A/N: Thanks to The-Magical-Baka (find her on Tumblr) and her Kataang headcannons, another fanfic has been added!
I know that I promised that I'd post the sequel to Prize Date, and don't worry. It will be the next multichapter story that I post. It is being written, and is nearly three-fourths finished. It's also getting betaed, so that's pretty sweet.
Anyway. The story.
Enjoy!
"I'm glad the war is over, mom. I just wish you were here to see it now."
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Aang bounded up to the roof of the small home that he, Katara, and Sokka were all staying in. The small home was more a miniature palace, its rooms sprawling across the grounds until it was roughly the size of the Ember Island beach house that they had all stayed at together. This small palace was on Zuko's property, which was technically the Fire Nations palace grounds.
They didn't live there since Katara and Sokka still technically had a home in the South Pole with their father, Gran Gran, and Paku. He himself was working slowly to rebuild the Southern Air Temple and was living there with a few dozen highly skilled earthbenders to help him move the work along faster. Toph had come for a few weeks to supervise the 'lily-livered wimps' and the work that they were doing while he was gone.
Aang looked down to the court yard where Appa was laying perpendicular to where we was standing. The bison was munching large quantities of hay as a feminine figure lay against him.
"Katara!"
Her face was turned upwards, watching as the stars became brighter as the night wore on. She had her hair entirely down, and was relaxing in loose pants and pale blue shirt. Her feet were bare and scrubbed clean, most likely from rubbing against the rough sands that were just under the crashing waves of the beach not too far away.
A mischievous grin swept across the avatars features as he thought of a delightful idea that was purely Aang.
He softly got on the roof that was behind his air bison and his girlfriend. He slipped down to the ground and landed quietly without a sound. Toph didn't call him Twinkle Toes for nothing.
He swept silently across the courtyard floor a then struck a very ninja like pose against Appa.
"Katara is just on the other side of Appa. I've got to be careful, quiet, and fast to scare her. She is trained for war."
Aang took a breath, closing his eyes and imitating meditation for a moment before opening his eyes and leaping over Appa with a strong gust of wind that was forced from his feet.
"Okay. Now or I'm an idiot and shouldn't have been able to win against Ozai!"
He sucked in a large amount of air, then using his bending skills, he projected his voice to be amplified beyond what should be humanly possible for anyone but an airbending master like himself.
"BOO!"
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"Ahh!"
"Ow, Katara!"
Katara was standing on the ground in a basic waterbending pose, one where the feet were planted firmly for stability, yet loose enough for a quick change and shift of weight for the water's movement. The pose wasn't without reason though.
Katara, with all of her battle trained reflexes, had quickly and without thinking formed a thin water whip from the moisture in the air around her and had accidentally whacked her boyfriend with a sharp flick.
"The big dummy," Katara thought as she glared up at her boyfriend. "I could have killed you, Aang."
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Aang gulped nervously as he looked down at Katara from his position on top of Appa. "I hadn't thought of that one. I guess I'm pretty lucky I'm not hurt that badly."
"Aang?"
"Sweetie, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you so badly. I just wanted to make you jump since I thought it would be cute…"
His voice trailed off as he dropped his head, his eyes peeking up to see how his girlfriend was reacting to what he was saying.
Katara dropped the defensive pose and relaxed. "It's okay, sweetie. I guess I should be glad that you feel at enough at ease to risk scaring me. I'm just still really uptight from the war."
"I know."
Aang jumped off of Appa and landed next to Katara softly, allowing the air to cushion his landing. He placed a hand against Katara's cheek gently.
"Do you forgive me?"
"Of course."
Aang pulled her in gently before placing his lips lightly against hers for a soft kiss before he pulled away and wrapped his strong arms around her frame.
"Thank you."
"You owe me."
Aang stepped back and did a silly little bow to her. "What does my lady wish for then?"
Katara giggled at his antics before she sobered up and took on the role of high nobility. "I wish for someone to cuddle with while I lay against the avatars air bison and watch the night stars."
Aang continued with this playful ruse by asking her, "Does my lady wish for me to fetch someone? Your brother, Sir Sokka, perhaps?"
"Oh no! Do not call upon him for he is likely out with his lady, Lady Suki."
Breaking the role, Aang grinned at her. "Nah. He's taking a bath in his private bathrooms." He lifted his foot and wiggled his toes. "I can feel the vibrations."
"Aang! I did not want or need to know that! Thanks a lot! Though it is helpful to know that he won't smell tomorrow."
"Yeah, that'll be nice." He looked away, glanced back at Katara before averting his eyes once again. "So…"
"Yes?"
"Are you still feeling up for a snuggle buddy and some stargazing?"
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It had been a few hours since Katara had accepted Aang's question, and since she had answered they had been laying against Appa together, she in his arms. She had since, in that time, decided that her favorite thing about Aang wasn't that he was a powerful bender, but was that he loved to cuddle and he wasn't ashamed of that or afraid to show it.
He had been grinning at her, smiling at everything she said, and even occasionally resting a kiss on her cheek before turning his eyes back to the sky to view the stars with her.
"Remember when we were in Wan Shi Tong's library and we got to see some of the future positions of the stars in the planetarium?"
"Yup. Though they were a bit sped up."
"Yeah, that's true."
Their faces lost some of their glow as the light of the full moon was slowly blocked out by clouds that were making a surprisingly fast appearance. They were blown in by cool gusts of wind. Katara and her boyfriend barely felt the breeze however since they were sunk so deeply in Appa's fur.
"Remember when I sent you up into the sky on your glider with my water pouch to bend the water from the cloud into it so that we'd have something to drink?"
Katara felt a rumble in Aang's chest as he chuckled.
"Yup. That I do."
The rumble that was in Aang's chest was repeated by the sky as thunder rolled into their hearing.
"Um... Katara? Maybe we should go inside."
A few drops of water splattered down from the sky and onto the surrounding courtyard.
Katara sat up, staring beseechingly down at Aang.
"Oh, Sweetie! Can we please stay out a bit longer? I mean, there's a full moon out! A little water never hurt a waterbender anyway! Please? If you say no then I'll stay out alone, so please join me?
Aang drug a hand down his face, sighing as the hand came to grip his chin. "Katara..."
Her eyes stayed glued to him, waiting to find out the answer.
"Do you know how hard it is to say no to you?"
She grinned, then threw her arms around him in a tight hug. "Thank you!"
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It had been at least fifteen minutes since the rain had really started to come down in hard torrents, soaking them each to the bone. They had gotten off of Appa and started to dance around, grabbing the water before it hit the ground and tossing it at each other using their bending.
With the help of the full moon, they were able to extend their reach of bending and were pulling water in from beyond what the normal distance was, and also bending more water than usual.
Aang had just gotten a large face full of the liquid before he lost control of the water that he was holding above Katara's head and released it to fall and land on the dear girl.
They looked at each other then burst out laughing. Katara's hair was plastered to her face, neck, and shoulders. Aang had somehow fallen onto Appa at one point, and he had the bison's fur all over his face and front of his shirt.
Katara walked forward, and after pulling her hair off of her face, she brushed the majority of fur off of Aang's face. Once most of the fur was gone from his features, she smiled at him, then kissed him lightly and let her lips rest against his while the rain pattered down around them, hitting their forms and the ground with soft, wet plops.
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"Hey, Katara?"
"Yes, Aang?"
The Southern Water Tribe girl moved her arms to bend a large amount of water from her hair. She left a small bit though since she knew that if she were to do it all at once it could very well ruin her hair. She bent a large amount of water out of her clothes as well, then quickly did the same to Aang's.
"Do you think," Katara could tell that he was definitely nervous, "that we could maybe have a sleepover?"
"Huh?"
"A sleepover. Like one of us stay in the other's room." His eyes averted from hers, looking to the side as a light tinge swept across his features. "Not in the same bed of course, I'd sleep on the floor, it just that since we stopped having to sleep in the open during the war I miss being close to you while we sleep and I thought maybe we cou-"
"Of course, Aang."
The airbenders eyes flew back to hers, wide and surprised. "Really?"
"Yeah. As long as we do like you said and sleep in separate beds. My room good?"
"I'll go grab a mattress and blanket!"
The excited avatar made an air scooter and flew down the halls at break neck speed to fetch the sleeping pad and a blanket from his room. Once in his room he picked them up, rolled them together into tube-like shape, then tucking it all under his arm repeated the actions of an air scooter and swept down into Katara's room.
Katara had just slipped out of her wet clothes and into dry ones to sleep in, and she was currently standing in front of a vanity, running a comb through her hair to root out all the little knots and tangles as best that she could before resting her head on her pillow for the night. She was humming a small tune, a tune that Aang would often play on different instruments to remind him of the dead Air Nomads.
Aang tossed his sleeping pad down on the floor and then tossed the blanket over it. If not for the skillful gust of wind that Aang lazily tossed the way of the falling cloth, it would have landed in a heap. But since Aang had used bending, the blanket spread out and drifted down to lay calmly on the mattress.
Katara lay the comb down on the vanity.
"Aang?"
"Yes, Sweetie?"
"Thank you for the fun outside."
"No problem, Katara. It got you smiling, so it was entirely worth it." Aang walked to the middle of the room and started to bend the remaining water out of his clothes, then drying them entirely so he wouldn't sleep in wet clothes.
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"It's not my fault if we get sick from being out in the rain though."
"Aang! We're water benders! We're not going to get sick from a bit of water."
Aang sighed as he took off his shirt. e had put it back on earlier when he had to walk through the halls. "Well, Zuko is a firebender and he got burnt. And Toph is an earthbender and she can get dirty," he pointed out.
"Water is different. It's the element of change and healing."
"Uh-huh."
Katara focused her sight in her boyfriend who was now shirtless.
"Oh gosh… he's really… I mean look at his muscles. He's definitely grown since I first met him when he came out of the ice."
"Katara? Are you listening to me?"
"Um, no. Sorry."
"That's ok. I was just saying that we should head to sleep. It's really late." He looked at the waterbender, his head cocked to the side as he awaited her answer to that question for apparently the second time.
"Sure. Sounds good," she said as she pushed the covers down. She then slipped into the bed and pulled them back up around her, tucking them in under her chin.
"I love you, Sweetie." Aang followed her example and lay down. He rested his tattooed head on the sleeping pallet before he heard her reply.
"I love you too, Sweetie."
A/N: And there is the first chapter of Rain Doesn't Hurt a Waterbender! Again, I 'd like to thank The-Magical-Baka for inspiring me to write some Kataang. I never thought that I would since I'm a die hard Zutara and Taang shipper, but low and behold I wrote some Kataang.
In addition to thanking The-Magical-Baka, I'd like to thank the person who betaed this story, Fallen-Autumn-Leaves. She was amazing to work with, and was very willing to help. Also, to make her even more amazing, she was prompt. Amazingly so. So thanks, Fallen-Autumn-Leaves!
Until next chapter!