NARUTO: LUNAR ECLIPSE

AUTHOR'S NOTES:

This is my first story period. This is a Naruto story set in the "Old Republic" era of Star Wars. No Star Wars canon characters are being used however. It is an AU set after chapter 661 of the Naruto manga. Since the focus is 90% on Naruto characters with some mainly throwaway OC's I'm posting it as a Naruto fanfiction instead of a crossover. I'm using Narutopedia and Wookieepedia as my main references so if you aren't sure about a race name, technology, weapon, etc. they are the places to go; most of the place names are from my own background though. You might see a pattern there. Postscript at bottom.

The Beginning

The lunar nightmare known as the Moon's Eye plan….10,000 years since the last battle was lost by the elemental alliance against Uchiha Madara, the self-styled god of the Tsukuyomi who passed into oblivion as the power of the tailed beasts finally waned out leaving no one inhabiting the long forgotten elemental countries. Legends existed about this world known as "Edo" throughout the Galactic Republic as a place of illusion that once one entered they were trapped there for eternity. Not everyone believed in the legends that this cursed world existed but that didn't stop scientists and explorers from looking. Any legend of this magnitude had to have some basis in fact; right?

So it was said. A team from the Planet of Storms, Kamino, had discovered something there. "Chakra"….some sort of link to "The Force" that the Jedi and Sith Orders used. It seemed that the beings that once lived there had evolved to harness this power and used it to battle one another. This apparently led to the extinction of intelligent life on this world. However, if DNA still existed there was no reason that chakra using beings could not walk among the living again. There were problems though. Even if they were able to recreate the beings from this world it didn't mean that person would be able to harness the chakra. They might not be able to us it without proper training. There were no texts that showed how to harness this power; just legends.

It was then that the team remembered a long forgotten and forbidden technique: instead of just cloning a body from strands of DNA the memories that person had would be restored as well. Of course there was a reason the technique was forbidden. Bringing a person back from the grave with their memories intact would mean that person could have an agenda of their own. In the past this led to cloned warriors with memories uprising against those who recreated them with catastrophic results. Given these beings possessed several unknown genetic factors also meant it would be impossible to clone someone who could be controlled.

It was a bad idea. No one with sound logic would use this cloning technique with so many potential unknown factors. But sound logic is often swept aside when greed comes into play. Several worlds would pay an emperor's ransom to have soldiers under them that could take on Force users on equal grounds with chakra. At least that's what the team believed. So, for the next five years this covert team collected up DNA samples from bodies that showed evidence of chakra being within them. Under the Moon's Eye plan the bodies had slowly decayed right where they died. Madara certainly hadn't bothered to bury them. DNA littered the landscape where the final battle took place. In the places where chakra had the highest concentrations would be the DNA of the strongest warriors. That was the going theory. What the Kamino team didn't know was the warriors they were raising from the grave were primarily A to S class Ninjutsu users.

Ninja were about to be reborn….

6 months later, Planet Valium in the Paxil Colonies

Suberga was a member of the Dug race. He was an ex-drill instructor that had been thrown out of the Dug military on Malastare for his cruelty and lack of ethics towards his subordinates. He took great pleasure breaking people to mold them into obedient soldiers. He was in charge of the fifth batch of ninja clones. He didn't understand a thing about chakra nor did he want to. His job was to whip them into subservience. Apparently the first batch of clones revived were on opposing sides in their ancient war on Edo and turned on one another the minute they woke up. The resulting slaughter was so horrific that the original cloning facilities on Edo were destroyed. As a result, small manageable groups of clones were being revived in different parts of the Republic.

The idea of his charges killing each other in mortal combat greatly appealed to Suberga so he exposed two of them to each other as soon as they awoke six months ago. To his dismay, subject Yamanaka Ino & subject Nara Shikamaru embraced each other due to them being close friends and teammates in their first life. With no maiming to keep him entertained he disgustedly turned them over to the protocol droid for instruction and training so they would have knowledge of the Galactic Basic language and history of the Republic so they would be able to function in modern society. They also were taught about modern technology. The only times Suberga truly had fun with them was during his sadistic training sessions to train their bodies into peak physical shape. As long as the ninjas understood where they stood in the food chain everything would be fine.

His favorite subject to bully was Hyūga Hinata. She was kind and gentle and Suberga relished in the chance of browbeating her and breaking her down. She was isolated from the others.

The last subject was considered the most dangerous of the four. He too was isolated because he possessed immense amounts of chakra. His name was Uzumaki Naruto. Naruto woke up alone in his lab room six months ago within days of the other three and fell into a deep depression. He thought aloud, "Some Child of Prophecy I am. I couldn't stop Madara; I couldn't protect those precious to me and now I'm alive again for no reason. I couldn't even protect Kurama" He assumed he was in a genjutsu or if not that some sort of hell when he first woke up. The last thing he remembered was a Sharingan eye appearing on the moon before all faded to black.

The worst thing of all was NO RAMEN! He was truly in the hell he felt he deserved to be for his failure to bring peace to the world. Naruto wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed either. His training in the basic language was agonizingly slow. Even the protocol droid was getting frustrated and they were programmed to have endless patience. His combat training was exceptional though. It seemed he had an iron will to work himself back into fighting shape. Suberga should have been pleased but the fact was no matter what Suberga threw at Naruto he could take it and come back for more. Suberga was livid that Naruto hadn't buckled and cried out for Mommy like he planned.

This led to another situation. Suberga was ranting and raving about Naruto to himself the next time he was working over Hinata. She thought she was all alone and was overjoyed that Naruto was alive and begged to see him. Now Suberga had that much more leverage with her. He told her she would see him eventually provided she was obedient but wouldn't say when. The thought of seeing Naruto was the only thing that kept her going when the Dug really laid into her….

A series of unfortunate events took place in this little research facility soon after. Shikamaru was actually rather content in his current situation. It was too "troublesome" to escape like Ino wanted to. He had three hot meals a day and a bed to sleep on so why worry? She tried to use the mind/body switch on Suberga only to realize to late that Dug physiology was so radically different from human physiology that it completely backfired. She ended up vomiting for days after that and the Dug's thoughts were so twisted and rancid that she wanted to wash her mind out with bleach afterward.

Suberga didn't get off lightly either. He had the worst migraine of his life for the next two weeks and had her punished severely. Suberga made his first mistake that day when he threatened to sell her off into slavery for breeding stock. Shikamaru wasn't about to let that happen and decided to apply his massive intellect to an escape plan. The only way in or out of the cells was if one had a key pass card and only Suberga and their Twi'lek nurse had them. Battling the Dug would result in a lot of collateral damage so he decided that relieving the nurse of her pass card was the preferred plan.

The second mistake Suberga made was perhaps unavoidable due to Naruto's chaotic nature. The protocol droid that he had teaching Naruto suffered from a logic circuit failure. Rather than putting the droid in maintenance like he should have he simply kept it going until Naruto had learned his lesson-one way or the other.

The last mistake that sealed Suberga's fate was ironically with his most docile prisoner Hinata. Suberga had enjoyed the look on Ino's face so much when he told her she was going to be bred like cattle that he decided to tell Hinata the same. Suberga growled out to her. "You are going to be sold off and raped every nine months until you can't have babies anymore. Then you're going to be killed and dissected after that -and you'll NEVER see Naruto again!" He laughed at her horrified expression and Hinata completely snapped.

She shrieked, "I'll die first! Eight trigrams thirty-two palm"-CRACKKK! "Oops….I hadn't realized what those two tenketsu points were until now….It seems his testicles have ruptured." Hinata honestly felt guilty looking down at the slave-driving Dug that she just relieved of his fishing tackle. He looked deflated as if his soul left his body. The pale face of absolute agony and terror was forever etched on his face. Getting over her shock she quickly searched the Dug's comatose form and relieved him of all his weapons and that handy key card that would let her escape. She quietly locked the cell behind her and set off to rescue her love Naruto. With the greatest of stealth she went towards the center corridor of the facility….

Shikamaru and Ino quickly moved down the hall. Their simple plan of getting the key card from the nurse went without a hitch. One shadow possession jutsu and he was free moments later. He opened Ino's cell and the two crept towards the central crossing that led to the center of the base –and hopefully an exit to freedom. That was when they saw someone. Ino gasped, "Hinata?" Hinata turned quickly at the sound of Ino's voice and was overjoyed to see her friends. They were about to embrace when the alarm went off. Blast doors closed on each of the four corridors trapping them in the center. How had they set off the alarm? All three of them were moving with the upmost stealth. The nurse and the Dug were both unconscious (especially the latter). That's when they heard a horrific grinding noise behind the third blast door corridor….

Ten minutes earlier in Naruto's cell:

Naruto was babbling to his protocol droid, "Alright puppet-chan let's wrap it up for the day! You speak my language wayyy better than I can speak basic so why don't we just talk that way instead?"

The last of the droid's poor overheated logic circuits blew out with a spark and a hissing noise. It remembered Suberga's order's "Teach him one way or the other. I don't care which!" The droid said in a pleasant, soothing tone, "Okay Naruto, I guess we'll have to teach you the other way. But for the last time I am a droid not a puppet."

Naruto happily replied, "I like to call you puppet–chan! It has a much nicer ring about it, -ttebayo!"

The droid saw red and screeched, "I'll open up your brain with my bare hands and shove the knowledge in with a rusty spoon! I AM SENDING YOU TO HELL UZUMAKI!" Now Naruto was facing a depraved, psychotic droid hell bent on slaying him in the crudest, bloodiest way it could compute.

Naruto decided to play it cool and asked, "How about droid-chan then?"

The droid screamed, "GRAAAUUGHH!" Naruto's girlish screams rang down the hall as the protocol-turned-assassin droid lunged at him repeatedly trying to tear him apart.

Naruto thought aloud, "I've got to get the hell out of here! Rasengan!" Naruto's jutsu tore through the cell wall like a chainsaw through tissue paper. With the droid hot on his heels he sprinted down the hall as the alarms went wild do to his rather noisy escape. There wasn't much else to do but run towards the now closing blast doors and try to blow through them. Popping out two shadow clones he told them to hold off the puppet, er droid while he blew through the blast door with a rasenshuriken.

His clones reacted badly and asked, "Boss; why don't we blow the blast door down while YOU deal with puppet-chan?"

Naruto's frantic reply was "NO WAY! Puppet–chan went off the deep end; I'm getting the hell out of here!" For some reason Naruto and his equally terror-stuck clones didn't think about simply destroying the droid with a rasengan. With full fight or flight mode switched firmly to "flight"; Naruto began desperately grinding away at the blast door pumping more wind chakra into his jutsu….which brings us back to the present….

Shikamaru said, "Kuso! That's wind chakra tearing through that door! Hit the deck!" as he pushed the two kunoichi down. Naruto's rasenshuriken tore through the door and sailed over their heads blowing the opposite door down as well. Shikamaru drawled out, "Well, that solves the issue of which direction to go…." Naruto leaped through the massive hole in the door only to literally stumble upon his friends.

Ino screeched, "Naruto you baka! You're standing on my hair!"

Naruto looked at his friends and said, "Shikamaru, Ino; Hinata-chan? I thought I was the only one left…."

The lilting voice of the protocol droid echoed down the hall. "Come back here Uzumaki….our lesson isn't over yet…."

Hinata asked in confusion, "What's going on Naruto-kun?" The droid spoke pleasantly, "Ah! Miss Hinata; will you please hold Naruto down while I shove knowledge directly into his brain with this rusty spoon?"

Naruto blurted out terrified, "Don't do it Hinata-chan! Puppet-chan has gone bat-shit insane and is trying to kill me!" Shikamaru groaned, Ino just glared at Naruto.

With a sigh, Hinata went over to the poor droid that so kindly taught her so much and put it out of its misery with a Juken strike to the head. Hinata lamented in her mind, 'I love him but what am I going to do with him?'

Shikamaru spoke up while looking at the droid's smoking carcass,"Troublesome; you definitely haven't changed. The two blocked paths lead down to the holding cells that Hinata, Ino and I were held in and are dead ends. Is there anything like an exit in the direction you came from Naruto?" Naruto just shook his head in the negative. Shikamaru continued, "The way you blew open on the other side leads to the armory and the training grounds. Hopefully we'll find our exit there."

Ino piped up and said, "We need to stock up on weapons anyway Shikamaru; my mind jutsus only have limited effects on other lifeforms." At Ino's comment they set forward.

The four went down to the armory to stock up on kunai and shuriken. The original Kamino team learned these were the kinds of weapons they used so plenty were manufactured and available for the ninjas although they were supposed to receive them only after they were conditioned. Surprisingly there were no guards to speak of. It seemed that when the alarm went off the powers in charge decided to cut their losses and leave. All four of them fitted out with gray urban camo shirts, pants and jackets and bandoliers for their shuriken and kunai. They also equipped with dark gray arm guards, chest plates and greaves.

It wasn't the fashion statement that Ino wanted to make "Don't they have ANYTHING feminine?" but they were functional and comfortable. Besides; beggars can't be choosers. After stocking up as much as they could with spares in small backpacks (they had no sealing scrolls), they journeyed across the now deactivated training grounds to an exit on the far side. Passing through the exit they found what appeared to be some kind of ship with a single small, barrel shaped droid guarding the entrance to it….

Shikamaru figured it was some kind of transport out of there as the surrounding areas were nothing but a barren mountain region. He turned to the others and said, "We need to face down that droid; it doesn't look armed but we have to be careful." At Shikamaru's warning they all slowed down for a moment.

Hinata had an idea; "Why don't we just talk to it?"

Naruto's reaction was less than supportive."Um, Hinata-chan, a droid just tried to kill me. What makes you think we can just talk to it?"

Hinata replied, "The protocol droid tried to kill YOU, Naruto-kun. It was fine with the rest of us." Naruto just pouted.

Hinata was about to console him when Shikamaru decided and spoke "Let me talk to it; it's slumped over to the side and may be out of power now that I look at it." While the others (especially Naruto) kept their distance Shikamaru quietly walked up to the droid in as non-threatening a manner as he could manage for someone that just made a jailbreak. He asked, "Hello droid-san?" Silence. He walked closer and heard static coming from the slumped over, inert piece of metal and heard….something like snoring? Finally, Shikamaru came up and knocked on the top of it.

The static changed to a groaning sound and Shikamaru stepped back. The top of its barrel like body slid open revealing two half closed optical sensors. It asked in an annoyed tone, "Whaddaya want? I'm in shut down here" it said in a raspy voice. The four ninjas face faulted. 'It was actually asleep?' they thought in unison.

The droid very slowly came online making buzzing and cracking noises. Finally it spoke to them, "Well, I'm awake now. Is there some reason you woke me up?"

Shikamaru rubbed the bridge of his nose and commented "Actually there is. Are you this ship's guard? We were wondering if we could leave this place in it."

The droid was now more coherent and asked "Say, you all are those four bodies we dragged in here about 6 months ago aren't you?"

Shikamaru replied, "Yes, we're ready to leave." The droid looked around and questioned, "Where's Seburga?"

Ino just answered, "He's unavailable right now…."

To the ninja's surprise, the droid reacted with, "Great! I was hoping you all had killed him. I'd rather deal with prison escapees than that back end of a windy bantha any day." Everyone face faulted again. The droid asked completely unfazed,"So where do you want to go?"

Shikamaru motioned towards the ship and said, "Anywhere but here." The droid floated up and turned around enough to extend a mechanical arm and opened the door. It stated excitedly, "This ship's name is the Misfire; my designation is Dee-Zero-Cee but I go by Doc. I'm the ship's pilot and maintenance droid."

Ino asked, "Do you usually sleep on the job?"

Doc's quick reply was "Anytime I can missy. When you get to be 200 years old and have been in three wars you will too."

Naruto exclaimed, "I like him –ttebayo!"

POSTSCRIPT:

Okay; as I said this is my first story. I'm not a writer and can't even type properly so updates will not be quick (I'm guessing once a month). As a hunt and peck typist I doubt the chapters will be long either (expect 3000 words give or take). If you decide to review I can tell you my grammar isn't the best and in my opinion I don't write dialogue well. I probably need a beta I can send chapters to so they can re-tool them. If you are interested PM me. Blue out. 1/19/14

This chapter was retooled as of 2/18/14.

This chapter was retooled as of 4/10/14.