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"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Radio/Commlink"

"Demon/Force Talking"

'Demon Thinking'

Dream/Flashback

Naruchan84: Unfortunately Naru will not be showing up until the second part of the story in KOTOR 2 storyline except for Ryu talking about her and in flashbacks, sorry but please be patient.

Chapter Two: Explanations and Regrets

Ryu groaned as the pair of the aftereffects of the Chakra pills assaulted his body 'What in the world possessed me to take so many pills?' he asked himself as he slowly cracked his eyes open 'Oh yeah, If I meet an Alternate Madara I am SO killing his ass.' Ryu tried to sit up only to grunt as his body protested calling the rooms three other occupants to him.

"You're awake." Tyria stated in surprise as he tried once more to sit up and succeeded "How are you feeling?"

"Does 'Like Shit' count?" he asked humorously making Tyria snort and Jaina smile as Carth continued to stare at him "How long was I out?"

"A day in a half," Jaina stated amused "You want ten times your body weight in food now?"

Ryu chuckled and shook his head "No thanks, where's my stuff?" he asked looking around.

"I'll be holding onto them until we can get some clear answers out of you," Carth notified with a threatening edge making Ryu roll his eyes "Who do you serve?"

"No one in this reality," Ryu answered honestly making Jaina and Carth look at him, one oddly and the other angry "And before you go off on a hissy fit demanding that I tell the truth let me explain something. In life there are multiple choices to chose correct? Well the alternate reality theory is pretty much that when we make a choice another reality is created and that reality follows a different path due to that 'you' chooses a different choice than you, mine may be considered an extreme example. It's either that or I was teleported out of my Galaxy by mine and my sister's enemy that we were fighting." Ryu explained as he sat on his bed leaning against the wall "He was a master of space/time techniques, meaning something like dimensional hopping and teleportation is nothing to him."

"The Jedi have from time to time done studies on alternate realities," Jaina informed frowning in thought "It is believed that there are Dark side powers that allow the user to manipulate Time and Space."

Ryu grunted as he rolled his shoulder "I've answered you question now it's my turn," he said in a tone that dared argument "What exactly are Jedi and Sith? I've heard the term several times but the most I got is that Sith are bad Jedi are good."

The other two looked to Jaina for the explanation "Well the Jedi are upholders of pea-" Jaina began only to be interrupted by Ryu holding up his hand.

"No need for the whole 'We are so good while they are so bad' routine," he said "I've heard it one too many times than I'd like. No offence or anything but they all begin to sound like excuses after awhile."

Jaina nodded in understanding and began again "At their core the thing that distinct Jedi from Sith is how we use the source of our powers, The Force, Jedi use the light-half to heal, calm others, mediate disagreements, while the Sith use the darker half to fight, such as generating lightning, to choke others and to incite battle rages and bloodlusts. When a Jedi uses the Force they are at peace with themselves and the world, when the Sith use the Force however they are angry and wish for vengeance against the world for anything."

Ryu frowned "Can you give me an example of these 'Force' powers?" he asked to which Jaina nodded and proceeded to use the Force to Telekinetically lift a glass of water over to Ryu "Astounding," he whispered as he took the glass "you're not even touching your chakra."

Tyria frowned "I've heard that term a couple of times, what is it?" she asked.

Ryu sighed and lent back closing his eyes when he opened them he started explaining "In the simplest of terms Chakra is the power of the human body," he said "It is the result of merging the spiritual side and Physical side of our bodies natural energy and allows us to manipulate or create elements such as fire, lightning, wind, water and earth. There is no inherited good or evil to any of the techniques, there are morally wrong techniques or techniques that come at an extremely high cost that are labeled forbidden techniques, but not because of good or evil. There are three basic uses for chakra that all shinobi learn, Taijutsu, hand to hand combat, the user would use their chakra to enhance their strength, speed, durability or all three, then there's ninjutsu, manipulating the elements is one of the easiest examples, I'll give you a better demonstration later when my chakra is recovered, genjutsu is illusions, you synch your chakra with the others and force your chakra into their chakra network than produce hallucinations, calming effects, or emotions." He sighed after he listed those off "There are millions of other ways of using Chakra, some discovered, some not and some forgotten, Med-nins use Medical Jutsus that require high degrees of control, I use something called seals," he gestured to his body "These markings are not tattoos but actually a complex sealing array. Now when I use the term seals I don't just mean putting something in a box and protecting it from the elements, seals can also be used to transform one's chakra into pure elements or used to put a person into stasis, an good example would be the seals on my hands, they allow me to change my chakra to raw energy, I can generate enough to level a fortress large enough to hold a hundred thousand troops, of course I than collapse from chakra exhaustion afterwards."

The trio blinked as they processed the information "That's amazing," Jaina whispered "Such power is contained within the human body and no one has yet to discover it."

Ryu laughed making the others look at him again "You want to know how humans initially learned chakra back home?" he asked with a grin "A man we called the Rikudou Sennin taught the world how to use ninjutsu, he was rumored to have been taught by the nine Bijuu after impressing them."

"Bijuu?" Jaina asked.

"Simply put they're the Rulers of the Demon Plains of Existence," Ryu explained surprising the trio "There are nine of them, each more powerful than the next, you can tell who is stronger by their number of tails, from the Ichibi Shikaku to the Kyuubi no Kitsune, the Shikaku could easily level a ninja village without breaking a sweat. Meaning the Kyuubi if she felt like it could probably level a planet."

"Hold on a sec," Carth said "You guys aren't actually believing this are you, because he has offered us no evidence to support this."

Tyria raised an eyebrow to Carth "How about the fact that he suddenly appeared in my room without even opening the door." She said and looked at Ryu "I freaking saw that distortion or whatever that dumped you onto the Spire."

Carth looked at her "I never seen it so how can I trust your word." He demanded.

Tyria's reply was cut off as Ryu shifted into a cross legged position and placed his hands into the Ram seal and concentrated, she was about to ask what he was doing when a blue fire surrounded him for a few seconds before vanishing leaving Ryu gasping for breath as he just went beyond his limit "God dammit not again." He moaned as he collapsed again falling unconscious.

"Proof enough for ya Onasi?" Tyria asked sarcastically as she checked him over "Seems to be alright, just asleep."

"I think that proves what he was telling us is the truth Carth," Jaina said as she looked over to him with a small glare "You could have asked me from the beginning, my specialty is actually being able to tell if someone is lying or not, he wasn't and it seems he pushed himself dangerously past his limits to prove that."

"Alright, alright!" the pilot said "I'm just suspicious that he's a Sith spy that's all!"

Tyria sighed and shook her head before grabbing her pack and moving over to the workbench and started sorting though the loot she had picked up in the bridge as well as Ryu's personal equipment. It was obvious he took meticulous care of his weapons given their amazing condition and the fact their cutting edge was sharp enough to cut through flimsiplast without putting any pressure on it. The sword was light and seemed to be quite old compared to the other weapons and had a couple of nicks and dents in the hilt. Setting it aside she examined a prototype vibroblade she had picked up from the corpse of a Sith Sergeant on the Spire and started modifying it with the spare parts she had in her pack.

Jaina, after reprimanding Carth, had went over to her bed and started meditating while Carth went out to get supplies. She looked at her two companions through the Force, Tyria almost shined with her sensitivity in the Force surprising Jaina that she wasn't picked up when she was younger by one of the knights or masters that travelled the galaxy. Ryu on the other hand, she could feel the energy he called Chakra as it slowly filled him restoring his energy while he slumbered, but he was also attuned to the Force, it was quiet though, like a predator waiting to pounce on its prey. Jaina frowned as she felt the Force stir as she lightly prodded his mind, his defenses were remarkably strong, she pulled away, it was disrespectful to do that, so to keep herself busy she reach out with the Force and levitated her lightsaber in front of her and started disassembling it before reassembling it and repeated the process.

It was until nearly night when Ryu woke up again and after consuming his meal at a fast pace he then gave a small demonstration of sealing when he unrolled one of his scrolls and unsealed a large quantity of nutrient bars. "There a special kind ya see," Ryu said between bites "My little sister has an extremely high metabolism due to her huge stores of Chakra, so in order to make sure she gets the necessary amount of calories, which are burned when using Chakra, and other nutrients I made these bars, now normally I wouldn't eat them, but there good counter to the aftereffects of the Chakra pills, the pills grant you a small boost of chakra, but they also burn your calories to provide that chakra and if you take enough, you can die from it."

"That's a bit excessive isn't it?" Carth asked "Why do you use it if it can cause these effects on your body?"

"Simple, everybody uses chakra at a subconscious level," he explained "In very simple terms, chakra is our very life force, one can die of chakra exhaustion, I've seen it before where a Shinobi has ignored their limits and pushed themselves too far and used jutsu beyond their capabilities." He shook his head sadly and swiped his face with a morose expression and sighed while looking blankly away regret etching his features.

The trio grimaced as they glanced away from his sudden change in mood "Lost some close people in a war?" Tyria asked hesitantly.

"Yeah, my students." Ryu answered morosely as he swallowed a bit of one of the nutrient bars "We were ambushed by a group of S-ranked nins, they never stood a chance."

"I take S-ranked is extremely dangerous?" Jaina asked uncertainly.

Ryu nodded grimly "I'm considered an S-class when I'm at my peak," he said and smiled softly "My little sister however has the dubious honor of being one of the select few that was granted SS-ranking with a 'Flee on Sight and Pray You Live' order, along with a 100,000,000 million ryou bounty, the last person to do that was the Yondaime Hokage, her father."

"So you shared the same mother and different mothers?" Carth clarified looking at Ryu confusedly when he broke out laughing.

"Nah, we aren't related by blood," he admitted with a smirk "But as we were both orphans growing up I took her under my wing and pretty much became her brother, sibling bonds go far beyond any blood tie."

Tyria grinned right before she yawn, glancing over to the chrono she grimaced and stood up "God it's late, we really need to get some sleep." She advised as the others nodded in agreement and shuffled over to their own bed as Ryu stretched back out on his own.

"I should be good to go tomorrow," he said as the others got ready for sleep "So long as I don't use any major Jutsus I should be fine."

Carth grunted in acknowledgement as Ryu shifted onto his side and fell into a deep slumber.

Dreamscape

Ryu leapt through the trees surrounding Konoha's forests with his trio of genins close behind him, glancing back he smirked a little as he saw their determined but relaxed faces, directly behind him was the 'prodigy' of the year Idante Natsuka, he stood around 5' in height with dark red eyes and dark blonde hair that draped around his shoulders and wore what looked like a chunin's outfit without the flak jacket and had his Hai-ate around his forehead, Ryu was impressed with his skills, but not his arrogance, he quickly humbled the kid however when he revealed that he had placed severe chakra drainers on himself for the true genin exam, next up was the female and frontline fighter of the group Karina Kama, she stood at 4'10" with a slight muscled build with brown hair in a single braid that went to her waist and expressive grey eyes that worked wonders with the famed 'puppy-dog pout' and wore a simple karate out fit with her Hai-ate plate stitched into the fabric of her tunic, her hand-to-hand skill were impressive when she first started out and now after meeting and learning from Rock Lee and Might Gai she could give a low level jonin a run for their money in a straight out Taijutsu fight, thankfully she didn't pick up their habits, the final member of the group was Janus Volker, the medic of the group who stood a 5'3" with dark green hair and black eyes and often was the voice of reason in their little band wearing a black T-shirt and pants with shinobi sandals with his Hai-ate around his waist.

"Ryu-Sensei are we there yet?" Karina asked plaintively making Ryu chuckle.

"Not even close, although I think a small break is in order though." He admitted with a chuckle as the group dropped to the ground with the genins sighing in relief as they collapsed to the ground "You guys are tired already, geeze when I was a genin my squad could go for a full day without a break."

"Yeah, but you had Ibiki-san for your jonin sensei." Janus deadpanned "You don't use psychological torture on use if we don't meet your expectations, you just give use impossible to do physical tasks."

Ryu chuckled again as he leaned on the tree across from them "Touché, never did get much out of the psycho analysis like Reina did," he mused scratching his chin before shuddering a bit "I just hope that I don't have to be her guinea pig for new torture techniques again, you guys are torture all on your own."

The three genins each smiled at their teachers teasing before Ryu suddenly froze and whipped out his katana and swiped away a cluster of shuriken "Who's there, show yourselves!" he demanded his eyes staring straight in one direction as the genins scrambled to their feet and took defensive positions with their backs to each other.

A chuckling could be heard as two figures appeared, Kisame and Itachi "Well well look who it is Itachi-san," Kisame said with a dangerous smile "It's the guy who foiled our last attempt at the Kyuubi Jinchuriki."

Itachi merely hummed in agreement as he stared at Ryu "I see you have become a Jonin sensei Ryu-kun, congratulations." Itachi said in a monotone voice.

"Itachi and Kisame huh," he stated calmly while internally his only thought was 'Well Fuck.' "Genins, fall back and continue onto Konoha, this is NOT up for debate now GO!"

The genins however where shaking in fear from Kisame's killing intent making the Shark-like man chuckle in amusement "Don't think they heard ya." He said pointing out the obvious.

Ryu only narrowed his eyes as he slid into a defensive stance never meeting Itachi's Sharingan eyes as the seals on his body shifted and pulsed electric blue signifying that Raiinparusu(1) was active as Kisame grin grew wider as he unslung his massive sword and slammed it into the ground creating a crater from the force of the blow. Ryu vanished with a sparked and collided swords with Kisame as a second Ryu dashed at Itachi. The fight was on.

End Dream

Ryu woke with a gasp as he sat straight up in a cold sweat, panting heavily for air he looked around quickly before relaxing at being greeted by the sight of the run down Taris apartment that he and his new friends were staying in. Swinging his legs around he placed his feet on the cool ground before running a hand over his face taking deep breathes to calm himself. He was glad that the dream cut off when it did, Naru had told him that he had once unconsciously used a jutsu while in the throes of that particular dream 'Dammit, that day still haunts me.' He thought to himself as he made his way over to the bathroom thankful that things operated similarly to the way they did back home and stepped into the shower and ran some cold water to wake himself up '*Sigh* I still haven't forgiven myself for that day, Janus and Idante are dead, and Karina will never be a shinobi or the same again,' tears started sliding down his cheeks as memories rushed through his head, Janus' broken corpse lying lifeless on the forest floor, Idante's body impaled on Kisame's swords, finding Karina a week after they kidnapped her a broken shell of her former self.

Ryu lip curled up into a snarl as his eyes became slitted while his primarily green eye became more golden and vice versa, letting out a low growl he he slowly took deep breathes to calm himself only for his anger to return as Karina's words to his when he found her and her constant repeats of apologizes for failing them. He was clenching his hands so tight that his knuckles had turned white while he glared at the wall directly in front of him not even noticing the cold water anymore. A sudden knock on the door broke him out of his reverie.

"Ryu is everything alright?" Tyria's concerned voice drifted through "Everyone just suddenly woke up when we felt an... anger coming from the bathroom... is everything okay in there?"

"J-just a second," he stuttered out as he started breathing properly again "Sorry, I'll be out in a second." Shaking his head lightly he stepped out of the shower and dried himself off before dressing and exiting the bathroom to greet two very concerned and one very suspicious individuals.

"What the hell was that?" Jaina asked in confusion as he sat himself down on his bed rubbing his eyes "It felt like you were about to go on a murdering spree."

Ryu took another shaky breath as he composed himself "What you felt was the lingering bloodlust that I had felt when my students were killed or in her case broken beyond anything," he explained as tears welled up again with his regret and and bubbling underneath "My two male students were killed, one didn't feel the pain of dying while other felt every second, m-my female student, she wasn't killed..." he trailed off as all the trio paled in realization "I found her, a broken shell only remained, you know what she said to me?" he asked plaintively his eyes full of sadness as he looked at them "She said 'I'm sorry I've failed you all Sensei.' That's all she repeated to me, constantly that she was sorry that she failed. God Dammit they were only thirteen for fuck sakes"

Jaina staggered back at the regret that was rolling off of him in waves, the sadness, and the anger the bubbled underneath it "By the Force," she muttered as she clasped at her stomach feeling nauseated "How can you stand such intense emotions rolling inside of you?"

Ryu chuckled darkly as he slowly calmed himself as reined in his emotions "Because, I know that my redemption is living and protecting those precious to me and protecting that which they died for," he explained with a sad but confident smile "The Will of Fire, our home, the future generations of Konoha, whatever the reasons may be I will fight for my redemption for failing my students."

Tyria sat down beside the sullen shinobi and gave him a one armed embrace "Must be tough living with that burden." She muttered making him chuckle a little.

"It is," he admitted "But you would believe how much my sister helped me, when I finally came to my sense she told me straight out that I was in such a state that even the Kyuubi would have been quaking in fear of my state than."

Carth gave a grim smile in understanding "I suppose I could understand that," he agreed "I felt like I was going to die from the pressure coming from the other room alone."

Ryu cracked a smile "One of the many uses of chakra practical lesson #23," he said quoting what his sensei told him "Scaring the living shit out of your enemy by just being the same room, that's how my sensei explained Killing Intent(KI), what you guys felt, to me and my old teammates, he always said I was a natural at it."

Jaina gave a cautious chuckle before looking at the Chrono "By the Force it's the middle of the night, I'm going back to bed thank you very much," she groaned "We have a lot of searching to do if we want to find Bastila before the Sith."

Carth and Tyria nodded in understanding while Ryu simply leaned back with a sigh and waved off a concerned Tyria saying the episode was over before finally drifting off back to sleep, this time his dreams were of more happy times with his students.

END CHAPTER

AN: Before you say anything I feel completely evil for writing that *Shivers* I was crying as I wrote this, god I am so evil to my characters. PLEASE REVEIW AND TELL ME YOUR THOUGHTS! IF YOU FLAME YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL SHALL BE FED TO... THE KRAKEN!

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1- Kinraiton: Raiinparusu - Forbidden Lightning Release: Lighting Impulse. S-class forbidden technique that is used in conjunction with Kami Hogo that allows the user to send lightning chakra through the nervous system greatly increasing their; speed(Greatly), strength(minimal), and giving the user a zero-point reaction time. Normally unusable due to the intense pain and the fact that the technique would fry the users nervous system, the effects are negated by the Kami Hogo seal that Ryu designed for that exact reason. The technique itself is extremely chakra extensive however and the seals do not last for more than one minute. Using metal Weapons is extremely ill advised as the electricity will be conducted by the metal shocking the user, Ryu negated this in his Jonin years by finding a seal that allows the sword to channel the electricity much like Asuma's Knuckle Knives channeled Chakra