"So you the two of you are from another world?"
Sitting around Tenzin's dining table Naruto and Shikamaru sat at one end while Korra and Tenzin sat at the other.
Shikamaru was busy typing away on his computer, Naruto just sat at attention his handheld game on the table untouched, Tenzin sat solemnly as had been the one to ask the question, while Korra was busy trying to get the giant bruise on her master's head to go down with some Waterbending healing.
"Well when I said a new world on the stage I was being…" Naruto looked at Shikamaru as he paused. "Ah what's that fancy word for being dramatic?"
"Facetious."
"Yeah that's it facetious; we're actually from the western part of the planet." Naruto stated.
Korra lowered her hands as she looked confused. "What do you mean by that exactly, the western part?"
"He means we're from the Western Hemisphere." Shikamaru typed a few commands on his laptop as he spun the computer around the table to show the Avatar what was on it.
"You see this map?" he said showing Korra a map of the world that she had seen before dozens of times. "This is where we are right now in the Eastern Hemisphere or as we like to call it The Old World." With one click the map on the screen extended showing a whole other continent about a little more than half the size of the Earth Kingdom along with a cluster of islands around the lower right side of the land mass. "And this is where the two of us come from the Western Hemisphere."
"That…that's not possible!" Tenzin had scooted over towards the side of the table next to Shikamaru as he looked at the electronic map. "There have been many map makers and explores in either of our lifetimes how could they miss something as significant as this?"
"Well do you know what the equator is?" Shikamaru asked in a dull tone.
Tenzin gave the young man his patent grumpy old man face as a response. "Yes Mr. Nara I'm well aware of what the equator is."
"Well just like how the equator runs horizontally on the planet there's another one the runs vertically." Shikamaru showed Tenzin with another click thanks to his atlas program. "We don't exactly have an official name for it but it's often referred to as the Time Jump."
"Because when you go through it, it's like you traveled into the past." Naruto said. "When he first came here Gramps wrote down in his journal that you people didn't even have electricity yet."
Shikamaru turned towards Naruto as he sighed out. "Actually people call it the Time Jump because you have to set your watch forward by one hour when you cross it."
"I'm sorry but I still don't understand." Tenzin said looking over the map. "I know for a fact that if you travel west from the Fire Nation you are heading towards the eastern part of the Earth Kingdom not across another Equator into a country called the Land of Lightning."
"Well there's a reason for that." Shikamaru said.
"Yeah you're not cool enough to get in." Naruto snickered only for a shadow to rise right behind him and smack him upside the head. "Ouch!"
"Naruto, why don't you wait outside?" Shikamaru asked in frustration as he began to rub his head in frustration. "I'm trying to lay some form of diplomacy here."
Naruto huffed but said nothing as he grabbed his game and began walking out the room.
"Wait a minute!" Korra yelled as she got up as well. "I want to know where you two come from just as much as Tenzin but I want to know how you just did that Shadowbending just now!"
"Well to save time how about you show Mr. Uzumaki around temple, Korra." Tenzin suggested. "Show him what else this island has to offer besides the storage unit these two were staying in."
Korra nodded as she opened the door for Naruto as the two of them headed outside.
Now alone with the older master Shikamaru flipped his computer back around. "Just so you know neither Naruto nor I have authorization to tell you everything we can about ourselves or that much about our home, just common knowledge that the average person back in our land is aware of."
Tenzin didn't say anything but from Shikamaru's demeanor it was obvious that he from some branch in a military service. Vagueness was their native tongue after all. "I understand but tell me how come I've never even heard of another world that wasn't the Spirit World?"
"…Spirit World?" Shikamaru played the keys on his computer again until an answer popped up on the screen. "Oh you're referring to the Realm of Tulpas."
Tenzin began to stoke his beard as he sighed. "I have a feeling we're both in for a case of culture shock."
"So what is that think you've been playing with anyway?" Korra asked as she and Naruto sat outside the courtyard on the steps leading up towards the main house.
"First you want to know where me and Shika are from, then how he can move and control shadows, and now you want to know what a Game Guy is?" Naruto stated all of this without ever looking away from his tiny screen.
"Well can you blame me?" Korra said scooting over towards Naruto. "I mean I'm the Avatar I'm supposed to at least be able to visit a whole other part of this world no one's ever been to."
Naruto raised his with a raised eyebrow. "What's an Av-a-tar is that like being a kage?"
"You don't know what the avatar is?" Korra asked.
Naruto looked back from his game and then towards Korra before handing it to her. "Here you give it a try."
Korra took the giant piece of electronic plastic as she looked at the colored see saw a tiny man dressed in black garb holding a silver stick while standing in the middle of a open field. "I…I don't know what you want me to do with this."
"It's called Ninja Golf." Naruto explained while pointing at the game "You control the ninja and the first thing you have to do is try and hit that ball towards that flag, press the arrow pad to move him and the green button to put the club."
Korra held the game closer as she followed Naruto's instructions and let her ninja's golf ball sail over a sand trap and close to the green. "Hey I made the tiny man shoot the ball!" Korra stated with a smile only to frown in confusion again. "Now what?"
"You still have to sink the ball in the hole, use the arrow pad to go right while you use the blue button to attack the other ninjas who get in your way."
Naruto had to hold back a giant laugh as he watched Korra squirm and thrash around as if her psychical actions where helping her advance further in the game.
"You know what your little gizmo's pretty fun." Korra said as she settled down a bit
"Yeah well tell Shikamaru that all he wants to do for fun is playing Shogi he says board games translate better in real life then video games." Naruto said as he placed his chin on the palm of his propped up arm.
"Video games, is that what this thing is?" Korra's smiled faded briefly. As fun as this new toy was she still wanted her answers but there wasn't a rule she could play the game while talking. "So this place you're from how exactly do you get there?"
Naruto removed his head from his chin and held up his hand. "Well the easiest was would be to show you."
Korra stopped playing briefly to see Naruto stare at his hand intensely as it started to vibrate, a second latter it was moving so fast it looked like a blur. "You see the key to entering the West is to have someone like open the intangible gate."
"Someone…. like you?" Korra asked still pressing buttons while watching Naruto.
"Yeah someone who can move fast, fast enough to slip through the hold of the earth, fast enough to dip trough the void, fast enough to for just a flash become the wind."
AN: Ninja Golf's a real game own it now for Atari 7800, Google it.
