Mourning a loss
Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar. I own Kaori and any Oc's. Yes that sounds about right. Also, -- I went braindead on the Kumi one. SORRY!
Every night sence then, the cats slept with Zuko in his room. Which was only a week. One morning, a soldier woke him and told him that they were at Kumabori island. He and some other soldiers left the ship and searched the island. After they did, they went to the giant gold and green palace; and asked that Prince Kaisuke. Prince Kaisuke was a young earthbending prince. He had dirty blond hair, a muscular body, much like Zuko's when he was fourteen. He had on a tan sleevless shirt and baggy brown pants. He had on curled tiped shoes with gems all up the sides of the shoes, and on his shirt as well. Tacky.
"Kaori? No, I don't believe she is here. My soldiers say that they did arrest her yes, but, oh what did you say happend to her?" Kaisuke asked, looking at the captain.
"Sir, I told you that she went insane. She was yelling at nothing and throwing a fit. So, as you instructed, it was nessisary to kill her, so we through her overboard. I'd say by now she drowned." The soldier awncerd the Prince. Zuko froze. Drownd...? He felt his heart drop; His fist lit on fire as he charged at the prince.
"YOU BASTURD!" Zuko screamed, Kaisuke's army held Zuko back from harming their future king,but Zuko wasn't going to stop. They had killed the only girl he ever had a crush on. "HOW COULD YOU FUCKING DO SUCH A TERRIBLE THING? BURN IN HELL!" Zuko got free of the army and charged head on at the prince, fire in his heart. He shot fire balls at the prince. His anger couldn't be described, it was the worst thing he ever felt. It was like, being stabbed in the gut, with no one offering to help. Everyone just walking and minding their own buisness as he bled to death. His vision blurred with newfound tears in his eyes, so his fireballs were indirect. But he didn't care what he hit, as long as he hit something, and he did! he hit the window drapes, he hit the prince many times, he hit the thrown his ass was sitting on, he hit the rugs, and he hit anything else that could catch on fire. After he set the palace on fire, he and his army left. Zuko stayed ahead of them, wanting this all to be a lie. But it wasn't. It was true as far as he knew. He walked onto his ship and his uncle spotted him.
"Hello Prince Zuko! Were is Kaori?" Zuko froze and hung his head. He just kept walking. When he got inside of his room, the cats all greeted him anxiously. Wanting Kaori to be behind him, but after seeing that she wasn't, they looked at him. He shut the door and locked it. He threw himself onto his bed and let tears flow. He never felt such heavieness in his heart. This pain was worse than losing his home, worse than anything he ever experianced. He loved Kaori and she was dead, or as far as he knew. The felines surrounded him, confused on why he was crying. They cautously walked to him, and rubbed his hand with their heads. He just turned away from them and continued to weep. He refused to accept the fact that he could never be with Kaori ever again. All he wanted was for her to be alright, but he knew that wasn't going to happen, she was dead. If only...if only...if only he hadn't fallen asleep. If only he had tried to find his way out with her,but he didn't. He and she slept in the forest that night and she was taken away from him, for good. He never felt so helpless, the sickly feeling of her loss lingerd with him the remainder of the day, just picking at him. If Kaori had been alright...he might have kissed her. Probably wouldn't have, but he wanted to.
A soldier had explained what happend to Iroh. He felt so bad for his nephew and for Kaori. Kaori was gone forever; and his nephew as feeling responcable for her death. He tried to comfert his nephew, but he refused to open the door to him. All Zuko did was sit in that room with Kaori's cats, feeling bad about losing her. Zuko wasn't heard crying; but he didn't come out to eat lunch or dinner, he just sat in that room meditating, but the meditation never worked, he couldn't focus. It was hard on him accepting the fact that Kaori was gone...forever...
Kaori staired up at the sky. She had insisted that they leave her on the island that they had camped out at,at one point. She didn't want to expose them to Dark Kaori. As much as they didn't want to, they left her with some supplies of theirs, and she gave them money to replace the stuff they gave her. She often found herself breaking down on the beach and crying.
Are you happy now Dark Kaori? Im all alone...
Yeah Im happy! Now your all by yourself and no one will be able to find you!
Your wrong..Zuko will find me if he wants to...
Suuuure! Whatever you say! psh not! He doesn't want to find you at all. Face it girlie, your stranded.
She walked along the beach, and then she staired at the sky. It was a light blue, and had puffy white clouds. It actually felt nice, to be on vacation. But she'd never be at peace while Dark Kaori controled the visions she would have. But for the moment, Dark Kaori let her be, and she was at peace. She closed her eyes as the cool breaze brushed against her, She couldn't remember the last time she felt so at peace with herself. She had a smile on her face as she relaxed on the shores of the deserted island. She rememberd how she and her mother would go to the beach and play, they built sandcastles and played in the low tide. She wounderd how Zuko and everyone else were doing. She wounderd if they even missed her at all; they hardly ever acted like they would, except Iroh, he was nice to her. Zuko hardly payed attintion to her at all, and when he did, he was either forced to; or they were fighting. His crew was nice, but she doubted they missed her.
Truth was, when everyone thought she was dead. They missed her more than mear words could express. She was alot of help on the ship when she didn't want to stop working because she was trying to occupy her mind. Now they would never be like they were before they met her, she was greatly missed, and they had to accept it. Kaori was gone. But it hurt all of them to know she was gone; Iroh would play pai-cho silently, Zuko would only come out to do what he had to, like eat and other things while everyone else was sleeping, and then he would go back into his room with her cats. The sunny day, was being treated like a rainy day. No one was happy, but they did what they had to. Zuko had to be alone, Iroh had to play pai-cho with sadness in his heart, and the crew did what they had to do. They didn't cry, but they did sigh an awful lot.
sorry for the strong language!