Minato was watching the sun setting as he was traveling towards Natalie's military quarters. He heard soldiers shuffled about the premises, which signaled to him that they completed whatever duty that they were assigned for today.
'I remember when I first arrived here…I hated the fact I had a curfew…' The blonde reflected to himself once he momentarily halted in the middle of his stride up the small hill.
He quickly shook his head in order to clear his previous thoughts from earlier, 'I can't think about that right now. Time isn't on my side!'
'I wonder would she remember the first conversation that we had with one another?' The young man inwardly wondered. He swiftly advanced towards her quarters while he allowed himself to recall the first ever conversation he held with her.
"This house is amazing!" A little version of Minato happily exclaims as he trails behind a smaller version of Natalie.
"Can you keep your voice down?! It's extremely rude for you to be shouting in someone else home." The raven haired girl immediately belittled him in a rather bored tone. She was already annoyed by his presence.
The blonde quietly ignored the comment from his tour guide and opted to survey his surroundings before he posed her, "What's your name?"
He noted that the girl in front of him halted and peeked over her shoulder before she answered, "Natalie Andros".
'That was surprisingly easy…' The boy shockingly noted to himself before he remembered he had to introduce himself, "My name is Minato."
The girl name, Natalie, did not offer any response but instead proceeded to walk away. "Hey! You can at least tell me when you're going to walk off."
'She's one weird girl. Natalie Andros, eh?' Minato concludes to himself. He then registers that he was now outside of the house.
He admired the city below them in awe and amazement, "You guys have the best view of the city!"
Natalie was shaking her head at the boy, name Minato, as if he did not heed her warning him about shouting in the house. 'Now he's screaming outside…what's wrong with this boy?'
Her green eyes watched as the blonde continued with his observation of the kingdom of Noursaia in sheer excitement. He even started to point out some familiar landmarks that he recognized and rambled on about it to her.
"And over there is…oh yeah that's where…oh I didn't know you can see that from here…" The girl was barely listening to his words.
"Hey, you," She calmly calls out to him, which breaks him out of his conversation with himself and stares at the raven haired girl.
"I thought I told you that my name is Minato? It isn't that hard to remember since it's just a first name." The boy was irritably stating after realizing that she did not call him by his name.
"Anyway, I heard from my father that your master doesn't accept just anyone as his pupil." His guide starts off.
"So you must think that I am weak or something?" He instantly challenged her. The blonde was all to familiar with that question since often times he was asked that by others.
"Did you hear that come out of my mouth?! You know...it isn't a good thing to try and dig too deep in my words?"
"All I said was from what my father told me…unless you just automatically assumed that whenever people ask you that." She retorts with her arms across her chest while her weight shifts to her left foot.
Minato was caught off guard by the strange girl's statement. "If you truly are your master's disciple then you should already have learned not to jump to conclusion or assumptions about people, especially when it comes down to your master's reputation."
'She has some scary eyes. She's right though. He told me to never do that.' He remembers after Natalie's eyes slant to a deadly low while she converses with him.
"My apologies then. You actually sound just like him by the way." Minato was apologizing to her while laughing and rubbing the back of his head at the same time.
"Ah, I see you two are getting along quite well. That's a relief." Rick's voice unexpectedly chimes in between the children's conversation.
"I wouldn't completely agree to that father. It appears to me as if he has no spine whatsoever." She honestly disagrees while she faces away from her father, Namikaze, and Minato.
"Natalie! That's such a rude thing to say to our guest." He swiftly reprimanded her. The older man already knew his daughter was not about to take it back nor apologize for what she said about the boy.
"My, my, my, she reminds me so much of someone I know..." Namikaze hints after he laughes at the young girl's reactions.
"Anyway, I am going to need for you to run a few errands for me? Do you think you can do that for me?" He then posed to his daughter before she rotated around to face him again.
"Sure…as long as I'm not around him." The raven haired girl states her demands while she points at Minato with her index finger.
Namikaze could not help but to burst in to laughter once again at her actions against his student.
"Rick," He utters while he grabs his friend's shoulder.
"How about we allow Princess Natalie to show Minato around Nourasia? He hasn't been back in some years and I want him to see his old home again." He offers as a suggestion to his raven haired friend.
"That doesn't sound that bad. Natalie do as what Namikaze suggested and take Minato out." Her father quickly changed his statement due to his close friend's clever suggestion.
"Ah come on dad! That isn't fair!" Natalie adamantly protested against the idea but he remained firm with his decision.
'And to think...we end up actually enjoying the day with one another! Even though she didn't want to admit it…' He was reminscing to himself before finally making it to her main quarters and entered through the door.
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Natalie was growing weary of following the man in front of her around as if she was a lost puppy dog begging for a home to live in.
"Is this all that you are planning to show me?!" She demands of him before he halts in the middle of what appears to be a hallway.
The man faces her and states, "You can leave at any time that you like. That is, if you are growing bored by the tour."
"Actually, I am. These strange rooms and riddles that you've been giving me is starting to grow old. How do I return back to my quarters?" The raven haired woman asked with sincerity in her tone.
"It seems as if you have lost all interest in this project so I will show you a way out." The male responds to the obvious before he proceeds forward.
The solider closely trails behind him since he did not openly present a hostile presence. Nevertheless, the woman remained on her toes just in case he might try something weird.
"It seems as if we have reached the end of your visit with me anyways. I do hope you come back and visit me again." The man was expressing with the latter part in a teasing manner before standing in front of a wall and facing her.
"I don't see a door here. What are you trying to do, pull a fast one on me?" The captain instantly challenges.
The young woman closely observed her settings since there was no visible signs of a door or a possible exit anywhere.
The man audibly chuckles to himself at her nativity, "It seems as if you aren't permitting your senses to roam freely on this one."
Natalie was pausing in her rebuttal to the man's comment before hearing the sound of wind passing through a crack, the feel of it blowing on her face and the scent of food.
'The dimensions of the door is like crawling though a hole or a secret tunnel.' She concludes while a white box outlines against the wall.
"It seems as if you have figured it out. All you have to do is push the door in, enter through and you will be back home." The man instructed her on how to open the door.
He stepped out of the way to allow her to pass him, "You know...after giving me all of these hints, I think I'm able to use them a little bit better."
The solider then squats, rests her left hand against the wall and presses it inward until it shifts underneath her weight.
"Well it was indeed a pleasure to see that at least one of the experiments managed to survive." The man cryptically mentions to her right before she crawls through the square hole.
'Great, another dark tunnel to crawl through!' The young woman was grumbling to herself while imitating a dog, on all fours.
The tunnel eventually changes in to an incline rather than a straight line.
Natalie assumed that she was close to the surface once rays of light peeks through what appears to be the exit for her.
'I'm almost there...' She conceives before she punches her way through a wooden door that serves as the exit.
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Jordan felt as if he just left all of his worries and problems behind after he emerged from the pristine pool water.
'It seems as if I can never win when it comes down to the female race.' He deems to himself before he realizes that is was almost nighttime.
His sights noticed his reflection was not of his human face but rather the one that he was blessed with when he took on the Avatar's power.
'Well I won't have to see that face again for a while.' The young mandetermines to himself before he faces the sky.
'I will have to be quick since my time here is slowly coming to an end.' The Avatar was saying before stepping down the steps of the fountain. He then ascended to those that were engraved in the side of the mountain.
The sound of his footsteps echoed throughout the small portion of the Royal Family's lineage. A thought was passing through his head before turning his attention back to his destination.
'I hate how strong I have become as the Avatar. I just want to feel one type of human emotion.' He wished as he stared at his golden colored hand.
His eyes was finding himself looking at a close fist instead of an open one when he could feel the feeling of nothingness in his palm.
Jordan released a sigh of defeat and made his way away from the peaceful vibe that he received from the place.
'He doesn't know that I can crush him easily with a blink of an eye or just a simple thought.' He declared to himself.
The intergalactic dignitary soon opted against it since it was not the Avatar's nature to hold aggression against another person.
'I think it's about time to put my plan on full steam ahead. I plan to knock all of those who are in my way out!'
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Minato knew he made it to his intedned destination once he spotted the battalion's number 245 along the front entrance of the building.
'Who would have thought that this place looks so nice?' He thought when he approached the entrance, yanked on the golden knob and entered.
There was not much traffic going through the place, which he presumed because it was close to curfew that they would be well on their way to their dorms by now.
"Ah, Sir Minato, it is an honor for you to be in our presence. Is there something wrong?" A woman with short crop purple hair and round glasses was asking while executing him a salute.
"No, I just need to speak to Captain Andros. Her father, Sir Rick, requested me to deliver a message to her directly." The young man partially reveals the real reason as to why he was presently there.
The woman's eyes cut somewhere else, "Well...Captain Andros isn't in at the moment. Quite frankly, I don't know when she will be back, Sir Minato."
'So she couldn't even bring herself to tell her own men where she was going? What kind of captain is she?' The knight was asking himself after hearing what the woman was saying to him.
"Well then, do you know where her office is?" The blonde asked the woman in front of him, who wore a serious look on her face.
"Yes, she actually left me in charge of the facilities. My name is 2nd Lit. Steele. I can direct you to where her office is." The woman, who sits behind the wooden desk, introduces herself to him.
"What are we waiting for then?" He told the woman, who turned down the opposite direction she just came from.
'I just hope she is still in there.' The young man was praying while following the lower rank officer in front of him.
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Natalie eventually made her way around to the entrance where she came face to face with some hidden passageways.
After one glance, she mentally imprinted the layout of the building incase they were to ever come under fire by a foe.
The raven haired woman was relying heavily on her sense of hearing and touch as well as her memory of the layout plans.
'Alright then…let's get this over with…' She declares to herself before she advances about five paces forward before she abruptly veers left.
'Eight paces forward, pass the first hall, turn on the third step.' The young woman inwardly recited once she felt a slight breeze against her face.
'Run about two and a half feet, jump and run about twelve paces, turn left then right, go through the diagonal and cut right.' The solider presumed once she felt the smaller walls of the diagonal hall before she reaches the opening.
'The walls slump down in a decline fashion, crawl about a couple of inches, stop, and turn to your left.' The captain ran through all of the directions in her head.
Natalie was crawling the rest of the distance before having to lean sideways just so she could gain some leeway. She then angled the sole of her foot against the opening.
The woman deeply inhales, rears her foot back, and kicks it with some force that causes the square door to fly across her office room. The sound of a clang was heard, which signaled that it had collided against the floor.
'Well I'm finally home…' The solider sighed to herself in relief once she slowly crawled out backwards so she would not hit her head.
"So that's where you've been hiding?!" A familiar voice verbalizes, which causes her to hit her head against the wall due to the sudden surprise.
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Author's Note:
12.10.16 Major editing revision
06.25.17 Major cleaning edits