Propriety
A/N: So, I was thinking of poking at my multichapter, but my brain is so muddled by school and reading for my classes that I don't know how well that would turn out... I'm really not overly fond of this. Could be that I just don't have a good grasp on writing this fandom yet. Who knows? I was just thinking about Zuko shortly after he became Fire Lord and the fact that at the very end of the series, after he is crowned, you see him in common robes in Ba Sing Se with Uncle Iroh, and I thought 'He's royalty, and they'd be really irritable about him doing that... So how would he pull it off?' Just an idea... Meh. I don't own Zuko (sadly), Aang, or any of the Avatar series. please R&R
They had told him that it was 'improper' for the Fire Lord, leader of the great Fire Nation to don commoner clothes – of another nation, at that! – so that he might visit his uncle in Ba Sing Se. He would be escorted, of course, and certainly it was also improper for him to take leave on that flying… creature… that the Avatar kept. His father would not have approved.
Zuko sighed to himself as he closed the small knapsack that he would carry with him. Aang had been kind enough to offer him a ride to the Earth Kingdom and he saw no reason to turn it down. Peace had stretched throughout the land and people seemed to be settling into it well enough. They wouldn't miss him for a week or so while he took a much deserved vacation with friends.
"What makes Appa such a bad ride?" Aang muttered as he leaned against the wall, toying with his bison whistle.
"He's not. They're just stuffy old advisors that don't realize that I'm not my father." The young king swung the bag over his shoulder and opened the window. The breeze ruffled his hair and he grinned. "Ready?"
The Avatar mirrored the excitement. "Let's show 'em!" he agreed, lifting the whistle to his lips and blowing loudly. The two youths piled out the window, freefalling for only a moment before Appa flew by and scooped them up with a loud roar.
Zuko looked down to where several of the so called 'stuffy advisors' were standing on a ledge, eyes wide and pointing to where their king had just leapt onto the saddle of a large, flying bison with the Avatar. He gave them a wave and a smirk. Some things were more important than their 'propriety.'
