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Chapter 9: To Protect Those Precious to You

Naruto had just woken up and opened his eyes when he felt a weight on his right shoulder. Looking over he found Padme sleeping and as she clutched on to the right side of his body still completely naked 'thank you god it wasn't a dream!' Naruto thought happily as he leaned in and kissed her on the lips. "Padme wake up" Naruto said as he nudged her softly trying to gently wake her up.

"What is it? Just a few… more minu-…" Padme started before she fell asleep again making Naruto deadpan at how easily she could go to sleep.

'She sleeps like a rock' Naruto thought as he slipped out of the bed not waking Padme up and quietly walked out the door.

Ten minutes later Padme had already woken up from her slumber. She had just finished changing into some casual clothes nothing fancy since there wasn't any need to be dressed formally or anything just a loose fitting white shirt and some short blue shorts but when she heard the door open and looked in that direction she was greeted with the sight of Naruto walk through with a mischievous smile on his face and a bucket of water in his hands. When she saw what he was holding her eyes narrowed at Naruto as she put her hands on her hips "What were you going to do with that Naruto?" Padme asked in what would seem a calm voice but from all his time with her Naruto knew better.

Looking around Naruto was trying to think of an exit strategy as he felt a shiver run down his spine when Padme looked at him and so far he could only think of three options the first being jump out the window, the second being telling her the truth which was that he intended to dump this cold water on her to wake her up but one look at her eyes dissuaded Naruto from doing that so he went with option three "Uh well you see Padme… you know what fuck it" Naruto said before he just began drinking all the water until there was none left "I was just thirsty you see" Naruto finished as he scratched the back of his head and put the now empty bucket down.

"Yeah I'm sure anyways" Padme said as she sat down on the bed "I think we should talk about yesterday" Padme motioned for him to sit down beside her. "I just want to make sure that yesterday wasn't a in the heat of the moment thing you know? And if it was then we should just stop right now because I'm a Senator and you're about to become a Jedi knight." Padme finished trying to play it off cool on the outside but on the inside she was really hoping that he would say that this wasn't a one-time thing.

"Padme what happened yesterday was not a one time thing I really like you and if you want to I would love for us to have a relationship but by no means will it be easy it would have to be a secret with no one else knowing." Naruto said, as he looked her in the eyes without hesitating.

"What about your pledge to the Jedi Order?" Padme asked standing up becoming more stressed by the second just thinking about what would happen if they were caught. She also knew how because he was a Jedi he was not supposed to have any attachments.

"The Jedi Order is a symbol of peace in the galaxy they're the peace keepers but I do disagree with their rule on not allowing attachments because I still believe in those words someone once told me" Naruto said as he stood up and briefly thought of his past life before snapping out of his thoughts returning to the present. "When a person has something important that they want to protect that's when they become truly strong. Padme as long as I have you I'm perfectly fine I want you to know that. " Naruto said as he grabbed her in a gentle hug.

After another minute of simply being in each other's arms Naruto let go "Well Padme you better get ready!" Naruto exclaimed in his usual cheerful tone "because today we're going to swim to that island!" Naruto yelled trying to get Padme excited which he succeeded in doing.

"Ok but you got to give me time to change into my bikini. Oh and you're not wearing your Jedi robe while were swimming I know that you like it but you cannot wear that thing every day" Padme said as she went to go change ignoring Naruto's cries of protest.

Naruto was outside waiting for Padme wearing his Jedi robe as usual as he walked back and forth trying to come up with a solution to his problem 'this is so unfair why can't I wear my Jedi clothes it's the only thing I've got! Wait I have an idea!' Naruto thought excitedly as he quickly took off all of his clothes and used the Transformation technique to make it look as though he was wearing a bathing suit. It was at this point that Padme decided to come out wearing an orange bikini, which made Naruto smirk since he knew she was wearing that because he liked the color orange.

"So I was thinking we should have a race to the island see who gets there first but of course you'll get a head start" Naruto started trying to get his mind off Padme's body.

"Fine but you better catch up!" Padme yelled with a smile on her face as she ran past Naruto and dove into the water and started swimming.

Looking at Padme move farther and farther away Naruto realized he may have made a mistake in giving her so much of a head start since she was apparently a faster swimmer then he gave her credit for 'well she sure can swim!' gathering the force into his legs 'unfortunately for her I don't intend to lose!' Naruto thought as he launched himself into the water.

XXXXX A Few Minutes Later

Naruto had finally caught up to Padme about three fourths of the way there and they were getting closer and closer to reaching the island. Not wanting to lose even if it was to Padme Naruto pushed himself a little harder as he felt a burst of energy and in no time he had reached the beach "I always sucked at swimming" Naruto said as walked out and he sat down on the sand to wait for Padme who wasn't too far behind.

"So why did you want to come here today?" Padme asked when she finally reached the shore and sat down next to Naruto still panting from the long swim.

"What are you talking about didn't you have fun?" Naruto asked as he got up and looked back at the still tired Padme "heh maybe we shouldn't have raced after all."

"You think" Padme told the blonde sarcastically "either way I think I get why sometimes it's nice to just let go and have some fun even if it's a race right?" Padme finished in a nicer tone.

"Yeah now you got it," Naruto agreed as he looked at the birds flying around "So you want to swim back?" Naruto asked with a smirk on his face as he looked at the tired figure of Padme.

"Shut up Naruto"

XXXXX Seven Months Later

The day had finally come. The day for Naruto and Padme to return and they both knew it. They had both heard nothing from R2 in all this time so they had to assume that there had been no attacks since they left "maybe they just gave up" tried an optimistic Padme as they got into their small submarine that would take them back.

"All I know is that I have a bad feeling about this" Naruto said seriously as they left their safe haven after all you can't hide forever.

XXXXX Back at the House

Naruto was very tense when they arrived back at Padme's house hell he was on edge for the first month that they were there he rarely slept and he routinely checked up on her and it was starting to get on Padme's nerves "Naruto will you just relax they obviously gave up!" Padme yelled at him when they arrived home late one evening because of a huge storm had passed now.

"Yeah but what if they're still out there waiting!?" Naruto tried to argue but Padme was hearing none of it "where are you going?" Naruto called after her.

"I'm going to sleep you can come upstairs to sleep when you admit that there is no danger!" Padme yelled downstairs as she slammed the door shut behind her.

'Maybe she's right' Naruto thought as he walked into the kitchen 'maybe it's all in my head ugh I need something to drink' Naruto finished his train of thought when he saw a glass filled with some liquid which Naruto presumed to be some type of juice on the table. Figuring that maybe Padme had left it there on accident at some point Naruto walked up to it and drank it but immediately felt something wrong as he could feel himself become weaker.

'What's going on?' Naruto thought as he fell to the floor barely hanging onto consciousness when he saw the front door bust open and some men in black came charging in going upstairs to where Padme was. 'Padme…' Naruto thought weakly as he saw the men bust down her door and then carry Padme out who was wearing her nightgown 'have to help her…have to save her' were Naruto's only thoughts as he slowly gathered his strength and tried pulling himself up but nearly fell back down his first attempt as his arms almost gave out. Grabbing the wall for support Naruto had much better success his second attempt slowly walking toward the door with his lightsaber drawn Naruto almost fell over but quickly steadied himself allowing energy from the Force to flow through him giving him strength. Once outside the only thing Naruto could see was a speeder leave the house and hear Padme's distant cries of help and her shouting his name but luckily for Naruto some of them hadn't gotten in their other speeder so Naruto quickly gathered the Force and lifted the speeder up before slamming it down to the ground in front of the band of kidnappers. "Tell me where they went and no one has to get hurt but if you don't you won't be walking away from this" Naruto shouted at them unfortunately they weren't smart enough to take the chance and instead drew their blaster and opened fire on Naruto.

"Fine have it your way!" Naruto shouted back as Naruto deflected all of their shots until they ran out of ammo and then used the Force to grab the weapons out of their hands and point it at them "now tell me what I want to know or else!" Naruto threatened desperately hoping that they would listen since he never liked the act of killing but the only answers he received were laughs and shouts of "fuck off" or "the bitch is getting what she deserves". Sighing as he had only done this a few time before and didn't really care for it he used the Force to reload all the rifles at once and then fired them on their previous holders killing them. Naruto was about to shout in frustration until he heard a voice coming out of one of the people he had just killed. Upon closer inspection Naruto noticed that the voice was coming through a comm link "we have the Senator under control did you kill the Jedi that we drugged?" the voice asked making Naruto think he was the leader but Naruto didn't care right now as he quickly grabbed the comm link of the dead body and held it up to his mouth so that the person on the other side could clearly hear him.

"I don't know who you are but I am a Jedi so if you surrender now I will not harm you but if you hurt Padme in any way I will find you and I will kill you" Naruto said in a dead serious voice.

"Ha try it." The voice on the other side before all Naruto could hear was static causing him to crush the comm link in his hands. Naruto was barely restraining his anger when he took a deep breath and sat down in a meditative pose determined to find Padme 'where are you Padme?' Naruto thought as he reached out through the Force trying to find her location.

After five minutes Naruto suddenly opened his "found her!" was all Naruto shouted before he began sprinting in the direction that he felt her energy 'please don't let me be too late' Naruto thought as he continued to increase his pace making him look like a blur.

Meanwhile with Padme she was just waking up as she was being dragged across the floor by a rope that was tied around her wrists and from what she could see she was being taken to some old building but what surprised her were the tanks outside that looked like the ones the Federation used in their invasion 'how do they have those I ordered that they be disposed of' Padme thought.

"Ah so you finally woke up huh" said the man dragging her as he turned around. "I bet your wondering how we got those huh well don't worry you won't live long enough for it to matter." He said as bent down so that he was at eye level with Padme.

"Wat-…water please" Padme whispered out as she found she felt so thirsty that it felt like she would die but she did notice one thing the man in front of her had a black mask like the other but his had a big red X going through his black mask.

"Ah you want water huh well I guess that makes sense the drug we used on you is meant to knock people out unfortunately it has some nasty side effects." The man said and the turned to one of his subordinates "you give me a bottle of water after all we don't want her to die…yet."

Not in a hurry to die the man quickly grabbed a bottle of water out of his pack and gave it to his leader "there you go drink up after all it might be your last drink ever" the man said as he gave Padme the water but what he didn't expect was for Padme to drink some water and then spit the rest out in his face and then kick him in the nuts and then try to run. Unfortunately for Padme she only got a few steps away before she was hit in back by a stun gun. "I would appreciate if next time you don't run away!" the man shouted angrily as he kicked her in the face knocking her out and giving her a small cut on the side of her face.

After a while Padme woke up and looked around and noticed that one she was no longer being dragged and two she was in some strange building. She also saw several people standing around with weapons all with black masks on 'what's going on' Padme thought as she tried to move but found that she couldn't because she was tied to a pole that was stuck into the ground. Padme was about to scream for help when she was punched in the stomach by the man wearing the black mask with a red X on it knocking the air out of her.

"Don't bother no one can hear you and you're precious little Jedi friend can't help you now" the man in front of her said trying to scare her "you probably don't know who I am so let me introduce myself my name is Visio" he said as he took off his mask to reveal a man with short brown hair and scar running down the side his face. "The reason that you're here now is because of you and you're peace loving attitude. Let me ask you when the Federation took over we the people tried to fight back but where was the military huh… WHERE WERE THEY WHEN CIVILIANS WERE DYING IN THE STREET TO PROTECT THEIR HOME!?" Visio snapped as he slapped Padme across her face causing the cheek that he slapped to turn red and for tears to form at the edge of her eyes. "Everyone one of us here lost something dear to us because you told our military to not fight back while you fled to Coruscant and now it's time to pay with your life."

XXXXX Ten Minutes Earlier Outside the Building

Naruto had no idea how long he had been chasing after Padme's captors. All he knew was that they had been in a speeder for a majority of the time making it incredibly difficult for Naruto to catch up to them on foot even if he was using the Force to increase his speed. Naruto was starting to get tired until he sensed them slow down and come to a stop at some strange building that was surrounded by Federation tanks only they looked a little old and beat up.

"I finally caught up," Naruto said as grin spread across his face for a second as he surveyed the surrounding area. 'Now there's the choice on how to go about this… ok I got it' Naruto thought as he snuck around the edges staying out of their sight Naruto silently made a Shadow Clone that ran back to Naruto's original hiding spot and than got out from his hiding position in to the open. It wasn't long until it was spotted and everyone began pointing his or her weapons at him.

The Original Naruto took this opportunity to smash through a window, which no one paid any attention to because they thought they had the Jedi in their sights

"I am a Jedi and you are all under arrest for the kidnapping of Senator Padme Amidala if you give up now I'll arrest you and put you in prison but… if you don't surrender then it well not end well for any of you." The Shadow Clone finished not really expecting any of them to surrender so he wasn't surprised when the tanks began opening fire making him have to dodge the blast. "Have it your way then!" the clone shouted as other Shadow Clones began appearing each of them creating their own Rasengan and slamming it into different tanks.

The Shadow Clones were cutting down everyone in their path when one got to the front door and Force pushed it so hard that the wall surrounding the door was also taken down surprising the shit out of the people on the other side who had fallen on their back in fear as some of them could swear that they saw for a brief second a golden aura appear around the Jedi.

XXXXX Meanwhile With Padme

Visio had just received word about what was happening outside and the occasional explosion didn't help the sinking feeling he was having in his stomach. 'No it's not possible! One man even a Jedi can't take on that many people!' Visio thought as he clenched his fists in anger at the thought of is whole plan ending in failure here.

"So you're just going to kill me," Padme said looking back up and noticed Visio coming closer.

"To answer your question...yes we will kill you but don't expect it to be a quick death...no your death will be slow as repayment for everyone that died that day!" Visio said as he punched in the stomach again and swiftly cut down the rope that was holding her to the pole making her fall to the ground.

Padme even when dazed from the punch had enough sense to back away from Visio who was now holding a knife "GET AWAY FROM ME! NO STOP LET ME GO! NARUTO PLEASE HELP!" Padme yelled as she tried to get away but Visio grabbed her by the arm and pulled her back to the middle of the room.

XXXXX With Naruto

Naruto was fighting several gunmen with his lightsaber when he heard "NARUTO PLEASE HELP!" making him widen his eyes in shock "That's it ENOUGH!" Naruto shouted as he Force pushed everyone away and created a Giant Rasengan that he used to smash all the walls in his way toward Padme's voice.

XXXXX And Back With Padme

"Please don't run away from me Senator Amidala I would hate to hurt you!" Visio yelled as he kicked her in the stomach and would have continued but was stopped by the wall behind him exploding.

Walking through the whole in the wall was Naruto who when he looked at the state Padme was in wasted no time in taking out his lightsaber and cutting through any soldiers that were around them and then delivering a powerful punch at Visio causing him to go flying backwards. Now that Visio was the only one left he was backing away in shock as he thought he saw gold flames come off Naruto's body "I guess some things you just have to do yourself. My dream won't end here I will create a government in my image!" Visio yelled as he regained his composure and pulled out a sword "this sword was made in the times of the old republic it can even go up against your lightsaber. I bought this just in case I had to fight you Jedi!" Visio snarled at Naruto.

Naruto simply ignored what he was saying and quickly went on the offensive doing a backflip over him and when he landed cut him on both arms and his legs making it incredibly difficult for Visio to lift his sword and making him fall to his knees "what's the matter it barely looks like you can hold you sword here let me help you with that" Naruto said and in one swift motion cut off Visio's hand that was holding the sword.

Visio screamed in pain as he fell backwards onto the floor holding onto his arm "My hand you fucking bastard you cut off my hand!" Visio yelled and continued screaming in pain until he was kicked upside the head by a passing Naruto, which made him briefly, shut up.

"Padme…I'm sorry I wasn't able to protect you" Naruto whispered as he picked up a shaking Padme who quickly latched onto him not wanting to letting go "we're leaving this place" Naruto said as he jumped up to an open window.

"What about me you're a Jedi you're just going to leave me here!?" Visio yelled as a last attempt to not die.

"My clones found your armory they have dealt with all of your followers and have planted bombs all over the place. You and this place will be forgotten in the explosion so don't worry you won't feel a thing which is more then you deserve." Was all that Naruto said before jumping out of the window and when he was far away enough he signaled to one of his clones to blow it up and with that the threat was officially dealt with.

Back at the house Naruto went inside Padme's room and tucked her into bed under her sheets Naruto was about to leave the room thinking she was asleep when he felt Padme grab his hand "please don't go" she whispered to which Naruto simply nodded and got under the sheets with her. It was not to long after that Padme began to cry again as she held onto Naruto "He was…going…to ki-" Padme said as she sobbed but was interrupted by Naruto who hugged her tightly not letting her finish her sentence.

"Don't worry Padme they're gone now they'll never hurt you again I promise" Naruto said as he held her close and Padme nodded slowly falling asleep in his arms. Naruto soon followed but not before creating a mass number of Shadow Clones to watch over them as they rested

The next day Padme was the first to wake up and noticed that she was lying down next to Naruto. It took her a few seconds until she remembered what happened last night and for a few seconds she panicked until she remembered how Naruto had been there to save her 'no matter what you always try your hardest for me huh Naruto… and you never let anything bring you down either…' Padme thought as she slowly got out of bed making sure not to wake up Naruto and looked out her window only to gasp in shock as literally the entire house was surrounded by copies of the blonde sleeping on her bed there were so many that Padme couldn't even count them.

It was not to long until Naruto woke up from his slumber only to see Padme wasn't next to him so he jumped out of bed running down stairs let out a sigh of relief when he saw Padme sitting in a chair at the table "Padme you should be resting" Naruto stated still feeling guilty that at least in his mind he had let those men kidnap her in the first place.

"I couldn't get any sleep," Padme stated simply as she stared at a spot on the table.

"Padme if you need to talk it's okay…I'm here for you" Naruto said as he sat down but a guilty nagging voice in his head simply reminded him about how he wasn't there for her fast enough the other day.

Padme said nothing for a few seconds before she sighed deeply and finally spoke "I felt so weak…Naruto when I was captured my only hope was that you would save me… I couldn't do anything myself and I hate that" Padme raised her voice as she punched the table "I never want to feel that helpless again."

After what Padme said Naruto was momentarily in shock as he didn't know how to react but thankfully he knew exactly how to react to what Padme said next "Naruto I would like you to teach me some things so I could protect myself it doesn't have to be with the Force just some fighting tips if possible" Padme asked thinking that if she could learn to fight from Naruto she wouldn't feel helpless like that again if something similar ever happened.

"Yeah sure and I know just what to start off with" Naruto said as he smiled

XXXXX Two Months Later

It was two months later and in that time Naruto had been getting Padme in better shape so that he could teach her hand to hand combat but not only that he was also able to talk to Padme about what happened and help her recover and get over what happened to her. Now though Naruto had to return to Coruscant and hopefully become a Jedi Knight.

Naruto was currently sitting on top of his starfighter with Padme right next to him "you know I'm going to miss you" Naruto said as he stared at the sky.

"Don't be so dramatic" Padme smirked "besides I'll be there soon I just got to pack some of my stuff you know?" She finished as she brushed some of her hair out of her face.

"Either way I want R2 to stay with you it'll make me feel better and I think I can survive the trip home by myself" Naruto said as he pressed a button on his ship and the hatch opened up but before Naruto could hop inside Padme turned him around and proceeded to kiss him.

"We'll finish this later when I get to Coruscant" Padme said when they separated and let him go so he could get into his ship.

"Goodbye" Naruto said as his Starship lifted up a few feet and turned away from Padme continued to ascend higher and higher until Padme couldn't see the Starship anymore. "Goodbye Naruto" Padme whispered to herself when she felt R2 bump into her and begin beeping and whistling "don't worry R2 we'll see him soon"

XXXXX Coruscant

Naruto had just arrived when he had been notified that the council wanted to see him immediately 'I guess I should get going' Naruto told himself as he turned the corner and began running toward the Jedi Council room.

Once he was there Naruto realized he was slightly nervous as he entered the room but Naruto quickly overcame it when he stood in front of all the Masters. "Naruto we have contacted the new Senator she says that your mission was a complete success so we as a council have decided to grant you the rank of Jedi Knight do you accept?" Mace Windu stated in his usual tone of voice.

"Yes, Master I accept" Naruto answered with a smile on his face.

"Go you may Naruto tired you must be" Yoda told his former apprentice feeling some pride in the fact that Naruto who he had trained was already a Jedi Knight.

"Thank you Master" was all Naruto said leaving the room but as soon as he left all the members heard a shout of "YES!" from the new Jedi Knight.

"Do you think we have made a mistake?" Mace asked when hearing Naruto's shouts of joy.

"No we have not he is still a child in some ways but I believe that when it comes down to it he will be greater than all of us" Shaak Ti answered to which most of the other Master nodded their heads agreeing since there was just something special about the blonde Jedi Knight it made some want to believe in the young Jedi.

Chapter 9 End

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