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Fallen-ryu: I didn't elaborate but its the same as canon. At the end, where Naruto and his allies (including many Monks) defeated Obito and Madara before they could summon/awaken Kaguya, many of the Monks performed a seal on the eight and a half-tailed Shinju into Naruto. Hence, he is the holder of all Biju. I'm planning on doing it differently while including the companions I found interesting or liked the most. I'm sure in the future Naruto will bargain or just flat-out take control of his Homeworld. I'm glad that someone else thinks the Jedi Code is a little ridiculous. That Code is the only thing that has kept me from actually wanting to be a Jedi (if I were I'd be kicked out or ignore all the Masters like Revan). As for the last part, no it's not Jessa although I do plan on her being one of Naruto's apprentices. Yes, she will be more grey than anything (my reason is in this chapter (^.^) ). As for your answer of who Naruto will fall for it's La-

Doctor Dandy: Thanks for more of your support Dr!

Adjuster: I like the Menma version of Naruto better because he's more serious and after watching Road to Ninja again I got into the character once more but found that if I killed his funny side then it wouldn't be the same. I feel that he should have been like this if it were more with reality. I tried to make Hinata into her RtN counterpart with the confidence and all. Glad you like it!

Chapter Five - Darth Arkous

Naruto watched as he approached the Citadel, home to the Sith Lords of the Empire. Kakashi and Shikamaru had arrived just as their shuttle docked in the planetary station and he told them to get settled into some rooms. Haku and Kory accompanied him since they already got their stuff in their room and they wanted to see the capital of the Empire. And so far, they were pleased with what they saw.

"I wonder how different that Republic is from us." Naruto commented idly, a smile on his lips.

"If they're anything like the Jedi Order I've been reading on your holocron they'll be hypocritical and corrupt." Haku answered, looking at the top of the Citadel where lightning struck the tip. Out of the corner of her eye she saw a woman with blonde hair walking with one of the Sith Lords from the Dark Council. She wore a black and green short-sleeve jacket that reached her mid-thighs with a high collar that reached her chin and a black long-sleeve underneath. Over her black pants at her knees were metal poleyns , and black boots with a high heel. Over her shoulders was a cape-like cloak, held by pauldrons. The Lord's armor was too difficult to explain in words.

"Oh, is that Darth Arkous?" Naruto asked, squinting to see further. "And who's that next to him?"

Haku rolled her eyes. "Naruto, I swear, sometimes I wonder how you have 20-20 vision."

Naruto grinned at his raven companion before seeing Zash at the landing pad waiting for him. "Anyway, there's Zash. Hey!"

Haku covered her eyes hoping it would hide her from being seen with the goofy blonde waving like an imbecile at the blonde Sith. "Sit down! I feel like this vehicle will tip with all your movement!"

"Scared of heights?" Naruto teased, poking the girl lightly. "Are you, Haku-chan?"

SMACK!

Naruto fell back laughing as a red print started glowing on his right cheek. "That's mean!"

Haku waved her hand to rid it of the sting but huffed as they landed. As she got out, Zash helping her, she turned to the woman with the most annoyed look she could have. "You and the rest of the Empire are going to have their hands full with him."

Zash smiled, holding her hands together above her waist once the raven got her legs back. "I'm sure the Empire won't have much to deal with if he's busy taking it all out on the Republic. How was your ride to Dromund Kaas?"

"It was fun!" Naruto shouted as he got out of the car. "I took ownership of the Black Talon and Zabuza and Kakashi are getting it upgraded into a warship. It'll be awesome." He then frowned and narrowed his eyes in concentration. "Also, do I get paid or not? I don't have any of these credits you use and I don't know how I'll be buying everything."

"Ah, yes," Zash smiled and motioned for the younger boy to follow her. "A Sith, upon becoming Lord, gets complementary assets from the Empire. You'll be given at least one Harrower-class Dreadnought and two Terminus-class Destroyers, all filled with starships and marines at your disposal until you create your own power base and replace them however you wish. Monthly, you get a tribute based on your accomplishments."

"Wow, you must have a lot of ships to give every Lord." Said Haku.

"We're on the edge of war," Zash explained, "It's best that every Lord has their own ship to command from. But it's not everyone who gets a Star Destroyer. Most get a small Fury-class starfighter to work with, but I was able to get Kilran to agree to giving you one of his Dreadnoughts - though he was more persuaded with your work on the General and said it was a payment for your services. Of course, every ship is at the Grand Moff's mercy as he controls the whole naval fleet. He was the one who coordinated the successful naval assault on Coruscant, you know."

"Kilran did that?" Naruto asked with a smirk. "I thought he was joking by calling himself 'Butcher of Coruscant'. That man has my respect if he gained that kind of title. I'll work with him more often, maybe get a name like his."

"Oh, yes, they'll be calling you 'Butcher of Fish and Cakes', Lord Fishcake." Haku grinned, teasing the blonde.

"Fishcake?" Zash asked, "What's that."

"It's a cured fish typically made with, coincidentally his favorite food, ramen." Haku explained to the blonde woman. "Naruto, in our language, is also short for narutomaki, a processed version of a fishcake."

"Interesting name," Zash spoke quietly, entering a room. In it is a rug with the Empire symbol, a large table and chair, and behind it is a wall-to-wall shelf for various books and records. There were a large red triangular pyramid and a black-gold cube small enough to barely fit in someone's hand already on a shelf. "Here's your chambers. They are next to mine, as the man who owned it previously was murdered on Manaan. It's spacious, with a room in the back for your companions. Bed chambers for you and your companions are upstairs, stairs in the hall lead up to it. If you're looking for further training in the Force, I have some holocrons and texts you can borrow, or there is a trainer on the third floor. You will learn lightsaber forms, Force techniques, and dark rituals."

Naruto grinned and bowed thankfully to her. "Thank you so much, Zash-chan. I'm glad to know that the Empire is nicer than it looks. Now I know I'll be welcomed here."

Zash bowed her head back with a smile. "You are Sith now, Naruto. You are as much part of this Empire than anyone else. But do beware, some Lords do anything for a sliver of increase in power."

Naruto frowned slightly and nodded his head. "I will be careful. Thank you for the warning."

"No problem, Lord Naruto. Now, I do believe you have a guest." As she exited she passed Darth Arkous, who waited patiently and silently for Naruto to be free, she bowed her head, "Darth Arkous."

"Lord Zash," Arkous nodded back, a quick glance going over the woman as she left down the hall before turning to Naruto. "Lord Naruto, my name is Darth Arkous. I'm part of the Dark Council."

"Yeah," Naruto nodded with a smile. "I remember you while I was being named Lord. How are you?"

"I am good. But, I was wondering if you were too busy to walk with me?" The man held his wrists from behind his back, showing a posture of a man of aristocratic position yet power and backbone most can't hope to hold. "I would be happy to talk with you about many things. Your home, these shadow warriors your planet has, and others."

Naruto nodded. "Of course. Alone or may I bring Haku and Kory."

"I'm sorry, but this is only for us."

"I was thinking about going to that trainer, anyway, Naruto." Kory spoke up from next to Haku. "I was hoping to take up that Sith Assassin path, actually."

Naruto nodded and looked at Haku, who smiled. "I was going to get our rooms orderly. And it would be best for someone to be here if Zabuza and the others got back. Who knows what they'd do with no one to keep them in line."

"Right," Naruto smiled and turned to Arkous. "You've got yourself a deal, Arkous. We'll go on this walk."

"Great," the man smiled, and led the way out the room. "Now, about your home. Have your people ever experienced using the Force?"

Naruto shook his head. "No. The closest to supernatural power that we've come to were taught by monks. It was a long-kept secret among monasteries of how to use what they called Ninshu. They helped their respective countries with problems like tsunamis, earthquakes, or containing the Biju."

"Biju?"

"Oh, that's Tailed-Beasts in our language. The ones you called Force-Beasts." Naruto explained quickly.

"Weird name." Arkous commented.

"Well, there are respectively nine Biju, all with an extra tail as they go up. I was given the Kyuubi Biju, or Nine-tailed Tailed-Beast. However, as the war went on and this group of rogue monks named Akatsuki started gathering the Biju, I was ultimately the only one able to fully control all nine of them." Naruto spoke with an away-look, which Arkous took note of. "Because of the Kyuubi, I gained abilities like monk speed, strength, agility and everything, and a regenerative metabolism or whatever that healed me of wounds. Hence why I was created as the greatest weapon my village could ever make."

"And these ninja?" Arkous asked, getting on to a different subject as he led them outside Kaas City walls.

"Ninja are the main forces of each country. While our Daimyo, a King or Lord of that specific country, would have Samurai guarding him and his kingdom, we would handle almost all missions containing threats to the country. We would secretly enter a bandit camp or enemy country and kill certain targets or diplomats. The most difficult of those that I've handled was clearing out a bandit camp wanting to attack our capital. Considering there were twenty-five hundred of them, it was a difficult business without anyone noticing that their numbers were dwindling. But other than those, we would go into an outright war with Samurai. We aren't that great in open-combat but we do hold our own."

"So, ninja are trained assassins and soldiers, trained in every aspect as to be the most effective?" Arkous summed up as he and the blonde entered a small path between two cliffs. "We're here."

"Where are we?" Naruto looked around and noticed a bunch of Sith and Imperial soldiers. He could swear that one of them looks like a Jedi.

"This is the Order of Revan, Naruto." Arkous spoke as he walked into the camp. "We are a special group of individuals who walk both paths of the Force."

Naruto blinked. "Wait, so you're telling me that you aren't Sith?"

"No, I'm saying that I understand the Force beyond the Good and Bad that we are taught." Arkous corrected. "You haven't learned much of the galaxy so I'm glad I got to you before someone else clouded your judgement. Have you heard anything of the name 'Revan'?"

Naruto felt recognition in that word, from one of the holocrons he used. "Yeah, familiar. I haven't learned anything about it though, why?"

"That man is known as Sith Lord Darth Revan, and to the Republic as Master Revan. He walked both paths, first Light then Dark, but ended in Grey. While he isn't entirely liked by both eyes, the Jedi because he disobeyed their Council and the Sith because he went back to the Light, we see him as a Teacher. We see him as the greatest Teacher in history, teaching and showing more in the Force than any other could. Because of that, we pledge ourselves to him and his Order."

Naruto nodded, noticing the looks he was getting. "They're staring at me. Should I be worried?"

"No," Arkous spoke when a Human man and Sith female. "Naruto, this is Dzoun and Ladra. Fellow Revanites."

"Arkous," Dzoun, the Human, spoke to the Sith Lord, "What do you bring to us? An initiate?"

"My name's Naruto Uzumaki," Naruto corrected. "And I hadn't decided whether I'd want to join you. So far, you're not that pleasing to look at."

"Naruto," Arkous immediately spoke to the blonde. "Be respectful. He meanso nthing with his tone. And you must decide now, because once you do there's no going back." n

Naruto knitted his eyebrows together. "This is a lot to just spring up on me. I know nothing of this Revan or this Order, therefore I don't, more like can't, form a reasonable opinion on this. I have only the words you've told me and common sense to know if I'll be betrayed."

"You're safe here, Naruto." Ladra spoke up, her orange eyes looking at him. "We are trustworthy, and we protect our own. We don't judge others for their faults, and we help them gain the knowledge they seek. What answers do you want answered?"

Naruto stared at the woman, his trained mind telling him she speaks the truth. "I want to know your goal. What do you mean to achieve with something like this?"

"We bring unity." Dzoun answered. "We ignore the titles of Jedi and Sith, and focus on the Force. What it provides, we use. No Light, no Dark, just the Force. We'll teach you that more than anyone else."

"Both sides who join us are brothers. We protect the secrets of others and avoid conflict." Ladra finished.

"But doesn't that create problems?" Naruto questioned, "While you bring in both sides, won't that be counter-productive when you'll have to fight each other?"

"We understand when our duty conflicts our allegiance." Arkous spoke up this time. "That's why we go knowing there is nothing personal. We do what we can, and at the end of the day we hope we can both go home alive. But outside of our duties, we work together to further our Order."

"That is all we can tell you until you complete your trials." Dzoun interrupted. "If you want to, that is."

Naruto went silent as he thought of this. Being trained to have a tactical mind and an understanding for every encounter he may have, this was a quick deducing. While he wasn't a good guy, all of his actions from the last seven years sealing him from being that, he wasn't a bad guy either. He didn't kill for entertainment or because he was bored, but all of his means were justified to help keep his mind guilt-free. He didn't kill innocents but those who deserve it; rapists, murderers, traitors, and others were on his list. He felt like he would be betraying the Empire if he joined this Order, yet the Empire showed that most of it was corrupt with select few. Zash and Marr were the only ones to show that they were the good Sith while others had hidden intentions or disrespect for others. They respected the ideals of the Sith Order but not each other.

With a made mind, he nodded his head. "I'll do this. I'll join your Order."

"Good," Dzoun nodded. "Your trial is to look to your new Masters around the camp. They will show you the task you are given to complete, and once you are done return to me. Then the Master will give you your final trial."

"Alright," Naruto said as he looked around for a Master. He found it in a shady, old man with a beard and wrinkled skin. Well, with age comes wisdom I guess.

"Come here." The man said hoarsely, his voice barely above a whisper. "You are among the initiates who wish to join our Order. That is good. But answer me something; you are here for the Order of Revan. Will you die for us?"

"If it is to protect those who would do the same, then yes." Naruto answered truthfully, ending with, "I have put my life on the line for less than that, I can at least do that."

"Good," The man nodded faintly, "Beyond is a path, it leads to a cave. A cave dedicated to Darth Revan. Initiates who have walked the path have fallen. They are torn by what they see inside, but those who make it to the end are remade; reborn, like Revan. If you come back, you will have left behind your duties to the Empire and emerge as one step closer to becoming a Revanite."

Naruto nodded and followed the dirt path. True to what the old man said, the path ended at a cave to which he entered. It was straight-forward, until he reached a large shrine with a statue of what he guessed was Revan. He walked up the breaking stone ramp and ended at an altar. He walked to it before stopping, seeing nothing that would show the objective of a trial. Deciding that this was something like what he had to do to open a holocron, he got to his knees and closed his eyes, lowering his head so he could focus on his surroundings.

As he released his mind and power in search, he was startled when the shrine was engulfed in a ring of flames. He got to his feet and spun around for the disturbance, pulling out his lightsaber and activating with a snap and hiss, he was disturbed to see an actual form of Revan come through the flames. He continued walking before he disappeared when he neared Naruto's blade. He shut off his lightsaber, getting into a relaxed position before he felt an excruciating pain shoot through his body. In a black smoke, purple lightning shot over and through his body from the altar behind him and forced him to a knee, though he refused to go any lower and used all his strength to stay there.

Just as fast as it started it ended, leaving him huffing in pain as it subsided into a numb feeling. He suspected that was his trial, his "rebirth" as the old man called it. With a grunt, he got to his feet and slowly left the cave while ignoring the small crackle of lightning running over his right arm and hand. As he got to the camp, looks were quickly casted at him before they were taken away as if they were being sneaky.

"You return." The old man spoke upon his approach. "You are reborn, dripping with the blood of the womb like a newborn. Everything of your old life, everything you were and have done, is dead. Left buried in that cave."

"What was in that cave?" Naruto asked, snapping his hand when a particular remnant of lightning stung the skin under a fingernail. "There were objects of power in the Force, and Revan himself manifested in the flames."

"All that we have recovered of Revan's life is left in there. It is the last thing we see as initiates before we die," The man explained. "Tell me, how does it feel to be reborn? Your past promises, every burden you held no longer there?"

Naruto searched for a difference, but he felt nothing. His mind and thinking were the same, but something about this man meant different. He suspected this was a feeling of faith, of relief to those who felt burdened in life and are no longer going to be judged. That what they did they felt wrong no longer matters in this rebirth. So he answered, "Different. I don't know how to explain it, but I feel something is different."

"That is your burdens disappearing." The man explained. "Your worries are gone and the galaxy no longer rests on your shoulders. I am proud you have started your life as a Revanite. Take this," He said as he pulled out a ring, one with two lines and a circle in the middle, "it will remind you of what you've become. Go forth to your next Master, and may the Force be with you."

Naruto turned around, putting the ring on his right hand's ring finger, and walked to Arkous who stood in a tent watching him carefully. "Could it happen that you are a teacher?"

"Anyone in the Order can be a teacher," The Sith Lord spoke, "It just depends on what the teacher can give to lead the student. Do you seek knowledge? Power? Or meaning to something."

"Call it an interest of something new." Naruto grinned sheepishly. "I don't know what I want. My desires happen on a random occurrence or not at all. I've grown up with my desires last and the duty to my village and their inhabitants first."

"Mm," Arkous hummed lowly as he regarded the boy. "How about this. Recite the Sith Code for me."

"That's that poem-haiku thing that the Sith live by right?" Naruto tilted his head slightly before answering. "Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, victory. Through victory my chains are broken. The Force will set me free."

"Good, Naruto, now what does that mean to you? There is no wrong answer."

Naruto blinked twice before sighing. "Sith acknowledge that peace is a person's fantasy, and that the galaxy is not a fairy tail, and instead we realise our passions and pursue them. With our passions, we gain the strength to push on through Heaven and Hell for what we want. With that strength, we finally have that power to achieve victory. With that victory, we feel unshackled from fantasy and reality and soar to greater heights. The last part about the Force is something separate, as the Sith use the Force to achieve these feats so we acknowledge its power to have set us free. Like a student acknowledging the master."

"Interesting, now the Jedi Code."

"Ah, that one." Naruto muttered bitterly. "There is no emotion, there is peace. There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no chaos, there is harmony. There is no death, there is the Force. But Arkous, this Code is entirely complicated and confusing."

"How so?" Arkous asked, sitting at one of the chairs.

"The whole code contradicts each other, not to mention it is entirely secluded. 'There is no emotion, there is peace'. Yet, it says 'there is no passion, there is serenity'. Serenity, by definition, means a feeling of peace and balance. So, secluding one's emotions is harmful to one's health and if they don't experience it they won't know how to handle it. And they say 'there is no chaos, there is harmony'. This speaks of one's ignorance to the rest of the galaxy and what people may be going through. Yes, harmony lives but without chaos we would never know what that really means. That then defies the second, 'there is no ignorance, there is knowledge'. Lastly, that 'there is no death, there is the Force'. There is no death, but by belief you move on to combine with the Force who has given you life. Therefore, you have died."

Arkous was quiet as he looked at the young man amused. "Interesting way to look at it. But I must request you keep that to yourself, the last thing I need is to hear Dzoun and you bicker about frivolous Codes. Go speak to him, and tell him that you have complete your trials."

Naruto bowed his head before walking off to the man. "Hey, Dzoun, I've finished."

"Ah," The man turned to him from watching the camp's entrance. "Then you may meet the Master. Go to his tent and he will meet you."

Naruto nodded as the man pointed to the large tent and made his way over. He got a nod from Arkous before the man turned back to Ladra.

Once he made it to the tent, he noticed a holo on the ground and, after looking at it for ten seconds, pressed a button. Miraculously, a recording of Revan appeared. "You who have died and been reborn, stand before me now. You who have reclaimed the ancient past, stand before me now. You who have shown power and wisdom to my followers, look upon the Master of the Order of Revan."

Naruto just stared in silence with raised eyebrows as he regarded the recording. After a second, he said, "What now?"

"You have become a member of the Order of Revan, where you will walk its path forevermore." The holo replied back, "The enemies of the Order will force you to move quietly, but we will keep your secrets safe as you do ours."

Suddenly, the image cut out and Naruto now felt a new presence walk up to him. It was a young woman with dark skin and black hair, paint decorating her face and red armor. "The time of subterfuge is over. Know me for who I really am."

"You're the Master?" Naruto asked, getting a nod from the woman. "I was under the impression from everyone that you were a man."

"It serves its purpose. Besides, Revan's gender is unclear in many records today. I apologise for the deception, however, and for not meeting you sooner. You must understand how much the Dark Council wants me dead. Our Order compromises everything the Empire prizes."

Naruto nodded in understanding. "I hold nothing against you. But what is this Revan, and the Order?"

"I found recordings of Revan on Korriban when I first became Sith. It has led me down a harsh path. Revan came to Dromund Kaas after being reborn, and some believe he has died at the hands of the Emperor. I think otherwise." The woman paused as she cleared her voice and lowered it. "I believe that Revan killed the Emperor, and has secretly took over the Empire for the last three centuries. Other than our Order, only the Dark Council knows the truth."

"That's an interesting way to look at it." Naruto raised an eyebrow. "Do you believe that?"

"Yes," The woman confirmed with a nod. "I have heard whispers in the Citadel that the Emperor has been in seclusion for decades, and the Dark Council no longer speaks to him. The only explanation I could come with is that the Dark Council betrayed Emperor Revan and locked him away. They seek to destroy our Order because we know the truth."

"Or because you're being paranoid?" Naruto shrugged but made nothing of it. So far, there was no sign of an Emperor but the Council so, to him, this sounded plausible. "I believe you, and I've agreed to join your Order. Is there anything else you need of me?"

"Yes," The woman nodded and grabbed a large chest from behind her. "This is for you. Since you are new to our galaxy, I thought to get you a set of armor for your travels. A token for who you are now."

Naruto got a smile and opened the chest to see a mask that oddly looked like Revan's and grey armor beneath. "Thank you, Sensei-san."

If you wonder what armor Naruto wears it'll be on the profile, as it has for the last few weeks. I might later have a free Google site made for easier access and as long as you have the link you may get on it. Note: every armor and weapon are straight from the SWTOR game because I suck at describing all of them if you haven't noticed by now.

Anyway, review what you think then have fun reading other stories. Maybe my own ^.^?