A New Avatar for a Whole New World

Hey all its Sojiro! Guys I just want to throw out there thanks for the Favs and Follows on my first Chapter for this story. That being said please keep me in your prayers and please pass on the word about the story if you liked it enough, and please do leave comments if you have questions, suggestions, or anything of the rather. Thanks a bunch again guys. Well as I said before lets dive in the water's feeling fine. Oh and to get it outta the way now I don't own Naruto or Avatar or any other reference made here in any way shape or form,(until I introduce my own OC's that is.) I will not be doing this again because if I owned either of these things I'd be rich and would have much more time on my hands for other things.

"People Speaking"

'People's Thought's'

"Jutsu, Tailed Beast, Summoning Speech"

'Tailed Beast, Summoning Thought's'

Earth…

Water…

Fire…

Air…

Long Ago… in another world the Avatar, the bridge between the spirit and physical world kept balance. Now that job has passed to a new boy and a whole new world…that boys name…is Naruto… We can only hope that he will bring the so needed balance to his world. But it's okay because the Spirits believe… And so do I!

Book One: Earth

Chapter 2

Shakin things up… and down!?

15 miles east of Tanzaku Town, 370 miles from the Village hidden in the leaves.

Finally feeling the effects of the Avatar state fade and coming to a stop we find our young hero Naruto not too far from the legendary Tanzaku Town, a place known for its night life and scenery. Upon finding himself outside a small cave our young and newly minted Avatar decided to rest up for the night and waltzed right on in.

Once arriving a few feet into the cave Naruto found himself overtaken by a slight feeling of nausea, and he quickly came to understand why as his two spirit friends made their re-appearance. After taking a few moments to catch his breath Naruto looked up and couldn't help but smile at his traveling spirit guides, who would become his future teachers.

After taking stock of where they had arrived and looking at the soft white glow illuminating the entrance to the cave entrance due to the moonlight Toph and Zuko shared a small nod approving of where they had wound up, after Aang had taken control of Naruto's body to get them out of the immediate vicinity of The Hidden Leaf.

Zuko scooted to the left side of the cave and sat himself up against the wall, while Toph stomped a foot down on the ground and made a subtle pushing motion with both hands palms facing down to create two separate rock slabs that looked like beds to Naruto. Immediately after gawking at the quick display of earth-bending the young blonde displayed the exact behavior a certain air nomad once displayed at the prospect of learning to Earth-bend, and began bombarding his teacher with question.

"Toph, how does earth-bending really work? Is it hard? What are you gonna teach me first? Will I be able to lift giant boulders? Will I…" Naruto began yammering off like there was no tomorrow, until a certain earth-bender delivered a quick but light whap upside his head.

"Slow…Down Goldilocks, how'z about we work on "Move a Rock" first thing in the morning okay? Your startin to remind me of twinkle toes when we started his training." Toph stated as she started to clench her right hand to adjust her own rock bed with the smallest of smirks playing at her lips.

"I wasn't with you guys for that part, it must have been something…" Zuko commented as he was starting to remove his weapons from his back.

Immediately; Zuko's comment caught Naruto's attention and, like any kid he figured the best way to get a story was pull out the charm on his companion. Turning on the only jutsu he knew any kid could pull off, chakra or not, he whipped out the "Puppy Dog Eye's Jutsu" and turned his most pleading face onto his scarred teacher. Catching a look at the boy's face two things happened, Zuko looked like someone had kicked him in the gut and Toph hearing Zuko's groan of discomfort began to chuckle knowing exactly what was going on.

"He's got the look doesn't he? Man you are such a sucker… Mai used to pull that when she wanted something from you." The blind Earth-bending master stated as she dropped her pauldrons, and chest plate revealing a tight form-fitting black mesh shirt as she proceeded to jump and land with a thump on her earth bed.

Zuko… The once Fire Lord of the Bending countries could only stare in slight horror as the young Avatar began to slowly advance on him with his hands clasped before him in a pleading gesture.

Hearing a little snicker in the back of his mind Naruto knew exactly what to do… "Oh please Sifu Hot-men would you tell me a story before bed?" Naruto said as he listened to Aang's distant laughter in the back of his mind.

At that Zuko could only roll his eyes, realizing who had put his new charge up to pulling those kinds of shenanigans this late in the evening.

"You can tell Aang that I said his phrases are still so old my Great Grandfather wants them back, and no it's too late for a story right now Naruto… you need to sleep we have a very busy day ahead of us tomorrow. If you're thinking it's gonna be all about Earth-bending this and slamming stuff that you've got another thing coming… I'm gonna be making sure you can survive in the wild all on your own before your even allowed to go to the nearest town. " Zuko said as he began to sit back down to make himself comfortable against the cavern wall.

At that statement Naruto's face fell for a minute really hoping to prod into what it was like back in the world his compatriot's had come from, but he relaxed himself with the thought that there would always be time for that later.

Leaning back and spreading his arms wide to let out a back creaking yawn our young hero then walked over to his earth bed and climbed up to get some rest from what was left of the night, realizing that his scarred mentor was correct.

As the boy began to drift down into a land of slumber he quickly re-awoke and had a harder time going to the land of dreams after his previously aforementioned mentor opened his mouth again…

"And let me tell you something if you think I'm a grueling taskmaster by the end of tomorrow just remember, Toph is almost like a guy and she almost hits as hard as one to prove it." Zuko said as he closed his eyes to drift off himself.

The Next thing Naruto knew is that he heard a loud thwap as a palm struck rock, which was then followed by a loud smack and a loud string of obscenities that only grew more distant as a small amount of time went on.

"Let me make something clear goldilocks… I normally don't let petty shit like that bug me, but if I ever catch you saying something about My ability to hit hard I'm going to make that demonstration look like a love tap… M'kay? Toph said as she rolled back over to emphasize her point to her pupil.

Naruto could only nod his head dumbly at his earth-bending teacher's statement, before he rolled over onto his side and began to drift back off into a land of slumber.

As soon as Toph was sure that the boy was out, she lifted her hand up in a come here motion and Zuko walked back into the illuminated section of the cave. Zuko took up his position against the wall of the cave again while Toph lay facing the ceiling sprawled out on her rock bed, both remaining silent until Zuko finished collecting his thoughts.

"Okay… first things first sorry about that crack on your hitting, and second we've got to decide how were gonna divide the kids training time from now on." The scarred Fire Lord said as he rested himself on his side with his back to the wall.

"Ehhh don't worry about the jab, and I'm kinda lookin at takin the second half of the day till it's time to go to bed, since I kinda figured you gotta really beat some basic stuff into the kids dome." Toph said as she reached a long tone leg upward in a bent position so she could begin picking in-between her toes.

"… Do you have to do that in front of people all the time?" Zuko questioned as he could only sweat drop at his friends antics that she had been doing since long before he even met her.

"Hey not my fault you gotta lay there starin at me while I'm layin here, what you want a me to tuck you in… cuz that's not gonna happen sparky." Toph said as she clapped her hands together to remove any undesirable gook from her previous task off of her hands.

Shaking his head and holding his tongue from responding to the very loaded statement Toph had made, Zuko then sat himself back up and began to go over what he was going to teach Naruto which then lead Toph to reciprocating.

The sun was barely poking over the horizon, when Naruto was shaken from slumber by a sudden small amount of weight on his stomach. Naruto blearily wiped the sleep from his eyes and leaned up on his elbows to find himself staring at a strange looking animal. The animal had a white coat of sleek fur with a black marking framing its face like a mask, and a large patch covering its stomach. The animal had a pair of bright piercing green eyes, and from the look of its arms Naruto could only guess that the strange mammal had a pair of what he believed were wings connected to its arms. The strange little thing brought it's lithe tail around to the front and it proceeded to rub through it as if looking for bugs, and then turned it's big eyes upon Naruto.

The creature made a strange kind of half purr/grunt that to Naruto combined with the lop-sided look the thing was giving him, made it seem as though it were saying "just who in the heck are you?" Naruto was about to address said animal, when the ground threw him about a foot in the air only for him to come landing back down painfully on his butt. The boy quickly stood up and took the most basic taijutsu stance he could remember his sister taking one of the few times he had watched her train with their parents, only to be snatched up by his collar and dragged out into the rising light of the sun. Quickly blinking away the vestiges of sleep, he realized he was being held up by Zuko as he was being taken out of the cave. After being unceremoniously dropped on his butt Naruto leapt to his feet and began following his survivalist mentor into the deeper woods by their hovel, spewing every obscenity that a five year old could come up with.

As they trudged on into a nearby clearing with a small stream running through it Zuko took a seated lotus position on the ground and gestured for Naruto to join him. Reluctantly Naruto took a seat opposite Zuko, and waited for his mentor to tell him what they would be doing. After for what seemed like forever to our young hero his mentor finally opened his eyes from there closed position, and seemed to be measuring his worth before explaining his plan to him.

"Okay first things first, I'm going to be putting you threw basic exercises to get a feel for what your capable of physically first, and then for the next couple of hours I'm going to show you how to make basic snares, and other types of traps that can help you out in the wild and in close quarters combat. This will be necessary for you because sometimes you may have to go places that you can't always rely on your bending once you have it, or because you may want to keep it concealed so that your opponents don't know what you're fully capable of until it's too late." His mentor explained as he looked at his pupil gesturing to the woods around them to show the vastness of the area they would be working in.

As Naruto sat taking in what his mentor was saying, Zuko went further on in his explanation to tell him that after that they would go into what plants he could eat like berries, mushrooms, and even flowers in case he couldn't afford to hunt at that particular time. Zuko did not want a repeat of what happened with his uncle that time he decided to eat the flower that "might have been poisonous". Zuko then went onto explaining something Naruto had not expected him to go into…

"How's your hand doing? The scarred Fire Lord asked his pupil as they sat in the clearing taking in the glow of the rising sun.

"It's doing okay, it stopped hurting almost immediately after I cut my finger, why sensei?" the boy asked as they sat in the clearing and Naruto noticed the strange creature sitting in a tree watching them only a short distance away.

Zuko took stock of what Naruto was looking at and decided to elaborate for the boy. "That's a flying lemur from our world. While you were asleep Aang slipped away from you for a moment and we all had a talk and thought Momo would be a good companion for you from now on. Momo was Aang's pet flying lemur in our world during his time as the Avatar, and he was a great friend to all of us and he has a lot of uses that I'll explain later. I think you guys will be fast friends as soon as he warms up to you." Zuko said as he began to stretch out his arms though Naruto still didn't understand why, each of the spirits he'd met in their short time in front of him displayed tendencies as though they were still alive and he found it kinda funny.

"I know you're wondering why I got you up so early and it's for one purpose; I'm going to teach you a very basic but important form of Fire-bending. Now before you get all hoppy about it let me make this clear it's for survival purposes, and almost nothing else, you're not to try and use it in battle until I deem you worthy to move onto its more advanced stage or your Fire-bending teacher does." Zuko said as he removed his shirt and gestured for Naruto to do the same as they sat bathing in the early morning light.

Naruto was quickly going to question what Zuko meant when he said his Fire-bending teacher, but labeled himself outside of that title specifically. Before the new Avatar could address this however Zuko raised his right hand and stalled his question.

"Listen… I know you might have been hoping I would be the one to teach you Fire-bending but the fact is there are better teachers than me, and truthfully I'd rather focus on helping you with your survival. However that being said my Uncle "The Dragon of the West" as the people knew him back in my world, taught me this technique in order to survive harsh cold environments or to be able to make a small controlled amount of fire for survival purposes." Zuko said as Naruto noticed he began to steady his breathing and closed his eyes and seemed to be going into a meditative state.

"Now pay attention because this technique is still dangerous to the user much like all Fire-bending. I want you to close your eyes... relax your body, and begin by taking long controlled breathes through your nose and out through your mouth. Remember the key to this is control so when you release the breathe do it slowly and in a very controlled fashion." Zuko stated as his pupil relaxed himself and began to follow his instructions.

After a few moments of them both doing this Zuko began to council the young Avatar again. "Now that you're relaxed I want you to focus on your chi, feel the pool of energy in your body and slowly touch it with your mind. Reach and take a relaxed hold of it. After you have a solid feel for it I want you to tighten your hold, not too loose not too tight, and then were going to move the energy into our stomachs." Zuko said as they both sat building up a slight sweat as the sun began to beat on them more as it slowly rose into the morning sky.

"Now comes the most important and dangerous part of this exercise. I want you to take the energy you've stored in your stomach, and focus on it. I want you to imagine it getting hot, and then hotter as time goes on. Once you have it to a point where in your mind's eye it's a miniature fire, in a controlled exhale I want you to let out the breathe and at the same instant bring up the energy and converge it with the breathe from your lungs. It's very crucial that you do this at the exact same time as not to burn yourself, I hope you understand the consequences of what can happen if…" Zuko was saying as he got the shock of his life when all of a sudden he heard a very distinct Fwush sound.

Zuko's eyes shot open and to his pupil in front of him, and seeing small sparks floating around his pupil he waited with baited breathe. He didn't have to wait long though because about three seconds later Naruto surprised him, by bringing up a bright and slightly large orange and red burst of fire when he exhaled. Zuko sat watching his pupil with wide and unbelieving eyes, as his student continued the exercise every so often releasing controlled breathes of fire.

'I can hardly believe it… only moments after explaining it and he picks it up, man this kid is definitely the Avatar and if this is just the beginning things are gonna be real interesting once he masters Earth-bending.' Zuko thought as he continued to watch his student with now what could only be described as pride.

After a few more moments of meditating and practicing his breathe of fire, Naruto opened his eyes and allowed his chi to go back to its normal flow throughout and around him. His throat feeling just slightly hoarse stood up and walked to the clear stream, and drank a few gulps of water before sitting back down in front of his teacher. Upon sitting down next to Zuko again he noticed his teachers grin, and felt it infectious and started to grin himself as he spoke to him.

"What's up sensei, did I do okay? Naruto asked with a shit eating grin even though he knew the answer to his question.

"You did great; I really can't believe it actually. You did it in about forty five minutes; where it took me about four hours the first time to generate my own breathe of fire. I'm very proud of you Naruto, and I have no doubt that when you do begin Fire-bending forms you'll do great. That being said remember that you are not to try and use that in battle unless expressly necessary… okay?" Zuko questioned his pupil as he looked at him side-long as they sat in meditative poses once more.

Naruto nodded his head in the positive to his teachers words already knowing that one wrong move with any of his bending, and it could be bad for him at best or someone innocent at worst if he ever lost control.

Naruto had spoken to Aang for a bit while he slept and Aang had gone over more of just what it meant to be the Avatar with the boy, and what the process would be like for him to transition into. Naruto believed he was coming to understand what it would be like and while it felt impossible, he knew in his heart that he could do it.

After doing some stretches with his sensei for a bit after standing up from his first practice of the day, Zuko's countenance completely shifted. The man was not lying when he said he'd be a task master, in fact Naruto by the end of the exercises was beginning to believe Zuko enjoyed this whole thing as a form of torture. Zuko had the boy do all of his exercises back to back in sets of three starting with 35 push-ups/75 crunches, 15 pull ups/15 chin ups, and finishing it off with 75 hot squats/and 120 seconds of leg lifts. After the boy was finished with that and he had just barely finished all of it without passing out, Zuko informed him that he had to do 12 laps up and down the length of the clearing as fast as he could which by the end would amount to about one and a quarter miles. At that the boy's face fell and before he even had a chance to complain he felt a blast of heat wash over him, as his teacher had Fire-bent a light blast about a foot from him to get him moving as "motivation". While all of this was going on; Momo contentedly sat on his perch a few feet away on the nearest branch to the ground eating some nuts, all the while having one thought in his head.

'Man he's going realllly hard on the kid… eh whatever he'll last I'll bring him a snack later he's gonna be fine... right?' The lemur thought as he laid back after finishing his last nut from what he'd gathered for himself.

After all was said and done about three hours later after his tort, eh exercises the boy could be found sitting with his survival sensei sitting back at their designated spot in the clearing going over what looked to be a pile of nuts, berry's, and herbs that the boy had gathered. Zuko was currently showing him what was okay to eat out of the gathered supplies and he was also having Naruto write down the ones that could be used for more than just eating… like using them as sleeping agents, paralysis serum's, and even poisons.

It was at this point that Toph came walking out of the woods with Momo on her shoulder wearing her full suit, carrying a sack full of apples and peaches. She sat down beside them and tossed a couple of apples, and peaches to Naruto. As Naruto ate his food Toph began discussing what Zuko had been training Naruto in, and what he planned to do from that point forward now that he understood Naruto's base ability.

Zuko gave Toph the basic outline of how he would work on Naruto's stealth and memorization of all the different compounds he would be teaching him and that after that he would be working with him on archery, and swordsmanship. After going through the set up for his blind Earth-bending friend the previous Fire Lord stood up and excused himself from the clearing to allow his young protégé to work with his first bending teacher.

As Toph stood up and began to stretch Momo took flight and landed deftly on Naruto's shoulder and nuzzled his head with a light purring, that in the way it came out to Naruto it sounded as though the flying lemur were saying "good luck" before flying back to its perch from the beginning of the morning. Not being one to fall behind Naruto jumped to his feet and began to do the same light stretches that his new mentor was, waiting for her to begin the first lesson.

"Okay Earth-bending student, lets lay down the ground rules to begin." Toph said with a light grin as she finished loosening up her arms and getting the feeling back for moving around in her armor.

"I want you to go into the bag I brought here and pull out the thin cloth I brought, go get it now." Toph said as she began to flex her hands and lightly kick her feet into the ground already displaying very subtle bits of Earth-bending.

Naruto quickly padded up to the bag and pulled out the two inch wide by twelve inch long black cloth, and walked back to his sensei. As he walked back up to Toph Naruto was quickly overtaken by his sensei as she swiped said cloth from his hands spun him around and wrapped it around his eyes.

"Alright now listen to me carefully, from now on every day for as long as your training with me you'll have to wear that headband as a blindfold. Your first real lesson in Earth-bending is going to be how to listen to the earth and the world around you. It may not be as good as mine is but once you've mastered this, you'll have developed a sixth sense that I call the seismic sense. I use this sense to see and it will help you to learn to do so as well and it will prepare you for fighting without your eyes; whether it's in a dark building, underground, or because you actually do lose your sight. Utilizing this tool you will never be truly blind and it offers a major boon to your Earth-bending as it is you'll be able to feel everything in the earth up to a certain distance. Now that we've covered that while you're training with me what I say goes no exceptions, if I tell you to jump in front of a rolling boulder you better do it with a big smile on your face… DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?!" Toph stated as she yelled out the last part with her Police Chief voice.

The boy quickly shot to attention like he had seen many of the academy students do when the instructor's used stern voices to get them to do something.

"The most basic principal of Earth-bending is that earth is the most stubborn element, and it requires a great amount of will, and guts to work with. You can't falter even in the slightest; you have to be as stubborn as the element itself. Once you become physically and mentally unmovable that's when the easy part will come, and then we'll begin going over all the different forms for Earth-bending." Toph stated as she slowly and deliberately began to walk closer to Naruto until she was half a foot from him, and started to walk in a tight circle around the boy slowly nudging the earth underneath his feet trying to make him start feeling out the vibrations himself.

As his teacher began to stir the Earth underneath his feet Naruto began to get slightly frustrated as he would quickly lose his balance, and found himself having to continuously shift his weight to match the slight churning of the earth beneath him. Toph made him do this exercise for the first hour they were together, and then she began the more advanced routine. She would create elevated pillars and make him jump up and down and on and off of them, while focusing his chi between his ears and the bottoms of his feet to feel out the earth. After that… what followed was Toph bending the earth under his feet and rising him six feet into the air; and using her own seismic sense she would tune her steps to his and make him walk while every two steps making him do a set of ten squats while holding a small rock in the shape of a disk that weighed twelve pounds two inches from his chest. Toph put him through said workout routine until around three in the afternoon, and then she had him call it quits saying that they would pick it up again tomorrow the same way they had today.

After said workout Naruto had a small meal made out of the berry's and plants Zuko had shown him were edible from the surrounding grove, and then went for a much needed nap.

As the boy went to lay down, both of his companions sat in front of the cave discussing what they had planned for the next couple of days.

"So while you were putting him through the paces, I went and got some dinner for him and cleaned it up so he's gonna have pheasant and I got him some firewood." Zuko stated as he sat with his back up against the front wall of the cave enjoying the sunlight.

"Kay, so I know other people can't see us but we can still bend and people will see that, and on top of it we can affect other stuff in a way… but for how long?" the master Earth and Metal-bender asked her Fire-bending companion.

"You heard Aang last night we won't be able to affect anything past tomorrow, though to Naruto it'll be like nothing's changed but to the outside world we'll just be ghosts again. You know as well as I do its better that way anyhow, eventually Naruto will bring the new benders around and when he's ready our time with him will be over." Zuko said as he rest his head against the cave wall closing his eyes, enjoying the apparent beautiful day.

"Should we tell him? I mean it seems wrong keeping that from him, the kids had nobody his whole life and then were just gonna up and disappear one day; not exactly conducive with keeping his trust sparky." Toph stated as she set herself against the secondary outer wall of the cave.

Both of the spirits of old sat contemplating when or how to break the news to our young hero, with neither of them coming up with a viable way to do it without hurting the young new Avatar. Eventually time passed and it was now in the early evening time, when Naruto had finished his second set of Earth-bending training for the day. The boy sat and had another round of fruit, nuts, and berries with his pheasant and afterward announced that he was going to go down stream a bit to take a bath before the sun fully went down. After taking his bath and returning to the cave both of his masters told him that he would need to get a good night sleep because his training would intensify again tomorrow.

The next morning followed much the same as the previous where Naruto woke up and had a small breakfast, and then he met up with Zuko at the clearing to begin his daily regimen. When Naruto arrived Zuko had him sit and they began with their meditation for the fire breathe, and then after that was finished they began Naruto's set from the day before but increased it by half for all of the exercises. Afterward Naruto would follow up with Toph, with her teaching him more about the beginning of Earth-bending, and how to get a better grasp of the basics. Naruto's regimen would continue on this way for quite a while until he found it time to advance away from the safety of his hovel.

6 Months after leaving the village hidden in the leaves with Naruto.

Our young hero could be seen wearing a torn pair of dark brown pants, a black blindfold, and nothing else as he had to swivel between flying boulders and small flying daggers. Naruto's hair had grown a few inches all around and now would hang and cover his eyes and as he would gracefully slide between the flying debris from his blind sensei and the glinting metal throwing knives being thrown by his scarred sensei his hair would whip about and throw bits a sweat with each turn.

Each day had been more grueling than the last having to digest new information in the forms of edible and non-edible herbs, sword combat, knife combat, close quarters grappling, and then of course his bending from his snarky and devil may care Earth-bending teacher. Winter had come and gone through the land of fire and while he had the cave both of his teachers made sure to perform his training in the tundra that had come as well, to get the boy accustomed to fighting in a slightly different climate. The most difficult of the lessons Naruto had to pick up was learning how to hunt in the winter from Zuko, all the while also having to train to use his Fire-breath in the colder temperatures that had come; which in of itself would most times scare off what he was hunting. Whether it had been early in the morning before first light of day, or hours after the sun had set again Naruto was guided into the wilderness by his scarred teacher and was taught how to track by the animals tracks, smell, droppings, anything and everything he could use because Zuko deemed it necessary that he learn to fend for himself as he would not always be able to bring a copious amount of food with him and would not always be near a town with great food stores. Zuko had also taken to training the boy in the use of the Yu-Yan bow he had gifted him when the spirits had first come to him, and taken him from his home village. The bow itself was a varnished dark chestnut and the sting was made of the finest horse-hair from the Fire-nation. Zuko had gifted the boy ten sets of replacement strings as well but had also already covered how to improvise to make new string himself in case the strings ever broke, which after the first three months he had broken six of his spares threw use and one or two accidents. If the training for hunting itself had been hard, learning how to use the bow was impossible. The string would snap back and smack him in the face, the arrows would barely fly a few feet from him and every time that happened he would go hungry… and then Zuko would sweep his legs out from under him and scold him for not breathing as though he were doing the Fire-breathe. Zuko explained that his teacher had been Ming-Dao a shrewd man who was not allowed to speak due to a vow he had taken when becoming the leader of the Yu-Yan archers back in his world.

He had gone to the man a year after becoming Fire-lord and asked him to train him, and Zuko was willing to admit that he believed the man was a sadist for the training had been some of the hardest he had ever endured. In the end it had taken Naruto three weeks but after hearing it so many times he understood, he need not use the breathe of fire in the moment of losing the arrow but that he should breathe slowly and in a controlled manner as he would for the fire breathe. After two months of that Naruto had effectively learned how to hunt/track, use his bow, and was already well on to mastering the basics of Earth-bending.

Toph had taken to slamming a bed of earth into Naruto in the morning, to not only get him accustomed to taking blows from dense earth and raise his pain tolerance but also to make him learn to use his seismic sense on instinct even from sleep. The boy was only allowed to walk around with his blind-fold off when training in learning about plants and herbs with Zuko, and after the first few days Toph began making him keep it on at all times even so that he could start with smelling said herbs and plants to get used to utilizing his sense of smell.

"Look point is for all this you're not always gonna be able to rely on your sight whether its fighting an enemy in the dark… or say something does happen to your sight, so the main objective of this training is to get your sense of smell, touch, and hearing to a level unseen by most even around these parts and I don't wanna hear another thing about it." The blind Earth-bending teacher had said to him as he lay on the ground having been tossed ass over eyeballs by said teacher for attempting to retort to her explanation. After the first week Toph had moved into teaching Naruto the basic forms she had learned from the Badger-moles, and consistently threw him for a loop (literally) if he did not perform the set forms right. The training was grueling and pushed Naruto to his limit, causing him to actually take on the strange and quite dangerous habit of Earth-bending in his sleep. Many a times Toph had to protect her student from slight mishaps he would cause himself while he was sleeping, but more often than not got a great laugh out of watching debris fall on Zuko.

That had happened during week four of the training and the whole ordeal was starting to pay off even though true to everyone's thoughts it had been a labor, and there was no doubt about it the results had begun appearing slowly on the spirits young ward. Now six months in and we find Naruto training with his guides once again enduring another physical workout, as he dodges between their respective barrages.

Quickly falling into a light horse stance Naruto caught a boulder the size of two grown men and shattered it in the same instance, and then spun off the ball of his left foot and kicked into the air only to come down in a short dive and go straight into the earth itself. He quickly re-emerged right to the left of Zuko and tossed a boulder the size of a bowling ball at his survivalist teacher knocking him off balance throwing him into the tree's and then quickly pivoted off of his right foot and got into a low sliding stance with his left foot facing forward and launched a pillar of earth at Toph; which she quickly broke down the middle with a single chop.

Naruto allowed no time for respite however and while Toph was in the middle of chopping through said pillar Naruto had broken out into a full sprint right behind it and jumped to try and slam into his sensei with both knees fully curled outward toward her chest… which failed epically as he was given a brief but firm slam to the head after said teacher slapped just above his outstretched knee's with her left and proceeded to give him a straight lariat with her right which sent him ass over eyeballs again for about the ten-trillionth time since starting training.

"Uhhh… Senseii… why did you… (Whack)…OWWW…WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" The boy shouted as he tried to sit up after the quick sequence barrage only to feel the hard wrap of his sensei's gauntleted hand off of the back of his dome-piece.

"The Next time you go and try and pull a stunt like that remember to never put yourself into a position where you can't recover tut sweet, and until your learn to Air-bend or Fire-bend you sure as hell can't make a mid-air recovery so that's why I smacked you… though I do applaud your initiative even though it was just a tad straightforward. ZUKO… get off your butt he didn't even hit you that hard." The blind Earth-bender shouted as she finished a base set with her pupil hearing a loud groan come from the right side of the clearing as Zuko recovered from said blow.

The Scarred spirit rose to his feet and bent backwards slightly to relieve a kink that had formed from being smashed into the tree he had hit, and after stretching for a bit called Naruto over to him next to the river.

"Naruto… I'm sorry but it's time for me to leave you for a while." Zuko said as he rested a hand on the boys shoulder delivering his news of his own departure with a heavy heart.

"Wha… But… why…I mean why now? Did I do something wrong sensei?" the young blonde asked with light tears gathering at the corners of his eyes as he processed the news.

"No it's nothing you did so never think that, trust me it's for your own benefit right now and I'm never really that far away anyhow." Zuko said as he pulled the boy into a hug regretting that he had to leave the boy he saw as a surrogate little brother at such an important stage in his life.

Leaning back from the hug Zuko looked the boy in the eyes and explained that he believed he had all the necessary skills for basic to advanced survival now, and that if he lingered any longer it would just make it harder for both of them later. He explained how he wanted him to spend his early morning's continuing to rise with the sun and continue to practice all the skills he had shown him from hunting, to the breathe of fire, and all of his stealth/infiltration and poison/antidote work he had covered with him while training his other skills. He explained that while he had covered sword work and dagger fighting, the close quarter's combat he had covered with the youth would not be enough after a while but that his newest sensei would finish his hand to hand combat training.

With a small gasp of breathe Naruto swallowed the lump in his throat put on a big smile, and bid farewell to the man he had come to see as a surrogate older brother as the white light began to consume his shape and alter to reveal his newest sensei.

"Goodbye… Big Bro." The boy said as the last vestiges of light faded away from the spirit's form before him to reveal a young woman with Dark brown eyes and Chestnut brown hair that was tide in a tight braid falling to the middle of her young woman was clad in a set of armor reminiscent of a samurai colored in dark greens and black with golden outlines all across it.

The young woman had a very kind face with a bright smile adorned showing off her light pink lipstick. The young woman had two spread wide mini fans in both of her hands and clasped them shut before attaching them to either side of her waist, and took a bounding step forward toward her new ward.

"HI I'm Ty Lee it's so nice to meet you, were gonna be great friends I just know it! I know you'll miss Zuko and I know he'll miss you but I hope you can come to look at me like your "Big Sis" and trust me we are definitely gonna make you a terror to fight up close but were also gonna have to work on your agility and flexibility… you may not be a girl but I'm gonna make other guys wish they could move like you by the time I'm done!" the energetic acrobat stated quickly which left the boy reeling as she seemed to say it all on one breathe.

'Man… this girl has a lot of energy, I might even have trouble keeping up.' The boy thought as he put on his best smile as not to insult his newest instructor.

"Well it's great to meet you sensei…" the boy started to say as said energetic girl cartwheeled up to him and wrapped an arm around his shoulders.

"None of that sensei stuff with me cutie okay… I want and need you to be as relaxed as possible for your training with me because we are gonna work on your acrobatics, flexibility, agility, and your hand to hand combat. I'm gonna teach you Chi Blocking which essentially causes your opponent's body to go numb, and become useless after you hit the proper pressure points. All the while I'm also gonna help you add the skills I'm working on with you to your already existing skills, which I've got to say after what Zuko told me I'm pretty impressed… but you've still got a lot of refining to do." The young woman said as she stretched out a bit before flipping forward landing into a handstand and started to walk away from the young Avatar, all the while missing the small blush the boy was sporting from being called cute.

As quickly as the good feelings had begun to flood the boy though Ty Lee quickly pushed off the ground performing a full flip a landed on her feet, and then spun and sprinted in his direction only to skid to a halt in front of him and jab him a few quick times. Sure enough Naruto immediately felt the effects, and only had a moment to realize what was going to happen before he toppled unceremoniously to the ground with the right side of his body paralyzed. It was at this moment that Ty Lee drew both of her fans with a flourish and quickly squatted down and held one to the boy's neck, never once losing the smile she had on her face even as she observed the look of shock and fear on her students face.

"The first principal of Chi Blocking is to invade your opponent's space, and set them off balance. Remember your main goal after setting them off balance is to strike quickly and effectively, aiming for the spots that will best disable them and leave them open for a finishing blow." The bubbly girl said as she sat next to the prone form of the young Avatar as she started to run her nimble fingers threw his hair.

"Sorry that I did that but the best way to get good at this style of fighting is to fall victim to it the first few times, that helps drive home the point of the style and also helps you start to learn the points you'll be aiming for your-self when using it. I plan to make a diagram of the human body for you and the best points to go for when striking considering your size right now and how to integrate this style with your grappling and other fighting styles you've learned so far." Ty Lee explained as she quickly hit the same spots on the boy to re-apply his use of his body for him.

She then began going over some back-round of the style while they sat and had a small lunch, and then after eating were joined by Toph and Momo… to which elicited a very funny chase on Ty Lee's part as she squealed like a five year old and ran at Momo with her arms spread wide squealing like a loon.

The last thought Naruto had right before toppling to the ground in a fit of laughter beside his Earth-bending teacher was a very obvious one…

'Poor Momo…'

2 months since Ty Lee's arrival to the group

The sun could be seen clearly over the trees in the little clearing that Naruto and his teachers had picked out months ago as the morning was gliding on as it had ever since leaving the village, and his birth family behind. Since her arrival Ty Lee had become the "Big Sis" that she hoped he would see her as almost immediately… not very surprising considering they both had about the same temperament. Both master and student loved to laugh and smile as much as possible, and Toph often joined in with their jokes and spirited fun… after training of course. Ty Lee insisted that Naruto first work on his flexibility and agility so between spars with Toph working on Earth-bending and Chi blocking, Ty Lee had Naruto doing basic yoga and gymnastics.

At this point it could be observed that the boys schedule was borderline obscene with the amount of training he was doing, and even with all that the young Avatar was doing he still believed he could push himself farther opting to now get up two hours before sun rise for hunting/tracking and to get a run in. At one point Ty Lee made an off handed comment that if he wasn't careful he would become as she put it "a little beastly for someone his age". At which point the poor boy for some odd reason felt a small shiver run up his spine…

Back in the village hidden in the leaves two spandex clad warriors sneezed in unison and then started spouting off about "THE POWER OF YOUTH", before being pelted with can's from a local vendor.

Naruto it would seem had improved by leaps and bounds and could now seamlessly work the basics of Chi blocking into his grappling, sword/knife combat, and even his Earth-bending, as he demonstrated with his first win over his Earth-bending teacher since the beginning of his training months before. Toph had also been pushing the boy harder... causing him to get his seismic sense to reach about ninety-five meters out from himself and he had already started on the advanced sets for Earth-bending. Naruto under Toph's instruction had even started to layer his hands with bits of rock to form gloves like the Dai Li agents of Ba Sing Se did, she told him he would do that until she could help him get it laid out to have the metal greaves and gauntlets of plate metal made for him… to which he had no arguments.

As our young Avatar was in the middle of doing a set of vertical push-ups to start his morning routine the ground gave off a powerful vibration that alerted Naruto and Toph, to what Toph now with all of her experience recognized as an explosion. Momo and Ty Lee quickly bolted in the direction of where Toph stated the vibration came from to scout out the situation as Naruto quickly re-donned his hooded Gi top and strapped his swords and dagger to his back and lower back respectively, hoping that the disturbance was nothing having to do with his former home.

Fortunately or unfortunately for our young hero depending on who you asked, the disturbance had nothing to do with ninja what so ever as it seemed a caravan of trader's had been set upon by a raiding party of bandits. Ty Lee had returned a moment ago and stated that five or so bandits had surrounded the two carriage caravan and were yelling out demands to the injured merchants.

"Well Goldie locks we were gonna give you a field test eventually and no time like the present I always say." Toph stated as she glanced towards the source of the vibration again. She looked at her ward and gave him a confident smile and told him that her and Ty Lee would stand by in case everything got out of hand, but that they would be leaving the bulk of the work to him.

Both Ty Lee and Toph gave the boy reassuring smiles and with that he turned back to his bag and fished out the last piece of his ensemble… his Blue Spirit mask.

"Well… Here goes nothing…"

End Chapter 2.

Hey Guys as I said before big thanks for the support on my new story, that being said please do review and let me know any thoughts you have. Also here's my first pole for this story... Naruto is gonna get with up too 5 girls but that's it... that being said who do you think they should be. Azula is definitely taking a spot so that leaves 4 possible definite 3. Thanks again guys C-ya next time...

Oh and just out of curiosity... M and M's, or Reicies Pieces?