Chapter 2

The Greeting

"Hurry up, Kakashi-Sensei," Naruto shouted, "let's get these people who attacked us! No one's going to ruin my vacation!"

"Naruto, don't be so hasty; what if they weren't the ones who attacked us?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah right!" Naruto boasted. Sai took a step toward them.

"I agree with Naruto," Sai said, "They're probably the ones who casted this jutsu on us." Their ship finally was getting closer to the one of the enemy's.

"I guess we have no choice," Kakashi said.

"Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" Naruto casted.

He had made ten clones of him. He shouted, Let's go! The clones jumped onto the other ship.

There were five of them. There were three boys and two girls. The boys looked totally different from one another. One was bald and had an arrow tattoo on his head, another had a ponytail and a blue outfit, and the other boy had short brown hair and a brown mark over his eye. One girl had long brown hair and a blue coat and the other had eyes like Neji's and green hair.

There were also two creatures, one massive flying mammal with another animal on its back high up in the sky. The brown haired girl is cute, thought Naruto right before he jumped on the ship after his clones. The boy with the arrow, probably the leader, stepped up to fight first. He wiped out six of the clones with some water from the ocean. He controlled the water! Naruto thought. Kakashi, Sai, and Sakura joined him in the fight.

Who the heck are these people? Aang thought as he used water to escape the blue swirly ball in the boy's hand. He shot fire at the boy, but it was just another airy fake guy. He was being attacked from above! The black haired boy above him was hit by Katara's water. Toph was helping Sokka fight the one-eyed guy. Aang had to find out who these people were. He had an idea! He shouted to Katara. She looked at him and nodded, realizing his plan. Then, they jumped up, surprising the enemy and made a big wave of water splash onto the boat. The strangers tried to swim out, Katara and Aang froze the water, just in time, too. They freed Toph, Sokka, and Zuko.

Toph hit Aang. "That's what you get for freezing me without a warning!"

Sokka scowled then turned to the enemy, frozen in the block of ice. Zuko swore every swear word he knew. Katara hit Zuko on the head.

"You should be thankful!" She scolded. Zuko grunted.

Aang ignored them and took a closer look at the enemy. They all had weird powers. The boy he had been fighting, the energetic one, had spiky, blond hair and weird lines on his face, scars maybe. They all had weird metal plates worn on their head. One, a silver haired guy, had his covering one of his eyes. The blond haired kid looked a little older than Aang. He was glaring at Aang. Aang melted the area around his head so he could talk. Once, he finished, the boy was shouting at him.

"Who the heck are you guys! Sakura-Chan! What do you want with us? Sas? Kakashi-Sensei, you were caught, too? Why did you send us here? Let me free! Let us go, Dattebayou! I'm going to beat all of you up! Starting with you, Baldy! I won't let you guys do this to u-"

"Shut up!" Toph interrupted loudly. The boy glared at her.

"Toph!" Katara scolded. Katara looked at Aang impatiently.

"First of all, who are you?" Aang asked. The boy scowled.

"Who are you?" he asked. Aang was confused. Everyone knew who he was; he was the avatar. Everyone knew him; at least that's what he thought.

"I- I'm Avatar Aang," Aang said, confused, "I thought everyone knew me." The boy didn't look impressed.

"Well, Avatar Aang," he mimicked, "I don't know you, so why did you send us here?" Aang was confused.

"Who are you?" Aang asked again. Toph, Katara, Sokka, and Zuko stood by silently listening to the conversation.

"I'm Uzumaki Naruto," the boy said, still scowling, "from Konoha. I was on vacation and then you and your team sent our boat here with that weird cyclone jutsu of yours."

A lot of the things he said didn't make sense to Aang, but he understood the cyclone part.

"You were sent here by the cyclone too?" Aang asked, stunned. The boy nodded.

"So, you guys weren't the ones who used that jutsu on us?" Naruto asked, confused.

Aang had never heard of a jutsu. Aang must have looked really confused because then, the boy said,

"A jutsu is an ability like my Rasengan."

Aang nodded. The 'Rasengan' he was talking about must be the blue swirly ball thing. These guys sure were weird.

"No it wasn't us," Aang said looking to the sea, "It must have been the other guys." The other boat was now coming towards them.

"Uh, Aang?" Sokka asked, "I think the other guys are drowning."

"Whoops," Aang said, melting the rest of the ice. The pink haired girl looked angry. She went up to Aang and was about to hit him, hard, on the head. Aang easily blew her hand away with a gust of wind and turned to Naruto. Naruto's expression was mixed with awe and disbelief.

"Let's see what they want," Naruto said. Aang looked at Naruto's partners. The girl that attacked him had strangely pink hair and looked mad. There was a man, who looked the oldest, with silver hair and had his headband over his left eye. The other guy, a teenager, was really pale and had black hair. Aang turned to the oncoming ship. There were about four people on it. They weren't attacking like Naruto had been. He dared to wave it over. The person steering, a woman with red hair wearing armor, turned toward where he and Naruto were standing. Two boys, a girl and a cat stood behind her.

"Who are you guys?" a boy with pinkish red hair shouted down at them.

They probably weren't the enemies either, Aang thought.

"Come aboard our ship if you're not our enemies and let us talk!" Aang shouted back. The boy came down to him and Naruto, unafraid. He looked young, maybe around Aang's age; then again, Aang was one hundred and thirteen.

"You must be the leader," Naruto said. The boy shrugged, not agreeing, not disagreeing.

"I'm Aang," Aang pointed out his team, "This is Katara, Sokka, Toph, and Zuko… oh, and that up there is Appa and Momo." He pointed up to the shapes in the sky.

Naruto spoke, "I'm Naruto and this is Sakura, Sai, and Kakashi-Sensei." The boy studied them closely.

"Natsu," he finally said, "with me are Happy, Erza, Lucy, and Grey" Natsu nodded at his comrades.

The guy, Grey, was in his underwear! Naruto gasped.

"So it wasn't you guys who sent us here?" Aang asked. Natsu shook his head.

"No," he said, "we just appeared here after we were pulled up into a cyclone." Naruto nodded.

"Yeah, that's what happened to us, too." He said.

All of a sudden, there was a great big powerful wind that came from nowhere right in front of them. Aang saw Natsu turn a pale color of blue. Everyone stared ahead as a figure started to appear.

"Igneel!" Natsu cried, almost desperately as a great red dragon appeared before them. He looked at Natsu.

"Sorry," the dragon spoke. The dragon spoke! Everyone stared at the dragon dumbfounded.

First of all, there's a dragon! Second, he can speak! Aang thought.

"I'm not who you're looking for," the dragon said to Natsu. Natsu's shoulders drooped. Aang felt bad for him; Natsu had seemed really hopeful. There was a sudden silence. No one uttered a word.

"First off, I'm Dame, a dragon from a half-world much like this one." Naruto was about to protest when the dragon, Dame, continued.

"This is the world where the four great leaders used to meet. You were all sent here by me for a reason." Dame paused.

"You were sent here to save the worlds." Everyone listened, taking in it all at once. "The three great worlds are in grave danger. That's all I can say for now."

"Natsu," Dame looked Natsu in the eye, "Igneel… he's okay, but he needs your help in your world. You must help him and remember," Dame looked at everyone, "You are all a team now, so work together. I'm running out of time here, so goodbye and good luck to you all. Don't forget to-" Dame suddenly vanished.

The air seemed to swallow him up. Everyone broke into conversation. Some people didn't believe him, others argued for him. Only Natsu didn't say anything. Naruto noticed how sad he looked. He put his hand on Natsu's shoulder. Natsu looked up. Naruto grinned.

"I'll help you find Igneel, no matter what!" he stated, hushing everyone. Natsu brightened up.

"Thanks, Naruto," he said. Aang put his hand on Natsu's other shoulder.

"Yeah," he said, "We're a team now." They all smiled appreciatively at each other. Naruto climbed up the mast. Some people on board watched him curiously.

"Okay everyone!" he shouted below, "Prepare to move! We're all going as a team to help Natsu out! We're going to save his world first!"

"How do you know what the dragon said was true?" Grey shouted up at him.

"I'm taking my chances!" Naruto shouted down at him. Aang and Natsu stepped toward the crowd.

"I'm with him!" Natsu said. "Me too!" Aang shouted.

"Anyone who wants to stay here in the 'half-world' better speak up now!" Naruto called. No one said a word.

"Okay then it's settled!" Naruto shouted, "We'll start with Natsu's world!"

~ End of Chapter 2~