Chapter one A twist of fate

Hello readers, September exams have killed me and the only thing that got me through was thinking about how I would be able to write some new stories that would hopefully make my loyal readers very happy. So I've written this Avatar crossover with Sakura as the main character of course and I've also started writing a Magi fanfiction crossover with Sakura in it. I don't know when I'll be posting that one though but for now I hope you enjoy this.

Summary

Sakura wasn't planning on this to happen to her; yet it seems she had become a victim of destiny. She wakes up in another world where there are people who use elements known as bending and there is massive war going on. This world is not her own, it is not meant for her, yet it needed her and she couldn't let it down. She becomes twisted in the threads of fate of those who are meant to fight for the freedom of this world and now she must slowly begin to untangle it. Will she be able to do it and get home?

Fate is such a strange thing and works in the most mysterious ways-that's an understatement however as fate plays a much bigger part in life than people will ever realise but there will always be those who believe they are opposing fate so much so that they do not realise that it was meant to be like this from the begging.

Mankind has always been one to attempt to oppose forces beyond their reach and they always found a way to do it. No matter the cost. Why? Because they were greedy, it was coded into them to be this way. Yet they were essential.

They have always been one to oppose fate and hence attempted to create unbalance in everything so that they would feel like they had more meaning in their lives. Nothing can last forever though and the universe would always find a way to put things back in place.

Yet from time to time, man was simply too persistent and the universe could not bring balance back as easily with what it had to offer. So Fate came up with another solution.

Simply adjust and add in another factor.

An extra factor taken from somewhere else-from somewhere that didn't utilise the factor to its full potential. The solution seemed a lot more simple than it actually was-after all it was just borrowing something that wasn't needed at the moment.

The problem with borrowing though is that you never know for sure that you will want to return what you have borrowed once you discover how valuable it really is.

Fate can be very selfish as well, when it wants something bad enough. It can change everything in a single moment and tangle up its neatly lined threads making it impossible to escape.

Clear skies, a light breeze, the smell of the forest filling the senses; nothing could be more perfect; at least not in the opinion of Sakura Haruno who treaded through the mountains as she took a short cut on her way back to her village. Standing on the top she could see everything including her village that wasn't too far. After being away on a mission for nearly two weeks it would be nice to see her friend again.

The pink haired girl allowed her emerald green eyes to scan the area one more time before she smiled. When she got back she planned on having a nice hot bath before going to hand in the report on her mission.

Unfortunately for her-fate did not agree with her agenda.

"Almost home."

She wanted to get back fast since there would be a really bad storm approaching soon.

As she began making her way down the mountain the skies darkened and filled with grey clouds followed by the familiar rumbling sounds that promised a storm-and one unlike anything Sakura has ever seen before. She looked up as the wind began to become more vicious; her pink locks hitting her face. She winced.

Then the clouds began to do something very strange, moving in a round circular motion they started to look as if they were chasing each other and began forming a giant opening in the sky. Sakura couldn't help but stare up in awe as an array of colours filled the centre of it and then...there was a flash of light.

And she was standing right under it.

'What is that?' Sakura wondered unable to move; her eyes fixated on what was forming.

Then the light engulfed her form completely before she was able to comprehend the situation. She was lifted into the air slowly before she began to hear voices; many voices man and women alike yet they were all saying the same thing.

Fate-was something that was being cursed right now by several individuals as they walked through the scorching hot desert. Their cheeks painted red as they continued to move. They had nothing but good intentions when entering this desert and yet due to an unfortunate turn of events they were now stranded and unsure of how they would return.

This was group was four young teenagers and one lemur more specifically, Aang, Katara, Toph, Sokka and Momo.

They had come to the desert in search of an ancient spirit library and had gotten this far on Aang's bison Aapa but when their backs were turned and odds were not in their favour; he was taken. Now they were stuck in the desert.

"Come on we have to keep moving." Said Katara

The sun was setting now and they would most likely be spending a night in the desert.

"We can't go any faster." Toph moaned

Then they heard a crackling sound from above, and it wasn't buzzards. There were clouds that started to form and lightning appeared from nowhere.

"What is that?" Katara asked in shock

"I don't know." Aang replied narrowing his eyes

"What's happening?" asked Toph who was unable to see the light due to her blindness.

"There's some kind of weird light." said Sokka dizzily-having had cactus juice that had caused him to go into a narrow state of mind earlier on.

"Look" Katara pointed up to the sky.

There was a loud eruption sound and then it was like the sky split open before a figure began falling from the sky and they saw a girl with pink hair.

"Am I hallucinating still..." trailed Sokka as his eyes followed the figure falling.

"Aang grab her before she falls!" Katara exclaimed

Aang quickly flipped open his glider and flew towards the girl and caught her with ease. He placed on onto the ground where his friends gathered around her.

"Where did she come from?" asked Toph

"I don't know but she looks...different." Katara noted

She indeed was; the girl had short pink hair-pink! That was a colour none of them have seen on anyone's head! She had pale skin; a bit of a wider than usual forehead and was wearing a sleeveless red top and a pair of tight black shorts with boots.

"Okay...This trip just goes a whole lot weirder." Toph stated

Emerald eyes slowly opened; her strong but petite body was aching all over as she breathed in and out her chest felt heavier than usual as she struggled to sit up; she rubbed her eyes and looked over her body; there were a few bruises on her body. She looked around and found that there was nothing but sand for miles. Was she in a desert? How was that even possible she was just in the forest a little ways from her village?

"Look she's awake!"

Sakura looked around and found herself surrounded by people with faces she was not familiar with.

"Are you okay?" a girl asked; she was about Sakura's age maybe younger, she had dark brown skin and dark hair tied into a braid with her bangs in loops; she also had amazing blue eyes and was clad in a blue tunic with pants.

"I think so" Sakura answered rubbing her head "What happened?"

"That's what we would like to know." a young boy said; he was a bit younger than Sakura in appearance and had a bald head with a light blue arrow tattoo on it, he also had brown eyes and pale skin.

"You literally just fell out of nowhere." Said another female voice; Sakura turned her head and she saw another girl; she had a pale complexion and pale eyes that reminded her of the Hyuga's eyes but Sakura knew that this indicated that she was blind and dark hair that was tied into a huge bun.

Then there was a boy who was about maybe a year older than Sakura, he had dark hair that was shaven on the sides and the rest tied back into a short pony tail, he also had tanned skin and blue eyes like the one girl.

"What's your name?" the blind girl asked

"Sakura..." the pinkette told them "Sakura Haruno"

The dusky skinned girl gestured to herself "My name is Katara"

"I'm Toph" the blind girl said

"I'm Aang" the brown eyed boy said a little down; then a little lemur jumped on Sakura's shoulder making her yelp.

"And that's Momo" said Katara

Then the last boy introduced himself

"I'm Sokka and your hairs pink."

Sakura tugged at the end of her Cherryblossom coloured hair "I know; it's nice to meet you. Do you have any ideas about what happened?"

"Well..." Katara trailed "We don't know; you kind of just fell from the sky..."

"What?" Sakura asked in disbelief

"Yeah and I thought I was seeing things because I was woozy from the cactus juice..." trailed Sokka

"I fell from the sky?" Sakura asked still trying to process this. She fell from the sky...the sky...

Sakura looked up at the group "Do any of you know how to get to Konoha?"

"What?" asked Toph

"The village hidden in the leaves." She tried to elaborate

"We've never heard of a village like that." Katara said "That's where you're from?"

Sakura nodded "Yes, I was on my way there when this light appeared and sucked me into the sky."

The group glanced at one another-except for Toph.

"Wait...from the sky." Aang asked

"This is making no sense whatsoever." Said Katara and Sakura nodded in agreement.

"I can't seem to come up with an explanation of how this happened." Sakura said rubbing her head; how could she have gone from a forest to a desert and from day to night?

"We're not sure what's going on but if you like we'd be happy to help you." Katara said with a smile

"We would?" asked Sokka making Katara elbow him in his stomach.

"Yes, she's clearly lost and we can't leave someone out here."

Sakura smiled "Thanks."

Katara and Sakura were looking at a map and the stars; they were trying to coordinate how they would be getting out. Everyone else had already gone to sleep but it would only be for a little while before they had to get back up. Since Sakura wasn't walking in the desert for hours unlike the rest of them, she decided to stay up and help Katara plan their route. Sakura was still completely at a loss for what was happening but she supposed she should thank her lucky stars that she wasn't alone in the desert. However there was something going on that made Sakura feel very uneasy, it was something about this group. It wasn't the people in specific; they all seemed very nice but it was the odd feeling that she was somewhere she didn't belong.

"If you don't mind me asking, how did you get trapped in the desert?" Sakura asked

Katara's face fell slightly before she began explaining to the pinkette "We came here searching for a library."

"A library in the desert?" asked Sakura in disbelief.

"It's a spirit library" Sokka added

Katara nodded "We came here on our bison."

"What's a bison?" Sakura asked

"It's...kind of a buffalo like creature, his name was Aapa. Anyway we flew here with him-

"Flew?" Sakura asked; okay things were taking a turn for the strange quickly. Katara seemed to be telling Sakura the truth yet she has never heard of bison's before or of a library in the middle of the desert.

Just where did she land?

"Yeah." Katara said cocking her head to the side

Sakura took a breath; she had a feeling that she would be asking a lot of questions "Sorry; I'll leave all my questions for the end."

Katara nodded and continued

"We found the library and went inside but while we were there some sand bender bandits came and stole our bison. So that's how we ended up here."

Sakura nodded and looked down at the sand, why was it that nothing was making sense now?

For the time being all she needed to do was focus on getting out of the desert and then hopefully she would be able to find a way to get back home.

'I wonder how far I am from home now.'

Katara stood up "Let's wake everyone up so we can get going."

Sakura nodded and went over to Toph while Katara woke up Sokka and Aang but when Katara went over to Aang it turned out he was already awake. Despite the turn of events it was clear his mind was still on one thin and that was his bison.

Sakura went over to Toph and Sokka; gently shaking them awake.

"We're moving out."

They both groaned and stood up.

Toph licked her lips "Yesterday my mouth tasted like mud; now it just tastes like sand; I'd never thought I'd miss the taste of mud so much"

"Come on; we need to get moving if we want to get out of this sandpit" said Katara waiting for everyone to get their bearings.

Suddenly Aang looked up at the sky and saw something drifting across the full moon.

"AAPA" he cried in joy

Sakura looked at him, Aang seemed rather aloof when he introduced himself to her but now he appeared cheerful.

Sakura looked up in the sky and narrowed her eyes "That's a cloud."

That destroyed the hype quick but then Katara gasped "A cloud!" she took off her water sack and held it out to Aang "Here fly up there and bend the water from that cloud into my pouch."

Unhappily Aang grabbed the pouch and tapped his glider before jumping into the air and flying.

Sakura gasped in shock "What is he doing?!"

"He's an air bender after all so it's no surprise he can fly up so high." Toph said nonchalantly

"But I've never heard of jutsu like that before." Sakura said

Now it was everyone else's turn to seem confused.

"What are you talking about?" asked Toph "That's airbending, you know like waterbending and earthbending and firebending"

Sakura cocked her head to the side "Bending? I don't understand..."

Sakura looked up as the Aang flew across the cloud making it disappear and then landing back on the ground handing the pouch back to Katara.

"Wow there's hardly any in here."

"I'm sorry okay! It's a desert cloud I did all I could! What's anyone else doing? What are you doing?" he asked pointing to Katara

"Trying to keep everyone together." She answered

Sakura however was still awe struck by the young boys amazing abilities but this brought about even more questions for her. And to be honest she was little scared to reach a conclusion.

"Bending..."

She wondered if that was some king of technique that she just hadn't heard of. It had to be right? That was the only logical explanation she had. Coming up with any other conclusions were actually frightening her.

They continued to walk through the desert together; Sakura still couldn't think of any solution to her situation; but she was begging to get the feeling that she may be further from home than she initially thought. What she had assumed for now was that she had somehow been transported-it wasn't the first time something like this had happened to her but at the same time it felt different than the other times. There was a bright light that sucked her in; she woke up in a desert; she met a few strangers; then she discovered some of them had odd abilities.

'Am I even on earth anymore?'

Suddenly Toph fell over and cursed "Crud, I am so sick of not feeling where I'm going and who leaves a boat in the middle of the desert?"

"Boat?" asked Sakura, she couldn't see any boat, only a small stub of a rock that Toph must have fallen over.

"Yeah, I kicked it hard enough to feel plenty of vibrations." Toph told her

And the confusion continued.

Aang threw his staff over and created a giant gust of wind that revealed the structure that Toph was talking about and it did look a bit like a boat.

"It's one of the gliders that the sand bender use." said Katara as she made her way over to the compass "And look there's some kind of compass. I bet it could point us out of here. Aang; you can bend a breeze so we can sail it, we're gonna make it!"

Sakura couldn't take it anymore

"Hold on!" Sakura said holding her hands up making everyone look at her "What is happening? I don't get any of this? Bending what is that?"

Everyone looked at her in confusion now "Sakura are you feeling alright?" asked Toph

Sakura grabbed the end of her hair "I just don't get any of this."

"Wait...is it possible you've never heard of bending before?" Katara asked in surprise

Sakura nodded "Yes that's exactly what I'm saying."

"Bending refers to the manipulation of one of the four elements that's earth, wind, water and fire. I'm a water bender so I bend water, Toph's an earthbender so she bends earth and Aang's an airbender but he is also the avatar so he can bend all four elements."

Sakura collapsed on the ground "That is making about as much sense to me as landing up in the desert. Absolutely none; I've never heard of benders before or heard of an avatar."

"HUUUUUUUUUUUUHH"

"Okay who are you exactly?" asked Aang narrowing his eyes

Sakura stood up straighter "My name is Haruno Sakura; I am a ninja from the village hidden in the leaves also known as Konoha, I am an elite medical ninja and apprentice to the hokage Tsunade."

Toph was using her earth bending to detect if the girl was lying or not by feeling her heartbeat and breathing and she wasn't "She's telling the truth."

Sakura nodded "That's right; and who are you?"

"I'm Katara a waterbender and this is my brother Sokka and we're from the Southern Water Tribe."

"I'm Toph Beifon and I'm from the Beifon family in the earth kingdom; I'm also an earthbender."

"I'm Aang and I come from the Southern air temple and I'm the avatar."

The group just stood there for several minutes before Sakura broke the silence

"I think it's clear that whatever is going on right now; I'm a long way from home."

"Maybe you're not from this world" Aang suggested suddenly making everyone's heads snap to him "I mean think about it, you fell from the sky; you don't know what bending is...do you know about the war?"

Sakura shook her head "There's a war?"

"Only a hundred year one that's been going on in this world." Katara answered "But if you're not from this world...how can you be here?"

"I don't know." Sakura told her truthfully "I...I just woke up here after a storm."

"Seems like our little group is about to get a lot more complicated." Toph said offhandedly

After the eventful conversation, everyone had set themselves on the sand glider and tensions needed to be cleared. Sakura had explained to the group completely about what had happened and in turn they gave her a bit of insight. It was strange to believe that she was in another world but there was no other explanation. They told her about the war that was going on in this world. About four nations; Water tribes, Air nomads, Fire nation and Earth kingdoms; and how those born to it sometime inherited the ability to use one of the elements that was known as bending but then there was the avatar that was born once in every life cycle. They told her that Aang was the current avatar and that his job was to restore balance to the world. There was a war going on with the Fire Nation against the other three nations. Sakura was intrigued to hear about it. They told her that Aang was the only person in the world who could use all four elements and that he was needed to save the world. That was a lot to take in over a ride but Sakura managed somehow.

"So...I'm really not in my world anymore." Sakura murmured in disbelief running a hand through her head.

"That would explained you hair" Sokka said

Sakura pulled a face "It's not really that common in my world either."

They had been travelling for a while now.

"I know it's a lot to take in but I'm sure we can help."Katara promised as she looked down at her map and then at the compass "For now though we should just focus on getting out of this desert."

Sakura nodded "You're right."

"The needle on this compass isn't pointing north according to my map" Katara observed

"I'm sure the sand folks who built this know how to get around here." Sokka said still in a daze from the cactus juice.

They saw a rock coming into view "That must be the magnetic centre of the desert."

Toph leaped for joy "A rock yes!"

"Maybe we can find some water there." Said Katara

"Maybe we can find some sand benders." Aang said softly as he bent them towards it.

Sakura never thought she'd be so happy to see a rock before in her life. The rock was actually very large; as they climbed up the sun had started to rise. Toph fell down on the ground and Sakura winced when she heard a cracking sound only to see Toph making a rock angel.

"Ouch." She muttered realising that was earth bending before looking at the opening of the rock "Let's check inside."

Everyone went into the cave like structure, there was something seeping on the walls however, a yellowish type of fluid. Sokka saw it and scooped it up with his hand before tasting it and spitting it out to which Katara reprimanded him for like a mother scolding her child.

"You've been hallucinating on cactus juice all day and then you just like something you see stuck to a wall of a cave?"

"I have a natural curiosity."

Toph felt the sides of the cave "I don't think this is a normal cave. This was carved by something."

Sakura realised that Toph was right, and Aang pointed out the odd shape of it. Now she really had a bad feeling.

"There's something that's buzzing in here...something that's coming for us!"

Everyone ran out of the cave as quickly as their feet could carry them, the buzzing noises were getting louder and closer and as they exited the cave so did something else.

Dozens of giant creature that looked like they were crossed between a vulture and a bee flew out and although Sakura had confirmed her suspicions before she couldn't help but note once again that she was definitely not in her world anymore.

The group was being surrounded as Aang went in to attack; joined soon after by Toph but due to the creatures flying she wasn't able to see where they were unless they landed on the ground.

Sakura watched as Toph manipulated the rock to shoot one of them off the ground.

"Wow" she couldn't help but marvel at how simple it was to manipulate elements for them. To do something even remotely similar to that there was a series of hand signs that ninja had to make and you had to be born with that specific chakra type for it. This bending was completely different though, it was like an extension of these people.

"We have to get out of here; I'm completely out of water to bend." Said Katara backing up

Sakura turned to Toph "Can you make another boulder like before?"

"Sure" Toph said making one huge rock appear right in front of Sakura

"What are you going to-?

Without letting her finish asking, Sakura allowed chakra to flow into her fists before she grasped the rock; picking it up. Causing the entire group to gasp in shock and disbelief.

"Is she actually doing that or am I still hallucinating from the cactus juice?" asked Sokka mouth slacked.

Sakura lifted the rock into the air and aimed it right at two of the buzzard bees.

"How did you-

"Explanations can wait." Sakura said as she moved on to attack another creature; grabbing it and swinging it across the desert.

Toph grinned "Can we keep her?"

Just then one of the creatures grabbed Momo and started flying off with him to which Aang followed in a hot rage.

"I'm not losing anyone else out here." He said angrily

While Aang went after Momo everyone else made their way down; they continued fighting against the buzzard bees but every time more would just surround them.

That was until several giant forms of earth rose up and disposed of them.

When they looked in front of them there were now several figures wearing bandages and rags wrapped around them.

"Who are those guys?"

"Sand benders." Toph told Sakura with narrowed eyes

Aang appeared again soon after with Momo safe.

One of the men from the group approached the teens with suspicion written all over his face.

"What are you doing with a sand bender sailor? From the looks of it you stole this from the Hami Tribe."

"We found the sailor abandoned in the desert" Katara started "We're travelling with the Avatar. Our bison was stolen and we have to get to Ba Sing Se"

Another one of the sand benders stepped forward, he was much younger than the first man that spoke "You dare accuse our people of theft while you stroll in on a stolen sand sailor!?"

Toph narrowed her eyes and Sakura noticed "What's wrong?"

"I recognise the son's voice; he's the one that stole Aapa."

"Are you sure?" asked Katara worriedly

"I never forget a voice." Toph confirmed confidently

Aang turned to the sand benders furious; he marched forward holding his staff up "You stole Aapa! Where is he what did you do to him?"

"They're lying" the sand bender exclaimed "They're the thieves!"

Aang struck his staff onto the ground and sent a gust of wind towards one of the sailors destroying it.

"Where is my bison!?"

Now Sakura understood why Aang had seemed so aloof and distance and cold. He was upset because this bison was important to him and someone stole it.

"You tell me where he is now!" Aang said destroying another sailor.

Sakura bit her lip "Should we stop him?"

"Why? They deserve it." Toph said frowning before she pointed to the sand benders "You said to put a muzzle on him!"

Sakura glanced at Katara and she was looking down with a disdained expression.

"You muzzled Aapa!"

Aang snapped and Sakura saw the tattoo marks on his head and arms glow before a giant whirl wind appeared.

"I'm sorry-I didn't know it belonged to the Avatar."

"Tell me where Aapa is!" Aang snapped

"I traded him..." the guy said nervously "He's probably in Ba Sing Se by now; they were going to sell him there. Please we'll escort you out of the desert we'll help anyway we can!"

But the begging wasn't working because Aang was too far gone for that. Sokka told them all to run quickly. Sakura watched as Aang rose into the air, his face furious, and his eyes glowing deeply.

Sokka grabbed a hold of Sakura and pulled her out "You should move away right now. He isn't in control when he's like this!"

"What's happening to him?"

"He's in the avatar state" Toph told her as they ran

Sakura looked around before noticing that Katara was still standing there; she walked over to Aang completely calm and grabbed his wrist before pulling him down and engulfing him in a hug.

It was then that Sakura saw he had tears streaming down his face. His tattoos stopped glowing and the wind calmed again.

She may have arrived at a complicated time in another world but what mattered to her now was helping this group.

She was just wondering what exactly she got herself into.

Well that's pretty much all I'm going to put in for the first chapter. I hoped you enjoyed it-I've been wanting to write this kind of crossover for a while I just wasn't sure of how to set it out. I was initially going to split up the parts of them in the desert but then I figured it might be better to just put this whole thing in one chapter and get it over with in one go.

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