"That Sokka. Taking my umbrella and leaving me with his paper with a hole on a stick." Aang muttered, staring at the huge gaping hole in his umbrella, where the rain invaded through.
He had been careless as he left, grabbing the remaining umbrella without inspecting it.
Only when it began raining with him in the middle of the market did he finally realize the rain-protection device he brought with him had a fatal flaw.
Before he decided to fold the defected device and just try to run back to the inn, an all-so pleasing (especially to him) feminine voice called to him.
"Aang!"
Despite being practically soaked from head to toe, Aang couldn't resist the happy grin from surfacing.
"Hey, Katara," the young Avatar greeted the female waterbender, who ran to him, under her own no-holes-attached perfect little red umbrella.
"Aang," Katara echoed, after she gave the boy a quick smile and an onceover, "why are you wet!? You have an umbre—why does your umbrella have a hole?"
Aang sighed. "It was the only one left, and I didn't give it a good look before I left."
Katara couldn't help but giggle as rain continued to land on Aang's head through the hole.
He smiled back ruefully. "I guess this is just the price one pays for negligence."
Katara smirked. "It's more like the consequences for letting Sokka take your umbrella and leaving you with his."
Aang smirked back. "Yeah, there's that, too." He wiped off the rain gathering in his eyebrows. "So, you gonna invite me under there, or do I have to grovel? I have to tell you though, I haven't been practicing lately."
The girl smiled, and moved towards the airbender. But then she paused, a thoughtful expression crossing her face, and her smile widened.
She closed her collapsible canopy, eliciting a confused look from Aang. She took hold of his hand, and slipped her umbrella through the hole, reopening it after it passed through, and stood with him under the new cover.
The boy looked at their connected hands, and then to the intertwined umbrellas.
With a slightly coy smile, Katara edged closer and closed the gap between their lips.
"Remember," the girl whispered after the kiss ended, both their faces flushed and dreamy, "whenever you need……I'll always be there…… to patch things up for you."
The undertone of hidden meanings was not lost to the Avatar, and his smile became serene.
"I'll hold you to that……" he murmured, and captured her lips once again.
The girl and the boy continued standing together, with their intertwined hands, lips, and umbrellas, all under the rain.
AN: I just realized it's Kataang Week about two hours ago, so this isn't really my best work. I'm sort of disappointed. I'll try to do better for the other topics.