Chapter Twenty Three: Telling Them
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"Wake up!" Aang said.
Yoshiro blinked.
"I couldn't get sleep on the ship, and now I can't get sleep here! Let me have some sleep!" Yoshiro yelled.
"Please?"
"Alright."
Yoshiro unhappily woke up and yawned.
"I never get sleep anymore. By the way, are we away from the ship?" Yoshiro asked Katara.
"Yes," Katara replied.
"Good. I'm not going back," Yoshiro thought about her death sentence.
"Why not?" Katara asked. She wasn't going to give up trying to figure out what Yoshiro was hiding.
"I couldn't tell you. It's a long story," Yoshiro looked away.
Silence.
"Could you at least explain why you're an earth and firebender?" Aang asked.
"Sure."
Yoshiro sat down and began.
"My parents were not supposed to be together. My mother came from the Earth Kingdom, and my father was from the Fire Nation. He was in the Fire Nation army. Well…he found my mother and they wanted to get married. But Fire Lord Ozai would not allow it. My father eloped with her and had me. Sadly…." Yoshiro paused.
"What?" Katara asked.
"General Xokku tracked the two down, and wanted to kill me and bring my father back into the army. He refused. So he killed both of them, and he was going to kill me…but he didn't. He raised me as his own. And now he's dead. Because of me."
Yoshiro didn't want to talk about it anymore. She missed Xokku, even if he killed her real parents.
"I'm sorry to hear that…" Katara said.
"So your mother was from the Earth Kingdom?" Sokka asked.
"Yes. Didn't I just say that?" Yoshiro said, annoyed.
"You really should listen, Sokka," Aang said.
"I did!"
"No you didn't," Yoshiro said.
"I did!"
"Nuh uh!"
"I did!"
"You two are fighting like a married couple," Katara sighed.
"Eww…" Yoshiro stepped away Sokka.
"You were."
There was an awkward silence between the two of them.
"I was kidding."
"Riiiight…" Yoshiro said.
For the rest of the morning, and most of the afternoon, Yoshiro and Sokka avoided each other. Even when Aang stopped Appa at an island, they still wouldn't speak.
"Where are we, Aang?" Yoshiro looked around.
"Uhhh….Arrengos?" Aang recollected.
Arrengos? Arrengos! No!
"We can't be here! No!" Yoshiro shouted at Aang.
"Why not? They have great food here and-,"
"I can't be here."
"Not like you're going to die here," Aang said, jokingly.
Yoshiro frowned.
"I am. I'm going to be executed. Here."
S.E.: Ooooooh...
Chi: Ooooh to you too 0.o
Natasha: Why everyone saying 'Oooooh'
S.E.: Cuz we're stooooooopid
Natasha: I should have known...