technique, who is thisman?

"If you are wondering who I am, you can help me take care back to myship that is hovering above us, more of your questions will beanswered in there, do not be afraid, you will not be harmed." He tookout his hand.

Shizune knew this could be a bad idea, but what choice did she have,this man was powerful that much she knew. She took a hold ofTsunade's shoulder and the piglet while the man grabbed her shoulder,with that, they disappeared in a bright blue light.

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><p><strong>NA: Konoha just got served. And now they are inrecession.<strong>

**The Decomposer acts very similarly to the Composer of Halo 4, onlythis time, it really kills instead downloading your essence.**

**I will see you guys later!**

8. Chapter 8

**NA: I will be posting another story in my Fury series today! Watchout for it, the name of is Righteous Fury, it will most likely be aspace opera, as it is the name of the ship itself. On with the storyand enjoy!**

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><p><strong>-Story Start-<strong>

"Wha…" Shizune stammered, the sight of the _Fury's Ascent_ interior

was simply breathtaking, bridges made of light, floating metals, andflying objects that were looking at them with bright blue eyes.

"Ah Didact, welcome back. And these must be our new guests, I willinform the young mistress at once." Guarding Light said with a cheerytone.

Shizune's jaw was down, the flying ball of light just spoke. "Wha-who."

"That was my Ancilla 093 Guarding Light. He is a Lifeworker,equivalent to your medical doctors of this world. Now come, we willbring he to the medical ward where she can recover." They steppedinto a platform, it was an elevator that went up. Shizune was takenaback, their technology was so advanced, nothing like she had everseen before. The platform stopped and the door opened, revealing anextremely large medical are, Lifeworker sentinels doing their jobstudying specimens they had gathered. Many of them experimenting withnew life as well.

The Didact placed Tsunade on a bed, "My family will be here shortly."He informed the young woman, at which she nodded, still overwhelmedby the medical technologies in this area, this entire floor wasdevoted to medical science. She then noticed men ten feet tallwalking about, she was floored, these people were aliens, they werenot of this world.

"Oh wow…"

"Amazing isn't it? Yes they are from a different world, they havecome here in search of a new home. I myself was born in this worldwhen one of them found me and adopted me. I in the end became theirDidact. Their leader." He turned to the door, "Ah here theyare."

"Hello Shizune…" Kushina greeted with a smile.

"Kushina-sama! What are you doing here?"

"My place is with my son, Naruto have you even introduced yourselfproperly yet?" Kushina gave her son a smirk.

Shizune was then shocked once more, Naruto deactivated his helmetrevealing his face, he was an exact copy of Minato. "Oh kami, theysaid you died."

"They lied…" Naruto replied, "They wanted to keep me there as theirprecious weapon."

"Ugh…" Tsunade grunted, her eyes slowly opening to see a ghost,"M-Minato…"

"I am not my father." Naruto chuckled.

She gasped, "Naruto… oh kami you're alive!" she quickly sat up andgave him a bone crushing, thankfully he still had his combat skin onor that would have been painful. "You're alive!"

"I am, you are quite strong, were it not for my combat skin my boneswould have been crushed." Naruto said, he was beginning to looser

air, "I am losing my ability to breath."

"Oh… sorry, it's just…"

"Didact…" Guarding Light floated in, I have completed scans on ladyTsunade, DNA scans say you are related to her, along with yourfather. "If my calculations are correct, she is the mother of yourfather."

"Wha…" Tsunade was about to speak when she was interruptedagain.

"You did not tell him did you?" Naruto asked her.

"No." she looked down in shame, "Now that he is dead, I won't be ableto."

"Don't hold your breath…" Naruto said, in through the door wasMinato himself, smiling at her, he heard everything through thedoor.

"So… you're my mother huh?" Minato smiled at her.

Tsunade was in tears, "I'm sorry… I'm so sorry."

"Let's leave these two alone, this is between mother and child."Naruto told everyone.

**XXXXXXXX**

Akane was enjoying herself in the firing range trying out everyForerunner hard light weapon she could find, just a few instructionsfrom a warrior-servant and she was done happily shooting the targetsdown the range. "This is awesome!" she said firing the LightRifle."I'm keeping this!"

"Feel free, we have many and we can always make more to replace it."The warrior-servant told her, chuckling at how cheerful she is.

She said nothing as she continued to fire more hard light rounds downrange.

**XXXXXXXX**

Naruto and Shion went back to their room, they were lying on theirbed together with his hand on her belly, "I cannot wait my love. Ourchild…"

"I know Naruto, our child is going to be great." Shion said, her headon his chest. "I love you."

"And I love you." He said placing a kiss on herlips.

**XXXXXXXX**

"Orochimaru is dead, I can't believe it, and my grandson did thedeed?"

"Yeah, Shion is pregnant with their first child, I'm going to be a

grandfather, and you a great grandmother." Minato said with a smileon his face.

"Oh kami… this is really happening all of this. So what do we donow?" Tsunade asked her son.

"Well this ship is heading back to Demon Country as we speak, theplace is snowy like the Land of Snow. The robots in this ship gave merecords of what had been happening the past decade, they are risingto be the most powerful nation in the world, all thanks to Naruto'sefforts." Pride was evident on the father's voice.

"He is so much like you sochi." Tsunade said. "An exact copy of youeven. Where is Akane I didn't see her at all."

"Down at the firing range enjoying every weapon she's trying, theweapons these Forerunners have are amazingly advanced."

"So a mini Kushina then?" Tsunade asked with a smirk.

"Yup…"

The two of them laughed and continued to talk, having a lot to catchup.

**XXXXXXXX**

"So we leave for Earth in a month or two. Tsunade will be stayingbehind as she wants to study our medical technology, fortifying herreputation as the best shinobi medic in the world. Mother and Fatherare moving to Demon country with the Uzukage's permission thanks toour alliance. Overall things are good." Naruto said, still lying onthe bed with Shion.

"You forgot our wedding is in a week's time." Shion smirked.

"Ah yes our wedding, how could I forget that?" Naruto huffed.

"Oh don't feel so bad koi, you had a lot on your mind." Shionreassured him with a kiss, "Besides we have been together for a longtime now. In five months we are going to be parents."

Naruto brought her closer to him in an embrace, "And I cannotwait."

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><p><strong>NA: I apologize for the short chapter, I just wanted toget this out of the way before we proceed ourselves to the mainevent. This is just more of a fluff chapter than anything, with Akaneenjoying her new toys.<strong>

**I will be posting soon the new addition the Fury series, so watchout for it!**

9. Chapter 9

**NA: The time has come Reclaimers! The time has come… to leave forEarth, we are now finally leaving for the events of Halo 4 and the

coop Requiem Campaign.**

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><p><strong>-Story Start-<strong>

**1 month later**

The time had come to leave for the solar system. The _Spirit of Fire_was already in orbit alongside the _Fury's Ascent_. On the surfaceNaruto and Shion were saying goodbye to their family. "Be safe youtwo." Kushina told her son and her daughter-in-law. The two hadmarried during the month, the wedding was grand as all royal weddingswere. Accompanied by the lord of the Land of Iron and Whirlpool, theycongratulated the two.

"We will mother, father."

Minato had decided to stay in the Land of Demons, wanting to be closeonce again to Kushina and his daughter. He was disappointed by howmuch Konoha had fallen, and when they heard that Danzo had taken theposition of Hokage, he knew the village won't last for long now, withWhirlpool demanding compensation for lying to them aboutNaruto.

"Well this is it, we will be sure to stay in touch, if you want tocontact us, just use one of the consoles." Naruto told them, at whichthey nodded. Naruto and Shion then disappeared in a flash of bluelight.

**XXXXXXXX**

The husband and wife reappeared in the ship's bridge, "_Spirit ofFire, _stay close and prepare for slipspace."

"Roger that _Fury's Ascent_, preparing for slipspace."

A huge wormhole appeared at the front of the flagship, the behemothwent through with the UNSC ship right beside and disappeared in flashwhen the gate closed.

"Didact, we will be there in a few hours, we are after all jumpingfrom the edge of the milky way galaxy." Guarding Lightsaid.

"Unerstandable…" Naruto nodded, he then looked at his wife, "Mylove, go ahead and take a seat, I wouldn't want you to be stressedwith carrying our child."

"I am not helpless Naruto… but thank you for your concern." Shesmiled at him, she sat down as a hard light seat materialized. Shegrunted as she rested on the chair, "Three more months and we will beparents."

"I know…" the Didact knelt down and rubbed her belly, "What do thelifeworker sentinels say?"

"A girl… we are going to have a daughter." Shion said, "It's to beexpected anyway, everyone from my family had been mostly womenanyway."

He shook his head, "It does not matter Shion, a daughter… she willbe beautiful I just know it."

"It warms my circuits that you two will have a legacy." The Ancillasaid.

"Only you Guarding Light." Shion said with achuckle.

**XXXXXXXX**

**Earth space**

"Sierra-117 to UNSC _Infinity, _Captain Del Rio do you copy?" a manin a green armored suit was flying through a ship of the same classas the _Fury's Ascent_.

"Chief! It's Lasky, is that you?"

"Affirmative sir, where's the Captain?" the Chief as he was calledreplied.

"FLEETCOM didn't take too kindly to his abandoning you on Requiem,I'm afraid I'll have to do."

**XXXXXXXX**

"Didact we are approaching Earth, it seems that there is a ship ofthe same class as the _Fury's Ascent _approaching the planet."

"My father? No… _him." _He growled.

"Naruto-koi what is it?" Shion looked at him with worry.

"Shadow of Sundered Star is alive. And it seems he wishes to attackthe Reclaimers, against the Librarians wishes and against the Mantle.All warrior-servants and Prometheans, prepare for combat, theUr-Didact is in Earth and wishes to destroy the Reclaimers!"

The entire ship went into combat mode, its bow changing appearance asthe armor began to extend, revealing hard light cannons. And theDecomposer below. "_Spirit of Fire, _once we come out of slipspacerejoin your people, we are going into combat."

**XXXXXXXX**

"Sir detecting another slipspace rupture, it's the same size as theForerunner ship!"

"Another one!?" Lasky grimaced. He then paled as the ship came out ofslipspace, but then his face went into confusion when they detected aUNSC IFF with it.

"Sir UNSC IFF detected, it's the _Spirit of Fire_!" an officer said,"Receiving a transmission from the other Forerunnership."

[Reclaimers, we will assist you into defeating the Ur-Didact, I amFury of Eternal Maelstrom, Novi-Didact of the Preservers.]

Lasky took a deep breath, "My god, more Forerunners. Continue attackon the enemy Didact's ship, classify the other Didact as afriendly."

**XXXXXXXX**

"All batteries fire at will." Naruto ordered in a calm voice, "Mylove, it would be safer if you went inside."

Shion shook her head, "No, I am your wife Naruto. And my place is byyour side."

"There is no arguing you my love, and that is one of the many thingsI love about you." Naruto smiled down at her. "Launch ourDreadnoughts, do not get close to the _Mantle's Approach_, we cannotafford to suffer any casualties, form a shield in front of the_Fury's Ascent _and charge all weapons."

"Yes Didact." A Promethean acknowledged through thebattle-net.

Forerunner Dreadnought warships launched from the flagship and formeda hard light barrier in front of it. Firing their weapons at the_Mantle's Approach._

"Ur-Didact, you fool. Do you not see the error of your ways, this isnot what the Librarian would have wanted! The Humans are oursuccessors, they are Reclaimers!" Naruto roared.

"You are a new race entirely, but you carry the Forerunner legacywith you, Novi-Didact. Then you understand that the humans are thelargest threat to this galaxy, and the Reclamation must be stopped."Ur-Didact replied.

"They are not, you know why they had to it Shadow of Sundered Star.Even your wife understood it, this is not about the Mantle… no,this is about revenge for the death your children."

"So what if it is!?"

"Then there is no speaking to you any further."

**XXXXXXXX**

Lasky and the crew on board the _Infinity_ heard the conversation,the voices roaring through the two large ships, exchanging fire andwords.

"Keep firing and do not stop."

"Sir it's like, watching two gods battle it out." An officersaid.

"I know." Lasky nodded, "Jesus what is goingon?"

**XXXXXXXX**

"Dreadnought 5, return to the ship, you are heavily damaged." Naruto

ordered.

"Yes Didact." A warrior-servant replied.

"We must not let him reach Earth, he will use the composer on them."Naruto clenched his fists, "Ancestors, give me strength."

Shion stood up and reached for his hand, calming him down a bit. "Wewill win Naruto-koi, I know it."

"Your words are like a soothing song to my ears my love." Naruto gaveher a kiss, he then turned to his Ancilla, "Prepare to fire theDecomposer, set it to damage the _Mantle's Approach_, we must destroythat ship."

"Yes Didact, preparing to fire the Decomposer." Guarding Light said."Ready to fire at your command."

"Fire."

**XXXXXXXX**

"Sir the Novi-Didact's ship is firing some kind of weapon at theenemy ship."

Lasky looked at the _Fury's Ascent _firing what looks like acomposer, only this seems to be used for anti-ship combat. The_Mantle's Approach _shields held for a while, until the large bluebeam went through and begun damaging the ship's hull.

"Enemy Forerunner ship has lost shields!"

"Chief! The Didact lost his shields, you are clear to go!" Laskyordered.

**XXXXXXXX**

"All we can do now, is wait. The Reclaimer will finish him off."Naruto said.

"Is that wise Didact?" a warrior-servant asked him.

"I know he can do it, if the Librarian placed so much trust in him,then we will as well." Naruto reassured him, "All Dreadnoughts,return to the ship, all we can do now is wait."

They watched as the _Mantle's Approach_ explode a few minutes later,the ship's hard light loosing hold, causing the ship to collapse intothe abyss caused by the Composer. A hard light barrier could be seenfor a few seconds before it too, collapsed.

"It is done." Naruto said as he watched. The _Fury's Ascent_ slowlyapproached the wreckage.

"Novi-Didact, this captain Thomas Lasky of the UNSC _Infinity_, Iwould like to thank you for your assistance."

"Your thanks is not needed Reclaimer, I only did what was right." Hesighed, "Although it still begs the question, why did the Ur-Didactnot fire on us?"

"Perhaps he did not want to fight his own kin?" a warrior-servantguessed.

"Perhaps my friend… perhaps." Naruto placed his arms around hispregnant wife, relieved that it is over… for now.

**XXXXXXXX**

A reclaimer vessel in Earth's space approached a man floating inspace, wearing green armor, its lights activated, shining on the man.It's rear doors, opening.

"_Infinity _actual? Pelican Nine Sixer, we found him."

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><p><strong>NA: Writing a chapter with nothing but a space battle isnot easy and I'm still new to that, I promise it will be more nexttime.<strong>

**Well there you have it, we have finally reached the Halo 4 storywith a difference.**

**See you guys next time!**

10. Chapter 10

**NA: So here we are going to the campaign of Spartan Ops. Right nowwe are. Nothing much to say right now so away we go!**

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><p><strong>-Story Start-<strong>

The hangar crew of the UNSC _Infinity_ were floored at the sight ofForerunner warrior-servants walking out of the transport ship. Twopeople came out of it lastly, shorter than the rest. They weresurprised to see a human looking woman with blonde hair and a bulgingstomach latched on to the arms on what looks like the Didact's armor.Her eyes were purple and glowing.

Lasky and Palmer were there to meet them, approaching the pair, theyintroduced themselves. "I'm Captain Thomas Lasky of the UNSC_Infinity, _andthe woman beside me is Commander Sarah Palmer, leadingthe Spartan Operations aboard this ship. Welcome."

"We thank you Reclaimer." The Didact bowed and deactivated hishelmet, showing his blonde hair and blue eyes, "Do not be alarmed, wemay look human, but we are a new race entirely created by my father,Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting, also known as the Iso-Didact. Hehas left the galaxy already to join his brethren, I am the lastDidact."

"I see…" Lasky just looked at the man and then glanced at theliving Forerunners carrying weapons standing guard by theirDidact.

"This here is my wife, Shion. Pregnant with our child, the

warrior-servants with us are the last Prometheans loyal to theLibrarian and the Is-Didact."

"This is historical for us, to see and meet a completely new racewith living breathing Forerunners, the covenant remnant from our lastwar believe the Forerunners to be their gods." Lasky explained tothem.

"Gods us?" a Promethean snorted, "I am a warrior-servant, a soldier.I am no God."

"Light in Darkness, calm yourself." The Didact ordered.

The Promethean bowed, "I apologise for my sudden outburst."

"Quite alright, it's actually quite good to hear something like thatfrom you." Lasky chuckled.

"It appears you have encountered the Requiem, Shield 0001, home worldof the Prometheans." The Didact noted.

"That's right, that's where the other Didact was encountered." Laskysaid with nod.

"Hmm, I thought he perished when the Halo array fired, apparentlynot. It seems his wife the Librarian placed him to sleep instead."The Didact pondered. "Steel yourselves captain, you might have tocome back there soon."

"We are preparing an operation in six months to take it from theCovenant."

"That's good, we will assist you as well, hopefully to convince theCovenant of the error of their ways." He motioned his hands in asignal, in a few seconds a Monitor came out of the ship.

"Ah more Reclaimers! I am 093 Guarding Light, Ancilla of the _Fury'sAscent_."

"Another Monitor…" Lasky put out bluntly.

"You have met one of our Monitors before captain?" Didactasked.

"Yes, a couple of years ago, he tried to kill us."

"It seems went rampant, most unfortunate." Guarding Light, "Worrynot, I am a newer form of Ancilla along with Offensive Bias who isnot with us right now, the Iso-Didact created me and ensured that Iwould not go into rampancy."

"Well that's… reassuring."

"Indeed, with your permission we would like to supply this ship withour medical technology."

"That's great!" Lasky perked up, "Thank you."

"No need for gratitude captain, we are simply following theLibrarians wishes. It is her you should thank." Didact

smiled.

"Koi…" Shion finally spoke up.

The Didact straightened, "Ah yes, we wish to get some rest, for hermostly, she is pregnant after all."

"Oh of course, commander Palmer if you please?"

"Right this way folks." The female Spartan gestured them to followher.

**XXXXXXXX**

**Three months later**

"AHHH! NARUTO YOU DID THIS TO ME!" Shion screamed in the newlyupgraded medical bay of the _Infinity._

"My love you will be fine."

"SHUT THE HELL UP! IF I COULD STAND RIGHT NOW I WOULD RIP YOU TOPIECES!"

"Jeez she's got quite the temper, and her powers aren't helpingeither." Roland the ship's AI stood beside Captain Lasky outside themedical room.

The captain just sighed, "Women, no matter what species they are,they will always be confusing."

"Indeed." A warrior-servant nodded with them.

"Alright Lady Shion, just push one last time." The doctorsaid.

"RAAAAAAAAAGH!" she roared, her eyes glowing brighter than ever. Inseconds a baby's cry could be heard.

"Congratulations you two, it's a girl."

They cleaned the baby and gave her clean linen wraps to cover her,she had bright blonde hair like her father's and purple eyes like hermother's. "Hikari, my little Hikari. Light of Eternal Song." Shionsaid. "Sorry about screaming at you like that." She gave her husbandan apologetic look.

"No harm don't my love." Naruto smiled at her, he looked at his newdaughter and picked her up, "You are beautiful, the first bornPreserver. You will do great things my daughter, you will begreat."

"That she will be." Shion sighed in exhaustion, sweat all over herface. "We are parents. I can't believe it."

"We are aren't we?" he continued to gaze at the sleeping form of hisdaughter.

"Congratulations Didact." Lasky walked in with the warrior-servant,he smiled at them.

"Thank you captain, I am truly the happiest man in the galaxy rightnow." He sighed happily, his daughter taking hold of hisfinger.

"Our Spartans are in the war games right now, perhaps some time lateryou would like to observe them? Maybe offer some pointers?" Laskyoffered.

"Your offer is kind captain, I accept, but for now I will be with myfamily, my warrior-servants and Prometheans in the meantime will helpthem."

"Thank you Didact." Lasky nodded in gratitude, and left the room,leaving the family to themselves.

He looked down at his daughter and then to his wife, "Light ofEternal Song, you are my pride and joy, my daughter. Both of you aremy lives."

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><p><strong>NA: And here is another fluff chapter, just the birth ofHikari. Forerunner name is Light of Eternal Song.<strong>

**Bright sun-kissed blonde hair like Naruto and purple eyes likeShion's.**

**I apologise for the short chapter again, but I am just preparingfor the story arc of the Spartan Ops. Just trying to figure out howit all will fit in since Jul 'Mdama will be meeting a lot ofForerunners inside the ****_Fury's Ascent._**

**See you guys later!**

11. Chapter 11

**NA: So here we are in the Requiem Spartan ops campaign! This isgonna be something.**

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><p><strong>-Story Start-<strong>

Aboard the _Fury's Ascent_ was a small room with a baby's cribinside, lay there was a small blonde baby girl sleeping. "She lookslike you Shion." Naruto said, his arms around his wife's waist.

"She does doesn't she?" Shion placed her head on his chest. "Our babygirl, our little Hikari, Light of Eternal Song."

"She will go a great many things." Naruto stated, "And we will bethere by her side, all the way. I will do my very best, to give herthe one thing I could never have when I was child. The love of aparent."

Shion looked at her husband with a sad look, "Don't be like thatNaruto."

"I know…" Naruto laid his head on her scalp, "Despite having theIso-Didact as my father, I never really experienced love before I metyou. It was all training and being raised to be the next Didact. Itwas when I met you I became truly happy, I truly felt love. Thewarmth, the closeness, the feeling."

"Naruto…"

"I love you, you gave me a daughter, you gave me a family." Tearsbegan to trickle down his cheek, he kissed her scalp. "You two arethe best things that has ever happened to me."

"Naruto… I love you, and I will always love you." Shion wrapped herarms around his waist, she looked at him, giving him a loving smile."Remember all those years ago? The day you saved me, I called you my'Knight in Literally Shining Armor'."

Naruto laughed as he wiped away his tears, "Yeah, I was shiny wasn'tI?"

"You were…" she gave him a loving kiss, "I love you, I love you, Ilove you, I love you."

"I love you more." He kissed back.

Hikari made a sound, moving her arms in her sleep. Shion gentlycaressed her cheek, "Our baby girl."

**XXXXXXXX**

The Prometheans and warrior-servants were actually impressed at howthe Spartans conduct their war games. Their enhanced strengtheningfrom the implants they received were exactly as the Librarian hadhoped for humanity. "Impressive, they conduct their training well.They even have simulators in how to combat the flood."

"That we do." Lasky said, "It's imperative we know how to combatthem, they already know how to use both covenant and humanweapons."

Light in Darkness nodded, "Yes, it was disastrous when we fought themlong ago, our ships hijacked and turned against us as they infectedmore of our people, had we listened to your ancestor's warnings, wemight have stood a better chance. Resorting us to use the rings, butsomehow they survived."

"So was it true, because of the flood, the ancient humans fought in awar against your people?" Roland asked as he appeared on apedestal.

"Yes, for over a thousand years we fought, all because of amisunderstanding the Flood made, infecting our worlds so that yourancestors would make haste and cleanse them quickly. In the end werealized too late on why they cleansed our worlds, we were too late."Light in Darkness said.

"Only a few pockets of flood are left thankfully, and we are doingour best to flush them out and eliminate them." Lasky folded his armsand looked at the war games going on.

"The Didact by the way, has sent your people a gift that is arrivingin a few hours, it was the Flagship of the Lord of AdmiralsForthencho, it is a human built ship, so it should be returned to itsowners."

Lasky looked at the Promethean surprised, "An ancient human warship?I thought all technology was lost after the war?"

"We thought so too, but surveys on your once proud capital CharumHakkor shown us otherwise, there were underground facilities andshipyards with many ships undamaged. The Didact is currently usingthem to build our naval fleet on his birth world, we have no name forthe world yet, one of our rings we have decommissioned and convertedinto a small colony and shipyard. One of your ships the _Spirit ofFire _was repaired there."

"That is one of using a halo ring I guess." Lasky whistled, "I amstill surprised that the _Spirit of Fire _was still out there. Andearth was not the birth place of humanity?"

"It was not, Charum Hakkor was the capital of your ancient empire, itwas Earth that the Librarian reintroduced your race to in order toconserve your people before the rings were fired."

"That is news to me." Lasky sighed.

"Your ancestors had quite the empire, they had the military to rivalour people, the ship we are sending you is over twenty kilometres inlength, the largest ship your people had built."

"Damn and I thought the Infinity was big already." Lasky sighed oncemore.

"Worry not, and we hope that you would use the ship to honor thelegacy of the Lord of Admirals, I personally respected him as afellow warrior when we fought, and he was a powerful warrior in hisown right." Light in Darkness looked on at the war games, "YourSpartans are truly a force to be reckoned with if they fought theDidact's Knights."

"That they are." Lasky chuckled.

"I hear that you are in a relationship with the commander of theSpartans, I believe Sarah Palmer is her name." Light in Darknessstated bluntly.

"I uh…"

**XXXXXXXX**

**Three months later**

**Pelican dropship**

"Well, I'm not gonna complain." An African-American Spartansaid.

"Uh huh." A Spartan with black buzz cut hair said as he read a newsarticle on a holographic tablet. "So tell me more about Rio. Whatelse did I miss?"

"Oh man the place is a mess. I mean too many covenant asylum seekers,all pinned up." The African-American replied.

"Yeah DeMarco said it was crazy." The Spartan nodded.

He snorted, "Hell it could have been worse, I mean look what happenedto nearly happened to New Phoenix if it weren't for that friendlyForerunner ship, did you see the size of that ship? Not to mentionthe ship they gave us, well more or less returned if the reports areright, I mean an ancient human ship a hundred kilometres long." Hethen continued his story, "We even caught this one Sangheili tryingto detonate a HAVOK nuke."

"Hoya give it a rest!" DeMarco snorted, "We all know you were at theother side of town when we caught that hinge-head."

"Oh yeah?" Hoya smirked, "And where were you, DeMarco?"

"Well Madsen and me? We were just making sure the ladies of Rio deJaneiro felt safe and secure." He gave out a shit eatinggrin.

"That's right…" Madsen nodded, "Fireteam Majestic doing a littlecommunity outreach! Yeah!" he bumped fists with DeMarco and laughed.Hoya waved them off and headed for the cockpit.

Tedra Grant, the only female Spartan in Fireteam Majestic looked atThorne, "You have people in New Phoenix didn't you?"

Thorne nodded, "I do, my Grandma and some relatives, thanks to thatother Didact, they were saved."

"Hey Thorne, you should take a look at this." Hoya called him andpointed out the cockpit, "There she is man, Infinity. And looks likeour friendly neighborhood Didact brought a new ship with him." Hepointed at the 20km long ancient human ship.

"Isn't that the same class as the one they gave us?"

"Yep, looks like he is taking command of it from nowon."

**XXXXXXXX**

"Are you sure you want to give me command of the _Fury's Ascent?"_Shion asked her husband.

"I am sure Shion, I only want the best for you. Besides we havealready placed upgrades on the _Ascension_." Naruto reassuredher.

"That's not what I mean koibito." Shion pouted.

He gave her a kiss to the lips and then on the forehead, "You willmake a great commander, besides Guarding Light will help you shouldyou need it. Now I must go, I need to assist the Reclaimers inassaulting Requiem."

"Be safe my love." She said, she was holding Hikari.

"I will." He bent down and gently kissed his daughter on theforehead. He then boarded a transport craft and went down to thesmaller warship.

"Your husband must really love you for him to give you command of themost powerful warship in the galaxy." A deck crew said.

"He spoils me too much." Shion sighed but smiled.

Thanks to her husband, she is now the most powerful woman in thegalaxy, commanding the _Fury's Ascent._

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><p><strong>NA: If you want to check out the looks of the ship it isin the profile. I just updated it, the ship is 20km in length, butthe firepower is able to crack even the largest of Forerunnerships.<strong>

**The _Ascension_ will be Naruto's new ship as he wants his familywell protected, the picture of his new ship is in my profile, it'sthe one with the big cannon at the front. Yeah, that one.**

**Yes Shion has been given command of the ****_Fury's Ascent_****.Isn't her husband the greatest?**

**See you guys later!**

12. Chapter 12

**NA: Sorry if I wasn't able to update this chapter yesterday, wentout with the family. Enjoy this chapter folks!**

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><p><strong>-Story Start-<strong>

A Pelican dropship landed in one of the large hangars of the_Infinity_, touching down while opening its rear hatch for FireteamMajestic. They stepped and immediately walked down to the deck, "Heycheck it out, Forerunner soldiers." Hoya pointed to threewarrior-servants casually chatting while having their weapons withthem.

"Ah Fireteam Majestic!" Roland said, appearing through a pedestal inthe hangar.

"Yeah that's us…" DeMarco nodded in confirmation.

"I'm Roland, ship's AI at your service, on the line Spartans! Someonewill be along to show you around shortly." He did a casual salute anddisappeared.

"Alright Majestic, form up." DeMarco ordered, they lined up andwaited. He immediately spotted a female Spartan and a blonde womanwith a floating carriage behind her. "Whoa, take a look at thosetwo." He whispered to Madsen.

"Oh my…" Madsen tried moving forward only to be blocked by hisFireteam leader.

"Hey, I saw them first." He approached the two women and greeted themcasually, "Hi there."

"Well hello…" the brunette greeted back. The blonde woman with herjust smiled and bowed back. "Spartan…"

"Paul DeMarco, I lead Fireteam Majestic." He replied in slightboasting tone.

"Wow… a whole Fireteam huh?" she smirked and walked up tohim.

"Uh… I didn't catch your name?"

"Sarah Palmer, 'Commander' Sarah Palmer, I lead all the Fireteamsaboard the _Infinity_." She said with a serious yet annoyedtone.

DeMarco gulped and went back in line, "Fireteam Majestic commander ondeck!" they all straightened themselves and gave her a salute.

"If you are wondering who I am, I am Shion, wife of the Didact." Shebowed once more, she then heard crying in the floating carriage, shepicked up the little bundle and showed them, "And this is mydaughter, Hikari. Also known by our warrior-servants as Light ofEternal Song. Commander, I must take leave and return to myship."

"Of course Lady Shion…" Palmer nodded and watched the woman and herdaughter teleport back to her ship, surprising the Fireteam abit.

_'Ah shit.'_ DeMarco began to sweat, still saluting.

"At ease Spartans…" she walked a bit inspecting the new Fireteam,she looked at Thorne who seems to be only real disciplined Spartan inthe Fireteam, "Follow me, S-deck is this way." She walked awaysignaling Majestic to follow her.

Hoya began to laugh, "You flirted with the Didact's wife."

"Shut it!" DeMarco hissed.

Thorne on the other hand, just looked at the hangar with wonder, thiswas the first time he was in a ship such as this, he can't wait to beinside a Forerunner ship or the Ancient Human ship the Didact gavethem, which will be joining them for the operation.

Roland then made his voice known through the com system, "Attentionall hands, prep for slipspace jump." The _Infinity _along with theDidact's ship the _Ascension _and the ship of the same class the UNSC_Lord of Admirals_ went through slipspace holes.

**XXXXXXXX**

"This is the latest stuff we got on Covenant fleet locations captain,pretty standard positioning really." Roland snorted.

The bridge's door opened revealing a tall but beautifulwoman.

"Commander Palmer, things get boring in Spartan town?" Thomas greetedand smiled at her.

"Captain Lasky." She greeted back, "You know I come here for my peaceand quiet. I'm not interrupting nap time, am I?"

"On the contrary, show starts at 0500." Thomas said, looking at thetactical display of covenant ships.

Sarah looked at him skeptically, "We've waited six months, we couldspend another 48 hours running the teams through the wargames."

He turned and looked at her with a serious face, "Navy disagrees withSpartans this one, not when you all got Forerunner warrior-servanttraining. They want you ready… now."

**XXXXXXXX**

Sarah walked in donning her white armor, "Ladies… and otherSpartans, listen up. Your new workplace is a planet first discoveredby humanity six months ago called Requiem."

Multiple Spartans including Majestic lined up for armor equipping."Some of the old hands here know what you're in for. The rest of you,you're due an education."

Thorne stepped on to the equipper, his feet locking in to form shoelike armor. The armor locked in and he stretched out his arms intothe gauntlets, locking as well. The equipper then carried him for thechest and back plating armor to attach. After that the shoulderplates locked into palce.

"The eggheads up stairs want to set up research bases, but they cando that, we need to fend off some Covenant squatters. The Covies,they believe this is the home of one of their gods."

"I am not a God!" Light in Darkness barged in, gritting his teeth,"Apologies, you may carry on." He walked out of the armory.

Sarah rolled her eyes, "As I was saying, the way I see it, if thosefreaks want to meet their god, then it is our duty to help themalong!"

**XXXXXXXX**

The _Infinity_ along with the _Ascension _and her sister ship the_Lord of Admirals _jumped into Requiem's space. The _Infinity _inturn rammed an RCS-class armored cruiser, completely destroying itwhile the latter came out of unscathed. The two ancient human shipsbegan to open fire along with the _Infinity_.

"_Infinity, Ascension _and the _Lord of Admirals_ clear of slipspacecaptain Lasky." Roland notified him.

Thomas nodded, "Lieutenant Austin, the word is given."

The _Infinity_ then opened lower bays, revealing to be frigates, theyreleased their clamps and dropped into space to engage the enemycovenant ships. The _Ascension_ fired its main cannon, destroying aCCS-class in a single hit.

"All Spartan Fireteams are prepped and ready for launch." Chatterthrough the battle-net was heard as Pelican dropships began to liftoff from the _Infinity_.

"Didact, how are you doing in your end?" Thomas asked through thebattle-net.

Naruto smirked, "Quite fine captain, my Prometheans andwarrior-servants will be launching to Requiem shortly, the frequencyis different so we won't be able to teleport down there until wesecure a foothold, you are the operation commander, so we will followyou."

"Roger that Didact and thank you."

**XXXXXXXX**

"Requiem corridor is clear, repeat Requiem corridor is clear!" aPelican pilot said, with Forerunner drop craft following themtransporting their Prometheans and warrior-servants, escorted by UNSCBroadsword fighter craft.

"Majestic on approach, hang on! We're going inside!" the Pelicanpilot informed them.

"Here we go Majestic!" Thorne said excitedly.

Multiple Pelicans and Forerunner transports flew in through thedebris unscathed, "Almost there people!" another pilotsaid.

**XXXXXXXX**

On the ground inside Requiem, multiple battles were being waged atdifferent locations, the Prometheans and warrior-servants werebattling the covenant supported by the Knights and Crawlers. "Itseems the Ur-Didact left some of his guards, or he used the composeron some Reclaimer installations." A warrior-servant commented, firinghis Binary Rifle.

"None of that matters right now, we need to help the Reclaimers takethis world, it is the will of the Librarian." A Promethean said,firing his LightRifle.

The Covenant did not even know they were fighting Forerunners, theyjust assumed they were the enemy as they were with thehumans.

"That's right, they don't know that we are their so-called gods." Thewarrior-servant chuckled.

"Can you please stop saying that Sharp Eye of Truth? It disturbs meto no end that they worship us." Light in Darkness growled.

"Where is your sense of humor?" Sharp Eye muttered.

"Sir!" A UNSC marine approached Light in Darkness, "Covenant isjamming our communications."

"Troublesome, they at least know what they are doing." Sharp Eyegrumbled, "Any knowledge of where the jammers are? I am assuming itis one of our jammers they are using."

"Possibly…" the marine nodded, "Our Spartan Fireteams are nearingthe Covenant outposts just up ahead, I think the jammers are in thereas well."

"Very well, continue the assault, we must regroup with the Spartans."Light in Darkness ordered.

"Yes sir!" the marine saluted and went back to his squad.

Sharp Eye smiled before returning fire, "The Reclaimers have fire inthem, just like the war before."

"I do not wish to talk about the war." Light in Darkness said, "Thatwar should have never happened in the first place." he then aimed hisLightRifle and fired at an Unggoy.

"The Covenant are using these smaller aliens as fodder, disgraceful."Sharp Eye scoffed.

Light in Darkness kept firing, but reminded him, "We can worry aboutthat later Sharp Eye, we need to move up." Another Unggoy droppeddead as the hardlight round struck him on thecest.

**XXXXXXXX**

"Status on our teams on the ground?" Naruto asked a femalewarrior-servant operating the communication console, the ancienthuman ship was just as advanced as any Forerunner ship before, andthe controls were simple to understand as their languages weresimilar.

"The Covenant are using our old jammers on the ground, I cannot get aprecise location of our squads and the Spartan Fireteams."

Naruto narrowed his eyes, "Then it is all up to them to accomplishthem, keep firing the enemy ships. We need to at least gain controlof the space. Are there any signs of Covenant reinforcements?"

The warrior-servant shook her head, "None Didact, this seems to bethe only one we are engaging."

"Very well, forward batteries keep firing!"

**XXXXXXXX**

"Sir, Fireteam Crimson and Majestic seems to have disabled thejammers, Crimson found a Forerunner device, they will be bringing itback to the Infinity soon, Majestic on the other hand is pinned downby a couple of Knights and Crawlers." the same marine from beforeinformed the two Forerunners.

Light in Darkness, "We will assist Majestic, Crimson seems to bedoing well."

The marine nodded and turned to his squad, "On it sir, you heard himfolks we are assisting Majestic!"

**XXXXXXXX**

Fireteam Majestic were currently dug in behind rocks, fending offrelentless attacks from Crawlers. "Wasn't this planet supposed tohave been cleared already?"

Grant reloaded her DMR and replied, "That was the idea,yeah."

"These things just 'pop up' whenever they want to." Madsen destroyedthe last Crawler. "I mean how is that even fair huh?"

A Knight decloaked and fired, "Madsen look out!" Throne shouted, saidSpartan got hit on the shoulder. Multiple Knights appeared in thearea and open fired.

Hoya being the macho man he was moved up with his shotgun and shotthe Knight that hit Madse, "Come on!" he fired again hitting anotherKnight.n

"Hoya get back to cover!" DeMarco tried to order him.

A Knight got up close and roared at Hoya.

"HOYA!"

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><p><strong>NA: Cliffhanger! Well to those who have played SpartanOps, you already know. Well here we are in Requiem, great vacationspot with wonderful real estate!<strong>

**Oh and DeMarco, nice going trying to flirt with Shion!**

**See you guys later!**

13. Chapter 13

**NA: I am still upset the Needle Rifle didn't make it to Halo 4, whydidn't it? **

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><p><strong>-Story Start-<strong>

Two Pelican dropships made their way back to the _Infinity_. Theyboth touched down inside the ship's hangar, coming out was FireteamMajestic, Madsen was the first to walk out clutching his rightarm.

Sarah looked at them, "Majestic?" Madsen just waved her off as hewalked away. She spotted Hoya on a stretcher, "Hoya…"

"It's gonna take a lot more to kill me commander." he grinned at thefemale Spartan.

She then walked up to DeMarco, "What happened to Hoya?"

DeMarco scoffed, "Hoya happened to Hoya, if he would just followedorders, he'd be fine."

"Armor bay's waiting team leader." Sarah frowned. She shook her headwatching them walk back to the armor bay.

"Commander Palmer." Thorne called out, she turned her head to seeThorne looking at the other Pelican that just arrived, coming out ofit were researchers escorting a strange device. "What's that?"

Sarah smiled, "Crimson Team scored the first grab, whatever it isit's got the eggheads all tingly, our Forerunner buddies will bearriving to help us out with it." The device then began to reactstrangely as its restraints flew off, it then emitted a pulse wavethat affected the whole ship.

"What the hell?" Sarah muttered.

**XXXXXXXX**

The wave reached the bridge while Lasky was examining a data pad,"Roland… what's happening?"

"Multiple decks are reporting loss of… power sir." Roland repliedwhile nearly being affected by the wave.

"Get the engine room on the line." Laskyordered."

**XXXXXXXX**

[Dr. Glassman, _Infinity's_ losing power.] Lasky said over thecom.

"So I've noticed captain." Glassman was frantically working trying tofix the situation. Then he began to float in the air, "Waaah!Artificial gravity is offline as well, sir."

The _Infinity_ then lost its engines, Requiem's gravity then beganaffecting her, [We're being pulled towards the planet! I needanswers!] Lasky called out.

Glassman grabbed onto the screens to prevent from flying off evenfurther while tries to work on the problem, "You take engines, builtby aliens, a hundred thousand years ago, and hire a war criminal tobolt them onto the ship. You can't expect predictablebehaviour!"

**XXXXXXXX**

Sarah using the magnetic clamps in her MJOLNIR-Gen II armorapproached the Forerunner device affecting the ship. "Roland, what isthis damn thing?"

[Unknown Spartan, we're still waiting for our Forerunner buddies as

you call them to come over, they're still mopping up back at Requiemwhile the Didact is overseeing ground operations at the moment.]Roland replied over the com.

Sarah then ran up to the device and simply… kicked it. With thatthe artificial gravity came back online and its engines roared backto life.

**Few minutes later**

Thomas and Glassman arrived at the hangar to look at the artifact."Status update Sarah?"

"Further attempts at physical persuasion haven't had much affect,damn thing stuck fast." Sarah then turned to Glassman, "She's allyours doctor, I still we should wait for the Prometheans andwarrior-servants to arrive."

Glassman simply approached it and touched the device, making goldenergy react to his touch, "Woah… hey look at this." He grinned andwent to another spot and touched it once more, "I've never seenanything like it." His left hand began to glow with the energy.

"Dr. Glassman!" Thomas called out to him as Glassman began to glowand was being pulled into the device in a digital like manner.

"Ahh! Waaaagh!" Glassman tried to fight as he was being pulled in,Thomas grabbed his hand trying to pull him out but to noavail.

"Thom!" Sarah shouted and pushed the captain out of the way, Glassmandisappearing into the device.

**XXXXXXX**

"So you're saying, Dr. Glassman was sucked into this?" Naruto askedthem, trying to confirm it.

"That's right Didact." Thomas nodded.

"It's a transportation device, designed to relocate troops from toeship ground and so forth. As for this model, we no little of it as itwas personally designed by the Ur-Didact himself." Naruto said,touching the device, as he tried to locate the poor Doctor.

"So he is still alive?" Thomas asked him.

The Didact nodded, "Yes, on the planet, although where, I do notknow. You your superiors are sending someone to help?"

"That's right, Dr. Catherin Halsey, our specialist on Forerunnertechnology, she was the one who installed the engines on thisship."

"Impressive." Naruto raised his eyebrows, "She then most likely knowsmore than me, the devices here in Requiem were not approved by theEcumene council long ago, so my knowledge on these ones are extremelylimited besides the standard issue weapons the Knights and Crawlersare using."

Sarah sighed, "So even you don't exactly know how the devices in thisshield world work?"

Naruto gave them an apologetic look, "I'm sorry, the Ur-Didact herewas using illegally crafted devices, during the wars a hundredthousand years ago, and he abused his power. Creating the Composerand many of the devices we found on this planet without the knowledgeof the Ecumene council, claiming he was doing all of it for the goodof the galaxy, while he was, his methods were…questionable."

"Then we'll just have to wait for our specialist." Lasky said, Sarahon the other hand groaned.

**XXXXXXXX**

A Sahara-class heavy prowler decloaked and approached the_Infinity's_ hangar, Roland then spoke up in the com. "Captain Lasky,the captain of the _Aladdin_ requests permission to bring theprisoner aboard."

"Last chance to change your mind." Sarah whispered to thecaptain.

"It's too late for that Sarah, we need to know what's going on."Thomas replied.

The female Spartan frowned, "She was locked up for a reason."

"She is your specialist, and yet she is a war criminal?" Narutoquestioned them, his face behind his helmet showing confusion. Withhim was Sharp Eye of Truth and Light in Darkness.

Lasky whispered, "I'll tell you later." He then spoke up "Permissiongranted Roland!"

The _Aladdin_ opened its doors and lowering a ramp, four prisonguards escorting an elderly looking woman with already gray hair andcuffed hands. They approached them, the woman could not help but lookat the three Forerunners with them. Sarah signalled Madsen andDeMarco to move up.

"Dr. Halsey, thank you for coming." Lasky greeted her.

Catherine raised her cuffed hands, "I'm not walking around the ship Ibuilt with my hands cuffed."

Lasky nodded to Madsen and removed the restraints; she looked back tothe captain with a straight face, "Show me theartifact."

**XXXXXXXX**

They approached the device still in the same hangar where it clampeditself to. "Rather dark for a proper investigation." Catherine notedthe hangar with its lights out.

"Random fluctuations all over the ship, doctor. Power stillcompletely out at ground zero. I'll get additional lighting set upASAP." Lasky replied.

"That would be good. Didact, you say your knowledge on the devices onRequiem specifically are not to your knowledge."

Naruto shook his head, "No they are not doctor, many of the equipmenthere were created behind the knowledge of the Ecumene council, andtherefore they are illegal. We do not know entirely besides this onehere, all we know is that it is used for transportation and ourmissing doctor is somewhere in Requiem, its other functionsunfortunately we do not know."

The doctor turned to Thomas, "Have there been any other reactionssince-"

"Since what happened to Dr. Glassman, no." the captain replied.

She approached the device, hovering her hand over it.

"Careful." Thomas said

Catherine gave the captain a deadpanned look, "I'm _not_ HenryGlassman, captain."

"Trust me, Doctor." Thomas turned to Sarah with a smirk, "I know whoyou are."

"Yes, and I see you've decided I rate three of the new model." Thedoctor commented.

"Captain Lasky asked for the best." DeMarco said, grinning alongsidehis best friend Madsen.

"And yet…" she replied, causing Sarah to frown. She then touchedthe device, causing it to glow.

"What is doctor?" Naruto asked her.

She looked at the Novi-Didact, "Engine room."

**XXXXXXXX**

Inside the tram transporting them to the engine room, DeMarco lookedto his best friend, "Why dothey having _us_ guard some oldlady?"

Sharp Eye and Light in Darkness looked at the Spartans, also curiousas to who this woman is.

"She's bad news man." Madsen replied, "Mad scientist stuff. Shecreated the original Spartans: Master Chief?"

"No way…" DeMarco widened his eyes.

"Yeah…" Madsen said, "Story goes she kidnapped a bunch ofkids."

Light in Darkness tensed at that, he had a good idea on what she usedthe children before, Sharp Eye placed a hand on his shoulder andshook his head. He looked to the Didact who was silent, but he couldtell that he was upset by it, children in Forerunner society are

extremely precious to the people.

DeMarco looked at Madsen with a questioning look, "What? What wouldan old lady like her do with a bunch of kids?"

Madsen was about to speak when Catherine looked at them, "First wetaught them how to be silent." she replied as she turned to Sarah,"Then we taught them how to be Spartans."

Sarah on the other hand simply glowered at her.

**XXXXXXXX**

The entered the engine room revealing the Forerunner reactor, "That'sa Dreadnaught engine." Sharp Eye said.

"You know this kind of engine?" Madsen turned to Sharp Eye.

"I'm no builder, but it's what we use to power our Dreadnaughtscurrently docked in the _Fury's Ascent_. As to how it works, like Itold you, I'm no builder, just a solder." Sharp Eye replied causingMadsen to chuckle.

"I hear you man."

"Roland?" Thomas asked the ship's AI.

"Engine room's on lockdown captain. All systems operating nominally."Roland said, watching the doctor beginning to tinker with thesystems, "You know, I _can _fly _Infinity_ without humanaid."

Thomas smirked, "Don't worry Roland, we'll take her off your handsvery shortly."

"And now we're letting the war criminal touch things." Sarahscoffed.

"I can type for her if that'll make you feel better." Thomasoffered.

The female Spartan turned to him, "It would help."

The captain sighed, "She installed these engines. No one in the UNSCunderstands them as well as she does."

Catherine continues to examine the engine when a pulse runs all theway through the room, startling the Spartans and thewarrior-servants, they point their weapons.

"Hey!" Sarah calls out to her.

The doctor turns around to face the Spartan commander, Sarah thenorders the Spartans and the warrior-servants to lower theirweapons.

"The artifact, Forerunner, is talking to your engines, alsoForerunner, but it is also speaking to these other systems as well."Catherine informed them.

"Health systems, some electrical, lower deck life support." Thomaslooked at the screens.

"But only the engines are Forerunner, the rest is human." Narutosaid. "So the device in the hangar is a transportation device, butalso meant for direct communication."

The doctor nodded, "Indeed, and the artifact is reaching out to them.And _it_ and your engines are transmitting…"

"To Requiem…" Sharp Eye, "Something besides the Covenant is downthere."

"You came here to study the planet, and yet _something_ on the planetis studying you." Catherine looked at them with a seriouslook.

**XXXXXXXX**

On requiem, multiple Sangheili of the Covenant remnants were fast atwork around a shrine looking object. "Faster! Move as if the Didacthimself were watching!" a Sangheili officer ordered his troops intheir native tongue.

The officer turns around to see a Sangheili wearing a differenthelmet, and a white hand painted over his armor and shoulder guard,he bowed to the Sangheili, "Jul 'Mdama! I did not expect the Didact'sHand so soon."

"_Infinity_'s arrival has advanced my schedule. Rise, Gek." Jul saidas he gazed upon the shrine.

Gek and Jul walk to the shrine, the latter examining it, "We arestill preparing, Shipmaster- we still have yet to be able to activatethe shrine."

"You are prepared now, brother." Jul replies, both of them turningaround, "Bring the artifact's gift!" A pair of Zealots bring in ahuman, revealing to be Henry Glassman. "He offers his knowledge inexchange for his life. I am willing to accept his offer… fornow."

Glassman on the other hand began to sweat, fearing for his life.

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><p><strong>NA: And there you have it folks! Hope you enjoyed thischapter.<strong>

**As you all understand, even if they are an ancient race, soldiersonly have a limited understanding even on their own technology, theirknowledge as soldiers only extends to the weapons they use. And theForerunner devices on Requiem were built behind the backs of theEcumene Council, basically illegally crafted equipment, so theirknowledge on them is limited as well as the Ur-Didact was a secretiveman when it came to his plans.**

**See you guys next chapter!**

14. Chapter 14

**NA: Time for a Special Chapter! I've always wanted to do this, whathas been happening while Naruto and Shion are away?**

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><p><strong>-Special Chapter Start-<strong>

"Oh my goodness she is just beautiful!" Kushina squealed, looking atthe video screen where Shion is holding her daughter.

"Isn't she? Naruto of course was still acting in a very 'Didact'way." Shion stuck her tongue out.

"Well he was raised by some almighty ancient race." Kushina rolledher eyes. "But I bet he is so happy."

"More than you know mom, I mean he broadcasted to the entire fleetand probably all of Earth, 'This is a great day! This is the day mybeloved daughter has come to the world!' I swear even if he acts allserious he still acts so childish in a way." Shion laughed.

Kushina sighed, "Minato did the same thing when he found out I waspregnant, just in the village instead."

"Like father like son I guess." Shion said, her daughter startedshifting under the clothing wrap, "Oh look at you, you're so cute,and you even have your father's nose!" Shion cooed at her daughter."By the way what is Akane up to?"

"Well…"

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"DIE PEVERT! DIE!" Akane roared, firing her LightRifle at a certainwhite haired super-pervert. Wearing nothing but a towel around herbody, Jiraiya had the bright idea to go ahead and peep on her whileshe was taking a bath.

"Oh Kami! Have mercy! I'm sorry!" Jiraiya cried out while runningaway from a rampaging red head, wielding all kinds of Hard Lightweapons. "I was just giving you a compliment Akane!"

"Compliment my ass! None shall escape my wrath!" Akane roared oncemore, the LightRifle in her hands firing in its more powerfulsemi-auto firing setting. "Eat hardlight pervert!"

"I told you I'm a super-"

"Shut up!" Akane interrupted him, firing another round at thesuper-pervert.

The Prometheans left behind in Demon Country could not help but laughat the pitiful excuse for a man, "Demon Country just got moreinteresting hasn't it?" a Promethean asked his fellowPromethean.

"Indeed it has." The second Prometheanreplied.

**XXXXXXXX**

"Jiraiya again?" Shion asked, hearing the gunshots.

"Yeah…" Kushina sighed, "I swear that man never learns."

"You cannot teach an old dog new tricks mom, it's impossible. Well inthis case an old perverted dog." Shion chuckled.

"So where is Naruto right now?" Kushina asked herdaughter-in-law.

"In a mission with the UNSC, he's helping them establish researchbases in Requiem for study, apparently the Covenant remnants want itto." Shion replied, she then heard her daughter cry a bit, "Oh you'rehungry?" she placed a blanket over her shoulder, breast feedingher.

Kushina smiled, watching her feed, "Helping the Reclaimers? Wellthat's good, what of the Sangheili the UNSC are allied with?"

"Too busy in a civil war at the moment. But hopefully with us we canhelp them flush out the Covenant." Shion replied, she smiled down ather daughter, "At least she's going to be a healthy eater."

"That's good, I can tell Hikari will grow up nicely." Kushina said,smiling at her granddaughter currentlyfeeding.

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"Tsunade-sama! You should not be drinking at this hour!" Shizuneprotested, watching her teacher drink four bottles of sake in onego.

"Urusei!" Shizune said, her cheeks reddening from the excessivedrinking.

"You're already drunk!" Shizune gave out a sigh of defeat, there wasno winning.

"STAND STILL PERVERT!" the voice of Akane roared through the streets,Shizune peeked out to see her teacher's granddaughter wearing nothingbut a bath towel firing a LightRifle at Jiraiya. She sighed oncemore, just another regular day.

**XXXXXXXX**

"I said I was sorry!" Jiraiya cried out, dodging the endless shots ofhardlight rounds aimed at him.

"You will be forgiven once I am satisfied, NOW HOLD STILL!" Akane'sred hair began to turn into nine tails, like that of theKyuubi.

"What have I done to deserve this!?" the super-pervertcried.

**XXXXXXXX**

Minato walked into his mother's office, "Has she been drinkingagain?"

"Unfortunately…" Shizune said, "I swear it's been always like this.By the way Jiraiya peeped on your daughter taking a bath and is nowin a rampage trying to kill the pervert."

"Again…" Minato face palmed, "Despite him being my sensei, he willnever learn. Have you seen Kushina?"

"She's talking to Shion through a video caller, you should go to her,Hikari is so adorable!" Shizune squealed.

"Alright, I'll see you later." Minato waved ather.

**XXXXXXXX**

"So what is Earth like?" Kushina asked.

"It's really beautiful, a lot of people already live there so theyexpanded to a lot of colonies. Oh hey dad!" Shion spotted Minatositting beside Kushina.

"Hey Shion, how is Hikari?"

"A healthy little baby girl, she's also a healthy eater."

Minato smiled, "That's great! So how are things with you and Narutoover there?"

"Good, we're doing good. Naruto is in a mission right now at Requiem,I don't know when he'll be back but he has been keeping touch atleast." Shion replied, nursing Hikari who was still currentlyfeeding. "Is Akane still trying to kill the super-pervert?"

"Yeah… all in the name of research, I swear that will get himkilled someday." Minato sighed.

Shion rolled her eyes, "I doubt that will let him stop his'research.' During our honeymoon we had to put up guards everywherein case he tried to peep on us."

"Unbelievable." The older blonde muttered.

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"Have you learned your lesson yet!?" Akane shrieked, still firing herLightRifle.

"NEVER!" Jiraiya roared defiantly, he will never stop hisresearch.

"That just makes things easier for me!" She fired once more, thistime hitting Jiraiya on the ass. He flew up into the air, yelping inpain and falling off a cliff at the edge of the town. Demon Country'scapital was on a mountain, thus the cold climate and highcliffs.

"Yaaaaaaa-hoo-hoo-hoo-hooey!" Jiraiya screamed as fell off thecliff.

"Don't you think that was a bit much Lady Akane?" a warrior-servantasked her, watching Toad Sage fall down.

"Pfft as if…" Akane snorted, "It will take more than that to killthe hermit."

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><p><strong>NA: And there you have it! Special Chapter complete!Don't worry all you Jiraiya lovers, he's not dead.<strong>

**See you guys next time!**

15. Chapter 15

**NA: Next chapter is here, enjoy!**

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><p><strong>-Story Start-<strong>

Naruto was concerned, an essence of the Librarian was inside theShield World, and Covenant remnant has the location in theirpossession, it is also the location of the Shield World's controlsystems. With a push of a button he can send the planet to collidewith the star. He will need to be careful, but right now, a Reclaimeris missing somewhere on the planet. "Any signs of Glassman?"

"None Didact." A warrior-servant shook his head, "There are stillmany jammers located within the Shield World, the only onesdeactivated are the ones we disabled and where the Reclaimers havebegun to setup their research bases."

Naruto sighed in content at least, "I see… at least they are makingprogress into the research of the Ur-Didact's equipment. How he gotto build all of this without the Ecumene's knowledge is beyondme."

"We will most likely never know Didact, Shadow of Sundered Star was avery cunning man." A female warrior-servant put in.

"I will retire to my quarters, let me know of any other alerts thatcome up." He sat up and made his way out the bridge.

"Yes Didact." The two warrior-servants bowed and returned to theirwork.

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"So how is my best husband in the whole universe?" Shion playfullyasked.

"I am doing well, the Reclaimers have already begun their research onthe planet." Naruto answered, he was currently in his room, sittingon his bed talking to his wife through the video screen.

"That's good, Hikari is currently asleep at the moment, but you canstill see her." Shion gestured to the floating crib besideher.

Naruto smiled brightly, "Ah my little girl, how is the feeding?"

"I am getting used to it, she is a healthy eater so we won't have toworry about that." Shion replied, her face begun to frown as shelooked at her husband with worry, "And how about you? You look likeyou haven't slept in days."

"I haven't, I have been too busy as of late, a missing Reclaimersomewhere on the planet. Not to mention the Covenant has in theirpossession the shrine to the Librarian."

Shion frowned even further, "You are going to bed mister, I will bethere in a few days once talks with the UNSC finish here."

"Yes dear." Naruto relented, he did not want to get into an argumentwith her, he never wins.

**XXXXXXXX**

"Roland, bring up REQ-153-N." Sarah said, in the _Infinity's _bridgealong with Thomas looking over their tactical holo-table.

"I assume you'd like to start before the tragedy?" Roland asked,replaying a holographic video of a Pelican getting shotdown.

"Castle Team just got hit running supplies to Copernicus." Sarahfrowned at the holo-table.

"Copernicus. A science base. Looking for the Librarian AI the MasterChief found?" Lasky asked.

"Instead, they found something else." Sarah pressed a holographicbutton, zooming into a Sangheili leading the Covenant on theground.

Lasky stared at the hologram, "Jul 'Mdama."

"Yeah, because Requiem wasn't messed up enough." Sarahscoffed.

**XXXXXXXX**

Jul walked up to Glassman, who was currently working with mediocreequipment, strapped to his chest were multiple high yield plasmaexplosives and Gek holding a leash to his neck as insurance to hiscooperation.

"Doctor Glassman. Progress?" the Shipmaster and leader of theirfaction asked in his native tongue.

"For the love of… I keep telling you people, I don't speakSangheili." The doctor said, in a tone that showed panic.

The Shipmaster growled in irritation and spoke to him in brokenEnglish, "PROGRESS?!"

Glassman sighed, "I've got to have better equipment. More materialshere—you're giving me two sticks to rub together, technologicallyspeaking!" he stood up approaching Jul, only for Gek to pull theleash around his neck for him to sit down. The two Sangheili growledat him, "Okay okay okay, uh, no need for a translation there."

The doctor stood back up and pointed to the shrine, "You're sayingthere's an actual, living Forerunner inside this thing? Huh. I wonderwhat she could tell us?"

Jul walked to the shrine, his mandibles into some sort of grin,speaking once more in Sangheili, "I know what the Librarian will say,Glassman. She will tell us where all things sacred are hidden in thisgalaxy. Ships, weapons, bounties beyond our imagining."

Many of his Sangheili brethren raised their swords in cheers,cheering for the Didact's Hand to lead them into glory.

"And she will tell us how to make those miracles... our own."

The Sangheili began chanting his name 'Mdama' all around, raisingtheir swords high.

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**Three days later**

"Didact, a Spartan Fireteam have retrieved an item, from the imagesit seems to be an Ancilla storage device." A warrior-servant calledin through a speaker.

"I will be there immediately." Naruto got up from his bed, his combatskin immediately attached to his body as soon as he got up.

He made his way to the bridge, many warrior-servants and Prometheansgreeting him, "Report."

"They recovered an Ancilla storage device. And have immediatelyplaced it into a lab for doctor Halsey to examine."

Naruto nodded, "How long until my wife arrives? Guarding Light willalso need to examine this, he knows more about Ancillas thananyone."

"Within a few hours Didact."

"Good, inform me when my wife arrives, I am going to the _Infinity_myself."

**XXXXXXXX**

Naruto suddenly appeared within the hangar of the _Infinity_,startling some of the soldiers. He turned to them, "Where is thecaptain."

"He's in the lab with doctor Halsey, I'll show you tohim."

"Gratitude." Naruto nodded with a small bow and followed the

marine.

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**Inside the lab**

The device suddenly disassembled itself, its parts floating into theair like there was a lack of gravity within the room. "Doc… thisthing looks kinda familiar."

Catherin nodded, "Yes, it's very similar to an AI matrix. But weexpected that." She used her pen to touch one of the parts andreacted, a silhouette of a human in bright golden energy brieflyappeared.

"Dr. Halsey!" Lasky called out, Majestic and Sarah moving in tosecure the area.

"Roland, freeze all images." Catherine ordered, Roland complied anddid so as ordered.

"Pictures?" DeMarco said.

The doctor shook her head, "Not pictures… memories."

"Memories of your ancestors, the Composer was not just a weapon, wefinally realized it." A voice came in from the door, walking in wasNaruto.

"Didact, what do you mean?" Catherine asked.

"I believe the Composer was designed to absorb the essence of aliving body, and turning them into Ancillas, or AIs in your case. Inother words, had I not arrived on Earth in time, your city of NewPhoenix would have its population completely absorbed into theComposer and be brought back here into Requiem for…conscription."

"My god…" Sarah placed her hand on her mouth in a gasp.

Naruto approached one of the pictures, "This is a memory ofInstallation 10, a Halo ring that used by the Librarian to hopefullyrepopulate your kind after the war. Sadly the Ur-Didact used allhundreds of thousands of them for his private army."

"What war Didact?" Catherine asked.

"The before the Forerunner-Flood war that led to our demise, therewas another before it. The Human-Forerunner war, because of amisunderstanding caused by the Flood, your ancestors began cleansingworlds, including the Forerunner's, to hopefully stop the infection.The Ship I am using right now, the _Ascension_ was one such shipused. But alas, we were too late to realize."

"Didact…" a warrior-servant came in, "Lady Shion hasarrived."

**XXXXXXXX**

"Jul 'Mdama!" Gek approached the Shipmaster, "A Forerunner ship has

appeared over Requiem! The same ship-class as the Didact's!"

"Show me…" Jul ordered, a hologram appeared to see a ship the sameclass as the _Mantle's Approach_. "A god has arrived."

"That's Lady Shion's ship!" Glassman called out suddenly, causing thetwo Sangheili to look at him, "Lady Shion is the wife of theNovi-Didact, the new Didact."

"Another Didact!" Jul gasped, "This is a glorious day!" he turned toGlassman once more, "Tell me more." He spoke slowly in English,ordering him to.

"T-The new Didact, they look human, but they aren't, they callthemselves the Preservers, they told us that his father theIso-Didact somehow created a new race entirely. In turn they are theresult of that, inside that ship are half a million living Forerunnersoldiers at their command."

"Forerunners! More of them! Muster the fleet we are to meet the greatones!" he ordered Gek, many of them cheered and did so eagerly.

They are going to have a fateful encounter.

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><p><strong>NA: And there you have it! I really don't have much tosay. Updating for this fic specifically will be slowing down as Ineed time to set up the plot a bit more. So updates will be every fewdays depending on when I finish writing the chapter. I don't want torisk burning myself out.<strong>

**See you guys next time!**

16. Chapter 16

**NA: I am going to have to end this story here and now, reason beingis that I made Naruto WAY too overpowered. Making the story bland andboring to write nowadays. I thank you guys for being supportive ofthis story and my other projects.**

**So without further ado: the final chapter.**

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><p><strong>-Story Start-<strong>

Requiem was once again a battlefield between the forces of theCovenant remnant. Jul 'Mdama refused to believe the Novi-Didact,because of it his own forces were split into two. Fighting amongsteach other. As they fought, the UNSC ground forces and theirForerunner allies secured the Librarian's shrine, as well as securingthe Janus key.

In space, the Covenant allied with Naruto fought amongst their formerbrethren, surrounding the _Fury's Ascent_ in a defense formation. Jul'Mdama was enraged by all of this, calling the Didact a fake. Narutoargued that they are not gods, only people like any other.

The Covenant remnant under Jul 'Mdama's command were fighting alosing battle, but he refused to retreat, in his arrogance hebelieved that they could be defeated, but it was all for naught. Hewatched as his ship was torn to pieces by plasma fire from his formerbrethren.

Naruto could only watch in sadness as people fought amongstthemselves because of religion. Religion was supposed to bring peopletogether, not separate.

The Sangheili civil war ended thanks to Naruto's efforts. Sanghelioswas finally at peace.

Back on Naruto's home world, the Akatsuki were hunted and defeatedthanks to advanced weaponry of Demon country. With their key leadersdefeated, peace and stability had been brought to theirnation,

Konoha collapsed; they were in so much debt after the attack byOrochimaru and having to pay compensation for the mistreatment of theUzumaki heir. Because of not being able to pay their salary on theirShinobi, many of their own Shinobi simply left, people fought in thestreets for valuable possessions, chaos ensued when deaths begun toaccumulate. The shinobi clans of Konoha made an exodus to Whirlpoolknowing they will prosper there.

Danzo Shimura, the Hokage of Konoha and the head of his ROOT forceswas furious, he blamed Naruto for everything that had happened, in alast ditch effort and his arrogance, he led his ROOT forces to DemonCountry, hoping to defeat them, but was stopped by the advancedweaponry and training of the Forerunner Prometheans andwarrior-servants. They never even made it to country borders, DemonCountry simply sent a single ship to thwart their attack. Danzo andhis ROOT shinobi were completely incinerated in a matter ofseconds.

After everything, Naruto and Shion returned to their home world to bewith the rest of their family. They watched with pride as Hikari grewup into a beautiful young woman and a brilliant militarycommander.

She was ready for her next adventure, she was given command of the_Ascension_, they found a Precursor Gateway leading them into a newgalaxy. What new people will they meet, what new conflict will theyencounter?

Hikari just smiled, wearing the combat skin similar to her mother's,she crosser her arms, waiting in anticipation. She then rememberedwhat her father told her before she left.

Every journey begins with a single step.

My name is Hikari Uzumaki-Namikaze, my Forerunner name is Light ofEternal Song. I am the captain of the Redeemer-class battleship_Ascension_, as I write this book and head to a new galaxy filledwith unknown species of aliens through the Precursor Gateway, I hopethat I get to meet new friends, and new places. I cannot wait to seewhat lies ahead…

Mom, dad… don't worry about me too much, I have Guarding Light with

me, we just arrived at the new galaxy and the Precursor Gateway onthe other side is functional. Thanks to our equipment, we can keepthe gate open and communicate whenever we want. This is so exciting,we are about to meet alien races that Precursors have seeded!

This is Hikari… signing off… alright let's do this, dattebane!

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><p><strong>NA: And there it is… the end of Fury of EternalMaelstrom, I am sorry for those who probably did not like the ending,but I could not continue this, I might be able to right a sequelthough, but this time as Hikari as the main character.<strong>

**But that is a long ways to go as I have other projects.**

**Well this is Shadow of Sundered Star, and I thank you for yoursupport of this story. Look out for my other projects and I will seeon the other side.**

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