AN: Thank you to everyone who has followed, favourited and reviewed! It is greatly appreciated and it gives me much needed motivation! I plan on updating this story every one of two days depending on how much motivation I have! Please review! Constructive criticism is welcome!

The pairing votes for Naruto so far are:

Temari - 3

Karin - 2

Anko - 1

Mei - 1

The pairing has yet to be decided but it will be one of the four listed so if you wish to vote on one please put it in a review or PM! The one with the most votes after chapter five will be who I pair Naruto up with!

IMPORTANT (well sort of)

I want to give Naruto other abilities to train in but I'm not sure what... I've already decided that he will have a wind chakra nature and that he WON'T learn seals. But other then that i'm stuck. Should he use a weapon? If so what type? Should he learn a Taijutsu style? If so what one? Things like that, I don't want to make Naruto Godlike but I think he should be able to do more then just bend earth... I would greatly appreciate it if someone gave their opinion on the matter!

"Talking"

"SHOUTING"

'Thinking and/or Talking to bijuu'

'Bijuu Talking'

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Avatar: The Last Airbender!

As Naruto walked through the Land of Waves he was quite surprised, the last time he had come here on a C -turned A- rank mission the village had been in extremely poor condition but now from both the sounds and the vibrations the blond could tell that Wave had gotten back on it's feet. Naruto smiled, it was good to know that he had helped these people stand up for themselves. But at the moment Naruto didn't know what he should do... Should he pay a visit to Tazuna and his family or should he go visit Zabuza and Haku's graves first? He didn't know how long he intended to stay in the land of waves because he feared that Ero-Sennin could possibly find him here, but the blond would probably only stay to get some more supplies, then he would leave the Fire Country for awhile, he had always wanted to 'see' the rest of the world... The blind blond had decided! He would pay a visit to Zabuza and Haku's graves, then he would go visit Tazuna and his family and then tomorrow he would get some more supplies and start traveling again, maybe he could even work on his earth bending while traveling. Yup, that sounded like a good idea!

Naruto started to walk up the trail that lead towards where Zabuza and Haku's graves were located, as he walked towards the location the blond felt like someone was watching him, but when he focused to find the person all he could find was a crow, it must have just been his imagination as there was no one there. Naruto just shrugged the feeling off, it wasn't the first time he had felt like he was being watched... Although all the other times it had turned out the he had been the one watching the blond.

After about five minutes of walking the blind blond arrived at his destination, two graves were next to each other, one with a large sword sticking out of it while the other had a mask placed on top of it. The one with the large blade was Zabuza's grave while the other grave belonged to Haku. It was strange really, even though they had been enemies the blond had met Haku outside of the battle and Haku had taught him a precious lesson. 'When someone has something they wish to protect, that is when they can truly become strong'. Naruto truly believed that, if he didn't have something to protect then he wouldn't have made it this far, he probably would have been beaten down by his disability and wouldn't have been able to do any of the things that he had managed to do now. he wouldn't have been able to go to the ninja academy, he wouldn't have been able to meet Iruka, he wouldn't have been able to become a genin, he wouldn't have been able to be on a team the Teme -Sasuke- or Sakura-chan, he wouldn't have been able to have done anything that he had done if he hadn't found something precious to protect and when Haku had made him realise that fact he had felt happy, it had felt like he had heard something he had desired to hear for along time, it was a nice feeling.

As Naruto was paying his respects to the the two dead ninja he felt someone walk up behind him, this person felt familiar and the blond recognised who it was almost instantly.

"Eh! Naruto? What are you doing here?" Spoke a surprised Tsunami who was holding a bunch of flowers, most defiantly to place on the graves. Tsunami had bought the flowers while she was out shopping and had decided to come to Haku and Zabuza's graves to pay her respects.

Naruto put on his usual foxy grin and replied in his usual cheerful voice

"It's been awhile Tsunami!" Naruto had a feeling that Tsunami was smiling and he was glad that she was. After properly paying their respects to the two dead ninja Tsunami had offered for Naruto to stay the night at her, Tazuna and Inari's house while stating that Inari would be thrilled to see him again. So with that and the fact that the blond didn't have anywhere else to stay for the night he accepted the offer quickly.

On their way back to Tazuna's house Naruto and Tsunami mainly conversed about how much things had changed since the blond was last here. They also talked a little about the things Naruto had been up to but Naruto didn't go into much detail about some of the things that had happened. As the two reached the house Tsunami opened the door and shouted in a cheerful voice

"I'M HOME! AND I BOUGHT BACK SOMEONE YOU TWO MIGHT WANT TO SEE!" Almost as soon as the words left her mouth Inari came running to the door to greet his mother and Naruto smiled at that. Inari seemed to be doing well, that was a good thing.

After a few moments of welcoming his mother home Inari took notice of the person standing next to her, the young boys happiness couldn't be contained when he saw who it was. He shouted out in an extremely happy tone while running up and hugging the blond ninja.

"NARUTO-NII!" The blind blond patted the young boy on the head while the boy quickly got out of the hug and dragged Naruto through the house and into a room that could be classed as a lounge room. After Inari had got Naruto to sit down the boy started asking the blond a hell of a lot of questions.

Tsunami just came into the room and watched the two boys interact with amusement, it wasn't very often that Inari would act like he was now, even after the incident with Gato. Sure, the incident had helped him a lot but it was still quite obvious that Inari had missed the blond boy, a lot more then he had seemed to let on it seemed. Suddenly there was the sound of footsteps and a confused yet slightly annoyed voice said

"Hey! What's all this noise about? How's a man supposed to sleep with -" but the voice stopped when he saw who was with his grandson. The blond haired boy turned his head towards the voice and he said in his usual cheerful tone

"Hi! Tazuna-Jiji!"

After talking about some of the things that had happened after Naruto had left in everyone's different point of view Naruto had told the three about some of the adventures he had had after he left the land of waves and returned to Konoha, he told then about the chunin exams, about how his team had escorted a princess back to her country -the land of snow-, and things like that but he had failed to mention anything about Sasuke leaving the village, his 'training' trip or the fact that he had run away from his teacher. Naruto didn't want the conversation to go in that direction but sadly it did, well sort of. The voice of an old man spoke up in a curious manner

"So Naruto, not to be rude of anything but... Why are you here now? Where's your team? And why aren't you wearing your ninja headband thing?" The blind blond started to panic a little at what Tazuna had just asked. What was he supposed to say? 'Teme went and abandoned the village for power and I left my Sensei because he was trying to get me to use the Kyuubi's chakra!' Yeah... No, defiantly not! Naruto quickly thought of an excuse that would -hopefully- get the three wave citizens to back down on the topic.

In a cheerful voice that was full of energy the Kyuubi's Jinchuriki said

"Well you see! Because of all the dangerous missions I've done Tsunade-baa-chan said that I could go on a vacation and I chose to come here for the time, sadly I'll have to leave tomorrow because ninja vacations are really short. Oh! And the reason I'm not wearing my Hitai-Ate is 'because when ninja take vacations they would be better off if no one knew that they were a ninja!' Well, that's what Iruka-Sensei said." Naruto really hated lying to them but he didn't want them to get involved. If Jiraiya told Tsunade that he had run off then the likelihood that the fifth Hokage would send people looking for him was extremely high.

"That so cool Naruto-nii! But do you really have to leave tomorrow?" Tsunami's son, Inari said in a disappointed tone. Naruto could tell that the kid was upset about him leaving so soon so he decided to cheer the boy up.

"Hey, cheer up Inari!... Ah! I know! I'll be needing to get some more supplies and new clothes, do you think that you could help me out with getting them tomorrow before I leave?" The blind blond was glad that he had managed to cheer Inari up a little and the reply that Inari gave was an excited shout of

"SURE, I'LL HELP YOU WITH YOUR SHOPPING NARUTO-NII!" After that the four just continued to chat about random things. Naruto was quite glad that Inari was there to help him shop, he could act like he was just asking Inari his opinion when in reality he was getting great help from the boy! Naruto had had a lot of problems in the past with shopping, he would only get certain things because he couldn't tell what most things were and the things that he could identify were taught to the blond by him. Naruto had come across many problems with shopping, one of them was his bright orange jumpsuit. At the time he hadn't known what to get and when he had asked the owner of the shop he was given the jumpsuit, but because he couldn't see what it looked like he just bought it anyway. It was quite frustrating actually, having to claim that orange was his favourite colour even though he couldn't remember what the colour looked like or if he had seen that colour at all before he was blinded.

The next day was a lot of fun for both Inari and Naruto, even though Inari had been wondering why Naruto was getting him to choose all of the things the blond needed... In the end when the young boy had asked Naruto had said that he was at a loss at what to choose and that he trusted Inari's choice., Inari could tell that there was more to it but decided not to ask. The boy had chosen some different kinds of foods that would last a long time for Naruto but when they went looking for clothes they couldn't find any that were suitable for a ninja, as the land of waves didn't have any Shinobi they didn't really have any places that you could buy ninja gear from. But either way Naruto realised that his frog wallet was not much thinner then it had been before he went to get the things he needed for his travels, that was quite a surprise to the blind blond. After the two had finished shopping Naruto had told Inari that he needed to leave the land of waves, when Inari had asked why Naruto had said 'The Hokage would chew me out for being late' but that had been a lie. The real reason as to why he had to leave so soon was because he could feel someone watching him but when he tried to locate the person all he could find was that damn crow from the day before! It had only taken him a little while to piece together who had been following him, back when the blond was younger he would always watch him with a crow.

The blond said goodbye to Inari at the part of the bridge that was connected to Wave and had told the boy that he was sorry that he couldn't have stayed longer.

After Naruto was far enough away from the land of waves he had managed to locate his stalker's location, he wasn't to far away from the blond and Naruto smirked. No one else was around and he found that a great convenience. The blond then proceeded to lift his right leg and stomp it onto the ground, not a moment later someone came falling out of a tree behind him and the said tree collapsed. Naruto put on his usual foxy grin and he turned around to face his follower, he knew who it was and he had to admit that deciding to look for the two Uchiha was turning out to be a lot easier than he had expected, he had already found one of them! Add the fact that the blond had thought that this person would be the hardest to find and it brightened up his day greatly. Standing in front of Naruto was his first Sensei and the only person other then Kurama to know his secret, Uchiha Itachi.

Chapter 3 is finished! Hopefully now that the plot is starting to develop the chapters will be longer, I'm going to aim for around 3,000 words per chapter but I'm not quite sure how that will go! Please review, constructive criticism is welcome!