"Kid, you gotta help me here." Sugawara grumbled, trying to haul them both up the stairs and out on to the main deck.

"Hurts." He whined.

"… Sorry," Suga said feeling the slightest bit of guilt. Maybe he didn't have to hit that hard.

He struggled back on to the main deck slamming the door behind him and shouted, "Hey, Fire Nation bastards! Look who I've got!" and Suga took joy from the turn of heads everyone gave, the look of surprise, and then horror soon after.

"Tobio-chan?" a soldier with brown hair and eyes looked deeply distressed from this new development, but it turned quickly from distress to anger, "Let him go!"

"Don't worry, I will. But first, you have to promise that you'll let us go. We don't want to fight you, and you don't have anything worth fighting us over. Plus, Tobio-chan, looks a little worse for wear. I'd assume he's more important."

"You better give him here, right now."

"Promise you'll let us leave."

The Fire Nation soldier, who Suga assumed was in charge, didn't give much thought over the matter before agreeing. "Fine, we'll let you leave."

"That means don't pursue us, and don't you dare go to our tribe and hurt our women and children."

"I'm Fire Nation, not a complete monster." The man said, and gave a charming smile that didn't fool Suga for even an instant.

"Sure you're not."

"Ouch."

Suga didn't know if the look he was going for was flirty, but he looked like Nishinoya when he got food poisoning.

"Fine," the soldier said, dropping the act. "Give us the boy and we won't go after your boat or your tribe."

Sugawara had no interest in trusting this man, but at this point, they had little choice. They hadn't been prepared to sink a Fire Nation ship today. Daichi knew this, Takeda knew this, he knew this. And the only reason they were still fighting right now was to make it out alive.

The Water Tribe started piling off the boat at Suga's look, into their own, even Noya and Tanaka.

Sugawara went last, dragging the boy to the very edge of the boat before setting him down, because Kageyama didn't seem like he had any interest in standing up, and jumped off the boat into his own as well.

Their boat was already starting to move by the time Suga made it down, and he went to the front of the boat watching the soldiers carefully as they went. Specifically the brown haired one. And he watched that solider until he could no longer see the boat at all.

There was one more thing about being younger that no one really talked about. A perk no child spoke of, and no adult seemed to acknowledge. And that was the perk of going unnoticed.

Kageyama lay there, watching the silver haired waterbender who had knocked him out retreat further away from them, eyes solely on his older brother, Kageyama had no trouble quietly moving from the edge of his boat into that of the Water Tribe's, and rushing over into a corner of the boat. He just wanted to find that orange thing he'd seen on this very blue boat, and perhaps information on the Avatar. He would be in, search around, and then get to one of the escape boats on the side of their ship and row off.

In and out. No one would even know he was gone, and Oikawa would praise him for taking initiative and gathering information. It was pretty much the perfect plan.

No one was paying attention to him, they were all too busy wandering the deck and ignoring his very existence.

Perfect.

When no one was looking, Kageyama snuck to the door down below the main deck. He suspected they would hide things down there, not up top. Because that would be a stupid thing to do.

He flew silently down the stairs to the bottom, where everything was dark, he couldn't even see his own hand in front of his face. He decided to light a small flame to help him see where he was going, and the instant he did he heard a small gasp to his left.

He whipped around to see a girl, she was huddled up into the corner, bags to her chest, and her eyes wide with fright.

Kageyama's own eyes widened, because he'd been sure no one was down here, and why was she hiding anyway? "You're uh… you're uh…" she stuttered, unable to even get the words out.

Kageyama scowled, he hated when people did that. She sounded like a moron.

"Shh, don't say anything unless you want me to burn you to ashes." And the threat instantly shut her up.

The door to the deck squeaked open and he heard footsteps descending the stairs rapidly enough Kageyama didn't have time to think of a hiding place, so he dove into the place the girl was hidden. She shook slightly beside him, and he hoped she wouldn't say anything.

He didn't see why she would anyway, she obviously wasn't supposed to be here since she was hiding. She was sure to get in trouble too if she were found.

But then again, she had been rather noisy when he first made his presence known, so Kageyama wasn't taking any chances, clapping a hand over her whimpering mouth as the footsteps on the stairs stopped at the bottom.

Then, she bit him, and he couldn't help but cry out, pain shooting up his hand and through his arm. Apparently she was more terrified of him than the Water Tribe.

Kageyama didn't move, knowing he was caught, knowing this had been stupid in the first place, but he'd been desperate. Too desperate, and now it was getting him killed.

"Your own idiocy is going to get you killed one day Tobio-chan~."

Who knew Oikawa would ever be right about something.

"Hello, what's wrong?" the person who wasn't the girl asked as she rammed herself into him. "Suga-san there's a, there's a…"

Kageyama rolled his eyes. What a drama queen.

"What? Yachi, what? Ugh, hang on. Let me light the lamps, we hadn't gotten the chance yet. I can't see anything."

Suga lit the lamps Kageyama supposed, and the whole hallway was instantly alight with flames, thankfully still casting shadows on where he was hidden. Not that it mattered much anymore.

"Suga-san I—"

"Yachi, what are you doing here, how did you get on the boat, why aren't you back home with Kiyoko?" The man crossed his arms.

"I know, we'll talk about that later."

"Why later? I want to know why you're on this boat where you're in danger constantly from storms, disease, Fire Nation."

"That's what I'm saying, I—"

"Did you sneak on here just to spend more time with Yamaguchi and Tsukki? I swear Yachi, you do realize there is no way we can go back the way we came because we just ran into Fire Nation and barely escaped!"

"Stop interrupting me." Yachi said, glaring at him, before her face quickly melted back into panic. "I'm trying to tell you there's Fire Nation on the boat!"

"What? How? This boat!"

"Yes this boat! I saw him light a flame in his hand!"

"Where is he!"

Yachi pointed to Kageyama's corner where he pressed himself so firmly against the wall, he wished he could melt through it and on to the other side. Wished he could make it back up top and throw himself into the ocean.

But he wasn't supposed to have been here this long, and he couldn't swim too far in subzero waters, and the fact remained that he couldn't go through walls.

Suga's gaze snapped to his corner and he cautiously approached like Kageyama like he was a cornered animal. Technically he was cornered, and he was also technically an animal, but he wasn't feral and going to attack at any moment. This guy's approach did make him want to lash out and run, however.

"Tobio?"

"That's Kageyama to you." Kageyama scowled and tried to back up more, but he was pressed as far as he would go.

"Kageyama, what are you doing here? I left you on your boat, with an injury."

He could say he accidentally fell on but there was no way he accidentally snuck his way downstairs and hid himself in a corner There was no way he could make this seem like an accident, and even if he could that wouldn't necessarily help anything.

"Leave me alone." Kageyama said at last.

"I can't do that.""

"Leave or I'll set the boat on fire."

"Set the boat on fire, I'll put it out, and then we'll throw you overboard." Suga came almost face to face with him. "Setting the boat or anyone on fire is not what's good for you right now."

Kageyama wondered what could possibly be good in this situation for him, so he asked. "What's good for me right now?"

"What's good for you, is coming with me, so I can take you to the chief."

"I'm not moving."

"You will if I move you myself."

"If you move me, I'm technically not moving, and even if you tried, I would still not leave this spot."

Suga groaned, and Kageyama could tell he was being frustrating. Being frustrating was what Kageyama did best, according to most people in his own crew.

"How old are you, Kageyama?"

"Fourteen."

"Alright then…" He stared at Kageyama like he was a puzzle and that bothered him. Mostly because Kageyama wasn't that complicated, he himself knew that, and so this man acting like he was ticked him off.

"Why don't we bring the chief to him?" Yachi suggested.

Suga nodded, "You go get him Yachi. Tell him it's a firebender. Don't say anything else."

Yachi nodded and hurried off upstairs where there were a lot of surprised squeaks and yells, and Kageyama didn't know people's voices went that high.

Then he turned back to the threat, Suga, and narrowed his eyes.

Sugawara didn't think Kageyama was a bad kid, or at least, not bad for being a Fire Nation prince. However, he was annoying. And Suga would be lying if he said he didn't want to strangle him.

"… Suga, why are—"

"That's Sugawara-san to you." He interrupted, still sore on being corrected earlier.

The kid's scowl and angry red face were worth it. "Sugawara-san," he spat, his tone more mocking than Noya's when he answered a math question correctly, "why are you staring at me."

"Staring at you?"

"Like some creepy old man."

Sugawara wasn't sure which to be more offended at. 'Creepy' or 'old'. "I am not, you-" bastard "-brat." Sugawara scowled. Fire Nation kid or not, he was still a kid, and Suga wasn't going to swear at him. Then his voice turned softer and he hoped he could coax the brat out of the corner a bit, "Why don't you come out here. It's a little hard to see you all the way back there."

"I don't give a fuck."

So much for him not knowing curse words. He'd thought perhaps Fire Nation princes were more dignified than that, but considering this kid's mannerisms he had been wrong.

"Don't you curse at me." Suga grabbed his wrists, not really caring about his stupid whining anymore and with all his strength, managed to haul the kid up, into a kneeling position, and managed to drag him out of the corner.

He couldn't keep it up though. Fortunately (unfortunately?) Kageyama started fighting him back. Not a fight like before with wild kicks meant to destroy Suga's organs and fire meant to melt his skin off, but shoves, smacks. Kageyama didn't want to fight, for some reason he would rather hide now.

Sugawara wasn't going to let him do that and shoved him against the wall, his face pressed into the wood, and Suga held his wrists tightly behind his back.

His grip might leave bruises, much to Sugawara's chagrin.

Finally, finally, Yachi got back with Takeda and Ukai too, and all they could do was stare for a moment until Takeda sighed, "Oh my, this is horrible."

"I think you mean, 'oh shit this is a fucking nightmare'."

"Can you express yourself without the use of foul language?" Sugawara asked, annoyed.

Ukai only grinned, which told Sugawara 'no I can't' and that was enough to push his buttons.

"Well, what are we going to do?" Takeda asked, looking at Ukai.

"Kill him." He said with a shrug.

Sugawara had an even harder time restraining Kageyama when Ukai said that. "I think you're forgetting this is the second prince of the Fire Nation, he might be valuable."

"Valuable for what?" Ukai rolled his eyes.

"Oh, I don't know Ukai, it's not every day the prince of your enemy falls into your lap in the form of a fourteen-year-old child, is it?"

"I guess not?"

"That was rhetorical." Sugawara growled.

"We should probably talk to the rest of the crew, see what they think." Takeda said.

Sugawara wanted to tell him that a lot of them didn't think at all, but he kept that to himself. "Ukai, a little help over here."

And Ukai did eventually help, but he was a lot rougher about it than he needed to be.

They marched up the stairs, into broad daylight, where Suga squinted for a couple seconds before his eyes adjusted to the brightness. "I would like all your attention please!" Takeda shouted and everyone turned to look at him, their eyes drifting to Suga and Ukai, and then the person they held in their arms.

"What is it?" Noya asked as they all came over.

Takeda sighed, because he didn't really want to have to explain this, and he wasn't sure how to finish before everyone killed the Fire Nation prince. "Well, you see, we found the Fire Nation prince below deck and before you do anything, I would like you to remember that royals hold value. So don't do anything rash."

"Rash? You mean like step on to a boat full of enemies that would kill you without a second thought." Tsukishima asked, stepping forward and glaring down his nose at Kageyama who glared up at him.

Kageyama's face morphed into a snarl and he growled at Tsukishima who wrinkled his nose in disgust. "I say we throw him overboard." Tsukishima said, and grabbed Kageyama's arm, wrenching it out of Ukai and Suga's grasp.

Sugawara hadn't even realized his grip has loosened and apparently neither did Ukai as Tsukishima easily tore the prince away from them, dragged him to the side of the boat, and pushed him over.

Sugawara couldn't help but notice how terrified Kageyama's eyes were the entire time. "Problem solved." He said.

"I can't believe you!" Sugawara shouted, "Do you even know how cold those waters are? He's going to die if we don't get him out of there like, right now!"

"So be it." Tsukishima said. And almost to Sugawara's horror, he could see the rest of the crew agreeing with him.

A part of Suga agreed too, but the other part of him couldn't get over the fact that Kageyama was just a child.

And he'd looked so scared.

But then again so had so many other children as they were murdered brutally by the Fire Nation.

But it wasn't as if Kageyama had committed those murders. It wasn't as if he could've stopped them. It wasn't right, blaming someone who had no control over other's actions as of yet.

If he was the second prince he never would have full control.

But one day he might lead an entire army.

Sugawara was just trying to justify murder of a human who was seemingly innocent at this moment, trying to justify the murder of a child, and he felt somewhat disgusted with himself.

"What's wrong with all of you?" Hinata asked, frowning at all of them. "He's just a kid like me. Why'd you try to kill him when you found him and not me?"

"You're not Fire Nation." Tsukishima spat.

Hinata looked confused, "And why exactly does where I come from define who I am as a person?"

And that was all Sugawara needed to hear, because Hinata was right. Kageyama had attacked him the first time they met, but that was an attack on him and him alone, and if he was willing to forgive that everyone else should too. Besides, it wasn't as if Suga had been completely innocent in that exchange. "Yachi help me get him up!"

"What?" Yachi squeaked, looking at him with terrified hazel eyes.

"We're going to waterbend him back on the boat. It's the fastest way, now help me."

Yachi didn't protest saving him, but she did look nervous about helping him. Sugawara took a deep breath and then let it out, the bending coming to him almost like second nature.

Yachi was struggling on her half, so Suga tried to give her a little bit of an extra hand as they bent the boy out of the water, and tried to lower him on to the deck gently as they could. Yachi ended up losing her concentration, however, and the entire thing fell apart, Kageyama landing with a thud. The boy was shaking slightly. Not nearly enough to reassure him.

"Alright, Daichi, help Suga carry him downstairs." Takeda ordered, "Also, Tsukishima, refrain from doing something so impulsive next time. Leave that to Nishinoya and Tanaka."

"He was getting on my nerves." Was all Tsukishima said, glaring at Hinata.

"He didn't even say anything to you," the airbender chirped, looking slightly confused once again.

Tsukishima rolled his eyes and stomped off somewhere not annoying.

Meanwhile, Sugawara grabbed the boy, under the pits, Daichi grabbed his legs and they hurried down the stairs as fast as possible, Sugawara nearly tripping at times.

They brought Kageyama to the infirmary, where Asahi was working, and kicked down the door. "Alright doc, firebender patient, possibly with hypothermia, what do we do?" Sugawara asked.

"Um…" Asahi just stared at the strange boy on the medical bed until Sugawara gave him a look, breaking him out of his stupor. "Sorry… right, hypothermia. Let's see," Asahi flipped through a medical book to a random page and said. "First you need to strip the person of all their wet clothes, then we can dry him off, put some dry clothes on, and wrap him in blankets.

Sugawara nodded and started ridding Kageyama of his icy wet clothes. "All of it?" Sugawara asked again to which Asahi nodded. Sugawara shrugged and kept stripping.

"I can't watch this." Daichi turned away.

"Why so shy?" Sugawara teased. "Is it because he's Fire Nation."

"No, it's because he's my enemy, and it doesn't feel right to see him like this."

Sugawara scoffed and wanted to tell him this was just another child like others on this very boat, but did not. "Fine, well if you won't help me get rid of all these clothes go find some rags, clothes and blankets. Make yourself useful."

Daichi grumbled something about always being useful and stalked off to get Suga what he asked for.

He was quicker than Suga expected and returned just as Sugawara finished. Daichi turned red again and walked out of the infirmary, leaving Suga and Asahi to do all the work. Before he left Suga shouted, "You better come back soon and get your shoulder checked-and don't you give me that look!"

Daichi muttered something unintelligible and then slammed the door shut.

Sugawara rolled his eyes, drying off Kageyama half-hazardly. He noticed scars, and marks all over the young boy's body. Scars from weapons, scars from burns, and bruises too. So many scars, down his ribs, lining his legs, on his arms, his chest, almost everywhere. His back was the worst though, scars covering the majority of his pale skin, and burns too. Rough, patched, burns. His bodies were filled with memories in ways not even theirs were. He looked tinier than he'd seemed before, shivers wracking his lithe frame. Sugawara didn't want to see any more. Didn't want to see how young and small he was looking like that, so he quickly stuck him in some dry clothes. "Okay, so, with the blanket, you'll want to wrap it everywhere, only leave his face uncovered. Cover even his head."

"Alright," Suga said, carefully wrapping Kageyama in the blankets, cursing Tsukishima for doing this and Daichi for leaving him to do the work.

"Alright, when he's conscious again, we'll give him something warm to drink, like broth."

Sugawara nodded, glancing at Asahi before turning back to Kageyama, "You think he'll be alright?"

"Maybe." Asahi said and paused. The silence stretched on for several minutes before Asahi added, "You know, you could've just dropped him off and left."

"You're old and slow, this required haste." Sugawara said.

"… We're the same age."

"Then why are you so slow?"

Asahi looked hurt for a minute, but Sugawara figured he wasn't that hurt because then he just sighed and sat back in his chair. "So, that boy's from the Fire Nation, huh? Never would've guessed."

"I know." Sugawara chuckled, "His eyes are so blue. And oh, we kind of forgot to tell you this, since you're always holed up in here unless Nishinoya drags you out, but this isn't just any Fire Nation soldier. He's a prince."

Asahi choked on his own spit, trying to get air, even though every time he swallowed it felt like lava going down his throat. "He's a what?"

"Prince. Sorry I didn't mention it earlier."

Asahi just stared at him before looking back down at his book as if reading about herbs and medicine was going to help him process the fact they were basically holding a prince of the Fire Nation captive.

Apparently it did actually help because Asahi looked calmer next time he held eye contact with Suga, though he still seemed nervous. "How'd he even end up in the water?"

"Tsukishima. Did you really have to ask?"

"… Probably not."

Yachi was kind of panicking. Alright, not even kind of, she was definitely panicking.

So she got on a ship that she wasn't supposed to get on, was sort of part of a fight she shouldn't have been, and found a fire prince she shouldn't have.

Maybe Kiyoko wasn't the best person to take advice from.

Because now she was sitting in Chief Takeda's office, across from him.

She was a bit glad Ukai wasn't there to yell at her for boarding the boat though. She could handle Takeda a little better. "So, Yachi, do you wish to tell me why exactly you are stowing away in your own tribe's ship?"

"I just didn't want to be alone again."

And unfortunately that was the absolute truth. She was tired of not being able to see her friends based on something as stupid as being a girl. "I wanted to see Tsukishima and Yamaguchi more."

"This ship is a dangerous place for a young lady." She knew he meant no harm but hearing that made her want to get out of this conversation even more.

"I know, but I promise I'll stay out of your way and even help you with chores." And it wasn't as if she could go back, and it wasn't as if she was defenseless. She could waterbend, and if she improved, she wouldn't be as much of a liability. Sugawara could teach her. He was no master, but he was certainly better at the art that she was.

"Well there's not much we can do anyway so you'll have to stay for now, but I will be trying to think of a way to get you home. That didn't sound very promising but Yachi nodded, "Okay."

She left the office, closing the door behind her with a final click.

She wasn't sure where to go, and she didn't quite feel like going up on deck with everyone else yet. She hoped perhaps Ukai or Takeda would explain things to them so she wouldn't have to.

The crew probably had a lot of questions she didn't know how to answer right now.

As she walked down the hall, Yachi heard some talking in the medical room.

It took her a moment to remember that odd Fire Nation prince they had on the ship, and that Tsukki had thrown him into freezing waters. He was probably in the infirmary, still unconscious.

Asahi would be in there, and maybe Sugawara and Daichi. She was okay talking to them. They weren't as loud and confrontational as Tanaka and Nishinoya.

She walked toward the light in the infirmary but something she heard Suga say made her stop, "What do you think we should do when he wakes up."

"How am I supposed to know, Suga? I'm just the medic."

Yachi leaned in so she could look through the crack and see the two better. Suga was sitting in a chair, next to the bed where the Fire Nation boy laid, and Asahi was across from Suga in another chair.

Sugawara rolled his eyes, "And you think I know? I'm just going with the flow here."

"Pretty sure waterbenders are supposed to go with the flow."

"You know what I meant. For once I'm just as lost as you." Sugawara murmured.

"… That's mean."

"I mean, he's a Fire Nation prince! I did not think this through at all! I don't know what I was thinking, pulling him out of the water, or even getting involved with him at all."

"Even if you hadn't done any of that there's no guarantee that this wouldn't have happened. Besides, I think you were the one who saved all of them back there with your crazy little stunt."

"Perhaps… wait how do you know about that?"

Asahi ignored him, "Out of all of them, you're one of the ones with brains, Sugawara."

Suga stared at him, chuckled, and then sighed, "You're right. It's not as if I can control the actions of a bratty prince."

"A very stupid, bratty prince." Asahi added.

Sugawara nodded and turned back to the shivering lump of blankets Yachi assumed to be the prince. "I'm still surprised Tsukki did this though, he usually isn't so impulsive."

"You know what the Fire Nation did to his brother."

Suga's eyes lit up with pain, and he clenched his hands into fists on his lap. "Yeah, I remember." Sugawara growled and turned to stare at the prince. He was shaking more now, his breaths coming out labored and strained as if his lungs were having trouble taking in oxygen.

"He won't forgive so easily."

"I know." Sugawara said with another heavy sigh. "Neither will I."

Yachi couldn't help but shift her feet where she was standing and that made the floorboards creak underneath her and it caused the door to open just a bit, emitting a freakishly loud squeak that also sounded a lot like Yachi's own.

"Uh, Yachi, how long have you been standing there?" Sugawara asked when she revealed herself.

"Not long!" Yachi didn't know if she was lying or not. It depended on what 'long' meant.

"Well I don't know why you're lurking there by the door. Come in." Sugawara said, waving his hand for her to enter.

Yachi flushed red and hurried inside, shutting the door behind her.

"So, Suga, when were you going to mention Yachi?"

"Oh, I kind of forgot about that given all that's just happened, so probably not for several days."

"Glad to know how much you guys appreciate me."

The Water Tribe ship sailed into the distance, and Oikawa didn't take his eyes off it until it had completely disappeared. "Well then, that was a little concerning."

"Oh, you think?" Iwaizumi grumbled.

Oikawa turned to him with a flourish, "Yes, yes, little Tobio-chan must've been scared."

"I'm sure he was terrified." Iwaizumi said bluntly.

"Speaking of which, where did that tiny child run off to?"

Iwaizumi snorted, "He isn't that small, and last time I checked he was where that one Water Tribe soldier left him, over here by the edge of the boat."

"Hm," Oikawa tapped his foot, frowning, at the spot where Tobio had been and the spot he no longer was, "do you think he fell in?"

"Only if he were an idiot."

They both stared off into the ocean, the only noise a whistling breeze. Then Iwaizumi's eyes went wide with horror, "Oh no."

"So you've realized. Tobio-chan is an idiot at the best of times, and at the worst he's practically asking to be killed." Oikawa mused.

"He didn't roll over, did he? Into the ocean, under the water?" Iwaizumi ran to the other end of the boat to look out at where they'd come from

Oikawa didn't know what he was looking for. A dark head of hair perhaps? Tobio would be nearly impossible to find in there.

Then he watched Iwaizumi start running from one end of the boat to the other, flipping over crates, looking underneath the pai sho table. Oikawa was still trying to figure out why they had one. And then he ran downstairs, presumably to try and find Tobio.

Oikawa knew that little brat almost as well as he knew himself. Tobio was headstrong, impulsive, and more than a bit stupid. But he never did dangerous things with no reason at all.

Perhaps the reason was ridiculous, and sometimes it wasn't a very good reason, or even much of a reason at all, but it was still a reason.

Unless Tobio had enough strength and idiocy to fling himself off the boat into the icy waters below, he highly doubted that was what happened. He could've snuck off below deck to eat snacks because if Tobio's mind wasn't occupied with the Avatar it was occupied by food.

That option was taken away when Iwaizumi burst through the door back on the top deck again, panting, "I couldn't find him." He gulped in big breaths of air and sighed. "What happened to him do you think? You know him better than I do."

"Tobio-chan is a moron. I'm willing to bet he snuck on to that Water Tribe ship to get information on the Avatar."

"Water Tribe ship? But that ship is long gone by now!"

"I don't think he planned to be gone long. Something must've happened."

"… Like what?"

"Those fiends must have kidnapped him, or he must have found his true love, a Fire Nation peasant girl who's been held captive by the brutes for the past eleven years. A forbidden, dangerous love that will obviously end with the peasant girl being slain."

"How does she get slain exactly? By who?"

"By me, Iwa-chan. You think I'd let some peasant girl gallivant off with my oblivious but adorable younger brother?"

"Do you really have to-ugh, there is no peasant girl you idiot! For one thing they wouldn't have been able to get into the Fire Nation to get a peasant girl. For another, the only Fire Nation they would've encountered are soldiers, and they aren't exactly the delicate peasant girl I know you're thinking of. And for the last thing, Tobio doesn't even know what romance means!"

Iwaizumi smacked him on the back of the head to which Oikawa whined, "Now stop making things up!"

"Fine," Oikawa rubbed his head, wincing slightly. "They probably found him; because Tobio-chan can sneak around but he is an idiot. I don't think I need to say anything more on that."

"He got the idiocy from you."

Oikawa scoffed, "Psha, I am not an idiot."

"How are we going to get Tobio back?"

"Are you worried Iwa-chan? I bet you wouldn't be this worried if it were me." He pouted.

"Yeah, I know you can take care of yourself. Tobio's still a kid."

"That's true," Oikawa mused. "Well, I'm not sure how we'll get him back, but we'd better start heading towards that ship if we ever want to catch up."

"Okay, but they're going to notice a big hunk of metal."

"We'll take the emergency boats, Iwa-chan."

"And then we can sneak up on them. Under the cover of night?"

"Considering this is a stealth operation that's probably for the best. Even though waterbenders tend to be more powerful at night, we shouldn't even run into one of them."

"So it'll be just the two of us?"

"Yes, Iwa-chan. Just the two of us, sailing in a boat in the middle of the ocean on a romantic rescue mission~."

Iwaizumi didn't look impressed and just crossed his arms. "Well no need to look so moody." Oikawa stuck his bottom lip out.

Iwaizumi didn't say anything for a moment and then asked, "Oikawa… do you think we'll find Tobio alive?"

Oikawa stopped pouting and clenched his jaw, "Not sure. The chances aren't in our favor."

"And… if we don't find him alive?"

"I'm not sure what you mean. Will we grieve? Of course we will. Will this whole 'searching for the Avatar' thing we've done for the past years have gone to waste? Also yes. Whether we find him dead or alive will I slit the throats of every single Water Tribe member on that boat?" Oikawa narrowed his eyes at the vast waters ahead, "Again, yes."

"Were you trying to look cool just now? Because you don't."

Oikawa pouted, "Oh, shut up Iwa-chan."

A/N I don't know what these super long chapters are about but I'll be disappointed if I go from 5k to 2k like that's just not fair. I don't know how long this will be, but we still at least have a little longer, depending on how big of a thing I end up making this. I hope you enjoyed this one too? Maybe? I don't know. Updates won't always come this quick, but I get like this during a new idea lol. Hope you liked it! Reviews are love. Literally I love them XD