The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
"So this is what an interrogation room looks like, it's a lot smaller then I was expecting"
Korra looked around the boxed iron room, adjusting her handcuffed wrists every now and again to make them less chafing. She sat on a chair next to a table that stood in the middle of the room with Naruto sitting next to her.
Said ninja wasn't looking at her if anything he was going through annoying lengths just not to make eye contact with her. He too had his arms cuffed as he had a grumpy expression on his face his head turned to the side looking directly at a wall.
Korra huffed in annoyance due to her friend ignoring her. "Aren't you going to say anything? You've been giving me the cold shoulder since we got booked"
Still nothing
"Look on the bright side Asami managed to get away so she'll be able to look after Naga and your lemur until we can get this little hiccup all squared away."
Naruto's head turned so fast Korra swore she heard a bone pop. "Little hiccup?" he repeated quietly "you throw three guys through a window and destroyed a whole road just to stop them when you have just blown their tires out. I don't think that counts as a hiccup at least not on my planet!" his voice rose as he said last part.
"Well what you'd think I'd due let those criminal harass that store owner and destroy his shop?"
Naruto looked over to his side "Yeah your right, thank the powers that be you were there to wreck that old man's store instead." He dead toned sarcastically.
Korra bolted off her chair in anger "hey I couldn't help it if I got a little carried away.."
"a little carried away" Naruto interrupted "you were just showing off and trying to look like a big shot you could have knocked those punks out in a minute but you decided to toy with them. Well way to ago Avatar Korra you saved the city from some low-level gangsters the world's at peace now!"
"Hey don't act so high and mighty mister space ninja. What about the time you and the rest of team 7 fought the two mercenaries on the bridge. When you got their instead of coming up with a sound strategy you just threw some fireworks and made a big entrance!"
Naruto got up from his chair as the cuffs fell off his arms. "Yeah but I was twelve, what's your excuse."
Korra was flabbergasted "what? How'd you get out of those things?" she said pointing at the open handcuffs resting on the table.
Naruto held up his open hand as his finger nails started to grow until they were at least the size of standard senbon needles "Claw Creation Technique" he replied "complements of Matatabi"
Korra's mind flipped a couple of pages before remembering the name "oh yeah I'm a show off. Do you have to remind me of the super cool powers those tailed spirits give you. If I had a giant spirit living inside me I wouldn't be bragging about it every day."
Naruto said nothing as he made his way to the door.
"Hey Ninja Boy!, aren't you forgetting about me." Korra yelled
Naruto stopped a few inches away from the door. "I thought about it but maybe a few hours of getting yelled at by a bunch of angry cops might do you some good, I'll see you later."
Korra banged her fists into the metal desk "seriously this isn't funny get me out of here"
Naruto silent as the night kept walking.
"Who do you think you are some great wise old master? Face it Naruto take away the tailed beasts and the Six Path's powers all you are is a junior level ninja who barely graduated from ninja school because you couldn't make a simple clone."
Korra wanted a rise from him, she wanted to start a fight just to keep him here long enough for someone to enter the room, she didn't want to be alone she was just too hard headed to admit it.
Naruto's hand was on the door knob all her verbal attacks where deflected off his own confidence in himself. Korra knew there was one way to pierce that armor she just hoped Naruto might forgive her down the line for what she was about to say.
"You know I can see why that Sakura girl never really loved you; I can't say I blame her." Korra's mouth quivered a bit in disgust as if she had just spat venom from her lips.
Naruto let go of the door knob and stood straight up not moving for about ten seconds. He slowly turned around his eyes showing no sign of rage or contempt, but Korra couldn't help but take a step back from the smile Naruto had on his face. It wasn't warm and inviting as his regular one, it was cold and slightly terrifying.
"True" his voice was leveled not showing signs of anger "But at least I'm not a spoiled narcissistic little bitch who expects the world to bow down to me every time I so much as breathe. Who always doubts herself that she won't live up to the legacy of the Avatar. By the way Korry how's Airbending going did you manage pass any wind that didn't come from your weird looking ass?"
"….." Korra entered the Avatar state in less than a second as she held up her arms and fired a hurricane of pure inferno from her hands screaming every obscenity she knew at the shinobi.
Naruto didn't move an inch as the flames closed in on him. The moment the sensation of heat licked his face he disappeared in a gust of wind.
Korra lowered her arm so to see the remains of her jerk friend only to see nothing more than a scorched room. She scanned everything in her line of sight trying to get a read on where Naruto had gone to.
She didn't notice something creeping behind her until it was to late.
Naruto slammed his open fist into Korra's back shooting her clear across the room and slamming her into one of the interrogation room's steal wall. The Avatar pushed her self from the wall noticing her body had made a slight dent in the structure as well as leave a splatter of blood. Lifting her still bounded hands she ran her fingers to the stinging sensation coming from her nose. A mere touch alerted her it was broken.
She turned around to see Naruto still on the opposite side of the room arms crossed and eyes gazing back at her. Eyes that where golden instead of blue, horizontal pupils instead of round ones, and an orange pigmentation had now been painted around his eyes.
"Sage Mode" Korra said addressing Naruto's current form "that's not going to protect you when I kick your alien ass."
Naruto stood silent as he looked back at Korra trying to formulate a way to stop her with out hurting her …to much"Korra gets more violent when she uses the Avatar State" Naruto thought "but she also stops thinking of attack plans and relies more on instinct"
"Yeah well my ass might be alien but at least it's not weird looking!" come on it wouldn't be that easy ruffle her ego, would it?
Korra reeled her head back aiming it straight up as she let out a dragon's roar of fire from her mouth. She then snapped her teeth and locked her sights on Naruto, flames spitting out from the gaps of her teeth as her lips where pulled back in a predator smile.
Naruto narrowed his eyes as he raised his hand pointing his index and middle fingers at the Avatar. In a blink of an eye the shinobi had closed the distance between them and was a within close range. Korra dispersed the fire ball she was bending in her mouth as she used every ounce of mobility she had to move out of Naruto's way.
Everything slowed down as Korra saw Naruto's arm aimed right on her throat. Korra turned her body neck included as she watched Naruto's attack sail right past her. She turned her head aiming at Naruto's but never got a chance to counter attack. An invisible force struck her in the jugular and spread through her whole neck as her body propelled backwards and into the wall again.
Naruto took a few steps back as Korra was trying to get back on her feet but was having some difficulty. She held her neck as she gasped desperately to suck in some air at the same time gagging and coughing. She managed to rise up but stubbly walked backwards once again the two warriors where on opposite sides of the room.
"I hate s…..sage…mmmmode you cheating sack of uhuhuhu" where the only words Korra managed to get out.
"Oh yeah" Naruto said not disengaging his ready battle stance "Says Avatar girl with the power of all her past lives with her."
Korra growled the best she could her eyes flickering between the Avatar State to her normal mode. She shook out all negative thoughts as her eyes glowed steady in mystic blue.
Korra used all her strength to break the chain holding the cuffs together as she held out an open palm as a spark ignited in her hand. That spark turned into a fireball, she then placed her other hand over the fire ball and started to rotate the top hand, making the fire ball into a perfect sphere.
Naruto smiled cockily at the young woman as he raised his own open palm creating his own sphere but in the flavor of wind.
"Just so you know if where going to do this you have say it."
Korra didn't falter as she let out a fit of coughing grasping her neck with her free hand.
Naruto reeled back his arm grasping his orb, as did Korra both teens ran towards each other.
Line Break
Lin Beifong was not a happy camper. When she got the report on the incident on the Triple Threat punks getting beaten up by a young water tribe girl using a combo of Fire, Water, and Earthbending that only meant one thing, the Avatar was in town. Ordinarily Lin would go through the roof from reports of vigilantism in her city. But if the information she received a few days ago where true she might have showed a little leniency on the girl.
For years Lin had heard the horror stories of the Viper Hog gang acts of violence and cruelty through out the countryside. With all her resources tied to Republic City it'd still take years for her to even get a budget to assemble a task force to stop those monsters. All she could do was try and offer her sympathies to enraged and sadden citizens who had lost loved ones from the gang.
That was all in the past now, ancient history Lin was a woman who kept moving forward now wouldn't be any different.
As the chief of police made the last turn and entered the hallway that connected the entrance to the stations interrogation rooms she nearly fell over from the sound of two booming voices yelling out in unison.
"Rasengan!"
The whole building shook aggressively as Lin did fall over this time breaking her clipboard and spilling her papers all over the floor. The Metalbender got right back up as she tried to get her bearings when she noticed that a metal door belonging to one of the interrogation rooms was smoldering. She slowly walked up to the door and slid into a bending stance getting ready for anything. She placed her hand on the handle only for the door to fall over into the room.
Lin walked through the unprotected door way and over the fallen door. Looking around the room the normally stock chief was astonished at what had happened. What was once a dark metal insulated interrogation room had now been reduced to rubble? The walls were warped and in the case of the wall furthest from her it was destroyed completely leaving a giant hole to the outside world.
But the thing the set the bar for weird in this situation was the two black spheres that sat at opposite ends in the room. Lin took a step forward only to hear a crunching noise looking down she pulled back her foot to see what she had stepped on, it was a charred severed hand.
The chief jumped back and quickly while gently releasing a cable from her wrists to grasp the hand with. She reeled it up towards her to get a better look at it, only to stop due to the sights of movement form the corner of her eye. It was the black spheres they started to unravel.
As the two large spheres finished pealing apart to reveal the context of two teenagers one a water tribe girl slightly burned with a broken nose, a large bruise mark around her throat and appeared to be the owner of the severed hand do to her nursing a bleeding stump. The other was a boy wearing a golden glowing jacket over a black bodysuit with identical smaller spheres hovering behind him.
The boy started walking toward the girl as the spheres that once encased both of them shrank and floated along with the others circling the boys back. In a flash of light the boy's clothes had changed to what he was wearing based on his description on the incident report.
The girl let go of her bleeding stump and looked the boy right in the eye as he placed his hands on her cheeks. He guild her face towards his touching his forehead with her's. A few seconds past and Lin was astonished yet again at the already bizarre display. The girl's nose seemed to set it's self as her hand grew back! The boy took a few steps back rubbing the back of his head as the girl looked down on the ground embarrassed.
"So we still fighting or are you ready to tell me why you gave me "The Reason You Suck" speech."
The girl looked towards the boy and slowly said "yeah where done fighting"
It was at this point Lin had taken all she could "excuse me" she got the attention of the Boy and the girl as she spoke in a calm voice "if it's not too much trouble, just what the flameo happened in here!" she yelled the last part out in distress.
The boy and the girl looked at her then each other then back at her. "We had an argument" the girl said evenly.
"An argument! You destroyed an impenetrable room that was city property and endangered everybody in this building because of an argument!"
"I'm pretty sure where not the first two people to ever go a little over board due to an argument" boy said
10,000 years ago what would one day be known as the Great Divide
A spiky brown haired young man with a white head band tied around his forehead that matched his white battle robes laid on the ground smack dead center of a newly formed canyon that he had a part in making. He looked towards his right to see another young man around the same age with soft long darker brown hair sporting a matching goatee dressed in a mix of orange and robes lying beside him.
"Hey Wan" the young man wearing the white headband said addressing his friend.
"Yeah Ashura" the young man now known as Wan said
"Do you remember what we were fighting about?"
"…..I think it was over a bowl of noodles"
"A bowl of noodles!" Ashura yelled propping his elbow out as he raised his head and chest "we fought for two days at our maximum, forever changing the eco system on this part of your planet over a bowl of noodles!"
"Yeah" Wan calmly said moving his head to look at Ashura "but then again we spent five hours a couple of weeks ago seeing who could make the biggest waves me with Waterbending or you using your giant battle form's hands"
"Your right!" Ashura said letting his elbow go falling back to the ground "boy, are we irresponsible" he shook his head in disappointment
"Yeah" Wan agreed "but I bet we'll have the most fun in like the next ten thousand years" he smiled as he held up his right fist towards the sky.
"No doubt" Ashura agreed holding out his left fist towards the sky as well.
AN: I think Naruto was a little hypocritical in the end their on going overboard he'll get his next chapter. Season 4 of Legend of Korra starts tomorrow on Nickelodeon dot com so you don't need to check your local listings….this is going to be awesome