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"Again!" Obi-Wan Kenobi commanded throwing the training lightsaber back to his padawan-learner.

Ten-year-old Anakin Skywalker caught the lightsaber and swiped his padawan braid out of his face in a jerky frustrated motion. They had been going at this for hours. He thought that he had it good enough but his master kept pushing him.

"Anakin did you here me? I said do it again!"

"Yes, Master" Anakin replied dully and started swinging the lightsaber in a complex pattern. He was exhausted and his concentration was withering by the second. 'Maybe becoming a Jedi wasn't such a great idea' he thought bitterly as he lost his footing again and toppled to the matted floor.

Anakin sat up groggily and looked up to find obi-Wan towering over him. "Padawan, do you mind concentrating?"

"I'm trying!" Anakin protested. "But I'm tired!" a whine started to creep into his tone.

Obi-Wan squatted down next to him and looked into the boys eyes. "Alright fine" Kenobi finally concluded "go back to our quarters. We're done for the night."

With a grateful look Anakin dragged himself up and sent the training lightsaber flying across the room and into a bin full of other lightsabers of its kind with the Force. Then proceeded to the door of the training room. "And don't forget to take a shower!" Obi-Wan called after him.

"Yes, Master" Anakin muttered automatically.

Anakin returned to the rooms he shared with him master. He took a shower then put on some fresh cloths and went to the kitchen to get a snack. He was hu8ngry as well as tired. Anakin was relieved that Obi-Wan hadn't come home yet. "he'd probably give me another one of his lectures" Anakin decided dully as he took a yogurt into the living room. Anakin plopped down on the couch and stared at the darkening sky.

Murky thoughts swirled in the boys head. It had been more then half a year since he came to the Jedi temple. More then half a year since he had started training. At first things were ok. But the harder his training got the worse things got. It wasn't the difficulty of the exercises or the rate at which he was pushed to move forward, he could take all that. It was Obi-Wan. At first when Obi-Wan was getting a bit pushy or something like that Anakin thought that maybe that was typical for Jedi masters. And when OBi-Wan would loose his temper at him he blamed it on Obi-Wan's grief. He even tried to help. But Obi-Wan didn't want his help. Obi-Wan always pushed him aside.

Anakin shook hi head and reprimanded himself for those thoughts.

Really it wasn't obi-Wan's fault. He didn't ask to train him. He… Anakin shuddered slightly at the thought. Maybe Obi-wan was so impatient with him because he resented him. And he resented him because he was a troublesome charge that he was stuck with. 'Yea' Anakin thought sadly 'Obi-Wan has reasons for not liking me. He never wanted me. Probably still doesn't. I bet he agrees with the Jedi council. They never wanted to train me in the first place!'

Anakin sighed sadly. Suddenly he wanted to go home. To go see his mother. He was free now anyways. So maybe he could find a job and then free his mom and then they could fly away from that dreaded planet. "But I WANT to be a Jedi so BAD!" Anakin said thinking out loud. But he missed his mom so bab! 'One day I WILL free her!' Anakin felt tears welling up in his eyes. At the moment he felt miserable. "Master Obi-Wan told you that you weren't aloud to cry!" Anakin chided himself.

Anakin was too lost in his own mind to hear Obi-Wan walking through the door.

"Welcome to the fallout

Welcome to existance

The tension is here the tension is here

Between who you are and who you could be

Between how is is and how it should be"

(Switchfoot "Dare You To Move")

A/N: So? What ya think? All coment (as long as they're polite) are very much welcome! i'm also new hear so don't go TOO hard on me :)