Ninjas meet Benders

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, or Avatar the Last Airbender. Please don't mind the specifics of the greetings or anything, because I'm using mostly the American dub…

Chapter1: Pyros

Prince Zuko was pacing back and forth in his camp. He left his home country and finally decided to help the Avatar learn fire bending. However he didn't know what to say to them to get them to believe that he was good now. He already attempted it, and failed because he blabbed about sending an assassin after him… That wasn't the crazy part…he was practicing telling them…to a toad… The once evil fire bender was debating on his sanity, when a strange vortex appeared. He readied himself just in case his sister or someone was coming through it, when a boy who looked around his age with short spiky hair, black eyes, a white loose shirt, a rope around his waist, and a strange symbol on the back of his shirt. He also had a long white sword with a black line through the middle.

Zuko used fire to make a small fort in front of him just in case the boy attacked him. "Who are you?"

The boy looked at him and held out his sword. "How the hell are you doing that!" he said looking around freaking out. Zuko then realized that his boy had blood coming from him eyes. He wondered if he was sick or something.

"Where am I? Where he HELL is Naruto? I was just fighting him…How the hell did I get here?"

"You tell me! You just appeared through this strange vortex! I was just minding my own business and you just showed up here…you didn't answer my question! Who are you?" Zuko said trying to stay calm.

"Hn…I'm Sasuke Uchiha…who are you?"

"Zuko…" he said calming down the fire around them.

"How are you doing that?" Sasuke asked him. "I don't see you doing any hand signs…" "I'm a fire bender…why would I need hand signs?"

"Fire bender? That's not jutsu your using?"

"Jutsu? No…what's that?"

"Its this…" Sasuke said as he did some hand signs, and blew fire out of his mouth.

"You look like a fire bender to me…"

"Well I'm not…" Sasuke said annoyed. "I can also do this…" he said as he proceeded to make a clone of himself.

"Wow…that's new…" Zuko said. "Well I don't know how you got here, but I really should get going…I need to try and get on the good side of the Avatar…"

"Avatar?" Sasuke asked.

"In our world, there is this one person who can control all four elements, not just one." Zuko said now sitting down to explain everything to the new arrival. Sasuke in return sat down as well. He was interested, and wondered if being in that world made him a bender as well… besides…his chakra nature was fire…

"For a hundred years he vanished, and I spend the most of the past three years searching for him, and when he appeared again I attempted to capture him. My father, who is the Fire Lord, banished me from our kingdom. A few months ago the Avatar was suspected to have been killed and my sister told our father that I killed him in order to restore my honor. The three years I spent away all I wanted was my honor back, but when I had it, I didn't want it anymore. My uncle tried to help me, and I betrayed him. He was imprisoned because he tried to help the Avatar. I betrayed him by going against the Avatar and allowing him to be captured and put in jail."

"Hn…at least you have family." Sasuke said rather coldly. It was his turn to tell his story. "When I was about seven years old, my elder brother Itachi was ordered by the elders of my village to destroy my entire clan. Even me. My father was attempting a coup to take over the village and they thought the only way to stop it was for him to kill everyone. He saved me because he loved me. Now my only goal is to destroy that village because of what they did to my clan."

"But…don't you have Itachi?" Zuko asked.

Sasuke looked down and clenched his knuckles. "No…you see, Itachi made me think that he killed the clan on his own, and I didn't find out the truth until after I beat him in a final battle." he said looking down.

"Oh…I'm sorry…" he said. Zuko hated his family, but now he felt guilty. This boy didn't have a family anymore.

The two boys sat and had something to eat. After a little while, Sasuke seemed to relax a little. He was filled with hate, but its seemed that Zuko was once also filled with hate that he was able to help him melt a bit.

Zuko learned that Sasuke ran away from home in order to be trained by this man named Orocimaru. He was at one time best friends with his rival Naruto, but they became enemies once again after he found out the truth about his brother. He insisted that revenge was the answer. They talked and talked, but then there was a rustle in the bushes. Sasuke got his sword ready, and Zuko got ready for a fight.

However two girls came through the bushes. One was the blind girl from the group, who was also a very good earth bender named Toph. However, Zuko couldn't recognize the other girl with pink hair…

"Sa…Sasuke-kun?" the girl said in surprise after seeing Sasuke.

"Hn…you're here too huh?" Sasuke said now putting the sword back.

"Yes…Naruto and Hinata are too…"

"You…know each other?" Toph asked.

"Y…yes…" Sakura said looking away with a blush.

"What are you doing here?" Zuko asked them. "I thought you all didn't trust me…"

"I never said that…I could tell you weren't lying by your steady heartbeat." Toph said sitting down on a log.

"So, you believe me?"

"Yes…I never really met you before now anyway…" she said with a smile.

Sakura sat down next to her, but Sasuke insisted on standing away from them. Zuko however, sat down to talk to the girls.