Morning came around and the young princess was already done with her morning routines. She got dressed into her signature black armor with gold trimmings then she grabbed a bag that was laid out on top of her make shift bed. She looked into it to make sure she had her items.
"Come on Xorshiid lets go. You can hang out with Momo while I hang out with my princess." With that her hawk perched himself on her shoulder and cuddled into her cheek.
"Ok I know for a fact I did not teach you that. I bet it was Ty Lee who showed you" Azula said looking at her pet after he cuddled her. "No more lessons from Ty Lee"
She started walking out of her tent and heading towards the temple. She read the letters last night it was nothing new to her. Ty Lee just told her to be careful and watch out for herself. Her father on the other hand was asking how her search was going and to continue to hunt down her brother and the Avatar. It was the same as always just business talk.
Xorshiid took off flying into Katara's room easily while the young warrior quickly tied the bag around her and started to climb up the rope.
"Tch damn bird flying where ever he wants." She mumbled to herself saying that her bird was a show off sometimes.
As she reached the window and quietly climb into the room she noticed that her lover was in the bedroom already. Sleeping peacefully on her bed, she also noticed Momo was with her sleeping near her. Then her eyes moved over to her hawk who was perched on foot of the bed his head slightly tilted studying the two sleeping forms.
She smiled and quietly placed her bag on the table then slowly walked over to her sleeping lover. Leaning over her lover she placed a gentle kiss upon the soft lips. She started smiling into the kiss when she felt slender arms wrap around her neck then the kiss started getting deeper. Their lips separated.
Ember eyes looking into blue eyes "You know I could get used to waking up like that." Katara said smiling.
"Oh really? Maybe I should do it more often then." the princess chuckled
Azula slowly stood back up again letting her lover sit up. She never got tired of looking at her lover it was something beautiful to look at. The tanned skin and deep blue eyes were luring to her. It wasn't something she saw every day in the fire nation so this was something new to her. And she loved every minute of it.
"Stop staring" the young woman said cutting off her lovers thoughts
"For your information I can stare all I want." the warrior stated
"Oh yea?" she said raising her brow
"Yea in fact I order you to sit there so I can look at you" Azula said grinning
"Not going to happen" her lover shot back standing up
"Worth a try, anyways I got you something." She said walking over to the table and sits down
"What is it?" Katara asked sitting next to her lover
"Something edible I don't know if you have eaten it yet. If you haven't then that's good, at least you get to try something new. And I also brought some Black Dragon Pearls" grabbing the bag filled with goodies
"You dried them? How?" watching her lover
"It's a firebending technique I used" showing her the Black Dragon Pearls "See, they look strange right? It's interesting how they look weird and yet taste so good" the princess stated in an intriguing voice
"I can't wait to drink it then" Katara said looking at the little ball then looked at her lover "What's the other thing you brought with you?"
"One moment" she put her hand back into the bag taking out the rest of the tea pearls then pulled out a brownish purple ball.
It looked like a big plum to Katara but she knew it wasn't a plum. So far she has never seen this kind of fruit or vegetable before. She came to the conclusion that it was probably fire nation food. She carefully took it out of her lovers hand and started to examine it wondering what was inside.
"What is it?" she asked looking at her firebender
"It's called mangosteen it's a delicious fruit back at home. Some say it's the finest of all fruits they also call it the queen of fruits." Azula said smiling at her lover
"How do you eat it?"
"Simple" she held out her hand to Katara "May I please have it back?" Katara handed the strange fruit "Thank you, now watch." She placed the fruit in between her hand and gently started to squeeze it making small cracking noises.
The small noise Azula made got Momo's and Xorshiid attention. They made their way over to the couple and watched the young prodigy open the fruit. As soon as she took off the thick skin a sweet aroma came from it. Katara slightly leaned over her lover wanting to get a better look at the fruit. Inside the fruit looked creamy white she also noticed it was in segments.
The warrior took out two pieces of the fruit and handed one each to Momo and her pet. The hawk knew what it was and ate it with glee. And Momo being Momo he ate it with much happiness as well.
Then she gave her lover a piece "Here try some, just don't eat the seed though"
"Ok" she took the piece from her lover's hand. She looked at it for a second then popped it into her mouth. It juicy and very sweet almost as if it melted in her mouth once she was done she took the seed out of her mouth.
Not knowing what to do, she simply watched her lover noticing Azula enjoy the fruit with much happiness. Once Azula was done she took out her seed then placed it against her thumb and index finger and flicked it out the window as if it was a coin being flipped into a wishing well. After seeing her lover's actions she did the same thing as well.
"So what do you think?" the black haired fighter asked
"It was really good. You wouldn't happen to have any more, do you?" the young woman asked looking at her with curios eyes
"Of course, I have four more left in here" she said reaching into her bag.
"Well then I would like more of it." Katara said smiling
"Say please?" her love said grinning
"Please" raising a brow
"A kiss and a please" Azula smiled getting a quick kiss and a please from her woman, she couldn't get enough. She wanted to see what else she could get from her waterbender "How about-"
"Azula pleaaasssseeee" Katara said cutting off her lover and giving her a sad pleading look
"Finnnneeeeee here" she said handing another piece over to Katara 'so much for trying' she thought
"Yay!" Katara happily took her piece and ate it happily
Azula looked at her for a moment and smiled "Your spoiled you know that"
"Only because you spoiled me to begin with" her lover quickly spoke back with a half-eaten fruit in her mouth
"That's not true" she said looking at her lover who ended up glaring at her "Ok, ok maybe it was. But hey I did it out of love so you can never say I didn't love you." The princess stated waving her index finger at her.
"Deal"
The rest of the morning they stayed in Katara's room enjoying the fruit and of course each other's company. They talked about other fruits that grew in the fire nation and how some of them had different taste or how funny they looked. Once in a while the blue eyed waterbender would leave the room to check up on her friends.
While Azula stayed behind, she wasn't alone because she had her hawk and Momo with her. And she would somewhat play with them by taunting a piece of fruit in front of them. Or she would end up petting them or scratching their sweet spots.
Day became night; Katara feed her lover and everything. She then asked Azula to spend the night with her. Azula agreed to this and they sleep the night away. Katara felt safe wrapped up in her lovers arms and she never wanted this feeling to never go away.
Morning slowly started to come around. Momo and Xorshiid slept next to each other. They became quick friends over the short amount of time, and they were happy about it. Momo's ears perked up hearing something. He looked up then jumped onto the window ledge. His green eyes widen realizing who it was. It was Zuko and his master coming back.
He quickly came back down and woke his friend up. Xorshiid woke up wondering what was wrong with his new friend. Momo started chattering and Xorshiid understood then he looked at his sleeping master. Both animals didn't want her to get in trouble. So Momo quickly got up and started to wake Katara up.
"Hmm not now Momo" she said shooing him away and cuddling into her warm lover
Well that didn't work; he looked at his friend asking for help. The hawk understood and opened his wings and flew over to his master landing on her arm. Very carefully and with just the right pressure he dug his claws into her arm.
"Ouch! Xorshiid what was that for!" Azula asked quickly sitting up in bed
Then she noticed how frantic her pet was along with Momo. She also noticed how frantic Momo was pointing out the window and hopping up and down. Quickly and carefully getting out of bed she looked at the window and saw who was coming to the temple.
"Shit" she made her way back to her lover and gently shook her "Katara? Katara wake up please" she said nicely
"Hmm not now honey" her lover said in a sleepy tone and rolling onto her stomach
"Princess for the love of; please get your ass up" poking her side
"Bite me" Katara mumbled into her pillow wanting to sleep
"Fine" the young warrior leaned out and bit down on her shoulder softly at first
"Hmm Zula" her lover purred then she stared adding more pressure into her bite "ow, ow" she continued to add more pressure "Ouch! Ok, Ok I'm up. What is it?" Katara said sitting up and lightly pushing her lover away.
"Zuzu and the Avatar just came back. I have to leave quickly before anything happens" she said quickly getting dressed as fast as possible.
"What? How do you know?" the young waterbender asked watching her lover move quickly.
"Because Xorshiid and Momo woke me up and showed me" Azula said finishing putting her stuff on. "I gotta go ok I'll be back later on today. Save to tea I gave you ok." She quickly walked over to her lover and gave her a quick kiss on the lips.
"Ok, I love you"
"I love you too beautiful" "Xorshiid go back to camp I'll be right behind you"
And with that she quickly left through the window. Since Katara was already up she started getting dressed herself. She walked over to the mirror and looked to see if her lover left a bite mark on her. And that she did, it was a nice light red mark on her shoulder. She shook her head and smiled. She finished getting dressed and walked out of her room with Momo.
Everyone was already awake and moving around. Katara sat with everyone else after hearing Aang wanting to show them their recent firebending.
"With this technique the dragons showed us, Zuko and I will be unstoppable." The young monk said happily showing his new moves with Zuko.
After everyone applauded the wolf warrior spoke "Yeah, that's a great dance you two learned there."
"It's not a dance, it's a firebending form." Zuko said
"We'll just tap-dance our way to victory over the firelord." Sokka said motioning his index finger and middle finger into a little dance.
"It's a sacred form that happens to be thousands of years old." The prince shot back
"Oh yeah! What's your little form called?" Katara asked
"The Dancing Dragon." Zuko quietly mumbled
Everyone else laughs and slowly starts to get up. Katara starts to cook food for everyone then handing out food to her friends. After everyone ate everyone chatted about or took off to have more adventures around the air temple.
"Katara did you find anything interesting around the temple with Momo" Aang asked walking up to Katara.
"Actually yea I did find something interesting." The young woman said smiling "Wait right here I'll get it"
"Ok" the young boy said excitedly
Katara quickly rushed off to her room to grab the Black Dragon Pearls Azula gave to her. As soon as she opened the door someone pulled her in and placed a hand over her mouth. She was about to fight back till she tilted her head up. It was her lover.
"Sorry princess but I need to tell you something. I thought about sending a letter but it's not good enough." Azula said taking hand off her lover's mouth
"What is it?"
"I have to leave father has asked for me. Something about a plan for the fire nation so I have to leave and I don't know when I'll be back."
"Oh ok" Katara looked at the ground then looked back up at her lover not wanting to make her worried with tears "please be safe, I don't want anything bad happening to you"
"Don't worry I will Katara promise" Azula said wrapping her arms around her lover's waist holding her close.
They kissed each other putting so much passion into it making it look like it was their last kiss that they would have. After the kiss Azula took off out the window leaving her waterbender behind. Katara stood there for a moment letting one tear slide down her cheek, she quickly wiped it away and grabbed her gift and walked back out of the room.