Obi-wan picked up a wooden sword from the rack, desperately trying to ignore Kit's outraged cries in the background (' Are you serious? That's too harsh! How do you expect a bunch of kids to defeat an experienced team member in a duel? Fighting the team captain! That's impossible!') by muttering to himself.

When Kit was hanging around him, screaming into his ear non-stop, Obi-wan groaned, ' I'll go easy on them, okay?'

Kit gazed at him skeptically, crossed his arms, and marched off. Obi-wan took that as a silent agreement.

He stepped forward to address the hopefuls, ' Hello there! Welcome to the sword fighting team tryouts. I am Obi-wan Kenobi, the team captain. And that is...' He faltered, trying to look for Kit. He was bobbing awkwardly around the sword racks. ' Never mind. That is Kit Fisto, one of the senior team members. I would like to assess your sword fighting abilities one by one, so... Yeah, you will duel with me.'

The kids' eyes widened. Fighting with the team captain? That's harsh.

Obi-wan stared at them, and they stared back. Finally, he cleared his throat, ' Erm, anyone would like to go first?'

' Me,' Ahsoka said brightly. ' I mean, I'd love to try. I'm Ahsoka, by the way.'

Well.

Obi-wan nodded, ' Sure. Go grab a sword from the rack over there.'

Ahsoka sauntered off to the rack, took a plain wooden sword, and felt the familiar weight of it in her hand. Her lips curled into a smirk. The slightly nervous students cleared off to the side of the gym, anxious to see how the first duel with play out.

' Don't worry, I'll go easy on you,' Obi-wan said, and he stepped into the classical Form III beginning stance.

From the looks of Ahsoka's stance, she was probably going for offence. ' No problem,' Ahsoka grinned. ' Go against me with all your might.' Cocky, just like Anakin, Obi-wan wanted to laugh. That made him remember the year when Anakin had his team tryouts.

Originally, he was to duel against Depa Billaba, who had just become a senior member. But to everyone's surprise, young Anakin had requested to duel against the startled Qui-Gon Jinn, who was Obi-wan's own mentor and the team captain at that time. Needless to say, he lost to Qui-gon, but Qui-gon had admired his nerve, and encouraged Obi-wan to become his mentor.

Ahsoka launched into the fight aggressively, striking against Obi-wan with such vigour and strength, which as unexpected, judging from her size. But he shook this thought away, when he remembered the headmaster Yoda's speech (' Judge me by my size, do you?') While parrying off her crazy flurry of attacks, Obi-wan began analysing her techniques.

It was obvious she favoured the Form V fighting technique, like Anakin, however, with a twist of some Form IV techniques. And her grip. It was the unorthodox reverse grip.

He had to admit she was an exceptionally good duellist, however, there were some loopholes in her defence. Her attacks mostly relied on high speed and manoeuvrability, and he worried it would tire her out easily. He made a mental note on asking her to correct her footwork later. She could easily trip herself over like that.

His concentration was broken off by a 'crack'. Ahsoka had somehow cracked her own blade in half. ' Oh, wow, whoops,' She embarrassedly dropped her broken sword onto the ground.

' That's alright,' Obi-wan said. ' Excellent blade work, though I have to admit that you used far too much strength on your attacks. That was slightly unnecessary, and it might wear you out easily. Foot work needs more improving. But yeah, your duelling skills are great, good job. Well, I'll call this a tie.'

' Gee, thanks!' Ahsoka smiled brilliantly, and lightly hopped off back to the 'spectators' area.

Kit Fisto, who was helping out at the corner, shook his head with a small smile, and called for the next person on the list.

Obi-wan began organising the data he got from the tryouts. He picked himself a bunch of pretty good duellists this year, O'Mer, Jinx, Zett, Kalifa, and most notably, Ahsoka.

Once he got the new member list down, he started to sort out the name list for the members who had applied for the mentoring scheme.

Luminara and Quinlan had gone for the scheme again. Hmm... Maybe he should pair up Luminara with Zett, and Quinlan with O'Mer. He put down their names next to Zett and O'Mer's.

As for Kit Fisto... He could do well with Kalifa. And... Aayla would do well with Jinx. He put that down as well. They got similar fighting styles.

Ahsoka... He smiled to himself. Oh, the answer was so obvious-

' Old maaan, whatcha doing?'

Obi-wan yelped, and he didn't have time to slide the list under his pillow when Anakin Skywalker flung the door open.

' Hey, old man,' Anakin plopped down onto his bed.

Obi-wan groaned. The boy was intent on calling him old man ever since Qui-Gon first introduced him to the team.

' Where were you?' He tried to divert Anakin's attention from the list (he so wanted to stuff them under his pillow. ' I couldn't see you at lunch.'

' Oh, I was hanging out with Padme, and her ladies' squad, as in Satine, Mon Mothma, Mina etc,' He waved off.

Ah. Padme Amidala. She came from a wealthy family of politicians, and was aspiring to become one as well. She was in Anakin's year, and was one of the best speakers in the debate team. Anakin had a crush on her ever since he saw her and had been trying hard to catch her attention (well, she was pretty good looking).

' Soooooooo,' Anakin said, his blue eyes sparkling. ' I heard Kit babbling to Quinlan about how good this year's newbies are. Are you going to get yourself a "kid-student"?' It was a running joke in the team to call a mentor's student 'kid-student'.

' Alas, no,' Obi-wan said carefully. ' Indeed this year's new members are wonderful. Why don't you get yourself a "kid-student"?'

' Haha, no,' Apparently Anakin thought Obi-wan was just fooling around with him. ' You really think it's a good idea to get a "kid-student" into all this?'

' You should put in a request for one,' Obi-wan smiled. ' You'd make a good mentor.'

' No thanks,' Anakin shook his head.

' Anakin, teaching is a privilege,' Obi-wan immediately went into lecture-mode. ' It's part of our responsibility to help train the next generation of the team. After we're gone-'

Anakin interrupted, ' Just like what I said to Aayla, a kid-student would just slow me down. I seriously need to work hard if I want to defeat Dooku or Maul in that next championship. Anyways, I need to go now. Gotta meet up with Rex and Fives.'

Once Anakin was gone, Obi-wan snickered. He scrawled the name Anakin Skywalker next to Ahsoka Tano, put down his own signature at the bottom corner of the form, and stacked it up to hand it in to Mr. Windu, the head of the team, tomorrow.

Anakin would be in for a huge surprise tomorrow.

Riyo and Ahsoka had just got off a disastrous math lesson, when she realised the team captain, Obi-wan Kenobi was waiting outside of their classroom.

' I'll leave you two to talk,' Riyo said in surprise, and walked away.

' Hello, Ahsoka,' Obi-wan said. ' I'm pleased to inform you that you have been chosen as one of the team members.' Ahsoka beamed at him.

' There will be a briefing at 4 after school in the gym, where you will meet your mentors,' He told her.

' I'm just curious,' Ahsoka tilted her head. ' But who will be my mentor?'

' Oh, the famous Anakin Skywalker,' Obi-wan smiled, when he saw Ahsoka's slightly gobsmacked face.

This kinda mirrors the Clone Wars movie! XD

The Me and Star Wars thing exists here as well! Same rules apply. This one is a bit longer... And it's theme is... ' Weird situations'.

Classmate: *screaming at her math paper* WHYYYYY... WHYYYYYYYYY-

Me: DID SHE HAVE TO DIE? WHY COULDN'T I SAVE HER...

Classmate: Er...

Me: Oh. Wow. Wrong situation.

Classmate: Awkward.

Classmate: *joking* I hate you!

Me: YOU WERE MY BROTHER ANAKIN! I LOVED YOU.

Classmate: Er... Whaat?

Me: Wrong situation, again.

Classmate: *awkwardly slides away*