Take death by storm! Enter Kaori!
Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar. I own Kaori and any Oc's. Yes that sounds about right. Also, -- I went braindead on the Kumi one. SORRY!
On the rooftop of Kumohori highschool, there stood 5 people four of them fell down, and only one was left standing. Kaori. With her long, jet black hair blowing in the suttle wind. Around her were dead bodies of her fellow classmates and their blood on her gray school uniform. Their bodies lay lifeless at her feet, blood coverd. Their blood was a very dark red, and had gotten on their killer's school uniform as mentioned before. She smirked. Showes them.. With that, she left the school yard without being seen; she;everytime she killed someone; had desided to take herself out of school and leave that town, and find a new one, at least untill she kills some other people. She walked into her one room shack in the slums of the town, and walked inside. In doors she had a big black panther who guarded the shack while she was at school, a small black cat, and a fluffy white cat with a blue and green striped ribbon around it's neck. She packed all of her things and with her cats, they left their shack which had nothing worth stealing now; in search of another shack that they could offord.
During thier search for a way off the island, they spotted a fire nation ship on the shores; usually, that is a suicidal way to leave your home, normally one would buy a train ticket. But she was low on money, and really didn't want to take that chance; so she snuck onto the ship with her feline compainions. Making sure to stay out of sight of any crew member; she made her way with her cats down the hall and into a random room, it had the fire nation symbol on the wall, some candles, and a bed. Her black panther, black cat, and white cat all jumped onto the bed and made themselfs comfertable. She smiled at them and decided she needed to change clothes, she had blood all over the ones she was wearing; so what she did, was: She went over to the closet and oddly, there seemed to be clothes in it! She picked out a shirt that was too big for her, but she wore it anyway, and some pants. Seems odd that she would make herself comfertable in a fire nation ship doesn't it? Esspecially when no one knows that she is on it! But she doesn't care about that, she could single handedly take them all down! So she walked over to the candles after dressing herself in the clothes that were too big for her, and meditated.
Zuko came back to his ship, being greeted by his uncle. He walked down to his room, expecting to be alone, he layed down on his bed and heard a low growl, soft black fur, and the feeling of inhailing and exhailing. He brought his head up and stairing back at him was the giant black panther face; he yelled, falling off his bed. Kaori turned her head and looked at him strangly, like; he was afraid of her little white kitten and not her giant black panther.
"Don't worry. Sadie won't kill anyone unless instructed. If she isn't, she is as harmless as Sasha." She explained to him point blank. Zuko growled looked at her.
"HOW CAN YOU KEEP A GIANT PANTHER AS A PET?" He asked. Quite loudly I might mention.
"Long story, don't want to talk about it. Just get me where I need to go and we can act like we never met." She said to him, quite feirce.
"You can't tell me what to do!" Zuko snapped. She just narrowed her eyes at him.
"Just do it! I can't very well stay at Kumohori. So just sail and im going to come with you untill I find a place I like. Got it?" She orderd, no one orders Zuko around except his uncle and father. He would have continued yelling but Iroh had heard the ruckuss and thought Zuko was talking to himself again, but wanted to make sure he was correct.
"Hello Miss. Will you be joining us?" Iroh asked once he saw Kaori, before Zuko could reply with a definitly NOT! Kaori awncerd.
"Yes I will. This boy asked me to come along and I told him I didn't want to, but he just kept insisting." She lied. Iroh believed her though, he clapped his hands together and welcomed her aboard. She smirked at Zuko as Iroh was greeted by her fluffy white cat Sasha. Whom was on the back of her giant black panther Sadie. Iroh smiled and pet both of the cats, and then showed Kaori to a room on the ship, she stuck her toung out at Zuko as she scooped up the small black cat and walked behind Iroh to her new room.
What...Just happend...? Zuko asked himself, it all happend so quickly that he didn't have time to process what had just gone on, on his ship. He had just aquired a strange woman, a large black panther, a small black cat, and a small white kitten. He had never thought that this would happen; not at the least! He always thought that he would never aquire what he had that day. He didn't know how to react, thats when he saw her school uniform on the floor, coverd in blood. Had she been harmed? Or had she harmed someone? She had said that she couldn't go back to that town, so he figured she had probably hurt someone.
Kaori was showed a room that was just beside Zuko's, She walked in with her cats and thanked him. He was a rather kind man that she would never harm. She sat on the bed with her panther settling itself on her lap with the white cat beside her on the left, and her black cat on the right. She was surrounded by her only family, her bag had been brought by Zuko, along with her bloody uniform. He didn't ask her about it, he just brought it in and walked back out. Like he didn't even care, which he didn't. But he did say one thing to her before he left:
"You'll have to earn your keep." He told her, and gave her just enough time to awncer before he walked out.
"I entend to." She told him, stroking the panther that made a deep purring sound. She smiled down at her panther, and when the panther looked up into her deep, Hazel eyes and saw what she wanted her to do, so she got off her lap and layed at the foot of the bed, Kaori layed her head on the soft black fur that is Sadie the black panther and staired at the celine.All the memories flooded back like a river.
"My darling Kaori. Want to go out an play with mommy?" Her mother asked her, she nodded. With her mother taking her daughter by the hand, she walked outside the large house. Her mother was rather tall with a thin body, and long brown hair. Kaori gets her jet-black hair from her father, whom had left the family before Kaori was born. She never learned why. When they got outside, her mother smiled and they played hop skotch on some rocks, because her mother was an earth bender and made a hop scotch grid on a large rock. They played happily. Kaori's father unfortunitly, was a fire bender. But he was honorable; and yet; afraid of Kaori. Afraid of fathering a child at his young age. Kaori had been told by her grandmother that her mother was forced into mating with her father, and thus Kaori was created. Not exactly something that a little five year old girl needs to hear truely. But she heard it, and that she was hated by her father...Her mother would tell her grandmother not to tell those kinds of things to Kaori! It didn't matter what happend to her father, it wasn't like he was good enough anyway. Kaori loved how her mother would tell her that her grandmother was just joking around. But somehow, it never really healed what had been created. Was it true...?
Her thoughts were interruped with Zuko throwing in a maid outfit. It wasn't like those weird ones people for some reason wear for sex, the hem went down to her ankles and it had a white apron on the frount.
"Here. Uncle Iroh found it." And before walking out, he gave the first command. "Go mop the deck or something." Kaori nodded and quickly changed from Zuko's clothes into the maid outfit. She grabbed a mop on her way to the deck and with her cats sleeping in her room, she mopped the deck. Zuko and the rest of the crew were on the deck doing whatever. Iroh had come upto her with an...interesting question.
"Miss. What did you do at your island? Did you work for someone?" Kaori froze for a moment, her eyes slightly wide, she shook it off and only showed him a smile.
"Nope. My mother died when I was really little, my cats and I lived in the slums of the town, Sadie had to guard the house while I went to school and I felt unfufilled there. So I took that boy's offor once I saw he really wanted me to come." She lied again. She hated to lie like this, but she had to! She couldn't easily tell them that she was a wanted killer! they would never take her on their ship after that, so she kept mopping as she and Iroh talked. Well actually, she didn't lie alot. Most of what she said was true!
After mopping the deck, she went below deck and washed the laundry. She actually didn't mind doing all of these chorse, she had to keep her mind off of her killing. Or did it give her time to think about it. She had washed Iroh's, and the rest of the crew's clothes before she came to Zuko's boxers; and she washed them like the rest of the clothes, but finding it all a bit...weird. She actually did have a boss, but feeling that she shouldn't tell them about it; truthfully. She cleaned INN rooms after school while her panther was guarding the house from burgalers. She knew how to survive out there in the real world, passed the royal families who are too pamperd and high maintence to think about how everyone else has to fight. Eye for an eye. Someone makes fun of you, you make fun of them. If you can't find anything to make fun of; then just kill them! Thats always been her policy.