Day Eleven - Wearing Kigurumis
Bumi walked into the dining room of his family, who were all sitting around the table catching up with his dad and little brother after their return from yet another vacation. This time they had gone to Ba Sing Se to meet the Earth King. Bumi had gone on exactly zero holidays with his father or family, seeing as Katara would be too busy with the Water Tribe cultural centre, and Aang's priority was passing down boring stories to his overly eager brother, rather than spending time with his worthless non-bending eldest child. He had gone on camping trips with his uncle Sokka and aunt Toph with Lin and Su, Toph had even taken them to Gaoling once to meet her parents, Bumi went to keep Lin company and it had been the best vacation ever.
Lin herself was beside him, the two had gone out to the training centre with Sokka to practice sparring, then he had waited in the locker room of the pro-bending arena, while Lin, Kya and their best friend Kia had won the game. It was cool because only he, Toph and Sokka knew about it, the girls wore masks over their headgear to prevent recognition, and Bumi was honoured to be in the little group who knew their identities.
The two sat at the table, beside each other, of course, Kya was coming later after seeing Kia home.
"Where have you two been all day?" Katara asked.
"Oh, you know, the usual: sparring, lunch and we stopped at the council to remind Uncle Sokka to come tonight." Bumi replied casually.
"Oh. Ok. I'm glad you're at least here before your sister, she said she was at the mall with Kia. No matter. Bumi, aren't you going to welcome your brother home?"
"Oh! Hey there, Little Brother! How was the trip?"
"It was great! Dad and I went to Ba Sing Se and met the Earth King! We even bought you guys presents!"
Su clapped her hands and Sokka grinned at the thought of presents. Su's enthusiasm doubled when she saw what they were, Sokka's however, plummeted.
"This is great, Uncle Aang." Lin started, "They're… They're…"
"Animal onesies!" Su finished for her.
"Yeah. Animal onesies." Bumi said. Forcing a smile. Why couldn't they have been given weapons, or camping gear? Not this Sabre-tooth Moose Lion animal costume! Did his family know him at all? Bumi sighed and looked in the mirror, wearing the stupid thing, his mother had insisted they tried them.
Lin walked to the mirror in her Badgermole one, an equally annoyed look on her face. Bumi burst out laughing, she pouted as they made their way down to Aang and the rest of the family, Su had a fluffy animal onesie, which she was absolutely delighted about, Sokka had a lemur one, and made him look exactly like Momo. Katara, Tenzin and Aang had a sky bison, Kya had a fish, which she was not too thrilled about, and Toph and Lin shared the badgermole design.
To break the awkward silence and false grins everyone shared, Bumi looked at Lin and smiled wickedly, before he started singing:
"Badgermole, digging a hole,
Underneath the city"
Lin glared at him and he gulped before continuing:
"Gotta run away from Linny today,
But I do still think she's pretty!"
Bumi pressed a smacking kiss to her cheek as everyone laughed, and Sokka complained about oogies. Lin stood frozen for a moment, blushing heavily as Bumi bolted; she blinked and ran after him, threatening his life and stuff like that, but with a smile on her face. Maybe wearing a onesie wasn't so bad after all.
Author's Note:
Sorry guys, I made this shorter than usual because I have to catch up! That finale was amazing! I am sort of sad that it's over, but hopefully we have the comics, and until then, we have fanfiction!
To Marty15: Thank you so much! I'm glad you like them! Happy holidays to you too!