"Excuse me."

Two male air acolytes who had been walking down a hall together turned around to see that their master, Tenzin had been the one who called out as he quickly power walked towards the two.

"Have the two of you seen Naruto anywhere I was hoping to impart a little Air Nomad history to the young man today."

The two acolytes looked back at each other giving a confused shrug.

"I'm sorry Master Tenzin I haven't seen him." One of the acolytes said.

"Neither have I" the other one added.

"Oh well he must be somewhere in the temple if ether of you see him please contact me at once"the airbender then bowed to the acolytes who bowed right back as they all headed off in opposite direction.

Only as a second later the wall they where conversing near started to peel down as one Naruto Uzamaki pulled back a blanket camouflaged in the same texture as the hallway and safely secured the tool into a neat fold before placing it in his back utility pouch...which wasn't a fanny pack!

"Hurricane to Slow Drifting Cloud, come in Slow Drifting Cloud, over"

Ducking behind the one of the many corridors in the main Air Temple Naruto Uzumaki was also sporting the latest short range radio transmitters around his neck. Placing his fingers to the microphone headset that rested on his right ear, Naruto pushed down the talk button as he tried to reach the party on the other end of the frequency.

"Slow Drifting Cloud do you read me, over?"

"…Naruto this is a stupid use of village assets." Shikamaru replied form his position which as it was outside on the grassy ground while looking up at his radio handle name sake.

"Slow Drifting Cloud am I clear to proceed, over?" Naruto asked not breaking his radio etiquette as he took his task at hand very seriously.

Sitting up Shikamaru held his radio in his hand not even bothering to wear it properly as he said. "Come Naruto like almost every other thing we packed with us I'm the one who signed for these radio's from Lady Tsunade, I'm the one who's going to get chowed out if you break them!"

Naruto ran down a hall way and hide behind a large potted plant, just as two Air Acolyte women walked right past him while discussing their current meditation schedule. "Damn it Slow Drifting Cloud don't make me pull rank on you, over!" Naruto said in a harsh whisper.

Pinching the bridge of his nose Shikamaru sighed. "You can't pull rank on me Naruto because I out rank you."

"…Yeah but I'm the one who could send you to back to the Fire Country with just one roar,over."

Shikamaru just shrugged to no one really as he said. "All right fine yes Hurricane you are clear to proceed, neither Sad Rainy Face nor Mean Tsunami are in your current pathway, over."

"That's all I needed to hear, over." Naruto then ran straight down the hallway and clapped his hands together. Just as he was about to crash into a window Naruto held out his right hand that sent out a wave of vibrations that was powerful enough that it's motion clicked the window's lock allowing it to swing out.

With one dramatic leap Naruto quirk screwed dived out of the window and flipped onto the tiles of the temple roof.

From there the yellow haired bastard ran along the edge of the roof quickly preforming one final flip as he tumble rolled onto the grass lawn and power-slid up to a tree which he then quickly hide behind.

"Objective complete, I've successfully escaped from the temple, over."

Shikamaru's end held lengthy static before he yawned back. "Not quite."

"Naruto!" a voice shouted right into Naruto's ear from behind as he spun around to see Tenzin eagerly looking back at him as he clutched a book close to his chest like a school child.

"Did you remember that you'd promised to at least listen to some of the stories of the past air monks and masters?" Tenzin asked as he began to flip to a specific passage.

Naruto let out a nervous laugh as he moved his lips to the microphone part of his headset and talked into it. "Slow Drifting Cloud you said I was entering clear skies why is Sad Rainy Face right in front of me?!" he asked in a harsh whisper.

"…You didn't say over when you were done speaking, over."

"Forget the overs why is Sad Rainy Face here?!"

"Because I told him you'd be when he asked me about a minute ago."

"WHAT!?"

Tenzin found his passage as he looked back at Naruto slightly confused. "I'm sorry what about what?"

"Err it's nothing." Naruto let out a heavy sigh as he pulled his coms off his head and neck as he placed them in his utility pouch. "OK Sad Rain….I mean Tenzin go a ahead tell me a story."

"Yes of course I'd thought I start with the tales of Master Monk Tang Xu and his historical one hundred day fast."

That was all it took for Naruto to slump his shoulders in defeat and having a look of impending doom on his face as he murmured. "I have a feeling that this stupid story isn't going be over really fast…"

"What was that?" Tenzin asked legitimately as he pulled his book away from his face to see Naruto directly.

"I said why don't you start on day one." Naruto smiled through his teeth as he was seriously contemplating on stabbing himself in the ears with the throwing stars stashed in his back pocket.

"Well actually I should begin before that during the three days Master Tang Xu took to prepare for his fast."

"…..wait so you're starting at day negative three!"

If he still had his headset on Naruto would have heard Shikamaru respond back. "Ha and here I thought you were bad at math."

"Twenty seven thousand, Twenty seven thousand and five hundred, Twenty eight thousand…"

Standing in front of a very new, very luxurious Satomobile the airbender children Ikki and Meelo each held huge stacks of yuans in their hands that they were receiving from two men dressed as dock workers as the smaller of the two men continued to count out the money as he handed it to Ikki.

"Twenty nine thousand and five hundred, and this makes thirty thousand . Pleasure doing business with you Avatar Korra." the man said as he and his partner started to toe hook the automobile onto their larger truck in order to make their way down to the ferry.

"Wait a minute!" Ikki yelled as she stuffed most of the cash down her brother's pants. "That's what Korra got for her shinny new toy what do we get? We're the ones who found you guys in the phone book!"

"Yeah!" Meelo asked as he shacked his hips a bit. " What do we get."

The man and his taller partner huddled together as they started whispering looking over their shoulder's to see the children not ease dropping on their negotiation, they continued to murmur before coming to a decision.

"How about this you…" he said pointing to Ikki "Get these driving googles of mine, I've been meaning to get a new pair any how." He said as he pulled said eye wear from his neck and gave them to the girl.

"And you…." the taller man said pointing to Meelo as he pulled off his driving hat reveling that he was just as bald as the littlest airbender. "…Can have my hat us baldies need to stick together."

The cap was at least two sizes too big for Meelo as it covered his eyes and lumped down his head.

"…And on his ninety-seventh day of his fast Monk Tang Xu was once again visited by his pupils who continued to plead with their master to eat something, but he had refused..." Tenzin progressed to read from the passages of his book as Naruto slowly trailed behind him, the young ninja's eyes were twitching from boredom as his his itchy trigger fingers were right on top of his weapons pouch.

"...Just like he had each day the entire summer instead, he simply meditated, getting his nourishment from the universe."

At that moment Naruto was extremely close in yelling at Tenzin, about to say all the inconsistencies that were smeared all over this history book only to bite back his tongue as he saw the two movers getting into their moving truck. "Are they friends of yours?" Naruto asked this time having a saner reason to pull out a knife as he held it out of sight.

Tenzin closed his book and looked up seeing said movers but acted less cautiously and more curiously. "Oh excuse me but who are you gentlemen?"

"Just two businessmen finishing our transaction with the Avatar, Councilman Tenzin." The one who had given Ikki his googles said as he got into the passenger side of the truck.

The big bald one who gave Meelo his hat looked back at Tenzin and gave him a small node. "I feel your pain brother." He said as he ran his hand over his chrome dome again.

"What? I'm not bald I just have…." But the two men were already inside their truck as they drove down the wide path way trailing the smaller Satomobile with them. "…a shaved head."

Tenzin turned his sights to his two younger children as they both had engaged in a money fight by throwing yuans at each other. "Ikki what is going on?"

"Daddy, daddy look at all this money!" Ikki shouted as she began to roll around in the papers.

"Yeah we're rich!" Meelo shouted as he threw the money in the air.

"You two aren't anything!" Korra shouted from where she was training on a round plate from that sunk into the ground. "That's my money remember!"

Meelo and Ikki immediately stopped playing as they both let out a huff and began to gather all the money in a pile.

"Korra am I to assume that the Satomobile those two men took was another one of Tarrlok's gifts?" Tenzin asked as he was some what distrait at how his fellow councilmen's endowments were starting to get more extravagant.

Korra didn't stop her side stepping from the center yin yang symbol on the platform as she responded back. "Hey is it my fault if the guy can't take no for an answer." She of course was referring to the last items she turned back as Korra knew they were all just ways in order to join Tarrloks task force.

"Well at least you did something smart." Naruto said as he walked down the steps to the training platform and sat down on them. "Let me guess you're going to give me the money you just made for a down payment in order for me to teach you."

Korra immediately stopped as she faced Naruto. "No I figured it out that while selling a Satomobile wasn't enough in ordre to pay you it was enough for me to pay the ante for the Probending championship pot."

"And if your team manages to win in the finals you'll use your share to give to Naruto?" Tenzin asked the sound in his voice told everyone that he wasn't a fan of this plan.

"That's right." Korra said ignoring Tenzin's tone. "And I know me Mako, and Bolin will make it thorough all four rounds so there's no downside what so ever."

"You know even if you think that winning this what did you call it probending?" Naruto asked only to let out a small you people suck at naming things under his breath when Korra nodded her head in yes. "Right well even if you win it still seems like an all full lot of trouble just to learn how to control the wind element why do you want it so bad."

Korra's eyed widened from that comment in realization. "That's right you don't really know what an Avatar is."

Naruto leaned over to his side as he used his arm to prop up his head. "I got the jest of it, you're a cleric or something that's the connection between the material plane and the one of thought and imagination."

Now it was Korra's turn to keep herself from trying to attack someone. "Well yeah but I keep telling you it's called the Spirit Word not Imagination Land!"

But Korra went on which impressed Tenzin as he was proud of Korra in ignoring Naruto when he rolled his eyes at her deceleration.

"Yeah but that's what I'm suppose to do I guess in your words that would be my mission. But what I can do is this!"

Korra jumped into the air and out off the platform as she stood on the grass lawn which was also near a tiny pond. Placing her hands out she took in a deep breath and let out a quick inferno from both of her palms.

But she didn't stop their as soon as she killed her fire Kora then stomped on the ground shooting a large piece of earth out of the ground and proceeded to punch it smashing it into a million pieces. Satisfied at the results Korra moved onto her final act the one she had mastered all the way back in adolescents.

With her arms she commanded for the water in the pound to rise as it bend and tuned just as she did commanding the element in tantrum to her own movements before she froze the water into a spear and tossed it right towards Naruto, as it just missed his head by mere inches.

"Well what do you have to say about that?" Korra asked as she had the biggest shit eating grin spread on her face as she held out her arms daring Naruto to respond back to her.

"….That's it?

Korra's arms fell to her sides, lifeless. Her smugness started to leave her body as her smile turned into a frustrated frown. "What do you mean that's it? You just saw me bend three out of the four elements!"

"...Natural transformation."

"What?" Korra asked as she looked back at Tenzin wondering if he knew what Naruto was referring to.

"Natural transformation." Naruto repeated as he got up and stretched out his arms. "It's the ability to mold and alter the nature of your chi into a whole different property."

Korra looked back at Tenzin again who looked just as confused as before as they both looked back at Naruto.

Naruto slowly began to walk towards Korra holding out his hand as if he were clutching an invisible ball. "Wind." As soon as he said the word a few currents of air started to cycle through his hand until it looked like he had a mini air scooter in his palm.

"What are you doing?" Korra asked as her voice dropped a few octaves as she didn't like the way Naruto was approaching her.

"Earth."

Before Korra could asked again what Naruto was taking about her voice was lost in her throat as she saw the ball of wind in his hand slowly turn into grains of sand spinning and circulating just as before only to stop once the sound of the fragments of minerals started to harden and constrict with one another until Naruto was holding a round stone. "H…how did…that's not…."

"Fire!"

Korra jumped back she actually jumped back from ether the sound of his voice, what he held in his and, or the look in Naruto's eyes as he continued to march forward. Tenzin ran along the side just in time to see the stone in Naruto's hand turn from sandy to ebony as it started to crack and bleeded out lava that sizzled in the air right as it enveloped the whole stone and all that was left was a ball of fire.

"Lightning."

Naruto almost sounded down right sinister as the color of the fire when trough the viable spectrum starting with red and ending all the way towards indigo as the fire itself became pure plasma. The ionized gas still retained the ball shape as it shot out random assortments of electric sparks.

"There's only one left, Korra." Naruto stated as he stood just a breath away from the Avatar. The look in her eyes were a paradox as they held both fear and wonder. Her lips quivered as she couldn't or dare not speak the final metamorphoses of the power Naruto was holding in his hand.

But someone who wasn't effected so emotionally by this demonstration was able to utter the final form.

"W..water." Tenzin whispered as every thing he knew, everything he spent years trying to understand was stating to look extremely small and just the tip of the iceberg of truth compared to what he was witnessing.

It was then the lighting started to spin turning into a mass of white light before it stated to turn clear and held no color at all but became transparent as Naruto raised the floating orb of water close to Korra's face who in turn looked at the element as if it had betrayed her as Naruto turned his palm over allowing the water to spill on the ground.

Korra starred back at the wet ground and then at Naruto as she asked Naruto something that she never thought she would have ever even tough of. "If you can do that…if anyone from your home can do that…then what makes me so special what makes any Avatar special?"

Taking a step back Naruto could see Korra shed one tear as she took off and runaway from the startling revelation she came to.

"Hey wait a minute Korra where are you going?" Naruto scratched the back of his head as he looked at Tenzin. "What's her problem it's not like I'm a master level of some of those elements I only know how to use about three of them in combat?"

In his never ending journey of spiritual knowledge, Tenzin's head over ruled his heart as he choice not to follow after Korra. "I don't understand only the Avatar is able to bend all four elements how are you able to do that as well?"

Naruto rubbed his temple in frustration wondering if all he was experiencing right now wasn't some sort of cosmic retribution for all the hell he put on his own teachers over the years. "It's called natural transformation for a reason. As in I transformed the nature of one element…."

"…into the nature of another." Tenzin picked up as it was clicking in his head. "Astounding it's unbelievable to power you possess on top of your airbending."

"It's not airbending I keep telling you people it's called..."

But Tenzin ignored that last part as his heart finally got loud enough for him to hear. "And I know why Korra was so upset, I should go talk to her." Tenzin started to run after his ward but not before turning around quickly to Naruto. "When I get back I want to know more about this natural transformation power!"

Naruto shook his head wondering if he should have even showed that ability so soon and especially outside of a fight. But the yellow haired heart breaker noticed that both Ikki and Meelo were still there looking just as flabbergasted as Korra and Tenzin, but with the added bonus of having stars in their eyes as they twinkled in wonder.

"…No I'm not teaching you two either until I get paid!"

"Stingy!"

"Meany!"

Naruto for the life of him just turned around and started to walk away. "I guess it was a good idea I didn't show any of them that technique with the acorn."

AN: Next time that trick with the acorn but with a cherry