The Boy Who Fell from the Sky & The Girl Who Found Him

by BlackJoker013

In hope that his friends would never be used as weapons ever again a boy jumped to the stars to find them their Zion In hope that her solitude and boredom would finally come to an end a girl would wish upon a comet for an unforgettable adventure Girl meets Boy, Ninja meets Bender, Avatar meets Jinchuriki No set pairing characters will date around

21. Boy's Pride Girl's Spirit

AN: Sorry for Spelling and Grammar and I made a poll on my user page check it out it's the key to another crossover story idea I have.

Republic City's City Hall was bustling with excitement as every big wig and socialite of the industrial city was enjoying themselves in the party being thrown in the banquet hall.

Councilmen Tarrlok dressed in his finest Northern Water Tribe suit was the host of tonight's gathering. At the moment he was chatting up with a few of his guests as he waited for the evening's guest of honor to arrive.

"Sir!"

Excusing himself from the wealthy elder couple he was chatting with he turned around to see that the Council's Page was the one who called for his attention.

"Yes" he answered neutrally with his arms folded behind himself. "What is it?"

The Page bowed as he nervously looked down on the clip board that he was always carrying around with him. "I wanted to let you know that Councilmen Tenzin along with his family and Avatar Korra have arrived…."

"Splendid!" he exclaimed cutting the Page off. "I'll greet them at once!" he walked around the messenger and started to make his way to the Hall's entrance only to get called out again.

"Sir! There's something you should know!"

Turning around yet again Tarrlok let out a small sigh as he was starting to get a tad bit annoyed. "Yes and what would that be?"

The Page shifted around on his feet. "Well you see it's not just them. Avatar Korra brought a few more guests with her then we previously expected, sir."

The Councilman let out a small laugh. "Is that all, I expected as much. No doubt she brought along her Pro-Bending teammates and that alien friend of her's." turning back and heading towards the doors Tarrlok's small cunning smile dropped off his face faster than a freefalling anvil as he saw what would later be described as an assemblage of raggedy garbed vagrants gathered around Avatar Korra and the rest of her party.

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Korra wearing her formal outfit gazed around the decorated hall marveling at all the patrons and décor the room contained. "I can't believe all of this is for me." She said in wonder.

"Well you deserve it Avatar!" a gruff but friendly voice cheered. "Thanks again for inviting us to this fancy shindig of yours!" the voice belong to one Gommu, the de facto leader of Republic City's underground hobo society.

Korra smiled at the loveable tramp as she patted him on the back only to pause slightly as a small cloud of dust rose out of the patted area of his jacket. "Don't sweat it think of it as a thank you for you and your pals for being so nice to Naruto and me the first week we went out exploring the city."

Gommu smiled back as he turned and faced the rest of his hobo posse. "Alright people the Avatar was nice enough for inviting us to this party so I think it's only fair to say we set some ground rules." The rest of the hobo's murmured amongst themselves as they all nodded in agreement to behave for tonight's event.

"Rule number one no peeing in any of the potted plants or off that balcony over there." Gommu pointed over to a setoff opened window doors that lead off to said balcony. "And well I can't really think of anything else to add to that, Avatar?"

Korra nodded her head. "No peeing outside the bathrooms that sounds about right!"

"Alright then let's put on our party hats!" Gommu and the rest of the rogues reached behind themselves and pulled out identical black bowler derby hats and placed them on their respected heads just before literally bum rushing the ballroom and heading over to the fancy cheese table.

Korra placed her hands at her hips as she chuckled at the sight at some of the high society guests confused faces at the sight of the vagabonds amercing themselves in the party.

"You know it really was nice of you to invite those guys to this party. I don't think they get invited to fancy events like this."

Korra recognizing that the voice belonged to Naruto smiled as she said. "Well they should their fun and friendly people these high class mucky mucks shouldn't judge them based on their clothes or low earning wages."

As the Avatar turned her head towards Naruto her smile dropped a little as she saw what he had decided to wear to the party.

"Seriously why are you dressed like that?" she asked pointing to the ninja's outfit.

"What?" Naruto defended as he defined himself "I always wear this jacket it's a prat of me, what's wrong with it?"

Korra let out a big sigh. "That's right your always wearing that orange jacket and those orange pants couldn't you get gussied up for tonight?"

"Come on this jacket is totally badass it works in the field and on the dance floor, it's not bound to any one genre!"

Korra just shook her head as she leaned over and and started to rub Naruto's head "You could have at least combed your hair or something."

Naruto swatted the Water Tribe girl's hand away as he ruffled his hair back.

"My hair's fine! Why are you being so anal about this look at Uncle Tenzin?" Naruto pointed to said Airbender as he and his family managed to catch up to the two heroes.

"He's wearing the same kind of clothes that he always wears are you going to get in his face about that!"

"That's different!" Korra replied with her arms folded. "Airbenders don't have any sense of style what so ever it's not his fault he was born boring."

"Boring!" Tenzin squawked "I'll have you two know that I was wearing this ensemble on the day of my wedding! Pema thinks it's stylish."

Korra and Naruto both rolled their eyes at the Airbender's defensive statement and went back to arguing with each other.

"Well if not for this party I thought you'd dress more formal in meeting Asami's dad for the first time." Korra stated as she peered around the room looking for the girl who had left earlier then they.

"Pff I'm not going to change my self to impress anybody even if that person is Sami's old man, besides." Naruto shook his arms causing two kunias to slip flawlessly out of his sleeves and into his hands. "This jacket's awesome I have over thirty different types of weapons hidden in it."

Korra sighed. "Do you have to take sharp pointy things everywhere you go? I don't even know why you have those for anyways with all your powers you could take down a whole army if you wanted to."

"Ah duh It's because my ninjutsus are so strong I might accidently kill a regular person if they attack me. This way all that will happen is they'll get stabbed a little as opposed to getting completely vaporized."

Tenzin ran his hand down his face in anguish"…..Naruto I can honestly say that you're the only person I've ever met that can get away with stating that they have to attack their enemies with a weapon in order for them not to kill. Please put those away and make sure you keep them out of reach of the children…especially Meelo!"

Naruto pouted as he shot his knives back up his sleeves as Tenzin placed his hands on both Korra and Naruto's shoulders in order for them to have his attention.

"Regardless I want you, the both of you to be cautious. I have a sneaking suspicion that Tarrlok is plotting something. It's not like him to throw a party just for the fun of it."

"That's for sure" Pema said as she pointed over to said councilman who was busy at the moment trying to control Korra's guests.

"Please put that down!" Tarrlok commanded as he pried a silver tray full of cheese out of a vagabond's hands. "This food is for everyone." He placed the silverware back on the table just as he heard the sound of cheering coming from behind him.

Turning around he saw another lovable tramp entertaining some of the wealthier guest by juggling an assortment of fresh fruit, while taking quick bites of each of the produce as they sailed past his mouth.

"Stop doing that this instant!" the Councilman demanded as he snatched one of the apples causing the Juggler to lose his flow and balance as all the remaining fruits flew out of their repeating cycle and all landed on Tarrlocks' crown.

Rubbing his head furiously Tarrlok winced as he saw another assortment of hobos tossing plates across the room in order for them to exchange food with each other.

Tarrlok ran in the middle of were the plates were being thrown back and forth hoping to catch at least one. "These aren't Earth Disks!" He yelled as he managed to catch one of the plates. Setting it down at a nearby table he saw yet another bum cutting a prime roast and serving it up to the high class mucky mucks, some of the waiters as well others discriminating no one due to their social statues.

"That's the wrong knife you imbecile! You're going to dull it down!"

The transient simply smiled as he started to sing while he twirled the silverware between his fingers. "Blunt the knives, bend the forks."

Another vagabond joined in as he spun a wine bottle in the air catching it by the neck. "Smash the bottles and burn the corks!"

The vagabond did what he sung and shattered the bottle against a table only to Waterbend the wine into a row of glasses lined up evenly on said table. When he was finished he served the glasses by flinging them across the room for another hobo to catch them.

The hobo laughed as he quickly passed the glasses to his friends as well as the other guest who found the whole ordeal quite entertaining. "Chip the glasses and crack the plates!" The hobo sung as he clanged his glass with a wealthy older gentleman who was seated beside him.

The entire squad of hobo's including Gommu sung "That's what Master Tarrlok hates!" in unison.

Everyone in the hall started to laugh as they saw the ordinarily calm and collective councilman running about trying to stop the Avatar's guest from making more of a spectacle then they already had, unfortunately he was failing miserably.

To Tarrlok's unholy surprise some of the party's more well to do guests decided to join in the hobo's fun.

"Cut the cloth and trail the fat! Leave the bones on the bathroom mat!" A grey haired elder gentleman wearing a suit showing he was of Earth Kingdom descent sang as he tossed a plate of bones into the rest room.

"Pour the milk on the cellar floor!" A young woman wearing a Fire Nation styled dress sang as she poured a bottle of milk down an open door leading to the wine cellar, just as a young waiter came out only to trip and fall back down as the sound of a loud crash echoed though the room followed by his yelps of pain. "Sorry, I'll pay for that!"

The fall didn't stop the momentum as the whole hall started to sing along as they clapped and stomped their feet.

"Splash the wine on every door! Dump the crocks in a boiling bowl" Tarrlok was truly in a tizzy as he tried to stop a group of curly mustached noblemen from adding a coat of wine to the doors.

"Pound them up with a thumping pole; and when you've finished, if they are whole, send them down the hall to roll! That's what Master Tarrlok hates!"

The song ended with everyone laughing and cheering as one exhausted councilman slumped onto a chair as he let his whole body go limp in order for him to catch his breath.

The ice was now completely broken as everyone settled down and started to chat amongst themselves while they introduced one another.

Naruto, Korra, along with Tenzin and his family watched the dance number from the same place they were standing in when it first started.

"Did….did those homeless people practice all that?" Jinora asked as she scratched the top of her head. "And if they did how did they get the other guests to sing along like that without a rehearsal or something?"

Ikki sighed as she placed her hand on her sister's shoulder. "Jinora, Jinora, Jinora…" she said while shaking her head as if to address her older sibling's naiveté "It was magic. Whenever I don't understand something or don't know how something works instead of asking dumb questions I just say it's because it's magic, like how radios work!"

"What!" Jinora screeched in disbelief. "It's not magic a radio works by converting sound waves….."

"Lalalalalal, I can't hear you!" Ikki yelled as she plugged her ears and ran into the hall, with Jinora running behind in hopes of squashing Ikki's fantasy with scientific knowledge.

"Hey wait for me!" Meelo screamed as he ran after his sisters.

"Oh dear" Tenzin started to run off after his children. "Meelo no air scooters in doors! And what did that Gommu fellow tell his friends no peeing outside of the bathrooms!"

Sighing Pema bid Naruto and Korra a farewell as she wandered off herself to socialize with some of the guests.

Korra was about to suggest that they go off and try to find Asami and her father only to be hindered in doing so by Naruto pointing across the room towards Republic City's esteem chief of police.

"Look its Aunt Lin let's go talk to her!"

"Talk to her about what?" Korra asked.

"You know about a certain medical report, on a certain old guy we know who supposedly died in his sleep" Naruto used air quotes on the last part of the sentence.

"Oh! Right lets go." Grabbing her friend by the arm Korra rushed over towards Lin who had on her patented no nonsense face as she walked around the food tables with her hands folded behind her back.

"Hey Aunt Lin!" Naruto called out getting the older woman's attention. The police chief couldn't help but let out a very small irritated smile as a vein throbbed in her head by the ninja's nickname.

"Hello Uzumaki" she greeted evenly. "Tell me something young man back home do you greet all authority figures with such familiarity. Or am I the only one who is regarded with such contempt?"

"Contempt?" Naruto gently broke off Korra's hold on his arm as he placed it and his other behind his head before smiling. "It's not contempt I like giving nicknames to the people who I like and think who are cool."

"Really?" Lin asked skeptically trying to see if the ninja was playing some sort of angle. "You think I'm cool?" with her arms still folded behind her back Lin leaned slightly forward observing every facial tick and sign of deception that might be presented on the alien's face. "Just how exactly am I cool?"

Naruto shrugged. "I don't know I guess it's because you kind of remind me of Granny Tsunade from back home."

The second Naruto made the comparison Korra's eyes widened as she did a double take from Lin who now had a disgruntled expression that looked as if at any moment it would bloom to full rage, to Naruto looking as upbeat as ever not noticing the powder keg he was about to light.

"I remind you of your grandmother?" Lin asked through her teeth trying to hold back as best as she could.

"Well she's not really my granny." Naruto said looking over to the side while he stroked his chin. "I think technically she's like my distant first cousin twice removed or something."

Lin's angry expression resided. "Oh really?"

Korra let out a breath and sighed in relief as she wiped a little sweat perspiring from her forehead.

"Yeah I just call her a granny because she's in her fifties!"

Korra's look of horror spread back across her face just as fast as the look of fury on the Chief's.

"You think women in their fifties are old!" Lin roared loudly enough that a few party goers turned their attention to the Metalbender.

Unfortunately Naruto wasn't picking up on the vibe."….yes?"

Korra ran her hand down her face as she grabbed Naruto by the shoulders and aimed him towards the left. "Naruto I think I can see Asami over there. Why don't you go meet up with her and I'll catch up with you guys later."

"Are you sure?" Naruto asked as Korra started to shove him.

"Yes now go!"

The ninja shrugged as he formed a tiger seal and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Lin who had never really seen any of Naruto's Justus replaced her anger with bewilderment as she had never seen anything like the Shunshin technique before. "How…..where did he go?" she asked as she waved her hand over the smoke that Naruto left behind.

"It's …..complicated I find it easier to tell people that it's space magic."

Lin raised an eyebrow "Really, it's magic?"

"No" Korra smiled slightly. "But it pisses him off when you call it that."

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Over on the other side of the ballroom Asami Sato was not having the night she thought she was going to have. Instead of coming to tonight's gala arm in arm with a certain guy who was literally from out of this world, she instead ended up coming together with the brothers Mako and Bolin.

Wearing a red sleeveless gown with a darker red shawl draped on her shoulders the young inventor swirled her drink as she chucked at the antics of her friends.

"I can't believe you actually convinced me to wear this" Mako said as he spoke to Bolin who was busy helping himself to a prime roast that he had gotten earlier from one of the dancing, singing, hobos.

Bolin chewed on a piece of meat before defending himself. "Come on you look great no one else is wearing that thing here! You know what that outfit says? It says I have pazazz, I have style, I have something that you don't and I just feel too damn sexy to care!"

Mako just held his stony expression. "Or maybe it says my brother is a doof and spent the little spare money we had on a couple of costumes instead of renting two suits like he was supposed to!"

It was at that moment Asami couldn't hold back any more as she bubbled in a fit of giggles at Mako's current predicament. For you see true to the firebender's words instead of going to the local tailor and renting the cheapest but cleanest suits he could find, Bolin instead took the wrong bus and ended up in Republic city's theater district. Were he had bumped into the lead costume designer for the Republic City Player's upcoming production of Love amongst the Dragons.

That was how Mako's only choices for tonight's event were to either come in his regular street clothes or the costume for the Dragon Emperor san the mask for when he was trapped in his human form.

"I don't know what you're complaining about! I let you have the Emperor outfit. I'm dressed as the dark water spirit, I'm the bad guy in the story!" the Neo-Airbender defended as he pointed a tooth pick at his brother.

Mako just shook his head as he swiped Bolin's plate and started to eat all of his younger brother's snacks in hostility.

Bolin not wanting to get into it with his older brother due to the fact that the costumes they were wearing were in deed loaners side stepped around said brother as he slinked up next to Asami.

"Thanks again for giving us a ride to the party Asami. These outfits as cool as they are ironically don't breathe very well and it's a bit of a walk from the arena to City Hall."

"Hey what are friends for?" Asami said as she waved the younger boy off. "I just wish Naruto escorted me to this banquet. I don't know why but I think one of the reasons I like him so much is for his sense of flair. He usually likes to make a big entrance."

It was at that moment Naruto materialized right in front of Asami with a whirl wind of leaves fluttering beside him. "Hi Sami!" he yelled in his usual cheery self.

The ninja took all of them by surprise as he caused Bolin to fall backwards, Mako to start chocking on one of the revenge snacks he was eating, and Asami to stumble backwards only for Naruto to appear behind her catching her before she could stumble down.

"Sorry guys I didn't mean to scare you." Naruto apologized as he rubbed the back of his head.

Asami smiled as she said. "I think I'm starting to get the hang of it." She then gently captured his lips with her own, connecting the two with a kiss that lasted a moment.

Breaking away from each other's lips Naruto's whole face as lite up like a traffic light as he smiled. "Yeah I know the feeling I think I'm starting to get the hang of that too."

Bolin jumped off his back and landed on his feet "Naruto!" he yelled in excitement. "Please tell me that those dancing, singing, hobos were the friends you and Korra were talking about!"

Drumming his chest Mako managed to wolf down the food stuck in his throat. "W…wait those people are your friends?" he asked.

Placing and entangling her hand with his Asami held onto Naruto firmly as she started to walk away from Bolin and Mako. "We'll catch up with you two latter. Find Korra and we'll meet up latter."

"Sami, where are we going?" Naruto asked as he started to wonder if all the alluring girls on this planet were going to lead him places by dragging him.

"Well I think it's time I introduced you to my father."

Back to Korra

Lin Beifong felt like she needed a drink the only thing that was stopping her from heading over to the bar and ordering the strongest poison this party had to offer was the nagging voice in her head reminding her that she was still on duty.

"I'm sorry but why in the hell do you want a copy of Avatar Aang's autopsy report?" Lin asked trying to keep her voice as low as possible.

Holding her arms together and trying to play it close to the vest Korra leaned in a bit as she too kept her voice from being heard from nearby ease droppers. "Look let's drop the title Tenzin's not here to say how unappropriated we're being let's just call Aang, Aang ok."

That didn't answer Lin's question. "That doesn't answer my question!" See I told you.

"Look certain allegations have come towards my administration that demands you filibuster my request for an appeal proses, sincerely Korra from the Southern Water Tribe post script have a nice day."

Lin just had a blank look on her face. "What the flameo was that? Did you just look up a bunch of legal terminology so you would sound more professional?"

"Ahhhhhhhhh affirmative action?" Korra shrugged.

Lin let out a frustrated sigh. "Please stop saying these things I have a suspicion someone put you up to it."

Korra tilted her head a bit to give a side glance towards Jinora who was innocently reading a book at a nearby table until the feeling that she was being watched crept up behind her and caused her to brake her attention towards her reincarnated grand farther.

"Hey!" Lin snapped her finger getting Korra's attention again. "I'll ask one more time why do you want Aang's autopsy report."

Korra knew Lin could smell gemsbok bull shit a mile away so anything she said towards the older woman would have to be the truth. Unfortunately while she knew being the Avatar would give her a libel explanation on saying she saw it in a vision she didn't want to divulge that information until she knew it was indeed a vision and not some nightmare.

"Look it's complicated, and weird, but you just have to trust me I have a feeling…."

"A Feeling?" Lin had cut her off. "I'm supposed to give you a private government document on the grounds that you have some sort of feeling towards Aang's death. Please Korra incline me on what this feeling might be?"

Korra knew she had her back against the wall she would have to tell the truth the only other options was for Naruto to break into were ever it was that cops or coroners sent autopsy reports to and obtain a copy undetected.

"Oh Lin-Lin is that you!" a loud and old voice cried out causing both woman to turn around.

To Korra's utter surprise she saw the last person she thought she'd see at an event like this, it was the Professor. The same Professor that she and Naruto had met when they took down the Viper Hog gang not too long ago.

The Professor was dressed the exact same way as last time. With a pair of giant bottle eye glasses Hunched over in a white lab coat while wearing a grey colored shirt with a pair of dark pajama bottoms. He shuffled over towards them in a pair of fuzzy slippers while holding onto a silver plate with a sliver of cake on it.

"Look Lin-Lin they have your favorite flavor, strawberry jam with vanilla frosting!" the Professor who was at least a head shorter than the chief slowly rose his fork that contained a piece of dessert and tried to aim it in Lin's mouth.

"Professor please I'm a grown woman I can eat my own cake!" Lin argued as she tried to bloke the fork from her mouth.

"Nonsense! Now open up here comes the train chocho!" the Professor pressed on slowly diverting his arm different ways in hopes of getting the dessert in her mouth.

"I'm serious Professor knock it off or I'll make sure you spend the rest of the evening in a jail cell!"

Korra jumped back a little at first she had been slightly amused at the old man's antics but was scared for the Professor if Lin was going to make good on her threat.

The Professor did back down his fork but put on a stern face of his own. "Good I hope you do hall me off to the big house that way you can hear me complain about that new crosswalk city hall installed downtown. It's too damn fast I need more than thirty seconds to walk across a street, what am I a hotrod?"

"Ahhh do you two know each other?" Korra asked as she waved her finger between the two of them.

Sighing Lin confessed. "Yes we do. Korra this is my grandfather."

The Professor started to eat the cake himself as he gave a small wave with the fork stuck inside his mouth.

"Yeah we met before In the Wulong Forest." Korra told Lin as she gave a small bow to the Professor.

"We did? I don't remember that." The Professor said as he pulled the fork out of his mouth and took another bite of cake.

"Are you kidding me? You saw me and my friend Naruto take down the entire Viper Hogg gang by ourselves, it was a defining moment."

"Maybe for you, I can't even remember my last bowel movement." The Professor looked down curiously as he started to wiggle his hips a bit. "Apparently it wasn't so long ago."

Lin pinched the bridge of her nose due to her grandfather's antics.

Korra's brows began to rise as she realized something "Wait a minute you're Lin's grandfather! Then does that mean you're Toph's father?"

The Professor tilted his head to the side. "I'm who's what know?" he asked.

"No Korra the Professor is my paternal grandfather, my father's father." Lin clarified.

"Yes oh how I miss him." The Professor handed Lin his plate as he reached into his lab coat pocket and pulled out a golden locket that he usually wore around his neck.

He opened it up showing that it contained two pictures. On the left was a picture of a young Lin no older than ten years old wearing safety goggles and holding up a flask with a chemical concoction. On the right was a Daguerreotype picture of a young boy sitting on the Professor's knee when he too was young both of them laughing. "My little Johto" the Professor sighed as he ran his thumb across the picture.

"No Professor" Lin shock her head "My father was your other son Kanto."

"Kanto!" the Professor yelled as he reached behind the locket and unlocked a third picture that contained another Daguerreotype picture. This one was a picture of the Professor getting decked in the face by another little boy wearing a colorful wrestling leotard.

"Ohhhhh hearing that name alone gets my blood boiling and looking at this picture isn't helping any!" he folded the locket back up, placed the chain around his neck, and set the small photo album behind his shirt as he snatched back his plate and foolishly began to drown his pain in cake.

With a look of curiosity Korra panned her head over to the police chief. "What was that abou…"

"Drop it" Lin stated sternly with her arms folded she raised one of her hands in a stopping motion. "I have no interest in prying in your life so don't pry into ours."

As the Professor finished his cake he let out a loud sigh as well as a small burb. Giving his belly a few bumps he patted at his locket hidden in his shirt as seeing Lin's old photo drew up some pleasant memories as well.

"Oh Lin I remember when you would come and visit me in my laboratory. All the experiments we used to conduct and the discoveries we made together, what ever happened to that adorable little girl."

Lin didn't have a moment or look of nostalgia as she looked back at her grandfather. No she just held up her stern yet neutral expression like she always did. "That girl grew up Professor and became a public servant for the people."

The Professor blow out a raspberry. "Public servant my wrinkly old butt. The second you became chief you busted into my lab and confiscated half my stuff."

Lin snarled lightly as she brought her head down so she could look the Professor at eye level. "You mean your dooms day machines? Tell me something did you really need to create a device that emitted a sound that kills people?"

"Oh please!" the Professor waved his hand like a dandy "I could never get that stupid thing to work right all it ever did was make it's victims smell colors instead of fragrances. Besides how am I supposed to defend myself now if some punks come up to my front porch and ring my bell, only to runaway the second I open my door"

"I'm surprised at this point in time the University of Republic City hasn't brought you in on disciplinary charges."

The Professor placed his hands on his hips. "Don't get me started on those dorks. Everyone was in favor of saving Fire Lord Ozai's brain. But when you put it in the body of a great sand shark. Ooo, suddenly you've gone too far!" he raised his hands for the last part and waved them about as he mocked his colleagues.

"What a minute I thought you were a botanist? Professor just what kind of Professor are you?" Korra asked as she scratched her noodle trying to wrap her head around everything Lin and her grandfather were saying to each other up to this point.

"I'm a Professor of everything!" the old man declared as he crabbed his coat and pulled it up to his face. "For I am the Professor!"

"More like you're whatever kind of Professor pays the most. (sigh) Can't you act your age just for once in your life?" Lin asked as she shook her head back and forth.

"I'm a hundred and twenty years old I can act any way I want!" the Professor said pointing a finger at Lin "What about you acting all mature always being the responsible one. I seem to recall a certain police chief dating a tattooed hooligan from her teens well into adult hood."

Lin's face lighted up a little as she back stepped a bit. "He wasn't a hooligan if you could actual remember anything then you'd know he was more of a stickler then I was." she defended placing her foot forward.

"Oh you can't fool me young lady I remember clearly about that boy with his outrageous haircut, tattoos all over his body, whaling away on that drum set of his!'

Korra couldn't help but smile at everything the Professor was saying all the while trying to picture Lin's old boyfriend with the clues her grandfather was leaving. An outrageous haircut, tattoos, and an advent drum player?

Across the room

Tenzin had released himself momentarily of watching over his children in order to properly criticize the band that was playing for the party more specifically the drummer.

"Sir I don't really know what you want from me I'm playing the beat just like I'm supposed to." the drummer said while trying not to come off as being snobbish.

"I know you are young man." Tenzin said as he rubbed his goatee from top to bottom. "It's the way you're playing is just not quite my tempo."

Back to the Lin, Korra, and the Professor

"As fun as this reunion was I have to get back to my duties." Lin handed her grandfather back his plate as she bid Korra a farewell.

"I'm sorry Avatar I really am but regarding to our original chat I'm afraid I absolutely cannot give you access to the documents you wish to procure."

"But…but Aang was me in a past life isn't this the same as me asking for the results for an old health test or something?"

"Of course not." Lin said sternly. "I'm grateful for your work in dissembling the Viper Hog gang as well as your rescue attempt for your old team mate. Even if you held an Equalist against her will and admitted your own form of interrogation towards her."

Korra looked over to the side and rubbed her neck. She knew the chief was referring to the girl Equalist that she, Naruto, Asami and Mako had captured when they were looking for Bolin as the male Equalist managed to get way before they could turn him in to the police.

"But none the less my hands are tied by the system, farewell." Lin started to walk away stopping as she turned her head. "But I can offer you this piece of advice on tonight's event. Be wary of Tarrlok he might be distracted at the moment but before the night's over he will try to proposition you again to join his task force just remember you can never trust a politician, they're always hiding something."

She panned her head over to Tenzin who was still harassing the drummer. "Always" and with that she walked away disappearing into the crowd.

"…..Nerd!" the Professor yelled as he cupped one hand to amplify his voice. Now alone with the Avatar he turned and faced her. "You know young lady I couldn't help but over hear the conversation you were having with my granddaughter before I interrupted the two of you."

"Oh" Korra folded her arms as she looked at the old man strangely. "And how exactly did a man of your advanced age managed to hear a private conversation between two other people a ways from them?"

"With this!" he pulled out what looked like a small brass horn with an assortment of vacuum tubes, switches and blinking lights. "I call it the hearing aid!" he placed the mouth piece in his ear "With this I can hear a conversation from a mile away!"

"Really!" Korra said loudly as her voice got picked up by the machine causing it to feed back into the Professor's ear. "Ouch!" he pulled it out and ran his pinky in his ear to clean it out.

"Sorry…wait so you can help me in getting a copy of Aang's autopsy report?"

"Oh my yes, you see as it happens an old student of mine was the medical examiner for the police department about eighteen years ago! He's bound to have a copy or two lying around some were."

"Really! Thank you Professor!" Korra ran over to the old man and gently hugged him as she picked him up in joy.

The Professor didn't panic or scurry but smiled as he patted the girl on the shoulder. "Yes, yes but I must admit this student was a bit of an odd ball he was always wearing a hood around his head even when it wasn't raining. Funny thing is I don't even remember if I ever saw his face."

Line Break

"What do you mean my father couldn't make it? He told me himself that he was going to be here!" to say Asami was disappointed was an understatement.

When the young mechanic had dragged Naruto over to were some of Republic City's older mucky mucks were chatting about, she was surprised that her father Hiroshi Sato wasn't amongst them laughing it up in old stories or laying out the plans for new business proposals. Instead she saw that one of Future Industry's public relation representatives was speaking on her father's behalf at the party.

The representative a skinny spectacled young man with slicks back brown hair wearing a dark red suit nervously adjusted his glasses as he responded back.

"I'm sorry Miss Asami your father did want to be here not only to introduce himself to the Avatar and your new gentleman friend…." the representative peered his glance over to Naruto who was leaning against a nearby pillar who intern waved back at both of them.

"…But unfortunately something came up at the factory the last second."

Asami wasn't naïve or spoiled enough to start throwing a tantrum. She knew that when inventors like her and her father were in the flow of a new project wild komodo rhinos couldn't keep them away from the work bench. So she did the only thing she could think of at the moment, she bowed to her father's representative saying good bye and walked on over to Naruto.

Getting off the pillar Naruto offered his condolences "Sorry I couldn't meet your dad, Sami"

"It's ok" Asami said with a small smile as she reached over and placed her arms around the ninja's neck bringing him close to her. "I just wanted the two important men in my life right now to meet each other."

"I'm….I'm important in your life right now?" Naruto asked the only time he have really heard anyone talk that way about him was back when he entered the Fourth Shinobi World War and even then that had been more about his status as a Jinchuriki.

Asami leaned over and kissed the nap of his neck causing the yellow haired boy to let out a soft moan as well as send a twitch towards his nether regions.

"Yes Naruto you are." She said as she broke away from him.

"….Well it's not like I'm going anywhere any time soon." Naruto smiled trying to cheer the young woman up as he tried to calm himself down at the same time.

"Yeah…" Asami slowly looked over to a nearby window and into the night sky "I just wonder what was so important that my dad couldn't be here."

Secret Workshop Under the Sato Estate

"All right fess up whose bright idea was this!" Hiroshi yelled as he angrily pointed behind him. "Who was the funny man that thought he'd be cool or hip or whatever such nonsense if he did this!" the middle aged man screamed at a row of four Equalist scientist soldiers dressed in their identical uniforms.

"What funny?" the Equalist on the furthest right asked with a shrug. "We honestly thought it was a good idea!" he defended.

"A good idea?" Hiroshi roared "How is this a good idea!" following his angry pointed finger was the object of his dismay.

Behind the great inventor was the proto type mechanized suit that he had spent the last few months designing and forging together. Last night was when the last finishing touches were supposed to be added to the create the machine that would be every bender's nightmare right before Hiroshi began repurposing old Satomobile assembly lines to help mass produce the Mecha Tanks.

Unfortunately instead of installing the continuous track legs like these four Equalists were supposed to do they instead created and installed a secondary body to the torso of the prototype that was attached with four sets of arachnid legs.

"Oh come on Mr. Sato this looks way scarier than the tank legs you wanted us to install" the Equalist on the far left defended.

"Yeah and we even redesigned the two giant magnetic weapons into eight smaller ones on each one of the legs." An Equalist in the middle piped up.

Taking off his glasses and rubbing the bridge of his nose Hiroshi knew he was going to regret asking. "And why may I ask did you see the need to do that?"

"Because now it can walk up walls…..for about four minutes until the internal secondary battery runs out of power and you fall off."

Letting out a frustrated groan Hiroshi had just about had it.

"I don't know it kind of looks a bit cooler this way." A mysterious voice said beside Hiroshi causing the middle age man to jump back in surprise.

The voice belonged to an individual with long shoulder length black hair that was both silky and uneven like it hadn't been combed in a while. This person was dressed black suit with a tight silver sequin jumpsuit under the coat.

"How did you get in here lady!" one of the Equalists demanded as they all entered into fighting stances and pulled out bolos and gas pellets ready to rumble at a moment's notice.

The lady merely glanced over to the Equalists before looking back at the meca spider. "I just walked through the back door you should increase security there. And I'm not a lady I'm actually a man."

"Wait seriously?" the Equalist asked as he loosened his stance.

"Well yeah it's not that difficult I've been here a couple times before I just entered through the…"

"No, no, no" the Equalist said waving his arms around. "Not that! You're a guy?"

At this moment Hiroshi was really hoping that next time Amon would send over his more senior warriors rather than these so called scientist soldiers.

"Yeah I get that a lot actually." The mysterious man said. "Is it a man is it a woman I don't know but I would like some anyway? Usually people don't believe I'm a man unless I show them my penis." The stranger placed his hands on his fly. "Do you want to see it?"

The Equalist looked at each other and actually debated rather or not to see the so called man's meat stick.

"Enough!" Hiroshi roared stopping this stupid conversation at once. "What are you doing here Azusa?"

The man named Azusa jumped as he enthusiastically faced Hiroshi. "Hello again Mr. Sato" he greeted. "I've been sent here by the boss man. You know an eccentric fellow walks around in a cloak never shows his face to anybody, remember him?"

"Yes" Hiroshi said with distain. "What does that freak want with me now?"

"Ah ah ah" Azusa said waving his finger like he was scolding a child. "You forget your own origin story Hiroshi. You know it's in that speech about the one person who believed in you, who gave you the capital to make your greatest creations come to life."

Hiroshi paused for a moment before he reached into his pocket and pulled out his pocket watch. Opening it he looked at a picture of the two people he cared about the most in his life. "There's only one person who helped be make my greatest creation." He said as he traced the picture of his late Yasuko.

Shaking his head as he put his pocket watch again he looked back at Azusa. "So what does he want from me now?"

Azusa placed his hands behind his back as he started to walk stiffly like he was mocking a military man. "He wants the one thing that he himself cannot make despite all of his genius and ingenuity."

"And that would be?" Hiroshi was not that ignorant despite that hooded figure's madness he was indeed a brilliant scientist one of the best there ever was. So to say that there was something he couldn't obtain or create himself was truly something.

"This" Azusa said as he spread his arms out aiming them towards the mecha. "Mechanical engineering was never his forte so he decided to eliminate the debt you own him all twenty years gone forever." Azusa made an ftt sound as if to saw out the door.

Hiroshi looked skeptical. "All he wants is one of my proto type mecha tanks?"

"No Mr. Sato he wants you to hand over your designs for the mecha tank along with all the original foot notes and sketches to me."

Hiroshi remembered in one of the brief conversations he had with the Hood that Azusa was himself a brilliant mechanic even if he didn't seem the type with his more quirky qualities. So it was obvious that he would be to one to decipher and understand his blueprints for the Hood.

"Tell me not as his lackey but as a fellow technician his he planning to build his own platoon of mecha tanks. Because if he is even with my debt I will tell Amon everything I know about…" Hiroshi stopped as a blue plasma bolt fired and landed right at his feet making him jump before the wild form of energy exploded.

That sent the four Equalists back on standby mode as they realized the bolt came from Azusa as one of his hands was smoking slightly.

"You can tell Amon whatever you want to tell him." Azusa said softly his eyes still fixated on the mecha. "Those men behind you are already going to report this and it doesn't really mater any more the veil is going to be lifted soon enough."

Hiroshi snarled as he himself had his hand reaching for a consoled weapon. It was bad enough that he was in the presence of a bender but with that blast right now he had no doubt that with that blue signature it could only mean that Azusa had some sort of connection with one of the most notorious blood lines in Fire Nation history.

"But to answer your question technician to technician. The Hood has something a bit more sophisticated in mind then a platoon of these behemoths." Azusa slowly turned his head his eyes connecting with Hiroshi's "He wants me to take your mecha design and build him one that's a wee bit smaller."

Back to the Party

With the Professor leaving to find the nearest bathroom and bidding the Avatar a fine farewell Korra was left unguarded as she plastered a false smile on her face as she meeted and greeted every party goer that she came across as she tried to weave through the crowds to catch up with her friends.

As she scanned the hall she could see Naruto and Asami talking and laughing together. She was about to call and wave them over when she felt a presence approach her from behind turning around she saw who it was.

"Councilman Tarrlok are you all right?"

The host of tonight's festivities was a mess. His combed braided hair was unkempt and tangled, his ascot neck tie was loose and uneven, and to top it off he had a series of mysterious stains all across his dark blue coat.

"Yes! Yes I am!" he said loudly and franticly. "I was just getting to acquaint myself more with your more hygienically challenged friends!"

"Hey they don't smell that bad! They even make their own colognes and perfumes." Korra defended.

"I know!" Tarrlok said as his left eye started to twitch rapidly. "Did you know it was possible to make a fragrance made out of tree sap, crushed pollen, and miscellaneous cleaning agents! Because I didn't!"

"Yeahhhhhhhh" Korra took a couple of steps back from the mad councilman. "Well and I might just be a bit out of my element but don't you foofoo fancy types wear perfumes made from whale grease and toilet water?"

Tarrlok managed to steady himself as he slicked his hair a bit and readjusted his tie. "Your quite right, Avatar." He then began to look around the room for something.

"Are you looking for someone?" Korra asked.

"Oh yes you see I have a podium ready for you. So you could answer a few questions for the press." The older Waterbender pointed over to the nearby stair case were there was indeed a podium set up on the steps.

"Ok so where are the reporters then?"

"That's what I would like to know" Tarrlok growled as he scanned the room.

Half an Hour Ago

-"if they are whole, send them down the hall to roll!" an overly excited portly noble lady spun around as she threw a plate out a window instead of tipping it to the side and rolling it down the hallway like the other guest who strangely knew not only the song the vagabonds were singing but followed perfect the choreography.

The plate spun wildly as it decided down upon the pedestrians about to enter the City Hall.

"Oh boy can you believe it we're just moments away from getting a real interview with the Avatar herself!" a plucky new reporter girl with square black glasses said to her gruffly and older cameraman.

"Don't breathe too much into this kid." The gruff cameraman said testing a flash burst as he adjusted his camera. "We're not the only sharktopus' circling this koi fish." He said pointing over to the other reporters from other new prints as well as a few from radio stations.

"The way that Tarrlok guy set this up it's more like a media blitz then an honest to goodness interview."

"Maybe so" the plucky girl reporter pumped up her fist. "But if I make my voice the loudest I might get some good answers out of the Avatar and pave my way to be the world's greatest journalist dag nabbit."

It was at this moment the plate crash landed and smashed itself right on the plucky reporter girl's head. She stumbled backwards trying desperately to grab onto something unfortunately it was the strap around her cameraman's neck.

"AGAGAGA!" the camera guy screamed as he felt the strap tighten as he too stumbled simultaneously pressing his flash button over and over again blinding all the other reports behind them as both camera guy and plucky news girl crashed into their colleagues. Knocking out a few and temporally blinding the rest.

Back to Now

As the music started to pick up a bit Tarrlok noticed that a few guests were staring to cut a rug on the dance floor. With the upbeat swing music and relaxed atmosphere an idea popped into the councilman's head.

"Would you care to dance, Avatar Korra?" he said with a sly and slightly creepy grin on his face.

Korra back peddled a bit. While when she first met the councilman she did find him a bit charming in that upper-class nobility sort of way but all that charm flew out the window as she saw him running around trying to stop the fun her hobo friends were having tonight.

"You know I'm flattered but I'm not much of a dancer." She said as politely as she could before trying to walk away.

"Please Avatar Korra I insist. Who knows we might get to know one another a bit better and dare I say more intimately if you would do me the honor."

Yeah Korra was having a really hard time trying to not punch this guy in the face. But he was a councilman even as the Avatar unless he tried to bad touch her or something she wouldn't have a really good excuse to do so or else she might spend the rest of the party behind bars.

Over to Naruto

"Hey is that Korra!" Asami stated as she and Naruto were seated at a table enjoying some finest cuisine that Republic City had to offer.

Spitting out a gulp of wine that Naruto had sipped back into his glass after realizing he didn't like the way it tasted Naruto followed Asami's eye line and saw his friend being hassled by the Councilman. "Yeah it looks like that creepy peacock guy's trying to get her to dance or something." Naruto pulled back his chair and was ready to step in only to be pulled back by Asami.

"Come on Naruto Korra's a big girl she can handle that Tarrlok guy by herself."

"Yeah I know that." Naruto said as his eyes were still fixated on Korra. "But she might still need my help I'm not about to abandon any of my friends ether it be in a fight or to get away from creepy weridos, besides." Naruto's determined look slipped into one of worry as his eyes became white and his lips puckered out a bit. "Korry might seriously mess that Tarrlok guy up and she might end up spending the rest of the night in jail or something."

"….Yeah maybe you should go over there and.." Asami was cut off as Naruto kissed her on the cheek as he said. "Ok I'll be right back." Just before he poofed out of existence.

Alone at the table Asami sighed lightly as reached over and grabbed Naruto's wine glass. Even though she knew it had some of his back wash they themselves had traded enough spit with each other for her not to get sqicked out by it.

Swirling the glass she placed the edge on her lips and stopped. She stopped because she couldn't move not a twitch of a finger, jerk of a leg or even blink an eye she was completely paralyzed. But she wasn't scared, she wasn't panicking on why her body was suddenly immobilization due to the fact she immediately knew what was causing it or rather who was causing it, and that made her furious.

With her teeth clenched and a look in her eyes of pure malice she could feel a bitter and dark presence creep up behind her as she heard a voice that was cool as ice but felt as hot as fire whisper in her ear.

"It's been a while hasn't? How have you been, my Little Tinkerer?"

Using every ounce of strength the young mechanic had she moved her lips as best as she could while using a growl to utter the name of the one who had nearly blackened her heart so many years ago. "YIN?!"

With Korra and Tarrlok

"Look Councilman I'm flattered really it's just I can't dance with you right now because….." Korra dragged out the word {because} as she tried to think of an excuse.

"Because…" Tarrlok himself dragged out the word trying to corner Korra into submitting.

"Because….." It was at that moment Naruto appeared right between the two of them in a puff of smoke.

Smiling as that took Tarrlok by surprise Korra grabbed Naruto by the arm yet again and dragged him to the dance floor. "…Because I promised my first dance to Naruto! Ok I'll see you for that press conference thing bye!"

As they entered into the crowd of guests shaking their groove things they saw Gommu who was shacking it up with a middle-aged noble woman of Water Tribe descent as she to matched his moves by gridding and grooving.

Naruto and Korra floated him a wave. "Thanks for pulling me away from that guy Space Boy." Korra said to Naruto as she followed everyone else's flow and just did a few basic dance moves that were more like just random steps.

Laughing Naruto followed the flow of the swing music as well and followed Korra's pace. "No problem Korry. You know I'll always have your back."

The Avatar smiled as she jumped up in the air making Naruto grab her by placing his flat open palms on her rock hard abs as he started to spin her around like a propeller.

With Mako and Bolin

The two brothers had seen Naruto's heroic attempt at recusing Korra from the creepy Tarrlok who in reality wasn't that creepy but the current state of his attire didn't help that situation any.

"Looks like those two are having a fun time." Mako said neutrally as he watched the two dance around together.

From the corner of his eye he saw Bolin spit into his hands a little before he adjusted his hair a bit and straightened his eyebrows. "What are you doing?"

"I'm just spoofing up a little bit I'm going to ask Naruto if I can cut in!" Bolin said with triumph "This is the perfect opportunity to show Korra some of my moves."

Looking back at the two Mako could see the look in Naruto and Korra's eyes as they looked at one another. Panning his head he looked over to the dining tables and saw a lone Asami with an angry almost hateful look on her face gazing back at Avatar and Ninja but not noticing that another young woman had just pulled up a chair right beside the heiress. "Mmmmm something tells me that's not going to end well." He said not knowing the true nature of Asami's mood.

"What was that?" Bolin asked thinking his brother was talking about him.

"Wha? Oh nothing maybe you should go ask Korra for a dance." Mako said placing his hand on his younger brother's shoulder.

"What about yourself, Captain." Miyuki had approached the brothers from the left as she stood by Mako. She was dressed in her White Lotus uniform like always except for her helmet revealing that she had a black pixie Mohawk under her head gear.

Mako looked up at the slightly taller girl puzzled. "Did you just get here?"

Miyuki had her hands behind her back as she scanned the room in a very militaristic sort of way. "I have spent most of tonight with security making sure no Equalists or other such undesirables would enter or crash tonight's gala."

"Oh Hi!" Bolin said as he walked past Mako and put out his hand. "We didn't really get a chance to meet I'm Bolin."

Smiling softly Miyuki held out her own hand and gave Bolin a strong handshake. "A pleasure" letting go she placed her hand behind herself again as she stood beside Mako. "So are you having a pleasant evening, Captain?"

"Ah yeah I guess you know all things considering." Mako looked down at the costume he was wearing before shooting his brother another glare.

"I think you look quite handsome in that attire. Noren happens to be my favorite character in the play."

Mako's face lite up a bit as he looked over to the side and tried to play it cool. "Thanks" he said quietly. "I thought you being A Waterbender would have been rooting for the Dark Water Spirit."

"Well you'd thought wrong" Miyuki said sternly. Mako had hoped he hadn't offended his new team mate only to shoot that idea right out his head by the girl's next statement.

"Would you like to dance?" she asked looking ahead making no eye contact.

That surprised the Firebender" Oh I'd like to except…"

"Except….."

"I'm not really much of a dancer." Mako admitted

"You can't be that much worse than any of the other guests." The White Lotus Sentry countered. "Unless, you find it unappealing to dance with a woman taller then you?"

"What! That has nothing to do with that!" Mako said raising his hands "I'm just really not that good."

"It's true!" Bolin said hoping to save his older brother. "He really does stink at it plus he gets nervous and sweaty around pretty girls."

Mako shot Bolin yet another glare that caused the Neo Airbender to raise his shoulders as if saying what you do.

Miyuki just held out her hand and stepped in front of Mako. "If you are really that bad I can teach you to be better. Just follow my lead."

Mako looked more determined if anything else, he wanted to prove his goofy brother wrong on the nervous sweaty remark. "All right let's do it. We might as well learned each other's forms while we're at it."

"That's the spirit." Miyuki said as Mako took her hand and the two teammates headed towards the dancing.

Rubbing his hands together like he was about to give someone a campfire Bolin set his sights on Korra and Naruto. "Now's my chance." But just before the Neo-Airbender could cut right in he was stopped by two little Airbenders on their big air scooters.

Ikki and Meelo raced around Bolin making him unable to escape due to the siblings speed and fear of knocking the little ones over.

"HI Bolin!" Ikki greeted as she stopped racing and jumped of her scooter landing right in front of the older boy.

Meelo followed his sister in dismounting and greeted the older Airbender as well. "How's it going?"

Cringing a little from the volume of their voice's Bolin raised a hand as he said. "Hi it's going fine, is there something the two of you needed or…."

Ikki and Meelo looked at each other, smiled, and looked back at Bolin. "Do you want to play with us?" Meelo asked.

"Play with you?"

"Yeah" Ikki spread out her arms as she explained "This party's sooooo boring and all our sister Jinora wants to do is read." She pointed over were said bookworm who was indeed still reading a book as she casually turned a page and took a bite out of a cracker without her eyes leaving her tome.

Meelo jumped in the air getting Bolin's attention again. "So will you play with us instead big brother?"

The Neo-Airbender rubbed the back of his neck nervously "Oh gee guys I would but the thing is I was hoping that….wait did you just call me brother?"

"Well yeah we asked daddy if you being an Airbender now means if you're our brother and he said all Airbender are like family, so your our big brother!" Ikki leaned over and hugged Bolin by the waist.

"Big brother…." Bolin's eye slowly started to tear up just a little. "I always wanted to be the big brother, ok! Yes let's play a game together!" he was so happy in learning about his new sibling roll that the idea of asking Korra for a dance flew out of his head as Meelo jumped on his back and rode him like an bison while Ikki dragged him by the hand saying how cool she thought his outfit was.

Back with Asami

A tall, thin woman, with alabaster skin and long ebony hair that reached all the way towards the small of her back with bangs cut right above her brow, wearing a black with red trim kimono with the symbol of a red crescent moon on her back was grinning at the immobile Asami.

She was smiling like a cat that had just caught the canary as she couldn't stop beaming at the other girl's discomfort.

With the only part of her body that she still had control of Asami looked back into Yin's red eyes as she tried to speak again. "What….are…you…..doing…here?" was about all she could muster out.

Yin let out a cool and crisp laugh as she had her right hand held out, her middle and ring finger's bend down with her index and pinky fingers pointed at Asami.

With her other hand she pulled out a crimson kiseru smoking pipe and placed it on her lips. "What? I'm not allowed to come to a party just because you're here?" she inhaled a wisp from her pipe and blew out a stream of vapor from her lips.

Asami let out another grunt as she tried to free herself from Yin's control.

"Relax Asami you know I'd never hurt you….well not in a way you wouldn't enjoy." Yin crossed her legs and leaned forward inhaling deeply around Asami's neck. "Mmmm I think above all else the thing I miss about you the most is your scent, roses and motor oil."

Asami closed her eyes as she to used every once of will power she had to at least turn her head to the side and away from Yin.

Yin saw the abhorred look that her ex was making as she leaned back in her chair and flicked her right hand letting go of her hold on Asami.

With her body back in her control Asami let out a breath as she fell over and bend down holding onto the dining table for extra support.

Turning her head from her slouched position she saw that Yin had turned away from her and was looking out at the dance more specifically at Naruto and Korra.

"That's him huh? I suppose he is kind of cute in the scruffy sort of way, I can see why you would like him." She placed her pipe back in her mouth and inhaled more tobacco just as she felt Asami grab her by the collar and pull her towards her.

"I'm going to ask you again why are you here?"

Yin who was still watching Naruto turned her head towards Asami with a neutral almost deadpan expression as she blew vapor right in the mechanic's face. Asami didn't flinch as her nostrils were bombarded with the bitter stench of Tabaco, she didn't even loosen her hold on the pale beauty.

"Alright my Tinkerer if you must know Fifteen told us about the run in you and your little friends had with him. I must admit when your name came up it made me a bit nostalgic for the old days, so here I am."

Asami didn't let go of her grip or the scowl on her face.

Yin raised an eyebrow as she asked "You're not still mad at me from the time I left you tied up on my bed, and forgot to let you go for the whole day are you?"

Asami said nothing as her face turned a shade scarlet at the memory.

"Oh come on I'm the one who should be mad! By the time I got back you ruined my favorite sheets if anything I should have changed my pet name for you from my little Tinkerer to my little Tinkler."

Asami still held on strong both physically and emotionally despite Yin's barb. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't just hand you over to the police right now. Forget about the whole numbers game you and that boss of yours are running, your dark gift alone would send you to a one way ticket to the darkest, biggest, most secluded cell in the world."

Yin's playful grin slipped into a more serious frown as she clenched her right hand causing Asami to lose control of both of her's as she let go of her grip on Yin's kimono.

"If you were going to do that you would have years ago. And don't forget Sami you can't take me down without getting yourself pulled down for the ride as well."

Yin smiled as she once again released Asami from her control. "Besides it's not me you should be worried about." Yin panned her head over to the conductor of band.

The conductor who was making periodical glances at the two girls locked eyes with Yin. She nodded at the maestro who nodded back getting the signal he was waiting for. He tapped his wand on his music stand ordering the rest of the musicians to stop playing the upbeat swing music and slide into something slower and more classical.

Asami followed Yin's gaze the later of whom shifted back towards Naruto. "It looks to me that if you're not careful the Avatar might just sweep that Naruto boy off his feet. Based on what I've heard they're pretty close already."

Yin panned back to Asami. "If I was you I'd step up my game and be a little more intimate to lock him in before a certain master of all four elements does it first."

The Sato scion had just about enough and bolted off her chair. She gave Yin one final glare as she headed over towards Naruto and Korra, but not before getting a final word in.

Standing right in front of her ex she spoke "Yin there's something I've wanted to say to you for a long time now and I think it's about time I let it out."

Playing along Yin sneered as she leaned back taking another hit from her kiseru. "Oh and what would that be."

"That symbol that you have tailored on all your clothes, it makes no sense." Turning just her head Asami continued. "The red crescent moon, the funny thing is the moon only turns red during a lunar eclipse when the earth casts its shadow over it. Now correct me if I'm wrong but don't Waterbenders lose their powers during that time. You wearing that moon is like a Firebender wearing a black sun." and with that she made her way over towards Naruto.

Alone Yin tried to come up with a comeback only for her to place her chin on her open palm and blow out rings of vapor from her lips mumbling . "Stupid sexy smart ass."

Line Break

With the changing of the music's rhythm from freestyle to something more formal Korra noticed that all the other party goers were starting to get a little closer towards their dance partners.

"Hey Korry…Korry hey are you listening?"

Korra snapped her head forward realizing that Naruto had yet let his eyes wonder off like she did. Most likely he hadn't picked up on the shifting atmosphere. Not yet sure if she was ready for more intimate dancing she tried to distract him.

"I'm sorry ,I guess I zoned out can you explain it to me again?"

Naruto sighed but with a smile showing no signs of annoyance. "Ok I still think it's funny that you can't wrap your head around it but I'll explain it again. You start with a piece of dough."

"Ok now is that dough for like a loaf of bread dough…" Korra started to enter and Airbending stance and did the basic evasive steps as she danced around Naruto. "Or the kind of dough you use to make flat bread?"

"Either one, you use flat for a flat crust or regular for a more fluffy crust."

"Ok please continue." Korra went back to standing in front of Naruto as she stood in one place but gyrated her arms around like she was stirring something.

"Alright after you knead the bread in a flat circular shape you pour on top of it the tomato sauce."

"It's just mashed up tomatoes, right?"

"No I'm pretty sure in the standard recipe you mix in shredded garlic, basil leaves, oregano a pinch of salt and some onions with the tomatoes. Next comes the cheese."

"Cheese?" Korra asked as she grabbed Naruto's arms guiding him to spin her around. "Like a whole block of cheese."

"What no. we have this thing back on my planet called a grader. It slices up the block into shredded flakes, you put that on top of the sauced up dough."

"And that's all there is to it?"

"Well not quite you can put your favorite toppings on top, hence the name haha."

Korra laughed at Naruto's slightly corny joke as she stopped dancing and stood still to catch her breath. "Ok and you put it in the oven, wait for the dough to turn golden brown and then you have yourself a pazaza, right."

Now Naruto laughed as he stopped dancing too. "No, No it's called a pizza."

"Oh a pissa."

"No! It's called PIZZA!" the ninja laughed out loud as knew Korra was messing with him. His laughter died down as he finally paid attention to his surroundings.

"Oh I guess everybody's slow dancing now." Naruto said as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"Slow dancing?" Korra asked innocently as if she just noticed the change.

"Yeah you know it's supposed to be like romantic and junk. I saw people dancing like this back when I was a kid." The ninja's face turned a bit red as well as he asked "If you want we could try it?"

"Try what?"

Naruto nearly jumped out of his skin as Asami had come up from behind him. "Oh Sami nothing we were just…."

"…..base jumping!" Korra yelled as she finished speaking for Naruto.

"You were talking about base jumping?" Asami asked skeptically.

"Yes, yes we were." Korra walked over and got behind Asami and gently pushed her up to Naruto. "But enough about that you came here to dance with Naruto right?"

Naruto caught Asami from Korra's shove and held her in his arms. The two looked at each other blushing before they parted slightly. They each interlocked their hands and held them out together while their other hands were wrapped around their partner's waists.

Korra stepped back and watched her two friends begin to just sway and dance together. She laughed as it reminded her of the last time they danced together. It was right after Asami had stood up for her when they first met Mako and she had told the Firebender off.

But Korra's smile quickly faded as she noticed the last time both the ninja and the mechanic were just goofing around. This time the way they were looking at each other was different, this time it was real and for that it made her stomach turn and fell as if it were full of spiders wanting to crawl out. "I think I need a drink."

She made her way off the dance floor heading for the bar, passing Tenzin along the way.

The middle aged Airbender had spent most of the evening harassing different members of the band more specifically one of the drummers.

"The seat height, young man?" Tenzin questioned with his arms crossed as he watched the young drummer stop playing so he could readjust his stool. "Has that been the reason for your subpar playing, because you aren't tall enough to see past your drum kit?"

"Sir!" the drummer yelled frantically. "You have been tormenting me the entire night you have been here. What is it that you want?!"

Before the Master could reply a voice called out for him from behind. "Tenzin?"

Turning around he saw that it was Pema holding a plate with a piece of authentic Air Nomad fruit pie. She handed her husband the slice as she continued. "What has gotten in to you? I know you harbor your passion for the drums…"

Tenzin looked away as his face started to turn a bit red. As a serious man who had dedicated most of his adult life as not only a member of the United Republic Council but as a preserver of Air nomad culture he only allowed a select few to know about his secret passion that he had obtained since he was a teenager.

"…..But that's no excuse to pester this young man. He's only following his conductor's instruction. Now tell me why are you acting this way?"

Tenzin let out a sigh as he took a bite out of the pie. "I'm sorry dear it's just with this party and whatever it is Tarrlok's planning for Korra, I suppose I needed an outlet to upheave my frustration."

Pema gave him a sympathetic smile as she turned a bit red as she placed her hand to the side of his cheek. "You know I can do that thing that I usually do for you that relaxes you after a hard day at work."

Tenzin nearly choked on his dessert. "Are…..are you serious?" he quickly lowered the volume of his voice as he leaned towards his' wife's ear. "But if we did sneak away to do that who would watch over the children?" he asked as he now feared what his children were doing while he was harassing out the young drummer.

"We don't need to worry about that, Jinora is sitting quietly and reading." She pointed over towards her oldest child who was indeed doing as her mother said.

"And that nice young man Bolin is watching over Ikki and Meelo." She pointed over were the Neo-Airbender was entertaining his fellow air movers with a trick he learned when he was their age.

"Now some people do it with their armpits, and others can use the back of the knee, but I learned to do it with both my hands!" Bolin cupped his hands together and started to create a suction with them as his hands let out sounds quite similar to flatulence.

Ikki and Meelo contained their laughter by placing their hands over their mouths. "I know pretty cool, huh?"

Tenzin was about to let out another frustrated grown at what Bolin was teaching his children only to feel Pema clutching his right hand. A few spackles of frosting had coated his index finger but Pema cleaned it off, by placing said finger in her mouth by slowly and seductively using her tongue to give Tenzin's dirty finger a saliva bath.

The air master's whole head lite up in flames as he felt his human gliding staff begin to stir and rise under his trousers. Seeing the look on his face Pema let go of Tenzin's finger and grabbed his hand as she led him towards the nearest coat closet.

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Korra approached the bar only to see that the bartender was facing the opposite direction from her. "Hello can I get some service?"

"I'll be with you in just one minute, miss." The bartender replied as he was busy cleaning a set of glasses from his previous patrons.

Korra let out a huff as she tapped her finger on the counter in announce.

"Excuse me but you can have my drink, if you'd like."

Korra shifted her head to the left to see that a pale young woman in a black kimono outfit had walked up and sat beside her. "A rather charming noble man had bought this for me just now but I'm afraid I've already hit my limit for tonight." The mysterious young lady slid a flute glass containing a sparkling tawny colored wine.

"Thank you." Korra reached over and picked up the glass. Examining it not out of suspicion but out of curiosity on how the liquid was going to taste. She flashed the pale woman a smile, raised the glass as if to say here's to you before placing the glass on her lips, tilting her head back, and opened her mouth letting the chilled sparkling liquor pour down her throat.

"Wow that's smooth!" Korra exclaimed as a shiver traveled from her head to her feet.

"I'm glad you liked it."

"Yeah I…..I" the Avatar placed her hand on her forehead as she started to sway a bit. Blinking in a rapid pattern Korra began to feel unhinged and more relaxed.

The knot that had formed in the pit of her stomach began to unwind and feelings of crawling spiders drown out until both negative sensations disappeared completely. "Whoa I feel good like, like I can punch a dragon in the face and the dragon wouldn't even fight back because it'd be all like I just got punched in the face by Korra the greatest Avatar of all time I got to go tell my dragon buddies about this."

With the onset of double vision it took Korra a few tries to regrab her glass, missing a few times from grabbing a phantom glass. Steading herself she managed to grab the right one as she held it up in triumph. "Ah ha gotcha, ya little bastard. Thought you could trick me with Naruto's shadow clone technique did ya?"

"Hey thanks for the drink!" Korra turned around thanking the other young lady only to see that she was gone. "Oh fuck was that a ghost?"

Korra faced forward again trying to get the bartender's attention. "Hey was there a pale lady lik seconds ago?"

The bartender turned around and looked down at the bar counter seeing the empty glass in front of the Water Tribe girl but he also saw a neat stack of yuans by the seat next to the girl. He shrugged and reached over collecting the bills.

"I didn't see any one." He stated as he stuffed his front pocket casually shifting his eyes from the left and to the right.

"Oh" Korra nodded her head only to bolt upright a second later. "Oh fuck me that lady really was a ghost or a sprit or a ghost spirit!"

"Avatar Korra!"

The tipsy young lady saw the tenacious councilman Tarrlok running up towards her. Taking a few breaths he started to fix himself up by straighten out his hair and readjusting his ascot. Clearing his throat the Northern representative continued. "The press have arrived. If it wouldn't be too much trouble they have a few questions."

Korra leaned back seeing that the podium from before was now filled with microphones, while a group of reporters and photographers crowded around a few steps bellow the podium. If the girl was in a more lucid state she would have noticed that the members of the media looked like they had all just come back from rumbling in a street fight due to their bruises, bandages and a few walking with crutches.

"Well if they have questions then I have…..have…shit what's the opposite think to questions?" Korra asked as she started to sway a little.

"Answers?"

"Yes! I have answers! All the answers because I'm the Avatar and you all have to deal with it!" Korra pushed Tarrlok aside as she made her way towards the podium.

The councilman smiled snidely as he ruffled his coat and followed after the girl.

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"Is there something wrong?"

On the dance floor the sounds of soft classical music continued to flow the vibe of romantic slow dancing. Of which Naruto and Asami were still doing as they held each other close. But even with the tender atmosphere Republic City's resident space ninja could tell that his dance partner wasn't sinking into the groove of things.

"Wha? Oh it's nothing I'm sorry it's just something happened that kind of spoiled the evening."

"Was it me?" Naruto asked cutting Asami off. "Is it because I didn't wear any fancy clothes or comb my hair for tonight?"

"What?" the mechanic let out a laugh due to her date's flustered expression. "No don't be silly Naruto. I love the way your hair looks like the mane of a wild animal." She reached her hand over to the top of Naruto's head and started to stroke his hair, which the ninja responded by blushing even more.

"And as for your outfit, well….would you really be offended if I offered to expand your wardrobe?"

Naruto gently swiped Asami's hand away. "Oh come on not you too. What's wrong with my jacket it's like my second skin, It's who I am."

Asami looked skeptical. "Ok Mr. Cool Guy it's an awesome jacket. In fact it looks really comfortable." She used the same hand as before to gently rub Naruto's arm, pinching and rubbing the material that his second skin was made out of. "It is a really nice jacket. Would you let me wear it some time?"

"Maybe, if you tell me what it is that ruined your evening?" Naruto asked raising a brow.

Biting her lower lip Asami let it out. "It's just I ran into Yin tonight."

Naruto thought for a moment as his brain scanned for who that was again. "That's your old girlfriend, right?"

"Yeah." Asami looked down and away from Naruto when he responded.

"Let me guess she wanted that box of kinky stuff back."

Asami raised her head and looked back at Naruto in confusion. "What, no she…"

"Because just to let you know I'm not really into that sort of thing. I mean if that's your thing too then we can try to work on some sort of middle ground. I'm just letting you know tying me up is going to be kind of a pain partly because I've been trained to get out of all kinds of restraints."

Asami started to chuckle right before she let out a flood of laughter so powerful she had to lean in and rest her head on Naruto's neck for support. "No silly that wasn't it" she said softly as she tried to calm down.

"She just said somethings that reminded me why we broke up in the first place."

"Oh, then I'm sorry I brought that up then." Naruto said as he softly patted her on the back.

"It's all right, and just so you know" Asami raised her head from Naruto's shoulder and placed her forehead right on top of his. "I was only into the rough trade because that was her thing. Me I prefer the tender more romantic taste of things."

Before Naruto could say anything else the sound of a microphone being tested interrupted him.

Everyone stopped dancing, eating or chatting as all eyes on the room were focused on the podium were councilman Tarrlok and the Avatar were standing in front of.

Tarrlok gave a few more taps to the mics "Excuse me ladies and gentlemen may I have your attention please?"

Everyone in the hall gave the councilman their undivided attention. "Thank you my esteemed guests may I present to you the honoree for tonight's banquet, Avatar Korra!" he started to clap causing everyone else to as well.

"Is Korra going to make a speech?" a voice behind Naruto asked.

Turning his head he saw Bolin carrying Meelo on his shoulder while he held Ikki's hand approach with Ikki being the one who asked the question.

"I don't know maybe I just hope she don't choke up there like she almost did last time." Naruto said back.

Korra swayed over to the podium and leaned her face forward towards the microphones. "HELLO REPUBLIC CITY! I'M YOUR NEW AVATAR, KORRA AND IF YOU DON"T LIKE IT THEN YOU"LL JUST HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT!" the sloshed girl had roared into the microphone creating a feed back into the audio system that made everyone cringe.

Not getting the barrage of applause she thought her opening would get her, Korra thought for a second before she realized something was missing. Snapping her head over to conductor of the band she pointed an angry finger at him.

"HEY YOU BALDY!" she yelled causing another feedback.

The conductor pointed to himself as Korra's pointing finger had been off by a few clicks and due to the fact that he wasn't actually bald. "Yeah you! Where's my theme music? You were supposed to play my theme song the second I got up here!"

The conductor panicked as he turned around and was about to command is orchestra to play something only to get yelled at again. "Stop! Stop! It's too late baldy it's too late!"

Korra set her sights back at the members of the media. "Alright! You nerds wanted to ask me somethings, so ask you punks!"

Back in the audience Asami covered her mouth with her hands in shock as she witnessed the Avatar's public forum. "Is…is Korra drunk?" she asked rhetorically.

"Oh yeah she is" Naruto answered already knowing the telltale signs of an inebriated Korra. "Don't worry though it's not that bad, if she freaks out and starts screaming about wolf bats swooping and screeching around her then we need to panic."

"Wow this is serious." Mako and Miyuki had joined the mechanic and ninja as they too witnessed Korra's current state. "We should stop her before she embarrasses herself anymore." The Firebender stated in concern.

Before anyone else could agree a reporter had been brave enough to ask the first question. "Avatar Korra, you witnessed Amon take away people's bending firsthand. How serious a threat does he pose to the innocent citizens of Republic City?"

"What kind of question is that?" Korra yelled angrily at the reporter. "Amon's not a threat he's just some goon running around in a Harvest Eve costume. He's not even brave enough to show us his real face! He's nothing more than a…a….a…..goonba and that goes double for his little cronies too!"

Naruto smiled as he folded his arms. "See that guys Korra might be a little bit tipsy but she'll be able to handle anything those reporters throw at her!"

"Well" Asami looked back from Naruto over to Korra. "Maybe you're right…."

Korra continued on to the second part of the reporter's question. "….and so what if he can take away a person's bending! My bestist friend Naruto can just turn you into an Airbender, like he did to Bolin!" she pointed over to them boys.

The Avatar's declaration caused the reporters and guests to start to murmur and whisper amongst each other as they gave casual glances at Naruto and Bolin the latter of which nervously laughed and waved at everyone.

"Are….are you serious?" the same reporter asked Korra.

"Pff yeah I'm serious go ahead Bolin show 'em some of your moves! Create a storm so powerful that the walls of these halls shake as your mighty cyclone shatters the bones of all the non-believers!"

"….I think I better get Tenzin!" Bolin declared as he didn't like the way the guests were starting to back away from him. He pulled Meelo off his shoulders and started to search through the crowds looking for the monk.

"We'll help you too!" Ikki exclaimed as she and Meelo ran after their underclassmen.

"Hey Bolin where are you going?" Korra asked as she saw the retreating Neo-Airbender. "What's wrong you have performance anxiety? You need a pill, are you going to get a performance pill? Ah he's just shy, next question!"

Seeing the Airbender springing into action Asami tapped Naruto on the shoulder getting his attention "Bolin and the kids have the right idea, Naruto I think you should stop Korra. I have a bad feeling this whole situation's going to get worse." she said voicing her concern.

Naruto had a droll look upon his face "Ah yeah I'm not going anywhere near Korry."

"What?" Mako walked up to Naruto agitating him. "You're supposed to be her best friend? Why aren't you going to do anything?"

Annoyed Naruto fired back. "Because the last time I tried to get drunk Korra to stop doing something, she threw up in my face right after she threw up in my mouth beforehand."

Mako took a few steps back with a sympathetic look. "Oh, then maybe we should let her ride this out then."

"Yeah I think we should."

"Avatar Korra!" another reporter called out. "If you don't see Amon as a threat then why have you refused to join Tarrlok's task force?"

"Because I have real Avatar responsibilities that have higher…higher…hold on one second burb oh man I'm glad that came out of the attic and not the basement. Crap where was I oh yeah I have higher priorities that I have to deal with." Korra sated as she used the podium for support.

"Do you think pro-bending is more important than fighting the revolution?"

"WHO THE FUCK SAID THAT!" Korra demanded as the podium began to crack under the vice of her grip as the young woman's eyes glowed mystic blue.

"WHO'S THE ONE WHO DECIDED TO PUT THEIR BIG BOY PANTS ON AND TRY TO SEE IF THEY CAN TAKE ON THE AVATAR, WAS IT YOU SKINNY?" she asked pointing at the reporter who said the quip that caused her to enter the Avatar state. Who also happened to be the plucky girl reporter with the square black glasses.

"I….I was just asking a legitimate question!" the spectacled reporter shrieked as she was too terrified to move but was wobbling about as her legs started to buckle.

"YOU THINK YOU CAN TAKE ME ON STRING BEAN!"

"No, no I don't think I can take you on!" the reporter pleated as she fell to her knees and held out her hands in mercy.

"THAT'S IT WE'RE GOING TO THROW DOWN!"

"I don't want to throw down!" the young reporter ran out of pluck as her mouth started to foam and she fainted out of fear.

"Korra that's enough!" Asami had just about had it and couldn't stand by and watch Korra unleashed her drunken furry on the poor reporter girl.So the young mechanic had dashed towards the stair case, pushed past the other reporters who had backed away from the one singled out by the Avatar and ran up to the podium grabbing Korra by the shoulders.

"Oh hey Asami!" Korra had withdrawn from the Avatar State and entered into a new state of euphoria only to frown slightly. "Oh crap did you want me to do a plug for the company?"

"What Korra no I….." before Asami could continue Korra cut her off by leaning her head over to the mics.

"Hey Sato International people! For all your…..your….we make cool stuff!"

Asami yanked the Avatar away from the mic and made Korra face her. "Korra I don't want you do a plug or due any more interviews!" placing her hand on Korra's shoulder she continued. "Korra I think this is a bad Idea…."

"You're a bad idea!" Korra argued as she swatted Asami's hand away. Only to regret it a second later as she saw the hurt expression on the older girl's face. "Awwwww I'm sorry!"

Korra grabbed Asami by the back of her head and shoved the young inventor into her bosoms.

"Ok now I'm regretting that I'm not the one who stopped Korra." Naruto said as he and most of the other males in the crowd blushed at the sight of girl on girl motor boat action.

Even Mako's face turned a bit red at the sight of Asami franticly flailing her arms about as she desperately tried to free her head from Korra's ample breasts. "If….if we don't stop this I think Korra's going to smother Asami to death."

The Firebender's gazing at the two girls was broken by the feeling of someone watching him. Panning his head he saw Miyuki looking back at him with her arms crossed and a raised brow of inquiry.

Coughing into his fist the overdressed pro bender placed his open hand on his forehead and scanned around the room. "Any sign of Bo and Tenzin yet?"

With Bolin and the Kids

"What do you mean it's a propaganda play?" Bolin asked Jinora the oldest of the air children as she too decided to aid the new Airbender in his search.

"It's in the premise it's self the story of a Dragon Emperor, bound to mortal form by a Dark Water Spirit. It was clearly a tactic to hype up young men and woman into joining the fire nation army, during the age of the Hundred Year War." Jinora explained as she walked beside Bolin.

"Really I just thought it was about how true love conquers all even evil curses."

"Well if you're looking for a true romantic story I'm almost done reading a historical saga that'll blow you away. I'll lend it to you when I'm finished with it, If you want."

Bolin looked down at his outfit in a new found light debating by what Jinora had just told him if the water spirit really was a bad guy. "Are you sure you saw them heading this way" he asked deciding to get back on topic.

"Positive" Jinora replied "Dad was looking pretty stressed. Mom probably took him some where private so she can massage his forehead. That's how she usually calms him down after a stressful day at work."

While they were chatting Meelo and Ikki were walking behind them with their backs facing each other as they walked in circles making sure nothing could sneak up behind them.

"What are you two doing?" their older sister asked.

"What does it look like brainiac?" Ikki replied snidely.

"We're covering each other's six so that evil witch won't try to get to us like she did with Korra!" Meelo said as his eyes never stopped shifting around.

"Evil witch?" Jinora saw Bolin rub the back of his head nervously as he tried to whistle nonchalantly.

Seeing her looking at him he sighed and leaned over whispering in the girl's ear. "Well it's not like I can tell them Korra's drunk. So I said a witch tricked Korra into drinking a potion that made her act like a potty mouth, loopy, crazy pants."

Jinora pulled her head away and nodded as she too knew that her siblings were too immature to handle that Korra just had one too many drinks but would except the ridiculous notion that their friend had been tricked by a witch instead.

"Hey maybe they're in here!" Bolin pointed over to the coat room as he approached it. He was about to open the door but stopped when he heard noises coming from the other side. Curious but also cautious he pressed his ear to the door trying to identify the sounds.

Jinora followed his action as Ikki and Meelo stopped walking forward but still secured their backs by spinning in a circle covering all vantage points.

"It's sounds like two animals fighting over a piece of meat in there." Bolin said as he described the side on the other sound of the door.

"I think it sounds more like someone trying to start a Satomobile while it's stuck in a mud pit at the same time." Jinora replied voicing her perspective of the sound.

"Ohhhhhhh TENZIN ! I can't believe you have all this stamina! After I gave you three campfires!"

Pulling their heads back the two Airbenders looked at each other.

"I think that's my mom. But why would she want to start a campfire in a closet?" Jinora cupped her chin in pondering.

"Yes! Yes! I want more of your pie, Pema!"

"Oh I guess they're just eating pie…over a campfire? Well let's find out, what's behind door number one!" Bolin announced like a radio host as he flung the door open only for his face to freeze up in a look of pure horror, disgust, and anguish.

Jinora's once innocent eyes were also subjected to the horrible sight before them. For you see in the coat closet they saw a naked Tenzin straddling his equally naked pregnant wife while he floated the two of them in midair.

Pema bounced up and down off of Tenzin's lap with her head thrown back and her hair free of any restraints as her husband ran his face all over her fruit pie covered chest.

The middle age Airbender's hand roamed all over his wives back as he used one of his hands to Pema's tits and started to suckle her teat. "Ahhhhhh my nipples are so hard they can cut through diamonds!"

"There're diamonds in there!" the sound of Ikki behind the stunned Bolin and Jinora immediately got Tenzin and Pema's attention as their heads snapped at light speed at the half way open door, as they saw the two emotional disturbed youngsters looking back at them.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Tenzin and Pema yelled out in unison as the Air Master bend the coats around him in a cyclone of garments as he tried to shield the world of his and Pema's nudity.

Following in suit Bolin jumped back and slammed the closet door with his bending and pressed his arms against it as if he was holding back the forces of evil itself. "My eyes! My eyes!" he cried out as he tried to get the images he had just seen out of his head.

"Your eye! What about my eyes!" Jinora said as she rolled around on the ground covering her forever damaged peepers.

"What happened, what's wrong with you guys?" Meelo asked as he saw his friend and older sister losing their minds to madness.

"Don't you get it Meelo?" Ikki asked as she grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him. "The evil witch must have put cursed diamonds in that closet and they blinded Bolin and Jinora!"

"That fiend! Don't worry guys I'll stop that evil old hag once and for all!" Meelo declared as he pulled his collar up and hid his head in his shirt and ran head first into the wall next to the door in a fool hardy attempt to bash down the door and attack the evil witch.

Back to Drunk Korra

"Asssami your hair it's soooooo soft like a silk kitten princess." Korra had slurred her words as she ran her fingers up and down Asami's long and bouncy mane.

Asami's head was still buried in Korra's chest as the Avatar's grip hadn't faltered a bit since the start. But as Korra saw the looks on the faces of the reporters and guests she had let go of her hold on Asami freeing the girl from the marshmallow hell that she had been subjected to for the last ten minutes or so.

Asami's face was flushed in a shade of purple most likely the cause of being embarrassed/ slightly aroused while at the same time in a state of deprived oxygen. Taking in a few deep breaths while using the podium as an anchor from falling over she wasn't able to stop Korra from her next intoxicated action.

"You know what Asami this was a bad idea, all of this was a bad idea! I'm the Avatar damn it I should be out there stopping Amon even if Naruto did Rasengggggggganed him in the gut anyone of those leather gimp weirdos can just put on his costume and take his place!"

In the audience Naruto ran his hand down his face as he didn't like were Korra was going with tone.

"Out of the way please, excuse me coming through!" Naruto turned around to see a haggard looking Tenzin with most of his cape jacket thing on backwards making his way through the guests and over to the front of the crowd where Naruto was. Pema followed soon after looking just as tired with her hair slapped together in a messy bun looking like she had put on her clothes in the dark as well.

"Were have you two been?" Naruto asked but automatically regretted asking by the embarrassed looks on the married couple.

He knew whatever it was it must have been something really awful due to the hollowed expressions Bolin and Jinora had plastered on their faces as they had all the color drained from them.

Naruto looked back at Tenzin and Pema and then at Bolin and Jinora the last piece of the puzzle fell into place as neither group could look at each other.

"Ok I'm going to take a shot in the dark but. Ether you and Jinora saw the spirit of Perpetual Horror or you walked in on Uncle Tenzin and Aunt Pema doing the something intimate."

"Ohhh Naruto it was horrible!" Jinora screamed as she ran over to the ninja and warped her arms around his waist and held her face into his belly. "I keep trying to close my eyes but all I see is my mom and dad violating each other over and over again!"

Naruto sympathetically patted Jinora on the head while he gave her his empathy. Bolin would most likely get over this trauma faster due to the fact that Tenzin and Pema were just authoritative figures to him for the time being, but as for Jinora he guessed walking in on your parents was more of those defining moments were in order to get those dark images out of your mind you'd properly turn to the dark side in ramifications.

"Hey everyone listen up!" Korra yelled getting everyone's attention yet again as she yelled into the microphones. "I said I'd help this city no matter what so that's what I'm going to do!" she gestured over to Tarrlok who hadn't lost his sinister smile most likely out of watching the Avatar humiliate herself.

"I'm going to join that magical peacock man's task force and bring a stop to Amon and his henchmen once and for all!"

Asami took in one final deep breath and tried to talk Korra out of it. "Korra I really don't think that you're thinking clearly…."

"Too late! I'm not going to run away and I never go back on my word that is my nindō! My Avatar way!" Korra then wrapped her arm around her mouth as she throw an inviable smoke bomb and ran down the stairs like a ninja.

Asami followed after her leaving Tarrlok alone next to the podium. "There's your headline, folks. Ha ha the Avatar's silly antics aside she is now the final piece to my assembled task force."

Despite everything the reporter started to ask Tarrlok questions leaving Korra alone as she approached her friends.

"Hey Tenzin!" Korra wrapped her arms around her master. "Did you see how cool I was up there?"

"Cool isn't the word I'd used to describe your behavior or the statements you delivered to the media just now…" before he could voice his concerns Korra ran up to Naruto and slapped him on the back.

"How was I ninja boy pretty awesome right?"

Naruto held onto the Avatar's hands and looked her straight in the eyes "Korra I thought after what happened last time you wouldn't drink so much anymore. What happened?"

Korra broke out of the ninja's hands and placed her mitts on his cheeks stroking them a little "Oh Naruto my sweet, sweet Naruto….." Korra placed the tip of her finger on Naruto's nose and said boop.

Naruto rubbed his nose furiously as Korra swayed away from the ninja. "You're lucky I don't sue you for using one of my catchphrases 'ttebayo!"

Asami walked over to Naruto with an irritated expression, for the first time she was angry at him but that anger subsided a little as she asked "Wait, what does 'ttebayo mean?"

"It's just a phrase a I use sometimes. In your language it doesn't really translate to anything so I haven't said it recently." Naruto saw that the girl still looked mad at him.

"Oh come one be honest Sami you enjoyed it when Korra hugged you like that, didn't you?" Naruto replied with a smug smile.

Asami blushed and looked away from him. "Yeah it…was satisfying as it was horrifying. But it didn't help that Korra wasn't wearing a brassier or a slip under her dress."

Naruto paused. "Wait are you saying you felt…"

"…everything, her nipples poked my eyes a little."

Naruto looked dead ahead for a solid minute before blood started to gush out of his nose like a faucet.

"Are you alright?!" Asami asked as she pulled out a handkerchief and held on his face.

Naruto took the cloth out Asami's hands and dug it a little up his bleeding orifices. "I'll…I'll be alright"

Korra continued to practically prance around as she stopped in front of Bolin and gave the Neo-Airbender a hug as well. "Hey Bobo!"

Bolin's face started to turn a bit blue from Korra's vice grip, causing Asami to give the younger boy a look of symphony for being in his position not so long ago. Finally letting go she started to snuggle her face into his coat letting the white fur trim tickle her nose.

"Oh your outfit is so soft and cozyyyyyy" Bolin nervously let out a laugh as his face turned from blue to red. He debated on if he should pat Korra on the back or just take advantage of the situation and plant a big wet one on the Avatar's lips. But immediately shot that idea down because he didn't want to take advantage of his friend like that.

"Are…..are you feeling any better, Korra?" the young man asked trying to look away from the girl in question.

"Bo…..Bolin?" Korra used her grip on Bolin's collar to get him to look at her. With lips quivering, and her eyes getting bigger as she whispered. "I….I have to tell you something…."

Bolin gulped as he leaned into her a little closer not knowing what to expect.

Mako watched his younger brother with close anticipation. It was no secret to him about Bo's crush on the Avatar. So was this it was this it the defining moment his younger brother was waiting for?

Asami looked on with anticipation not knowing what was going too happened next. But she broke away from the almost sort of intimate sight to see what Naruto thought of the whole situation.

A part of her thought he'd be mad that the second Korra planted one on Bolin he'd attack the Neo-Airbender out of some protective instinct towards the Avatar. Another part thought maybe he'd laugh as he'd watch the whole affair and support both Korra and Bolin on what they had just done.

What she saw was Naruto still holding her handkerchief in his nose as he watched Korra and Bolin with an apathetic look spread off his face.

And then it happened, Korra's eyes widened even more, her cheeks puffed out, and her lips puckered up to full capacity as she stuck her head down Bolin's jacket and vomited right down his shirt.

Naruto with a deadpan expression raised his hands in the air with the cloth hanging on his bloody nose as if he were about to scream kanpai but instead yelled out "Called it!"

Mako's face turned green as he saw the puke start to flow out of Bolin's clothes. Asami had to turn away before she started to throw up as well by burying her head in Naruto's chest apparently she was less grossed out by the ninja's bleeding nose then she was of the Avatar's vomit.

Having raised three children both Tenzin and Pema built up an immunity towards such bodily functions and merely waited for the young lady to finish so they could take her back to the island.

Jinora on the other hand was already at her grossed out limit before Korra started to get sick all over Bolin. Unfortunately that was the tipping point as the eldest air child held her hands to her mouth and started running towards the bathroom.

Meelo cupped his hands together yelling out "Throw up party!" and was about to stick his hand down his throat to join in on the grossness, only to be stopped by Ikki holding back his arm preventing his regurgitation.

"You knew this was going to happen, didn't you?" Asami cried out as she tried to block out the sound of Korra heaving.

Naruto patted the mechanic on the shoulder as he tilted his head back. "Yes, yes I did. It's best if she just lets it all out."

With the smell of bile covering Bolin, the young man had his head pulled back and cried out in agony. "I'm not going to get my deposit back on this outfit!"

Miyuki looked over to her dance partner to see Mako was at his limit before he would vomit as well. "You might lose the deposit on this costume as well.

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Yin couldn't stop laughing as she walked away from the main hall and into the balcony that over looked the city. Despite Asami's wit beating hers, the pale woman smiled gleefully at the sight of her old girlfriend looking as if she had been on a rocking ship for the past couple of hours.

Turning a small valve on her kiseru she flipped it around and dumped out the few remaining traces of crushed Tabaco out of the pipe. Pressing a small release switch discharged the used water in the instrument.

Pocketing her tool in her kimono Yin stretched out her arms as she let the crescent moon light shine her with its mystic rays of power.

"You look like you had a fun night." A voice said behind her.

Without turning around she walked towards the edge of the balcony and sat at the railing turning her back on the city and having a perfect view of the hall. "I would say it was more entertaining than fun, Number Five."

Number Five the enigmatic right hand man for the Hooded Figure strolled over towards Yin with his fedora hat tipped forward and hands in his trouser pockets. He walked right up towards Yin placing his arms on the balcony railing and looked out towards the city.

"So are the rumors true?" he asked not making eye contact.

Yin let out a few chuckles as she looked forwards. "Well the Avatar's drunken declaration aside I witnessed that Bolin boy bend air myself. So tell me was it Uzumaki's doing alone or was Bolin boy ever one of ours?"

Number Five reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a document file and handed it to Yin. The young woman opened the file seeing a series of test results as well as a picture of a young Bolin on the upper right corner. "So he was given the type 2 serum along with a few vitamin boosters in lieu of the colossus steroid?"

Five nodded his head. "The colossus steroid was still in its experimental stages back then. It made more sense to the Boss to give Bolin along with the other subjects a cocktail of vitamins along with the type 2 instead."

Yin stroked her chin as she recalled the past footnotes on the experiments "Yes I remember back in development it was our hope that the boosters would be sufficient enough towards activating the serum or that in the very least the serum would mature alongside the host when they hit puberty. But most likely the activation catalyst was in deed Uzumaki."

Number Five narrowed his brow under his dark shades. "Are you sure it was him?"

Yin closed the file and handed it back to Number Five. "Positive Uzumaki's the key towards unlocking the type 2 serum in all of our other sleeper subjects. I think it's time we recalled them."

Number Five jumped up and landed on top of the railing without the use of his arms to get on it. He stood straight up still facing the opposite direction of Yin. "That shouldn't be too difficult. With the exception of Bolin the other subjects were orphans with no siblings. Some of them have lived normal uneventful life's, while a few others have integrated in the military, police forces and even Amon's little rag tag group of misfits."

Yin scrunched up her face in thought "How many can we round up in a week?"

"About twenty. I don't expect the warriors to come in without a fight however…." With his hands at his side Number Five formed them in a fist causing a blast of wind to escape from them and summoned an invisible force that shook and created a series of cracks on the railing. "…..I'll have to persuade them."

"Ok, Ok calm down there gusty I get the picture." Yin's feline smile crept back into place as she had a perfect few of Bolin getting vomited on by the Avatar. "I don't think we'll even need Uzumaki whatever it was he did to Bolin boy is still in our new Airbender's system we just need to retrieve our favorite test subject back to in order for use to get it."

"He shouldn't be a problem, as long as he isn't with the Avatar or Uzumaki I should be able to capture him without any fuss when the times right."

Yin let out a cold laugh as she started to rub her hands together. "That won't be a problem ether if my little social experiment becomes a success then we'll be able to ensnare him no trouble at all."

It truly was easy all she had to do was fluff up Asami's suspicions on Naruto and Korra's relationship to get her to enter a more intimate relationship with the space boy. In turn it would cause the Avatar to react in a way that hopefully might cause her to try and make Naruto jealous of her.

"What are you doing?" Five asked as he saw what Yin was doing to her hands.

"I'm wringing my hands menacingly!" Yin declared as she didn't take her eyes off the Avatar, laughing gleefully that her metabolic poison worked just as she planned.

"Well cut it out! It looks like your about to give a guy a campfire."

"Campfire?" Yin asked as her eyes rolled over towards Five "What's a campfire?"

"It's where you put your hand between a man's penis and start rubbing them parallel towards each other like you're making a campfire with a stick on top of some dry leaves, until he ejaculates"

"…and how would you know that hmmmmmmmm?" Yin leaned her head forward and batted her eyelashes.

Number Five faced forward and buckled his legs as he jumped off the railing and disappeared into the night.

"Hey wait! I want to know who gave you a campfire!" Yin ran towards the door leaning out of the balcony only to turn around by spinning around on the balls of her feet and ran as fast as she could until she reached the edge and jumped up into the air over the railing and into city.

AN: So first off I thought it be funnier of I made the Professor related Lin because she's a cool and tough as nails character who needs an old relative to foil her cool with embarrassing childhood stories. Also due to the creators of the Avatar world separating and working on their own things we won't get a third series any time soon meaning no expanding info on character. So I thought I'd expand on Lin's dad side of the family myself as should you guys in your stories.

Azusa is based physically on Noel Feliding like literally if Noel Feliding was in the avatar universe and a bender who was also a mechanical engineer.

In my head I see Yin looking like that pale lady from XXXcolic I don't know anything about that anime or manga I just thought the tall pale smoking lady was cool.

As for the Professor, well in the name it's self you all know who I was thinking off he looks the same as that one.

I'm sorry about the snafu that happened last time when I deleted a chapter and reposted it making people think I posted a new one so this double sized chapter is to make up for it, that and I didn't want to split it.

Oh last time I said there would be sexy time I just didn't say who was involved in such (raspberry sound)

Next time Korra vs Amon