Hello all. I bring you this new story involving Thayerblue1's Naruto: Lunar Eclipse story.
Summary: Naruto, Hinata, Ino, Shikamaru, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Minato, and Kushina are brought to a pocket dimension to read about themselves in another dimension.
"Talking."
"SHOUTING!"
'Thinking.'
"Talking in the book."
"SHOUTING IN THE BOOK!"
'Thinking in the book.'
"Alien dialect."
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, Star Wars, or the idea of Naruto: Lunar Eclipse. You won't see this again.
In a room, eight flashes of light appear. From the flashes of light appear Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze; hero the Fourth Great Ninja World War, Hinata Hyuuga; Naruto's girlfriend, Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, Tsunade Senju; Slug Princess and Godaime Hokage (Fifth Fire Shadow), Jiraiya; Gama Sennin (Toad Sage) and self-proclaimed "Super Pervert", Minato Namikaze; Yellow Flash and Yondaime Hokage (Fourth Fire Shadow), and Kushina Uzumaki.
"Where are we Dattebane?" Kushina asks with her verbal tick. She blushes soon after. "You are in a pocket dimension I created for you to watch and read about an alternate dimension about this blonde baka (idiot)." A person says behind Naruto with a hand on the blonde's head. "Who are you?" Tsunade asks. The person disappears only to reappear in front of Tsunade with her right hand in his hands.
"My name is Scheffelman but you can call Scheffel or Schef for short beautiful." Scheffelman says before kissing Tsunade's hand at the knuckles. Tsunade blushes while Jiraiya growls with a jealous glare at Scheffelman. "Food and drinks will be provided whenever you like. Time in your dimension has been frozen until the story is done." Scheffelman says before disappearing. A book appears in his place. Tsunade grabs the book first. "Who wants to read first?" Tsunade asks while Minato raises his hand. Tsunade hands Minato the book.
The lunar nightmare known as the Moon's Eye plan….10,000 years since the last battle was lost by the elemental alliance against Uchiha Madara, the self-styled god of the Tsukuyomi who passed into oblivion as the power of the tailed beasts finally waned out leaving no one inhabiting the long forgotten elemental countries. Legends existed about this world known as "Edo" throughout the Galactic Republic as a place of illusion that once one entered they were trapped there for eternity. Not everyone believed in the legends that this cursed world existed but that didn't stop scientists and explorers from looking. Any legend of this magnitude had to have some basis in fact; right?
"What the hell Dattebayo?" Naruto exclaims. Minato just groans before saying to Kushina, "he got that from you."
So, it was said. A team from the Planet of Storms, Kamino, had discovered something there. "Chakra"….some sort of link to "The Force" that the Jedi and Sith Orders used. It seemed that the beings that once lived there had evolved to harness this power and used it to battle one another. This apparently led to the extinction of intelligent life on this world. However, if DNA still existed there was no reason that chakra using beings could not walk among the living again. There were problems though. Even if they were able to recreate the beings from this world it didn't mean that person would be able to use it without proper training. There were texts that showed how to harness this power; just legends.
"They must have really advanced medical technology to create real clones without chakra." Tsunade said in awe with Ino nodding in agreement.
It was then that the team remembered a long forgotten and forbidden technique: instead of just cloning a body from strands of DNA, the memories that person had would be restored as well. Of course, there was a reason the technique was forbidden. Bringing a person back from the grave with their memories intact would mean that person could have an agenda of their own. In the past, this led to cloned warriors with memories uprising against those who recreated them with catastrophic results. Given these beings possessed several unknown genetic factors also meant it would be impossible to clone someone who could be controlled.
"Nobody could ever hope to control me!" Jiraiya shouts only to be hit by Tsunade. "Baka." Tsunade says.
It was a bad idea. No one with sound logic would use this cloning technique with so many potential unknown factors. But sound logic is often swept aside when greed comes into play. Several worlds would pay an emperor's ransom to have soldiers under them that could take on Force users on equal grounds with chakra. At least that's what the team believed. So, for the next five years this covert team collected up DNA samples from bodies that showed evidence of chakra being within them. Under the Moon's Eye plan the bodies had slowly decayed right where they died. Madara certainly hadn't bothered to bury them. DNA littered the landscape where the final battle took place. In the places where chakra had the highest concentrations would be the DNA of the strongest warriors. That was the going theory. What the Kamino team didn't know was the warriors they were raising from the grave were primarily A to S class Ninjutsu users.
"Damn. That's a lot of Kage level ninja." Shikamaru says, surprising the others at his cussing.
Ninja were about to be reborn….
6 months later, Planet Valium in the Paxil Colonies
Suberga was a member of the Dug race. He was an ex-drill instructor that had been thrown out of the Dug military on Malastare for his cruelty and lack of ethics towards his subordinates. He took great pleasure in breaking people to mold them into obedient soldiers. He was in charge of the fifth batch of ninja clones. He didn't understand a thing about chakra nor did he want to. His job was to whip them into subservience. Apparently the first batch of clones revived were on opposing sides in their ancient war on Edo and turned on one another the minute they woke up. The resulting slaughter was so horrific that the original cloning facilities on Edo were destroyed. As a result, small manageable groups of clones were being revived in different parts of the Republic.
"I wonder who the members of the fifth batch are." Hinata says with a frown.
The idea of his charges killing each other in mortal combat greatly appealed to Suberga so he exposed two of them to each other as soon as they awoke six months ago. To his dismay, subject Yamanaka Ino & subject Nara Shikamaru embraced each other due to them being close friends and teammates in their first life. With no maiming to keep him entertained, he disgustedly turned them over to the protocol droid for instruction and training so they would have knowledge of the Galactic Basic language and history of the Republic so they would be able to function in modern society. They also were taught about modern technology. The only times Suberga truly had fun with them was during his sadistic training sessions to train their bodies into peak physical shape. As long as the ninjas understood where they stood in the food chain everything would be fine.
"I don't like him." Both Kushina and Naruto say at the same time. This got a laugh from the others while the mother/son duo just pout.
His favorite subject to bully was Hyuuga Hinata. She was kind and gentle and Suberga relished in the chance of browbeating her and breaking her down. She was isolated from the others.
Hinata scowls, actually SCOWLS, at that.
The last subject was considered the most dangerous of the four. He too was isolated because he possessed immense amounts of chakra. his name was Uzumaki Naruto. Naruto woke up alone in his lab room six months ago within days of the other three and fell into a deep depression. He thought aloud, "Some Child of Prophecy I am. I couldn't stop Madara; I couldn't protect those precious to me and now I'm alive again for no reason. I couldn't even protect Kurama." He assumed he was in a genjutsu, or if not that, some sort of hell when he first woke up. The last thing he remembered was a Sharingan eye appearing on the moon before all faded to black.
Naruto frowns in sadness for his alternate for what he went through.
The worst thing of all was NO RAMEN! He was truly in the hell he felt he deserved to be in for his failure to bring peace to the world. Naruto wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed either. His training in the basic language was agonizingly slow. Even the protocol droid was getting frustrated and they were programmed to have endless patience. His combat training was exceptional though. It seemed he had an iron will to work himself back into fighting shape. Suberga should have been pleased but the fact was no matter what Suberga threw at Naruto, he could take it and come back for more. Suberga was livid that Naruto hadn't buckled and cried out for Mommy like he planned.
Both Naruto and Kushina look horrified at the fact that there was NO RAMEN there. The others just shake their heads at the mother/son duo.
This led to another situation. Suberga was ranting and raving about Naruto to himself the next time he was working over Hinata. She thought she was all alone and was overjoyed that Naruto was alive and begged to see him. Now Suberga had that much more leverage with her. He told her she would see him eventually provided she was obedient but wouldn't say when. The thought of seeing Naruto was the only thing that kept her going when the Dug really laid into her….
"I'm gonna kill him." Naruto and Hinata mutter at the same time, getting chuckles from everyone except Kushina who is squealing. The two just blush in return.
A series of unfortunate events took place in this little research facility soon after. Shikamaru was actually rather content in his current situation. It was too "troublesome" to escape like Ino wanted to. He had three hot meals a day and a bed to sleep on so why worry? She tried to use the mind/body switch on Suberga only to realize to late that Dug physiology was so radically different from huma physiology that it completely backfired. She ended up vomiting for days after that and the Dug's thoughts were so twisted and rancid that she wanted to wash her mind out with bleach afterward.
"Of course, you would feel that way you lazy bastard." Ino says with a scowl.
Suberga didn't get off lightly either. He had the worst migraine of his life for the next two weeks and had her punished severely. Suberga made his first mistake that day when he threatened to sell her off into slavery for breeding stock. Shikamaru wasn't about to let that happen and decided to apply his massive intellect to an escape plan. The only way in or out of the cells was if one had a key pass card and only Suberga and their Twi'lek nurse had them. Battling the Dug would result in a lot of collateral damage so he decided that relieve the nurse of her pass card was the preferred plan.
Jiraiya lets out a perverted giggle at the image of the Twi'lek nurse. ALL of the females in the group pummel Jiraiya for his perverted actions.
The second mistake Suberga made was perhaps unavoidable due to Naruto's chaotic nature. The protocol droid that he had teaching Naruto suffered from a logic circuit failure. Rather than putting the droid in maintenance like he should have, he simply kept it going until Naruto had learned his lesson-one way or the other.
"A Maelstrom can't be controlled! It's a force of chaotic nature!" Naruto and Kushina shout together only to blush when the others start laughing.
The last mistake that sealed Suberga's fate was ironically with his most docile prisoner, Hinata. Suberga had enjoyed the look on Ino's face so much when he told her she was going to be bred like cattle that he decided to tell Hinata the same. Suberga growled out to her. "You are going to be sold off and raped every nine months until you can't have babies anymore. Then you're going to be killed and dissected after that -and you'll NEVER see Naruto again!" He laughed at her horrified expression and Hinata completely snapped.
"I'MA KILL HIM!" Naruto roars out before being restrained by Kushina's chains.
She shrieked, "I'll die first! Eight trigrams thirty-two palm"-CRACKKK! "Oops….I hadn't realized what those two tenketsu points were until now….It seems his testicles have ruptured." Hinata honestly felt guilty, looking down at the slave-driving Dug that she just relieved of his fishing tackle. He looked deflated, as if his soul left his body. The pale face of absolute agony and terror was forever etched on his face. Getting over her shock, she quickly searched the Dug's comatose form and relieved him of all his weapons and that handy key card that would let her escape. She quietly locked the cell behind her and set off to rescue her love Naruto. With the greatest of stealth, she went towards the center corridor of the facility….
All the males cover their own privates in fear of Hinata targeting their balls.
Shikamaru and Ino quickly moved down the hall. Their simple plan of getting the key card from the nurse went without a hitch. One shadow possession jutsu and he was free moments later. He opened Ino's cell and the two crept towards the central crossing that led to the center of the base -and hopefully an exit to freedom. That was when they saw someone. Ino gasped, "Hinata?" Hinata turned quickly at the sound of Ino's voice and was overjoyed to see her friends. They were about to embrace when the alarm went off. Blast doors closed on each of the four corridors, trapping them in the center. How had they set off the alarm? All three of them were moving with the upmost stealth. The nurse and the Dug were both unconscious (especially the latter). That's when they heard a horrific grinding noise behind the third blast door corridor….
The three Toad summoners perk up at the sound. The three share a look that says "Rasengan (Spiraling Sphere)!"
Ten minutes earlier in Naruto's cell:
Naruto was babbling to his protocol droid, "Alright puppet-chan let's wrap it up for the day! You speak my language wayyy better than I can speak basic so why don't we just talk that way instead?"
The last of the droid's poor overheated logic circuits blew out with a spark and a hissing noise. It remembered Suberga's order's "Teach him one way or the other. I don't care which!" The droid said in a pleasant, soothing tone, "Okay Naruto, I guess we'll have to teach you the other way. But for the last time, I am a droid not a puppet."
The others send deadpan looks Naruto's way while Naruto just pouts.
Naruto happily replied, "I like to call you puppet-chan! It has a much nicer ring about it, -ttebayo!"
The droid saw red and screeched, "I'll open up your brain with my bare hands and shove the knowledge in with a rusty spoon! I AM SENDING YOU TO HELL UZUMAKI!" Now Naruto was facing a depraved, psychotic droid hell bent on slaying him in the crudest, bloodiest way it could compute.
"Only you Naruto-kun." Hinata says with a smile and a shake of her head. Naruto just sheepishly smiles and rubs the back of his neck.
Naruto decided to play it cool and asked, "How about droid-chan then?"
The droid screamed, "GRAAAUUGHH!" Naruto's girlish screams rang down the hall as the protocol-turned-assassin droid lunged at him repeatedly trying to tear him apart.
Naruto thought aloud, "I've got to get the hell out of here! Rasengan!" Naruto's jutsu tore through the cell wall like a chainsaw through tissue paper. With the droid hot on his heels, he sprinted down the hall as the alarms went wild due to his rather noisy escape. There wasn't much else to do but run towards the now closing blast doors and try to blow through them. Popping out two shadow clones, he told them to hold off the puppet, er droid while he blew through the blast door with a rasenshuriken.
"What was that last attack?" Minato asks in shock. Naruto just smiles sheepishly. "I call it Wind Style: RasenShuriken. It's basically a Rasengan surrounded by wind blades in the shape of a Fuuma Shuriken." Naruto replied sheepishly.
His clones reacted badly and asked, "Boss; why don't we blow the blast door down while YOU deal with puppet-chan?"
Naruto's frantic reply was "NO WAY! Puppet-chan went off the deep end; I'm getting the hell out of here!" For some reason, Naruto and his equally terror-stuck clones didn't think about simply destroying the droid with a Rasengan. With full fight or flight mode switched firmly to "flight"; Naruto began desperately grinding away at the blast door, pumping more wind chakra into his jutsu….which brings us back to the present….
Everyone except Naruto is shaking their heads at Naruto's absentmindedness. Naruto just pouts.
Shikamaru said, "Kuso! That's wind chakra tearing through that door! Hit the deck!" As he pushed the two kunoichi down. Naruto's Rasenshuriken tore through the door and sailed over their heads, blowing the opposite door down as well. Shikamaru drawled out, "Well, that solves the issue of which direction to go…." Naruto leaped through the massive hole in the door only to literally stumble upon his friends.
"Troublesome blondes." Shikamaru says while Ino just smacks the back of his head.
Ino screeched, "Naruto you baka! You're standing on my hair!"
Naruto looked at his friends and said, "Shikamaru, Ino; Hinata-chan? I thought I was the only one left…."
The lilting voice of the protocol droid echoed down the hall. "Come back here Uzumaki….our lesson isn't over yet…."
Hinata asked in confusion, "What's going on Naruto-kun?" The droid spoke pleasantly, "Ah! Miss Hinata; will you please hold Naruto down while I shove knowledge directly into his brain with this rusty spoon?"
Naruto blurted out terrified, "Don't do it Hinata-chan! Puppet-chan has gone bat-shit insane and is trying to kill me!" Shikamaru groaned, Ino just glared at Naruto.
With a sigh, Hinata went over to the poor droid that so kindly taught her so much and put it out of its misery with a Juken strike to the head. Hinata lamented in her mind, 'I love him but what am I going to do with him?'
Shikamaru spoke up while looking at the droid's smoking carcass, "Troublesome; you definitely haven't changed. The two blocked paths lead down to the holding cells that Hinata, Ino and I were held in and are dead ends. Is there anything like an exit in the direction you came from Naruto?" Naruto just shook his head in the negative. Shikamaru continued, "The way you blew open on the other side leads to the armory and the training grounds. Hopefully we'll find our exit there."
Hinata is wondering the same thing about HER Naruto-kun.
Ino piped up and said, "We need to stock up on weapons anyway Shikamaru; my mind jutsus only have limited effects on other life forms." At Ino's comment, they set forward.
The four went down to the armory to stock up on kunai and shuriken. The original Kamino team learned these were the kinds of weapons they used so plenty were manufactured and available for the ninjas, although they were supposed to receive them after they were conditioned. Surprisingly there were no guards to speak of. It seemed that when the alarm went off, the powers in charged decided to cut their losses and leave. All four of them fitted out with gray urban camo shirts, pants and jackets and bandoliers for their shuriken and kunai. They also got equipped with dark gray arm guards, chest plates and greaves.
Naruto just pouts at the lack of orange while Ino is doing the same at the lack of purple and feminine.
It wasn't the fashion statement that Ino wanted to make. "Don't they have ANYTHING feminine?" But they were functional and comfortable. Besides; beggars can't be choosers. After stocking up as much as they could with spares in small backpacks (they had no sealing scrolls), they journeyed across the now deactivated training grounds to an exit on the far side. Passing through the exit, they found what appeared to be some kind of ship with a single small, barrel shaped droid guarding the entrance to it….
"Right?! I'm not a tomboy! I at least want to look pretty while fighting." Ino says with a pout.
Shikamaru figured it was some kind of transport out of there as the surrounding areas were nothing but a barren mountain region. He turned to the others and said, "We need to face down that droid; it doesn't look armed but we have to be careful." At Shikamaru's warning, they all slowed down for a moment.
"Troublesome." Shikamaru mutters getting a whack to the back of the head curtesy of Ino.
Hinata had an idea; "Why don't we just talk to it?"
Naruto's reaction was less than supportive. "Um, Hinata-chan, a droid just tried to kill me. What makes you think we can just talk to it?"
Hinata replied, "The protocol droid tried to kill YOU, Naruto-kun. It was fine with the rest of us." Naruto just pouted.
Hinata was about to console him when Shikamaru decided and spoke. "Let me talk to it; it's slumped over to the side and may be out of power now that I look at it." While the others (especially Naruto) kept their distance, Shikamaru quietly walked up to the droid in as non-threatening a manner as he could manage for someone that just made a jailbreak. He asked, "Hello droid-san?" Silence. He walked closer and heard static coming from the slumped over, inert piece of metal and heard….something like snoring? Finally, Shikamaru came up and knocked on the top of it.
"I can't believe there is a droid version of you, ya lazy bum!" Ino practically screams at the Nara, eliciting a muttered "troublesome" in response.
The static changed to a groaning sound and Shikamaru stepped back. The top of its barrel like body slid open revealing two half closed optical sensors. It asked in an annoyed tone, "Whaddaya want? I'm in shut down here." It said in a raspy voice. The four ninjas face faulted. 'It was actually asleep?' They thought in unison.
Jiraiya just laughs before Naruto soon joins in while Ino is fuming and ranting about lazy ass teammates and droids.
The droid very slowly came online, making buzzing and cracking noises. Finally, it spoke to them, "Well, I'm awake now. Is there some reason you woke me up?"
Shikamaru rubbed the bridge of his nose and commented, "Actually there is. Are you this ship's guard? We were wondering if we could leave this place in it."
The droid was now more coherent and asked, "Say, you all are those four bodies we dragged in here about 6 months ago, aren't you?"
Shikamaru replied, "Yes, we're ready to leave." The droid looked around and questioned, "Where's Suberga?"
Ino just answered, "He's unavailable right now…."
To the ninja's surprise, the droid reacted with, "Great! I was hoping you all had killed him. I'd rather deal with prison escapees than that back end of a windy bantha any day." Everyone face-faulted again. The droid asked completely unfazed, "So, where do you want to go?"
Even the readers face-faulted, though they don't know why the droid would say that.
Shikamaru motioned towards the ship and said, "Anywhere but here." The droid floated up and turned around enough to extend a mechanical arm and opened the door. It stated excitedly, "This ship's name is the Misfire; my designation is Dee-Zero-Cee but I go by Doc. I'm the ship's pilot and maintenance droid."
"Dee-Oh-Cee, I get it." Naruto says with a grin.
Ino asked, "Do you usually sleep on the job?"
Doc's quick reply was, "Anytime I can missy. When you get to be 200 years old and have been in three wars, you will too."
Naruto exclaimed, "I like him -ttebayo!"
"That's the end of the chapter. Who wants to read next?" Minato asks only for Kushina to swipe the book from her husband.
Well, everyone, I hope you enjoy the chapter. It has certainly been hard for my muses to come up with the various reactions that the readers had. Also, XXX777 is looking for someone to do a Reading of story for Thayerblue1's "Naruto: Magik" story. R&R!