Well after some time thinking, I guess the setting will be in the Five Kage Summit arc in my fanfic story. Summary: Three Red Lotus members: Ghazan, Ming-Hua, and P'Li were given a second chance to live by the Sage of the Six Paths himself in the Shinobi World after their "deaths" in the Avatar World. There they'll encounter the Boy in the Prophecy and are somewhat drawn to him, ended up helping him along the way just as the Sage wanted.
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In the outskirts of the Land of Iron
In the Land of Iron, three people were traveling on foot. One is a tall white-haired man wearing a standard Hidden Leaf shinobi uniform and a mask that covers his mouth and a headband covering his left eye, the other is a wide-eyed brown-haired man wearing the same uniform including the headband and a some sort of headgear, and finally the blond-haired young man with whisker-like cheeks wearing an orange-and-black jumpsuit and a headband. All were wearing winter coats to endure against the cold while traveling in the snowy regions of the only samurai nation in the Shinobi.
The blond kid is on his way to the Land of the Iron to find A, the Raikage of the Hidden Cloud Village intending to ask him to pardon an old friend of his, a missing-nin of the Hidden Leaf of his crimes despite direct orders from the Konohakagure to stay put for now after saving the whole village from the invasion of the Akatsuki's leader Nagato and his Six Paths and his two friends, two formidable Hidden Leaf shinobi have to watch over him to make sure he is not to be captured by the Akatsuki at any given moment.
While still traveling, the blond kid came to notice something buried in the snow near the forest. Three of them.
"Kakashi-sensei, there's something in the snow", the blond kid said as he approached the site.
"Naruto, be careful. It could be a trap. Yamato, take point.", the white-haired man named Kakashi Hatake aka Kakashi the Copy Ninja and of the Sharingan warned his student and subordinate Naruto Uzumaki aka The Number 1 Knuckle-headed Ninja and the Nine-Tails jinchuriki, exercising extreme caution as he readied his kunai and his left-eye Sharingan just in case.
"Agreed. Kakashi, I'll back you up if things went south", the wide-eyed brown-haired man named Yamato, the only known Wood-Style user in the Shinobi World after Hashimara Senju said, readying his Wood-Style stance in case of an enemy ambush.
As Naruto came closer, he came upon three people buried alive in the snow. One is a tanned man with long flowing hair and tattoos all over his body wearing green clothing, a tall woman with a third eye tattoo on her forehead wearing red clothing and finally a somewhat pale young woman with a Chinese-styled braiding long black hair similar to his friend Tenten wearing blue clothing. All three are unconscious in the heap of snow.
Who are these people? What's with the strange clothing? Well, whoever did this to them is so gonna get a major smackdown when I find him! Believe it!, Naruto thought, taking pity for the three strangers fearing they won't survive in the cold. Naruto turned around to Kakashi-sensei and Captain Yamato and said.
"Guys, help me carry these three people up. We're taking them for a place to rest and warm up. I won't let them die out in the snow."
Kakashi and Yamato, having admired the son of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki' sympathy and willingness to help strangers although held suspicion of the three unknown individuals and will ask questions from them later after they recover, did as Naruto asked them to and carried tanned man and the tall woman while the blond kid carried pale woman and the three shinobi headed straight to the nearest inn few miles away.
Few hours later at the inn
The tall woman is the first to wake up after sleeping in a warm bedsheets on the floor and notices her comrades sleeping next beside her. Recalling of what she remembers, her name is P'Li, a member of the Red Lotus and girlfriend of Zaheer, the man who showed her true freedom and his love for her. The combustionbender remembers her last fight with the Avatar's allies from Zaofu in the mountain peaks of the Northern Air Temple where she showed her dominance of her combustionbending against the metalbenders and earthbenders, relentlessly bombarding them with combustion blasts until her last blast, intended for Lin Beifong, killed her when her head was encased with metal armor by Suyin Beifong, the patriarch of Zaofu.
That was the last thing she remembers after that and wondered mentally. How was it that I'm still alive? I should have been dead by now. This ain't the Spirit World and I don't recall how I got here with Ghazan and Ming-Hua. And Zaheer, my dear love. You must have taken hard of my "demise" and despaired. If only there was a way to come back to you and be with you together once more.
Hearing a groan, P'Li notices Ghazan waking up from his nap and notices the combustionbender with a surprised and happy look on his face. "Hey P'Li it's you! You're alive! I thought you are dead after Zaheer told me and Ming-Hua about it", the lavabender said, looking happy to see his comrade alive and well.
"What about you, Ghazan? Did you die too?", P'Li sarcastically asked.
"Well...uh. I sort of brought the whole caves down on me. All lava and debris around me", Ghazan replied nervously.
"You committed suicide right?", the combustionbender asked again, playfully smirking.
"Yes. Tried to kill the Avatar's two friends when I refused to surrender. Didn't work.", the lavabender said in a shamed voice.
"Oh would you just shut up already!", Ming-Hua angrily exclaimed, having woken up from her beauty sleep by their conversation in annoyance. The armless waterbender notices Ghazan's and P'Li's shocked and wide-mouthed faces when they looked at her.
"What? What are you two looking at me like that?", Ming-Hua demanded.
"Uhh, Ming-Hua. Try wave your hand.", Ghazan suggested.
"Why? Because you'll make a lame joke out of it? No thanks! I..i..i" The waterbender quickly stopped her ranting when she saw a hand right in front of her eyes not knowing it moved as Ghazan tells her to. Inspecting herself, she realizes that she is whole again complete with arms, ones she lost dearly in her tragic past which is one of the reasons why she joined the Red Lotus. The best part of Ming-Hua died with the loss of her arms at that time, leaving her cold, deadly and sarcastic person. Now, unaware of the Sage's little help, the waterbender never felt that much joy to have arms again and the feeling to hold on to something with her own hands unlike her water prosthetic limbs. It's as if her old personality came back once more.
P'Li asked in a deadpanned voice, sweat-dropped mentally when witnessing Ming-Hua's overly-joy of her arms coming back to her life and holding and touching things with hands excitingly."How did she have her arms back?"
"Dunno. Last time I checked she has no arms, all water tendrils, you know what I mean", Ghazan replied having the same deadpanned voice and the mental sweat-dropping too, couldn't comprehend all this.
"It feels so great to have the feeling of touching and holding once more! Missed the feeling so much! I don't know or even care how but I'm very grateful my arms came back to me! I'm so happy!", Ming-Hua happily exclaimed, hugging P'li and then Ghazan.
Without warning, a slip of her tongue, she said "I could kiss you right now Ghazan!" Too late, Ming-Hua realized that her tongue slipped when she said that and blushed red, making her look cute despite her pale dehydrated face. Ghazan was surprised of his fellow teammate's slip of her tongue and slightly blushed in embarrassment. P'Li made a slight giggle of his and began to remember what the earthbender named Bolin, a friend of the Avatar said back while he and his brother Mako a firebender and a friend of the Avatar too were in their captivity at that time on their way to Ba Sing Se, the capital city of the Earth Kingdom.
"Or maybe there is a strange attraction between you two", Bolin said after making a few guesses on Ghazan and Ming-Hua just to kill boredom which displeases Mako however.
"Two out of three, kid. Not bad", Ghazan said, looking amused of the earthbender's guessing.
Although the question remain is: which one is the two out of three? I guess Ming-Hua answered that. Hehe. P'Li thought, still giggling of an unexpected moment of romance much to Ghazan and Ming-Hua's embarrassment.
Calming down, the trio began to have a lengthy chat. First off, Ming-Hua tells Ghazan and P'li that she "died" from a massive electric shock by Mako due to the underground river she used for her numerous water tendrils and made a joke that it 'was quite shocking' that made them laugh about it never expecting Ming-Hua's hidden sense of humor, Ghazan and P'Li told her of their "deaths", making jokes about them too. Later on, the waterbender and lavabender told the combustionbender of Zaheer's unlocked ability to fly supposedly after losing her something about 'letting go of your earthly tethers and enter the void' and his intentions to kill Avatar Korra while in her Avatar State through the mercury poison injected into her body in order to finally break the Avatar Cycle for the sake of a world without the Avatar but were interrupted by Korra's allies and her rampage against the airbender when the Avatar State finally kicked in. Knowing the fact they're still alive despite deaths, the trio wonders how but decided to let that topic go for now, feeling thankful for the second chance to live.
"Speaking of which, where are we exactly after we 'died'?", Ghazan asked.
"Hmm...from the looks of the architecture in the room we are in which I'm not familiar with. I'd say we're in some kind of inn.", P'Li replied as she looked around the room they are in now.
"An Earth Kingdom or a Fire Nation inn?", Ming-Hua guessed.
"No, look at the window, it's clearly snowing outside. I would say it might be a Water Tribe inn maybe", the combustionbender said, deducing the logic although she thought I wonder how did we get here in this inn and who brought us in here?
Before the Red Lotus benders discuss any further, a blond-haired kid wearing an orange and black clothing opened the door and entered the room with a friendly smile on his face and said, "Oh you are all awake! That's good. I was beginning to think that you three won't ever wake up after me and my friends found you in the snow!"
The trio quickly took notice of the blond kid. His hairstyle uncommon in all five nations, his face with blue eyes and whiskers in his cheeks, his clothing that has a semblance to the Air Nation, and a headband with a symbol of a leaf. So this is the one who helped us back there and his friends too if I wasn't deaf, P'Li thought as she carefully studied him. Same goes for the lavabender and the waterbender. Ghazan is the first one to talk to their savior.
"Thanks..I think. What's your name kid?", Ghazan asked the blonde young man.
"Oh yeah right! I'm Naruto Uzumaki and I'm gonna be the Hokage! Believe it!", the kid replied full of pride and confidence that surprises the Red Lotus members. This kid has a way of introducing himself to people, I'd give him that all three though together.
Ming-Hua asked Naruto curiously, "Hokage? What is that?"
"What?! You don't know what Hokage is?! I guess you three aren't really from around here are you?", Naruto exclaimed in surprise that the three people he saved doesn't know the word 'Hokage'.
"Sorry, Naruto was it? We, uh, came from some faraway land and me and my companions never heard the word 'Hokage'", the lavabender lied to Naruto, unsure if he believed them or not if they tell him the truth of them coming from the world where people bend the elements.
"Well that explains the clothes you three wear. Anyways, to explain about the Hokage, that guy is the leader of the Hidden Leaf Village in the Land of Fire respected by his people and feared by his enemies. And I'm gonna be the Hokage someday just like my dad, Grandpa, and Granny Tsunade who were Hokages too and become finally acknowledged as the greatest Hokage the Hidden Leaf Village has ever seen! Believe it!" The blond teenager explained with enthusiasm, leaving the Red Lotus members feeling awe and surprise of his words.
So the Hokage is the leader of a place called Hidden Leaf Village in the Land of Fire? Sounds like the Fire Nation. How come we do not know of this? The Hidden Leaf might be one of the Fire Nation villages or colonies which is now part of the United Republic of Nations, I think. Unless I'm wrong, we might not be in a world we know of anymore. P'Li thought, wondering if the main leaders of the Red Lotus had not told them about it or is it they're in a different place now.
"By the way. Do you three have a name?", Naruto asked the Red Lotus trio who then replied.
"Ghazan"
"Ming-Hua"
"P'Li"
"Okay then. Ghazan, Ming-Hua and P'Li right? Are you guys hungry? If you are, meet me downstairs for a meal or two! We're having ramen and other delicacies! Kakashi-sensei and Captain Yamato will be there too. It'll be a great! Come on!" Naruto excitingly raced down the stairs, leaving the Red Lotus members to comment about the blond kid.
"I gotta admit. That kid is certainly enthusiastic and cheerful even to strangers like us.", Ghazan commented.
P'Li nodded in agreement and said, "Agreed. Must be a people's person."
"Well, Naruto seems nice. We'd better get down. I haven't eaten or drink that long as I can remember. Can't wait to hold a spoon and fork again and the cup too." Ming-Hua relishes the moment to finally eat and drink with her own hands again.
"Well let's get going then. Don't want to starve to death and I'm famished. Don't want to keep our blond friend waiting", the lavabender said with Ming-Hua and P'Li nodding agreement as they head downstairs to have their meals and also to meet the other friends of Naruto. And so the Red Lotus' adventures in the Shinobi World begins with the meeting of the Boy in the Prophecy.
Author's Note: Okay! Now that the three Red Lotus members: Ghazan, Ming-Hua, and P'Li meets Naruto Uzumaki, their journey in the Shinobi World begins as they will soon become involved in a bigger plot by the Akatsuki and they're gonna 'bend' it that way! Next chapter will be about the Red Lotus knowing about the Shinobi World and then ended up fighting some shinobi themselves later on. Probably the Akatsuki or the Five Kages and their bodyguards. The Red Lotus trio might use their organization's ideology to support all the shinobi's opposition to Obito's Infinite Tsukuyomi.
Curious of how Ming-Hua manage to endure 13 years of imprisonment in a volcanic prison almost without food and water unless the White Lotus guards made restraining measures to keep her locked while feeding her. Looks like she's gonna have eat a lot of food in the next chapter lol.
Might plan to have the Red Lotus encounter shinobi and fight maybe during Sasuke and his team Taka's infiltration in the Five Kage Summit. And oh boy both sides will react surprisingly to how each other can manipulate the elements and its sub-elements in use of their powers while in battle. Bending vs. Jutsu, which power will win?
Plus, I'm a Mingzhan shipper too. I squealed when Bolin guesses if Ghazan and Ming-Hua have "a strange attraction between each other" and hints show as if it's almost true like Ghazan saying "Two out of three kid not bad". ROFL!
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