Recap: Tsunade sent Sakura and Naruto into the Avatar-verse to help the Gaang
Sakura and Sokka trained with the Kyoshi warriors
Katara taught Naruto a bit about bending
Naruto was starting to get friendly with a Kyoshi girl- Bri, but everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked [ I couldn't resist...]
Naruto fought Zuko along side Aang (and he got hella wedgie)
They left Kyoshi (Sakura and Sokka in dresses heh)
The Gaang is now on their way to Omashu!
(Btw, Kyoshi parts 1-3 have been made into one obnoxious over sized chapter c: )
Sakura's POV
"Are we there yet?!" Naruto complained for the hundredth time.
"Will you just shut up already!? You've been up for an hour and have complained more than a normal person could in their lifetime!" I shouted, raising my fist.
He stuck his tongue out at me and sneered, then crossed his arms and pouted with his back to me.
"Whatever," I spat.
"What I don't understand is why, if we have a giant flying bison, are we walking!?" Sokka complained.
They are so alike, it's infuriating!
"Are you ready?!" Aang cheered, a huge grin plastered across his face.
"Hm?" Naruto asked, looking up from his pouting position.
"All that's there is a snowy hill-?" Sokka started.
Aang glared, but his smile returned quickly "The Earth Kingdom city of Omashu!"
As we came over the hill, before us stood what could be assumed as the Earth Kingdom city of Omashu.
It was beautiful. It sat on a sandy looking mountain. Surrounding it was other hills and mountains of all sizes, and if one wasn't paying much attention, it could easily be missed. The city looked like it had literally been carved out of the mountain, but at the same time it looked 100% natural. There was a narrow rock path leading into the bottom half of the mountain. The city was at least a mile away though.
"I used to always come here to visit my friend, Bumi," Aang smiled, overlooking the city.
"Wow. We don't have cities like this in the South Pole," Katara gasped.
"They have buildings that don't melt!" Sokka shouted in amazement.
"This is amazing!" Naruto shouted.
"It is beautiful," I smiled.
"Well, let's go slow pokes! The real fun is inside the city!" Aang smiled and launched himself off of the hill we were standing on, landing farther down.
Naruto jumped after him.
"Wait Aang! It could be dangerous if people find out you're the Avatar!" Katara shouted.
"You need a disguise!" Sokka shouted, running down to the bottom of the hill where Aang and Naruto stood.
"So what am I supposed to do?! Grow a mustache?!" he asked .
"Why don't you just henge?" Naruto asked, looking at them like they were stupid.
"Henge?" Katara asked dubiously.
"Yeah, henge," Naruto said turning himself into Aang, "Henge!" He repeated in Aang's voice.
The group's jaws hit the ground.
"Wha-!? But?! How!" Sokka shouted, looking from Naruto-Aang to Aang. "EVERYTHING I'VE EVER KNOWN!?" he shouted, dropping to his knees.
I rolled my eyes.
"But... No, this isn't possible..." Katara said looking around, trying to figure the situation out.
"AAAH! It's me?!" Aang shouted skeptically. "How?!" He shouted, flailing his arms, as Naruto copied with a grin.
"Naruto..." I growled, this was just cruel!
"Ok, ok," he sighed, releasing the henge.
Naruto P.O.V
I sighed and released the henge, these people freaked out more when I turned into baldy than when I turned into a girl!
"Ok," Sakura started, great, that was her 'thinking voice' "in this situation., Naruto and I would just henge, but you guys obviously cant do that, so what to do?"
Then the idea hit me"Why don't you just literally wear mustache!?"
"That's... actually not too bad of an idea..." Sakura said shocked.
I grinned "Well I'm not called the number one unpredictable ninja for no reason!"
"Is he really called that?" Katara asked Sakura quietly.
Sakura sighed, nodding painfully.
"Here!" I smiled, handing baldy some of Appa's hair.
He raised one eyebrow.
"Allow me," I smiled.
I grabbed a bit more loose hair and some dead grass from the ground, in a blur, I weaved the grass making a base, then weaved lumps of hair into it, tying it all up to ensure it would hold. I had created the perfect solution: a nice full head of white hair for baldy.
"That's amaz-" he started, but I held a finger up, motioning for him to hold on.
Quickly, I pulled more loose hair off of Appa, and created the perfect long, white, furry mustache.
"There ya go!" I smiled, handing him the mustache.
He positioned the 'wig' on his head, and held the mustache to his lip.
"How do I get it to stay?" He asked with a frown.
"I've got it!" Sakura smiled, "Katara, can I get a few drops of water?"
Katara seemed reluctant, but nonetheless lifted some snow, turning it into water in the air for Sakura. With a frown, and a screech, the water fell from Aqua girl's grasps.
"I'm sorry," she apologized "I'm still not able to bend well."
"No problem, you did great!" Sakura assured her, walking over to where the water fell. "This is supposed to be a medical ninjutsu, but I think I can use it for this too,"
Sakura's hands glowed green with chakara and she filled the water with it, lifting it slowly, and carrying it around her hands to the dirt, then at once, she released it.
"You're a waterbender too!?" Katara asked in shock.
"Nawh," Sakura smiled.
"Then what do you call that!?" Sokka shouted, motioning to the place where she had just dropped the water.
"That was a medical ninjutsu, basically used to filter water through organs and extract poisons, but I just used it a bit differently," she informed them.
"Their right," I said having an epiphany, "that is basically the same process of water bending."
"How do you know?" Sakura asked.
"Because Katara explained it to me, you fill the water with energy, and control it," I thought out loud.
"Yeah, but I cant move it from my body," Sakura said.
"Have you ever tried it?" Baldy asked.
"Well, not really?" she said, looking at her hands. She bent over, picking up the melted snow and grabbing the water with her chakara, then lifted it once again. Slowly, she pushed it to the tips of her fingers, but it started to drip, "It doesn't really work," she frowned.
"Yes! It does!" Katara smiled "you just need a bit more practice!"
"If I practice that too much, I'll be out of chakara in minutes," she frowned, "But if Naruto could learn, he could! He has so much chakara!"
I smiled, "Maybe, just maybe."
"Not to be a party pooper," Sokka said, all the while pooping my party "But we should get going, we still have quite a walk," he motioned to the giant rock city ahead, "and, Aang's mustache still isn't sticking,"
On cue, Aang held the mustache up to his nose again.
"Right, sorry, I forgot," Sakura said sheepishly, walking over to the mud.
Sakura's P.O.V
I scooped a clump of mud onto my finger, and motioned for Aang to hand me his 'mustache'. I spread the mud across the dried grass holding the fur together and handed it to Aang.
"That's all!?" Naruto shouted in disbelief.
"Yep," I smiled, wiping my hands.
Aang looked to Appa with a glare "Oh, this is so itchy, how to you live in this stuff?!" He demanded, but the sky-bison only grunted in response.
"Great! Now you look just like my grandfather!" Sokka said semi-sarcastically.
"Techincally, Aang is 112 yeards old," Katara pointed out matter-of-factly.
"Wow, I sort've forgot that."
"Now lets get skippin, you young whippersnappers!" Aang started in a gruff old man voice "the big city awaits!"
Katara and Sokka shared a curious glance.
"Whippersnappers?" Naruto asked dubiously.
"I dunno," I mumbled, shrugging my shoulders.
Aang started walking towards the city, hunched over, using his staff as a walking stick, Naruto let out a giggle, and I struggled to suppress my own laughter.
After walking like this for awihle, Aang turned to us and smiled "You guys are gonna love Omashu. The people here are the friendliest in the world!"
We were about 15 yards from the entrance when everybody stopped short upon hearing a rough voice.
Looking closely, a merchant could be seen trying to get into the city, but the guards seemed to be giving him trouble.
"Rotten cabbages! What kind of slum do you think this is!?" One of the guards shouted at the man.
As if put there to completely contradict Aang's previous statement, the guard smashed one of the cabbage and threw another over the bridge. The he stepped forward and lunged his arm, making the ground underneath the cart bounce it too over the bridge!
"What was tha-" before I could even finish the sentence, Naruto in a state of shock was already about to run, "Naruto no!" I shouted, but it was too late.
Naruto created four shadow clones, and four and all four of them ran full speed, jumping off the bridge right under where the cabbage cart was falling, as the real one stood by the shouting merchant on the bridge.
"My cabbages!" The man cried out.
"Naruto!" our group called out.
Gathering as many cabbages as they could, the clones threw them into the air, the real Naruto catching an obnoxious amount at once. The four clones fell to the ground, and a pop could be heard as they dispelled, the sound of the crushing cart could also be heard.
"Naruto!" I growled and face palmed.
Ignoring me, and the rest of the freaking-out Gaang, Naruto proceeded to hand the merchant some cabbages and setting the rest at his feet.
"Sorry I couldn't get the cart..." Naruto frowned looking over the edge of the bridge.
Everybody but myself and the baka stood in complete shock at the previous events.
Aang was the first to snap out of it "Just keep smiling," he whispered nervously with a big smile, and strutted closer to Naruto and the guards.
"Who do you think you are boy! I threw over there for a reason! They are clearly a health hazard!" The buff-est guard shouted at Naruto.
"They don't look rotten to me..." Aang said picking up one of the cabbages and squeezing it slightly.
Though it was evident that the guards were just trying to give the cabbage man a hard time, Naruto and Aang seemed to not have caught on.
"Thank you sooooooo much!" the merchant said, coming out of his state of shock and practically glomping Naruto.
"Um yep..." Naruto said nervously as the old man got the memo to get off of him.
"Eh em." That's when the two noticed the angry guards tapping their toes on the ground, sending tiny shock waves through the earth.
"Oh hehe," Nartuto said scratching his neck nervously.
That's when I decided to step in.
"Sorry about him sir, he has an extreme cabbage fetish, you see it all started when he lost his mother, she used to love cabbage, and ever since then, he goes completely crazzy any time he sees, smells or even thinks of a cabbage, it really is sad," I said sweetly.
Naruto glared at me, with a look that said clearly 'really-thats-the-best-you-could-do-?''
The guards looked at each other, then looked back at us.
"If you don't believe me, I have a certificate here that says any cabbage around must be kept safe, it was issued to us after..." I leaned in closely and put up my hand and whispered "... the incident..." there I faked a shudder.
The guards looked at each other and back at us again, then huddled briefly, after that, one spoke "I see, if you could just let us see that, we'll let you keep the cabbages," he agreed.
"Let me just find it..." I said, reaching into my weapons pouch on my right leg, after some rummaging with one hand, I found a paperbomb, "Man, I swear its in here," I said faking frustration.
In fake annoyance, I reached into the pouch with both hands, creating a slight Genjutsu and making the paperbomb look like A "Cabbage disorder notification". With a sweet smile, I handed the paper explosive over to the guard, meanwhile the rest of the Gaang (excluding Sokka) just stared at me confused.
The guards huddled and sounds like 'Hm' 'Yeah' and 'seems real to me' could be heard. In a quick moment, they turned back around and the largest one handed the bomb back to me.
"Sorry about the inconvenience ma'am, you can take the cabbages right in, sorry again," He said as the three opened the rock, revealing three interlocked walls.
Everybody stood in shock, partially at my 'performance' and partially from the blunt strength of the guards.
"Come on guys, lets go," I growled, dropping the 'sweet' facade briefly.
"Oh, yeah," Katara nodded and walked after me, with her brother and Aang following, Aang flashed the guards a smile.
The only two not through the gate was Naruto and the merchant who he was standing beside.
"Come on Naruto," I said impatiently.
"Wh-what about him?" He asked motioning to the merchant.
"..." there wasn't anything I could say, than Sokka interjected,
"Well you know, none of us can properly take care of cabbages, so he needs to come to keep the cabbages safe!"
The guards looked to Naruto and the merchant who both were nodding enthusiastically.
"Hm, I guess you have a good point, you may go," he grumbled letting the ecstatic merchant and grinning Naruto through the opening in the walls they had created. The sound of the gate shutting was almost louder than me in the next few seconds.
Naruto P.O.V
I walked through the gate with a huge smile, glad that I could help the old man. Sokka was babbling on about how Sakura's idea was pure genius and he couldnt have done better himself/, but when I looked at Sakura, her expression was blissful.
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Too blissful.
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And that's when the saying 'It's always calm before the storm' was proved spot on.
Sakura's fist reached straight for my head and was making contact before I could even move. A everything started getting fuzzy and the ground started rising, I heard something like "NARUTO YOU BAKA!... IDIOT!... IM... KILL YOU!" as her voice cut out, everything went black with a thump.
Sakura P.O.V (Sorry if I'm changing P.O.V too much, after this it'll be Naruto's for awhile)
After Naruto passed out, I squinted my eyes in a content smirk.
I thought I even notice Sokka take a few steps away.
"Is he ok?!" Katara asked kneeling next to Naruto's side and peeling open his eyelids.
"He'll be fine," I assured her casually, "this happens a lot."
"That could explain a lot of his problems..." Sokka mumbled, but shut his mouth when I shot him a glare.
"Um, that's great and all," Aang said semi nervously, "But when'll he be up, I've been waiting to show you guys this!" He smiled.
"Oh, I'll take care of that right now," I smiled, leaning down and putting my glowing green hands over the blond idiot's head.
Everybody stared in awe as Naruto started to regain consciousness.
"That's amazing..." Katara mumbled.
"What- Wha- Where am I! Where's the ramen!" Naruto shouted, standing up quickly.
I facepalmed, wishing I would've waited longer to wake him up from his 'nap'.
(ok ok, lats pov switch in awhile, promise.)
As I regained consciousness, I was overwhelmed, jumping up I shouted,"What- Wha- Where am I!" than remembering what Jiraiya had been teaching me about prioritizing, I shouted the more important question "Where's the ramen!"
I saw Sakura facepalm.
Just then, Baldy cleared his throat, and started with a smile " This is the Omashu delivery system. Miles and miles of tubes and chutes. Earthbending brings the packages up and- gravity brings them down."
"Great, so they get their mail on time," PonyTail boy said like it was no big deal.
"They do get their mail on time, but my friend Bumi found a better use for these chutes..." Aang said smiling mischievously.
My eyes glossed over, as I looked at the series of chutes, hoping the twelve year old and my own intentions were the same.
"Follow me!" Baldy shouted, and started running, PonyTail boy and Aqua girl followed, seemingly struggling to keep up.
I looked to Baldy, but he seemed to be in a flashback.
"Bumi, you're a mad genius!" He said, and returned from the evident flashback, and stopping.
Looking around, we appeared to be at the top of the city, standing in front of one of the chutes.
"Come on!" He shouted and I hopped into the bin behind him, the other three looking at us skeptically. "Just one ride and we'll head straight for the north-pole, airbenders honor." he promised, which managed to get Sokka and Katara to hesitantly crawl into the rock box.
"Come on Sakura," I groaned "Dont be a party pooper."
She glared.
"Well we'll go without you if your that scared and usel-." I teased.
Though Sakura wasn't one for being conned, and I wasn't one for black mail, drastic times called for drastic measures.
"Don't you dare say it!" She growled, hopping into the bin.
We all stared down the steep slide as the bin started teetering.
"This sounded fun at first, but now that I'm here, I'm starting to have second thoughts!" Aqua girl started, but before she could finish her last words, gravity won, starting our steep decline.
Laughing like fools, Baldy and I looked out over the huge city, that was until I heard Aqua girl and Pony Tail boy start panicking, only too look and see a set of spears in the chute next to us and it was quite evident what would happen if neither bins changed speeds.
Pony tail boy ducked as I realized how close they actually were, but before I could do anything, Baldy hastily shouted "I'm on it! I'm on it!"
Thinking he had some genius plan, I sat and let him have his glory for this situation, only to find that his spetacular plan was rocking the bin off of the chute!
The bin, still contaning us, fell off the chute, and hit the ground knocking over a soldier, I couldn't help but chuckle at all of their dazed looks. Pony Tail boy was still panicking in the back, but Baldy was doing his best, now having his foot up, appearing to be trying to lift the bin.
Just as I thought I would need to step in, he propelled us into another chute, and we were safe once again.
Everyone behind me appeared the slightest pale.
Rocketing down the chutes once again, Aang and I proceeded to laugh as Water girl shouted "Aang, do something! Use your airbending!" If I didn't know better, I would say she sounded scared.
"Yeah! Good idea! It'll make us go even faster!" he grinned blasting air behind us and making us almost fly.
In the next seconds everything went crazy, even my battle trained mind could barely follow, one second we were at the off-load point, then in a mans house accompanied by sound of broken glass, then on a roof, then we landed in the most unexpected place- a cabbage cart.
Horrified by all of the now defiled cabbages, and sort of forgetting the cabbage disorder was an act, I screamed "THE CABBAGES NO THE HORROR MOTHER- OH DEAR I CANT DO THIS – THEY WERE SO YOUNG- WE WERE ALL SO YOUNGGG!" But my screaming was cut short, by a fist to my head, and a familiar 'you never know when to stop, do you'.
The next time I opened my eyes, I was laying in a room, there were three purple beds around me and the walls seemed to have a green tint. The room seemed nice enough, but the one unsettling thing was the lack of a door. The idea that I was captured crossed my mind but no one would ever make a prison cell this nice. I was about to inspect things when a chunk of the wall sank into the floor, creating and exit.
"Good- you're finally awake, the king has requested your audience." it was a guard, he looked much like the ones that reenforced the city walls outside.
I looked around me and saw that despite there being three other beds, they were empty, realizing my comerades were gone, I started to worry- not for myself, but about them. Were they in danger?
"Let's go." the man commanded.
After following the guard down a few halls, I found myself in a huge room. In the corner was the cabbage merchant, who I flashed a smile too, thought he looked conflicted- like he wasnt sure if he wanted to smile back or hit me, then I remembered. I destroyed his cabbages and new cart.
Infront of me kneeled Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Sakura, they were flanked by guards.
"Go up there with the your juvenile friends," the guard growled then pushed me forward. Not sure of the situation, I did what any good ninja would do, disguised myself as weak, and fell to the ground, crawling next to my friends.
"I see," a voice came from the front of the room, where I somehow hadn't noticed the insane grandpa on a fancy chair, "merchant what do you think?" he asked looking towards the distraught man.
"Well..." he looked at the crushed cabbages, then at my please-help-us nervous smile, then at the cabbages, then the smile (at this point, PonyTail boy and Aqua girl had joined me), then back, than forth, and back and forth, then finally screamed, and shouted "Spare them this once!" as if it was the hardest decision of his life.
The guard who looked like he didn't get laid enough spoke, "My King,"
"hmmm?" the man who I now (disbelievingly) realized must somehow be a king looked at him waiting for his statement.
"Please do not forget to consider that they infiltrated out city, and the damage they caused," he reminded Grandpa, making my previous opinion of him even more believable.
The King started "Throw them," he paused and eyed each of us, first the nervous PonyTail boy, then to Aqua girls hopeful smile, at Baldy who was whistling like he was invisible, at Sakura (whom I could just assume was glaring at me, I didnt go through the pain to look), and lastly myself, so I held both thumbs up and grinned.
He started again "Throw them in the dungeon."
The guards rushed at us, rock shackles on my wrist before I could do anything, we were being walked out of the room when he spoke again.
"Wait!" the guards stopped "All of them except for the bald one."
Ok, ok, I know its been like forever since I updated, and I probably lost everyone that was interested in this story, and that's completely understandable, but for the like 2 of you maybe still giving me a chance, I'll attempt to explain myself.
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I got grounded. Plain and simple. But like mega grounded, like all-I-have-in-my-room-is-a-bed-and-dresser-grounded. Ok, so its only half my fault, ok.
Alright, so 2/3 rds my fault.
Ok so its all my fault, but for whatever it counts for, im sorry, really sorry. And I plan to write this story as much as I can, because I really miss writing it.
But if anyone is reading this, I do want your opinions on a few things:
How do you feel about the POV changes, do I do it too much, not enough, youd rather it not at all?
Would you rather me stick to cannon as much as I have in the other chapters, or veer off a bit as I did near the end of this one?
Ugh I have to ask, what pairings do y'all want?