A Different Kind Of A Love...
Disclaimer: I do not, I repeat, NOT own Avatar: The Last Airbender, any of the shows characters, or get any profit from the shows airings.
Claimer: I do however, own my characters Hikari, and Skatha Satomi, and the general plot for this story. (they'll be traveling to the same places as in the show, but couplings will be different)
A/N: Well, heres the 4th chapter, people! Sorry, I figured it'd be kind of boring to re-read everything that's already happened in the show, and I don't think I'd have enough patience to do that anyway, so I'm skipping to when Aang was knocked out by Azula. And I'm going to just explain what happened in those few weeks Aang was out. How do you think the relationships are going? You'll find out soon.^^
Chapter 4: Adventures With An Unconscious Aang
A couple months had passed, and Aang had just had a fight with Zuko, and Azula. Aang lost... Azula had hit him in the back(a blind-spot) with lightning, while he was in the Avatar state, 'killing' him. That is until Katara used her special north pole spirit water, and brought him back. But after that, Aang had passed out for several weeks... let's see what happened during those few weeks.
"K, Katara. We're going out shopping for actual fire nation clothes, instead of just these cloaks. You want us to pick out something for you, and Aang?" I asked walking into the room Katara was taking care of Aang in, with Sokka following in closely behind holding my hand.
"Ok. Sure, thanks. I trust you, Hikari, to pick out the perfect outfit for me. Be careful, ok?" Katara asked, while smiling at us.
"You know, we always are, little sis." Sokka said with a smirk.
"Yeah, yeah. Just hurry back ok?" Katara asked turning back to her healing session for Aang.
"Ok, Katara. See ya later." I said smiling back, pulling Sokka with me.
"See ya sis." Sokka said as I pulled him away.
Katara just smiled, getting back to her work on Aang.
"So, Skatha, any good clothing stores around here?" Toph asked.
"Umm, yeah. I haven't actually bought anything yet, but I do have some things on hold in my favorite store: "Flare Fashions". It has the best clothes and accessories for fire nation." Skatha said leading us to a store towards the center of the shopping center.
"Ok." Toph said, a we followed Skatha.
When we got to the store, it had a big red sign with bright orange lettering with flames around it (drawn, and made with wood duh ~) spelling out "Flare Fashions". It was a fairly big clothing store, probably the biggest one here.
We walked in and it was all red, orange, and black. There were clothes racks on the right side for women, with more clothes ranging from shirts, pants, and skirts, to dresses for all ages on the walls as well. Mens clothing was on the opposite side of the room, racks and on the walls as well. There was warriors armor, civilians clothes, and children's attire as well as royalty attire on the back wall.
"Wow... this is the biggest, most variety store I have ever seen! And they have such cute clothes! How could you have kept this from me , all this time?" I asked Skatha incredulously.
"Heh. Sorry, I didn't buy anything, don't worry..." Skatha said trying to keep me calm.
"Right... I bet you have a secret stash somewhere..." I said not believing her.
"Whatever, don't believe me. Just hurry up, and go pick something out, you have to get something for Katara too, right? You don't wanna forget, and run out of time. And don't forget, no midriffs." Skatha said sternly.
"Fine! Bossy..." I stated, dragging Sokka with me to find the cutest outfit I could.
I scanned through everything on the walls, and went through the clothing racks, trying to find the perfect outfit, and find something cute and fitting for Katara all at the same time. I went through 5 outfits, making Sokka give me his opinion on them, I could tell he was getting bored, and wanted to get his clothes too, but I made him wait anyway. Ladies first after all, right? ^^
I finally found an outfit for Katara.
"Hey, Sokka. Katara would like this right?" I asked holding up the outfit.
It was a dark red sleeveless midriff top, that held up around her left shoulder, leaving the right completely visible. The skirt was long, and went to about her calf's. The skirt had a dark red mini armor type thing at the top, as a second layer, that was longer in the front then on either side. The rest of the skirt was a brighter red with a slit going up to her left thigh. The bottom hem was the same red as her top, and the top of her skirt and had a somewhat fire like swirl by the slit. It came with matching red sandals.(sorry, if not a good explanation, you should know what it looks like)
"She'll love that!" Sokka said.
"Oh, and here." I said handing him the outfit to hold.
"These will complete it, perfectly." I said holding up two gold arm bands, and gold Egyptian like wrist cuffs.
"Oh, I can't wait to see her reaction. And how did you know what size she wore?" Sokka said.
"Call it 'womans' intuition." I stated, giving him the outfit to hold while I got my clothes.
"And, we've gone shopping together before." I said, smiling. And left it at as I went back to finding my outfit.
"Found it!" I yelled ecstatically.
"Finally!" Sokka said, exasperatingly.
"Oh, shut up!" I said smacking him upside the head, and walking into the dressing room.
About 5 minutes later, I came out in my new outfit.
"So, what do you think?" I asked smiling.
My outfit consisted of a bright red dress that went to about mid-thigh, with a slit on the right side that went up to my hip. The top hem had pink criss-cross lines. The bottom of the dress also had a pink hem. There was a pink sash around my waist, as well. And the dresses sleeves were short, with a second long layer connected to it in pink. I had on orange ankle boots with little black bows on them. And orange chopsticks adorned my hair, holding the little buns at the top of my pig-tails in place. My bangs were pulled back, and styled so that they parted in the middle leaving it mostly over my left eye.
"Awe, Hikari, your so adorable!" Sokka said, smiling brightly.
"Awe, thanks, Sokka." I said kissing him quickly on the cheek, and then dragging him to the check-out stand.
We payed for the clothes, me still wearing mine. And then headed for the men's side to find Sokka his clothes.
Sokka already in his armor under the cloak, decided to get some fire civilian clothes to wear.
Sokka went through three shirts, three pants, and 1 pair of shoes, without even taking them off the racks, before finding his outfit.
"Got it." Sokka said, walking into the changing rooms.
He came out 3 minutes later fully dressed, in a long brown tank-top that stitched up the front down the chest, but left the bottom half that was over his pants opened and went to a little above his knees. He had a red collared shoulder armor type thing, on over the shirt. He had on black pants that went to his knees, just past the bottom of the shirt. He was wearing brown sandals, and red arm bands, with matching red and black wrist cuffs.
"Oh, Sokka. Your so handsome! And, so buff, too." I said hugging Sokka, and feeling his arms.
"So, how do I look?" Toph asked, considering she couldn't see for herself.
"Oh, Toph, you look so cute!" I squealed, looking at Toph's new outfit.(sorry, don't really feel like explaining what you already know...)
"Really? Thanks, Hikari." Toph said, blushing at the compliment.
"Yo, and, what about me?" Skatha asked, walking up to us in her new outfit as well.
She was wearing a dark pinkish-red kimono-like top, that went to mid-thigh, with black spandex shorts, that ended right above her knees. The top of the shirt was a bright red, with a collar and only had one long sleeve on the right arm, with no sleeve on the left side. There was a light pink strip separating the red of the shirt from the pinkish-red, and a strip on the bottom. She was wearing black slip-on shoes, her hair was up in two high pig-tails on either side of her head, held up with red hair-bands, her bangs framing her face. To complete her outfit, she had on one black glove on her left hand, that only went to her wrist.
"Wow, Skatha! That's the cutest, girliest outfit I've ever seen you wear, since we were babies. I'm so proud of you." I said, smiling.
"Wow, I never expected to be calling you cute, Skatha." Sokka smirked, laughing.
"Oh, yeah? Well, I never expected to be considering you, even remotely 'hot'." Skatha retorted smartly.
"Oh, shut up, Skatha! I happen to think that he's the hottest guy in the world! Much hotter then your one-eyed 'boyfriend'." I replied kissing Sokka quickly.
"Whatever. And he's not my boyfriend." Skatha said, blushing and looking away glaring.
"Well, if you guys are done fighting over which of your boyfriends is uglier, can we go home now?" Toph asked, while walking out of the store.
"Shut up!" we all yelled at Toph following her out of the store quickly.
Next we went to an accessory shop to buy some jewelry and such to finish off our outfits.
We got to the little accessory cart, and went looking through their stock.
"Oh, this is perfect for Aang." Sokka said, picking up a headband for him to cover his arrow with.
"And, Katara can wear this, instead of her necklace." I said, holding up a pretty red choker.
Toph got herself a gold headband, and Sokka got a red, fire nation emblemed hair band.
The instant we got out of the shopping center, Toph broke her shoes, so she could 'see' better.
We also went to a weapons shop, and picked up a couple swords, for me and Skatha; just in case we needed them.
When we got back to the ship, everyone went straight to their rooms, and Sokka and I went to Aang's room to give Katara, her and Aang their new clothes.
"Katara, we're back. And we've got yours, and Aang's clothes." I called out, as I lead Sokka into the room.
When we got in we found Katara sleeping next to Aang, leaning against the bed; her head was lying on her folded hands, on the edge of the bed.
"Awww, that's so cute..." I said softly, smiling sweetly at them.
"Gosh, we weren't gone more then 2 hours, and she's already passed out? What a loser." Sokka said, smiling.
"Oh, shut up. I happen to think it's cute." I said, playfully shoving him, and smiling down at the two.
"Right, adorable..." Sokka said sarcastically.
"Shhh. Come on, leave them alone. Let's go, I wanna train some more. You wanna spar with me?" I asked, gripping onto Sokka's shirt, and pulling myself up close to his face.
"Sure..." Sokka said, smirking; wrapping his arms around my waist, and pulling me closer to him.
"Good." I leaned up, and gave him a quick kiss on the lips, before pulling away, and turning around.
"Just let me write a note for Katara, when she wakes up, and I'll just leave their clothes here."
I wrote a quick note for them, saying that we were leaving again to train, and would be back later. Then, I made sure their clothes were folded nice and neat with the accessories sitting gently on top of their respective outfits. And set them down gently on the bedside table.
"Ok. Let' go!" I said happily, pulling Sokka down to my height by the shirt, and kissing him again.
"Heh. Right." Sokka said, kissing me back.
I grabbed Sokka's hand and started running out of the room, and off the ship, pulling him with me.
"Hey! Where are you two running off to in such a rush?" Toph called after us, her head popping out of her room, feeling and hearing us running past her room.
"Training!" I yelled back, turning my head to look at her.
"Well, don't worry about me. I didn't wanna go anyway!" Toph yelled back, sarcastically, though we didn't hear her anyway.
"Woah! Where's the fire? (lol, fire)" Skatha asked, as we ran past her, smoke following us.
"Hopefully, a secluded area, where no one will get hurt because of it!" I yelled, not looking back.
Sokka just laughed the whole time.
"Well, geez. It's not like you have to rush or anything, we're not gonna leave you 2 behind or anything."
"We'll be back in a few hours!" I yelled, waving as we turned a corner.
"Whatever." Skatha muttered, returning to her room to sleep.
We ran up the stairs, and ran out the doors, off the ship, and straight through the village trying to find an empty area to train in.
We found one.
An open area, with a big empty cave, and lake close by.
"Perfect..." Sokka said slowly, smiling.
"I know... it's beautiful, isn't it?" I asked smiling as well.
"Not as beautiful, as you." Sokka said smirking down at me.
"That was so cheesy, but thank you for the compliment." I said smirking back up at him.
"Any time." Sokka said leaning in for a kiss.
I gave him one, and then broke apart quickly.
"So, you ready to train?" I asked smiling brightly.
"Heh. Sure." Sokka answered.
"K, you gonna show me some of those warrior moves of yours?" I asked.
"No prob."
"Can't wait." I smiled softly.
We broke apart, and then got into fighting stances, Sokka pulling out his machete.
"Ready?" I asked.
"Ready." Sokka replied.
And with that, the battle began.
"Hya!" I threw a couple fire balls at Sokka, and he blocked them with his machete, sending them into the wall.
"Now, come on. I'm not that bad, you gotta do better then that." Sokka smirked.
"Heh. Oh, I'm just warming up." I replied.
"Good, cuz, so am I." Sokka said.
I brought out my fire whips, and snapped them both once. Making sparks fly everywhere.
Sokka got in position, and readied himself for my oncoming attack.
I snapped my whips at him, and every time I would, little sparks of electricity would pop with it; and he would block it with his machete. He started swinging at me with his machete, as well. Sokka pulled out his boomerang and chucked it at me.
I front flipped over it, and smirked. Whipping Sokka once with my whip, not actually burning him.
We were both starting to breath heavily, and my fire was dimming, and starting to flicker, as th sun went down. More sparks of electricity popping.
I was just about ready to end the match, but I had forgotten about Sokka's boomerang; which had came whirling back at me from behind. It smacked me square in the back.
"Aaahhh!" I yelled as electricity surged through me, and out of my fire whips. It shot out everywhere as soon as I got hit.
I started flinging lightning whips around wildly, scorching a few trees in the process.
"Come on, Hikari! Calm down, breath! It's just another power surge to control." Sokka yelled to me.
I whipped at him, narrowly missing him, as he ducked right under it, falling on his back.
"Hikari!" Sokka screamed in actual fear.
"Sokka?" I said quietly as I snapped back to reality, and got a hold of myself.
I froze, stood up straight, and stretched out each arm. And breathed in deeply, channeling the lighting into my left arm, and down into my stomach. I let it pool in my belly, and course up, through my other arm.
Then I turned my head quickly in the direction my right arm was pointing, and redirected the lightning at the cave, breaking off a chunk of it's wall.
I was breathing heavily, and taking deep breaths, as I fell to my knees in exhaustion.
"Hikari! Are you ok?" Sokka ran up to me, kneeling down next to me.
"Y-yeah, I'm fine. Are you ok? I'm so, so, sorry." I told him quickly.
Sokka helped me up, and stood in front of me, with his hands on my shoulders.
"I'm fine, Hikari. Just a little shaken up, is all. But, that was great! You learned lightning control, and how to redirect it, already!" Sokka said excitedly, smiling down at me.
"Heh, thanks. But, I still need to work on it. I almost hurt you..." I muttered.
"It's not your fault, it's mine for forgetting about the boomerang, and being too dumb to dodge the shock better." Sokka said, kissing me on the cheek.
"Thanks for saying that. But, your not dumb; you were just caught off guard..." I mumbled, kissing him back.
"I love you, Sokka. You know, I never wanted to hurt you." I looked up into Sokka's eyes. Holding onto him tightly.
"I know that. I love you too, Hikari. That's why I was so worried about you, even when I had just met you." Sokka looked down into my eyes, as well.
We leaned into each other, and kissed, wrapped up in each others arms.
We made out for what seemed liked seconds to us, much too short. But it was actually minutes. And just stared into each others eyes lovingly.
"Awww, that's adorable..." Katara said from behind a bush with Skatha.
"What? What'd I miss?" Toph asked.
"Just Hikari and Sokka admitting to each other, how they really felt. And then making out." Skatha stated, smirking.
"H-how long were you guys here?" I asked, blushing embarrassed.
"Oh, since just about when Hikari attacked Sokka with her lightning. Good job by the way, sis." Skatha stated.
I just glared at her.
"Go, Sokka! Way to get the girl!" Aang yelled.
"Aang! When did you wake up?!" Sokka asked.
"About a half hour ago. Thanks for the wake-up show, guys." Aang said grinning.
"Ohhh..." I muttered, turning, and hiding my face , now as red as my dress in Sokka's chest.
"Hahaha." The whole group just laughed, as I suffered.
That is, until Sokka lifted my chin, and gave me another kiss.
"I love you, Hikari. Always remember that." Sokka muttered, before kissing me.
"I will. I love you too. Always, and forever." I mumbled back, kissing him back. Not caring who was watching anymore. As long, as I had my Sokka, I was the happiest girl in the world.
A/N: well, it's like 2 in the morning now, so I think I'm gonna end this chapter now. Hope you liked it, and will keep reading.^^