Atashi: WOHOO! New Drabble thought up while waiting for the laptop to finish doing stuff…
Title: Pain Words:1103 Author:AtashiChallenge:Bunny,Bunny…
Rating:G
So, Everyone was put in his or her place. Judged by each other, via their actions, skills, pasts and future's.
Everyone had something to say about each other's perfections, and flaws. Perhaps more than the one person.
In Zuko's perspective, everyone was a threat. Well, maybe not the water tribe girl, she interested him a lot, and it was her who allowed him to stay with not so open arms, but he forced them wide spread and he embraced what being she had inside her coloured shell.
Sokka was the idiot who thought he was a warrior, Zuko didn't really have much respect towards the brother who kept complaining that Zuko was perving on his sister when he was what? Two meters away from her! Hell, it was hard enough to go spar with her without Sokka jumping in to stop one of Zuko's Oh-So-Harmful-Attack-Of-Evil-Fire-Man-Power!
Zuko just raised his eyebrow in aggravation, and sent a glare towards the boy, Sokka always usually, but most of the time as a threat to his sister. Actually, it was more or less a threat to his manhood, and pride as a male.
He just wouldn't allow Zuko to know that Sokka was less capable of protecting his sister cause he didn't have what he called 'magic splashes, booms, rocks, or flames or psychic powers' according to the blind girl.
Ah, yes the blind girl. Toph.
She was actually more formally known to Zuko as The-Avatar's-Blind-Chick-Friend
He had seen more than once the innocent flirting between the two.
Oh yes, he knew what flirting was, jeeez he HAD been a teen for a little while…at least until his father stripped him bare of his honor in front of his sister, Zhao and his uncle.
At least there were plenty of trees to take his anger out on. Or, just take it on Sokka, poor boy.
Now, Toph. Toph was more or less an extremely interesting young 12-year-old girl to Zuko. He watched with much wondering looks as the blind girl almost bashed into a tree and almost fell off a cliff, once or twice. Well, she didn't really, mainly cause of something she called vibrations of the earth. How the hell she saw using that, Zuko would never know.
He watched Aang and Toph spar together, and practice the very seemingly hard defense and attack moves of the earth kingdom and its Magical-Rock-People, as Sokka would say.
Did Zuko mention, he thought Sokka was an illiterate human being who consumed more than Appa?
Then, there was Momo and Appa. Why Aang kept the smelly beasts around was beyond Zuko's common knowledge, they just seemed to kept around cause
1.Appa could fly; Instant transport you got their people.
2.Momo made an excellent furry hat.
Of course, Zuko would never admit that he found Momo's existence intriguing…
Let alone, Appa's constant appetite for the sickly, brown, scratchy stuff called 'hay'
Katara was a different matter. She was a girl with fire and Zuko had actually thought she might be a half breed of Fire and Water tribe…but nah, He didn't actually think that was possible. You'd most likely get steam out of the mix anywho.
He always watched her, (guiltily, but admittedly) practice her water bending, the water whips that she seemed to have mastered from the time of the stolen water scroll that forced Zuko into tying her up on a tree and whispering into her ear.
Good times, good times.
He watched her gaze up at the moon, and ask it questions. It must have been the white headed girl Yue, that she was talking to. After Zhao had forced her into a scarification of her soul for the moons existing life up in the starry sky of the heavens.
She even had once asked Yue whether the stars were her children, Yue's children.
She just smiled and continued to twirl her hand among the ripples of the dark, lucid water.
He loved the way the moonlight hit her peaceful face as she slept, dreaming about god knows what, and murmuring things like
'Where's mom?'
And
'Sokka, no more…okay?'
He wanted to answer her questions with his own proverbs he had picked up from Uncle; he wanted to answer her answers with illogical questions he had picked up from his own banishment.
He so wanted to place a hand behind her head, and watch her sink into a lulled sleep of contentment.
He wanted to take away whatever pain she was feeling from the death of her mother, he knew how she felt, but he didn't know what was worse.
Knowing what happened to your mother, and watching her die.
Or not knowing what happened to your mother. And watching her leave.
He racked his brains over the answer but came up with a simple conclusion.
Everyone has pain about the same level. No matter what it was you were in pain about. It was almost always the same.
That's why he felt he should have a strong connection with Katara, because she had lost her mother, she was in pain that people refused to upfront and he was in pain because of his father.
He looked up at the stars as his back lay against the lush grass, his hand behind Katara's back as she too, lay down on his arm. And they both lied there as silent as a bird.
And they looked up at what seemed Yue's Children. And gazed with a continual stare as the twinkling lights lit the sky up, with a bright incoherent light of sparkles.
"Your Mother died"
"But I know what happened to her"
"Your father's gone"
"But I know he loves me"
"Stop denying the pain, Katara"
"Your pain is worser than my own"
"No, It isn't."
"Then, I guess we ask Yue"
Within a whisper Yue looked down and brushed their hair with a light, air breeze.
And she spoke.
Focus, on the future…"Well, she was helpful"
"Zuko" Katara lightly hit his arm playfully
"What? Come on, how is THAT suppose to help us?"
Katara giggled and snuggled closer towards Zuko's fire bending heat
Zuko sighed and stroked her head slowly, their bodies casting an eerie glow against the moon, and the grass.
"Sometimes, I just wish everything was gone"
Katara smiled and shook her head.
"No, if everything was gone…then, you would not exist…and that to me, is the worst pain I could go through."
HOMG THE FLUFF THE FLUFF Not really, its just really long, and probably boring…gah,…
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