Gyatso and Kara: Prodigies of an Avatar

Chapter 31- Sister, Brother, Friend, Lover

"Do you think that we should wake them up?" Gyatso whispered to Topaz and Kyoshi looking at Kara and Iroh sleeping next to each other, hugging one another close.

"I don't know, I kind of what to see their faces when they wake up." Topaz smiled to herself evilly, which earned her a nudge from Gyatso. She nudged him back harder and was about to push him when he recovered, but Kyoshi held her back.

"That isn't right, Topaz." Kyoshi said looking at the two sleeping figures in front of them. "They look so peaceful."

The peacefulness left as soon as Kara turned her back to Iroh in her sleep. Apparently, Iroh knew what she was doing because when that happened, he wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her back to him. Gyatso's eyes bulged out and he started for the two, but Topaz pulled him back.

"No, hold on, I have to put this into my mind so that I can draw it when they hate each other again and forget that they were close." She said as Gyatso went back to his previous position, with her on his arm still, though.

Topaz spoke wrong, they probably wouldn't be angry at each other until the next stop, the Earth Kingdom army base. One thing that she was right on, though, was that they were close-very close, truthfully, and getting closer.

Kara made a little whimpering sound, which was followed by others, and broke out into a sweat. She turned around to face Iroh again and pulled his shirt to get herself closer to him. Her whimpering stopped, followed by the stop of sweat. The most shocking thing was not the stop of her fear from whatever nightmare she was going through, it was the fact that she snuggled her head in his chest and gave a relieved sigh.

"Okay, let me wake them up now. They're about to start making out or wor-" Gyatso whispered sharply.

"Gyatso! Come on, the sun will come up in a couple of hours. Nothing will happen. I mean, if one of them makes an unconscious move, they both will wake up and go far away from each other." Topaz smiled trying to reassure her friend.

"That's supposed to make me feel better? My best friend is snuggling with my sister. They could become more than friends! That's against the guy code!"

"What!?" Kyoshi yelled, bewildered. Her eyes squinted and she gave Gyatso the "guy code, you retard?" face.

"Seriously, dude?" The other girl whispered giving him the same look as his cousin.

"Guy code-you can't go out with your best friend's sister or date his ex-girlfriend. You guys don't know it because you're girls!"

"You, cousin, are . . . are . . ." Kyoshi couldn't come up with the right word.

"A loser." Topaz finished dryly, then recovered. "Anyways, Gyatso, it's not like they'll be lovers by the end of the night."

Gyatso turned to his friend and looked at her with dead seriousness. His blue eyes bore into her until she was almost afraid.

"I'm waking them up, now." He said seriously.

He was about to walk to the two sleeping friends when Topaz took his arm again. She looked him strait in the eyes and urged him to sit.

"Nothing will happen, I promise. I was kidding when I said that, alright? They made their promises, too. We all did."

Gyatso sighed. "I know, but something happened when they last saw each other that I don't know about and it resulted in that." He looked to his sister cuddling with Iroh in her sleep sadly.

"Gyatso, go to sleep, okay." Topaz gently pushed the boy down until his back was on the saddle.

"Fine," He conformed closing his eyes, and then opening them again.

"Topaz," He asked with a mischievous smirk. "Would you consider Iroh your brother?"

She laughed at that. Iroh was her brother in a sense, though. The two had been close ever since their childhood, especially when Iroh was five years old. Yes, she was his sister and nothing more or less.

"What do you think goof-ball?"

"I don't think, I do, Paz." He smiled getting drowsy.

"Don't flirt with me, Gyatso. Bad boy isn't your color." She laughed giving him a pat on the head and crawling over to her sleeping spot until the morning.

The Next Morning

Kara woke up to the smell of flaming fire-cakes and ice at the same time. Her rainy grey eyes fluttered open to see a dark blue Water Tribe shirt pressed against her mouth. She went to get up, but arms tightly wrapped around her waist kept her down. They were impossibly strong even when they weren't trying to be. Her eyes went up to see who held her, and she gasped. Anybody but him!

"Iroh!" She gasped hitting his chest with her soft hands.

He didn't budge. All he did was laugh giddily and began to tickle her. Within seconds he woke up.

"Oh, crap, you aren't Uncle Iroh." He looked down at the girl and turned crimson red.

The two jumped away from each other as fast as they could. Both of their temperatures had increased by the thousands and they had the same question. Why were they in that position together last night?

"What were you dreaming last night?" Kara asked brushing her hair in front of her reddening cheeks.

"Um . . . first I was dreaming that I guess you, uh, were the teddy bear that I used to cling to when I was six."

"I dreamt that I was snuggling with a bear, except the bear would . . ." Her voice trailed off in thought.

"The bear would do what?" Topaz asked butting into their conversation.

The two didn't notice that she was awake on their side of the saddle. She wore a Cheshire cat smile and put her arms around both parties and kissed them both on the cheek.

"You both were five moves short of making out last night. Gyatso, Kyoshi, and I saw the whole thing, but it'll be our little secret for now."

"Oh, lord." Kara sighed leaning over the saddle looking down.

"Oh my gosh! Guys, look down!" She yelled seeing the brown buildings below them.

Iroh slid over to Kara's spot along with the rest of the kids and looked down.

"It's the military base!" Iroh said breathlessly. The fact that they were so close to their destination-Ba Sing Sei hit everybody in the group hard. It was almost time.

I don't really like this chapter, it was plot setting so what can I say, right? Don't take this chapter the wrong way, the bear didn't do anything nasty, he just snuggled just a bit too much with her. I love those two. I dunno if I'll keep them together or not. You tell me! Also, Topaz and Gyatso will not have any love interests this time (including each other)for at least this book (I'm planning to make about 2 more books give or take). I'm gonna have a lot of fun with Kyoshi and her love life, so that's a hint.

I hope you guys liked this chapter.

God Bless,

Leelee488512