Chapter 4

On The Job

As we started work, the house got busy. Siru never knew that the Fire Lord knew about us, and the Fire Lady insisted that we called her Katara. Siru called her My Lady, I called her Lady Katara and Kiruna just called her Katara. We all slept in different rooms, not far from each other. I've became Lady Katara's personal servant, Siru served the Fire Lord personally and Kiruna just kind of helped around the palace. I was lying down on my bed looking at the wall when Siru came in, closing the door hard behind him.

"What's wrong with you?" I asked.

"The Avatar's here" he said, anger in his face was clear. I sighed, I mean, what on the name of all the spirits could be worst.

"What are you gonna do?" I asked him.

"I will ask the Fire Lord for some time outside the palace to run and errand that should take time. By the time I get back he should be gone and all" Siru said locking his gray eyes with mines.

"You sure?"

"Positive, me here won't help with the Avatar. This dude probably hates me by now OK" he said throwing his arms in the air. A rush of wind came from him. Kiruna and Siru didn't have the same problem I did, Siru had refused to get the airbending tattoos and Kiruna was to young when mom died so he never got them. I wanted to do something that I could always remembered my culture so I did them. Now though, I hate that because I have to be hiding them. I blew my hair off my face.

"If you say so" I replied.

Siru got up and kissed my forehead, which was his good-night. I knew he was probably talking today and making the Fire Lord give him that time sometime today. Siru could be pretty convincing if he wanted to. He closed the door behind him.

"The Avatar is here" my thoughts repeated.

I blushed at the thought that I might be running into him. Man, he was one fine boy if you ask me. I giggled at the thought.

Lady Katara was one busy girl. She had to have everything PERFECT, specially hair and outfit. Sometimes I wished I worked with Fire Lord. She picked an outfit out of her GIANT closet and her hair doo was a bit too much for me, but oh well. She had said to go with her to buy and make everything ready for the big dinner there was at the palace. The Fire Lord had informed me that Siru had to run an errand and would be out for a couple of weeks. I knew it; he is always getting his way.

The Lady and I reached the market place where she looked at flower pots, food, and even matching clothes for the servants.

"What do you think of this?" she said coming out of a little confined space that served as a changing room.

She was wearing a blue robe, similar to the fire nation one, but with water symbols.

"It's beautiful Lady Katara" I replied. It really did look beautiful, if flowed gracefully with her figure and her attitude.

She took a red one and handed it over, it was a skirt, very much like mine, but only opened at one side, the shirt was short, probably it would fit above my belly, showing too much skin. It had only one long sleeve on the right side and the left side was left sleeve-less.

"Try it on" she said

I blushed, I cursed the gods under my breath about letting me do this cursing tattoos.

"My Lady, I'm more of a reserved girl. That is not something I would wear" I said, a lump on my throat.

"Oh, well let me see what I can find here" she said looking around. She then came over with a beautiful orange and yellow robe, split open at both sides, then on the top it was just like the one she had tried on, but it divided the sleeves into color. The right side was orange; the left yellow, the skirt was orange.

"I know is airbender colors, but considering were having the Avatar then I thought it would be nice if my closest servant dress in his colors" she said smiling.

"I love it Lady Katara" I really did, it fit me perfectly not to mention that she had just made my day by buying me my colors.

We headed back to the palace, lots of bags in hand, considering the Lady had just bought clothes for all the servants.

"My dear Lady, we need you in the hall room, a slight problem has presented" one servant came running to her.

"Go to my room and place this in there please" she said handing me the bags she had and going behind the servant.

I walked to the royal bedroom, I thought about knocking but my inner thought told me nobody would be in there, so I entered. Only to find the Fire Lord shirtless laying on his bed.

"Hotness" my thoughts sang

"You suck" my other side said

"I'm sorry my Lord" I said walking out the room

"Is perfectly fine, is not like you haven't seen shirtless guys before" he said with a smile while getting up.

I entered the room with all the bags and place the carefully on the floor, avoiding any eye contact with the Fire Lord, or his body.

"Lady Katara asked me to put this here and I thought it was empty" I explain

"Is OK Aisui, I'm not gonna kill you for it" he smiled.

I laughed but didn't really found it funny.

"Clothes for the servants?" he asked

"Yes my Lord" I replied

"Oh by Agni, Katara is always overdoing things. I told her not to, put she goes over my word and does this" he said pointing at the bags.

"What did she buy you?" he said pinching at the bridge of his nose.

"A robe, kinda like a Kimono, but splits at the sides, airbender colors"

"Airbender?"

"Yes the Lady said she would like to honor the Avatar and it's race"

"Does she know?"

"No My Lord, she knows nothing about me been one"

"Does the Avatar?"

"He doesn't know either"

"Oh well, I gotta ask you for a favor, you're brother leaving me has left me at the service of the women servants, and Katara for some reason has hired young ones that do nothing but feel me up"

I tried to stiff a laugh, the Fire Lord was hot, but the Lady was fearful, I wouldn't think about doing such thing to him.

"So, I need someone to help me get ready the day of the dinner" he said sighing.

"I'll be more then glad to help and respect you my Lord"

"That's what I wanted to hear, you might exit"

I closed the door behind me, deep in thought. Siru had said the Avatar was here, but four days working for this people and I still didn't see him. Still lost in thought I bumped into someone, falling backwards on my butt.

"I'm so sorry" a hand was stretched and the thing about it that popped out the most, was the blue arrow tattoos.