Disclaimer: This is strictly a work of fiction. I do not own Naruto or Avatar the last Airbender. At the time of this writing they are owned by Masashi Kishimoto and Nickelodeon respectively. I do own the concepts and plots I introduce into the story. This story is a product of my imagination, not for monetary gain, but for my own enjoyment. Enjoy.


He gazed out into the void. Watching as the stars glistened and shined. It was strange. No matter how many times he travelled through space it still excited and intimidated him. He supposed it should. The vast expanse was one of the few things that would inevitably kill him.

Leaning back in his large (and extremely comfortable) captain's chair he set the ship to be flown by his A.I. then stood, stretching and popping his joints. "Shukaku" he called out "Find me a good planet in this sector."

He turned and passed through the automatic doors that lead from the bridge to the rest of his small craft. As he entered the lift that would bring him from the command centre to the living quarters, armoury, the engine access point and the deployment room he heard the sound system come to life around him.

"If I may commander," a disembodied and calm voice spoke "What definition of 'good planet' am I using this time?"

He set the lift for the armoury and gave a confused look at the ship around him. "What do you mean 'this time'? There is only one kind of good planet that I mean and it's a planet that is bustling with a bunch of life forms that I can mess with." He told his A.I. with an innocent expression.

The voice, Shukaku, did not respond immediately instead waiting till the lift arrived at its destination. Only once the commander was in the deceptively large armoury and had begun to browse through the assortment of weapons on display did Shukaku reply. "Parameters met, planet located. Course set and input into drives. Departing now."

The commander barely had time to secure his feet to the ground before the ship spun sharply and shot out into the void. Looking up around him he chuckled "You really are fun to travel with you know? Very by the book but cheeky at the strangest times. I suppose it's because of who I named you after right?"

"….I don't know what you're talking about commander."

He looked down at the nodachi in his hand and smiled.

"I told you to call me by my name remember?"

"It was not programed in my initial coding to address you as such, so it is taking some time to rewrite and get used to….Naruto."

Naruto nodded "Probably some of the engineers who helped build you trying to mess with me. I bet it was Sato, Gin and Tsuru herself right?"

"…..No data available."

"Of course not."

Once Naruto was back in the command centre he saw that they were already approaching the planet.

"Why haven't you activated the stealth system yet?"

"Initial scans have indicated these planet's residents have not developed space travel yet."

"Ooooh, those are always the most fun. Hey, you think I'll become this one's deity? Think they'll try to eat me?"

"Not enough data to make a conclusion."

Naruto sat in his chair and said "Well hurry up then. I want to see what we're dealing with."

"Understood."

The ship sprang to life and in the span of several seconds they were entering the planet's atmosphere.

Naruto startled for a moment as he expanded his senses. "Hide us Shukaku! There is more to this planet then your systems can detect yet!"

The ship vanished in the sky and Naruto sent his chakra into the ships own network and made sure its energies were hidden properly.

Naruto then stood and gazed out at the planet below through the large windows that spanned most of the command decks front section.

"Shukaku expand your chakra based sensors."

"Apologies commander I thought that the odds of another planet having our same energies wa….oh."

"See? Not exactly the same but closer to our planets than most. How very curious. Have you mapped the land masses yet?"

"Yes."

"Add the energies of the life forms down there and give it to me on the centre display."

Naruto gazed at the map for several moments before making his decision.

"Drop me off on the outskirts of this cluster here." Naruto indicated towards the south-east of the largest land mass.

"Understood. Would you like me to accompany you coman – (silent glare)Naruto?"

Naruto took the lift to the lowest section of the ship and stepped out onto the deployment hatch.

"Maybe later, I want to get a feel for this place first before I make a plan. Besides I think your drones would scare the locals."

"That wasn't a problem for you on that last planet."

Naruto grimaced "That's becau-"

The floor panels shot open and Naruto was suddenly subject to the planets gravity. He laughed as he fell and yelled out "Like I said, cheeky!"

As he descended he looked to where his ship was supposed to be and pictured the small craft in his mind's eye. He had wanted it to be simple enough in design (he already had more extravagant ships) and practical enough for long trips on his own or with a couple more people. It was oval in its overall shape with the command centre being at the top and deployment room at the bottom. The propulsion systems spaned most of the back and it had two protrusions near the middle of the craft that contained some defence systems that could be controled manually or remotely.

As he got closer to the ground he spun himself around and focused on the upcoming land below. Naruto felt his chakra spring to life as he called forth his most familiar element. Feeling the wind answer his call immediately he was a little surprised. The wind came rushing to him as it always did, and ever since he had become a sage he was more attuned to the natural raw elements, but he was stunned by how much he was controlling with so little energy.

'This wind…..it's begging to be used'

On his home planet Chakra moved though everything and as a sage he could feel it in the land around him. This planets energy was similar and through his chakra he could connect to it. The wind he was feeling, it had been used in the past but had at some point ceased being harnessed.

'Interesting. These planets inhabitants can harness this energy and manipulate the elements. I need to tread carefully till I know what I'm dealing with.'

If they were anything like his world he might be dealing with some powerful opponents.

Aiming for a forested hill he increased his speed till he reached the trees so anything looking up would be hard pressed to spot him. Much like the wind he controlled, Naruto glided around the trees and branches while descending the hill. Decreasing his speed slowly and concealing his presence even more he began to touch down on the trees lightly as he passed them. This allowed him to transition smoothly from flying to lightly hopping from tree to tree. When he reached the edge of the forest he stopped silently on a tall tree as the wind continued on past him.

Naruto reached out with his senses behind him and grinned. Nothing had been seemingly disturbed. The living beings in the forest had payed no more attention to him then they would a passing breeze.

'See that Shukaku? Total stealth. None the wiser. Aren't you glad you have such a skilled captain?' He bragged silently to his A.I.

He could speak to each of his ships via thought much like a yamanaka because he made sure they each had their own chakra system. At first he had to fill them with chakra himself but after a time his brilliant engineers and chakra experts had found a way to allow them to generate their own albeit at a much slower rate and with less amount then even a genin, depending on the chakra generator. For this reason only the most basic things like speaking to ships via thought were all they were used for. Especially for his smaller ships like Shukaku.

'Yes Naruto very well done.'

Naruto stood and puffed his chest out placing his hands on his hips. If it wouldn't have compromised his presence he would have leaned back and laughed as well.

'Mari would have done it better though.'

'...You….Who gave YOU a sense of humour! HUH?! Never mind. Shukaku standby mode.'

Naruto grumbled silently under his breath as several clones popped into existence around him. Pairing up and putting all their stealth abilities to use they split up and ran in several directions.

As Naruto and his paired clone drew closer to their destination he looked at the night sky above him. There were several reasons Naruto had chosen this location to make his arrival. One of them being it was the beginning of night and this end of the planet provided the longest night from what he had observed of the positioning of the celestial bodies in this sector.

Feeling the various life forms ahead of him he focused on the approaching structures. From what he could see, with his enhanced vision cutting through the darkness, the residents were far enough along in their development that they had developed a culture and were not very primitive at all. It only made sense considering a lot of energies were clumped together like cities and towns.

Another reason he had chosen this area was because it had a small grouping of towns all clustered together and far away from any major cities. This way if he was exposed at any point during his reconnaissance it should take some time for any large force to come up against him.

They were at the walls now and he and his clone leapt up right under the guard tower. Sensing a guard right in the window above them he signalled to his clone, secured his feet to the walls and quickly weaved some hand signs. Once the clone saw the last hand sign he flipped up onto the window sill right in front of the guard without making a sound. The guard made no movement. Naruto joined his clone on the ledge and gazed into the soldiers eyes. They were unfocused. Staring straight passed them at something beyond the walls.

Naruto was satisfied. It seemed illusion techniques worked on these people well enough if he taped into their energy.

'People?'

Wow. They looked almost exactly the same.

Ears, eyes, mouth….all the same? What were the odds of that?

It was something he could investigate some other time, if he felt like it, for now he needed to complete his objective.

Speeding past the guard and onto the rooftops of the town's houses he began looking for his objective.

Heading to the most extravagant house in town he and his clone quickly located the master bedroom. Entering from different windows Naruto and his clone took up their positions in the room. The clone wall climbed to the top corner of the room that allowed a clear view of all the entry points while Naruto made his way to the head of the bed. He looked down at the older male and female sleeping soundly.

'You are going to have one hell of a dream man.'

Naruto placed his hand on the males head and began gathering information.

This technique he had developed over time with the help of the yamanaka, his A.I. and the various mind specialists on his planet. It had pretty much become essential to have down once Naruto started traveling on his own. With his clone watching over him he would not be disturbed and would be able to get as much information as possible in a single night. He chose the more wealthy individuals because more often than not they were more educated. Even if he had a less educated individual his other clones in the other towns would guarantee at least a basic knowledge of the language and structure of the world he was now on.

Naruto stayed almost till dawn with the man, Gunzo a wealthy merchant, as he was a well of knowledge due to his business but had to cut the connection as dawn was almost upon them.

Coming out of the cloudy haze that surrounded his senses he glanced down Gunzo's face. He was dreaming deeply and Naruto grinned. Because he wasn't as good as some of his mind readers when he did this technique the targets mind would have to be asleep to allow easy access for him. Also because he had to link their minds sometimes the individual would have some crazy dreams based on his own memories. Another reason for the target to be sleeping as most people would easily pass off the crazy memories as dreams and forget them as unimportant.

Naruto glanced at his clone and nodded. They then both vanished and appeared on the training mat in his quarters on his ship. Naruto saw that the rest of his clones were knelling already in a circle. Settling down beside them he joined the mind connection they had and began the long process of sorting through all the information he had acquired.

They spent the rest of the day like that. As each clone finished sharing their information they dispelled. As the last clone dispelled Naruto opened his eyes…..then fell back exhausted.

'Damn. That always takes it out of me.'

"Shukaku, beeeeeedd tiiiiiiiime!"

"Of course Naruto everything is already prepared."

Naruto teleported to his dinner table, made a lazy hand sign and a large bowel of ramen appeared on the table in front of him. With his remaining energy he quickly downed the steaming broth. After cleaning up and getting ready for bed he spoke to his A.I. once more.

"I'm gonna need your help tonight buddy with all this info. I'll also need you to make some clothes that will fit in here. Make sure to incorporate some orange."

"Acknowledged. Good night sir."

With that out of the way Naruto collapsed on his bed and went out like a light.


Lei splashed some water over his head to clean off his sweat. It helped his nerves a bit as well. The semi-finals had been tough. He had barely defeated his last opponent. Should have really drilled into his head how dirty everyone was going fight. This was an illegal fight ring after all with no real rules. He just hadn't thought it would be this different from a bending school. There were even some non-benders competing. That was fine though, as far as he knew only one non-bender had made it to the finals.

As he made his way back to the edge of the raised earth with the large moat around it that made up the combat ring he looked at his competition.

The most dangerous was probably the old man. He had the best form and could control the earth with great precision. The man's name was Bo Huang if he remembered correctly from the announcers. Bo was just slightly shorter than his own 6'1 foot frame, almost black brown eyes, slightly pale (for an earth kingdom citizen anyway), with his long hair in a traditional topknot. He wore a daopao in the earth kingdom colours that also had the golden earth kingdom symbol sewn onto the back. His hair was white and he had a long fu-manchu moustache with an almost as long goatee.

The next most dangerous opponent was the woman with the long war hammer strapped to her back.

Lei blushed slightly at the tall form of Mei-ling. She stood at about 6'4 and was the tallest in their group. To say she was striking would be an understatement, with an angular face, honey brown eyes and almost too perfect features. Her hair was midnight black and shaved on most of the left side while the rest of her long locks fell on the right.

He wondered how it didn't impede her combat.

She was tan like most earth kingdom citizens but not as dark as those from the water tribe. She wore a cheongsam top in earth kingdom colours that exposed her arms and midriff revealing her wide hips, toned stomach and fit arms. He also noted, a little perversely, that it seemed to barely contain her bountiful chest. She also wore a matching cheongsam skirt that just barely covered her well-shaped posterior. Underneath it she wore tight black spandex that extended to the middle of her strong thighs.

The war hammer was simple in design with a grey box head that slightly narrowed on both ends. The handle was tightly wrapped in brown leather, was about a meter and a half in length and had a ball counter weight on the bottom.

As they made their way out onto the ring, Lei thought about the final competitor. The man had neglected to give his name instead going by the moniker of 'Hakaishin'. He didn't know what that meant, he wasn't from a rich family after all, but he could only guess it meant orange in some dialect.

As he and the others made it to the centre of the ring they saw the man, Hakaishin, come out from the entrance behind them with his hands behind his head and whistling a merry tune.

He wore a male cheongsam with the torso and collar being black. The loose sleeves and clasps were ORANGE.

Seriously? Who liked orange that much? He supposed it could have been worse. The majority of the outfit was black at least.

The man wore matching black pants with the ends wrapped in white cloth that went into his white socks and black cloth shoes. A black rectangular pouch was strapped to his leg and it looked like he had two slightly larger ones on the back of his waist. He had short shaggy blonde hair, blue eyes, strong jaw line, tan skin and most interestingly three lines on each cheek. He was taller than Lei himself and just shy of Mei-ling.

All in all the man 'Hakaishin' stood out. Every one couldn't help but take notice of this strange man with his strange clothes.

As he approached the group Bo called out to him. "You sure took your sweet time kid. Time is money you know?"

Hakaishin withdrew one hand from behind his head and scratched it with the other while squinting with his eyes and smiling brightly.

"Sorry, sorry, I was trying to decide what to get at the snack bar. Then I remembered that I don't have any money and was incredibly depressed. So I helped an old lady to her seat on the way back and felt a little better afterwards." He finished with a hand on his hip, the other making a peace sign and a bright smile.

Lei felt his eye twitch a little.

"No-one is going to believe that excuse." Lei exclaimed. "This place is full of only the most dangerous criminals, benders and corrupt nobles in all of Omashu. No old lady is going to be caught dead here."

Hakaishin turned to him while shaking his head with eyes closed and replied.

"Tsk tsk, let me tell you something junior…."

"We're about the same age!"

"…life is full of stuff that doesn't make sense. I mean look at me. I'm so incredibly unrealistically amazing and yet I'm here."

Lei fumed and was about to retort before Mei-ling beat him to the punch.

"Oh, I certainly hope you fight better than you boast otherwise I'll be incredibly disappointed."

Hakaishin looked to Mei-ling as his eyes opened slightly.

"You have no idea."

Lei jolted slightly.

What in spirits name was that?! Why for a brief moment did he want to get as far away from blonde as possible?

He shook his head slightly, blinking and looked again. No. It must have been his imagination. The guy was a clown!

He decided then that he would take him out first. The guy wasn't even a bender from what he had overhead the spectators say. He was good enough to be here but he must have been lucky with his match ups.

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!" the announcer with his booming voice cut through the atmosphere.

Lei and the other competitors directed their attention to the announcer's box.

"These are your finalists! As you know this is a no-holds barred fight! Anything goes! While killing is discouraged it is not forbidden! The earth in the ring is loosely packed and a little softer than normal but a good strike can still deal a fatal blow! This final fight will be a battle royal with all four contestants trying to claim victory over each other to win the grand prize of fifty-thousand! Victory can be attained by ring out, or your opponents being unable to continue! Now without further ado, Contestants! Make your way to the edge of the ring and prepare to begin on the flag signal!"

Lei's opponents turned to head to their own spots. As they did Lei glanced once more at the back of the clown and froze.

'What in the world…'

On the back of Hakaishin's cheongsam was an extremely detailed and intimidating orange nine-tailed fox. The fox seemed to be encircling a ball of light with its tails fanned out and waving behind it. One of the foxes paws rested on the ball and only one eye was visible as it looked at the light.

Wait. It was looking at him?!

Lei quickly turned and made his way to his spot. He'd show them. These criminals might be strong but he wasn't like them. He was going to win, use the winnings and fame to rebuild his school and make Omashu a better place.

As the signal man stood ready with the flag, Lei slipped into a wide bending stance and glanced at his opponents. Bo Huang was to his right, standing straight and looked like a coiled spring, Mei-ling was in front of Lei and had her hammer held in her right hand to the side and was cracking her neck.

Hakaishin was to his left and was…enthusiastically stretching.

'Calm down. Remember your training, remember your goal!'

As soon as the flag descended Lei stomped on the ground and bent three large rocks in front of him.

'He who strikes first has the advantage.'

With a wide sweeping kick he propelled a boulder to each of his opponents. Not forgetting defence he then bent a thick wall between him, Bo Huang and Mei-ling. Even if they struck back at him it should give him enough time to deal with the clown.

He quickly spun to where Hakaishin started.

'Now I'll show…..huh? Where...'

"DYNAMIC ENTRY!"

Lei spun around a split second before he was smashed in the face and sent sailing over the edge. The last the thing he saw before the ring faded from view and darkness took him was the blonde's cheeky grin.


(A few moments ago)

Naruto cracked and popped his joints as he finished up his stretches.

'Shukaku, wish me luck on my first fight here.'

'Good luck sir, but if I may, you know you're going to destroy them even with your abilities restricted right?'

Naruto began moving to his first vict-opponent as soon as he could. He was the weakest fighter in the group and he really only wanted to fight the better ones.

'Well you never know buddy, combat is all about surprise and unexpected developments.'

As Naruto got closer to the boulder that was intended for him he moved so it was between himself and the kid and in doing so blocking the boy's line of sight. At the last possible second he leapt up onto the boulder and propelled himself forward and into the air further.

At the peak of his jump he was able to survey what had happened in the first few moments of the round. The woman was closing in on the old man after dodging the kid's boulder and smashing through the old man's own sizable rock directed at her with her hammer and bending.

The old man had taken control of the kid's boulder and had redirected it to the woman and was backpedalling at the same time towards the centre of the ring away from her.

In the few seconds he had taken all this in he had silently flipped over the head of the kid, just as the boy spun to his direction, and onto the wall the boy had bended behind.

With great pride he bestowed the gift of one of Guy-sensei's signature technique's on the lad.

"DYNAMIC ENTRY!"

Naruto watched the boy briefly as he fell.

'Then again you're probably right Shukaku.'

Yes, this was going to be a fun world.

Quickly dodging the boulders directed at him from his opponents in the centre of the ring, he leapt up onto the wall and ran along its length towards the other fight taking place.

The woman was trying to get as close as possible to the old man. Trying keep him from utilising his best bending forms while smashing through his attacks and defences with her earth bending and war hammer. The old man was continuing to back up and strike out as much as he could while erecting defences as he did.

Naruto flipped, weaved and slid along the wall dodging the rocks that came flying at him as he closed in.

It spoke to each of his opponent's skill that even as they engaged each other they were still aware enough of his approach to test him out and see if they could take him out before he got close enough to be a problem.

Dodging over another boulder and jumping down off the wall Naruto took off at a sprint throwing two fistfuls of kunai as he did.

The woman spun her war hammer around and deflected the knives while the old man bent a boulder in-between them briefly stalling their exchange.

Naruto was close enough now though. He slammed his hand on the ground and mentally called out his move.

'Earth Technique: Great Mud River!'

The ground became a torrent of mud tripping up his competitors and sending them sliding towards the edge. Naruto continued his sprint over the mud, not stopping for a second, the torrent speeding him up as he kept his footing with chakra.

The women righted herself first and slammed her hammer into the ground, slowing her down until she regained her footing.

Naruto sprinted right past her.

The old man finally got his feet firmly planted and bent a solid slab from the mud underneath him and noticed the blonde heading straight for him. Reacting as quickly as he could he bent a pillar of stone straight at the blonde hoping to stall him for a moment till he could line up his defence.

Naruto slipped around it like a breeze.

The old man had no time to react as Naruto spun into a rising kick that lifted him off his feet. Before he started to fall, Naruto grabbed him and threw him the rest of the way over the edge.

As Naurto watched the old man disappear into the water below he made sure to keep track of the woman behind him.

She wasn't moving.

Huh? Was that a giggle?

Naruto looked behind him at the woman who seemed to barely be able to contain her laughter.

"Uh…are you alright? You didn't hit your head at all, yeah?" Naruto asked.

The woman looked at him directly in the eyes all the while trying to stifle her giggles.

"It's just…ha ha…your clothes…..ahhaaha…your personality all scream 'Look at me. I think I'm a big deal.' and because of that I completely ignored you in favour of the stronger looking opponent."

She was smiling at him now with one hand on her cocked hip and the other pointing her war hammer at him. "But that's completely on purpose isn't it? Have the two stronger opponents focus on each other while you take out the weakling. Then you move in for the kill. You were competing even before the round started. Man, I haven't been played like that in a while! And hiding the fact that you were a bender right up into the finals was pretty dirty. You won't mind if I use that sometime do you?"

Naruto was right. The woman in front of him was the strongest out of the three he was fighting.

The old man had better form and could probably do some serious damage if allowed but he wasn't used to 'fighting' and the kid was just starting out.

The woman in front of him knew how to fight. She was a strong earth bender in her own right with more chi than even the old man. She just wasn't as skilled in forms. Instead of letting that weigh her down she had taken to wielding her war hammer in conjunction with her bending. For opponents well versed in close quarters she would use her wide destructive bending and for ranged specialists she would close in. Observant too, she had picked out a little bit of his style after all.

She also understood that sometimes fighting was about things other than skill and strength. Her current outfit was proof enough. By dressing the way she did she would direct men, especially young men, away from trying to cause her harm, either consciously or not. It all explained why she went after the old man so quickly.

Unfortunately for her he lived with kunoichi. He knew all the tricks of the trade and had used that to his own advantage.

When he didn't reply the woman continued "What I don't understand is why you passed me by just now? It would have been a lot easier to just tag me with one of your blades as you passed." She finished with a hard stare.

Naruto squinted at the woman with a seemingly confused look while scratching the back of his head.

The woman watched as Naruto looked at her before turning to the side and standing in a thinking pose, then another pose to the other side…..then another with his back completely to her all the while making a low humming noise.

Just when she was getting impatient, Naruto spun around.

"Yeah that's exactly what I did! Of course! I'm brilliant so of course I knew all that stuff was going to happen." He said while nodding with his eyes closed.

The woman startled slightly and looked at him with a surprised expression.

"And the reason I didn't finish you off wasn't because I forgot. No. No it defiantly wasn't. It was because…..um…uh…..the old man was close to the edge so I had to get to him fast!" he finished loudly.

The crowd, which had been quiet till this point, (They were mostly hardened criminals after all) dissolved into varying degrees of laughter.

The woman blinked a little before gaining a hard look.

"Is that so?"

She crouched into a bending stance with her war hammer resting on her shoulder.

"My name is Mei-ling. What's yours?"

'She's not buying it….clever girl.' Naruto thought.

"Naruto."

"Well Naruto, prepare yourself!"

Twirling her war hammer around Mei-ling smashed it hard into the ground. A miniature earth quake followed. Large, jagged rocks rose from the earth and the ground shook. As the path of destruction quickly closed in on Naruto he crouched and placed a hand firmly on the earth.

'Earth Technique: Mud Wall!'

The earth answered his call and came to his defence becoming a wall of earth ten feet tall and eight feet wide.

Mei-ling continued her assault, moving backwards with each bending form. She bent three boulders, one after the other, sending the first two around each side of the wall. The last and largest one she sent straight down the middle hoping to catch him off guard and smash through his defence.

When the final boulder smashed into Naruto's wall it caused a large cloud of dust and debris. Mei-ling watched the cloud for a moment before two long black wires with kunai attached to them came shooting through the top of the cloud. One came directly at her and she barely had the time to smack it to the side. The other stuck into the ground about five meters in front of her.

Naruto came shooting out of the dust hanging onto the wires.

Mei-ling smashed her hammer into the ground twice and shot two boulders at the suspended blonde. Naruto in-turn threw out his other wire, the one that she had knocked away he had pulled back, down to her right side and pulled himself out of the way of her airborne projectiles.

As Naruto touched down in front of her, way to close for her liking, she bended the earth beneath her and raised herself up on a wide pillar of stone.

When Naruto made it to the base of the pillar he jumped onto it and through both of his wires to the top. They slammed into the pillar and he pulled himself the rest of the way up.

Noticing this Mei-ling swung her hammer in an arc in front of her cutting off the piece of earth his kunai was attached to.

She was too late.

Naruto swung over the top, sprinted and easily cleared the small gap that had separated them thrusting out at her with a metal rod he had pulled out from somewhere. Mei-ling backpedalled and redirected his attack to the side with her hammer.

She barely had time to think after that.

Reacting on instinct and experience it was all she could do to keep up with the onslaught that Naruto unleashed.

A maelstrom.

That was the only thing that described it.

He struck at her from seemingly everywhere. Every angle, every one of his limps he utilised and she was starting to take some blows.

Naruto observed Mei-ling as he picked apart her defence and dodged her sloppy attacks. From what he understood the average bender excelled in long to mid ranged combat. There were always the exceptions but essentially a bender needed room to land a blow with their element. Benders were still formidable without their bending as well. The forms still had enough power in a strike to do some damage.

However to a shinobi like him who thrived in spontaneous hand to hand combat without any real style? Let's just say to beat a bender without exerting to much effort was to be as close as possible.

Mei-ling was doing very well against him so far though. If he had to guess it was because she learned to fight with her fists first and bending after. This was probably why she was able to keep up with him at his current speed. He couldn't go to fast because there was an audience. There wasn't a whole lot he could do because of that to be honest. While he was fairly confident he could take on almost anything on this planet without too much trouble he didn't need, or want, that kind of attention just yet.

'She's getting tried.' Naruto thought.

Mei-ling had given up trying to get away from him and was now taking more and more strikes to the body just to try to get a hit in.

'She must be thinking that as long as she gets one good shot in she'll have a chance.'

Naruto was impressed that she was still going after taking so many of his blows. He had seen enough though.

Mei-ling swung a little wide and Naruto closed the gap.

Thrusting his pole at her abdomen, he blinked as Mei-ling caught it between her arm and body.

Mei-ling grinned in pain. She was tired and hurting all over but had played it up to get him to give her an opening.

'Got you, you slimy bastard!' she thought.

Bringing her hammer around with her free hand she brought it down hard.

Naruto calmly let go of his weapon and leapt to her left. Another rod flew out from his sleeve and he jumped back towards her as he reared back for another strike.

Mei-ling griped her hammer with both hands and swung at the suspended blonde with a roar.

With blurred eyes from the pain, she felt and heard more than saw the impact of her hammer on the blonde.

While her hammer continued on behind her due to the force of her swing, Mei-ling blinked rapidly to clear her eyes.

'What? Where is he?!' she thought.

Naruto looked at the back of Mei-lings head with a smile. When her hammer came within striking distance he had lightly pushed off the head with his feet and flipped over her landing on her hammer as it came around behind her. Even if she had clear vision she would have been hard pressed to spot the move he had just made. The move wasn't fast, defiantly within the realm of possibility here, it was just extremely sudden. Like a fly buzzing around you suddenly changing direction and disappearing into your blind spot.

'You did well.' he thought.

With that in mind he finished it with a strike to her neck.

As Mei-ling fell to the ground unconscious Naruto caught her, jumped down off the pillar they had fought on and took her to the healers.

"Ladies and Gentlemen the winner this evening is Hakaishin!" the announcer proclaimed.

The audience came roaring to life.

Naruto spun in a circle with his arms raised and began celebrating with the crowd.


Bo Huang sat and watched as the match came to an end. After the blonde had tossed him out he had made his way to the bleachers to see the fights conclusion. He knew the blonde would be the last one standing. That last look in the blonde's eye he had been able glean before he had been kicked was impossible not to understand. The kid was going to win and that was that. The absolute conviction in those orbs was startling.

Bo stood as the boy began to celebrate. He had seen enough. Heading towards the exit he saw a woman about his age heading in that direction as well. The woman noticed him and bowed politely. He returned it and offered his arm to her. Accepting it gracefully they left the combat area.

"You were very good in there tonight." The woman commented.

"Thank you, but not as good as some it would seem."

The woman shook her head. "You've got a few years on that boy. Youth is something that experience is hard pressed to overcome."

Bo smiled "That is kind of you to say."

"That boy and you are both so well-mannered so it would really only come down to something like that anyway."

Bo paused, and then chuckled quietly for a moment.

"Was it something I said?" the woman asked.

"No. Just thinking on a conversation we had before the match." He replied.


Naruto walked into the control room of his ship and placed his prize money on the command table.

After counting his winnings Naruto turned and sat in his command chair.

"Shukaku I want your opinion on something."

"What is it Naruto?"

"In the worlds I have been to so far there hasn't been a proper civilisation yet. Sure there where natives with intelligent life but nothing like this planet yet. Because of this I didn't feel too bad with getting involved and changing the course of those planets development. However this planet, this one has nations." Naruto spoke with a serious voice.

"So my question is this. Should I involve myself with the affairs of a developing planet? Is it right to alter the very course that these people should rightfully set for themselves?"

Shukaku was quiet for a long moment before replying.

"I am not experienced enough to give an answer with absolute confidence but I will say this. If it is you Naruto, this world or any other should be lucky to have you intervene in their lives. You have led your people away from their destructive path and given them a goal they can all push onward with. You are a commander worth following."

Naruto stood with a soft smile.

"Wow buddy, I didn't think that at all. Are you sure you aren't overestimating me too much? What if I screw something up?"

"You might very well do something like that but your screw ups will still be better for the people of this world then having them screw themselves over."

"And what about overestimating me?"

"It's what you're all about Naruto. You do the impossible because of your dreams and goals. If you want it you take it and I will assist you in every way I can."

Naruto nodded. "I will do my very best. I will take your faith in me and use it to fuel my dreams."

Heading back to the command table he began to pull up some files on the computer.

"First we have to put this war on hold but I already have a plan for that. I'm going to need my other half."

Because Naruto was extremely busy he always needed to be in more places than he was able. Clones certainly helped but they had a time limit and their own restrictions. The key to solving this problem came when he was digging around in the Fourth Shinobi War archives. Mu the Second Tsuchikage had a technique where he split himself in two. So he went to the earth kingdom and perfected the technique in a week. Yeah, clones are awesome.

With this technique in his arsenal he could put his other half in a key location in the universe and then they could branch off with clones from there. It cut his power in half but that was fine most of the time. He was plenty strong at half. To pull off this one though he would need that little bit more.

The display came to life and he was greeted with his own visage.

"Yo. How's it going on your end?" Naruto spoke to his doppelganger.

His other half scratched the back of his head and replied.

"Pretty boring to be honest as there isn't much out this way. What about you? The fact that you're contacting me means something good or bad has happened."

"Bit of both. Gonna need a lot of our power for this one."

"Sweet."

Both blondes closed their eyes and when the opened them they were standing side by side.

"Gotta love that Flying Thunder God." They said in unison.

As they re-joined, Naruto heard a commotion coming from the display.

"WHERE THE FUCK DID HE GO!" a loud voice came through the sound system.

"I don't know ma'am! He got a call from someone and then he was just gone!"

'Uh-oh.'

The next moment the display was filled with another individual.

"Y-Yo Mariko-chan, y-you doing well, ya?" Naruto said nervously with a small wave.

Onyx eyes glared at him from the beautiful, yet incredibly terrifying at the moment, visage that was one of his closest generals.

"You split yourself. Where are you?" she spoke calmly but with a sharp edge to her voice. "How did you manage to slip away? I checked all our ships. There is no-way you could have gotten away on one without me knowing. How?"

Naruto began to silently signal to his A.I. to cut the connection all the while sweating nervously.

"What is this frequency? Shukaku? You made a new one. Right under my nose." Mariko finished with an accusing tone.

"It's not what you think Mari-chan."

"Yes it is. You developed a brand new stealth ship with your authority and purposefully hid it from everyone." Mariko said as she pulled up files while she spoke to him.

"How are you accessing those so fast?!" Naruto exclaimed in alarm.

"We developed a new protocol for when you pull stunts like this."

"Give me a break! Who would agree to something like that?!"

Mariko gave him a deadpanned look.

"Right. Dumb question." Naruto mumbled out dejectedly before perking up once more.

"I left half of me with you this time though. That's got to count for something right?"

Mariko nodded as she continued to type while she held his gaze. She knew if she looked away he would be on to her tracking him. "That's true, which is why I'm not currently sending every fleet we have after you."

Naruto clenched his fists before he gained a hard look and said, "You can't always rely on me you know. You guys have got to do things for yourself. I won't be around forever."

Mariko scoffed, "You're kidding. Without you we risk going back to the war loving people we used to be. You're immortal and stop trying to change the subject!"

Naruto softened his gaze slightly, "See what I mean? You're practically commanding the entire fleet on your own right now to hunt for me. Have confidence in the system we created. Have confidence in yourself. I do." He concluded with one of his signature foxy smiles.

Mariko stopped typing as he smiled at her.

Naruto cheered on the inside once he saw the blush rise in her cheeks.

"Y-you….you asshole. That's not fair." She mumbled weakly.

"Also I put some new systems in place so it will take you a looooonnnggg time to track me." He cheekily concluded.

"What? Oh you son-"

With that the connection was cut.

Naruto released a breath he didn't realise he was holding before spinning around and yelling at his A.I.

"What the hell took you so long huh!?"

"What do you mean?"

"What do I MEAN?! When I do this!" he made a slight cutting motion with his hand that he had been doing for most of the conversation, "What do you think it means! It means the bitch got the drop on us, my backs against the wall; this is not a test, HELP ME! HELP! ME!"

As Naruto glared at his ship he suddenly had a realization and groaned.

"It's one of those protocols I don't know about isn't it?"

"…..No?"

"YES IT IS! Of course it is."

Sighing Naruto turned back to his plans and made the final touches.


Naruto double checked the large seal array in front of him and finished preparing the various food and drink on the table he had assembled on the edge of the seal. He was currently in the centre of the largest dessert in the earth kingdom. It was the only place he could get away with potentially summoning something as big as he was.

Cutting his palm with a kunai he began the long string of hand signs he had to complete. When he had finished he held the last hand sign and began generating his chakra. Once he felt he had a sufficient amount he slammed his palms on the ground and called out, "Summoning technique!"

Old habits sure died hard.

A massive cloud burst into existence and was quickly blown away by the dessert wind revealing his summons.

"Hey guys, been awhile."

The towering forms of the one, two, four, five, eight and nine tailed beasts all drew their attention to the blonde below them.

"Naruto!" the Ichibi called down to him. "What's the occasion then? You haven't called this many of us in a while."

Naruto shrugged, "We've had things under control. Still do, but I wanted you guys to check out this new planet I found."

The tailed beasts looked at their surroundings and Naruto felt them reaching out with their respective chakras.

"Interesting. The energy here is pleasant." the two tails spoke while seemingly smelling the air.

"I can feel some powerful beings here." the five tails added its own two cents.

"OOOHHHH! I wanna fight them! I haven't had a good rumble since we took on that massive space creature together Naruto!" the four tails bellowed.

"If Naruto wanted that then we would have been called closer to a fight. Isn't that right Naruto?" the eight tails interjected.

"That's right." Naruto confirmed. "While I agree that's it's been too long since we have been able to go nuts, I want to take a different approach with this situation. With that being said could you guys use one of your smaller forms? I don't want to attract too much attention just yet."

A large cloud of white smoke obscured the hulking behemoths before the hot dessert wind brushed it out of existence.

Gone were the massive forms of the beasts replaced by smaller forms that wouldn't stand out as much in a metropolitan area.

Well, for the most part.

The one tailed beast now resembled a human female with just a shade lighter skin tone then his own. Sandy shoulder length hair framed a cute rounded face. The female wore a light brown kimono that had black seal designs covering most of the back. The obi was white as were the layers underneath. Brown sandals covered her feet and she wore lots of jewellery with large gemstones imbedded in them.

That was all well and good except for the 'small' issue of how she wore the kimono. With a deep cleavage and exposed legs, the one tails was proudly putting her assets on display. With bust that rivalled only the most well-endowed women Naruto had ever met and creamy, plump but somehow firm legs, the vision before him would undoubtedly stand out in any crowd. Her golden eyes that resembled her tailed form didn't exactly scream normal either. Naruto knew that this form of the one tails liked to be called Tsuru.

The two tails had also taken the form of a woman however she stood out mostly in another aspect. She also had striking features, what with her long blonde hair in a high ponytail, thin sky blue eyes and a soft complexion that you couldn't help but feel safe when in her presence. Her form was mostly hidden by a navy blue captain uniform consisting of a jacket, slacks and black boots. Across the jackets left side were several medals. It was the ears though that stood out. They were more pointy then regular humans and had blue and black fur on the tips. This form retained the name of Matatabi.

The four and five tails had a much less drastic change becoming smaller versions of their beast forms. Son was the size of a large gorilla while Kokuou was the size of a Shire horse. Naruto was fairly sure that these forms would blend in with the creatures from this planet. He would just say they were an undiscovered species.

The eight tails also held the form of a woman although Naruto had never seen this one before. With chocolate coloured skin and dirty blonde hair, cut in a bob style, Naruto guessed the features she was using were pulled from the cloud countries kinsmen. She wore a white tube top that pushed up her considerable "assets", a tight black pencil skirt that extended to just above her knees outlining her plump behind with slits on either side exposing her mile long legs and a black jacket with various pockets was worn over the top. Her eyes were yellow and painfully reminded him Karui's own. The high heels on her feet also painfully reminded him of Tsunades own combat heels.

All these forms had stemmed from Tsuru. At one of their meet ups they arranged to catch up and see what was happening with each one of their group Tsuru had busted in with a bottle of sake that was as big as her. Drunk off her ass, she had proceeded to spend the rest of the night partying like there was no tomorrow and bragging to her family just how awesome it was to be a human.

Ever since then whenever Naruto met up with one of them the bijuu would have various new forms that they were experimenting with. They changed their genders, looks, sizes and into other animals as well. The human forms were one hundred per-cent human. How did he know? Well it was embarrassing to say the least so he preferred to not think about it.

It looked like they were going to make this pretty hard for him as they had all busted out the forms he felt the most nervous around. Who could blame him? Each woman was absolutely drop dead gorgeous. It didn't help that they knew he found them attractive in their human forms and the more bold ones, like Tsuru, would purposefully flaunt themselves around him.

Thankfully Kurama had only ever had a male form. He could count on him to-

Goddamn it.

Standing in front of him was another beautiful woman. Long orange hair done up in an intricate hairstyle with decorative pins helping to hold it all in place. She wore a tight fitting black dress showing off her hour glass figure. The top of the dress resembled a kimono with loose sleeves that ended at the elbow. It had a plunging V-neck exposing her cleavage with a red lining on the bottom of the dress, end of the sleeves and the V-neck. From the waist down the dress looked almost like a second skin ending at just underneath her shapely derrière and exposing her firm legs. She wore black stockings that ended mid-thigh and red kunoichi heels. Her eyes were the same as always, red with a vulpine slit and Naruto could see her slightly longer fangs as she smiled at him.

"You were right Tsuru." the Kyuubi said with her hips cocked and arms crossed underneath her bust accentuating it even more. "This IS fun. I haven't seen him this uncomfortable in a while."

"Right?" Tsuru said as she walked, hips swaying sensually, over to Naruto. "It's tough these days to get him nervous but for some reason our forms make him a self-conscious teen again."

Tsuru grabbed Naruto by the arm and pressed up against it. "Haven't you had like a dozen children? What's wrong Naru-kun? Been too long?"

Naruto gazed down into her eyes trying his best to avoid the tantalizing globes currently resting on either side of his arm.

"There is some brand new food and alcohol from this planet behind me."

He instantly saw her face light up before making a beeline straight for the table with Son Goku right behind her. As the others made their way towards Naruto, Matatabi spoke up.

"You really know what to do to distract her."

"Well, it's not the first time let's be honest." Naruto said as he turned to them. "Thanks for coming guys. As you know the seal was a voluntary summons but I was still surprised so many of you guys came. What are the other guys up to? And do you want me to call you another name in those forms?"

"I'm feeling Nyuuki for this one." Hachibi said heading to the table to try and get some food and drink before it all disappeared.

"Call me Kumiko." Kyuubi said watching the scene playing out before her from next to Naruto.

"From what I understand Naruto," Kokuou spoke lying down on the sand a little ways away from all the commotion. "Saiken, Isobu and Chomei are having the time of their lives on a massive forest planet that the third fleet discovered."

Naruto smiled "I see."

Heading to the table himself Naruto declared loudly. "After this I'll run my plan by you but for now," he said grabbing a large bottle of alcohol and taking a swig. "Let's have some fun!"


Wu Qi was not having a good couple of days.

First a whole squad of his men had gone into the village nearby and gotten pissed out of their minds. The men of the village had pushed back and it had almost been a complete blood bath. He had just negotiated peace with their elder for spirits sake. Then he had gotten a message from the supply ships that they had been delayed by several days. To top it all off some of the tents had been stolen from and there was no evidence of who had done it. Now he had to deal with some crazy man that had made his way right in the path of his marching troops. The man had supposedly been spouting nonsense and refusing to let his men through.

Placing his helmet on, but leaving the face plate, Wu left his command carriage and headed to the front of the procession. Wu knew that Fire Nation armour was enough to intimidate most people but he tried to do his best to get matters to a peaceful resolution. War was long. The fewer battles he had the better but he wasn't an idiot.

"Sergeants take some men and secure are flanks." He called to the grouping of men around him. He didn't want them potentially getting caught in a trap.

As he approached the front of the column he began to hear the commotion. Quickly making his way over he finally saw the man blocking the road.

Dressed in ragged torn robes, with a scraggly grey beard, withered face and bald head the old man certainly looked like a nut job. He waved a long staff around in a circle around his head keeping the Fire Nation soldiers trying to grab him at bay.

"You don't understand! This isn't something to be taken lightly! They are pissed off!" the old man bellowed to the soldiers.

Wu gestured to one of the men and asked him, "Who is he talking about and why hasn't he been dealt with?"

He didn't like harming civilians but if they didn't get to their position a lot more people were going to die. Their strategy rested on them making it to the ambush point.

"We don't know who he is sir." The solider responded and looked over at the old man nervously. "But look at that staff he has."

Wu looked closer and raised an eyebrow. That staff was only seen with Fire Nation priests and holy men. Well that explained it then. His men didn't want to risk angering the spirits or ancestors by burning the man.

Making his way over to the old man he waved for his men to stand down.

"I am the commander of the thirty-fifth battalion of the fire nation, Wu Qi, who are you?" he didn't want to anger the man but there needed to be some progress made in this situation.

The old man looked him up and down before shaking his head and saying "It doesn't matter who I am what matters is what I have to say."

Turning to face him head on, the short old man continued in a loud voice, "Listen well! The spirits are moving. They are fed up with this war and are now taking matters into their own hands. I came to warn you of this. It is too late for a lot of people but I couldn't stand by and do nothing so I had to warn as many of my countrymen as possible. Do not continue this battle or their will be consequences!"

Having said his piece the man turned and headed straight for the tree line leaving Wu in a state of bewilderment.

"Wait! What the Hell! You can't just say something like that and just walk away." Wu said as he made to follow the man.

"I have to warn more people. Pass on the message." The old man said as he walked into the woods.

Running after the man with his men running after him he ran to the forest but when he got there wasn't a whisper of the bald man.

"What in spirits name was that?" he heard some of his men say.

"He just disappeared?!"

"Was that a spirit?"

Wu clenched his fists tightly. It didn't matter what it was, they had a job to do.

"Don't lose your focus men! We need to keep moving! Get back in formation!"

The spirits didn't care about human matters. If they did, this war wouldn't have gone on for so long. However, he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy at the whole situation.

The rest of their journey passed without incident. Arriving on a hill that overlooked the Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom lines they positioned themselves and waited for the signal to begin. Wu could already see the Fire Nation troops on the battle field preparing to move out and the Earth Kingdom soldiers, having noticing this, were getting into formation as well.

Hopefully with their ambush the Earth Kingdoms troops would break and surrender. He really didn't want-

Oh ancestors. What in spirits name was that?!

Rising above the trees was a spirit. A massive one. How had no one spotted it?! It was orange!

The spirit had the snout of a fox knowledge seeker, that he had once seen pictures of, and large ears much like a rabaroo. It had long multiple tails waving behind it, hind legs, what looked like a human torso and deadly claws.

As he heard his men begin to clammier and cry out, completely abandoning their stealth, he knew he should command them to get it together but he himself was having trouble even moving. What was this oppressive energy weighing him to the spot? He was afraid. For a long time he had forgotten the feeling.

The spirit made its way to the middle of the battlefield, not paying either army even a glance, and lay down closing its eye's and seemingly going to sleep.

Suddenly he remembered the old man. They couldn't fight that thing! He had to get it together. His men's lives were at stake.

"Get me a komodo rhino!" he commanded to his distraught troops. "No one is to engage anyone, especially that spirit! Hold position until I return!"

He had to warn the general. The main army could not risk getting destroyed by the spirit.

Naruto opened his eyes and nodded at the feedback he was getting. At every battlefield across the globe the tailed beasts and their clones were making themselves known to the world.

How did one stop a war dead in its tracks? Well there were several ways but the one he had gone with was fear. Fear of the spirits, overwhelming power and the instincts to preserve life. He would teach them that war was not the answer and rather than debate with their leaders while the war raged on, he would stop it now.

Naruto looked up at the sky and sighed. It would be tough but he had his friends with him now. There wasn't anything he couldn't do without them.


Authors Note: There it is my first story chapter. Had the idea a little while ago to do a crossover with Naruto as a space traveller and coming across another universe. At first I had no idea of which world I wanted to interact with. I chose Avatar the Last Airbender because it fit and I was fairly confident tackling it. Read and Review. Flames will be ignored.