Author's Note-- Hey everyone. Sorry for the late update it got a little crazy around the holidays. Applying to 11 schools and varsity soccer practice 6 days a week really eats up your time and energy. Well, that and finals and work too. I think that smaller chapters equal less stress and they will motivate me to work more, so just a heads up for future chapters.

Anyway, with the romance parts I am pretty sure that they will be open for interpretation, so nothing set. Very little will be focused on that anyway (this isn't a romance story, if you look at the genre in the summary).

Katana01— the truth is that I completely forgot about those sayings of Shikamaru and I will incorporate them in the future.

That's it. I think

Almost forgot—I don't own Naruto or Star Wars.

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Chapter 7

Ino approached the two good looking (and wasted) men. They might be able to help her cause. One appeared to be almost completely out of it while the other kept trying to give him more drinks.

"Hey fellas got some room for us?" Not caring what they said, she sat down and pulled Hinata into the chair next to her.

"So what are your names?" The blond one, whose head was lying on the table, glanced at her through barely opened eyes. He suddenly seemed to have gained seven times the energy he had. He stood up, put one foot on the table, jabbed his thumb toward his chest, raised his other hand to the sky, and shouted for the whole bar to hear.

"I am the man that defeats armies! The man that protects the peace! I am the man that helps the poor. For I am –"

Unfortunately, or fortunately, he was cut off from his introduction because a beer mug hit him directly in the face and this was closely followed by a "Shut the hell up!"

"WHO THREW THAT?! OH, NOT GOING TO SAY?! I BET IT'S BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT I'D KICK YOUR ASS! IN FACT—"

Wham!!!

Another mug hit him in the back of the head this time.

At this point Kiba was holding onto the back of Naruto's shirt, keeping him from charging random people.

"Hold on tiger, save it for the ring. Anyway don't mind him, ladies. He's just a moron. Since you asked the name's --Urgraguaha"

Naruto's flailing about had caused his foot to enter Kiba's mouth.

"Hey man, like, watch what your doing!"

"Well, that's a nice name. I'm Ino and this is Hinata." Ino said, while giggling.

Kiba and Ino both turned to look at Hinata as she had just let out a small "heep," only to discover Naruto starring intently at Hinata's eyes, their faces inches apart.

Kiba looked back at his hand and tried to figure out how Naruto had gotten out of his grasp without him knowing. Ino just looked and held her fingers crossed under the table.

"My, what a lovely color of eyes. May I ask you your last name?" Hinata's face reddened a large degree.

"H-h-yuga." She stammered.

Naruto nodded to himself and he suddenly appeared behind Ino.

"This soft hair and skin, and the way you wear your clothes – it's a fashion statement! Your name should be in lights! What is it so that I can picture it now?"

Now Ino loved to be complimented, especially on her looks. When she looked into his eyes she could detect no ill-intentions, an ability that she had gained from using the force, so she felt that it was safe to share this information. Yet it was clear to her that his man was up to something.

"Yamanaka"

Oohhh mmmyy god! Naruto thought. I can't believe this! What were the odds, like a trillion to one?! He glanced at all the bottles. How did I become this sober so quickly? It doesn't matter, I need to grab Shikamaru and get the hell out of here. Maybe if I can just sneak out. That's it, nice and slow. Tip-toe, tip-toe, closer, closer, almost there.

"Oi, where do you think your going? You still need to fight! Remember the money?"

Damn it!

"Oh sorry, forgot all about that, well…drinks all around!"

For the rest of the conversation Naruto just leaned back, took small sips of his drink and made little non-important comments. He could get them to both laugh, which was a good thing, but he thought that Kiba was getting a little jealous even though he was doing most of the talking. Every time one of their names were about to pop up Naruto would interrupt. He figured that the less they knew about Kiba the better off he was, as he obviously didn't know that they were Jedi. Ino and Hinata were both very pretty and they seemed to like him a lot, too, but he couldn't do anything with them. They were hunting him after all. Though we really liked Ino's personality.

After a while Kiba got up and dragged him over to the ring. Both of the girls promised to watch. As he was looking at the standings and brackets he saw Kiba's name there too.

"Hey, you didn't tell me you were fighting too!"

"Whoops..."

Glancing at Kiba's password, he changed Kiba's name on the bracket to something even more appropriate.

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"Chouji, how much more time do you need?"

"Two minutes, why do you ask Tenten?"

"Well just look at who's coming."

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Naruto was facing his first opponent; a bulky, hairy, man with large scars going up his thick arms. His face was hard and his nose had been broken at least once in his life. He had a grizzle beard and the eyes of a past fighter, probably from the last war. He gave a nod to acknowledge him as a fellow fighter. His voice was as hard as his body.

"Let's make this a good fight and be honorable after it's over."

Naruto agreed with a return nod and then glanced at the audience above him, at two young and pretty females to be exact. They were watching him as well with mild interest. He was in a real dilemma. If he lost he wouldn't be able to get the money, but if he won he would attract a lot more attention to himself.

He kept searching for Shikamaru in the crowd, to see if he had noticed them, but he could not find him. Even if he had found Shikamaru, he couldn't talk to him anyway. As soon as anyone entered the lower section, the part that was restricted for participants only, all electronic devices had to be disabled. This was to ensure that there was no cheating. The ring was two stories; both of them were all concrete with no widows. The only exception was a large metal gate that allowed the fighters to enter and leave the arena. There was a glass dome above them that blocked all other forces from interfering with the fights. It was also the place where the audience could watch.

Naruto tore himself away from his observations because he thought he had just missed something important and turned back to his opponent – just in time to narrowly dodge a forceful punch. Apparently the fight had already started.

Naruto leapt back to regain some distance between them.

"So I finally gained your attention, huh? I was beginning to feel insulted. I can tell that you can fight by looking at you, but you shouldn't take me so lightly. I may surprise you yet. I said I wanted a good fight I'm going to get it, even if I have to drag it out of ya!"

With that he charged forward again and struck out with great strength. For being such a big man he was surprisingly quick. Naruto, being nimble, was able to avoid the assault; however, he could feel himself being pushed back until finally he felt his back press against the wall.

I have to make a move now! Or I'll be turned into a training dummy for sure!

Seeing the oncoming punch Naruto used his forearm to hit the other mans forearm of the oncoming punch. It threw the hefty man off balance because of the amount of force he puts into each punch. Naruto drove past the man and rolled back onto his feet, now facing him. The positions reversed as the man was now the one that was pinned against the wall. Naruto finished his move with full force. A quick knee to the gut and fist to the face, Naruto finished the powerful combo. Only to have it all thrown back at his face as the man's left arm sent him sprawling to the ground. He scrambled to get back into his stance.

"I told you I may surprise yah."

Now Naruto was not a weak man by far, yet this monster of a man had just brushed off his attack as if it were nothing.

I need to change tactics.

Naruto tried again. He used speed as his primary weapon and momentum-filled chops as the artillery. His struck at weak spots in an organized military way, using his training to the max. This seemed to work at the beginning, but the man quickly recovered and, while in some pain, ignored the strikes and landed a blow to Naruto's chest. It felt like having a ton of bricks dropped on his chest. The chops just weren't effective enough; he needed to change strategies again.

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BAM! BAM! WHAM!

Naruto was hit again and again and again. He slowly got to his feet, blood running from his mouth, a rib cracked and his composure forgotten. His anger swelled, dominating him, compelling him, and he felt strength that he never had before. Every corner of his body filled with raw emotions and power.

He wiped the blood off his chin and looked at his opponent, eyes wild and screaming; his stance tense and his body was like a bullet in its chamber wanting to be fired.

He ran forward with one punch. The man caught it and then the other fist that immediately flew at him after that. Both bodies started to shake, putting their all into it. Naruto gritted his teeth and his mouth formed an ugly snarl. He was putting all of his anger into his fists, forcing it out of his body. A worried look came over the man as he was forced to take a step back. But as quickly as the anger came, it disappeared and Naruto broke contact with the man. He must have had the strength of five men to have withstood that attack.

What was that? I have never felt so angry in my life and just from a spar? What is wrong with me? I need to get out of here quick but I don't think that this guy is going to let me off the hook that easily from the show I just put on.

He was right. The man was looking at him with a confused face and appeared to be a little scared. He looked drained as well. Naruto never wanted anyone to be scared of him. He tried to protect people with his whole being, not lash at them with what must have been suppressed anger.

"I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me. Please, let's just continue the fight."

Hi opponent seemed to understand, for he gave a nod and got back into his stance.

I need to try something completely different. His muscle mass prevents me from completely hitting his weak areas and he is way too strong for punches to do anything. I need something different, very different…

I got it!

They stood facing each other again, daring the other to make the first move. The man shrugged and stampeded toward him. As he swung, Naruto grabbing his arm and rolled, causing his adversary to tumble head first into the ground. He got back up but it was all down hill from there. Naruto used the man's own strength against him time and time again. It became apparent that the man only knew how to attack one way. He probably only needed to know that one way because, after all, it it kept him alive in what ever war he fought in. This man was obviously a veteran. He was a tough challenger and deserved respect.

After a hard blow Naruto held out his hand and helped the man up. They shook hands and, together walked out of the ring leaving the announcer to decide the victor. The colossal man left the lower floor all together leaving no question on who had lost. Before the evaluator closed he wished luck to Naruto and declared that he needed to get drunk.

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"Did you see that Hinata?! Do you see that?!"

"Yeah, (hic) that guy really knows (hic) how to fight." She then did a few practice punches to demonstrate; which looked completely silly coming from the drunken girl.

"Not that, did you see anything strange, or feel that weird energy that came off him during the fight?"

"Hie-yah! Take that and that!"

That's the last time I get her drinks during a mission. I can solve her social problems later. I didn't see enough to confirm anything. How do I not know his name yet? It should be here on the bracket…

That one guy! He named himself, "that one guy". I thought he was the protector of the innocent or something like that. Wait a second I don't know his partners name either! Let's see, there's his picture, it's – oh you have got be to kidding me – "Beast Boy!" His name is Beast Boy. This isn't getting me anywhere.

Ino turned toward Hinata to see her punching the back of a man's head. He appeared to be trying to ignore it but a bunch of veins started to throb on his head.

"Oh sorry about that! Come on Hinata. Lets get you to the bathroom."

I can't report anything until she's sobered up or I am going to be so screwed. She also needs to check them for anything suspicious as well.

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Crap. How could I have not realized that they were here?! I must be getting rusty. Now I have to come up with a plan. What a pain. Ok, ok, so I know that they are Ino Yamanaka and Hinata Hyuga. The Yamanaka's, they can invade people's minds particularly better than most and the Hyuga's can see the force or anything abnormal in a person. Thank god she appeared to be acting, err, strange. But I doubt that she'll stay that way for long. Ok let's look at the situation. I can not contact Naruto nor can he stay down there. It's only a matter of time until they come back.

Shikamaru bent down, put his hands in his thinking position and closed his eyes. Something seemed to click and he soon reopened them, and activated his communicator.

"Greetings comrade!"

"Um, yeah, hey, Lee. I need you to do something."

"I shall be glad to lend my assistance."

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Kiba won his matches with ease. After all they didn't have his abilities, or his sharp teeth. All of his opponents were left bleeding, or at the least, bitten. However, he was still pissed. Someone had changed his name to Beast Boy! Beast Boy! He couldn't change it back either. When he found out who did it, he would tear them into pieces.

Worst of all, the girls weren't even there to watch him. They watched one of Naruto's matches but not his. But he'd forgive them of course, because he was good old Kiba, the man who knew how to win the ladies.

He wasn't doing too badly in the matches either. The first one Naruto fought looked kind of tough, but after that he just got a snob who thought that he was better than everyone else, a guy that tried to cheat, and some kind of old dude.

But the final match was coming and everyone already knew who was in it. He could hear the crowd as they cheered his name. "Yeah, go Beast Boy!" Wait a second, Beast Boy?! Beast boy?! No, no, no. His name was Kiba! Kiba, damn it!

"Go 'That one guy'! Yeah he's way cooler."

That's it. Someone's going to pay.

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Tenten stood up as two people approached, one had pink hair! Pink girl! It was those types of girls that really made Tenten mad. She was probably just some ditz that barely made being an apprentice of a Jedi. The guy next to her had dark hair and seemed to be trying to hide a small scowl. While he was a little cute, she wouldn't let that get in the way of anything. She stuck her hand in her pocket, where she kept one of her hidden blasters. She could hear small taps coming from Chouji's keyboard as he worked furiously to finish.

"Is there something that I can help you with?" Tenten asked darkly to the new arrivals.

"I see that you have been here a little while. Waiting for someone?"

"What's it to yah?"

"I happen to be looking for someone."

"Oh really, I'm sorry that I can't be of any help." After saying that Tenten removed her hand from her pocket and with her index finger in the loop of the trigger area casually started to slowly spin the weapon around her finger.

The pink haired girl opened her mouth and took a step forward but her companion held up his arm to hold her at bay.

"Well I think that you can be. You see it is of great importance that we find him."

"Why? What'd he do?"

"He could be a large threat to many people." She started to spin the blaster faster.

"Or just you." The male Jedi seemed to get a little angry at this. His teeth clenched.

"The Jedi always do what is best for the people." Her blaster picked up more speed.

"Tell me has this person done anything wrong?"

The girl replied this time. "No, but we think that he will." The gun was practically a blur.

"I'm afraid that I can't help you."

"Then I'll have to drag it out of you by force!"

BANG!

Tenten fired her blaster right at the cute guy's head. Smoke was rising from the end of the barrel. His head was to the side hiding the damage but it didn't matter, Tenten never missed. The other girl seemed to be in shock.

"Sasuke…"

Tenten's eyes widened as he turned his head back, revealing red eyes.

"That's impossible no one could have dodged that!"

He smirked.

"Against these eyes, all of your attacks are useless."

"Hell, yeah! That's Sasuke for you."

"We'll see about that." Chouji stood up, signifying that he was done.

It was now two vs. two.

No way are we they going to lose to these guys! Both groups thought.

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"Ladies and Gentlemen! Species of all kinds! I give you the moment that you have all been waiting for! The final match! While their names might be weird at least we know that they can fight! Who will win?! Even I don't know! So, get ready! Get set! And Go!"

Naruto and Kiba stood in the ring. Both looked determined. They were analyzing each other to the best of their abilities.

Naruto tended to use a fighting style that seemed to say "the best defense is a good offense" by continually going for the next strike no matter what position he was in.

Kiba on the other hand used his physical attributes to his advantage, such as his claws, speed, teeth, and strength to catch his opponents off balance. He went with the whole "it's everything or nothing" approach.

They had both noticed that Ino and Hinata had just arrived. In which Kiba glanced at them a few times. As he looked back at his opponent, he saw Naruto looking at someone else with some confusion of his face. Kiba saw him looking at another man with a strange ponytail and vest on. He seemed to be trying to tell Naruto something. And in the silence of anticipation that the whole bar felt Kiba grinned and said, "Well, well, I didn't know you swung that way, Naruto." Kiba thought that he heard someone gasp.

"Shut up! I'm not like that! That's nasty! I bet you couldn't even get a girl if you tried!"

"Why, you!"

Kiba charged. He was closing in on his opponent with his arm cocked back and claws at the ready to slash and tear Naruto into pieces; when suddenly, a massive explosion was heard. It echoed across the whole bar. The windows were vibrating, chunks or concrete were spitting everywhere and the ring was consumed with smoke and dust, preventing anyone from seeing.

Chaos erupted and people screamed and pushed each other over, trying to reach the exit. In all of the disorder no one really noticed that two cute girls, the finalists and a lazy-looking man with a strange ponytail and vest on had vanished.

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The fight between Tenten and Chouji vs. Sasuke and Sakura was close, but with no fighter was going all out. Sasuke seemed to have the advantage over Tenten while Chouji was beating Sakura. At a break both teams froze as they heard new information regarding their missions coming in through their communicators. One of the group members threw a smoke bomb. When the smoke cleared everyone was gone. All of them fled to find where this new information was coming from.

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"What the hell is going on here?!" Yelled a pissed off Kiba from over Lee's shoulder. He had been thrown over Lee's shoulder and was being carried away along the streets of the city world.

"Sorry about this Kiba but I'll explain later. Don't worry. You'll get paid." Said Naruto.

"All right, all right, but at least put me down!"

"Yes, my apologies!" Said Lee and then he put Kiba down.

But as soon as he did, Kiba darted ahead of them and bellowed, "Ha-ha, so long suckers!" He continued to gain a little more distance on them and ignored their shouts until he heard one in particular that seemed familiar. He looked to his left and to his horror saw the pink haired girl from earlier. And to make things even worse she was charging him.

"Look! There he is! He was the guy we were after all along!" Sakura shouted.

"What?! No I'm not! The guy that you want is—"

SLAM!!!

Kiba was smashed into the wall with Sakura's forearm against his throat, preventing him from speaking.

"Oh no you don't! Don't even try to pull that one on me!"

"Wait Sakura that's not the guy!" Sakura turned and saw Ino and Hinata sprinting to catch up but were still a block away.

"Not the guy? Then who is?" She turned to see three people trying to tiptoe away. However a man with dark sunglasses and black hair appeared and put a hand on Naruto's shoulder, preventing him from getting away.

"Please do not struggle; if you do you will only make things harder for yourself." He said. However as soon as he finished speaking he heard a gun being cocked from behind his head and felt the tip of the barrel being pressed against his skull.

"Back off, four eyes," said the newly arrived Tenten. She, however, felt a blade against her throat as Sasuke was there with his vibo-blade. It was now Sasuke's turn to stop as he felt a gun pushed against his gut from Chouji who was not far behind Tenten to begin with.

A man with the same eyes as Hinata made his entrance by having two fingers ready to strike Chouji in the throat. Lee moved in behind the man known as Neji and prevented him from doing any damage with his own guarantee of pain.

Hinata and Ino had finally caught up and started to examine the situation.

"Don't, worry (hic) cousin Neji, I'll help!" Shouted Hinata as she had made her decision. However, due to her current state, being partially drunk, she easily tripped over Naruto's foot (which he had stuck out) and fell face first into the ground.

"Ow" she murmured.

As she was getting up, Naruto grabbed her and put her in a head lock.

"Sorry about this. Hmm, your hair smells nice!" He said. Hinata blushed in reply. Ino now stood there wondering what to do.

"Aw crap, we ran out of guys! Wait a second, Shikamaru, get over here!!!" Naruto hollered.

Ino turned toward him. "Wait, Shikamaru! Whose side are you on?"

"Ah, well …whatever side means less work?"

"Wrong answer." Ino moved toward him but Shikamaru took a step back and took something out of a pocket from his combat vest. It was cylinder-like and as long as his hand. It was silver and had a red button on it.

"Shikamaru, no way! Is that what I think it is?!" Naruto yelled excitedly. Shikamaru pressed the button and a green beam, as long as a sword shot out.

"Shikamaru you're a Jedi!" Naruto continued to yell.

"I was a Jedi, but I quit two years ago." Several of the apprentices started to wonder why they were not told about this, but before they could really do anything, Shikamaru used the force push on Sasuke, knocking him off of Tenten. And then fighting began.

It was just complete confusion as there were too many enemies to fight in hand to hand combat in such short range. People tripped over each other and accidentally hit their allies; others were bit, by Kiba. This continued for a short time until some one hollered, "Tactical retreat maneuver # 009!"

Everyone from Naruto's side threw a smoke bomb, covering a great deal of land. By the time the apprentices cleared the smoke with force pushes, they found that they were the only ones left in the area. They did however hear jets starting to take off and looked up to see a silver ship leave. Sasuke started shake with rage.

"Hey guys what's going on?" Asked Kakashi as he approached from behind.

"You're late!!!" Came the reply.

"Whoa, sorry about that, I saw a black cat and had to take a different way."

"Liar!"

"Someone bit me." Shino was slightly shocked.

Neji decided that now was a good time to raise a question that had been probably bothering the entire group. Anger was held in a tightly controlled voice. "Why, exactly, is Hinata drunk?"

"Well about that…uh" Ino was trying desperately to think of an excuse until Sakura saved her.

"Sasuke, are you ok?" Everyone turned to look at him. He shaking with rage and looked ready to explode. He replied, "THOSE BASTARDS! THEY STOLE MY SHIP!"

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Author's notes— That chapter just about killed me. Sorry if it went down hill at the end.

Oh poor Hinata. I can't believe that I did that to her… yes I can.

*Important note—I was looking over previous chapter and realized that they could be formatted better or improved with better grammar and that they could be written a little better as well. So for the next few days any updates will just be corrections of old chapters with no new information.

Again comments, questions, concerns, problems, compliments, suggestions (please no flames) just lay them on me.

Sorry about being so late.