You know, the funny thing about this chapter is that it was actually written before chapters four, five, and six. I already had them planned out but I had a strange urge to write something Kataangy so I made up this chapter as an all Kataang chapter.
One more thing, you all cracked me up with your reviews. I was laughing so hard. Keep them up; you guys make writing this story really enjoyable so you all get a virtual hug from me……huggles.
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Chapter Seven: Healing Session
The light from the sun shined shinned over the couple in a beautiful way as they walked across the sand of the beach at the end of the capital island. Katara slipped her hand into Aang's and leaned against his shoulder. He had finally gotten over the last of his cold so they were enjoying their last day before Aang had to go back to his grueling schedule. He just put his head over hers and breathed in the scent of her hair.
"Aang," Katara breathed while placing her hand on his chest and the other on his back now.
"Hmm,"
"When was the last time we went on a date?" She asked it rather calmly but Aang began to sweat a little thinking of the fact that their last date was when they first got to the Fire Nation, and that was weeks ago. "Uh," he started but Katara cut him off.
"So you agree we need one?" Aang could feel her smile against his neck and he calmed instantly.
"Yeah, so when do you-"
"Tonight," his smile grew wider. "We can take advantage of our last night together where you're not completely worn out."
"Okay then," Aang agreed and stop to face her. "Where would lady Katara like to go with her boyfriend?" Katara pondered for a minute before her face lit up upon making up her mind. She moved a little closer to him; putting her lips just out of reach from his and shivered a bit.
"I want to go dancing," She bit her lip and wrapped her arms around his torso laughing when his shivers continued.
"Not to sound rude or anything," Aang started. "But why dancing?" Katara just smiled.
"Because it was when I danced with you in the fire nation that I started falling for you. You were pretty smooth at that party." To emphasize her point she kissed him softly but pulled away just as quickly in remembering how he kissed her that morning. She didn't want to kiss him like that at the moment. He blushed ferociously and rubbed the back of his head.
"If only I had known that." He mumbled. "But okay, dancing it is and I know just the-" Suddenly a sharp pain crossed over his back and he fell to the sand in pain.
"Aang?" Katara gasped and bent down to him. She put a hand on his back to sooth him but only made the pain worse.
"Ah," he screamed. "Katara what's happening?"
"It's your scar again," she informed. "We need to have a healing session, pronto." She helped him up and carried him the rest of the way back to the palace, not even wanting to take the risk of him walking that far.
It had a normal routine that took place every month, his healing sessions, but they hadn't done one in a while. Katara wanted to do one before he fought the Fire Lord but due to his disappearance right before the battle she was unable to but she did do some on him when she saw him after the battle to ease his bumps and scraps. So Katara would do some clinical healing on Aang's scar. When he first received it she had guessed that it would be gone by now but she had to resume her sessions obviously. Katara guessed, during the battle he somehow re-opened it slightly, which was no surprise to her.
"Aang come on you know how this works, stand still." Katara ordered as she applied some herbs to the scar. She had been taking up some new healing techniques after the war ended just for this occasion, hoping it would quicken the healing process.
"I don't know why you're holding back Katara. You know that you're capable of healing that scar completely so why don't you just do it?" Aang questioned, he didn't sound angry, just curious.
"Because I don't want the healing methods of your body to become irregular. If I just heal the scar away your body will start relying on water bending healing to take care of itself, and that would be bad in the event you get hurt and I'm not there, I want your body to still be able to heal itself naturally." Katara took a breath; she didn't know that she knew that much about her own methods, as silly as it sounded. Aang, on the other hand, just smiled at her kindness and turned his head to kiss the nearest place on her, her neck.
"Come on none of that, we still have a lot to do," She applied more herbs and the tiny bristles made Aang wince a little at the contact. "It may prick you a bit." She added when she saw Aang's shoulders hike up.
The process went as usual, Aang winced and squirmed slightly and Katara focused every fiber of her energy on his scar. But there was so much energy inside his scar than previously. She thought back to her first healing session on that scar after he finally woke up she remarked that there was a lot of energy twisted in there, but now it was so strong she had to squint her eye to look directly at it. It seemed to shine with some inner glow.
"I can feel you staring," Aang said some time later, when the weight of her stare was becoming too much. Katara snapped out of her dazed and continued moving the water up and down along the scar.
"Sorry, it's just there's a lot of energy in your scar, it's almost blinding." She let the water run down his back, making him shiver.
"Not a big surprise there, I mean it is why I mastered that Avatar state." He shrugged but then remembered that he hadn't really explained to Katara anything about his battle with Ozai. The first couple weeks after the war he hardly even saw her and then we he finally did, they had decided to become a couple. Between the meetings and them trying to get the dating occurrence down they had no time to talk about the subject.
"Sokka told me something about that. You know I'm proud of you right?" She placed both hands on both of his shoulders; snuggling ever so slightly into his neck. Aang just sighed lovingly. "But you know details would be nice," Katara added after a few moments; lifting her head as well.
"About what?" Aang teased while leaning back towards her. She just held his head to stop him and smiled.
"About the battle, you can't hide that from me forever you know." Aang crocked a brow, clearly thinking what she was about to say. "Yes, I know the fight happened almost four months ago but still, I just feel I have the right to know." Aang nodded and made a move to turn to face her, but then he just turned back.
"There's not much you can visualize without actually being there, but I'll try. The beginning started out as any would've, I actually doubted myself and hid in a rock sphere." He could see Katara frown in her urge to visualize what happened but it just made her see a scared, defenseless Aang trapped in a rock only to come out to face his death. It made her tear up a little.
"He tore through to me eventually," he continued, placing a hand on Katara's nearby knee to calm her. "And when he knocked me into a rock pillar it hit my scar, as soon as it hit the Avatar State just came, like all the knowledge I lost when Azula shot me was stored into the scar." Katara looked at his scar thoughtfully, Aang's hand still placed firmly on her knee for both hers and his support. "The rest is self exclamatory I guess."
"But wait what about you taking his bending away? How did you manage to finger that out?" Katara crossed her arms with a joked angered look on her face.
"A lion turtle taught me." He turned his head and shined one of his award winning smiles at him, the one where he closed his eyes and perked up his shoulders innocently that just made Katara's heart swell with affection for him. "When I was gone before the battle I was seeking wisdom and the lion turtle gave me the way to harness that ability."
"You know you're the first Avatar to ever do that don't you? That's a big accomplishment."
"Well I'm also the first Avatar to accomplish anything at the age of twelve so I guess I'm just making history all over the place." The two laughed and Katara placed her hand over Aang's, which was still on her knee.
"I'm honored to be in a relationship with you," Katara said suddenly, sounding all the more serious than the moment prior. She leaned her head to his and snuggled her hair against his cheek, she knew how much he liked that. "Sometimes I wonder if I'm worthy of you." Aang scooted upward away from her, completely breaking contact for the moment.
"Don't say that Katara, I'm just as worth for anybody as you are, sometimes I wonder if it's right for me to be this happy after all I've put the world through." Just then he felt Katara turning him completely around and then the sting of Katara slapping him.
"Don't you say that Aang. You just mastered four elements in less time than it would take one Avatar to learn one. You've worked hard and have sacrificed too much to only be twelve, plus you saved the world and put yourself in danger for people who don't even appreciate you. Stop feeling guilty for what you haven't done and start feeling proud for all you have." She exhaled and looked into the Avatar's eyes. They looked water over and his hand was covering the spot where she slapped him. Katara immediately moved his hand and kissed the spot where her hand made such rough contact. Aang just continued to stare.
"Thank you," He whispered some time later, hugging her in which she returned.
"You've done too much to feel regret or sorrow Aang," Katara assured him when she ran her hands up and down his bare back.
"I love you." He mumbled into her robe. It was late night and Katara was already in her sleeping robe. It made Aang blush sometimes because it had such a short length to it and, if tied loosely enough, showed some cleavage. Katara responded with another affectionate stroke and placed the front of her face to the warmth of his head. After a few more moments of this Aang backed away again, looking into her eyes as if searching for something.
"Aang?" She said in a questioned tone. "Are you-"
"How long do you think we're going to last?" He cut her off and Katara almost fell back at this spur of the moment question.
"Aang?" She questioned again; her eyes wide.
"Answer the question, Katara." He didn't yell the words but the darkness in his tone was worse enough.
"I hoped it would go as long as it could but why are specifying things now, we've only been together for four months. And pardon the question but why the sudden asking of this?"
"I just got a feeling that this could be over sometime in the future. I just wanted to know how long it would last till then." Aang looked dead serious and Katara frowned at his logic.
"Well what about you?" She asked. "Don't you have any say in how long we're together?"
"Katara," he started; taking both of her hands in his. "I'm willing to stay with you till the day I die, I'm perfectly content with being with you forever but if you feel differently then I respect that so it's your call." Katara smiled a bit and kissed one of his hands.
"Aang," he looked up at her. "Do you remember what I said after we kissed in Ba Sing Si?" Aang looked to the right getting his memory of that moment then nodded.
"You said that you love me, but you say that every day."
"Exactly and every day I remind you how much I want to be with you. Love is an eternal force so when I say I love you it's like saying I'll be with you until my own life is done." Aang didn't respond just then. He found and error in her words but had t find it before mentioning the matter.
"But people say they love each other all the time and they're not always together forever." He was challenging her for a good reason.
"Just because someone says they love someone doesn't mean they mean it you know. People lie." Aang gave her a look that clearly asked the question "then how do I know you're not lying?"
"When I said I loved you I wasn't lying I knew it from the bottom of my heart that you were the one, but I guess for us to really believe each other we have to stick together." She kissed him sweetly and stroked his head. "I think we're done for tonight, you should rest, you have a meeting tomorrow."
Aang's eyes went down but then came up again and rested on her, Katara felt an uncontrollable shiver come over her as his stormy eyes studied her features. Then so suddenly he kissed her lips roughly enough to tackle her down. Just as fast as he kissed her, though, he let go leaving Katara on the ground.
"I suppose I could take that as an early birthday kiss," Katara joked; putting her hair back in place. Aang's eyes suddenly opened fully at the mentioning of Katara's birthday.
"Wait what?" Aang asked, moving dangerously close to her again. Katara placed her hands on his chest to keep him at bay as she explained.
"My birthday, it's in a week." She smiled genuinely at him and removed her hands from his chest and kissed his forehead before standing. She sighed. "I guess we're not going to get to go dancing for a while, but this date was good enough."
"I'm sorry Katara," Aang sighed as well; standing. He yawned and crawled into his bed. "Good night."
"Good night, and for the record if all I said wasn't clear enough for you," She started. "I don't intend on this relationship ending." She winked at him and closed the door behind her, leaving Aang blinking in the realization of what she might've been saying.
Just a short, simple chapter of some simple Kataang, because every couple has these calm moments where they talk about certain issues. I though after the major Toph/Zuko block all you Kataang shippers deserved a nice chapter like this. This also starts the next arc in the story, being the "Katara's birthday" arc. Most people in their stories put Katara's birthday after Aang's to make it so for a point in time they're only a year apart but I put it before to emphasize the fact that age has no effect on their relationship whatsoever. They'll only be three years apart for about two or three months though.
Review Responses:
coolmac1718—Yeah I don't really know how the big brother thing works since I'm a girl and I don't have a brother but Sokka can be pretty slow sometimes. Plus someone had to tell him and that was all Sokka was thinking about at the moment.
SilvrImage—Yeah, I can do comedy! As for Toph she has some romance coming her way and Azula's part of the story (which is still in the planning stages) is turning out really good.
Xeaphon—I actually didn't think of having Iroh do the talk (probably because he's not at the palace at the moment) but I thought Sokka would be the funniest option. At a time I considered Zuko giving it to Aang but I needed to have the talk early in the story before the "Katara's birthday" arc and Zuko was with Toph so I settled for Sokka.
Neon Starz—I wanted to make the Toph/Zuko part as emotional as I could, I'm glad you liked it. I'm also glad you liked the ending to "the Talk" portion. I didn't plan for Sokka to get very violent in the event of Aang ever kissing Katara but if he catches them, say, rolling around and getting all into each other and stuff then he would probably scream and all that jazz.
TallyInTheGreen—I didn't want to say anything but since you must know. No, I don't have any romantic plans for Toko it's purely one-sided on Toph's hand so don't worry. Oh, and your "real woman" comment LOL.
avatar209—yeah I think Aang would be great kisser too (fantasizes). Anyway Toph is pretty hurt right now but things are in store for her. Oh, and yes Yuexi will make another appearance he's a very important character in the story but he won't be back in the story for about another three arcs.
Jeni27—Okay, your review just made my day I was laughing so hard when I read it (you win a golden star.) I'm just glad it was as funny as everyone said because I never thought I was all that good at writing comedy.
ilovekataang—um, sorry it made you uncomfortable but that topic is going to play a somewhat important role in the story since it centers around relationships. But if it gets to be too much for you just tell me and I'll try to make it more reader friendly to the best of my abilities.
A.LaRosa—thank you and I love your screen name it's very original.
nutshak—rock….I get it LOL. Anyway my fingers are typing just keep on reviewing and the chapters will come in. Wait for him….he will come. (That was a line the lion turtle said in the finale in case you didn't catch it….heh heh….yeah, that was random.)
avatargirl92008—wow, I'm glad to see someone has a memory of that moment and the show for that fact. I think Doug was practicing on the bologna to practice kissing Patty or something in that scene. But yeah I love that show.
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