Naruto, the entire time, was watching the screens in the crowd.

True to her prediction, nobody had bet on the human, Sebulba being the most likely.

But Aurra, Jango, and Watto had bet on Anakin, and that made all the difference.

When Anakin had passed the finish line, alone, without anyone behind him... Naruto jumped up and shouted, in Galactic Basic, "YES! GO, ANAKIN! I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT!" amidst the silence of the arena.

The announcer announced Anakin's name as the winner.

And nobody but Watto, Jango, and Aurra were happy.

Naruto beamed.

~:~

"I seem to recall you saying one thing, not two," said an amused Obi-Wan as Qui-Gon jumped onto the ship.

"Technically, Qui-Gon owns us," Naruto said, drawing Obi-Wan's and Qui-Gon's attention. She grinned sheepishly. "I paid off a friend of mine to take Shmi to get the best care."

"Is that why you came back with only jogans?" Anakin asked, looking resigned. "Who was it, Jango or Aurra?"

"Both!" Naruto beamed. "He offered to take me, but then I pointed out that Qui-Gon is our master now until our chips are out." She smiled at the stunned Jedi.

"Well, Master," Obi-Wan smirked. "I'm not explaining this to the Council."

Qui-Gon just sighed.

~:~

"It's nice to meet you, Artoo," Naruto replied to the droid. "You're like Threepio that Ani brought with him. Don't worry, you'll get along." She glanced at the pessimistic protocol droid. "Or... Maybe not. He's an idiot."

"Are you going to keep your friendship with that bounty hunter?" asked Anakin, stopping everyone in their tracks.

Naruto shrugged. "They're nicer than most. Aurra and Jango actualy have a code."

"Why do you get all the bounty hunter friends, anyway?" Anakin frowned.

"Because I am adorable," Naruto said in a factual tone. "That's what Jango said, anyway."

Anakin slammed his head on the table, then rubbed it. "Ugh, you're lucky."

"Not really. I just happen to be lovable," Naruto replied absently, taking out a communicator as it beeped. Anakin's left eye twitched as Naruto poked a button and a hologram appeared.

"Everything's been done." Jango Fett's voice was eerie in a hologram.

"Thanks, Jango! I'll call you if I need anything, and you better call me if you need anything," the chipper girl said.

Jango waved his hand. "I have to go, kid. See you around, possibly."

Naruto waved and the communicator went silent.

Naruto sighed. Anakin patted her back.

There was a lull.

Then, "Why didn't you pay them to get our chips out?"

"Because I only had 500 credits!"

~:~

The Jedi Council eyed the two children. The little girl was projecting her calm to her brother, who was looking around in curiosity.

"Perhaps it would be best to go forward with the testing," suggested Mace Windu, taking out a holopad.

Before the first image was on it, there was a tiny disturbance in the Force, coming from the girl. A cup appeared on the screen, and both children answered at the same time.

"Cup."

~:~

Qui-Gon was nervous. He hadn't yet broken the news to the Council about them technically being his slaves (nor did he want to). He happened upon Obi-Wan chating with another Padawan, Quinlan Vos.

"-and Naruto goes, 'we're technically Qui-Gon's slaves'. You should have heard the silence," Obi-Wan snickered.

"How did the Council take it?" Quinlan asked, a smirk on his face.

"I haven't told them," Qui-Gon said, sighing as they jumped away from each other guiltily. "Obi-Wan, you're coming with me back into the Council room."

~:~

The two children stood there, calm as anything.

"You're not afraid," Mace finally observed after the testing was completed.

"Why should we be?" Naruto asked, tilting her head. "No matter what we do, we're still in the service of Qui-Gon Jinn."

"Yep," Anakin said cheerfully. "We can't be too far from him."

"Why not?" Ki-Adi Mundi asked.

"We'll blow up," Anakin said lightly. "Like, boom. He forgot to take our chips out."

Naruto clarified it all. "Okay, so we were slaves on Tatooine - because there's slavery, you know, in the Outer Rim - and all slaves get chip things that totally blow up when there's a certain distance between us and our master, and our old master, Watto, gave Qui-Gon the chip blow-upper even though Watto knew he was a Jedi, but believe me his saber wasn't visible, it's just anyone who wears homespun robes like that on a planet like Tatooine is either a Jedi or a sentient pretending as one. Even on Tatooine Jedi are infamous - oh, and Jedi mind tricks don't work on Toydarians because they're not total dumbasses, you know?" Naruto drew in a deep breath, then plunged on. "Speaking of total dumbasses -"

"Naruto." Anakin slapped his sister figure upside the head. The girl's bandanna (that covered her furry ears) moved a little. "Stop. Talking."

"But why, Ani? That Gungan has that strange feeling everyone here gives, I'm just doing the galaxy a favor and telling the Jedi all about why they shouldn't send such a dumbass Gungan Jedi!" Naruto pouted a little.

"The Gungan is Force-sensitive?" asked Luminara Unduli, eyes narrowing a little. "More than that, you can sense us differently than you can normal sentients?"

"Uh... No idea what the 'Force' is," Naruto said, frowning a little, "but it's like this. Imagine everyone in the galaxy being either the color 'white' or the color 'black', and the background is a shade of 'grey'. Now imagine bright spots of color appearing in that area, whether its pink or red. All of you are the 'colors', while Watto was a 'white' kind of person," Naruto explained, as best she could. "The Gungan is 'fuzzy blue', and most of you are different colors. But you're clearer." She frowned. "I think I'm orange, and Ani is... Blue."

The girl beamed.

Luminara simply stared at the child, along with most of the council.