I don't own Naruto or Star Wars this is a fanfiction only.

Looking at from space Naruto could only wonder why would anyone ever call that dirt ball of a world home? The entire planet was pretty much a desert and not the happy and friendly desert he once knew where his friend Gaara lived either.

This entire planet was giving him this odd feeling like he was walking on a graveyard as soon as they landed, he simply couldn't stop shivering for a whole minute the second he touched the ground. Jorgan and Elara both looked at him with concern in their eyes. It was not like Naruto to react this way, but something really felt wrong.

As soon as they got off the spaceport they saw that a local lawman was waving at them to gain their attention. As soon as they walked over to him he immediately looked like heaven had answered his prayer. The man was a large, beefy man with a long mustache and was wearing some rather bulky uniform.

"I can tell by the stuff you folk are wearing you aren't from around here. I don't mean to cause you trouble soldiers, but we got a situation and I am desperate need of help. We had over a dozen missing person cases this week alone, all this tells me a pirate group has to kidnap them."

Naruto looked at him and smiled, "Don't you worry about that, a criminal group that deals in slaves doesn't come to do it here just for that, they have other business interests here. My guess is spice, arms, and quite possibly chemicals. Don't worry I will find out from one of them where they are keeping their slaves. My guess's the Black Sun gang."

He actually smiled and looked at Naruto as he heard all the things Naruto told him, "It is so nice to actually meet a soldier that knows what is going on, most of you are so gone into believing an idea you forget reality. I sure appreciate any help you can give me Lieutenant."

Naruto began to walk away and Elara and Jorgan looked at each other in sheer disbelief. "How are we going to find Fuse and deal with a whole slaving operation at the same time? Why make a promise you might have to break Naruto?"

Naruto made a single hand sign and twenty shadow clones appeared in a cloud of smoke. They each took off in a different direction. "I never break my word Elara, it's part of my nindo, my ninja way. Don't worry about these people, trust me, my clones will do far more than deal with a bunch of gangsters. By the end of today, they will have them running towards the spaceport and praying they never meet me again."

"Now let's go find the mayor, he should know if anything weird or outright malicious is happening that he finds hard if not impossible to explain. Fuse is an explosives expert which means whatever he is involved intends to blow up, and that always draws quite the attention. Bombs tend to quite flashy don't you think so Jorgan?"

Jorgan began to laugh as they walked towards the office of the mayor. As soon as they reached the office they saw the aide of the mayor run into the office looking like he had seen hell. "Mayor we got another one, an entire building gone in a blast. No survivors this time, and we still haven't figured out how the building blew up."

Naruto looked at the Mayor and he saw that the man was in his late fifties, stress was clear to see on his face and he had been having this problem for awhile it seems. The lack of sleep was also easy to see on his face.

"Excuse me, Mayor, I was told that we were expected." The aide saw Naruto and he apparently got braver all of a sudden, he marched right up to him and pointed his finger at Naruto touching the chest plate of his armor. "We have a situation, and you and your fellow soldiers are not welcomed, you must leave immediately!"

Naruto took hold of his hand and pushed it away from himself, "Very well then, I shall tell General Garza that you declined our assistance in this matter, Mayor. I will conduct a search on my own, it might take longer, but then again this isn't a Republic world now is it? The longer it takes, I bet more explosions will happen. Hope your morgue and cemetery have enough space, they will fill up rather quickly thanks to your Aide."

Naruto was ready to leave when he heard the Mayor frantically walk towards him, "Lieutenant please excuse my Aide, we have a situation that has killed over fifty people, we had explosions all over Anchorhead and there is no explanation or debris that can explain how it happened. We are under a lot of stress, please a little consideration is not too much to ask for now is it?"

Naruto turned around and smiled, "Of course the situation is stressful, and we are here to help you with that. I assure you that if you help me, I will find what is making these terrible incidents happen and put a stop to it. I do need your help, you know this world a whole lot better than I do."

He walked over the holographic communicator and then at the terminal by it. The Mayor punched a whole series of buttons calling up a map of the settlement it would seem to Naruto. "These are the locations where the explosions have occurred and the time they happened. Do you need anything else, Lieutenant?"

Naruto looked at it and asked that on each location to display the number of people living in the blast area. He immediately saw something that reminded him of one of the most hated bombers in his past. The bastard was an absolute maniac, he used to love making clay statues and making them blow up. All the while screaming that Art was an Explosion.

"I see that this is no accident whoever is doing this is hitting the most densely populated areas of this city. By the time between each explosion and if I am right, the next explosion will occur in less than half an hour at this location." He pointed at the holographic map.

Jorgan nodded his head in agreement, "Then we don't have the luxury of standing here LT. We need to move to that location and evacuate as many people as we can before the explosion happens."

Elara looked at the Aide and then at Naruto, "That might not even help us Jorgan, from the way his Aide talked to Naruto here, the people on this planet might not believe us if not outright distrust us just like his Aide did since we are Republic soldiers."

"I hate to say this Jorgan but Elara is right, even if we try to tell them to evacuate. They will never listen to us, and we will have a situation even worse as this would most certainly draw a bigger crowd. We don't need to give this mad bomber any more potential victims. Is there a way for you to communicate with the people at this location Mayor?"

He looked at his Aide and he walked over to him. He grabbed something from his Aide's jacket and ripped it off. "No there is no major communications in the city, I do however have an alternative. Lieutenant wear this pin. As long as you wear it, you will be seen as my Aide, and as such your words are backed by mine. They will do what you tell them to do."

It was an ugly looking thing, and the Aide probably considered it his most precious possession. Naruto placed the pin on his armor and decided to trust the words of this Mayor. Jorgan smiled and looked at Naruto and as soon as they were out on the streets, "Don't take it so hard, Naruto it's not like you have not won a medal or two before."

They walked towards the place Naruto figured would be the next attacked place and that is when they saw a protocol droid walking towards the building. It was an old style protocol droid, they had long been upgraded to a new series. Out on a hunch, he took aim with his weapon and shot the protocol droid several times before one of the hits actually hit something that made the entire droid blow up in a ball of flaming scrap metal.

"Alright Havoc, you got your targets. I want every single protocol droid of this model a scrap of metal before they even reach that residential site. We got a lot of protocol bombs to destroy, I think if we can deactivate one to study the bomb schematics would be best, Jorgan do we have any EMP grenades with us?"

Jorgan smiled and nodded his head, "Finally we get to see some action, already ahead of you Naruto. I set the charge to disable the droid but will leave the explosives intact for the most part. 4X has volunteered to destroy or disable droids and is already on his way."

He looked at Elara who looked like she was confused, "Protocol droids have sensors specifically made to detect organic sentient life, it is one of the reasons why they are so used on search and rescue missions during natural disasters. Someone placed the bomb inside the droids and placed a proximity detonator."

Elara looked at him, and from the way she was looking at him, two things were clear, one she was very much impressed how quickly he was able to deduce what was happening and plan an effective countermeasure. The other thing is that she didn't want him to think of her as dead weight.

"Naruto all protocol droids have a life preservation protocol as part of their main programming. If these droids knew that they carried bombs they would self-detonate rather than injure anyone." Naturo began shaking his head at her comment, it was so optimistic it was no wonder he found her a ray of sunshine.

"For starters, the sensors they have can't tell if a substance is an explosive or not, they detect life signs and are not capable of detecting bombs, second I imagine these droids have the bombs inside them, but they are not part of their circuitry, meaning they are independent of the droids circuits. As for the life preservation protocol, it can be disabled or outright rewritten."

"A long time ago a brilliant Jedi General invented, built and field tested a droid of his own design. That General would later fall to the dark side and be called Darth Revan. Revan called the droid which later became a whole series of droids the HK series. I have studied the accounts of that droid, it is by far the most deceptive, tenacious, and skilled assassin I have ever seen."

"I kid you not, that thing if told to kill someone will do everything it can to kill that person, even if he has to kill an entire passenger ship to do it. The thing would pretend to be a protocol droid, hack into the navigation computer of the ship and then under his control misdirect the ship so that it crashes into the sun."

Elara couldn't believe she forgot about the HK series droids, she was once again impressed by Naruto's attention to these details. "When do you find time to read Naruto?" Jorgan asked him as he was looking for another one of the bomb droids.

Naruto saw one and threw the EMP grenade at the droid before he decided to answer. "When we are on a planet with a major library or information center my clones read everything they can while doing these side jobs I send them to do. The minute the clone runs out of energy or is injured enough to kill a person it dispels, and when that happens I receive every single memory since I summoned it."

"Say fifty clones read fifty books in an hour or two. When those clones run out of energy I will have the knowledge as if I read those fifty books myself. That is also why I take care of all our paperwork, I can do the work of an army by myself."

Soon eighty percent of the droids had been destroyed, and the rest had been disassembled. Naruto also got the memories of the people being rescued, with the clones taken care off the side jobs around the port city.

He immediately made shadow clones to begin studying the bombs, he was not about to risk Elara or Jorgan's life on taking those bombs apart if he made those bombs he would have been sure to add some countermeasure against possible meddling.

Three minutes later five explosions were heard and he got the memories, no fatalities but he was right, Fuse did put in countermeasures like he would, only he did in such hidden ways it took the memories of five shadow clones failing to finally figure out how to deal with the countermeasures Fuse placed in the bomb designs.

Jorgan couldn't contain his question as he saw Naruto's smiling face. "Did one of your clones hear a funny joke, or why are you smiling like that?" Naruto looked at Jorgan and couldn't help but to laugh as he was asked this particular question.

"In a way, the countermeasures Fuse placed in his bomb design are a joke, a deadly joke but a joke all the same. The design is a constant contradiction, it is intricate, detailed, and effective both in yield and size. The design is also easy to build and does not take much equipment or time to build the bomb. I have the correct yield for the EMP field. One small generator at each corner of the city and the place will be bomb proof."

"We better hurry and tell the Mayor about this, the sooner he gets those generators up and running, the sooner we can begin hunting down where these bombs are being made. My first guess would be the Jawas. It seems that if you want cheap droid components or droids they are the perfect place to look."

As they began walking towards the office Jorgan kept looking at him, "Do you think that you could get your childhood friend to give us a hand with this? I am pretty sure that the Emperor could pretty much deliver Fuse to us with a ribbon on if you asked him?"

Naruto stopped in his tracks and looked at Jorgan, "We already got a whole bunch of Senators thinking our unit is a bunch of traitors, or suspected of being double agents working with the Imps. Trust me when I say that old Teme is not one to make anyone's life easier. He was the sort that would walk up to a panhandler and he would scream at that person to get off his ass and do something productive instead of wasting his precious time with his begging."

Elara looked at him and could not help but to nod, her family had served in the Imperial military and living in that family you either learn to earn your way through life or die hungry. "I got to say most Imperial families pretty much think that way too. I always wondered why the Emperor never did any charity, from what you told us he absolutely hates doing anything out of sympathy."

Naruto looked at her and smiled as he walked to get closer to her, "My friend lived a very lonely life, he was the last member of his family, and he had to fend for himself in more ways that one. His childhood taught him that nobody does anything for you without expecting something in return. So he rather takes care of his own needs and never depends on anyone else. He used to say it makes him less vulnerable."

Jorgan saw as Naruto walked close to Elara, "Come to think of it Naruto you never told us much about your childhood. You showed me your scars but I don't remember you telling me why did you have them in the first place."

Naruto decided to rent a room since he didn't want to do this whole show and tell in public, no need to traumatize some innocent civilians after all. When the three of them walked in and he made sure the door was locked and secure he took off the armor and clothing that covered his chest, Elara could be heard gasping out of sheer shock as she looked at his chest.

"All these scars happened as I grew up, I was born an orphan and had it not been for a good friend of mine I wouldn't have survived. Every other day a mob would chase me around the village I was born in and beat me to a bloody pulp, stab me, cut me, whip me with a barbed wire whip, or set me on fire. The only birthday gift I ever received was an attempt on my life. This happened for years, I guess they finally gave up as soon as I turned eighteen."

Naruto began to place all the things he took off, "Teme was my nickname for my childhood friend, but in reality, he is my distant cousin. We studied in the same academy, we even ended up working together and eventually I tried to get him to come back to our team after he pretty much betrayed us and the village."

Jorgan smiled, "Yeah, I remember you telling me that you figured out that Tavis and the others were planning to use you as a scapegoat back at Ord Mantel. I guess this is not the first time a teammate betrays you. Must be pretty hard to get used to."

Naruto looked at him and smiled, "Fool me once damn on you, Fool me twice damn on me. Like you said this happened to me once already, even if I told anyone the possible suspicions I had they would flat out call me being disloyal and maliciously accusing my superior officer without proof. I'll never let this sort of thing happen a third time."

Jorgan felt like he understood Naruto a whole lot better, "I know the feeling of wanting to control your life better, my people the Cathar had a home once, but it was stolen from us and my kind was nearly hunted to extinction. I worked hard to gain recognition for what I do, to make sure that my people will have a place they can call their own again. Come to think of it I haven't heard from my old unit in a while."