Hey guys! Told you I was getting back to normal with the posting. (:
Anyway, Thanks to everyone who reads my stories, and to those of you who have commented. Also Thanks to my beta, Grlwithapen.
ON WITH THE SHOW!
Once Aang was back from the spirit world and Gyatso's funeral was finished, the gang packed the supplies around camp and left the Southern Air Temple. Sokka was flying Appa while everyone watched the temple fade away through the thick clouds.
"I'm going to miss this place." Suki said as the temple was completely out of site.
"Me too." Aang said grabbing his knees and pulling them to his chest. Katara smiled sadly as she wrapped her arms around him. Suki smiled as she left the two with privacy and walked over to Sokka.
"It sure is beautiful up here," Suki said taking a seat next to Sokka and coiling an arm around his.
"Yeah," Sokka said turning his head to Suki. The sun was shining and reflecting through her eyes making them brighter than ever. "It really is."
Suki turned to him to see that he was looking at her; she blushed and pulled him in for a quick kiss. Sokka forgot about what he was doing, and focused on the beautiful girl kissing him. She brought a hand up behind his head and gently ran her fingers through his hair. Sokka felt a rush of joy run through his spine as he wrapped his arms around her pulling her closer to him.
But their moment was interrupted when Aang was screaming. "SOKKA, PAY ATTENTION! APPA'S GOING DOWN!"
Sokka broke the kiss and noticed that Appa was flying rapidly toward the ground, and then he realized that he was still holding the reins. Sokka quickly gathered his thoughts and pulled on the rope making Appa fly at his normal height.
Sokka sighed and looked at Katara and Aang with a guilty smile. "Sorry guys."
He heard Suki giggling and turned his head back to her. "Sorry Sokka. I got carried away I suppose."
"Yeah me too," Sokka said feeling an insane amount of heat rush to his face. "We can try again later if you want?" Sokka mumbled taking a risk with the question. He had never done anything too drastic with Suki, but since he was going to ask her to marry him, maybe now was the perfect time…
"I would love to." Suki said as she leaned in and kissed Sokka's warm, red cheeks.
She stood and rejoined Aang and Katara. Sokka turned back to the open sky in front of him. He smiled as he thought of what it would be like to be with Suki forever…maybe raise a family together.
Sokka was positive about his future. For once the universe was one his side.
Once the sun was beginning to set, Sokka looked below to find a large beach and took Appa down for landing.
"Alright gang," Sokka said once Appa landed. "Here we are. Aang, Suki start setting up camp. Katara, you start making dinner; and I'll start the fire."
Everyone nodded as they got to work. Sokka smiled as he hoped off of Appa's head and headed for the forest not too far from the beach. He thought off everything that would happen in the future if the next few weeks went well. He smiled as he picked up twigs from the ground and walked back to camp to find Aang and Suki yelling at each other.
"WOAH! What's going on here?" Sokka said throwing the twigs over to Appa.
Suki folded her arms and walked over to Katara; Aang sighed. "Suki and I are having a…disagreement about where the tent should be."
"I want it to be in the shade, and Aang wants it to be close to the water! It's almost high tide! Look at the size of the moon!"
"Alright," Sokka said thinking on his feet. "We can solve this problem easily! We have two tents, Suki and I can share one, and Katara and Aang can share one! Simple!"
"Fine." Aang and Suki said turning their backs on one another and walking away. Katara and Sokka just looked at each other and sighed as they both took a tent and got to work setting them up in two separate places.
After a few hours, the sky had now become pitch black with a few twinkling stars here and there. The gang was gathered around the camp fire laughing at memories from the past, particularly the memories from Kyoshi Island.
Aang laughed until he fell over. "Yeah! I remember the first time I saw the Unagi! I can only imagine my face!"
"It was truly a sight to behold, Aang!" Katara laughed in response.
"Yeah, I remember my first encounter with the Unagi. I was only ten years old!" Suki said recalling the distant memory. "That was the day I got together the Kyoshi Warriors."
"You started the Kyoshi Warriors when you were only ten?" Katara said amazed. "You must have been a fighting prodigy!"
Suki laughed and nodded. "I got all of Kyoshi's best, young, female athletes and proposed the idea of the Kyoshi Warriors. I figured since Kyoshi Island had stayed out of the war for almost 90 years, we were bound to get involved in it soon. So we practiced for months and even came up with uniforms that were similar to Kyoshi's herself! Thus the Kyoshi Warriors were born!"
"It's a good thing you came up with the idea," Aang said. "I can't even imagine what would've happened if you guys were unprotected to the fire benders."
"Let's not think about that now that the war is over." Suki said in response.
"Yeah," Sokka said agreeing. "Remember when you dressed me up? Dress, make up, the whole nine yards?"
Aang and Katara fell over laughing once more at the memory. Suki just smiled. "Yes I do, and you were still handsome then." She looked up into Sokka's blue eyes and kissed him softly. Sokka returned the kiss gladly.
Katara looked p to see them kissing then looked at Aang and cleared her throat. "Well Aang and I are just going to head off to bed now…"
Aang wondered why Katara was acting so strange, and then he noticed Sokka and Suki. "Oh…..yeah! I'm really tired; see you guys in the morning!"
Sokka waved to them without breaking the kiss. Once Aang and Katara were in their tent by the water, Suki broke the kiss and took hold of Sokka's hand as she pulled him up and walked over to their tent. Sokka smiled as they entered the tent and sat down in each other's arms.
Sokka pulled Suki closer for one more kiss before they went to bed. Suki returned it sweetly as she wrapped her arms around his neck and tangled her gloved fingers in his hair. Sokka felt a shiver run up his spine just as before at the touch of her fingers.
He broke the kiss and looked into her large brown eyes. "I love you Suki."
A tear came to her eye. "I love you too Sokka."
She wrapped her arms around him once more but this time making him fall over so that they were lying next to each other on the blanket.
Sokka felt an immense amount of heat on his face as he leaned over to the small candle in the corner and burnt out the flame. He smiled in the dark as he returned to Suki and prepared for a sleepless night.