After waking up she meet her Cousin. "I hope you had good nap." But zuri freaked out for Moment before falling into the Pond and the turleducklings swam around. "Oh, agni sorry about that." She offered zuri her a Hand and zuri took it. "I will get you a towel." He walked to her room.
"Who is she?" She asked ursa as she rubbed her eyes.
Ursa stood up. "Your Cousin we better join the rest after you dry-" She stopped once she saw zuri generate a fire to Keep herself warm. "I guese you won't Need those towels." she said as izumi came back caring a stack of towels.
After drying and having breakfast with her Family she and her cousin was brought to their tutore who was a young and kind woman, she was there to teach them an Instrument but zuri had to choose hers in which she decided to Play the horsehead fiddle mostly because it looked the most unique and seemed easy to Play since it only had two strings, Which was a mistake as she over estemated. Her Hand was stiff as it turmed out you had to exactly move your Hand up and down the neck of the Instrument which was the hardest part of it all.
Then she got a break adn Walking out of the Music "I told you to choose the flute. It's much easier then a bowed Instrument." Zuri rolled.
"It looked so cool and i thought it would be easy with only two string-"
before she finished both Girls almost Walked into Iroh. "Oh sorry, great uncle." the two Girls said in unison, Iroh smiled and his nieces as he saw that zuri stood uneasy to the man who had freed ba sin se.
"I was Walking to the kitchen for my afternoon tea til I heard the sirens of a horse fiddle." She gulped and blushed with embarrassment.
"It wasn't that good it sounded more like someone was torturing a cat." They all laughed at that. She saw the time and remembered the she had to go to her fire bending tutore. "Sorry, but do you know where the training grounds are?." Iroh motioned her to follow him to said training ground and Izumi joined with them.
Zuri looked at Izumi. "Ok how about a spar?" She looked at Izumi shacked her head. "Huh, Why not?" Before izumi could say it.
Iroh cleared his voice. "Izumi didn't inharent fire bending from her father but she did iharent his Kind and wise heart." Izumi smilled at her uncle. "Now zuri, I want to see the largest flame you can generate." She took one breath and released taking stand just before right foot touched the ground waves of fire was released from the girls fist.
Iroh saw the flaws in her stance as her right leg was too in front and her left knee was about to hit the ground, also the fire it self was unpolished controlled but not focused and she could rival most adults if she was able to do so. Izumi was amazad at this she had seen some of the firebenders in her School but never to this degree. "Was aunt azula like this?" Zuri stopped looking izumi wanting to know if she had met her mother.
"Good I need you to focus your fire into one point and change your stance you're not stable, you could easily fall if your fire pushes you back." Zuri nodded and took her uncles advice as her crimson flames Took on a more golden color, she felt like the fire was pushing her but luckily she was able to stay on her feet. "Nicely done." A Kiyi entered the training field. "It looks like your fire bending teacher is here." He spoke standing up from his chair. "I will see at dinner my niece." he walked away.
Izumi stayed to watch her Cousin and aunt pratice a few katas and then she remebered what izumi had said before "Was my mother a firebender?"
kiyi unlike the rest of her family didn't know of azula much only that she wasn't a very- Ok her half sister is a dragon that had one of it's horns broken and people said that a glare from her could kill a man, So kiyi gulped. "Yes, yes she was and brother told Me that she could bend blue fire!" Zuri eyes sparkled imagining mother who so far looked Like a younger version of her grandmother in her head. Kiyi was already hearing the lecture from zuzu about bringing the Girls hopes up and making idolise a criminal.
Izumi just imagined a older Version of her Cousin when she thought. "Wait does that mean her fire was hotter?" Kiyi nodded which both fire Nation princesses to riddle her with questions.
After that court manners was next spent with a crone of woman. "Back straight, eyes forward, if you meet diplomats or those of fame and Importance you will act accordingly. Now Show me how you bow." She remebered her first fire bending master (Or better said her boss) bowing by making their left Hand a fist and right Hand an open Palm with the thump inside to look like the circle in the fire. "Good to see that City teaches the right manner. Your Cousin didn't take 3 seconds to take the correct bow"
She stopped the urge to roll her eyes at that comment since she knew that the old crone would lecture her next on table Etiquette. Ofcourse it was easy for her since she had to act as multiple People from a sickly begger Girl to get some money with out stealing because the cops were Close or a rich snobs daughter to get into overfilled fansy resturants to sneak into where the coat hanger and take some wallets. "Are you listening?" Zuri got nodded quickly getting out of her Train of thought. "Really? So tell what sign is it when you slurp your Food?" Zuri looked into the ladies eyes.
She looked at her Cousin who was miming eating noddles and showing thumbs rubbing her tummy. "is a sign of appreciation?" She said shyly and the tutore nodded and zuri released a big breath of relief but felt a Little homesick remembering her gang of misfits and Trouble makers at one of the noodle stands but then remembered bumi and thought that he could bring a letter to them... yet he didn't know where they lived and they most likely hid to the other disricts of the City by now to hide from the cops but she could still write to bumi and kya.
After dinner that what she did! Which kiyi and izumi saw and decided to fix and tutore her on the Basics of writing.
After that Izumi asked if they could play a game of pia sho. "Just a warning i'm pretty good." Zuri said Setting the game up.
Iroh decided to watch the two. "I see my star pupil against a new comer, don't go easy on her now." He said with pride and Izumi grinned at that compliment, to which Zuri answered with smug smille.
After 2 two games izumi won both. "HOW?! I'm sure you wouldn't be able to see through that one!" she pleaded wanting to know the answere as she that she didn't have any more moves left.
Zuri just smiled. "Well lets just say that betting on pai sho in rebuplic City is common and you can make a lot of Money that way." she smirked at her Cousin.
She instantly looked at her great uncle. "You can't bet on pai sho games, right?" She hoped for a saving grace and say that her Cousin was somehow cheating.
Iroh laughed. "Sorry niece, but it's true old men like my self Like to add some danger to the game, i almost lost my ship during one game of pai sho." Izumi looked at her uncle with a shocked Expression and stood up running to the her father to ask if her great uncle actually did what he had said. "One game if I win you let izumi win one game and if I lose I owe you a favor." She thought for Moment before nodded.
FOLLOWERS OF AZURE KNOWS.
Authors note: Yea I aged Izumi up because it's alot easier for me and if anyone askes where tenzin was during zuris stay on air temple Island visiting Pop Pop and sokka.
