Chapter 11

"Normal talk"

"Thought or ghost"

"Hologram & communicator"

Hey, guys, I'm back! I'm sorry that it's been so long. I had school, and I was sick, so I could not do much writing.

I OWN NOTHINGbut on a totally unrelated note, would any of you happen to know where I can find a duffle bag and some cheap hired muscle…and maybe a way into Skywalker Ranch...hm? No reason...

THE FOX MEETS THE ONES

Sent to discover the origin

of a mysterious distress call,
Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker,

and his Padawan, Ahsoka Tano,
are stranded on a distant planet!

They discover three beings, more powerful

with the Force than any Jedi has seen before.
The Father keeps a fragile balance between

his Daughter, who allies with the LIGHT side,

and the son, who drifts ever closer to the DARK.

With his strength failing, the Father asks Anakin

to stay and take his place, preserving the balance

between Light and Dark,

but after passing a perilous test, Skywalker refuses.

Now, we find them about to depart for their journey home,

or so they think...

As their ship slowly left the planet's atmosphere, we find Anakin Skywalker lying on a makeshift bed, resting from the trial that he had just faced. As he was enjoying a brief moment of peace, he started to hear a voice.

"Anakin," called the mysterious voice, yet Anakin did not react.

"Anakin," repeated the voice again. This time, the young Jedi started to stir, but had yet awaken.

"Anakin," the voice spoke for a third time, and Anakin finally awoke, grabbing his head and rubbing the sleep from his eyes. Once he opened his eyes, he saw that he was no longer in the confines of his ship, but a forest filled with beautiful trees and a small lake that had a waterfall falling into it from a cliff, creating mist that covered a small portion of the lake. As Anakin walked closer, he saw an exact copy of himself rise from the water and start walking towards him while it started to speak.

"It's true what they say…You are the chosen one."

Anakin smirked at the praise he was being given. But his feelings quickly changed to anger as he saw his copy transform into the Son.

"Join me…Together we can change the balance of the universe, my friend," said the Son in a calm voice.

"You must know I will never join the Dark Side willingly," said Anakin in response, a bit of his anger showing.

"How simple you make it, light and dark, as if there is one without the other…Aligned, you and I can restore balance wherever we go, peace to the universe," continued the Son, seemingly not noticing the spike of anger in Anakin.

"By becoming a Sith…Never!" said an angry Anakin and started to walk away, not noticing the anger in the Son's eyes, not noticing that the creature's calm was a paper-thin mask.

"We will destroy the Sith and the Jedi!" shouted the Son as fire started to burn all around him, and as Anakin turned around, he saw the Son transform into a giant bat-monster that charged straight for the young Jedi Knight.

However, before he could reach the Jedi, Anakin had awoken and jolted up into a sitting position, back in his bed aboard his own ship and, covering his face to get himself under control, he told his heart to calm down.

Ahsoka walked closer to her Master to see if he was all right.

"Were you having a nightmare?" she asked.

"Something like that," he answered.

Their conversation was interrupted by Obi-Wan. "If you're done napping, I could use a little help here," he said as the ship shook a bit.

"I'm coming," answered Anakin in a tired voice, but before he could enter the cockpit, he heard a familiar voice. He turned around and saw the Son holding Ahsoka by the neck.

"Leaving so soon? Not without this, you won't," said the Son as his fingers dug into Ahsoka's neck, his grip tighter and tighter. As his hand flew out, he used the Force to open the airlock that led to the outside, and then, still holding on to the Padawan with one hand, he jumped out.

As Ahsoka and the Son were freefalling, the Son transformed into the bat monster and began to fly away.

"Ahsoka!" yelled Anakin as he ran towards the cockpit to turn the spacecraft around and go after them.

"What's going on?" asked Obi-Wan

"The Son took Ahsoka!" Anakin told Kenobi.

"What in the blazes are you talking about?" asked a confused Obi-Wan.

"Move, let me fly!" yelled Anakin, on the verge of panic, as he yanked the ship around and quickly followed the Son. They chased him through a dense fog, and suddenly the Son disappeared, and a giant tower appeared before them.

"Look out!" Kenobi shouted, his eyes going wide as he saw that Anakin was heading straight for it. He quickly grabbed his controls and moved the ship out the way, but he did it too quickly, and the ship was thrown off course, and it appeared that it would crash.

Anakin again took control of the ship and made an emergency crash landing, digging a long furrow in the dirt with the ship's nose.

Once the ship had stopped moving, and it became apparent that they were going to survive after all, Obi-Wan looked at Anakin and spoke, "I didn't think you saw it."

"It was a giant tower," responded Anakin, "of course I saw it."

They then exited the ship and looked around for any sings of the Son or Ahsoka.

"Any sign of him?" asked Anakin

"No," responded Kenobi, "but I think it's obvious where he's taken her." He continued as the saw the giant tower with thr big green light at the top.

"We must hurry," said Anakin as he started to walk towards the tower, but was stopped by Obi-Wan.

"Anakin, this wasn't a mistake, he brought us here for a reason…We must not get involved. Any conflict here could have dramatic repercussions for the universe at large."

"I don't care. He's too powerful for Ahsoka. I won't leave her alone." Anakin again started to walk forward, but was stopped by Kenobi putting a hand on his shoulder.

"We are in the middle of something we don't truly understand. We'd be wise to confer with the father first."

"There's no time."

"This is what he wants, to divide us."

"It's my fault he took her."

"You must feel how strong this part of the planet is with the Dark Side," Obi-Wan pleaded with his friend. "The father will know what to do."

"He can't help us," said Anakin and started to slowly walk towards the tower.

[Korriban – in the Halls of the Sith Academy]

We now return to our favorite blond Sith, who can currently be found in the training rooms of the academy, sparring with his first apprentice. He was without his upper armor, and had one black blade of his double-bladed lightsaber in a fierce blade-lock with his apprentice, who was currently fending him off with two blue sabers, one of which had once belonged to a Jedi she had killed in battle on Orto Plutonia.

His apprentice had changed drastically in her time at Naruto's academy. She was no longer the weak Jedi she had once been, and having thrown aside her old robes, now wore a cream-colored backless top with a deep V-front that showed off her bare back and shoulders, and brown straps around her midriff that accentuated her breasts and bellybutton. A light brown loincloth covered her groin, along with a homemade bikini bottom.

She also sported a bit of gray cloth wrapped around her feet that left her toes and heels bare, and wound upwards around both leg calves, but left her right knee uncovered. Anoher wrapping around her left forearm, with a couple silver spikes on it, and brown straps that she'd tied around her lekku and montrals, long enough that they almost reached the ground behind her, trailing her like a banner.

She was marked with withe stripes of warpaint on both her arms and thighs, and had silver toenails on her half-bare feet. She also donned a withe tooth necklace, silver chains around her waist, three thin golden bracelets on her right wrist, and a silver armband on her upper right arm.

Her eyes were also changed, as her normal black eyes had become the bright yellow of the Sith, however, with the help of Naruto and a holocron from Darth Zannah, she was able to keep her beauty intact.

Now, while Naruto greatly frowned upon the teaching from the ones that had followed the Rule of Two, he could not deny that some of them had some good things to offer, as he himself learned from them, but he thought for himself instead of following a stupid rule. He even started to pass that way of thinking onto his own apprentice, and would continue to do so to others that followed him.

Anyway, back to his apprentice.

She had listened to his words and followed them to the letter. She endured all of the torturous training he had put her through, and then some. While her Jedi training got in the way at first, she quickly learned to be ruthless to her enemies and kind to her allies, while still demanding the respect she had earned. She was taught many new force attacks, such as Force Lightning and Force Choke. Naruto had even said that, if she progressed fast enough, she could start learning the more advanced techniques, such as Force Drain and even perhaps the Death Field.

Aside from that, she was taught other lightsaber forms. While at first she thought that she only needed to know how to use one lightsaber, she was quickly proven wrong by Naruto as he showed her how she was limiting her potential with just studying the forms she knew.

She had started to use a second lightsaber from that realization.

She was also now seeing what Naruto was doing while not involving himself in the battles between the Republic and the CIS. He was slowly building his own army, and starting to even build his own empire. She remembered when she went with him to a colony where he recruited his people.

[Flashback]

Naruto and Shaak Ti were traveling to a known slave colony with four battalions of battle droids. As they were nearing the planet, Shaak Ti finally let her curiosity get the better of her.

"Master, why are we going here? Isn't this a slave colony, and while I am all about killing slavers, I know that you would support them in the community you are creating, and I know that the previous Sith Empires were built on slavery, so I do not understand what the point is."

In response, she got a chuckle from Naruto.

"While it is true that I support it, that does not mean that I do not think it is flawed. I think that a man or a woman should be able to choose what they do, but if they do something that is not allowed, they should have their freedom taken away. Now, I don't mean if they steal or something like that, what I mean is taking the life of another for a selfish reason, or commiting acts of treason or genocide just for their own gain. My new system will allow for people who think that they are above the law to get punished, while the innocent ones will rule over them like they once did over the weak. Do you understand now?"

"I think I understand, Master. Thank you for enlightening me," she said with a bow.

Their conversation was stopped by the ship landing in front of the slave colony. As they exited the ship, they saw people in chains while some slavers used whips to make them work faster. When Shaak Ti saw this, she was about charge in as the long time with the Jedi Order affected her, but she was stopped by Naruto putting his hand in front of her.

"Wait. Don't kill them. I want them alive." He then looked at the droids and spoke. "Set your blasters to stun, and when you capture them, put slave collars on them, and free the prisoners." With his orders given, he gave the signal to his apprentice to attack, and attack she did.

After a short, very one-sided battle, all the slavers were captured and had slave collars around their necks, while tho original slaves were now free and rounded up in the center of the village. There were about a thousand slaves altogether, and about two hundred slavers. Then Naruto stepped on a large rock and addressed the slaves.

"Hello, former slaves! My name is Naruto Uzumaki, and this is my army! I am a Sith and the leader of a new faction that is being built in secret. Now, you may be wondering why I am here – well, I am here to give you a choice! You can go back to wherever you came from and fear for your safety as the Republic and the CIS fight their pointless war, or you can go somewhere where the good people rule over the corrupt, and where slavers become slaves, while their former slaves rule over them. I give you the option to become part of something bigger…I give you the option to be truly free, and I give you the option to become part of the New Sith Empire! Now WHO is with me!" He yelled out.

He waited for a short while and he was rewarded with chant.

"Empire!"

"Empire!"

"Empire!"

With that done, he moved all of his forces and his new citizens towards the ships, then flew towards his capital.

[End-Flashback]

As they continued to duel on Korriban, Shaak Ti saw an opening in Naruto's guard, and she took it. She went for a double stab in the stomach, but she was surprised when Naruto angled his body so that the two blades passed him harmlessly, and then he moved swiftly inside her reach and struck her jaw with his right elbow. The attack stunned her, and that was all Naruto needed to disarm her of her weapon and to drive her into the ground. As she shook the cobwebs out of her head, she found the tip of her masters blade at her throat.

"You have grown powerful, my apprentice, but you must learn to see the difference between opportunity and deceit. When you learn to do so, you will know where and when to strike, thus ensuring your victory," said Naruto and helped Shaak Ti get up off of the ground. He was about to continue when he felt a dark power and seemed to be getting stronger.

He grabbed his head to clear it, and this action was not unnoticed by his apprentice.

"Master, are you okay? You seem to be distracted."

"It is nothing, we are done for now. Go clean up and then continue your studies in the Dark Side while I go to my chamber to meditate," he answered and went off towards his chambers without another word.

Shaak Ti watched him leave. She knew her master's moods now, and she had easily seen that he had sensed something very strange. She frowned, wondering why she herself had felt nothing.

Well, Master Uzumaki had said she needed to continue her studies, hadn't he?

As Naruto entered his chamber, he sat on a circular mat in the middle of the room, adopting his usual cross-legged position. He started to meditate, trying to find the disturbance that he had sensed. It was so faint that it was tempting to believe he was just imagining it, but – no, it was there.

Time passed, he had no idea how much, the external world faded away. He seemed to be hitting a roadblock of some sort, stopping him from locating the source of the potent Dark Side power. Just as he was about to give up, he heard a voice. At first it was just a whisper, fainter than a passing breeze, but it soon got louder, until Naruto heard it clearly.

Go to the Realm of Shadow, there you shall find the answers you seek, said the mysterious voice.

"What are you taking about? Where is this Realm beyond Shadows? Where do I find it, and how?" asked Naruto, looking around for any sign, but all he got was a cryptic answer: remember your training and you will know.

Naruto then thought about what that could mean. He was just about to decide it could mean absolutely anything, when he remembered something about the training he did while on Korriban.

[Flashback]

Naruto was searching through the tombs of the ancient Sith when the floor underneath him crumbled, and he plummeted towards his death.

No, not death. Spitting out water and gasping for air, Naruto dragged himself onto the shore of a subterranean river that had saved his life, and very nearly drowned him in the process.

"Damn, that was close," he said to himself when his lungs were free of water and he could speak again. He lay on his back, glad that there was something to cushion his fall, glad that he was still breathing. While he did have a healing factor, he'd rather not test its limits by making it repair all the damage he'd have done to his body if, instead of water, there had been rocks waiting for him at the end of that fall.

Alright, enough lying around. When he'd came out of the water, he'd seen that there was a giant door on the bank of this sunless river, deep beneath the sands of Korriban. As he got closer, he saw that there was ancient writing carved into the doors, and from what he could see beyond them, there was a room for some sort of ritual.

He pried the doors open with some effort and the help of a force pull, and then he entered the chamber ,where he saw a giant pyramid holocron that glowed bright with a color of crimson blood. As he got closer, he saw that there was an altar before it, which had a single chalice sitting on it. He saw that it was filled with a dark purple liquid of unknown origin.

As he walked closer, he suddenly stopped. He was hearing a faint voice coming from the holocron. He quickly continued on without much thought. Just as he was about to reach for the holocron, a figure appeared in front of him. Naruto quickly jumped back and activated his double-bladed lightsaber and charged at it, but to his surprise, he just passed through it.

He tried again, but it produced the same results. After a few more tries, he gave up and moved back a bit to look at the figure. It was dark-skinned and had brown hair and a lot of wrinkle,s showing that it was an older male. He wore standard Sith robes, and had his hood up. He was outlined with a glowing blue aura.

"I see that you have finally stopped in your pointless attempts at striking a ghost with a lightsaber. Now tell me why you are here, before I destroy you and add you the pile of scavengers that thought that they could defile my final resting place," the old man spoke, with his distaste showing in his every word.

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki, the Sith apprentice of Count Dooku, and I am here to learn from the Sith of old. I'd be honored if you would teach me what you know," said Naruto.

"Hmm, you wish to learn…I do know many things, and you look like you have some potential. Also, it does get a bit boring inside these tombs…Very well. I shall teach you what I know, and since you are clearly ready to learn, let us begin with our first lesson," said the ghost.

"Thank you, master. I will try to live up to you expectations," said Naruto with a bow.

"Good. Now, the first lesson you will learn is Mind Walking…"

[End-Flashback]

"That's it! Mind Walking, that what it meant," said Naruto out loud as he hit his head for being stupid and not realizing it before. He then sat down and started the slow process of detaching his spirit from his body, thus allowing him entrance to the Realm beyond Shadows.

After a while, Naruto opened his eyes and saw a familiar, pitch black void. All around him there were shadows, and he could barely see his own feet, but he still kept his calm. He looked around for any signs of the being, and he did not have to wait long before he heard the voice again.

"So, you came. I was beginning to worry if you would even know how to get here, but I guess you proved me wrong like so many other people, isn't that right, Naruto Uzumaki," said the voice from behind Naruto.

Naruto turned around, and what he saw was a huge human who seemed to be in his elderly years if his long beard and white hair were anything to go by. Now, while he was old, you could see that his body still had fight in it, he had large muscles that appeared to be gained from years of hard labor. He wore brow pants that were tucked into a pair of black boots. He wore no shirt, but he did have a simple brown blacksmith's apron over his chest.

"Who are you, and what do you want?" asked Naruto as he stared down the old man.

"I have been called many names, but all have been lost in the sands of time. You may call me the Builder, as that is what I did so long ago, before I became one with the Force. As to what I want, well, you felt the disturbance in the Force, and the cause of it does not mean anything good for the galaxy," said the Builder.

"What are you talking about, old man? I don't know what you're talking about," said Naruto as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"Long ago, three being came before me. One Daughter, one Son…and the Father. They were extremely powerful in the ways of the Force and could do many amazing things. They told me that they needed a blade that could kill a being as powerful as them. They presented me with a sphere that held a portion of their power, and told me to craft the blade for them, and that it should be one of a kind.

"I accepted the task; however, while at first I was going to build them a sword the size of the standard lightsaber you wield now as weapons, I got greedy and decided that I would build two blades instead of one. So I shortened the design and made two daggers. They were beautiful, and were honestly one of my best works and I was very proud of them.

"So, when the father again came I gave him one blade, while keeping the other to myself. I guess they were impressed, as they returned after some time had passed. However, they wanted for me to build something much bigger than I had ever even dreamed of building, but none the less, I gave them what they wanted, and designed a diamond shaped home for them to live in isolation…"

"Why do I get the feeling that there is a but somewhere in this story?" asked Naruto.

"You are correct, young Sith. When it came time for me to start building their home, they again appeared. This time, however, they were not as nice as the first three times. They seemed panicked, confused and, dare I even say it, scared. They demanded that I hand over the designs to the fruits of my labor…"said the Builder, his eyes flashing with anger, making them glow like hot coal.

"I'm guessing you declined their offer, and judging from your reaction, I would say that after that they resorted to more drastic measures," said Naruto as he put a hand to his chin to think about what he was learning. There were beings of power that he had not even known about, and the archives never even spoke of.

"You are right again. The Son attacked me and took the plans from me. The Son used the same power as you do, while the Daughter, who healed my wounds, used its exact opposite. But the Father was the middle between the two, keeping them in check, or that is what I believe, as I did not see him use any of his powers. Anyway, with that they left, never to be seen or heard from again, however, they have recently surfaced again, and they are meddling in affairs that are not their own. That is what you felt as they tried to summon the Chosen One to them," The Builder spoke with a serious tone.

"Hmm, you don't mean that stupid prophecy about a child born purely from the Force, and that he will bring balance to the Force?"asked Naruto, now with a scowl on his face.

"Yes, the one and the same - but you seem to not believe it, from the way you speak of it."

"No, I do not. I see it as an easy way out, you believe that someone will save you and patiently wait for him to come, while you could be doing something to change your situation. I see the people who follow a prophecy to be nothing but cowards, as they don't have the strength to stand on their own two legs."

"You raise a valid point, young man. Now I need you to prove that point by stopping The Ones, and putting an end to their meddling," said the Builder.

"Very well, but how will I get in, if you made it for isolation? It would mean that there are very few entrances, and if I am correct, those ones are under the Father's watchful eyes."

"You are indeed correct, there is only one entrance and exit. They will both be guarded by the Father, so that means that you will need another way in. Luckily for you, there is always a secret way, one that only he who built it would know," said the Builder with a smirk.

"Well, how do I get in?" asked Naruto.

"Now that is quite simple. You see, I disguised the entrance as a trash chute of sorts, and that is where you will be going in."

"Hold up! I am not climbing through a bunch of sewage just to get there."

"Don't worry, I made it so that the trash actually gets redirected and shot out into space in other areas, while the door will stay clean, and it's even big enough for your fighter. Also, to kill them you will need this…" The Builder he extended his hands in front of him, and then clapped them together.

As he drew them apart again, you could see a beautiful blade start to appear. It had a curved hilt, with no guard to protect the hand. The blade was elegant and was pure white in color, while the hilt was made from gold.

"This is the one I kept," the Builder said with a sigh. "It has stayed with me for so many years, and I am proud that I will be able to rest, knowing that it will be used for what it was intended to do…now go, and bring those meddlers down." With those words, he disappeared.

"I will do as you ask and use this blade to finish of the Ones," Naruto told the empty air, sensing that the Builder was still with him. Then he picked up the blade and left the Realm beyond Shadows.

As he awoke in his chambers, he quickly started to prepare for the battles that were to come. He strapped on his chest armor, then picked up his mask and strapped it to his waist. He then looked at the blade that lay on the floor, and after a moment, picked it up and strapped it to the back of his waist.

He then ran towards the hangars where his ship resided. On the way there, he saw Colt and gave him the signal that he was leaving, to which the clone answered with a nod and continued with his work.

When Naruto reached the hangar he quickly entered his ship, as well as loading up R-3. Just as he was about to leave, he was stopped by Snips who jumped onto his ship and would not get off.

"Snips, get out of here! You can't be there, I need to leave!" Naruto shouted as he tried to get the female Vornskr to move out of the way, but she would not budge. Then Naruto suddenly realized what she wanted. "You want to go with me don't you?" he asked, to which he saw her nod. He thought about it and then looked back at Snips, who looked at him with quavering eyes.

As he saw those eyes, he knew that he only had one choice. He let out a sigh before opening the bubble that he used as protection from the harsh vacuum that is space, and let the Vornskr in. As she jumped in, she licked his face and then lay down beside his legs. With his problem solved, Naruto quickly closed the cockpit and then flew towards the location of all the Dark Side powers he sensed earlier.

[Mortis]

AS Naruto arrived at the planet, he quickly maneuvered through the thrash chute and then flew out of one of the mountains that hid the back door. He then flew towards the epicenter of all the power that was on this planet. Once he arrived, he landed on a nearby cliff and then watched as the Jedi and the Ones squabbled between themselves over the sister blade to the one he now carried.

He saw Obi-wan tell Anakin that the blade could kill the Son - what a fool, to kill someone like that, you have to be proficient with the Force as well as your blade, and that is something the Skywalker is clearly lacking, Naruto thought. Even if the Jedi think he is the Chosen One, he is still to arrogant, stupid, irrational, impulsive…

The list could go on, but he had neither the time nor the patience to name them all. He suddenly saw his chance to act as he saw that Obi-Wan was about to throw the blade towards Anakin, and Anakin's Padawan prepared to intercept it.

He quickly picked up Snips and jumped towards the tower. Once close enough, he dropped Snips, who landed on her feet and prepared for her masters orders. Naruto was just about to land in the middle of the three Jedi, but he used the power of the Force for a quick Force Wave that sent all of them sailing through the air and crashing to the hard floor.

This certainly got him the attention of the Ones. The Son stopped shocking his father with lightning, and the Father looked up with a tired look on his face while the Daughter was still standing there, staring at her father with sad eyes, only sparing a glance at the new arrival. The Son's eyes were on Naruto, burning with an anger hot enough to scour a solar system clean of life at the sight of someone who would dare enter this place and interrupt his moment of triumph.

"Who are you, and how dare a worm like you interrupt me when my victory is at hand?" yelled the Son.

"Who, me? Well, my name is Naruto Uzumaki, and I am a Sith. As for why I dare to interrupt you, as it happens, I'm here to kill you all and then leave your corpses to stain the whole planet in blood," answered the blond Sith with a shrug, "or I might just blow the whole thing up with some explosives, whichever works best."

In response he was met with laughter from the Son. "And how are you going to achieve this? We are beings of immeasurable power, and can easily block and deactivate any of your pitiful weapons," he said in between bouts of laughter.

"I'm going to do it like this," responded Naruto as he disappeared from their sight.

Both the siblings and the Jedi looked around for Naruto, and soon found him when they heard the Fathers pained gasp. As they all turned towards the Father they saw him in a kneeling poison, while his head lay on Naruto's shoulder the hilt of a blade sticking out of the ancient man's chest. As the Father was holding on for dear life, he spoke.

"How…how did you do this?" he asked.

"Simple, the one they call the Builder gave me the tools needed to kill you, and now I shall put an end to you meddling."

"No, you must not…(cough)…do this, it will affect…(agh)…the galaxy itself, if we die."

"No. That is where you are wrong, old man. You just let your ego get to you. You are not some representation of the Force, you are only a medium that the Force has willed into existence, nothing more. I could even bet that you were not born this way, since if you were, then you would be impossible to kill, even with a blade made from your power, so my point is that the Force will be just fine when you are gone." With his final statement, Naruto twisted the blade in the Father's chest and then pulling it out with force, letting the blood spill to the ground as the Father's corpse fell limply down.

Naruto stared and lifeless body of the Father when he heard two screams, filled with sorrow and anger. He turned around to see the Son and Daughter screaming at the death of their father and he saw each of them suddenly transform into giant beast and start to fly away, but before they did, they each swooped down and picked up one thing.

The Son took the other blade, while the Daughter went for the Father's corpse. As she flew by him, Naruto could feel that something was off in the Daughter's behavior, and was that a hint of darkness building up inside of her? Yes, he thought it was.

He watched them fly away, then he heard four lightsabers activating behind him. He turned around and saw Anakin, Obi-Wan and newly awakened Ahsoka, who had been released from the Son's spell when he lost concentration with the Father's death, all pointing their blades at him.

"Wait, didn't we do this already? Don't you stupid Jedi ever learn to give up, or are you really that into this kill-Sith mentality?" asked Naruto while putting the Force Saber back on his waist and then crossing his arms over his chest.

"The Sith are the problem, not us, and since you are one of them, you are the part of the problem. Surrender, and we won't hurt you," said Anakin, his everpresent arrogance radiating off of him.

"Still the ever present fool of the group, I see. I thought that your master would have beaten that out of you, but I guess since he's just as bad as you, I can't really expect much from him." Naruto spoke in a tone that almost sounded disappointed. The Jedi, however, knew that he was insulting them with that tone.

"You are going down, Sith, and it will be by way of surrender or death. It is your choice how it will go down, but if you choose the death, know that I hold no pleasure in killing you, and also know that your death will lead to peace," spoke Kenobi while getting in a fighting stance, as did Anakin and Ahsoka.

"Snips, be careful. He is very dangerous, be on guard all the times," said Anakin to his Padawan, who nodded in response.

"Oh, you call your Padawan Snips? What a coincidence, I have someone named Snips as well! Would you like to meet her?" asked Naruto, but didn't really wait for a reply, he whistled and pointed at Ahsoka.

The Jedi looked confused and looked at Ahsoka, but that moment was all Snips needed as she sped towards the Jedi and tackled the young Padawan. Anakin and Obi-Wan were in shock and just as they were about to help Ahsoka, they were stopped when an invisible force picked them up and threw them back inside through the windows of the Son's tower.

They crashed on the hard ground. Anakin got up quickly, but Obi-Wan was not so lucky, as he crashed into a stone statue, hitting his head against the hard stone and getting knocked out. Even as Anakin made it back on his feet, he saw a figure land in front of him. As Naruto stood up from his crouch, Anakin saw that he had on a mask that looked similar to that of Revan, but it appeared it had Naruto's tattoos on it.

Anakin was pulled away from his thoughts by Naruto.

"Well, little Jedi, let us see if you can give me a challenge, or will you fall like last time?" He said as he activated his double-bladed darksaber and gave Anakin a come-get-it motion with his hand. Anakin felt insulted, and in his anger he charged, forgetting who he was dealing with. He attacked with an overhead strike, but it was blocked by Naruto's blade without much effort on the blond Sith's part. Anakin then shifted into a slash to the Sith's side, but it got the same results.

This continued on for the next couple of minutes with no success. Anakin was getting more and more frustrated as he could not get through Naruto's defense.

It also did not help that Naruto continued to mock him while they did battle: "Come on, Anakin! This can't be your best! You're supposed to be the Chosen One, a lowlife such as myself should not be a problem for someone like you!"

Or comments like: "Hey, Skywalker, I see that you have a new lightsaber, did you lose the old one? Isn't the lightsaber one of the Jedi's most sacred belongings?"

It got to the point where Anakin just forgot his forms and started to hack and slash like a common hooligan and he continued to become more and more sloppy. Finally Naruto had enough, and used a well timed Force push to send Anakin flying back and crashing into a pillar then sliding down it.

"Hmm, you are boring me. You do not have the skill necessary to give me a challenge or pose much of a threat, so now I will end it." As he said this, he charged.

At first it was slow but then he sped up and in the blink of the eye he was in front of Anakin, his darksaber poised to strike. Anakin panicked and in a last ditch attempt to stop the attack, thrust out his lightsaber to impale the Sith, but Skywalker received the shock of his life when his lightsaber bounced off the chest plate and then embedded itself into the pillar he was resting on.

Naruto used this as an opportunity to cripple the fool of the Jedi. He swung his sword at Anakin's robotic limb and cut it off, he then quickly grabbed Anakin by the face and smashed the back of his head into the pillar, knocking him out and probably giving him a concussion or, if he was lucky, cracking his skull. When he was done he stood up and let the Jedi fall to the ground.

"Pathetic, and to think the Jedi think that you would be the Chosen One. Imbeciles, all of them."

He looked at the other Jedi in the room as the man was slowly getting up, trying to shake the cobwebs off. Kenobi woke up and had a massive headache. He tried to get up, but felt something press against his chest and push him back down to the cold hard ground. He looked up to see the mask that belonged to our favorite blond Sith.

"Oh, were you trying to get up? I'm sorry, I don't pay much attention to fools, and that must be why you are now lying under my boot," he said with a smirk plaster on to his face behind his mask. "Now, since I know that you Jedi like to meddle into our affairs, I think I will stop you here and now." With that, he did a quick movement with his blade and stabbed Obi-Wan twice in the legs.

With both Jedi immobilized, he started to walk away to find Snips and the other two people who he'd come here to kill, all the while listening to the sweet screams of agony from Kenobi echoing behind him.

As he came outside, he saw Ahsoka trying to stop Snips but she was having trouble, as she could not land a hit on the beast, which always dodged at the last moment. The Padawan was covered with claw and bite marks, she had blood leaking from every wound on her body. She prepared for another attack from her opponent, but then she heard a loud whistle and the beast stopped, looked away from her, then started run towards the tower entrance.

She looked at who'd whistled, and saw Naruto, who was walking away. Snips followed after her master, and as they walked away, Naruto turned towards the Padawan.

"Get going, young one, and pick up your Masters, then return to your ship and leave. If you interfere with my plans again, I will kill you without remorse (A/N: not that he had much of that to begin with), this is your only warning." As he said this, he picked up Snips and jumped towards his ship, landed in the cockpit and flew off in search of the Son.

Ahsoka quickly ran inside to see what had happened, and was shocked that they were in such a pitiful state, she ran towards them and started to help them as best as she could.

Naruto was flying towards the most powerful source of the Dark Side energy in the area, but as he was travailing towards his destination, he heard a voice.

"…Naruto…" he ignored it at first, but it still continued on: "…Naruto…" He was determined to ignore it, thinking it was just the wind.

"Naruto Uzumaki!" the voice suddenly yelled out, which made Naruto jump and lose control of his ship for a second. He quickly jumped out of the fighter and looked around.

"Who's there? You better show yourself, or else!" He actually didn't expect for anyone to show themselves, but it was worth a shot. Imagine his surprise when he saw thousands of lights appear before him, starting to shine brighter as they swirled around each other. Even with his mask on, Naruto had to shield his eyes from the glare.

As the flash of light died down, he removed his arm from his eyes and saw a beautiful redhead. She had a slender, but feminine build, fair skin, violet eyes. The hair reached to her ankles, with shoulder-length strands that framed both sides of her face, and a black clip that parted her hair to the left. She wore a high-collared, sleeveless blouse under a long, loose-fitting dress, with a wristband on her left wrist and standard shinobi sandals.

She was outlined with a blue glow. However, that was not the thing that got Naruto's attention, no, what got his attention was the look on her face, it was the look of rage that only women could produce.

"What are you doing? Didn't you hear me, or did you ignore me!?" yelled the woman as she tried to grab him by the ear, though her hand passed right through him. When she saw this, she got annoyed and tried again, and again, and again…After a while she stopped trying, huffed and crossed her hands under her breasts. "You are so lucky that I can't grab you, or you'd be on your knees begging to stop…dattebane."

"Umm…do I know you, and why are you using that phrase? It sounds like my old tick, but different," he asked as he started to scratch the back of his head.

"Don't make fun of my tick or-… wait, you don't know who I am." She got a shake of the head in response. She sighed and looked down. "I guess no one told you… that stupid monkey, I swear, when I see him again, I will kick is ass straight to hell." She then looked up at Naruto and spoke: "Naruto, my name is Kushina Uzumaki, and I am your mother."

When Naruto heard this, he got a look of shock behind his mask as he stared at the person who brought him into this world. "Wait, you're my mother? How are you here? You're supposed to be dead!" he said, forgetting that he dealt with ghost on a daily basis.

"Well, I it seems that some force brought me here to you, and I am still dead, this is only temporary. Now remove that mask so I can see my baby boy," she said as she wanted to see her son's face after so long.

Naruto, in his state of shock removed his mask without a second thought, and showed his face to his mother, whom he had never seen before. Kushina was at first happy to see her son, even though he had different eyes than she remembered, but something caught her eye. It was the big red marking on her son's face, she looked at it closely and after that, she realized that it was a tattoo.

The one taboo amongst mothers that would make any mother go into rage - lucky for Naruto his mother did not know how to use the Force. "You got a TATOO! And on the face! What is wrong with you? I could understand the chest, arms or the back, I would have even accepted the neck, but your face, are you insane?! What would posses you to get it on your kawaii face - now look at it!" She continued her rant for a couple of minutes while Naruto put some difference between himself and his mother.

After she calmed down he spoke up. "Um, if it helps, it started on my right arm and then…kind of moved up," he said, but he quickly stopped when his mother gave him a death glare. As the angry mother calmed down, she asked him about his life while he asked her about hers. He found out about how she had lived a hard life, how she met his father, and he even found how she was against the idea of the Kyuubi being sealed inside of him.

Kushina, for her part, found about the abuse of the village, the challenges Naruto'd had to face, as well as the one true friend he made. The thing that threw her back into her fury was Naruto mentioning the fight at the Valley of the End. She only calmed down when Naruto told her the second part of his adventure.

This led him to telling her about Aayla, which earned him an ear-piercing scream of happiness from Kushina, who started to talk about grandbabies and other such things.

As they finish talking she gave him her last words of wisdom. "I know that this path is not what I wanted for you, but it is the one you chos,e and it is the one that makes you happy, so even though I don't agree with it, I still support you and love you. Also, keep that Aayla girl close and make her happy, or else you shall feel the true fury of an angry woman."

With those final words, she disappeared to rejoin the Force. Naruto smiled before he started to walk towards his ship and flew away to find his targets.

[The Well of the Dark Side]

Naruto landed on one of the platforms that were surrounded by magma. He got out of his ship and told Snips to stay inside. As he turned around, he found a small creature looking at him.

"What are you doing here…you are not supposed to be here, if the Son finds you, he will punish you!"

"I do not fear the Son. He should be the one to fear me," said Naruto as he looked away from the creature to look for the Son. The creature used this opportunity to bite Naruto in the exposed part of his arm. Naruto screamed and grabbed the little monster, throwing him towards the lava, but he was surprised when it landed on its feet at the edge of the platform and started to laugh.

As it continued laughing, it transformed into the Son.

"Haha, now that you are infected by my power - you will become my slave, and I shall use your ship to escape this forsaken place. Also, I must thank you for killing my father. With him gone, I am truly free!" He was, however, surprised when he saw that Naruto was still acting normal, and that he could not feel a connection forming from the young Sith.

"Um, is something supposed to happen, or did you just mess up?" asked Naruto as he looked all over his body for any changes.

"What is wrong? It worked on the Padawan, and she was a Jedi! Someone like you should be easy to control!" yelled the Son in rage.

"Wait - you actually thought that you could control me-" Naruto said, then bent over and started laughing. "Hah hah hah, you believed that – hah, hah, hah, you actually thought that, what, you tried to turn me to the light or something? Man, for an all powerful being, you sure are dumb. I meditate and train on the well of power and madness that is the Dark Side every day, and yet you actually tried it? Hah hah hah!" said Naruto while he continued to laugh at the Son.

This made the Son even angrier, and Dark Side energy poured out of him like rain out of a black stormcloud. Naruto noticed this and started to prepare for the battle. He was slowly drawing on the Force and getting ready for an attack. He was not disappointed, as in the next second, the Son charged at Naruto, simultaneously shifting into his beast form.

Naruto had expected just that. He used the Force to lift the magma around them and threw it at the Son. It hit the Son in the face, but besides momentarily stunning him, it did nothing. He then again charged at Naruto, who prepared the Force blade, however he was not expecting for the Son to pick up speed and be in front of him then slashing at him with one of his claws.

Naruto's armor withstood the impact, but it loosened his grip on the blade enough so that it flew out of his hand and landed behind the Son's massive body. When the Son saw this, he transformed back into his human form and took out his own blade. He charged again at Naruto and slashed in an attempt to cut the young Sith in half, or at least stab him in the hart.

The Sith proved to be a very difficult target to hit as he flipped and dodged each of the Sons attacks, all the while using the Force to send waves of lava at the Son. The Son was getting annoyed that this insect was taking so long to kill. He was the strongest, and he controlled the most destructive weapon in the galaxy, yet this boy continued to evade him.

"You should give up, boy! You have no weapon to harm me, and you cannot keep this up forever. Why die tired? Just surrender, and I promise you a quick death," said the Son, the arrogance in his voice masking his fury at not being able to finish this worm off.

"Hmm…no, I don't think so, but if you need a break, I can give you a five minutes breather, old man. I know that in your old age you don't have such a skip to you step as you used to have," said Naruto, while on the inside he was thinking of a way to end this; Damn, I need a way to end this fast. I won't be able to last much longer, dodging and using the Force against a opponent of this caliber is pushing my stamina to the limit, not to mention the heat is making it harder and harder to breathe…

He looked around for something helpful, and that's when he saw his blade directly behind the Son. He got an idea that as brilliant as it was insane. To hell with it, I just hope that this works, or else I'm dead as a slave in the mines of Kessel.

With that final thought, he charged at the Son, throwing a flurry of lava balls at him. When he was close enough, he cocked his right fist and prepared for a skull crushing punch, courtesy of his chakra and the Force. Then, his momentum was suddenly halted, and he felt an excruciating pain in his left side and his lung.

Naruto looked down and saw the hilt of the blade being held in the hand of the Son. Naruto's arms fell to his sides and his head crashed against the Son's. The Son saw this and smirked at the blond Sith.

"Were you really planning to charge me and try and punch me? You must be the stupidest being that I have ever met," he said as he laughed at the blond, while continuing to mock him.

Then he stopped laughing. He felt something he had not felt in a long time. What was this feeling? So strange… The Son fell to his knees, and was now hanging on Naruto's shoulder. His fingers felt numb, why was that? Why do my back muscles feel so…

Dimly, he heard the Sith speak.

"That wasn't the plan. This was."

With that Naruto pulled out the blade stabbed in his lung and then called upon the Force for an attack that would make the Son truly die. His eyes glowed even more and his hands grew a deep red, he then aimed the attack at the Son with red glowing energy. The Son's eyes started to glow, and he felt his life start to drain from him, while he could feel that Naruto was regaining his. Even though the blades would kill any being, even her, he could feel that Naruto was using the Son's own life force to stay alive and even heal himself.

After a few moments, the Son fell to the ground, lifeless. Naruto found he could now stand, even if barely. He looked at the Son and then turned him over on his stomach. When he did, he saw the hilt of a blade sticking out.

While the Son had been gloating about his victory, Naruto used a Force pull to send the blade right into the Son's back, piercing his heart. Now he grabbed the hilt, and with a powerful tug, he ripped it out of the Son's corpse. With the powerful being dead, he started to slowly trudge towards his ship, while holding his ribs.

He couldn't breathe properly and his supply of oxygen was getting smaller as more time passed. He unhooked his chest piece and threw it into the lava, as it was irreparably damaged, and also used the Force to throw the body after it.

He still had problems breathing, agony shooting through him every time his ribcage moved. There were dark spots gathering at the edge of his vision. He was in danger of passing out, and he had to use Force breathing to help him get in the necessary supply of oxygen into his bloodstream. Slowly, carefully, he climbed into his ship and flew off.

[The Monastery of Light and Darkness]

Naruto landed in front of the monastery and got of the cockpit, gritting his teeth to keep from screaming at the pain, his lungs still felt like they were on fire. He walked with the slow gait of a tired man through the set of large doors to find the final part of the family, Snips trotting at his heels.

As he opened the door, he found a large room, and at the end was some sort of altar. He then saw his target at that very altar. He saw she had the Father's corpse next to her. As he moved closer, he saw more, saw that the Daughter had changed, lost her etheral glow, and frankly, also started to look pretty crazy. He could see that her eyes were those of madness, and the constant mumbling did not help.

"Everything is going to be fine," whispered the Daughter in a high, sharp voice that was just this side of hysteria. "Father is just sleeping, he's going to wake up any minute now, and brother will return calmer, he just went out to clear his head…then, things will go back to normal." She checked the corpse for any signs of life, failed to find them, and then checked again, as if it would all just turn out to be a mistake.

Naruto was now right behind her and took out his Force blade. He kneelt down, leaned next to the Daughter's ear and spoke.

"Everything will be okay. You shall meet them soon."

The Daughter's eyes widened as Naruto plunged the blade into her back and twisted it. Her eyes slowly closed and she gained a calm smile on her face. When she passed, Naruto got up and started to walk towards the exit.

His legs suddenly gave out, and he fell to the ground, gasping for air. He tried to get up, but he couldn't do it. He was too weak.

Then he felt something pick his hand. He looked and saw Snips, who was trying to help him. He smiled at her and petted her head.

"Thanks, snips," he told her. "I'm glad you're here…"

He saw a blinding light start to engulf the whole planet. He paid it little attention. Right now, all he wanted to do was continue scratching his pet behind the ears, and he gave not a damn even as the light surrounded them, and the whole universe became white.

[Mortis?]

Naruto woke up to the panicked scream of his starfighter's proximity alarm. Somehow, he was back in his ship, and he was just drifting in space. And the reason the proximity alarm was going off was that there was a Republic Cruiser heading straight for him!

"E chu ta!" He spat blood as he sat back in his chair. It had been a really long day, and he didn't want to bother with the Republic right now. "R3, get us out of here! I'm too tired for this shit."

The droid did as instructed and they jumped into hyperspace to return to Naruto's home base.

TO BE COUNTINUED

Ok, here it is, finally done! I hope you enjoyed it, and I am sorry that I didn't update in such a long time.

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