The western air temple had many things the group had not had since beginning the invasion, practice in the various martial arts both bending and not. Hygiene was the most important to everyone except Toph. This was made evidently clear when a day after arriving, a large bowl shape appeared in one of the countless rooms the air temple offered.
The two water tribe siblings had occupied this tub more than any of the other members of their group in the last day or so. As siblings go, Sokka and Katara were an odd pair by most standards. Though normal in just about every respect as far as siblings were concerned, the two had pet peeves about each other and themselves. One such peeve of both was the incessant need to make sure they were both extremely clean, some would say it came from living on ice for their entire lives, which was white and sparkly. The tub was large enough to fit both of them and also allow them to shift places quite easily. Needless to say that wasn't weird for them at all.
"Hold still, I swear Sokka, your feet are dirtier than Toph's today." Katara had a piece of pumice in her hand, scratching the stains of the day off her brother's feet. Sokka's skin tone made the dirt harder to see most times, so no matter how long she spent scrubbing one spot, she always had the feeling she missed something.
"Suki took my shoes and hid them, so I had to walk around bare foot." Sokka tried to explain; this just seemed to irk Katara a bit which turned out to never be a good thing.
"She should try learning self control, she's your age after all." Katara sounded duly annoyed. All he ever talked about was Suki anymore and it was beginning to wear very, very thin. "Could you wash my back for me?"
"What am I here for if not that?" Sokka asked plainly. Sokka ran his hand along her ribs. In this way they were still kids. A midst their serious conversations of the war, concerns made about the others, and battle tactics, they also tickled one another on occasion. Although he would never admit it, Sokka was actually more ticklish than his sister.
"Ah, no." She giggled. "Th-" She stammered in between her laughing. "That's not fair."
"What's the matter waterbending master?" He mocked with a cheshire cat grin on his face. "Did I catch you off guard?"
All of a sudden the water swirled, water tentacles caught Sokka's forearms and pulled the hands that had been digging into the sides of the teenage girl. "Now THAT is not fair."
"The next time I'll jump out and turn the water to ice." Katara threatened with a devilish smile.
Sokka and Katara's faces both turned pale, hearing footsteps approaching they both turned towards the door just in time to see Suki come into view, although she had not seen in time that they were there. "Sokka are you alone in… here?" The siblings tried to act as nonchalant as possible to keep Suki calm. "Wow, interrupting?"
"Do you really need to ask?" Katara had the face of wanting to ask the Kyoshi Warrior whether she was really this thick headed.
"When your done with my boyfriend remember to give him back his pants." Suki told the waterbender snidely.
"At least I don't pretend like I'm ten years old and steal his shoes." Katara mockingly sing songed.
(A/N: You just got told!)
Suki, looked shocked that she had been defeated by someone two years younger than her, and visibly stomped out of the room. Each stomp made Sokka wince, as he knew he'd be the one to explain everything to Suki and then try and calm her down, probably not in that order, things could only become worse if he did that in that particular order.
Sokka could already tell that working through all this would take at least a few chapters.
Next update will be when I have the time, as much as I would love to sit at my desk and write all day. (I really would) I have to work. Also, I don't know if any of you caught the subtle fourth wall break at the very end?(it's literally right above this paragraph) I've been wanting to play with breaking the forth wall in the next fanfic I write, but I'm not sure how to go about it, any help/clues would be greatly appreciated. Reviews are both welcome and appreciated as well... by weight (I told a joke lol).