Ok, long ass wait for an update, but I needed to get some other things done beforehand. Now onto reviews that I was unable to respond to.

Tyler Darkside: Yes, Naruto will make Vader work his ass off after their first encounter with one another. And he'll hate it.

Guest Ch1 Feb 10: I was honestly surprised at this being the first story to do NarutoxSabine, but then again, most people when writing a Star Wars/Naruto story tend do a stupid as hell harem that makes no sense for the plot, or pair him with Hinata (and I've come to absolutely loath her character over the years), or do Naruto as a Sith which to me is over done just as much as Jedi Naruto is. As for Ezra, no he won't be killed off in this story.

deadw8: Sabine is his romantic interest and it's set this way, but that doesn't mean some other woman will have Naruto in their eyes, and I'm not talking about Hera or Ahsoka.

Jkc86: Ahsoka will not be part of the pairing. This is strictly NarutoxSabine.

Longshot: With the difference between chakra and midichlorians, both reside within people, however chakra can be a far more potent compared to the Force, and far deadlier. Midichlorians aren't really vital to a living being, as once they enter someone they don't die without it. They simply lose whatever connection they have to the Force minor or major. With chakra, once it's all sued up in a body, they die. Chakra can also be made to be visible more often than the Force as well, and can do some real lasting damage. Now onto the language barrier, Naruto will get over that obstacle soon with Sabine's help.

Dusk: The crossguard saber? Well it is a pretty awesome design…

Guest Ch1 Jul 7: Yeah, the Naruto ending was not good, but Bleach's ending was even worse. Anyway, let's forget their adult lives and just imagine the ending within a year or so with life in the village getting better and Kakashi putting Naruto's name forward for the next Hokage.

Ghost rider: Ok, not quite sure how to respond to that as I couldn't fully understand that.

Guest Ch1 Jul 25: Purple? Come one, I think we all know what Naruto's signature color is by now.

Alright so, now we move onto the first official chapter of the story. Hope you guys enjoy it.

Chapter 1: New Friends and New Places –

Naruto began to stir from his min-coma, as he felt that he was submerged in water all the way and he had some sort of tubes attached to his body as well as some form of breathing mask wrapped around his face. His vision was blurred but he could just make out the faint image of someone walking around in bright colors, though soon after he felt someone begin to lift him out of the water, and his eyes looked over to some men in white armor, it sort of looked like plastic, but they had some black things in their hands which he assumed where weapons as they pointed them up at the person helping him out, whom then dropped him back in the tank.

Quickly and quietly, he unhooked himself from the machine before he crawled out of the tank while the men in white were up in the other person's face. He recognized her as the girl from earlier whom he held a knife to her throat.

Yeah, no hard feelings and all about that. You try waking up with an armor clad girl in your vision and not freak out.

Clinging to the ceiling, he looked around and saw some operating tools, and noticed that there was a scalpel lying on the table. Good, since he didn't have any of his tools on him, and he didn't want to use any of his Jutsu yet.

'Let's see if i can still use one'

As two of the armored men came around to search the room, he took it as an opportunity to take them out. The first one that came close, unaware that he was now a target, Naruto quietly let go of the ceiling, grabbing the sides of the trooper's head and snapped them neck completely causing it to bend at an obscene angle, just in case whoever it was had some whacko Jutsu like Orochimaru's neck thingy, the other saw him and was about to shout out, but he sped up and decked him right in the throat, though while he just meant to crush his larynx, he didn't mean to cave in the guy's throat half way. Body of the sage indeed. Either way, the girl was probably going to be killed, so he went for the scalpel and slashed at the man's spine, effectively ending his life for good.

As the adrenaline wore off, he got a better look at the girl as the first time was when he was really jumpy, borderline kill-anything-he-saw, and the other was when his vision was blurry in the tank.

'Well, she is cute…'

To his surprise, she actually spoke his language and sounded pretty well physically, save for one or two parts of her situation. She told him that more of these 'Stormtroopers' would be on their way here way to kill them, and she needed him to trust her. It was the least he could do after all, though one problem. If the rest of the buddies of the one's he killed were coming soon, then how were they going to sneak out alive?

"Hey, uhm. So, how're we gonna get out of here, exactly?" He asked, Sabine as she was gearing up for the shootout that would more than likely happen.

"There's a backdoor entrance where they bring in supplies. We should be able to make a run for it, but they could have the place surrounded. Though if anything, I can give us a distraction." She held out one of her customized blasters to Naruto who looked at it strangely before taking it. "You know how to use one of these?"

"Eh, kinda sorta…well in a game, but that was about it."

"Good enough. Let's just be lucky that they suck at shooting moving targets."

So, a shootout that could happen, and possibly getting people caught in the crossfire. Not exactly what Naruto had in mind, so he threw out his own plan, "Hey, why don't we just walk out of here?"

Sabine looked at him like he had just said he had made love to a Hutt, "We can't just walk out of here, we'd be spotted too fast and we stick out like a sore thumb." Though the smirk she saw Naruto grow told her he had something in mind, "Maybe not."

Sabine wondered what he had in mind, as she saw him put his hands together before he weaved some sort of sign, and he placed one hand on her forehead while his other was held in front of him with two fingers held up, and the others pointed down. All of a sudden, her vision was now clouded with a puff of smoke that despite what common sense would dictate, she didn't choke or smell anything. Little did she know that in the coming times this 'Naruto' guy would personify 'defying sense' The next thing she saw, utterly shocked her; standing in front of her was no longer Naruto, but a Stormtrooper instead! She looked down to herself and saw that she was also now in the white plastoid amour of the Imperial grunts! She knew that Changelings could alter their bodies to look like others, and using hologram disguise they could change their clothes and voices too, but this was unreal! She patted herself down to see if she was really in Stormtrooper armor, but she felt that she still had her own gear on, so how…?

"H-How did you…?!" Naruto covered her 'mouth' to keep her voice down, as he explained. What shocked her even further, was that her voice, and Naruto's changed to the same Stormtroopers that busted down the door, but speaking his language.

"It's a Transformation Jutsu that I used on us, it's just like a shell for us to walk around in. And don't worry that pretty little head of yours…" If it weren't for the Transformation, Naruto would've seen the small frown and blush Sabine had on, "…it's just temporary. So, don't go thinking you're gonna be looking and sounding like a guy the rest of your life."

Sabine snapped out of her internal stupor, though curiosity still held strong, "O-Ok, then, uhh…"

She just breathed in and out in anticipation of just walking out of this place. "Ok, follow me, and don't get off track." She led Naruto out and they were able to miss some of the others sweeping through, and they managed to get out, with luck. They came to the back of the hospital where a few transports were loading up supplies to other locations across the planet.

They were stopped but were only asked if they saw any of the rebels, so Sabine did the talking and Naruto just grunted a bit to sound like someone was in this plastic armor suit.

Sabine for her life, just couldn't believe that it was this easy, "I can't believe we were able to just walk past everyone."

Naruto just patted her on the back to reassure her, "See? It's a lot better than some shootout in the hospital, where a stray bullet's gonna take someone's head off."

That statement told Sabine just a smidgen more about him. He thought that they fired bullets, slugthrowers of all things, something they haven't used for centuries since before the Old Republic beforehand when the Jedi and the Sith numbered in the tens of thousands throughout the galaxy. That, and his reasoning behind this…Transformation Jutsu he called it…he preferred to be sneaky also shown when he quietly exited the bacta tank without anyone noticing, and he sounded like he didn't want to fight in the first place. And keeping a stray bullet from being fired? He obviously didn't want anyone getting hurt, something most people didn't care too much for these days as the Empire installed fear into everyone to save their own skins or just look the other way.

Overall so far anyway, he seemed like a nice guy and had a caring heart, at least from how he was acting and talking like.

Still though, she wanted to know who he really was, and where he came from, and she was sure the rest of the crew did too. She was lost in thought before she was knocked from her musing due to the odorless smoke puffs again that held no smell, another curious thing about him. Now her appearance changed back to what it once was, as did Naruto's whom had that same handsign held up, "So, where to?" He handed Sabine back the pistol she loaned him

"Oh yeah, right. Well…since we got past the Bucketheads so easily, I guess we can take the back alleys to the ship."

"Bucketheads?"

"Right, you're not familiar with the nicknames for them; Stormtroopers. Their helmets are pretty much buckets with some holes cut out for their eyes."

Naruto squinted his eyes in thought, trying to imagine the inside of the helmets, "Ok, if they're buckets for helmets then why do they wear them?" Genuine confusion was in his tone. He didn't understand if they were a military then why did they block so much of their vision for head protection?

Sabine laughed lightly at what he was doing he had a certain cat-like demeanor, culture shock could lead to some funny moments as she had learned from Ezra, "They're supposed to be 'intimidating'." She made quote gesture, "Come on, let's get out of here. Though, you're really going to have to tell me how you did that, I mean, no one can do what you just did not even..." She trailed off, not wanting to say Jedi out in public. Her curiosity grew more and more with what he did, as she led him through the alleyways of the city.

"Secret~." He just teased. It'd be pretty funny to see how they'd react to his full skill set.

Despite how he said it, she wasn't derailed from her curiosity, "I'll find a way to get it out of you."

"Hey, Sabine?"

"Yes?"

"Where's my pack? I've got some spare clothes in there. I don't wanna walk all the way through this place in just shorts." Sabine stopped as she took a second to think, as she unhooked his bag from her belt and handed it to him, though as she turned to her new 'acquaintance' per say and handed him his bag, she got a much better look at his body, and saw not an ounce of fat on him. He didn't have that bulky build like body builders did with their muscles are buffed up and like they were on drugs to impress women, but instead it was built to be like a fighter, sleek, agile and strong.

And then she got a better look at the multiple scars that were on his body; the one she saw first, a round Lichtenberg figure that lay over his heart, roughly the size of a fist, and then there was the massive puncture scar that went through his lower abdomen, along with other scars that looked like he had been cut with blades, notably a surgical scar along the right of his torso, which worried her how someone could survive all of those wounds and injuries that would normally a Wookie, let alone a human. Though her thoughts were cut short when he looked back to her, "You ok? You're looking at me all weird… and you're blushing a bit…"

Sabine shook herself, scars were important to Mandolorians, it showed people where you had been and who you had fought as she quickly apologized, "S-sorry about that, I didn't mean to stare or anything but… those scars… how did you survive?"

Naruto paused for a bit, before a heavy look crossed his face, that Sabine recognized from people who had seen too much in their lives, and chose not to talk about it due to being uncomfortable. "Doing the job…" Naruto finished putting on his spare clothes and took a cloak out that he had been given during his hunt for Itachi.

She heard the way he said it, making it clear that he didn't want to talk about it right now. Kanan was like that at times when it came to Ezra asking some things about the Clone Wars.

"Ok, so where to?" Naruto gestured around the place to Sabine, which confused her for a bit, as he spoke a little too fast for her to interpret.

"I-I'm sorry what did you say?"

Naruto tried speaking a little slower this time, though he was hoping she'd understand him all the way. Repeating his words and gesture, "Oh! Right, ok just keep your head down, stay with me, and we'll get to the ship no problem."

The ninja on the other hand decided to take his usual method of travel to place in towns, "I've got a better idea."

"And what idea would—h-hey put me down!" Naruto picked her up bridal style and leapt up into the air at heights she didn't think was possible save for Jedi. She held onto him trying to keep herself onto her new life line, granted from this height the fall wouldn't kill her, but it would hurt like no tomorrow. "How can you jump this high?!"

"Training. Now, just point the way to your place." Sabine just looked at him behind her T-shaped visor with such a confused look. So many questions were swirling in her head about this guy. She knew that odds are she wouldn't get everything out of him since they just basically met, but she hoped he'd stick around. "Head that way, and you'll see the ship outside the city-OH SWEET MANDALORE THE UNITER!" she finished in a yelp as he jumped again.

-The Ghost-

"So, what're you doing back here for? Something clearly got to you. You're angry at something." Hera was reclining in the lounge going over some possible jobs for them. Ezra had come back to the ship looking like someone pissed in his blue milk. He often had that face when Chopper would pull some sort of prank on him, "Zeb was getting annoying, and I'm not a fan of Sabine alone with some guy who we know literally nothing about…"

Ah, so that's what it was then.

"…I mean everything that we found from his stuff just screams dangerous. And –" Ezra was cut off when Hera placed a reassuring hand on his shoulder and spoke to ease his worries, "Ezra, don't worry so much. Sabine can take care of herself very easily." She gestured for him to sit down with her at the table, to which he begrudgingly did, though he still had his head in a twist, "So, the real reason you're so worried, is because you're a little jealous?"

Ezra just looked at Hera and waved his hands around, and scrunching up his face in denial "What! Nonono, nooooo way! I mean like Sabine and all, but I'm not jealous of this guy, I mean she doesn't even know him!" He was making it too obvious, despite his protests. He didn't understand, he was on his own most of his life, so he had no idea on how to approach a woman, and he tried to be suave when flirting with Sabine, which didn't really work on her.

Poor kid, he did have something for the girl, but she didn't reciprocate it, as she didn't really have an interest in him. She looked at him as more of a kid brother. "Once he's up, we're gonna just let him go or something, right?"

Hera looked at Ezra with a bit of disappointment in her eyes, "Well, we'll have to ask him who he is, and where he's from for starters. We aren't just going to toss him off the ship, Ezra." The young teen looked a bit ashamed for saying that. He himself had no one ever since his parents were taken by the Empire, and only a few months ago, did he reluctantly join the crew of the Ghost, "Yeah, you're right. I dunno, it's just, eh I'm getting a weird vibe from the guy, that's all and Sabine just looks too interested in him and the first time they met, he held a knife to her throat."

"That's because you don't really understand her all that well. We'll just have to trust her to handle things. And who knows, we may end up getting a new crewmate, and he could be a nice person, so give him a chance." Ezra had to admit, that she made a few good points, and trying to the least he could do was give the whispered guy a chance.

The door slid open with Chopper making all kissy sounds to mock Ezra, "That's it! You're dead Chop!" The former Lothrat grabbed a wrench off the table and chased the cranky Astromech as Hera shook her head, "Hey, don't you two break anything else. Not after the shuttle shtick."

Kanan and Zeb came back through with some food and supplies, bypassing the ongoing chase between the resident cat and dog, "We got some of the usual stuff along with Zeb's waffles, Sabine's paint, a few power cells and even a few meilooruns." Kanan opened up the fridge in the lounge to stock stuff up.

"So, what'd Chopper get to Ezra with this time?" Zeb asked as he set the rest of their stuff down and throw up some waffles into the microwave. Kriff they were great.

"Oh, he teased him about his crush on Sabine."

"That's not surprising."

Outside as Ezra was now on Chopper's head persistently beating on the droid, they rolled down the loading bay, "I swear! If you say anything else, I'll—!" The familiar voice of the resident Mandalorian entered his ears.

"Nice to see everything's all right at home. You can put me down now."

"Oh hey, Sabine you're…" Ezra stopped his beat down of Chopper to turn to Sabine, although he wasn't too thrilled of the sight of the guy they picked up carrying her. Or so he guessed as she got out of his arms. "…here…this the guy we picked up?"

Sabine took her helmet off as she spoke, "Yup. His name's Naruto and he has no idea what planet he's from." The guy she named who stood next to her was just staring at the ship with some awe, almost like he'd never even seen one before. "Come on, I'm pretty sure everyone else wants to know he's alright. Hey, Naruto. Let's head inside." She took Naruto's arm and practically dragged him inside as he was still staring at and around the place.

Ezra didn't know what to think of 'Naruto' as Sabine called him. On one hand, he wasn't alright with Sabine suddenly taking an interest in someone that just happened to plop into their lap on a secret supply run, while on the other he knew that he should be given a chance like Hera said. But then again, this day just wasn't his favorite even though by all rights it should be.

Kriff he hated the damned Empire.

Chopper, seeing another chance to screw with the Jedi in-training shot a small bolt of electricity at him. Laughing his digital bucket off he swiftly drove back into the Ghost with a pissed Ezra chasing him once again, "Chopper!"

-Naruto-

Jumping across rooftops was always the best way to get from point A to point B back home, and around the lands. With Sabine pointing the way back to her ship, he wasn't sure what to make of this place even with Kurama's little info dump beforehand. He took in her suit's appearance with multiple colors, although the armor pieces if he guessed right was predominately magenta with orange, something he could greatly appreciate, with a black & brown undersuit of sorts. Something like what the divers would use in deep sea fishing to keep their bodies warm in the cold depths.

She was a soldier no doubt like himself. Now that he recalled correctly, she was the one he pulled the kunai on. Crap he'd have to apologize for that, though she didn't seem to hold it against him. But then again, he did just happen to kill a few of those 'Stormtroopers' she called them back in that place, and literally helped her walk out of there with no effort, and of course carrying her back to her place gave him some points he guessed.

Now he found himself inside her ship with the rest of the crew, two of which were aliens that he'd thought would look more… exotic per say, along with a robot that he saw outside, plus the kid that was beating on it and man with a gaudy green outfit. All of whom seemed interested in him, well save for the kid who appeared to care less which he wasn't sure why he was giving him a dirty look. Everyone else appeared to be curious about him as they gave him some analytical and interested looks.

The man in green took notice of the kid's expression and talked to him in the same language that Sabine did, Galactic Basic she had called it while explaining some things on the way here. So that marked things down for him to not understand a damn thing said between them though it looked like he was telling him to lighten up or something.

"Alright so, where do we start?" Sabine's voice cut through his thoughts. She had some sort of monitor in front of her with a console of sorts sitting in her laps. He pointed to the thing, "What's that thing?"

She gave him a weird look as she showed it to him, "It's a translation monitor. I'll talk to you in your language while I translate it through this, so the others can understand you." Naruto squinted his eyes at trying to understand what she said. Her dialect was alright, and she seemed to almost jumble some of the words up a bit. Guess he'd have to teach her or something about talking in his language. She waved it all away as she spoke again, "Just let me do the translating, ok? Cool!"

Sabine looked back to the crew to start everything. "Alright everyone, this is Naruto. He was able to sneak out of a bacta tank without anyone noticing and took out three Stormtroopers with his bare hands." She decided to just drop one of the bombs straight away to break the ice. If she was hoping that they'd be surprised at least, well she got more than what she wanted. Everyone's eyes widened in shock at that, although Ezra seemed skeptical.

"Wait, how did he manage that. And how did you two get back here without getting into any more trouble?" Kanan knew that if they were taking out bucketheads, then that usually meant more were pursuing them, however there weren't any in sight when they came back.

"Well, Naruto here…" As she gestured to him who held a confused look, no doubt due to the language barrier, "…was somehow able to disguise us like holo-guise could… organically." Even she had to admit that it sounded crazy coming from herself, but what she saw was certainly making her second guess some things she though was crazy.

"Oh, come on! I call Bantha-crap. There's no way that's possible." Ezra didn't believe this for a bit. It must've been some trick he pulled on Sabine into believing. Zeb and Kanan were scratching their heads in both confusion and wonder, though they were all wondering if it was even true with Hera voicing said question, "Now hold off on the disbelief for a moment, Ezra…" She turned to Sabine next, "…can he do what you said he 'did'?" She knew that the odds weren't great of something like that happening. She had heard from kana that the certain groups like the Nightsisters were capable of some sort of 'magical' ability due to their special connection to the Force, but if what Sabine said what the boy, Naruto as he was called could do, was true then…

Sabine looked at Ezra, "Well, let's see; he has no midichlorians in his blood, which means he doesn't have any Force powers or anything like that, but watch this." Swiveling in her seat to Naruto she spoke to him in his language that she had to repeat going off his expression, which frustrated her a bit. Getting the message through to him a second time, "Oooooh." Standing up, he used some sort of handsign and then disappeared in a puff of smoke that surprised everyone save Sabine.

"Karabast! Where'd he go!?" Zeb jumped back a few feet with his bo-rifle already out ready to whack at whatever came his way. "I'm pretty sure he's still here." Kanan knew that Naruto was still here in the ship with him, although given how he had no presence in the Force he couldn't feel him, but he wasn't going to say he wasn't surprised in the least.

Ezra was like Zeb with his slingshot. It didn't really do anything short of making him feel just a tad safe, while Hera squinted her eyes trying to see through the smoke that dissipated and to everyone's surprise, Naruto was no longer standing there, but instead an exact copy of Sabine just a couple of feet away from her, "Ta da!"

The jaws hung from their mouths, while Sabine herself seemed to stare at her double with fascination. Naruto was able to make a complete copy of herself and it was virtually flawless. Even her own voice was an exact copy and there could be no mistake that if he wanted to pose as her, he could. Although… "Why did you decided to make yourself into a copy of me?"

Arching an eyebrow at the ninja, Naruto just shrugged his shoulders in response. He wasn't going to tell her that it was easy for him to change into her since he basically had his hands on her.

But damn those curves… or rather the curves that would be developing more visibly within a short amount of time if he could tell. 'No, Naruto! Not the time for pervy thoughts of the pretty girl! You are NOT Pervy Sage!'

'I was wondering when you'd start having dirty dreams about the armored rainbow chick.' chided Kurama with a throaty chuckle.

'Bite me!'

'I tried that once, you taste like ramen and trees, not exactly edible in my opinion.'

"How did he do that?" Hera stepped forward to get a better look at the trick Naruto just pulled out of nowhere. Sabine clarified what he told her before when they walked out of the hospital, "He called it some Transformation Technique or something like that. He used that on the both of us to disguise us as bucketheads, and we just walked right through the place and out of the city."

A million questions were swirling in her head right now, "Just who is he?"

Sabine swiveled back to her doppelganger to get things started, "Alright, let's get started." She introduced her crewmates one by one, "Hera, is our pilot and captain of the Ghost, Zeb is big and hairy over there. Kanan is the one with the goatee, and Ezra over there is the one who's the skeptic and has the slingshot out which really is just something to make himself feel like he's in a safe zone. Everyone, this is Naruto." A few beeps came from behind with Chopper shoving Ezra out of the way, "And that's Chopper. He's always cranky so don't mind him too much."

Naruto's disguise went up in another puff of smoke as he waved to them. "Now, is there anyone we can get in contact with? I'm pretty there's someone who wants to know where you are." Well that was something he was shit out of luck with. Even with being told by Kurama that he wasn't home anymore and what he saw on the way here. He mentally geared himself up for the sucker punch that would undoubtedly come, "No."

Sabine blinked at his blunt answer. He looked downtrodden all of a sudden in contrast to the seemingly cheerful demeanor she saw him possess before. The others were already arching their brows at the answer she brought up on the screen. "Um… do you have any friends?"

"No."

"Your parents?"

"Orphan since day one."

"No other relatives?"

"Dead."

"Did you at least go to a school?"

"Graduated."

"Your job? Someone at work?"

"No one."

Sabine stopped typing at this point as she glanced to the others. Their expressions were both confused and held sorrow. Kanan asked his own question for Sabine to translate, "What about the people in the pictures he had? Can you ask him about them?" The Mandalorian nodded as she asked the question, and his response was just as foreboding as the previous ones "They're all gone. There's no one left."

Naruto looked at Sabine, "I'll save you the trouble since it's just me alone and there's no one I know here. Hell, I don't even know where we are." He gestured around him, "This whole Empire thing… you guys, I've never seen or heard of anything like that back home."

If there was ever a time to call a serious meeting, now would be the time. Sabine turned to the rest of the crew, "This is a lot more complicated than I thought."

"Were you able to understand all of what he said?" Kanan could sense the distress in Naruto's voice. Force presence or not, he still had his own instincts to tell him important things and he clearly got something from that. Sabine nodded, "Yeah, and I think we should probably discuss this in private."

Hera looked to Chopper, "I don't think you'll need to keep an eye on him." Chopper warbled towards his owner, "Yes, that also means you can't shock him if he tries anything." She glanced back to Naruto who was now rummaging through his pack, "And I'm not so sure he'll do anything at all."

Sabine turned back to Naruto, "Excuse us for a bit." He turned up to smile as she gave a signal to not worry too much. The crew went to the bridge to discuss their little development, leaving Naruto to stir in his thoughts.

'So, what's the plan now?'

'No idea.'

'Maybe frolic amongst the animals here?'

'That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say in my life.'

'Just making a suggestion. As long as you don't die on me, it doesn't matter what the hell you do."

'Such a nice thing to hear from you.'

'At least it's better than me saying I want to tear you in half.'

'And the rigid silver lining shows itself.'

'You really need to learn how to take in all the positives that come your way, Captain Homeless.'

'Rabbit eared jackass.' Naruto frowned.

He looked back to the door where the rest of the occupants were no doubt deciding what to do with him. While he couldn't understand their tongue, he could hear some of what they were saying.

"Come on, are we really picking up someone else?" Said the teen, Ezra if he remembered correctly.

"He doesn't know anything about where he's at." Sabine uttered, he recognized her voice.

"Like we can believe that."

"We should give him a chance or something like that. Take it with a grain of sand." Kanan spoke in a low voice.

"Really?" Hera answered incredulously.

"Look, all I'm saying is that…sure, it doesn't sound right one bit, but my gut is telling me he's telling the truth."

"Kanan…"

"Come on Hera. I know that look in your eyes."

"So he's staying?"

"I'm pretty sure that the new kid's stayin' with us now." The big guy, Zeb no doubt.

"Really? Yes!"

The door opened up with Sabine rushing in to bring Naruto back to reality, "It's official, you're staying with us!" Oh, the things she wanted to ask him. And the things he had no idea how to respond to…

-Yinchorr; Training World for the Imperial Guard-

With the recent loss of his clairvoyance, and the dark side no longer speaking to him, Palpatine would need to ensure that the Imperial Guards in-training were up to his expectations. It was almost sickly ironic that he spent so many years clouding the Jedi's ability to see the future that now he was on the receiving end. He still had the upmost confidence that his apprentice would find the cause of this, and put an end to it, however… he would be prepared if Vader chose a different path instead…

"Only two there are Sidious, one to embody the power and one to crave it. No more." The words of his deceased teacher coming back to haunt him all these decades later.

Arriving at the planet that his personal guardsman and their subsidiaries trained on, Palpatine stepped off the ramp of his shuttle while he glanced briefly overhead to see Vader's TIE Advanced arrive and set down.

As he walked through the bunker where the students lived in he gazed outside to see them training in 'the squall', an arena that was held up within a small space over a bottomless pit, connected by narrow walking platforms, that allowed only two combatants onto it. No more, no less; just as the Sith code that Darth Bane set down after slaughtering the Brotherhood of Darkness.

The planet itself was harsh and desolate, a place that held strength with the dark side. The students were culled from the finest of the Stormtroopers that the Empire had to offer, not just in their skill in battle, but their loyalty to him as well.

Two of the students were practicing in the arena with live blades. A fine and effective way to hone their skills to the finest blade ever made. Everyone turned their attention as his guard entered the courtyard, followed by himself with the students all turning their attention to bow in respect to him.

"Please. Rise." Their Emperor spoke like a father to his own children. It was only fitting for men and women who had sacrificed so much to serve him directly. They did as asked immediately, and all of them stood at attention. "Each and everyone of you honor me with your sacrifice. For giving so much up out of your loyalty to me."

By this time Vader came through the bunker and kneeled before the Emperor, "Ah, Lord Vader. You've arrived for the demonstration."

The menacing mechanical voice of Vader came through his breathing apparatus, "As you requested Master."

Palpatine nodded, "You may proceed." Vader no longer bent his knee to the Emperor as the elderly man stepped back with the rest of his guard, to which Vader strode forward to the students, "Who among you is the greatest of students?"

As part of the training, they said not a word to the Sith, but only one stepped forward out of line and looked directly into the helmet of Vader. The cyborg looked into his eyes as he glimpsed his demeanor: overconfidence in his skill above the rest where none dared to challenge him out of fear of death, or that they were smart enough to know better that they weren't strong enough to take him on.

He would simply amuse the student for now and show them their place.

"Come, step into the Squall with me." Vader calmly walked into the arena as the student followed him. The rest of the students began to encircle the arena to watch their supposed 'best' duel against him in front of the Emperor and his guard.

Good. He would show them how far they truly are from the those who had become Imperial Guards, and that they could never come to his skill in combat.

As Vader and the student now stood in front of one another, he could tell that the man had made the mistake of challenging him and now he was too late to back out and bring shame upon himself in front of his master. Pulling out a dual Vibro blade staves from his cloak for the demonstration as he had done before in times ago, he tossed one to the student and gave him the order, "Attack me. Hold nothing back."

His tone left no argument to be had. The student looked to the Emperor for confirmation as he was not sure if he was to truly make an attempt to kill Lord Vader. For surely such a feat seemed impossoble, but if it could be done…

Palpatine could tell by looking into the eyes and encouraged him, "Do your duty, my son." With renewed confidence in his skill and technique he got into his stance with vigor to strike at Vader first, but the dark lord struck first as he blocked high on a strike meant for his head.

He parries the strike and makes one of his own, however Vader sees through it and blocks, but allowing himself to show some weakness to give him a small boost in confidence. He lets his guard down to give the student a chance to strike as he swung the Vibro blade to jab straight into his head, only to dodge the strike and duck as the other end of the blade was brought into a vertical strike to cleave his head off.

Well… if this was the confidence Vader gave the man, then the time for toying with him was over. He kicked the man straight into his abdomen, driving all of the wind out of his lungs. Expecting him to fall back, instead he remained standing. Not bad he thought to himself.

Anyone else would've began coughing up blood, but this one seemed to take it without showing nay signs of being wounded. Deciding to just end it and showcase just how much they would need to study more he jabbed the Vibro staff into the metal as he launched his legs to strike at his jaw. The bones fractured from his metallic legs and dropped his own Vibro staff.

Seeing as he more than likely was about to die, he wasn't going to just lie there and take the blade through his head. He scrambled with some bit of grace and acrobatics to his weapon to at least defend himself but…

"AGHH!"

Vader sliced the hand off that tried to do so. He was now on his knees trying to stop the bleeding while Vader's shadow was cast over him. Looking up to see what the Sith had to say for advice on his next day in the training regime, his answer was in the form of a boot sent to his face to shove him down into the pit.

All of the students present watched the demonstration with both fear and respect. Their fellow student's attacks and defenses were flawless. Perfect technique. Yet Vader toyed with him as if he were a mere child. To his credit, he did not ask for mercy from the Emperor's enforcer. And none was offered. The corpse of their comrade disappeared into the dark depths. Vader than looked into each of the eyes of the students present as he gazed at them all and pointed to where his opponent fell, "If he was your greatest, then none of you are fit to serve the Emperor yet." The condescending tone chilled them to their bones. And while it still struck them, Vader simply gave the one piece, "Return to your studies. You have much to learn."

With the demonstration over, Vader walked with the Emperor back to the landing pad and conversed with one another, "Well done, Lord Vader. I believe this demonstration will give them a greater depth of understanding how far they will need to go. And with the recent development of this 'Void' in the Force, we will need our forces to be at their strongest, as we have no foresight any longer; our vision is now clouded and these rebellious cells that are scattered could be united if they learn of this."

"We will find the source of this Void." Vader assured his master, "I have informed the Grand Inquisitor to investigate this disturbance along with eliminating any surviving Jedi. No doubt they too have felt this disturbance and seek it out for their own usage; two problems will be eliminated in a single stroke."

Palpatine hummed in thought. No doubt Vader had given the former Sentinel orders to find the source and eliminate any witnesses, and capture it intact through any means necessary. "Very good, however… should he and even the rest of the Inquisitorius prove to be weak against their target, you shall go in their stead to finish their mission."

"I understand, Master."

Vader left in his TIE Advanced as Palpatine boarded his personal shuttle with guards in tow back to Coruscant.

When he first took the Jedi Temple and planned to make it into his palace, to deal not just a grave insult to the Jedi and stomp on their beliefs, but to also gain access to the Sith temple beneath it where his master once conducted experiments in secret and research right under the Jedi's nose. But when Jocasta Nu destroyed the archive within the Jedi temple it enraged him to no end as he was forced to work with only what little he could gleam from beneath form the fragmented Sith library and his master's notes. He would need to investigate whatever this was, including some things that Plageuis had done before his death.

"Amusing… I had accounted for many things, and my vision was unclouded. Yet, I find myself wondering more on your experiments old teacher of mine."

Teacher.

A title he gave to Plagueis throughout their time when he was alive, he even recalled what he said that very night almost 30 years ago, "You lost the game on the very first day you chose to train me to rule by your side – or better still, under your thumb. Teacher, yes, and for that I will be eternally grateful. But Master – never."

Getting him drunk and killing him in his sleep was easy enough.

And from all that work they had laid together, an Empire stood mighty and strong for 15 years. Now it was all on the possibility of coming undone no thanks to this Void disturbance. Call him paranoid if you will, least you risk the wrath of his power for doing so, but even with the Inquisitorius on the hunt, Lord Vader ready at the command, and his Imperial Guard at his whim, he was uneasy.

He did have one person who he had trained from a young age to be his Hand in the galaxy. Unlike Gar Saxon, who was his Hand in the public eye over Mandalore, he had others who could operate in secret. She had never failed a task he gave her, but now he may have need of her skills in tracking down the new threat wherever it lay.

Bringing up the holoprojector within his robes, he clicked it to find her now kneeling before his own holoprojection on her end, "Yes, Master?"

"Mara Jade, I want you to return to Coruscant. We have much work to do."

-Naruto-

When he was told he was staying with the crew, he was expecting to be bunking with one of the guys but not with Sabine.

"I hope the colors don't bother you or anything, I like to paint and draw what comes to mind."

As Sabine showed Naruto their room, colorful was all he could say about it. "Nah, it's alright. I just didn't expect to get bunked with you, that's all." She gave an amused look, "What, you scared to bunk with a girl?"

Naruto scoffed at the question, "Whatever, I've just never really had to bunk with girls all that much. I mean sure, sometimes in the field on long missions but not living with 'em or anything like that." Sabine hit a button on the side of the table beneath her bunk, as the table lowered itself down with the seats folding with it into a bed below the top bunk, "I know it's not a real bed and all, but I hope you'll be alright."

"It's cool, I've had to camp out at times and sleep in the dirt."

Each time she asked him something, she'd end up getting some piece of his past and ten more questions would bloom into existence. Even if he didn't realize it. She was wondering just how long she could keep this up, or at least until she ran out of questions to drop on Naruto. "You mentioned that you had a job before, what was it if you don't mind me asking?"

Naruto was putting his stuff on the makeshift bunk; while he was thankful for these people to take him in for however long, he wasn't so sure to trust them right off the bat. "I don't like to talk about it all that much."

So he was involved with one of those type of work fields then. "But if you're gonna start getting a little nosy about that, since we are bunkmates… I guess I can talk about it a bit." He turned to Sabine with the headband she found him wearing, "This is the hitai, headbands we're given when we graduate the academy. It shows that we're adults and all that jazz."

From the way it sounded, he came from a place that had something like Verd'goten that she went through; the Mandalorian rite of passage, "Sounds like it takes a few years to get. How old where you when you started learning your… job which you still haven't told me."

"Oh, right. Forgot about that. I'm a Shinobi, a ninja I guess is the regular term for my job. We get sent on missions for the village and country, and sometimes even outside villages and countries. It all just depends on who does the hiring."

For the life of her, she paid better attention to exotic language studies back at the Imperial academy. She could understand him some of the time, but when Naruto started speaking either to fast or in very long sentences she couldn't make out what he said half the time. "Ughh…" Sabine mumbled something to herself as while she dragged her hands across her face, "…ok, I need to find you a translation program. It's not you, it's me. I'm sorry but I can't really understand you at times, so I think we need to get you a vocal emulator, so whatever comes out of your mouth will be heard in basic."

"I have no idea what that is, but couldn't you like… teach me?"

Sabine seemed to take on a thoughtful look as she pondered this with a small blush, all the while Naruto's tenant decided to point out a little something to the blonde ninja.

'Well what do ya know… the little warrior girl has developed Nightingale Syndrome.'

'What's that? I've never heard of it.'

'Wait, you mean to tell me, after spending three years with that perverted godfather of yours, you never once saw this while travelling together?!'

'NooooOOOOO…? Should I have…?'

'You see the Nightingale Syndrome is… you know what? Never mind, I'm just gonna have me some fun instead.'

'You dick!'

He was brought out of the conversation that was heading into troll territory by Sabine he was snapping her fingers in front of his face, "Hellooo… anybody home in there?"

"Oh, sorry about that. I kinda get lost in thought sometime."

"Lost in thought? Seemed to me like you were spacing out at the ground or something." She waved her arms to get back on track, "Anyway, to answer your question; I could. But it's going to be difficult since there really aren't many written translations of ancient umbaran language around the holo net."

Ah, and here he was at the major funk that was screwing with his head on all this alien crap, "Yeah… uhmmm… any chance you can tell me about this whole Empire, holonet and other stuff that I really, really, really, don't even know about?" Sabine took a deep breath in and out as she leaned up against the wall, "I think you're going to be in for some major league culture shock."

'No shit.'

'Shut up! She's being nice at least and not bashing my skull in for not knowing something.'

'I think I'll just sit back and watch with a bag of popcorn in hand.'

'Can you even get popcorn in there?'

'Shut up, it's something to dream about in this place!'

'Guess the shoe's on the other foot now, huh, Bunny Ears?'

'You Fishcake Son of a Bitch…'

'Love you too, Kurama.'

Naruto cut off the mental conversation to concentrate on Sabine's little history lesson, "Ok, let's get started."

And there we have it everyone. The first chapter to Twilight of the Galaxy Episode I. Such a long wait for the chapter, and honestly, I have so many things going on in my life with other stories, college, work, YouTube channel, plot bunnies that keep plaguing me, etc.

So now the next chapter will be the Empire Day episode, and Naruto's first meeting with the Grand Inquisitor. This story will be going through all four seasons of Rebels and perhaps even Rogue One in a sense if I'm right with this so far, especially with going into the sequel.

Now the pairing is set as NarutoxSabine and this will not change at all, so don't ask me to make it a harem or multi-pairing because neither will not happen.

I have managed to devise and original arc that will take place during season 3 and hopefully help set the stage for the sequel to occur.

Be sure to let me know what you guys think in reviews, and continue to read, review, favorite and follow my other stories on my profile. Until next time, May the Force be with you and never give up, and never give in dattebayo :)