It's Called Water Bending Chapter 5: Sokka Is a Hot Potato, an avatar: last airbender fanfic

It's Called Waterbending

By:

The-X-Love-x-Of-x-Your-X-Life

Disclaimer:

I do not own The Avatar.

Important Note:

Uh I still don't have a job and school has started again damn.

And if any of ya'll didn't know, Paco is the name of my sexy bulldog. Even though that's not his real name XD.

Chapter Five:

Sokka Is a Hot Potato

"Lee! Catch!"

The Avatar threw the bucket of water at Prince Zuko and then continued on with his job. It was a week since the trio and the firebender had arrived at the isolated location of the earthbender's hideout. Aang and Zuko both got assigned jobs and the prince was seriously thinking about staying there.

'I have what I want. Katara (he smiled and almost dropped the bucket), a hut right next to the waterfall (his smile widened and the bucket once again started to tip over), and hell- Aang isn't so damn bad,' the young man thought and started to make his way on to the hidden village. On the way, as he was passing some very thick vines, Zuko could not help but notice Sokka, Katara's idiotic brother. He waved to the water nation warrior.

Sokka gave the firebender a look that could kill. Ever since that day when he came upon the icy caves behind the waterfall and heard his sister's screams of pleasure (haha) he tried to stay away from the prince and his sister. It was then that the man realized that the so called Lee had a faint bump on his forehead (which Sokka was still proud he made) and the water nation man knew he had to stay away from his sister and Zuko, or else he would kill them both.

Or at least Zuko.

'That bastard! That swine! He probably tricked Katara! Errr why didn't I jump in and kick his ass when I had the chance?'

Outwardly, Sokka frowned and turned away from the prince. Inside the dark man was raging mad and wanted to kick the firebender's ass. Zuko looked at Sokka confused but just kept on walking.

Later on on the road the prince saw the earthbending Shaman Lee and she waved at him. Zuko thought for a moment if he should pause and walk over to her or wave and just keep walking. He decided to go with the second option just because the old woman was currently surrounded by other earthbenders.

The old woman saw Lee wave at her but continue on and she couldn't help but smile. Finally seeing a young man who was strong and who reminded her of her own son, her own son who was now so lost, it made her smile so. She turned back to the people around her and started to teach them more about medical herbs.

Further up the road Zuko started smiling. The bucket on his shoulders started to tip again but he ignored it and started jogging. The closer and closer the firebender got to his destination, the more the large wooden bucket started to tip over. Finally, as Zuko passed the tree that was marked as the entrance of the hidden village, the bucket tipped all the way and started to fall. The prince reached wildly for the bucket but it contents spilled.

"Haha!"

That voice, so lighthearted and beautiful made Zuko's head snap up immediately. Katara stood a few steps away from him with a hand held out. Zuko made another step forward and her hand twitched just a little and her eyes winced in concentration.

"Keep your eyes on what's most important Lee."

"You are what's most important."

The girl twitched again and smothered her laughter trying to concentrate.

"Just shut up and pick up the water!"

Zuko, smiling, picked up the bucket (which had dropped to the floor when he caught sight of Katara) and effortlessly swung it over the water that was floating in the air. Once the prince was finally done putting the floating water back in the bucket, the waterbender sighed tired and moved to embrace Zuko.

The prince set down the bucket and hugged Katara eagerly. He looked down at her smiling face and then looked around. When he saw no one in sight, the firebender swooped down and gave the waterbender a swift kiss on the lips. Katara just as swiftly pulled back and smiled shyly at Zuko.

"What would you do if I wasn't here everyday waiting for you to come back with the bucket of water?"

"Probably drop the water every time," Lee replied smirking and once again picked up the water. This time it didn't tip but sat straight up and not one drop of water fell.

"I think you would drop it on purpose," the young girl said laughing as the duo made their way to a small hut.

The hut, a large collection of sticks, vines, etc was the temporary house Aang, Sokka, Zuko, and Katara where sleeping at. It had enough space to hold eight people but the Earth nation peoples thought the Avatar should have a hut all to himself and his friends. The icy caves next to it made a perfect spot to go run and hide and play "games" when it was pitch dark.

"So I would. Up for a game of Spades," Zuko asked brushing his hand slyly across Katara's. The girl smiled and faked as if she where thinking about it.

"I don't know," she teased.

Zuko turned to her and gave her a piercing glare that meant to scare but the waterbender just waved it away with her hand and laughed. As they made their way to the door they could hear a loud swooshing sound. Like air racing through the water. They both smiled and knew Aang wouldn't be back until nightfall, where he would be so tired from waterskiing that he would just fall right asleep.

Katara sill felt a pang of guilt because she knew that now she didn't and wouldn't ever love Aang anymore. But as Zuko placed his hand on her shoulder she knew she couldn't help these new feelings within her. Both benders stepped into the hut at the same time excited.

That excitement was abruptly stopped when Sokka looked up at them from his seat on his bed.

The waterbender inwardly cried sadly while the firebender cursed the warrior. Sokka seemed to feel both benders feelings because he almost sneered the words:

"Hello sister, Lee."

'How did he get here before I did? Damn him,' Zuko screamed in his head and nodded at the warrior.

Before anything else could happen, Shaman Lee stepped into the tension filled room with two earthbenders next to her. One was a small earthbender who had long hair (who looked at Sokka's dirty side of the room disgusted), while the other was a tall plump girl with short hair.

'Why is everybody ruining our day today?' Katara mentally yelled to herself.

"Sorry to intrude but I've brought you all food. I saw yesterday that your stores where running low already," Shaman Lee said smiling. Zuko, Katara, and even Sokka couldn't help but smile back.

"Katara's the one who ate all the sweets," Sokka said laughing for the first time in days.

"Hey! What can I say I was hungry!"

"More than usual ," the warrior questioned back not ceasing in his laughter.

Katara reddened and walked madly out of the room. Zuko laughed.

"That's odd, I could have swore I saw you Sokka last night digging in the food bags," the young small earthbender Kaori whispered looking up at the water warrior with amber eyes. Sokka shivered and stood up.

"You're eyes where deceiving you," he answered and walked to a window.

"Maybe…if I had poor eyesight, which I don't," the earthbender replied back and exited the hut emotionlessly.

"Looks like you made the earthbender mad," the prince said and immediately was faced by an angry Sokka. The warrior seemed as if he was about to raise his hand to strike the firebender but then thought better of it and instead turned back to Shaman Lee. The elderly woman had a slight smile on her wrinkled face and she twitched her nose upon looking at Sokka.

Pointlessly enraged, Sokka went out back to the garden to apologize to Kaori.

WATERWHIPPACOWATERWHIP

Katara stared out of the other room's window out into the garden. She wasn't really mad at her brother for making the food comment but she just couldn't help herself. It was as if she was eating for two.

Or four. (XD)

The waterbender saw when Kaori came stomping out of the house by herself and then saw her brother, running after her a few minutes later. She was close, yet hidden enough, to hear their conversation.

"Hey why did you go charging out back there," Sokka cried grabbing the young earthbender by her arm. The girl turned wildly to face him and slapped him hard across the face.

"You are the only one in this village who questions what I say," she hissed and yanked her arm out of Katara's brother's hands.

"So?"

"You are so dense!"

"So!"

Katara turned away from the scene just as Shaman Lee, Zuko, and the other earthbender walked into the room. The shaman looked outside the window and couldn't help but to smile at the couple under the trees kissing.

Yes, Sokka was actually kissing a girl!

The tall earthbender girl dropped a sack of various foods and sweets down in the storage room and looked blankly at the wall. The shaman smiled at her but said nothing. The room was oddly quiet.

Zuko followed the shaman's gaze outside of the room and caught sight of Sokka and Kaori. The prince started to smile and a cough/laugh escaped his throat before he could stop it. Suddenly he was clutching his sides laughing hysterically.

Katara looked back out the window and saw her brother and the earthbender tightly embraced and smiled softly. She sneaked a glance at the firebender but his eyes where tightly shut and his spasm of laughter didn't stop.

What was so funny about Sokka kissing a girl?

"Does he …know…haha?" Zuko cried and fell over on his back.

"What is so funny," the waterbender finally screamed mad that she wasn't in on the joke.

"Kaori isn't a girl, he is a she," Shaman Lee said her smile spreading wider and wider.

"What? She—I mean he looks just like a girl!"

"He likes to dress up."

"He likes to more than that obviously," Zuko said seriously and stood up as the couple disappeared from the garden. Shaman Lee covered her mouth with the end of her kimono sleeve, the other earthbending girl was still looking blankly at the wall, and Katara…

"Oh my god," she cried starting to laugh.

'God, she is slow sometimes,' Zuko said and couldn't help but to smile.

WATERWHIPPACOWATERWHIP

It was the beginning of the second week and Zuko was once again carrying a heavy bucket of water down the road in the immense jungle. The prep in his step was in full swing and the large tree that marked the entrance to the hidden village was up ahead. The firebender smiled widely.

After yesterday, Sokka went out with Kaori (he still didn't know the earthbender was a man), and Aang took some more time to go waterskiing some more (it seemed to be his favorite thing to do now), which meant more alone time.

'Just Katara and me,' the prince thought smirking. He approached the tree and the bucket started to tip like it usually did.

"Katara…I think the bucket is about to slip."

Silence answered him.

"Fine."

Suddenly the bucket fell from his hands but the water did not suspend in midair. It fell like it was suppose to and crashed to the dirty ground. Now Zuko was worried. The waterbender was suppose to be there waiting for him.

Maybe she was.

To Zuko's right he heard someone groan in pain and he rushed over.

"Katara," he screamed upon seeing he woman he loved sprawled across the ground clutching her sides and vomiting.

"Help…" she choked as the firebender picked her up gently and started running to the village.

Meanwhile the empty bucket was tossed on the ground forgotten.

WATERWHIPPACOWATERWHIP

Sokka and Aang walked nervously back and froth. Both where called from wherever they where by swift earthbenders who told them how Lee found Katara.

"What's wrong with her," Aang asked immediately scared for Katara. If something happened to the girl he loved, well, he didn't know what he would do.

"Katara," Sokka whined to himself, if his sister didn't step out of that hut within five seconds he thought he would go marching in. And where was Lee? Or should he say Zuko? The old shaman said no males where allowed in the hospital hut so why was the firebender no where in sight?

Meanwhile out in the back of the hut, Zuko sat with Shaman Lee who was seriously questioning him about how and when he found the waterbender convulsing on the ground.

"And then I found her, near the entrance tree, with her hands holding her sides in pain," Zuko explained weary now after explaining the same thing over five times.

Suddenly an old earthbending woman with a bent wooden cane came hobbling outside with an aghast look on her face. Seeing Zuko she immediately narrowed her eyes and turned to the shaman. Bending over was a major difficult task for the old woman but she did and whispered in Shaman Lee's ear. The impassive look on the pale woman's face never changed the whole time.

"Thank you for that little bit of information, if you please," the shaman waved the nurse away with one swing of her hand. Still with that sour look on her old wrinkled face, the limping old lady walked back into the hut and slammed the door behind her.

Shaman Lee turned to Zuko and took his hand. When the prince looked into the old woman's face he was surprised to see a bit of anger in it.

"Why I never saw such scandalous behavior from two young adults in my whole life," she started off and the squeeze on his hand became suddenly stronger, "How is the poor girl going to explain this to her brother? Or that love sick puppy Aang? I thought you would be smart and play it safe!"

"Safe? What are you talking about," Zuko said his temper snapping.

"You impregnated Katara, Lee."