Edited 8-21-15 (Added an omake at the end, nothing crucial, I just thought the ending didn't tie in well to the next chapter, plus I wanted my own explanation to how Sokka's pants got ripped before arriving at Kyoshi Island. Doesn't follow the same style, just something different. Other than that nothing notable, just replaced a few sentences, fixed a few minor misspellings and other minor grammatical errors)
Im going to start this one with Sakura's P.O.V, do I do her P.O.V too much? Idk, she is more sensitive do I wanna show some things through her eyes. Ok, well here goes chapter 3!
"I'm Katara, I'm a water bender from the Southern Water Tribe, this is my brother, Sokka, he's a 'warrior' from the Southern Water Tribe. And this," she said grabbing Aang's shoulder "is Aang, he's the Avatar! But he only knows air bending so far." Aang gave a wave, and Sokka nodded his head, still skeptical.
"Its a pleasure tp meet all of you." I said with a warm smile. "I'm Sakura Haruno, and this is Naruto Uzamaki." Naruto put his hand out to shake, but Kartara was the only one that didn't stare at it like I was a lizard. She unsure grabbed the hand, Naruto shook and she followed.
"What, never shook someone's hand before?!" He asked looking at their confusion.
"No, not really..." Katara said seemingly inside of what a handshake was, Naruto looked at me and we both just shrugged it off. (Though, Naruto is freaking out inside because he kinda just invented the handshake in another world)
"So why do you have two names?" Sokka asked confused.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Well you said your name is Sakura Haruno. Why do you have two names?" He asked sincerely.
"Um.." I started thinking he might be pulling my leg but still answered. "Its a last name it has to do with identifying us with our clans." I explained.
"Clans?" Katara asked.
Before I could, Aang interjected "As much as I'm enjoying this talk, could we maybe continue it on Appa, I'm sorta ready to leave." He said shyly.
"What's an Appa?" was all Naruto said.
Immediately all of their faced lit up. "An Appa is," Aang started, but Sokka interrupted "You'll see." And he winked at Aang, Katara was just giggling. We followed them down some rock steps and sitting there was a beas- but before I could even finish thinking, let alone attack, Aang shouted "Appa!"
Naruto's P.O.V
Right in front of me was a furry ten ton beats! It looked like a bison on steroids.
"What is that!?" I questioned my jaw hitting the floor-no, snow.
"That," Sokka started, "is an Appa." He and the others were laughing at our expressions.
"Its actually kinda cute.." Sakura said fearing their reactions.
"So what does it do?" I asked, getting scared as they made the same face as when I asked what is an Appa.
"Get on, you'll see." Sokka said and climbed up the bison thing! He reached a hand down to help us up, but they weren't needed, Sakura and I simply hopped up onto 'Appa'.
"Yip yip!" Baldy shouted and grabbed- bison reins? What happened next made me glad I hadn't eaten any ramen, because it would be in my pants, the bison started freakin flying! Sakura looked as shocked as me and we both held onto the 'saddle'.
"Why don't you just ride a horse?!" I asked over the sound of the wind.
"You mean an ostrich-horse?" The girl asked confused.
"What in the world is an ostrich horse!?" I asks confused. "What kinda weird things does your world have?!"
That earned me a weird glance, when Sakura interjected trying to show that we didn't understand a thing in their world, "We're from um.. far far away- its almost like a different world," she chuckled nervously. Were we not gonna mention that?
"Kataraa I need a drink." Pony tail boy wined. She opened a pouch of water and threw the water at him, but she didn't touch it!? She used some type of foce to move the water!
"What was that!?" Sakura asked clearly as confused as I was.
"Waterbending." Katara said casually as if we should know what it was.
"That was amazing!" Sakura exclaimed. And they started chattering about it.
I decided to try to make conversation with Pony tail boy. "Soo... Your a warrior?" I asked.
"Yeah." he shrugged.
"Sweet, can I see some of you weapons?" I asked remembering the boomerang he had in the temple.
"Well, actually, I only have this." He said and pulled out the boomerang. It was silver and had blue around the sharp parts. It could clearly use a little bit of work. It looked like something that one of the younger academy students would have. But I didn't want to insult him, so I complimented it.
"Thanks." He said semi-boastfully. "What about you, do you have any weapons?"
"Well I have a few. Nothing great." I said grabbing my suitcase and opening it. I pulled out a few shuriken and kunai, and handed them to him.
"Woah! These are awesome! Where did you get them!?" he asked examining them.
"Yanno, around." I said smugly. "Some from my Sensei, some from my friends. My favorite is this." I said and pulled out a windmill shuriken. Of course at the exact moment that I opened it, Baldy looked back and almost shit himself.
"Woah! What is that!?" He asked walking across the bison like it was land and not over 1,000 feet in the air!
By now he had attracted aqua girl and Sakura's attention. I casually answered "My windmill shuriken."
"Wow how cool!" he said picking it up and nearly dropping it. "The only weapons I've ever seen were the old ones in the Fire Nation ship, some staff the monks used to use and Sokka's boomerang, but they are nothing compared to this!" He shouted making me feel proud and Pony tail boy looked a lil bit completely pissed at the insult on his boomerang.
"Hmp."
Sakura's P.O.V
"Haha" Katara snickered at the look on her brothers face when the young Avatar insulted his boomerang.
"So how long have you and Aang known each other?" I asked once she was done laughing at Sokka.
I swear I saw the faintest blush on her at the mention of Aang "Well about three days, honestly." She said and we both laughed, they all acted like they knew each other for ever. "We found him in an iceberg in the ocean." she said.
"Yeah, I heard, Lady Tsunade told us a lil bit of the basics of our mission. But not much." I said.
"So is Naruto always this immature?" She asked as Naruto and Sokka bickered over who's weapon was better.
"Well, he means no harm, truly. It used to be horrible. He's a lot more mature than he was." She shot me a 'he was less mature, I'm so sorry' look. I just chuckled. "He knows when to be mature though, but he does say some- correction a lot of unnecessary comments. What about Sokka, is he still a man child?" I laughed.
"I see. And yeah, I guess you can say it's the same with him, I had to grow up fast, when we lost our mother I practically raised us." she said touching her necklace. I could already tell she was a lot more mature than Sokka and Aang.
"I'm sorry." I said frowning, I placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. "My father died and my Mom took care of me. Naruto is usually the one that I talk about things like this with..." I said now slightly uncomfortable with the conversation.
"What happened to Naruto's parents?" She asked concerned.
"That's a long story that would probably be best coming from him..." I said trying not to sound rude. "He'll tell you eventually, trust me." I said.
"Ok." she said her mood and tone now becoming upbeat again. "Excuse me for a second." She said and called out Aang's name.
"What is it Katara? Oh, hello Sakura." He said waling over to us. I just waved as to not interrupting the pending conversation, but I did listen to it.
"I think we should start looking for somewhere to make camp soon," She said and they both looked out to the sun. It waws around 3pm.
"I agree, I kinda had a particular place in mind though," he stated, sheepishly rubbing the back of his head, a trait that vaguely reminded me of Naruto. "But, we can take a rest if you need to!" he promised cheerily.
The childish "I gotta go potty!" from the back of the bison was Aang's sign as he nodded with a smile and headed to.. land the bison?
A/N
Ok, first off, you guys suck as reviewing. Jus sayin. Next chapter is in Sokka's P.O.V sorry and it is a long story why. Ain't nobody got time for that.
-dac
Omake cause, I wanna know how Sokka's pants got ripped.
The bright sun shone through a canopy of taller than life trees. Sunlight that had traveled millions upon millions of miles to land upon- Sokka's ass?
Ah yes, mother nature. When it called, it called, even if you were just a teenage boy traveling the world on a flying bison, you still had to do your business. Even if the only spot to land the bison happened to be surrounded pokey bushes and ming snakes and all of the other horrid creatures even a brave warrior should be terrified of. (Yeah, narrator here to tell you, that's sarcasm)
But despite the terrifying conditions, mother nature called. And Sokka was stuck doing his business behind a bush. And if you've ever had to use the nature as your toilet, you may know its not very much fun. Especially when your friends (mostly strangers) are waiting for you, surely knowing whats going on. And when you're in a situation like this you tend to be a bit paranoid. And when your a bit paranoid, you tend to jump at the slightest sound. And when you jump at the slightest sound in the woods, you tend to jump a lot. And when you jump a lot with your pants around your ankles, your bound to fall. And when you fall in the woods, you tend to emit out a very high pitched scream that can rival even the littlest of girls. And when you do that, your sister comes running to help. And when your sister runs to help while your already in the woods, jumpy, with your pants around your ankles, you tend to fall again. And when your sister turns and screams at the unbelievably white flesh in front of her, the rest of your friends come running to help. And when your bare ass is hanging out and a group of people come running at you, you tend to pull your pants up really fast.
And forget your surrounded by thorns.
And the thorns tend to like to latch onto fabric.
And when you argue with a thorn over fabric, that fabric tends to rip.
And after all of this, you tend to be a bit pissy the rest of the day.