Naruto kept her fox ears against her head and only winced minimally at the echo-y room; when they returned to the carpeted hallway, Naruto realized she had no idea what was going on with the Queen, and Anakin snorted when she asked him, in a hushed voice, "What is going on?"

"The Queen called a vote of no confidence in the current chancellor," Anakin whispered back.

Naruto winced. "Oh, that must have been painful. Sorry, the echo was getting on my nerves, so I couldn't listen."

"Yeah, I get it. This wasn't even a full Senate session; they're holding one tomorrow." Naruto raised an eyebrow. Anakin nodded.

Naruto shook her head, getting a feeling. "I think if we don't leave now, something bad's going to happen."

Anakin's face changed to complete seriousness.

"Is it a feeling?" he emphasized.

"Yep." Naruto nodded solemnly.

Anakin coughed and tugged on the nearest handmaiden's dress. "Excuse me, miss? I need to contact a Jedi named Qui-Gon -"

"He's here," Naruto interrupted, eyes fixed on the door ahead of her.

Anakin nodded and apologized to the handmaiden. "Sorry."

They entered the room, and Naruto instantly appealed to the Jedi.

"If we don't go to Naboo now, something bad's going to happen," she said, making all activity cease. "It's like when Anakin won the race."

Qui-Gon's face changed from careful indulgence to seriousness. He nodded and approached the queen, speaking in low terms.

Naruto's gums ached a little as she ground her teeth together in worry.

Anakin bumped her shoulder. "It's going to be okay. The Queen's probably not going to listen to a child, but they'll listen to Qui-Gon definitely."

Naruto nodded, reassured. The Queen glanced at her from around Qui-Gon, then nodded to the Jedi master.

Qui-Gon walked back. "We're headed to Naboo. Ready?"

The two nodded instantly. Naruto didn't smile; she was too scared for that.

Her eyes met the Senator's, and for a full ten seconds Naruto could clearly see the red all around him. It wasn't just a 'sense', it was a full on visible color.

Naruto dropped her eyes, feeling dizzy. She realized she was shaking. Such evil... Naruto shuddered.

~:~

Anakin was kind of worried. Naruto had left sands and heat and a place to call home to coldness and a place she couldn't call home. Her mind was her enemy, and Anakin knew she'd seen something in the queen's temporary chambers.

They were back on the Nubian, and Naruto was sitting in the middle of the floor, her eyes closed and trying to understand what she'd seen.

Anakin thought of the calm he'd felt in the council room, stood up, and placed one of his hands on hers.

And there it was. Pushing through her, relaxing through her, and as Anakin placed his other hand on her other, she fed it back to him, more calm than before. Anakin sat down and continued the process until it was automatic.

When Obi-Wan entered the room, on orders to teach the two how to meditate, it was to a room of flowing calm. The Force seemed to center in these two children; flowing through them and making an almost physical impression on the Padawan.

Qui-Gon seemed much more interested in teaching Naruto things, and Obi-Wan could see himself guiding Anakin through the learning process if he needed it now; as if the Force was whispering to him.

He sat down, close to, but not too close, to the two.

There was a break in the flow as Anakin removed one of his hands from Naruto's, and set it on his knee. Naruto's remained curled and open, and hesitantly Obi-Wan grasped their hands.

It started out simply sending calm, but then -

Joy bubbled up, and Naruto seemed to send it to them with the flow of calm circulating between the three, and it was not long before the joy swelled to overshadow the calm.

And then the three were laughing, the feel of the joy getting to be too much.

Qui-Gon opened the door, a smile on his face.

"Ready?" he asked the still-laughing trio.

They sobered up as they got ready to leave. But the effects of the triangle remained.

~:~

Naruto still had that bad feeling, but it was lighter now. She opted to help with taking over the castle, and sneakily made the range of their separation from Qui-Gon system-wide. Of course, in a cycle it would short-circuit, but Anakin needed the length.

Obviously, he was going to do something stupid, just like Naruto.

When the door opened, Qui-Gon ordered them to hide.

Instead, Naruto ran toward the man with the dual lightsabers.

Amplifying her abilities with the feeling of the Force, Naruto beamed as she ran faster, ducking under the dual blades just in time, then leaping onto his back.

Naruto placed her hands on the man's unguarded neck, then did the stupidest - yet the one thing that saved Qui-Gon's life - thing ever. She pushed the joy and calm into the guy with the red color.

She couldn't save the Senator's redness, and she didn't think a single 'push' of emotions could do the same to a guy who was a thin red; this guy had holes, and Naruto knew that holes could be widened and patched.

She patched up a 'hole' in the redness with green; not necessarily her color. It was just a 'good' color.

The guy's lightsaber fell and retracted as Naruto fed the guy emotions, then she leaped off of him, grabbed his lightsaber with her tail, and ignited the double blades.

Power surged under her fingertips, and as it did, she got bombarded with the images of what would have happened.

With a cry, Naruto flung the lightsaber over her head, the blades deactivating.

The man was unconscious; Qui-Gon walked over to him and frowned.

"I have no idea how we're going to get him back to the Temple," he said.

"I can feed him different 'good' emotions," Naruto offered. "Or annoy him to the point of unconsciousness." She picked up his blade. "Either way, I'm sure you can help Her Highness while I watch over him."

Obi-Wan bit his lip. "If there's anyone good at taking down a Dark Sider, it's her, Master," he pointed out, a small smirk on his lips. Qui-Gon looked at his apprentice in friendly exasperation.

"No longer such a stickler for the Code?" he asked Obi-Wan.

"I might've needed a press in the right direction," Obi-Wan replied.

Qui-Gon sighed, but nodded at the child. "Watch over him on the ship. Obi-Wan, stay with her."

Obi-Wan nodded at his master.

~:~

Hauling the dark sider was harder than it looked - in the end, Obi-Wan had to resort to using the Force to lift him up.

He set the Dark Sider in Naruto's and Anakin's room on the Nubian, then went to check on the flight. Naruto started to talk, idly looking over the Dark Sider's weapon.

"It's beautiful," she admitted. "But you broke it." It seemed to cry out to her, and she itched to take it apart. To heal. But she refrained from doing so, simply out of respect for how he'd made it. "I guess I can't do much without your permission. You killed a lot of Jedi, and yet I'm thinking of asking your permission to heal your lightsaber." She looked up to see his eyes on her. "Oh, you're awake! What world do you come from?"

The Dark Sider male simply stared at her. He moved his hands and Naruto moved the lightsaber and placed her thumb very gently on the trigger.

If she put any more pressure on it, then the blade would extend and kill him.

Naruto's eyes were, unknown to her, a deep violet.

The male set his hands down, aware of the imminent threat.

~:~

When they reached Coruscant, the Dark Sider brought a flurry of activity; with binders making his arms go behind his back and their obvious design of shocking the person, it was no wonder all sorts of sentient beings down at the bottom of the Temple walkway spoke loudly and eagerly about the Jedi bringing someone in like a criminal.

Naruto hovered at the back, ready to race in and shove the emotion thing at him again as council masters shielded their prisoner from view.

He did try to break out, but Naruto held onto the lightsaber with pure stubbornness. When it activated, Naruto was careful to shut it off. The masters definitely kept eyes on her as she walked with the red saber, but didn't try to take it from her.

She did, however, give it to Master Yoda when he waited for her to catch up with them.

"Give off a color, did he?" questioned the little green master.

"Red... But patchy. I don't think he's ever going to join the Light, but if he's patched he should be considered less of a danger," she offered. Master Yoda hummed, looking over the lightsaber.

"Fix the crystals, you should," the little master said, handing it back to her.

"It's his lightsaber, though," Naruto replied, confused.

"Using it again, he will not be," Master Yoda replied.

Naruto bowed her head, staring at the double-bladed saber.