"Ani!"

Perched on a balcony, two boys looked up at the sound. They could have been brothers, twins, even, although not identical. They both wore their blonde hair short but for a single braid, and their blue eyes carried the same expression of careless worry. Which is a very bad description, but that's what they looked like.

Dressed identically, their faces were similar enough to have people refer to the as brothers quite often. They mostly corrected the strangers, explaining that they were just friends, unless they wanted to confuse someone. The explanation that they were friends was not entirely correct, but it was better than saying that they were father and son in the wrong timeline so they were the same age.

Luke Skywalker leaned over the balcony edge to look at the gardens below. "He looks really mad," he commented, nodding at the bearded man who was in the gardens.

"Scared witless, I am," retorted Ani Skywalker, imitating Master Yoda. Both boys giggled.

"Someday you're going to slip up and do that in front of the Council, and I will be laughing my head off," Luke told him.

Ani grinned. "Do you think they'd expel me from the Order for that?" he asked.

"A sane Council would, but our Council isn't sane, they're just…" Luke fumbled for the words.

"Blithering idiots who sit in a semi-circle all day and yet get nothing done besides commenting how incompetent the rest of us are," offered Ani, quoting their masters' friend Qui-Gon Jinn.

"Yes indeed."

They sat in silence for a moment before Luke asked, "What did you do? It must have been something big."

He never would admit it, but he was a little upset that Ani had left him out. The two boys had always informed and normally included the other in large pranks. Although Luke wasn't going to say that, Ani realized what he was thinking immediately.

"It wasn't quality so much as quantity," he explained. "Anything I do I've probably done about fifty times before. This week."

"You have a talent for trouble, my friend," Luke told him, imitating his master, Anakin.

Ani snorted, remembering the specific conversation, which had ended with Qui-Gon listing everything Anakin had ever done to show his own 'talent for trouble'. It had lasted quite a while, to say the least.

"Hope you don't get into too much trouble," Luke said, breaking into his thoughts. Ani looked at him, confused.

"We're going with Boba to mess with Master Windu's speeder tonight, remember?" he prompted.

"Oh, yeah! Well, don't worry. If I have to stay in, I can always sneak out."

"Ani!"

"He's starting to get mad," Luke commented.

"Starting?" asked Ani.

"He's starting to get madder," Luke corrected. "You'd better get down there, or you'll really be in trouble."

Ani sighed and leaned over the balcony edge. "Up here, Master," he called, waving.

"Ani, why didn't you answer when I called you?" demanded Obi-Wan Kenobi's voice.

"I didn't here you, Master," replied the boy pertly. Luke shook his head, wishing his friend could stay out of trouble a little bit.

"You- Oh, never mind! Just get down here!" Obi-Wan snapped.

"Coming, Master!" Ani turned to Luke. "Normally I'd hide," he muttered. "This speeder thing had better be worth it."

"It will be," Luke promised. He watched his friend go and turned to look at the balcony next to theirs. Apparently, years ago, Obi-Wan had fallen off that balcony when he'd had a vision of an alternate universe. Luke himself had come from a universe like it, as had Ani, but he couldn't imagine his friend's stoic master doing something as silly as falling off a balcony.

He hoped that Obi-Wan wouldn't stop to wonder why his Padawan had been perched on Qui-Gon's balcony. Qui-Gon had been absent for the past few weeks on a mission, and the boys used his quarters as a place to hide the tools they would use that night against Mace Windu's speeder.

Luke sighed and started picking up their latest additions to hide them in the closet they had selected. Since he first began his training, five years ago, Qui-Gon had been like a second master to the two boys. Their masters had a very close relationship with him, the Kamioan Taun We, Senator Padmé Amidala and the Gungan called Jar Jar Binks. Each of these people were much-loved caretakers to the boys and their friend Boba Fett, but Qui-Gon was the closest, and Luke missed him

He shook those thoughts off. Silly of him to miss Qui-Gon when he knew that he'd be back in three days. He just needed to make some mischief. Tonight would help, and if it didn't, well, there was always someone to prank in the Jedi Temple.

Thank you, Shadow Padawan and Fell Dragon for reviewing, and also Fell Dragon and Alley Parker for favoriting or alerting. I love you both platonically. Anyway, this is a little short, and I'm sorry I haven't been able to update, but something happened that I'm very excited about. I JUST GOT TWO KITTENS! And they're both black cats, twin brothers, completely sweet. I love them, so that's why I haven't updated.

So even if it's short, the next one's not quite as short, but I haven't posted it yet. I've gotten a lot of it written, though. And, Fell, how did you know about Windu's speeder before I posted this? Are you psychic or something?