"Pardon is the choicest flower of victory…"
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Naruto's eyes flickered open as he looked around. He appeared to be in some kind of tree hollow.
"Finally, you're awake!" said a female voice from his left.
Naruto looked in that direction and saw a girl. A girl with blonde hair and scales…
"My name's Naomi. What's yours and why are you wearing one of the ancient symbols?" asked the girl.
Naruto blinked.
"Ano (Um)… my name's Naruto… and… are you talking about my Forehead Protector?"
"Well, that if that metal thing on your forehead is your Forehead Protector, then what's the symbol on it? Why do you have an ancient Amachian symbol on your head?"
"It's the symbol of the Leaf Village, Konoha, and my home. Wait… what do you mean ancient symbol?"
"That symbol of 'Leaf' is said to have only existed millions of years ago. How do you have it?"
"I've worn this symbol proudly since I was twelve years old. This signifies me as a Shinobi."
"…Shinobi? What kind of shit are you pulling? Shinobi are beings of myth."
"Then how do you explain this?" asked a voice from behind her.
Naomi spun around and saw Naruto standing right behind her. She turned her gaze back to where she first saw Naruto and he was still there… before puffing out of existence in a blast of white smoke.
"How did you-…" she started before being cut off by Naruto.
"I asked first. How would you explain that?" asked Naruto.
Naomi just glared.
"Hey… you know something, I can't explain it, but… while I was asleep, it felt like I was being hit by something. Pretty funny… right?" asked Naruto, chuckling.
Naomi paled considerably before letting out a nervous laugh as she scratched the back of her head, "Yeah… Pretty funny…"
Naruto just grinned before getting a neutral expression.
'I… I can feel her chakra. It has to be at least Genin level…' he thought to himself 'She needs to be trained. If she isn't… In a time of war like this, she needs to know how to defend herself…'
"So… what planet are you from?" asked Naomi.
"I don't really know. I don't think that my people ever named it." Naruto said with a shrug, "But… if I had to guess… it would be Ibonihs."
"…Ibonihs? Not Ibonihs Two, but, just Ibonihs?" asked Naomi.
"Yeah… why?"
"The Amachian people come from a planet called Ibonihs Two. I myself am an Amachian. You look sort of like one…"
"A-Amachian?" stuttered Naruto questioningly.
"You've never heard of one? Well, I can understand that. We aren't the most spoken of species in the Galaxy, but we're the oldest… next to humans."
Naruto nodded.
"Hey, have you ever been attacked?" asked Naruto.
"What would give you that idea?" asked Naomi.
Naruto simply pointed to the sword on her back.
Naomi got an awkward expression, "Um… well… Yes. I got this sword when somebody attacked me and fell off a cliff by accident."
Naruto
stared calmly before asking, "Who attacked you?"
"A Dark
Jedi… he had a green light saber. I never got a look at his face."
"Why would a Dark Jedi carry a sword?"
Naomi paled.
"Seriously, where'd you get the sword?"
Naomi looked away and remained silent.
"Did you steal it?"
The reaction was instant.
"No! Well I… um… guess maybe… yeah…" murmured Naomi.
"Why?"
"Because it's an Amachian artifact and those Separatist bastards had no right to it!" she yelled before revealing the sword.
Naruto just stood there.
"That's Orochimaru's sword… The blade's slightly damaged… but that's his sword." Naruto whispered to himself.
Naruto frowned. 'What would the Separatists want with Orochimaru's Kusanagi sword?' he thought.
"Do you know how to use it?" asked Naruto.
"Eh, sort of… I've been teaching myself." replied Naomi.
"Ah… I have a sword of my own. Do you want to know how good you are?"
Naomi blinked a few times.
"Wait… are you asking if you can train me?" she asked.
"Hai. Yes. Do you want to be trained how to use that sword properly?"
Naomi nodded.
Naruto smirked before speaking, "Let's get started…"
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"So, X. Who're we going after now?" asked a man in a shadowed cloak.
"Actually, I've recently acquired a proposal from Count Dooku. He would like me to be the new general of his droid army, and you to be my second in command." spoke Zero X.
His black armor somehow held a twisted glint, even in the shadows of the dark room they conversed in.
"And?" asked the man.
"You're older than me. Though I calculate this to be an intelligent course of action, what would you propose?" asked Zero X.
"Go ahead, as long as I can get as many worthy sacrifices as possible, I'll be fine with it."
"Not much of an adviser, are you?"
"If you want my honest advice, he's giving you a deal that sounds pretty fucking good. But, with all the shit that's happened so far and with Grievous kicking the fucking crap-can, you should be cautious."
"And what of you?"
"What of me?" asked the other man, a frightening glint in his violet eyes, "My god guarantees immortality for sacrifices in his name! I can't die. I didn't die then; I'm not going to fucking die now. Speaking of… are you sure you don't want to convert?"
"I'm pretty certain that I don't want to convert to your religion… Hidan."
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Naomi's head was spinning. Why? Because she just found out she was talking with somebody that was several millions of years old.
But, that's not the only reason; he had kicked her ass in a spar in under a minute. Her current goal was to get past that.
When she saw Naruto meditating, she had asked him why.
(Flashback)
"Naruto… uh… why are you just sitting on that rock?" asked Naomi.
"I'm concentrating." said Naruto.
"About what?"
"Not about something… on something."
"So what are you concentrating on?"
"The Force."
"You mean that stuff the Jedi and Sith use? That 'floaty' stuff?"
"The Force isn't just 'That Floaty stuff'… it's the floaty stuff."
"Ok, seriously, what is the Force?"
Naruto sighed before he began speaking, "You've been asking a lot of questions."
"Well I wouldn't be asking questions if you just gave me a god-damned answer already."
"…Alright. To understand the Force, you must understand chakra. So, I will tell you about both in one fowl swoop." Naruto waited for Naomi to nod in understanding, "The Force is what keeps every one and every thing alive. But, before my planet blew up, there was no Force. Instead, my planet gave off chakra, a mix of spiritual and physical energy, which the people on my planet were able to use to stay alive.
"Think of my planet as a big battery and the people acted as what was being charged. After Akatsuki, an evil organization, screwed everything up with their weapon, the chakra on the planet spread out all over the place. This created the force.
"The Force is literally a combination of pure chakra, the Light Side, and demonic chakra, the Dark Side. This causes every person who is force sensitive essentially a Jinchuuriki, a powerful human sacrifice, a demon container; they have the ability to fall to either side of the spectrum.
The remains of my planet grant people who are 'Force Sensitive' slightly greater strength. But, if they've harnessed the chakra of the Force, they are monumentally stronger. So, I'm going to try to teach you how to use chakra, the real light side of the Force, so you can pretty much do whatever you want. So long as you don't violate certain… rules, of course"
"…Rules?"
"Hai, rules."
"…What kind of rules?"
"Rule 1: No asking stupid questions. If you don't know something, figure it out yourself."
Naomi felt her eye twitch.
"Well, let's get back to training, neh?" said Naruto with a grin before looking at her.
Naomi groaned.
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"Greetings-" began Dooku politely before the man in the cloak, standing next to the armored soldier, spoke.
"Look, we both know each other's names. I just want to get this over with. So, here's the deal, you let me kill as many people as I want, and I'm in." he said.
"What my partner, Hidan, is trying to say is-" started Zero X before Hidan interrupted once more.
"Speaking of, do you have any intricate torture devices? I'd love to listen to them scream as I jab blunt objects under their skin…" he trailed.
Zero X lifted his fist and smacked Hidan in the back of the head, knocking him to the ground.
"I'm willing to be your general and Hidan is willing to be my second in command on the condition that he is also head of torture, interrogation, hostage situations, and anything that may involve the blood of countless innocents in the name of his god." said Zero X.
"Praise Jashin-sama!" was Hidan's muffled cry as his face was still stuck on the metal floor.
Dooku felt his eye twitch, "This is your partner? He's completely out of his mind."
"He might be a little insane… but he gets the job done." explained Zero X.
Dooku paused and thought, weighing the pros and cons of the situation.
On the one hand he'd get the 'Two Immortals' leading his droid armies in Grievous's place.
On the other hand, he'd have to deal with an over-zealous religious fanatic that wanted to drain a rainbow of blood from thousands of species all across the galaxy…
Wait…
Who says that's a con?
"Welcome to the Separatist alliance, General X and…" trailed Dooku.
"My name is Hidan, the galaxy's most loyal Acolyte of Jashin-sama." said Hidan as he got up from the floor.
His hood was down to reveal the pale skin of a face that couldn't have been older than twenty. His eyes were an unholy violet and borderline red. And his silver hair was slicked back. Dooku took notice of the strange cloth wrapped around Hidan's neck with a metal plate and symbol on it, this one with a single scratch. His Jashin Rosary hanged around his neck and lightly swung left and right.
Dooku couldn't help but let out a small smile at his 'victory'.
The Separatists now had the two most dangerous people in the galaxy under their control.
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That's all for this chapter, sorry to disappoint anybody.
Love4Death: Sorry, no puppets. However, that is a very good idea and one worth taking into consideration for a later chapter.
Ged-fallout: Sorry, no summoning. Naruto's planet held a pocket dimension powered by chakra from its core. When the planet went Kaput, so did the ability to summon. However, summoning may appear in a later chapter…
Knives91: It's not that Naomi is insane… she's just got a personality that's like a mix between Anko's sadist behavior, Tsunade's gambling/temper, Konohamaru's eagerness, and Naruto's hyperactiveness…
Shadow Zeranion: Well, we all know that while Kyuubi was on his way to Konoha, he passed through Uzu no Kuni (Land of Whirlpools). My position is that it's impossible to completely wipe something out in the Naruto world and that there are always survivors that are dealt with only after the fact (Kimimaro, Haku, Ranmaru, Sasuke, Itachi, Madara…). Is it really that farfetched? My position is that somebody who could just as easily been Kushina's (Naruto's mom's) sister survived and had kids. Naomi's last name is created when combining Uzu and Kuni.
OBSERVER01: Sorry, no HK-47. Though… he is a fun character… I especially like his definition of love… I pity the fool that invokes his hate.
That's all I've got for now, so, until later!
Ja ne!
Forever Signed in Blood,
Slayer End
