Drinking leads to betrayal
Chapter 2: Morning After
Five am the following morning.
Sokka woke to the pleasant feeling of a woman cuddled up to him, Sokka's arms were wrap around her waist, and their legs intertwined. He still could not believe what he and Azula did, several times last night. Just being with the girl felt right to and it was even better to be able to wake up next to Azula in bed.
Sokka knew he should not feel this way about his enemy, but he could not help but feel it was right to lay with her like this. He just hoped she felt the same way he did about this situation. He could not help but smile when he saw that Azula was drooling on his scar covered chest.
Azula woke feeling pleasantly sore in her nether reigns and lying next to something very warm, so she chose to cuddle closer into it. As her brain starts to fire on all cylinders, she remembers what happened last night and blushed. She could not believe she slept with a peasant, hell she could not believe she had sex period, but nothing feels more right to her then lying next to this boy.
"Good morning, Azula did you sleep well?" Sokka asks just before Azula bit his chest.
'At least it's not as painful as that burning bite she gave me last night.' Sokka thinks with a grimness.
"You really like to bite people don't you?" Sokka replies as Azula release his chest.
"Well you seem to like it My Savage. What do we do now?" Azula asks as she lays her head back on Sokka's chest.
"Well I think we have a few options. One we could both ignore what happened and go on with our lives. Two we could have fun until we need to go our separate ways returning to being enemies. Finally one of us could join the other side and continue having fun." Sokka says as he starts running his right hand through Azula's soft hair.
"I say we do number two with no sex and think about number three. We make the final choice after we spend more time together. I say no sex because I was not quite ready to do that yet when we did it and am still not ready to." Azula nervously tells Sokka.
"That's fine with me. Gran-Gran taught me that sex is special and is not something you should do without thought. We can blame that on the alcohol." Sokka says with an understanding smile on his face.
"Do you think we can still share a bed, no fooling around? I have never sleep so well before, I am told I move around a lot in my sleep so I don't sleep well." Azula says embarrassed by how she was acting.
"That's fine I am normally an active sleeper as well so it will be a nice experiment to see if having someone to hold will allow us to sleep better." Sokka states with a smile.
"Thanks for understanding. I am not really my normal quick thinking self until I have been up for an hour." Azula states as she lays back against Sokka's chest.
"I completely understand, I'm the same way but I have been laying here waiting for you to get up so I have had time to wake up." Sokka says looking at the celling.
"Why did you not just get out of bed and do something?" Azula asks curious about this.
From what Lin, the caption on her tank train told her, most men would leave the woman in bed when they wake up. Hell Lin told her how she woke up many times with money on the night table and how that always made her feel dirty.
"Gran-Gran says you always wait for a woman to wake before getting out of bed, unless you make her breakfast. Doing so may make the woman a feel dirty or used. In addition, despite the fact that we were drunk and we are enemies I refuse to treat a woman I sleep with as a whore. In the southern water tribe to do so is also an insult to not only the woman but the man too." Sokka tell Azula.
"They never put that in the texts and although the Fire Nation could be considered bias by outsiders. Our finishing schools do teach from texts from the other nations to teach us to respect are enemies customs. Tell me more please." Azula states as she lays on Sokka her inner scalar shining thought.
"That explains why the colonies seem to keep several Earth Kingdom traditions. Well in the Southern Water Tribe, it is considered dishonorable to treat woman as inferior to men but there are gender specific jobs. Men do to are willingness to take greater risks and greater upper body strength make us more suited for higher risk vocations like hunting and protecting the settlement from the predators of the ice. Well woman with their greater task management and dexterity are more suited to cooking, weaving, and record keeping (writing down things.) (I am making this simplistic I know it is a bit more complex but I do not feel like taking a full crash course in gender differences.) However both males and females will defend the tribe, unlike the north." Sokka stops talking for a moment to reminisce
"My old friend Notai regularly kicked my ass. Heck the best fighters in the tribe are the woman of my tribe. I used to think that the rest of the woman of the world needed to be protected, until I got my ass handed to me on Kyoshi Island. But I am getting off topic; my tribe has an abundance of renewing iron sands thanks to high magnetite content in all the fish in the southern artic sea. Before the war, we traded with the Fire Nation and Southern Earth Kingdom." Sokka says with smile.
"As a sea faring people the men of my tribe were always tempted by the brothels of the Earth Kingdom city's but do to tribal belief that sex is sacred and should only be done by those who care for each other, we never use their services. As a matter of fact the first chief of Southern Water Tribe after seeing how the women of the Earth Kingdom were treated and still are still treated by the men of the kingdom, Conan grew disgusted with the idea of the sale woman for sex." Sokka stops for a moment.
"He made it a great dishonor to leave a woman's bed before she wakes unless making food for the woman. It is an even greater dishonor to him if you leave money for the woman afterword. That is where the tradition comes from. Are first chief Conan also declared that both men and woman would be trained to fight, to prevent are woman from being used in this manner. Rape was declared the only true capital crime. The only way a man can leave a women's bed before she wakes is to make her breakfast. There are no whores in the Southern Water Tribe but, the woman will lay with a man she fancies before he goes to war, but it is her decision. The training of the woman of the tribe to fight is why all the men of my tribe can leave to fight in wars. We need no warriors to stay behind because everyone in the tribe is a warrior." Sokka says thinking about the past.
"The same is true for the Fire Nation but we do have woman remove their clothes for men and may negotiate a price for the night and don't need to stay. Moreover, we woman mostly protect the motherland, it is why we call it the motherland for the mothers protect it. Let's get off this subject." Azula says as he gets up, she lets out a giggle when she hears Sokka's stomach growl.
"Come on I'll make us some breakfast…we forgot to get grocery's didn't we. And don't worry I am on the maiden herb pill that lasts a week at a time." Azula tells Sokka with a blush on her face.
"Its ok we can go to a restaurant for breakfast then get some grocery's after words. I am just glad you are on the maiden herb, I am not ready to be a dad quite yet." Sokka tells Azula with an embarrassed smile.
"Do you want me to look away when you get out of bed?" Sokka asks Azula as she was about to roll out of bed.
"You have already seen me naked already so I don't mind if you peek. However, no funny ideas you are not getting to tap my pussy again so soon. But I will wash your back if you wash mine." Azula says with playful grin.
Azula has never felt her chi so in balance in a long time. Her darker thoughts were still there, but they were not as bad as normal. Her darker thoughts were due overproduction of her light chi, due to the fragment of light from Raava do to her being of an avatar line. As a result her dark chi became stronger than most.
Half hour later at eight am
Sokka was getting dressed next to Azula in the master bathroom; he had gotten a set of clothes before proceeding to take a bath with Azula. Since Azula destroyed the set he had found, he was down to two sets of clothes again. He thought he should pick up some more. Of course, Katara now had ten sets of clothes five more given to her by the Northern Water Tribe since she was a water-bending prodigy.
At least Arnook helped Sokka make several extremely rare Water Tribe steel ingots. The ingots used the iron sands from the spirit oasis and they used two sea serpents teeth to harden them. The complete lack of slag was one of the reasons why water tribe steel was the best steel in the world. Sokka was surprised that Arnook viewed him worthy to make such ingots after he failed to keep Yue safe.
Flash back
"Why are you letting me do this Arnook I do not deserve this honor." Sokka tells the chief of the Northern Water Tribe.
"Sokka you did all you could to keep Yue safe. Remember she did not truly die Sokka; Yue willingly gave her life back to the moon and became the new moon spirit. She still lives as the moon and is watching over us now." Arnook tells Sokka as he pats Sokka on the shoulder and points to the nearly full moon as it shown into the oasis.
"But this iron has not harvested in over five thousand years when the great forge hammer Mjolnir was crafted just before the split of the water tribe." Sokka tells Arnook.
"I know but you are more than worthy in my eyes to receive this honor and I'm sure your father would agree. Now it's time for the ritual to start." Arnook says as he hands the boy a long scoop bucket on a pole, the bucket only held about a fourth cup of material.
"You have until the moon is gone from the skylight to get as much iron sand from the bottom of the oasis." Arnook tells the boy.
Sokka begins to use the six-foot scoop bucket to get the iron sand from the oasis.
Sokka would manage to get enough sand to make seven ingots.
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"Well after we get food I'm going to head into the barn to fire up the forge I saw in there. I have been meaning to make a new spear now that I am allowed to make things from metal." Sokka says.
"Are you not fifteen years and six months old, you should have been able to use steel weapons for a year and a half now?" Azula asks Sokka leaving her hair down for a change.
"If I was born form the Northern Tribe then yes. However, well my grandmother is from the north my grandfather, is from the fogy swamp tribe and my mother is pure blood southern tribe. Being raised In the Southern Water Tribe, unless it is a gift, a boy cannot use pure steel weapons until after he passes the ice dodging ritual. The men of my tribe left to join the war two weeks before my birthday. I only completed the ritual three months ago and I have not had time to make any weapons until now. Want to help me with your fire bending? It would greatly speed up the process, plus it's the only way you can bend well here." Sokka tells Azula.
"Sounds like fun. I was never allowed to do more than fire welding, which is one of my passions. So I would like to see how weapons are made Sokka." Azula says with a happy glint in her eyes.
After breakfast
The two head to the barn after Sokka brings some feed to the Yakul and lets the ostrich horse out of the stall for some exercise. Sokka had stashed his tools and ingots there yesterday before he swept the floors. When Sokka pulls open his bag to pull out one of his seven ingots, he noticed that one of the ingots somehow broke in half. Shaking his head Sokka just pulls out a large hammer with an interesting designing on it.
"Is that the real Mjolnir or a replica?" Azula asks Sokka as she stares at the relic.
"It's the real thing and I might tell you how I got it someday but not now. It will involve some things I'm not quite ready to talk about." Sokka tells Azula as he hands her a headband, before tying one on his head as well.
"I'll get it out of you one day then. Now let's get started my savage." Azula tells Sokka as she mimics him putting on the headband.
"Ok first we need heat the ingot up until its red hot." Sokka tells Azula after grabbing set of tongs to hold the ingot well Azula heats it.
When the steel is glowing red Sokka takes it from Azula's hands with the tongs and begins beating on it with Mjolnir.
"How come there are no sparks?" Azula asks Sokka.
She knew from watching a blacksmith work that there should be sparks when beating on the metal.
"Water tribe steel has no impurities from are smelting processes. That means no slag and no slag means you have no sparks. However it does make the steel hard to work with." Sokka tells Azula.
"That like are battle ship and tank armor. But we use massive smelters to do that." Azula says.
"That's because the Fire Nation smiths like to work out the slag when forging the only problem with that is it leads to inferior steel. We of the water tribe make the best steel weapons in the world because we remove the slag in the smelting stage and control how much carbon we put in it. We are masters of steel; legend says we were the first nation to make steel." Sokka says.
"I heard that legend to and it makes some sense to me." Azula says.
After a ten hours of hard work and small talk Sokka managed to fold the bar to a flat bar thanks to Azula keeping the metal hot.
"Well that was faster than I thought it would be." Sokka says as he unties his sweet soaked headband to wipe off the rest of the sweat on his head.
"We will continue tomorrow since it is late and I still have a lot of work to do. Besides I want to try your cooking." Sokka says with a grin.
"Let's get clean up first. And this time separately." Azula tells Sokka with a teasing grin.
"Aw I wanted to see your hot wet body again. But I guess I can live with taking a separate shower." Sokka says with a grin.
"You might get to see it again one day if you are a good boy." Azula says with a sultry smirk as she walks away swinging her hips so her ass would wiggle delectably.
'I see why mama was always doing this to daddy, its fun to tease men, as long as you know they won't attack you.' Azula thinks as she does come from a very long line of teases.
'That girl is such a tease and I find that very attractive for some reason.' Sokka thinks as he puts his tools away before fallowing after Azula.
After getting clean up and dinner is finished cooking.
"I used some Fire Nation spices I brought with me so it may be too spicy for you. I made roust duck with rice and a nice salad with Cesar dressing." Azula says as she sets the food down for them.
Sokka quickly stands up to pull out Azula's chair before sitting down to eat
"Good boy you deserve a treat." Azula says before kissing him on the cheek.
"Thank you Princess Tease." Sokka says with a smirk before taking a bite of the duck.
"Mmm, this is delouses." Sokka says with a smile.
"Glad you like it Sokka." Azula says with a happy smile, she was glad he liked her cooking for some reason.
"So where did you learn to cook?" Sokka asks Azula.
"Fire Nation royal academy for girls, I was the best cook in the class." Azula says with a proud smile on her face.
"I can believe it with how good this is." Sokka praises Azula with a smile.
After dinner Sokka and Azula play several games of pai sho neither really able to get a decisive victory on the other.
Azula's bedroom
Azula finished changing into her sleeping robe when a knock came from the door.
"Come in Sokka." Azula says nervous that he may want to have sex again instead of just sleeping. She did not know if she would be able to resist the temptation is he did.
"You still want to share a bed with me?" Sokka says coming in wearing a pair of pants and nothing else.
"Yes but just sleeping, no sex." Azula says firmly.
"I know and I already told you I was fine with that." Sokka says with a smile as Azula gets into the large bed.
Sokka says as he gets into the bed beside the girl after covering the light crystals.
"Sweet dreams Azula." Sokka says as he pulls the covers over them.
Azula decided to take a risk and she lays her head on Sokka's chest and wraps her arms around Sokka. Azula tenses up when Sokka wraps her up in his arms. She quickly relaxes when he does not try to do anything else. She cuddles deeper into the boy's chest before closing her eyes with a small smile on her face.
"Same to your my savage." Azula tells Sokka.
"Thanks Princess Tease." Sokka says with a smile as he closes his eyes as well.
The two quickly fall asleep to pleasant dreams
To be continued.