Chapter 3
"Hello, anybody home? We're here!" Kartara shouted as she walked into the spacious sitting room of the mansion summer home. She looked back at Aang and asked again "Aang are you sure you don't need help with any of those?"
Aang, who was now loaded down with two bulky gigantic bags that practically covered his face, was just about to reply when he almost dropped his load from the shock of three shrieks of joy coming from the dining hall. Two of the shrieks weren't that bad considering that they came from a pair of small—not to mention—very cute toddling babies happy to see their "Aunty Kata and Unca Aangy!!" It was the third member of the shrieking gang that made their cheeks turn red and their eardrums sore as Katara's older brother Sokka came soaring out of the dining hall to meet up with his baby sister.
As his overenthusiastic brother-in-law was crushing Katara, Aang was still trying to balance the hefty bags he was carrying. Just when he was about to have a tumbling accident, two strong pale arms came up from in front of him and grabbed the toppling bag just in time.
"Need some help there Avatar?"
"Anytime your highness." Aang replied sarcastically to Zuko. Because they have been such close friends since the end of the war, it was always comical whenever they tried to address each other in formal titles.
"I know, I know, it's good to see you too Sokka, but can you please let me go, I do need to breath for two you know!" wailed Katara, as Sokka was letting her out of the bone-crushing hug he was putting her through when she came in.
"Well you are at least six hours late! I thought you were going to leave from Ba Sing Se in the morning?" inquired Sokka.
"Well we were but we got held up by some last minute business, you know how it is." Aang answer for Katara as he was balancing the remaining bag that was left.
"I think we can make a pretty good guess." Answered Toph as she was walking into the sitting room with Teo in tow, following to two women each carrying a fussy baby crying out "Aangy! Kata!"
When Aang noticed this his face lit up with joy and he quickly said "Here Sokka, hold this for a second." as he left remaining bag with Sokka, who almost fell with the surprise weight, and ran over to his niece and honorary nephew with his wife closely in tow.
"Ahh!! That can't be my favorite little niece Min!! Oh my gosh your huge!" gushed Katara as Min gave her aunt a toothy little smile.
"Jun! Hey little man how is it going? Geese, you're so big, you're probably ready to take over for your dad right now aren't you?" Everyone laughed at Aang's comment.
Zuko counter "And your probably right too, at least where all of those Bureaucrats are concerned, all he needs to do is cry and he'll get through with whatever he wants." Everyone laughed even harder after this comment and started catching up with each other on all of the news, updates and current events when there was this very loud rumbling sound.
"Was that you Katara?" questioned Teo.
"No I don't think so." Katara answered, until it came again and everyone looked over to a sheepish and hungry looking Aang as he was holding his stomach when it gave another roar.
"Ummmm, is dinner still being served?"
Everybody grinned and started leading both Katara and Aang to the two empty chairs in the dining hall, to finish their meal.