So I know that this isn't what people wanted, but I wrote a little small story just for fun. It's not the best, but it's not the worst and it was entertaining to write, I hope you all like it :D
All heads turned when there was a loud knock on the door. The host left the sitting room, going to the front door and looked through the small peep hole. He opened the door to see the dark skinned man wearing black slacks with a matching tank top with a blue hawaiian shirt hanging off him. To his right was a short white haired woman in a white t-shirt with blue jeans, a holstered weapon on her hip along with a badge hanging loosely around her neck. The host looked them up and down, "They really sent you two here?"
The man cocked an eyebrow, "Not happy to see us Haru?"
"Seeing as you don't have the $20 in your hand that you owe me, no," Haru answered. "Plus, isn't this a conflict of interest Sokka? You two know everyone here."
He shrugged as he entered the house, "I don't think I'll have any problem, how about you partner?"
She rolled her sapphire eyes, "I was telling you the exact same thing on the ride here Sokka."
"Nah, I think we'll be fine," He brushed it off with a smile as he entered the sitting room. Placing his hands on his hips with a smile, "Well look what we have here, if this isn't the worst group of suspects I have seen in the a while, then I don't know what is."
"Shut up Sokka," His sister said with a glare, she sat on the furthest couch wearing a black cocktail dress. "Dad shouldn't have even let you get past the academy. You couldn't detect your way out of a corn maze."
He crossed his arms along his chest, "I don't think you should be rude to the man who could arrest you right now Katara."
"Isn't that abuse of your so called 'power'?" Haru asked.
He glared back at his friend, "Shut it."
"Anyways," Haru ignored Sokka's command. "The reason you're here."
Sokka's partner pulled out her notepad from her back pocket, flipping through a few pages. "We're looking at a case of theft of a…8 million dollar head band?"
"It's a head piece that was owned by Lady Kyoshi 300 years ago, it's value increases every month by a thousand dollars," Haru explained. "It turned up missing 2 hours ago."
She took out a pen, "Now, who all could have had access to this head piece?"
"Everyone in this room," Haru explained, "Everyone has been here at least since 6pm. The last time I saw the head piece was 8:30." She quickly wrote down his response.
Sokka nodded in acknowledgement, "Okay, where exactly did you keep the head piece?"
"Upstairs, down the hall, turn right and it's first door on the left, you should know this by now," Haru replied.
"Okay partner, you go look at the scene of the crime and I'll start asking questions."
She grimaced, "Stop calling me partner Sokka, call me by name."
"Fine, Yue, go check upstairs," Sokka grumbled. She rolled her eyes at him again and went up stairs, Haru following her. He looked over the group, "Okay, who wants to go first?"
"Shouldn't you be the one to determine that?" A black haired man asked.
He glared at his friend, "Looks like you just volunteered Zuko." Zuko stood up, letting go of his girlfriend's hand. "Let's do this in the kitchen."
"As long as you'll buy me dinner first," Zuko mumbled as he walked into the kitchen, Sokka ignored the laughter from the rest of his friends. Walking into the kitchen, Sokka pointed to the small four person table for Zuko to sit at. He took a seat at the head of the table while Sokka took a seat beside him. He pulled out a small recorder from his pocket, placing it on the space between them.
He pressed record and cleared his voice, "September 20th, 2016, 11:14pm, this is Detective Sokka Aqua on the case of the stolen head piece, please state your name for the record."
"Case of the stolen head piece? Who are you? Encyclopedia Brown?" Zuko teased. Sokka narrowed his glare at him, "Fine, Zuko Goto."
"Mr. Goto, what is your relation to the owner of the head piece?"
"Haru and I are friends, you know that Sokka…"
"I just need it for the recording Mr. Goto," Sokka said. "Please take me step by step of what you doing between the hours of 20:00 and 22:00." Zuko gave him a weird look. Sokka sighed, "Between 8 and 10 Zuko."
He leaned back in his chair, "Well let's see…"
He sipped his drink as Katara went on about another story about her and Aang's travels around the world. He had to admit that after the 20th time she had told this story, it had lost some of its interest. The fact that his girlfriend pretended that the story was still interesting probably didn't help, but she so badly wanted to fit in his friends that she would probably jump through a hoop just to be officially accepted in the group. He excused himself to the bathroom, knowing that this conversation was only going to lead into another story about another one of their travels. Going through the hall, he stopped when he saw the auburn haired beauty leaning against the wall by the bathroom door. "Funny running into you here," She smiled.
"How long have you been waiting?" He asked, leaning against the wall across from the bathroom door.
She checked her phone, "About 4 minutes now."
"Sorry," A small voice peeped from the other side of the door. "I'm just not feeling well."
She smiled, "It's fine Ty, just make sure you don't pass out."
"I knew she would drink too much," Zuko commented.
She chuckled softly and their conversation died down until she looked back over towards him. "So...have you talked to Jin about the proposal?"
Zuko nodded, "She's currently thinking it over."
"What proposal was she talking about?"
"It's not really important to the case Sokka," Zuko said.
"It is when it's my ex-girlfriend," Sokka argued.
Zuko chuckled, "Dude, nearly half the girls in this town are your exes. You've dated most of the girls in our group and if Katara wasn't your sister, you probably already would have hit that."
"My past relationships aren't coming into question right now, I would like to know what the proposal was so I know that it wasn't, oh i don't know, a plot to steal the head piece!" Sokka stuck a finger in Zuko's unmoving face, waiting for him to at least flinch a little bit.
After a few awkward seconds, Zuko moved Sokka's pointed finger away from his face, "I don't want that stupid head piece man, I couldn't care less how much it's worth. I already make enough money to own a vacation home on Ember Island, why would I need a head piece?"
"Then you would have no problem telling me what Suki's 'proposal' is about," Sokka leaned back in his chair, crossing his arms.
Zuko rolled his eyes, "I don't think you really want to know that Sokka."
"Oh I think I do," Sokka challenged.
"Jin has a fetish where she gets off on the fact of knowing or seeing that I'm sleeping with another girl and Suki has been apart of our games for a little under 3 months now. Suki offered up the proposal that instead of being with me, it would be her and Jin." Zuko quickly explained, dropping Sokka's jaw nearly off its hinge. "See? Told you that you didn't want to know."
He blinked a few times, "That's my ex man!"
"And you slept with my sister, I think that makes us even," Zuko justified, "Anyways, back to my story."
The bathroom door opened and Ty Lee stumbled against the doorframe, "I drank too much."
Suki put her arm around her waist to help steady her, "I know hun, you want to go lay down?" Ty Lee nodded and Suki helped walk her down the hall, Suki gave Zuko a quick wink before they turned a corner. Zuko entered the bathroom and was surprised there wasn't any mess from Ty Lee. He did his business and as he left, came face to face with Suki. "How about you and I find a room?"
"Okay! Okay! Enough," Sokka put a hand, begging him to stop. "I don't need to hear what happens next."
"Are you sure? I'm sure you don't know how flexible Suki has gotten in recent years. And the things she does with her tongue…" Zuko trailed off, taking pleasure in making his friend squirm.
Sokka's eye twitched, "I know what she can do, I was the best sex she ever had."
Zuko scoffed, "Not what she told me…well, I guess more like screamed it."
"When you were...done...with Suki, what happened next?" Sokka attempted to get over the thought of his friend and ex together.
He thought about it for a moment, "I fell asleep after and I woke up to Haru yelling about his head piece being gone."
"Can anyone verify your alibi?" Sokka questioned.
"Well, Suki can obviously verify us having sex," Sokka's knuckles became white. "And for me coming out into the main hall when Haru was screaming, yeah, everyone saw me."
"How long would you say you were asleep for?"
He shrugged, "I don't know, like an hour."
"Was Suki there with you the whole time?"
"No, she was gone when I woke up."
Sokka nodded, "So what you're saying is that you have no one to confirm that you were alone for a full hour?"
"Dude, I said I didn't take it."
"And you also didn't say you took the last piece of pizza four years ago, but the tomato sauce on your cheek said something different," Sokka stopped the voice recorder. "You can send in your girlfriend now."
Zuko stood up from the chair and gave Sokka a sarcastic salute, "Whatever you say sir." He fought the urge to flip him off as he exited the room.
Yue walked down the hall, looking around for any sign of disturbance or anything out of place. "So," She looked at Haru, "You and Sokka are sleeping together now?"
She scoffed, "Me and Sokka? No."
"You two are so sleeping together," He smiled, "You two are sending those vibes. I mean, when's the last time that Sokka has called you Luna? He's trying to keep things professional to keep from you getting attached, so he's calling you partner and," He took a quick sniff around her, "since when does Yue Luna wear ocean breeze as a perfume?"
Yue chuckled, "Don't play detective with me Haru, because I'm a lot better at it than you."
"Oh yeah? Then how off am I?"
"Sokka has been sitting in his house watching reruns of Magnum PI for the past week, so that's why he's been wearing that stupid outfit for the past few days. He thinks by calling me partner, that makes him some 80's TV cop. Also, Yue Luna started to wear ocean breeze as a perfume because it was a gift from my Father, not because Sokka likes that type of perfume." Yue explained. "Am I forgetting anything else?"
Haru smiled, "The fact that your Four Elements Page checked you in at Sokka's neighborhood last night at midnight."
Yue held in a curse, "I knew I needed to get rid of that stupid thing."
"So how long has this been going on?" Haru asked, a smile proudly displayed on his face over his triumph.
"We've only hooked up a few times, on my conditions only." Yue said. "But you are wrong about him wanting to keep things professional. He's the one who's being clingy right now."
Haru's eyes lit up from the new details, "Oh really now?"
She nodded, "He's been texting me and telling me about how great it was, he wants to take me out on a real date, things like that. I like the guy, I mean, we've been partners for two years now, but I know his history with girls and I'm not going to be another girl that we wonder how long their self-esteem has dropped to have an one night stand with the town bicycle."
He shrugged, "Well, maybe he wants to change. We all knew how he was with Suki, so we know that Sokka has room for love in the small pit he calls a heart. But for now, my lips are sealed." Haru opened up the door to the room with the headpiece, seeing the empty display case.
She looked around the room, "You really need to think about relocating Haru. This is the type of mansions that people get murdered in."
"That's what the realtor said when I bought it, but assured me that no one got murdered here," Haru defended the house.
Yue walked up to the case, "And as we all know, realtor's are known for their honesty." She examined the case, "Did you dust the glass for prints?"
Haru scoffed, "Of course I did, I wanted to know who took my head piece. The only prints on there are mine."
"And you know that how?"
"I clean the case daily. That thing is my pride and joy Yue. The only prints on the case are the ones from when I lifted case," Haru explained. "So the person who stole them must have had-"
"Gloves or have no oil on their hands," Yue finished for him, "As much as I like you helping Haru, don't try to do my job." She looked closer at the case, seeing an obvious disturbance in the silk cloth that the head piece had rested on. Yue was lost in thought for a few moments before turning to Haru, "Along with cleaning the case daily, do you also clean the head piece?"
Haru nodded, "Of course I do."
She looked back at the case, "What time did you clean the head piece today?"
"September 20th, 2016, 11:21 pm, this is Detective Sokka Aqua on...the stolen Head Piece case," He corrected himself after Zuko's correction, "Please state your name for the record."
She cleared her throat, "Uh, Jin Cheng."
"Miss Cheng, what is your connection to the owner of the head piece?"
Jin blinked her doe eyes, "Well, I know Haru through Zuko."
"Can you walk me through everything that happened between the hours of 20:00 and 22:00?" Sokka questioned.
"You can just say between 8 and 10 Sokka," Jin corrected, making his face drop. "It just sounds better and law enforcement officers usually don't use military time with civilians."
"How would you know that?"
She smiled, "My Dad was a cop, my brother is a state trooper and my cousin is a federal agent. But anyways, what happened between 8 and 10…"
She sat there nodding to Katara's stories, pretending that this was the first time she had told the story of finding the baby bisons in the once desolate mountains. Jin liked Katara, but retelling a story over and over again made her want to clock her in the head with the nearest object. Since the closest thing to her was her drink, she thought it might be a party foul to smack the woman with a gin and tonic. Jin nearly grabbed her boyfriend's hand when he stood up and excused himself to use the bathroom. She would give him some payback later for leaving her here. "And then we backpacked to the ancient ruins of the Monk Temples," Katara continued.
"Katara, for the love of the Spirits, if you tell that story one more time, I'm going to beat you with a sandal," The blind girl in the corner said. "We love you, but shut up."
She pouted, "I was trying to tell you all how much fun Aang and I had."
"For the 20th freaking time," She retorted. "We were supportive after the 10th, but this is just too much Sugar Queen."
Katara huffed, "Well Jin likes my stories, don't you Jin?"
"Don't do that to the poor girl, she's too nice to say no," Haru piped up with a grin. He poured a margarita into a small glass, handing it over to Katara, "Here, just relax and let other people talk."
She took the glass, mumbling something underneath her breath that Jin assumed shouldn't be repeated in polite company. While another conversation started up, Jin got up and went into the kitchen to refill her drink. "I'm just saying, no one is watching it, we could just take it and no one would probably notice it." She overheard her boyfriend's sister say when she walked in. Two sets of eyes looked back at her, seeing Azula and Jet in the kitchen together. Jin gave a sheepish smile only for Azula to roll her golden orbs and look back at her boyfriend. "So what do you think?"
He sighed as he finished pouring his drink, "No Zula, I don't want you doing that."
"Such a little pansy," She sighed leaving the kitchen, casting a glance at Jin as she walked out. It was an awkward silence as Jin poured herself another drink.
"Is everything okay?" Jin felt obliged to ask.
He nodded. "Yeah, she's just...bored I guess. I don't really know anymore," Jet attempted to laugh it off.
"So you're saying that Azula was talking about stealing the head piece and you weren't the first person to pipe up about it?" Sokka questioned.
She shook her head, "No. I have no proof that's what she was talking about."
"A multi-figure head piece goes missing after someone was talking about stealing something and you're first thought wasn't to put two and two together?"
"If my family has taught me anything, it's to not assume when there isn't sufficient enough proof to not jump to conclusions. I thought you would know that after the headline of you nearly tackling that 10 year old," Jin felt herself getting a little annoyed.
Sokka narrowed his eyes, "Hey, that kid totally pickpocketed me."
"He accidently knocked into you when you were too busy texting and if I remember right, your wallet was in your other pocket."
"He totally put it in that pocket!" He argued.
She scoffed, "Zuko showed me the security camera footage online, he didn't even come close to your pocket."
Sokka ended the recording, "I think we're done here...you and Zuko have been a pain in my side all night. Go have your stupid 3-way with my ex-girlfriend while I put his thief of a sister behind bars."
Jin stood up, "Well when you find out it wasn't her, just send me a text. If you try to call, I won't be able to hear you over Suki moaning." She knew it was rude to say, but she had to unless some of her built of anger.
As she left, Sokka went to the doorway. "Azula Goto, you're next."
-SDB
