Just like the first time I vanished and came back with a new laptop and new chapters, I'm also coming in with new stories to go with the occasion. This time a Naruto / Star Wars crossover that's been buzzing in my head for a couple weaks. I was actually planning this one when the first laptop was broken so during my exile I added more to my plans until I came to this. I have a lot planned for this one so I'm hoping it will go far.

Some info before starting is that this takes place after the Fate of the Jedi books. For those that don't know, they take place around 40+ years after the Battle of Yavin 4 at the end of Episode IV: A New Hope. I really liked the plot of the nine books and especially the character Vestara Khai. She had a lot of potential for either Jedi or Sith as she worked on both sides at different times. Her relationship with Ben was also really well written and believable as she started to fall for him but they couldn't be together since she was a Sith and he was Jedi. But then when she joined the Jedi everything was looking up for them until she fell back to her old ways to save herself and Ben from death and then betrayed the Jedi as a whole by revealing Allana's secret and attacking the Solos, even if it was mostly out of self-preservation at the time. Her fate at the end of Apocolypse was rather up in the air, with her flying off in Ship while it calls her a Sith Lord and reveals the existance of other Sith she could help.

All in all, I just saw so much potential as to where the series can go from there just off Vestara alone, not even counting Luke, Ben or any of the other Jedi. And so I got to thinking about a possible plotline for it. And since I love Naruto so much, I thought that maybe I could combine them into one story and came up with this.

A few last notes before I get into the story is that Naruto will be a Sith in this. Meaning he'll be evil for the most part. Sasuke will start off Sith but then later will go to the Jedi. Also, the first third or so of the story will take place on Naruto's world before I unleash the blond on the rest of the galaxy. So don't expect the Jedi to make an appearance for a while. The last thing is the pairing. Naruto will be paired with Vestara as I think I can make them work. I don't have any other pairing thought of yet but am open to suggestions, though I do want to pair Sasuke with a Jedi. I might even make OCs if I feel like it.

Now onto the prologue to Infinite Stars!

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Endor - Abandonded Clearing

Vestara sighed as she closed her eyes. The young newly ranked Sith Lord was sitting cross-legged on a flat rock in the middle of a clearing she herself had made using her lightsaber and the Force to use as a meditation spot. With her long brown hair pulled behind her head in a braided tail, small curved scar off the left edge of her mouth, and still wearing the somewhat worn robes of a Jedi from her time with the Order, the now seventeen year old human girl didn't look like the powerful and dangerous woman she was known as. Calming her mind and focusing on nothing in particular, Vestara allowed the Force to fill her before letting her mind drift where it would. It wasn't long at all it was looking back at what got her to Endor in the first place.

It had only been a week since she had helped Ben Skywalker and the rest of the Jedi slay an evil Force entity named Abeloth. What had started over a year ago on her homeworld of Kesh had gone from trying to prove herself to her betters as a true Sith of the Lost Tribe to her now being a runaway, scorned by her own people for her actions and hunted down by the Jedi for others she commited. Originally Kesh was isolated, lacking the space-faring vessels to travel the stars. And then Ship had arrived. The Sith Meditation Sphere had insantly felt her potential and drew a connection with her while also guiding the Lost Tribe into the stars to steal the ships of others, making the first fleet her people have had in over five thousand years. With their newly gained freedom from the trappings of their beautiful homeworld, they had begun to covertly attack other ships to add to their collection as well as spread the power of the dark side through the galaxy. And then she as well as the Lords of the Lost Tribe sensed a powerful preseance in the Force and were informed it was that of Luke Skywalker. Before they could decide what to do about the Grand Master of the Jedi Order, Ship had been compelled to abandon them for some strange yet powerful being of the dark side. The Lost Tribe refused to give Ship up willingly though and had sent a force after the sphere, bringing their attention to Abeloth.

They tracked the ancient and sentient ship to a secluded planet in the Maw, a cluster of black holes at the edge of the galaxy, and chased it down to the planet only to be attacked by carnivorous plants and sicknesses. Eventually they discovered a stranded young woman named Abeloth and stayed near her until they were down to the last of their people and ships. It was then that Vestara saw the woman for what she really was; a monster. Abeloth had been controlling the plants to attack and kill the force her people had brought to reclaim Ship and was even the one who originally compelled it to leave the Tribe in the first place and come to her. The being had wanted a way off her planet and called to Ship through the Force but when the Sith followed after what they viewed as their property she had modified her plans to make use of them. Finding out that Luke Skywalker and his son Ben were nearby on a space station had allowed Abeloth to work her charm and powers over the strike force and convince them to help her capture the Jedi pair. The attempt though had not gone as planned.

Luke and Ben were far stronger than they were led to believe and in the end it had come down to Vestara and her master Lady Rhea against Luke Skywalker while Ben prepped their ship for an escape. Luke had taken advantage of a single opening and suddenly Lady Rhea was in four pieces and Vestara had stolen another ship off the station to flee. She was tracked though to Dathomir where she had tried to hide among the natives after contacting her people to be picked up. Things had progressed on the planet smoothly until the time came for her to take her leave, which went horribly wrong as Luke and Ben followed her to the meeting point and attacked, killing her comrades and capturing her. But just as they left the planet with her as a prisoner, the fleet of her people came out of hyperspace and surrounded the Skywalkers ship, the Jade Shadow, and demanded they stand down. Vestara had actually felt some hope she would be advanced above the mere apprentice she was since she was the only survivor of two battles against the Skywalkers and had vital information for her people. Such a hope was dashed though when the Lost Tribes' demands were known.

The Lost Tribe wanted an alliance with the Skywalkers so that they could deal with Abeloth. The Jedi had reason to want her gone as they had dicovered she was the source of a strange illness that was afflicting young Jedi and making them believe everyone around them had been replaced by fakes, fakes they would violently attack in their delusions of finding the 'real' people. The commander of the fleet, High Lord Sarasu Taalon, claimed the same was happening to their own young Sith and they wanted to get Abeloth to stop. It was a lie though Luke suspected it from the moment it was said. Still, he agreed as Abeloth needed to be stopped. As a sort of safe-guard against treachery, Vestara had been forced to stay with the Skywalkers instead of returning to her people. It was during this internment that she had begun to fall for Ben, and he in turn for her. Though the two would never be able to be together so long as they were on opposite sides, they still tried to be close as well as turn the other to their own side so that they could be together.

When the Tribe and Skywalkers actually went back to the isolated planet and confronted Abeloth though, everything began to change. They killed her just to learn that she could possess multiple bodies, essentially surviving any encounter provided she had another body. Her second body fled by stealing the Skywalkers own ship while Luke, Ben, Taalon, her father Gavar Khai, and herself were investigating a strange area known as the Pool of Knowledge. In the Pool, Taalon saw a vision of a Jedi queen ruling the galaxy as peace and light were spread throughout. Not wanting this vision to pass, Taalon ordered Vestara to discover all he could about this 'queen' and kill her. Vestara had then fled with Luke and Ben when they stole Taalon's ship as part of the ruse, having been beaten to make it seem like they were upset with her failure and punishing her. The three had tracked Abeloth down to another planet where she was hiding among the Fallanassi people but when Taalon caught up he had changed. He had fallen into the Pool of Knowledge and was beginning to become a creature like Abeloth was. Seeing that Abeloth herself was beginning to hold sway over the High Lord Vestara had chosen to kill him herself.

This action though, had caused her to truly flee with the Skywalkers after Abeloth as her own people would kill her for slaying a High Lord, regardless of the reason. During this time Vestera and Ben had grown even closer while tracking Abeloth down to another planet where she was again hiding among the local Force-sensitve population, this time the Theran Listeners of Nam Chorios. When they confronted Abeloth and beat her again, the Sith had also caught up and attacked but were repelled by a strike force of Jedi StealthX starfighters. Again chosing to stay with the Jedi rather than return to her people due to her fear of the consequences, Vestara was once more helping Luke and Ben chase down Abeloth, now joined by Luke's neice and Ben's cousin Jaina Solo, the Sword of the Jedi.

They traveled to a few planets strong in the dark side before finding a small group of her people led by her father Gavar on Dromund Kaas. Her father though had informed her that her mother had been killed when Abeloth destroyed Tahv, the capital city of Kesh and the Lost Tribe. He then went on to call her a traitor and attack her, trying to kill her. Vestara saw that Abeloth had warped her fathers' mind into something else and she had fought back, drawing on her hate of Abeloth and despair at her fathers' fall to turn the attack back against Gavar and kill him. Having lost her mother to Abeloth and then being forced to kill her own father Vestara was lost and turned to Ben and the Jedi for help, even asking if she could become a Jedi. Ben had been expectedly estatic about her choice since the two had gotten close enough to be an official couple whereas Luke was a little more weary but willing to give her a chance and agreed to teach her.

Things had been seemingly going up from there until they got an idea as to where Abeloth was hiding and went to attack her. The result though was a disaster as Vestara, Ben and a Falleen Jedi named Natua Wan were forced to fight against a mutated Sith insect called a Rhak-Skuri while the rest of the Jedi were led into a trap that claimed many of them. In the fight against the Rhak-Skuri though, Vestara could see they couldn't win and decided to appease the creature by attacking Natua so that she was taken while rescuing Ben when he had be indisposed and lost in the nightmares the insect inflicted. Ben and the Jedi never discovered what she had done but Vestara knew and it told her that she could never be a Jedi, that she would forever be Sith. She still stayed with the Jedi though, hoping to hide it for as long as she could until they learned of her betrayel and would be forced to flee again.

The Jedi and Vestara then focused on returning to Coruscant and freeing it from the control of Abeloth and the remaining members of the Lost Tribe. Vestara especially wanted to kill what was left of her peoples leadership as she knew should she leave the safety of the Jedi they would hunt her down for what she had done to Taalon. During the assualt of the occupied Jedi Temple, Vestara had been seperated from the rest of the Jedi force and fleed into the tunnels beneath the Temple followed by a Sith force intent on capturing her, though she didn't know that at the time and believed they would kill her. Eventually she had been trapped against a security door and in a last attempt to save her life she tried to play up the secret mission Taalon had given her before she killed him, the mission to discover and kill the 'Jedi queen'. During her time with the Jedi she had come to secretly discover that the queen from Taalon's vision was none other than Allana Solo, the daughter of Jacen Solo and Hapan Queen Mother Tenel Ka and currently hiding her identity as Amelia Solo, a force sensitive orphan Han and Leia had 'adopted' to help deal with the pain Jacen's death had caused. The strike force believed her lie about the mission just as the door opened and revealed that young Allana was coming towards the door for reasons unknown. Seeing the perfect opprotunity the Tribe had forced her to lead the attack on the girl and her grandparents to prove her loyalty, which she did only to be taken prisoner anyways and brought to Abeloth who had wanted her for a reason she didn't know.

When Ben was also captured and brought to Abeloth, the monster took them both in Ship and flew back to her planet where she tried to corrupt them with a dark side nexus called the Font of Power, claiming she would make them into beings like herself as manifestations of the Light and Dark sides of the Force and together the three would then rule the galaxy. However Ben was too pure to fall for her temptations and Vestara hated Abeloth for all the things she had done. Together the two and slain her while simultaneous attacks were being conducted against her other avatars, finally slaying her for good.

Vestara's good fortune didn't last though as Jaina Solo had come to rescue Ben and capture Vestara as she knew what the girl had tried against Allana and told Ben, who also turned against her even though he still loved her and she him. What neither of the Jedi expected though, and was a very nice and welcome surprise to Vestara, was for her to be rescued by Ship and taken away to safety, the spheres' freedom being regained with Abeloth's final true death. Ship had taken her offworld telling her that with her power and knowledge she was now a Sith Lord and that the other Sith in the galaxy would need her help to conquer it as she knew more about the Skywalkers and the Jedi in general than any Sith currently alive.

That was a week ago. Rather than head straight for the other Sith though, Vestara had commanded Ship to go somewhere to hide so they both could recover from their wounds and so that she could gather herself and plan for the future. Ship chose to hide them on Endor since it was a planet important to the Jedi, being the place where Luke and the Rebellion had destroyed the second Death Star and killed Emperor Palpatine. Being a place important to them rather than the Sith made it an unlikely choice for Vestara to hide on, which is why when Ship suggested it she had agreed instantly. It would be the last place the Jedi would look for her.

Opening her eyes, Vestara stood up and started to walk back towards her camp, adjusting the belt holding her lightsaber and shikkar as she did. Ship had gone into what could be considered a healing trance for the sentient machine while she had instead made herself a tolerable campsite next to the transport. She had spoken with Ship extensively during the week as it, or he as she preffered since it came off as masculine to her, was the only thing that spoke Basic on the forest moon other than her. She avoided the indiginous Ewoks and larger predators as she didn't want to deal with them and instead focused on the smaller prey and edible plants. With another sigh, Vestara came into her camp site and sat down next to the fire pit, into which she threw some extra branches and ignited with a smll spark of lightning she conjured with the Force.

"Something bothers you Lady Khai?" Ship asked, his voice coming to her mind as his telepathic communication always did. She inwardly was still trying to get used to being called Lady Khai, as she had only been named a Lord last week, and by Ship himself too. To anyone else that knew her, she was Vestara Khai, a Sith Apprentice formerly of the Lost Tribe. But Ship declared her a Lord and as an ancient training vessel for the Sith of old, it would know more than any other what made a good Lord and what didn't. If Ship named her a Lord, than to the Sith of old she would have been granted the rank.

"I'm merely thinking of what to do when I go to meet these other Sith you mentioned." Vestara replied out loud. There was nobody else around to overhear them so she didn't bother thinking her replies but spoke them out. No need to have a mental conversation when they were alone after all.

"The One Sith, as they call themselves. As I've told you before, their numbers may not be large but they are powerful. They merely prefer a slow approach to their conquest." Ship re-told her. "However such an approach is insulting to the name Sith. Which is why they need you. With your power as well as your knowledge of the Jedi and the Skywalkers in particular, they will be able to advance their plans and move now." Another thing Ship would tell her as he was much like the Sith of old in that the patient approach didn't hold much weight to him. Vestara could see the wisdom in taking ones time, but if the One Sith had been waiting as long as Ship told her they had then even she could see they were taking too long. It seemed to her they were just gathering their power but were afraid of actually using it against the Jedi. Well she would change that once she went to them.

If she went to them.

"I understand your point Ship but to be honest I'm still not sure I want to go to them. After everything with Abeloth I'd rather stay hidden like this for a while longer while things calm down in the galaxy." The girl explained. If she were honest entirely she would say that the idea of taking the fight to the Jedi had lost quite a bit of appeal to her. Taking the fight to Ben even left her feeling horrible, not at all like a true Sith should.

"You still feel for Ben." Ship commented, having picked up on her thoughts through the Force. Vestara didn't even bother denying it but just sighed and nodded. "While Ben would make an excellent Sith he refuses to turn and as such is your enemy Lady Khai. As such you should use you love for him and pain over your situations as strength. Pain and passions drive a Sith, and yours are strong enough to give you great power."

"I know this Ship." Vestara muttered. The meditation sphere had been telling her this day in and day out whenever her thoughts strayed to Ben all week. She was getting sick of it.

"Then there should be no problem when the time comes to confront Ben or any other Jedi."

"You're completely missing the point..."

"What point could there be? You can draw strength from your feelings and if it is Ben you desire then you will simply move on when he is dead at your feet. The galaxy is filled with others you can replace him with."

"And if I don't want to replace Ben?" Vestara growled, not liking how Ship was speaking.

"Eventually you must. For the good of the Sith." The vessel told her and Vestara had enough. With a frustrated growled the girl snapped to her feet and stormed off back into the woods of the planet. As much as she liked Ship for both his uses and his insight, there were times when she absolutely hated the meditation sphere.

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Sitting once more on the flat rock in her meditation area Vestara filled her mind with the Force and tried to push Ship's words from her mind. However everything eventually came back to her reluctance to actually continue the fight against the Jedi because of her feelings for Ben. If the Sith were ever going to triumph then Ben would have to die. If she were to be a part of that triumph then she not only would have to be okay with that truth but be willing to kill him herself should the chance come. She had been warned of something like this by Lady Rhea the first night she had been taken as an apprentice.

"Enjoy to the fullest all the trappings of power, for you will have earned them. Want everything you wish - hunger, burn for it, if that fuels you. But never love anyone or anything so much that you cannot bear to lose it."

Which was the problem here in that despite them being enemies, she couldn't bear the thought of losing Ben, especially if it came as a consequence of her own actions or commands.

'I need to get over him. Like Ship said; for the good of the Sith. But how can I after all we went through together? Even now after I was forced to leave and with him likely hating me, I still love him. Why do things have to be this way? Oh Ben, why couldn't you just be Sith?' The girl thought as she closed her eyes again and fell deeper into the Force. Eventually the sounds of Endor faded from her ears as she fell deeper into her trance until she wasn't even aware of her own breathing. There was nothing but the Force now. The conflict of the light side utilized by the Jedi and the dark side practiced by the Sith didn't even mean anything right now. There was just the power of the Force filling her very being.

"Are you sure this is the right way?" A young male voice asked.

"Are you questioning your Master?" Vestara's own voice replied. Her eyes seemed to open on there own revealing another forest, though not like the one of Endor. Standing towards her right was a boy that looked to be her age with spiky blond hair and lines on his cheeks wearing mostly black.

"Sorry Vestara-sensei. It's just that, well, I sense their chakra coming from more towards the right and we're still headed straight ahead." He responded with a lowered head, as is proper for an apprentice. Closing her eyes once more Vestara reached out in the Force to feel the life of the person they were tracking down and his group. It took her only a moment to realize her apprentice was right.

"Hm... I forget sometimes that the energy of this world clouds my senses slightly. You're right Naruto, so why don't you take the lead since you're not having that trouble." She suggested, though they both knew full well it was a command.

"Got it sensei. Just follow me." He declared with an arrogent smirk. Vestara let him have it for now. It would make wiping it off later in combat training all the more effective to lowering his ego.

Vestara's eyes snapped back open and she looked around to see herself back on Endor. The sun had even set completely now as a few of the nocturnal predators had come out to hunt for their food. With a slight stretch of her arms over her head she headed back to her camp and Ship. Perhaps he would know what her vision truly meant?

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"A vision?" Ship asked.

"Yes. I had an apprentice named Naruto and we were heading through another forest looking for someone. Apparently there was some strange energy in the air that clouded my senses called chakra and he was a native as he was immune to it. He looked to be about my age as well and rather than Master or Lady Khai he referred to me as sensei." Vestara explained. The sphere was silent as she finished so she asked the questions that were on her mind. "Do you think I would be capable of taking on an apprentice as I am now? What does the word sensei mean? And what is this chakra energy?"

"I do believe you could take and train an apprentice Lady Khai. In fact I believe you would be an excellent master to whoever you decide to take on as your student." The machine replied to answer her first question. Vestara smiled slightly, the smile seeming lopsided by the small scar that curved up from the left edge of her mouth, and nodded in acknowledgement of Ship's faith in her. "As for your other questions, I am unsure. Sensei could be a native word for Master perhaps. And I know nothing of anything called chakra." Ship offered so her smile changed into a scowl as she tried to puzzle out an answer from the barest pieces of info she knew. However nothing would come since it was clear she didn't know enough to tell.

"What do you think I should do?" Vestara asked, still wondering what her vision could have meant for her.

"I am unsure. You could ignore it and continue on until the time of the vision naturally comes to pass. However since this apprentice seemed to be the same age as you, that would imply it will happen soon. Perhaps you are meant to search this male out and take him as your student." Ship answered, getting Vestara to nod as that sounded right. Maybe she was meant to search this boy, this Naruto, out and take him as her apprentice.

"But where to look for him?" Vestara voiced aloud, naming the problem to their seemingly decided plan to hunt down her forseen apprentice.

"You said that in your vision the world was covered in this chakra energy, correct?" Ship asked so she nodded. "Then perhaps we should search for a world covered in energy with a stable and inhabitable atmosphere, since you didn't mention breathmasks or enviorment suits of any kind." Vestara thought it over before nodding her agreement.

"That sounds like a good plan. But where should we start our search, the galaxy is large after all." She pointed out.

"Since there is nothing about chakra in my databanks, which have been filled from both ancient Sith records and the most current of the Galactic Allaince, it is safe to say this mystery planet would not be in known space." Vestara again nodded her agreement so Ship continued. "I believe it would likely be in either the Unknown Regions or Wild Space."

"From my time with Ben I learned that the Unknown Regions are mostly, though not entirely, ruled by the Chiss. However before they first encountered someone from the Old Republic, they apparently knew nothing about humans. So I think it's safe to assume that this planet is not in their space, which cuts out most of the Unknown Regions. Kesh is located in Wild Space but not very far in so it's still close to the known galaxy. I'd bet this planet must be farther in than Kesh." Vestara reasoned. A hole opened in Ship's front as a ramp descended for Vestara to walk up and enter his interior.

"Then that is where we will begin our search for the next Sith in training."

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"Achoo!" Came the loud sneeze from a blond recently-turned-sixteen year old. He raised a finger up and rubbed his nose as his bright blue eyes opened back up from the reflexive closing his sneeze cause. On each cheek were three whisker-like lines while he wore an orange jacket and pants with black shoulders and a red spiral on the back. Across his forehead was a headband with a metal plate on the front inscribed with a spiral leaf symbol.

"You alright there gaki?" A man asked so the blond just grinned.

"I'm alright Ero-Sennin. Someone's probably just talkin' 'bout me. You know, with how awesome I am." He bragged as the man scoffed.

"As if Naruto. Despite all my training, you have yet to reach even a hint of the awesome I proclaim!" The man bragged back with a grin. Naruto scowled and was about to retort but the man held a hand up. "Before you ask, no, it seems I can't simply give you any of my awesome."

"Like I'd want anything from you pervert! If it came from you then I'd probably be in jail somewhere for peeping on women!"

"Gaki, how many times do I have to tell you? I'm not a pervert! I'm a super~pervert!" He cheered making Naruto slap him face in embarrassment.

"And you wonder why I won't stop calling you Ero-Sennin..." He muttered. The man just waved it off.

"Eh, anyways we should be getting back to Konoha in about a month at this pace. I've done just about all I could in the time I was given so we'll just go back to the village and put you back on active duty. All you mostly need right now is more experiance. After that we can maybe get you a bit more training where you show some weakness and then you'll be great."

"I can't wait to finally go home. I wonder how much has changed in two years?" Naruto mused aloud as the man smiled and shrugged. Who knew how much everything changed, if it changed at all. He'd just have to wait for them to get back to the village so he could find out.

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And that is the prologue to my new story. I know it focused almost entirely on Vestara but that's because I wanted to set up what has happened to her since her escape at the end of the FotJ series. I also wanted a reason to both explain most of her backstory as well as what she's thinking about and how she plans to accomplish her goals, which aren't really her goals right now since she's currently reluctant to face the Jedi due to her pining for Ben still. I also couldn't just have her randomly pop in on Naruto's world without any explination since at the end of Apocolypse Ship was carrying her off to what was implied to be Korriban and the One Sith. I needed to change that and sort of slow down her arrival there so that I could instead have her slip off to find Naruto. And I needed a reason for her to actually even know about him and want to find him in the first place, hence the very conveniant Force vision that showed Vestara on Naruto's world with him as her apprentice. Now she has direction so she's off to try and find him so that she can turn him to the dark side.

Also, as you can see from the small mention in the vision, chakra has an effect on the Force but is not the Force at all. I'm going to use the same explination as Darth Malleus does in his story The Good Left Undone in that the Force is an external source of power while chakra is internal. While the two are similar and can even do some of the same things, they are seperate meaning Naruto is going to have Force abilities and his shinobi abilities together. In fact, Naruto's full power is already completly mapped out for the story, as are the other Shinobi/Force users. There will only be three total; Naruto and Sasuke are obvious since one's going to be a Sith and the other a Jedi but I'll leave you all guessing about the third to get both skillsets and what their alliegence is.

So I hope you review and leave some pairing suggestions or questions for me to answer. See you next chapter!