Chapter Twenty Four: Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar. I do own Yoshiro, Arrengos, Ieko and the knife
Note: There is going to be violence in this chapter. I didn't rate it T for nothin', now did I?
'Don't let the sun go down on me
Although I've searched myself it's always someone else I see
I just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
By losing everything
Is like the sun going down on me'
Part of 'Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me', by Elton John.
"What?" Aang said, shocked.
"I can't be here. If people-no- the Fire Nation Army sees me….I'm dead meat!" She exclaimed.
"Why?" Sokka asked.
"It's because what I told you! I bend earth and fire! I'm supposed to be dead!" She said, furiously.
He winced.
"Is that why you were on that ship?" Katara asked her.
Yoshiro shook her head.
"No. It's different."
Yoshiro didn't want to tell them.
"So…you're not coming?" Aang asked.
"No. I'll stay behind. You three go ahead," She smiled.
They nodded as they headed off into Arrengos.
It's only a matter of time…just a matter of time before the sun comes down on me.
Yoshiro thought about that a long time.
I won't let them kill me. Never. They shall pay for killing Xokku. Why am I not mad at Xokku? He did kill my real parents, and I still don't know their names. I guess it's because he raised me, instead of killing me. And the fact I'm not an angry person by nature…unlike Zuko. I wonder what Ieko is doing…
"Yoshiro? Is that you?" A voice called to her.
"Huh?" She turned her head.
It was Ieko.
She smiled.
"Ieko!" She yelled and came running to him.
"What are you doing here? You're with…" Ieko noticed Appa.
"Yes. I am. Is there something wrong?" She asked, worried.
Ieko was silent.
"I won't let you get executed."
"How?"
"Come with me."
"But…you sent me that message! Fire Lord Ozai will know-,"
"Nothing. I gave him wrong directions. I didn't know that scroll was about your execution, I didn't."
Yoshiro felt happy.
"Thanks, Ieko. I'm so glad you're my friend!" She smiled.
Ieko frowned.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"Just a 'friend'?"
"…Yes? Why?"
He stepped away from Yoshiro.
What's up with Ieko?
"I thought….there was…something more, Yoshiro…"
Yoshiro was clueless. She never remembered Ieko acting this weird.
"Ieko…you're acting weird…" She stepped away from him.
Ieko looked away.
"You don't get it?"
"….Not really. Please, why are you acting weird?" Yoshiro asked him.
"Don't you get it?"
"I just told you no!"
"I like you, Yoshiro! I like you a lot more! That's why I kept searching for you!" Ieko yelled at her.
She was wide eyed. Ieko…liked her?
"Ieko, I like you too, but I don't like you like that. I…" Yoshiro was partially speechless.
"You like Zuko, don't you?" He growled.
Yoshiro almost threw up.
"What the- heck no! I don't like Zuko! He's so…ugh…I don't like him! He's a fiend!" Yoshiro gagged.
"How come you were on his ship?" Ieko asked her, impatiently.
"I was banished from the Fire Nation, Ieko! I was forced onto his ship! I didn't want to!" Yoshiro raised her voice.
"What? You were banished…but why?"
Yoshiro sighed. It would take forever to explain everything to him.
"Ieko, I can bend earth AND fire. And General Xokku is NOT my father. My real parents are dead, and so is he," Yoshiro explained.
"So…you lied to me?"
"What? Ieko, no! I didn't know this stuff until later, I wasn't lying!" Yoshiro yelled at him.
"I can't believe you lied to me. Yoshiro…" Ieko turned away from Yoshiro.
"I WASN'T LYING TO YOU!" Yoshiro screamed, but Ieko was stubborn, and did not believe her.
"Yoshiro!"
She turned around and saw Katara, Sokka and Aang.
"Were you three listening?" She asked.
"Maybe…" Sokka said, whistling.
"Ugh…" Yoshiro said.
Great. Ieko thinks I lied to him, and Aang, Sokka and Katara were listening. Maybe I really should end my life. Then again…don't let the sun go down on me.
"So now you're with the Avatar?" Ieko asked her.
"Yes. I am, Ieko. I choose peace, and I will not let him get captured, even if my banishment decree says so!" She glared at him.
Yoshiro backed away from the mad Ieko as she ran to where her friends were.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you all of it, I am sorry and-,"
"It's okay. We aren't mad at you!" Aang cheerfully said.
"I am," Sokka said.
"Good. I wanna get outta here," Yoshiro sadly said.
"You're not getting away, Yoshiro! Not again!" Ieko yelled at her.
Ieko drew out a knife.
"I-Ieko, what are you going to do with that?" Yoshiro was frightened by Ieko's sudden behavior.
Yoshiro looked at Aang, Sokka and Katara.
"I won't let him kill you. You guys go over there, near that cave."
This seems so familiar to that dream I had…
"No! Don't kill them!" Yoshiro yelled at him.
"The Avatar is supposed to be for the Fire Nation. I have no use for the others," Ieko said, darkly.
"I won't let you!" Yoshiro screamed.
"This is for the Fire Nation! This is for you, Yoshiro!" Ieko ran with his knife in the air.
"For…me?"
So…he's trying to kill…me? He wasn't trying to kill my friends…just me? That dream I had...it was me...dying?
"Traitor!"
He threw the knife at Yoshiro.
It pierced through her arm, and it fell to the ground, it was covered with blood.
Yoshiro felt a surge of pain go through her arm and she fell to the ground.
I can't die…I don't wanna die…please…I can't…I can't die!
S.E.: What a turn of events, right?
Chi: Whoa. Will Yoshiro die?
Natasha: That's violent
S.E.: Kinda why I added the note at the top of the page, "There might be some violence in this chapter!"
Natasha: Oh...