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Chapter 11: Kyoto Trip part 6: Lights, Camera, Action!.

Air, Water, Earth, Fire, These are elements of the balance in this world. 10000 years ago I was the hero who brought peace to a terrible war. I along with my friends and teachers travelled around the world to find and face the fire lord Ozai, but one day everything change, I find myself trapped in a distant future, I'm alone but I will remain determined to find my reason in this place.

Meanwhile on Setsuna's side.

Setsuna was ambushed on broad daylight by the enigmatic Shinmeiryuu Lolita, who was throwing several metal spikes on them, Setsuna was able to deflect and hide fast enough to prevent the others from knowing, with many innocent students around her; she was unable to retaliate back. So desperately running from her opponent, they make their escape on a populated city.

Kyoto City: Cinema Town

That city was full of crowds dressed in many types of attire and costumes, a perfect location to evade their enemies by hiding among them since as long as there is people nearby, they won't be able to attack freely. She was lucky since was found a perfect excuse to leave her friends in jump on a nearby roof with konoka on hands and escape, but she wonders how much time is left before they strike again, so she tries to reconnect with negi once again.

("Negi-sensei! Negi-sensei!...it's nogood after all. The enemy's attack disrupted my link with the Shikigami… From Chibi Setsuna's point of view, Negi-sensei looked pretty worn out but… where is Aang-sensei?... wait… Oh no… I must have trapped him when that happened.") Setsuna recognized that she was alone this time.

"Se-chan! Se-chan!" Konoka called her friend.

"Yes?" She replied instinctively but turning around she was startled by konoka dressed in kimono attire.

"O… Ojou-sama, what are you doing wearing those clothes?"

"Didn't you know? There's a changing room over there where you can borrow kimonos!"

"ehehe… How do I look se-chan?"

"Hah- er- oh- b- beautiful…" she replied nervously, somehow she was agitated by it, something she wondered why.

"Come-on se-chan! You must change too! I will pick one for you!" konoka innocently drags her inside the shop she once was. After several minutes, Setsuna comes out wearing a samurai costume. So they kept enjoying what this city has to offer, their relationship improved since them, raising suspicions for haruna, who was secretly following them, and it did spread to asakura and the Iincho's group as well.

Then out of nowhere, a noble cart arrived on the scene startling the young couple. Once Setsuna saw the person riding it, she instantly recognized the shinmeryuu swordswoman she fought at their last attempt to abduct konoka away, pretending it to be a play; Tsukuyomi challenges Setsuna on a duel with konoka as the prize, something that Setsuna was unable to reject since they had planned something else.

Meanwhile minutes before…

Flashing through the streets, lakes and forests, it was a familiar hurricane travelling at absurd speeds. Aang, who rushed forward to arrive at Setsuna spot as fast as he could, momentarily arrives on the cosplay town of cinema. However, to find a single girl in middle of such lively town is not easy, unless that girl is related to spirits. So Aang once again focused his mind to find Setsuna spiritual emission oscillating a bit along with other familiar energies as well, but in a middle of a crowd?

Without time to think about it, Aang rushed at the spot, once again to find setsuna fiercely fighting Tsukuyomi on middle of a bridge, while countless minor shikigamis harasses the students and what appears to be negi in shinobi outfit. Aang noticed that the people were thinking it as a show of sorts. This was a perfect time to assist without worrying about anyone finding out.

Dressing properly as a Buddhist monk by wearing a mix between purple and dark blue robes, Aang rushed into a messy battlefield, where the students were fighting back the useless toy shikigamis. Somewhere, he spots negi taking konoka away, so he followed them inside a house, while setsuna deals with tsukuyomi, Aang hides by the corner of the door and spots once again the cosplaying woman along with a sinister boy beside her.

"fufufu… Welcome, konoka ojou-sama, it seems tsukuyomi-chan was able to track you down after all, oh?"

Spotting Negi she comments, "What is that boy doing her? That damn youkai should have him trapped, tsk I knew he was useless in the end but oh well what we have here… aha~a I see…" then suddenly a huge monster appears beside her, armed with a bow.

"That isn't your real body is it? You can't do a thing here, so you won't be of much use…"

Aang froze for a second, he didn't notice before but that boy beside her was releasing a huge spiritual energy never felt before. Considering negi status, it was useless for him to fight back, so he finally decides to act.

"He may not do anything right now" he said surprising negi, "but I am I different story, remember me?"

The Monkey woman shivers, sure she remember when once fleeing from negi after their loss, where she barely survived a huge stream of wind that Aang made from the avatar state. But she was confident yet, "It's you! Heh perfect! I will make you pay for that!"

Then Aang was preemptive making a palm thrust forward sending an air blast aimed at them but her giant monkey shielded her from it, as her teammates remained intact, Aang was formulating a plan since he knew that things won't be easy ("I have to disperse them away, whoever is that boy, I can tell that he is very powerful indeed I should be careful"), so he lunged forward with a fist thrusts firebending several golden fireballs at all of them, the blasts was too powerful for the shikigami the resist, so it ended burnt.

"Eh!? Since when-"

"NEGI! GET KONOKA OUT OF HERE!" he yelled.

"Ah-A HAI!" So following orders, negi catchs konoka in bridal style and tries to escape.

"No you will not escape kukuku…" she taunted as the archer demon fired an arrow aimed at negi. But Aang took a step aside, and made a standing circular gesture, creating an orbiting wind shield, deflecting the arrow away and blowing the ceiling instead. Negi took the opportunity and jumped outside protected by Aang.

The monkey woman summoned more giant monkeys who tried to lunge at negi, so Aang quickly dispersed them, by fist thrusting above to burn them and proceeds to follow negi. So he along with konoka, were at the edge of the ceiling with Aang in front of them, ready to face his enemies.

Meanwhile, Setsuna was fighting fiercely with tsukuyomi, worried as she couldn't help her beloved ojou-sama alone, but when she spots Negi carrying konoka on the roof of a building, and a huge yellow colored flame blasting away the monkeys chasing them, she lets out a sigh of relief as she recognize Aang aiding them, so she took a breath and focused on her actual opponent.

The crowd watching the show was amazed, thinking it was special effects,

"Look at that!", "Amazing! What was that gold flame!", "Go, god's Sacred Holy fire!", "Awesome CGI effects!", "Eh!? The princess is in danger, dad!", "Go for it young ninja!", "Oh there is a houshi helping as well"

"Sakurazaki Setsuna, Guard to ojou-sama! Can you hear me?" She announced was the demon beside her charged an energy arrow, aimed to all three of them.

"If, you value Ojou-sama's life, don't interfere it!" then pointing to Aang.

"And you, if move a single step to interfere I will make him shot you, I doubt you will be capable to defend this time! Now, handover ojou-sama" so Aang released his stance, took a deep breath and with smooth spiral gestures, he ends clapping his hands and fiercely stares her enemy down.

"I'm not giving Konoka away!" Aang taunted her.

"fu, What you are muttering about? KILL HIM" so she ordered the demon to fire at Aang, who simply stood in same stance. For everyone else, it ended so fast that they couldn't see what happened; but for Aang, it was all in slow motion, the arrow was coming directly at his head, so Aang slowly bowed backward to catch the arrow in middle air with his, now glowing, hand effectively absolving the arrow impact.

In the end, his hand was bleeding slightly, it was the first time using it for defence but after watching how a natural energy bender fights by charging his chi, increasing his natural senses, Aang focused the energy at his hand, at the least second when he had to catch the arrow, surviving and surprising everyone watching it, knowing kotarou made a difference.

"What that is impossible! how did-" Aang didn't lose a second to think, he immediately made a circular gesture to his right, airbending the wind to disorient his opponents and make an opening, sprinting forward with his newly discovered ability to fight, he charges forward aiming to knockout his enemy, but he was intercepted by the person he didn't wanted to fight yet, the boy.

"… you gave a nice demonstration just now, but nothing impressive enough" the boy commented his action from before. Aang was struggling to overwhelm his enemy who just don't move even a flinch, so Aang then charged his free hand and tried to punch his head instead but the boy did catch it as well, it was a stale match.

"Who are you?" Aang asks.

"They call me… Fate" after this Fate traps Aang by holding his hand fiercily, Aang tried to struggle.

The monkey woman recovered her posture and confidently claimed. "kukuku, perfect! Surrender her now!? "taking a step forward negi made an stance, in response the archer demon fires another arrow aimed at him, completely scaring out the woman since konoka was behind her.

"AAAH! Why did you shoot for!?"

The demon answered, "it's because he moved! You should complement me!" he said while unsummoning.

"We're going to be in big trouble if ojou-sama dies!"

("Damnit, I must think on something and fast!") It was too late, even negi tried to stand on the path of the arrow, but since he was only a modified charm, he quickly disintegrated. Helpless as she was, the arrow was about to hit, but setsuna, who managed overwhelm tsukuyomi in their fight, took a fatal blow over her heart and fell down at the lake.

"SETSUNA!", "SE-CHAN!" Both Aang and Konoka yelled, the latter immediately jumped down to save her friend. Aang, then used all his strength left to free himself from fate, jumping backward, Aang creates a wind stream directed at fate with all the force he could muster; disorienting him, Aang slowing approaches him and touching his chest, he changes the course of the stream by creating a hurricane at point blank range, blowing fate away. Victorious, he turns around and runs to the edge to feel a spiritual spike, surprisingly enough coming from konoka, who managed to catch setsuna smoothly standing on the ground.

"Se-chan... thank goodness…" konoka said while holding setsuna in bridal style.

"Ojou-sama…"

Then inspecting the wound, they find it that somehow it was nearly recovered; only a single scar was left on the spot.

"The wound is… gone… O- Ojou-sama… you used your power?" she asked while bowing at konoka.

"eh? What I was doing? I felt like I was in some kind of trance!" Konoka was oblivious of her own power, something that made sense to Aang.

("That power! So that is what they want") Then immediately noticing another energy spike behind him, he quickly turn around to see fate casting stone lances aimed at him. In response, Aang spins to barely redirect them away, leaving minor bleeding scratches and dissipating his shield as well. Using it as a distraction, Fate approached the monkey woman who was relieved since her summon almost killed her target.

"So that's konoka-ojou-sama's power… just as I thought…"

"Chigusa, it time we retreat, for now…" She wasn't pleased about that, but he was right, if they continued, it would attract suspicions, this has gone for too long. Staring Aang a last time, she mutters: "I will remember this" so they left.

Once gone, Aang falls to his knees, since the day he awakened in mahora academy, his bending arts was severely hindered, all because of the delicate state of the spirit world, so he could only fight using 30% of his strength, making him very weak compared with before. Inspecting all his enemies, fate was the only thing in his mind. He can hide and freely control his spiritual emissions as well the fact of being incredible powerful, Aang knew that if they fought seriously, he wouldn't stand a chance right now, one thing interesting is that his magic apparently has ties directly from earthbending, something that needed further investigation.

Negi, who reduced back to chibi version, approached setsuna to regroup together; there were things to be revealed.

Facing konona, "Ojou-sama, let's go back to your family home, and meet Kagurazaka-san and the others!" they proceed to leave the town, accompanied by countless cheers from the crowds that watched everything.

Meanwhile seconds later at negi's side.

Negi releasing the charm spell, he awakened back into his body, feeling a bit dizzy. Asuna then bombarded them about what happened during this time, he explained all he saw, from meet with Tsukuyomi to receiving help from his roommate Aang-sensei, who is inexplicable yet a mage of sort. That surprised both three of them. An hour has past as he recovered from his wounds.

Asuna still bugged him with questions, "But is it really okay to not go help them? If it's sakurazaki-san…"

"It's fine. They escaped from cinema town and it looks like there aren't any pursuers, also she isn't alone, Aang-nii-san is there to help as well" Negi said while getting up.

"Alright, it looks like I'm finally recovered!"

"Wait! To recover you need to wait a little longer negi!" even from an hour of rest, negi still was dizzy, staggering around, but after several minutes, they heard a scream from konoka calling them. So they entire group was reunited once more.

"Hey, Sakurazaki-san, what's all this? Why did everyone come with you?" Negi whispered, since there was some among them who was oblivious of magic.

Setsuna answered normally, "No, that is… I ran here carrying ojou-sama and finally arrived here after struggle, but… just now, asakura-san and the others caught us there…"

"heheh, you're still a hundred years too early to escape from me." Asakura mocked. Indeed one hour earlier, everyone changed back to their clothes. But since haruna was following them behind, Aang and setsuna then decides to escape by jumping the roofs, but asakura already predicted that this would happen, so she planted a GPS locator in their luggage, leading to their current situation.

Asuna tries to warn about the recent events, "Oi, Asakura, do you not completely understand the danger? Negi almost died just a little bit ago you know!?"

"Ah, look, look at that! Isn't that the entrance?" haruna yelled as they finally arrived at Kansai Magic Association. But since they don't know anything, distracted by scenery, they ran forward startling both asuna and negi.

Kyoto City: Kansai Magic Association

"Th-That's the enemy base, right!?"

"Something's coming out!"

"Calm down both of you, I already checked around, there is no danger for a while" Aang spoke from behind completely scaring them away. Negi then recovered his posture and faced Aang with a serious face, "Explain…" he demanded, after all he didn't want to take any chances.

"I know you want answers but let's get inside and rest, then I will explain everything."

Negi wasn't amused at that, but since he was the one who fought his enemies, then the only obvious reason is that Aang is an ally. So agreeing with him, all of them head inside, once there, they were greeted by 2 lines of maids and butlers.

"Welcome back, Konoka-ojou-sama." That really surprised everyone; they never thought that their supposed enemy base was also konoka's house.

"Sa-sakurazaki-san, what exactly is all this?"

So setsuna explains, "Um, that is, basically… this is both the headquarters for the Kansai magic association and konoka-ojou-sama's personal home." That surprised then once again, they kept enjoying the scenery until they got invited to a large hall to wait the arriving of the head chief. All of this made Aang remember the fire nation halls, since he used to visit firelord zuko time to time, to enjoy his company and sharp back his firebending skills.

After several minutes, a man came down at the stairs in front of them.

"Sorry for the wait." He apologized them, "Welcome, asuna-kun, konoka's classmates and their and at last, his roommate negi-sensei", as soon he finished his speech, konoka held him lovely.

"Otou-sama! It's been a long time!"

Negi was dazed, he kinda thought that konoka's father was the western leader but still it was surprising to him. Asuna, also was dazed, she was blushing in admiration, it was her very strange taste for older and wise man. As for Aang, the way konoka was happily embracing the chief, made he remember his paternal figurine in heart, monk gyatso. So taking opportunity Aang delivered his letter and finally completed his job.

After minutes reading it, he announces his decision about the contents inside the letter, "in appreciation of the eastern leader's will, we too will negotiate to end the discord between east and west. Please tell him that. Your mission is completed! Negi-springfield-kun!"

"Hai!" so they commemorate this accomplishment with a royal banquet, they kept enjoying as the chief spoke with everyone. He admired Setsuna loyalty to protect her daughter, explained, that he in the end wanted that konoka lived a normal life, before realizing that was impossible, and at least Eishun finally noticed Aang's presence, who kept silent for a while.

"Ah! You were together with them, who you might be?"

"I'm just a traveler, I was asked to teach at mahora academy and assist negi"

"I see, so I must thank you as well for supporting him"

"It was my pleasure"

Konoka's house, bath house.

So, after a delicious banquet, Aang was about to take a bath along with negi and eishun. As they get undressed, both negi and eishun caught the glimpse of Aang tattoos and his massive scar at his back.

"Wow, that a huge scar, how did you got it?" negi asked.

"Well, I had my own fights since I traveled…" Aang gave a rather vague answer; he didn't want to explain his purpose as the avatar yet. Noticing the scars on eishun, he asks in hope to distract them.

"What about you headchief-sama? How did you get those scars?"

"haha, there is no need to be formal, I usually practiced with swords once." Eishun spoke in a rather uncomfortable tone, making Aang let the matter drop.

Entering the bath properly, taking a quick glance to Aang, eishun spoke: "I wanted to thank you for taking care of konoka during your time at Mahora"

"Don't worry it was my job, negi showed to be a responsible prodigy mage" Aang answered, surprising him, negi felt good at being praised but now he remembered about Aang's being a mage as well.

"Oh yes, Aang-nii-san what exactly you came to do?"

"Well, it time to explain, hmm how do I begin…" then Aang explain that he was an air nomad monk, users of a now forgotten ancient magicks named bending arts, the magic of controlling elements without chants; he, by the orders of Mahora's headmaster, was supposed to over watch and test negi progress on this job, helping only in presence of a mortal danger, he also was ordered to relate everything back to him back once finished.

"ehhh? So you were watching me every moment?"

"Exactly, I saw how careless you can be about hiding your mage status; I saw your involvement with fight against that monkey woman at the train station, your fight with kotarou and the last encounter at the cinema town. I had to say negi you have put the life of your students in danger several times when involving them with magic."

Negi now was crying nervously, "I'm sorry…"

"But aside that, like I said, you showed to be a quite talented mage, so you pass." Hearing the young mage cheered, also crying, back with joy.

"Hmm strange, usually my father-in-law informs me if any of his mages come to kyoto"

"I think its maybe because I'm not an official mage"

"Oh yes, you said you traveled the world, what made you end in Mahora?"

"I didn't exactly travel into mahora, I was released…"

"Released?" negi asks curious.

"Yes, somehow I was sealed in a cave under the world tree for at least… 10000 years" that surprised both negi and eishun, they wondered what happened for him to meet this fate.

"Wow, that way too long, this don't make sense, it's so old that defy what history could show us, to think someone existed before 6000 years is nearly unbelievable, the world tree have thousands years of history you know"

"I know, in my time, that tree was even bigger than you think, when I was sealed, I had no sense of time, it's sad to think that now I have more than 10000 years of existence, all my friends, my home, all is gone…"

"But why? Why you were sealed?"

Aang gave a sad look, "I don't know, but I know the answer is there somewhere…"

TO BE CONTINNUED

Author notes

Yay another action chapter, so it was really easy to write, also yay Inuyasha parody, ala miroku.

Now to not confuse too much I will give the key words I use about when Aang bends an element:

Airbending – anything related to "palm thrusts, spiral or circular gestures"

Waterbending – anything about smooth (but depends) and relaxed motion.

Earthbending – anything about firm stances, not much to say

Firebending – mostly fast paced fist thrusts.

Energybending – anything being charged.