Chapter 2: The Avatar returns

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The entire village waited as Naruto, Aang, and Katara returned.
"Yay, Naruto and Aang is back" the children cheered, but the adults only gave looks of disapproval.
"Hey kids" Naruto greeted as the children ran to him and Aang. Sokka gave an angry look as he walked forward to accuse the newcomers.
"I knew it. You signaled the Fire Navy with that flair. You're leading them straight to us aren't you?" Sokka fumed in anger, as he pointed at Naruto and Aang accusingly.
"They didn't do anything. It was an accident." Katara replied.
"Yeah. We were on this ship and there was a booby trap and well... we boobied right into it" Aang explained.
"Katara, you shouldn't have gone on that ship. Now we may all be in danger" Gran Gran stated.
"It's not her fault, it's mine. I didn't know what was on the ship and I wanted to sight see" Naruto said.
"No, it's my fault. I brought you both there." Aang replied.
"A ha! The traitors confessed. Warriors away from the enemy. The foreigners are banished from our village!" Sokka commanded.
"Sokka, you're making a mistake" Katara told Sokka. Sokka maintained his look of anger.
"No! I'm keeping my promise to dad. I'm protecting you from threats like them!" Sokka ranted.
"Aang and Naruto are not our enemies. Don't you see, they brought something to this village that we haven't had in a long time. Fun" Katara pointed out.
"Fun? We can't fight firebenders with fun!" Sokka replied.
"You should try it sometime" Aang advised. Though Naruto was wondering how that would even work.
"Get out of our village now! Both you and the blonde freak!" Sokka demanded.
"Grandmother, please! Don't let Sokka do this" Katara begged.
"Katara, you knew going on that ship was forbidden. Sokka is right. I think it best if the outsiders leave." Gran Gran said.
"Fine, then I'm banished too! Come on Aang, Naruto... let's go" Katara said as she grabbed both and started to head towards Appa.
"WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING?" Sokka yelled.
"To find a waterbender. Aang and Naruto are taking me to the North Pole." Katara announced.
"I am?" Aang asked.
"Sounds cool" Naruto said.
"Katara... would you really choose them over your tribe? Your own family?" Sokka asked. Katara stopped.
"I didn't know my family Katara. That's why I... I don't know if it's right that we seperate you from them" Naruto told Katara.
"Yeah, I don't want to come between you and your family either" Aang added.
"So you two are leaving the South Pole? This is goodbye?" Katara asked.
"Well it's not like Mr. Ponytail is giving us much of a choice. And your whole village is now against us too." Naruto answered. Sokka growled at being called 'Mr. Ponytail'.
"Where will you go?" Katara asked.
"Well, I'm going to find Sasuke, and hopefully we can find a way back to my dimension" Naruto answered.
"Maybe we can look for Sasuke on the way to Southern Air Temple. We'll also look for the airbenders. Wow... I haven't cleaned my room in a hundred years. Not looking forward to that. Come on, Naruto. Let's go" Aang said as he leaped on to Appa. Naruto leaped soon after.
"It was nice meeting everyone." Aang said.
"Yeah, take care of yourselves" Naruto added.
"Let's see your bison fly now, air boy." Sokka taunted.
"Come on Appa. You can do it. Yip yip." Aang said but instead Appa tiredly stood up and started to walk.
"Yeah I thought so!" Sokka said smugly.
"Oh shut up already!" Naruto replied. A child began to cry and ran after Appa, but stopped next to Katara.
"Please Aang, Naruto... Don't go. I'll miss you." The little girl said. The two sighed.
"We'll miss you too" Aang said. The two looked at Katara before turning their heads forward.
"C'mon boy" Aang said sadly as Appa began to walk away. The little girl walked back towards the villagers sadly. Gran Gran began to make her way towards Katara.
"Katara, you'll feel better after you..." Gran Gran started to say.
"You happy now?! There goes my one chance on becoming a waterbender!" Katara snapped before walking away. Gran Gran looked down and frowned.

Naruto, Aang, and Appa were resting at an iceberg with three holes, each took a hole and layed down. Appa grunted.
"Yeah, I liked her too. What about you Naruto?" Aang asked sadly.
"Katara? Yeah, she was pretty awesome." Naruto agreed. Suddenly Naruto and Aang heard a loud noise and turned to see what was causing it.
"That looks like one of those Fire Navy ships!" Naruto pointed out.
"And it's headed for the village!" Aang said. Naruto and Aang leaped out of the holes they were laying down in.
"Appa, wait here" Aang told the bison.
"Let's go Aang" Naruto said as he started to run across the water.

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