Author's Note: I'll keep this short, since you're here to read a story, not my rambling. This is a story that jumped in my head and wouldn't leave me alone. So instead of fighting it, I went with it, and now have something to write. No promises on an update schedule for this, but it is something I want to put out there and finish. Now, on to the fic.
Disclaimer: None of this is actually mine. I'm just borrowing some stuff, along with some other stuff, to make more stuff. But I will gladly return it once I'm done playing with it.
A Changed Hope
Chapter 1
Star Wars
Episode IV
A Changed Hope
It is a period of civil war.
Rebel spaceships, striking
from a hidden base, have won
their first victory against
the evil Galactic Empire.
However, a new character
is about to enter the scene.
Torn from his home, the young
NARUTO UZUMAKI falls
to Tattooine, unaware of the
changes he will bring.
As the Empire's sinister agents
pursue Princess Leia, the young
ninja has been found by the former
Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Fate has
changed. How will affect the
Rebels fight to restore freedom
To the galaxy? ….
Pain was the first sensation Naruto became aware of. The pain of a general full body soreness that accompanied a tough fight, as well as a strong, lingering pain just below his right shoulder. As his mind struggled to figure out why he hurt his senses caught up with the rest of him, and he heard a sharp whistling noise. It was a noise he had not heard before, and so he opened his eyes to figure out what was going on.
Most people, when faced with what Naruto saw, would freak out and focus on the fact they were several hundred feet above the ground and rapidly approaching it. Naruto, on the other hand, who was not the sharpest kunai in the holster, took one look around, and had exactly one, slightly delirious thought:
"How the hell did I end up in Suna?"
Then the adrenaline kicked in and he then promptly panicked, blasted through several sand dunes, then bounced and skidded along the surface of the desert before he slammed into a small protrusion of rocks and was once again rendered unconscious.
Later
Groaning, and feeling a powerful throbbing in his head, Naruto Uzumaki woke up to an unfamiliar ceiling. He tried to call out for anyone, but a shallow gasping came out instead. As he sat up, a cool glass of water was placed in his hands. He quickly drank it down, coughing as he drank too fast.
"Easy, son. You should rest after spending so long out in the Dune Sea."
Getting his breath back under control, Naruto looked over to the man that had spoken to him.
He was an old man, wearing a cream colored tunic, with grey hair and a beard that was equally grey. Both were trimmed short, and showed signs of having been darker in his youth. He had many wrinkles on his face, and his skin was weathered from living in a desert. There was both confidence and kindness in his gaze, and it reminded Naruto of the Third Hokage. Pushing away the sadness those memories brought up, Naruto squinted his eyes shut and gave a huge smile to the old man.
"Heh, thanks for helping me out, old man. But what is the Dune Sea? I was at…" Naruto's smile faded as his most recent memories came back, "I…was…at the Valley of the End… f-fighting…Sasuke!" Naruto looked around frantically, "Old man! Did you see Sasuke?"
The old man shook his head, "I'm afraid the only thing I found was you, young one. Whoever this Sasuke is, there were no signs of him where I found you."
Naruto quickly leapt off the bed, and stumbled as the room began swim before him, "I've…I need to go…Sasuke can't leave us…I promised Sakura…I…" Fumbling towards a door, Naruto fell over, but was caught by the old man.
"I'm afraid you're not going anywhere. You're still suffering from being in the sun all day, and the Junland Wastes are not to be traveled lightly, especially at night." He maneuvered Naruto back onto the bed and placed a thin blanket over him. Pouring Naruto more water, he placed the glass in his hands, "Now, why don't you tell me who you are, and how you came to rest in an outcropping of rocks."
Eyes closed in an effort to stop the room from spinning, Naruto sipped at his water as he told his tale, "I don't know how I got there, everything's kinda hazy in my head. You said something about a desert, but I was fighting Sasuke under a waterfall...the one at the Valley of the End… I remember being angry. Angry that Sasuke was abandoning us…leaving Sakura-chan, Kakashi-sensei, and me. I attacked him with my Rasengan, and he used his Chidori on me. Then everything turned…weird…" Naruto had a far off look on his face.
"Weird?" the old man asked while quirking his eyebrow.
"I don't know…it's just…everything was strange…it felt tight all around me…like the feeling I get when I drink old milk, but outside…" Naruto grew quiet again, before lightly shaking himself and getting back to his story, "then all I can remember is crashing into sand, then waking up here." He turned to the old man with a smile on his face, "Oh yeah, I almost forgot! I'm Naruto Uzumaki, future Hokage! Believe it!"
The old man smiled, "With an attitude like that, I don't doubt it at all, although I am unsure as to what a 'Hokage' is."
Naruto gave a funny look to the old man, somewhere between confusion and indignation, "How can you not know what the Hokage is? He's the leader of our village, and the strongest ninja too. I thought everybody knew that. I thought everybody in Suna knew about Konoha. I mean, come on! You guys attacked us!"
"I'm afraid, young one, that there's a great deal in your story that I don't understand." Placing a hand on Naruto's shoulder the old man calmed down the tirade building in the young ninja, "However, I do believe you. Tomorrow we need to talk about this some more, but for now you need your rest. You've had a difficult day, and, from the sounds of it, an even more difficult time before that. There will be time enough later to talk. Now rest."
Naruto felt a wave of fatigue rush through him. With heavy eyes he laid down, but managed to get out one more question, "Hey, old man, who are you?"
The old man reached out and gently ruffled Naruto's hair, "My name is Ben Kenobi." He smiled gently as Naruto succumbed to sleep. "Sleep well, young Naruto. I sense your life has gone through a great change. Rest while you can."
A.N. : Well, that's it for now. More is coming, I'm not going to hold chapters hostage for reviews, but I still would really appreciate feedback.
