Chapter One

The Arrival

Uzumaki Naruto stepped out of his apartment. He yawned and stuck his hands in his pocket.

"Good Morning, Naruto!" he heard a voice he will never forget say.

He looked to the left. Sakura was waving enthusiastically at him. Sai smiled and raised his hand in greeting. Naruto grinned, happy to see his friends. He ran over to them.

"Hey you guys!" he said. Sakura smiled.

"It's vacation day!" she said. Naruto grinned and nodded at them.

"I know! I've waited for two months for this!"

The team walked to the main gate of their wonderful village of Konoha.

"Naruto Nii-San!" said a young, sweet voice behind him.

He turned to the village. Konohamaru was running toward him. Naruto put his hands behind his head and smiled at his little friend. Konohamaru reached him, out of breath.

"Are you- going on a mission already?" Konohamaru asked breathlessly. Naruto had just returned from a mission the day before.

"Nope," Naruto said, "Sakura-Chan, Sai, Kakashi-Sensei and I are going on a vacation today." Naruto replied confidently. Konohamaru looked pleased.

"When will you be back?" he asked. Naruto thought hard about that.

"In maybe two months," Naruto said, nodding, "Yup, yup"

Konohamaru puts his hands behind his head.

"Well, have fun! I'll miss you!" Konohamaru says with an even voice, walking off.

"Konohamaru," Naruto says, then quietly, "thanks,"

Konohamaru looks back, looking kind of sad. He wipes his watery eyes. Naruto's eyes water too. Konohamaru runs back to Naruto and hugs him tightly. Naruto hugs his back twice was tight.

"I'll miss you!" Naruto and Konohamaru say together. They stand hugging each other (of course Naruto has to kneel) crying and telling each other how much they'll miss each other.

Sakura rolled her eyes. Crybabies, she thought.

"Yo!" They heard. They looked up to see Kakashi standing by the gate, smiling. Naruto and Konohamaru parted from their embrace. They both sniffled and wiped their tears.

"Bye!" everyone said to Konohamaru as they left.

"Good bye!" Konohamaru said back. "See you Naruto Nii-Chan!"

Naruto smiled, waving at this little boy, who was like his little brother.

"Bye!" he said again, smiling weakly at his little student.

They arrived at the Land of Waves just in time. The boat pulled away from the shore and out into the open sea. Kakashi decided they didn't need a captain, so it was just the team on the boat.

"Ugh! I hate boats!" Toph complained.

Sokka smirked, "Would you rather be flying?" he asked.

Toph frowned, "No! I'd rather walk on the nice solid ground!" Katara walked up behind Sokka.

"Well, Toph, flying on Appa or sailing is the only way to get to the Island of Dreams." Katara said.

"Well, I hate it!" Toph replied.

Zuko yawned, sleepily. "Well, I don't care about the transportation, I just wish we were there already so I wouldn't have to listen to you complain all the time."

"Shut up!" Toph shouted at him.

"Hey, come on you guys, let's enjoy this trip." Katara says.

Sokka shrugs. Zuko lies back down and closes his eyes against the bright, shining sun. Momo finds a comfy place to rest on Zuko's chest. Zuko grumbles, but ignores him.

"Why did we need to come with Aang anyway?" Toph asks annoyed, "He could just go to visit the monk on the island himself."

Katara sighs.

"Because, what if that beggar was lying about Monk Shiroku wanting to teach the avatar?" Katara says. Just then, Appa sweeps down next to the boat with Aang on his back.

"You okay Toph?" Aang asks from Appa's back. Toph grumbles.

"I'm fine," she said. She had always had a certain respect for Aang.

"Are you crazy?" Lucy shouted at Happy. Happy was eating everything he could get his hands on.

"We won't have enough food to get us to Piper Island!" Happy ignored Lucy and continued eating. Natsu, a light blue shade and his eyes glazed over, looked at Happy and pukes over the side of the boat.

"I hate boats!" Natsu grumbled. Grey sighed.

"Poor Natsu," Erza said, sincerely. Erza looked at Happy in annoyance.

"Save some food for the rest of us, Happy." Happy put a couple of unwanted vegetables aside and looked up at Lucy, smiling mockingly.

"Look out!" Grey shouted. Everyone looked up. There was a silent, enormous cyclone right in front of them. They could see dark, threatening storm clouds floating above the deadly cyclone.

"Get us out of here!" Lucy shouted at Grey, who was steering. Grey was frantic. He turned the wheel sharply to the left. The ship banked steeply to the left, making Natsu puke his guts out again. The cyclone turned to the boat, as if by magic and glided toward them.

"Natsu!" Erza said, "See if you can do anything about that monster!"

Natsu coughed and wipes his mouth. He stood up, wobbling a little. Natsu was pumped up. He did a powerful 'Dragon's breath' but it had no effect on the raging cyclone and Natsu fell down, dizzy. He shook his head, causing a wave of dizziness to wash over him. Lucy knelt next to him.

"Are you alright?" she asked, concerned. Natsu shook his head weakly.

"No! I'm not alright thanks for asking!" Grey shouted, "Help us do something, Lucy!"

Just as Lucy's about to pull out a key, their ship is sucked into the cyclone and they're whipped around and around, but strangely, no one felt the force of being spun and nothing flies off the boat, not even Natsu. Natsu wasn't even feeling sick anymore. He stood up and joined his friends at the side of the boat. No one notices Natsu's recovery.

"Whoa," Happy said. The water, no it wasn't water, it wasn't wet, and air around them swirled into a beautiful pattern of blue, white and more blue. Lucy held her breath. It was so stunning.

"Wow, it's so pretty," Happy stated.

All of a sudden, the team was thrown back fiercely as the boat pitched forward, toward the bare center of the cyclone. Erza caught her balance at the last moment and remained standing. Happy was caught by Lucy, right before she hit the rough wooden base of the boat. Natsu turned a pale shade of blue at the sudden movement and fell onto Grey. Grey shoved him off, cursing. All of a sudden, the boat dropped with a splash. Natsu was so light headed, he passed out. Erza grabbed him and lifted him into a standing position. She hit him in the head and Natsu fell down, slowly opening his eyes.

"Look!" Lucy said. Everyone looked at their surroundings. There was no cyclone. All around them, they only saw clear light blue water that looked almost as if it had been painted. The only things they saw were two other boats bobbing up and down a short distance away.

"Look out!" Naruto yelled out as they tried to get away from the scary cyclone. Kakashi turned the boat around swiftly without any luck. The boat was sucked in before they could do anything about it. The Konoha ninjas jumped out of the boat and on the water, standing. They tried to get away, but were sucked in, too. They moved around and around, but felt as if they weren't moving at all. The swirls of blue and white around them were beautiful. They didn't even notice the dryness of the 'water'.

"What kind of jutsu is this?" Naruto wondered aloud. Kakashi lifted up his forehead protector, showing his sharingan and looked around. There wasn't any chakra in this thing at all!

"This thing has no chakra!" Kakashi said. Naruto and Sakura gasped.

"What is it made of?" Sai asked, running his hands through the empty air of color. Before they knew it, they were falling into the ocean. One by one, they landed with a splash on the water. They stood there, looking at their surroundings.

"Where in the world are we?" Sakura asked. Water seemed to go on endlessly in every direction.

"I don't think we're in the world," Naruto wondered aloud. Sai jumped into the boat.

"Hey come up here!" he shouted out. Kakashi, Sakura and Naruto followed him up. They saw two lone boats not so far away. The boats were oddly made, so they didn't recognize them from any country they knew of.

"So they're the ones who used that chakra-less jutsu on us, huh?" Naruto stated, getting pumped, "I'm going to beat them up!" Kakashi shook his head and put a hand on Naruto's shoulder.

"There's something weird going on here," he said, "I don't see any chakra on any of the boats." The teenagers gasped and turned to the boats.

"Who- who the heck are these people!" Naruto yelled in anguish, his voice echoing off the water.

"Are you guys okay?" Katara asked, worried. What kind of cyclone was that anyway?

"Y- Yeah, I'm okay," Aang said. Appa had been sucked in and he and Momo were exhauseted, so Aang had joined his friends on the boat.

"What's happening?" Toph asked.

"I'm alright," Zuko said. "Yeah me too," agreed Sokka.

"Hello?" Toph asked again.

"Whoa!" Sokka said, suddenly. Aang, Katara and Zuko looked up. There was a vast, empty ocean. They only saw two other strangely shaped boats.

"What in the world's going on!" Toph asked, impatiently. Everyone was freaking out and no one was telling her what was going on!

"We are somewhere completely different," Aang told Toph, "There are two other boats here, but I don't see any land." Toph sat down on the wooden floor of the boat.

"Well, that sucks," she said. Katara looked out at the boats again. There was a boat coming toward them, fast. There were a couple of visible people. There was a boy in orange and a girl in pink that she could barely make out.

"Do you think they were the ones who did this to us?" Sokka asked. They were getting really close.

"I don't know," Aang said, "but if they are, they're most likely water benders, I mean, remember that cyclone?"

"Uh, Aang?" Sokka hesitated, "I don't think they're coming here to play,"

~ End of Chapter 1~