Hi! I'm back at the house. Feel free to review of suggestions or corrections. I still hope you enjoy the lecture of today. Pure fluff. I wrote this hearing an amazing remastered Sokka and Suki theme. It's by CJ Music titled "Suki and Sokka". He's in youtube and spotify, so you can listen to him.
Hope you enjoy the fluffnes!
Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar the last airbender or anything related to the series.
Light entered the tent, waking them up again. His arms were wrapped around her, holding her close to him, not wanting to let go. Her arms hugged him too, impregnating his smell on her. She tilted her face to see his sky blue eyes full of love and sleepiness. They were looking at her with such an innocence, a big contrast to hours ago.
She rested her head in his chest closing her eyes again, unwilling to break the atmosphere both created… She couldn't describe well how happy Sokka made her feel inside, luckily, none was too interested to ask her. It was pretty obvious. She unwillingly broke the hug and sat beside him, admiring his features. She felt lucky to have someone like him by her side, making her laugh (even if it was unintentional) at all times, protecting her and most importantly...respecting her.
Noticing how tired he was, she grabbed a piece of paper from his backpack, wrote him a note so she would not leave in the morning as if it was nothing to her. Just the thought of the dancing they did last night made her face red, hoping for her dear life Zuko wouldn't care and just forget about the akward encounter.
Sighing, she placed the note below his boomerang, to secure he would see it the moment he woke up. Admiring one last time how peaceful his boyfriend looked, she stepped out of the tent, sneaking all the way to her own without being discovered by Toph, or at least she would hope so.
Not in the mood to sleep again, she grabbed a fruit and a sword Zuko let her borrow from the house and sat outside, letting her skin exposed to the sun as she would always do back at home. Biting the pear, her mind raced between the war and her family, wondering if they watched over her while being in prison. As the sun reached it's peak in the sky, finishing her snack, she sat up and walked to the nearby forest, trying to prove she was as useful as the other gaang members.
The rays of light passing through the trees made her feel safe, she could just be there all day and nothing would ever happen to her. As she spotted a tree to cut some wood, she sat beside the tree to meditate some time, thanking the earth for the provision she was about to make. After some time passed by, images of Sokka interrupted her prayer, making her smile and stop to think about them.
"I love you Suki" Those words just felt like tasting honey for the first time, sweet and smooth. Not an ounce of doubt as he spoke them without breaking eye contact. Seeing his face blushed was something rare to her, holding the memory dear to her heart. As she stood up, focusing to take down the tree, she noticed she forgot to pack her bag. Annoyed, she struck the tree so she could take her provision, after finishing, she pilled it up and began walking back to the campsite to retrieve her bag.
Walking back to the campsite, her mind was free to imagine and remember the night before, still a bit too excited. The passion they shared last night was something she couldn't get her mind off. The path was long, so before she would arrive to the camp, she sang to the forest and it's animals, sharing some of the feelings of happiness she currently had:
-"Blue eyes give me smiles, often make me laugh.
At first of his mind, frecuently from the fights.
Our first day passing fast, neither noticing that
Love was growing inside our lonely hearts that cried"
Birds chirped as she slowly walked. It was the first opportunity she had since a long time, back when she was 6. She loved dancing and singing as much as she loves fighting and protecting her people. It is one of her many motivations to fight and win: To keep teaching the Kyoshi culture so the girls can defend themselves...not necessarily from soldiers and the cold war, but from annoying boys. So when she turned 12, she started to put away most of her femenine side and feelings, not wanting to show weakness that could be used against her. As she glanced to the "enemy birds" as Sokka would call them often, she continued singing:
-"Your so close to me, yet so far to see.
Praying to the moon, she takes good care of you.
My brain is giving in, the warmness of your body
The tenderness of your touch and how carefully you talk."
As she stopped walking, a longer crowd of birds surrounded her, closing her eyes to immerse herself completely, strutting and moving around as if she was singing in her dojo:
-"My walls completely down, your voice makes me alive,
Taking me in a state of mind, impossible to crack.
How I wish you hear this song, dancing before the crack of dawn
My heartbeat slowing down as your lips keep touching mine,
Clouds of feelings never explored, finally I feel at home."
Finishing, she smiled and blushed at how girly she probably looked. Being years since she sang a song about love...specifically a boy's love. Looking at her small crowd, the birds chipped loudly answering her. "Probably should get the bag before the sun starts to go down" Suki thought returning to the main path, running to the campsite, knowing that at her pace she would be in no time.
Not noticing her the rest of the group, she picked the bag beside the rock she sat down in the morning, returning fast and silently to the forest to finish her duty of the day as well to collect berries she saw in some bushes.
Sokka woke up alone in his tent, confused at the scenes he remembered if they were product of his dreams or reality. Stretching his body, he focused in the small paper under his boomerang, smiling to the realization that Suki spent the night with him. Grabbing it and opening it, he read it as if he was waiting for it since many years before:
Good morning sleepy head.
I didn't want to be rude and leave in the morning without saying goodbye, so I'm writing you this. I'll be in the forest collecting some log for us to lit it at night, you promised us to tell scary stories from the water tribe so they better be good! Last night…well, your actions described feelings a bit better than words, so….until later!
With love, from Suki.
Warmness filled his heart as he read the last words in the note. A bunch of emotions flourishing as he hugged it close to his chest.
-I love you too Suki.
Wondering what to give her to keep courting her, he brainstormed ideas so he wouldn't look so cheesy doing it, she probably hated most of the things that were labelled as "lady like". Was he confusing her to Toph? For sure, Suki was a warrior but she was still as feminine as a queen. The rumbling in his stomach cleared his head from the confusion, changing in to his disguise to eat.
As he approached the others, Toph glanced at him with a face of disgust and bitterness. She whispered something to Aang that provocked him to blush. Trying to ignore the obvious situation, he grabbed something to eat and sat down, getting weird stares from the kids. Trying to get the attention off him, he started to chit chat.
-Have you seen our enemies?- He asked eyeing the place, searching for them.
Toph unphased, answered. -I don't feel anyone else apart from us. Wanna know who I felt this morning getting out of your tent?.- She said with a devilish smile.
Sokka's face turned red as Aang and Toph started laughing. Whispering and laughing harder, glancing at times to him. He felt sorry for Suki, the moment she came back she would have to deal too with more jokes from Toph. Wait, she felt her only in the morning? "I still can clean her image" Sokka thought quickly.
-Oh…yeah.- He spoke tumbling to get the words out of his mouth- Suki and I talked about our relationship.
-Oh really? Aren't you a little bit young to take the next step?- Aang asked curiously, as he didn't know the water tribe traditions, maybe for them it was normal to marry that young.
Sokka blushed at the idea of marrying Suki, not that he didn't thought of it, but it was something that reminded him that, at home, he probably would have to make her his fiancée.
-Not at all, back at home most people marry at our age. But no, we still haven't have that talk. He answered confidently, thinking that at least Aang was now getting that picture out of his head. He was a monk but he was a boy. Hormones are wild.
-Oh really? I thought both of you were celebrating, as the floor never stopped vibrating.- Toph replied with a smirk in her face, feeling Sokka's heartbeat stop at the obvious situation. Aang looked back and ford to Sokka and Toph, opening his mouth in horror as he realized the vibrations meant sex.
-Well…y-yeah. We were dancing, that's why. We were breakdancing.-He lied throught his teeth, a drop of sweat coming down his temple.
-You can't escape the all seeing eye, give it up dancer- Toph replied laughing harder as Aang laughed too.
-Man…Katara is really going to talk to both of you.- The young monk said laughing.
Sokka got bummed and stood up, walking to the other side of the campsite. Both of the kids started whispering and laughing harder. Ignoring them, he walked to think about what gift would be perfect to give to the warrior. Unknown to him, he arrived at a flower camp.
"Ding Dong! A lei! After all we're moving to the beach!" Sokka ran at the flower camp, picking up a bunch of flowers to prepare the garland. A universal symbol of affection, how he hadn't thought of that before?
Having his pack full of flowers, he returned to the campsite and sat close to a sleepy Appa. Sighing of happiness he began to put them together, amazed at his own ability to make it without Katara's help. As Aang came to spend some time feeding Appa, from time to time he would stare smirking at Sokka, as Toph probably filled him in with the motivation behind the garland.
After doing the finishing touches, Sokka saw Zuko and her sister hurriedly approaching Aang and Appa. He left the lei on the floor and stood up to listen the conversation. No wonder Aang was really exasperated, her own sister searching for revenge? That was not the Katara he knew, partly blaming their new gaang member, Zuko, for it. However, the words that her sister muted to him were the ones that stinged him the most:
"You didn't love her the way I did" He knew those words came from a place of rage and not from her heart...still, seeing her sister like that made him sad.
As he saw Zuko and Katara storm out again, the avatar and him exchanged confused looks, wondering if they would try later on the day to go and search for vengeance. Aang seeing the hurt in Sokka's face, gave him a sympathetic look, Sokka just smiled back, returning to the garland he dropped earlier.
He forgave her sister, focusing his energy to deliver the lei. Katara was young but was so much more mature then she was when they started this journey. He trusted her, not only because she could take her of herself, but her morals are really strong. Always searching for the just part of life without hurting anybody...after all, he had accepted the fact that Katara acted like her mom while he acted like her dad, but today may be the day he has to step back and let her choose her own destiny, backing her up and protecting her if the need arises. He gabbed the garland and walked to the forest, searching for the right words to swoop her again.
As he entered the woods, he thought of Suki's family. It was weird seeing her so young as the leader of the most fearsome troop of warriors he had met, how would her father feel about it? Proud or scared? He was surely happy to have her on the team, her skills were invaluable and the prison break would have totally failed had she not captured the warden "Maybe I'll ask her later how her parents felt about it" Sokka thought curious of his in laws.
As he searched blindly at the forest for Suki, his head filled with images of them together in the tent, laughing and kissing. Just thinking about her made his mood more bubbly and friendly, not caring about the roles of a man in the society, after all, she made him change that point of view a long time ago, when she kicked his ass.
As he got closer to the sound of chopping, his steps slowed down and became more paused, trying to be stealthy and surprise Suki. He got closer and saw her finishing the tree in front of her, as well as her bag on the floor filled with planks of wood. He circled her to get her from behind, when positioned, he slowly started to get close.
Suki hear the sounds in the bushes, dismissing it as birds picking some berries. Finishing the log, she sat on it and cleaned the borrowed sword, grabbing a rock to sharpen it. She got the sensation of someone watching her, but her trust in the forest was stronger than her sense, so she dropped it and started humming again.
Her love for Sokka was getting the best of her, as her singing sessions increased more now that she found the space were she could freely dance and sing without anyone. In the boiling rock she danced to imaginary music and practiced her forms everyday, so adding singing now was a welcomed surprise to her. She dropped her weapon and started vocalizing:
-Strawberry clouds, clouding my sight. Come to me now, I need you right now.
Sokka stopped walking in awe of her voice. It was so mesmerizing and inexplicable, her voice normally would sound dreamy to him, but hearing her sing was another experience he never knew he needed it until now. Instead of surprising her, he retreated to the safety of the bushes, peaking to see if she moved.
The warrior was too immersed in her daydreams: Jow would she live after the war, the number of women she could help with Kyoshi training and, specially, the life Sokka and her would have.
-"Your bright blue eyes make me fly,
as if touching your lips wasn't the biggest dream in my life.
Oh~ Silly love songs, they made me mad until I found you.
Who would have though I was going to surrender to you?"
She stood up, placing her hands in her abdomen and circled around the recent chopped log.
-"You look at me and my heart wanna catch a fire.
Can't you see I was lost before your sight?
You set me free and didn't event knew,
How a big part of my heart you would be stealing"
Sokka stood there, waiting her to finish the song. Seeing her act like a teenager in love made him sight, with mixed feelings about the conditions that brought them together. He placed a hand at his cheek, looking at her with love.
She sat in the grass, humming again. He saw this as an opportunity to approach her, almost hating himself for interrupting her peace and comfort bubble. As he got out of the bush, Suki stood up and grabbed the sword, positioning herself to attack until she saw the wolf tail and relaxed her position.
-Have I been gone for so long?- She asked worried.
-Nope, I came here to search you. Remember the note?- He smiled, a shine in his eyes as he saw his girlfriend.
As the young couple stared at each other, smiles and blushing appeared in their faces, almost as if the reminder of their loving vow they declared the night before. Remembering the reason he searched for her, he grabbed her hand and with the other one he shared the lei. Smiling at the gift, no words were needed as he put it on her.
The couple giggled, forgetting in the afternoon that they were supposed to come back and meet the team to eat. Sokka wouldn't worry about that, right now his focus was in pleasing her, showering with all the affection he could give to her. Silently but not less intense than the night before, the couple once again united their body and soul, muttering incoherently but words from time to time.
As they finished, Suki quickly changed for the fear of being seen naked, something that made Sokka giggle. As he finished changing, he offered to bring back the planks of wood to the campsite, so she wouldn't have to carry a lot of weight. Tired of the day but too proud to admit it, she agreed on sharing the weight of it. After all, that's what most couples do in everyday problems...count on each other.
As they made their way to the campsite, Sokka thought really hard about Suki singing. He wanted to ask her since when she knew how to sing or why she didn't do it before.
-Suki…-He started the talk, a bit nervous.
-Yes, Sokka?- She answered with a smile on her face, as she tended to do it. Curiosity in her eyes as she awaited the question.
-I love you, a lot.- He finally said blushing. Dismissing the question, knowing that she would tell her whenever she was ready.
She blushed and gave him a quick peck to his lips.
-I love you too.
With his free hand he grabbed Suki's and continued walking back. His mind filled between their romantic getaways and her singing voice, often mixing. Secrets like this made him feel important, even if it was shared unwillingly, he knew she would tell him someday. As they got closer to the campsite, night began to fall and both of them hurried so they could start cooking the dinner.
As promised, before going to bed Sokka shared some horror stories in which the only one unfased was Zuko. As the gaang talked about how training and their day went by, Sokka stared at Suki, who was currently talking excitedly at Aang about some Kyoshi Island tradition. He smiled remembering how she sang so carefree in the heart of the forest, another place where they could just be intimate and teenagers without fear.
He straightened himself and sighted. Her voice was the epitome of sweetness, and he loved how sweet she would look and sound when being herself.
Of course, Suki's lyrics are my creation. Good or bad? Middle I would say, I'm definetly no Tay Swift hahaha.
Have a great day!