DIARY
I don't own Avatar. Mike diMartino and Bryan Konietzko are the creators of Avatar. I don't own the song, lyrics and melody. Diary is a song by Bread. What I own is the plot of the story.
Written quite a while back, hope you like it. It's slightly AU. Please read and please review! You see, I've had a lot of hits, but not a lot of reviews. Please help me improve my writing skills. Thanks.
After leaving Guru Pathik in the air temple, the gang had traveled for quite a while.
"Guys, let's find a clearing. Appa has to rest" Aang told the gang.
"That's a good idea, Aang. We're out of food anyway; Sokka and Zuko can go hunting. Or we can go fishing if there's a stream or lake nearby" Katara agreed.
They passed a stream and moments later, they found the perfect clearing to set up camp for the night.
Sokka was helping Katara in preparing dinner while Zuko started the camp fire. They glared daggers at each other before returning to their chores. Toph took a walk with General Iroh while Aang unloaded their packs from Appa.
Aang heaved a sigh as he unloaded Katara's pack from Appa's saddle. He settled it underneath a tree and a small notebook fell from its pocket. He stared at it, wide-eyed, "hey, that's Katara's diary" Aang thought as he reached for it.
Iroh and Toph had returned from their walk and she called out to him "Hey Aang", he quickly pocketed Katara's diary "Uh, yeah, Toph?"
"Wanna go practice earth bending?" she asked "Uhm, no thanks. I'm tired" he replied "I'm gonna take a bath, anybody wanna come?" he asked no one in particular.
"No" "Nope" "You go on ahead" they replied
"Be back before sun down Aang, dinner will be ready by then." Katara told him
"Okay" he called out over his shoulder.
He quickly took a bath, dried himself, and dressed up. After a mental debate, he opened and read Katara's diary.
"Don't you dare open Katara's diary! That is so wrong" he berated himself.
"Don't worry, no one will know. Besides, I'm her best friend, right? There's not supposed to be secrets between us."
"That's still wrong! It's Katara's diary! She has a right to keep secrets, everyone has."
"Whatever"
He opened her diary on a random page and instantly found an entry that praises him.
"Dear diary, Aang's such a sweet kid! He gave me a necklace, he wove it himself. He said it's not supposed to replace my mom's necklace but just to make me smile. He's a great best friend."
He read another entry.
"Dear diary, Aang's already mastered the moves I taught him. He's very gifted, oh right, he is the Avatar after all."
He continued reading. One entry in particular, caught his attention.
"My dearest diary, today is such a beautiful day! I've always told you about the love I wish I had, right? The love I've eagerly awaited for, ever since Aunt Wu's prediction. The one about me marrying a powerful bender and a great romance… Now, I have to say that I think I've finally found it, the love I've been waiting for! I know he doesn't think of me the way I think of him, he treats me like the sister he never had. A sister to be cared for and protected, but that doesn't matter! Things will change, I know it, and he'll love me the way I love him. I really love—"
He didn't finish reading the entry because he heard his friends calling him.
"AANG!!" Zuko called out.
"Aang! Aang! Where are you?" Sokka sounded close by.
"Aang! Are you here?" Katara broke through the thick underbrush.
"H-hey Katara! Over here!" Aang waved frantically to his friend.
Katara spotted him and rushed over, "You okay?"
"Uh, yeah"
"Guys! I found him! We're by the stream" she yelled to the forest.
Moments later, Zuko and Sokka came crashing through the underbrush.
"Aang, you had us really worried!" Sokka yelled as he approached the two.
"Damn it. We thought Azula caught up to us and captured you" Zuko said as he came closer.
"Didn't I tell you to be back before sun down?" Katara asked him.
"Oh, uhm, I was meditating. I'm sorry, I forgot." Aang apologized as he scratched his head.
"Nah, it's okay. Let's go back to camp." Sokka placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Yeah, Uncle and Toph were worried too. Besides, Toph wants to punch the living daylights out of you for not coming back. She's dead hungry." Zuko followed Sokka who already started to walk back.
"Come on, Aang" Katara pulled him along.
They trudged back to camp silently.
"Darn it, Twinkle toes! Where were you? We're starving here!" Toph sent a boulder flying to Aang's direction when the four entered the camp site.
Aang clasped his hands together then brought them apart swiftly, successfully splitting the boulder in two.
"Sorry Toph, I was meditating." Aang took a seat beside General Iroh.
Toph was about to throw another rock at him when the tea-loving general stopped her, "Now Toph, Aang was meditating, as an avatar, he has to keep a sound mind. Let us excuse him for this minor offense."
"Tch. Whatever" Toph shrugged.
Dinner went by uneventful and as Katara and Zuko took the dirty dishes to the stream, each proceeded to lie under the stars and sleep.
The next day, Aang awoke to the angry screams of Sokka "I told you to stay away from my sister, fire brat!"
"Look, what happened wasn't intentional! I didn't mean to touch Katara, I was asleep. I wasn't conscious of what I was doing" Zuko retorted.
Katara was blushing furiously as she screamed "THAT'S ENOUGH!" that stopped the guys from pummeling each other.
"Look, Sokka, what happened was unintentional. We didn't even know we were that close! You were still awake when we both went to sleep. We were at least 3 feet apart" Katara explained calmly.
"We might've moved closer together while we were asleep" Zuko reasoned.
"Tch. Yeah, right, as if I'll believe you." Sokka crossed his arms stubbornly.
Toph and Iroh were watching the fight as they ate the warmed leftovers from last night.
"Iroh, Toph, I'm going to the stream to practice water bending for a bit. I'll come back before lunch" he called out to them.
"Okay, Aang." Toph said as she sipped her tea.
"Aren't you going to have breakfast?" Iroh asked
"Nah, I'll pick some nuts or berries along the way" Aang refused him.
"Okay, we'll be here to stop them in case it gets worse."
"Okay" Aang chirped and went off.
Aang didn't know what was going on, but what he did know was that Sokka was as furious as hell at Zuko, which wasn't odd because the two teenagers fight a lot. Katara was acting as the referee and she was also defending Zuko, seeing as Sokka can really be unreasonable.
When Aang reached the stream, he decided to read more of Katara's diary rather than practice his bending. So he sat atop a boulder and opened a random page of Katara's diary and started reading.
He returned to the camp site an hour later to see if the camp was destroyed yet. When he reached the edge of the clearing, he found that Toph and Iroh had left and the three teenagers had already reconciled and were laughing along happily. Aang was a little confused but happy none-the-less, it was a first that Zuko and Sokka reconciled in an hour. "They're probably laughing at a joke Sokka told," Aang thought.
Zuko was smiling as Katara hugged her brother, "Thanks, Sokka! Thank you so much for understanding!"
Sokka hugged her back and said, "Well, I am your big brother! It's my job to understand. That and many more like tease you, taunt you, argue with you, protect you and love you!" he beamed at her and as they separated, he turned on Zuko.
"You do know, of course, that I'll kill you if and when—"
"I hurt Katara. You'll hunt me down like an eagle hunts his prey. Yes, I know Sokka, you told me time and time again. And thanks again, Sokka" Zuko cut him off as he embraced Katara and kissed her.
"Eew! Can you guys not do that in front of me?" Sokka feigned puking and they laughed all together.
Aang ran off swiftly as tears streamed down his cheeks.
Now he knew what Katara meant by her last entry…
"…I love him. He's a very powerful bender, just like what Aunt Wu predicted. He didn't even have to be the avatar. I never really thought it would be him, all this time. After all, we are the definition of opposites. I really, really love him…"
Now he knew that Katara meant Zuko when she wrote, "I know Sokka doesn't like him much, but I hope he understands my decision…"
How silly of him to think that Katara would think of him as more than a friend, as more than a little brother. Katara loved Zuko, not him.
"The words she wrote about me were just praises and adoration as a friend, not a lover. I was a fool to think that she will ever love me."
He knelt down beside the river, tears consciously streaming down his face.
"I am forever her best friend. Nothing more, nothing less…"
Diary
By: Bread
I
found her diary underneath a tree. When
she confronted with the writing there, And
as I go through my life, I will give to her my wife I found her diary underneath a tree. and as I go through my life, I will wish for her his
wife
and started reading about me
The words she'd written took me by surpise
you'd never read
them in her eyes.
They said that she had found the love she'd
waited for.
Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.
simply pretended not to
care.
I passed it off as just in keeping with
her total
disconcerting air
and though she tried to hide
the love that
she denied,
wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.
all the sweet
things I can find.
and
started reading about me.
The words began to stick and tears to
flow.
Her meaning now was clear to see.
The love she'd waited
for was someone else not me
Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't
show it.
all the sweet things she can find
all the sweet things
they can find