A/N: And I'm at it again with trope subversion, featuring over-complicated plans by Sokka, lots of dialogue and bad spelling - I am rediculously tired, and very sorry, I promise I will go back and re-edit all chapters when I'm done.
Disclaimer: All rights go to Bryke and Nickelodeon.

Sokka glanced at his partners in crime, Toph and Suki. They had created a brilliant - but crazy - plan to set up Zuko and Katara on a date, guven they were rediculously oblivious to their ovbbious romantuc attractiom. Suki caught his eye and nodded as Toph kicked him in the shin. Wincing, he cleared his throat.

"I uh, would like to, uhh, cordially invite all members of the Gaang under thirteen to a shadow puppet show by yours truly, right now, at the beach. Sorry, you guys."

He sent a hopefully "apologetic" look to those over thirteen.
This shadow puppet show was actually a set-up for him and his partners to easily be able to set up a set up date for the local lovebirds, without issue, disguised as him summoning the younger members to help him set up a date with Suki at a meeting disguised as a shadow puppet show.
Excitement sparkling in Aang's eyes, the airbender got up and pulled Toph, who was giving a marvellous performance as the disgruntled and bored teenager she had recently become, out to the beach behind him. Smiling, he leaned over to give Suki a quick pack on the cheek, who in turn grinned at him and winked discreetly. He hurried outside.

-oOo-

Down at the beach
Sokka found Aang searching the beach up and down for a shadow puppet stage.

"Where's the stage, Sokka?"

"Nowhere. Because I actually summoned you two here to ask you to help me set up a top-secret, special star with Suki here!"

He beamed at them enthusiastically, hoping his enthusiasm would make his lie. Aang's face split into a broad grin.

"Of course we'll help you, Sokka! Isn't that right, Toph?"

Toph plopped down on the sand and picked some sort from her feet, shrugging in a seemingly nonchalant manner. It would have convinced Sokka had he not known it was all acted.
Damn, that little girl was a good actress.

"Sure."

He whooped enthusiastically.

"Here's the plan..."

-oOo-

Meanwhile, in the kitchen
Suki and decided to help "Zutara", as she and Sokka sometimes called them, with the dishes and wa snow trying to get them to confess in one-on-one conversation. She'd alreayd gotten Katara to crack, so now, it was Zuko's turn to be tortured to confession.

"So, Zuko, you got a lady who's stolen you heart?" she poked, collecting a dish he's just dried and packing it into a cupboard above the space occupied by Katara.

Suki did not miss how he loeered his hands, his gaze instantly wandering past the Kyoshi warrior, over to the sink where Katara was rinsing the dishes off, before he turned beet-red and sputtered a defiant "No!"

She punched his shoulder. Before picking up another dish and putting it away, telling him: "You're a terrible liar. I have to give youcredit for trying, though. Even if the attempt was worthless. Just tell me."

"Tell him what?" Katara cried from over by the sink.

"Nothing!" Suki answered, putting away a stack of bowls.
Zuko's fiery glare was hot enough to melt the North Pole, not that she cared.
She walked over to his side, stood up on her tiptoes and whispered into his ear.

"I know you like Sugarqueen. So you're going to be nice and chivalrous to me by lettimg me slack off right now, and I won't tell Katara anything, and you'll have confessed to her by tomorrow morning," she ordered, satisfied when his reaction was a low growl. Bullseye.

"That's black-mail!" he whisper-shouted incredulously. Suki only smiled up at him innocently.

"Call it a favour from a friend, hotshot."

And she sauntered off, deliberately opening the door dramatically and crying her good-byes loudly on the way out.

"Hey!" Katara's call stopped her," No slacking! If you volunteer, you gotta do your fill, Suki!"

"Well then, you better catch me, because I feel like a swim!"

She hoped that that subtle hint of her destination would be enough to get Katara down to the beach. And that Sokka and Toph's part of the plan had succeeded. She rushed off into a side corridor, panting and waiting as Katara stormed past her, down to the beach.
Once sure the angry waterbender was out of ear-shot, she hurried back to the kitchen.
Once there, she grabbed Zuko by the collar and leaned in very closely to his face, her fist raised.

"Listen here, buddy. There's a romantic set-up out there on the beach, and that's where Katara is right now. So go get her, chum!"

His eyes widened in possible fear - he had witnessed her threaten and take out his ex's uncle this way, so it was understandable that he was worried - he nodded. She released him and slapped his back before pushing him out of the door.

"Go!"

-oOo-

Shortly after, on the beach

Sokka had managed to pull Aang and Toph away and into bed, which was a harder task than originally realised. Now he was sitting, crouched behind some rocks near where they'd previously set up a blanket, candles and treats on the moon-lit beach.
Katara had just arrived on-scene, positively furious, and hunting for Suki.
Then, probably much to his girlfriend's benefit, Zuko arrived.

"Hey."

"Hey. Did you meet Suki on your way out?"

"Uhhh, no?"

Zuko was a terrible liar. But Katara didn't press matters and instead gazed wondering around the beach.

"Who set this up, I wonder?"

Sokka noticed Zukoxs breath hitch.

"I don't know. They must be really romantic, or hoping that soem of their friends find romance."

"That would be really sweet of them, wouldn't it, Zuko?"

"Yeah, totally."

Silence.

"So, uhh, wanna sit down?"

"Sure."

The rustling of moving cloth, and the "whoosh" of sand being interacted with.
More silence.

"The stars are really pretty out here. It reminds me of home," Katara murmured.

Zuko rolled over onto his side, facing towards her.

"Really?"

Katara smiled.

"Yeah. There was little unnatural light there, so we had the best views of the skies at night. And mixed up with the auroras, they were a stunning masterpiece to behold."

Nostalgia panged inside of Sokka.

"My mom used to tell us stories about all the constellstions. And the myth of the hunting souls"

"She knew Water Tribe myths?"

"She knew all myths."

Zuko sounded proud.
Katara rolled over so she, too, was facing Zuko

"She sounds amazing."

"She was. Just like you."

And then, finally, the ex-prince captured her lips in a soft kiss, which the waterbender soon returned.

Sokka felt like running around and screaming at a very high pitch, but refrained form doing so - it would give him away. So instead, he stamped his foot three times - the signal he'd agreed on with Toph in das did success, a message she'd transmit to Suki.

Across the estate, multiple teens whooped in delight and victory.