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Hey guys this is Kotei here coming to bring you a new story, a Mass Effect x Naruto story. I am not going to make this Authors note long, so I am going to make this short and simple for all of us. This will be an alternate universe Naruto and there will be some non-canon portions of this story for the mass effect verse to tie in with Naruto. Naruto will not have the rinnegan or the sharingan, but he will have some of the same powers that any rinnegan user would have (preferably gravity manipulation, revival, and soul reading as I call it). There will be a pairing, either with Liara or with Tali; I have not fully decided. This will start right before the cure of the Genophage, which was the last major mission I did before doing side missions and starting off to help with the Quarian fleet.

That is all I wished to say so let us begin.

"He who believes in enlightenment and peace is god among men, but he who believes in the necessity of power is the devil of mankind."

Chapter one: The God within the Tree

This is the story about a man; a man who had lived through trial and error, as well as pain and isolation. He had lived through the arrogance and hatred of all who surrounded him; he was a cursed soul, a sacrifice that shouldn't have been…

Yet his will was unshaken and his heart strong, he persevered through hate and had been accepted by all and was loved by all. The man had become a part of all the lives he surrounded. Through life he was pure; through war he was just; his words forever shook the foundation of logic and broke through the cold hearts of the wicked and the alleged heartless.

With his strength he had ended two wars, united all of the people of the world and gained the love all. Yet that love was not to last: war was coming once more.

Shadows loomed over the horizon and darkness broke through the sky as monstrosities came down and reigned upon the worlds of the people he loved, killing all he cared for and taking the blood of innocent.

Through war he fought and in war he sought to vanquish the creatures of destruction; he struck one by one and when he felt it necessary, he struck his foes all at once.

Though it was all coming to an end, an end of which there would be a victory for neither side…only destruction…

The once said man that protected had soon disappeared…

This is a story about a hero…

A hero who protected his land from a powerful beast; his world from two beings who desired to become god; he was a man who defeated a god and soon became a god in the process. He was a man who fought and destroyed shadows that brought death.

Who truly protected his world…who risked his life for the ones he loved…

A noble man with a burning will of fire…

He never hesitated despite the approaching threat…

He fought to the end…to protect what was precious to him…

A hero who disappeared…will soon awaken once more

A true story that will never be forgotten…

This is a story of a hero…a hero that I loved…

Normandy SR2 – 2185

Petals, petals as pure as snow had descended down towards Liara as she was surrounded by the blackness of her mind. Though breaks of light came into her vision, the breaks flowed down slowly like hazing mist in the morning air; Liara was tempted to follow and in doing so her dream state altered. Darkness still remained; however the only thing that was giving off any sort of luminescence within her state of mind was no longer the mist of light, but the flowing of white sakura petals that came down and a tree of holy white that stood before her. The tree, in all of its glory, stood proudly before her: taller than the highest building on Thessia or on the citadel for that matter. The large sentient had its massive branch like arms spread out and held the Sakura blossom petals on all of its limbs. Of course there was more to it than just petals of scattering white, there was fruit upon the tree; a dark red in appearance, matching the brighter pigment of the others surrounding it. The bearing life on the tree held a glow to it that Liara could not describe as nothing more than power.

Liara walked up close to the tree, stretching out her hand as she placed it upon the smooth bark that was soft on her skin like polished wood. In the moment she had touched she had seen images that blurred faster than light and she could hear voices that were off in the distance that echoed through the vivid images. The Asari woman could feel the life around this tree, something that she had never experienced before with anything that was human and non-human alike; Liara could feel intelligence, a strong tug to her mind as she felt minds meld slowly.

Save him…

Her thoughts stopped as she quickly moved her hand away from the tree and turned to find a woman before her: human in physical nature and her beauty was like nothing she had ever seen before. She stared at the woman, whom looked like she was in her early twenties with crimson red hair that went down her back, pale skin that looked as if it was glowing, but most of all her violet colored eyes; something that Liara thought was unnatural.

"Who are you?"

The woman did not say anything, but soon she was not alone with Liara. A man who stood around six foot with a mane of wild golden blonde hair; his eyes a deep ocean blue and his skin a light tan. Next to him appeared a woman in her mid-twenties with shoulder length hair pink hair and emerald green eyes, and following beside her was a blonde haired male in his late teens, almost an identical twin to the fellow blonde on the other side, but with the same exact color of eyes as the rosette female. It was only those four before, in a few split moments, that what looked to be over a thousand people to Liara stood in front of her, all of them staring at her with no words. Though, the voices of those in front of her echoed in her thoughts and she could hear them clear as day, like a triumphant war cry in battle.

Save him…please!

The Asari woman noticed them look up and could see from her peripherals the pulsating glow of light that came from behind her. Once she turned, she noticed the tree had begun to change and soon what darkness was left was consumed, along with her being.

Thus she awoke from her slumber, sweat coming from her forehead and body as she felt a strong chill come down upon her body.

She held her hand upon her forehead, her eyes closed as her head was strained with pressure from the heavy induced sleep. The dream that she had witnessed was like nothing she had ever felt before, all the events that occurred felt so surreal that it was as if it came from a fairy tale from children books that humans have written. Yet somewhere in her keen intellect she could feel that it was more than a dream despite her logical viewpoint, though nothing right now was logical in her life right now. It would have been surprising to say it was a vision, no Asari has ever had one before by her knowledge and none had such impactful dreams before from old scriptures that she had read on Thessia.

She had gotten dressed; getting her suit on as she began grooming herself for the day. Once she was done she sat down on her chair, looking through informant data through the shadow broker data. Despite focusing through her data and the reports of her informants, the dream simply left her in thought before she continued her day on the Normandy.

'Save who…who is it that needs to be saved?' Was the thought that continued through her thoughts.

ATAG

In the communication room was a man in casual outfit wear, a brown leather jacket with an N7 logo patched on the left side of the jacket, underneath he wore a regular white T-shirt and wore a pair of jeans and dark colored shoes. He was about 6'2, in his early thirties, holding a light body build, but was lean in muscle. He was of light tan skin, teal blue eyes and had black hair. This man was a war hero, a survivor of escaping a Batarian slave trade on a human colony. His name was Kayton Shepard, commander of the Alliance ship Normandy and Spectre for the Citadel.

Shepard stood patiently in the communication room waiting to receive a message from Admiral Steven Hackett, leader of the Human Alliance Fleet. He was the leading expert and the leading outcome of the war against the enemy of all organic life. The Reapers; a synthetic race of artificial intelligence that harvested all intelligent life. His mission was simple; build alliances with as many people as possible, human and non-human alike. Though it was not a simple task to say the least, there was always bargains on the table and a lot of them required sacrifices; something he had wished to avoid since the invasion of Reapers on Earth.

Recently, he was pushing for an alliance between the Turian and the Krogan race on Patriarch Victus's request, though this was to help ensure that the Krogan race would get a cure for the Genophage; a virus that had infected the Krogan for over the last millennia which caused infertility amongst the Krogan, leading to the stagnant reproduction and possible extinction of the Krogan race. He had managed to get the first steps of the process done; getting the last surviving female Krogan on Sur'Kesh that was experimented on Tuchanka almost a year ago. The only thing that stood in their way from getting the female to safety was Cerberus; a human leading terrorist group seeking to better human kind. Despite Shepard being part of Cerberus at one point, he cut all ties with them.

Yet despite having Cerberus attempting to stop them, Shepard and his team managed to save the female Krogan. It may possibly prevent the alliance getting support from the Salarians, but with possible aid from both the Turian fleet and with the support of the Krogan, there may be a chance that Earth can still survive another day.

Not a moment too soon, Admiral Hackett appeared in front of Shepard via a hologram in the room, his arms behind his back as he looked at the young commander.

Shepard saluted the Admiral, getting a nod in return from his higher up.

"Shepard, I am hearing reports that you are brokering the treaty between the Krogan and the Turians?"

"If I can get Krogan boots of Palaven, the Turians promised me their support," said the Spectre.

"And how did Cerberus get involved?"

Shepard leaned forward and narrowed his eyes, "I don't know. Illusive man is up to something, I can tell you that much."

"Well they had managed to give you an ally, the Prothean. That's the only good thing they gave us these days." Hackett shook his head before looking back at Shepard. "Still, it would be best to keep them at bay. I can't overstate how much of a victory this would be for the Alliance, we need all the help we can get." The Admiral said.

"How's the Prothean device coming along?"

"The Alliance R&D has already begun construction; we dubbed 'Project Crucible.'"

Shepard raised an eyebrow to convey his perplexity. "Crucible?"

"Yes, we are throwing everyone who knows how to use a hammer at it." The Admiral gave a slight chuckle, "So far, this is going to be the most ambitious undertaking we ever had in human history."

Shepard crossed his arms and paused, "Can we get it done?"

"I'm not saying it won't be easy, however…" the Admiral typed in something and the current construction was shown on Shepard's screen. "Our researchers are telling us that the designs are…elegant. Massive in scope, but strangely simple as well. We just need time to continue working on it and we need more hands than ever."

"I'll get working on it right away sir."

"One more thing Shepard; you might be interested in this. I'm going to upload the report to you right now." Hackett said. "We have found reports of something very interesting."

"What is it?"

"We don't know. Recently we found something just close to Tuchanka and it's very unique…it just appeared on the scanners just one moment. We attempted to scan the area, however, our scanners immediately were disrupted when hitting the attempted area. We're thinking electromagnetic disturbance. However, when doing an energy reading we found astronomical levels of energy coming off our readings."

Shepard raised his eyebrows a bit in surprise. "That sounds like something...what's so interesting about it though?"

"It got the attention of Cerberus…however, the only reason they got attention was because the Reapers had gotten interested in it as well. They are coming towards that area like it's a beacon."

"Sounds like there is something going on down there and it's big." Shepard said as he lowered his arms. "So you want me to go check it out I presume?"

"Yes, I'd like you to check the area and see what you can find out. Though be careful, we don't need either party to find out your ship is there." Hackett told Shepard.

Shepard nodded, "I'll grab my team and head out to that area before going back to Tuchanka. I'm curious as to know what's out there."

Admiral nodded, "Be careful Commander...we still need you alive."

The younger male grunted before he saluted, "Yes Sir."

The Admiral saluted in return. "Alright, Hackett out." Said the admiral as his image flickered before his holographic form disappeared.

Shepard walked out of the communication room and headed toward the deck. Once he entered, he walked towards the navigation port and typed in the coordinates of where the event Hackett mentioned was coming from. It was actually to Shepard's surprise, that massive signs of Reaper activity were just two planet leaps away from Tuchanka. So much activity and yet so close; How did EDI not notice how close the Reaper and Cerberus activity was to their perimeters? Then he paused...Hackett mentioned that scanners where being disrupted, it was possible that it could EDI's scans as well.

"EDI are you picking up any disruptive frequencies on the scanners?" Shepard asked.

"Affirmative; my systems indicate that there is a large electromagnetic disturbance that's blocking my scanners approximately 300,000 miles past Tuchanka. It is possible it is a solar storm in that direction." EDI stated through the ship's interface.

Shepard frowned at that, things always have to happen with him and when they do, they never go as planned and they never go well. "EDI locate Garrus and Liara and tell them to get suited up and be ready. Tell Cortez to prepare the Kodiak in five; I want to get in that area and check it out. We're going to have to wait to get that cure in." Shepard said as he walked off to get suited up.

ATAG

Once getting towards the destination things had become hectic, the disturbance had affected more than the scanners than what Shepard or Hackett believed. It also affected the ship's center of gravity. What's worse was that the ship was surrounded by fog, any visual sighting was pointless and without the scanners, Normandy was just a sitting duck waiting to be a dinner.

Shepard, following Garrus, Liara, Javik, Joker and Edi, were all at the Pilots station looking through what was a thick cloud of mist. Curiosity was within the minds of the group as they looked at the strange colored mist. Was it the formation of a new star nebula or perhaps it was the aftermath of a solar storm? However it wasn't possible for either; both ideas required solar energy and EDI mentioned to Shepard that the indicators showed, before they shut off, that the traces of energy were highly concentrated and it was more akin to that of electric energy than it being on the lines of solar energy, being more on the lines of a thunderstorm. Another case that was pointed out was that the mist was bright white, as if it was some sort of bio-luminescence that flowed in space.

"Well, I've seen some weird things in my time with Shepard…this just got put on that list." The former C-sec officer said as he tried to perch through the mist with what available sight there is.

"Nothing has even happened yet and you say that now?"

"Cerberus and Reapers are both here because they are looking for something…in a mystified zone that blocks our field of vision and scanner…how is that not going to be on my list?" Garrus stated.

"Garrus does have a point, Commander. Though, this is just weird. I mean mist, this just got a little too weird." Joker added.

Shepard shook his head and sighed as he looked over to EDI in her synthetic form, "Can you tell if we are out of this yet?"

"I estimate that we will get out of this area in a few moments. Scanners are recalibrating and are starting to pick something up not too far from where we are." EDI said as she began to adjust the scanner.

The ship had begun to shake from pressure; the sound of metal slowly bending had been heard through the hull and the inside of the battle information room. Small sparks began to shoot out of the ship for brief moments before the pressure had ceased and the ship began to smooth down.

"Scanners are clear, picking up something large ahead of us. Visual field is becoming normal." EDI said as she looked up.

The small group looked forward at the visual screen. The mist which was in front of them was only in small traces as their field of vision was soon clear to them. What was in front of them was something that wouldn't had been uncommon; a planet, three times the size of the Earth itself, floating around the area. The planet was similar to Earth in nature; however, it retained a large Pangaea, while having traces of smaller continents and other land masses that surrounded it and in comparison to Earth it seemed to have larger quantities of land instead of having seventy percent of water. It was around sixty percent of less. Something was off about this mass; it too was covered by the white mist that had previously caused a brief malfunction in their ship.

"This place...," the voice of the Prothean spoke out. "I know it."

"You've been here before?" Shepard asked.

"No, what I mean is I've heard of it." Javik looked closer at the planet, "This place has been in stories that were shared by my people that we passed on from generation to generation before and during the times of war. It was a legend, like you humans would call Atlantis, only this was a planet, not a kingdom."

"Is there anything you can tell us about this place?" Shepard asked looking at Javik.

The Prothean narrowed his eyes before closing them and shaking his head in a negative response. "No I cannot; there was never enough information to go by and most of what there was to tell about this place was in stories. Though there are stories that were told were back before the Protheans ever came to become highly advanced and long before we came to rise as an empire. Stories of powerful beings that had the power of elements with just the touch of their hand and stories of beings that were like gods among this place. I only believed this place was a myth until seeing it now."

"And what makes you so sure that this is that place?" Garrus asked

"Because through memories of old that was given to us Protheans; we saw this place only once, and it disappeared from our sight...however this place was off in a different sector." Javik told the Turian.

Liara put her thumb to her chin and puzzled in thought "An advance cloaking device perhaps, something to protect itself against the Reapers." The Asari frowned as she lowered her hand away from her face. "Then again, it wouldn't make sense with the mist."

"That aside we are going to check this place out; if there is something in the place that caught the interest of both Cerberus and the Reapers I want to know what it is." Shepard turned and walked off toward the elevator, his finger on an ear piece. "Cortez, start up the Kodiak, we're heading out toward that planet."

Garrus followed next and then Javik; Liara remained staring at the planet before she too was about to turn around before she heard a voice.

Save him…

The Asari stopped on her tracks before she turned to look back at the planet. There was that voice again: the one from her dream. She thought it was a dream at first, but to hear it while she was awake had caused her more caution. Whatever it was that was calling her now, it was stronger than before...it was leading her to this place. She turned around, not before looking back once more and then leaving to head out to the Kodiak.

ATAG

The Kodiak shuttle pressed down smoothly on the ground, its engine running as its door opened up to let Shepard, Garrus. Liara came out of the ship with weapons in hand. Shepard kept his assault rifle posed for firing as he looked in every direction. Despite the fog surrounding the ground site he still had a decent amount of vision to get a background check of the earthen floor. He lowered his weapon and made a hand gesture, giving the O.K. as his two squad members followed in front of him. He turned his head to look back at the shuttle pilot.

"Cortez, I want you to scout out the area in the shuttle, if you see any Reapers keep the shuttle in hiding until I call you for evac." Shepard said.

"Alright Commander." The blue-eyed lieutenant replied before closing the shuttle door and within moments the Kodiak lifted off from the air and the ship flew out of sight into the mist.

The group had pressed forward, scanning the area for Reaper indoctrinated mutants of Cerberus agents. There was no sign of any interference with the land: no heavy movement or sounds of machines; not a single sound other than their own movement; a deathly silence that had the distinct feeling that there was no existence of life on this planet. It kept them on edge, something like this had never occurred to them in previous missions, but instinct told them that silence was never a good thing when it involved enemy forces being close to their vicinity.

Haste movement came from the trio as they continued their journey, stopping though as they saw a large mass in front of them. Shepard stopped them as her looked at the mass and paused as he got a clearer view of it.

"It's a Reaper." His voice sounded surprised as he took a few steps as he saw that it was, indeed, a Reaper...a dead Reaper. This Reaper however, was not like the ones that were in the war right now. This Reaper was covered by moss and large roots, was rusting around its mechanical tentacles and the base of its synthetic body. The machine also had markings on it and had considerable amount of damage to its main section from what looked like fire and electrical burns.

Garrus look at the machine and hummed, "Well if this isn't a sight to see then I don't know what is." He looked at Liara walking passing him closer to the dead artificial intelligence as she scanned the machine. "I take it this isn't something current isn't it."

"No, it's older, much older than the Prothean age." Her Omni-tool checked the readings on the machine and paused as she looked at the readings. "By the age of how long it has been corroded estimates that it has been this way…" she looked up at the machine, "...for 150,000 years."

"If it's been here for this long, makes you wonder what could have killed it." Shepard said as he heard Cortez's voice in his com. "Cortez?"

"Shepard, I spotted two Reaper ships five kilometers north from you…you are going to be surprised."

"Alright, we'll check it out" Shepard looked at the two aliens. "Alright you two, we're heading out. Cortez said he found something." Shepard said as he walked passed them and quickly went at a jogging pace with them following not far behind.

Distance wasn't too much of a problem for the three, little about a mile and they were already at the destination which was a steep ground hill. What Shepard was expecting were hulking Reapers machines and indoctrinated followers to be looking around for something, not two dead Reaper ships and a large quantity of dead Cerberus and indoctrinated forces.

"By the goddess..." the Asari muttered as she lowered her pistol. Everything that they thought was cautioning them was dead on the ground.

"What happened here?" The Turian spoke. "This is a more than a platoon's worth of Cerberus agents and over a hundred of indoctrinated entities. What could have killed all of them and two Reapers?"

Shepard carefully walked down the hill, dragging his feet against the dirt down the slope while he got to lower ground. He searched bodies of both Cerberus and the bodies of the indoctrinated: the bodies of the dead seemed to be fine, no injuries, no gun wounds; they only had tree roots on their body.

'Tree roots…' He turned to look at the Reapers, and looked at their bodies to find that they were in the worse shape possible for being highly powerful machines. Roots that rose from the ground seemed to have pierced through their metal with ease, cutting through their core and cannon before causing the aircraft to die. 'Something is not right here.'

Whatever caused the death of both groups was somehow connected to the possible plant life in the area. Shepard looked at the roots and walked towards one of them. He bent down slowly as he placed one of his hands onto the root. Right at that instant the root had glowed a bright hue of white, causing the human Spectre to jump to his feet and raise his gun at the root. He stared at the roots glowing as he searched the area, tracing the end of the roots to a certain point. It was by the time he looked off that he saw the trail of larger roots glow towards an entrance to a cavernous hole not too far from the next reaper.

"Liara, Garrus; I found a cave leading towards the roots. I think it's the plant life that is attacking the Reapers." Shepard said.

"So the trees come to join the battle, sounds a lot like even nature is a threat to the Reapers." Garrus said.

"Maybe it's something more…" Mumbled the Asari before she began walking around.

Liara was the first to walk into the cave. Luckily for her, her other two companions and herself did not need their lights as the roots kept their unnatural glow to the cave, brightening the tunnel. She looked around the flat walls of the room that was not affected by the roots. The tunnel seemed to drag on until her eyes saw an entry point that led to a room. Shepard followed by her side with Garrus next to him as they entered the room. The room itself was more like a hole, there was no roof or rocky ceiling that covered the room as they noticed the sky above. The room seemed untouched, with only a small hole that was in the ground. Though what brought Liara's attention was not the rocks or the crevices of the room, but the one thing that stood out in the entire room: a tree of holy white, with white sakura blossoms.

'This tree, it's the one from my dream!' Liara walked closer to the living organism as she looked up at it. The tree had all of the exact features in her dream: red fruit and white in all its color.

Coming closer, she could see a cube shaped column of sorts, only four feet in height and two feet in diameter made out black, polished granite. She walked towards it and looked at it to find that it had writing upon it. The writing it-self was strange it was carved in, but it had a distinct familiarity about it as if she had seen this kind of writing before from somewhere. She typed into her Omni-tool and scanned the writing before she heard Garrus cry out.

"Harvesters!"

The Asari looked up to notice two giant winged beast descending down the opened room as the unleashed the Reapers creatures from the ground. It somehow didn't cross any of their minds that there could have been more or survivors of a possible attack on them. She cursed herself for being distracted by her surprise of seeing the divine tree.

The creatures from the ground were in a number of fifty. Cannibals, mutated Batarians, Ravagers, mutated Rachni and Marauders: mutations of Turians came out from the fire pile and were shooting at the small group with the intent to kill. The trio hid behind boulders as they prepared to stand their ground. Garrus set up his sniper rifle as he shot one of the Marauders in the head, sending its body staggering onto the ground while Shepard followed as he continuously fired with his assault rifle, breaking through the shields of Marauders and the thick layer of armor that Cannibals possessed.

Liara commenced one of her biotic abilities, Singularity, in order to capture a small group of Cannibals that were firing in Shepards's direction thus giving him time to counter attack. She then followed up using Pull and Lift to stun the enemy group surrounding them. The main problem however, was not the smaller horde, but the Harvesters that needed to somehow be taken down. The larger creatures fired upon the boulders Shepard and Garrus were at causing both males to move to other sides once the boulders broke down. The two switched to incendiary ammo, firing upon one of the Harvesters repeatedly, leaving Liara to focus on the smaller number of that was left. She commenced Warp upon two weakened Marauders and a Ravager killing them through Warp induced damage. The numbers were growing smaller only until the second wave had emerged into the fray. Low growls echoed through the tunnel and a single screech echoed through the growls. Seven hulking Brutes emerged with a Banshee from the only entrance in the dome.

There was enough problems in this situation as there were, the numbers game did not matter as it fell down to sheer force favoring the Reaper hordes. Each would have to individually handle two Brutes and the Banshee would be best suited to face her expertise on biotics. Though without enough medi-gel to supply there was no chance.

Liara felt a sense of anxiety as she pushed forward, using her scorpion pistol as she fired upon one of the Brutes and following with Warp once more to inflict damage to the Banshee and its surrounding area. The cry of the Banshee echoed through the room as she unleashed one of her own abilities upon Liara, smacking the Asari into the tree and giving Liara a shortness of breath in her chest. She looked up to see the Brute she fired upon coming towards her come at her, its arms raised, posing for a swift blow upon her body.

Seconds flew by slowly to Liara as the Brute came closer to her, the world simply felt silent to her ears and her thoughts raced. She needed that spare second to catch her breath before the Brute came at her, just one second. It was far too soon for her life to end like this.

You found him…

The voice echoed in her mind once more as she widened her eyes. The ground slowly began to shift as roots shot from the ground and coiled around the Brute, lifting him into the air. The beast struggled for what seemed like seconds before going limp and being thrown at the remaining Harvester, killing it with the speed of oncoming massive body. Liara looked back at the tree and saw its root-like limbs shift and make a groaning sound, three of the limbs pierced into the Banshee's body, killing it instantly as it left massive, gaping holes upon its small body. Something else unexpectedly happened; the tree pulsed as it gave a humming sound, causing the room to go dark and all things aside from Liara stopped, the sky grew darker and the darkness had been replaced by a cold blue light of a moon.

Sakura blossoms fell around Liara; she gazes around the room, seeing all has stopped as if time was bent down to a halt. Then she stops looking around as she hears a soft whisper that sounds as if it was coming through the distance. It soon drew closer and the voice echoed through her thoughts like a soft playing musical instrument.

"Who are you?"

Liara paused at the voice; it was soothing to the ear, hot and had a caring touch to it, but at the same time there was a demand of attention coming off of it. She had no idea, but she welcomed it into her mind as if she was not expecting it to be a threat.

"Who said that?" She asked.

"There are only two living beings in this room that have not been affected by the time distortion and that other is in front of you." The tree glowed in front of Liara giving her a slight awe of shock. "Now, who are you?" It questioned once more.

Liara swallowed saliva as she stared at the tree "I am Liara T'soni; I am here with two friends of mine."

"The only human in the room and the other non-human untainted creature?" The tree asked

"Yes, we came here because of the Reaper activity that was occurring here, along with another group." She said softly "As well as looking for a high energy source."

"The corrupted ones…the ones who try to bring forth disaster upon my home; they try to claim take claim over, only to be killed by my hand." It said. "I never thought that the dark ones survived after so long...that only meant that what I saw was true." The tree said in a hollow tone.

"The dark ones?"

"The machines that are here: the machines that brought the corrupted. We had no true name for them, but they brought death and chaos to a time in which peace should have been bestowed upon, only for it to be brought forth by disaster and suffering… and then genocide."

"The Reapers, that's what they are called. They are an artificial intelligence that harvest intelligent organic life and kill or enslave them." Liara explained. "And if they are here for you then there must be a reason behind it."

"…It is because I am a threat, a threat to their harvesting as you may call it. My people were their greatest challenge and I was their greatest weapon. I destroyed a thousand of those creatures before I was put to sleep, growing in power, waiting for cycles in hopes that my people may have won the war without me and bring peace for themselves." The light of the tree dimmed, "It seemed my faith in them was too much."

"I'm sorry for your loss…I have no idea trees could fight so well." The voice paused before it gave a chuckle, which turned to full out laughter. Liara gave a look of confusion as she was lost for words. "What is so funny?"

"A tree can fight haha…I didn't fight those …Reapers as you call them while I was stuck like this. I fought them when I was in my normal form." The voice calmed down. "This form I was just asleep, while at the same time protecting this place. It does a pretty damn good job, but every thousand or so years I need to come out of hiding just to check how the world is going. I was surprised when I was found by them after popping in."

"So what you're saying is...you were at the wrong place at the wrong time." Liara simply stated.

"Hmmm, yep pretty much. I could have left, but then again I was getting bored, but when they brought on those corrupted ones I was disgusted by how distorted they felt and do not get me started on those inbred humans I do not want to get started on how far corrupted those other humans came to be." The tree said.

"Other humans…?" Liara questioned.

"Too long of a story to tell; I'll tell you some other time, right now I need to help you and your friends get free from these abominations." Said the tree "Besides…I need to see my home with my own eyes…it has been so long since I have gazed upon the lands of Kaguya."

"Wait!" Exclaimed the Asari. "You're going to help us?"

"I don't see any other way of you getting out with my help right now, plus a tree can't do much but fight now can't it?" The voice said as it teased Liara and chuckled as it caused her to fluster a bit.

"I-I see…" Liara stuttered, "Well… mister tree, what do I call you?"

"I go by many names…" Was all it stated as it started to glow a bright blue which slowly enveloped its form and shot out into the dark sky which was now gone.

Time soon started once more for Liara as firing echoed into her ears, she covered he ears to cover the sound, but it quickly stopped as everything looked at the tree. All, including Liara, now had gazed upon the glowing sensation of the tree. The sentient entity brought life amongst the dirt floor, bringing newly grown grass in. The trees roots began to recede including those that reached farther out of the cave and beyond. The larger mass began to shrink in great size until it was at a human sphere of light was as bright as a star, covering her eyes with her arm she avoiding looking in directly. Shepard squinted his eyes as he shadowed them to gaze at the light while Garrus hid behind the boulder that he was positioned at. The tree, now a pure white sphere, cracked in several spots, the cracks surrounded every point of the sphere. The sphere then shattered, causing the light to dissipate and fade into the air.

Now Playing Unicorn by Hiroyuki Sawano

Liara opened her eyes, moving her arm away as she looked upon the sight that was now in front of her. No longer was the mighty tree that stood in front of her majestic, holy, and proud: in its place was a humanoid figure six feet in the air in fetal position with a blue hazing aura around him with the mixture of the same white energy. Liara looked closer at the figure; it looked to be a male, holding light tan skin with golden, spiky, sun-kissed blonde, the length on the back and the sides reaching down to his lower jaw. His face showed no form of baby fat, it was chiseled and lean with muscle; though what brought interest to Liara was that his face possessed what looked like whiskers or birthmarks, three on each side of his cheek. Overall, he was handsome in the eyes of Liara, but she shook it off.

The blonde's eyes opened, showing a set of azure eyes with the pupils holding cat-like features. His body descended downward as he landed onto his feet and stood at a height of six foot. Getting a clearer view of clothing it showed that he wore a black tunic with nine white tomoe on the back of the jacket. Underneath he wore a tight black shirt, one side sleeveless, showing a lean build of muscle with great definition while the other side held a long sleeve. The blonde wore a pair of black pants that possessed orange lining onto the side and a pair of black sandals.

Eyes glowed as the blonde stood there in silence...and then he spoke. "The corrupted…the abominations, they have been corroded by the darkness." His right hand glowed red while his left hand glowed blue. "Though they can still be saved…" He said softly.

'They can be saved?' The Asari thought before a low roar erupted behind her, two Brutes rushed passed her, rushing toward the blonde at top speed.

The blonde's eyes gazed at the Brutes before he narrowed them, a pulse of white energy shot passed the Brutes, leading them to come to a halt and drag onto the floor as they laid on the floor lifeless.

"The way of Samsara…wash those that are corrupted." The blonde spoke as if the words were an incantation. "Rin'ne no Odayaka!"

The blonde merged the two energies together as it became a dark purple color, the energy mass soon let out a pulse as it hit the entire room. While it had not affected Shepard, Liara and Garrus, something was occurring when the wave of energy passed through every other moving organism. There was a heavy change of environment, the remaining mutations of indoctrinated Reaper followers were crying in agony as they all hit the floor. The energy covered their bodies as they began to take on a metamorphosis. Their deformed bodies slowly shed off them as corrupted tissue and their deformed body structured reconstructed itself into what it was long before their indoctrination. The growl of pain became groans as the bodies of what were abominations became those of alien origin. Bodies of unconscious Batarian, Turian, Asari, and remnant Rachni fell to the ground newly revitalized by the power that struck them.

"Now be cleansed children of all creation." The blonde said as he bowed silently.

There was no description of what was witnessed in the eyes of Shepard and his crew. The Commander took a step forward, coming to a stop right next to Liara as he lowered his gun, but kept a grip upon it.

"Who are you?" Shepard said with caution.

The blonde was silent before he looked at Shepard and then at Liara, "I got by many names..." Liara's eyes had widened by the return of those words. "though you may call me Naruto. Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze."

Chapter End

Whew, it took me about two days to complete this (started on Friday), but about two hours to edit anything I wanted to add. Hopefully you all will enjoy this piece. If you guys will be confused as to why Naruto does not have the Rinnegan then I will explain next chapter.

This is Kotei no Seiryuu, signing out.

Rin'ne no Odayaka – Calm of Samsara

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