A preventable future
By: narutofan445
Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar the last air bender, just a DVD that I bought from the store, and a Toph poster that I have on my wall.
Here's chapter 2 everyone! Sorry it toke sooooooooo long for me to update, but lots, and I mean lots, of things have come up. Well, enjoy!
Chapter two: Suno
It was early in the morning when everyone arrived in Suno, 6:00 a.m to be exact.
Though despite how early it was, the small town was alive with shoppers and sellers.
"Wow, look at the place!" Sokka yelled in amusement, "It's beautiful"
"Yeah!" Toph added enthusiastically, "I' am so glad we came all the way here so that I could see this"
"Ha ha" Sokka told Toph, "That was so funny, maybe you should never say it again, just in case it makes me die of laughter".
"Whatever" Toph muttered
"Not again" Aang and Katara thought as they walked into Suno.
On a plain area of land just outside of Suno, stood a thirteen year old boy. He was wearing black shoes, red shorts and t-shirt, along with a black hoodie.
He was handsome and sort of muscular; his hair was wild as if he had never combed it.
The boy closed his eyes and toke a deep breath as he touched a scar that was on his left cheek.
Flash backs immediately began to run through he head. "You'll never amount to anything Kiyoshi!" "Kiyoshi, how could you possibly be my son?, you're a failure"
Opening his eyes, Kiyoshi (the boy), stretched his hands out in front of him. He then closed them and brought them to his side, which caused all the earth around him to fly past him at an unbelievable speed.
Next the boy opened his hands and placed his palms to the ground. He stayed like that until he balled his hands into fists, lifted his hands above his head, and opened them. Exactly one second later, a massive wave of water erupted from the ground and began to spin around Kiyoshi, forming a hurricane of water.
"Why!" Kiyoshi screamed.
As Aang and everybody else looked around Suno for nothing in particular, they were surprised when all of a sudden the entire ground around them started to shake violently, and a loud deafening noise started to fill the air.
"What in the world is that!" Katara yelled as everyone covered their ears.
"Whatever it is, it must happen often!" Sokka yelled back.
At first everyone was confused, that is until they looked at the people around them. They were acting as if nothing was going on; they were simply minding their own business as usual.
After about five minutes the ground stopped shaking and everything went back to normal.
"That was the weirdest thing I have ever been through" Sokka told everyone, "What do you suppose it was?"
"Who knows" Aang said.
"Well actually, I think that the ground was moving because someone was earth bending, and pretty good by the looks of it" Toph informed everyone.
"Yeah, and I think I felt someone water bending as well" Katara told everyone as she brushed dust from her clothes.
Looking around Aang said, "Now that you mention it, I think I felt someone air bending as well"
"Wait, I thought you were the last air bender?" Sokka asked Aang, "How can someone be air bending if you are the last one?"
"I don't know" Aang replied, "unless….unless it's the second Avatar!"
Instantly Aang formed a ball of air under his feet, and sped towards were he was pretty sure the earth quake had started.
Behind the rest of his friends followed as fast as they could.
Lifting his hands up over his head, Kiyoshi caused strong gusts of wind to form all around him. As he continued to bend all the four elements he put more and more strength into each attack when suddenly a shock of pain soared though his body and he fell to the ground.
"Damn it!" he muttered, "Why does this keep happening? Am I really….cursed?"
Using his hands, he tried to force himself back up but that only caused the pain to increase tremendously. The last thing he saw before passing out were blurred images running towards him.
It was early morning when Kiyoshi awoke. The sun was just rising and the morning dew was just sitting in.
Opening his eyes he was surprised to find himself laying beside a dying fire; around the fire lay two guys and two girls, along with two strange looking animals.
Sitting up, he studied them with a confused look on his face. "What the"
He sat there until for a couple seconds before casting the thought aside and deciding to leave before the strangers woke up.
Unfortunately when he tried he found out that the pain was still there and he fell to the ground with a loud cry of pain.
The cry caused the four friends (and two animals) to jump up alerted. They looked around, half-asleep and half-awake until they realized that Kiyoshi was awake.
"Oh, you're awake" one of the girls told him, "how are you feeling?"
Lifting himself up and leaning against a nearby rock, Kiyoshi grabbed his side in pain. "who….who are you people"
"My names Katara" the girl replied, and that's my brother Sokka, that's Toph, Momo, Appa, and finally Aang. He's the avatar.
"The….avatar huh?" Kiyoshi asked, "What are…..you doing here?"
"We're looking for somebody" Aang replied, "and we think that you might be him"
"Oh yeah, and why's that?"
"Because…." Aang replied, "you can bend all four elements"
There was a couple minutes of silence before Kiyoshi chuckled and said, "That's impossible. Only you, the avatar, can do that"
"Not exactly" Sokka informed him, "We think that there's two avatars now, Aang and…..well…… you"
By now the fire had almost died out; only a few pieces of ember remained.
The group stared at them as they waited for Kiyoshi's reply.
After a few minutes he looked up at a few dry branches that were hanging over the fire pit and gave them a short wave. Instantly a strong, sharp, gust of wind cut the branches; then once they had fallen into the pit; with another wave of his hand, Kiyoshi caused the branches to catch on fire. "How did you know?"
The four friends were speechless. They had expected Kiyoshi to be able to bend all four elements but once they witnessed it, it felt unreal.
"Would you look at that!" Toph commented, "looks like twinkle toes isn't the only one who can bend all four elements anymore. The kid can do it too"
"I have a name you know" Kiyoshi told Toph, "And it's Kiyoshi, not "kid""
"Well Kiyoshi" Aang said, "how long have you been able to bend all four elements?"
"Why?"
"Because" Aang said, "You're the second avatar and I need your help"
"Help?, with what?"
Looking directly at Kiyoshi, Aang told him everything. How the fire nation was becoming stronger and stronger and how Avatar Roku had told him that he needed the help of a second avatar.
"So this Ozai guy, we have to kill him?" Kiyoshi asked.
"I never said kill" Aang quickly replied, "just defeat"
Painfully standing back up Kiyoshi sighed, "That's what makes people weak. They're afraid to kill" Then with an evil grin, he looked at the four of them evilly, "well, lets do it!"
"So you're going to help us?!" the bald avatar asked.
"I guess" Kiyoshi shrugged, "It's not like I have anything else to do in this god forsaken village"
"But what about your parents?" Katara asked.
"They're dead" Kiyoshi replied, "Well…to me at least"
"Oh…..sorry" the water bender apologized, "I don't know"
Kiyoshi ignored her as he looked away, "You guys eat while I go get some of my stuff. I won't be long" though he only toke a couple of steps before falling down again, quickly everyone rushed towards him.
"Hey….are you alright?" Aang asked him.
"I…..I' am fine" Kiyoshi replied, "I just need to rest a little"
"We need to take you to a hospital" Katara told him.
"No!" he roared, "Just get my stuff"
"No" Katara challenged him, "you need to be checked out"
Looking at Katara, Kiyoshi saw that there was no changing her mind. "fine!. But not here. Somewhere else, but get my stuff first"
"I'll go for your stuff" Sokka told him, "where is it?"
Nodding his head to the left, Kiyoshi looked at Sokka. "It's about a ten minute walk from here, five if you run. Once you get there, look under the bed and you'll find a sword and a pouch. Bring both of them"
"That's it?" Sokka asked, "what about clothes? Or food?"
"Don't worry about it" Kiyoshi told him, "Just bring me my stuff and we'll get out of this hell hole of a town"
Sighing, Sokka turned in the direction of Kiyoshi's house and ran. It wasn't long before he returned with a small waist pouch and a sleek sword.
"Here's your stuff" he said as he handed the sword and pouch to Kiyoshi.
"Now" Kiyoshi said, tying the pouch around his waist and the sword to his back. "We can go"
One week Later……
Shortly after Kiyoshi had joined the group they toke him to a hospital in a nearby town. Once there, they found out that Kiyoshi's pain was being caused by a condition that occurred when someone strained their body too much. After giving him a few bottles of an elixir, he was good to go. For now.
Currently they were flying over a canyon that led to a village, were they would restock on supplies.
Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Toph were wide awake while Kiyoshi slept lazily against the blind earth bender.
"You guys want to see something funny?" she asked with an evil sneer.
"Sure"
"I guess"
"what?"
Turning over to Kiyoshi, Toph grabbed Kiyoshi's ankle and lifted him over the side of the 'basket'.
Within a matter of seconds, Kiyoshi awoke screaming at the top of his lungs.
"That's what you get for sleeping on me!" Toph told him once she pulled him back up.
Taking deep breaths Kiyoshi grabbed his chest. "That…..wasn't…..funny"
After that, Kiyoshi went to the opposite side of the basket and went back to sleep again. Though not before tying himself down.
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Finally arriving to their destination, everyone started to explore the lively town.
"It's about time we got here!" Sokka wined, "I'm starving!"
"Yeah me too" Kiyoshi added.
"You two are the laziest people I've ever met. You know that?" Toph told the both of them.
"Hey!" Kiyoshi replied, "How do you know that I' am lazy?!. You just met me!"
"We meet a week ago" Toph corrected him, "And in all that time you've done nothing"
"You haven't done anything either!" Kiyoshi yelled, "God, you're so annoying!"
Walking over, Sokka placed a hand on Kiyoshi's shoulder "Don't worry about it, she's always like that"
"Come on guys" Aang told everyone, "let's just restock and get out of here. We wouldn't want to run into the fire nation here"
"Whatever" Kiyoshi muttered as he walked away, "I met up with you later, I have something to buy" within a matter of seconds Kiyoshi vanished into the crowds of the busy shoppers.
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Later on that day, after Kiyoshi and the others had joined back up, they decided to pass the afternoon by practicing bending.
Setting down a bag that contained two cloaks, which he had bought earlier that day, Kiyoshi stretched. "Alright, who wants to go first?"
"How about you and twinkle toes go one on one?" Toph told him, "See who's the better avatar?"
"I don't want to brag" Aang gloated, "But I' am pretty good at what I do"
"Hmph" Kiyoshi replied, "If that were true I wouldn't be here right now. Now would I?"
"I….guess not" Aang said, following him onto a clear piece of land.
A couple yards away patiently sat Katara, Toph, and Sokka.
"This is going to be interesting" Sokka commented.
"You can say that again" Toph added.
"I don't know about this you guys" Katara said worriedly, "What if someone gets hurt?"
"Aw you worry too much" Toph said leaning back, "Just watch and enjoy"
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Facing each other, Kiyoshi and Aang bowed. "You ready?" Kiyoshi asked
Taking a deep breath, Aang nodded. "Yeah, lets do this"
Well, that's chapter two! Again sorry for taking so long in updateing, and for that I made this chapter extra long.
But don't worry!, I'll hopefully update much sooner now.
You know what to do!
-Narutofan445