Sup guys, this is just gonna be a heads up for those who are wondering if they're gonna be lemons or limes posted for this story. The answer is no, but I will post a lemon on another story that should've been in this one. I would post a lemon in this one, but I think my story would get deleted.
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Chapter: 11
XxX~ ( With Naruto ) ~XxX
Naruto was seen on a treetop, surveying a moving carriage with a metal box on the back of it. He noticed two men driving the carriage, he also noticed loud banging coming from the metal box.
"So that's where they're keeping Subject-BF." the blonde male said stoically, not caring if someone heard.
XxX~ ( Flashback ) ~XxX
Naruto was talking with Kuei.
"I want you to follow Toph Beifong." Kuei said, Naruto looked confused at this, why did his king want him to watch over Toph, she was going to see her mother, right?
"Why, my lord?" The blonde asked.
"Toph is blind, so I know her parents know that." Kuei said, Naruto nodded.
"Yeah, and?" he asked, Kuei rubbed his forehead.
"Then they'll know she couldn't read the letter, so that means…" Naruto's eyes widened slightly before they dilated back.
"Someone else besides her parents sent the message." he summarised, finding it laughable and smart that something so simple could go unnoticed by someone with his keen eye. He was also impressed with his king, he pieced that small detail and figured out the motive of whoever sent the letter.
"Exactly, and I want you to follow Toph and help her if she gets captured." Kuei said, Naruto thought for a second before coming to the deciding answer.
"Ok, I accept." Naruto said before becoming serious.
"And I want you to not interact with the Avatar and his friends. Am I understood?" the Earth-king asked, his head tilted, showing his teal eyes for Naruto to look into.
"Understood, my lord. But I must ask the question, why do you not want me to interact with the Avatar and his friends?" Naruto asked; throughout this conversation he threw his hood on, he was wearing a tattered poncho with a hood, the same hood from his days as an Outlaw.
"I see that you're becoming attached to Miss-Beifong and Mr-Sokka, and I can't have that. You are here to protect the city and its people, the Dai Li have arrested over 20 people under the timespan the Avatar was here, and where were you?" the Earth-king asked stoically, Naruto dropped to a knee.
"I'm sorry, my king! It will never happen again!" Naruto said stoically and loudly so everyone around them would hear, that wasn't much though.
"It's ok, we all make mistakes, but some of them can be rewritten. And that's what you'll be doing." Kuei said grinning.
XxX~ ( Flashback end ) ~XxX
Master-Yu was eating a protein bar, Xin-Fu was scowling like always, once Toph's banging stopped they released a sigh of relief.
"Finally, some peace and quiet." Xin-Fu said happily, it was the afternoon at the moment, there was constant banging all day and they'd only made it a quarter of the way back to the Beifong estate. And just when the banging stopped it returned, two bangs coming from each side of the box.
XxX~ ( At the Eastern air temple ) ~XxX
Aang continued his journey to the Eastern Air Temple. He spots Guru Pathik, who is meditating, and lands Appa next to him, or behind him?
"Uhhh ... hello? You're Guru-Pathik, right?" Aang asked, approaching the meditating guru. "The person who attached the note to Appa's horn?" he asked the dark skinned man, Pathik replied sagely.
"Indeed. I was a spiritual brother of your people, and a personal friend of Monk-Gyatso." Pathik said, opening his eyes.
"In your note, you said you could teach me how to gain control of the Avatar State. How?" Aang asked, for something so powerful and awesome like the Avatar state, he didn't think you could master it.
"You must gain balance within yourself, before you can bring balance to the world. And the first step to gaining balance begins with this." he handed Aang a yellow beverage in a wooden cup.
"Drink up!" he said excitedly, waiting for the reaction he'll get. Aang didn't think it will taste bad so he takes it and looks at it. Drinking it whole before quickly spitting it out to his left in disgust.
"Uggh! It tastes like onion and banana juice!" he blanched, the onion and banana juice staining his lips.
"That's because it is!" the guru said after laughing, Pathik emptied another bowl and held it over his head proving that it was empty. "Yum yum!" he grins, some of the juice hanging off his white beard. Aang blinks in disbelief.
The terrain changed, Aang was shirtless, they were sitting in front of a creek that had swirling waters and moss blocking the pathways to the continuous creek.
"In order to master the Avatar State, you must open all the chakras. Aang, tell me everything you know about chakras." Aang rubbed his eye in boredom.
"What are chakras?" he asked, he didn't have a clue on what those were.
"Oh, I see. I guess we'll start with the basics." He said, as he explains he points to the water and the moss within. "The water flows through this creek, much like the energy flows through your body. As you see, there are several pools where the water swirls around before flowing on. These pools are like our chakras." Guru-Pathik explained, Aang was listening in and was starting to get it.
"So chakras are pools of spiraling energy in our bodies?" Aang summarised, Pathik nodded happily.
"Exactly. If nothing else were around, this creek would flow pure and clear. However, life is messy, and things tend to fall in the creek. And then what happens?" he asked.
"The creek can't flow?" Aang replied, Pathik snapped his fingers.
"Yes. But, if we open the ponds between the pools…" Guru-Pathik removes moss blocking the exit for the water.
"The energy flows!" Aang exclaimed. In another part of the temple, a cavern.
"There are seven chakras that go up the body. Each pool of energy has a purpose, and can be blocked by a specific kind of emotional muck. Be warned, opening the chakras is an intense experience, and once you begin the process, you cannot stop until all seven are open. Are you ready, Aang?" He asked, the nomad momentarily looked down in contemplation.
"I'll do whatever it takes." Aang said determinedly, a fire burning deep within his eyes.
"First we will open the Earth Chakra, located at the base of the spine. It deals with survival, and is blocked by fear. What are you most afraid of? Let your fears become clear to you." the guru said, closing his eyes Aang sees images of things that cause him great fear, including the Blue Spirit attacking him, General Fong sinking Katara into the ground, himself merging with La at the North Pole, Fire Lord-Ozai standing proud and strong, behind a hail of fire caused by Sozin's Comet, and then he saw a furious Naruto who was surrounded in a volcano, which made him scream in terror.
"Aang, your vision is not real. You are concerned for your survival, but you must surrender those fears. Let your fears flow down the creek." Pathik said, Aang cleared the image away and a prominent ting sounded in his head.
"You have opened your Earth Chakra!" Pathik said kindly, his respect for Aang was growing with each chakra he opened. Aang wipes sweat off his forehead. Later their next destination was behind a waterfall.
"Next is the…" Pathik began saying when Aang answered him almost instantly.
"Water Chakra?" Aang's quick question made Pathik grin.
"Brilliant! Maybe one day you will be a guru too! This chakra deals with pleasure and is blocked by guilt. Now, look at all the guilt that burdens you so. What do you blame yourself for?" Pathik asked, Aang didn't have to look far because there were two moments in his entire life that made him guilty. The image of him leaving home popped in his mind, a crying Aang leaving a note for whoever was going to read it.
"I ran away." another memory came up, he saw images of himself in the Avatar State at General Fong's base, destroying everything in his path. "I hurt all of those people." he let the guilt creep up his spine, resting around his head, (Metaphorically speaking.)
"Accept the reality that these things happened, but do not let them cloud and poison your energy. If you are to be a positive influence on the world, you need to forgive yourself." Pathik said, Aang breathed in and out, the guilt swirling around him before dissipating.
XxX~ ( With Azula, Mai and Ty-Lee ) ~XxX
After debriefing with Kuei, Azula, Mai and Ty-Lee were given a hotel to stay in the Upper Ring. Mai and Ty-Lee are removing their make-up. A smiling Ty-Lee is looking in a mirror. She is wiping the last traces of her Kyoshi makeup from her face. Mai is seated next to Ty Lee, still working on her own face.
"We have been presented with an extraordinary opportunity, girls." Azula said, inwardly plotting the demise of the Earth Kingdom in itself.
"Mai finally gets to wear make-up that's not totally depressing?" Ty-Lee asked, Azula walked past toward a window. Mai with large, dark splotches of black makeup dripping down her eyes; Sarcastically replied.
"Ha, ha." and with that she went back to removing the make-up.
"I'm talking about conquering the whole Earth Kingdom." Azula said with a sinister grin, the two girls turned to face her with shocked looks.
"For one hundred years, the Fire-Nation has hammered away at Ba Sing Se from the outside. But now we're on the inside, and we can take it by ourselves." she planned evilly, Ty-Lee looked at Azula with admiration shining in her grey orbs.
"Gosh, you're so confident. I really admire that about you." Ty-Lee told Azula.
"From the inside, we're in the perfect position to organize a coup and overthrow the Earth King. The key is the Dai Li. Whoever controls the Dai Li controls Ba Sing Se." she explained sinisterly, suddenly a thought crossed her mind.
"Where is Menma?" the daughter of the Fire lord asked, suddenly a knock came from the door.
"Package!" a voice came in from outside the door of their room, Ty-Lee, seeing she was done with her make-up, she skipped to the door, opening the door she saw a man in earth-style robes, showing that he was the local mailman.
"Hello sir!" she greeted cheerfully, he didn't pay her any mind and gave her a clipboard with a scroll and a paintbrush on the board.
"Sign here please." he said, Ty-Lee scratched her head dumbly.
"Uhh… what do I sign?" Ty-Lee asked, Azula came up behind her, a puzzled expression.
"Excuse me, but we did not order a package?" She said.
"And I didn't ask that ma'am. I want a signature, I don't care what's inside." he said lazily, lighting a cigarette.
"Well, ok then. Thank you for this gif–" she was stopped when he shoved the huge box into their room and gave her the clipboard.
"I don't care for your thanks, I just want a signature so I can go home for the night." he sighed, blowing smoke out of the corner of his mouth.
'Rude.' Azula mentally cursed, she quickly signed the board and slammed the door in the man's face. "Bye!"
There were mixed reactions with what was inside the box, Ty-Lee jumped around excitedly, flipping in the air and her dress showing her indecent parts. Mai didn't care much, but there was a bit of curiosity in her amber eyes. Azula was skeptical, this could be the Earth Kingdom sending a bomb that will detonate their room! Or maybe it's just a nice gift.
Azula and Ty-Lee surrounded the box, lifting open the lid and they saw styrofoam in their vision, then a hand came out and a loud yawn was sent throughout the room.
"BURGLAR!" Azula called out, a red head poked his head out of the box in a comical fashion.
"What's up y'all!" he yawned again.
"Why are you in a box?" Ty-Lee asked, Menma enveloped himself in fire, burning the styrofoam and the box, and a bit of his fire navy clothes.
"Whoops." he sheepishly said, rubbing his head.
"There's some clothes in the top drawer of the old couple that lived here." Mai said, finally removing the rest of the make-up.
"And hello to you too." Menma greeted. He walked over to said drawer and pulled out robes for old grandpa's. "Ugh, do I have to wear this?" he groaned childishly.
"Who cares! Just put them on." Azula pinched the bridge off her nose.
'Idiots!'
"So why are you in a box?" Azula asked with crossed arms.
"I was in a box, I couldn't find a way to get into Ba Sing Se without being spotted or given suspicious looks." Menma said, jumping on Azula's bed.
"Ok, where are you sleeping?" the princess asked, Menma waved his hands.
"Here, in this bed." he said after taking his shirt off and tossing the blankets over him. "Goodnight!"
"Uhh… no you're not sleeping in my bed!" she hissed, nudging him with her foot. He snored loudly to drown out the noise that was Azula's voice. "Fine. We'll share the bed." she said, pulling the covers over and attaching herself to Menma, trying to embarrass him but he was asleep.
"Oh lala, looks like you're having a good time." Ty-Lee said, Azula didn't show it but she was enjoying herself in bed with Menma. He was warm, most-likely sending off waves of heat to warm himself up subconsciously.
"Silence! I'm going to sleep." Azula quickly said, pressing her body up against the redhead's, her soft bosom sitting on his bare back.
XxX~ ( With Naruto ) ~XxX
He pulled some rocks out of his pocket and made a lava disc out of said element, the disc cut its way through one of the wheels on the carriage. The distraction was all Toph needed, she felt the vibration from the wheel being cut and she leaned all her weight backwards, tipping the box over on top of Xin-Fu and Master-Yu, who were screaming and hugging each other.
SMASH!
Now Toph found herself in an even worse situation, she was stuck in a lop-sided box with no way out. She pulled out the knife Naruto gave to her, she examined the knife, 'Why would he give me a knife?' Toph asked herself, twirling the knife in her palm without touching the bent weapon.
It took a couple minutes for her to realise that the girl was bending the metal knife.
"Oh my freaking god!" Toph exclaimed and got a nice idea, she punched the roof/door, resulting in a loud bang and a big dent. "Whoo! Toph, you rule!" she grinned, shaking her sore hand. The box was suddenly flipped back over, Toph screaming her head off.
"Get off!" Xin-Fu yelled, punching Master-Yu in the face. He got off the carriage with a bunch of scratches littering his body, and Naruto left the scene, seeing as he didn't need to save her.
Xin-Fu saw Toph's prison was tipped over and with assistance from Master-Yu they got the box standing again but saw a humongous hole in the ground where the box was and a massive hole in the box.
"It's another one of her tricks!" Master-Yu accused, Xin-Fu looked at him with a stupid look in his eye.
"There's a giant hole in the box! How is that a trick?" the head of the fighting promotion of the Earth Rumble asked, a voice behind them made them turn around.
"It's not! It's the real deal!" Toph shouted, she earthbends the two men together with earth plates, throws them in the cage, and bends the box shut with her new sub-element, metal.
"I am the greatest earthbender in the world! Don't you two dunderheads ever forget it!" she yells, stomping on the box and exits using earth surfing, she makes her way back to Ba Sing Se.
"I'm going to be stuck in here forever with you, aren't I?" Xin-Fu asked from inside the box.
"I have to go the bathroom." Master-Yu said meekly, Xin Fu groaned and slammed his head against the box when he heard the sound of urine touching the box and his feet.
XxX~ ( Back with Menma - Dream ) ~XxX
A six year old redhead could be seen swinging a sword, (Wooden of course), he was swinging the sword with grace and furiosity. He was in a training ground that belonged to his parents on their land.
Naruto was hanging out with Zuko, Ty-Lee and Mai. They went to eat ramen.
"Hey Tomato!" a six year old girl yelled out from a tree branch.
"Azula! You need to get down from there, now!" Menma hissed, Azula, who was sitting on the branch of the tree tucked her legs on the tree branch and moved back so she was hanging upside down.
"Or what? You gonna tell your mom?" she taunted.
"No, because that tree is–" tis sentence was cut when…
Snap!
The branch Azula was on snapped and she fell into a pile of hay bales that was luckily there.
"That tree is 43 years old and it is probably rotting." Menma sighed, he blew some fire to the branch that she broke and it was burned to a crisp. "What do you want?" he asked, helping Azula up.
"Is that how you talk to your future queen?" Little-Azula asked, striking a pose of elegance.
"Hmm, I don't know. Let me think about it– What do you want?" he asked nonchalantly. She angrily blushed at his belated disrespect.
"Rude. But I want to know if Naruto can firebend yet?" Azula asked with her arms crossed; she had a crush on the blonde haired protagonist and Menma was praying for his brother.
"No, he's not a firebender." Menma said, a bit of sadness lacing his voice; he wanted to have a firebending battle with his brother, on Sozin's Comet, where their firebending will be boosted and it would make the battle that much more epic.
Azula narrowed her eyes, placing a delicate on her hip. "What makes you say that?" she asked.
"He took my Dad's bending instead." Menma said without a care in the world.
"What do you mean? He's Fire Nation, isn't he?" the daughter of Ozai asked, her curiosity spiked when she heard this. He waved her over, into a huddle/crouched position.
"Come here." he whispered, she came over with a skip in her step, eager to find out what he was talking about.
"What is it?" she asked, a little impatiently.
"You've gotta keep it a secret." Menma said, Azula zipped her lips and threw the imaginary key away. "My Dad is the great, great, great grandson of Avatar-Kyoshi. Big-brother inherited his bending, earthbending." He grinned, Azula's eyes widened, it all started coming together.
"So, he's an earthbender?" she asked.
"Yeah, but you can't tell anyone at all." Menma said, emphasis of "Anyone".
"I promise." she said, her fingers crossed behind her back.
XxX~ ( Timeskip ) ~XxX
Menma was walking down the local town square in the volcanic city, he was sporting Fire-Nation armor, kids sized and his wooden sword on his back.
"What to do, what to do? I guess I could go home and help Dad with dinner?" Menma said happily and skipped to his house outside the city, it was on a grass mountain with tons of trees.
When he got there he saw that his house was on fire, so were all the trees. He quickly ran into the house, using his memory of the house to navigate himself to his fathers room, he saw Fire Nation soldiers there on the floor, with molten earth on their armors, presumably dead.
"DAD!" he screamed out when he saw his bedroom door busted down. He ran into the room and he saw a head of blonde hair. "Dad?" Menma called out, turning his head, it revealed a younger Naruto, who was on his knees, holding a body, a bloody body.
"You…" Naruto hissed, his blood boiled when the body in his arms disintegrated into ash. "You did this." Naruto whispered, clenching his hands tightly.
"No! I didn't, the only person I… told was Azula." Menma whispered the last part, Naruto turned around, showing his tear stricken face, he ran to Menma, tackling him out of the room and off the staircase.
"You told Azula! AZULA!? About my bending!" he shouted in Menma's face, Menma was panting, his back hurt from the floor.
"I told her to keep it a secret." he whizzed out, Naruto was shaking him by the collar.
"Did you keep it a secret?!" he screamed at Menma.
"No…" he started getting a sore head from Naruto's consistent banging of his head, Naruto let him go, he gasped for air.
"You did this…" Naruto said, Menma rolled over, looking at Naruto retreating form.
"Big-brother!" the crying boy called out. "I didn't mean to." Menma weeped, Naruto turned back around, showing that it wasn't Naruto, it was his father's face, on his brother's body! "No…"
"Why did you betray your family?" Minato asked, his hair grew longer with two bangs that framed his face, his clothes changed to his original clothes with a funny pink apron.
His father was a handsome man, standing 6'2 in height, he had tan skin with a sharp jawline, his eyes were green and he had blonde hair.
"No, I didn't know this would happen." He knelt down into a begging position, his hand clasped together.
"How does it feel?" Minato asked, Menma looked up.
"I don't… know what you mean?" he said.
"How does it feel to know that you… killed your own father!" he screamed in his crying face, the illusion of his father went up in smoke.
"NO!" he screamed, a fist came out of the smoke, punching him in the face. Azula's head poked out of the smoke with a sickening grin.
"Hey Tomato." she greeted, looking around at the burning house. "It's beautiful."
"It's your fault! If you hadn't snitched on me I would still have my family!" he screamed in agony, a sword pierced through his stomach, it was his wooden sword, in the hands of Azula.
"Shut up, and die already, Menma." she grinned savagely as she also went up in smoke and his body started disappearing in ash.
"NOOOOO!" he screamed as his head was ash and the house collapsed.
XxX~ ( End of dream ) ~XxX
Menma threw his body up, screaming.
"NOOOOO!" he shouted, back in his regular body. He looked around, seeing he was back in his room with Azula cuddling up against his body.
He touched his chest, feeling the stab wound not there.
'I'm sorry Dad- wait. That's not what happened? It wasn't real.' he thought, he left the bed and room, he needed to train.
XxX~ ( Scene cut - Chameleon Bay ) ~XxX
At Chameleon Bay, Hakoda is teaching Sokka a secret technique exclusively to the Southern Water Tribe.
"This bay leads directly to the outskirts of Ba Sing Se. We've been using these tangle mines to stop the Fire Nation ships from getting through." Hakoda explained, Bato was filling the mine with skunk fish and seaweed before moving away.
"Your father invented tangle mines himself." Bato informed, Sokka looked calculatedly at the barrel.
"Destructive? Buoyant? And..." Sokka took a quick whiff and immediately became disgusted. "Aggh, ehhh! Terrible smelling!" he pinched his nose in disgust.
"Very perceptive. The mines are filled with skunk fish and seaweed. When a ship detonates the mine, the seaweed tangles up the propeller and the foul smell forces people to abandon the ship. I call it the "stink and sink." Hakoda said with a grin as Sokka laughed.
"Good one, Dad!" Bato stood nearby unamused.
"You're definitely your father's son." Bato rolled his eyes, another Water Tribe warrior came up to Hakoda with a serious expression.
"Chef-Hakoda, our scouts have spotted four Fire Nation battleships!" the warrior relayed the message before leaving.
"Bato, get these mines loaded up! The rest of you men, prepare for battle!" he ordered, Sokka looked around, seeing the other warriors run off to prepare for battle.
"Uhhh... what should I do, Dad?" Sokka asked, Hakoda responded with a bit of pride in his voice and a smile at the end.
"Aren't you listening? I said, "The rest of you men, get ready for battle." Sokka smiles and departs with a head nod.
Chapter: 11
How was the chapter? How was the nightmare? I think it was pretty good!
Azula's attributes:
Hand-to-hand combat: Incredible – (She easily took on an enraged Zuko easily, she didn't use any fire bending while he used daggers.)
Hunting: Unknown – (She hadn't shown any screen time in the skill of hunting)
Weaponry: Unknown – (She hadn't shown any screen time in the skill of hunting)
Bending ability: Fire – (She is a skilled firebender, she was trained by the best fire bending teachers the Fire Nation could offer. At the age of 15, she escaped Team Avatar, and Zuko and Iroh.)
IQ: 165 – (She is very smart, her mind was crafted from discipline and respect. )
Battle IQ: 190 – (Her plan to conquer Ba Sing Se was successful, that should tell how smart she is.)
Weaknesses: Love – (Azula was also constantly scolded by her mother due to her cruel nature. This shaped Azula's fears that she could not count on love from anyone, no matter how close they seemed. Unable to trust others, she instead began to control them using fear.)
Strengths: Her killer instinct.
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