So here is the next chapter, there were not many comments or questions from last chapter and that I am bummed about, but I'll throw some information out.

Now I was told that my translation of Sunflower from Hinata was incorrect, which I thank you for pointing out, though the translation can be seen as 'Towards the sun' and what do sunflowers do?"

I still haven't figured out who I could pair with Naruto, but the following are currently out- Padme, Aayla, Mouse, Luminara, Ahsoka, Barriss, Ventress, Satine, Bo, and his padawans. There may be more on this list later but for now that is the list of certainly not happening. Now Shaak-Ti is a maybe, as well as a random Mandalorian woman, and possibly the Pantoran senator. I have also been toying with the idea of a dark side female.

I plan to go from the Clone wars to the Bad Batch to Fallen Order to possibly Kenobi and then to the Rebel era of Star Wars Rebels onward. I plan to make this story a long one. Now here's to me not getting killed before that happens.

Alright more to come later, onwards to the story.

"Normal speech"

-Driods-

-Comms-

"Kurama"

Ch.8 Home Again

-In Hyperspace close to Naruto's home world-

Naruto was meditating in the cargo bay of the Tempest waiting for the proximity alarm to go off informing him that they were almost to their destination. He was thinking of his old home and wondered if any of the structures he had built were still standing after three thousand years. He was also wondering if any of the tailed beasts were still around and if any of them would remember him.

"They are fine." Said Kurama sleepily.

'Are you guessing or do you have some way of knowing?'

"We are all connected, if something happened to one of us, everyone would feel it. They are currently either wandering around or watching the one you call daughter help the ones you call clones to repair your old base."

'Well at least Sira and the men haven't done anything to draw their ire…. Yet.'

"They won't do anything as they recognize your daughter and they probably sense me getting closer."

'Sooo…. I'm probably going to have some explaining to do once I land…. Perfect, you lot were the one thing I never told anyone about…' said Naruto looking a bit apprehensive at the major possibility of his biggest secret coming to light. Even when he had his troops here three and a half thousand years ago, the tailed beasts never let themselves be seen.

"Well…. we have been gone for a long time so once we land they will probably come running so you might want to warn your people." Said the old fox as he cut the link.

"Fuuuuuck" moaned Naruto as he slumped over not looking forward to the conversation he was going to have soon.

"Well that doesn't sound good boss, what's up?" said Mouse closing the door to the cargo bay.

"A very old secret is about to come to light."

"Well how big is it?"

"Well it's one that my whole planet knew, but it died with them and I've never told anyone else to this day…. But that's about to change."

"Any reason why you kept it to yourself?" asked Mouse now sitting in front of Naruto.

"Well it was knowledge that the Jedi at the time would have just tried to kill me right away and the Sith would have tried to dissect me, not that any side would have been able to capture me without taking massive losses. I also really didn't want the Republic to have any cause to fear me."

"Does it have something to do with your weird abilities?"

"Kind of…. it pretty much gives me the abilities that can cause untold damage, and that isn't even the most destructive thing I am capable of. Though I really don't use any of my unusual abilities unless necessary." At this Kurama growled at being called an 'it'.

"Boss, if you were to go off the deep end how much of a chance do we all have of stopping you?"

"Not a chance in hell. It would be in your best interest to flee whatever planet we're on."

Mouse just stared at him.

"yeah…. Before I had my Padawan I pretty much obliterated a whole citadel of Sith and their allies without them knowing what hit them, but the surrounding area was nothing but a large crater afterwards."

"You have no business being that powerful, thank whatever deity out there the Sith haven't captured or turned you. If they did the galaxy would be under your thumb."

"Well your taking this well."

"I've seen you do wacky shit and now knowing you can do wackier shit doesn't surprise me. Though I have one question, what are you willing to show me right now that you haven't used in a while." As soon as she asked that a blue glowing chain extended from within Naruto's cloak and wrapped around her.

"Kinky." With that the chain unwrapped and retracted away from her. The chain then shot into the far end of the cargo bay. A second later they both heard a frightened yelp as the chain dragged Rem into sight as she looked embarrassed at being caught eavesdropping.

"It's rude to eavesdrop Remmy, how much did you hear?" asked Naruto while looking Rem in the eyes.

"Eh… everything?" she said meekly.

"Well for your punishment I will be training you personally rather than my other plan of having Sira help you in the beginning and we will begin shortly after we land." Said Naruto with a foxlike grin.

"I now feel sorry for you kid, your Master doesn't pull any punches when he trains someone. I should know as I gained his ire my first week under his command when I accidently missed my target and shot through the viewport of ship he had before he was given the Sunflower. I'm pretty sure I spent most of the months afterwards in and out of kolto tanks due to injuries running the obstacle course he built just for me to perfect my aim and while I ran through it, he was throwing dull knives at me." Rem now looked even more frightened.

"Sira had to do something similar when she almost got herself killed during a mission when she lost her lightsaber. While that in itself would usually just have made me up her training to where that wouldn't happen again, but she tried to shift the blame off of her and on to someone else. That pissed me off to the point where I basically left her in a room full of seeker droids programed to try to shoot her saber out of her hand while she fought off sparing droids that were armed with training sabers. That went on for about a week until I felt she had learned her lesson. Now…. What to do with you…. ah that will do." Said Naruto gaining a large grin that caused even Mouse to be uneasy.

They all were interrupted by the proximity alarm indicating they were close to their destination. Naruto released Rem and the chain snaked its way back up Naruto's arm and vanished.

"A little creepy boss, but I have a question, what is the name of your home world?" asked Mouse as they all stood up and walked to the cockpit of the Tempest.

"I don't know, my people never were even close to a space age and I never heard anyone throw the planet's name around. I just always called it home."

"Well there's another thing you get to name boss."

"Eh, home suits it just fine. Besides I don't want to officially chart it on a map again as it's my home and it is perfect as it is. If it is re-registered there will be explorers that are curious of a 'new' planet and will want to come out and explore it. Which will lead to their deaths as this planet is very deadly."

"You make it sound like it was registered before, how did you manage to take it off of the map?"

"Well when the Jedi came to my planet after I had driven the Sith from it, they put it on the map against my wishes. I had just become the last of my kind and I didn't want anyone desecrating my home or to gain information that many would exploit. So during the time of Revan, I put a virus into a satellite network of a planet that would infect any ship's Nav computer erasing any existence of my planet. Said infected ships would travel to other worlds spreading the virus. Eventually there was no evidence my planet even existing as the virus infected everything minus my ship not that it mattered as I have this planet's coordinates memorized." Said Naruto as he sat down in the pilot's chair.

"Exiting hyperspace in three, two, one." The Tempest fell out of hyperspace in front of a lush green planet that had polar snowcaps and a single large desert.

"I'm home my loves." Said Naruto under his breath as he patched through to the single Venator in orbit.

"Attention Clarity, this is General Uzumaki, where is the rest of the fleet?" asked Naruto as a clone officer came into view.

-Welcome back General, the Hurricane and Hailstorm are on the surface docked at that old docking facility you had built.-

"Well it's surprising that it is still operational."

-It's only partially operational as only two of the ten ports are functioning, we have engineers working to restore a third so we can dock and offload.-

"Well I'm going to land on the surface as this ship has no need to be docked. Report anything out of the ordinary directly to me. Uzumaki out." Naruto cut off the transmission and piloted the hammerhead to the surface where the old facility was. He found a flat-ish clearing close to the facility and landed in it.

Naruto shut off the systems on the ship and leaned back in the chair. He stared at the mountain range in the distance that looked somewhat eroded by time but Naruto could still make out the carved faces in the stone.

"It's still here." -RUMBLE-

"Master what was that?" asked Rem looking outside the viewport.

"Well we're about to have company, do try not to aggravate them." With that Naruto exited the cockpit and walked down the ramp with a smile on his face.

-Sira, docking facility-

Sira was currently overseeing the repair of the docking facility that tripled as a barracks and training facility. She was currently rewiring a panel that controlled the deep space sensors and was interrupted by a clone engineer.

"Commander, the General had entered the planet's atmosphere, he is heading our way, though we are getting strange energy readings heading our way and one of them is on the General's ship." Said the clone.

"Tell Gaz and Markus to gather the troops to where my Master is landing, I will not be caught in unawares on a planet that hasn't been visited in a few thousand years."

"Yes ma'am." The clone ran off to find the officers to relay the orders given and Sira closed the panel and sat up.

'Why is it that something strange always happens when Father is around?' she thought as she got to her feet and walked down a corridor watching the clones quickly gathering their gear. She ran into Gaz on her way out almost knocking both of them over.

"Sorry about that Commander, what is the situation?" said Gaz as they both exited the facility.

"There are strange unknown energy readings that were not detected the last time I was here. There are a total of nine and one of them is on Fathers ship."

"Commander Markus is already half way to the clearing and-" -Rumble- Gaz, Sira, and the clones around them stumbled as the ground shook.

"Captain that was close to the clearing, let's hurry."

"Roger, alright men you heard her MOVE IT!" with that the Clones and Jedi moved with a purpose.

-Naruto-

When Naruto exited the Hammerhead he was greeted with the sight of a giant blue flaming two tailed cat and a giant three tailed turtle.

"Well hello Matatabi, Isobu, it's been a while." Said Naruto looking up at the two tailed beasts. Though he was wacked by one of Isobu's tails which sent him flying a good distance away from the clearing and was pinned by one of Matatabi's giant flaming paws when he unceremoniously landed in the dirt.

"Well I suppose I've received worse greetings in my time." Said Naruto with a worried smile on his face.

"It's been a few thousand years and the first thing you say to us is 'hello'." Said the large flaming cat.

"Well to be fair it's only been a few months for me." Matatabi gave him a funny look. "I was sent forward into time when I entered at Black Hole with a damaged hyperdrive."

"Well it is good to see you haven't gotten yourself killed, but why didn't you come back the first chance you got?" asked the now calm feline while the large turtle stayed silent and listened.

"Well I didn't have a ship at the time and there is a war going on again."

"How many wars does that make for you now kid?" asked Isobu.

"Too damn many. Mata could you let me up?"

"No, not till the others arrive, they want to have words with you."

"Well this is about to get embarrassing." Said Naruto as he felt his two Padawans and his troops approaching.

"FATHER!" shouted Sira as she leapt at Matatabi with her saber ignited, only to be flung backwards by Naruto's use of the force.

"Stay calm Sira, I am in no danger. Just talking to old friends." Sira of course didn't look convinced of that and she wasn't the only one as the entirety of the Ninety-Fourth were aiming whatever weapons they had at the two giants.

"I am ordering you all to stand down, go back to the facility and I will explain everything when I get everything sorted out with my old friends."

With the order given Kade, Markus, Gaz, and the rest of the clones hesitantly lowered their weapons and slowly made their way back to the facility. The only ones that disobeyed his orders were Mouse, Rem and Sira. All three of them looked uneasy at seeing their boss/Master pinned underneath the large blue flaming cat.

"Be at ease kittens, we will do no harm to this boneheaded blonde. Though we will have a few different discussions, the first being when did you become a father again?" Both Rem and Sira were surprised to hear the large beast speak.

"Well I've been a surrogate father figure to many in the order, but I've been a father to the older girl since around the time I bult the facility over where Konoha used to stand. Now I just recently took the younger girl under my wing recently and I have a blood related daughter back at the temple but I haven't been able to meet her yet as she is still in a medical coma." Said Naruto looking a bit worried at the end.

Matatabi looked over to Isobu, nodding to each other and both began shrinking and stopped when both were the size of a large dog.

"The others will be here in an hour or two. You should explain the situation you are in." Said Matatabi as she hopped off of Naruto's chest and strolled over to Sira and Rem who looked dumfounded.

"What does it-" "She" "-She mean by situation?" asked Sira.

"Well this is a secret that I've held onto since my people were exterminated. The two entities in front of you are from a group of nine. They were called tailed beasts by my people. They are beings made of energy, I always assumed they were corrupted anomalies of the force."

"That explains the weird energy readings, but it doesn't explain why there was one on your ship." Said Sira cautiously watching the flaming cat that was staring at her.

"Well that is because I am linked to one of them."

"How?" asked Rem while watching the strange looking turtle.

"Well he was sealed inside me when I was born, and that lead to a rough childhood that I will not go into. He is part of the reason why I am so old yet look so young, though my family genetics would have allowed me to live longer than most."

"Why didn't you say anything to anyone about this Master?"

"How do you start that conversation? 'Hey I have a mountain size entity that can obliterate landscapes on a whim.' I also didn't want the information to get out as I would be hunted and experimented on by the Sith and probably killed or pressed into service by the Republic, not that I would have let them. I am now trusting you to keep that secret as I will not be telling that tidbit of information to everyone else. If you break that trust I will erase those memories from you and whoever you told the secret to." Said Naruto his eyes flashing a blood red color before returning to normal.

"Geez boss no need to get testy, who would I tell? Everyone I knew and trusted is long gone besides you, your Padawan, and old Markus. Your secret is safe with me until you release it yourself." Said Mouse.

"You have nothing to fear from me Father, I trust your judgment." Said Sira now not as scared of the beasts in front of her and tried to pet Matatabi causing the cat to purr. This surprised the young woman as she thought her hand would get burned.

"I won't tell anyone, I wouldn't want anyone to try to harm you or your friends Master. Though I now believe that not many could harm you." Said Rem staring at Isobu who was staring back at her.

"I am by no means invincible or all powerful, I can still be killed though it is very hard to accomplish. Now Sera, is obstacle course five ready?" asked Naruto.

"Yes, but who gained your ire for them to go through that?" asked Sira who looked worried.

"Remmy decided to try her hand at eavesdropping and failed miserably. So I believe she needs training in stealth." Said Naruto enjoying how nervous Rem looked. "Now Mouse you are to supervise her during her time in the obstacle course and if you detect her, you are to shoot stun bolts at her. I will take over her training after I take care of a few things."

"Are you sure that is necessary boss?"

"Yes, she attempted to spy on someone of higher skill and failed. If she was on a mission she would have either been captured, killed, or worse."

"How long do I have to run the course, Master?" asked Rem who was now dreading having her Master train her.

"However long it takes you to run through the whole thing without Mouse detecting you. Also you will not need this." Naruto said as he force pulled her lightsaber off her belt.

"A little harsh Naruto, maybe you should start off slower." Said Isobu.

"I will not, I've lost too many friends and children by not training them as hard as I can without breaking them. I know no one would survive the type of training I put myself through, but I will do everything in my power to make sure anyone under my care or command has the best chance of survival." Said Naruto.

"You did drive everyone under your command into the ground back three thousand years ago, but you made us the best and most effective force that the republic had. Though you really made us hate you in the beginning boss." Said Mouse.

"You better get ready for that to start again, as I have troops that are not up to my standards. There will be many war games to get the troops used to different terrain, and different tactics. Now enough jabbering, Mouse take Rem to the course and start her out with two bells on her arms. Now shoo." Said Naruto making a shooing motion.

Mouse guided Rem out of the area and towards the far end of the training facility.

Naruto waited until the two were far away and turned his attention to Sira. "How are you adjusting to your new arm?"

"It feels strange father, but I am slowly getting better and am almost ready to start sparring with you again."

"Do I need to retrieve the seekers?"

"NO!" shouted Sira who looked terrified but that turned to anger as she saw her Master laughing.

"I'm kidding daughter, though I do have something for you as I do believe I missed your last few birthdays before you took the long nap." Said Naruto as he motioned for her to follow him to the clearing where the Tempest was parked.

While following her father she spoke up. "You do know that the Jedi of this era would frown at what you are doing right?"

"I could care less of what a bunch of children think of me as I follow the old code, not this rigid newer code." Said Naruto as he took out a scroll from his cloak.

"Though some of those 'children' out rank you as they are on the council and the Grand Master is far older than you biologically." Said Sira with a cheeky smile.

"Yes, indeed he is, and that is why I will probably only listen to him as he as more wisdom than anyone else there. Even then he has become too bound by the rules of the Jedi and has his mind clouded by fear too long. Anyways here is your gift, use it well." Said Naruto as he unfurled the scroll threw it away from himself.

The scroll landed on the ground and vanished in a large puff of smoke, and once the smoke dissipated, there was the YT-1300 sitting gleaming in the sun.

For a second Sira was speechless and then she started to jump in excitement.

"THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU…" she kept repeating the same thing until she gave Naruto a bear hug.

"You are welcome, go explore it and give it a name, I have some confused people to go explain things to." The exited girl shot up the ramp before he could say anything else.

"Mata, Isobu, could you watch her and make sure she doesn't wander. The area outside the village wasn't safe before my incident and I don't think a few thousand years would have changed anything for the wildlife here."

"Very well Naruto we will watch over your hatchling." Said Isobu as he and Matatabi walked into the ship.

"Thank you" with that Naruto vanished in a puff of smoke.

"You noticed it too, right?" asked Matatabi.

"Yes, something has happened that may cause him to shut down again, let us hope that his daughters can keep that from happening." Said Isobu not aware Sira was listening in.

-Roof of the training facility-

Naruto looked around where his village once more imagining what it was like before it's destruction. He could see the busy streets, the civilians and ninja milling about, he could see his home where his family used to be. He took a deep breath and then he let the image of the village he once knew fade away only to see the wilderness that had grown where his home used to be. The only things still around were a few scattered and crumbling parts of the village's walls and the Hokage Monument. The home he once had was gone and nothing would bring it back.

"General, the men are waiting for you." said Kade looking a bit worried at Naruto's downtrodden expression.

"Very well Admiral, it is time to begin." Said Naruto as he walked down the stairs from the roof and entered a hanger bay full of clones standing in ranks at attention.

"At ease men, now I have a few things to clear up before we start your training. First those creatures you all saw are some very old friends, they are something similar to creatures of the force. Most are somewhat friendly but do your best to not agitate them. They will not harm you but make no mistake they can easily kill you." Naruto took a deep breath and then continued.

"Now, on to the second matter, this planet is teeming with very dangerous flora and fauna. I strongly suggest you do not stray too far from this facility and its training grounds. With that said let us move on to the third matter. No offence to whoever trained you but you are not up to my standards. True you are good soldiers but you could be better, much better. So I have taken it upon myself to take your training up a notch. This entails learning how to survive and fight in any climate, more advanced combat training as I have noticed that they did not do a good job teaching you hand to hand combat and they didn't teach you all how to use a melee weapon. I will rectify that, and I will outfit you all in better armor that will protect you better than your current armor. When I am satisfied you have learned most of what I am to teach you we will begin large scale wargames. I will promise they will be as real as I can make them, you all will receive injuries, but none that will put you out of action permanently. Now any questions?" finished Naruto.

One clone raised his hand and Naruto nodded to him to ask his question.

"Sir, no disrespect but what makes you think you are able to train us? We've heard many stories of Jedi folding like wet paper bags when they get into any combat without their lightsaber."

"What is your name trooper?" "CT-3014 Sir." "Ah a number, that won't do… how about Oak… yes your name is now Oak. So Oak how about a show of what I can do had to hand? Make a ring, hold this." Said Naruto handing his Saber to Kade and started to strip the top portion of his robes off putting all his scars on display. He then made his way though the troops to the circle made around Oak.

Evey clone grimaced at the sight of their general's scars when he passed by and Oak seemed to realize his mistake a little too late.

"The spar will end when one of is unable to continue, there will be no kill shots or debilitating moves." With that Naruto slipped into his Frog-kata stance and the clone took up a boxer's stance.

The clone struck first with a quick jab that Naruto swatted away and sent and open palm into the clone's chest. Which sent the clone to the ground winded though he quickly recovered and tried to kick the Jedi's legs out from under him which failed. Naruto countered by sending a kick back which the clone barely dodged. The clone got to his feet and threw a right hook which Naruto grabbed the clones arm and used his momentum to flip the clone over his shoulder slamming him into the ground, cracking his armor and knocking him out.

"Any others that doubt my abilities? No? Good settle into your barracks, training starts early tomorrow morning and everyone will be there unarmored and unarmed. The technicians, medics, and officers are not exempt from this either I expect to see everyone here at zero six hundred. DISMISSED!" the clones scattered at his dismissal. Naruto crouched down to remove Oak's broken helmet and started to check the clone for any serious injuries. Finding none he ordered two clones to take him to his rack. He then turned around to face Kade

"I assume you meant that I will be joining the men in your training as well." Stated Kade as he held Naruto's lightsaber out.

"Indeed." Said Naruto as he took his saber back "Thank you, now please supervise the men as I have something to go do."

"Very well General." With that Naruto vanished again.

-Graveyard on top of the monument-

Naruto stood at the entrance of the graveyard where he buried his family and closest friends. His Sensei, teammates, classmates, students, wives, and children were buried there. He was kneeling at the graves of his two Wives as they were side by side in a different area of the graveyard. He could clearly read the names on the tombstones as he put seals on all of them to prevent them from being eroded over time and had a few seals preventing them from being covered by foliage. The first stone read 'Hinata, loving wife and mother.' The one next to it read 'Kiarei, Fallen but returned to the light.'

"You promised you wouldn't mope at my grave anymore love."

"I know, but it has been a while since I visited your grave, even before I became displaced." Said Naruto looking at the apparition of a stunning woman who was a little short, slender, and had long frizzy curly brown hair. She had cute freckles on her cheeks and a small scar on her chin. Though Naruto was focused on her warm emerald green eyes.

"Indeed it has, I thought you found another woman and forgot about me." Said Kiarei faking sounding hurt.

"No, though I found out I have a living Daughter and possibly some great-great yada yada yada, grandchildren possibly running around."

"Oh, and who is the lucky woman that had your kids this time?"

"Well they were twins that I encountered on a mission and they happened to be Mandalorian…."

"… That is unexpected, though how were you able to not immediately kill them when you have a grudge against their kind?"

"I kind of mellowed out and lost most of my animosity for them. It also helped that their clan was in the process of defending a group of villages against a warlord."

"Huh I guess old dogs can change… I must leave you now as I don't have the energy to stay here, treat your little girl and your students well. Goodbye my love, see you soon." She said before dissipating.

"Yes, see you soon." he said before sitting in silence for a while.

-END-

And here ends the chapter the next one will deal with the beginning of the second season of the Clone Wars. As always rate and review AND ask some questions, I am happy to answer any questions thrown my way.

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