chapter 10

the rest of that night was normal everyone got to know each other and we packed for the trip, the next morning we would depart.
the next morning was slightly slow, but full of energy. it felt like it would take forever for everyone to get on Appa with there stuff. I knew Appa would be very tired after this trip since he would be holding even more people. So i gave him a treat of hay with the rest of the soup broth from our supper last night, it seems he enjoyed it very much.
"Alright everyone keep all your hands and feet inside the Appa at all times, old on to your items and try not to stand up,since we have so many people. we are ready fro take off Nari, LET US FLY!" Sokka said as he sat down next to suki and Naruto.
"YIP YIP!" I yell as i take the reigns from Appa and he lifts off the ground. I assumed this would go a little slower of a travel since the weight was a bit more then Appa was used too.
"Hey Kiba come on up here i wanna talk to you!" I said as everyone settled down, some went back to sleep except for Naruto, Sakura and Neji who seemed to be quite interested as a flying trip back to Konoha.
"Hey what you need?" Kiba asked as he sat next to me on appa's head.
"Well i do need someone to direct me to Konoha, and it get pretty lonely up here, i thought some company would do me some good." I smile as i look over at the rising sun.
"Well you started out going the right way, i have never flown to Konoha but i have a pretty good gist as to were I'm going." Kiba smiled back as he also looked out at the sky.
"So are you nervous?" He asked as he turned to look at me.
"Slightly, Sakura told me Tsunade can be a pretty brutal trainer, and well finding out who my parents are...its very, heart-pounding." I say as i glance at the boy. he then pats me on the back.
"Trust me i think they will turn up to be really great people, and Tsunade, don't worry about her you seem like a pretty brutal girl yourself. i would know I ve trained with you plenty of times." Kiba joked as he nudged me.
"ha ha, well what do you think of team avatar?" I asked keeping the conversation going.
"I like them all, well except for the fact that that blind friend of yours left bruises on me and Akamaru." Kiba slouched as he mentioned Toph.
"Oh, yeah well i told you she was tough. I wasn't joking she can take out a fleet of soldiers with one swish of her hand, its pretty amazing. She actually showed me how to perfect my metal bending. To tell you the truth when i first met her i was scared of her, even though I'm taller then her, she was one little beast." I say smiling as i remember the first day i met her.
"Actually the first day i met her was that day when i bended that sword of sokka's. She was examining the sword with her hands, and at first i thought she was looking at me on purpose. I thought she was staring me down. But i realized she was blind. I had heard rumors about her using her feet as her eyes, but i never realized she was blind. But anyways, she examined my hands too, she said they had a healthy coating of earth on my hands and that they were made to bend. Thats when she came to the conclusion that i was a metal bender, because if you can bend earth you can learn to bend metal. which is what i had done to that sword apparently." I said looking out at the now nearly full rose sun.
"Wow, what about the others? How did they meet? And how did you realize you could bend all the elements?" Kiba asked making himself comfortable.
"well that one is a bit of a long story, but since we have a long ride, i guess i could go into detail. Well let see, like i said i meet them kind of all at once. I had heard about there adventures and there struggles, so i respected them treated me like an infant, always made sure i was okay, helped me clean up, which was not in Toph s best interest. But anyway she was very kind and Aang was always there to help too, i could tell they had something going on, just like the rumors said so later on i would tease them about it. Sokka, now that is an interesting story." I laugh as i play with appa's reigns.
"When sokka had found the mush that was his sword, he broke down into hysterics, bawling, making a huge fuse. when i realized the great value of the sword and how sokka had made it from his own bare hands, i felt really quality and ashamed. but anyway. he at first wasn't a fan of me he saw me as the sword murderer, in fact he gave me that nickname right away." I laugh as Kiba listens very intensely.
"but anyway, i saved his life once, he had fallen from Appa once we were very high up and we were on our way to go get aang from one of his air temples, and sokka was being very dramatic in explaining his plans for the next summer. And he fell off, that was the first time i ever air bended too. It was one of the last elements i had learned too, so i went with my gut and jumped out after sokka. i had grabbed him and with all my might i had taken my hand and wiped my hand almost like a whip and we went flying back up to Appa. it wasn't the best air bending i ever did but i was alright." I rub the back of my head with a clumsy grin attached to my face.
"the others i had meet when they had taken me back to the fire nation." I said looking at Kiba.
"you never finished telling me about your bending, how you figured out all the other elements." Kiba said very interested in my life story.
"well my metal bending came very naturally, i actually had taken a metal box i found in a junk yard and bended it into a swear for tylee. she has taken quite a lot of interest in spear throwing sense. The earth bending well that one was actually funny, you see when toph had started training me i had sparred with her to see if earth bending was a natural thing and apparently it was almost as easy as metal.i had done a good show with her but in the end i ended up crushed up against a wall. not my best shining moment in my life." I say chuckling under my breath.
"Fire, that was a fun element. although i burned one of sokka's shirts in the process...that didn't help the sword murder nicknames." I said as Kiba laughed.
"you seem to always beat up sokka unintentionally huh?" He said as he looked at me with a big grin, fangs showing.
"Whoa i didn't know you had fangs!" I said asi hold his face as i look at his mouth. his face turned a slight pink as i examined his mouth.
"THAT IS SO COOL!" I say smiling letting go of his face.
"Really? thanks" He said still blushing slightly.
"Anyways sorry about that, Water bending is actually one of my weaker bending styles. but you didn't hear that from me!" I said holding my fingers up to my mouth.
"Why is that a secret?" Kiba asked slightly confused.
"well i haven't told katara that i haven't mastered my healing and i don't want her to know, my water bending in a fighting style is fine compared to katara, but...she is gonna get on me about the healing thing. its kinda necessary." I say slightly frowning.
"Well you should tell her so you can continue to improve, you know that when the student is whiling to learn the teacher shall appear with knowledge." Kiba said nudging me once again.
"Yeah i guess, but she can kinda blow up.. a little." I said holding on to the reigns again.
"Wow, then her and Sakura will really get along, they seem like they would both be very good mother figures." Kiba said laughing.
I laugh as well when i remember i wasn't finished.
"My wood bending is another story that i found out, in a very tragic situation." I said slightly unhappy.
Kiba looks at me and stops laughing.
"What happened?" He asked as i turns toward me.
" I was in a brutal fight, and everyone got really hurt. It was an attack with an old enemy Azula." I say as i lower my head.
"That was the first day i killed someone." I say as i fiddle with the reigns again.
"Nari?"Kiba looks at me and then then looks away."Nari, i have to say this, your first killing is always the most memorably horrific moment in your life. i have killed many enemies in the great Nina war. many of which i had known because of the re animation jutsu." Kiba says as he puts his hand on my shoulder.
"Tell me, i know what its like, even if its not the same way i have killed a person its happened and there is nothing you could do but just that when you were trying to save your friends." Kiba said as he hugged me. i was slightly surprised but i needed the comfort.
"Azula had broken out of prison, and she attacked zuko first. her lighting was too powerful over fire, and she was enraged. The man how held zuko in place, so that Azula could strike her lighting at zuko, i had became angry and beneath me were many tree roots and not enough earth to damage him in one move. but it was all i had was one move. there was no water, fire was useless against a more experienced fire bender and air would not knock this large man down. i felt hopeless. i felt the ground as i looked at zuko in his position. i had lifted my hands and with one quick motion and what i thought was going to be earth was the roots and branches, they had gathered around the large man's body, i had wrapped a root around the mans throat and strangled him and then lowered the branches back into the ground taking him with it. bearing him in the ground with its weapon. The trees." I said in low tone, depressed expression was on my face.
"wow Nari, that sounds terrible, but he deserved it and your save as well as your friends and that is all that matters." he said holding my shoulders as i look at him. "You are very strong Nari, and you do what you can to protect your friends, that i amazing. You have shown so much power to us, i am guaranteeing you that you do have the power to stop Orochimaru and Kabuto and that you will help the world because you are Nari Warrior, the most powerful girl i have every known." Kiba looks at me his face and voice full of encouragement, and he was going to make sure i knew it too.
"Kiba."I smile at him and hug him."I promise that i will do all i can to protect you guys, i promise, even if i have to die." Kiba hugs me tightly and looks at me.
"We are almost to Konoha, i recognize the scenery." Kiba points out in front of us.
"How much longer? it seemed really short?" I said looking out.
"Well Appa, might have kicked it up a notch or two, and talking really passes time." Kiba smiled. " we have a few more miles." He said as he nudged me once again in support.
"We should land in front of the town, we don't want Appa crushing everyone." I say smiling with a chuckle.
"well actually Naruto s summoning jutsu toad, gamabunta and tsunade's slug Katsuyu are 20x the size of Appa, but i think that landing there would be smart, we would have to check in to let Tsunade know we are there, so she can wake up from her 7th beauty nap in one day." Kiba jokes as we get even closer and closer to Konoha.
mom? dad? should i be nervous to find out who you are? who am i and what i am to be facing in the future. mom and dad, help me fight, for my friends!