A/N: Like the story before I rewrote this story repeatedly as I tried to make sure certain points where mentioned. I re wrote this at least 3 times, each time a new idea striking and each time frustrated that I had managed to not write what needed to be written. So after much thinking and much agonizing I did it. Although most of this story is still in the process I think I have the first three chapters down.And remember this is an Anisoka story, like this is especially so, romance wise, a very Anisoka story, So here goes:
Chapter 1
Ahsoka had spent the first few months meditating and reading holorecords, her master coming and going checking on her progress and quizzing her.
Sometimes when she reached a milestone while he was away he would send another master to quiz her or to hand her a new holorecords to study.
Usually it was Master Plo Koon or Master Shaak Ti randomly popping up with her new materials remarking in how fast she was learning.
Each day Ahsoka would listen to Anakin complain about how Master Obi Wan made him sit and meditate every day for one hour and how boring it was. But how his master would reward him for it by letting him train with a training lightsaber.
Ahsoka enjoyed listening to his mini adventures and hijinks he and Obi Wan somehow managed to get into.
When he turned 11 he told her the story of how he had gotten his crystal and the challenges he had faced.
Ahsoka spent the first year and a half in that manner, talking to Anakin reading and meditating.
When she turned 11 years old she expected Master Windu to take her on her quest to find her crystal instead Mas Plo Koon announced he had been given the honor to escort her to gain her crystal.
Ahsoka had mixed emotions about that, Master Plo Koon was kind and gentle and very cool, but Master Windu was her Master she was his Padawan. She felt like she was being abandoned by him.
If Master Plo Koon noticed it he didn't mention it as he and ahsoka boarded a ship and took off to the planet Ilum to find her Crystal, and build her lightsaber.
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That was how Ahsoka now found herself walking a frosted path, each step crunching the snow below her each step taking her deeper into the cave. She had been there for 30 minutes and so far she had avoided sudden pitfalls, icicles falling from the ceilings, slipping on the ice and most important of all locating her crystal.
Frankly she was feeling bored frustrated and annoyed. Anakin said he had found his in 40 minutes she had hope to beat his record.
It was as she was passing a tunnel, that a sound made her stop and turn. Not seeing anything she began to move away from it only to hear a groan coming from within the tunnel.
Ahsoka noticed a small light glowed within. Remembering Anakin mentioning that crystal gave out a faint light Ahsoka took in a deep breath and stepped into the tunnel. Following the light, She tried to use her montrals as a way to avoid any obstacles in her way. She had been practicing on her own when she had completed her assassignments and found that she had extra time on her hands.
Ahsoka began to sense the roof slowly slumping, eventually getting to the point that she had to lower her head and slight crouch. She was so distracted by the nick on her neck that as she moved to avoid a large chunk of ice she didn't sense the spike before it was too late and it slashed her arm in shock and pain yelled in pain the cold quickly taking advantage of the ripped jacket to seep into her arm.
The vibrations of her voice slightly dipped in the force cased vibrations to shake the cave around her, though not strong, caused certain things to shift as her instincts flared at her to escape she ran blindly forward feeling small pebbles first the ceiling slumping further and further until she was almost to her knees thinking she would be buried alive she felt a hand grab her ankle with a strong burning sensation just as she burst from the tunnel into a new chamber.
She looked back to her ankle to see nothing, the burning sensation from before disappeared quickly. Her breathing coming in short gasp the cold burning her lungs and seeping in thru the ripped jacket.
There was light coming from above as she notice as she laid on the floor, for a long time her eyes closed trying to regulate her breathing and frantic heartbeat.
Finally having calmed a bit down and chucking the phantom hand off as just her imagination or a rock.
Ahsoka sat up carefully she remove her good hand from her wound to see her blood was seeping through the arm of her jacket she reached under her her jacket and painfully managed to take off the sash part of her Padawan uniform to wrap it around her arm and staunch the wound.
While she was doing that she looked around the smaller cavern not seeing any way out but up and with her hand there was no way she would be able to do it. She moved her back against the wall and continued to look around.
From the corner of her eyes she saw something glow looking over she spotted a a wall supporting a precariously bunch of rocks and in the middle was a shiny crystal. Ahsoka stood up and made her way to it.
Not knowing how to get it out she looked around and spotted a simple rock. She moved towards it picking it up. She approached the wall again and looked up. Ahsoka knew she would have to be fast and it would have to be done with one hit.
Using the Force she tried to pinpoint the weak spot. Only when she found it did she realized she would have to use her full strength, raising the rock with one strong smooth hit she she struck the exact spot dislodging the crystal and causing the wall to collapse she used the Force once again to move quickly and avoid most of the rocks falling but was struck by right between her leku.
Her crystal firmly at hand she tripped landed and rolled to the other side looking back as the entrance was covered once again by the fallen debris.
She let go of her breath in relief, as she carefully stood up the crystal still in her hand. Ahsoka gathered her bearing and found herself surprisingly at the entrance with a master Plo Koon waiting on the other side.
He hadn't noticed her yet, he had his back to her and the cave's entrance. Ahsoka made her way out but the first step she took out of the cave she felt a rush of cold air embrace her vision distorted she could make out Master Plo Koon turning to face her, just as her vision went black.
"Ahsoka," Ahsoka could see a man his jedi clothes dark as fire surrounded them both he streached out his hand to her. "why did you leave me?"
"Do you know what I've become?" she could hear a voice similar to hers respond. a great pain erupted from her arm.
"Ahsoka!?" The man yelled out to her, the voice transforming to Master Plo Koon shocking her awake. She could feel the burning pain on her right arm, which banished soon after she felt a pinch.
A few moments later, or at least it felt to her, she managed to re-open her eyes. having closed them due to the pain
The metal room and the soft vibration indicated that she was once again aboard the ship. The doors opened to revel Master Plo Koon who, although wore a mask somehow to Ahsoka, had a face of relief at seeing her getting up.
"How do you feel?" Master Plo Koon moved to her side to help her sit up.
"I feel much better, but what happened?" Ahsoka asked curiously her last memories hazy. She knew she had a vision but she couldn't really remember the details just a voice
"I was about to ask you the same young one. You fainted the moment you took a step out, I carried you to the ship and to the med center in the ship. You are covered with bruises and a deep cut on your arm. Tell me young one what happened to you inside the caves?"
"I-"She began trying to tell him about the whimpering and the hand and what little she remembered about her vision, but instead what came out was something else. "I was walking thru a tunnel and icicle cut me as it fell, I might have screamed from shock which cause a sort of indoor avalanche. I ended up in a smaller cave which is where I found my crystal except it was on the wall as is smashed it I managed to catch it and run out, luckily righto the entrance."
Master Plo Koon nodded before placing his hand on her shoulder and patting her.
She pushed off the medic bay much to Master Plo Koon's displeasure, but allowed it as she didn't seem to have any trouble keeping her balance. Together they walked back to the cockpit, finishing their their trip back to Coruscant in peace.
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They arrived back at Coruscant and Ahsoka bade Master Plo Koon good bye, and made her way to her room. She place her new crystal that was just waiting for her to construct her new lightsaber.
She took off the first layer of her robe and her boots as she got ready for bed. she went to the refresher, came out squeaky clean and warm. the wound already turning into a scar. She got into bed and felt the need to scratch her ankle. As her finger ran over it she noticed her skin felt different.
She stood up pulling her pants leg up to see what was wrong, wrapped around her ankle a black jagged hand like print a sudden flashback of having felt something wrapping around her ankle.
Tracing her finger around the mark she realized it felt colder than her temperature.
Making the decision that tomorrow she would speak with master Yoda or Master Plo Koon about it, tonight she would sleep.
The next day the mark was gone but she could somehow still feel the flesh, where it was supposed to be, slightly colder.
She thought to tell Anakin but once again she felt the words trapped on her throat. Instead she showed off her crystal and later on her lightsaber.
They would compare their lightsabers and their attributes. They talked about everything and yet what Ahsoka wanted to say she couldn't seem able to say it.
Eventually she stopped trying.
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Her every day continued as Ahsoka began her lightsaber training beginning with the smaller younglings.
She surprised the masters as she quickly gained the skills and surpass the other students she kept doing so for the following two years as she quickly mastered skills after skills.
The two years she still continued to hardly see Master Windu, she would often times see Anakin, eventually making Lightsaber training into a competition.
It got the point that Ahsoka and Anakin where both thirteen and were training with sixteen year olds. But as Anakin's lightsaber skills increased so did the missions Obi Wan would take him. to the point that he would find himself away more and more often.
When Anakin was gone Ahsoka would become lethargic, wanting for the days to move quicker she would constantly trained to the point of exhaustion.
The Lightsaber trainer quickly began to notice and began to allow her only to train two hours with one hour of break.
That was how Master Shaak Ti found Ahsoka, on a bench looking out at the city her eyes blank. She knew Ahsoka had not left the temple for months and knew that in a way she was feeling restless.
In a spur of the moment Shaak Ti decided to take Ahsoka with her. She approached Ahsoka who did not acknowledge her so immerse in her thoughts.
Shaak Ti had to cleared her throat.
Ahsoka looked up her eyes quickly focusing on Shaak Ti, widen as they recognized her, she quickly stood and bowed.
"Master Shaak Ti."
"Padawan Ahsoka, follow me." She turned elegantly and began to walk away as Ahsoka quickly stood and followed.
Ahsoka's curiosity rose as she boarded a ship with Master Shaak Ti
"Master may I ask… Where we are going?" she asked timidly.
"Shili." She answered simply.
"The Togruta's home world?" Ahsoka questioned
"Yes, I take it It's not your birth place?" she questioned
"No, I believe it was Kiros, although I don't quite remember." Ahsoka answered looking out to the stars. She didn't like talking about her childhood.
Master Shaak Ti didn't push.
"Shili is my home world, within there is a creature called Akul, every year in order to contain their population Togruta hunt the creatures as a coming of age ceremony. I Believe you are ready"
Ahsoka's eyes widen, "But I thought we Jedi found life sacred?"
"It is and we do. As a Jedi we must protect life, as Togruta we all reach this milestone it is Togruta culture and the Jedi council respect each species culture"
"What will we do with the Akul? How do we-, I hunt them?" Ahsoka asked
She wave a hand to her forehead in general. "This are Akul teeth," she motioned to her neck, "this fur is Akul Fur, its meat is eaten, all of the Akul is used after it is defeated it is only right."
Ahsoka nodded in understanding.
For the first time since she could remember Ahsoka felt actually eager to learn something about her culture. Although she knew the language she had not bothered diving deeper, in part because she didn't feel like she had belonged and in part because she just wasn't as interested.
Upon their arrival Master Shaak Ti pulled out an outfit for Ahsoka, She explained that the humidity would quickly make her Jedi robes a nuisance. She direct Ahsoka into a changing room while she herself changed.
Once done they stepped out and unto their hunt.
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Please review and let me know what you guys think!
A/N Alright I know what you guys are thinking "why isn't Master Windu training her? why is he a jerk? why is he leaving her behind? Don't worry it will be explained, and it is a very reasonable reason.