Who you truly are [Tatsu]

In the middle of the night, an distinct growl echoed inside of a small noodle shop as if a beast was ready to dine on his first meal in ages. Well, this was kind of right since Kenta anxiously waited for a bowl of noodles and pork cutlet. The expression on his face was one of a man suffering from the evils of an empty stomach since he had hardly eaten anything hearty in two days. His tapped his foot repeatedly against ground as he drooled over the smell of the noodle chef cooking the pork to perfection. "Hahaha! Give it another minute fella. This baby is almost done!" The chef assured Kenta who picked up a napkin with his left hand and wiped the drool of his bottom lip before he nodded once. After another minute, his meal was done and it smelled wonderful!

The chef presented the bowl in front of Kenta who gave it a nice long whiff to take in the amazing aroma. "Dig in son!" The chef said.  "Don't mind if I do!" He responded before he pulled apart his chop sticks and plucked the massive chuck of pork and started and bit down on it before he tore of a piece like a wild animal. The chef let out a hearty laugh as he watched the young earth bender go. "Quite the appetite you got there traveler. A real earth bender's stomach!" The chef complimented while Kenta proceeds to swallow the piece of pork in his mouth. "Well I wouldn't say that; I just have not had a proper meal such as this for a while now." He said before he proceeded to stuff his face with noodles.

Unbeknownst to Kenta and the rest of the happy customers in the noodle shop, a enigmatic shadow approached the area. Kenta had finished his bowl of noodles and drank the rest of the stock before a powerful gust of wind blew that cart over like it was made of cardboard. "GAAAAH!" Blown away by the sudden gust along with the other customers, Kenta then fell on his back before he tumbled on to his hands before he quickly got back on his feet. "AAAAAAAAAH!" The chef flew towards him and Kenta opened his arms and caught him before the gust of wind stopped.

Who dared disrupt him when he was enjoying his meal? Kenta looked up and saw a man with black hair and a chain around his neck glare at him with a sinister smile. "I don't know who you are but...." Kenta was cut off when the mysterious air bender turned and ran away. The impostor Tatsu literally vanished in a blink of an because of his great speed. "Are you okay...?" He asked the chef. "Yeah son, who was that?" He inquired after he stood up on his two feet. "Someone who must be stopped." Kenta answered before he started to run in the impostor's direction. He suddenly stopped and turned around. "I'll return to help rebuild your shop! Until then!" He said before he began looking for that enigmatic air bender. The enigmatic air bender who was already far away from Kenta suddenly blew past another bystander with an even wider grin on his face. It seemed everything was going according to plan for him

It was quite a fine night, the moon was out and what better time to take a nice stroll through the market district? Tatsu walked along the wide path looking at the people as they passed him, it was a nice night indeed, well it was for the time being. The young air bender couldn't help but to hear a loud commotion going on quite a while down the path, Tatsu was unable to see what had happened but he made sure to check it out. If any foreign benders or mercenaries were attacking the city this could have meant serious business! Although Tatsu was but a novice bender he was definitely not afraid to take on the challenge especially if people were in danger, Tatsu began to dart down the path heading towards the direction of the noise. However before he could make it there he stopped seeing and earth bender running away from the scene. Tatsu himself did not know this boy was an earth bender but his dress was very different from those of the locals here.

After he noticed the face of the same air bender show up in front of him as if nothing happened, Kenta confused. What kind of criminal destroys something, runs off and comes back to confront someone else. This certainly was a puzzler but the young earth bender had put that aside to confront the man. He came to a stop at a reasonable distance from the felon and took a second to catch his breathed before he looked up at him with eyes of noble aggression. "You there!" Kenta called out. "I do not know who you are but you are going to have to pay for the pain you inflicted on that chef so I'm going to ask you only once!" Kenta breathed in and exhaled to calm his head before he walked closer to the young air bender with a now serene state of mind. "Would you turn yourself into the authorities?" He asked softly before he gave Tatsu a neighborly pat on the back. It was no secret that he did not want to face this man for two reasons. Fighting can be extremely tedious and the after what he saw (who he thought was) this young air bender do to that noddle shop, it was kind of obvious that a novice of earth bending would not stand much of a chance against him.