Uzumaki's Wrath
Chapter 15
The small group was in one of their rooms at the apartment they were staying at. They took Jet there to hopefully set this odd occurrence straight. However, Katara didn't think it was a good idea, as she still didn't trust the boy, even if Naruto taught him how to fight with those hook swords.
"The Dai Li must have sent Jet to mislead us and that janitor guy as part of their plot too!"
"Somehow, I really doubt they sent the old man for that, but I can see them using an experienced fight like Jet." Kyuubi commented from atop Jin's head, making Naruto nod gravely.
"I bet they have Appa here in the city!" Aang said, "Maybe he is in the same place he took Jet! Where did they take you?"
"No where…I-I don't know what you are talking about!" Jet said. His mind was in a jumble and he could not think straight.
"We need to find a way to jog his memories." Aang replied.
"Maybe Katara could kiss him. That should bring something back." Sokka replied with a smirk.
"Maybe you should kiss him Sokka." Katara replied with a glare.
"Hey, just an idea." Sokka said with his hand out in front of him.
"A bad one." Naruto and Aang stated. Naruto because he was with the girl and Aang because he did not want to see his sister figure with someone like Jet.
Sokka then tried something a piece of grass that Jet usually had in his mouth and that did not work….at all.
"Try to think of something from the past that triggers your emotions." Toph suggested.
"The Fire Nation!" Smeller Bee offered. "Remember what they did to your family!"
"No." Naruto said with a small growl, making the others look at him in shock. "Memories like that could be more hurtful then helpful and if the Dai Li are indeed using him, that could trigger a hidden part of his memory that they implanted."
"Wait, how would you know that?" Aang asked.
"In the Final Scroll, it talked about Danzo and some of his, lesser known methods of control. It was dangerous to use, so he usually just stuck with breaking them, making them emotionless. This whole thing screams something Danzo or in this time, Long Feng would do."
He looked up and he saw that most of the people in the room looking pale. Jin, who thank to Kyuubi, was catching up to the gang about Naruto. "Still that is crazy!" She replied.
"Though, it is not farfetched." Kyuubi replied, "He already rules this place through fear."
"Right." Naruto replied.
Katara sighed and walked up behind Jet. "Maybe this will help." She stated as she used water bending on his head and as it glowed, he saw the image of a stern looking man on a lake before he was pulled under and saw an underground cavern under the water.
"They took me to a headquarters under the water." Jet managed to get out in a strained voice. "Like a lake!"
"Wait! Remember what Joo Dee said!" Sokka interjected. "She said she went on vacation to Lake Laogai!"
"That's it!" Jet exclaimed. "Lake Laogai."
"This Lake must be of some importance then. Let's tread carefully about how we do this." Naruto cautioned.
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Jet lead them to a large lake on the outskirt of the city and it was a pretty good sized lake. "So where is this secret headquarters?" Sokka asked.
"Under the water , I think." Jet replied while rubbing the back of his head.
"Yep…just like his ancestor." Naruto grumbled, remembering about where Danzo sometime had a base."
"There's a tunnel right over there, near the shore." Toph said, pointing to their left.
"My earth vision is not that well-tuned. Can you get it for us?' Naruto asked with a smile.
"Sure." Toph replied as she walked over and had it rise while whistling a small tune. There was indeed a small entrance.
When they managed to open the small rock lid, revealing a hole in the ground, Momo shivered before flying off, not wanting to go underground after what happened last time. "Wimp." Kyuubi chuckled and Jin flicker his ear.
"I am a little iffy on going down there myself. So I will keep him company." Jin replied with a smile, but the fox could see she was shaking a bit. Kyuubi wisely kept his mouth shut as he leapt onto Naruto's head, before they made their way down.
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"It's all starting to come back to me." Jet stated as the group snuck around in the green lit hallways of the Long Feng's hide out for his Dai Li. They had to be very careful not to get caught or else their lives are forfeit.
The group passed a room that got Naruto's blood pumping in anger. A Dai Li operative was speaking slowly to blank eyed women. "I'm Joo Dee. Welcome to Ba Sing Se."
"I'm Joo Dee. Welcome to Ba Sing Se." The women replied in a dull tone.
At this, Naruto's knuckles turned white in anger. This was not right at all! Kyuubi peered down at his longtime friend and said, "Calm down boy, Long Feng will get what's coming to him."
"Right." Naruto growled as they continued walking. Katara looked back at her boyfriend sadly. He was such a good person that, she could understand why he was angry, hell, she was too.
"I think there is a cell big enough to hold Appa up ahead." Jet replied, trying to ignore what he just saw. They came to a stone door near a large wall and opened it to reveal…
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The door the Appa's chamber opened to reveal a shadowed figure to the giant bison. The giant beast got up, hoping that Aang or one of his friends came to save him, but it was someone else. The Blue Spirit.
"Expecting someone else?" Zuko's voice rang out as he walked in, drawing his duel swords from his back. This irritated the giant beast as he growled.
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What was revealed to Aang and the gang was a large open room with…noting in it. As they walked in, Naruto looked around with narrowed eyes. "Something's not right."
The answer to that was the door closing on them. And the lights going on. They looked up and Naruto said in a dead panned voice. "I hate when I am right."
Up above them were a good number of Dai Li agents, hanging on the ceiling. "Now that's something different." Sokka pointed out.
"I just have one question." Naruto asked, highly annoyed. "HOW THE HELL ARE YOU GUYS MORE NINJA LIKE THEN ME!"
Long Feng ignored the question and leered at the children below them. "You have made yourselves enemies of the state. Take them into custody." He ordered of his men.
Dai Li agents all dropped to the ground and begun the attack. One of them tried attacking head on by throwing out their stone hands, but Toph intervened and destroyed the stone hands in mid-air, creating dust and both sides took advantage of that. Toph, with her earth vision, bent the earth to launch the two fools in front of her away.
Jet ran the opposite way and charged after two agents as they sent their own stone hand at him, but all he did was swing his hook sword and destroy them. He then slide by the one of the left, catching the man's legs, and making him fall on his face.
Aang easily used the air to send his enemies flying. The water tribe siblings managed to bat the stone hand coming for them away, but where caught off guard as more stone hand caught them from behind them and started dragging them away. Thankfully, Toph intervened and stopped them.
The two idiot agents tried to attack her with her own element, so she smirked and rose herself into the air with an earth pillar, with the two following them.
Katara turned her head to see how Naruto was fairing and smirked. Naruto had attracted 4 agents. Naruto simply rose an eyebrow, as they converged on him. He took out his own hook swords and as one of them charged at him, he side stepped the attack and using the hook, nabbed the man's wrist while swing him around.
He saw another coming and decided to send a bit of lightning through his sword just as the guy trapped on his sword slammed into the man, shocking them both. The landed in a smoking heap on the floor. Naruto looked to the last two and asked, "Who's next?"
The two remaining agents glared at the blond while sending out their own stone hands. Naruto frowned before he quickly put away his swords and jumped into the air, going horizontal. The stone hands passed harmlessly above and below him. As he was letting gravity pull him down, he was already in the process of earth bending.
When he landed, he quickly brought both hands up to break up the earth and reveal large stone hand of his own. He smirked and tried to wack them away from him if they got to close. One of them made the mistake of dodging a little too early and got his face slapped and that sent him into a wall. "Oooh! Talk about being bitch slapped!" Naruto said with a wince. He then dodged the last one that tried to punch him in the face.
Naruto smirked at that. He had let that happen so he could easily catch the agent. The large stone hands wrapped around the man before sinking into the ground. All that was visible was the man's head. "I would say that you lost your head…but it is more like your body."
"That joke sucked." Kyuubi yawned out from atop Naruto's head. However, the blond didn't reply, knowing the fox could not fight that well in his fox body and he didn't have time to make a body for him.
With that done, Naruto looked up to see how Toph was doing and saw that she was done with her four opponent, but was caught off guard by flying stone hand that caught her from behind. Naruto nodded to Jet and broke away the stone hand with his own earth bending and then caught the blind girl in mid-air. They landed with both feet on the ground, ready for anything.
However, they didn't have to do much because Jet, Smeller bee, and Long Shot helped protect them.
Long Feng frowned as he saw that his men were losing to a bunch of brats, so he quickly made his way out of the room. Aang saw this and shouted, "Long Feng is escaping!"
"I got it Aang!" Naruto shouted as he broke the wall apart to race after the descendent of Danzo, with Jet following him. Aang nodded, letting Naruto go in his place while he helped fight off the last of the agents. He knew Naruto could handle himself. He would gather his friends and give the blond backup when they were done.
Naruto and Jet ran down a hallway that lead into another large chamber, this time with sewer like decorations. Long Feng dropped down behind them and said, "While I was expecting the Avater, the Golden Fox will do for now. You and the Avatar have caused me enough problems. This is your last chance, if you want to help the Avatar get his bison back!"
"So you do have Appa. Kyuubi was right about that after all since he and Momo saw the bison's paw print in the city." Naruto said with narrowed eyes. "Tell me where he is."
"Agree to exit the city now and I'll wave all charges against you and I'll allow you to leave with your friend's lost pet." Long Feng replied with a dark look.
"You are in no position to bargain! " Jet replied while readying his swords.
"From the way I see it no." Naruto glared, "And I highly doubt you would even let us leave after what we know."
Long Feng smirked before his face took on an eerie look. "Jet. The Earth King has invitated you to Lake Laogai." He said, voice echoing a bit.
Naruto raised an eyebrow, "Dude, I think you have lost it since we are al-"
"Naruto! Watch out!" Kyuubi shouted as the blond jumped away from Jet's swords.
"What the!" Naruto managed to say before he looked at Jet's eyes to see that the pupils where dilated. "Damnit! I hate being right!" Naruto shouted as he dodged Jet's strikes. He did not want to fight his own student like this!
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Zuko just stood in front of Appa as the giant bison thrashed around in hopes of intimidating the smaller human. "You're mine now." Zuko replied.
The door behind him opened and he turned to face the threat, only to see that it was his Uncle. "Uncle?"
"So the Blue Spirit." Iroh commented while crossing his arms. "I wonder who be behind that mask."
Zuko sighed as he took the mask off and asked, "What are you doing here?"
"I was just about to ask you the same thing." Iroh commented. "What do you plan to do now that you have found the Avatar's bison? Keep it locked in our new apartment? Should I go put on a pot of tea for him?"
"First I have to get it out of here." Zuko replied, not noticing how irritated his uncle was becoming.
"AND THEN WHAT?" Iroh shouted, "YOU NEVER THINK THESE THING THROUGH! This is exactly what happened when you captured the Avatar at the North Pole! You had him and them you had nowhere to go!"
"I would have figured something out!" Zuko shouted back.
"NO!" Iroh shouted again, "If his friends hadn't found you, you would have frozen to death!"
"Argh! I know my own destiney, Uncle!" Zuko growled out.
"Is it your own destiny or is it someone else's destiny someone else has tried to force on you!"
"Stop it Uncle. I have to do this!" Zuko raged as he glared the bison.
"I'm begging you Prince Zuko. It is time for you to look inward and begin asking yourself the big questions. Who are you and what do you want!"
"ARGH!" Zuko screamed as he slammed his swords on the ground.
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Naruto dodged another attack from Jet. "Jet this isn't you. I never thought you would be so easily controlled! You don't have to do this!"
"I am afraid he no longer has a choice." Long Feng said from his spot.
Jet charged at Naruto again and Naruto noticed that Jet was not using his full skills, which meant that his current state of mind was limited.
"Fine, you wanna play, let's play." Naruto growled as he once again took out his own hook swords and countered Jet's strikes.
Naruto saw that he could easily beat Jet and went in for it. He used the hooked ends of his blades to rip away Jet's swords easily. Dropping his swords, he yelled. "Jet! You don't have to do this. You are a Freedom Fighter! So WAKE THE HELL UP!" Naruto shouted as he ran at his old friend and punched the teen's face.
Jet stumbled a bit as memories assaulted his mind and he regained himself. "What?
"Kill him now!" Long Feng shouted, having grown impatient.
Jet growled as he picked up his sword and threw it at Long Feng with all the strength he could muster, however, the older man dodged with ease and sent a fatally deadly strike of earth toward the teen.
Naruto's eyes widened as he used the earth vision to see through the dust. The earth strike was way too quick for him to pull Jet fully out of the way, so he did the next best thing, moved him with earth bending to the right so it would not be as fatal. There was a sickening crunch of metal, earth, and bone and then the dust cleared to reveal Jet lying on the ground. His left portion of his suit dented pretty badly as most of the metal had already crumbled off.
"Jet!" Naruto yelled as he rushed over to his downed friend and student as Long Feng got away.
"I am sorry…Naruto-sensei." Jet breathed out.
"Don't be." Naruto said sadly as the door opened to reveal Aang and the gang, they all looked shocked that Jet was on the ground with Naruto leaning over him. They quickly gathered around the down teen, fearful of what happened.
Thinking quickly, Katara pulled out her water to check on Jet. Her eyes widened when she went over the left side of his body. "This isn't good." She said sadly.
Smeller Bee looked like she wanted to cry but she said, "You guys go and find Appa. We will take care of Jet."
"We are not going to leave you!" Katara said in a strained voice.
"There's no time." Long Shot said with a weak voice. They were all shocked to hear the normally silent archer speak. Just go. We'll take care of him. He's our leader."
"Don't worry Katara, I'll be fine." Jet managed to get out with a weak smile.
The group slowly walked out of the chamber soberly and Toph said in a grave voice, "He's lying."
Sokka looked sad at that before he noticed that Naruto was still with Jet.
"Naruto-sensei, take of them, especially Katara…for me." Jet said quietly.
"I will. Just…make sure you make it. You have too much to live for…." He said, motioning over to Long Shot and Smeller Bee. Jet just gave a weak smile before Naruto caught up with the Aang and the gang, with a sober expression of his own.
Toph grabbed Naruto hand and said, "Please don't ever leave me like that."
"Don't worry, I won't do that to you." Naruto said while giving her hand a reassuring squeeze. "But, I would die just to protect you…..all of you."
That seemed to make the girl happy, but she did not want him die anytime soon. Still, his declaration brought a smile to the group's face. Katara even blushed as well and hung back to hold his hand as well. Naruto just smiled.
Kyuubi sighed, but he knew what Naruto did. If they were lucky, Jet might just survive…
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Soon they came upon another large room and Toph opened the door for them. However, their giant furry friend was nowhere in sight. "Appa's gone! Long Feng beat us here."
If we keep moving, maybe we can catch up with them." Sokka suggested.
"I agree, let's move!" Naruto said as they ran toward the entrance towards the beach….which Toph created to save them some time.
When they managed to get above ground again, they ran along the beach to get the other entrance quicker, but it turned out they had some tag a long s because Dai Li agents were chasing them.
"You think we can out run them?" Sokka asked.
"I don't think it is going to matter." Aang said as he saw Dai Li agents ahead of them as well. Soon they found themselves trapped because they raised a wall of earth ahead and behind them. On one said was a mountain range and the other was the lake.
Suddenly, Momo flew down around them chatting up before he flew upwards again, Kyuub only smirked. "What is it Momo?" Aang asked. They looked up to find Appa flying down to them from in front of the sun. "Appa!"
"Well, I am glad this worked out then." Naruto said with a smile because the giant bison smashed his way through the wall, scattering the Dai Li agents that had been on the walls.
Before they could do anything else, the mountain range holding the other Dai Li agents exploded, sending them into the water. The group looked around to see Jin in an earth bending stance. She smiled and said, "What? I am not just some helpless girl."
"I like her!" Toph shouted with a smile.
Appa then landed in front of Long Feng and he looked pissed. Long frowned and said, "I can handle you by myself!" Long then jumped at the bison with a kick, but Appa caught him with his mouth before Appa flung the man into the lake as well. Appa looked puzzled before he figured out what was wrong and spat out Long's shoe.
The gang ran over to the giant bison and they all gave him a hug, even Jin. "I missed you buddy." Aang said with a smile, and Appa just seemed happy.
As they flew away on the giant bison, they embraced. They just never saw Zuko and Iroh climb out of the Dai Li's hide out, with Zuko throwing away the Blue Spirit mask into the water, with is uncle telling him that he did the right thing.
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And there you all go. I set it up for Jet to survive if that is what you all want. Let me know in the reviews. Goodnight.