Apologies for the late chapter and other chapter to come… I should put a disclaimer but honestly…I'm too lazy. Anyway you know I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender. Oh! There goes the disclaimer. Lol. Here's Chapter 4.
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Sasuke followed Suki through the mazes of corridors, followed by Katara and Ty Lee, until they arrived outside. From there they were greeted by other Kyoshi Warriors who immediately blindfolded the Uchiha and marched him to the designated area set for questioning strangers. "I have to say that this is over the extreme. You're taking things to seriously." Sasuke commented.
Suki responded casually. "Sorry, it's just that the war with the Fire Nation several years ago left everybody so insecure, it's become almost a tradition." Sasuke shook his head, annoyed. As Shikamaru would say: What a pain…
"C'mon, Suki! Go easy on him at least…!" Sasuke heard Ty Lee complain to Suki.
"If this goes well, then he'll have free reign." Her leader replied, gesturing for her followers to put the bonds on their captive. "This is just regulation…"
"I hope that this won't last long." Sasuke muttered. "I don't like playing the Helpless-Captive. Blind-folded as I am."
"Well, you won't be like that for long," Ty lee said, cheerfully. "We're here!" as she said this Sasuke felt the cloth covering his eyes being removed. He examined his surroundings as before in the bedroom and found that he was bound to a statue of some woman.
"The statue is of our Founder, Avatar Kyoshi whom we are named after." Suki answered the Uchiha's questioning look. Sasuke shrugged, he couldn't care less about the statue or their Founder, what was most distracting was the Kyoshi warriors surrounding him, all prepared to do battle if their 'captive' decided to escape or something. Ty Lee was with Katara, hanging back with hands behind her head, stretching. Catching his gaze, Ty Lee gave an apologetic smile while Katara shrugged.
"I have a horrible feeling of déjà vu here." The water bender muttered. Suddenly a large bison swooped down and landed toward Sasuke's right, behind the Kyoshi warriors. A young monk, a small girl, and a boy with a sword strapped to his back slid down from the beast's saddle. Sasuke wondered if the boy with the sword could even use that piece of metal on his back, he smirked at the thought.
Suki mistook the smirk as a challenge and said, "If you think you can escape from your bonds then think again. Even if you do there's so many Kyoshi Warriors you wouldn't be able to walk ten paces. Even the Avatar and his crew were captured so don't feel bad." She ended with a pleased smile as if that settled the matter.
"Who's the 'Avatar'?" asked Sasuke, clueless. "And I can escape if I wanted to, I just didn't want to make y'all feel bad." Suki frowned while Ty Lee laughed.
"He's the Avatar." Katara supplied, gesturing at the young monk. "Aang meet Sasuke, Sasuke Aang." The Monk smiled sympathetically while wrapping an arm around the water bender. Young love… Sasuke thought, inwardly smirking.
"You must feel caged."Aang said in a friendly, understanding manner. When Sasuke tilted his head, the monk went on, "Well, I've been in your situation before so I can't say this is all that pleasant."
Katara frowned. "Hey, Aang…Where's Zuko? I'd think he'd be at least curious about the newcomer."
Newcomer? Sasuke thought, musing over that. That's what they call their captives…
Aang shrugged and replied, " He left for home, said it was a conference on what to do about the prison break-out that happened over night. He said to say 'Hi' to the new arrival though." Sasuke just nodded, feeling awkward.
"What do you expect? He's the Fire Lord after all." Sword Boy said, loudly. "He's got to be busy. And I still haven't beaten him in a spar."
"Stop sulking, Sokka." Suki said as she approached Sasuke, preparing to question him. "You can spar with Sasuke once we're done. Right, Sasuke?" Sasuke just nodded cooperatively. Anything to get this over with.
"There should be a loop hole around the law that every newcomer be questioned." Ty Lee pouted. "It's not like Sasuke did anything to us."
Suki shrugged. "Tell that to the block-head who insisted on this." Sokka let out a sigh of protest.
"Hey it's just for precaution. I mean I heard that the prison-break was near where Azula and her father were held as prisoners. I thought that maybe someone outside may have intended to free those crazy people. I mean imagine Azula and Ozai roaming around free!"
"You're so long-winded, Sokka." The small girl said. "Calm down." the water tribesman's eye twitched.
"Well sorry for being cautious, Toph."
"All of y'all shut up. How about you, Aang, and Katara go to the beach and wait for us there?" Suki suggested impatiently. Aang opened his mouth for protest but Katara led him away.
Toph stood there a minute then shrugged. "Alright, beats standing around here doing nothing."
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When the three had left, Suki turned to Sasuke. "O.K., that's settled, now we can start with the questioning. Where did you come from?"
"Konoha, but I doubt I can go back there now." Sasuke replied.
"Do your people have any evil master plan to conquer the whole world?" Sokka asked, seeming to think that the Uchiha would take him seriously. Sasuke just raised an eyebrow at Suki in bemusement, wondering if this was some joke.
The Kyoshi leader sighed. "Just answer the question and ease Sokka's paranoia."
"I don't think so…my country's new leader is a pacifist. " Sasuke smirked inwardly, Naruto and his quest for peace…"So I doubt it."
"You're just a poor soul full of doubts! Cheer up!" Ty Lee said cheerily. "Put a smile on for once and relax. Your aura is so blue!" Sasuke shrugged but didn't comply, making the girl pout.
"So why were you falling from the sky?" Suki asked.
"One of my ancestors transported me here as a punishment for killing him."
"Why did you murder him?" Sokka said, looking confident that he had found a criminal or something.
"He was going to destroy my village and friends with it."
Sokka still seemed unsure but the rest were convinced that Sasuke was harmless. Suki finally said, "Alright, that's it. You're free." Sasuke's image disappeared from the bonds and he appeared beside the acrobat who jumped at the sudden apparition. Sasuke smiled at the surprised looks from the assembled citizens of Kyoshi Island. Sokka, thinking that the Uchiha intended to hurt someone, threw his boomerang. Sasuke flipped backward avoiding the projectile then half drew his katana to block Sokka's sword from cutting him in half.
"What, that it?" Sasuke asked casually. "Anyway, calm down. I'm not going to hurt anyone." He froze then dodged aside just in time as the boomerang came spinning back…and hit Sokka in the stomach.
Ty Lee started to laugh at the dazed tribesman as he tried to get his balance. Suki, helping her dazed companion, commented, "You've got pretty good instincts. But enough of this, let's go join the others at the beach and have some fun
"Alright!" cheered Ty Lee, as she flipped back to Sasuke's side, startling the former Akatsuki. "Now you can spar with Sokka." Sasuke looked over at the boy as if sizing him up. Sokka returned the gesture, both coolly observing the other.
Finally Sokka whined, "Hey, I'm wounded I'm not at my 100%."
Sasuke retorted, "I'm a patient recovering from having fallen out of the sky and having to have to subdue a sea serpent so let's call it even." Ty Lee smiled at the banter as the group headed to the beach.
After a bit of sulking, Sokka said, "I hope you won't be too much of a pushover."
"I would like to say the same," said Sasuke smirking. "But I know this will be child's play." Suki and the rest chuckled at Sokka's outrage.
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Ty Lee looked to her side where Sasuke walked with her. He caught her gaze and held it, cocking his head to the side, eyes piercing hers. The acrobat felt something inside lurch as her breath caught, heart beating wild as she flushed. Ty Lee tore her eyes away with a shy smile she looks over at Suki to start a conversation but saw the smirk on her leader's face. I will never hear the end of this… she thought. Hopefully she won't embarrass me in front of everyone. Thinking this over, the acrobat sighed, exasperatedly.
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As Suki saw the small exchange from her subordinate and the newcomer she smirked, thinking of all the teasing and comments she could bring up in front of everyone. Since when did Ty Lee have boy trouble? Never… until now.
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Sasuke stared at the girl beside him, he didn't know what to think except…Well at least she's not like Sakura or Karin or Ino. Those two had given him no end of grief back in his world. Sasuke huffed and looked ahead.
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Ahh, fourth Chapter. Like I said Apologies for lateness. Files got erased somehow by a virus but hey who's gonna listen to the writer's excuses? Anyway…Review!
