The Tides Change Once More

by Engineer4Ever

The Avatar isn't the only one reincarnated. See how Naruto takes Republic City by storm with the newest Avatar Korra. NarutoxKorra. The First Naruto/Korra crossover! AU. Status: DISCONTINUED.

11. Book Air: Tides Changing For The Better

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Co-written by: Masamune X23

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Everyone looked in shock as the little fox talked.

"Kurama talked!" Bolin exclaimed as he pointed a shaky finger at said fox.

Kurama rolled his eyes, "Yes pebble brain, I also do birthdays and Bar Mitzvah."

"Bar-what?" Bolin asked with a clueless expression.

"Never mind." Kurama said with a sigh, stupid humans could never understand his sense of humor anyway.

Kurama turned his attention to Korra and smirked, "Avatar Korra, it's a pleasure the finally meet you officially now that I've revealed my true self. I, the Great Spirit Kurama, Spirit of Foxes, have come to give you the wisdom needed to win this war." Kurama declared in a serious tone.

Korra looked in shock, but then her expression was replaced by a happy one. A spirit! A spirit contacted her. She wasn't spiritually challenged anymore!

Everyone else looked happy at hearing this news, but they stopped when they heard a snort of laughter.

"Ah ha ha ha ha, oh, oh sweet Kami, yo-you thought I was serious? Ha ha ha ha!" Kurama said as he rolled around laughing his tail off.

"But-" Korra tried to ask, but Kurama cut her off.

"I'm not here for you little miss bridge to the spirit world." Kurama said as he shot her a gaze, he then turned to Naruto, "I'm here for him." he said as he pointed his tail at the blonde.

"Eh?" Naruto said in surprise as he pointed to himself.

"Yes you." The fox said with a nod.

"Why Naruto?" Mako asked in confusion.

He understood Korra, because she was the Avatar, but what would a spirit want with Naruto?

"What? You think the Avatar is only one who can get in touch with spirits? That's stupid, but then again it's a human thinking it, so it's to be expected." Kurama said with a shrug.

Mako's eye twitched at the insult given to him.

"Now, the reason why I want to talk to this idiot is because of his first life." The fox said with a creepy smile.

"First life? Wait are you saying that, Naruto was reincarnated?" Korra asked in shock.

"Duh." Kurama said with a deadpan expression.

"You mean those visions I've been having are of my first life?" Naruto asked in a shell shock tone.

"Visions?" Korra rounded on Naruto and looked at him sternly. She did not hear anything about visions!

Naruto looked apologetic and he would talk about it with her later. Spirits knew that he's going to get an earful for not saying anything about them.

"At least you're smarter then you were in your first life. Strike that, you're a genius compared to your first life." Kurama quipped

"Oi." Naruto said in a ticked off tone.

"What? You were a complete dumbass, but a good natured dumbass nonetheless." The fox continued.

Naruto was fighting the urge to pound the little fur ball as his eye twitched.

"Would you care to explain why you are here for Naruto then?" Itachi asked in a polite tone.

"I could, but why should I say such important information in front of the rest of you?" The fox questioned sternly while gazing at Itachi with seriousness for some reason.

"Because we're his friends." Korra said in a heated tone with clinched fists.

Kurama looked at Korra with an amused expression and then turned to Naruto, "You really know how to pick them, huh? You always did have a thing for the hot heated ones who rather beat sense into someone then talk sense into them…then again you weren't any better." He snorted

"Enough beating around the bush already Kurama, whatever you have to say, you can say it in front of everyone here." Naruto said in confidence.

"Fine, ruin a fox's fun. The reason I decided to talk to you now was because you are at the cross road of this life. The failure or succession is up to you, but know this, you are the catalyst that will aid the Avatar to her victory." He said seriously.

"In what way?" Itachi asked, as many things could come from that statement.

Kurama looked at Itachi with what could be said as a sense of loathing, "As annoyingly perceptive as always. I guess at least one from that bastard clan had to be good. It seems even you were given a second chance." The fox said with begrudging respect, though it was very little.

Itachi's eyes went wide and asked what he meant, but Kurama was already walking away.

"Entertain me as always Child of Prophecy." Kurama said with a dark chuckle and crooked smile as he disappeared into the shadows.

Naruto frowned at him being called that.

Just what did that title mean?

Everyone was silent for a moment wondering what Kurama meant by that, but decided to put it off for later.

"We should keep going guys; we've stayed here long enough." Asami said as the others agreed and moved on.

"Yeah let's go." Korra said as they turned and moved deeper into the sewer.

0 Republic City Park 0

Republic City had fallen and was now under Amon's control.

His air ships were in the air keeping surveillance, his Mecha Tanks were running patrols around all blocks and his secret weapon is still in hiding waiting for his command.

Within the confines of Republic City's Park was none other than Hiroshi Sato who was giving a speech to the civilians on how Amon has begun his glorious plan and that the era of equality has begun which got the crowd roaring in agreement.

However unknown to them two Equalists guards who were watching the event slipped back into hiding unnoticed as they pushed a large rock to reveal a tunnel entrance.

They quickly and silently went inside as they returned the rock to cover the entrance as they made their way forward.

As they did one of the Equalists took of the mask to reveal Yuki.

"Arg, man how do they even breathe in this thing, I swear it's like the mask is trying to suffocate me. How do you even tolerate this Itachi?" she asked to the now revealed Itachi as he also took of his mask while looking unbothered from having worn the so-called strangulating mask.

"Honestly it just never bothered me that much; I just deal with it and ignore any discomfort." Itachi said without any sweat on his forehead.

Yuki sighed, "Sometimes I don't know if it's a curse you conceal your emotions or a blessing given how nothing seems to make you uncomfortable." Yuki stopped before she developed a grin, "Well almost nothing anyway." she said with a giggle at remembering a certain memory.

Itachi stopped to see his wife giggling about something, "Something amuses you?" he said with a puzzled expression.

Yuki stopped giggling before she put her hands behind her back and started to have a small blush on her face, "Oh nothing I just remember seeing one of your biggest reactions during our honeymoon on Ember Island." she finished saying as her eyes seemed to sparkle recalling that memory of their first official night together in bed.

Hearing that caused Itachi to turn away as his face was developing a more reddish color despite his attempts to stop it from happening.

As he kept trying to control himself his mind decided to flashback to their honeymoon against his will.

Truthfully it was perhaps one of his most happy memories from where they made love to each other during a full moon much to his enjoyment.

Yuki was a bit shy about it but he on the other hand had been hesitant and even nervous considering Yuki had to make the first move. But then again she did say it was because he was too much of a gentleman to have made the initiative.

Although he did manage to keep his composure he still ended up showing just how affected he was by it which Yuki made sure to never let him forget much to his ire.

"Yes it was one of our most special nights together." Itachi said as he started to regain control of himself and the color of his face began returning to normal.

Yuki hummed to herself for a moment as she closed her eyes remembering that experience.

She certainly had nothing to complain about that's for sure and Itachi definitely seemed to know how to please someone despite that fact she knew he didn't have much experience considering she was his first girlfriend, lover and now wife. It made her happy she was his first and he being her first as well.

"We should continue our way back now." Itachi said interrupting her train of thought.

Yuki sighed at their touching moment being over just like that, "Alright then let's go." she said as they continued down the tunnel.

They walked for a few moments until the silence was broken again.

"Itachi I'm pregnant." Yuki said suddenly.

That single sentence instantly froze Itachi as he turned around with his eyes widened.

"What did you say?" Itachi asked as he wasn't sure if he heard right.

"I said I'm pregnant." Yuki repeated in glee.

Itachi looked surprised and definitely caught off guard by the news as he looked at Yuki up and down however as he did he noticed something.

"You're lying." Itachi said as his face returned to its calm form like always.

Now Yuki's eyes widened, "What do you mean I'm lying?" she asked in a tone that sounded angry.

"I remember that it's been over four months since we've last had our time together in bed and yet your body's not showing any signs of pregnancy which it would've shown by now if you really were pregnant." he said with certainty and logic in his voice.

Yuki just stared at him for a moment before she just tsk'd in annoyance and snapped her fingers, "Damn and you were falling for it too until you're brain started talking to you again."

Itachi sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose feeling a headache coming along, "You just won't stop until you see me crack will you?" he asked his wife.

Yuki now had a cheerful smile that resembled her grandmothers' as she walked forward, "You know me, I love a good challenge." she suddenly stopped next to Itachi, "And I love you too." she said as she cupped his face and kissed him gently while her other arm held his shoulder.

Itachi was a little surprised she would do this here but decided not to say anything as he kissed her back and wrapped his arms around her waist bringing her body closer.

Eventually they were forced to separate for air as they were now panting a little.

Yuki just smiled lovingly, "That's the Itachi I've grown to know and love." she said as she planted one last kiss on his cheek before moving on ahead again with a skip in her step.

Itachi didn't move for a moment until he finally followed behind her while a kind smile grew on his face that would've made her very happy to see if she had only turned around.

"And that's the Yuki who stole my heart." he thought to himself with the smile still on his face.

0

Naruto was sitting in the refugee shelter along with the others as he contemplated what his once pet fox had said to him.

Naruto felt a poke on his shoulder and turned to see Korra.

"You okay?" she asked with concern.

Naruto shook his head to clear his thoughts, "Yeah, I'm just…confused is all water princess." He said with a strained smile.

Korra nodded, but deep down…she was kind of happy with his confusion. He was just like her! Both reincarnated from past lives of great people, well since it was his past life, she assumed he was a great person. It was just another way they could connect it seemed.

She punched him lightly on the shoulder, "Hey, you're not the only one with crazy reincarnation stuff going on, but if you want to talk about it…" she trailed off.

Naruto thought about it, but he really didn't even know what to say, "It's just weird is all. Seeing myself younger, simpler… and wearing orange." He blanched at that, "It's like watching a pictures that you're in, but it isn't you." He tried to explain. He sighed as he looked at her, "Probably not the best way to explain it, but that's all I got."

Korra hummed at that, "I've seen Aang a few times when he sent me some messages for knowing about Tarrlok, but I guess it is a bit different since it wasn't me I was seeing, but my past self in a different body that…okay this is getting confusing and it is starting to hurt." She said as she rubbed her temples.

Naruto gave a small smile, "I know what you're trying to say but it's just confusing for me since my reincarnation seems different from yours."

"How so exactly?" Korra asked.

"We'll from what Kurama said and those visions I had, it seems I'm the same person from the past living an entirely new life in this world. You and the other past avatars are all different people and have a connection with each other while I don't seem to have one at all." Naruto said sadly.

Korra placed a hand on his shoulder, "Hey there's nothing wrong with that. I didn't get any connection with Aang until I came to Republic City so maybe you'll have one too."

Naruto thought about what Korra said for a moment before he cheered up, "Thanks Korra I feel better now, when this is over we can get Tenzin to give us a sermon on it or something." Naruto said teasingly.

Korra groaned at that, "I already have to listen to him about Airbending training. I don't think I can handle that another series of lectures on top of that." She joked back.

"Well Korra seems to be getting serious girlfriend points." Yuki said as she was behind them.

"AH!" both Korra and Naruto said in surprise and jumped back.

Yuki giggled at them and Naruto scowled, "Dammit Yuki, did you have to do that?" he asked with a shout.

Yuki just smiled at him, "Yes, yes I do."

"Yuki stop teasing them." Itachi said as he walked over to them.

Yuki turned to him with a pout, "Aw, but they're so cute to tease." She said.

"Then save it for after we stop this meaningless war." The spy said.

"Gee thanks man." Naruto said sarcastically.

"Anytime." Itachi said quickly in return.

"Welcome back guys." Asami said as she gave Yuki a quick hug.

"Thanks." Yuki said as she got out of the Equalist outfit and revealed her battle outfit.

Itachi did the same and cracked his neck a bit as he stretched his muscles from being restrained in two outfits.

"So any new word topside?" Mako asked as he walked up to them with Bolin.

"Mr. Sato is making quite the spectacle out there, winning the crowed over. Especially when he stated that Avatar Korra is on the run." Itachi reported.

"WHAT!" Korra shouted in anger, "I'm not running from anything! That's it, Asami's dad or not, he does not get away with calling me a coward." She scowled as she clinched her fists, but Naruto stopped her.

"Easy Korra, he's just trying to get a rise out of you." The blonde stated.

"But-" Korra tried to argue, but Naruto interrupted her again.

"No buts. Just trust me or do I have to distract you with a make out session?" he asked teasingly and got the result he wanted.

Korra turned bright red and slapped him on the arm, "Sh-shut up about that." She hissed at him in embarrassment.

Naruto just laughed. She was so cute all embarrassed and such.

"Welcome back! Hope you guys worked up an appetite, cause dinner is served!" Gommu, the hobo said.

They all sat down for dinner as the hobo passed around some food.

"Thanks so much for letting us stay here for the past few days." Korra said as she accepted her dish.

"I'm happy to oblige. My associates and I hardly acknowledge Amon's Equalists policies. We got benders and non-benders living together down here, but do you see us fightin'? No sir rye. We figured how to harmoniously co-exist." The hobo said as he hugged himself.

"You are a wise and noble hobo." Bolin said with respect as he took a bit of the food, "Mm, this is the best tasting street gruel I ever had, seriously."

"I called it from the finest dumpsters the city has to offer." Gommu answered.

As soon as he said that Asami, Naruto and Yuki made a sickening face and placed her food on the ground. Naruto and Yuki did the same.

Their high class palate just wouldn't allow it in their mouths.

0 a few hours later 0

Everyone was sleeping except Korra, who was wide awake and lying against Naga.

"Getting antsy?" the voice of Naruto asked.

"Huh," Korra said turning to the voice, "Oh, hey Naruto and yeah. I got this kind of pit in my stomach."

"Yeah, I got that too." Naruto said as he plopped down next to her, "But don't worry. We'll get through this." He said reassuringly.

"Hee, it's hard to believe that only a few months ago I was in the south pole practicing for my fire bending test and now I'm in the middle of an all out war." She said.

"Yeah, the shit hit the fan big time for us, but I got to say, if you never snuck on that ship to here I would have never met you, which would have sucked greatly since you're the most awesome girlfriend a guy could ask for." Naruto said with a smile.

"You're pretty awesome yourself." Korra said with pink dusting her cheeks.

Naruto gave her a kiss, "Get some sleep water princess; you're going to need it." He said as he patted her head and walked off to bed himself.

Korra just smiled at his retreating form as she held her fingers to her lips.

0 At night in Avatar Aang's island 0

The island was guarded by airships circling around in their patrol.

However down at the island was Amon who was taking the bending away from all the benders they captured so far which were all members of the white lotus and the police force. There were dozens of them all tied up and blindfolded in defeat.

The purge of bending had finally begun.

0 Republic City Harbor 0

It was early morning at the harbor as the new team Avatar was looking for signs of the UF naval fleet.

"Once the United Forces arrive, we need to be able to help in any way we can." Korra said

"They're here." Mako said

Large naval ships could be seen in the off the coast.

"Wait a second…where are the Equalist airships?" Korra asked in concern as she looked up to see nothing there.

"I have a bad feeling about this." Naruto commented as it felt way too quiet for his liking.

Mako took Bolin's telescope and looked around the harbor, "I don't see any Mecha Tanks either." The fire bender said.

All of a sudden an explosion went off and hit one of the ships.

More explosions started to happen all around the other ships.

"A minefield? Dammit, there wasn't anything about a minefield in those documents." Itachi said in slight anger.

Korra, without hesitation, jumped into the water to help.

"Korra!" Naruto shouted, "Damn that girl for being so hot headed." He cursed to himself.

All of a sudden they heard a buzzing sound in the air and turned to the sky.

"What is that noise?" Asami asked.

"I don't know." Mako said as he looked into the telescope trying to see anything out of the ordinary.

"Something's coming." Yuki said.

No sooner did she finish that sentence multiply high speed planes appeared as they flew towards the fleet.

"Where does Hiroshi find the time to keep inventing new evil machines?" Bolin asked comically.

As Naruto saw this he got some distance from the others and raised seven 2 foot pillars around him.

"Mako, Bolin, get over here!" he shouted

"What are you doing?" Bolin asked as they rushed over.

"Helping out. I need you and Mako to attack the ships," He said with a grunt as he lifted a large piece of the harbor under them, sending them in the air, "While I steer."

"Yes captain my captain!" Bolin said with a mock salute as he realized that the pillars were for him.

"Good soldier." Naruto answered and they both grinned.

"Would you idiots knock it off?" Mako said as they headed to the battle.

Both shrugged, "It's an earthbender thing."

Mako just pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance as he got ready and sent a fire ball at one of the planes.

The planes started to drop aerial bombs on the ships.

"Aim for them in mid-drop!" Naruto ordered as he shifted their position higher in the air.

"Roger!" "Got it."

They tried to hit them, but only got a few.

Just then a plane pasted them, but Naruto knew the pilot.

"Hiroshi." He whispered in shock.

He shook his head and turned to the others, "Aim for the wings they must be vulnerable."

They nodded and started to aim for the wings and managed to get about three.

"Reloading!" Bolin shouted as he moved to the next pillar and Mako moved over.

They kept aiming for the drop bombs and planes.

Just then Korra rose out of the water on a giant water pillar and made large icicles rise out of the water and cut the wings of the planes flying low to the water.

A plane collided with her water pillar and tore through it and she plummeted to the water.

"Korra!" Naruto shouted in concern, but focused on moving the large they were on somehow knowing she was okay.

A bomb hit the crow's nest on one of the ships and Naruto winced. He felt sorry for whoever got hit by that.

He saw Korra come up moments later with General Iroh and guided his floating rock to them.

"Need a ride?" The blonde asked in a humorous tone.

"It would be nice." Korra said with a slight shrug.

"Can we save the flirting for later, my arm is killing me here." Iroh intervened

"Oh Iroh, always the killjoy." Naruto said with mock sadness.

"Someone needs to be the mature one here." The general fired back.

Naruto rolled his eyes at that one.

Mako and Bolin pulled them on and Naruto headed back to land.

0 Refugee Shelter 0

They all gathered around Iroh as Korra used her water bending to heal his burned left bicep.

"I was prepared to deal with Sato's Mecha Tanks and Air Ships, but not these new high speed aircrafts." Iroh said as he grunted a bit from the healing he was given.

"It seems we now know what his secret weapon was." Itachi commented as he internally berated himself for not finding out.

Yuki placed a hand on his shoulder knowing what he was thinking.

"It wasn't your fault Itachi. You got as much info as you could." Naruto said

"Every time we have the advantage, Amon outsmarts us." Korra said in aggravation.

"Whatever plan we come up with, he always has a better one." Bolin said in hopelessness.

"Amon is winning so far, but we're not out of the fight yet." Iroh said in determination.

"It's always good to have you around Iroh." Naruto said with a grin.

"It's General Iroh, Chief Beifong, General!" Iroh said tersely with a stoic face.

"You're still pissed about that time I dyed your hair pink, aren't you?" Naruto asked.

"Yes, I am. I had to give a speech in front of my entire graduation class at the academy while being laughed at!" Iroh yelled at the blonde.

"They were laughing with you." Naruto tried to reason.

"No, they were definitely laughing at me." Iroh said with a deadpan expression.

Naruto snickered at remembering the event.

"Grandfather was there too." Iroh said in sorrow as he remembered his grandfather laughing too.

"Can we get back on topic?" Itachi asked

"Right right. So when are your reinforcements coming?" Naruto asked the general.

"They should be arriving within a few hours, but I need to warn them. Do you still have a way to get a message out?" Iroh asked

"We do." Itachi said as he brought his fingers to his lips and whistled as Naruto's second pet Hawky fly by and perched itself on his shoulder.

"This will be safer than any modern messaging since the enemy can intercept our messages from telegraphing and radio." Itachi stated, since he knew what Amon's Intel division could do.

Iroh nodded and started to write a message and gave it to Itachi, who placed the message in the carrier.

"To Red Sand Island, United Forces Fleet." Iroh said and Hawky flew away through one of the opened manholes.

It was a good thing they trained him well by going to many places for Hawky to remember.

They procured a map as Iroh laid it out.

"Now comes the hard part. We need to ground those aircraft; otherwise Commander Bumi's fleet will never be able to retake the City." Iroh said

"Wait, Tenzin's brother?" Korra asked

"Yes, a bit of a wild man, but the bravest commander you'll ever meet." Iroh commented in respect.

"They flew in from this direction, therefore the airfield must be somewhere over this mountain range." Mako pointed out.

Itachi stared at the spot on the map, "Amon does have a facility out there, but it was only used as a spare hideout. He must have had it changed with as little of his inner circle knowing." He commented

"Alright, here's the plan. Itachi, mark as many Equalists supply buildings you know of." Naruto said

Itachi took a pen and started to X off some buildings in the Dragon's Flat Burrow and some warehouses.

"Okay. We're going to need someone to do hit and run tactics at these supply buildings. Yuki and Mako should do it. Mako can burn the place down after it's been cleared out and Yuki can take down anyone Amon's got guarding the places." Naruto stated

"Sounds like a plan." Yuki said grinning and Mako nodded.

"Good. Now, the rest of us can hit the airbase while Yuki and Mako stir up a panic among them."

"Everybody get ready, we leave at dawn." Iroh said

"Time to take down my father." Asami said in a tense tone.

As everyone walked away, Korra stood back.

"Wait," she said and everyone looked at her, "I'm not going with you tomorrow."

"What?" Mako questioned in surprise.

"Why not?" Asami asked

"I'm sick and tired of hiding from Amon. It's time I face him." she boldly declared.

"That's not a good plan. We need to stick together." Iroh said, trying to reason with Korra.

"I'm not waiting for him to hunt me down. My guts telling me it's time to end this, on my terms!" Korra stated

"Then I got your back water princess." Naruto said as he walked to her as he threw an arm around her shoulder and smiled at her.

A smile she happily returned.

Iroh hmm'd, "My grandfather would respect the Avatar's instinct, so will I." Iroh said

0 the next morning 0

Bolin and Mako gave each other a hug with Gommu crying in the background.

Bolin walked up to Korra and told her to be careful and Korra told him to bring Naga.

Asami gave Mako a kiss and wished him luck.

Yuki gave Itachi a deep kiss and walked away while he just stared at her in amusement.

Iroh, Itachi, Asami, and Bolin along with Pabu, mounted Naga and rode off while Yuki and Mako headed topside for some guerilla warfare.

"Good fortune and success to you valiant heroes!" Gommu said bidding them farewell.

Naruto wrapped two bulky bands around his wrists, hoping they would give him an edge.

0 With Naruto and Korra 0

The two were sneaking off the Air Temple Island dressed as Equalists when Korra asked a sudden question that had been bothering her for a while.

"Hey Naruto, I've been wondering…where's your dad?" she asked with interest, but winced for being stupid and insensitive when she noticed his darkened mood as he stopped in mid step.

"He's dead Korra." Naruto said in a monotone voice.

"Sorry, I, I didn't mean to just blurt it out like that." She said apologizing.

"It's okay, not many people ask because they usually knew." Naruto said with a frown.

Korra knew she was trending dangerous waters, but asked, "Can you tell me about him?" she asked quietly as she started to water bend an air bubble for them to walk underwater to the Temple.

Naruto gave a sad smile, "Sure, haven't told this story in forever. It may feel nice." He muttered to himself.

"Well from what mom told me, they met like how we kind of met." Naruto started with a chuckle.

-Flash back-

Kazuo just got off the ferry to Republic City breathing in the city air.

He then started coughing like no tomorrow.

When he finally stopped his coughing fit, he sighed, "Man, when they said there's nothing like the city air, they were clearly lying." He said as he ran his hand through his unusual blonde hair, "I liked the countryside much better unlike over here their air is sanitary."

He started walking down the street when he saw some thugs mugging an old man.

"Law enforcement must suck in this place." he joked as he stomped his foot on the ground and the three muggers went flying into the air.

He casual walked over as the muggers landed, "Now guys, it isn't nice to pick on old people. Makes ya look stupid." He said with a wink.

The thug's snarled at him and pulled out some knifes, but before they could attack the blonde, they were sent flying by earth bending into a shops window.

Kazuo winced as they went through, "Well that's what happens." He said with a shrug and turned to the old man, "Hopefully they shouldn't bother you anymore with them needing a hospital and all." He said with a crooked grin.

The old man nodded in thanks and walk away.

Minutes later the police arrived.

He saw a young woman with short black hair and stern green eyes marching up to him as the other officers rounded up the downed muggers.

"No need to thank me, just doing what any good citizen would do." Kazuo said with pride.

He saw the woman extend her hand and he did the same, assuming she was going to shack it, but to his surprise and confusion he was cuffed instead.

"Eh?" the blonde said in shock.

"You're under arrest for property damage." The woman said.

"What? Bu-but I did what you guys couldn't and saved an old guy from being mugged!" Kazuo said in indignation.

"You're still under arrest." The woman said dragging him away to the squad car.

"I need an adult, I need an adult!" Kazuo shouted

"I am an adult." The woman said back.

-Police station-

Kazuo was whistling a tone from boredom in the interrogation room while being cuffed to the table, when the woman who dragged him away because of a misunderstanding entered.

"Hey you're that lady who took me in for no reason. How are ya doin'?" Kazuo said with his a friendly smile and a polite tone hoping she would drop the charges.

Hey it got those girls in his small village to swoon over him.

The woman just stared blankly at him and he deflated a little at his attempts being pushed aside.

"I'm Lieutenant Lin Beifong." Lin said

"Well it's a pleasure Lin-lin." Kazuo said smiling.

"That is Lieutenant Beifong to you." She said with a growl.

"Sure sure. So what time you get off Lin-lin?" he asked flirtingly.

"…Are you flirting with me?" she question at the man's' audacity to do that…when he was being interrogated!

"Well, since you got me here on messed up charges, I see myself getting out of here soon. So again, what time do you get off?" he asked in his friendly tone as he didn't seem bother at all.

Lin growled at the man and was about to tell him off when a voice interrupted her.

"Ma'am, Avatar Aang is here and is asking to see you or the Chief." An officer said through the window.

Kazuo whistled, "Someone knows some high class people." he said in slight interest in meeting the Avatar.

Lin sighed, "Just bring him here." She said with a wave of her hand.

Aang walked and in gave Lin a hug, "Lin, it's great to see you." Aang said with a smile.

"It is good to see you as well Avatar Aang." She said with a smile.

Aang waved her off, "Come on Lin, none of that Avatar business. We're practically family after all."

"Of course, Uncle Aang." She said in amusement.

Aang just smiled.

"This is really touching, truly, but uh, can you let me go now?" Kazuo asked pleadingly to Aang.

Aang turned to him, "And why are you here?"

"I try to be a Good Samaritan and get the bracelets instead." Kazuo said with a shrug.

Aang turned to Lin with a raised eyebrow.

"He knocked three thugs through an antique shop. Property damage, lots of property damage." Lin stated

Aang turned back to Kazuo and stared at him before turning to Lin, "I think you can let this one go Lin, I'm sure he's learned his lesson." The monk suggested.

"Yes, yes I have. I will never again help others without looking at my surroundings. Thank you oh wise bald monk." Kazuo said as he bowed his head.

Lin was about to yelled at him for his lack of respect, but Aang laughed, "All in a day's work for your ever fun loving monk." He answered with a smile.

Kazuo opened his cuffs with metal bending and wringed his wrists, "Man those things smarts."

Lin looked shocked, "You could have gotten out of those the entire time!?" she questioned

Kazuo just grinned, "I could've, but then you'd probably add resisting arrest to your charges. You'll see that I can do lots of things Lin-lin." He said with a small wink.

Lin blushed very little at the grin, but Kazuo cheered in his mind for getting the cold woman to react.

"Well I have to go. Lin, tell your mother to meet me at Sokka's."

"Poker night?" Lin asked in amusement as the pink was gone from her cheeks.

"Poker night." Aang nodded and left while rubbing his bold head.

-Flash back interruption!-

"Wait wait wait, are you saying Aang gambled?" Korra questioned with surprise as she stopped mid-stride as she still held the air bubble.

"GT told me that it all started when they scammed swindlers in the fire nation back when they were kids in the war against Ozai. She was the one who brought the wins although she told me that after that experience Aang became forever interested in gambling much to her own surprise since she used to call him and Katara goodie too shoes." He said with a small laugh.

"I had no idea. I'm so asking Tenzin later." Korra said with a gleam in her eye.

'I think I'm rubbing off on her.' Naruto thought in amusement.

"Any way as I was saying." Naruto continued.

-Flash back part 2-

Kazuo walked out the station a free man and was heading to his friends place where he could crash, but gained a maddening grin as an idea came to him.

-The Next morning-

Lin walked into the station with her coffee and headed for her desk as she took a sip when she heard a voice.

"Hey Lin-lin."

Lin waved back, but turned to then spat out her tea in shock at hearing the voice and turned to see the man she arrested in a metal bending officers uniform, "What are you doing here?" she shouted out.

"Working." Kazuo simple said.

"I meant why are you here?" she grounded out.

"I needed a good job, so I jogged up to that friendly monk from yesterday and asked him if a place needed a good earth bender with some metal bending skills and he let me meet up with your mom, man that lady is a hoot, but anyway I gave her a small demonstration and she said to be here bright an early for my uniform and presto, here I am!" he said as he pumped his fists in the air.

Lin twitched at the thought of working with this guy and couldn't believe her mother would just accept him into the force just like that. Maybe she could find a way to get rid of him, 'Wait, where would I hide the body?' she thought to herself.

Just then Toph walked in, "Alright people, listen up! We got fresh meat here today so let's give him a round of applause." Toph said and a few people clapped.

"I said clap maggots!" she shouted and everyone clapped this time.

Toph smirked, "Ah it's good to be the boss." She said, "Anyway, Lin, you get the newbie."

Lin smiled viciously at Kazuo, "With pleasure." She said.

"Can I do desk work?" Kazuo asked nervously not liking the look in Lin's eyes.

"No." Both Toph and Lin said.

Kazuo just slumped in his seat.

-Squad car-

"Soooo, read anything interesting lately?" the blonde asked, trying to start up a conversation.

"No." Lin said curtly.

'Yeesh, mood killer much.' Kazuo thought with a grimace.

This happened for around five years with a very awkward partnership.

Kazuo tended to talk and sometimes flirt with Lin while she ignored him for the most part.

Even though she already had a boyfriend.

A monk that Kazuo called Sir Baldy bold the second, much to said monks' ire and his enjoyment when Lin found some amusement in him calling that.

Then it happened.

The break up.

-Police Station Gym-

Kazuo walked in to the gym seeing Lin tear the place up in shear anger. He shivered at the level of ferocity she was showing.

Truly women are the scariest force in the world when angered.

"Hey Lin-lin~" Kazuo said cheerfully, but with caution.

Lin turned to him with a face willed with absolute irritation at his very presents.

'Oi oi, don't look at me like that. It may hurt my feelings.' Kazuo thought in his mind.

"What do you want?" Lin asked

Kazuo just shrugged, "Just checking on my partner, is that a crime?" He joked with a grin.

"Yes." She said and went to her routine.

"Yeesh, shooting me down like that Lin-lin, you're a very hurtful woman, but that's one of the reasons I like you. You're assertive and go for what you want. Maybe I should take a page out of your book." Kazuo said as he got into a thinking position, "Hey Lin-lin, since your assertive and all, maybe you can help me figure this out?"

Lin sighed in annoyance and looked at him, "What's your problem?"

"Well, there's this girl I like and she just went through a bad break up, how do I tell her I that I like her and not seem like I'm taking advantage of her?" Kazuo asked in thought.

"I don't know, just tell her." Lin said without care.

"Awesome! I Knew I could count on you Lin-lin." He said as he walked up to her and smiled, "Lin Beifong, I like you, would you go out with me?" he asked with a smile that could be considered charming.

"What?" Lin said in surprise and some anger.

Seeing this Kazuo raised his arms in a surrendering gesture, "Listen I know you're feeling upset about the break up with Tenzin, but I just want you to know that I'm here for you and that I want to help you deal with it if you'll let me." he said softly as he didn't want to upset her further.

Lin at first said nothing as she turned away. Her break up with Tenzin was hard since he was the one who dumped her even though he did do it as gently as he could, but it still hurt.

She thought about Kazuo and how they've been partners for years now and even after all the times she ignored his attempts to talk or occasionally flirt with her, he still tried getting to know her better.

"I don't know Kazuo, I just don't think I feel up to giving romance another try." Lin answered honestly.

Kazuo wasn't disappointed in her answer, in fact he was thrilled by it cause Lin just opened up to him and spoke her honest feelings.

"Then why don't you just think about it and let me know when you decide." he said gently.

Lin wanted to say she wasn't interested, but something made her think differently, "Fine I'll think about it." she said hesitantly.

"That's all I'm asking." he said with a smile again.

And so after a week to herself Lin decided to give Kazuo a chance after a small talk with her mother over the break up.

Her mother said to give him a chance to at least help her deal with her broken heart.

So she gave him a chance where their first date was more of a hangout as they just talked, ate and walked together.

To her surprise she enjoyed herself as it helped her feel better and she agreed to see him again when he asked her out again.

So they went on dates again as their relationship slowly grew to something she felt was more special than what she would've had with Tenzin.

Their dates were a success.

Their dates then lead to a relationship.

Their relationship led to marriage.

Their marriage then lead to a new life.

And before that new life was even born, that case happened.

"Alright, promise me you'll be careful?" Lin said to Kazuo as she sat in bed with her swollen stomach from pregnancy which she happened to be six months in.

"Come on Lin-lin, this is me your talking to. I promise though." Kazuo said with gentleness in his emerald eyes as he rubbed her belly softly.

"Good." Lin answered with a nod.

-End of flash back-

Korra blinked at him stopping, "What happened then?"

Naruto sighed in sadness, "He was investigating the Agni Kai's. He got a tip about a building they were using and snuck in, turns out it was a trap. He got cornered in the basement as he was heavily outnumbered and I guess he knew he wasn't getting away so he collapsed the entire building on him and the Agni Kai's. Only some of the Agni Kai's got away and those who did were arrested for life of course. They said he was grinning like a madman when he tore the building down." The blonde said as they arrived at Air Temple Island.

"I'm so sorry Naruto." Korra whispered.

"Hey, he went down as a hero, though mom always calls him an idiot for never calling for backup and for how he practically killed himself to win the fight." Naruto joked lamely.

They put their masks on and climbed over the rocky terrain till they arrived that the islands temple area.

They looked up and saw Amon bored one of the Equalists airships by the high tower.

"There's Amon." Korra stated

"Let's get into the temple and when he returns..." Naruto trailed off.

"We ambush him." Korra answered

They were walking up to the temple when a voice spoke out.

"What are you two doing here?"

They turned to see the Lieutenant.

"We just transferred Sir." Naruto said

"Well you're getting transferred again. Amon wants extra security at the arena."

"The arena, sir?" Naruto asked

"The rally…you should have been briefed about this." he stated

"We'll be there Sir." Korra said with a bow.

Korra nudged Naruto and whispered, "I know another way in."

"Which one?" Naruto asked back.

"There's more than one?" she said with some surprise.

"Yep."

"We're taking the one by the wall." Korra stated

"Nice pick." Naruto said as they went to the spot.

They entered the temple and Korra spoke.

"Let's hide in the attic."

"Got it." Naruto answered as they rushed up there.

Naruto went up first and turned round to see someone who was on his get back at list.

"Well don't you look at home in a cell." Naruto stated in amusement while containing his anger.

Korra turned to see who he was talking and saw someone she was not expecting, "Tarrlok?" Korra said in surprise as she took her mask off, as did Naruto.

"I don't suppose you're here to rescue me?" The tattered Tarrlok asked.

"I should shove your head up your ass for what you did to me and Korra, you know that right?" Naruto questioned with an angry grin.

Tarrlok rolled his eyes, "Always with the dramatics Naruto." He shot back.

"Oh I wasn't being dramatic. I'll even let you pick, from the front or the back?" he asked for which way the ex-waterbender wanted his head pushed.

"Are there any other prisoners on the island?" Korra asked trying to break the tension, but Naruto was in the right to be hostile.

"No, I'm the only one." Tarrlok said.

"And what makes you so special?" Korra asked.

"I'm Amon's brother." Tarrlok stated.

"I did not see that coming." Naruto said in shock.

"Amon is from the Northern Water Tribe. He's a waterbender and a bloodbender, just like I was." Tarrlok continued

"What?" Korra said in surprise.

"So was taking over the city a brotherly hobby?" Naruto asked

"No, I didn't even know it was him until after he captured me."

"How did your brother end up becoming Amon?" Korra questioned

"It all began with my father Yakone." Tarrlok started

Yakone had escaped prison, changed his face, and moved to the Northern Water Tribe.

He married and eventually had kids.

Tarrlok and Amon, no Noatak, which was Amon's true name.

When Yakone found out they both could waterbend, he started to teach them in a Spartan style.

Eventually he told his children who he was and taught them how to blood bend and then how to bloodbend without a full moon.

When it came for them to blood bend each other, Tarrlok refused.

Yakone threatened him, but Noatak bloodbent Yakone to protect Tarrlok and fled away afterwards.

They had assumed that Noatak perished in the icy region.

"That has to the saddest story I've ever heard." Korra stated

"Avatar Korra, Chief Naruto, I am truly sorry for what I've done to you both. I thought I was better than my father, but his ghost still shaped me. I became a soldier of revenge just like he wanted me to be and so did my brother. The revolution may be built on a lie, but I believe Amon truly believes that bending is the source of all evil in the world."

"Did he tell you who he was?" Naruto asked.

"No, when he took my bending, the sensation was somehow familiar. I later recognized it as my brothers' bloodbending grip." Tarrlok answered.

"So…he somehow uses blood bending to take peoples bending." Korra thought out loud.

"I don't know how he does it, but then again I've never encounter a bender as strong as Noatak." Tarrlok said

"How in the world do we beat him?" Korra questioned.

Naruto grinned devilishly, "We hit him where it hurts the most." He said.

"Where?" Korra asked.

"We got major dirt on him, so where can we use said dirt?" Naruto question.

Korra thought and her eyes lit up, "At the rally!" she said in glee.

"Exactly, we expose the truth in front of all his supporters…" Naruto started

"And his entire revolution collapses!" Korra finished

Korra turned to Tarrlok, "Thank you…for your help."

Tarrlok just turned his head to the side.

Naruto started to walk away, but Korra stopped him.

"We can't just leave him here." She said

Naruto raised an eyebrow as in saying, 'Yes we can, dumbass tried to blow me.'

"Go, Amon can't know anyone spoke with me." Tarrlok said as he stood up and gripped the bars of his cell, "Defeat him and put an end to this sad story."

They both nodded and as they walked away, Naruto turned to Tarrlok.

"I'm still shoving your head up your ass later." He said as he followed Korra down.

Tarrlok just quirked his lips.

Naruto was still Naruto it seemed.

0 Deep in the snowy mountains 0

Deep in the snowy mountain area and down by a path in the forest was Naga as he was running into the mountains while carrying Iroh, Asami, Itachi and Bolin who was also carrying Pabu.

They eventually stopped near a cliff when they saw Amon's planes descending somewhere.

They looked down from the cliff near them to see the newly built Airbase where a couple of the new high speed planes were returning and landing for a refuel and reload of weaponry after their successful attack on the United Resistance warships.

"Well I guess it's safe to say we found their precious airbase." Iroh said as he stared down at the machines that sunk his fleet with a hard expression.

"So it seems." Itachi said with no clear emotion.

Iroh turned to Bolin, "Alright Bolin once we get down there I'll need you to earth bend those runways so their planes can't take off which will leave them defenseless for us to destroy." he said in a serious tone.

Bolin gave a salute, "Aye aye captain…arg I mean general, general Iroh sir!" he said with bumbled words as they turned to head down the mountain but as Bolin took a step he heard Naga letting out a whining noise with Pabu on top.

Bolin gave then a serious look, "You guys stay and wait until we get back alright." he said as he turned but saw Naga about to take a step forward, "No, stay." he said with a hand signal for emphasis.

Naga let out another whine but lied down obeying the order with Pabu now lying down as well.

The four members of team avatar made their way down a hill where they saw fence posts that strangely had no wires or anything attached to them to provide a blockade.

"Why would there be fence posts but no fence." Asami said in confusion as she looked at the post as she and the others got closer and made their way to just walk by them.

However as they did Itachi suddenly grabbed Asami by her waist while he used his other arm to hit Bolin and Iroh on the chest and send them backwards while he jumped back with Asami.

"Hey what's the big idea!?" Bolin said as he stood up.

"Yeah, what's with you?" Iroh asked as he also stood up and was now on his guard.

Itachi said nothing as he put Asami down and kneeled down on his knees were he scooped up some snow and made a large snow ball the size of a human head.

The others were confused by what he was doing.

"What are you doing…" Asami didn't get to finish her sentence as Itachi gently threw the large snowball at the fence post and when it got in between two posts the snowball was instantly assaulted by the posts releasing lightning that fried the snowball as it disintegrated and melted from the heat and energy.

Needless to say Asami, Bolin, and Iroh were surprised by what they saw.

Itachi turned to them, "I believe you can imagine what would've happened if I hadn't pulled you guys back from those posts?" he said with an almost sarcastic tone.

All three knew what would've happened and now they were glad to have been spared the unpleasant experience.

"Thanks Itachi you saved our skin, literally." Bolin said apologetically as he rubbed the back of his head.

"It's a good thing we had you on our team, you're quite a reliable guy." Iroh said

"How'd you know those would've electrocuted us?" Asami asked

"Through pure instinct and sense of danger that told me something was amiss and considering your last statement I figured that something wasn't right." Itachi said logically.

"You got quite the sharp instincts then." Iroh said as he turned to Bolin, "Okay Bolin knock those posts down and destroy so we can safely get across." he said to him with a bit of impatience since they were on a time limit before those plans were ready to take off again.

"No problem general." Bolin said as he saluted and took a bending stance where he shot his arms forward and then down where the posts where they sunk into the ground as Bolin forced the earth to close and put pressure on them before they exploded from malfunction.

"Alright let's go." Iroh said as they ran ahead and continued their way towards the airbase.

0 In one part of Republic City 0

Mako and Yuki were sneaking around the City to follow their objective. They made their way across the streets while avoiding the Mecha tanks that were patrolling the area.

Eventually they made their way to a storage factory that was one of Mr. Sato's buildings that the Police force checked when he was under suspicion.

It seemed that since Amon started the invasion they were now using their old buildings without care since most of the police force was captured.

The two stopped by an alley as they looked to see 4 chi blockers guarding the front gate with two Mecha tanks behind them acting as backup.

"This doesn't look good, I'm not sure we can take on those two tanks alone." Mako said with some uncertainty as he knew fire bending was the least effective element against the tanks.

"Don't worry I'll take care of it, stay quiet and let me handle this until the coast is clear okay?" she ordered

"You can't be serious!" Mako shouted quietly in disbelief.

Yuki now looked to Mako with a smirk as her hands where on her hips and she got in front of his face, "What you think a non-bending woman can't handle herself?" she said in a challenging tone.

Mako instantly backed up and waved his hands in a surrender gesture, "No no I'm not saying that at all." he said quickly as he did not want to face a woman's wrath since he was smart enough to know how scary they could be when they were pissed off.

"Then please trust me a little and stay here unless you see I'm in trouble alright cutie." she said as she traced a finger under Mako's chin before she left him alone blushing and shuddering for a moment.

"How does Itachi deal with her when she get's like that?" he said to himself in wonder as he saw her sneaking around the building.

Yuki silently crept over to the building as she used her flexibility and acrobatics to silently run up the building and jump to the roof as she got to the front to look down at her targets.

She drew her sword quickly as she jumped off the roof and behind an Equalist as she hit him in the back of the head with the back of her blade which instantly knocked him unconscious.

The Equalists turned to their attacker but Yuki was faster as she attacked the closest Equalist and delivered a chop to his neck that momentarily stunned him as his breathing was stopped for a moment which she seized by hitting him with the back of the head with her swords handle.

The other two Equalists moved in while the Mecha tanks started firing their grappling cables but Yuki dodged with elegant grace almost like a dancer as she put away her sword.

The two Equalists got in front of her as the three of them engaged in hand to hand combat.

Yuki was on the defense as she blocked all strikes aimed at her.

Although she was outnumbered two against one she had the advantage thanks to her superior fighting skills, flexibility, and agility that she inherited and was taught by her grandmother Ty Lee.

The two Equalists jumped back and went inside the storage warehouse as the Mecha tanks fired their electric disks, but Yuki sidestepped one, jumped over another and then redrew her sword which she used to knock away the last two disks.

The two Equalists who came back out were momentarily stunned at how they saw Yuki deal with the disks before they charged at her again, this time wearing electric gloves.

Seeing them charging at her again Yuki re-sheathed her sword as she reengaged in hand to hand combat.

The Equalists made attempts to grab her to shock her unconscious, but Yuki was now avoiding them as she kept her distance.

"Sorry boys, but only my husband is allowed to hold me." Yuki said cheerfully before she flipped over both of them and quickly grabbed their arms from behind and connected them to each other as they were electrocuted and knocked unconscious.

She quickly jumped just in time to avoid a cable a Mecha tank fired to try and catch her.

She landed on the ground and started running to avoid the other Mecha tanks that tried to using its arm to slam her.

She quickly spun around and jumped to the air as she re-drew her sword and used it to break through the glass of the Mecha tank she landed on.

Thank fully for the Equalist inside it, the sword didn't stab him as the point was a few inches away from his body.

However his relieve was short lived as he was Yuki peeking through the hole as she waved at him with a smile that was now disturbing him.

"Sorry about this." she said as she quickly pushed her arm in the hole and before the Equalist knew what happened she pulled the lever which raised the cockpit open as she grabbed him and threw him out and onto the floor painfully.

Yuki jumped inside and closed the cockpit as she grabbed the controls and turned the tank to face the other one.

The Equalists tank charged forward to punch her but she had her tank avoid the hit and grab the tank by the arm as she then began to spin around and around with the tank in tow until she let go and the Equalists tank was sent flying and crashing onto the storage warehouse wall that cause it damage to the pipes on its back as it shutdown with the Equalist seemingly trapped inside or unconscious from the impact.

Yuki turned around just in time to see the Equalist she forcibly ejected from the tank had gotten up and was running away.

However before he could get far she fired an electro disk that hit its mark wrapping around him and knocking him out through electrocution.

Seeing no enemies left opened the cockpit and had her tank charge at the wall as she jumped of it leaving the tank to crash and fall over on its back.

"Note to self, thank Itachi for giving me a run down on those tanks." She muttered to herself.

She turned to Mako as she cheerfully waved at him saying the coast was clear now.

Mako meanwhile just stood there with his mouth hanging open and his eyes wide as he was gaping at what he just saw Yuki do by herself.

"Not to self, never pick a fight with her." he said to himself as he shook himself awake and walked ran over to her location.

Yuki tied the men up and with Mako's help; they dragged them away from the building.

"Okay, now let's go in and destroy the place." Yuki ordered.

"Got it." Mako nodded as they headed inside and saw lots of supplies.

They looked around for a few minutes and until Yuki cheered.

"What is it?" Mako asked as he jogged to up her.

Yuki held up a few canisters of oil and grinned menacingly, "Time to start a fire."

Yuki walked to the far edge of the warehouse and dumped the oil all around and then on the wooden support beams.

She led Mako to the front of the warehouse, "Okay fire at the large pool of oil in the back and the support beams and then let's get out of here." Yuki said.

"I like your style." Mako said with a grin and fired two fire balls at the spots he was suppose to aim and for and as soon as he did they both ran out of the build.

They went a few blocks away from the building and saw it collapse moments later in a fiery blaze.

Yuki whistled at their work, "Nice job kiddo, now on to the next one."

"It's going to be a long day isn't it?" Mako asked as they started to walk away to their next target.

"Yes, yes it is. Now to pass the time, talk to big sister Yuki about you and a certain heiress." Yuki said teasingly.

Mako blushed as she asked all kinds of questions that were way out of his comfort zone.

It was going to be a long day for him.

0 At the rally 0

Naruto and Korra stationed themselves on a high balcony and waited for Amon to begin his speech.

Amon rose on to the stage facing the audience.

"Thank you for joining me on this historical occasion." Amon said

The crowd cheered wildly.

"When I was a boy-" he started, but was cut off.

"You ran away from daddy after you had a tantrum!" Naruto shouted

Amon looked up to see who interrupted him.

"That's a nice lie you have going there Amon, or should I call you Noatak?" Korra asked as both she and Naruto removed their masks as Amon narrowed his eyes.

The Lieutenant whispered something to Amon, but he just waved his hand.

"Everyone calm down, we have nothing to fear from the Avatar or from Chief Beifong. Let's hear what they have to say?" Amon said

"Amon has been lying to you! The spirits didn't give him the power to take peoples bending away; he uses bloodbending to do it. Amon is a waterbender!" Korra proclaimed got the crowds attention.

"You're desperate Avatar; making up stories about me is a pathetic last resort." Amon said without worry.

"Your family wasn't killed by a fire bender. His father was Yakone and his brother is Councilman Tarrlok." Korra continued.

"An amusing tale, but I will show you the truth." Amon said as he took off his mask to show his scared face which stunned the crowd.

"This is what a fire bender did to me!" Amon said as he pointed to his face.

"Seems the apple doesn't fall far from the tree Noatak. Didn't daddy dearest get a face job when he ran away to the Northern Water Tribe?" Naruto asked

"I wouldn't know Chief Beifong." Amon said as he put his mask back on.

Naruto rolled his eyes, "Sure Noatak, but you need to remember, once you start a lie, it's like thread on a spindle, you keep pulling and pull and eventually you run out of thread, just like when you get caught with your pants down." Naruto said with narrowed eyes.

"The Avatar is lying!" The crowd said as they started to yell.

"I'm telling you, he's a waterbender!" she said pointing at Amon.

"They don't believe me. It didn't work!" Korra said

"Doesn't matter Korra, we planted the seed, now we just got to let it grow." Naruto said as he got into a defensive position, "Come on, we got to go." The blonde said as Chi-blockers started to surround them.

"I wouldn't leave just yet Avatar. You'll miss the main event." Amon said as the floor opened to reveal his new prisoners.

They both turned to see Tenzin and his children tied up on posts while gagged.

"No, they got away. We saw them get away!" she said to Naruto who was now looking worried.

"Tonight, I rid the world of airbending, forever!" Amon proclaimed

"You really are a sick fuck, just like your father Noatak!" Naruto shouted in rage.

"You and the Avatar are welcome to come down here and try to stop me." Amon challenged.

Korra was about to jump right in when Naruto stopped her. "Korra he's baiting us we need a plan first." he said as he tried to reason with her although he himself was feeling the urge to just jump right in as well.

"They can't wait we need to help them now." Korra shouted.

"The Avatar needs to be reminded of the power I possess." Amon said as he started walking to the airbenders.

"Enough!" Naruto shouted and he stomped his on the platform he was standing on and punched forward as he sent stone spikes at Amon, who dodged to the left of the stage, and the spikes made a wall separating him from the air benders.

Naruto ran up the side of the wall while using his earth bending to magnetize himself to it while Korra used her firebending to help propel herself along the wall as they jumped the stage.

Korra sent a volley of fire at the Equalists on stage while Naruto broke the air benders free.

"Where's Pema and the kid?" Naruto asked as he shattered their bindings with metalbending.

"In prison." Tenzin said with his mouth now free.

"And mom?" Naruto asked in fear.

"I don't know?" Tenzin said solemnly.

Naruto growled in anger as he freed the kids.

As soon as Tenzin was freed he sent the rest of the Equalists and Amon flying with Air bending.

"Okay guys, stay calm, your big bro is going to protect you, so follow me." Naruto said and they nodded.

They went through the back stage door and ran down the hallway.

"Get them out of here, we'll create a diversion." Korra said to Tenzin and he nodded.

"Let's go get your mother and the baby." Tenzin said to the kids.

"Prison break!" Meelo exclaimed

As they left Amon came out from the door they just came out from.

Korra sent a wave of fire down the hallway and they both ran down the opposite end of the forked hallway as the airbenders.

Korra made a wall of fire to block the path and they both ran into a storage room.

They hid under separate curtains as they heard Amon's footsteps.

Amon walked to the end of the room and used his blood bending to pull out Korra from one of the curtains they were hiding under.

Amon lifted Korra into the air, but Naruto came out and sent a rock line at Amon's footing and he had to jump out of the way.

Still keeping his grip on Korra, he used his other hand on Naruto and lifted him in the air too.

"Fucking coward, can't do anything without bloodbending, huh? Nothing but a weak little pussy like dear old dad, eh Noatak?" Naruto groaned out as Amon squeezed harder.

"You talk too much boy." Amon spat out.

He slammed them on the ground and pressured Naruto down, as he lifted Korra to her knees and placed his hand on her neck.

"No!" Naruto shouted as he mentally used metal bending on one of his bulky bands and a wire of metal shot out and hit Amons mask breaking it and causing the debris to hit his right eye painfully.

"AHHHHH!" Amon hollowed in pain as he held his right eye with both hands.

Naruto slammed his hand to the ground and sent another rock line; one Amon couldn't dodge, and sent the waterbender flying across the room.

0 Back at the airfield 0

Back with Itachi and the others they have just made their way down safely after avoiding a few other traps.

There were new electric mines hidden under the snow and some pit falls that would've trapped them in platinum cages.

Luckily for them Itachi was able to spot the traps by seeing any signs of the ground having been disturbed or seeing that someone had been in the area.

Truly they were glad he was with them otherwise they'd have been caught long ago.

They made their way behind a boulder as they saw that most planes had just about finished and were preparing to take off.

"Damn it we're out of time, go!" Iroh shouted as they all charged.

"I'll take the communication room, Bolin you take out the runways, and Asami you destroy the planes inside the warehouse." Itachi ordered as they nodded and separated.

Asami ran in the warehouse to see some Mecha tanks and leftover plans inside. She quickly ran to the nearest tank as she got in the cockpit and was surprised to how familiar the controls were to her.

"Huh well what'd you know, it's just like riding a future industries forklift." she said to herself as she grabbed the controls and started moving the tank.

Itachi went ahead to the control room while Iroh ran ahead and fired bursts of fire from his hands to accelerate him forward as he jumped onto a plane that just took off as he grabbed the pilot and threw him off where luckily for him he had a parachute that saved his life.

Iroh sat down as he grabbed the controls however as soon as he did the plane started to go nuts as it began to fall and veer side to side.

He pulled the lever back as the plan started to pull up and he adjusted the lever as he started to get control over the plan.

With his control restored he now began chasing after the other plans that were ahead of him.

0 In the communication room 0

In the communication room was a room filled with radios, tables, and over twelve Equalists who were speaking with the pilots to search for any other United Forces coming their way.

Their work was interrupted as their door was burst open as an Equalist guard was thrown in.

The others got up as they faced the door to see who was attacking.

However the light bulbs on the roof of the path were destroyed and they couldn't see anything past the door.

"Who's there?!" An Equalist shouted.

Silence was the only answer as they waited for their enemy to be revealed.

"Go check it out." an Equalist told two others as they moved closer to the door and went inside.

Their silhouettes began to be covered in the dark, but before they were completely covered someone pulled both of them into the darkness and what followed next was the sound of screams and hits being delivered.

"Guys, are you okay!" the Equalist shouted to the two men that were pulled in, but there was no answer.

Eventually they saw a silhouette of someone stepping out of the shadows.

A few seconds later the figure was completely revealed and to everyone's surprise they saw Itachi.

"Itachi!" nearly all Equalists shouted out at seeing their former ally.

"Glad to know everyone still remembers me." Itachi said without emotion which unnerved them as they always found him to be disturbing in the way he seemed without any expression, as if he was empty.

"You traitor, how dare you betray us after Amon let you join our cause." one angry Equalist shouted.

"I was never on Amon's side I merely joined so I could gather all the info I needed to help the Avatar and the Police Force to stop you all." Itachi said with an uncaring shrug.

"You will pay for your treachery!" a different Equalist shouted as they all charged at Itachi who stood calmly without any sign of being nervous.

'Fools.' Itachi thought to himself as he charged to meet them head on.

0 Over Republic City 0

The five plans made their way over the city as they headed for their target but unknown to them the sixth plane that followed them was commandeered by general Iroh who was gaining on them.

Iroh got closer as he stood up and quickly launched a lightning blast that successfully hit one of the plane's tail wings as it began to loss control until broke apart and the pilot ejected with his parachute.

The other plans broke formation as Iroh went after one of them flying behind him in a chase. The Equalist pilot saw him getting closer and launched Bolas at Iroh which tangled up the planes propeller.

Iroh looked down and saw other planes far below him which he decided to try and seize.

So he jumped out of the falling plane and fired bursts of fire from his hands that acted as turbines which he used to steer himself towards another plane.

He managed to land safely on it without the pilot knowing as he launched a fire blast at another plane that was right in front of them as its left engine was blown and it began to fall.

Iroh rolled to the side and used a fire kick that sent the pilot flying out of his seat before he knew what hit him.

Iroh quickly took over the controls as he stabilized the plane but it was short lived as another plane dropped a bomb on top of his plane which damaged the left tail wing.

However the plane was still air born and as Iroh looked up he saw the plan preparing to drop another bomb. So he launched a fire blast at the plane's cargo drop just as it opened to drop the bomb which causes it to explode.

However his victory was cut short as his plane's left tail wing blew up even more as the plane began to fall from the sky and was heading straight for Avatar Aang's statue.

Seeing no way out he Iroh jumped off the plane and into the sea. The drop from a high altitude had him sink a few feet down below before he quickly swam to the surface and made it out just in time to see his plane crash into Aang's face which made him cringe until he heard a cracking sound and saw the large duplicate of Amon's mask fall of revealing Aang's face in all its glory.

"Now that's more like it." Iroh said in satisfaction at seeing that mask gone and Aang's face exposed once again like it should always be.

He looked up to see the last plane turning back since it no longer had the other planes to help it launch the attack.

"I hope Bolin did his job." Iroh said to himself as he started to swim towards Aang's Island.

0 Back at the airbase 0

Bolin was tearing up the flight paths as they became torn and covered with jagged rocks sticking up.

As he finished tearing up the last path he turned to see three Mecha tanks heading towards him as the fired their cables.

Bolin saw he couldn't defend himself in time since his back was turned but before the cables could connect Naga suddenly appeared and grabbed all three cables in his mouth and in a surprising show of strength pulled on all three causing the Mecha tanks to momentarily lifted into the air and when they fell they lost their footing as they spiraled and rolled on the floor until they stopped during the crash with one tank almost ramming into Bolin as it stopped a few inches from his body.

"Wooh hoo nice one Naga, I take back what I said, we should've brought you along." Bolin cheered as Naga spat out the cables and shook himself before walking over to him.

Meanwhile inside the ware house Asami was using her mecha tank to thrash and destroy the spare planes that were stored inside. She destroyed eight of them so far and there were only two left now.

She was about to turn to wreck them when a voice was heard.

"ASAMI!" the voice shouted.

She turned her tank to see her father inside another mecha tank.

Mr. Sato looked around to see the carnage left behind by the destruction of his planes, "What do you think you're doing? Don't you know your aiding the very people who took your mother away!" he said angrily.

"The only people I'm aiding are my friends and I know mom would be so sad right now seeing what you've become." Asami said.

"HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT! I'm doing this to avenge her death by the hands of bending." Mr. Sato shouted in anger from what Asami dared to say to him.

"Her death was avenged years ago when Naruto killed that bender to save himself and I!" Asami shouted back.

Mr. Sato's expression did not soften, "Yes he did, but the source of her death hasn't been eliminated yet." He said with contained hatred, "The person who killed your mother may have been dealt with but the bending that was used to take her life wasn't and I won't stop until bending is extinct." He finished as he charged his tank forward.

Asami fired the cables aiming for the legs to try and knock it down but Mr. Sato evaded the cables sideways and rammed her tank as she was sent flying back and crashing down in between the last two planes which were now destroyed.

Outside Bolin saw that Asami was in trouble.

"Asami!" he said as he ran to Naga to climb on but he was stopped by someone grabbing his shoulder.

He turned around prepared to attack when he saw that it was Itachi who stopped him.

His cloths were a bit torn, cut up, and even burned, but other than that he looked fine and uninjured.

"I can't let you interfere in this Bolin." Itachi said seriously.

"What're you talking about Asami needs our help!" Bolin shouted out.

"This is a family matter that must be solved between them, besides she's down but not out yet. If her life is in danger then we'll enter the fight and save her but until then we must let her deal with her father." Itachi said with no intention of changing his mind.

Bolin looked unsure but he did see Itachis point so he stayed in place watching the fight.

Mr. Sato closed in as he slammed down on Asami's tank causing the glass to break apart.

"I don't want to hurt you Asami, but if you continue to resist I'll have no choice but to beat you and lock you away until this war is over." Mr. Sato said with only a hint of regret at fighting his daughter.

"Why can't you see that what you're doing is wrong?" Asami said sadly.

"You might see it as wrong, but I know it's the best choice. With bending taken out of existence no one will have the power to threaten anyone ever again." Mr. Sato said with certainty.

"WHAT ABOUT NARUTO?" She shouted out.

At the sound of his former friends name Mr. Sato stiffened, "What about him?" he asked

"How do you think he and I felt knowing you were helping out that creep Amon? We grew up together as kids and overtime we became family, he loved you like an Uncle, I loved him like a brother and Lin was like an Aunt to me and yet you betrayed them as if they meant nothing to you and broke our family bonds!" she said with tears forming in her eyes.

Mr. Sato looked at Asami in inner pain to see her crying and he froze.

His daughter was crying, he had only seen her cry once before and that was when his wife was killed.

The pain from that moment and seeing his daughter in tears was something he never wanted to see again and yet Asami was crying again and this time he was the cause of it.

He wanted to blame her tears because of her attachment to Naruto, but he couldn't as he also cared for him even now despite him being a bender.

At that time his mind flashed back to all the times Naruto was with them like a family.

His wife had grown fond of Naruto and even once told him he was like the son/nephew they never had as Asami had someone to play with and grow close to.

They spent years together never even getting into a fight once as they were like close siblings.

Even when his wife was killed Naruto didn't stop visiting and being there for his daughter in her time of need despite the traumatized experienced he went through when he killed that bender.

Even when he secretly joined Amon because he believed he was right about bending, Naruto still showed one of the main reasons why he couldn't fully hate him: his desire to protect everyone, be they bender or non-bender.

Naruto showed idealism as he always thought about what could be done to give the people better safety.

He even took their confiscated weapons and used them to think of new ways to help people.

Asami saw her father stop all of a sudden and not knowing what else to do she got her tank up and knocked her father's tank down where she rammed in down and ripped the chest open seeing her father looking up at her fearfully.

Asami saw this and stopped as she was hesitant to take him down.

Seeing his daughter not continuing he jumped out and made a run for it.

Asami saw him go and for a moment she wanted to let him go, but in the end she fired an electric disk that wrapped around his legs and shocked him to the ground as he fell unconscious from losing the feeling in his legs.

Itachi and Bolin saw this and even though they now completed their mission Bolin didn't feel like cheering as he and Itachi went to tie up Mr. Sato.

It was a hollow victory.

0 With Korra and Naruto 0

Naruto got up to help Korra, but Amon rose holding his right hand to his right eye as he raised his left hand and bloodbent Naruto.

"AH!" Naruto shouted as Amon slammed him into the ground repeatedly while Korra still struggled to get up.

"Amon!" a voice shouted.

The Lieutenant walked in, "Everything the Avatar said is true, isn't it?" he questioned, "I just saw you bloodbend Beifong!" he pointed out.

Amon turned to face him as the now ex-Lieutenant pulled off his mask and stepped on it.

"You traitor! I dedicated my life for you!" he said as he pulled out his electrified kali sticks and charged at Amon.

Amon stopped him with blood bending and lifted him in the air.

The Lieutenant groaned in pain as Amon continued to crush him.

"You served me well Lieutenant." Amon said as he threw him into some building materials and they collapsed on him.

While Amon was occupied, Naruto got to his feet and charged at Amon while his back was turned. He shifted his metal wires into wrist blades in order to stab the blood bender.

Amon turned around to see this and stopped Naruto in mid-jump.

"You have been a thorn in my side for long enough." Amon said as he let go of his eye the which he forced to stay closed until it he could get some water to heal it. He raised both of his hands and pushed them forward.

The sound of metal cutting into flesh could be heard.

Naruto's eyes widened as blood dripped from the corners of his mouth.

The blonde looked down and saw his wrist blades pierced him in the stomach.

He coughed up a glob of blood and Amon threw him at Korra and he skidded in front of her leaving a small trail of blood.

Her eyes widened in terror, "NARUTO!" she cried out and scrambled across the ground to reach him.

She cradled him in her arms and cursed herself for not having a water skin with her so she could heal him. He was going to die, he was going to die and she could do nothing, he was going to die and it was all her fault.

Naruto opened his eyes and stared at Korra weakly, "Hey Korra…" he said weakly.

"Naruto, Naruto take it easy, you're going to be okay. You hear me?" she asked as hot tears fell from her eyes.

"I feel so tired…" he said weakly.

"You can't sleep Naruto, you're going to have to stay awake." She pleaded desperately.

Naruto weakly raised his hand and wiped one of her teary eyes and smiled at her, "You can't cry when your sad water princess…you can only cry when you're happy." He said to her.

"I'm not crying, just stop talking you idiot, please, save your energy, you'll be okay." She choked out as new tears fell from her eyes.

"No…I won't." Naruto said to her.

"Yes you will, don't say that!" Korra pleaded as her tears continued to fall.

"It's…okay Korra, I…can see…my end coming. I guess…this is where…I say goodbye." he said in acceptance of his impending death.

"Naruto please don't leave me, you can fight this." Korra begged him to stay awake.

Naruto raised his arm weakly as he cupped her face, "I'm sorry…but it looks like …this is…a fight I won't be winning. I just…want you to know… that I…love you." he said as his vision began to blur and go black.

"Naruto…I…love you too." Korra said tearfully as Naruto's hand fell to the ground and his eyes closed allowing the blackness to envelop his vision as he drifted to eternal sleep.

Korra froze as she saw him die as the blood from his hand trailed her face as it mixed with her tears.

"Truly a touching farewell but now it is your turn Avatar." Amon said as he walked towards her.

Korra said nothing and didn't react as she looked at her hand covered in Naruto's blood, "You killed him," she started to say, "You killed him, YOU KILLED HIM!" she shouted and turned to him as her eyes shined white with raw power as her tears continued falling, "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" She shouted in rage and sorrow as she went into The Avatar State and swung her hand and a wave of air threw Amon into the far wall.

He hit the wall hard and his cracked mask fell off, showing the blood from his eye dribbling over his scar which was running from the liquid going over it.

He was wearing makeup, he had no real scar!

"You will pay for your crimes!" Korra said in a thousand voices at once.

Noatak tried to bloodbend her, but it didn't work. The avatar state made her immune to his bloodbending. It was like trying to blood bend a thousand people at the same time, he just didn't have enough power for it.

"You wish to have a scar, then I will give you a real one!" she proclaimed as she sent a powerful wave of fire at Noatak.

Noatak tried to shield his face from the flames as they hit him. The force of the blast was so great, that it tore through the wall and sent him flying out side and he landed in the ocean.

Korra was about to continue, but the voices in her head told her to let his lies come to the surface just as he will come to the surface as well.

Noatak felt his entire body in pain, the salt water mixing with the fresh burn marks on his body was excruciating, but he was drowning, he needed air, now!

He bent the water around him and rose to the surface to breath but that was a mistake.

His followers, his mindless followers had just witnessed him waterbend.

His newly burnt face and upper body turned to see the all powerful Avatar staring him down. He jump off the water pillar and tried to get away.

As he swam, he felt himself not going anywhere. He turned his head to see the Avatar raising him from the water in a water bubble and froze him in place.

He tried, oh how he tried to bend the water, but the Avatar, she just kept freezing it and he could move his arms to bend to ice back into water.

"You have taken a life Noatak of the Northern Water Tribe, the life of someone I held dear to my heart. You will pay for your crimes, for starting a war in your own sense of Justice, only to be a hypocrite, for ruining the lives of others. You will pay in full!" Korra announced as she crushed the ice ball and killed Noatak, ending him and the threat he was once and for all as he fell to the sea and began to sink to the bottom.

Korra's eyes returned to normal and she fell to her knees, but she forced herself to stand and waterbent the water below to come to her.

She turned to the downed Naruto and tried to heal him.

"Come on, come on, work!" Korra said in a panic.

"Idiot boy. He's always been like that you know." Kurama says as he made his existence known while staring at Naruto's body.

"Shut up." Korra said harshly as she tried to heal the boy she loves.

"Always the martyr that one. Willing to sacrifice himself just for others." the fox continued.

"Shut up!" Korra shouted as she continued to heal Naruto's injury.

"You're a very selfish girl you know. What right do you have to deny him his peace...well for a bit till Kami makes him repeat the same thing over and over again." he said snidely.

"Will you stop talking!" She shouted in fury as tears streamed her face.

"You can save him physically, but you can't save him spiritual you know." He added as he trotted over to her and smiled a vulpine smile.

Korra froze at hearing this, "What do you mean?" she asked in a whisper.

"Foolish little girl, his spirit has already left his body to move on to his next assignment. He won't remember any of this, not his mother, not the others, not you or your love for him." he said if he was giving a lecture.

"I thought he was your friend?" she said in a monotone voice as she got back to healing the blonde through trembling hands.

"The original was. These poor excuses of him couldn't cut it to be half as amazing as the original. Each one of them is just a base template of who Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze truly is. I watch over them, but I won't really like them as much as I did the original." the fox said with a frown.

"What do I have to do?" she asked in a low whisper.

"Hm?" Kurama said as he held his paw to his large ear.

"What do I have to do?" Korra yelled at the fox.

"Hm, answer this, would you kill for him?"

"Does what I did to Noatak answer your question!" Korra said without hesitation.

"Would you raze the very world you are titled to protect for him?"

"Yes." she answered in a whisper as tears trailed her face as she felt sickened answering these questions.

"...Would you give up your bending for him?"

"Yes." she said as stared at the blondes' face.

"Would you die for him?"

That paused Korra, if she died to revive Naruto then she wouldn't be able to be with him. She thought about what that would mean for her but she made her choice.

Naruto was more important to her than her bending or life so she would do what it takes to bring him back.

"...Yes." she answered

The fox smiled a cruel smile, "Good answers, maybe you are worth your salt for his affections, but to do all those things for love? Thought your little Avatar title was all about maintaining the balance of the world. I guess you're still just human after all."

"I answered your damn questions, what do I have to do!" Korra roared as she looked this sick little thing!

"Why go to the spirit world of course." Kurama said in a dark chuckle.

0 Southern Water Tribe 0

Everyone was sitting in one of the huts at the South Pole waiting on Katara to finish looking over Naruto.

Everyone was in shambles at what happened to the blonde.

The Airbender family was huddled together with tears while Asami sat close to Lin, who was crying uncontrollably while she did the same.

Yuki held a sad expression as she held Itachi's hand while he showed a blank expression as he looked to the ground, but was in deep sorrow on the inside.

Mako and Bolin just held solemn faces as they thought about their friend.

Korra was sitting with her parents on both sides of her as she was thinking, thinking what the fox had said to her.

If Katara couldn't do anything for Naruto…then she would do what the spirit had said.

She just hoped that Katara could do it.

Katara slid open the door of the room she was working in and entered they living room.

Everyone stood up at her entrance and Lin grabbed her shoulders.

"Please Katara, please tell me you were able to…" she trailed off, but stopped when Katara shook her head.

"His heart has stopped and he isn't breathing."

Lin dropped to her knees.

"Though for some reason his body is still warm and his skin isn't getting paler, as though he's fighting for his live." Katara continued and Lin looked up to her in hope.

"Is there any way to…" Lin trailed off once again, but Katara shook her head again.

"Not to my knowledge, I'm truly sorry dear." Katara said as she got to her knees and let Lin cry on her shoulder.

"This is really touching." A dark voice said.

Korra's eyes widened, "Kurama! Show yourself!" she commanded.

A snort was heard, "Since when did you have the right to order me around little girl?" Kurama said as he walked into the room.

"Why is Kurama talking?" Jinora asked

"Because I'm a Spirit, little Airbender." Kurama said politely, he like Jinora the most out of the Airbender kids, she always got the right spot behind his ears when she scratched him.

"I knew it!" Tenzin exclaimed as he pointed at Kurama in fear, "I knew you weren't normal. I told you Pema, I told you!" he said to his wife, who thought he was a little crazy on the matter of the fox torturing her husband.

Well it looks like she was wrong.

Kurama looked at Tenzin, "Ah Tenzin so nice to see you again, we should get together again like before just to talk and hangout, you know." he said with the hidden implication clearly seen.

"Oh no, never again will I be left in a room with you!" Tenzin said as he hide behind his wife.

Kurama shrugged, "Oh well I guess that fun part is over," he said before turning to Lin. "Stand up Lin, the kid isn't out of it yet." He said as Lin looked at Kurama, "I told your little Avatar here what she had to do if she wanted him back." He said and smiled at the chaos about to ensue.

"What!" Lin exclaimed and rounded on Korra, "You knew something and you didn't say anything!" Lin shouted and looked like she was about to nail Korra.

Korra got right in her face with no fear, "I didn't know if I could trust him because he was gloating over Naruto's death!" she returned in equal fury.

"For the record it was more of an uncaring gesture, but she does have a point; I could have a trap there for her and have her stuck there for all eternity." Kurama said with a smile.

"Where?" Itachi asked

"The Spirit World…I don't know how to get there though." Korra told as she looked at the floor with quivering fists at her lack of spiritualism.

"It's alright Korra, we'll figure it out and-" Tenzin said as he tried to calm the situation.

"No, we won't, I'm a failure at the spiritual side of bending! How can I save Naruto if I just keep failing at what I'm supposed to have done thousands of times before?" Korra questioned in a shout as she grabbed her coat and ran outside.

Some of the kids were about to chase after her, but Itachi just raised his hand and told them to wait.

"She needs time to herself, let her work it out." He said

The others reluctantly agreed.

0 With our heroine 0

Korra ran to the end of icy cliff and raged as the waves below slammed with her anger.

She fell to her knees and pounded the ground repeatedly leaving large cracks in the ground.

"Why, why do I have to fail him, right when he needs me the most, why?" she howled in anger as wind started to pick up around her.

She heard the sounds of footsteps and turned a little to see a master Airbender uniform.

"Damn it Tenzin! I don't want to talk to anyone right now!" she shouted as fire flared from her fists.

"Well I actually wanted to talk to you." A voice that wasn't Tenzin's said.

She turned around quickly to see him, it was Aang.

He smiled at her, "You didn't have to yell you know?" the Airbender said.

"Aang." She said in silent awe.

"So…you need to go on a road trip, right?" he asked knowingly.

Korra blinked and nodded furiously.

"Well, let's get back to your boyfriend and see what we can do, right Kurama." He said with a smile he turned to look at a hill seeing the fox lying there.

Kurama scoffed as he stood up, "I suppose I'll help just this one time for his and her sake, but once we're in she'll have to do it on her own without anyone's help." He said with seriousness in his tone.

Korra looked shocked, "You know him?"

"Yeah I met him when I passed on and I can see his attitude hasn't changed that much." Aang remarked

"Don't patronize me airhead, your lucky I'm agreeing to assist her." Kurama growled

"He can take me to the spirit world?" she asked.

Aang nodded.

"You forget that I'm a powerful spirit, crossing between the real world and spirit world is easy for someone like me." Kurama said with a bit of annoyance.

Korra stood up as she steeled herself and looked at Aang and then Kurama.

"Let's do it." She said

0

Korra and Kurama walked back into the hut and headed straight to Naruto.

She ignored everyone else as they asked what she was doing.

She knelt next to Naruto and pressed her thumbs over his forehead and heart like Aang was telling her to while Kurama sat in between them and to everyone's surprise he grew a second tail and connected them to Naruto and Korras chests as his glowed red.

Korras eyes started glowing white.

Tenzin was about to touch her, but Kurama stopped him.

"Not so fast monk, she's managing to do it. Let's see if she's got the resolve to back her words up." He said grinning madly as the light grew.

0 Spirit World 0

Korra opened her eyes to see a place she could not recognize. The land looked lake a swamp devoid of grass while it had many unusual trees, the sky was dim with yellow light that seemed like a frozen dawn or sunset. The ground seemed to have a pool of water that reflected the surface. All in all she found the place to be unlike any she's ever seen.

"Welcome to the spirit world Korra." The voice of Aang said.

She turned to see him and felt a bit more confident with him around for whatever she had to do to get Naruto back. However before she moved she noticed something about her body.

"Hey my body's not blue or glowing?" She said as looked to see her body was still the same.

"That's because you used a special method to enter the spirit world so your body has remained the same since you haven't achieved spiritual enlightenment."

"Am I going to be okay like this?" Korra asked a bit worried.

"No you'll be just fine, in fact you should enjoy it cause in your state you can still use your bending." Aang explained

"Really? Awesome!" Korra said excitedly as she fired a blast of fire to see for herself.

Then she remembered something, "You gambled." Korra said with a grin.

Aang averted his eyes and rubbed his lucky bald head, "What? The monk's got luck." He reasoned

Korra laughed as they looked around.

"Where's Kurama?" Korra asked

"Right behind you." A booming voice said.

Korra turned around was stunned to see Kurama now over 30 stories tall and with nine large tails.

"What the heck!" she shouted out.

"Calm down Avatar, what you see before you is my spirit form. As you know when a spirit crosses over to the human world they become mortals. Here however I begin to regain my powers and form once I step back into it." Kurama said as he flexed his claws feeling good to be back in his prime or at least a part of it.

"Wow your huge." Korra said.

"I know how you feel, I reacted the same way when I first saw him." Aang said.

"Hm well if you're done admiring how awesome I am, which I'm enjoying by the way, can you two now focus on the task at hand." he asked with annoyance since he didn't want to waste anymore time.

Both avatars nodded before they turned and started walking before they noticed Kurama wasn't following.

"Aren't you coming?" Korra asked.

Kurama narrowed his eyes which scared Korra, "I told you bringing you here was all I'm going to do. From this point on you and Aang will have to continue on your own. It's been awhile since I've been here so I think I'll take a nap while waiting for you to return." Kurama said as he lied down, took a comfortable position and closed his eyes.

"Fine then see you later." Korra growled as they left.

Korra and Aang walked along as they went where they felt Naruto might be. As they walked Korra looked around the places they passed to see all the unique structures, trees and even some floating rocks.

"This place is so weird but mysterious." Korra suddenly spoke.

"I know what you mean it's so different from are world that it makes you marvel at it's wonders." Aang replied.

"Are there any other spirits around here?"

"Yes but I'm afraid you won't be seeing any of them, since your not completely spiritually here they gone into hiding until you leave." Aang answered.

"Ohh." Korra said a bit sadly since it made her feel like she entered their world illegally or by cheating.

They continued like this for a while until they saw something in the distance and decided to follow the dirt road to the wherever it lead.

They continued walking and what they saw was a large village of some kind.

"Wow." Korra muttered as she looked around.

Aang whistled, "This is a big village…I don't even think it could be considered a village." The monk said and Korra nodded to his statement.

They walked around to see all the structures, homes, stores and many other things.

"This is kind of creepy, this big a village and yet there's not a single living soul out there." Korra said as she shivered from the feeling.

Aang nodded "I know what you mean, this place should be filled with life but it seems devoid of any."

Korra turned to see the large mountain behind the village and saw multiple faces on it and the last one looked like Naruto, but with whisker marks.

She felt something looking at the mountain and ran to the base of it.

"Korra, wait!" Aang shouted as he chased after her.

It was risky running around the Spirit World if you weren't use to it.

Korra gasped when she reached the base, "NARUTO!" she shouted and ran to him.

There was her blonde boyfriend, lying down on a coffin like bed with a dead look in his eyes. He was being guarded by a spiky blonde haired man with blue eyes and a long red haired woman with violet eyes.

She continued running to him, but the man and woman saw her and a powerful wind started to pick up.

"Wha?" Korra muttered before she was hit by a powerful wave of wind and was sent flying twenty feet across the ground.

"Korra!" Aang shouted in concern and ran up to her, "Are you okay?" he questioned as he gave her a quick look over.

"Yeah." She muttered, "What was that?" she asked as she got onto one knee.

Aang looked at the adults in front of Naruto, "It seems as though their protecting him." Aang assumed

"But why?" she asked in a grunt.

'Because they are Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki, the first Naruto's birth parents.' The voice of Kurama echoed in their minds as he spoke with them telepathically.

"His first parents." Korra muttered as she stood up.

-Play: I Will Not Bow by Breaking Benjamin at 1:00-

She walked up to them once again as wind began to pick up. She was hit again by the wind, but she crossed her arms over her face and held a horse stance and only skidded across a few feet this time.

She dropped her arms and glared as she ran up to them this time.

A fiercer wind started to hit her and was cutting her now.

She grunted in pain, but kept moving. The wind pushed her, but she used her earth bending to keep her where she was by making a wall of earth in front of her and ran in front of it once the wind died down.

She used her fire bending on her feet to give her a bit of a push.

She finally got a few feet to Naruto, but was stopped by some barrier.

"ARG!" she shouted as she punched the barrier and it shocked her a bit.

"KORRA!" Aang shouted in concern. He tried to move and help her, but whatever Spirit controlled this domain wouldn't let him.

"OPEN!" she shouted, "NOW!" as she jumped back and generated lightning and fired it at the barrier, getting a small crack.

She jumped at it again and tried to pull it open. She managed to get her arm in, "Naruto, Naruto wake up! Wake up and grab my HAND!" she said to him.

Minato and Kushina moved to hold Naruto closer to them, but Naruto's dead eyes started to show some light.

"Korra…" he muttered

"Yes, YES! Come on Naruto, wake up and grab on!" she shouted as another wind started to pick and it started cutting up her arm.

The wind grew stronger and sliced her ribbon, making her hair flow free.

"Korra?" Naruto questioned with more clarity.

"Naruto." She said with a smile.

He looked around and saw the two people hugging him.

"I'm sorry…but you'll have to wait a little longer." He said to them apologetically as they let him go with sad smiles on their faces as they began to fade away.

Naruto jumped off the coffin and grabbed Korra's hand and she pulled him close to her.

-End I Will Not Bow by Breaking Benjamin-

"Let's go home" Korra said as all three left the village.

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Korra woke up and noticed that the damage she got in the Spirit World seemed to follow her.

She looked down and smiled as Naruto opened his eyes much to the joy of everyone as they cheered.

"Welcome back…Earth Prince." She said as she leaned down and kissed him.

As Korra let go of the kiss, Naruto smiled to her, "I'm back…Water Princess." He said to her.

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Lin sat down with her legs folded back as Korra took a deep breath and then entered the avatar state and put her hands on Lins forehead and heart as her hands glowed from energy bending. After a moment Korra got out of The Avatar State as Lin opened her eyes and stood up.

She turned around and raised her arms in a bending motion as the pillars rose from the ground and levitated in the air. Everyone was in awe at seeing Lin's bending restored after Amon took it from her.

Lin turned to Korra as she put the pillars down, "Thank you, for everything Avatar Korra." she said with a smile.

Korra nodded her head with her own smile as she and everyone turned to Itachi.

"So Itachi do you want your bending back?" Yuki asked him.

"Of course he'll want his bending back, I mean who wouldn't?" Bolin shouted as he thought it was a no brainer.

Itachi turned to Bolin, "Do not presume I can't take care of myself or my wife without it, I've done just fine without it during the war so who's to say I would need it back." he said with annoyance as he didn't like others making important decisions for him.

Everyone was awestruck by what they heard.

"You mean you don't want your bending back?" Korra spoke out in disbelieve.

Itachi turned to her with a raised eyebrow, "I never said that, I'm just trying to make a point about how bending isn't everything to benders." he said with certainty as his eyes briefly looked at Yuki when he said that.

"So do you want it back or do you want to stay as a none bender?" Lin asked

Rather than answering Itachi closed his in deep though as he contemplated regaining his bending. It was true that as a former bender he missed his attachment to one of the elements of nature, but as a person who likes to see things beyond anything else, he thought about continuing to live without it.

The silence lasted for a long while until Itachi made up his mind.

"Alright I chose to regain my bending." Itachi said.

Now Korra looked a bit excited as she wondered how great a bender Itachi was and was looking forward to seeing him demonstrate his skills.

Itachi walked up the steps and took the same position as Lin before Korra reentered the Avatar state and used energybending to restore a person's lost bending.

When she was done Itachi walked down the steps and stood in front of one of the pillars Lin bended.

Everyone was waiting with baited breaths to see Itachi bend.

Itachi took a firebending stance as he reeled his fist back and when they launched it forward everyone got a huge surprise.

Instead of regular fire or even blue fire emerging, black flames erupted from Itachi's fist which struck the pillar and caused it to burst from the power full impact as it crumbled.

"Holy Spirits!" Bolin said.

"He uses black fire." Mako said in awe as he's never seen someone have a color of fire like that before.

It was an amazing sight as he saw Itachi execute other forms and launch more attacks to see how well it feels to have his bending back and to see if his skills have gotten rusty from being unable to bend.

When Itachi finished he was pleased by the results, "It seems my bending is still as strong as when it was taken from me." he said as he looked at his hand as he flared a black flame on top before he clenched his fist extinguishing the flame as he reveled in the feeling he now had from feeling one with the sun again.

"Wow Itachi that was awesome I didn't know someone could posses black flames?" Korra asked in excitement from seeing his awesome skills.

"Neither did I before I discovered my bending." Itachi said with a tiny smile.

"We'll with or without your bending your still my lovely husband so congrats on getting your bending back baby." Yuki said as she embraced Itachi warmly which he returned after a moment.

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Naruto walked around the frozen land as he watched Kurama being chased by the airbending kids and some water tribe kids.

The fox ran up to him and jumped on his head.

"Break time." Kurama said to the kids and they whined, but went to do other things.

"You seem to be having fun fur face?" Naruto questioned with a grin.

"Nonsense, I was merely physically training my future minions." Kurama said as he averted his eyes from Naruto's.

Naruto rolled his eyes and stared at his hand as a blue hue enveloped it for a second.

"Looks like I have some training to do, huh?" the blonde asked the fox.

Kurama grinned, "That you do you hairless monkey, that you do. Don't think I'll go easy on you…partner." He said.

Naruto looked up and gave him a foxy grin, along with his new whisker-like marks on his cheeks; he really did look like a fox.

Since Korra saved him before he could leave for a new world to help, he gained back all his memories.

The form of Chakra was different in this world, but Kurama had told him he would work his ass off to try and control the Chakra in his body like he could in his first life.

"That I do…partner." Naruto said back.

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Lin walked up to Naruto who was looking at the sunset.

"You are so grounded for scaring me like that, you know that right?" she questioned as she hugged him and he hugged back.

"Yeah…" he trailed off.

Lin noticed something was off, "What's wrong?" she asked

"Mom…was dad buried?" he asked carefully.

Lin looked away, "We never found his body." She said in a stoic tone.

"Mom…I think I saw him." he said

Lin looked shocked, "Where?"

"In the Spirit World…he's there, I could feel it." Naruto said as he looked into his mothers' eyes.

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A girl with long blonde hair in a ponytail, blue eyes, and whisker marks tripled on each cheek sighed in annoyance.

She was wearing a short-sleeved white dress shirt worn under a light brown vest with a school emblem on the left side. For bottoms, she wore dark tan pocketed skirt that reached halfway down her thighs with a black leather belt that had a red swirl as the buckle along with white socks leggings and brown shoes.

But what she was wearing wasn't the issue.

What was the issue was that she was currently surrounded by five thug looking teens while the leader seemed to be holding a knife.

"Hey can I go? I have class." The blonde said in a bored tone.

The men just laughed and closed in on her.

She sighed once again and waved her hand in the air.

Five mini explosions happened next to each thug's head, popping their eardrums and knocking them out as some blood dripped from their ears.

The knife in the leaders' hand went flying.

Just then a voice was heard, "Honestly Naruko-san, must be just like Onee-sama?" the elegant voice question.

Naruko turned around to see a girl in the same uniform as her, minus the belt, with brown hair in pig tails with red ribbons.

"Hey I just knocked them out! I didn't fry them like sempai does!" Naruko puffed her cheeks in indignation.

"Well that's true, let's go." The girl said as she placed her hand on Naruko's shoulder and teleported away.

They were at the gate of their middle school and they saw their sempai.

"Hey guys!" An older girl with short chestnut brown hair and brown eyes came up to them.

"Onee-sama~" the pigtailed girl proclaimed as she jumped at the older girl.

The older girl shocked her with electricity before she even made it to her, "Not now Kuroko."

Kuroko was now twitching on the ground and got up after a few minutes.

"Onee-sama your being a bad influence on Naruko-san, as she was doing what you do to thug's this morning. You're both Level 5's and you really should stop using your powers like that." Kuroko reported as she fixed her hair.

"Kuro-chan." Naruko whined with a pout at being tattled on.

"Next thing you know she's going to start wearing these awful shorts you wear." Kuroko added as she teleported behind the older girl and looked up her skirt to see said shorts.

"Kuroko!" the older girl shouted and Kuroko eeped and teleported away as the older girl ran into the school to chase her kohai.

"Ah! Mikoto-sempai, wait for me!" Naruko shouted as she chased Mikoto.

All in all it was just going to be another day for A Certain Unique Blonde.

Elsewhere, that knife finally came down and hit the grocery bag of a spiky black haired boy who was walking by.

The eggs, the only item in the bag, fell to the ground and cracked.

The youth fell to his knees and cried out to the heavens.

"Such misfortune!"