A/N: If you are confused or unsure if you like the story just keep reading. I promise you wont regret it.
Chapter 2: The Sin that is life.
It was a little awkward walking with these three girls. Sky looked about 5'3" and a small figure. She had light brown hair tied in a side ponytail, her sky blue eyes almost brought you to tears and with her choice of large baggy multicolor clothes I felt like she was able to blend into any situation or group. She could also fade from your line of sight and disappear quietly. Hope was a serious tomboy and dressed the part too. At about 5'8" and a tone build, her bright purple hair with red highlights and right side shaved that stood out as the first thing you noticed. She had reddish amber eye color and wore deep blue lipstick. She wore a large purple shirt that was tied to it to make it tighter and tight pants that were cutoff just under the knee. I liked her mismatched high tops and single golden anklet.
"No one ever really talked about you guys or anyone else outside of Zaofu for that matter." I attempted to make conversation as we walked.
"From what I've heard 45 years ago when my grandma Korra stopped the Earth Empire War the leader of Zaofu closed off the city out of regret and guilt that she didn't prevent the whole Kuvira situation by stepping up to lead the people of the earth kingdom." Hope said and stopped in place. I looked at her and saw tears in her eyes which she quickly wiped away and sprinted off. Aura followed after her.
I stood there dumbfounded and unable to speak thinking about how my grandma Suyin always went to visit Kuvira in prison. Sky tugged on my sleeve and I looked down.
"We weren't old enough to remember grandma Korra she died before our first birthday from a heart problem. Korra wasn't my biological grandma, she was Hope's. My grandma was Asami." Sky's voice trembled for a second then went back to normal.
"Wait aren't you two sisters though?" I turned to her fully.
"Technically we are half-sisters and cousins. You see both our mothers had the same dad, grandpa Mako. Then both our mothers fell in love with the same man and they had us just a day apart." Her posture changed as she hunched over a little.
"Are you alright please don't cry I don't like to see girls cry." I bent down and hug the much shorter Sky. "It's probably strange but I don't think a girl should ever be given a reason to cry, obviously there are going to be things that will make them cry but no one should do or say something to make them cry." I stumbled over my words trying to find a way to make sense. She wrapped her arms around my waist and buried her head into my chest and muffled her screams.
She pulled back after a couple minutes and wiped her face.
"Sorry I just get so emotional whenever I talk about our father. He died when we were really young; he was killed during a gang war in our neighborhood." She turned away from me. "The worst thing about it all is I don't even remember his face or his voice. I don't remember anything about him."
"I know how you feel my dad left us on our 5th birthday and all he left was a picture of him with 'See you someday my sons' on the back. You don't have any pictures of him or anything?" I shut down my pain and sadness that rose up.
"We lost everything that day, our house was set on fire and we had no time to save anything. We barely made it out with our own lives." She started to shake.
I shut my mouth and walked to her side. I put my arm around her shoulder and we began to walk again.
We eventually caught up with Hope and Aura. Hope looked like she had been crying for a while as her eyes were red and puffy. Auras makeup looked a little smeared around her eyes as well.
Sky ran over to them and they all embraced. Out of nowhere a deep voice spoke from behind me.
"Hey girls hurry up we're late for class!" I turned around and looked up and the massive figure. He stood a whole head above me and looked close to double my weight in muscle. All three girls spun around in unison.
"Sokka!" They shouted and ran to him.
'Sokka? Wasn't that the master strategist for Avatar Aang?' I was lost in thought until I felt a hand on my shoulder.
"So Akira right? My mom has told me a lot about you." Sokka laughed. "My dad Kai told me you would be coming to our school and asked if I would help you settle in but I can see the girls beat me to it."
"Kai, like Master Kai?" I took a step back. "Uhm Im sorry but you are too big to me Kai's son."
"Well that's because im not his biological son him and my mom Jinora found me wandering around the outskirts of the northern air temple about 12 years back. I guess I was either abandoned or orphaned but a 6 year old kid walking around wasn't something they could just let go so they brought me home a raised me as their son." He smiled and started walking.
"That came off as rude im sorry it's just that the last time I saw Masters Jinora and Kai they had just finished training my brother and me and that was like 9 or 10 years ago and they never mentioned you." I rubbed the back of my neck embarrassed. "Or maybe I wasn't listening to them all that much."
"That's Ok; mom and dad kinda talk a lot so most people space out." He smirked.
"Awe a beautiful blossoming bromance!" Aura and Hope squealed and Sky nodded.
Sokka wore a tight long sleeve tan shirt and loose red pants that reminded me of robes. His hair was light brown and buzzed but not bald. His shoes were a pair of wooden sandals with a tan strap.
"I tried to look the air nomad part but it didn't suit me so I changed it up a lot." He twisted his torso. "Also I didn't like how they fit me." He whispered.
"Oh guys come on we are almost late!" Aura shouted and then a bell rang out. "And now we are."
After school.
'What a strange first day.' I thought to myself as I waited for my brother outside of the headmasters' room. He walked out with a smile on his face.
"Good news I suppose." I asked not really caring about his answer. I had grown distant from my twin as a result of his ego when he learned he was the avatar. We were separated when we turned 4 and trained at different times with him getting priority.
"Even better than good. Im going to be living with the head masters family to better my fire bending." He beamed. "With air bending and earth bending completely mastered all I have to do is finish my training for fire and water."
"You haven't completely mastered earth bending. You can barely metal bend and you can't even lava bend." I stated bluntly to which I got an annoyed look.
"Who cares I could probably lava bend if I went into the avatar state." His smug attitude got on my nerves.
"Yeah IF you could go into the avatar state we might find out but since you can't do that we may never know." I started to raise my voice.
"You think you're better than me because you can lava bend and metal bend? Well you aren't because im the avatar plain and simple!" He shouted.
"Yeah you are plain and simple!" I shouted back and got in his face.
He pushed me and launched an air blast at me which I managed to evade barely. I kicked up a few fist sized pieces of the ground and launched them at him. He dodged all but the last once which hit him squarely in the chest. He screamed and started a barrage of earth and air attacks which I dodged with my training of air bending technique. He managed to shoot a strong gust of wind which knocked me into the wall.
"Oh OK that's how it is!" I roared as I started to lava bend and flung a small shuriken at him. He used his air bending to try and cool it and we were locked in a stale mate of him trying to cool it and me increasing the rotation speed to keep it molten. Suddenly the air around my shuriken exploded and sent small bits of fiery lava everywhere setting the area around us on fire. We were about to charge each other when a large wall of ice formed in-between us and the fire began to drift away from us.
"What the fuck is this shit!? Let me through so I can finish kicking his ass!" Tenchi bellowed from the other side of the wall as he tried feverishly to break it with his earth bending.
I looked around and spotted Headmaster Roku and a woman I hadn't seen before.
"So these are my infamous nephews?" As she said nephews she did air quotes. She groaned. "My mother warned me that the next avatar was going to be a pain in the ass but she would have never guessed that her next incarnation would have a twin or that they had a serious dislike for each other."
The ice wall melted and then evaporated and I looked to where Tenchi had been standing only to see him rushing at me. He threw a straight punch which I dodged and used him momentum to fling him at the wall knocking him unconscious. I looked at the 2 adults and chuckled nervously.