If you leave

A/N: I've been wanting to get this idea out for a while. I guess just read and review. No flames. (trying to think of something else to fill the A/N) um, I dropped a plate and a jar of honey today. It took me an hour to clean up the honey, mainly cause it was in a glass jar and I had to pick through the honey and wipe the floors down. (Disgusting sticky crap.) My friend that I refer to as 'Ty-ty' has a phobia of glass. :shrugs: my friend that we refer to as 'Azula' loves sharp things and doctors. …ok, there's my interesting comment for you. (I'm getting throwing knives for Christmas.)

Disclaimer: I don't own avatar. (I want to buy one of those fire bender shirts. +)

Chapter 2

"Family portrait"

The woman constantly seemed to be plagued by fear, in this new world, and the old one.

"Mom's shaking again." Mai muttered.

"She has a paranoia problem." Roku stated. "She's in constant fear for her life after an event from her childhood. Ursa, her, and Ty Lee's mother were on a trip when your mother was taken hostage by some rebels.

"…oh." Mai grew more interested in the story that Roku has to tell.

Her mother walked around the house slowly, "Tomtom?" She asked aloud. "Yen, have you seen Tomtom?"

Mai's father stepped from around a corner, "No, I don't think I have."

"Oh…" She lowered her head. "I can't find him."

The man paused for a moment and walked back into his study, "Ask Jun to find him, I would help but I have to get these documents on the city prepared for the fire lord."

She nodded and walked down the stairs to the main area of the house, "Jun."

The dark haired girl just a year or two older then Mai looked up, "What?" She sounded irritated.

"Have you seen Tomtom?" The woman asked meekly.

"…he was in the kitchen when I was in there." Jun rubbed one of her arms up and down, "You should really keep track of him." Jun scratched her snake tattoo with her red fingernails.

She nodded, "Thank you dear." Mai's mother bowed out of the room. "Tomtom?"

Mai grunted a little, "Jun's never been that nice to mom anyway."

Roku nodded, "But with you there, Jun decided to leave home. Now that you're gone, she has no desire to leave."

"Are you saying that she hates me?" Mai had an irritated look on her face.

"Not at all, I'm stating that, without someone to more or less 'push' her out of the house, she has no motive to seek a better life."

"So all that prodding that I did." Mai muttered.

"Your older sister did in fact listen to you…" Roku smiled.

"…well that's good." Mai mumbled.

"There you are!" She smiled, lifting Tomtom off the floor. "How is my little one?"

Tomtom chewed on his bottom lip, and his sleepy eyes remained on the floor.

"Oh, be happy little one!" His mother rang. She rocked him from side to side for a moment then sighed, "Why don't you smile Tomtom? Mommy would be very happy if you did." She walked back into the room where Jun was sitting. "Can you get your brother to smile?"

"No." Jun stated without thought.

"Please try. He looks so sad." Her voice was beginning to weaken.

"No mom. It doesn't matter, no matter how hard we try, Tomtom is like a sick Knife Fish, he's never going to perk up."

"…I suppose." She sighed.

"…Mom used to call me Knife Fish, is that where it's from?" Mai asked.

Roku nodded.

"Why wont Jun…?"

"Jun did try, when you were a child. That's why you are not without friends now. But with Tomtom, she can do nothing. It doesn't effect him even if she tries."

"….but all she has to do is pull his hair a little and flick him on the nose and then he'll start being a happy brat." Mai sighed.

"Jun doesn't know that. All she knows is to give a child ribbons and objects that shimmer."

"My ribbons and knives?" She thought, "…what about dad?"

"He has no time for his family, and that's why your mother is even worse off now."

"…show me Azula."

A/N:D OMG! I totally have this idea that Jun could be Mai's older sister. Then it would be really funny, because after a while, Jun would have run away from home and that's why Uncle and Zuko didn't know her. :shrugs: that's my idea. This chapter was better to me. Granted there wasn't much depth. (Look I'll give myself more hell then you all.) No flames. If you spent the time reading it and you didn't like it that's your own fault.