BlackHawk Assault: thank you for cc I've kinda been waiting for that. I'll try to give the characters more personality.
Ok so I know what I'm gonna do with all the pairings so you peoples can stop voting now. In the end it will be Tokka Zutara and a crack pairing that I want to try but I would appreciate it if you would keep on reviewing please pweeeeeaaaassssseeeee. (Insert witty disclaimer here).
This is the point in my life that made everything fall into place; of course I didn't know it at first. It all started maybe a week after the Blind Incident. I had invited Toph, Suki and Song over to my house for a sleepover. Suki had long since disappeared and Song being the ultimate goody-two-shoes had fallen asleep. That left me and Toph to discuss anything we wanted at about one-thirty in the morning.
"You like Aang don't you?" I asked as I applied purple dye to Song's hair.
"WHAT?! Uh no what made you think that?" She replied her cheeks turning a rather ripe shade of red as a large innocent grin spread across her face.
"It's called girl's intuition Toph," I replied in my best mother voice "It's quite useful for these kinds of things."
She paused before asking, "You don't like anybody yet do you?"
I thought about it "No why?"
"Because most of the dudes at our table have a crush on you, for some reason they come to me for advice." I hadn't been expecting that.
"Oh really?"
"Yeah."
"I'm sorry. It must be awkward."
"Actually it's funny as all hell."
"ALLEEE!!" Bet you weren't expecting that, I know we weren't.
We jumped up and ran out the door to see what was going on. There was Gran-gran staring at a very startled Sokka and Suki in horror. The reason for this horror was the fact that Sokka had Suki's make-up smeared all over his face and was currently holding her in his lap.
We broke out laughing as soon as what happened registered. When they all turned to glare at us we ran right back up the stairs laughing as we went.
--I wish I was a circle--
The next day I was exhausted. Song wasn't happy about the purple hair and Suki was to embarrassed to help me apologize. All in all life sucked in the shit I-have-a-huge-test-today kind of way. By some miracle I was able to make it through my classes till Ag/Bio in which I simply put my head on the desk and crashed.
--Zuko's Position--
Katara came in yawned and promptly fell asleep. Now what? I glanced up at the cabbage man who was to busy nuzzling his cabbages to notice. Katara muttered something in her sleep. I repeat, now what?
I looked down at Katara, was she actually awake? I poked her a few times.
"Stupid papaya. Stop poking me." 'Did she just call me a papaya?'
"Katara wake up." I gently shook her arm. "Katara."
'Ok Zuko, think. Your best friend just fell asleep in class and thinks you're a papaya.' Yes I considered Katara my best friend. We might argue a lot in the car but usually it's more playful than angry. 'I wonder why she became my friend in the first place. No wait focus, focus.'
"I will never tell you where Aang is." Why in the world would a papaya want to know where Aang is?
"Uh Katara," Ok people were beginning to stare. Not that I cared but this sucked enough already.
I shook her arm. Not smart, she swatted my nose. Did I mention she hits rather hard for a sleeping girl.
"Shit! Fucking sleeping Katara! I am not a fucking papaya!" I yelled in her ear earning stares from everybody but the cabbage man who was to busy kissing his prize cabbage to care about somebody denying being a papaya. She still didn't wake up. What was wrong with her.
Finally fed up I took a sharpie out of my back pack and began to write on her arm.
--Katara's Position--
I woke up when the bell rang to a rather grumpy Zuko. He looked me straight in the eye and said in a rather indignant tone "I am not a Papaya!"
"Ok of course your not." I put my hand to his head, "How are you feeling?"
"ME?! You're the one that wouldn't wake up." He crossed his arms and we began to walk to lunch.
"Well sorry but I was tired and I don't think I missed much."
"Yes actually you did." I couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
"What, did the cabbage man actually say something today?"
"Maybe."
"Oh what'd he say?" Zuko frowned at his shoes and muttered something "What was that."
"He was talking to his cabbage," Zuko replied in defeat.
I ignored the stares I got when I laughed. Well most of them. There was Mai who caught my attention then gestured towards a girls' bathroom. I excused myself and went to see what she wanted.
--Oh Boy Squirrels--
"Leave," she told all the girls who were currently putting on their make up, they scrambled immediately.
"Look I'm not interested in Zuko, you can have him," I said right off the back raising my hands in surrender.
"That's not why I dragged you in here," she replied in the most bored tone I had ever heard. It was kinda depressing. "I want to ask you a favor."
"Really what?" I asked thinking immediately of Zuko's warning on the first day of school.
She opened her mouth to reply when a silky voice called out. "Mai, Mai are you in here?"
"Quickly hide," Mai said shoving me into a stall. She still sounded bored but at the same time a bit urgent. She then went to the sink and began to wash her hands. The door opened and I heard two sets of feet walk in.
"Mai were you talking to anyone?"
"No why?"
"Oh, no reason, just curious," I peaked through the crack to see Azula with another girl dressed in a whole lot of pink behind her. Azula briefly looked around the bathroom as if searching for something. While her head was turned Mai gestured to the girl behind Azula by pointing to the floor than her face.
"Mai, can I please do your make up while we're in here?" The girl asked cheerfully. Azula looked disgusted and excused herself saying she had to meet someone. As soon as she was gone Mai turned to the stall I was hiding in.
"You can come out now she's gone," she said her voice just as bored as it had been before. I came out and heard the pink girl gasp.
"Mai she's one of Aang's friends. Azula would kill us if she knew we were talking to her." I could hear the fear in this girl's voice. Why would she be scared of her friend?
"Ty Lee, Azula would kill us if she knew a lot of things. I don't know about you but I want out." At this point I was thoroughly confused. This sounded like one heck of a story that apparently I was only getting the small details of. It must have showed on my face because Mai turned to me and began to explain. "Azula is like a tyrant. There are things that the two of us want to do that Azula would never let us get away with."
"What's she gonna do, gossip about you?" I couldn't keep the sarcasm out of my voice. Mai and Ty Lee looked at each other before Ty Lee scribbled something on a sheet of paper and handed it to me. They told me to be there after school.
"Nice sharpie!" Ty lee exclaimed cheerfully as Mai dragged her out, "Say hi to your brother for me, he's cute!!"
After shivering in disgust for a minute I looked in the mirror to see what Ty Lee meant by sharpie. My entire arm was covered in drawings and writing. It only took a second to realize what happened. "ZUKO!!"
Yay things are happening and I put up my first cliffhanger. Go me Go me woot woot. Yeah I'm a bit hyper I had this huge brownie Sunday at Marie Callenders for desert. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!! So like Review.