Chapter 10 – The Game

Mai and Jet had gone back. She was supporting Jet as they walked. Silly, really. But it was okay. Before that, when Zuko and Katara returned, Aang was there in the living room, with the rest of the gang.

After dinner, Iroh went to bed (that's all I could think he could ever do). The gang decided to sleep together after all that's happened.

In the living room. Mai apologized to Ty Lee and Azula. Jet and Haru were talking. Katara was combing Toph's hair. Sokka was watching TV, football game, replay. Suki just finished taking a bath. Aang came into the room after a swim.

Aang walked towards Katara and Toph, "Katara?"

"Yeah, Aang?" she didn't look; she was busy with Toph's hair.

"I'm sorry." Aang said.

She looked at him, "it's okay, Aang."

"I won't force my feeling on you..." (Katara tries to smile) "But I won't give up." (Katara's face: -_-)

Toph was affected. Then Aang sat with Sokka on the sofa.

"Where's Zuko?" Azula asked, directed to whom it would concern.

The mention of Zuko made Katara remember today's incident. His warm lips... that sensation... ah no! Stop! She blushed, accidentally pulling Toph's hair.

"Ow!" Toph shouted.

"Sorry." She breathed out. "Oh, Toph, you still didn't give me back my camera. You borrowed it this morning."

"Yeah, yeah. Later." She slowly pulled away.

"I saw him go upstairs." Haru answered preoccupied with something in his hands. He had a pack of cards again.

Zuko goes down with a pack of gummy bears in his hands.

"What's that?" Toph noticed first. Her brow rose.

"Uhm, nothing." he blushed.

"Gummy bears?" Suki asked as she dried her hair with a towel.

He didn't answer.

"Aw, can I have one Zuko?" Ty lee asked; two hands stretched out.

Zuko moved away, "no."

"Why?"

Zuko grunted and let Ty Lee take one. Why was he being selfish?

"Hey! I want one too, Zuzu." Azula retorted.

Zuko sighed inside and handed her the pack. She even picked before taking one out. The red one.

Zuko bit his lower lip, his favorite.

"Haru, Can I borrow your cards?" Sokka asked, turning his head to him after he finished his sentence.

"Sure." He handed them to him. It was in his pocket the whole time.

Sokka shuffled the deck. "Let's play a game." It caught everyone's attention. Probably because he looked serious when he invited them to play a game. That or he was just totally bored.

"What game?" Suki bent down from the back of the sofa to see Sokka's face.

Sokka counted his friends including himself. Then he took out eleven cards. From Ace to ten, then a King, some were black, some were red, but it looked as if the colors or the symbols didn't matter.

They all approached him for a closer look.

"The player who gets the highest card is King, and the lowest one has to do what the king asked him to." He was shuffling the eleven cards.

"That's it?" Azula raised a brow. There was nothing much to it. It was like any other game.

"Yep. That's just it." Sokka smirked, "like…" he looked around. He grabbed the pack of gummy bears from Zuko.

"Hey!" Zuko barked.

Sokka ignored him, "For example I am King." He took one gummy bear and placed it on Toph's shoulder.

Toph was saying things but Sokka ignored her as well. "I choose what numbers I like seven and two, and Toph has the seven, while Zuko has two, and I ask two to eat the gummy bear on seven's shoulder, Zuko has to do so. Get it?"

"What?" there were numerous voices who didn't understand him.

"Ah." Haru sat beside him. "So, if I'm King, and I ask the one who held the ace to kiss number two, he or she has to do so?"

"That's pretty much it." Sokka nodded with his eyes closed. "Or, he can just pick one number and command him to do something."

Now this definitely drew attention to everybody. Ty Lee almost choked on the gummy bear that was still entering her throat. Zuko, beside her patted her back telling her to keep it easy.

"Will we show everyone the cards?" Aang asked.

"No, it's gonna be suspense."

Suki smacked Sokka's head with her clenched fist, "What if they don't want to do it, Sokka?"

Sokka shrugged, "Don't worry, then they'll just strip." He snickered.

"What?" Toph asked.

Haru nodded, interested, "Maybe we can remove one piece of clothing for every hesitation."

"I wanna play as well!" Ty Lee leaped from the sofa to the floor.

"Sokka!" Katara hissed. She didn't like it.

"It's okay if you don't want to join. I'm not forcing you." Sokka said.

Suki joined. Ty Lee and Haru joined as well. Toph seemed interested and agreed. And Azula got Mai and Jet to join.

"Well?" Sokka asked Zuko, Katara and Aang.

They cringed at the sight of Sokka acting like that. They couldn't answer him.

"Chickens!" Azula laughed, preferably to Aang and Katara.

Aang's eyes furrowed. "Okay. Count me in."

Sokka sat on the floor and offered the sofa to Suki. She sat beside Aang and then next to Aang was Azula. On the floor beside Azula was Jet, and next to him, on a bean bag was Mai. Ty Lee sat next to her. Haru was next to her and then Toph next to Sokka. Behind Haru and Toph stood Zuko. Behind Mai was Katara.

"What's wrong, Katara? Come on! It's just us!" Toph played with her toes.

Katara was tensed; they're putting a lot on pressure on her. She looked at Zuko; he was looking back at her too. Then she noticed his lips. Ah! She didn't want to be in the same situation with him.

"Alright." Katara exhaled loudly and sat beside Ty Lee.

"Zuzu?" Azula asked him.

Though he was completely against it, he looked away, "Sure, okay."

After that, Zuko sat down beside Toph, the game started. It would have been fun if it was by two's, and that if there was drinking. But they just went with it like that.

Sokka distributed the cards. One to Suki. One to Aang. One to Azula. One to Jet. One to Mai. One to Katara. One to Ty Lee. One to Haru. One to Zuko. One to Toph. One to him.

Ty Lee got an Ace, Haru had a two, Suki got three, Sokka got four, Toph got five, Aang got six, Zuko got seven, eight, Katara got nine, Jet had a ten, and Azula got the King.

"I'm King." Azula said holding her card up, "Now what?"

"You can either pick one or pick two numbers." Sokka said.

"Okay… then I command number…ten to hug number… two."

Jet dropped his card down in surprise. Haru stiffened his posture when he saw Jet had the ten.

"Aw! Haru has the two!" Ty Lee saw Haru's card.

They laughed. Jet and Haru eyed each other with immense cursing . Eeew. Haru thought. I second the motion. Jet thought.

"You gotta do what she says, guys." Toph said. She slammed her card down on the floor, trying not to laugh.

Mai tried to suppress her laughter.

Jet gulped. He and Haru gave a light and very fast hug. Then they both backed away, jumping away from each other.

"HAHAHAHA!"

"Ahahaha!"

They all burst out laughing.

They gave the cards back to Sokka he shuffled it. After so, he distributed them again.

Mai: ace, Azula: two, Aang: three, Suki: four, Ty Lee: five, Katara: six, Sokka: seven, Zuko: eight, Haru: nine, Toph: ten, and Jet: king.

"Nice…" Jet smirked holding up his card. "I want revenge."

"Uh oh…" Azula laughed. Jet doesn't know her card, so it's still safe. But little does she know, he was just beside her, and he saw hers.

"I want number two…"

Azula gasped. Then she playfully punched him, you're cheating. You saw mine."

"as I was saying, I want number two to kiss number seven." Jet had no idea who held seven, but he said it anyway.

"WHAT?" Sokka and Azula jumped.

Suki's eye widened.

"Ooh… so what're you gonna do now?" Haru teased.

"There's no way!" Sokka blushed, his ears steaming.

"I second the motion! I would never do that with him!" Azula crossed her arms.

"But you have to do it!" Ty Lee said excitedly. "You said so yourself."

"NO!"

"Come on, be a man, Sokka!" Jet chuckled.

"You too, Azula, you don't want to be called chicken, do you?" Toph teased.

Suki was nervous of her boyfriend. She watched Sokka and Azula glaring at each other. Then they both sighed. They both closed their eyes. Sokka tucked his lips in and Azula did the same, not wanting to make contact. They let their cheeks touch, and then backed away.

Sokka jumped to Suki and apologized a few times. She was scowling at him.

"What was that?" Jet frowned, he didn't saw a kiss.

"It's a peck. Stop thinking about it. Let's just continue with this damn game." Azula blushed.

"Peck?" Katara asked, unsure. But she was just ignored.

Sokka gave Haru the privilege to draw the cards, since Suki was ignoring him.

"Suuuuki!"

"Shut up, Sokka! Let's play!" Toph threw him a pillow.

Ty Lee: ace, Sokka: two, Toph: three, Jet: four, Haru: five, Mai: six, Zuko: seven, Azula eight, Aang: nine, Katara: Ten and Suki: king.

"I'm King." Suki said… terrifyingly.

Sokka backed away, scared of his girlfriend.

Thinking of what she could ask her unfortunate card holder/s, she noticed the pack of gummy bears, left on the floor. She grabbed the pack and took one out.

"Who's nine?" Suki asked holding out a green gummy bear.

"I am!" Aang raised his hand highly, excited. He was the only one who didn't feel Suki's dark aura.

She put the gummy bear on Aang nose as he sat stiffly, careful not to drop it.

"I want number three to take that using his or her mouth." Suki dared.

"I can take you on." Toph acted cool. She tossed the card on the floor. She crawled up to Aang, blushing secretly, and reached for the gummy bear with her teeth. Aang felt her teeth brush slightly on his nose and it turned his cheeks pinks.

"That's great!" Ty Lee clasped her hands together.

The game continued. The next King turned out to be Zuko, and he asked ace, which was Ty Lee, to spell her name with her ass. The next King was Aang and he asked everybody to hugged the one next to them. Toph tightly hugged Zuko on this one. Once again Suki was the next King and she dared Mai and Azula hand stand while leaning on the wall. Ty Lee became King next and dared Aang to stop breathing for one minute. Haru was King next and he asked Zuko to recite the alphabet backwards. Katara was next to be King and she dared four to take his shirt off until the game finishes, little did she know that Zuko held the four ad she was very much surprised when he did so. Mai was the next King and dared everybody to jump and roll over, which they all did humiliatingly. After a few rounds, Toph was finally King.

"At last!" Toph jumped up. She was finally able to get the King. She wanted everybody to lie down on the floor with their butts up. But she wanted something greater. As sly as she always was, she looked at the glass doors (directing to the pool) and she saw Katara's card, an ace. Looking at her side, she saw Zuko holding a three.

Giving Zuko 'the look', she grinned widely and took a few gummy bears from the pack.

"Okay, Zuko, I mean number three, put this…" the lips would be too daring, they won't do it. The nose won't do, I just did that. Cheeks… ehm, its might roll down. The forehead… hmmm. "Okay,number three, I want you to lie down."

Zuko obeyed. He lied on the floor on his back. Then Toph superbly put a green gummy bear on his six-pack, a white gummy bear on his chest, one gummy bear for each hand, and one on the forehead.

"Toph, what're you doing?" Zuko blushed, everyone was looking at him. Especially Azula.

"Okay, now I want Ka- I mean 'Ace' to give herself up and do as I say." Toph looked at her friends.

Katara gasped. Her face all red. She knew where this was going.

"No, Toph.." Katara slowly shook her head.

"Come on, Sugar Queen. I'm King and I want you. I want you to eat all these gummy bears without using your hands." Toph moved her fingers in amplification.

"WHAT?" Zuko, Katara, Aang , and Azula asked roughly.

"Do you want me to repeat what I just said? Now lay down, Zuko. The gummies might fall off." She pushed Zuko's head down and pressed the gb on his forehead deeper.

"Ow." Zuko winced.

Katara took a deep sigh. She just kissed him this morning and know she'll have to eat him, I mean eat those on him? Fine, it's just game… Just a game.

She crawled toward him. She knelt beside him, and bent her head down to his stomach. Zuko blushed at the sight and closed his eyes. She took the gummy bear on his stomach with her lips. Zuko fidgeted a bit, when her lips made contact with his tummy.

"Stay still!" Toph warned. Grinning even wider as she suppressed her laughter.

Katara bent own again and took the gummy bear on his hands. Zuko was shaking as she does that.

Katara was getting sweaty, she was nervous. As she bent down to eat away the sweet on his chest, she put a hand up his chest, slightly touching his nipple, to prop herself.

Zuko moaned. This surprised everyone, even Katara. Realizing he did moan, he shot his eyes open.

"What? Your… your hand was cold!" he reasoned out… lying.

Katara simply nodded since her palm was getting sweaty. Zuko thanked that Toph wasn't really feeling vibrations like she did in the show or else, she'd spot him lying.

Tucking her hair behind her ear, Katara bent down his forehead. Her lips touched his skin slightly. Zuko closed his eyes, remembering what happened earlier. Her supple lips…her warmth… the background music goes on, until the music suddenly drops when he opened his eyes. Two blue orbs stared onto his golden eyes.

"Zuko!" Azula snorted. She was a bit disappointed at their display. Dumbly, Zuko jerked his head up, hitting Katara's head in the process.

"OW!" they both said together.

Toph and Suki began laughing.

"Sorry…" Zuko rubbed his forehead and then he looked at Azula. "Yeah"

"I want you to eat mine too." Azula crawled towards him, and a gummy bear stuck between her lips.

"Azula…" he was too surprised to say something. "I can't do that…" he tried to smile.

"Okay, okay, I was just kidding." She took the gummy bear out from her mouth, "here." And then placed in on his lips, pushing it inside his mouth. They all stared at the two.

….

Finally, the gang was preparing to sleep after almost two hours of play. Haru, Sokka and Aang took the beds' foams and took it down stairs. Toph, Ty Lee and Suki grabbed the pillows. Azula excused herself in the bathroom. Zuko and Jet were moving the furniture (sofa, tv, lamps). Katara was nagging Zuko and Mai nagged Zuko about the sleeping together.

Flashback:

Dinner…

"I'm tired." Sokka pushed the dish away as soon as he was done.

"You sleepy?" Suki asked him.

"Hey, let's sleep together!" Ty Lee suggested, she meant it for all the girls.

"Yeah, why not?" Toph took it wrongly, thinking she meant everyone.

"Together as in all of us?" Mai raised an eye brow. They actually sleep together in one room, in two separate beds. Ty Lee was about to say 'us girls' but was interrupted.

"Why don't we?" Azula leaned back on her chair.

Haru shrugged. Aang nodded excitedly. Sokka looked at Suki, she smiled at him.

"I don't think it is right for boys and girls to sleep together." Katara told them her mouth half full. Iroh was nodding with her in the background, his eyes closed and was drinking tea.

"Come on, Katara!" Toph stood up a bit frowning, and then she smiled in a funny way "please?"

"I don't want to sleep on the floor." Mai grunted. She knew the only place that would allow them to sleep together was in the living room, and most likely on the floor.

"Why not, Zuzu?" Azula asked, reaching for his hand from across the table.

"Well Iroh said Zuko's in charge." Sokka said, ignoring the old man. Iroh looked at them, with an 'I'm-not-in-charge? look.

"What do you think?" Haru asked.

"uh…"

Mai hesitated. Jet didn't seem to care, he was silent but he laughed with them. Haru looked okay, so did Sokka. Suki and Ty Lee looked excited. Aang's too silent. Toph wanted to. Azula gripped his hand harder. And Katara was glaring at him.

"I guess it's okay." He shrugged.

"YAY!"

End of flashback.

"Zuko! What were you thinking?" Katara snarled.

"Zuko! We can't sleep on the floor!" Mai crossed her arms.

Jet smiled. Zuko ignored. They pushed the sofa on the side, Jet did it faster that Zuko almost tripped helping him.

"Whoa, sorry." Jet said. Zuko just nodded.

"Oh," Jet snapped, dropping the sofa, making Zuko's part heavier. "I'm sorry for ramming into you this morning."

Mai blushed, she remembered him on top of her. "It's okay."

"Not you." Mai turned to him, Jet continued, "I was referring to Katara and Zuko. I knocked Katara down while I was running and she landed on Zuko."

"Jet!" Zuko and Katara exclaimed, then they blushed realizing they said his name together. "Let's not talk…" Zuko and Katara turned to each other, they were saying things together again, "..about… it." They blushed.

Jet raised a brow, Mai laughed at them, "Why? What happened?"

"Katara and Zuko kissed by accident."

A loud crash was heard behind them. The four of them tuned to see Haru, Sokka, Aang, Toph, Suki and Ty Lee on top of each other. They accidentally slid down the stairs with the bed foam. Azula was just right next to them; she just got out of the bathroom.

"What?" it was Aang's, Sokka's and Azula's voice all together.

"Really?" Toph asked eagerly.

Zuko and Katara blushed, "It was an acci-" no, they can't be saying the same thing again.

Zuko groaned, "Look, it's not like we like it." Katara nodded in the background, he continued, "I mean, come on, why would I want to be kissed by Katara?" She shot him a glare, what?

"What do you mean by that?" Katara asked, offended somehow.

Zuko didn't know what to say, he was trying to save their asses but it went all wrong.

"You're lips were so dry, it hurt!" Katara lied.

Zuko inhaled, his nostrils getting bigger then exhaled, "Well you may look thin, but you weigh a ton!"

Uh oh. Katara doesn't want to be teased about her figure or her weight. "Well, I don't want to be kissed by you again because you're… you're not a good kisser! You have bad breath!" She said loudly.

"I do not!" he hissed. "I for one don't want to be kissed by you again, 'cause you're over reacting so much. And you didn't actually taste like a basket of cherries! It was such a bitter pill!" (unpleasant experience one has to endure)

Katara was hurt, and she had nothing more to say. "Fine!" She ran to the bathroom. Suki ran after her she won't open the door. Toph scolded Zuko, and then he made fun of him.

When Katara got out, she wasn't crying, she just took a bath. Suki sighed in relief.

The bedding were spread down together on the floor. Mai and Jet were on the divan. Azula had taken the sofa for herself. On the beddings circled together were Sokka, Haru, Toph, Zuko and Ty Lee.

Katara grunted when she passed by Zuko. His and Toph's heads were near each other's, their eyes closed. But she ignored that fact as she and Suki lied down with them.

"I'm really sorry, Suki." Sokka begged as she hugged her girl tightly.

"It's okay." Suki cuddled beside him. Then she whispered, "just don't do that again.

"Promise."

"Sokka…"

"Yeah, Aang?"

"I'm sorry for hitting you."

"It's okay, Aang." He closed his eyes.

"And, Zuko?" Aang swallowed.

"Hm?" he cracked an eye open.

"Thanks for jumping after me… I'm sorry for being a jerk."

"I'm sorry for hitting you as well, Aang."

"So that's why…" Ty Lee mumbled, everyone noticed that Aang had a dark spot on his cheek.

"…but I still blame you for everything." Aang continued.

Everyone opened their eyes all of a sudden. What?

Katara sighed inside.

Toph laughed and elbowed Zuko. He just snickered back. Azula saw this and grunted.

"I'm sorry, Mai for not being honest." Jet said.

"Me too." She answered.

Ty Lee heard her phone ring so she answered it outside, respecting the sleepy heads.

Katara's eyelids were getting heavy. She can hear Sokka and Suki exchanging good nights in different voices. Jet and Mai murmuring. And Toph was smacking Zuko's back, and he was laughing at her. Ty Lee's voice was fading out… then she went to sleep.

A/N: I apologize to everyone out there. Sorry if I just posted this just now after a century. I'm sorry. I am sorry, sorry, sorry. I was looking for a right story on this one. And I just finished it, today. You forgive me right? Really? Yey! (throws gummy bears at reader's face like confetti)

Zuko: hey that's mine!

Me: Uh oh. The blue spirit has noticed me. (puts a handful of gummy bears in own mouth) I gotta go!

Zuko: give it to me already!

Me: (run away with mouth full)

Zuko: Mama!

Me: alright! Alright! Here you go! Seesh…

Zuko: (sticks his tongue out and leaves with his gummy bears.)

Me: thank you for your comments! Every comment is equal to one gummy bear! :)