After we've finished discussing the plan, it's decided that the Jedi (us) use the speeders to get to the part we're going to search, and the clones will search here.

As there are only two speeders, I hop onto the back of Anikan's and we set off. I have a basic idea of where we're going but I'm not sure exactly where we're starting. We travel for a while, avoiding violent citizens and running criminals. There is no sign of Ventress, thankfully.

We come to stop in front of a large, half burnt/ half ruined warehouse. And I realise, with a jolt, the place Barris attempted to murder me and the place I was captured by a clone.

Anikan must have sensed my hesitation, because he turned around to speak to me.

"Are you all right Snips? I know it isn't exactly your favourite place right now, but it's the last place the criminals were seen," he looks at me, concerned.

"I'm alright," I tell him, even though I'm not, "Were all the Nano droids removed?"

"Well...I hope so, or not I am going to have to have a word with those clones who were in charge. And I know how much they look forward to " having words" with me," he tells me half -seriously. I smile despite myself, because although it's only happened a couple of times, the clones do not like "words" with an unimpressed Anikan. Especially one who isn't exactly pleased with his team. And Rex is the only one who doesn't get told off, which I personally do not think is fair, because I have never seen him get told off. Me on the other hand? I get told off constantly. Most of the time it's because I'm not doing it as well as he could, but sometimes I do get told off and even more rarely, shouted at.

Anikan, looking pleased with himself, strolls off towards the entrance, while I am forced to hurry behind him, because he is taller and has a longer, quicker stride.

I can't sense anyone in the warehouse, but saying that I didn't sense Barris when she was here. But I assume it's empty, because Anikan doesn't say anything. I decide to find out more about what I'm looking for.

"Master, how long ago were they here, and how many are there?" I ask him.

"Well...I believe they were seen early this morning, and as for your second question, I think there are defiantly more than one, but I can't prove it. Apparently the one with a lightsaber isn't a Jedi or a Sith, so I'm assuming the lightsaber was stolen or taken from a Jedi. As for how it was taken, I suppose it must have been either a dead or unconscious Jedi, because I certainly would not let mine go without a fight," he tells me thoughtfully.

"Well Lux managed to get both of mine fairly easily, but I'm not dead. And that time on Coruscant when I only had my first one and I..." I come to a stop and slap my hand over my mouth, because I have just casually blurted out a secret I told myself Anikan must never know about. And that Anikan has also just stopped and turned around, looking at me with raised eyebrows and a glare.

"What time on Coruscant when you only had one lightsaber?" he orders.

"Whoops, never mind," I smile guiltily at him, even though I know it won't work.

"Tell me Ahsoka," he growls, and I step back, seeing a "talking to" session coming on, one with the "very rare" shouting involved. Anikan steps towards me.

"I swear I didn't mean to. I was following you, and it was really crowded, and we had to push through the crowds because everyone was going in the opposite direction to us. You went ahead to enter the building and told me to stand guard outside, so I did, but on my way there someone pulled my lightsaber from my belt, and at the same time someone accidentally fell on me so I didn't see who took it. I ran up the street to see if I could find them but I had no idea who they were or where they went. And then you came back out and asked me what I was doing, I said I thought I saw something but I actually didn't," I blurt out, finally pausing for breath. I was about to carry on, when I saw the look on his face.

I have a feeling, if I'd been with another Jedi, he would have asked me "Why didn't they, or anyone else notice you'd lost it?" But it was him who didn't notice, and I had a feeling he was about to ask himself out loud why he didn't notice, but thinking better of it just in time.

"So...how did you get it back?" he asks at last.

"I didn't. Master Tera Sinube did. But I helped," I say, taking another step back without thinking.

"Then what?" He asks, looking irritated, "And will you stand still?"

"Sorry," I say, accidentally, with a bit of attitude, or what Anikan calls snippiness. I breathe in sharply, because if I wasn't just about to die, I am now. I start talking before he has a chance to tell me off again.

"He helped me to track down the theif, but when we got to his apartment, we found him dead, with two criminals there - one of them had my lightsaber. The one with my lightsaber made a run for it, but the other stayed. I chased the one with my lightsaber. I would have got her, I nearly did, but her friend got away and picked her up in a ship. However, Master Tera Sinube attached a tracking device to her and we followed them to a public train transportation. The police droids grabbed the friend, but they didn't catch the one with my lightsaber. I chased her onto the train but she turned it on and threatened to kill a mother and her child. I couldn't do anything. When the train came to a stop, Master Tera Sinube came on and disarmed her with his lightsaber. That's it," I finish nervously.

"Why didn't you tell me this?" he shouts at me. I flinched, even though I saw it coming, "When did you do that anyway?"

"I did it when you went to take away the criminal, you know, when I said I was going to the library, but I didn't," I whisper to him.

"You know what? I thought it was strange that you, of all people wanted to go to the library. Why didn't you tell me?" Anikan repeats angrily.

"Because I knew you would shout at me?" I offer weakly.

"And you thought that if you left it several years I wouldn't shout at all? Or weren't you planning to tell me at all?" He glares at me. I break eye contact and look at the floor. Furious Anikan is the only thing that scares me. True fact.

"You're unbelievable," he says, looking away from me and groaning, when I don't have an answer, "Sometimes I wonder why I even took you on as a padawan,"

I've never been offended by this, because I know he often asks himself this and it makes me laugh to think the only thing The Chosen One can't do is train his padawan without being challenged in several different ways, one of the most frequent ways being patience and hiding frustration.

Still feeling slightly wary of him, I followed my master into the warehouse, all previous worries forgotten.