Previously on Changing the world: Team avatar visits the Lightning country capital: Izanagi. A new plot hole...I mean challenge for the avatar is added. Azula and Deidara hate each other and the team heads to Omashu via secret love tunnel. You know, typical Avatar things.

Note: Also, hence the chapter name, Omashu will be destroyed. You would think that would change the plot, no. They never come back here.

Also, sooner or later I'm changing the title to Closer and I'm changing the cover as well. I hate the current title. Just as a heads up;)

As the team was walking down the dark tunnel, Chong started to strum a few notes. "Teru-Teru-bozu, teru-bozu. Do make tomorrow a sunn-"

"Will you shut up?!" Sasuke yelled, he motioned to the torches Lily was holding. "How long will those last, each?"

"Um, two hours." Chong answered.

Lily's eyes brightened. "And we have five torches so that makes..." Lily striked all the torches she was holding on the ground, making them all light up. "...ten hours!"

Sokka grabbed all the lit torches and stomped them out. "That's not how it works Lily!"

"Ohh, yeah, right." Lily said in a sorta spacey tone.

Sasuke clenched his fist, beyond pissed. He pointed two fingers, crackling with electricity at the roof of the tunnel.

"NO! YOU DUMBASS!" Naruto yelled. "Didn't you listen to Chong?! We need LOVE!"

"Love is only for those blinded from reality!"

*BOOM*

Of course, the roof of the tunnel started to cave in, just for a slight second, Sasuke stood there, dazed almost. Naruto ran over to Sasuke and pushed him out of the way from the falling boulders.

After all the debris fell, it divided the gang up. Sasuke got himself up and brushed a few dust particles from his hair. Sokka ran over to the fallen debris and tried to dig his way out.

Then...Naruto's expression quickly dropped. He realized something. (Sasuke...is a murder...he tried to kill us...) Naruto clenched his fist in fustration. "What the fuck is wrong with you?! We could've got KILLED!" Naruto yelled.

Sokka stood up after his countless attempts of trying to dig their way out. "It's pointless to fight, guys. Sasuke just made an accident."

Naruto turned to Sokka. "Sasuke is no idiot! He is the smartest guy I know! It makes no sense, he shot lightning at the roof! WE'RE UNDER A DAMN MOUNTAIN!"

Sokka thought for a bit, he looked at Sasuke contently. "...Naruto is right. Why would you...?"

Chong started to strum his guitar. "Hey guys! We have to keep moving and singing because we're in a tunnel that will killlllll us!"

Sasuke continued walking along with the nomadic troupe. He turned his head to see Sokka and Naruto still pissed about everything. He sighed and spoke up. "Listen. I did this only to split us up from Aang and Katara. I figure we cover more ground."

"B-but...we could've died!" Sokka yelled.

Sasuke turned his head back, he stopped walking. "...I will never let any of you die..." He turned his head back to to them. "...ever."

After a long hour of walking in dim light, Katara finally caught sight of the exit. She grabbed Aang's hand and ran over to the boulder blocking the exit. The two pushed together as hard as they could on the thing.

"Come on...just a little more..." With one final push, the boulder rolled out of the way. Revealing something different. Aang and Katara stood in awe as they found not an exit but a tomb.

Katara, Aang, and Appa walked down the stairs and faced the two coffins, a story was printed on the dais.

Katara waved the torch in front of the picture. "There's a story here, told by pictures..."

Just on the opposite side of the tunnel, Chong and his troupe were still walking along, on their second to last torch. Sokka threw a burnt out torch on the ground and held their final torch.

"This is the last torch, guys." Sokka sadly announced.

Chong strung a couple more notes on his guitar. "But our torch of love will never blow out! Sooooo we're okay!"

Sasuke clenched his fist in frustration. (...he is as stupid as Naruto...there's no way...love will ever help us. It never helped me.)

Naruto felt a rumble in the ground, pieces of rock started to fall down. "What will we do Chong?!" Naruto yelled.

"We'll believe in LOVE! Love will be our savior! It's our best way out. Love song everyone!"

Sasuke extended his arm, the tips of his finger sparkled with electricity. "Love will not save us from danger! We have to take action!"

Sokka held out his boomerang. "Sasuke is right! We have to face whatever comes our way!"

Suddenly several wolf bats flew straight past them. Sasuke got into stance as Momo plopped onto his head.

"Hey-hey Sasuke, you saved us!" Chong happily chirped after the wolf-bats were out of sight.

"No." Sasuke relaxed his posture. "They were running away."

"Huh? But...from what?"

*BOOM*

A sound of another large rumble echoed from one of the halls, everyone got into stance and prepared to attack whatever came their way.

Two lovers tomb...

Katara read the last scripture. "...love is brightest in the dark." Katara turned to Aang. "The last picture is of them kissing."

"Huh? What do we do now?"

"...what if we..."

"We what?"

Katara's face started to flush as she couldn't believe what she was going to say next. "um...you know...kissed."

"Us, kissing?" Aang asked in shock.

"You're right, just a crazy idea."

"...what...?" Aang rubbed the back of his head. "Ha, ha yeah...that was a very crazy idea. The thought of me, kissing you." The last part he kinda sorta exaggerated.

Katara started to get ticked off. "Is kissing me so horrible?" Katara forcefully asked.

"No, no. I didn't mean it like that. I meant um...kissing you just seemed like a really crazy idea. I would much rather kiss you than...um...die."

"WHAT?!" Katara stormed off. "I don't even know which I would choose!" Katara added. She stopped, the torch light got dimmer and dimmer, weakening by the second. (It's not really the time to fight...)

Katara walked back to Aang. "The torch will go out any second, won't it?"

Aang nodded his head in dismay.

As the torch got weaker and weaker, Katara and Aang got closer to each other, until the light went out fully. The crystals above them lit up, showing their way out of the tunnel.

Katara breathed a sigh of relief. "That must be how they found their way through! They put their lights out and followed the crystals."

Katara ran off. "Come on! We can finally leave!"

Aang stood there in silence for a bit, he sighed than ran off to catch up with Katara and Appa.

The troupe...

A wall next to them blew out and dust surrounded the area. The sound of footsteps approached them. Once the dust cleared up, a young, blondes headed man appeared in front of them. Naruto remembered his face on many of the wanted posters around the Lightning country.

"...who are you?" Naruto asked.

"That doesn't concern you." Deidara reached into his toolbelt and pulled out a menacing looking bomb and a set of matches.

Sasuke shot a bolt of lightning at Deidara but it got cut off with a quick earth wall. Naruto clenched his fist. "If you ignite that bomb, you'll kill yourself as well!"

"I won't. My job is to kill only you and your comrades, hm."

Sasuke held out his arm, electricity started to surround it. He ran over to Deidara, reeled his arm back and jumped up to punch him. Deidara quickly side dodged Sasuke.

Acting quickly, Sasuke kicked Deidara in the face making him fall back on the ground. Deidara stood up and wiped the blood from his lip.

"You little bastard..." Deidara stood up and surrounded his hand with rocks.

Using this chance, Sokka threw his boomerang at Deidara, conking him on the head. "YESS! SCORE!"

Deidara turned his attention to Sokka. "A non-bender...good, hm." Deidara took out two C1 bombs and approached Sokka.

Before Deidara could reach Sokka, Sasuke ran up to Deidara with a ball of electricity in his hand. Deidara extended his arm and grabbed Sasuke's fist.

While Deidara was focused on Sasuke, Naruto ran over to Deidara and fire kicked him in the back. He didn't flinch at all from the impact, instead several rocks chipped off and fell down from under his black cloak.

Deidara stomped the ground and earth launched Naruto over to a nearby wall. Deidara turned his attention back to Sasuke. "Now that he's out of the way. I'll turn my attention to you." Deidara clenched Sasuke's fist as hard as he could.

Suddenly, Sasuke could feel the bones of his hands crack and break under the intense pressure. Sasuke bit his lip to keep him from screaming due to the pain. Sasuke slowly looked up at Deidara who was devilishly smirking as blood was drizzled down his chin.

"Heh, you are no where near as good as I expected."

He picked up Sasuke by the arm then flung him up in the air, he stomped on the ground and a row of spikes emerged from the ground. Naruto got himself up, despite the throbbing pain and picked up Sasuke before falling he fell into the row of spikes.

Naruto set Sasuke down by Chong and his troupe who were paralyzed with fear. "We can't win Naruto...we're going to die." Sasuke grimly stated.

Deidara smirked. "Smart Uchiha, like your brother told me. You can never win against me."

Naruto clenched his fist. "No. I will not let you kill my friends."

"A moron like you? You're the weakest person I've ever met, hm."

"...never..."

Deidara stomped the ground and several earth walls emerged from the ground. He punched the walls and sent them flying to Naruto. Naruto held out his arm, he shot a bolt of yellow lightning at them, piercing straight through all of the earth walls.

"...under..."

Deidara sunk his fist into the ground then grinned. "Heh, it's not lik-"

"...estimate..."

Instantly, Naruto appeared in front of Deidara. Naruto grabbed onto his arms, he looked at Deidara straight in the eye. "...me." Naruto's hands started to sizzle.

Deidara's arms were engulfed in flames. "What're you-"

Naruto squeezed Deidara's arms harder and harder until the rock exterior crumbled off. His real skin was now starting to burn off.

Deidara kicked Naruto back, his left arm started to pull off, and melt. His tissue, muscles, and skin tore off. Deidara fell down and started to scream in utter pain. "AHHHHHHH!" Blood splattered on the floor, staining the tunnel floor.

"Fire nation scum." Deidara hissed.

(What did I...) Naruto looked at his hands, they were covered in blood. He backed away from Deidara. (...I didn't realize...what I...)

Sokka looked at Naruto, horrified but greatful. "Naruto..." Sokka started to say but stopped himself.

Deidara struck the match on the floor and ignited the bomb anyways. "We'll all die now...but this is how I've always wanted to end myself." Deidara said with a smirk. "Because true art, is an EXPLOSION!"

Chong dropped his guitar. "...this is it then? We're going to die here?"

Sokka picked up the guitar. "We can't! Love WILL help us! So...we're stuck in a tunnel! With this bomb crazy guy! Yeah we're stuck in a tunnel! Secret love tunnel! We love love! Love is nice!"

Just as Sokka was singing, several badger moles emerged from the cave walls. Chong pointed to them. "These badger moles are music junkies! We're saved!"

"Everyone hop on! NOW!" Sokka ushered.

Just as they hopped on, the torch blew out revealing a pathways lit by crystals. "Dattebane badger moles!" Sokka yelled.

The badger moles took off, leaving Deidara to die. (It's meaningless now to let myself die...) He then got himself up with his only free arm and dragged himself out of the cave using the crystal pathway. "I only have three minutes until Azula gets here and until the bomb detonates."

The moles shot out of the wall, finally reaching the outside. Sokka and the rest jumped off the moles and boarded Appa. "HURRY UP!" Naruto yelled. "This place is going to explode!"

Katara and Aang got on Appa and Appa flew off. Deidara on the other hand, walked out of the cave and earth launched himself away before the bomb exploded. (Eh..no wonder he's wanted. Ozai must be jealous of the kid.)

A small Fire nation aircraft, that would take them to their ship, landed near Deidara and he boarded the aircraft. He collapsed on a chair and waited for Azula to approach him.

"Did you kill him?" Azula asked, her voice sounded almost regretful.

"...no..." Deidara mumbled. "I admit, I greatly underestimated him."

For a split second, Deidara saw a flicker of emotion in Azula's eyes. She was almost...relieved. Azula nodded her head. "You'll have a second chance in Omashu."

Before turning off to leave. "Also," Azula added. "because I knew you would do so poorly anyways, I hired an excellent firebender from the Uchiha clan to be your partner from now on."

"Who? Itachi, hm?"

"No. Of course not."

A guy with black, spiky hair started to walk towards them. "Well-well, looks like you're in a handful of trouble Deidara-kun!"

"Who the hell is he?" Deidara asked.

"Your new partner, Obito." Azula turned around and started to walk back to her room. "You shouldn't worry, Obito claims to be a good boy."

Obito pulled out a donation arm. "This'll come in handy won't it Deidara-kun? I'll fix you right up!"

Deidara's eyes narrowed. "One more time Obito. And your death will be certain, hm."

"Ha, ha. Sorry Tenaga-jin, I just love to joke around with you!"

Deidara's face time tensed up, he got up and approached Obito. "That's it."

Obito held his arms out. "What're you going to do? Strangle me?!"

"Yes." Deidara extended his free arm and started to strangle Obito. "DEATH BY: CHOKING!"

Team avatar...

Chong and his troupe stepped off of Appa and walked off, not before of course waving a cheerful goodbye. "Bye guys! And thanks again!" Chong called out, he started to stroke his guitar once again.

"Two lovers separated from one another..."

"Find someone to love Sasuke!" Lily called out as well.

Sasuke groaned and crossed his arms after Katara just recently bandaged them. "Shut-up."

Sokka smirked and looked slyly at Sasuke. "Heh, I'll be suprised if someone doesn't fall for you, Sasuke."

Naruto sat straight up. *vein pops* "Yeah what about me?!" Naruto yelled.

"Yeah tough luck blockhead." Sokka scoffed.

"Oh yeah! I bet at least two girls will fall for me!"

"We will see, fishcake."

Katara looked at them in utter confusion. "What're they even doing?"

Aang shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know really know, seems like usual Sokka-ness." Aang jumped back to the head of Appa and held the piece of rope tightly in his hands.

Aang brightly smiled and whipped the rope. "YIP-YIP!"

Twenty minutes...

In less than an hour of flying, Appa landed on a nearby hill. Naruto jumped off first, once his eyes laid upon the city, he felt immediate guilt. (...I have to do something...) Naruto thought to himself. He decided to run off, leaving his friends behind.

Sasuke looked at the city, not even a change in emotion. "This is expected." Sasuke bluntly stated.

The city of Omashu was already taken over by the Fire nation, Aang jumped off of Appa and held out his glider staff. "...did Naruto go ahead already?" Aang asked.

Sasuke nodded. "He's Fire nation. I can expect he feels singled out."

Aang looked up to Sasuke. "Wait...Sasuke...the majority of the Uchiha is in the Fire nation, you talk like you despise them."

"There were some...complications but...it seems with Omashu out..." Sasuke turned to a worried Aang. "Your friend is dead."

Dismissing Katara's glare, Sasuke motioned to Omashu. "We will however have to rescue that idiot."

Aang sighed, his eyes though were still full of passion, he had a certain feeling that maybe his friend wasn't dead. "We can't go through the normal way then. We have use the other route."

The team followed Aang to a rusted drain pipe, he propped it open letting disgusting sewage water flow out and contaminate the already destroyed ground.

Sasuke took a look inside the pipe. (Damn you Naruto...) "Let's hurry this up."

Aang climbed in first along with Katara, Sasuke, then Sokka following last. With Aang having air, Katara having water and Sasuke having only lightning, Sokka started to smirk. (Let's see how Sasuke deals with this...) Sokka imagined Sasuke getting dirty sewage water in his hair and on his clothes while he would be perfectly clean and would utilize Sasuke as a shield from the dirty shit.

Much to Sokka's dismay, Sasuke pulled out a fan he got from Chong and the sewage crap started flinging onto Sokka's face. "BLECK!" Sokka wiped some crap off his face only for more to fling on.

"EWWWWWW!"

Aang used his staff and tipped up the manhole covering, seeing no one around he flipped open the lid and jumped out along with the others.

"Hm, that wasn't so bad." Katara stated.

Sokka dragged himself out of the sewage pipe and immediately felt something tickling his face. "Yeah...for you..." Sokka said, he started to groan after feeling some slime in unwanted places.

*squeak*

Sokka reached for his face and felt something attached. "...AAAAAHHHHH!" Sokka grabbed onto the purple things and pulled them as hard as he could, nothing.

"Get it off! Get it off! Get it off!"

Aang walked over to Sokka, he scratched the purple thing's heads making them fall off. "Relax Sokka, they're just purple pentapus."

Sokka's eyes bulged out as he realized what was just on his face, before he could react, a distant voice started to yell at them rather harshly.

"HEY! What the heck do you think you're doing?!"

The two guards started to walk up to them, acting quickly, Aang covered up his tattoos while Sasuke did absolutely nothing to cover up the Uchiha symbol on his back.

"What're you kids doing up past curfew?!" One of the guards demanded.

"Oh, we were just on our way home." Katara quickly thought up.

They turned to walk back somewhere, that's when the guard noticied the welts on Sokka's neck. "Hold it! What's with the kid's neck?"

Katara and Sokka quickly turned around. "Um...pentapox sir..."

The guards walked up to Sokka.

"And it's highly contagious!" Katara added.

Sokka brought his hands forward and put a sickening expression on. "Uh...it's awful...I'm DYYYING!"

"And it's deadly." Katara also added to finish it off.

The guards jumped back. "Dah! I-I think I've heard of that before!"

"Didn't your cousin Chang die from it?"

The guards started to run off. "Let's wash our hands! And burn our clothes!"

Sasuke sighed. "What a bunch of idiots."

Azula's ship...coast line...

Azula was sitting on her dais along with a line of Fire nation soldiers surrounding her. The moon hungover them creating an even more threating pose. Deidara sat at the front of the ship, finishing up on some more C3 bombs, thanks of course to Obito and the donation arm.

Azula's teachers; Lo and Li sat between her. "When tracking your brother and uncle along with exterminating the Yellow flash's heir, traveling with a royal procession may no longer be an option." One of them proposed.

"May no longer be wise...if you wish to keep the element of surprise."

"You're right, I need a small, elite team..."

Hearing this, Deidara turned around and walked over to them. "If you're gathering up a team, Obito and I will pursue our other interest."

"No. I still need you two for Naruto."

"I have Obito this time, I doubt we'll lose."

Omashu...still night...

The team was hiding away from Fire nation patrols behind a pile of construction materials. "My best guess is Bumi is kept somewhere metal." Sokka quietly said.

"And Naruto?" Aang asked.

"They won't cage Naruto. They'll kill him."

"Why? Isn't he Fire nation?" Katara asked.

"Yes but while we were split up in secret lover cave, this blonde guy stated his job was to kill Naruto. He was an earthbender, yes but he's wanted in the Earth kingdom. Unless he has a grudge against all Fire nation people, my best bet is he was hired by the Fire nation and ordered to kill Naruto."

"Naruto burned one of his arms off. He should be dead." Sasuke reminded. He slowly stood up. "The only evidence you need is that he is the son of Namikaze Minato."

Just above them, a rich Fire nation family was walking about. The daughter of the new governor of Omashu was as bored as ever. Her facial expression just screamed it. "There really is no measuring the depths of my hatred for this place." The young, black-haired, woman blankly stated.

The governor's wife tried to sound as calm as possible when she spoke to her daughter. Though from the tone of her voice, she was just tired of Mai's utter lack of appreciation. "Mai, your father was appointed governor. You're like royalty here. Be happy."

Several resistance fighters watched the family overhead. They had several boulders lined up in an attempt to murder the new family. "Ready! Go!"

"I thought the Fire nation was boring but this is painfully dull...nothing ever happens in my life."

Just before the boulders rolled down and killed the family, Aang shot a blast of air at the incoming boulders, destroying them andsending small pebble pieces flying everywhere. Mai's mother pointed to them. "The resistance!"

Mai slightly smirked and shot a barrage of arrows at them, Aang dodged the arrows and blocked the arrows with his staff, letting several arrows stick into them.

Aang nodded to Katara and Katara started to run towards Mak.

Both Katara and Mai were now running towards each otherat full force. Katara formed water whip along her arm and froze it, just like how she was taught. Mai however, threw several kunai at her only for Katara to block it with her ice whip.

Katara reeled back her ice whip then launched it at Mai, quickly, Mai slashed Katara's ice whip in half letting the rest fall onto the ground. Before Katara could react, Mai jumped back and got shot a barrage of shuriken at them.

Suddenly the floor underneath them tilted, making them fall down and disappear. Mai dropped her shoulders and sighed. She turned around and continued walking as if nothing happened.

Fire nation traveling circus...

Azula, Obito, and Deidara finally reached the circus and it was as busy as ever. Deidara threw a stick on the ground and approached Azula. "Tell me again why we came here?"

"I told you...To find an old friend."

Azula stopped in mid-tracks. "Ty lee...is that you?"

Just in front of them was a bubbly, bright eyed young-woman doing a handstand in the soft grass. You could tell she was one of those ditzy, but positive teenagers with her pink outfit and bright smile. Ty lee stood up on her legs then ran up to Azula to give her a hug.

"Azula! I can't believe it's you!"

"Azula, is this who you're really considering to be apart of our team, hm?" Deidara asked in a concerned tone.

"Mm-hm."

"Who are these people?" Ty lee asked, she looked at Deidara up and down, then glanced at Obito.

"I'll tell you later. Anyways, Ty lee...Ty lee...?"

Ty lee averted her eyes from Deidara and looked back to Azula. "Oh, yes Azula?" Ty lee asked in a sorta dazed voice.

"We've wasted enough time already. Ty lee, I have a proposition for you. I'm hunting a traitor. You remember my old wet-blanket of an Uncle, don't you?"

"Oh yeah, he was funny."

Deidara looked around, finally to see that his partner was gone. (Where did he-) Just randomly, Obito appeared with a dirt covered stuck in his hand. "Open your hand Deidara-kun."

"..." Deidara opened his scarred and stitched hand only for Obito to plop the stick on his hand.

Obito wagged his finger. "Tsk-tsk. No littering."

Deidara glared at Obito and snapped the stick. "...I'll stick this thing in your-"

"Anyways, I would be honored if you joined me in my mission." Azula finished.

Ty lee started to stare at Deidara again. Azula took note of that. "...well...I mean I've been so happy here. My aura has never been um...pinker!"

"Oh, I understand. I wouldn't want ruin your happiness."

"Yeah...thank-you...Azula." Ty lee said rather off-key.

"Oh but of course before we leave, why don't Obito, Deidara, and I catch your show."

Obito clapped his hands. "Oh! I love circus shows!"

Deidara crossed his arms. "I guess I'll catch it if there'll be an explosion."

"It's fine Deidara, there'll be plenty of that." Azula reassured. "Right, Ty lee?"

"Of course! There'll be...plenty of...um...those." Ty lee mumbled.

Omashu...

Aang rubbed his head and slowly got up. He heard a familiar voice, yelling at him. "HEY!...HEY! AANG!"

Aang looked around, just beyond him, Naruto was tied in several heavy chains. Aang pointed his staff at the resistance leader. "Let him go!" Aang demanded.

"Why? He's Fire nation."

"I don't care. He is still my friend."

Sokka looked at the leader, he could tell, he wasn't about to let Naruto go. Sokka pointed to Aang. "You know, he's the avatar and he Fire nation guy...that's his teacher for fire bending!"

He sighed. "Let the ash maker go."

One of the resistance fighters unlocked the chains and kicked him to Aang. Naruto stood up and rubbed his arm.

"Now...do you know where King Bumi is? Is he leading the resistance?" Aang calmly asked.

"...On the day of the invasion, he looked me in the eye and said, I'm going to do…nothing. It doesn't really matter now. Fighting the Fire nation is the only path to freedom and I will die for that chance."

Aang shook his head in disagreement. "Death is not the only path to freedom." After uttering those few words, the entire resistance crowd perked up to meet Aang's attention. "You're directing all your force in fighting the Fire nation, but you're outnumbered and they greatly over power you. Instead you should retreat and live to fight another day."

"How on earth would you know?!" The guy yelled as he tightly squeezed his fist. "They've taken our home! And we will fight them even if we die trying."

Another guy stepped up and put his arm on his shoulder. "I don't know, Yamato. Living to fight another day is sounding pretty good to me right about me."

"Yeah! I'm with him!"

"..." Yamato relaxed his hands, his eyes softened up a bit, it was already clear he knew he lost. "Fine but there are thousands of citizens here. How can we sneak them all across?"

Sokka stroked his chin. Then he had it. "Actually I have an idea: Suckers! You're all about to come down with a nasty case of pentapox!"

Sasuke glared at Sokka, catching on to what he was saying. "You aren't going to make me do that."

"Oh yes I am. And you're going to like it very much."

Towering over the city was the newly built mansion for the governor. Mai stood on the balcony with a bowl of fire flakes, she watched the streets crowd with moaning sick people. She offered the bowl to her father.

"Fire flakes, dad?"

Mai's mother came up from behind them and tightly hugged her husband. "How terrible!" She cried.

Catching Mai's eye, she saw that same raven-haired guy from before. He was sick as well, based purely on his face but she could see a slight movement of restraint. (He's not faking it, is he?)

Fire nation traveling circus...

Deidara started to get annoyed while watching the show, sure there was fire, animals, and no net but the explosions, as promised, were missing. Deidara turned to the circus master. "You don't have any explosions, do you?"

The circus master nervously nodded his head. "We have fireworks that will certainly fulfill your needs."

Obito clapped his hands. "Oh! I love fireworks!"

"Huh? ...The hell are fireworks, hm?"

"It's a Fire nation thing." Azula turned her attention towards the circus master. "Ignite them so our guess will witness the fireworks." Azula demanded.

"But..."

"I mean, shouldn't we have the most enjoyable show possible? Or were you just lying because otherwise I can let you perform alongside Ty lee."

"No, no. Release the fireworks!" The circus master announced.

Ty lee started to sweat, she could feel her face burn. It was clear who who won this fight, as always, she got her way. (...at least...) Ty lee glanced over to Deidara who seemed a bit bored. (...it might get a little interesting...)

Omashu...outskirts...

The Omashu resistance citizens all sat around the campfire in a small camp. The team awaited for Aang to comeback with Bumi.

"...what do you want?" Sasuke asked after Sokka kept on glaring at him.

"Your sick performance was horrible! You gotta ACT sick not look like it." Sokka explained.

"Listen, you're lucky I let you put the welts on me. I wasn't about to moan and groan like a fool. I'm just not as headstrong and crazy like the rest of you."

"Don't worry." Sokka did a creepy face. "You'll feel the change coming..."

Katara and Naruto approached the campfire, they were back from picking up some supplies. "Is Aang back?" Naruto asked.

"I think so. He should be back by now." Sokka stood up from the log he was sitting on. "Yes! There he is!"

Aang walked beside Flopsie, he stopped when he saw his friends approach him. "...we looked everywhere. No bumi." Aang solemnly stated.

Katara ran up and tightly hugged Aang. "It's okay..."

Sasuke sighed. "Let's leave then. Your friend is obviously dead, like I said."

Yamato walked up to them as well. "We did a head count and we have problem."

Katara broke away from Aang. "Did someone get...left behind?" Katara asked, her voice full of worry.

He shook his head. "No. There's an extra."

A/N: The only reason why I made the resistance leader Yamato because I thought they were kinda similar. Also Deidara does not wear the Akatsuki cloak, instead he wears a black hooded cloak over an earth style kimono.