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A/N: Can be taken as a sequel to 'Unorthodox' but can pretty much stand on its own. I'm not particularly proud of this piece -- It was better in my head.
The kyoshi warriors walked the halls of Ba Sing Se for one peace meetings held regularly. They were directed by a servant to a room where said meeting was to take place in an hour.
As they neared the room, words became audible.
"It's going to work, I'm telling you", Sokka's exasperated tone floated through the
"I think we shouldn't be doing this, he's our friend", came Aang's voice.
"Come on twinkle toes! Live a little, have fun, its one of the few fun that's available to us when we're rebuilding the world!" Obviously Toph.
Suki opened the door, and walked into the room. And 'lo and behold, they saw the four heroes looking puzzled at a chair. Suki cleared her throat and all of a sudden four eyes look up at her and her warriors sheepishly.
They were all at Ba Sing Se for one of their peace meetings, and true to Zuko's first words as Firelord, the rebuilding was difficult, even after almost 3 years of relative peace.
"SUKI!" Sokka came bounding to her and gave her a fierce hug. "We wanted your input" and with that he gestured to the stone chair.
Suki looked at him confusedly, with brows furrowed.
"They're going to prank Zuko during the peace meeting" came Ty Lee's uncharacteristically flat tone. She stepped forward and looked at them, only to roll her eyes, "It's not going to work".
"Wha- how? Whe-", Sokka's surprised voice came.
"What Sokka means is, How did you know it won't work and how did you know what we were planning at all?" Toph's unseeing eyes gaze at Ty Lee, her expression confused.
Sokka just nodded at what Toph had said, he too wanted to know how Ty Lee knew. In fact so did the rest of the occupants of the room.
Ty Lee sighed, "You wanted to shatter Zuko's Firelord façade, am I correct?" Katara, Aang, Sokka and Toph merely nodded.
With that Ty Lee walked over and sat on a table to face them all, "In peace meetings, courtly affairs and when he's doing his duty as firelord, he becomes this other person…well, not really another person, but he becomes this proud, arrogant, unshakeable person whose composure is nothing but perfect"
"Yeah, sometimes I just want to knock that arrogance off his face" Sokka grumbled "honestly, his poise brings every girl to shame. Katara soaked him in one of the meetings at the Northern water tribe, Zuko merely raised his eyebrow and asked Katara if she was given to fits"
Aang chuckled at the memory, "Yeah, that was funny- ow!", Katara pinched him on his sides. "It was not, I was ashamed! I hate to think how those people must see me!"
Ty Lee sighed again, "Yeah, that's what he does, he makes you feel as if you were a child after the failed attempt, although, it was slightly better for Mai and I 'coz we WERE kids"
"So you mean you –" Suki started but was cut off by Ty Lee
"-and Mai would prank Zuko, he was like that when he was a child too, and we wanted to shatter his 'Fire Prince' composure. The only thing wrong with his demeanor THEN was that he was opinionated and his opinion was generally against his father's opinion, but now as firelord that's a good thing, because Zuko always had a good heart and he knows what's good for his people, so he's pretty much more perfect when he's in 'Firelord' mode"
"YES! And frankly, it's annoying!" Sokka yelled. Various "yeah" came from the group.
"Believe me, nothing works", Ty Lee stated and looks dully at everyone.
"uhm, Ty, you're acting like Mai now", Katara commented.
"MAI!!, that's it, you're a genius Katara", Sokka wrapped his arms around his sister, "we could get Mai, to ahem" Sokka wiggles his eyebrow suggestively "distract Zuko"
"It's the perfect plan!" Sokka continued, "No man is immune to his wife's wiles, well, no self-respecting one would-"
"Mai already tried that Sokka", Ty Lee interrupted, "It backfired, and lets jus say that as 'revenge' for being frustrated, Mai didn't get any sleep that night". Even through the face paint, Ty Lee's blush was apparent, "although, she wasn't exactly complaining".
"What?! When did Gloomy get around to doing that? They've only been married for 3 months" Toph said
" I bet it was that meeting Zuko, Mai and I attended in Omashu", Aang's brow was furrowed in thought, "she was jumpy and the day after, Mai almost fell asleep during breakfast!"
Silence befell the room.
"RIGHT, so we have established that this doesn't work" Katara commented to the room in general, "although, if ever it does happen, I wouldn't miss it for the world!"
Grumbles of agreement came and with unspoken accord, they all filed out of the room, knowing that whatever they did at this point was futile.