Hey there folks, another update coming for you. Today we have Touched by Spirits so I hope you all enjoy it.

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Secondly a single point pulled from the reviews to chat about real quick before we put this chapter out. Coming from Crofty666 who says that "Lin deserves a chance to be a mother, maybe you could use the Harmonic Convergence to do something about that? Would be nice to keep Naruto's ability to do the seemingly impossible, and it'd be amusing to have someone threaten a pregnant Lin only to realize Naruto is behind them and a Hurricane is forming overhead."

First off, thanks very much for the review. I love to get stuff like that. Secondly, shame on you for wanting to see a poor pregnant woman threatened….what's wrong with you? I'm joking of course…just try not to make it a habit to pick on pregnant women. Anyway for the actual meat of that I have an exceptionally disappointing answer for you.

Wait and see. Sorry I really want to say, but sadly everything around the Harmonic Convergence and Naruto's relationships is central to the plot and I don't wanna spoil anything.

Now after effectively not giving an answer in what was more or less a Q&A section of the author's note I guess we should just continue on to the story.

Enjoy.

It had been a little over a day since Korra gave her speech introducing herself to Republic CIty and thereby the world. Naruto had spent that time mostly with Lin, not actually doing anything his mother would disapprove of, which was somewhat of an oddity. Instead they had mostly enjoyed a peaceful time on what more or less amounted to a date.

Naruto had felt an odd gloom looming over the entire outing though. He had tried to maneuver the conversation with Lin to see if anything was bothering her but she had simply reassured him she was doing perfectly fine. When he explained to her that he felt something was wrong she deflected every attempt to dig deeper and instead she pushed things onto his recent uptick in interaction with his father.

The airbender felt like that wasn't what the problem was, but with something so nebulous as having a feeling that something was off he couldn't exactly deny that perhaps being around his father had affected his mood and perceptions. It didn't stop the niggling doubt in his mind that there was something else.

Beyond that it had been a nice time. A simple hearty meal and time spent together. Both of them were relatively easy to please individuals all things considered and didn't need a lot to keep them entertained. As with everything the enjoyable atmosphere of a date night eventually came to a close and the pair had simply entangled themselves in bed and given in to sleep. Naruto, as embarrassed as it made him feel, found it hard to sleep. His desires had his body ready for repeat performances of the morning and nights that preceded it but Lin was far too sore and tired to participate so he had been left, frustrated in bed wrapped up with his lover.

The following morning both were set to handle a busy day. They quickly showered, ate, brushed their teeth, and gave one another a parting peck before they went their separate ways. Lin rushed off in her Satomobile, dressed in her normal police uniform for the day.

Naruto on the other hand clad himself in a somewhat unique bit of attire he'd had designed for the few days he actually needed to go into work. A blending of the popular black zhongsan style suit and a series of orange and tan sashes that recalled his connection to the Air Nation. As if his tattoos didn't handle that already.

Dressed in what he considered his business clothes, Naruto took the tram into the industrial section of the city. Several people bowed to him or greeted him warmly once they noticed the Air Nation clothing and marks. Even more so once they noticed the golden hair he possessed. It was something he had long gotten used to.

Superstitions had long determined that the people of the Air Nation were considered far more spiritual than any other, and prior to their genocide had been often asked to perform blessings on homes or individuals as they passed through. This same superstition had come back around and even the acolytes who weren't air benders themselves were frequently asked to perform blessings. None more than Naruto and Tenzin though. After all they were both the only remaining Air Bending masters in the world.

As Tenzin rarely came out through the city Naruto had become a sort of go to for the people of Republic City. That is, the more superstitious or spiritual. A few people who actually were a bit more connected to the spirit world would even comment on how odd Naruto felt to them. The usual words they said were that it was like he was cursed then twice blessed and born again. It was an oddly specific thing to say and after the fifth person had told him those exact words it had caused him to become a bit insecure about the spiritual aspect of his life. Sadly there was little he could truly study about it. He found that the spirit world was especially difficult to interact with here in Republic City and even outside of it the best he could manage was glimpses and brief moments of euphoria. Nothing to really help him understand all that much about it all. His lack of success to truly embed himself into the spiritual realm was enough to cause him to shift focus over the years to the far more physical aspects of bending. Something he truly excelled in.

The young air bending master smiled warmly though part of him was a bit annoyed as a small family shoved their newborn into his arms. It looked he would be a little late. Maybe he should have just taken his glider over to his factory. At least he was doing his part to keep a warm public image with the populace. He wondered just what it was his father was up to right now. Hopefully doing his duty in training the Avatar.

"And what is this little one's name?" Naruto asked the couple.

"It's a girl, her name is Hualing." The mother said a bit disappointed that Naruto hadn't realized it was a girl.

"Err, right. Well let's perform a blessing for good health and good fortune for little Hualing here shall we?" Naruto asked, calming the mother before she started asking questions.

After all, while they were in fact more spiritual than the other nations, the Air Nomads didn't possess some sort of spirit magic. Each and every one of their blessings was bullshit and they all knew it. The nation needed money though.

Meanwhile on the air bender island, Avatar Korra gasped for breath as she stared up at the sky from her position lying on the grass. This training really was no joke. It was killing her and she was in amazing shape. How exactly was it the kids could do this?

"Korra come, try the gates again. I know you can do this." Tenzin urged.

"Really? Cause I don't feel like I am making any progress." Korra complained as she stood and dusted herself off.

"The Gates aren't an easy obstacle but they build the foundation of air bending. You have to move in circular motions and flow with and around your obstacles to reach the other side." Tenzin said before nodding to Jinora who quickly made her own way through the spinning boards without being so much as grazed by them as she did so.

Korra had to admit, the younger girl was extremely talented with air bending. She had told her as much before but the girl had given her an odd smile and said she had seen nothing yet. That made her ask what she could really do but Jinora had simply told her she hadn't meant herself. Korra had a suspicion she was talking about Tenzin and Naruto. She'd only seen the two of them using their air bending for small everyday things but after thinking about it the precision and ease both men wielded their elements was something she realized she hadn't seen outside of Katara with water back home.

"Korra, give it another try." Tenzin said as he sent the Gates spinning.

"Right…" The young Avatar replied with a lack of enthusiasm. She had to say that Tenzin wasn't exactly a slave driver like some of her teachers had been, but he was demanding. At least he seemed rather patient all things considered. The mildly disappointed look every time she failed one of his exercises didn't really help though.

After winding up in the same position as last attempt, except perhaps three feet to the right from where she landed last time, Korra decided she wanted to weasel a break out of her teacher. A perfect opportunity to weasel other things as well like some information. After all she knew a lot about Tenzin and the kids, but there was one airbender she knew nothing about. What better way than to feed into Tenzin's own issues around him to get him talking.

With an only partially hidden smirk, Korra pushed herself to her feet and dusted herself off before approaching the starting point for the obstacle course once again. Meelo was taking a turn running through the Gates, at a noticeably slower pace than Jinora had earlier. It was a bit annoying that the boy at most brushed against one or two boards as he glided through. Korra just turned her attention back on Tenzin and ignored the fact that the eight year old was technically doing better than she was.

"So, Tenzin, did you have any trouble with this when you were learning?" Korra asked.

"Hmm? Well yes I suppose, though I was a bit younger than you when I trained with them. However my only element was air so I had a bit of an advantage over you. Not to mention I can't help but think your personality will make air your most difficult element." Tenzin said, trying to skirt the fact he had been running through the gates at the same speed as Jinora but at Meelo's age.

"Oh, well, What about Naruto. He must have sucked, right? You said he was a shame on air bending or whatever right?" Korra prodded though she did notice Jinora seemed to clench her fists at Korra's words. She'd need to tell her she hadn't meant it as trying to belittle the guy later. Jinora didn't seem happy if he was spoken of in a bad light.

"No, I never said that. Don't get me wrong Korra. Naruto is a genius when it comes to air bending. The issue isn't his skill, it's his mentality and morality." The man's tone turned darker as he spoke. "Naruto is reckless, brash, and careless of the consequences of his actions. Added along with the fact that he perverted the art of bending even more than those thugs in the pro-bending tournaments do he never should have received the tattoos of a master."

Korra was a bit taken back by the man's words and again Korra noticed the upset look on Jinora's face. Thankfully during the conversation Ikki had taken her turn on the Gates and both she and Meelo had been out of earshot for their father's rather grim tone regarding their elder brother.

"Korra, why don't you try the Gates again?" Tenzin asked, clearly done with the conversation. Korra mentally kicked herself for her curiosity as she proceeded to be beaten down by the spinning boards once again.

Yet again she was spit out and crashed onto the ground staring up at the sky. This was miserable.

Naruto arrived at his factory a bit later than he wanted and saw that his workers were all already busy as they could be. He was a bit disappointed with himself as he liked to greet them at the gates on the days that he visited so that he could show his employees they really were valued members of his business.

It wasn't that big of a deal he supposed. Those that could happily waved at their boss and Naruto responded in kind. It was surreal having such a large factory and so many employees, he had over three hundred people on his payroll after all and he was successful entirely without his family's or more specifically his father's support.

He hadn't done it entirely alone. Lin had lent him some start-up money and had introduced him to Hiroshi Sato and several other influential people not only in Republic City but within the Earth Kingdom as well who became his investors.

Lin had been paid back in full with interest, despite her protests, and Hiroshi and the other investors had all slowly sold their pieces of his company back to him. Naruto had then given small amounts of stock to his employees as a bonus once the company had recouped the costs it took to build his factory. As it was now the majority of the company was solidly in Naruto's control while Lin owned a small portion, his mother and siblings each owned an even smaller portion though none knew that besides Naruto himself, and lastly Hiroshi Sato owned a piece of the company only slightly larger than Naruto's twenty foremen combined.

That all ended up meaning that Naruto was excessively wealthy despite his primarily frugal lifestyle. After all, he kept almost all the profits his company produced, even if he did reinvest the vast majority right back into the company itself. With things as they were his factory was making money hand over fist.

It turned out, everyone wanted glass. Especially his glass. Not only did his company make the most clear and flawless panes in the world, they also produced nearly a dozen various types of glass. The flagship item being the specially tempered glass Naruto had invented himself that was found in every single Sato Mobile produced. In fact that was the only reason Hiroshi still had a piece in Naruto's glass company. It was part of their contract for Naruto becoming the sole producer of the glass used by the vehicle factory.

Naruto smiled once more as he began climbing the stairs up from the factory floor up to the offices above. He was proud of his business. He had truly built it up from nothing. Originally it had been something to make a bit of money on the side so he didn't feel like so much of a burden to Lin. He found he could use his airbending to blow glass sculptures, which became vases and other household items before eventually becoming windows and mirrors. It wasn't long before he was receiving more orders than he could fill and had to begin streamlining the process so his own involvement was limited so that he could hire people to do the rest of the work.

By now he wasn't a part of the actual production process at all. Another part of his contract with Hiroshi had been for the man to help in designing and producing equipment that made it to where even non benders could make his company's product without issue. Now Naruto employed both benders and non benders as equally as possible. Nothing in his job required anything skill wise that couldn't be eventually learned or developed by practically everyone.

That had thrilled him as much as it had worried him. Naruto was a public supporter of equality for benders and non benders. In fact he was partially responsible for much of the city remaining solidly in the moderate camp when it came to the issues between the equalists and the traditionalists. There was a definite issue between benders and non benders that needed addressed, but Naruto and many others could see Amon and his followers for what they were. Terrorists.

While Naruto supported equality for benders and non benders, it was easy when your own mother was a non bender after all, it worried him to see how easy it was to replace himself with technology. The leading argument most traditionalists made against their equalist rivals was the importance of bending in society. It was a hard argument to deny at the moment as well.

Naruto knew that more than sixty percent of all of Republic City's electric power was generated by firebenders feeding lightning they had bent into conduits that transferred it into what amounted to giant batteries. Some electricity was produced by other means but all together they made up less than forty percent of the city's power and that was in Republic City the most technologically advanced place on the planet.

Electricity was just one example. Water purification, construction, medical procedures, all were still dominated by benders and for good reason. That was what made it such a compelling argument for the traditionalist side of the coin.

That same thinking was part of the problem though. There were still needs for fire benders, water benders, and earth benders in this more peaceful time. Technology had failed to fully replace them, yet anyway. That left air benders though.

What exactly could his people, his family, offer besides some spiritual support that he himself was more to do with the majority of the world not knowing hardly anything about them. How long would that last? The truth remained they didn't provide anything so if the rest of the world came to see them as useless, or worse yet some sort of leech on society.

The fear at what would be done against the tiny air nation then filled him with worry for his loved ones.

The air bender frowned deeply as he turned back to look over the factory as his workers toiled away. Any trace of the good mood he had been carrying with him that morning was gone now. Thoughts of what if, and when and how always seemed to sour his day when he let his mind drift to it.

One thing typically picked it up though and that was his younger siblings. Plus, perhaps Korra had made her decision to join or refuse his offer to see the city and join him for the upcoming pro-bending match.

"Literally nothing for me to do here. The company is running as smoothly as always." Naruto thought out loud as he smiled slightly. He was thankful to have such a dedicated staff at the least.

The trip back to Lin's house to change into more comfortable clothing and grab his glider was quicker thankfully and the trip out to the island was even faster. After all there wasn't much out there that could travel faster than an air bender.

That thought began to spin ideas in his mind, though he put them aside for now. As it was he was trying to relax and improve his mood. Thinking hard on something like air transport was just going to annoy him. Especially considering there were already air ships so he would need to think of a way to make his method competitive along with safe…

"Ah, stop it." He growled to himself as he vigorously shook his head. His thoughts were running free again and he wanted to reign them in and relax. He had to remind himself that mentally a couple more times before it properly settled in. Well it would have, except he thankfully had a distraction as he silently landed and made his way around the compound hoping to catch the others still on the training grounds.

He caught them alright, in fact he seemed to feel an instinctive need to duck around the corner to avoid being spotted as he saw Korra pulling Jinora to the side to talk. She looked rather serious too, so he couldn't help his curiosity in exactly what it was they had to talk about.

Naruto felt a bit dirty for eavesdropping but he whether it was curiosity or the protective nature of an elder brother he wanted to hear whatever it was Korra had to say to his little sister in private.

"Jinora, when your dad was talking earlier, while we were training you got upset. Do you want to talk about it?" Korra asked while gently laying a hand on the younger girl's shoulder.

Naruto blinked in surprise from his hiding spot. Surprise quickly shifted to happiness. It was kind of Korra to be trying to help his sister. He relaxed at that, he had the feeling Korra was a kind soul if a bit brash and headstrong. He remained hidden though. Hopefully Korra could help his sister through whatever had bothered her.

"Oh, no I'm fine really." Jinora attempted to wave Korra off. It didn't work in the slightest.

"Look, I know when he says that sort of thing about your brother it bothers you. I mean saying something like he did earlier today makes Naruto out to be some sort of violent thug-" Korra rambled slightly, managing to press the air benders buttons.

"He's not a thug!" She interrupted the older girl.

Korra was shocked by the outburst for a second, as was Naruto from his hiding spot. Korra took in Jinora's appearance and was further surprised by the furious look on her face as well as the tightly clenched fists that shook slight at her sides.

"Oh, I wasn't trying to say that I thought he was a thug! Every time I've talked to him he's been nothing but kind and friendly." Korra reassured her friend.

"That's because that's what he is. Dad is just so set on his course and stubborn he refuses to look at things from Naruto's side of things. I don't really know the whole story but he's always been harder on Naruto. It got worse just a little before Naruto earned his tattoos." Jinora admitted piquing Korra's curiosity even more. In hiding Naruto flinched, recalling what Jinora was building up to.

"What do you mean?" The Avatar asked.

Jinora squirmed slightly as she debated on whether or not to tell Korra. Slowly she decided she had best tell her everything. Korra was pretty much family and she was the Avatar after all.

"It was around a year before Naruto earned his tattoos and moved out. Naruto had been ready for the master trial for some time but dad kept making excuses and pushing it off saying that Naruto wasn't ready." Jinora began unknowingly sending her big brother into a flashback of his own.

Flashback

A thirteen year old Naruto swept into his spartan room and slapped his staff onto his desk with a bit more force than was necessary. The boy paid it no mind though as he dropped into his bed with an agitated groan.

Yet again his father had denied Naruto his right to the Master Trials. Instead he had forced him to meditate for hours on end to supposedly teach him patience. Afterward he'd been so frustrated that he knew attending dinner with the rest of the family was a bad idea. It would start with one of his little sisters asking why he was being quiet, which would turn into a scolding from his father about brooding. Naruto knew himself too well, the moment such words would have come out of his father's mouth he would have said something just to get on the man's nerves.

It would spiral till his mother and sisters were upset and crying and his father was purple in the face from shouting at him. It'd been like that for a couple months now and only seemed to be getting worse.

It was better he had just decided to train rather than go to dinner. He didn't want to fight and make the girls cry again. As it was though the thoughts about his father's continued refusal to allow his advancement and the fact he seemed to work against him at every turn hadn't faded away during training like he had hoped. If anything by the time he returned to his room, his tired aching body and rumbling empty stomach just made his resentment that much worse.

The boy could do little other than try and calm down and get some sleep. He was tired after all. As he rolled over and looked across his room preparing to count sheep and try and force himself into sleep like he needed to, he noticed a paper that had fallen under the chair of his desk.

Sighing, and realizing he was likely too restless to sleep anyway, Naruto climbed out of bed and swept the paper up with a gentle gust of wind.

Naruto couldn't stop the soft smile that crept onto his features. Jinora had developed a habit of coming into his room to draw or try and get Naruto to play. It seemed like even if he wasn't here she liked to be in his room.

He stepped out into the hall and began walking down to his sister's room only to freeze at the sight before him. Three people in dark clothes and masks were stepping out of Jinora and Ikki's rooms with the unconscious girls tied up and securely held within their arms.

The boy's mind raced at the sight and he felt the oncoming rush of panic, but rather than succumb to it his eyes zeroes in on the tear streaks on his little sisters' faces and a sense of rage crushed any feeling of fear or panic entirely.

He'd never felt so angry. So full of hatred like every single cell of his being howled for the blood of these trespassers kidnapping his family members.

He didn't realize he was bending till the first of the trespassers screamed in pain. He didn't stop at the sound though. If anything it egged him on. It felt as if something was guiding his movements all the while whispering into his ear about how he needed to make them pay. He had to make them scream for mercy before he finished them off. It was only right, they were harming his little sisters.

Regaining control of himself, Naruto gasped at the carnage he had wrought. The screaming of the first man had stopped because he was undoubtedly dead. Deep troughs had been carved through his chest and head and his body laird motionless on the floor.

The second though was screaming. This time a woman, she howled in a way Naruto didn't realize was possible. Her legs sat on the floor several feet away from her torso and her hands works uselessly to try and steam the stream of blood and gore that emptied from the gaping wound where her lower half had previously been.

The third man stared in horror before slowly turning and locking eyes with Naruto. The two stared at one another as the woman's pain filled howls swiftly died away to a croak and then silence as she bled out. The two continued to stare at one another until the distant sound of the air bender compound coming to life to find the source of the disturbance echoed up the halls.

As the final man's eyes shifted ever so briefly to Jinora who was now awake and sobbing into her gag, Naruto didn't hesitate. This time he was fully in control of his movements and actions as he blasted the man into the far end of the hall directly in front of his father and several armed acolytes as the approached.

It didn't take long for them to capture the man after all of that, but the group became horrified when they approached the children. By then, Naruto had freed both Jinora and Ikki and while Ikki had been unconscious throughout the entire ordeal, Jinora clung to Naruto for dear life.

That is until both girls were ripped from his grasp by Tenzin who glared down at his son with a mixture of disgust and fear. Naruto himself flinched from the look, but Tenzin's eyes never softened, if anything they darkened further and he left Naruto sitting there, splattered with blood of two adults he had just killed while the Acolytes did their best to attend to him.

End Flashback

"He killed them?" Korra's voice drew Naruto back out of his memories as his attention returned to the two girls talking.

Jinora looked exceedingly agitated by Korra's reaction. "He had no choice. It wasn't his fault."

"I wasn't trying to say it was, I just-" Korra tried to argue but Jinora cut her off.

"But you were jumping to conclusions. Naruto saved me and Ikki. I don't know who those people are, but I found out a year ago why they were taking us. They wanted to take us and Meelo to use us and…" Jinora couldn't finish that line of thought. It was vile and terrifying.

"Jinora…" Korra tried to comfort the younger teen.

"How do you think most thirteen year olds handle accidentally killing someone in defense? Not well, but usually they have someone to comfort them. Naruto didn't. A month after it happened and he hardly spoke or ate. Then he started staying at the Bei Fong manor with Lin. Dad has treated him like a monster and mom is always busy with Ikki or Meelo. Then he got his tattoos a few months later after going around my dad entirely and having the elder acolytes run the exam for him. He moved out right after." Jinora explained as she released a sigh, like a sizable weight had been lifted from her shoulders.

The pair was silent for a while as Korra seemed to process everything. She wanted to help this family mend, but she was even more lost on how to help them along now than she was before she knew the full reasoning behind their split. She had begun to quickly learn that being the Avatar was quite a lot more complicated than she had initially thought.

Silently Naruto frowned at the interaction. He wasn't thrilled about how much his issues with his father affected the rest of the family but he couldn't bring himself to deny his own beliefs just to please Tenzin. Shaking his head in frustration at the situation his family found themselves in he quietly slipped away and took off again only to make a show of landing in the courtyard opposite of the training grounds.

It wouldn't do anything but hurt the trust Jinorah had in him if she knew he had been eavesdropping.

"Naruto!" Ikki squealed before shooting out of the building and impacting her big brother in the chest and tightly hugging him.

"Ikki." Naruto replied as he hugged the girl chuckling all the while.

"I didn't know you were coming over!" Ikki said excitedly.

"Yeah, I probably should have given mom a heads-up. Hopefully there's enough food at dinner." Naruto said awkwardly.

"Oh, Mom always makes enough in case you come by. She even sets your place at the table and everything." Ikki replied.

Naruto bit his lip at that information. Guilt knawed at his heart at the thought of his mother always being disappointed about him not being there to eat with the family. As usual his problems with his father affected the family more than it did themselves.

That was of course ignoring all the troubles Naruto himself suffered through due to the ongoing fight. In fact the only one that seemed altogether unscathed emotionally was Tenzin.

"Well, let's get in there. I gotta say I'm starved." Naruto said with false cheer as he picked Ikki off of him and set her onto his shoulders, getting the thin girl to giggle.

They headed up the stairs to the central building to catch up with the rest of the family and hopefully enjoy a peaceful dinner. Thankfully, whatever Pema had done to punish Tenzin for his previous argument with Naruto at dinner had set the man into a much quieter disposition this time around. That being said the sense of annoyance and agitation practically wafted off of the man.

Most of the table were either oblivious or ignored him though. Naruto took time to learn about everyone's day one by one. His mother had begun to have a bit of trouble getting around as she was close to popping. The acolytes had been overly helpful as always making her feel useless which she complained about getting snorts of humor from most of the table especially Naruto and Korra.

Ikki and Meelo had filled him in on every moment of their daily training and playing and Ikki had recruited him to play house the next day, which he was already dreading slightly. That didn't mean he could bring himself to turn down the request though. His little siblings were all way too good at that pouty look. It just wasn't fair.

Jinora had been a bit awkward, he noticed she carefully avoided anything about the discussion he had overheard. That was good, he didn't really want to discuss that, preferably ever. Sadly just by the way Korra had been staring at Naruto over the course of the meal he knew she would be bringing it up at some point.

Hopefully not during the meal. He decided to preempt her stumbling into that horrible conversation topic by taking the lead himself.

"So, Korra, how is training going?" Naruto asked.

The girl blinked for a moment before realizing he was asking her a question. "Uh- well not great I guess."

"Really? That's surprising, I thought you would have been killing it." Naruto said thoughtfully. He shared a look with Tenzin. Surprisingly neither glared at one another instead their similar drive toward excellence in bending had them both more focused on solving the problem of helping a new student learn the style.

"Well, what have you been working on?" Naruto asked.

"The gates...not that I really get why they are called gates. Should have called it spinning walls or something so that it's more honest." Korra said as she childishly crossed her arms and pouted.

"Well they are gates cause you are supposed to through them like gates Korra." Tenzin said with a sigh.

The young avatar seemed to only pout harder. Naruto took pity on her and drew everyone's attention as he hummed loudly in thought.

"Well, I can't give much help. I would say when it comes to the gates the whole exercise is about your foundations. It's your footwork. Focus on that and remember that air bending is based around spiral movements and you should make progress." Naruto said.

"Footwork...alright that seems easy enough, I'll try that." Korra chirped as she rubbed her chin in thought.

"A large part of this exercise is figuring those things out for yourself." Tenzin grumbled.

"Well, I'm sure she can figure it out for herself now that she knows what it is you want from her." Naruto replied.

Tenzin opened his mouth to respond but the sudden gripping of his hand by Pema had his teeth click as his jaw snapped closed.

The meal continued in relative peace before Naruto promised to return the next day and took off back to the Beifong Manor. Ikki reminded him as he left that he did promise her.

Alright that's that. Not a lot happened beyond a singular large flashback that told us a bit more about what led to the current situation for the air bending family. We also learned that Naruto is doing rather well for himself without his family and has a very profitable company with a near monopoly on glass production. We will definitely see more to do with his company in the future.

So in the next chapter we will finally meet my arguably favorite character Bolin, well arguably second favorite, Korra holds number one pretty easily.

Anyway

Till Next Time