A/N- At first it was going to be a oneshot, but I got so many good reviews from you that I just had to continue. Thank you so much, you guys! So here's the continuation of "Cactus Juice". And this one is a little bit longer than the first. BTW, my sister, fearlessgurl283, helped co-write this chapter. She had a few a few plot bunnies running around in her head, and was going to use this idea for her story, but it worked better here with mine so she let me use the idea in my story instead.


The Game

Here they were, bored out of their wits at camp. Katara looked at them, bored and exasperated. Then she suddenly had an idea.

"Hey guys, why don't we play a game?" she said. Aang jumped up.

"That's a great idea, Katara! What did you have in mind?"

"Well, I was thinking that maybe we could play 'Truth or Dare'." Katara answered. Sokka quickly looked up from polishing his boomerang.

"No way! I'm not going to play a stupid girl's game!" he said. Iroh looked up from his tea.

"I'm sorry Katara, but I have to agree with your brother. I think I'll sit this one out."

"That's fine, Iroh; but Sokka, you have to play!"

"What are you talking about, Katara? I don't have to do anything." Sokka said. Katara smirked at him.

"What are you; scared?"

Sokka's voice cracked as he spoke. "NO! I'm not scared!"

"Fine, then you're gonna have to play the game." Katara smirked again, looking at Sokka in victory.

"FINE! I'll play your little game. But I'm NOT going to like it!"

"You won't have to." Katara said, her arms crossed.

Aang looked between the two with impatience. "Okay already! Can we just play the game?"

Katara smiled sweetly at Sokka. "Ok, Sokka, then YOU get to go first. Truth or dare?"

Sokka glared at Katara. "I'm not afraid of anything you can dish out. I pick dare."

Katara's grin grew and Sokka started to worry just a bit. "Ok, then. Remember the acrobatic girl that was chasing us? The one who took away my bending at Omashu and just recently paralyzed all your limbs?" Katara asked.

Sokka looked confused. "Uh…yeah, why?"

Katara's grinned menacingly at Sokka. "Good. Then the next time you see her, I dare you to kiss her!"

"WHAT?"

"Can't back out of it now. Besides, I thought you said you weren't SCARED of doing anything I could tell you to do!" Katara said.

"Tell her, Aang! That's not how the game goes!" Sokka protested.

"Actually, Sokka, that is. She can dare you to do anything." Aang said with an apologetic smile.

Sokka stared at Aang with wide eyes. He opened his mouth to say something, but closed it. Toph and Zuko snickered at Sokka's dare. Iroh looked between the siblings. This is going to get interesting, he thought with a smile.

"FINE! But it's my turn now! And I dare you, Katara, t-"

Katara cut him off. "Now THAT'S not how the game goes! You can't pick me! You have to pick someone else!"

"Fine, I pick Toph. Truth or dare?' Sokka said with a hint of emphasis on 'dare'.

"Um, dare." Toph said, noticing Sokka's voice.

"Ok, then, I dare you to dare Katara to do something that she would really hate." said Sokka. Toph grinned hugely.

"Alright, Katara, I dare you to go up to Zuko, tell him you love him and mean it, and then give him a big kiss!" she said.

"WHAAAAAAAAAT!" Katara and Sokka yelled.

"I didn't mean that!" Sokka shouted at Toph. He started chasing her all around their camp, maneuvering around the group's members. After about ten minutes of Sokka chasing her, Toph made a small rock pop out of the ground with her earthbending right before Sokka was going to step. He didn't notice it, so tripped over it and landed flat on his face, right on top of Iroh's tea set. Which had tea in it. Iroh looked down at Sokka on the ground with his tea set shattered into pieces.

"NOOOOOOOOO! NOT THE TEA!" he bellowed dramatically. Sokka pulled himself on the ground to his bag, thinking, maybe if I drink some cactus juice; it'll just wake me up from this horrible nightmare. It will all be just a dream. So he reached in his bag and pulled out a slice of cactus. He took a big sip. He froze, and his eyes dilated, just like recently. Then his whole body twitched again, but much worse than the last time. Nobody noticed Sokka; they were too busy laughing about his and Toph's chase. "Ohhhhhhhhhh…" Sokka groaned. He fell over for five seconds, then got up and started walking, almost limping, around the group. There was a silence among them.

"You know, Katara, you still have to do the dare." Toph said.

"What dare do you have to do, little lady?" Sokka said with a high-pitched voice. Katara was ready to reply back, "The one you made Toph dare me to do" but noticed the glazed look on his face and realized what he had just asked. Her brother may be an idiot sometimes, but he wasn't that stupid!

"Did you-? Oh, no, not again!" Katara said. But then she thought of something. Sokka, in his delirium, because of the cactus juice, would not realize what she was doing. And she did have a dare to do. Besides, she would make Sokka do his dare later. So she went up to Zuko and said, "I love you" very sincerely, and placed a small kiss on Zuko's lips. Unfortunately for Katara, her intention to just do a small kiss was not exactly what happened, for as soon as her lips touched his, he kissed her back, making it longer than she intended it to be. Sokka just happened to turn around at that moment and smiled stupidly at them.

"Ooooooooh! Somebody's in loooove!" Sokka said in a singsong voice. (A/N- just like he said to Aang in "The Fortuneteller" episode, only this time it was in his state of delirium)

Katara and Zuko broke away quickly and blushed.

"We really need to do something about that brother of yours." Zuko said to Katara, rolling his head in Sokka's direction. Toph was nearby and hearing this, she smiled and replied back,

"Oh, don't worry about him. He'll be out in 4…" Sokka spun around in circles. "…3…" Sokka stopped for a moment, smiling. "…2…" Sokka started fall. "…1…" He fell promptly on the ground, his feet coming up for a moment before falling back to the ground. "…0…" There was no movement from Sokka anymore. He was completely out.

And it was times like this that Sokka was very glad that he always had his secret stash of cactus juice with him.


A/N- Hehe, I put in some Zutara! I'm so evil! I have to admit, this one was much funnier, even though it had little Sokka and his cactus juice parts. Iroh's part was funniest, I thought. Please review! Just don't flame me on the Zutara part!