Crossover Fan Fiction / Crossover With Non-anime Series Fan Fiction / Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ NAvatarUTO ❯ Of Benders and Ninja ( Chapter 5 )
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Chapter Five: Of Benders and Ninja
The next day, team seven arrived to show the Avatar and his friends
around Konoha. “So… what are we supposed to show
them?” Naruto asked. “The best place to get
ramen?”
“How about the library or the communications tower?”
Sakura offered.
“Absolutely not.” Sasuke chided. “These people
are outsiders. We're not just going to show them our intelligence
center. In a hidden village only clients and other ninjas are
supposed to know where it is. I don't see why we should trust
them,” Sasuke said bluntly.
Toph stepped in saying, “We never asked you to trust us and
just so you know, I don't give a bear's egg where you get your
mail.”
Sakura nervously stepped between the two. “Hey guys, just
calm down. We were instructed by the hokage to make these people
feel welcome. I trust in lord third's decision. Besides, If Aang
truly is the Avatar, then there is nothing to worry about.”
She reasoned.
Naruto cocked his head to one side. “Ava-what?”
Sasuke turned his attention to Aang. “You,” he said,
“prove that you are the Avatar. Show us that you can use all
the elements.”
Now Katara was getting mad. “Don't order him around!”
she demanded. “Aang is the Avatar and he doesn't need to
prove it to the likes of you.” Suddenly the group felt a
slight breeze as Aang prepared an air scooter and rode around them.
He explained that he had not mastered all the elements yet, but him
being an air bender should be proof enough.
Naruto let out a noise of frustration; “argh! Will someone
please tell me what the hell is going on? I thought these guys
weren't ninja, so how can the bald guy fly? And what does that have
to do with if he's trustworthy enough to see our mail and what the
heck is an Avatar?”
Now it was Sakura's turn to be frustrated. “Did you sleep
through all of our history classes? Uhg, you are such an idiot
Naruto!” She exclaimed. “The Avatar is the one being
who has the ability to learn to bend all the elements. It is
supposed to be a great bridge from this world to the spirit world
and keeps balance between all the nations.”
“Isn't that what the ninja villages are for?” asked
Naruto.
“Yes. For the past hundred years the Avatar has been missing
and the hidden villages were formed to keep a balance of power
between each nation's feudal lords and the people.” Sakura
answered.
“Ahhh! I still don't get it,” Naruto moaned.
“What does that have to do with riding on air?”
Sakura sighed. “You really don't know anything, Naruto? I
guess that I will just have to start from the beginning.”
Unbeknownst to any of the characters, a giant scroll showing
simplified diagrams appeard behind Sakura to act as a visual aid to
her speech. “There are two main kinds of people in this
world: benders and nonbenders. A bender is born with the ability to
control an element such as water, earth, air, fire, or lightning.
Their physical movements are what cause the element to do their
will. Therefor, benders are not able to perform ninjutsu or
genjutsu, but rather, only taijutsu.”
“Bushy brows!” Naruto exclaimed. “He must be a
bender!”
“Lee is not a bender. We know this because he has chakra and
benders do not. Now shut up and let me finish.” Sakura
continued. “The Avatar is a being who, like I said before,
has the potential to master all the elements. The Avatar is meant
to keep balance and peace between nations because benders of each
element have formed into separate countries. This being is immortal
and is eternally reborn after death. Each new Avatar is born to one
element but must learn all the rest. This does not happen randomly
however. There is a cycle of elements that each Avatar will be born
into. A hundred years ago, the Avatar was to be born an air bender.
However, our Land of Fire felt threatened by the Wind Country and
feared that they would use the Avatar's great power against them.
So, the Fire Nation killed off all the air benders. We know that
Aang is the Avatar because he is the last air bender. In the
hundred years since the massac-air, there has been great unrest
without the Avatar. There were constant wars between clans and
countries until the clans finally were able to become allies and
form villages. The hidden leaf was the first village of this kind,
started as a weak truce between the Senju and the Uchiha. The Fire
Nation has grown strong in the century without the Avatar. There
are rumors that the fire lord plans on dominating all the five
great nations. Having an Avatar in the picture would make that goal
much harder and that is why the fire lord may seek to have Aang
captured or destroyed.” Sakura concluded. “Did I leave
anything out?”
The gaang looked at each other and agreed that nope, she pretty
much covered it all and more so.
Naruto put his hands in his pockets and squinted. He nodded
vigorously so as to pretend that he understood. Then he put his
hands behind his head and asked if the history lesson was over so
that he could go train. Sakura punched him in the arm and Sasuke
said how Naruto was such a loser, he didn't expect he would even
have any jutsu to practice.
“Oh yea? I'll show you!” Naruto shouted as he put his
hands together in his telltale sign. “Harem Jutsu!” In
a puff of smoke, there were instantly ten nude female Natutos.
Sokka screamed and fell on his butt, Katara covered Aang's eyes
after she got over the initial shock, Sasuke rolled his eyes,
Sakura clobbered Naruto in the head and Toph just picked her nose.
Once Naruto was back in his original form, albeit with a new large
welt on his head, he asked how on earth Toph was able to remain
completely neutral throughout his jutsu.
“I'm blind!” Toph said with an exasperated sigh.
“But not as blind as you are for not noticing. I guess I
should take it as a compliment really. I can preform just as well
as anyone who can see because I can feel vibrations in the ground.
For example, my feet `see' four people up ahead.” Sure
enough, further down the path stood some figures that no one
recognized. There was a boy with purple face paint carrying what
looked to be a mummy, a girl with four blond ponytails and a short
red haired boy with a giant gourd on his back. As the group
approached the three strangers, Sakura noticed that the symbols on
their forehead protectors showed that they were shinobi from the
village hidden in the sand.
“Why are there people from Wind Country here in the Fire
Nation?” Aang asked.
The outsiders from the sand turned to see who was talking. The boy
with the face paint smirked. “These must be the leaf genin.
What a bunch of wimps.”
“What did you call us?” Naruto yelled, running towards
the trio. With the twitch of a finger, Kankuro tripped him with one
of his chakra strings. Sakura demanded the strangers state their
purpose for being in the Leaf Village. The blond girl rolled her
eyes and said that besides being wimps, these genin were obviously
ignorant too. Temari explained that they were there for the
upcoming chunin exams. The red haired boy gave some sort of silent
signal and the three of them disappeared.
Aang ran over to the spot the sand shinobi had been just seconds
ago. “Why would citizens of my Land of Wind come to enemy
territory just for an exam?” He asked.
“They're not citizens of Wind Country exactly,” Sasuke
answered, “They're shinobi from the Sand Village which is
located in the Land of Wind. The Land of Fire and the Land of Wind
may be at war currently, but the sand and Leaf Villages are still
allies. It has been a tradition for years that allied ninja
villages conduct shared chunin exams in order to maintain the
balance of power and keep up good relations.”
Sokka stroked his chin and asked what these exams entailed. When
learning that it was a competition between genin for the title of
chunin, he smacked his fist against his palm. “I'm in! I just
got to fight Shikamaru. I'll show that no good stuck up lazy jerk a
thing or two.”
Naruto scratched his head. “You want to join the chunin
exams?”
Aang smiled. “This would be a great opportunity to get to
know people of all different backgrounds. As the Avatar, improving
relations is part of my job.”
“I'm always up for butt kicking,” Toph said as she
cracked her knuckles.
Katara looked nervous. “I don't know, you guys, I think that
would be a bad idea.” She said.
Toph laughed. “What, is miss fussy britches scared of getting
in a tussle?” She mocked.
“No!” Katara said indignantly, “I just think we
should try to keep a low profile.”
“What she really means,” Toph replied, “Is that
sugar queen hates having fun.”
Sakura eased in between the two furious girls' stare down.
“Hey, calm down,” she said, “there's no point in
arguing about it when we haven't even talked to the hokage. Not
even every genin gets to join the exam. I'll file your request and
have it sent to lord third.” The group continued down the
path as a blue mask-wearing figure stepped out from behind a tree
where he had heard everything.