For the next two hours, Rey barely managed to jump a metre above the ground before gravity took over and she pummelled back to the ground. All her insouciant teacher ever did was giggling herself silly to her book and it was starting to get on her nerves. "Can't you offer me some pointers to get me up there? I've been doing this for two hours!"

Alema rolled her eyes and flipped her book shut. "How hard can it be for you to make the jump, you imbecile!"

"Well, I'm sorry that I wasn't born in tuned to the Force like you are!" Rey shot back.

"Don't you dare!" Alema raised a finger. "Now close your eyes!"

"Why?" Rey gnashed her teeth. "So you can throw your stupid book at me?"

"Insult my book again and I'll cut you open from head to toe and wear your worthless skin like jacket!" The threat didn't scare Rey, but it did gross her out. "Now do it!"

Letting out a seething grunt, Rey complied. She shut her eyes impatiently and exclaimed. "Now what?"

"Steady your breathing." Alema instructed as she crossed her arms under her ample bosom and softened her gaze. "Calm yourself. Can you feel the blood in your veins? Can you hear your heartbeat? Push out all the noises in your surrounding and reach out to the energy that connects everything. It is inside you too! Do you feel it?"

Rey's face contorted into one of deep concentration, channelling all of her entire being to embrace the Force. At first, she felt nothing, but as her rage subsided and her senses heightened drastically, she could feel… everything. It was overwhelming at first to be bombarded with colourful sensations, but she also discerned a pool of darkness. Like a black hole, it threatens to consume her.

"The Force is life and death itself. It is neither light nor dark. The Force is the balance. When there is light, so must there be shadows. To empower yourself with the Force and use its strength to its fullest potential, you must embrace the light and the dark. One cannot exist with the other. To love is to hate. To feel joy is to feel despair. Do you feel it now?"

Sweat was forming tremendously on Rey's face as she struggled to cope with the Force blasting itself at her soul. It was as if she was being torn asunder and rejuvenated anew, her skin was burning yet her blood was freezing. Everything inside her was going haywire! "I… feel it, but it's… it's painful! I… I can't!"

"You can!" Alema's voice was deep and sombre. "You must find the balance. Embrace the light. Give in to the dark."

The norm of the Dark Side being all things evil was preventing Rey from finding balance in her. "I… I won't give in to the dark!"

"Foolish girl!" Alema chided. "You're on the path of no return! Now that you have experienced both the light and the dark, you can't just disconnect yourself from the Force! It's showing you the path! Don't reject it!"

Saying Alema was petrified was an understatement. As Rey struggled to contain her unfathomable and uncontrollable power, the Star Destroyer they were in was trembling. Spider-web cracks were spreading across the steel walls, the furniture were dissolving into dust, and a whirlwind of debris was conjured. At the epicentre of the mayhem, Rey was levitating in the air, enveloped by untamed power like a goddess of destruction.

"Snap out of it, Rey!" Alema bellowed! "You're letting the Force taking control over you!"

The only living being Alema knew who had limitless affinity to the Force was her lord. Rey had taken it to the next level. Upon her awakening of the Force, she brought devastation and chaos, something a Jedi wouldn't be able to achieve. A practitioner of the Light shouldn't be destructive in nature, only a Sith would, which meant the Dark Side of the Force was inconceivably strong in Rey!

Was that the reason why Lord Naruto was so intrigued by Rey's existence? He saw what the others didn't!

As if on cue, the blast door opened, revealing an exasperated Darth Talon glowering at Alema. "What have you done?"

"Stay out of this!" Alema barked. "Rey is my apprentice! I have things under control!"

"Oh yeah? You're clearly doing a good job keeping things under control! Now get out of my way!" Thrusting her hand at Rey, Darth Talon unleashed raw power. An electrifying shockwave erupted from her frame as she siphoned Rey's unstable energy. Her eyes radiated a bright crimson as she struggled to cut off Rey's connection with the Force.

"What are you doing?" Alema growled. "Stop!"

"Silence!" Darth Talon seethed behind clenched her jaw. "You have failed your apprentice. Lord Naruto has sent me to stop this from exacerbating any further!"

Alema gasped in horror. No! It couldn't be! If what Darth Talon said was true, then not only had she failed Rey, but she had brought shame to herself. "L-Lord… Naruto sent you?"

To make matters worse, Kylo Ren had stormed into the chamber and wordlessly joined Darth Talon in subduing Rey's outbreak. His mechanical voice underneath his mask was laced with venom and annoyance. "Make yourself useful for once and help us stop her from blowing up the ship, Alema!"

Alema shook her head to regain her bearing and reached out with both hands at Rey. Mustering all of her fortitude and strength, Alema tried to establish a connection with Rey's mind, but it was no use. Rey had unconsciously erected an impenetrable force field around her, a powerful defence mechanism that proved to be too strong for the three of them to do anything about it.

"What the fuck did you do, Alema? How the hell did she become like this?" Darth Talon gritted her teeth. They were being pushed back by Rey, who wasn't even voluntarily doing any of this! Pushing back against Rey's burst of power was like trying to push against a mountain! It was simply impossible!

Kylo Ren persisted and threw in more effort into stopping Rey's madness, but his exhaustion was starting to show through his laboured breaths. "I always knew she was strong, but not this strong!"

"Enough!" The rich and dark voice of Naruto ended their plight. With just a word, Naruto had halted Rey's relentless surge of power. If Naruto didn't step in to stop the commotion from escalating further, the Star Destroyer might split into half and doom them all. Gracefully, Naruto leaped into the air and caught Rey's falling body, with one hand behind her back and the other underneath her knees.

Panic and consternation overwhelmed Alema when Naruto spun around, an unconscious Rey in his arms as he ambled towards her like a hawk. Alema fell into her knees, her lips quavering as she floundered for words to exonerate herself from this cluster-fuck.

"Why didn't you stop her when she was about to go berserk?" Naruto narrowed his eyes.

"I… I thought she was strong enough. I…"

"She was untrained. She knew not about what the Force is. You shouldn't have let her tap into the Dark Side of the Force so soon, no matter the cause. She wasn't ready for it." Naruto sighed. "And I thought you were ready to raise an apprentice. I was wrong."

"No!" Alema plead. "Let me make this right! Rey is my responsibility! Please give me a second chance, milord."

Kylo Ren took this opportunity to add his two cent. "Master, I believe it is only right that I train Rey myself."

Alema stared daggers at Kylo Ren. "No! Lord Naruto entrusted this duty to me! Not you!"

"And look at what you have accomplished." Kylo Ren relished in Alema's disgrace as he diverted his attention to the wreckage that was the chamber; it was akin to him spraying salt on Alema's wound. It felt great. "Master, allow me to take over Alema's responsibilities. She is not ready for an apprentice."

Much to Alema's chagrin and terror, Naruto nodded to Kylo Ren. "You're right. It seems only fair that I have you to train -"

"No! Milord, please! L-Let me!"

Naruto paused and stared at Alema, who flinched when their eyes met. His gaze was cold and domineering, as if piercing right through her soul. "I will give you one more chance to do this right. If you fail again, then Kylo Ren will take over your duties and you will be dismissed. Are we clear on this?"

"Y-Yes, milord. T-Thank you for your graciousness."

Handing the unconscious form of Rey to Alema, Naruto strode past the Twi'lek without sparing her another glance. Kylo Ren and Darth Talon merely smirked triumphantly at Alema before they marched out of the chamber.

-X-o-X-

The excruciating feeling of being hit in the head by a sledgehammer didn't bode well with Rey, but when she woke up from her bed, all she felt was a nauseating migraine that was throbbing in her skull. It was like her brain was bashing against her skull, causing her sight to be jarred and her ear ringing. Moaning in agony, she tried to recall what happened.

Darkness.

She couldn't remember anything but darkness.

"You're awake." The soft voice of Alema broke Rey out of her trance. "Are you feeling better now?"

Rey groggily sat up, nursing her temples while she was at it. She was surprised to see Alema sitting on the edge of her bed, staring at her with an inscrutable expression. The dimmed glow illuminated from her table lamp allowed Rey to inspect Alema's mascara and her sunglow eyes. "W-What happened?"

"You black out. Went into a frenzy mode." It was best not to let Rey know the details of what had transpired for both of their sakes. "How are you feeling now?"

"Feels like someone took my quarterstaff and repeatedly hit me in the head!"

"Drink this. It'll help cure the headache." Alema handed Rey a glass of sparkling water.

Without questioning if the drink was laced with poison, Rey drank it in one gulp.

"What did you see?"

Rey wiped her dried lips and stared wide-eye at Alema. "W-What?"

"Your outburst is probably caused by a vision you saw through the Force." Alema narrowed her eyes. "The Force taps into our inner desire. It makes us see things that may be beyond our understanding. So, what did you see?"

Everything was muddy to Rey, but that's all she could remember. Darkness. Nothing more. Rey looked thoughtful, trying to squeeze out any memory that would be relevant to her dilemma.

And then she saw it.

"A man in a mask." Rey shook her head. "A butcher. He killed so many people! I… He is a Jedi. No. A Dark Lord of the Sith. I don't understand." Rey grasped the side of her head to nurse the pain, but she was slowly remembering it. "He has so much power! The Force is under his command. B-But he left the war and gave up everything to marry a woman. She's beautiful…"

Putting two and two together, Alema concluded that Rey had a vision of Darth Vader, but there were something amiss. Darth Vader didn't leave the Galactic War; he was slain by his son. It was confounding for Alema. Did Rey see someone else instead?

Rey cradled the cup in her hands and timidly glanced up. "So… when will I resume my training?"

Alema shot a quizzical look at her apprentice, but a disapproving scowl soon plastered on her beautiful features. "You will start from the basic of all basics. You will not use the Force until I deem you ready."

"W-What? Why?"

"You're not ready." Alema growled. "That is not up to discussion."

"I need to know everything I can about the Force! You will teach me -"

In a fit of rage, Alema pounced on a startled Rey, pinning both of her hands above her head and forcing herself atop her. "Don't you question me, girl! And don't you dare make demands from me! I am your master! You will listen to me and only me! Do I make myself clear?"

Rey gritted her teeth and looked away. Despite the fact that she was living in a nightmare, she sincerely wanted to befriend Alema and obtained some semblance of kinship with someone, but Alema's outburst had woken her up crudely to reality. Alema wasn't going to be her friend. Rey knew she was a prisoner from the get-go and if she didn't comply with Alema's order, she would be dead meat… or worse.

"Yes, master." She conceded, a lone tear cascaded down the side of her face as she stifled her sob. She had never felt so vulnerable in her life. Not even Kylo Ren could make her feel this way.

Regaining her senses, Alema heaved out a heavy sigh. "I'm sorry. I don't -"

"No, it's fine. You are my master. I am your prisoner. That is all there is to it, isn't it? What do you want me to do now? Strip naked and give you a lap dance? Is that it, master?"

Being an apprentice and having an apprentice were two different things. Alema learned it the hard way and paid the price. Diving down into memory lane, Alema recalled how kind and passionate her master was to her when she was merely his apprentice. He fed her curiosity with knowledge, healed her wounds when she overexerted herself, and even went on holiday trips with her to take a break from the harsh and arduous training she endured.

She had to be the master her master was to her. "No. You are not my prisoner, Rey. You are my apprentice. And from today onwards, whether you like it or not, we are going to be family."

"I am a Jedi!" Rey spat. "That will never happen!"

That was not true. The terrific power that Rey had exuded when she went into a ferocious state was nothing like a Jedi. Unbeknownst to Rey, the Dark Side of the Force was without a doubt strong in her. Alema flicked her finger at Rey's forehead, earning her a high-pitch yelp from the girl. "Oww! W-Why did you do that for?"

"Go wash up and eat your dinner after you're done. We will start with your physical training tomorrow morning. After that, I'll teach you some fundamentals with the lightsaber. And if you overslept this time, I'll make you run around the entire Star Destroyer. And trust me, you do not want to know how big the Star Destroyer is."

-X-o-X-

Obsession was not the word Kylo Ren would describe the feeling he shared for Rey, but it was close enough. Ever since Rey beat him in a stroke of luck, Kylo Ren wanted to know more about the rebellious and upbeat girl. She came into his life like a wrecking ball, creating so much disturbance in the Force, yet knew not that her presence had always made it exhilarating for him.

Kylo Ren understood why his master was fascinated by Rey.

Who wouldn't?

When Rey was locked into solitary confinement, Kylo Ren had been pacing back and forth outside her cell, debating incessantly to himself if he should visit the girl or not. He almost did it when she let out a pitiful scream in penitentiary, but something was holding him back and he resisted the temptation. As much as he wanted to play the knight in the shining armour, he chose to be patient.

The final straw was drawn when Alema was appointed to be Rey's master. That incurred some strange mix-feeling for him and hurt something awful inside his noggin'. Why was that wench Alema appointed Rey's master and not him? It was no secret that all of his master's apprentices had been fighting amongst themselves to curry favour. The arrogant and sadistic tramp – Darth Talon – was the closest to his master, but he was the most suitable candidate to guide Rey! He was supposed to make Rey his!

Upon realisation, Kylo Ren gasped. "What am I thinking?"

He looked himself into the mirror and growled. There was no denying it; he wanted to possess Rey, both physical and mentally. He wanted to know how soft her skin felt like, how exciting it would be to have her squirming underneath him, and how great it would feel to ravage her. And Alema was standing in his goddamn way! Thankfully, he had been secretly watching Alema and Rey training in the chamber. When Rey was discovering the Force, he knew it was his time to strike.

And strike he did.

A little mind trick was all he needed to twist Rey's perception of the Force. Alema didn't even know what hit her.

"Serve her right. She shouldn't have taken what's mine!" Kylo Ren balled his fists in anger. "It won't be long before I have Rey to myself. We'll see. We'll see!"

With that, Kylo Ren snickered deviously to himself.

-X-o-X-

The crashing noise of the waterfall and the birds chirping a melody caught Rey by surprise. She was in the forest again. It was treacherously peaceful, something that made her anxious. The stench of damp leaves, the virescent mosaic, and the humid air made Rey's dream a fantasy.

"You're here, again."

Rey spun around and found Naruto skipping stones across the calm river surface.

"Why am I here?" Rey queried, her brows furrowed. "Why are you here?"

"Why don't you ask yourself? This is your dream after all." Naruto chuckled light-heartedly. "And what's puzzling is that you always draw me into your dreams."

"Liar!" Rey exclaimed.

Wrestling himself to a standing position, Naruto limbered up and glanced up to face the sun with a bright smile on his face. "You have a dangerous ability to forge Force bond with people, Rey. Only few are capable of leveraging on a simple but complicated technique such as Force bond to overcome impossible odds. The Jedi were never able to fully utilise such power because Force bond requires one to open themselves and their passion to others."

Rey narrowed her eyes gingerly. "Are you implying that I am using a power from the Dark Side?"

Naruto clicked his tongue and shook his head. "Still the stubborn girl. The Force is not divided by the Light or the Dark. Like I said before, good and evil are relative concepts, just like the notion of the Light and the Dark. Ying and Yang. One cannot coexist without the other. The Jedi represent the Ying. The Sith symbolises the Yang. Both of them refuse to merge their paths together and hence it leads to their downfall. Do you know the Jedi and the Sith are responsible for trillions of deaths when they wage war amongst each other?"

"Say that to the orphans and widows of the men you killed."

Stroking his stubble, Naruto scoffed. "So you think I'm some murderous psychopath?"

"Yes." She spat, fire of determination was flaring in her eyes.

"I killed the people that need killing. That's all there is to it." Naruto sauntered towards Rey, his smothering eyes were radiating fierce power. His aura could even cripple her, but Rey was headstrong. She wasn't going to back down and cower. "I live my life knowing one day someone is going to end it. I don't doubt myself for what I did because what I did is for the greater good. If I have to die for it, then so be it. Hell, I welcome it. Believe it."

"That's straight up Vworkka shit right there!" Rey retorted. "Killing is not the right way!"

When Naruto stood face-to-face with Rey, it was then she realise how tall he was. "Is that it? You want to play the moral high ground here? Then tell me, my dear princess goody-two-shoe, how does the Resistance intends to do if they, for some miraculous reason, manage to beat us? Did they brief you in about their grandiose plan of -" He did an air-quote gesture with his fingers. "-restoring the peace and harmony of the galaxy? Huh?"

Rey averted her gaze.

"I am the one who is doing all the work here. I disbanded the Galactic Senate. I stopped their wars. I made warring races formed peace treaties. I gave countless people jobs. I put food on their family's table. I gave order, stability and structure to the world I conquer! The First Order has done more good than the Resistance could ever hope to achieve! Name me one accolade that the Resistance did that doesn't involve violence, death, and war? Tell me!"

The truth hurt. Rey couldn't come up with any achievement the Resistance ever had besides taking down one or two Star Destroyers from the First Order. They were self-proclaimed peace fighters, yet Rey wasn't really sure what they were fighting for. To remove The First Order from the galaxy? How would they fill up the vacuum of power that The First Order occupied?

"I'll tell you what will happen if The First Order collapses." Naruto scowled. "Anarchy. Total and utter chaos across star systems. Billions of lives would be wiped out in civil wars. Do you have any idea how many planets we conquered were previously devastated by wars? Yes, wars! They were fighting amongst themselves long before we came in. If we're gone, who is going to stop them from annihilating themselves? The Resistance? Do they even have the manpower or resources to do that?"

Rey hated to admit it, but she didn't have an answer for that. The consequences would be disastrous if such a vacuum of power occurred. It wasn't very much a controversy that the Resistance's finance and funding were depleted.

"And in the middle of it, you, Rey, will be responsible for it."

The forest was abruptly scorched by inferno, mortifying Rey in the process. She saw women and children scrambling from tribal warriors. They were all massacred with extreme prejudice, much to her horror.

"Their blood will be on your hands."

"Stop!" Rey shook her head and shut her eyes. "T-This is just a dream! An illusion! I won't fall for that!"

Naruto sighed and snapped his fingers, transporting them to a beach.

Rey's eyelids fluttered close and open as she breathed in the aroma of the sea. The sun across the horizon enveloped her in warmth, allowing her anger and panic to dissolve away.

"You don't want to be part of this. I understand." Naruto's voice softened, which surprised Rey. The big bad Commander in Chief of The First Order had always portrayed himself as a symbol of authority, strength and absolute power. For him to loosen the edge from his voice, it really blew her away… in a good way. "But you know you can't run away. Not anymore. Not after you have your friends in the Resistance. Not when you have discovered the Force."

"What is my place in this?" She asked quietly.

"You have a vision, no?"

Rey blinked. "Hmm?"

"The vision of a man in a mask."

"H-How do you -"

"You have unwittingly forged a Force bond with me. A strong one at that too."

Rey's cheeks flushed a bright pink. "Umm…"

"Do you know who he is?"

She studied the sand underneath her feet, not really sure what to say. Somehow, she had a feeling who the mysterious man was, but she couldn't validate it. "I don't know."

"The Force never lies. It has told you who that man is." Naruto smiled knowingly at Rey. "Say it. Say his name."

"…Darth Revan."

"I have my suspicions for a while, but I'll take a wild guess and say you're part of the Shan bloodline."

"S-Shan?" She looked at the blond with piqued interest.

"It's a legend. Bastila Shan was the wife of Darth Revan, a Dark Lord of the Sith. He was once a Jedi Master, venerated by his peers as the Prodigal Knight of the Jedi Order. During the Mandalorian Wars – a bloody war that made our war with the Resistance looks like children's bickering – Darth Revan was renowned for his title as the Butcher, for he has killed thousands. But the bloodshed that he had wrought and the atrocity he had committed in the name of the Jedi Order had driven him insane. His fall from grace was a famous story."

Rey listened intently to Naruto, but she couldn't help but study the peculiar scars adorning his chiselled cheeks. It was rather… charming and cute? Rey hastily cast away her deviant thoughts and tried to stay focus.

"I believe Darth Revan is your ancestor." Naruto turned to her and pointed a finger in between her collar bones. "And you carry the blood of a powerful Jedi Master and a Sith Lord in you."

"What about my parents? Who are they? W-Why did they…"

"Why did they what? Abandon you?"

Rey resisted her urge to shed tears and tightened her fists till her knuckles went white.

"You know the truth, don't you?" Naruto gently grasped her slender shoulders and made her look him in the eye. He saw an angel staring back at him with desperate hazel eyes. Rey truly had the beauty of an innocent maiden, yet her heart carried an unthinkable passion that confounded him. "You were hoping that there is a greater cause for what they did. But you know. Deep down, you know the truth. You just didn't want to admit it. You want someone to tell you otherwise."

"I…" Rey's lips were trembling. She almost flinched when Naruto tapped a finger on her lower lip. "Umm…"

"I'm sorry, Rey." Naruto's eyes were poignant, his voice was soft and sincerely apologetic, but there was a tone of kindness in there that managed to warm its way to her heart. "I'm sorry you were abandoned in Jakku and forced to survive in that hell. No parents should subject their child into this. And I am sorry… that your parents were good-for-nothing scumbags who sold you off for drug money."

That snapped Rey back to reality. She pushed Naruto violently away and her glare exposed her bubbling hatred for the blond. "Lies! My parents -"

"Your parents left you to die in Jakku, but their ship were attacked by a flock of hungry Steelpeckers. They died somewhere in Jakku, buried underneath the sand. Forgotten. Wasted. Gone. Ironic, really."

"N-No…" Rey broke down in tears. "It's not true!"

Unexpectedly, Naruto pulled Rey into his embrace, his hands wrapped around her lithe frame tightly, allowing her to sob into his strong chest. "The truth is hard to digest. I've experienced that myself. My parents made me a monster and left me to be scorned by the people of Konoha. I tasted the same bitter taste of betrayal, just like you did. I had nobody to go to. I was alone. It doesn't have to be this way for you. You don't have to be lonely anymore."

"N-No!" She tried to push Naruto away, but he was unyielding. She tried to hammer his fist at his chest in a futile attempt to separate herself from him, but the gentleness of his voice and the affection he had shown her had alleviated the pang in her heart. "I… don't know anymore."

"It hurts me to see you in pain, Rey. But you need to let it out. Just let it out." Soon, she ran out of strength to resist Naruto. She soaked in his scent as she poured her sorrow into him, grabbing tightly to his shirt.

"I will always be here for you, Rey. Believe it." Naruto allowed Rey to melt into his arms, a sinister grin curled at his lips. "Welcome home, Rey."


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Pairing:
1.) NarutoXRey
2.) NarutoXAlema
3.) NarutoXDarth Talon
4.) NarutoXSuggestion
5.) Harem

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