Sith'ari

I hate snow

A/N: Well, my beta, hmweasley, is busy moving. I have been trying to find a beta for 2 weeks and didn't get anyone. So you will just have to read this raw, unless someone willing to one-time beta this.

I found the name of fic that inspires me in the last chapter now, it called 'Legend of the Whiskered One' by Saito Uzumaki. Now that I give credit where credit is due, let us get to the story. Also I had settled that I will do short story chapters, but I will post it after the next chapter, which will be this arc last chapter since I am sure you people died waiting due to my update rate.

Also I had settled that I will do short story chapters, but I will post it after the next chapter, which will be this arc last chapter since I am sure you people died waiting due to my update rate.

If you forgot any character names, go back to chapter 10.

Naruto breathed the air in then out. His hot breath created a white steam as the air left his mouth. His eyes remained closed because the falling snow caused discomfort to every inch of his body ever since he had arrived on this world.

This was the first time he had ever experienced snow and the freezing temperatures, which he hated. Maybe it had something to do with his closeness to the desert of Korriban. He preferred boiling hot then freezing cold, he supposed. He leaned back further into a stone slab that he had used as his resting place while tightening his thick cloak around him.

He breathed again, but this time his lungs shook, and his eyes shot open as he started choking on the air. After the irradiating pain had settled down, he looked over the horizon. From atop the slope, where he was on, he could see nothing but the pure whiteness of snow that covered the ground and the small flakes that fell from the sky slowly with an occasional trunk of a dead tree in the background.

He would have growled if someone could hear him. Oh wait, someone could, and so he did.

'Ugh, does the cold upset you that much?' His fox companion asked, annoyed.

'I don't like snow, it's soft and smooth and fragmental, and it gets everywhere,' the blonde answered. [1]

Inside his mindscape, Kurama jerked his head back in disbelief while his mouth hung agape with the dumbfounded look stuck on his face. What the kid just said was the cheesiest thing he had ever heard, and he had heard a lot sticking with this philosophical motivational speaker. But luck was on Kurama's side today as the boy realized what he had just said as well.

'By Adas, why did I say that. That was stupid as hell,' he said.

'Yeah, let's forget that,' the nine-tailed said.

'Right, never happened.'

That was a silence between the two.

'So what are we waiting for again?'

Naruto didn't answer, only looked to the east.

'Oorn is back. You will get your answer soon.'

He kept looking on for a few more minutes before the giant in brown armor came into his sight. The Jarell was covering himself with the same style of cloak as Naruto had, which hid most of his armor san the helmet over his head. Naruto got up and slid down the slope and walked up to him.

"Found what we're looking for?" Naruto asked him.

"Ay, the governor is in his redoubt, guarantee. Matis saw some Death Watch leaving the place earlier," Oorn reported.

"Alright, process as planned. We will storm the place and get the detail on the Death Watch," Naruto ordered, Oorn nodded. "I will report this to Fett, so our force is ready to move," he said.

Horuset pushed a switch on his arm. A faint sound of a machine starting could be heard in a distant. It was followed by a sound of a speeder engine getting louder and louder until his silver rider finally parked next to him.

"How much credit did you waste to install autopilot into your speeder?" Oorn asked though he didn't seem to be expecting a real answer.

"A lot, but it's better than wasting them on alarm clocks. I will see you after we are done killing the governor's guards," Oorn nodded again. Naruto hopped onto his bike before riding away.

As he journeyed on, the sense of pride swelled in his chest as he guided his magnificent speeder through the snow. The silver speeder was currently one of his most prized possession, seconded from his ax and saber of course. He was even thinking about naming it.

He admired the scenery along the way. His mind wandered to many trivial things like: that he ran out of shampoo, that he wanted to rewatch that video on HoloNet about puppy, that he and the others spent 2 years chasing Death Watch all over the Outer Rim; destroying any bases and contacts of the defect Mandalorian and that he was going to steal the governor stuffs without being caught; he needed money for the future.

His working contact bounded him to the True Mandalorian for five years, and this was already his fourth. He could renew it, sure, but he already got their supports. This included befriended some captive Death Watch like Slade and Marcus, whom he befriended several months after their capture.

There's no reason he needed to be here anymore, but he still felt like something still bounded him here, something he couldn't explain. He could think on that later, for now, let focus on how to loot the governor's redoubt.

There're some Neimoidian serving under the governor, those greedy little bastards would be more than willing to help him backstabbed the governor either out of fear or greed. Still, he needed to choose wisely.

It was likely that he would need to keep this Neimoidian around to help liquidize the stolen assets. [2] Because of that, he must pick the one that had enough cowardice enough for him to control, but not to the point that it would betray him when someone else threatening it. It must not be too greedy either, else it would sell him out. Basically, he must look for a modest Neimoidian, if that term could ever be applied to their species.

Hmm, he might do well to scout ahead for now.

He stopped his bike and made a quick hand seal. His clones popped into existence within the next second. There were ten of them. He only nodded. They shared a mind before splitting, they already knew what to do.

The clones made a hand sign and disguised themselves. Once smoke of Shapeshifting Technique was gone many shapes and forms stood before him. Some disguised as the native animal, some as astrodroids and one, the leader, as an adult Mandalorian warrior in blank grey armor. [3]

The clone jumped through the branches toward the governor place, while Naruto continued on his way to meet Jango.

xxxxx

The governor's security was disappointing. He didn't even need to kill anyone or create a diversion to get in here.

The clone leader was crawling in the air vent as if to imitate some classic HoloMovie scene. The three that disguised as astrodroids were scouting the perimeter for something worth keeping or an ally that could help them sold off their loot.

The rest were those that disguised as the animal. They were tasked with lookout job, though the clone leader sympathized the one who was assigned to the sewer as Dianoga; he truly got the 'shitty' job.

The leader stopped once he felt he was at the heart of the redoubt.

It was always harder for the clones to use the Force than their master, but just a bit of their original power was more than enough; they still got chakra after all.

He would wait here until the three astrodroid scouts finished their mission and sent him their memory.

It didn't take long before the first memory arrived. It found the servant quarter, guard barrack and, of course, storage room filled with weapons, valuable items, and illegal goods.

The second one soon popped out of existence. This one did not found much besides the lobby decorated with several distasteful self-portraits of the governor on classical canvas paintings.

Though it did manage to find something interesting. A droid, unlike anything he had ever seen. Instead of regular two 'legs' and thick body, this droid's body was a slim silver pentagon plate with a red sensor in the middle as an eye. Its legs composed of five tentacles that helped it stand.

This droid was likely custom made, worth looking into. [4]

Finally, the last one disappeared.

'Bingo.'

This one found where the governor was hiding and not only that but his Neimoidian encouraged as well. It managed to pinpoint three potential candidates for being an ally.

Now it was up to the leader to pick which one since the original had fully entrusted him with this mission. They were the same person after all; his judgment was Darth Horuset's judgment.

So the leader clone crawled through the air vent system, determined to convert one of those treacherous assistances to an ally.

xxxxx

He had observed all three of the candidate, but the only one showed promise. Though it might need a bit of pushing. He decided to approach it when one of the clones dispelled to warn the imminent assault.

The clone leader stalked the Neimoidian he had targeted as it was working in its office. Its overall facial was nothing different from your average Neimoidian, filled with bumps and wrinkles along with a big pair of red eyes, all in all hideous.

The clone search deep into the alien mind, as deep as his limited connection to the Force would allow him anyways, he could sense something that would be considered 'common sense' by most sentient of the galaxy, which average Neimoidian did not possess.

Now that it was clear this green alien would be an ideal servant, the clone made its move. It jumped out of the air vent and met the shocked Neimoidian.

"W-who are you?! How did you get it here?! Guards! Guards!" The accountant called, but none answer. Within a few more heartbeat, the explosion rang and shook the room.

"The Mandalorian are here, they're coming for the governor's head," he turned to the panicking businessman. It looked around trying to find a way out: jumped out of the window, threw the table at him then made a run for the door or even tried to find a weapon to fight him! Now, this was not your average Neimoidian!

"Calm down, I'm here to offer you a solution to get out of this...mess," the accountant paused and started to calm down as evidenced by his slower breathing.

"I'm listening," the alien replied to his proposal, seeing no better alternatives.

"I'm in need of some assistance in acquiring assets here for my master. He wanted anything of a value in this place then turn them into credit. If you're willing to help, then we will be more than willing to guarantee your safety from the Mandalorian and share some of the profit with you," The clone explained.

"But would that not raise the suspicion from the Republic? The governor is a part of their bureaucratic system, anything here can be confiscated by them," the Neimoidian asked cautiously, not wanting any more trouble than it was already in.

"With the Mandalorian attacking, they would just think this place is looted, though you will have to work fast to sell the assets else you might turn into a scapegoat. I will find something in governor's personal belonging that could cause an investigation as a safety measure if that ever happened, as long as you do as I said," the clone elaborated.

"What about the guards? Some of them would still likely to be alive if their story didn't match mine then-" he was cut off when the clone threw him a card with his number.

"Bride them, but if that didn't work then called me. I will get rid of them for you. Now, do we have a deal, mister…"

"I'm Rune Haako, the governor's accountant," the Neimoidian introduced itself. "And yes, I accept your deal. Though I would need help getting into the governor's terminal. The information in there will be valuable to our work." [5]

"Sold," the clone said. Another explosion shook the room. "I need to go. If they caught me our plan is a bust. My leader will come to meet you, just wait here," Haako nodded. The clone leader left through the air vent and crawled far enough for him to dispel.

xxxxx

Naruto pulled the trigger and killed the last of the resisting guard in the lobby area. He lowered his rifle and gazed around, seeing the surrendering guards restrained and warriors advanced further into the compound. That was when the last clone memory came to him.

With that, he nodded to Silas, who take the hint that Naruto found something that would help them. He walked off but not before ordering Zedra to go with Silas.

Naruto split from the main group and arrived as planned. He opened the door and was greeted by the startled Rune Haako. The Neimoidian didn't speak at first, probably to make sure he was indeed the master that the clone mention.

"Rune Haako?" Horuset asked. He only nodded. "Where is the governor's terminal? We need to work fast."

"In his private quarter, I could lead you through a secret passage to get there before your people," Naruto nodded. The Sith peeked his head out of the door to make sure no one else was in the area. When he was sure the parameter was clear, he pushed the door open and let Haako led the way.

They walked through an empty and rather unimpressive corridor with bare minimal decoration, an almost contrast to the lobby, which was lavishly filled with objects of high value. As they were turning a corner, they bumped into a droid. Naruto blinked, this was that unique droid one of the clones spotted.

"Ah, Vuffi, perfect timing, come with us," Haako said to the droid. It beeped a few times. Naruto still had some trouble understanding droids' Binary language, but judging from the fact that Haako started walking again with the droid behind him he presumed it said 'yes'. [6]

They walked on, into the secret passage the accountant was talking about.

Horuset became curious about the droid. Its design was something he had never seen before, then again he didn't see much when it came to the droid.

"So is this a new droid model?" He asked.

"Hmm? You mean Vuffi? No, it was a gift from Mon Calamari to the governor. It's a simple astrodroid despite its design, but it would help speed up the process of getting into the terminal," Haako explained, didn't bother to pause from moving.

Naruto took a quick glance at the droid. It glanced back with its sensory eye but shortly focusing forward. Naruto couldn't help but felt there was something much more about this droid, much more.

They arrived in the governor's private quarters. The man himself was nowhere to be found. Haako did not waste. He approached the terminal.

"Alright Vuffi, do your job," the droid beeped once and extended one of its tentacles into the terminal's socket and spun it once. Soon the screen started and Haako immediately got to work.

"I thought you said you need help to get into the terminal, I didn't even need to be here," Naruto said, trying to hide his displeasure from having his time wasted.

"Well, I did not expect to find a droid. But truth be told, I just wanted a bodyguard. I was expecting your friend to be the one who came to assist me," Naruto sighed quietly but did not say anything further. The Neimoidian continued its work with the droid help.

The door to the chamber busted open and the governor ran in, exhausting. He shut the door behind him as he tried to catch his breath.

That was when he spotted the trio and could only stare at them in disbelief. Before he could act, Naruto shot him with a pistol blaster, right in the head, killing him in an instant.

Haako was shocked by the violent display and paused the work.

"Make it fast," Naruto ordered him. "If he had to run here, it means he had nowhere else to go but the secret passage," Rune only nodded and get back to work. Naruto moved over to the governor and planted the pistol in the dead man's hand. A few more minutes and the job was finished.

"I upload all the info into Vuffi. We will review them later," he said quickly, wanting to get out of here. Naruto nodded in agreement. The shouting sound was closing in, they really needed to get out of here.

They went back into the secret passage, just in time before the other Mandalorian busted into the room to discover the dead governor.

The trio went back to Haako's office, where Vuffi plucked its tentacle into the terminal port. Soon the information was displayed on the screen.

"With this, I can liquidize the items for credit as you had asked, but it would take time."

"That's fine, as long as the credit comes to me, of course, I would split it with you as well," Naruto ensured.

"Most agreeable, anything else?" The accountant asked, seemed like he wanted to please. The blonde could sense that the thought of working for him permanently started to form inside Rune's head, but just minimally. He shouldn't push it, for now, else it might turn tail. He still had other things to discuss.

"Yes, do the governor had any contact with the Death Watch that could be of use?"

Haako typed in a few line before what he wanted to see appeared on the screen. The Sith started reading them. There was their location on the planet, their other bases on other worlds, some of their connections and the schedule of a slaver coming to buy prisoner from them. There's a bottom note said they're in need of cash and was willing to trade anything to continue their war at this point. Something caught his eyes as he read the slaves list; a name: Arla Fett.

'But that's Jango's sister, he said she died on Concord Dawn...hmm,' Naruto thought for a moment then shook it off completely. He would give all these to Fett anyways, his leader could look at it himself. He moved on and had found something much worse than that.

The governor had contacted the Jedi to come help him HERE.

Naruto just wanted to scream. He always knew he might encounter one or two Jedi and had always been prepared for that, but a full task force? He didn't expect that!

"Can you call off the Jedi task force?" He asked as calm as possible while pointing at the passage regarding the Jedi.

"No, unfortunately not. They were already on their way to put down the 'invading Mandalorian'. I could give them evidence that the governor is corrupted though, at least they wouldn't attack you with that," Naruto nodded in agreement. At least that might allow him to hide his presence. With most of the major businesses took care of, there was only one thing left.

"Can I have the droid?" He asked bluntly. The droid bleeped once, which could be translated to 'What?'

"Of course, it did not have any owner license which means it will be quite hard to sell. This would ease my work," Hakko confirmed with a smile.

"Good. Droid, download all the data regarding the Death Watch. I will need to show it to the others later," Horuset ordered. The silver robot was silent for a moment before obeyed with a few bleeps and whistles. Naruto turned to the accountant one last time. "I believed you will be fine doing this without my supervising?" the green alien nodded. "Called me once you have the credit. I have a high hope of you," Naruto said, somewhat with a small hint of threat.

His new underling nodded in quick succession while smiling nervously. With all that over, the Sith left with Vuffi.

As soon as the blonde walked out of the door, he opened up his comlink.

"Jango, tell the other to lay off the west wing. I made an agreement with a Republic personnel. He said as long as we didn't come here, he will keep the Republic off our back. Also, I got something you might want to see."

xxxxx

Never in his life would he had thought he would be so intense reading a screen to the point that he wished the text he was reading would become a reality right in front of him. That was a matching description of Jango Fett at the current moment as he was reading the Death Watch's slave lists.

They were already back at their forward base. The sun had already set and the dark blanket had already covered the sky. The beautiful auroras and the bright stars had kept the sky bright though, despite the lack of the sun. But that didn't help ease Jango mood one bit.

As for Naruto, he knew what was going to happen next and, despite the inevitable outrage of Aegiria, Matis, and PD (PeeDee), they would all follow him. So he was in the armory, readying himself to follow his leader call the first minutes notice.

To kill some time, he examined Vuffi program and adjusted the settings to match what he wanted. The droid had been cooperative so far. He noted himself to buy some weapon modification for the astrodroid. Sleeping on the ground beside him was Zedra. He had called his last belonging to come help with the fight ahead as well.

"You know, I didn't expect our first date to be like this," the familiar mechanical voiced called to Naruto. He shot up from Vuffi and found Kleo standing in front of him.

"Kleo," Naruto greeted and let the astromech go. The smaller droid turned to face the taller droid.

"Mind, who's this cutie?" Kleo asked. Vuffi bleeped and whistled in binary. "Vuffi Raa you said? Never saw your model around before." Vuffi beeped a few times. "Mind, special made and gentlemen, maybe we could go on a date sometimes," Kleo teased. Raa backed a bit while beeping in rapid succession.

The whole display only left Naruto curious at to what the astrodroid said to the Assultron. Nevertheless, he must think of the task at hand for now.

"Kleo, I called you here because I need your help. Do you still have your combat protocol?" the blonde asked.

"Of course, what kind of girl would I be without knowing how to murder a sentient in 4023 ways? My eye beam is not repaired yet, but the rest of me," her arms recessed and a long blade replace each of her arms. "is ready. Conclusion: Time to kill some meatbags."

Naruto nodded.

"I got Vaffi after some bargain, go make each other an acquaintance," he said before taking up his datapad to review the detail of assets he just got from the governor's redoubt.

"So, what's your hobby, handsome?" Kleo asked and stepped toward Raa, who made a sound 'uh-oh' as it stepped away. Poor little guy, Naruto would have helped him, if he had a single bit of idea what it was saying.

Naruto looked through his datapad. After reviewing everything he started surfing the HoloNet, still waiting for the command to come. That space cat video was funny as hell; stupid cat, they made their owner look bad.

A few hours later, quite late into the long night of the cold planet, his comlink finally beeped. He played the message that was sent to him.

"My friends, I need your help. The Deathwatch took something that was very important to me, the thing I thought I had lost for a long time, but tonight I found it again and I want it back. But I can't do this alone, I need your help. I cannot ask you to come with me on this suicide mission, but please consider helping this friend of yours. If you're willing, meet me at the hanger in half an hour from now."

The Sith scoffed a bit at the message. Too formal, too begging, then again this was his long lost sister we're talking about, so he supposed he could let this display of weakness slipped out. He stood up and whistled to wake Zedra.

"Come on, it's time to go," he said, not only to Zedra, but to his two droids as well. It seemed Naruto had just save Vuffi from being molested by Kleo, much to his confusion at who would program a droid with this kind of behavior. He paused, however, and turned to Kleo, "Be quiet this time." Kleo did not reply.

Naruto came to the hanger to find a fully armed and armored Fett. His leader only spared him a glance before going back pondering on how they would get them out alive after got in.

One by one, their teammates came.

First, it was Kandosii, who said nothing. Then Oorn and Isab, they didn't say anything either. Then came Lanaal and Alesha, Lanaal looked like she wanted to shout something at Fett, but Alesha held her back.

'Those two are really close after that Huk incident,' Naruto thought to himself; too young, or too uncaring, to be aware of the possibility of a deeper relationship between the two.

After those two, came Silas with several a large container, no doubt part of Jango's plan. Fett gestured at the container than at the closest by the transporter, signaling the others to go help Silas loaded the damn thing onto the ship.

And finally came the last three, Matis, Aegiria and PD; all looking visibly upset, except Aegiria who upscale the rest into being furious.

The first thing they did were shouting at Fett, the snow skin women at a higher volume than the other two. Because of this, Lanaal decided to join in and the four started to voice their opinion on their captain suicide mission: Matis on why they didn't call the whole company to help, PD on his logic of being in suicide mission in the first place, Aegiria at her leader irresponsible behavior and accusation at what kind of item could have driven him this far and Lanaal who just said this was plain stupid.

Jango only replied that he already said this is voluntary. This seemed to shut three of them up beside Aegiria who was still furious.

"What could possibly be worth going up against all the Death Watch?! Tell me!" The squad was quite shocked at the Frostling outburst of rage. For four years, they never witnessed her displaying this much emotion, not even once. Fett only stared at her, unflinching. Then he pointed at Naruto.

"Ask him, it's time to go. I will drive," he said and got up from his seat then headed to the transporter's cockpit.

The rest of the squad turned their face toward the Sith, who grimaced at being pushed the job of briefing the others.

"Fine, I will give a quick version. I secured some info from the governor's redoubt. One of them was a list of the slaves. On the list was a name Arla Fett, Jango's supposedly dead sister. So far the info seems legit, but even with the Force, I wouldn't know that. Well, until we got close enough to Death Watch compound that is," Naruto finished his briefing.

The others seemed to be more sympathetic once they were informed, although the more pragmatic one like Aegiria and PD were still doubtful.

"You said you could sense if Fett's sister is alive when we got close to the base, correct?" Aegiria asked. Naruto confirmed with a nod. "Then we will get you to try sensing her. If she wasn't there then we're getting out," Aegiria said, no, commanded. Truth be told Naruto expected her to report Fett to Jaster rather than came to help.

With that done, they all got on the transporter, which Fett had already started. Once seated, they started preparing for the suicide mission, well as suicidal as bringing a one-man army Sith along.

"So you got a new droid?" Isab asked, pointing Vuffi. The droid answered in his place by beeping. "I see."

'I really need to learn Binary,' Naruto thought, still frustrated he did not understand a single word the droid said.

xxxxx

They landed quite a distance away from the supposed Death Watch base. Getting too close to their base on aircraft would be too dangerous. Once they landed, they carefully continued on foot, much to Naruto, Alesha and Oorn dismay since three of them came from the desert world and this was their first time experiencing the cold freezing night of the snow planet.

"I-i hate snow," Alesha murmured under her frozen breath.

"Tell me about it," Naruto replied while Oorn nodded.

Aegiria, who was ahead, rolled her eyes at their remark. Everyone knew she barely felt the cold, as evident by her lesser amount of winter combat gears.

Eventually, after enduring the low temperature and avoiding the Death Watch, the group could see a faint light ahead, shining through the pine wood and snow.

"I think we are close enough," Aegiria said. The others stopped their march, Fett reluctantly. "Naruto could you sense our target from here?"

"Yes," he said before tightening his cloak around him. "But I need to concentrate if I want to find someone with similar signature to Fett."

After that remark, he sat down on the nearby rock and got into meditation stance while the others waited. Horuset tried to concentrate and pinpoint the person they were looking for, but whenever he tried the cold just broke his focus. But after a full ten minutes, he finally got something, vaguely. A group of people, emitting many negative emotions: repression, anger, hatred, despair and a little bit of hope.

"I could sense where the slaves are, but I couldn't pinpoint Fett's sister," he told them before telling them the location where the slave was held.

A silence fell. None spoke anything. The blonde shifted his gaze between Aegiria and Fett. He remembered the air of situation like this, like many years ago when he fought Fett. One of them was going to take charge and went on with the mission or abort it. But how would one take the leadership, that's the more important part for the Sith.

"So...what now? Do we risk it?" Alesha broke the silence. While her intention was genuine, she just sparked the inevitable fight.

"Couldn't you just sniff Fett and find her using the Force or something like that?" Lanaal asked Naruto, half-insulting.

"That's not how the Force work!" Naruto replied with his hands form like he wanted to strangle something. Almost sound like he wanted to yell too, but refrained himself since they were behind enemy line.

"Isn't it obvious? We go back and get more reinforcement then we will launch a full assault. We will get the slaves out AND destroy the Death Watch. Win-win," Aegiria answered.

"No. There are likely to be the casualty among slaves if we attacked in full force. Some of them were one of us who were captured by those scums, not just my sister. If we launch this rescue operation then we will help the slaves and while we're at it, we could damage their infrastructure, crippling them and make sure they can't run away again," Fett countered.

"With just one squad? Even with a prepared team, how do you expect us to bring down their capital ship? With a bunch of explosions?" The Frostling argued gesturing at the large shape sitting on the horizon.

The two continued to argue while the others looked on, unsure which sides to pick, including Naruto. But after a while he returned to meditating, no used watching them, he might as well tried to do something useful. As he drifted back into the Force, he steadied his mind either to detect enemy getting close or located Fett's sister.

The familiar feeling washed over him like a tide, almost caused him to open his eyes in shock. He did not like this, he did not like it because he felt this for the third times. Something called to him. It felt similar to those two idols he had recovered. This was the third time this happened. He focused a bit more to check if he simply misread this power; he did not, it's the same signature.

The second time he could still consider it a coincident, but the third time? No way. An uneasy feeling occupied his stomach. Something was going on and it involved him. Who planned this? How did they know he would be here? Should he keep the other two idols? Many questions formed in his head, yet none could be answered and that frustrated him.

He would not let this sit by, whether it was the Sith in the past who foresaw him or the Force itself guiding him. He would play this little game and come out on top, one way or another.

He opened his eyes. The conflict of leadership seemed to be going nowhere, but he would go somewhere; into the beast den. He got up and, after telling Vuffi, Kleo, and Zedra to stick with the squad, walked away. This wasn't gone unnoticed by the others.

"Where are you going?" PD asked.

"Into their base," this caught the whole team attention.

"What! You can't just barge in?! We didn't even agree if we're going in!" Lanaal shouted at him, much to others dismay as it might give away their cover.

"There's a Sith business I have to attend in there. Will you attack or not I don't care, I just want a dark side artifact the Death Watch got. If you decided to attack though, call me up I will...do something, otherwise just wait here for a few minutes," he continued to walk, but Oorn called after him him.

The purple giant tossed a package filled with explosive charges at the blonde, who caught them. "Just plant them anyway, if we're not attacking them at least let kill some of them," Naruto smiled and nodded; the Jarell sure knew how to make the best out of every situation.

With all done, he departed, despite sensing an extreme distress from Aegiria. Once he was sure he was out of their sight, he made a handsign and transformed into a local bird. His bombs conceal along with the rest of his body.

He flew passed the patrols and met with a fully fortified base, no, not just base, full war settlement with walls and towers, much to his shock that they had already prepared this well. The war settlement had everything you would expect from a regular town like market and permanent hanger. Only everything was run by Death Watch warriors.

'Maybe Aegiria was right, we wouldn't stand a chance, well, they wouldn't stand a chance.'

'You're getting cocky again.'

'Mmhm, right, need to be careful.'

He decided against landing immediately and scouted the area in the bird form. Despite being late into the night, the place was still pretty active, well active mostly around the entertainment complex at least.

Slowly, he gained the map of the whole settlement from above. It wasn't as complex as he had first thought, the military compound and living area were obviously separate; making vulnerable to a surprise attack from the military side.

He landed in the military area and switched back to his human form. He immediately transformed himself into a Death Watch before making two clones, all already disguised as Death Watch. He handed each of them an explosive charge or two. They split up, already knew what to do.

Naruto processed with his objective, the artifact. Its aura came from the warehouse nearby. He carefully navigated an empty military complex with occasional guards here and there before reaching where he wanted to be. There was a lone guard stood outside, keeping watch over whatever inside. Naruto simply walked up to him.

"Is there something?" The Death Watch asked disguised Naruto.

"You don't want to be here," Naruto said while waving his hand in front of the guard face.

"I don't want to be here," the guard repeated.

"You want to go get a drink till you're knock out," Naruto continued.

"I want to go get a drink till I'm knock out," the Death Watch repeated.

"You may even pick a bar fight."

"I may even pick a bar fight," the guard finally walked away.

'Geez, master was right. Mind trick is fun.'

Naruto almost smiled, almost. He moved into the warehouse without a problem. Once inside he made another ten clones. They scattered out, exploring if there was anything else of a value beside the idol they were here for.

The Sith found a crate that contained what he was looking for and used the Force to throw the lid away. He unwrapped the protection material covering the idol and finally saw what he had come for.

Like the other two the idols, it oozed out darkside aura, this time in green. In term of design, it was much less complex than the other two. Three large thick circles formed into a downward pyramid; between each circle were an arrow pointing outward from the center where they started out. Naruto put the lid back on. He was about to made two more clones to carry the crate out, but his comlink suddenly flashed up.

He made sure he was on a secure channel before answering the call, "Yes?"

"We made up our mind," Aegiria said through the comlink. There's a sigh before she continued. "We compromised. We will sneak in and get the slave out, no sabotage. Do you set up the explosion yet?"

Naruto thought for a moment, he certainly set up almost all of them at this point, so that's done. But the thing was, the slaves were in the living area; the densely populated part of the night. He couldn't think of a way they could sneak the slave out with no jetpack, some without even basic military skill.

Yet he got an idea. From what he had scouted so far, the military complex side was almost empty, leaving hundred of firearms, tanks and other weaponry unused and thinly guarded.

A new plan formed in Naruto's head, with his chakra, clones and all these weapons lying around, he could actually initiate a hostile takeover, no, not a takeover, he could massacre the Death Watch and took all their stuff. All of it. He already had an agent who could liquidize what he didn't want. He just needed to be sure he hid what he kept well and that would be all.

The Sith smiled. Despite the unwanted surprise about the idol, this day turned out to be getting better and better.

"Aegiria, new plan. The slaves are on the heavily guarded side of the base. I will draw them out so you could rescue them," he informed.

"What? But that suicidal, even you couldn't take on all of them at once," his second-in-command exclaimed.

"Don't worry, I got a plan," he assured her. There was a bit of pause, she probably asked for Jango's opinion on this.

"Very well, we will call you when we are ready."

"Affirmative," he cut the signal and went to prepare on his part.

The shinobi started to make dozens of clones at once within the warehouse. One batch had 60 clones, the highest number he could do at once without overflow the warehouse. They were no longer in Death Watch disguises but in his uniform.

As soon as the group came into existence, he pointed at four random clones and assigned them as officers. He ordered them to go and armed themselves by infiltrating the armory. The four officer saluted and led their small company out of the warehouse.

Naruto repeated this several times, some groups were also sent to the armory, others to infiltrate parts of the tank field or the capital ship, either to arm themselves or to sabotage their target. When he was done, there were about 500 clones, large enough to form a battalion, small enough to still be hidden.

Now all he need was an order.

The comlink flashed up, he answered enthusiastically.

"Do it," a simply ordered from Fett.

The mad grin planted itself on Naruto's face as he pressed the detonator.

xxxxx

When the thunderous roar of explosion filled the sky, the squad knew it was time to move. They split into two teams, one went in to get the slaves out, the team composed of Jango, Silas, Lanaal, Isab, Matis, Zedra and Naruto's droids. The other team would prepare the escape route by destroying the wall on one side. That team composed of the rest of the squad, Aegiria, Alesha, PD, Oorn and Kandosii.

Jango's team boosted over the wall without a problem and landed on the other side. The area was largely abandoned as the Death Watch went to check out the explosion, leaving the team with a clear path to the slave pen.

On the way through, Vuffi, Zedra, and Kleo were dragged off by one of the clones. Zedra barked at her master, though not happily since she had already familiarized herself with how to tell difference between the clone and her real master.

"Well, I did not expect to see you here," Kleo said, Vuffi added with a few beeps and whistles. "No, I didn't say I want to see him in a body capsule." [7]

"Focus," Naruto snapped his finger to get their attention. "We will be moving as soon as the slaves are out."

"You mean get out of here? Because they did not program me to be suicidal," Vuffi agreed with the female droid with a beep.

"Just wait and see," the clone leaned back against the wall as he and his minions waited for the time.

The rest of the squad didn't notice the disappearance of its three members, as their mind was focused on its sole task of rescuing the slave. Once they arrived at the building Naruto told them about, Matis pick off the two guards with ease using his sniper blaster.

They processed to storm the build through the front door. There was a few more guard inside but they couldn't retaliate in time due to being surprised by such a bold attack.

The slave pen was as one would expect, slaves cramped into a single damnable cage, filled with filth and blood. The condition of slaves varied, some slave were near dead, some were full with bruise and cuts, some show obvious sign of mental trauma, but they did not have time to ponder on the bleak reality of the galaxy; right now they had things to do.

Matis was their lookout, Isab and Jango would free the slave, Lanaal would be applying first aid to those who were in critical condition and finally, Silas was tasked with getting the slave to the escape point. They began freeing the slaves, starting with True Mandalorians who were captured. They were much more resilient than a normal slave and quickly joined Jango's Grunt in freeing the others.

Cages after cages were being emptied, yet there was no sign of Arla. Jango started to become worried. What if they happened to take her out for 'use' this very night? Jango couldn't stop to worry though, there were still many cages left, there was still hope.

This was the opposite case for the Death Watch, however.

xxxxx

The first explosion went off in the bar, where the majority of them had gathered to relax. Then the second one came from the fuel silos. Then the third one and fourth, fifth, sixth and so on. The Death Watch was in turmoil, trying to find the source of the attack and putting out the fire spread by fuel silo being lit on fire.

"What in the name of Kad is going on!" Tor Vizsla shouted while holding the collar of the closet Death Watch he could get his hand on.

"W-we don't know, sir. There were multiple explosions, but we are not being attacked."

"Spy then," the leader of Death Watch pushed the man away and turned to the other Death Watch that was gathering. "Spread out and find the culprit."

"What about the fire, sir?"

"Leave it be, anyone who didn't prepare all the time in the face of war deserved that fate."

The Death Watch nodded and ran off to obey their leader. Tor walked toward the command center, where could organize the Death Watch effort to find whoever did this. Once he entered the room, however, one of the officers ran up to him.

"Sir, we lost all feed to the military quarter," he reported.

"What?!" Tor Vizsla shouted out in anger and disbelief. "Sent somebody to check it out, if even a single blaster was taken away I will have every last guard tonight being strapped with a bomb and dive head first into Jaster's force!" He yelled the whole phase in the highest voice he could muster without bothering to breathe. The officer salute before went back to his post to get someone on the job.

Unknown to them, the guard was already dead and the one who was responsible was ready to execute his final plan.

xxxxx

That was nearly all of them, Jango was now really started to lose faith. Maybe his sister was indeed lost. There was only one wing left to free, it composed of five cages. He went to the first one and blasted the door opened. He looked as the slaves ran out, she wasn't among them. He went on to help the second cage, he met one of the True Mandalorian who was captured, but despite that, his sister wasn't among them. Then he freed the third cage and slaves ran out, but she wasn't among them, but this time he noticed an unmoving form inside the cage. He moved in to check on them. If this slave was in the critical condition, he would have to call Lanaal. He kneeled down to examine them.

"Hey, can you stand up?" The light in this area was very dim, with only one light panel illuminated into five cages.

The form groaned, judging from the voice they were female. "W-what's going on? Is it feeding time?" She asked, didn't seem to aware that she was being rescued.

"No, we're here to free you," Jango started to lose some patient. He just wanted to see if his sister was in one of the others cages.

"W-what?" she said and turned around to face the Mandalorian.

Jango narrowed his eyes then it shot wide. Before him was a girl, a few years older than him. She had short blonde hair and that face, it was like his sister, no, no…not just like...

"Arla," Fett said, stunned.

"Y-you know my name?" Jango only responded was to take off his helmet. The girl peered her eyes closed until she finally recognized who he was.

"No," Jango did not expect that answer, "No, NO, NO!" she screamed and tried to thrash out of his grip.

"Arla! Calm down it's me, your brother!" he tried to control her.

"NO! NO! NO!" she only screamed and tried to get away. That was when something hit her in the leg and she started to lose consciousness. Jango turned around, expecting an enemy, only to found Lanaal holding a rifle that shot Arla.

"Any good doctor always carried a DAS-430 Neural Inhibitor with a sleep dart," she patted her trusty weapon. "If you're done with the drama then hand your sister over and go free other cages." She said and pointed the thump behind her. Jango looked at his sister one last time, at least he knew she was alive and in his care, anything else could be taking care of later.

Jango freed the remaining two cages and contacted the others.

"Matis are we clear?"

"For now, some Death Watch started coming this way, won't be long before they notice."

"Affirmative, get down here and help the captives, we are moving out." He ordered before switching channel. "Silas is the majority of the slaves at the designation?"

"Affirmative," his friend answered.

"Aegiria are you set up?"

"We are. PD had readied the transporter for anyone in critical condition," His second-in-command answered.

With all done, he only has one person left to contact.

"Naruto are you ready? We're about to move out."

It took a few second for the blonde to reply. "Yes I am and just go, don't you worry about little old me. I got a plan to get out of this after distracting them enough."

xxxxx

Naruto was smirking as he was talking to Fett. He was ready to start this little battle he had prepared and tested out the full extent of his power, well without Kurama chakra at least. There was a silence after that, Naruto presumed Jango had ended the conversation but forgot to cut the signal. He was proven wrong with two words were uttered from the other side of comlink.

"Thank you," then the signal cut.

Horuset was a bit taken back. He did not expect that from Fett...wait, did he thank him because he expected the Sith to die holding off the Death Watch?

'Oh come now, Fett. That was just insulting,' Naruto thought to himself in dismay. He sighed loudly.

He sat tight atop the bodies of Death Watch that was sent to investigate the feed cut in the military quarter. However, when the sound of chain explosion renewed in the air, he knew it was time. He made a clone and nodded. It disappeared as fast as it appeared in order to sent order to others clone.

Then the sound of battlecry roared through the night sky. His army was on the march. They would stop at nothing until every last Death Watch was on the ground and their soul cast away to become one with the Force.

xxxxx

After the new explosion had occurred, the Death Watch was about to go investigate when out of nowhere an army of identical True Mandalorian in orange armor started attacked the Death Watch. Naruto's clone army had armed itself to the teeth with the Death Watch's weapon.

With the already disorganized army being hindered further by sudden attack, the Death Watch in the military quarter couldn't form any kind of meaningful resistance, only hold up in their position with their group, exchanging fire with the clone army only to be blasted to pieces by tank or shredded to bits with light armored vehicle's repeating blaster.

It didn't take long before the rest of the Death Watch inside the base to come to fight his army. The fight, though, leaned in his favor because despite still being armed, the Death Watch lacked vehicles and air support, as Naruto had sent a platoon of clones to man these crafts and began to bombard with artillery and bomber.

The Death Watch expected their anti-aircraft gun to go off, they expected their tower to rain down plasma bolts on the mysterious army, they expected their capital ship to fire its cannon and reduced the clone army into red paint on the ground. But they found none of that support because the sabotage teams had done their job.

The Death Watch still outnumbered him though, but that should not be a problem.

He had already assign platoons of clones to hunt down the patrols outside the base and guarded all escape routes to make sure none would leave here alive. There would be no witness to his deed tonight, which was why he did not take the jamming array down so the True Mandalorian couldn't hear any of this.

Now, he only needed to wait for his clone to kill every last one of them. So to kill time, he headed toward the command center.

He had heard of Tor Vizsla from the very start of this whole conflict with the Death Watch and, from what Slade and Marcus told him, the man was a formidable warrior; maybe even worthy of testing his blade against.

A squad of clones blasted open a door before spraying plasma bolts into the room.

"Clear!" the squad leader shouted as Naruto walked past the room. The smell of plasma smoke pleased him.

The memories of some clones that had gone ahead to attack the command center rushed to him. He whistled at the picture of Tor killed one of the clone with bare hand. The man reputation as a savage might turn out to be truer than what rumors said.

The door to his destination had already been blasted open. Naruto stepped past the wrecked entrance and beheld quite a sight.

Vizsla was being surrounded by the clones, yet he still fought on, gaining ground even. His weapon of choice? The legendary Darksaber, forged by the first Mandalorian Jedi.

He wished the first Mandalorian Sith would leave something like that behind...he felt like he just insulted himself, but he was sure he wasn't the first Mandalorian Sith; hell that was even one Sith who called himself 'Darth Mandalore.'

Naruto dodged when a clone was thrown in his direction. His copy dispelled on impact with the wall. Naruto took out his saber. For foe like this, he deserved an honor to by Echo. (What he called his blade for short instead of its real and long name.)

Horuset lung forward with his saber readied to stab the Death Watch. His blow was unexpected deflected upward and strike one of the clones that tried to jump on Vizsla's back, dispelling it.

"So you're the leader," Tor grabbed him by the throat, his voice was filled with rage.

Naruto boosted his own jetpack and got out of the grip, but crashed out of the window in the process. The Death Watch leader followed.

He landed first on the snowy ground. The weather had changed for the worst and now a small scale blizzard was raging around him. Vizsla, instead of landing, flew straight at Naruto.

Naruto smirked under his helmet, so many openings. When the warmonger was in range he slashed his blade down at Vizsla's shoulder joint. That was when the Sith realized he made a mistake.

The blade indeed hit, but the armor was thicker than he anticipated. Vizsla used this chance to deliver a punch in the boy's face and sent him backward. Naruto recovered mid-air, but as soon as he landed Vizsla was closing in on him. He blocked the blow only to be surprised when Tor kneeled him right in the groin.

But there was no time for pain. The Death Watch kneeled him again in the gut and tried to repeat the process. Naruto was forced to push him away with the Force.

"An-ex Jedi, eh? No wonder you could keep up," Tor sneered.

"Power is meant to be used when suitable, not kept under control," the two circled each other.

"Huh, maybe you're not an ex-Jedi. What are you then ?" Naruto took a more proper fighting stance.

"There's no use talking to the dead," Naruto responded.

An amusing chuckle was the response he received, "you don't act like a True Mandalorian either."

"Neither is Revolver Ocelot," Naruto countered.

"Never like that guy, too much discipline. We are warrior, not soldier. We shouldn't fight for anything, but honor and war."

"War for what? Conquer?"

"War for the sake of war, nothing more nothing less," Naruto was caught off guard as the Death Watch leader's voice became mellower. "No superiority bullshit, no justified cause, no exploitation, no rage, no prejudice, just war where two sides fight with unclouded judgment. Slaughter each other without rage or weakness, just two people with honor and weapon. A galaxy where war is pure, nothing but fighting and glory."

"That was...quite a vision," Naruto commented, slowing down his step to match Vizsla's.

"You don't disagree, eh? I can see that from your voice" True, a society with no prejudice was parts of what his ideal Sith empire would be like...no child should ever suffer what he went through, at least not by choices they didn't make. The different from Tor Vizsla's, though, was in his vision all would be under his feet.

"But thank to you," the Death Watch opened his arms and waved them around. "All of it is ruin, for now. After I kill you, we will go back into hiding and came back, stronger than ever. And on top of our banner pole will be your flayed skull," Tor readied himself to attack.

"How about a deal? The winner takes the loser head as a trophy?" Naruto prepared.

"Deal!" Tor shouted and leaped forward.

Their blade crashed and like last time Tor tried to attack him with other means. He used the flamethrower from his gauntlet, Naruto kneeled the device with full force, breaking it.

Tor used his free hand to grabbed Naruto's neck, but Horuset used his own free hand to force the older man to release his grip and pushed the grip away from his throat. Naruto tried to kneel him, but Tor blocked the blow with his leg. In a final act of trying to land a hit, both headbutted at the same time only for their head to collide and stuck trying to push the other head away.

Now both were stuck in a stalemate. Neither could move without allowing the other to exploit their opening.

"You're good. I will give you that. It's a shame we didn't discover you before Jaster did."

Naruto ignored the warmonger's compliment. He needed to find a way out of this mess. He looked, he looked and he looked, then he thought and thought and thought. Until he finally found the best way out, but not the desirable one.

He took a deep breath, 'no pain, no gain.'

He let go of his saber. Vizsla reacted on his instinct. The Death Watch exchanged the force from his left arm to the right, allowing Horuset others hand to let go and reaching for the falling saber. As for the incoming attack, Naruto braced himself before using his right palm to catch the blade. It sliced through the Force barrier and then the armor and finally made contact with his skin and then into his flesh, but that was as deep as it could cut because Tor Vizsla was halted by a blade stabbing into his stomach and went through his body.

Naruto slashed upward and let loose a small shower of gore. The wound sealing capacity of the heated blade had its limit. Vizsla's still standing body stumbled backward. Before it collapsed, Naruto decapitated the Death Watch leader—no blood this time.

He stood there, breathing heavily while looking down on the dead body and severed head of his opponent. The pain from his hand rushed back to him and he grunted. He took a deep breath before using the Force to heal himself. The wound still needed proper medical care, but this would do for now.

"Boss!" A pair of clones rushed toward him. "Are you alright, boss?"

"I'm fine," he looked over to the Death Watch leader again. "Get me his head and the Darksaber then come along," they saluted after his order.

Naruto made his way back to the command center where the clones had already taken full control.

"The base is under our control, sir," the clone officer saluted as he walked in, several of his subordinates followed suit.

"Good. Now listen up," the clones tensed. "I want the remaining clones to start taking anything of a value into the capital ship then get everything on board as far away from here as they could. All the clones within this command center will act as coordinators to the officers who will, in turn, supervise the field operation. Blasters, armors, fighter, ammunition, supply, everything that isn't unmovable is to be taken away and liquidize unless it's worth noting then tell the officers to contact us here, I will examine it myself. You," he pointed at one of the regular clones.

"Dispel so the others know of this," the clone nodded and did as it was commanded. "The rest of you, man the monitor so you know what was going on in each area. Let's get moving people, we don't have all night," with that the clones rushed away to perform their duty.

Naruto sat on the commander chair.

With all the major businesses taking care of, he started to wonder at something.

Why didn't he use the Force against Vizsla? He could easily win with that, so why didn't he use them? Is it because he had...honor? Honor to fight on a fair ground with his opponent? Or was it his pride as a warrior that kept him from using the unfair advantage? He didn't know.

Naruto sighed. Sometimes he swore he didn't know himself very well. He heard a dark chuckle from his furred companion but decided to ignore it.

"Can you explain what is going on?" He spun his chair around and was greeted by Kleo, Vuffi and Zedra, who eagerly rushed to her master side.

She licked his wounded hand tenderly which caused him to jerk it back in pain, "sorry, girl. That isn't going to work."

She whined after hearing that. Horuset only smiled and used his undamaged hand to stroke her head, "I will be fine." She closed her eyes and let the gentleness of her master washed over her.

"Ahem," Kleo recalled his attention. "You still owe me an answer."

"It's very simple really. I took over the Death Watch base. Umm, Vuffi could you download all the info in the Death Watch database into a disk or something, I would like to read them later."

Vuffi obeyed but judging by the speed he walked toward the terminal, Naruto would say the astrodroid was hesitating.

"I know you take over, but where are all these clones came from?"

"Let just say it is the power of the Force and let's keep it at that."

Kleo didn't' speak for a few second and only stared at him "Calculation: Acceptable explanation."

Naruto nodded, pleased by the answer. "Since you are a hunter droid could you go hunt some left over Death Watch for me? I'm sure there are still some left."

"Finally, something fun," Kleo tone changed to a more happier one at that order and walked out, leaving Naruto to supervise his army.

"Oh," he realized something and said it to the nearest clone. "And tell the clones to leave me a shuttle. There's no way I am walking back."

xxxxx

The sun was rising on the horizon and the snow planet sky was crystal clear without a single cloud. The bird was chirping around the True Mandalorian base and the air was getting warmer despite the snow ground.

Even the most harden Mandalorian would consider this a beautiful morning, or at least quiet morning. Unfortunately, a news that soured the mood came in last night.

Jester sighed, Ocelot and Reyes wanted to sigh and Jango wanted to jump off a cliff. He and his team were stranded at full attention in front of the high officers of the army.

"I'm angry, disappointed and proud at the same time; not sure if that was possible. Unfortunately, two out of those three isn't a good thing." He observed the team of young warriors. "I'm not going to bother with some speech explaining your action. Jango, you're to be demoted from captain rank and returned to your previous post."

Jango only nodded, prepared for the consequence like this. "The rest of you will be put on off combat duty until I or any of the captains said otherwise." They did not nod only stared with their blank face, "and this punishment doesn't take into account of your lost teammate yet…"

But Jaster was interrupted.

"Sir! A Death Watch aircraft is inbound!" A Mandalorian busted in, breathless.

"How many?!"

"J-Just one, sir. And it request permission to land."

Immediately, Jaster was confused. Just one? Wait. Only one of his son teammate was missing and that happened to be one of the most capable warriors in his army…

"Could it be…" Ocelot questioned as he and Reyes looked at each other in equal confusion and speculation.

"Only one way to find out," Jaster headed out. "Tell the pilot they can land on pad four."

"Yes, sir," the messenger went away as the others headed toward pad four.

Already surrounding the landing platform, the guards readied their weapon as the shuttle came into the view. There was a gathering of other Mandalorian as well. They came to see what kind of suicidal Death Watch would come to their base alone.

Jaster stepped onto the platform, Ocelot, Reyes and Jango surrounding him from all side except the front.

The aircraft touched the metal platform.

The shuttle hissed as it open. Nothing came out yet.

"Step forward!" the leader of the guard commanded.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot," a familiar voice shouted.

The guards immediately lowered their weapon once a True Mandalorian in orange armor stepped out of the shuttle.

"Well, I will be…" Jaster muttered.

He couldn't believe it. Naruto, a boy who stayed back to hold off the Death Watch for his son team to escape, came back in one piece, but not without injury though.

The commanders walked up to receive the boy.

"Aren't you a sight for sore eyes," Reyes was smirking.

"I'm not easily impressed, but you're a rare exception," Ocelot complimented.

"How did you make it out?" Jango asked what everybody was wondering.

"By challenge Vizsla to a duel," he answered casually. The others were shocked to hear that. If he indeed did that and was still here then that means…

"I have a proof as well," he opened a sack strapped to his belt and pulled out a helmet of Tor Vizsla. "Oh, sorry," he shook the helmet a few time and the Death Watch leader's head dropped into his readied palm. "Should I toss it away or?"

"Just," Jaster was a bit at lost for words. "Put it back into the sack for now."

Naruto put the helmet and the head back into the sack.

"No blood?" Reyes asked.

"Yeah, because I used this," he pulled out and activated the legendary weapon. The Mandalorian around them started murmuring at the sight of Darksaber. "Can I keep it?"

"...that remained to be seen," Jaster answered. "What about rest of the Death Watch?"

"Infighting then scattered," sort of. Naruto made sure to leave some bodies lying around so it matched his story about infighting.

He took out a data chip and handed it to his leader. "I manage to grab hold of this before making my exit. All their others operations should be in there."

Jaster took the chip, still astonished at the boy feats.

"You can go take a rest for now," Jaster dismissed him, wanting time process all the events that was just dumped on him.

Naruto saluted and tried not to smile at the sight of hundreds of dumbfounded Mandalorians.

xxxxx

A/N: Finally, we could get going somewhere.

[1] Star Wars inside joke.

[2] Liquidize in economic/business term mean turn assets, property or objects (car or table) into money/credit.

[3] Umm I need a confirmation on this one. If Naruto think of something before he made a clone, do he still need to order them or does the clones already know what to do?

[4] You know the basic recipe of Star Wars adventure? One force-user, usually an inexperienced one, one human or one near-human partner, usually of opposite sex, one alien partner and one or two droids, one humanoid and one small. Now let check what we got, one force user (Naruto), one alien (Zedra) and two droids; we are missing still missing one?

[5] Rune Haako is a lieutenant to Viceroy Nute Gunray, the one who started the war on Naboo; Rune was actually with him as well in Episode 1. There's no detail of what he used to do before becoming Viceroy's lieutenant, and since I didn't want to insert anymore OC than there already is in this arc, I just pick him. Of course, this mean we will see him later in the story.

[6] The droid full name is Vuffi Raa, a rather old Star Wars character, who is now part of 'legend'. He had a big story behind him, but I would prefer that you looked it up and read it yourself for this one.

[7] Consider we are in the 'galaxy far, far away' body bag was probably outdated.