Introductions
The shuttle came out of hyperspace after only being in hyperspace for three minutes, long enough to lose the ships. The Eds all sat back in their seats and sighed in relief. Double D sat back up and began to tap on the control panel. When Eddy asked what he was doing, Double D told him, "I'm hoping I can figure out how to navigate back to Earth. Maybe we aren't that far off."
Unfortunately, even with Double D figuring out how to use the navigator, they couldn't find Earth. So the next best option was to find a nearby planet that could possibly have inhabitants. Double D pointed to the computer screen and said to his friends, "Here, fellows. Tatooine."
The Eds then heard something in the cargo hold. It sounded like whispering. Double D put the ship into autopilot and followed Ed and Eddy, Eddy holding his blaster.
"You better watch where your hand is, Naruto." Sakura whispered. Sasuke jumped and whispered, "Who just stepped on my foot?" Naruto slapped his hand over Sasuke's mouth and shushed them. They all hear footsteps, multiple footsteps.
The Eds tip-toed up to the door of the compartment were they think the whispering came from. Eddy pointed his blaster at the door and ordered Ed to open it. Ed slowly reached for the button to open the door. When the door swooshed open, Ed, Eddy, and Double D were greeted by the loud screams of the Naruto Team, even Sasuke. Eddy, Ed, and Double D, in that order, began to scream with them.
Ed quickly closed the door and there was silence. Eddy looked back at his friends with a "What on earth?" look on his face. He pushed the door open again and the Naruto Team began to scream again. This time the Eds didn't scream. Eddy closed the door again. He opened it again and they still screamed. He closed it again and the silence came back. Eddy smirk at this and began to open, close, open, close with the screams and silence gesture. He opened the door one last time, still smirking at the screaming ninja. He then banged the butt of the blaster against the wall and said, "Alright, that's enough!"
The ninja stopped screaming and stared at the Eds. Double D moved forward and said with a soothing voice, "It's okay, we're not going to hurt you. You can come out." Hesitantly, the ninja slowly one by one came out of the compartment. Hinata was more scared than the rest of them, but the other three were still on edge. Sasuke had his eyes on Eddy's blaster. This didn't go unnoticed. Eddy looked down at it and put it down. He held his hands up to Sasuke and said, "Okay, pretty boy. It's on the ground. Happy?"
The moment of silence between the two groups was broken when Naruto asked, "Who are you guys?" The Eds introduced themselves, as did the ninja team. Hinata asked them if they were taken away too. Double D told them they were, "We were on our way home when one of the droids ambushed us and caught us in a net. What about you?"
"Apparently we were drugged, but we can't remember how." Sakura said. Ed asked them, "Are you fellow Earthlings or are you really space hot dogs from the planet of Zeon B?" The ninja only blankly stared at him. Double D intervened and said, "What he means is are you from Earth like us?"
"As far as we know." Naruto said. Double D nodded and told them they should all relax. Double D led the now larger group to the cockpit. At the sight of the stars outside the window, Hinata and Sakura gasped in awe at the sight.
"It's beautiful." Hinata murmured. Double D sat in the pilot seat and began to work the controls. Sakura sat next to him and asked him, "How are you working the controls?" Double D said to her, "It's rather complicated. I had to learn it all under stress."
"Are we gonna be up here a while?" Naruto asked. Double D said to him, "Well, no. We're heading for a planet listed a Tatooine. It's going to take over an hour to get there." Eddy said, "Well, since it's going be a while, I guess we'll have to get to know one another."
For the time being, both Naruto's Team and the Eds all sat down and told each other about where they were from. The Eds told the ninja about Peach Creek and the ninja told the Eds about the Leaf Village. The Eds thought it was amazing, but the ninjas weren't too impressed with Peach Creek. Naruto and Sasuke thought it was "too ordinary". With that, the Eds told them about the scams they'd do, and the hilarious antics that go with them.
"So, at the end of the day, we were stuck together in Ed's basement with my experimental bubble gum." Double D told them the story about when they accidently stole Sarah's diary. Naruto was cracking up at the story. He whipped a tear from his eye and chuckled to Ed, "Man Ed, your sister sounds like a serial killer in the making!"
Sakura then punched Naruto on the top of the head and growled at him, "Don't be rude, you stupid idiot!" The Eds, even Ed himself, were taken aback by what Sakura just did. Not only did she seem to have a significant amount of strength and a temper that could rival Sarah's, but she just used it on her friend. Also, she punched him for something that all three Eds knew could very well be true.
"Well, I agree with Naruto." Sasuke said. Sakura's demeanor changed from anger to adoration at Sasuke's words. She blushed and grinned, "Of course, Sasuke!" The Eds looked at each other in confusion. This girl was going to be tricky to deal with.
"Seriously though Ed, how do you put up with her?" Naruto asked him, rubbing his head. Ed only shrugged and smiled.
Double D got up from the group and returned to the cockpit. He sat down in the seat and checked the coordinates. He was getting use to the shuttle's controls and he had more understanding to what certain controls were. He was still hoping for weapons in case they needed them. He may abhor violence, but he knew in their predicament, with the Slavers Guild after them and who knows what else could be out there, he knew there may be some precautions to be made. However, when he looked at the controls, he saw something that made him shiver in his seat.
"Um, we have a bit of a problem." He called back from the cockpit. Naruto and Sakura came running up.
"What's wrong?" Sakura asked. Double D looked up at her and said with a nervous chuckle, "It seems the coordinates I had were put in wrong. We've been flying away from Tatooine."
"What?" Naruto screamed at Double D. "I thought you were supposed to be the smart guy! You're supposed to know how to do these things the right way!" Sakura then punched in the gut, sending him flying back to the backend of the ship. She yelled back at him, "Would you leave him alone! He didn't know!"
She turned back and looked out the cockpit window and saw a few planets nearby. She pointed out to them, "What about those planets? You're looking for one that is inhabited, right?" Double D was working a computer monitor on the control panel as he told her, "Yes. Maybe we can find a navigator and see how far from Earth we are." Sakura nodded and turned to walk away.
"Sakura, just a moment. Have a seat, please." Double D stopped her. Sakura turned back and slowly sat down in the co-pilot's seat. Double D turned his chair to face and placed his elbow on the panel.
"That was not necessary." He said to her. Sakura asked him what he meant, he answered, "What you just did to Naruto."
"Well, he was yelling at you. He was being rude."
"Eddy yells at me all the time. Naruto's much calmer than he is."
"Wait, are you lecturing me on how I control my teammate?"
"No, I'm simply telling you that, even though Eddy can be rough with Ed and I, he never went as far as you have been with Naruto."
"Well, he's always out of control. He has nobody to control him and keep him out of trouble."
Double D straightened up in his chair and asked her, "Wait a minute. You mean to tell me Naruto's an orphan?" Sakura, who was wearing an annoyed face, nodded at him matter-of-factly.
"Sakura, how could you?" Double D asked her in an angered tone. "Treating him like this knowing he's alone, without parents? It's clear to me he looks at Hinata, Sasuke, and yourself as his friends. If he's without parents or, by the way you talk about how he is and that 'he has no one to control him and keep him out of trouble', any family at all, all he has are friends. Friends of someone like him shouldn't treat him like that. You should be ashamed of yourself."
"You listen here, I…" Sakura began to defend herself, but stopped because she knew: he was right.
She had a moment like this before. It was after she graduated the academy. She was talking with Sasuke about Naruto, down talking him, calling Naruto selfish and bratty. Sasuke in turn told her she had no idea what it was to be like Naruto and called her annoying. Sakura, feeling the sting of Sasuke's words, began to feel what Naruto felt when she called him annoying. She promised herself that she was going to be nicer to him.
She broke that promise.
She began to think about the times she was cruel and mean to Naruto. She began to think about all the times she punched him, yelled and screamed at him, and belittled him. Was that what she wanted? No.
She got up out of her seat, head hung low, and walked away.