Can Jedi Wear Orange?

by dextron11

At the start of their trip, Naruto and Jiraiya find themselves pulled into the future by an unknown force. With no way back home, and no idea what's going on, what will they do? Join the Jedi, naturally. But there are other, more sinister forces after them as well. With the Force to wield and a new group of friends, can Naruto change the future of a galaxy threatened by darkness?

7. Chapter 7

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Chapter 7

Anakin Skywalker was feeling emotional. To be fair, this was not an especially rare occurrence, much to the apparent displeasure of his master. In this case, however, Anakin had an especially good reason for his moodiness.

The recent mission to Mawan had been…stressful. To start with, encountering Granta Omega had most definitely not been part of the mission plan. That had been an extremely unpleasant surprise, and one they had all been lucky to survive. Master Yaddle in particular had mentioned that she likely would have died were it not for the visions granted by that wave in the Force.

And therein lay the source of Anakin's present ill temper. Yaddle had not been the only one to see glimpses of the future in the aftermath of that massive shift. Anakin had also had a vision, and not one he had liked.

It had mostly been a jumble. Anakin was still relatively inexperienced with the Force, and as such most of the vision had been little more than a series of dizzying images that gave a general impression of some coming darkness. One part of the vision, however, had been crystal clear. His mother's death.

He had seen it a dozen different ways. Each time, she was on Tatooine, walking in the desert. In some scenarios she was attacked by Tuskens. In others, criminals from Jabba's gang ran her down. In still others she simply collapsed, lost in the Dune Sea, dying of thirst.

He hadn't told Obi-Wan. Not yet. He didn't know how to even begin talking about it. He didn't want to admit, even to himself, that there was a chance those visions might be real. That would mean his mother was going to die, and that wasn't something that Anakin was prepared to even consider.

Amidst Anakin's inner turmoil, the door to their quarters chimed. Shaking himself from his dark thoughts, Anakin stood up and walked to the door. Upon opening it he was met, not with Obi-Wan as he had expected, but with Master Yoda. What was the Grandmaster of the Jedi Order doing at his door?

"Ah, greetings young Skywalker," Yoda said. "May I come in?"

"O-of course master," Anakin answered. "Master Obi-Wan isn't here though. He went to the gardens to meditate."

"Fine, this is. You it was that I came to see."

"Me?" Anakin asked. That didn't make sense. He was just a Padawan. A skilled and powerful Padawan if he said so himself, but a Padawan nonetheless. Besides which, he had never thought Yoda liked him very much. Anakin knew Yoda had opposed him being trained in the first place. Aside from that, and a few lessons and Council briefings, he had not really interacted much with the venerable Jedi.

"Yes, you," Yoda said, smiling a bit. "Sit down we should. Long, our conversation may be."

Somewhat nervous, Anakin simply nodded and walked over to the small dining table. He sat in one chair, and Yoda deftly hopped into the one opposite. For a long moment neither being spoke. Yoda sat calmly, while Anakin desperately tried to mask the storm of emotions in his mind. Finally, Yoda broke the silence.

"An apology I owe you Skywalker," he said.

"An apology?" Anakin said, surprised. "I- you. What do you- What?"

"Unfairly have I treated you in the past," Yoda said, ignoring Anakin's obviously lost expression. "When first you came to this temple, criticize you I did, for your fear."

"I remember," Anakin said, a hint of bitterness in his voice.

"Wrong was I to do that," Yoda admitted. "Because of your age, judge you I did, as I would a Jedi Initiate. Unfair this was to you. When reject you I did, a hypocrite I was being."

"What do you mean master?" Anakin asked. He was still trying to wrap his mind around what was happening right now. Even his inner turmoil was briefly put to one side in face of this seemingly impossible turn of events.

"Criticize your fear, I did. And yet, my own fear it was, that led me to oppose your training," Yoda said, his eyes never once leaving Anakin's.

"Your fear?" Anakin asked incredulously. "What could you have been afraid of?"

"Of what you could become, if fell to the Dark side you did," Yoda said, his ears drooping slightly. "Allowed this mere possibility to blind me to the truth, I did. For that, sorry am I."

Anakin's mind seemed to have given up for the moment. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. The Grandmaster was apologizing? To him? He couldn't count the number of times he had dreamed of proving that the Council had been wrong to reject him. Now, here was Yoda, calmly admitting that very thing.

"Master I- why are you telling me this?" Anakin asked.

"Because into the Order, two new students have been admitted," he said. "Older than you were, both of them are. During the debate on accepting them, realize that unfair I had been. Too much weight I gave to your age. Successful you have been, despite that. If a mistake one makes, fix it one should. In this case, an apology, all I can offer it is."

"I- thank you master," he said. "I accept your apology."

Anakin's heart (and head) secretly swelled a little at hearing Yoda acknowledge his success as a Padawan. Oftentimes it had felt as if it was only Chancellor Palpatine who recognized just how hard he worked and how far he had come. Obi-Wan noticed it sometimes too, but not as often as Anakin felt he should have.

The thought of Obi-Wan sent his mind back to the visions he hadn't told him about. He was still very reluctant to talk about them, but he did have the wisest Jedi in the galaxy sitting across from him. If anyone could give him answers, Yoda could.

"Master Yoda, before you go, could I ask you something?" Anakin said hesitantly.

"Mmm, always willing to help, I am. Your question, what is it?"

"It's about the disturbance in the Force from a month or so ago," Anakin said. "I had some sort of vision after it happened."

"This vision, trouble you it does," Yoda said, closing his eyes. "Much confusion and uncertainty I sense from you. See what did you, in this vision?"

"It was- well it was about my mother, master. I saw her die."

"Hmm, careful of your feelings you must be, young Skywalker. Uncertain, visions often are. Calm one must be, to interpret them. Fear of the future, not the Jedi way this is," Yoda said gently.

"I know, master, but…she's my mother," Anakin said helplessly. He expected another lecture on attachments to come from Yoda. What he got instead surprised him. It seemed to be the theme of the evening.

"Share this vision with me, will? Together, see something we may, that alone you missed," Yoda offered. The boy's obvious attachment to his mother concerned him, but now was not the time for that. The woman was still an innocent, and Anakin thought she might be in danger.

Blinking numbly, Anakin could only nod his assent. Yoda reached across the table and took his hands, before closing his eyes and breathing deeply. Anakin followed suit, and allowed the old master to guide him into a deep meditation.

They sank quickly into the currents of the Force, much more quickly than Anakin had ever managed before. For perhaps the first time, he truly gained an appreciation of just how large the gap between Yoda's skills and his own truly was. It seemed 900 something years of training gave one a rather formidable edge. Anakin couldn't help but promise himself that he would one day reach this level of mastery.

As they sank into the Force, Yoda guided the meditation towards Anakin's memories. Gently, so as not to see anything he was not welcome to, he reached for the young Padawan's memories of his recent vision. As soon as he found it, Yoda carefully brought it to the surface so he could experience it for himself.

As Skywalker had said, the vision showed his mother's death. Over a dozen different scenarios of it played across Yoda's inner eye. However, Yoda was not the Grandmaster of the Jedi Order for nothing. Peering past the crystal clear images of Shmi's death, he noticed something Skywalker had missed in the murky swarm of visions behind them.

There was a vision where Shmi lived. Yoda could not tell for how long, or in what way, but it clearly showed her alive beyond the point of the other visions. Crucially, it also showed her not on Tatooine. Every instance of her death had her on the barren desert planet, but not this one. Here she was elsewhere, a city, though Yoda could not tell where.

He could feel Skywalker's shock and elation, as he too saw this new possibility. The boy was so incredibly emotional, but also so determined to help people. It was a dangerous combination. It could lead him to ruin, but it could just as easily drive him to become one of the greatest Jedi the galaxy had ever seen, Yoda reminded himself. Just as with Naruto, Anakin's fate was not yet determined.

Rising from the meditation, Yoda opened his eyes. He could see Skywalker blinking across from him. The boy shook off his disorientation quickly, and asked him the question that was burning in his mind.

"Master Yoda, what does this mean?" Anakin's voice was desperate and raw.

"Hmm, rarely clear, visions are. But these, obvious their meaning is," Yoda said, watching the boy perk up at what he was implying. "Remain on Tatooine, your mother cannot. For her, only death waits there."

"So we're going to rescue her, right master?" Anakin asked, bouncing in his seat from excitement.

"Send a mission to bring her to Coruscant I will. Work here, there will be for her. But on that mission, you cannot go," Yoda said firmly.

"But why not?" Anakin asked, a little heat creeping into his voice. "She's my mother. She needs me."

"In this matter, compromised your judgment is. This is why, strive to avoid attachments, Jedi do."

"But of course I'm attached to her, master," Anakin cried indignantly. "She's my mother."

"Know this I do. Judge you for it right now, I will not. But on this mission, clear heads will be needed. Trust, you must, that safely brought here, your mother will be."

Anakin deflated somewhat at that. Yoda's tone was calm, but utterly unyielding. There would clearly be no negotiations on this. Besides, the old master brought up some good points. He was emotional about this, and he had seen how that could screw him over in the past. Sighing he bowed his head.

"Of course, master. I apologize for my outburst." he said.

"Forgiven, you are. One last thing there is. A request I have for you," Yoda said, waving aside Anakin's rudeness with a smile.

"What do you need me to do, master?"

"One of the new Initiates, into the Clawmouse clan he has been placed. A boy of twelve he is, and new to the galaxy. Befriend him, I would have you. Know, you do, the struggles he will face here. Help him, as helped you should have been."

With that done, Yoda slid off the chair and onto the floor. Calling his gimer stick over to him, he walked out the door. Anakin was left gaping, trying to figure out what exactly had just happened, while at the same time feeling lighter and more at peace than he had in months.

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Naruto was feeling frustrated. He often felt frustrated when he was trying to learn something new, but this was especially bad. His mind just couldn't quite seem to grasp what it was that Yoda was telling him to do.

It had been two days since he had joined the Clawmouse clan. He had fit in quickly, despite being one of the oldest ones there. Unlike him, the rest of the clan was made up of younglings who had been brought to the Temple in the same year. The others' ages ranged from Viir, who was nearly 20 months younger than him, to Barriss, who was his age, to Ferren Barr, a male Iktochi who was several months older than him. Even the younger ones proved to be remarkably mature for their age, nothing like the snot-nosed kids he had experience with back home. Of course, some of those snot-nosed kids had also been his friends, he thought, an image of Konohamaru rising in his mind. He fought down the wave of grief that came with it and focused his thoughts on his new friends.

Ahsoka especially was great to hang out with. Despite being 18 months younger than him, she had quickly proved to be more than able to keep up. She had demonstrated that despite her age and size, she was perfectly capable of being really, really scary when she wanted to be. They had become fast friends, and were already planning several pranks to be executed in the coming weeks.

It should be noted that Naruto's definition of maturity when it came to kids was somewhat different from the common consensus. He mainly defined it by a willingness and a capability to help him with pranks, and to kick butt if needed.

"Wandering, your mind is," a voice broke into his musings. "Focused you must be, if to succeed at this you are."

"Yes master. Sorry," came Naruto's somewhat sheepish reply.

Yoda was sitting directly across from him in the small meditation room. The master was on a slightly elevated mat, putting him at eye level with his latest pupil. Yoda had decided that after a couple days to settle in, it was time to teach Naruto how to touch the Force like a Jedi.

This was easier said than done. While the chakra of the shinobi was an expression of the Force, it was one of the most unusual and specialized that Yoda had ever seen. Chakra, as Yoda had discovered after a long talk with Jiraiya, was the Force being channeled into a being's body and forcibly merged with their own physical energy, their life's essence. When a shinobi used a jutsu, they were essentially using the Force to drain some of their own energy, and using the resulting mix to generate the technique.

This was why manipulating the elements was so much easier with jutsu. The added physical energy of the shinobi's body helped manipulate the physical world far more readily than the Force alone. It also explained why genjutsu, which were far more akin to traditional Force techniques, were said to require more spiritual energy and less physical. It was essentially the shinobi accidentally using more of just the Force rather than mixing it with their own life essence.

The entire thing was fascinating, and it opened up all sorts of interesting avenues that Yoda had every intention of exploring later. For now though, Naruto needed to learn how to feel the Force like a Jedi did. And that meant undoing years of prior training, not to mention several millennia of cultural memory. All of which led to the very frustrated young boy sitting across from him, trying to meditate.

"I don't get it Master Yoda," said boy cried out after a few minutes. "This just doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?"

"Look outside yourself, you must," Yoda said calmly. "Your way, focused inward it is. Missing the greater truth of the Force you are."

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked.

"Through the Force, everything is connected," Yoda replied. "As a Jedi, sense the world around us we can. The past, the present, even the future, yes. Allow the Force to flow through you, you must. Quiet your mind. Beyond the physical you must look."

"Huh?" Naruto said intelligently. "That last bit…didn't make any sense."

"Hmm, show you it then, I will," Yoda said. "Relax your mind."

With that, he reached out with the Force to Naruto, feeling for his mind. It sparkled and burst with energy, a storm of thoughts and emotions that swirled about in an unfocused mess. It was no wonder the boy found this so hard. His energy levels rivaled those of a caffeinated Loth-cat. Yoda would have to teach him moving meditation soon. Sadly, that wouldn't do for this.

Putting that thought aside, Yoda located Naruto's chakra network. It felt so foreign to the old master, seeing the Force locked inside of someone like that. It looked so cut off, so incomplete. Reaching further, Yoda grasped the boy's actual Force presence with his own. With great care, he delicately separated it from the physical energy that formed the other half of chakra. He then guided it outside of Naruto's body, and allowed it to join with the larger field of the Force.

Naruto gasped. He had felt an odd sensation when Yoda was doing whatever he had been doing. It had felt almost like he was trying to cast a genjutsu, but it had actually worked. All of a sudden, the universe seemed to open up in front of him.

He could feel everything around him, from Yoda's shining presence, to the dim flickers of people on speeders outside. It wasn't just their presence either. He could feel their emotions, the shape of their minds. He felt connected to everything and everyone. He thought it might have been the most amazing experience of his entire life.

"Wow!" he said. "This is incredible. It's like…like being friends with everyone around me."

Yoda grinned widely at that. It was perhaps the best description of feeling the Force he had ever heard. It was truly a privilege to watch someone touch the Force for the first time, especially when they were old enough to properly express their feelings.

"Good," he said. "Now, focus you must on the world around you. Stop helping you I now will."

Naruto could feel Yoda's power withdraw. Instantly, maintaining the feeling of connection to the world beyond his body became nearly impossible. His instincts rebelled against this unusual usage of his energy, and he had to struggle not to immediately return his spiritual energy, no, his Force presence he reminded himself, back to his chakra coils. He managed to keep his hold on the Force for a few seconds, before it slipped away from him.

"Dammit!" he cursed. "I can't do it without you helping me."

"Calm yourself, Naruto," Yoda said. "Held on for several seconds you did. Old habits we are fighting, and any progress, impressive it is. Know what you are searching for, you now do. Find it again, you can."

Mollified at that, Naruto settled back down to try again. As he meditated, searching for the Force, he found that Yoda was right. Having experienced what his goal actually felt like, he could feel when he was on the right track. It was like a warm light on his face, and he could feel when he turned towards it.

It was still damnably tricky though. Yoda had to help him three more times before he managed to find it on his own. Even then, he was still only able to maintain the connection for a little over half a minute before his focus slipped. As soon as it did, he instinctively reverted to old habits and channeled the Force as chakra again.

Once Naruto had managed to touch the Force a half dozen more times on his own. Yoda dismissed him.

"Know what you must do, you do now. With time, come to you naturally it will," he said.

"Do you think I'll ever be able to use the Force and chakra at the same time, master?" Naruto asked with an eager look in his eyes.

"When use chakra you do, using the Force you are. Different sides of the same object they are. Using them together, not so hard it will be. Only practice will it take. In time, show other Jedi how to channel the Force as chakra you may. A new field of study for the Order it could become."

"Awesome! I'm gonna go show Ahsoka and the others what I learned. Thanks Master Yoda."

With that, Naruto rushed off, eager to impress his new friends. Yoda was left in the meditation chamber, smiling at the boy's seemingly unquenchable enthusiasm. As he watched Naruto leave, his face turned pensive. Naruto's power in the Force had impressed him. It was hard to sense normally, bound up in his body as it was. When Yoda had freed it though, it had glowed like an exploding star. The boy would eventually rival Skywalker in power.

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Darth Sidious was furious. This was unusual, as he typically held his emotions under tight control. Anger and hatred were tools of the Sith, it was true. However, his position was far too delicate for him to indulge in wild impulses.

Nevertheless, his anger persisted. The cause of it was quite simple, but no less infuriating for that. The cursed Jedi had brought two new players onto the board. This was the absolute last thing he wanted. His plans were practically racing to fruition, the work of 1000 years was nearly complete. Now was not the time for the unexpected.

It had started with the mysterious shift in the Force a month ago. Sidious was lucky that he had been in this very chamber at the time, hidden deep within the Undercity of Coruscant. Every conceivable protection was applied to it, both technological and Force based. As such, when the wave hit and his barriers slipped, he was safe from detection.

The wave had damaged the Veil that he and his old master had crafted to blind the Jedi to the future. The damage would take months, possibly even years to fully repair, though it should not affect the timeline of his plans too much. The more troublesome thing had come afterwards.

The future had changed. It was obvious then and even more obvious now. Perhaps the most blatant example was the continued existence of Master Yaddle.

Sidious actually snarled at that. The sanctimonious old goblin-bitch had been supposed to die on Mawan. He had seen it in the Force. He had even discreetly helped fund Granta Omega's research to ensure that it would come to pass. And yet, still she lived.

To compound matters, Sidious had been utterly unable to investigate the source of the disturbance. He had known the wave originated from Tython, but he had no options for going there. Chancellor Palpatine could not get away for the weeks it would take to navigate there and back, let alone the time it would take to search the planet.

His new apprentice, Dooku, was equally busy, laying the groundwork for his coming plans. The man's task was far too critical to be abandoned now. None of his other agents were even capable of navigating to Tython.

Sidious cursed himself for not preparing more Force-sensitive tools for himself. Maul had proven himself immensely useful, up until his death, and Sidious was feeling the lack of such an agent now. He would have to begin training some soon. Tyrannus could assist in that as well, he thought.

When the Jedi had returned, he had naturally received word of it almost immediately. Spying within the Jedi Temple was near impossible, but he had little need to do so. As Supreme Chancellor, Palpatine was told of the unusual occurrence within a day by a well-meaning Jedi. What he had heard had shocked Sidious to his core.

The Jedi had found two relics from the distant past. Two Force-sensitive humans who had apparently been held in stasis somehow for 50,000 years. Sidious had no doubt that these two were the cause of the disturbance, and the thrice damned changes to the future.

This was hardly the first time the future had changed during Sidious's life. However, in the past the changes had been minor, trifling things. The future had still led inevitably to his ultimate victory over the Jedi. The success of the Plan had been assured.

This time, however, it was different. For the first time since Sidious had first seen the future, there was uncertainty. There were options now, other paths that he could not see clearly. His ascent was no longer the absolute certainty that it had been. A wisp of genuine fear curdled in Sidious's stomach at that thought, the first such feeling since he became a Sith.

Snarling, he squashed the fear with anger. He was a Sith Lord, the only true Sith Lord in the galaxy. Fear was for lesser beings than he. He would have to meditate later, to regain his control.

Now, though, there was the matter of what to do about these newcomers. Sidious could not risk trying to befriend them as Palpatine. His friendship with Skywalker was pushing it as it was, trying the same with these two would attract attention he could not afford. No, for now they were untouchable, much as Sidious hated to admit it. The Temple was too full of Jedi and too well guarded for an attack, and as Initiates they would not leave it for some time.

He would wait, Sidious decided, until these two became Padawans. Then he would see about eliminating them. If, somehow, they survived, perhaps they would be worth trying to turn. Failing that, then he was confident they would die with the rest of the Jedi when the time came. All Sidious had to do was continue laying the groundwork for Skywalker's fall and the Jedi's destruction.

Reigning in his emotions once more, Sidious prepared to resume the mask of Palpatine. He had much to do, after all. There was still a Republic to run, Sidious thought, if only for now.

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It was three days after his talk with Master Yoda that Anakin first encountered Naruto. He hadn't meant to. He was still mulling over whether or not he wanted to meet the boy at all. Yoda had asked him to more or less take the boy under his wing, and Anakin wasn't sure he wanted to do that. He was also waiting for news of his mother. Yoda had told him that a Jedi team had been sent to get her, but so far there had been no news.

It seemed the Force had other plans, however, as when Anakin wandered into one of the engineering labs one afternoon, he found a masked blonde boy trying, and utterly failing, to disassemble a mouse droid.

"What are you doing kid?" Anakin asked. "Anyone would think you've never even held a hydrospanner before."

"I haven't," Naruto answered shortly. He wasn't in the mood to deal with teasing right now.

"What do you mean you haven't? You should have learned that in your basic…engineering…" Anakin trailed off as understanding began to dawn on him.

"You're Naruto Uzumaki, aren't you? The new Initiate" he asked.

"Yep," Naruto said as he kept struggling with the droid. "What's your name?"

"I'm Anakin Skywalker. Look, would you put that down. It's painful to watch." Anakin said, his engineering sensibilities crying out at Naruto's fumbling attempts to use the tool. It was apparently the wrong thing to say, as Naruto angrily threw both the droid and the hydrospanner onto the table.

"There, is that better?" Naruto growled, his frustration getting the better of him. "I'd never even heard of any of this crap until like a month and a half ago, so I don't need you telling me how much I suck, okay."

"I was just- no, you're right," Anakin said contritely. "That was rude of me. Do you- do you want some help with this stuff? Droids are sort of my thing."

Naruto instantly brightened at that, his eyes crinkling as he grinned beneath his mask.

"You'd help me. Really. That would be great!" he said happily.

Anakin frowned internally at that, even as he moved to start showing the kid how basic tools worked. Naruto had been a little too surprised and a little too happy that someone would offer him help. Anakin recognized that behavior. He had seen it in himself and his fellow slaves on Tatooine. Master Yoda's request was starting to make a bit more sense.

After a few minutes of teaching Naruto how not to cut his fingers off with a plasma torch, Anakin decided to try and dig a little deeper into Naruto's story. He couldn't be direct about it though, he thought. The kid would probably clam up at direct questioning. He would have to be a bit more subtle than that.

"You know, I was older than normal when I came to the Temple too," Anakin said.

"Oh yeah? How old were you?" Naruto asked, still concentrating on his tools.

"I was nine. Master Qui-Gon rescued me from slavery on Tatooine, and brought me here. The Council didn't accept me at first, but Master Obi-Wan talked them into it," Anakin replied, eyeing Naruto's reaction carefully.

"You were…a slave?" Naruto said slowly, disgust filling his voice. "There's slavery in the galaxy?"

"Not in the Republic, at least not really," Anakin said. "Out in Hutt space, or in the far Outer Rim, well things can get pretty bad."

"That must have been horrible," Naruto said.

"Yeah, it wasn't too great," Anakin said, before carefully phrasing his next sentence. "I'm guessing you didn't have such a great childhood either, did you?"

Naruto jerked a bit at that, and looked up sharply.

"How did you-"

"Your reaction when I offered you help," Anakin answered. "It takes one to know one. So, do you want to talk about it?"

"Did you?" Naruto asked bitterly.

"No," Anakin admitted. "But I probably should have. You shouldn't let that stuff just sit and fester. At least, that's what my master says, and he's pretty wise."

Naruto was quiet for a while, seemingly deep in thought. Finally, after Anakin thought he might have withdrawn into himself, he started to talk.

It was slow at first, hesitant and a little nervous. As he kept going though, he grew more confident. The whole time Anakin listened, occasionally offering bits of advice on the droid. When Naruto paused, Anakin began speaking, telling a few tales of his own less than stellar boyhood.

So it went, with the two of them trading stories and jokes, heedless of the hours passing. It wasn't until Naruto looked down and saw that he had not only disassembled, but also successfully reassembled the mouse droid, that he became cognizant of how late it was. He ran off to bed, but not before Anakin promised to help him with engineering again the next day.

As Naruto sprinted away down the hall, Anakin sat back and sighed. He still wasn't sure how he felt about this. He was hardly someone that should be giving personal advice. But, he thought ruefully, he was still going to come back tomorrow and do the same thing all over again. He smirked a little at that. Master Yoda was cleverer than he had given him credit for.

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So there it is. I can't believe it took me this long to introduce Darth Sidious, but he's here now. He probably won't make too many appearances like that until later on in the story, but he will definitely be a constant presence in the shadows.

You also got the first appearance of Anakin Skywalker in this story. This will not be the last time that I write things from Anakin's perspective. Given that he has decided to mentor Naruto in engineering, and maybe other things in the future, it is safe to say that he will become a recurring character, and maybe even a main character at times.

The thing I suspect most of you have been waiting for, and the thing I suspect will cause the most controversy, is my explanation of how the Force and chakra are related. Essentially, chakra is a mix of physical and spiritual energies. In this story, the spiritual energy is the Force. It is being mixed with the organic, physical energy of a living body, and blended into a new energy that the shinobi called chakra. Because chakra contains physical energy, it can be used to manipulate the physical world in much more esoteric ways than just the Force.

This means that every Jedi, and every Sith, could learn to use chakra given time. However, they would have the same problems Naruto was having in this chapter, only in reverse. We won't be seeing Jedi walking on walls for a while yet.

As always, please leave a review, they help me refine my writing and give you guys a better story. If you have any questions about the chapter, I do read every review, and I will respond if you have your PM function turned on. Until next time, have a good week.