In the Glory Of the King
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Naruto swore as he ducked off into a small alcove, Kage Bunshin, a truly wonderful technique. He had clones scouring Mos Espa looking for a junk shop, the downside was his clones didn't have some of his... Shall we call it emotional control? The memories of one particular clone flooded into him, apparently it picked a fight with a rather mean Dug, Sebulda, Sebulga... Something like that. He grinned as he spotted the store he was looking for, and after giving a short mental command to his clones walked across the street and ducked inside.
The door slid open, and a shout of "Hit him in the nose!" alerted Naruto, cause the blond to lean back as a pit droid came flying towards him. The shinobi-gone-jedi sighed, and thrust out with his palm, force pushing the little droid clean across the room int the wall. To the casual observer it looked simply like a rather strong palm strike to the droids nose.
The rooms other occupants looked at the droid, then the crack in the wall where the droid hit, then at Naruto. The blond shrugged, "I don't like things in my personal space."
Padme, Anakin and Jar-Jar all blinked in unison, and took a half step back. Padme shook her head and sighed, "Who are you?"
Naruto quirked his head to the side and blinked twice. "How is that any business of yours? You don't work here."
Padme quirked an eyebrow at that, crossing her arms. "And how do you know I don't work here?"
Naruto shot a look at Anakin, then back at Padme. "Well, You do not dress like a Tatooine native, and unless you go through Hutt sized amounts of skin care products... Your skin gives you away as well. The Gungan... Clearly does not look comfortable around these electronics. So that leaves the boy to work here. Slave I'd guess judging by his age and general scruffiness."
Anakin glared at the older blond. "I'm a person and my name is Anakin!"
Naruto gave the young boy an uncaring look. "And I care... Why?" The boy's face grew hard and his mouth opened, Naruto held a hand up stopping him. "Look, brat... Do you have a mother or father?"
"I have my mother..."
Naruto gave him a grin, "Then your life is automatically better then mine. I would gladly be a slave if I had gotten the chance to know either of my parents. Now stop your bitching and go get your boss. I have a rather large order I need to fill." Anakin blinked twice in shock, the older boy's words going through his head. Naruto sighed, "TODAY."
"Sorry!" The boy said, before running off out back to find Watto.
Padme just stared at the whisker faced blond, "Don't you think you were harsh on him? He's just a boy."
Naruto looked at her and shrugged. "As I said, I doubt his life has been as hard as mine. But in more importantly, I'm in a hurry. There's supposed to be a sandstorm whipping up soon and I'd like to be back at the ship before it hits."
"You have a ship?" The brunette questioned.
"Well, not MY ship per se, it's my Master's. But it is where I'm staying." The blond paused a moment. "I shudder to think what he would do to me if I claimed the ship was mine. He can be, a little over protective of the thing."
Padme stifled a slight giggle at that. "Interesting man is he?"
Naruto looked at her, "Trust me when I say you have no idea..." He paused seeing Anakin walk back into the shop, flanked by an irate Toydarian, and middle aged human male.
The Toydarian was angrily flapping his wings, he was glaring at the human beside him, "And I said no money no deal!" The blue alien stopped and looked over at Naruto, a smile etched onto the boyish features of the teenager. "And you, what business is so important as to interrupt me when I'm with customers?"
Naruto smiled, a wide, vaguely disturbing smile, with his eyes seemingly closed. It looked more then somewhat like a fox. Not that anyone in the room would have understood what that was.* "Ah, but apparently, unlike him," He gestured at Qui-Gon, "I can pay for your services." He drew a hand into the folds of his robes, bringing out a datapad and handing it to the Toydarian.
The winged alien scanned the list, "The droid parts I have in stock, as well as the hyperdrive." He paused and glanced at the elderly jedi watching the preceding with a detached interest. "But the rest of these ship upgrades I don't have. However..." He trailed off.
"Yes?" Naruto said, his head cocked to the side.
"He," The Toydarian pointed at Qui-Gon, "Is in possession of a ship with no hyperdrive. From the model he told me it is, you would be able to scavenge everything you would require."
Naruto paused and stroked his chin, his smile thinning slightly. "Well, I will deal with that with them then. For I want everything you have, and delivered to the location marked on that datapad."
"Fine fine boy, but do tell me how you were going to pay?" The Toydarian said, his wings buzzing in a rather irritating noise.
Naruto smiled and again reached into the depths of his jacket, he withdrew 5 small black objects. The Toydarian gasped.
"Is that, are those-"
Naruto nodded, "5 flawless Krayt Dragon pearls. I believe they should cover everything. And maybe a bit more for a later date."
The Toydarian nodded, then scooped the gems from Naruto's hands, before buzzing off into the back a quick, "It's been good doing business with you." Called out over his shoulder.
Naruto turned, his smiling visage once again firmly in place, to the taller man. "So, It appears you posses something I need, and I now possess something you need."
Qui-Gon looked at the young man, appraising him. The force seemed to swirl around the blond, but in a manner he would confess to never seeing before. And the Jedi Knight almost swore he had seen a flash of a lightsaber hilt in the young man's robes, but he did not recognize the face. "It seems we are at an impasse." He said lightly. His eyes watching, scanning for any more information the boy could offer.
"So we are... I propose a way to solve this, impasse. A deal if you will." Naruto said, his grin threating to grow larger.
Qui-Gon raised an eyebrow, "Oh? And what would that be?"
Naruto shrugged a bit, and gestured his hands in the air. "Well, I admit what I have in mind is less of a deal and really more of a bet." He paused, one eye cracking open from the slit it was to observe the Jedi, he had little doubt as to what the man was, at a motion to continue Naruto breathed in, sparing a brief glance at the cute girl he had been talking to earlier. If for no other reason then to perhaps confuse the jedi. "The Boonta Eve pod race is coming up rather shortly. We each pick a participant to win, we bet what we have, my hyper drive against your ship, on the winner. Sound fun?"
Qui-Gon gave a small smile, and thought briefly of the visions the force had given him of the young slave boy he had seen earlier. "Accepted."
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"I hope you know, I blame this entirely on you."
"I demand to know how in the HELL this is MY fault?!"
"Dunno, It just is. This kind of crap is always, somehow, your fault."
"Screw you Squint! The mission said 'Exotic Pets.' I demand to know under what definition of the word pet does a freakin genetically engineered Rancor/Krayt Dragon hybrid fall."
Two padawans were running as fast as their force influenced bodies allowed away from the facility, through a dark jungle, loudly pursued by the biggest, meanest looking creature they had ever seen.
"I dunno! Maybe the giant red button that said cage release wasn't meant to be pushed!" Alek Squinquargesimus yelled at his best friend.
The brown haired boy pouted, "But it looked so inviting..." He stopped running and crossed his arms in a huff. "Besides! What kind of nut bag makes a genetically engineered super death monger... Thing... Like that anyways?"
Alek gave him a pointed stare.
"Hey! We all know my engineered weapon of doom would be robotic! I don't do so well with animals." He paused, and stroked his chin thoughtfully. "Hmm, maybe a snarky assassin droid of some type..."
Alek sighed, and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Dude not the right ti-" Further conversation was cut off as the monstrous creature burst through the trees and stared, its giant maw dripping saliva, hungrily at the padawans.
Revan looked at it, "Oh right... We were being chased."
Alek turned his head, "You mean to tell me in the span of thirty seconds you forgot the giant monster of doom?"
"Hey! You know how I get when I start designing things." An ear piercing roar drowned out anything further he might have said.
Alek turned to him, "So, umm, the running thing was going well for us."
"It was." Revan nodded sagely.
"Why exactly did we stop?"
"I, umm, wanted to?"
"Can we start running again?"
They both looked at the giant slobbering visage of death. "That would seem to be the prudent course of action yes."
The looked at each other, then at the beast, then back at each other. "RUUUUUUUNNN" The yelled in unison bolting back into the forest.
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"What do you mean 'Your leaving?'"
Revan gave a small glare at his friend. "It means I'm going away, not a hard thing to understand Onasi."
Carth sighed and looked at the man who had quickly become his closest friend. "But why? Why leave us, the Jedi, the Republic, your friends..."
Revan sighed, a somber look settling onto his face, he reached out and clasped Carth's shoulder. "Look Carth, I remember... Everything. Even the reasons why I fell... Something is out there, far beyond the outer rim. I aim to make it stay that way." He paused, a sad, sorrowful smile ghosted across his youthful features. It was a face the belayed how old he was, and how much older he felt. "I had my doubts at first, about the Republic. But maybe, maybe it can work out. For a little while." He looked away for a moment, before staring his friend in the eye. "Keep it safe for me, K?"
Carth nodded, unable to answer properly to the man in front of him.
Revan sighed and backed away, heading past Onasi towards his beloved ship, the Ebon Hawk. He was stopped by another friend.
"I'm coming with you."
"This is something I must do on my own Canderous." He said to the mandalorian warrior before him.
"You'll need me."
Revan shrugged, "Perhaps... But your people need you more. Unite them! Make the name Mandalore ring fear once more!" He paused, then smiled, "In a few years, I'm not sure when, and old... How shall we say... acquaintance? Yes that works... Of mine may come looking for your help. Aid Her, as you have aided me." He paused at the look on his friends face. "Do it for me... Trust me, she will prove worthy of your assistance."
With that he stepped by his friend and onto the loading ramp of the Hawk. He looked out the window as he thumbed the controls, bringing the ship to life, up and away from the landing pad. "Goodbye my friends... May your lives be long and prosperous... And very eventful." The stars blurred as the ship shot away from Coruscant towards parts unknown...
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Grey eyes fluttered open, taking in the familiar surrounds of his ship. His dreams of his past chased away by the light of day. He paused getting up slowly, his ancient body responding just as easily as it had millennia ago. He sighed at the memories, of times lost, but never forgotten. "Where did we go wrong Alek?" He was also briefly reminded to go and check to see if the mandalorians were still around. His thoughts focused on the present, and on the pod he had to fix, and his new apprentice. He allowed a small smile to form, eventually giving way to a feral grin. "I suppose the dreams of the past give way to realities of the future... And what fun realities they shall be." He then allowed himself a small bout of semi-maniacal laughter, which faded into the Tatooine dawn.
The laughter did manage to freak out a small group of Jawas, tusken raiders and two very shaken delivery droids.
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A/N: Hope you enjoyed the chapter, yes they are short but meh, At least I'm writing them eh?
The character Alek, is Darth Malak's real name. Look it up on Wookiepedia or the KotoR comics if you don't believe me. Hope you guys enjoyed Revan's dreams, I thought they'd be fun little add ons personally. Next chapter, will bring back an all new HK! Yaaay! And the Boonta Eve Classic. I got stuck for the longest time on the whole bet/deal thing wondering how I'd work Naruto and Revan in there, and well... I hope It'll be satisfactory. I have no idea how to do the little accented E thing in padme's name, if someone could tell me that'd be great... Hmm a reviewer asked if Naruto is immortal to... hmm, maybe? Dunno haven't decided yet. As to how Revan is immortal... as one reviewer asked, its kind of like a cross between what Plageius and Sion (From KOTOR2) did. It'll be explained later in more detail.
TO answer a fair chunk of reviewers, yes Revan is bad ass. And now, He wont exactly be rushing into be the hero, I do have an interesting idea as to his general future/job coming up though.
Yes the eon hawks colors are the same.
Minor point: Again like I said HK will be coming back, and I hope you guys will like his new modifications. Kukuku... (I'll let ya'll stew on that for awhile whilst I write chapter 3.) Laters! And enjoy the chapter
-Draton out.
*Before I forget if you had a hard time imaging Naruto's facial expression, think Gin from Bleach.