Chapter 53: Haunted Forest

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, or Avatar the Last Air Bender, or Hades whom is Disney's version of him. I do own Kasumi along with most of her deck which is based off of Fire Emblem female characters and the four Titan Cards.

After the good night's sleep, the next morning came. I was very happy just to be back to normal. My Shadow Clone that I sent to my parents to inform them about my latest adventure had brought back to me that they were extremely proud in me for what I had done. As I suspected my father even admitted he'd do the same thing if he were in my shoes. Now that the morning sun rose, I opened my eyes and shielded them at the same time. This was never going to change, sun in my eyes every morning. Ducking my head underneath a shaded tree I then removed my hand from my eyes. This worked exactly how I hoped it would. Snowflake and Takara were at me feet sitting and waiting for my orders. Turns out Katara was awake too, and when she saw me she looks at me while making breakfast for the group "Morning Lady Kasumi! Sleep well?"

"I have" I answered "How about you?"

"Honestly I've had a great night compared to the other nights when you disappeared into that vortex. I had too many countless nights worrying not only about you but about Aang as well."

I looked over at the group seeing that Kakashi-Papa had disappeared and Katara noticed this as well but spoke "Kakashi went ahead to scout ahead for any enemies lurking about, he'll be back as soon as I complete the breakfast? Want to help?"

"Sure!" I turned to my pets "Come on girls."

"Vulpix!" Both Snowflake and Takara agreed nodding their fury heads while jumping onto their paws.

So I helped Katara make the breakfast learning from the Water Bender how to actually cook. Okay my mother would most likely teach me this herself but I was ether not around due to a mission or training. Once breakfast was made everyone else woke up with Naruto muttering out "Something smells good! Wonder what it is! I can certainly tell it's not ramen."

I sweat dropped as I thought Does my brother ever think of any other food than ramen? I haven't made that in a while and that is one thing my brother forced me to learn.

Team Signer all woke up smelling the auroma "Smells good!" Meowth complimented.

The three look at me and Katara as I giggled "Breakfast is served! Help yourselves!"

"Don't mind if we do!" Meowth said as he and everyone else served themselves to the breakfast. I watched as Team Signer must've never had a good cook meal before as they had at least three helpings. James proved my point "Man, thanks Lady Kasumi and Katara, this is really good! Man I've never had a good cooked meal in ages!"

"If you'd asked me to, I would've cooked something!" Jessie told them a bit angry at the comment.

"Thanks" Meowth told her "But the last time you cooked for us near nearly killed James and wiped out eight of my nine lives."

"This does hit the spot!" Naruto said "Although it's not ramen, sis you should cook that once."

I gave him a glare "Just because you forced me to learn to cook that Naruto doesn't mean I'll cook it regular! Besides we didn't bring any of the noodles for it-"

"That and the closest town is about a two days march from here" Haku said.

"Ah!"

Iruka-Sensei chuckled "Oh, Naruto, you and your love for ramen."

"Hey, what can I say?! It's the best food ever invented!"

Suddenly there was movement in the trees and Hanabi activated her Byucugan as Sokka shouted "AMBUSH COMING FROM THE TREES!"

Aang and I jumped but Hanabi lowers her hand "Easy gang! It's only Kakashi-Sensei!"

"Nice to see you are awake and alert" Kakashi-Papa said from on top of a tree branch he looked at the group seeing breakfast "Any for me?"

"There is" Katara answered "Come down to have some!"

Kakashi-Papa indeed came down and as we all sat around Kakashi-Papa outlined what he saw "While you are all taking your much needed rest, I went out on a scouting mission."

"Scouting for the enemy Kakashi-Sensei?" Naruto inquired.

"Indeed" Kakashi-Papa said "And while scouting, I managed to ovehear a group of Fire Nation Soldiers. They were supporters of Azula and were all girls."

"Great" Sokka said "What sort of soldiers were they?"

"Wasn't close enough to completely get that answer but I can certainly say they were trained to take out Benders in close combat. No weapons on them by any chance but I did see potential in their abilities that could rival most Genin ranked Shinobi's Taijutsu. Of all the Genin ranked shinobi Konoha has, Only Haku, Lady Kasumi, Rock Lee, Sasuke would be able to match them in Taijutsu combat or at least hold their own against them"

"Hey!" Naruto shouted "I could take them on too! But wait a second doesn't Hanabi have the Byucugan wouldn't that be a problem for those girls?"

Kakashi-Papa looked at Naruto "First of all I wasn't saying you couldn't take those girls on yourself Naruto. All I was saying that their level of Taijutsu could over whelm you if you didn't take them seriously. However while their Taijutsu skills was incredible, they'd probably fall to any Genin ranked Shinobi whom combine their Taitjutsu skills with ether Genjutsu or Ninjutsu. I have been watching these girls for a long time and watch how easily they are capable of handling Benders..." Kakashi-Papa looks at Aang, Toph and Katara "I'd advised complete caution as we continue our journey downward. They have excellent close combat Taijutsu skills" he looks at Hanabi "Even with the Byucugan even a Hyugga would struggle against these girls."

"Oh man" Sokka muttered "Dangerous girls with lethal Taijutsu skills! So did you hear anything else coming from them?"

"I have actually" Kakashi-Papa answered "They are going to join up with Princess Azula whom thanks to the Crimson Dragon escaped and was freed by Kabuto. They plan on attacking a village to take it."

"Great and combined with the Fire Benders, Sound Ninja, those girls that are incredible with Taijutsu is going to make things harder!" Aang told Kakashi-Papa "We can't allow a village to be raided."

"Agreed" Kakashi-Papa said "Luckily for us I also did more scouting and discovered that right in front of the village lies a forest. The Fire Nation knows nothing about that forest so I'm going to send a group of seven to scout ahead to enter that forest and look for a good ambush spot. If we get to that forest first we can cut them off and force them to retreat."

"Sounds like a good plan" Iruka-Sensei told Kakashi-Papa "If these girls are as good as you say they are then it's best we cut this would be attack off before that village could get raided."

"So what would happen to the rest of us?" Haku asked.

"We'll be doing two things" Kakashi-Papa answered "First of all we'll be watching Princess Azula's forces from afar and silently like spies while trying to slow them down without being spotted or seen. While that is happening we'll be listening to our scout team to give us the single that they have entered it and it's safe to enter."

"Shouldn't be that hard for the scouting team" Naruto said proudly "They get the relatively easy mission."

Kakashi-Papa chuckled "Oh, you don't know the half of it Naruto."

"Why's that?"

Kakashi-Papa looked at him "I overheard a villager claiming that the forest that the scouting team I'm sending to it is haunted."

"H-H-H-Haunted?!" Naruto asked fearfully even visibly shaking "By what?"

"Ghosts" Kakashi-Papa said.

Naruto screamed like a banshee as if it was one thing he didn't like it was ghosts. I looked at him "Way to give off our location Naruto..."

"Yeah man!" Sokka said with his ears ringing "You nearly made me deaf!"

"Oh please" Katara said "There is no such things as ghosts."

"Maybe in this world that could be true" Lance told her "But in the world where Team Signer and I come from, ghosts are real."

Naruto was beginning to rethink things "Okay, I'M NOT GOING ON THE SCOUTING TEAM! NO WAY WILL I DEAL WITH GHOSTS! NO WAY! NOT AGAIN!"

Iruka-Sensei shook his head "Naruto...When are you going to show some backbone when it comes down to ghosts?"

"AS LONG AS IT'S GHOSTS,...NEVER!" Naruto said fearfully.

Kakashi-Papa thought on this turning to me "Kasumi dear, I'm putting you in charge of the scouting mission. Get access to that forest by nightfall. Take a group of six with you. The rest of us will try to delay Azula without being spotted. We'll wait for your single."

"Got it Kakashi-Papa!" I said I looked at the team then smirked at Naruto "I call Naruto to join!"

"WHAT?!" Naruto shouted "DID YOU NOT HEAR I'M NOT GOING SIS? I'M NOT MESSING WITH-"

I looked at Toph asking her for help and she willingly helped by Earthbending a boulder into Naruto's face. Naruto took a step back, fell onto his back, raised a hand, then finally spoke "I guess my sis has her ways...Goodnight!"

Then he fell unconscious. I then looked at Aang and Sokka "Aang, Sokka, you two are also in my group. Help drag Naruto along."

"Sure thing!" Aang said "Anything to help a village from being raided! Ghost or no ghost I'm willing to be a scout."

Sokka looked at Naruto touching him with a finger "Well I guess that's one way to bring him along...You knocked him out cold Toph!"

"How else was he going to go?" Toph asked.

Aang and Sokka picked Naruto up to support him and dragged him toward me. I looked at the others I could've easily picked Toph, Hanabi and Haku to come with me but I had the feeling that they'd be much better use to delay Azula's forces along with Iruka-Sensei, Katara, and Lance with them so I ultimately decided to take Team Signer I turned towards them calling them out "I'm also going to take Team Signer with me, that's Jessie, James, and Meowth. I'm already having a suspicion that tells me this so called haunting isn't a true haunting. I'm hoping they as former villians themselves can shed some light into that."

"Sure thing!" Jessie said.

"We'll help you Lady Kasumi!" James said.

"Say the word and we'll do it boss lady!" Meowth said.

"Good" I said I turned to Kakashi-Papa "These are my scouting team, I'll be off then."

"Lady Kasumi wait!" Haku pleaded "Take me along! Ether that or Hanabi."

I looked at at Haku "Sorry Haku, but you'll be helping Kakashi-Papa out this time. He needs all available hands to delay Azula without being caught. I know you want to make sure you are following mother's orders in protecting me but I've gotta do this with what I have. Besides if Kakashi-Papa is right you'll be needed to deal with those girls he saw."

Kakashi-Papa nodded "She's right Haku. Your Taijutsu skills were a bit on par of Sasuke's so it would benefit me to have you along just in case they come close enough to engage us."

"Got it" Haku said "I may not like it but I understand."

With this done I turned to my scouting team "Alright team let's move out!"

"Right!" was the response.

Naruto came around just as we were about to enter the forest "That's one I owe Toph for! Man my heads is going to be ringing for days!"

"I'm surprised Toph's boulder didn't crack your head open" Sokka told him.

Naruto realized he was being carried by Aang and Sokka "Oh, you two are we delaying Azula?!"

"No" Aang said "We're on the scouting team!"

"NOOOOOOO!" Naruto shouted struggling "Come on you two let me go! I'm afraid of ghosts! If there wasn't any ghosts in that forest I'd go, but Kakashi-Sensei said there were ghosts!"

"Oh please" I told Naruto "We're not in the Pokemon world where Ghosts are real, but ghosts aren't real here!"

"We're getting closer to the forest" James reported to me.

"Indeed" Jessie admitted.

"Funny" Meowth muttered "I'm seeing it fully and it doesn't give off a haunted vibe."

Naruto looked closer seeing a sign "Oh yeah? THEN WHY DOES THAT SIGN SAY DANGER DO NOT ENTER?! I'll tell you that answer it's because it's haunted!"

"Do I have to send you flying into that forest with a mental blast Naruto?" I threatened.

"N-N-N-N-No!"

"Then be a man and face your fears" I told him "Lord knows I've done that plenty of times with my fear in Bugs in that Pokemon world and that wasn't pleasant being in a forest that could make Bug Pokemon come at you at any side."

"Then being trapped in that cage full of Joltick" Aang reminded me.

I sweat dropped "Yeah, please don't mention that experience that was horrifying."

I then looked at the sign and sure enough the sign did read 'Danger do not enter' on it but I caught sight that while it was a sign, it was meant to scare off intruders like me and my scouting team. Plus it looked brand new. In fact I noticed that the words were painted on the sign and it was still drying "Someone just made this sign, it wasn't on here before. So someone doesn't want us in this forest but for what reason?"

"HELLO IT'S HAUNTED SIS! They probably don't want us to experience the horror of being haunted! I suggest we go back and help delay Azula! That way we avoid being haunted!"

He was about to leave but Aang and Sokka held his arm as I hummed out "This got me even more curious! Onward fellas! Time to put our detective hats on!"
I entered the forest first, followed by all of Team Signer second then finally Aang, and Sokka dragging Naruto with them whom protested all the way "Come on you two please let me go! Please have mercy! Now we're all doomed to be haunted for the rest of our lives! We'll never be at ease!"

"He sure complains a lot" Meowth muttered to me.

"Not all the time" I muttered back to him "Only when ghosts are involved."

We stopped looking around the forest. It didn't feel scary to me at all it didn't even give off a haunted vibe, however it was very dark inside the forest as if the trees blocked out all the sunlight. I gave Kakashi-Papa props into finding this forest out, with the darkness our ambush couldn't easily be picked up by our enemies. I looked around "It's dark."

"AND SPOOKY IN THE DARK!" Naruto shouted.

"Relax Naruto" I told him "It's not that spooky."

Jessie agreed "James, Meowth and I have seen spookier places."

"This is nothing" Meowth said giving Naruto a flashlight "Especially when we have flashlights!"

"Thanks!" Naruto said grateful for once he turned the flashlight on. We checked the forest and we came across a what appeared to have been a Indian fisherman. He turned seeing us "Why hello there!"

"Hello!" I said to him.

Aang waved turning to Naruto "See? What's so bad about this place?"

Naruto still wasn't convinced but the fisherman looked alarmed "I guess you my dear Avatar haven't heard that this forest is haunted."

"SEE?!" Naruto said to Aang "Even he says it's haunted."

"I'm not seeing it" I said.

"Lady Signer" The man said to me causing me to question him "How'd you know I'm a Signer and Aang is the Avatar?"

The fisherman answered "Word gets out fast in the Earth Kingdom about the Avatar, but it was just a guess about you Lady Kasumi...They say the Avatar travels with a girl that's a Signer so I assumed it was you."

"We've heard this place was haunted" Aang told him "But we aren't seeing it."

"You and Lady Kasumi should be more careful" The fisherman warned "My tribe is constantly attacked by a ghost-"

"THAT'S ALL FOR ME!" Naruto shouted trying to run away but Sokka held onto him making sure Naruto wasn't running.

The fisherman spoke "It's not ghost that's haunting this place...It's a ghostly werewolf."

"IT'S A GHOST AND A WEREWOLF?" Naruto said he then nearly fainted "Werewolves I can take but a ghostly one?"

"When did this thing appear?" I inquired.

"Two weeks ago" The fisherman said "At the same time a man with a scared eye arrived in it looking for the Avatar."

This gave me all I needed to know as I looked at Aang. The Avatar and I knew whom it was "Prince Zuko?" we asked each other.

Naruto blinks seeing me and Aang converse with each other whispering to each other as we tried to put two and two together "What do you suppose Prince Zuko wants?" Aang whispered to me.

"You obviously so he can restore his honor to his father" I whispered back.

"But why would he scare the natives?"

"Not sure, but Maybe it's him maybe it's not" I said "But we need to figure this thing out."

"Right! Before we give our friends the okay single."

When this was determined between me and Aang we turned to the man "Don't worry Mr, we're on the case!"

Naruto muttered "I KNEW THIS WAS THE DIRECTION YOU WERE TAKING SIS!"

The man looks at us "Alright then, suit yourselves, but this ghostly werewolf is dangerous."

"We're prepared for anything" Aang told him.

"MAYBE YOU TWO ARE BUT I'M NOT!" Naruto said he somehow broke Sokka's grip and bolted out hoping for an exit.

WHOMP! He ran right into something. It wasn't a tree, but Naruto opened his eyes "Uh...Sis...What's goes white in the dark of the night and looks like a blood thirsty werewolf?"

He then got his answer managing to dodge the creature's claws "HEY!"

He backed away then answered his own question "YYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! IT'S THE GHOSTLY WEREWOLF!"

Before Aang, or I could stop him Naruto bolted away this time not running to get out of the forest but ran to get away from the werewolf. It glared at Aang, and me. Sokka was running now alongside Naruto shouting "THE GHOSTLY WEREWOLF IS REAL!"

"Easy fellas!" Meowth said as he and Team Signer were with me "Time for us to show it some real fighting!"

I smiled with Snowflake and Takara at my side. Aang was also with me both of us weren't intimidated, at least not quite yet.

Jessie held up her Pokeball "We'll get right to this matter! Go Wobefett!"

Out of her thrown Pokeball came out her Wobefett "WOBEFETT!"

The blue blob like creature stood in front of the werewolf.

"How will you battle it?" I asked Jessie.

Jessie smiled "Wobefett will know how to handle it!"

The Werewolf howls then slashes out it's claw at Wobefett. Wobefett tanked it then sprang forward with Counter striking the Werewolf. It howls backing away.

"Alright now!" James said "Cacneia! Come on out!"

He threw his Pokeball and out of it came out his catcus Pokemon which instead of attacking the werewolf hugged James and James wails out "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! NOT ME THAT TIME! USE PIN MISSILE ON THAT WEREWOLF!"
It jumps off aiming it's hands but the werewolf then howls once more gaining in fire it's claws and and throwing them at it. Takara leaps in the way to intercept the blasts without injury gaining more power. There Werewolf howls frustrated that it wasn't scaring me or Aang off. It raised it's fists then slammed them into the ground before vanishing in a puff of smoke.

I looked at Aang "Well...That thing was real..."

Aang nodded "But it didn't act ghostly."

"Agreed" I admitted "Whatever Wobefett did to the ghostly werewolf, shouldn't have worked. Physical attacks can't harm ghosts."

The fisherman had ran off too as well as Naruto and Sokka whom when we found them thought it would be safer in the tree tops. I looked up at the two disappointed in them slightly "What was that all about Naruto?"

"DIDN'T YOU SEE WHAT I SAW? THAT WAS THE GHOSTLY WEREWOLF! IT NEARLY HAD ME FOR LUNCH!"

"Forgive me for saying this Naruto but it's not so ghostly!"

"IT WAS WHITE LIKE A GHOST AND APPEARED OUT OF NOWHERE LIKE ONE! I KNOW MY GHOSTS WHEN I SEE ONE!"

"Sure it looked like that then acted like one to scare us" I admitted "But it isn't a ghost!"

"COME AGAIN HOW DO YOU KNOW?"

"EXCUSE ME!" I shouted at him "Aang and I didn't run!"

"And neither did we" Meowth told him "We fought that thing off!
Naruto blinks "Wait a second...You can't fight ghosts off...You try and they could take control of you."

"Possibly" I admitted to him "But not this one. So if we could fight it off what does that tell you?"

Naruto shouted the answer "IT'S WORSE THAN A GHOST! IT'S A GHOST WITH A TRUE BODY!"

"Wrong" I said "It's a real werewolf."

Naruto blinks then tightened his headband jumping off the tree "THAT'S IT NO FAKE GHOST IS GOING TO SCARE ME AWAY! A REAL WEREWOLF I CAN TAKE"

Sokka followed suit "Okay, so it's a real werewolf but what do we do?"

I answered "We'll split up and find clues but we already have one."

"Which is?" Naruto asked me.

"It can Fire Bend" I said.

Naruto blinks "THAT MAKES THIS THING WORSE! Wait a second...It can Fire Bend? Since when can a ghostly werewolf Fire Bend?"

"Now you're getting it" I told him.

"But the Fire Nation doesn't know about the forest" Sokka said "And the only Fire Benders we know that aren't from the Fire Nation are Naruto himself and your mother Aki."

"Not true" I said "There is one Fire Bender that is from the Fire Nation but is banished from it."

Naruto blinks "ZUKO! You think the Ghostly Werewolf is Zuko?"

I nodded firmly "The fisherman said that the werewolf appeared two weeks ago the same time frame Prince Zuko was seen coming into the forest."

Naruto thought on this "Hmm..."

James had another thought "But did it actually Fire Bend or did it have some sort of gadget that made it be able to throw fire at us?"

"I'm pretty sure it was a Fire Bender" I answered him.

"What motive would Zuko have to get in here?" Sokka asked "And to frighten the natives off?"

I answered "We know he's after Aang so perhaps if he scares everyone off Aang would be easy to capture?"

"We'll figure that out when we go for it" Jessie agreed "So we have that one clue that it's a Fire Bender and we think it's this Prince Zuko so how do we stop it?"

I answered her swiftly "In the real Scooby-Doo show it needs three clues to figure it out but we pretty much know what we need to know with just two clues...So it's time to set the trap."

Naruto bashed his fist together "I'm going to give that Werewolf a pounding!"

"That's the spirit" I said, I looked at the area then to Aang.

Aang nodded at me then we both turned to Team Signer all two of us smiling.

"What's with the smile for?" James asked.

"Yeah" Jessie said "We didn't do anything wrong.

Meowth looks at them "I don't think they are looking at us like we did something wrong! Let's hear them out."

I smiled "How good are you two at digging holes?"

"Digging holes is one our greatest talents!" Jessie proclaimed "We've dug them to try to capture Ash's Pikachu numerous of times."

"And there were times we tried to dig our way into Gyms while he was battling the Gym Leader" James complained "Only to run into things and be blasting off again."

"Then" I told them "I need you three to start digging a pit or making a trap for this werewolf. Try to make a trap that's flame proof and isn't something a werewolf's claws can break free of."

The three saluted "Yes ma'am!"

The three got to work as I turned to Naruto, and Sokka "Next we need the bait to lure the Ghostly Werewolf to the trap."
"Why does it have to be me and Sokka?!" Naruto complained.

"You two ran away from it before so it's bound to chase you two" I answered.

"Good point" Sokka muttered "But what about you and Aang?"

I looked at Aang whom answered the question "We'll help to trap the Werewolf even further if it tries to get away."

With this said Naruto, and Sokka walked side-by-side looking for the werewolf with me standing on a tree limb watching them from afar. Sokka puts both hands to his mouth "YOOHHOOO! MR. UNGHOSTLY WEREWOLF! Mr. Coward and I are alone! We're ripe to be eaten!"

"WHY DID YOU CALL ME MR. COWARD?" Naruto demanded.

"Because out of all of us you were the most scared at coming here!"

"WELL YOU RAN WITH ME WHEN I BOLTED SCREAMING AND-PEEYU!" Naruto shouted then he held his nose.

"WHAT'S THAT SMELL?!" Sokka demanded holding his nose "Smells like a bad case of gas!"

The two boys looked in front of them and it appeared the Ghostly Werewolf. Only this time it appeared to be five of them. Naruto dropped his tough talk and he gulped nervously counting down the numbers "Uh...Sis might be wrong for once Sokka...Let's see there's one...Two...Three...Four...FIVE GHOSTLY WEREWOLVES!"

"I count five on my end too!" Sokka reported as the boys were surrounded by ten ghostly Werewolves.

Naruto pressed his hands together then Fire Bended at the targets he saw. They simply seem to vanish but emerge once again unharmed causing Naruto to sweat drop "I think that one we saw was real flesh and bone but these five are real ghosts!"

Sokka threw his boomerang at them and like Naruto it seems to strike them only to disappear and reappear all but one which it hit right in the face "NARUTO BEHIND US!"

Naruto turned seeing the werewolf Sokka's boomerang hit in it's face growl adjusting it's posture. It gathered in two Fireballs and shot them at the two. They duck and the Werewolf charges them.

"HERE IT COMES!" Sokka shouted but due to not watching where they were going, Naruto and Sokka crash right into each other.

"OUCH!" was their complaint.

They got back onto their feet and bolted towards my area as I radioed Team Signer "Is the trap set?"

"You bet!" Jessie answered.

I turned to Aang whom nodded at me. Both of us prepared for it as Naruto and Sokka ran with the Ghostly Werewolf on their tail "IT'S CLOSING IN ON US SIS!"

"DON'T MISS IT!" Sokka shouted "It's out for blood!"

I then saw ten other Ghostly Werewolves and briefly activated my Psychic Powers in their Prime state to see that nine of them were illusions. Only one was real. I singled to Aang to get ready. The Avatar grabbed his end of a rope as did I. Naruto and Sokka ran towards us and I shouted "Jump over the rope you two, otherwise you'll fall into the trap!"

The two were too busy running to listen fully and just as the real Ghostly Werewolf was with them all three of them tripped over the rope and just as I warned the two caused them to go flying right into the traps of Team Signer one was a Spider Web Trap which caught Naruto and Sokka, and the other was a hole trap which the Werewolf hit and fell into it. It howls as Naruto and Sokka try to get off the web trapping them but they were too glued to it. I sighed turning to Takara "Flamethrower those two idiots out of the web."

Takara nods obeying. CRASH! The two hit the ground then join all of us whom stood at the hole's ledge. The Werewolf howls looking around "Oh be quiet Zuko!" I told the werewolf "Snowflake...Freeze him up."

Snowflake nods opening her mouth and unleashed her Ice Beam freezing the werewolf solid, up to it's head. I used my Psychic Powers to bring the Werewolf up as the Fisherman with his tribe arrived.

"You caught the Ghostly Werewolf?" they all inquired.

"Yes" I said "It was easy."

"Too easy" Aang warned "But I'm glad it was easily stopped.

I reached to undo the Werewolf's head and it was revealed to not be Zuko.

"You're not Prince Zuko!" I shouted at the Fire Bender.

"Because he's not" The fisherman said removing his disguise "Because I am Prince Zuko."

I looked around worried now as if expecting Zuko's forces to surround us.

"If it's not Zuko then who is it?"

Prince Zuko answered "A Fire Nation Spy, sent to try to understand this forest."

"So they know about the forest?" I asked him.

Prince Zuko shook his head "Not anymore they don't. This spy was truly trying to scare out this tribe, I have been trying to catch this spy for them as Uncle is in their village not too far from here."

"Aren't you still after Aang?" I asked.

"I am" Prince Zuko admitted "But I had to put my differences aside and help them. Especially when I dislike how the Fire Nation tried to uncover this forest. Personally I wouldn't have done this if I was in charge of the Fire Nation, but my father always does these things he thinks is best for him."

The spy chuckled "You'll never be accepted now Zuko back to your home...Not when helping to catch me.

"How'd it do the illusion?" I asked.

The spy answered "I did that myself, once I figured out that you Lady Signer weren't going to be scared off and would fight me, I decided to try a clone illusion spell, it worked on your idiot brother."

Naruto growls grabbing onto the man's throat strangling him "ONLY ONE PERSON CAN CALL ME AN IDIOT AND USED TO LIVE!"

"Easy Naruto!" I told him "You'll kill him."

The Tribe Chieftain walked over to me "Thank you for helping to catch this spy. We'll take it from here, how can we thank you?"

I looked at him "Azula still plans to attack your village. If you can show us perfect ambush spots we'll prevent them from doing so."

The chieftain nods "Alright"

He choose four of his warriors as he took both Zuko and the Fire Nation Spy with them. His four warriors showed us good locations for the fight. Once then we singled for Kakashi-Papa's group to join us then wait.

End of chapter

Short but I managed to get this done! Anyway next time is Chapter 54: Ambushing Azula! Kasumi and her allies all prepare to ambush Azula while also watching Aang's back for Zuko. Kasumi fights against one of the girls Kakashi warned about and is nearly defeated and captured by her.