There is so many ways this could have gone, but I must say that the ending wasn't in the original script, I just had to push things at the end and I was really delighted with my drunken Zuko.

It is very well known that people when drunk then to act different, not everyone acts the same, I just had this idea of doing or a more brooding Zuko or this one, one who feels more calm and collected, and insanely brave; the whole thing of the drunken fist came from Jackie Chan, not from Naruto as some may think.

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21: Liquor

He hated him, oh yeah, he hated him with all his heart, he was his enemy, he was the one who was constantly chasing them around the world, he was the one who was always attacking and defeating his little sister Katara, he was the one who betrayed them, he was the one who later helped them in a movement Sokka knew it was fake, he knew he was going to kill them one of this days while they were sleeping, he was the one who was Katara's first boyfriend, and he also was the one who… was paying the drinks in the small bar of the town they have arrived; he was also a good friend when they weren't fighting Sokka thought finishing his drink feeling the flame on his throat and placing the empty glass in the table joining the several dozens already empty.

Getting drunk was something incredibly strange, it made you do things you usually don't do sober, just like treating Zuko like he was his best friend, or talking with him about everything, just like what they were doing right now after doing quite a rumble in the bar.

Zuko said something about how bad were the earthbenders, with the exception of the blind bandit and several guys tried to kick the life out of Zuko, and Sokka wondered briefly when the firebender learned the drunken fist seeing the challengers in the floor and Zuko grab a full bottle of… something, right now the words were moving too much and Sokka wasn't in the mood to chase after them.

"Okay, so you when to bed with Katara?" Sokka said like if they were talking about the weather.

"No, almost, but no, I leave that to… wait, Haru, yeah, that's his name, right?" he said after taking another sip of the bottle, their voices weren't slurred, which was almost a miracle considering how much liquor they had in their systems.

"Yeah, that's his name; then you never did it with her?"

"Besides kissing, no, and she got out of that crush in time" Zuko, no matter if he was drunk had his moments of self-attack.

"How many girlfriends you had?"

"Well... Katara… that other girl of the northern water tribe… Jin… and that's all… my life sucks" he said finishing the bottle and leaving it in the street while Sokka nodded to that, finally they arrived to the inn they were staying, without Aang and Appa traveling was a little more harder and sad, it had been hard when Aang died after stopping the comet.

"Yes, your life sucks, and you two stink" Toph said placing one hand over her nose once both drunken friends went inside the lobby where Katara and Toph were dinning; Zuko only shrugged his shoulders, he seemed to be more relaxed with liquor in his system Sokka realized holding the table for support ignoring his sister's glare.

Sokka was expecting in any moment to see Zuko face first in the ground with Toph's earthbending but what followed wasn't exactly in Sokka's list of possible things to happen in life.

Toph was with one hand raised with the index finger like admonishing the ex-fire prince while she was ready to tell something and more likely scream and kick their butts right into the past week before they all saw how Zuko only had a little smile on his face.

"Hello dear" he simply said taking Toph's right hand on his own and giving her a kiss on the lips for several seconds… if not a full minute; while all this was happening Katara almost went backwards due to the shock of what the two were doing… well, more like what Zuko was doing, and she, red face and all, remembered that he was a really good kisser; while the waterbender was thinking about that Sokka was a simpler case, he calmly took a dumpling of the table and munched on it watching the scene unfold in front of him.

Once they separated after the kiss Zuko simply said a quick good night to Katara and Sokka before going upstairs to rest and sleep; Katara stood up and went to check on Toph, and stop her from killing their friend if she could but she only found out a completely petrified Toph, then, the younger girl's knees didn't have any more energy and she felt to the floor with both knees together and her legs facing different sides, also, her face was beet red.

Katara remembered something Iroh said once, that the drunk always said the truth, and maybe he didn't talk but his actions talked very loud for him; she couldn't stop her laugh although she had to be honest with herself, that was one of the hottest kisses she have ever seen, and by the reaction of Toph it have been earth shattering (pun completely on purpose) for the petite earthbender.