Chapter 4 A date with the Avatar

Aang was holding a sobbing Fire Princess in his arms holding onto her as tight as he had ever held onto anything. He said " Azula it's ok you are not alone anymore I'm here for you." Through sobs she choked out " I know you really hate me Aang I know you could never care about me the way you promise you will." with that she forcefully pulled her self out of Aang's embrace, he had never felt so empty as when her heat abandoned him, and instinctively he grabbed her by the arm and pulled her into him his lips greedily crashing down on her tear soaked face. His tongue would let no barrier hold him back as he wanted to feel every inch of Azula's mouth. She was taken aback by the passion in his kiss and surrendered herself to him as the kiss lasted well over a minute. When he finally pulled back he put his thumb to her cheek gently wiping away a tear that had been trapped there and looked as deep into her bright golden eyes as he could and said " Azula I could never hate you, even when you were trying to kill me I always thought you were the most beautiful sight in the entire universe, and now that you are here in my arms I may never leave this temple again. I want to heal your soul and I want you to fill me with everything that you have because I thought when I was pulled out of that Iceberg I was brought back to life but now I know that it wasn't until your lips were on mine that I truly was re-awakened. He felt her take his hand that was on her face and place it on her breast just above her heart as she leaned in to kiss him again. As their lips locked he felt her heart beat so fast it was like she was on deaths door, but he knew that if she felt anything like he was feeling, she was on death's door because to lose her, his fire princess Azula would be the greatest pain that any man throughout the entire span of history had felt and he would know because as the Avatar he had been there for all of history. There lips broke apart and he felt the heat of her breath on his ear as she whispered seductively to him "Avatar I need you inside me right now, I need you to be my first and only love my always love , I need us to shatter this world with the heat of our passion, my fires burn blue when I bend but the fire burning all throughout my body burns white hot right now." as she took his hand in hers and guided it inside of her pants...

Aang awoke sweating and blushing in a way that he had never experienced before. He thought to himself what the hell was that. He had just had the most passionate and intense dream of his life, his heart was racing his body was soaked in sweat and the dream that had caused all this was about Azula! That was just madness, he knew that last night was special and he was so glad that Azula needed him but he couldn't believe that dream. Stop it Aang he berated himself, he went to bed his mind swirling in confusion and doubt about all the drama last night so of course he had some weird dream about it that was natural. As he got up and put on his pants and shirt he noticed it was just past dawn and he felt he would be able to make it to the south pole to have a fun day, he just hoped he wouldn't see Azula before he headed out, he'd just leave her a note saying to make herself at home.

As he headed out into the courtyard in front of the temple he saw blue flames dancing as Azula was practicing her bending. Damn he thought to himself I did not want to see her, as he approached he rubbed his head and said "morning Azula". She turned to him a smile on her face and said "Aang good to see you, it is so nice to be able to practice my bending out here in the open again after being cooped up for so long." She ran up to him and hugged him and whispered in his ear "Thank you so much again Aang it mean's the world to me." Having her hug him and the feeling her breath on his ear sent a wave of electricity down his whole body as he blushed profusely and stumbled out "Oh-Oh you know it's not rea-really a problem glad I can help you." He stumbled away as she said " I thought if you trusted me enough we could have a little sparring session who better to test myself again then the Avatar." "No Azula I can't." he replied, he saw her smile fade and her head sink, oh how he missed that smile, shut up Aang he told himself, "Azula don't worry, it's not about trust I trust you with my life." He said as he pulled her into another hug, "It's just I have avatar duties that I have to get to early this morning, I'm gonna buy you a whole bunch of new clothes while I 'm out, you're a princess you shouldn't be in rags, and I promise when I return this evening we can spar all night if you want." "Ok Aang, but one thing, you have to promise me that you won't tell anyone about me being here, I only trust you I'm not ready to face anyone else yet." He could see a small tear starting to form, he replied quickly "Of course my lady anything for a princess." as he got down on his knee and kissed her hand.

He saw her smile come back a little and that made his heart do a little jump, he said getting up from his knee " While I'm gone look around everything here is now yours, make yourself at home in anyway you want." He turned and headed towards Appa's stable turning back to look one more time at her as she went back to shooting blue flames into the sky. He threw a few melons in front of Appa as he hopped on the freshly awakened sky bison's back and said " We've got a new roommate boy, don't worry she used to be scary but now she is something else." a smile crossing his lips as he then cried "Yip Yip" and Appa took off towards the south pole.

Riding through the sky on the back of Appa gave him time to reflect on what had happened in the past 10 hours. Somehow he had made friends with and was living with the girl who just a little over a year ago had killed him. Plus what the hell was with that kissing her hand and my lady stuff, where did that come from. Plus he realized he called visiting Katara "Avatar duties" that wasn't a duty, she was the love of his life and seeing her was his favorite thing not a duty, but for some reason he just didn't want to tell Azula that he was seeing Katara. He also felt incredible guilt about seeing Katara, he knew that he was not going to be able to tell her about Azula staying with him not only because he promised Azula but also because Katara or any of his other friends for that matter wouldn't understand why he had to do it and would think he was crazy. Heh he laughed to himself in all honesty he did think he was a little bit crazy. The worst part was that dream, how would he feel if Katara were living alone with someone that she had dreamed about like that, it would drive him crazy. Oh well she would never know and the dream was just a dream there was no way anything was going to happen between he and Azula. He just reminded himself and Appa that on their way home they needed to stop and get Azula some clothing.

Finally the little village that Katara called home came in to view he could see Sokka's boat parked in the little port Zuko had made oh so long ago. Appa touched down and Aang jumped off, apparently Sokka had seen him coming and ran out to greet Aang. He pulled him into a big hug and Sokka said " How you doing Mr. hero." "Not bad Sokka, when I heard you were here I knew I just had to blow off my duties for the day and come kick your butt in a snowball fight." Aang retorted, Sokka laughed back " You know I'll destroy you, remember no bending in south pole snowball fights" In response to this Aang did a quick arm movement and dumped a giant load of snow right on Sokka's head. He laughed as Sokka screamed, "Hey not fair" Aang replied "don't worry Sokka I'll let you pummel me in a non bending snow battle after I see your sister, where is she?" Sokka laughed "Oh she is still asleep she was out waaaaaaay late last night you see Haaru came to visit and they were out all night." Aang felt a panic in his head, Haaru that earthbender boy was here to see Katara oh no the spirits are already punishing me for having that dream about Azula, but then he saw the smirk widening on Sokka's face and realized Sokka just told him that to get a rise out of him and it had worked. Sokka taunted at him "OOOOOH someone is in love!" with that Aang swung his glider staff and hit Sokka square in the chest with an air blast and shot him 50 yards out of the village.

Aang walked into Hakoda and Katara's igloo and saw Hakoda sitting at the table and whispered with a knowing smile "Hello Avatar Aang, I take it you are here to see someone other than me, she's asleep in her room go wake her." Aang parted the animal skin and saw his beautiful angel lying there under a walrusbear skin blanket. He bent down and put the softest kiss on her forehead, he saw a slight smile as she slowly in her sleep worded "mmmmm that felt wonderful Zuko" Aang fell back what, Zuko she dreams about Zuko, but then saw her big blue eyes open and her gorgeous smile beam at him "calm down Avatar you know I only have eyes for airbenders." she joked at him. He bent down to give her a kiss on the lips this time soft and gentle, she flung off the blanket and got up saying in an exceedingly pompous voice "To what do I owe the pleasure of the great and might Avatar Aang on this fine morning". "I heard that there was a tragedy involving a young waterbending master, something about missing her boyfriend far too much." Aang retorted in an even more pompous voice. She just laughed and hugged him and gave him a deep kiss and said " Thank you Aang I had been missing you far too much, this is a wonderful surprise."

They walked out hand in hand and enjoyed breakfast with Hakoda and Sokka. Aang loved the south pole and the people there who gave him this new wonderful life as the Avatar free from the Iceberg and free from the tyranny of the Fire Nation. After breakfast he proceeded to get absolutely destroyed by Sokka in a non-bending snowball fight, then he and Katara went for a walk and a quick penguin sled recreating what Aang always called their first date. But by mid afternoon he said his goodbyes as he knew he had to make a detour to the Earth Kingdom to buy Azula her new clothes and so he could get back tonight in time so that they can spar.

This had been a great day and he was really looking forward to tonight he hadn't really fought much in the year since the war had been over and to have a chance against a firebender like Azula he would have to put all of his skills in the four elements to get the best of her. Plus having spent the day with Katara having fun and being a couple again had eliminated all the doubts that had arisen from his encounter with Azula the night before, in the dream, and this morning... Or at least he thought it had.