Disclaimer: Disney owns Star Wars, not me. All the characters and places (except for my OCs Analise, Meeka, Gaspar, Myra, Sibar, and Sierra) belong to them.

"aaaa"-talking out loud."aaaa" (bold and intellects)-talking through a holo or com. 'aaaaa'-inner thoughts. aaaaa-talking through a Bond. "aaaa" (bold)-another language.

AN: Just a short, hopefully sweet moment between Plo and 'Soka:)

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Chapter Five

On Shili, you could see the stars.

Anakin and Analise would tell Ahsoka about being able to see the stars outside on other planets. Planets that were not just one massive city where lights would at times drown out the small sparkling lights in the sky that were stars and planets.

She hadn't believed them. On Coruscant if she wanted to see stars, planets, the galaxy; Ahsoka would go a special room within the Temple where she could press a button and view any star system she wished. Standing in the middle and letting it dance around her as a blue hologram casting shadows in the dark chamber.

Then she had gone to Naboo and there she had saw stars. Stars bright and twinkling in a sky free from lights and pollution. Analise had giggled at Ahsoka's wide expression and encouraged her to make a wish. Then Ahsoka had thought wishing on a star was childish.

Not tonight though. Not tonight when she could see the stars shining so brightly while her heart seemed to hurt. Ahsoka didn't understand why it hurt. It made no sense.

Even on the ship, her nervousness about the Akul Hunt had vanished after calling Anakin and Analise. The excitement had returned. Not even Gaspar and Myra's fawning and fussing had been able to dim her excitement that in the morning light, she would be sent off into the same grasslands that she now sat in front of. Grasses of orange and white that while providing camouflage for the Togruta hunters, also providing the akul with that same protection.

Ahsoka tilted her head back to the night sky as she recalled the rhyme Analise had taught her. "Star light, star bright...First star I see tonight. Wish I may, wish I might...Have the wish I wish tonight." She closed her eyes. 'I wish I was with my real brother and sister.'

Even as the thought, the wish flew from her heart to the sky guilt raced through her body. Her eyes fell back to the ground.

"This is where you are my little 'Soka."

"Am I bad Master Plo?"

"Bad?"

"Yes, bad because...Sibar and Sierra...I..." The struggle was clear in her voice, in her body, in the Force. Plo let out a sigh which was muffled slightly by his anti-ox mask. Ahsoka had clearly been shaken, unprepared for the raw hate and loathing Sibar and Sierra showed her.

The Kel Dor tried to remember, tried to picture the pair of Togruta siblings who had watched him carry their younger sister away. In his hazy memory they were an angry pair, a hurting pair. Their parents had been killed in the bloody slaughter of their village, their home destroyed, and then he was taking their sister away. A stranger to them forever.

He sat on the ground next to her, wrapping an arm around the small body. She would always be a Youngling to him. Even as she grew and took her place among the Jedi, she would always be his little 'Soka. "Is it because of what Sibar and Sierra said to you?" Her head shook, lekku switching back and forth slightly.

"No...That's not why I am bad."

"Why are you bad?"

"Because...Because...Because I don't think Sibar and Sierra are my real siblings." Worried, tear-filled baby-blue eyes gazed up into his googles. "I don't feel any kind of connection with them...I even made a wish that Anakin and Analise were with me...I...I called them my real siblings."

"Oh 'Soka..."

"That's why I'm bad Master Plo. I don't think Sibar and Serria are my brother and sister, Anakin and Analise are. Their words hurt, but my heart hurts more because they're not my brother and sister." Ahsoka choked on a sob, her fear growing that she was bad. A horrible being simply because her heart and soul could not recognize her blood siblings as her true, real siblings. "Can we go back to Coruscant in the morning Master Plo? I want to be with Anakin and Analise...I want them here with me..."

Plo took her in his arms, holding his foster daughter to his chest. He poured his love, reassurances, and calm through their Bond. Slowly the tears stopped, but the Togruta Youngling did not move from her resting place.

"You are not bad my little 'Soka. The Force took you from Sibar and Sierra, but it gave you a new brother and sister. A brother and sister who accept you for who you are. Who love and adore you. Who teach you how to fly in the skies and fight. Who read to you and soothe you when you are hurt." He lightly stroke the top of the head currently buried in his chest. "The Force moves us little 'Soka, guides us if we let it. Sibar and Sierra do not understand this, so they fear it."

There was a sniffle, a little nod. Plo thought for a moment until he remembered one tradition that Togruta in smaller villages still practiced. That of giving siblings names with starting with the same letter of either father or mother.

"I think your birth parents understood this Ahsoka."

"What do you mean?" Her voice was muffled by his robes.

"Your name. They did not give you a name to match that of Sibar and Sierra. Remember one of the traditions Shaak told you about?" Ahsoka slowly nodded. "Sibar and Sierra both start with an S, but Ahsoka does not." He used a finger to gently tip her chin up so she could see his face and he hers. "Ahsoka starts with an A...Just like Anakin and Analise..."

"A...For Anakin, Analise, and Ahsoka..." Slowly the worry started to leave her eyes. Tears began to dry and she slowly pulled herself away from his chest, but remained in his arms.

"That's right little 'Soka." He tapped her nose. "Worry not about feeling no connection to Sibar and Sierra. The Force has willed it that Anakin and Analise be your siblings instead. Blood means nothing if there is no connection of the soul to back it up."

"Yes Master Plo."

"Now I think we should return inside. Tomorrow is the first day of your Akul Hunt. You will need rest. Besides..." He stood and helped her to stand, "You need to be able to have something to brag about when your brother starts going on and on about his days as poadracer."

Ahsoka laughed and the stars in the sky seemed to dance with her laughter.