I am just on a roll today. I usually don't update this quickly. Be proud of me guys!
Ps I'm awesome. And you know it.
*linebreaker*
The next day has come and after eating breakfast, exercising, showering, and dressing, Zuko had to admit that this morning was feeling pretty good. Maybe being the Ba Sing Se wasn't so bad after all.
His uncle had just put up a sign that said, "We're hiring!" Hopefully, the new recruits wouldn't be dicks.
"Junior! We have our first recruit!" His uncle yelled from downstairs.
"Ok, coming!" He had put on his suit, smoothing everything out and came downstairs. He spoke too soon.
"Hey, remember me Li?" Jet said smoothly.
"I think he could work, right Junior?"
"If you're here to ask me again, I already said no."
"Oh no. Not this time Li, I needed a job to help pay our expenses and rent up here. Longshot can't do pay all the bills now, can he?"
"Junior, I leave the decision to you as I brew more tea. And please give him a chance." Zuko growled.
"Alright fine. Follow me." They walked towards the kitchen to have Jet carry tea to the table.
"Here at the Jasmine Dragon, we treat all customers as royalty. Now, I want you to serve this tea at Table Four without breaking anything. Jet casually walked to Table Four, smiled, and said, "Here's your tea, beautiful."
"You're not hired." Zuko bluntly stated out.
"Junior! You're being a little unfair now, aren't you? Show it to him how it's done." Zuko rolled his eyes.
"Give me that."
"You could at least say please."
"You could also not get a job."
"Here you go, sir."
"Thanks." Zuko walked back in front of the window kitchen, turned around, and smiled. Jet was surprised at he could ever do such a thing. Zuko walked in a straight posture, bent down to place the tea onto the table and charmingly said, "Here's your tea, milady." He poured the tea for the 'customer' and after he was done, he took the empty platter underneath his arm and said, "I hope you enjoy your tea, milady." He rose up and walked away. It was so perfect that Iroh snuck up behind him and made the background sparkle with rose petals falling down oh so softly.
"Sorry." He went back to his kitchen duties.
"Now, you try." Jet tried again and succeeded.
"Here's your tea, milady." Jet winked at 'her' and walked back, with a good posture for a treeboy.
Zuko looked very disappointed and angry. "Fine, you're hired."
"Sweet!"
"But one mistake, and you're out!"
"That won't happen!"
A cry from the kitchen, "Did he make it?"
"I did, Mushi!"
"Great! You start today!"
"Oh thanks!" "What?"
"Junior, put up a sign that we'll be opening a bit later today! And then go find Jet a suit!"
Zuko went into the kitchen and hissed at his uncle. "What are you doing? Why so soon?"
"Oh pish posh, Li. Time doesn't really matter. Now go!"
"Can't he just go by himself?"
Iroh whispered. "Zuko, my boy, it has been a dream of mine to serve tea in my very own tea shop and serve them to lovely people who enjoys tea as much as myself. I would love to have this dream before I die. Please, Zuko my boy."
Zuko felt his heart has been touched, a little. He walked quickly out of the kitchen as Iroh smirked behind him.
"Ugh, shopping." Zuko said as he wrote the sign and put it in front of the store. Jet followed him into the shopping district.
*linebreaker*
"So what are we buying?"
Zuko didn't reply for a long time. He just looked straight ahead, walking as fast as he could. Jet snapped in front of his face, trying to get his attention.
"Oi! Oi! Aniki!1"
Zuko rolled his eyes. "Don't call me that."
"Sorry Aniki, that's one order I just can't obey to."
Zuko gave up after another long silence. "A suit."
Jet smiled at his response. "That's our uniform?" He pointed at Zuko's outfit.
He grunted. "I like it. Looks cool."
After their charming visit with the old lady again, Jet got the same suit as Zuko's. They exited the store slowly, with a breeze blowing through them, and the song Oh Yeah by Ferris Bueller playing in the background. All you need to know is that they looked hot. Every girl had set their eyes on them.
Jet, of course, smirked at the sight of girls, ogling them. And just for the hell of it, he unbuttoned the first two buttons on his collared shirt. Zuko rolled his eyes and started dragging him out of the district.
"Aw, come on Aniki, have some fun."
"We need to get back to work."
Jet stopped playing around and got back to being serious. "Alright, let's do this."
Zuko looked at him weirdly as he suddenly changed his expression. They walked forward together down the long yellow brick road.
*linebreaker*
"Hey, you guys are back!" When the two boys returned, musicians were there, preparing their instruments.
"Uncle, what is this?"
"Well Li, I figured that we need to liven this place up a bit so I hired a group of musicians. Don't worry, they were very cheap." Uncle Iroh gave him the OK gesture.
"Alright, sweet! So what do we do now, Aniki?"
Zuko was getting irritated at his nickname. "We wait at the door until a customer comes in, we say 'Welcome, master.' And one of us will show them to a table."
"Ok, Aniki, can you go first to, you know, show me the ropes?" He charmingly smiled.
Zuko growled. "Fine." Zuko changed the sign to 'Open' and they waited together at the front door.
"So… the music's nice…" Jet started a conversation.
He grunted. "Do you do anything else than grunt?"
"Do you always chew on your stupid dirty grain?"
"Hey! This is very cool, the ladies like it and you know what? So do men. In fact, they all want to be like me!"
"I sure wouldn't want to be a dirty ass face."
"Oh, you wanna go?"
"Pfft, you wouldn't stand a chance!"
"STOP IT! AND GET BACK TO WORK!" They immediately stopped their bickering.
"There will be no fighting in my shop!"
"Yes sir." They both said simultaneously and faced the front door again, waiting for their first customer.
*linebreaker*
I think it got better right? Idk maybe not much but better. Ode as well review please!
Aniki means boss or big brother in Japanese. Here it's used as boss.