"What do you see what's going on, Boss?"
Behind the great stage were more and more Equalists were getting their teeth knocked out a group of villains were left unattended.
Lightning Bolt Zolt and the rest of his captured men of the Triple Threat Triad were trying their best to escape from their bondage. But as they shuffled around furiously Zolt remained still his eyes never leaving the stage.
"This, this isn't right." Zolt said as he continued to block everyone else's view. "Back in the old days when I was just a miserable runt no different than the rest of you I saw Avatar Aang getting his hands dirty taking out Republic City's trash using that Airbending of his but this kid…"
Watching Naruto stand in one place allowing the Equalists to rush at him only for the yellow haired boy to dodge a strike to deliver a kick or to spin around in order to grab a jab and shoot out a blink and you'll miss it barrage of his own.
"…He's something else something more brutal, more direct, more dangerous. With these chi blocking mooks it's like their a bunch of halfwits trying to pick a fight with a hurricane or something."
"That's a real nice idea for a metaphor or some kind of epic poem." Shady Shin one of Zolt's recruiters whispered harshly. "But don't you think we should get out of here already!"
Zolt turned his head and gave Shin a dry look as he raised his brow. "Oh yeah and how far do you think we'll get with us being tied up as we are?"
Before Shin could give a halfhearted reply his ropes, along with Zolt's, and the other gangsters' suddenly snapped in half falling to the ground.
"Well I guess that works!" Shin said as he jumped up to his feet along with the rest of Zolt's underlings as they headed to the back door leaving Zolt himself and a young way word Earthbender behind.
"Funny you don't seem all that eager to leave?" a voice from the shadows said as a teenager with spiky black hair tied in a ponytail wearing a black uniform with a forest green vest over it walked past Zolt and the remaining Earthbender.
The teenager reached into his pocket and pulled out a cigarette placing in his mouth he watched the stage not looking back as he spoke again. "If I were you I'd leave before the authorities surrounded this facility. They have word that an illegal public gathering is being held here."
"You're with him aren't you?" Zolt said as he got up his face splitting into a sinister smile. "You're that Airbender's partner or something."
The teenager looked back at Zolt with his cigarette moving around his lips. "It's more like I'm his babysitter on most days."
Laughing as he held his forehead Zolt yelled out. "The two of you here in this city you're here to change things!"
Taking the tobacco out of his mouth the teen replied. "No we're just here for that hooded guy's mask actually."
"No, no after tonight nothing's going to be the same ever again, something coming something big I can feel it!" Zolt started to walk backwards before he took off laughing like a mad man screaming.
"Sigh some people just can't accept that not everything as a deeper meaning" The teenager with the spiky ponytail looked back at the other remaining teenager. "Well aren't you going to escape with your boss and the other members of your gang?"
"What no there's…there's just been a little misunderstanding I'm not a criminal I'm just an athlete an entertainer really." the Earthbender said as he tried to defend himself.
The other teenager just shrugged making his way to the staging pausing to give in his two cents. "Whatever you want to call yourself doesn't matter. But you made a choice to be here if it was for money, fame, or power you choose to be in the company of criminals and almost paid the price for it. Don't try to make excuses, be a man and own up to your path."
The ponytailed teen then calmly made his way onto the stage rubbing the back of his neck as he yawned out. "This whole day's just been too troublesome."
As Naruto finished lunging forward with two open palms knocking out yet another two Equalists he pulled back without even turning around. "I was wondering when you'd show up, Shikamaru."
The lazy teenager turned around so that he was back to back with Naruto, as the last squad of Equalists circled around the two of them. "You couldn't just go with my plan to switch the mask with a fake could you? Why do you always have to do things the harder way?"
"This isn't about doing things the easy way." Naruto said firmly.
"I know, believe me for the longest time you always thought that you never had a lineage. But know that you found out your family had roots all the way down in the Old World you're trying to make sure it never becomes forgotten again and that no one perverts your inheritance. That's why you let that Amon guy escape isn't it."
Naruto relaxed stretching out as he paid his enemies no mind. "Yeah I guess but it's more like I want to kill this monster by the gut. If I just cut off the head another one's just going to take its place."
"…You got that line from that stupid movie didn't you?"
"You mean that awesome movie then yeah I did now are you going to actually help and take out these losers or am I?"
Shikamaru closed his eyes as he held his hands together and focused his mind. Thanks to the ambient lighting the stage had casted some mighty interesting shaped shadows, shadows that were rising from the ground as they were given a third dimension.
"What is this?" An Equalist shouted as he found himself unable to move. "What kind of bending is this?"
Naruto and Shikamaru ignored the panicking masked men as they continued to have their conversation.
"Most of people in the audience ran out of here when I let Amon run away." Naruto stated as he looked at the semi vacant factory. "Just finish this before the authorities find this place."
"It's already too late for that. I saw a squad of them in those motorized buggies forming a perimeter when I got here we might have to make an enemy out of them to escape this facility."
"We're ninjas Shika we invited the phrase as silent as the night."
