[Hayato scoots to the very edge of his seat, hanging on to every word Iroh says. The whole culture just sounded fascinating! He's taking it all in like a sponge. It was sort of like the elements of the flames... only less diverse and and less sky-based. The thought of it alone causes him to absentmindedly fidget with the Vongola ring on his hand]

Fire nation... so there's a Water, Earth, and Air Nation too then?

[He thinks on it for a moment, with powers like these, it's not hard to imagine that one nation would be threatened by another. It was the same in his world, only what people lacked in powers they made up for with technology and weapons.]

I guess it sort of makes sense... whenever there's a threat to on nations power a war usually breaks out.

[That's what it was like in the mafia, and wars in general. Either you form an alliance or you pit yourself against one another. He had read about it in history and seen it on the streets of Italy on a smaller scale...]