A/N: My First Crack at this cross over. I loved both series and interestingly enough this entire story I'm going to attempt to write is essentially inspired by a single scene from a game I played and it just spun out into an idea that will be this story. That being said this will more than likely be the most violent and graphic story in this entire category of crossover.

This is probably the most original idea I've had before and even still I'll admit that I take inspiration from a couple of other stories in this section. My biggest complaint among the stories in this section is how many take away Naruto's powers which is nonsense in my opinion. If you do that then really it might as well not even be Naruto since you're not crossing over the two universes.

Anyhow, let me know what you guys think, let me know if you have any questions I'll be happy to answer them. If any of the paragraphs look like a wall of text it's because you're reading this on your phone and I type this up on a laptop but it is something I keep in mind, I'm no stranger to fan fiction.

A crash of light explodes destroying the serenity of the barren glaciers of the South Pole. The sound cuts through the air louder than thunder and the light illuminates the night sky and then disappears as quickly as a flash of lighting. Powerful tremors radiate from the sight of impact throughout the entirety of the massive glacier. As the ice and snow settles, a young man with golden blonde hair can be seen lying lifelessly deep within the crater that had formed seemingly from the impact of his arrival to this world. The impact crater itself is wider than it is deep, much wider. In fact, given the seismic activity produced the crater itself is rather shallow.

'Whuh… what happened… where… where am I?' The young man asks himself as he slowly regains consciousness. He groans in agony as he attempts to stand. The snow crunches as he pushes his body off the ground but to no avail. His ribs are broken, not allowing him to inhale too deeply much less move his extremities comfortably. His jacket is torn and soaked with blood from deep gashes along his torso and arms. His chainmail in pieces and his boots tattered and worn out.

Deciding it would be worth enduring the pain of standing up if it meant the alternative was freezing to death, the blonde young man brings a knee up to his chest to ready himself before he finally manages to struggle to his feet with labored effort. He clutches his left side with his right bandaged-arm as walks out of the incline of the crater, dragging his left leg behind him. As he rises from the crater he looks around to survey the area and sees nothing but ice and snow for miles amidst the darkness. He begins to walk out onto the frozen tundra, grateful that the air is at the very least calm, given that it is more than cold enough without wind.

'Where am I… how did I get here… where do I go now?' These questions swim around in the young man's head for what seems to be an eternity. He moves forward, aimlessly in the dark, but forward hoping… not knowing what to hope for. 'Is there anyone nearby? Is there anyone… that can help me? Anyone…?'

He has been walking the frozen desert for over an hour and there was no sign of civilization or people. He doubts that he will ever see anyone again. After all, who would live in a place like this? A barren frozen wasteland with no signs of life in any direction.

'Am I… going to die… am I going to… die here? I don't want to… I don't want to be alone… I don't want… to die… alone.' He falls to his knees after they finally give out. How he managed to trudge on for that long he doesn't know. The idea of being alone in his final moments was enough to waiver his primitive sense to survive. Behind him a trail of footsteps and red snow. Ahead of him… only more blackness and snow and ice. His body temperature continues to drop as he bleeds.

'Keep going.' A deep but faint voice calls out to him, startling the young man.

"Who's there? Where are you?" He frantically looks around for the source of the voice but finds nothing.

'…you can't stop here, we'll both die. You have to keep going.' The voice repeats, sounding just a little louder this time.

"Where are you? Where am I supposed to go? Why can't I see you?" More than anything the blonde fears that he is becoming delusional and is imagining the voice.

Silence… for a moment until "… keep going Naruto… not much further now."

"Naruto… is that who I am… is that my name?" The realization dawning on him for the first time given that he hadn't the mental faculties to think on it before. He had lost his memory and had no recollection of anything. Not of how he arrived at this frozen tundra. No explanation of why he had suffered such severe injuries. No memories of any possible friends or families he might have known before had woken up. No memory of where he lived or even if he had a home at all. No, not even his name.

"How do you know me… who are you?" Again, the voice doesn't respond right away. Deciding not to wait, Naruto rises back to his feet. "Which way do I go?" He asks, not wanting to spend what little precious energy he has left wandering in the wrong direction.

'…just keep going… they'll find you… only if you keep moving.' Realizing the ominous voice wasn't going to elaborate on its cryptic instructions any further, Naruto heeds its advice and continues to walk in the same direction, not knowing if he's going the right way or not. The frigid cold numbing all feeling in his feet, in his hands, his face and all other sensory organs. By now he has lost the energy to so much as shiver involuntarily. Somehow Naruto is able to continue for another hour at a snail's pace. Finally, he's body give out again.

Naruto falls, face buried in the snow. 'I'm… sorry… I have… nothing left… this is… as far as I go…' His breathing slows and his eyes close slowly. Resting now gives him peace knowing that he needn't struggle hopelessly anymore. He doesn't know how far he's gone and doesn't know how much further he would have to go but it no longer matters, he doesn't care.

Off in the distance, headlights can be seen piercing through the dark of night along with the hum of snow mobiles racing atop the snow can be heard. Tribesman clad in thick blue fur coats ride in the direction of the crash site. They had heard the crash, felt the tremors, and seen the light all the way from their village. The tribe Chieftain had ordered a small scouting party to investigate the phenomenon and in a matter of minutes the prepped and set out. Not long after they had left the Chieftain had spotted a figure far off in the distance. Not stopping, the chieftain takes out a pair of binoculars from his saddle bag to get a better look of the image on the horizon. To his astonishment he sees an injured blonde young man standing at about six foot two walking painstakingly across the glacier about a mile out.

"I see someone up ahead! They're severely wounded!" The Chieftain yells out to his subordinates riding alongside him. The take up their binoculars as well to see for themselves and sure enough, there is an injured man on the horizon.

"Do you think he was hit during that crash sir?" One of the tribesman asks.

"It would explain his condition but not where he came from. I've never seen anyone with that color of hair and he's hardly dressed for the South Pole." The chieftain replied.

"Chief Tonraq the man has collapsed!"

"Let's get a move on then! We may not know who he is but he may know more about the crash." Tonraq accelerated his snowmobile and his tribesman followed suit. It didn't take long before the Tribesman reached the gravely injured man. As they arrive they pause in shock at the sight of the man. His body nearly turned blue and his odd orange clothing torn to shreds, his chainmail barely clinging to his body. The scars that stretched across his left side had them wondering if the injuries were in anyway related to the crash. Tonraq notices the trail of blood behind the young man and sees that they disappear behind the horizon line.

"He must have been walking for a long time, but how far has he been walking for?" One of the Tribesman wonders.

"We can ask him if he pulls through. I'll take him back to master Katara, you two continue the investigation of the crash site."

"Yes Sir!" The two subordinates complied in unison. The climb back onto their respective vehicles and take off following the trail the mysterious stranger left behind. Tonraq bends down the get a hold of the man and as gently as possible he brings him over to his snowmobile. Tonraq assembles the stretcher he packed as part of the first aid equipment after securing a long enough line to the stretcher he carefully gets the blonde onto it and secures him as best he can, careful not to aggravate the young man's condition any further. Tonraq gets back onto his vehicle and accelerates very slowly at first. After the line is fully extended he picks up a little more speed until he reaches a pace that is neither fast nor slow.

'Who are you kid, and where did you come from? What are you doing all the way out here? What happened to you?' Tonraq wonders all these things as he makes course for the healing compound in his village. 'I hope I don't regret not leaving you there to die. I can't help this feeling in my gut. You're going to be trouble. At least that's what the White Lotus is going to say. If anything they'll keep you away from Korra. The last thing we need is her getting distracted over the first boy her age she sees.'

Tonraq's musings lasted until the compound was insight. After being greeted by members of the White Lotus and sharing what he knew, he had them assist him in getting the stranger to master Katara in the healing hut. Later in the evening it would be revealed that there was nothing out of the ordinary at the crash site investigated by Tonraq's party, with the exception with an odd symbol they didn't recognize and couldn't decipher. The symbol itself spanned the entirety of the shallow crater engraved in the surface of the ice. They found blood and footprints coming from the site. Connecting the injured man and the crater was hardly detective work. What they didn't know was what it all meant. What they will eventually learn in the years to come, is that their universe is far larger than they could ever imagine.

"You said you found him at the crash site Tonraq?"

"Not quite master Katara. He came from the crash site, we found him about a mile east from the site. My scouts didn't find anything else at the site, aside from the symbol engraved in the ice." Tonraq takes out a folded piece of paper and hands it to Katara, an elderly gray haired woman. She unfolds the paper and sees a complicated character. "It looks like some form of hanzi but I can't read it. It's just a guess but it could have some kind of tie to where he's from."

Katara passes the sheet of paper around the table to see if any of the elders can make anything of it. A total of six sit at a circular table in a spacious hut specifically built for the convening of the village elders. Three members of the White Lotus sit among the six in their traditional blue robes with white pearl collars. Additionally there is member clad in red robes but of the same design.

No one can give more than a pensive look at the character. It isn't part of their written language and deciphering it is impossible.

"Where is this person being kept now? We can't afford to be lax with security with the avatar in training." A member of the Lotus declares.

"He is being kept at the healing hut until he regains consciousness. I don't doubt the need to be cautious but until he shows any hostility I see no need to treat him as a prisoner." Katara counters the Lotus member with an aged frown on her face.

"Be that as it may, we can all agree that avatar Korra doesn't need the distraction this close to her fire bending test." The Lotus member clad in the red robes points out and the others, including chief Tonraq and master Katara, nod their heads in agreement.

"Are there any theories on how the boy arrived here, Chief Tonraq?" The third Lotus member asks.

"Master Katara, would you mind sharing your thought?" Tonraq defers remembering what she had shared with him earlier in the healing hut as she worked on the patient.

"In my years traveling with the previous avatar, my late husband, the only times a light that bright had appeared was when a massive amount of energy had been concentrated and erupted. Pure energy, spiritual energy. I honestly believe that it would not be outside the realm of possibility that in some way he came from the spirit world." A murmur of disagreement sounds from the Lotus members, much to the expectation of Katara and Tonraq.

"Only the avatar has ever been to the spirit world. How could this person possibly have visited that place much less originate from there." A lotus member countered incredulously.

"I didn't say I believe he comes from there, but perhaps he passed through there."

"Did you observe anything unusual about the boy, aside from his yellow hair?" Tonraq asks not wanting to hear the narrow minded Lotus members go on about how everything was impossible simply because they had never seen or heard of something before.

At the question the master healer gained a pensive expression. Recalling her odd experience in the healing hut. The other healers were baffled and Katara was worried all the excitement would draw the attention of the young avatar Korra. Teenage curiosity is not something she has the energy to deal with anymore.

"His left arm was mangled but his right arm was already covered in bandages. When we removed those his arm was far paler than the rest of his body as if it didn't belong to him." Before another round of disbelieving murmurs could begin Katara continued the briefing. "His skin was cold as ice and was turning blue before we started. Once we actually began the healing process, his body only accelerated the healing process. The bruising and lacerations all but disappeared right before our eyes in a matter of seconds. His normal color returned once the bleeding finally stopped and temperature stabilized."

"Alright, so he his body can heal quickly. That's what water healing is supposed to aid in anyhow, even if this case is more remarkable. Was there anything else out of the ordinary?" The Lotus member garbed in the red robes asked, growing increasingly impatient.

"That's what I'm getting at. This man, he has an absurd amount of chi, enough to rival the avatar while in the Avatar State. What's more is that his chi behaved differently it felt different. His chi pathways weren't normal, the patterns were different and the seemed to concentrate the greatest at his abdomen, where there was a complicated tattoo. Once the healing began we could feel his chi come to life. The air felt heavier as it did. The pressure itself made it more difficult to use our bending properly. But once the procedure was over, his chi was less active and the pressure dissipated."

The elders, including Chief Tonraq, could hardly believe that there was a single person with chi powerful enough to rival the avatar in their most powerful form. This furthered their fears of the unknown visitor and Tonraq acquired a stronger resolve to keep this person away from his daughter Korra.

"All the more reason to keep an eye on this person and away from Avatar Korra. We know nothing of him and he can be a potential threat to the avatar and the rest of the South Pole."

"Yes I'm very well aware of the importance of keeping her safe and the unknown will always have a potential for danger. Even so that's no reason to assume that he will be hostile so I won't be entertaining any thoughts of throwing him out, I'll put that to rest right now. Ultimately all of these paranoid theories may not mean anything. At the very least we should wait until the boy regains consciousness. In the meantime I will concede that he should be kept under watch by sentries. Chief Tonraq?"

"Agreed. If there are no objections, we will conclude our meeting here. I will personally take the first watch over the boy for the night." The elders didn't like it, well they never like anything they don't understand, but they concede for now. Katara was right in saying that there is no point in worrying over the unknown and they will all better understand who they are dealing with once the golden haired boy awakens. They all rise from their seats to follow Tonraq and Katara out of the hut and return to their respective living quarters for the evening.

Tonraq informed his wife Senna of his newly acquired guard duty. She had kept Korra busy all day with chores after her fire bending training just to keep her from eavesdropping on the meeting which she knew had to be about the event earlier in the day. Fortunately for Tonraq she had not seen him bring the boy into the healing hut but would still have to explain his absence for the evening, a task he leaves for his wife to handle. It had been a long day and it will be a longer night still for Tonraq until the second watch relieves him.

'What happened? Where am I?' Slowly a pair of ocean blue eye flutter open. Sitting up Naruto takes in his surroundings; a dome shaped igloo with animal furs draping the windows and water basins aligned against the walls. His torso is covered in bandages along with his right arm. His left arm is in a full cast. He is covered with very thick animal skin as a blanket for warmth and is wearing a lightweight blue tunic for a shirt. As he observes his surrounding a woman wearing a blue water tribe parka enters the hut and is startled at the sight of the now conscious man and she drops a change of clothes she brought for him.

"I wasn't expecting you to wake up so soon. You need to take it easy, you must be exhausted." The woman advises the boy as she gently places a gloved hand his hand and back to lay him back into the bed. You must be starving dear, I'll fetch something warm for you to eat." The entire time Naruto stares wide eyed at the woman, a look that conveys a sense of confusion and fear. The healer can see that the boy must have a plethora of questions he must want to ask.

"Where am I? Who are you? How did I get here?"

"I'm one of the healers on the compound. You're in the South Pole and you were found passed out in the middle of the tundra by our village Chief. I'm sure you have a lot of questions you'd like answers to but for now let me get you something to eat and I'll fetch Master Katara to take a look at you. Does that sound alright?"

Naruto nodded his head slowly, that look of fear leaving his features but not his confusion. The kind lady smiles and tells him to wait a moment and that she will return shortly. Naruto looks up at the ceiling of the hut doing his best to recall the events that brought him here but to no avail. Not a single memory returns to him and the only thing he can recall is the feeling of the near death experience.

'It was so cold, and it hurt so badly. I thought I was going to die out there in the cold. Alone. Why can't I remember how I got here or where I come from for that matter? The only thing I do remember is that voice. Where did it come from? I didn't see anyone around me, but it sounded like it was coming from inside my head. Was I just going crazy? If it was real, it didn't sound human at all. It sounded evil almost. At the very least, it pushed me long enough for someone to find me. It said my name was… Naruto. My name is Naruto, that's what it called me at least.'

Naruto's thoughts are interrupted by an elderly woman with gray hair, followed by a large man who seems even larger with all the layers of coats he's wearing for warmth. "Good morning, I'm Master Katara, the head healer of the Southern Water Tribe. This is Chief Tonraq. He and his scouting party found you yesterday." Naruto looks over to Tonraq who locks eyes with him with a stern gaze.

"I'm glad you're doing so well. You looked to be on the brink of death when we found you yesterday in the snow." Tonraq greets the boy as Katara brings Naruto a bowl of kelp soup prepared by Senna. Katara blows on a spoonful and then offers it to Naruto who takes it appreciatively. Tonraq takes a seat in a chair next to Katara so that she is sitting between Naruto and himself. "I know you must be exhausted but I need to ask you a few questions. For starters, what is your name?" Katara pauses so Naruto can answer. He looks over to the Chieftain and then back up at the ceiling.

"My name… my name… is Naruto." Katara offers Naruto another helping of soup which he accepts.

Tonraq furrows his brows at the name. It was nothing like anything he had ever heard and Katara was in the same boat. It's an odd one that's for sure. "Is that your surname or your first name?" Naruto pauses at the question. He hadn't thought of that. As far as he knows he doesn't have a family. Even if he did he certainly can't recall them.

"I don't know. I don't know if I even have a family. I… I just know that my name is Naruto." The look of fear and confusion returns to Naruto's features, his appetite suddenly disappearing. Katara and Tonraq feel sympathy for Naruto, but Tonraq will still be needing more information than that.

"Amnesia is it? That's very troubling indeed. I can understand why you seem so withdrawn." Katara offers Naruto another spoonful as comfort, which Naruto takes enjoying the warmth it brought.

"I'm sorry to hear that but I still must ask; how did you arrive here in the South Pole?"

"I don't know. I don't know how I got here. I've been trying to remember since I woke up but nothing comes to mind."

"Yesterday there was a beam of light about five miles west of the compound. As it disappeared there was a powerful tremor that could be heard and felt throughout the entire compound, and maybe even the entire South Pole. When we went to investigate the scene, we found you unconscious in the snow. I brought you back to the village but my men followed your tracks and your blood back to the area that the light had come from. When they got there they found what they described as a surprisingly shallow crater with a strange symbol that spanned the crater." Tonraq pauses to take out a piece of paper from his pocket. He unfolds it and hands it to Katara who holds it up for Naruto to study it.

It is a complicated symbol but Naruto reads and recognizes it easily. "It's the symbol for thunder. I don't remember seeing it as I stood and limped away. As much as I had stared at the ground, I didn't pay much attention to it. As for the tremor I don't recall that either. When I woke up, all I could feel was pain. The only light I remember is the light reflecting off of the snow."

Tonraq ponders on this new information. He is glad that at the very least Naruto could decipher the symbol, but Tonraq could not help but wonder if the symbol itself was written in another language that was familiar to Naruto.

"Interesting. Yes how peculiar. A severe case of amnesia, the cause of which unknown thus far, but it doesn't seem to affect your muscle memory. You must have made it a daily routine putting this on for you to be able to remember it. The same as with the character and the fact that you know how to speak. All things you've done as second nature as a young adult. How strange." This theory has everyone hopeful, especially Naruto about his condition.

"It would seem as though merely talking about it may not be enough to jog your memory. Do you think it will help if you visited the sight once you're feeling up to it?" Tonraq asks as Naruto finishes the last of the soup with the help of Katara. The lost expression never leaving Naruto's face.

"I'm not sure. It can't hurt though. I want to remember what happened as soon as possible. Will you point me in the right direction?"

"I'll take you there myself whenever you're ready. Your leg was wounded too am I right?" Tonraq asks remembering that he took particular car securing it when putting Naruto on the stretcher. Naruto moves his left leg beneath the covers, rotating his ankle and wiggling his toes. He then sits up right bringing his legs over the side of the bed. He extends the leg outward then brings his knee to his chest.

"It would seem that it has healed nicely as I have a full range of motion. You're an excellent healer Katara-san. Thank you for healing me." Naruto gets off the bed to his feet so that he may bow to Katara in gratitude. When Naruto looks up he sees a look of astonishment on both Katara and Tonraq's faces. Confused at their expressions Naruto asks, "What's the matter?"

"Ugh, well we weren't expecting you be up and about so soon. Even I'm not that good son. Your body is extraordinary and did most of the healing itself. Though it's natural healing ability was only augmented with my healing abilities." Naruto tilted his head to the side slightly

"Is that so? Come to think of it… my ribs aren't broken anymore. In fact…" Naruto rotated his left shoulder blade then grips his cast with his right hand. Applying a tremendous amount of pressure the cast crumbles and breaks off as Naruto continues to rip off his cast, debris falling to the floor. Once finished he flexes his arm, rotates it, and stretches it. "My arm is healed as well."

After a moment of stunned silence Katara shakes her head lightly while Tonraq suppresses a laugh. "You know, if you knew it was healed I could have just taken the cast off for you. Would've been easier to clean up I think." Naruto blushes lightly while rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.

"I suppose so."

"Master Katara, help him out of those bandages. I'll get him a change of clothes more fitting for South Pole exploration than the trousers and robes your assistant brought. Naruto, we'll set out once you've changed alright?" Naruto looks over to Tonraq with new found resolve and nods affirmatively.

"Yes sir." Naruto replies as he watches Tonraq exit the healing hut.

Outside the hut, a member of the white lotus waits for Tonraq as he finally steps out into the sun. "How did it go? What did you learn?" The Lotus member asks. Tonraq continues to walk to his own home and the Lotus member falls behind him.

"Very little. He's suffering from amnesia."

"Amnesia? So he remembers nothing?"

"Almost nothing. He remembers only his first name, though how he managed that is beyond me."

"What do you mean?"

"He can't even remember if he has any family or a home. Doesn't remember how he got here either. He did however recognize the symbol found at the crash site. He said it translates to 'Thunder'. I'll be sure to ask him what language when we visit the crash site together later this afternoon."

"Is he already fit for that? You made it sound like he was on the verge of death just yesterday."

"Yes well, with master Katara's healing ability coupled with the boys own resilience, his bonds have mended and he can stand on his own just fine. He is in a hurry to learn more about himself and how he arrived here just as we are."

"Someone with healing abilities of that caliber is preposterous! How could he possibly be human?" The lotus member asked disbelievingly.

"What else could he possibly be, if not human?" Tonraq counters to which to the lotus member cannot reply.

"Do you believe that visiting the crash site himself will cure his amnesia?"

"I don't know if it will cure it but where else could we start from? I'm hoping at the very least, seeing the symbol at the site itself will jog something."

"In any event, keep an eye on him. Avatar Korra doesn't need any distractions during her training. Her fire bending exam is just around the corner."

They pause just outside the door. "My thoughts exactly. That's why I want to leave now before she catches wind of us and hopefully return before she finishes her training. Don't be so doom and gloom now. At the very least he was cordial with us. He seemed like a nice young man honestly."

"Humph!" The White Lotus member scoffs as he turns to head over to the training grounds. Tonraq shakes his head laughing to himself before going inside to pick out clothes for the Compound's new guest.

Tonraq had arranged for the same two guards that accompanied him the night before to head out with him once more. Naruto would ride with one of them as they made their way back to the event site. After riding through the snow for an hour or so they see someone off in the distance along with a very large animal.

'Please don't tell me…' Tonraq groans as he reaches for his binoculars. 'Great. What on earth are you doing out here Korra? Shouldn't you be training right now?' Tonraq shakes his head in frustration as they continue to approach his daughter at the event sight. Within moments they become within thirty yards of her before he orders his men to stop. Tonraq gets off of the snowmobile and turns to his guardsmen. "You two stay here with our guest, I'm going to have a word with my daughter alone."

"Yes sir!" They reply knowing their true command is to keep the stranger away from the avatar until their Chief deems him a non-hostile. They all get off their vehicles and simply watch as Tonraq approaches the teenage girl with her giant polar bear-dog sitting next to her. Naruto wonders to himself briefly what Tonraq could want to talk about with his daughter but reasons that it is simply a father being protective of his daughter.

"Korra what are you doing all the way out here? Aren't you supposed to be training with the White Lotus getting ready for your fire bending test?" Tonraq asks, mild frustration beginning to surface again.

"I told them I wasn't feeling well and that training would do me more harm then good. Wasn't an easy sell but they bought it. I snuck out here to check out what happened last night. The entire compound was shaking! Kind of hard to ignore that dad." Korra, a dark skinned girl around the age of sixteen with three pony tails stands about five foot seven, places a hand at her hip and the other atop of her animal companion's head with an accusatory glare of her own. "After all it would be hard not to notice my mother pacing in the living room while she waits for my dad to come back in the middle of the night."

Tonraq doesn't flinch at the accusation. "I was performing my duties as Chief to keep the Compound safe and potentially the rest of the water tribe as well. I had no idea how dangerous it would be and neither would you. I can honestly say there is no reason for you to be out here and therefore no reason you should be skipping out on your training. Please head back to the compound and resume it at once." Tonraq demands with authority, to which Korra merely scoffs.

"Well clearly whatever danger there might have been last night isn't present now so there's no reason for you to be so over protective. Since I'm all the way out here anyway what sense does it make to go back now? It'll be close to sun down by the time I make it back there. Besides, I think I found something you might have missed last night."

Korra digs into her pocket and takes out a metal plate that is sewn into a black fabric with fringed and ripped ends. In the center of the metal plate is an odd insignia. She hands it to her father. "Naga found it buried in the snow after she followed the trail of blood over here. You must have missed it with how dark it was at night. What happened out here last night dad? Did someone get hurt? What's up with the weird symbol engraved in the ice?"

Tonraq listens to all of Korra's questions as he examines the odd piece. 'If anything it looks like something that could be used to identify someone. If that's the case maybe Naruto well be able to remember something if he takes a look at it.' "I don't know what happened Korra but someone was seriously hurt and we don't know how. That's what we're here to figure out." Tonraq turns around to signal his scouts to approach.

"He's signaling us. Come on sir, let's get going." One of the guards says to Naruto who only nods in compliance. As they approach Korra notices someone with bright yellow hair that she's never seen before at the compound.

'Who's that with the weird hair?' Korra asks herself. She meant to ask her father out loud but the words seemed to die in her throat as the mysterious teenager arrived finally. He has blue eyes like the waters that surround the glaciers of the South Pole and six odd whisker like birth marks lining his cheeks, three on each side. The person never makes eye contact with Korra as he is focused on Tonraq.

"Tell me, do you recognize this thing?" Tonraq asks handing the metal plate over to Naruto. Naruto takes it into his gloved hand to examine it. Nothing comes to mind other than a strange nagging feeling. Naruto then takes off his glove to get a better feel of the metal. It feels very cold to the touch unsurprisingly as it has been sitting out in the snow. He flicks the metal with his finger to feel its hardness. His hands bring the piece of metal to his forehead, the movement itself almost feeling involuntary.

"It's a forehead protector. This is my forehead protector." Naruto blurts out. Tonraq raises an eyebrow at the sudden declaration while the guardsmen share a skeptical glance. "I'm not sure how I know that. It's strange really. When I try to think about it I can't recall anything about it to mind. But now that it's in my hands, in my fingers, it's as if my body remembers it for me."

"What do you mean? How does your body remember it but you don't?" Korra asks quizzically. Tonraq stiffens for a moment at the question not wanting to hear the onslaught of questions that were sure to follow.

"Korra this is Naruto. We found him out here last night wandering in the snow. He was in bad shape when we brought him back to the compound, he's only just woken up a few hours ago and it would seem that he's suffering from amnesia. We were hoping that coming out here would help him jog his memory of how he got here." Tonraq explains to his daughter as Naruto walks past them over to the event site. Korra's eyes follow him as he passes behind Tonraq.

"What nation does he come from?" Korra asks. Tonraq doesn't answer her as he turns around to observe Naruto's behavior. The event site is a circle with an odd symbol engraved into the ice and Naruto walks the perimeter as he stares at the engraving.

'What is this feeling? I've felt it since I touched the headband with my bare fingers. This energy… energy flows around this circle and all around the immediate area. It's faint… it's dissipating… but it feels familiar in a way I can't describe nor put my finger on.'

"Can you read it?" Naruto's thoughts are interrupted by Korra who is standing next to him on his left looking down at the symbol. "Can you read the engraving? I've never seen it before." She asks again looking at him with curiosity in her sky blue eyes.

"It's the symbol for 'thunder'". Naruto replies. "Can you feel it?" Naruto asks Korra, looking directly into her eyes. Warmth begins to fill her cheeks just slightly, bringing an almost imperceptible pink hue to her cheeks.

"Feel what?" She asks, her voice barely above a whisper.

"The energy that flows from this place. It felt faint but potent." Naruto looks to the sky. "It's gone now, as if it evaporated into the atmosphere."

'Geez, what a dangerous guy.' Korra thinks to herself as she shakes the feeling from her face.

Tonraq clears his throat to get their attention. "What are you two whispering about?" Naruto's head snaps over to Tonraq for a different reason, then he looks over at Korra again, and then over to the two guards behind Tonraq. The same sensation Naruto felt as he walked the perimeter returns to him again. Looking over at everyone in the party he can tell the same energy he felt before is now being emanated by them.

"Did you sense it Tonraq?"

"Sense what Naruto?" Tonraq asks, raising an eyebrow skeptically.

"The energy that surrounded this place. I only just sensed it before it vanished."

"No I didn't feel anything at all." Tonraq replies before hushing the guards murmuring of how Naruto was babbling nonsense.

"It was faint, hard to notice at first but I couldn't not notice it once I did." Naruto walks back over to Tonraq while Korra tries to stop Naga from rolling around inside the circle. "I feel a similar energy radiating from you and the others as well." Tonraq narrows his eyes slightly and shifts the weight on his feet uncomfortably.

"Well, if you say these energies are similar, what could be different about them then?" Tonraq wonders if Naruto somehow utilized an ability akin to Master Katara to sense Chi within a person. If so then whatever energy Naruto is speaking of could be a form of Chi.

"It's difficult to describe but… the energy here felt more raw, or pure. More free flowing by comparison." Korra, riding atop Naga, moves up to the two of them. "Yours is the strongest, the purest as well." Naruto says to Korra.

"You're probably talking about Chi, in which case that's not surprising, I am a pretty strong bender." Korra says with a smirk on her face pointing a thumb at herself. Naruto only tilts his head looking up at her.

"What is a bender?" Naruto asks innocently to which the two guards snicker while Tonraq and Korra stare at him disbelievingly.

"How do you not know what a bender is?!" Shouted incredulously, to which Tonraq only sighed at her lack of tact.

"I don't know a lot of things, like where I came from. That's why I'm out here, to see if I can remember anything."

"Oh, that's right. Sorry about that, that was rude of me." Korra says immediately regretting her behavior. An idea comes to mind though as she jumps off of Naga. "This is a bender." Tonraq groans as he brings a hand up to his forehead, the guards behind him snickering in amusement.

Assuming her water bending stance Korra brings her hands together as she begins her katas. Her fluid movements manipulated the snow as it shot off the ice into the air. She turned the snow into water and whipped it around in the air. She brings the water to her chest and forms a ball. Korra then shoots the water into the air and it turns into powdery snow and it gently falls to the ground to the ground in a display that is as graceful as it is impressive.

"What do you think? Pretty cool right?" Korra asks cockily, a half grin plastered on her face. Naruto only blinks.

"Wow. Amazing." Naruto replies in a droll voice. Korra deadpans at the unimpressed and robotic expression.

"Please, contain your enthusiasm."

"That's enough showing off for now Korra." Tonraq says subtly conveying that he doesn't want her to reveal anymore of her power. "Naruto, have you managed to remember anything at all?" Tonraq asks in an effort to keep everyone on the subject at hand.

"No, I haven't." Naruto grips his headband, ignoring the extreme cold of having his hand exposed. Downcast Naruto continues, "Coming out here seems to be a fruitless endeavor. I'm sorry to have wasted your time Tonraq."

"But it wasn't a total waste of time. We found your headband." Korra exclaims in attempt to sympathize with Naruto. The effort itself is little better than grasping at straws.

"Yes, but even so I remember nothing about it. My body reacted on its own and suddenly its purpose came clear to me. Nothing about how I obtained it comes to mind."

"How is it possible that you know what it is but you don't know anything else about it?" Tonraq asks pensively.

"Muscle memory." Their attention turns to one of the guards that interjected. "That's what it sounds like to me." The stare at him wanting him to elaborate further. "I mean some mornings I wake up and go through the motions of my routine without thinking about it. I'll be out doing my rounds and not even remember that I got up in the morning." The guard finishes and Naruto nods his head in agreement finding the thought more than plausible.

"In any event, we should head back if you don't believe you'll gain anything from being out here any longer. I can see how much you hoped you could learn something, believe me I was too Naruto. With any luck, it'll come back to you on its own as the days droll by. In the mean time we'll have Master Katara take a look at you to make sure that it's not a physical thing. Let's go Korra." Tonraq turns around with the guards and they get on their respective vehicles. Tonraq and his right hand man go on ahead while the remaining guard waits on Naruto. Korra places a hand on Naruto before he takes his place on the back of the snowmobile.

"I know this might not mean much coming from a total stranger. But I'm sure you'll be okay in the long run. Master Katara is the best healer in the world and if you were able to remember your head band hopefully that means the rest will come back to you. Try to stay positive I guess is what I'm saying." Korra gives Naruto a sympathetic smile but it does little to change his expression.

"Thank you, that means a lot to me, more than you know. I'll do my best to stay positive, Korra." Naruto gets onto the snowmobile and Korra hops back onto Naga as she follows them back to the compound. The entire way there Naruto could not shake the feeling that there would be little to be positive about.

Later that night Tonraq met with the elders to discuss what was to become of Naruto. The members of the White Lotus were hardly a compassionate group as the suggested that they simply send Naruto on his way. Katara was having none of that. She volunteered to open up her home tom Naruto for the time being. They would concentrate their efforts on a therapy for him. For the time being he could help around the compound with various upkeep as a way to make money. In time if Naruto decided to leave in search for his home on his own he could have the finances to do so.

Naruto lays in bed asleep. It's hardly a restful sleep. The entire night his mind was at work while his body simply lay still. 'Naruto…. you've gotten yourself into a real tough spot this time haven't you Naruto. The road ahead is going to be difficult… it'll be shrouded in darkness the entire way. I will guide you… I promise. Uzumaki Naruto… we'll make it back home… no matter what… this I promise you.'

By the time morning comes Naruto will barely remember the deep, ominous voice he heard in his dream. He won't even be sure he had the dream at all. The only thing he did know for certain, was that or not his memories were going to return, he will not rest until he discovers who he truly is… and find his way home again.

A/N: So in this fic I largely imagine that Naruto's form of amnesia is very similar to that of Jason Bourne in the Bourne Identity. In this story I will try to tackle how Naruto would act without his naturally sunny disposition due to his memory loss, so he'll be OOC for a while but the goal here is to restore him and even have him grow as a character along with Korra. So what happened to Naruto? I'm sure that most of you that enjoyed this so far are going to want to know that and what I can say is that you're going to have to enjoy the ride, and it's going to be a hell of a ride. Naruto will have full use of his chakra but you'll have to wait and see how I have him use his powers as he relearns them. It's a challenge for sure.

The next chapter sets the stage for a lot of deviation from canon and I'm hoping you readers will be receptive to it. Please don't ask for pairings as nothing is written in stone and ultimately what I do will have to make sense so I won't be making pairings simply because people ask for one that they want to see. Please tell me what you think!