This a Naruto and Star Wars fanfiction only.

The ship was by far the single most easy thing I ever used, I just set the destination and the ship would pretty much take us there with no more input needed. The bed in my quarters could use a few touches, I know this ship was built for convenience and utility in mind, so I guess it was too much for me to expect it to be comfortable.

The first planet we were supposed to go was a war torn world, in truth it should be at all. The Republic pretty much gave this planet to the Empire with a pink bow and everything, guess they actually didn't bother asking the people that lived on the planet for their opinion on the matter. Father often told me that the place was under constant disruption caused by a resistance movement.

I often told him that this so called resistance was none other than the Republic trying to be a thorn on the side of the Empire, I know this had to be the reason they managed to continue to fight against the now established planetary government. Without the weapons, armor and supplies they must receive from the Republic, they would all end up dead within a standard month, a year at most.

As the ship came to be in standard orbit I heard a noise that pretty much told me Baras wanted to tell me something. Vette was already there and was looking at me as I walked towards the holographic terminal.

As soon as I walked near it the display came on and the full body image of Baras appeared before us, "Good to know you reached the planet Apprentice, this planet is named Balmora, it was surrendered to the Empire as a one of the concessions that was made during the signing of the treaty. That however is irrelevant to your task."

"I am sending you to that world to find and eliminate a member of my spy network, with Nomen Kar so close to finding the identity of my agents I must eliminate those agents that are the most vulnerable to being exposed. My spy is an officer in the Republic military, he has served me rather well over the years."

I looked at Baras and I looked at Vette, "If this man is such an asset Master, why don't you simply recall him. It would seem like such a waste of a loyal subordinate. I think that this spy could be even be deployed again with some facial reconstruction after the threat is dealt with."

Baras began to nod his head, "I indeed would prefer if he could be saved, he has been a most efficient agent, and as you mention it would seem a waste. I however must tell you that the risk he possess to my spy network as a whole far outweights his one value as an asset, should we recall him this would serve as an affirmation that my spy network actually exists. He must be eliminated, and his supposed ties with the Republic be plain to see."

"I didn't send you on a rescue mission Apprentice, I sent you as the enforcer of my will. I have sent word to one of my staff to help you in your task, he is an officer down in Sobrik by the name of Malavai Quinn. He is an efficient officer that should not give you any problems. I would highly suggest that you keep your intentions on that planet a secret."

In other words he is telling me to keep my mouth shut unless it is vital to my mission on the planet. "Very well Master, I shall take care of this matter as quickly and efficiently as I am able." I saw the communication turn off and I looked at Vette.

"See Naruto this is why I don't trust Sith, no offense intended, they dispose of people once they are no longer useful. Like we are just a thing to be used and thrown away after they got done with it."

I smiled at Vette, "That is what Darth Baras wants, that doesn't mean that it's what I will do. I don't treat people as disposable commodities, never have, never will. An officer of his caliber is experienced and knowledgeable about the Republic Military and their way of thinking. If we eventually go to war with the Republic such a person would be invaluable, Baras simply doesn't see that."

I walked over to her and placed my hand on her shoulder, "Instead I will have him work for me, I will try to convince him of going to my estate. Nobody will be able to know he is even there. I will have him work on strategies in order to either defend the Empire or prepare us for outright war."

She relaxed a little and began nodding her head, "So we are discussing this so that this Quinn person doesn't know? Are you being a little paranoid Naruto."

I began to walk towards the entry hatch and I heard her follow, "It's not paranoia if the concern is justified Vette, we don't know if this Quinn person will be loyal to us, or still be loyal only to Baras. My father once told me an old Sith saying, be ware of your master, be ware of apprentice, never take a situation for granted."

As we got off the ship and walked through the hangar I could tell she was looking at me, "And where does that leave me?" Without looking I decided to stop and answer her question. "You are my precious sister, why would I need to worry about your loyalties."

I walked over to the place Malavai Quinn was supposed to but a man stopped me by jumping up and down and trying to get my attention. "Hey, my lord or sir, honestly I don't know how to talk to you imperials. Look you appear to be important with the Empire, maybe you can get me in touch with the people in charge."

I couldn't help but to laugh, "I just got to this planet and already I meet a person who is begging to be carted off and imprisoned, is everyone on this planet crazy or just you?" He immediately began to shake his head, I guess that was not his intentions after all.

"Look I don't want to be arrested, but I got connections. I know where the resistance is, what they have and what they are going to hit. The resistance is dead and I am smart enough to want to come out of this with my head. You can put me in touch with the right people, and they might even give you a finders fee."

Darn it, more requests for aid, I guess this is going to be something on every single planet I go to. I told him I would take care of it. Since I am wearing a helmet they will not be able to tell several copies of me are actually going to do the actual side jobs. I went to a nearby empty warehouse and with a single hand sign twelve shadow clones appeared and took off.

With this many shadow clones they will take care off the side jobs allowing us to concentrate on the supposed Republic officer. We walked towards the place where our contact was and the first thing I see this man do is berate an imperial soldier for being inefficient.

"Well at least we know the sort of person we will be working with, he couldn't be a bigger stick in the mud even if he tried." I had to laugh as Vette mentioned that. I was not about to say it but I secretly agree with her.

"I am not a stick in the mud, I happen to prefer efficiency and adherence to Imperial Military Regulations, now mind telling me why are you two stepping in here? I do believe I shall begin the introductions, I am Lieutenant Malavi Quinn and I will ask again who are you two?"

I took off my helmet and looked at him, "I am the Apprentice of Darth Baras, Naruto Uzumaki, and the young woman who called you a stick in the mud is my spunky surrogate sister Vette. Now I been sent to deal with a matter by order of my Master. I was told you would be the officer who will aid us in this sensitive task."

He immediately stood at attention and nodded his head. "Yes, my lord, I was told to contact Darth Baras the second you came to my office. I been told that you are hunting a danger to his spy network. You may contact Darth Baras from my own quarters, you will have privacy to discuss sensitive matters there my lord, now if you will excuse me I need to speak with some men who failed to preform their duties."

As soon as we stepped into the room and locked it the image of Baras appeared on the Holographic terminal. "I see you met Quinn, you might find him a bit rigid but other than that he is a fine officer. You are hunting one of my spies that has served me well for several years giving me information as he worked undercover as a Republic Officer."

I looked at Baras and I knew that I was not going to like this assignment one bit. "Master if he is such a valuable spy, why not fake his death, extract him, and with a little facial reconstruction surgery he would be useful in other ways."

Baras looked at me and began shaking his head, "A tempting solution but no, we can't risk having my spy network revealed. Should he be eliminated and the body found out that it was a fake then they will look for the real body and thus expose my spy network. He is a valuable operative but no operative is worth the expose and risk to my entire spy network."

He looked at Vette and then at me before he continued, "You must remember your lessons from the Academy my Apprentice, once a resource is no longer useful or the value of keeping it becomes to high, it must be eliminated to prevent future impediments to future plans."

"Do not tell Quinn more than it is necessary for the completion of your task on Balmorra, he is loyal but the more sensitive information he knows the higher chances that we might have to eliminate him. I await your report once the task is complete, don't disappoint me Apprentice."

Suddenly I realized something, if knowing too much sensitive information could cause Baras to actually consider Quinn's elimination a necessity, well that didn't exactly make me feel that comfortable. I would pretty much know even more than he did if he is my Master. That would mean that at some point Darth Baras would consider my elimination to be necessary too.

I guess it really comes down to what Father warned me about. It is an old Sith saying that for a long time I felt was just a paranoid saying, but now that I am in my current situation I realized it was actually pretty damn good advice.

The old saying goes, Be ware of your Master, Be ware of your Student, Never take a situation for granted, and you shall live a long and prosperous life. I often did think it was paranoid that you could not trust either your Master or your Student, then again that was before I became the Apprentice of Darth Baras.

I better be more prepared for the eventual time when Darth Baras betrays me. I had decided to save the spy because he would be a good asset to have in the eventual war with the Galactic Republic. Now I am certain that if he knows so much sensitive information about Darth Baras and his operations he would also be an asset to my eventual plot to deal with Baras.

If my so-called Master decides to betray the Empire, I must be ready to remove him from any sort of power position that could allow him to do too much harm to the Empire or it's citizens.

"Vette we better check with Quinn, maybe he has a good idea on how to track down that Republic Officer that has been giving my Master such a hard time." Vette for one didn't look to happy that I was accepting to work with him.

As we stepped outside I saw her look around before she turned around and looked at me, "Alright maybe you are right, he has been on this planet longer than us, but for the record Naruto I am still against working with Captain Control Freak."

That is when I heard someone clear their throat and Vette jumped a few feet up in the air just from the surprise. "Actually I prefer if you called me Lieutenant Control Freak, I am not a Captain after all. As for the Republic Officer that is causing your Master trouble I think we can locate him rather easily if we placed a few sensors in the local communications hub."

I looked at Quinn and couldn't help but to nod my head, "Well that would allow us to tap the communication signals that the Republic is using to hack our communications. A sort of Counter Hacking operation, I do wish my education had a bit more in counter intelligence techniques, but sadly I only studied enough to be qualified to the rank of Watcher."

"Father was certainly upset enough that when I told him I would apply to Imperial Intelligence he sent me to Korriban a lot sooner than I had planned. Just give me the devices and I will make sure to install them Quinn. I will call you on my portable holographic communicator once the devices are installed. I would also suggest to keep aware of the space port scheduled departures and arrivals. The Jedi might want to help extract this Officer if they feel we are close to capturing him or her."

Quinn smiled at my suggestion and for some reason I had a feeling that I just been tested and I passed the test. "Very well my Lord I shall keep an eye on departures and arrivals. I agree with you if this Officer is skilled enough to cause trouble to a Dark Council member, then this Republican may be indeed valuable enough to send a Jedi to help his safe extraction from an Imperial planet."

The actual place was rather an easy walk to get to, the only thing was I had to destroy a whole bunch of droids on my way there, and I don't know why but it made me feel a little bad destroying all those droids, I mean my shadow clones pretty much destroyed a bunch of them during their missions in the factory, I know since I got the memories of the missions when they were done doing the side jobs.

I guess I never really got over the droid that was my good friend back when I was studying back home. I made that droid as a test of one of the subjects I had taken an interest on. She was a good friend to me, a little on the mischievous side and she sure loved to play pranks on dad and the people in our home.

"Something the matter Naruto? You seem to have gotten a lot quiet on our way here. You didn't even talk when you were destroying those droids that were on our way to this place?" I looked at Vette and could not help but to feel rather touched that she actually noticed I was having something that concerned me.

"Well Vette it's just that some of the droids here reminded me of a droid I once made. I have to admit, that droid became a rather good friend of mine, but she suddenly disappeared from my family home on day, after destroying so many of these droids it made me remember her for some reason."

Vette began to laugh and make jokes about me having a childhood crush on a machine. I guess when she said it, it did sound rather silly, but I could never deny it. That droid really was a good friend to me and when she disappeared I really did miss her, so much so that I never tried to make another droid again.

"So your friend the droid was she a regular astromech or was she a protocol droid model? What did you assign for her serial number?" I had to admit this was making my job of installing all these listening and sensor devices rather difficult with Vette asking me this sort of questions, then again I did tell her I did think of her as my little sister, so her giving me some trouble is to be expected.

As soon as the last sensor was installed, I looked at Vette and she still wanted to know the answer to her question. I decided to better tell her or else she was going to continue asking till I answer her questions. "It was a protocol droid type of a model, a little closer to the old HK series to be sure since she had optical camouflage as one of her circuits. As what she was called I was also learning about astrology when I built her so I ended up calling her by an old zodiac sign, now that I think about it, I wonder how my old friend Scorpio is doing these days."