Hello again everyone. Now I know I said I have a schedule for this, but uh, it's a secret. It's so much a secret that even I don't know what it is. Wow, that sounds familiar. Now for mah reviewz!

No, the Force Acklay's were not my idea. They really do shoot lightning out of their mouths. And to all people who have played Star Wars Battlefront 2, if you thought the Acklays were horrible little buggers before, imagine if they could shoot at you. That's where I got Shikamaru's reaction.

Naruto walked into the building, Nikana in front of him at blaster point. The building was in the middle levels of Coruscant, where the less "scum-baggy" of the population lived. The building was rather inconspicuous, a few neon signs here and there, not too many and not too much. It amazed Naruto how different and seemingly bipolar one building could be. Towards the top of the building were the upper class, enjoying good food, security and room. Then there was the middle class, which were just a couple floors down from the upper class, but it was amazing how different it became in those few floors. Then, dozens of floors from the top was the bottom class, the scumbags and prostitutes and thieves and gangsters, all rolled into one. Honestly, Naruto couldn't understand what stopped the latter from preying upon the two former. It was almost inconceivable what stopped them, because he knew there weren't enough Coruscant Security Force troops. There were never enough, obviously.

But the mystery would have to wait for another day as Naruto was escorted through the building by what he could only assume were Gocrre's guards. For a middle class section the place was surprisingly big. And very, very gloomy. The entire place was dark, from the walls to the lighting, and it reminded Naruto too much of Geonosis. All it needed was the dead bugs littering the floor.

Tall building, at least two stories. One visible entrance/exit from the outside, most likely a hidden exit somewhere inside. Multiple dark corners, could easily hide an assassin. Nothing noticeable up until the main room. Main room oriented upon Gocrre, who is seated in a chair. There are multiple spots that could provide cover, both for me and for an enemy. Guards leaving, meaning there're probably some hidden in here. These were the thoughts that went through Naruto's mind, his commando training immediately taking over.

Nikana's thoughts weren't nearly as organized. In fact, Naruto wondered if she was thinking at all. She hadn't spoken at all since they had left Alderaan and her eyes had a distant look to them. He was certain she was shell shocked more than anything, but he would still have to keep an eye on her for a bit. Shocked doesn't mean harmless.

And Gocrre? Well, Gocrre just sat there, enjoying himself as he watched the bounty hunter and his captive walk slowly towards him. When the pair stopped in front of him, he spoke. "Ah, welcome bounty hunter. I thank you for bringing the girl to me. And for dealing with her family. Now then, send her forward."

Naruto shook his head, "The money first."

Gocrre laughed. "I don't think so, dear hunter. The deal was you'd get the money after the job was complete. The girl is the final part of the job. So hand her over and I'll give you your reward."

Naruto thought about it before sending her over with a light push. Nikana stopped halfway to Gocrre. "Are-are you the one who killed my f-family?" she asked Gocrre, looking up at the man.

Gocrre smiled down upon her. "Indeed girl. And you'll sell for quite a sum on the slave market." Naruto reached behind his back and grabbed is carbine, letting it cradle in his arms. "Something to say, bounty hunter?"

Before he could however, Nikana rushed at the man, screaming, "You sonuvabitch! How could you?!" right as she was about to strike Gocrre, a commando droid jumped down from the dark ceiling, grabbing her arm and tossing her to the side. Naruto aimed his carbine at the droid, forgetting all about Gocrre and the girl and focusing on how to deal with the new threat. And then the three others that followed. Naruto took a few steps back, keeping his blaster pointed at the first commando droid. These things had the ruthlessness, strength, intelligence, and durability of a super battle droid, and twenty times the agility.

Gocrre stood up, looking at the girl admonishingly. Two of the commando droids pointed their standard blasters at the girl, while the other two did the same to Naruto. "It was actually quite easy, Nikana. You see, I couldn't have your father mess up my credit flow. That would've been bad for business. So I had my bounty hunter friend here take care of them. Speaking of the bounty hunter," he turned to Naruto, "I assume you'll want your money now?"

"Of course." Naruto replied tersely, never turning from the droids.

"Good. Well, I'll make a deal with you. You defeat my droids, and you'll become my go-to bounty hunter. Sound good?"

"Pass."

Gocrre laughed, clasping his hands in front of him as his droids turned to face the bounty hunter. "You're very funny, hunter. But you don't have a choice. You'll fight and attempt to kill my droids. If you win, you get a permanent client, and one that can get less, '(1) Republican' clients."

Naruto thought it over for a moment. "And if I lose?"

Gocrre's smile grew bigger. "Then you die."

Akela walked to the hangar, immediately spotting his ship. He still had the Jedi positioned over his shoulder. The Knight had gone with the smart decision and had let Akela past, much to his frustration. It was so thick in the Force that Akela could almost taste it. Of course, Kakashi would inevitably use an EMP to stop his ship, or at the very least track his ship. And of course, the Dathomirian Zabrak and his partner had prepared for such an event. And so, Akela walked aboard his battle-ready spice freighter, which his partner had been able to get on board for him. And there his partner was, already on his comm table, robe covering the spy's form.

"Nice to see you again, Akela." The spy said, his voice obscured by a modifier.

"Likewise, my friend." Akela said, setting the Jedi Padawan into the spice freighters cell. "I assume you've jammed their targeting systems?"

"Of course, now they'll have to use manual. And even then I've disabled their tracking systems. Even if they do manage to hit you with a tracker they won't ever find you."

"And the EMPs?"

"I'm not an amateur, Akela. You'll find those are duds as well."

"Good. I don't want a Jedi Master coming. The Knight I can handle. But a Knight and a Master? That's too much, even for me."

The informant chuckled. "I thought it'd be. That's why I've given you a location where the Jedi can't go."

Akela got in the cockpit, moving his informant up to the front as he looked at his destination. "Oh? Perfect."

Naruto dove behind a crate as red blaster fire rained down around him. Even he couldn't believe how quickly this had escalated. Nor was the irony lost on him. A squad of commandoes hunting down a dangerous target. This was just the kind of mission he and his brothers would've been sent on, had their lives been normal. Well, normal for a clone.

Firing his carbine over the top, the Mandalorian primed an EMP grenade, showing himself for a second to throw it at the group of commandoes. He knew, even with his expert training that's he'd only hit one of them. And he was right. As he sprinted from cover to another crate, he saw one of the commando droids with only its left side paralyzed by the blast. With a few well aimed shots he fixed his mistake. With the others he aimed for the droids' rifles. He knew it would take a lot more to destroy them than a blaster bolt, but at least he could make them weaponless. And it worked, for the most part. Two of the droids dropped their rifles, while the third lost his arm entirely. Naruto had spent a lot of time on the third. But even with their right arms disabled they would still be plenty dangerous. As if to prove the point, all three simultaneously grabbed their vibroswords, the most fearsome weapon in their arsenal, simply because of their renowned skill with it.

By the time Naruto made it to the crate the three droids were already heading for him. Putting his rifle back onto his back, he activated the vibroblades in his gauntlet. His rifle wouldn't be much use to him in a fight like this, nor would the droids give him another chance to use it. And again, the droids proved his point as one of the droids dropped down from on top of the crate, swinging its sword at Naruto's head. This droid was the one with only one arm. And so Naruto used both of his blades to block the incoming sword while he kicked the droid into the crate. Then, using his right blade, his stabbed the droids remaining arm before cutting off its head at the neck with his left blade. Something's not right, Naruto thought to himself, where are the other two?

Stepping from behind the crate, he found out. The remaining two stood facing him, covering each other's sides. Apparently, the other was more of a suicide droid. If it could kill him, great, if not, it was to die trying. Meanwhile, the other two would wait for Naruto and pose the greatest challenge possible. If he used the carbine they were close enough to kill him quickly, while his two vibroblades weren't nearly enough to top their combined skill with swords. And so, Naruto went with the only semi-reasonable option. Pulling out his carbine, he waited for them to come to him, or roughly one second. Both droids swung their swords at him, the one on the right spinning as it did so. Naruto dodged the left blade before grabbing onto the right's arm, using the momentum to cause its blade to hit its partner in the shoulder, before Naruto threw it over his shoulder. While the one on the left recovered from the blade wound, Naruto kicked it behind its right knee joint with his left leg, while simultaneously shooting its partner in the head three times before hitting its partner in the head with his gun. Then, still stepping on the droid's leg he stabbed his left gauntlet vibroblade into the commando droid's neck, severing its head.

Turning around, he kicked the remaining droid a few feet away before emptying the rest of his energy cell into it before loading a new one. Turning away from the burnt corpse of the droid, he pointed his EE-3 carbine at Gocrre, who looked impressed, even though he was trying to hide it.

"Very nice, hunter. I must admit, you did better than I thought you would. At least, you did it quicker than I thought you would." Gocrre said, standing up. Nikana was currently on her knees, hands behind her head as one of Gocrre's guards pointed a droid blaster at her head. "So, I'll spread the word around about how good an assassin you are. You never know, some Separatists might just call you up."

"Enough Gocrre. You're going to have to offer something greater than you spreading the word to get me not to kill you," Naruto said coldly, gun aimed right at Gocrre's head. "Unless of course, you think your two guards behind me are faster than me. Although, something tells me they aren't, or else you would've sent me up against them instead."

Gocrre smiled that annoying smile once more. "My, you're very sharp aren't you? You're right of course, I don't think they could match you, or else I would've had them do the assassination for me instead." Gocrre's face and voice went from cheerful to businesslike instantly, "Now then, what do you mean something greater?"

Naruto thought for a second. "I want triple what you were going to give me for bringing the girl." Gocrre nodded his head, "That's reasonable-" "I'm not done, Gocrre." Naruto coldly interrupted. "I want the girl as well."

Gocrre stopped nodding and looked at the hunter contemptuously. "I'm afraid I can't do that. She would sell for quite a lot on the slave market, especially on Coruscant. People have need of pretty waitresses here." At this Nikana started to sob. "Besides, why do you want her? Why is she important to you?"

Naruto shook his head. "She's not important to me at all. Hell, if I wanted to I could waste her now and not lose a wink of sleep. But I don't like slavery, and I get the feeling you don't want her dead just yet." Gocrre continued to glare at him. "Am I wrong?"

"No." Gocrre muttered. "But why should I trust you with her? I basically just tried to kill you. You could kill her or hide her just to get back at me. Why should I trust you with an asset such as her?"

"Because, this way, we both have protection. You attack me, I kill the girl, and you lose whatever your plans for her are. And if I kill or hide her, well, you seem to know quite a lot about me. It isn't hard to figure out that you'll retaliate in one form or another."

Gocrre nodded, a genuine smile touching his face. "You know, I think I picked right. I know where you are staying so if you ever double cross me I'll simply pay you a visit. Or that pretty little waitress you have with you."

Naruto fired, hitting just to the right of Gocrre's head. The man didn't flinch. "You stay away from Ms. Tomoyo. Do you understand me?"

Gocrre laughed, "Understood Mando." Signaling to the guard behind Nikana, Gocrre stood up as the guard roughly stood the girl up. "Now then, I assume that you gave me a disposable comm link?" Naruto merely nodded. "I'll need your permanent comm link, in case I need you immediately."

"That goes two ways Mr. Gocrre."

"Of course. My men have already put it into your ship."

Naruto nodded, allowing himself a small smile. "Now then, Mr. Gocrre, the girl."

Gocrre waved for Nikana to cross over to Naruto. She complied, though hesitantly. Naruto put a gloved hand on her shoulder, in an attempt to comfort her, to which she promptly shied away from. Gocrre laughed at the gesture. Seems the walking armor has a soul after all. As the hunter and the girl started to walk away, Gocrre called out to them, "Oh, and Mr. Hunter? You never gave me your name."

Naruto stopped for a moment, pulling on Nikana's shoulder to stop her as well. A helmeted head turned as Naruto called over his shoulder, "My name is Naruto Uzumaki. You?"

"Just call me Amand, Naruto." Gocrre said, waving as the pair left. As soon as the door closed he turned to his guards. "Find all the information on our friend Naruto Uzumaki as possible."

Time shift, 1 hour later

Naruto landed his ship on the platform before turning to Nikana, who was currently handcuffed to the other seat, and who was currently glaring her eyes out at Naruto. "Now then, Ms. Riou, I'm going to let you free now. You try running away, I'll shoot you. I don't care how much bacta I used to help your leg, I'm not above wasting it all. Am I understood?" Nikana nodded. Naruto unshackled her and she rubbed her wrists to get the circulation running. And then she ran. Unfortunately for her, Naruto was ready and had a stun-pistol already in his hand. she didn't get five feet.

She woke up an hour later, to the sounds of shouting. "Dammit Naruto, you can't just go out there alone!" was Naruto talking to himself? Nikana thought as she struggled to sit up. The man sounded exactly like Naruto. "It's my decision, Shikamaru. You know what the message said. Anyone besides me and she dies." Now that Nikana thought about it, this one sounded more like Naruto than the first Naruto. "Naruto he's right. At least let Shikamaru take position. If things turn south he could always help out." Again, this one sounded just a tad different from Naruto. "C'mon Sasuke, of course things are going to go south, it's obviously a trap." "Then why-" "Naruto, the asset's awake." This one sounded entirely different from the others, and yet exactly the same. Yet she didn't get to ponder the odd occurrence before a pair of large hands picked her up and pulled her back before spinning her around. She saw something that freaked her out quite a bit.

There, standing in a circle around a holotable, were figures out of her nightmare, the one she had right before waking up to the argument. There were four armored men, each of them staring at Nikana. Two had their helmets off and were switching their glares from Naruto to Nikana. The third one had an odd macrobinoculars kit around his helmet. It covered all around his helmet, at least from what Nikana could see. The man wasn't even looking at her. And Naruto looked ready for war.

Naruto was putting together his EE-3, helmet on and multiple grenades strapped on his belt. A large vibroblade was strapped to the left of his chest and a blaster strapped to the right. A large rocket launcher was attached to his back, ammo for it covering the rest of his back. He picked up a sniper and inspected it, before tossing it to the one in navy blue armor. "Alright Shikamaru, I'll accept your help. I figure you've got a building picked out?"

Shikamaru nodded. "I know just the place, but this guy's probably got it stacked with guards so I'll need Sasuke to come with me."

Naruto thought about it for a second before nodding, "Alright, fine. But I want you to hit hard and fast. We can't let them figure it out."

The one with black hair, whom Nikana figured was Sasuke, smirked, "Of course, di'kut. We've done this before."

Naruto merely looked at him, before turning to Neji and Shikamaru, "Alright, Shikamaru, mind if I lead this one?"

"No problem ner vod, after all, this is your girl, not mine." Shikamaru replied, earning a laugh from the others. Except Naruto, who looked between his brothers before saying, "I don't get it." This of course made the others laugh even harder.

Then Neji brought up the question that no one had thought of till then. "What do we do with the asset?" The four Mandalorians turned to Nikana, inspecting her like a piece of property rather than a human being. Finally after a few seconds of their inspection and Nikana's fidgeting, Sasuke turned to Naruto. "You messed up Naruto. You should've just left her to slavery."

"You know I couldn't allow that."

"Yeah, well because of your stupid morals we now have a problem on our hands that won't go away any time soon."

"What do you want me to do Sasuke? I murdered her family and didn't even bat an eye at it."

"You know, if that damn Gocrre hadn't told you the truth you wouldn't have a problem with it. Hell, you would've let him sell her wouldn't you?"

Naruto's head went down, and when his voice came out it sounded tired and sad, and… ashamed. "And I would've been fine with killing an entire family." Naruto raised his head, strength returning to his voice. "But that's not how it turned out and I can't change that. So, you guys leave me alone with the girl for a bit and get to your speeders. I'll be out in a minute." Naruto's brothers nodded, putting on their helmets and leaving the room. As soon as they left, Naruto walked up to Nikana, grabbing her wrist as she tried to scoot away.

He pointed to a bracelet that Nikana just noticed was on her. "Do you know what this is?" he asked her. She shook her head. "This is much like a slave collar, except less messy. Instead of exploding, it'll send a strong electrical current through your body. It'll kill you. Painfully. If you take it off, you die. You disobey me, you die. Try to escape, you die. Am I clear, Nikana Riou?" she simply nodded. "Good. You can be anywhere in the front rooms. Go into the back rooms and the bracelet is programmed to electrocute you. Not enough to kill, but enough to make you wet your pants in pain. Now, I'll be going. Make yourself at home." And right as Naruto was about to walk out of the building Nikana shouted, "Wait!"

Naruto's head turned slightly over his shoulder, and Nikana remembered why she should fear him. "Wh-where are y-y-you going?" Naruto's voice changed once more, this time turning dark. "Someone's taken Tomoyo. Someone I swore I'd protect her from. And so now, I'm going to go kill people. And you're going to stay here." with that, Naruto walked out to his speeder, leaving Nikana to wonder. Tomoyo? Where have I heard that name before? Then it hit her. That's the one Gocrre threatened. The one Naruto said he would kill Gocrre over. So someone took her and now Naruto is going to get her back. I feel bad for whoever took Tomoyo.

And in a speeder, a very angry Naruto was getting ready for the fight to come. And there were but two things on his mind. Saving Tomoyo, and killing Arnos. As he thought about step 2, something in him snapped. And step two slowly turned from kill Arnos, to destroy Arnos. He thought about it for a moment before getting a hold of Neji through his comm. "Neji, I need a favor…"

Well, that's it for now. Don't worry people; I'm already starting the next chapter. Now, some of you may be wondering about that last part, about destroying Arnos. What you might be wondering about was how you destroy someone. Well, my theory is that you don't kill them. Nah, that's too easy. You guys will see my darkest side in a few days. In the meantime, REVIEW DANGIT! I'm dying over here!