DISCLAIMER: GOLDEN SUN DS HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED!! OMG OMG OMG!! ...ahem. I mean, let A = {everything the Big Rocky Eye owns} and B = {...Yangchen, Kuruk, Roku, Aang} (see footnote 1). Then the Disclaimer Theorem states that the intersection of A and B is the set {}.

II. Zukka

The two children were rolling on the floor, hugging each other tightly. Their lips were pressed tightly together, occasionally making sounds reminiscent of groans as their breath ran out. They were playing a game, and Kulik was winning.

"Ah!" Rungchen cried, gasping for breath. They disengaged their lips and paused their rolling and hugging for a moment. Kulik started laughing.

"Ha! I win again!"

"It doesn't matter! I'll get you this time! Airbending power!!" She took a deep breath, then pressed her lips onto the boy's. They threw their arms around each other again and started rolling more violently than before.

This game they continued for some time, until they were conscious of someone staring at them from the doorway.

"Aunt Suki!"

"Mom!"

Suki had been staring at her son and her niece for a while now, completely forgetting about the groceries she carried in her arms. Now that the children noticed her, she in turn noticed that the groceries were about to fall. She gave a smile and said, "Kulik, would you like to give Mommy a hand with the groceries? You too, Rungchen." The children did so, each taking an item from Suki's arms and carrying them to the kitchen.

"Your parents are coming tomorrow, Rungchen. They're bringing Aunt Toph," Suki said as she placed various cuts of meat into the ice box. "After a few days, we're all going to ride on Appa to the South Pole together. Are you excited?"

The little girl—she couldn't be more than nine or ten—gasped. "Aunt Toph! We can play Earth Rumble with her again!"

"Yes, you can," Suki said, patting her on the head.

"Is Uncle Zuko and Aunty Mai coming, too?" Kulik asked.

"Not this time," Suki answered. "Uncle Zuko has to rule the Fire Nation, you know. He has to work very hard, or else lots of bad people are going to come and burn everything."

"I wanna go to Uncle Zuko's house again!" Rungchen said. "It's so big and nice!"

"Yeah, me too, mom!" Kulik added.

"Now, now, children. We just came back last week," Suki admonished. "We can't go to Uncle Zuko's house too much. He's very busy with his job, and if you keep distracting him he can't take care of the country. And then Ozai will come and get you!"

"No!" both children shrieked.

"Ozai's a meanie!"

"Make him stay away!"

Suki chuckled. To the children, Ozai was nothing but a scary man who did horrible things to naughty kids. As they grew older, they'd understand. "Don't worry. Uncle Zuko will make sure he doesn't get you."

"Yay!"

Suki placed the last of the groceries in the ice box and turned to the children. "Now, why don't you go off to play again? I have to prepare dinner. I'll call you when it's ready."

Kulik was just about to pull his lips from Rungchen's when Suki called them to dinner.

"You were so going to lose that round," Rungchen teased.

"Come on, I'm hungry," was Kulik's only reply.

"You're always hungry."

Suki chuckled. Just like his father, she thought. "Let's eat," she said.

Dinner itself was a simple affair, the fancier foods being reserved for the arrival of the Avatar the next day. It was enlivened by the children's chatter; they told Suki all about the games they played, and each adamantly maintained that they won more rounds than the other. Suki found it...immensely interesting.

After dinner they headed off to the kitchen together, this time to prepare for the inevitable feasts of the next day. Suki was assigned the task of making the pork buns, and from experience she knew that she would have to make double if she didn't want her husband to eat them all. It was the only food that the elders could trust her with, as her warrior training left her little time to really learn how to cook. The children took pride in helping her prepare for the Avatar's reception (though they were really just getting themselves covered in flour).

It was well after dark by the time she steamed the last batch, and it was high time the children went to bed. She cleaned them off and sent them to bed (threatening to take them to Ozai if they didn't), then prepared to go to bed herself.

Suki slept only fitfully that night. She couldn't wait for Sokka to come home.

"I forgot to thank you for taking care of Rungchen while we were gone," Katara said. The feast was over—it would have been over a lot sooner if not for Sokka—and everyone was sitting in the living room of Sokka and Suki's Kyoshi Island residence.

"No problem at all. Rungchen was a good girl. I still wish I went with you, though," Suki replied.

"It could have been dangerous," Aang said. "Someone needed to watch the kids. But it's all over, now."

"You took Kya, though."

"We didn't want to, but she convinced us she was old enough," Katara said.

"Oh, come on, Mom!" the aforementioned girl whined. "Daddy saved the world when he was twelve! I'm fourteen!"

"But Daddy's the Avatar," Katara answered, stifling a yawn. "I'm tired."

"Looks like even Sweetness is getting drowsy," Toph noted. "Let's go to sleep."

"I agree," Suki said. Everyone got up, tired after a long day's journey. As they headed to their rooms, she held on to Sokka's wrist. "Go on ahead of me," she told everyone. "I have to talk to Sokka."

Sokka yawned widely. "What's the matter?"

She waited until everyone but the kids had gone to their rooms. "I have to talk to you. Sit down. Kulik, Rungchen, come here." They did so. "Can you tell me again about the game you were playing yesterday?"

Sokka raised his eyebrows.

"Umm...well..." Kulik started. He was going to ask why she wanted them to tell her again, but something in his mother's voice forbade it. "You're supposed to hug your opponent really tightly, like this." He demonstrated on his cousin. "And then you're supposed to hold your breath and put your lips on your opponent's, like this." The gesture looked almost intimate—a strange sight, considering that the parties involved were barely ten years old.

"Whoever goes longer without taking their lips off wins," Rungchen said after removing her lips from Kulik's. "Oh, and you're supposed to roll around while you're holding your breath. It makes it much harder."

"And who taught you this game?" Suki asked.

"Well, no one taught us it," Rungchen answered. "But we saw Uncle Sokka and Uncle Zuko playing it, and it looked fun."

"Really? Where did you see them play it?"

"At Uncle Zuko's house," Kulik said. "They were in a really big room with a really big bed." He glanced at his father, whose eyes had gone wide. "They were rolling on the bed. Maybe they didn't want to roll on the floor."

"I see," Suki said. "Alright, kids, go to bed. Tomorrow's going to be a long day."

Once the children left, she spun on a red-faced Sokka.

"Ozai is going to have a visitor tonight."

Footnote 1: It can be shown that the set {...Yangchen, Kuruk, Roku, Aang} is isomorphic to the "Avatar: The Last Airbender".

OMG GOLDEN SUN DS WAS ANNOUNCED!! THE BIG ROCKY EYE IS A HAPPY MAN!!

Yes, I'm a GS fanboy. What of it?

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...Ahem. Yes. Now that that's out of my system, I would like to actually make a note. In case it's not clear from the text, Kya and Rungchen are Aang and Katara's first and second children, respectively. If you read Avatar Aang: An Annotated Bibliography, you may recall that Rungchen was the one who said that Life of Avatar Aang could have done with a little less of Sokka. As for Kulik, he's Sokka and Suki's first son. I made up these characters, of course. Please don't put them in torture chambers, Kulik in particular is kind of squeamish.