PROUGLE

"Gah this is useless!" I shouted throwing my hands in the air "I'm never going to get this"

"Calm yourself Ayako"

"This is pointless, I'm not built for this peaceful life... it's the avatars job to bring peace but how can I do that if there's already peace!"

"It's the avatars job to maintain peace" he corrected

"Oh whatever, I want adventure, life threatening danger and maybe even a wild romance, not all this meditating stuff"

"You underestimate the true value of peace"

"I don't need another lecture" I grumbled "I'm the best earth bender there is, even better than the blind bandit! My fire is nearly just as good, my water isn't bad and my air bending..."

"Stinks?" he added in with a tired laugh

"Bluntly put but yes" I sighed hanging my head

"As opposite as water is to fire so is earth to air, every avatar has trouble learning their opposites"

"Yeah I know they keep telling me that" I sighed hanging my head

"Oh you have talked to them?"

"First thing you taught me remember, when I first came here... over a year ago" I frowned "I only spent a few months everywhere else"

"Always in a rush, here drink this" he said handing me a coconut filled with strange liquid

"What is it? Wait it isn't that banana thing is it?" I asked scrunching up my face

"It will take to a new world where you will learn the true meaning of peace"

"Well... ok here goes nothing"

CHAPTER 1

"My head" I groaned sitting up

"You're awake"

"No thanks to you, what did you put in that drink?" I asked swinging my legs over the bed

"I think you have me confused with someone else"

"What?"

I rubbed my eyes and looked around me, this place was defiantly NOT the western air temple and there was so much rock, or more sand around. My eyes widened as I looked for the person I was speaking with, he was standing in the corner wearing all black with some kid of hat on his head that made him look like he had bat ears and there were purple markings on his face.

"Who are you?" I asked jumping out of bed

"Relax, I'm not here to hurt ya" he said moving away from the corner "the names Kankuro"

"Where am I?"

"You're in the village hidden in the sand, you're lucky we came across you, if we didn't you would have died out in the desert"

"Village hidden in the sand? Desert? What are you talking about, where's the western air temple and all the monks!"

"Never heard of it" he shrugged "and you were on your own when we found you"

"Oh god, gotta get back, gotta get back, gotta get back" I chanted over and over as I ran out of the room

"Hey wait!"

I ignored him and continued to run around trying to find a way out of the building, eventually a found a way up to the roof. Nearly falling over at every turn and running into every wall I made it up to the roof only to wish I never did, all around me, for as far as the eye could see was desert, nothing but sand and the hot sun beating down at me.

"This can't be" I gasped

My head felt like it was spinning and before I knew it my body started to fall, I tried to stop myself from falling but all that did was push me over the side of the roof, so now instead of falling a meter or so it was now a few stories. Avatar instincts taking over I quickly turned around and bought the sand up to meet me, it covered me from head to toe slowly descending me to the ground before vanishing back into the ground.

"Whew, that was close" I sighed wiping my brow

I looked up and saw a lot of people staring at me, as if they had never seen the avatar before, no this stare were more as if they had never seen an earth bender before. One person stirred in the crowd and everyone moved aside for them whispering 'kazekage' whatever that meant. A boy looking around my age walked out with a huge gourd on his back; once I got past the gourd I noticed his red hair and dark eyes and that look that dared me to try something.

Unlike the guy from before he was wearing some kind of long red coat with a grey armour plat over top, his arms were folded as he stopped in front of me looking down at me even though we were around the same height. Luckily before any words could be spoken the bat guy from before jumped down next to me making me jump.

"Did he just jump from the roof?" I thought staring at him in amazement

"Hey Gaara" he said casually to the scary looking guy

"You were meant to be watching her" he said not taking his eyes from me

"Yeah she ran off"

"Who are you and why are you here?"

"I'm Ayako"

Nothing, no reaction what so ever, just blank stares from those around me and unimpressed from the scary guy in front of me.

"You know... the avatar..."

Still only blank stares, I couldn't believe this was possible, someone it this world didn't know who I was.

"Well this is new" I said with a nervous chuckle

"What kind of jutsu did you use?"

"Huh?"

"To control the sand" he said getting angry with me

"It's called earth bending... I have no idea what a jutsu is"

"Well this is awkward..."

"Why are you here?"

"I have no idea, the old monk gave me some stuff to drink that's meant to 'show me the true meaning of peace' and I woke up here... so umm if you could just point me to the western air temple will be on my way"

"Hey Gaara that isn't one of them temples in the land of ogres is it?"

He stopped staring at me and walked away making me sigh in relief; I still had no idea where to go though.

"You should probably follow him" bat guy whispered to me

"Do I have to?"

"If you don't want to see him angry I would" he explained walking calmly after the red head

"Aww man" I sighed following after them

I felt like I was walking to my doom and thought about just running off and taking my chances in the desert but then we came to a smallish house. After walking in I felt instantly cooler, I didn't burn easy and I was used to the sun but that didn't mean I liked it at all, plus I was still wearing the monk outfit making me twice as hot.

"Make sure she doesn't run off this time" he said before leaving

"Is he always like that?" I asked once he was gone

"Not always..." he answered sounding a little unsure of his answer "did you want something to drink?"

"Sure, thanks... so your name was Kankuro right?"

"That's right" he said pouring me some water

"And the scary one is Gaara?"

"Yeah"

"And I'm in the village hidden in the sand... do you guys leave the village much? Or get any visitors?"

"Sure, Gaara and I only returned from the village hidden in the leaves the this morning when we found you"

"... village hidden in the sand, village hidden in the leaves, what kind of names are they"

"Were also known as Sunagakure or Suna for short, and village in the leaves is Konohagakure, Konoha for short" he explained handing the cup to me

"Oh ok, that's better… still weird but better"

"You said you were an avatar, is that what the top ninja is called where you're from?" he asked sitting down

"Not an avatar, the avatar and what do you mean ninja?"

"You don't know what a ninja is?" he shouted shocked

"I know what a ninja is, they wear black suits and mask and can jump around and they use inner strength to do cool things, I met a few when I was traveling around the earth kingdom"

"Earth kingdom? What's that?"

"What do you mean 'what's that' it's only the biggest of the four nations"

"Four nations? You mean 5 nations right?"

"No I mean 4, the earth kingdom, fire nation, air nomads, and the water tribes"

"I don't know what you're talking about but there are 5, I'll show you"

He grabbed out a scroll and laid it out before me, it was meant to be a map of the world but it was all wrong, completely different to what I knew.

"This isn't right…" I muttered

I reached into my robe and pulled out my own map, since I started traveling around the world I learnt to always keep it tucked inside my shirt just in case.

"Why didn't I just use this before…. But looking at his map it wouldn't have helped me"

I laid out mine under him and we both looked at each other confused, two completely different worlds were laid out before us.

"A new world" I whispered "I can't believe it, that old coot sent me to a completely different world!"

"What?"

"I was training under a monk and he made me drink something that would send me to a new world, that's why our maps are different. I'm from this world" I said pointing to my map "but he sent me to yours... well that explains why no one knew who I was"

"So you're not from this world?"

"no and the worst part is I have no idea how to get back to mine... what if something happens while I'm gone... what if a war breaks out, what if I'm need and I can't get back, what if I die here and a new avatar can't be born, what if..." I stopped mid-sentence and let out a sigh "I doubt the world is going to collapse, it's been peaceful for as long as I know"

"What is an avatar?"

"It's a single person who has control over the four elements, earth, fire, water and air"

By the look of his blank face he wasn't getting it.

"Here I'll show you"

Slowly a small amount of sand drifted up from the ground gathering in my hand; once I had enough I started to change the shape of it.

"This is earth bending, it allows the user to control earth, and not just earth either but metal to"

"How did you do that?"

"It's hard to explain really... it just something benders can do, it's as natural to us as walking and talking" I explained letting it fall back into the ground "I was born as an earth bender but because I'm the avatar I have control over all the elements"

Using the cup of water he gave me I started to bend it, making it twist and turn flying in mid-air.

"Give us enough water and we can create tilde waves or water dragons but water benders don't just have control over water either, we can also freeze it" I said turning it into ice catching it in my hand "truly talented water benders can bend water from just about anything, clouds in the sky, a flower, some grass even sweat from your body. There is also a forbidden technique call blood bending, it bends the blood inside a person, it's a horrible thing that no water bender is allowed to use"

"Water can be a little annoying though, out here in a desert for example there aren't really any sources of water so were only good when there's water around, earth is always around us as is air and fire is inside of us but water we need to have it with us"

"You can create fire?"

"Yeah" I nodded

I held my hand out palm facing up as a small flame started to form, Kankuro stared at it in amazement then he stuck his finger in it quickly pulling it back shaking his hand.

"Well of course it's going to burn" I sighed getting rid of the flame

"Doesn't it burn you?"

"Not really... it's strange, it's not like I can't get burnt but my own flame doesn't seem to harm me. Fire is kind of cool but it has a life of its own sending waves of destruction, despite that though it's always handy to have, there are some fire benders that can summon lightning, the best I can do though is redirect it"

"What about air?"

"I have trouble with air" I explained concentrating on making a small air ball in the palm of my hand "as fire is opposite to water earth is opposite to air' that's what the old monk is always telling me anyway, I think what he means is that the reason I have such trouble with it is because I'm originally earth. When I master it though I'll be able to move with the wind, fly even, right now the best I can do is send a small gust of wind and create small concentrated balls like this one"

"That seems like a lot of power for one person" he sighed moving back a little

"That's why there's only one of me, I'm the symbol of peace in my world, well anyway that's how my world works, what about this one? You were talking about ninjas before"

He told me what he could about his world, that this world was run by the 5 kage's and Gaara was one of them. Ninja's used chakra, some kind of energy that was in their body to perform jutsu's that in turn could create things very similar to my bending as well as a lot of other things. I found out that Kankuro was actually the older brother of Gaara and he had an older sister Temari who was currently living in Konoha, by the time we finished talking the sun had gone down and Gaara walked in to see us laughing like old friends.

"Hey Gaara, you're not going to believe this but Ayako is from a different world and she can control fire, water, earth and air" he said standing up

Gaara looked at him like he was insane, Kankuro tried to fill him in but in the end I was the one that had to explain it. Gaara didn't seem all that interested in it though, I did notice he started to relax a little once he heard about the peace thing.

"So why does he carry around a gourd full of sand?" I whispered to Kankuro

"He uses his chakra to bend the sand to do his will, a bit like you're earth bending"

"... and there isn't enough sand around here so he has to carry it?"

"It's a special kind of sand"

"Kankuro where's dinner"

"You know I can't cook Gaara, that was always Temari's job"

"I can cook" I pointed out

Gaara looked back at me for a second before turning around again and vanishing into a room.

"Is he like that to everyone or is it just me?"

"It's not you don't worry"

"That's good... well lets starts dinner then"

Darning dinner Kankuro and I did most of the talking while Gaara just sat there silently, after dinner Kankuro showed me to his sister's old room telling me I could sleep there then I was left alone. Not having anything else to wear I laid down in the air nomad clothing slowly drifting off to sleep in this strange new world.