Disclaimed.
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"If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out."
- George Brett
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It was safe to say that Haru was never very lucky with the ladies. He had a mustache that just didn't go too well with his face, plus...
Well...his lack of a ladyfriend pretty much was due to his unfortunate facial hair. And like Hell he was going to shave that hardgrown 'stache off his for a girl.
Puh-leeze.
So Haru, not being there when Zuko had been bitch-slapped by his girlfriend due to advice given by Sokka, went to the said Southern Water Tribe warrior for some helpful assistance. He found him in a field, practicing his sword techniques.
The earthebender approached Sokka, his hands clasped behind his back, and a sheepish smile in place. "Hey...Sokka?"
Sokka was currently swishing around the black weapon and momentarily froze mid-swing when he heard Haru's voice. He turned around and sure enough, he was standing right there.
"Hey! I haven't seen you since...like...Zuko's coronation! What is up?" Sokka playfully shoved Haru in the shoulder, who, in turn stumbled back a few feet as he was not expecting the Toph-like jab.
"Uhm, I need some help," he said after recovering.
"And you're coming to me, why?" He was used to his sister, Katara, being the one helping everyone. In fact, the last time he'd given advice and helped a friend out...
Ahem, well...
In the end, after much persuading by the Avatar, Zuko forgave him. Kind of.
"You're always lucky with the ladies...and, well, I'm...not."
Sokka nodded, fully agreeing and rolled his eyes at how easy the solution to Haru's problem was. "Just shave off your mustache, dude."
"I can't! There has to be another way!"
"Ugh, fine." Sokka slumped his shoulders and put his sword back into the hilt, ready to help Haru out as much as he could. He didn't have much to do that day, anyway. "First off, do you happen to like a girl in particular?"
Haru thought hard. Well...
"There's this Firebender who's real pretty..."
"It's not Azula is it?"
The scandalized look on Haru's face was enough to make Ozai chortle in his prison cell. "Hell no. Completely different!"
"Good. So...okay, this is easy. Just make her feel good about herself."
"Like, how?"
"Okay, so, just comment on how you've seen her firebend and ask for a friendly spar..." Sokka turned away, having just recieved a most cunning thought. He turned back to Haru.
"You wanna get into her pants?" he asked.
Haru blanked. "W-w-what?"
"I asked you if you wanted to get into her pants."
"I-I-I..."
That answer (or lack thereof) was enough for Sokka, who whispered to Haru behind his hand what he was to say during the spar...
That is, if Haru was successful to have a spar in the first place...
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Lucky for Haru, the mysterious firebenderette was nice enough to give the earthbender a friendly fight. It was quickly known to all who were watching, including a conniving Sokka, that Haru was heavily outmatched by the firebender and all he could do was defend and try not to get hurt.
It was all going according to plan.
Haru, who had just dodged an especially large fireblast, glanced over to Sokka, who, in turn, gave him a thumbs up. 'Now,' it translated.
Haru landed several feet away from the firebender. "Watch out," he started. The firebender looked on, confused. "You almost burned me...with your hotness!"
He earthbended his way over to the stunned girl. "Wanna make-out?"
The now-silent crowd of spectactors looked on in disbelief. Sokka, however, was trying to hold in laughter. Though his jovial laughs turned into an expression of terror when the firebender girl narrowed her eyes and singed Haru's mustache off.
Haru dropped down onto his knees and cried out to the heavens in horror of his lost facial hair. The firebenderette stepped over to his pitiful, crying form and handed him a slip of paper that contained her address. She stepped over him and walked away, chuckling.
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Yes, I don't know much about Haru, so if he seems to be way out of character, it's because I don't remember how his personality was in the actual show. All I know is that he has a mustache and it looks weird.
Also, a heads up now, any pick-up line that may come in later chapters (including this and previous one), they're from this amazing website: linesthataregood
It's a dot-com website so if you ever want to visit just for laughs, or you actually rely on those shmucky lines, that's the site for you! It's fantastically categorized, too!
Anywho, I hope this was all right. I tried my best with Sokka's dialogue. I'm not too familiar with Avatar fiction just yet, and I'm not confident enough to make them say things they would never say and still keep them in character (if that makes sense. IT'S POSSIBLE!). So yeah. Any suggestions on future chapters, like perhaps characters, situations, etc. I'll consider writing into the thing, seeing as it's a partial one-shot collection. Though all of the chapters will be slightly linked together. As it goes on, there will be references to previous chapters.
I hope you stick around to see to the end :)
And don't forget to reviewwww!
Salud!
PS. If you're wondering, yes, Haru was successful, at the cost of his mustache. Also, inter-nation relationships iare/i acceptable in this little version of the Avatar-verse, if that wasn't clear enough alread :)