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Chapter 5
Disguises
I look at the Fire Nation clothes Sokka loaned me. They were a bit big but I only needed to borrow them until I got some of my own today.
"How do I look?" I hear and turn to see Kim. I gasp. She looked drop dead gorgeous. She wore a top with a strap that went over only one shoulder and a skirt that went down to her ankles. It also exposed her midriff. Her hair was down up into a topknot. Katara came out next to her in an outfit that was almost identical except it had 2 straps.
"Okay, the story we tell the villagers is Sokka's my brother, Zuko is my cousin, Toph is our niece, and Aang is my nephew. Kimiko you're my cousin and Rai you're her fiancée" Katara says. My eyes shoot open.
"You two, Zuko, Aang and I are going to town. Let's go" she says. I feel an arm wrap around mine and I look down to see Kim with her arm around mine in the traditional boyfriend girlfriend or in this case fiancée fashion.
"Shall we go?" she chuckles. We walk over to Appa and climb on. I notice Aang has a cloth wrapped around the top of his head. "Uh, Aang, why..?" I ask, but he cuts in
"No one's supposed to know I'm the Avatar so I keep this on" he says. I nod.
"Oh, before I forget, we all have Fire Nation cover names, mine's Sapphire, Sokka's is Wang, Toph is Maize, Aang's is Kuzon, and Zuko's is Lee" Katara explains.
"What can ours be?" Kim asks.
"Yours can but Yuza and Rai's can be…" Katara said. I could tell she'd run out of ideas.
"Luten" we hear and turn to Zuko.
"It was my cousin's name…he can use it" he says.
"Alright Yuza and Luten" Katara says.
We land about a mile from town.
"Aang you stay with Appa, the rest of us will go into town" Katara says. Aang nods and hops back on Appa. The rest of us start to head up the road. We finally make it to the town and Kim gasps. Their were stores and shops everywhere.
"Okay Lee, take Luten to get some new clothes" Katara says handing Zuko some money. We walk off to the left.
"Now Yuza, let's go shopping" I hear Katara say and Kim squeals. Zuko pulls me into a shop.
"Now let's get this over with" Zuko sighs. I chuckle. We decide in the simplest outfit we can find. A plain red shirt and almost burgundy pants. Zuko picked out a pair of shoes and we paid. As we left he pulled my aside to a table and gestured for me to choose something. I look confused to the table, then to Zuko, and back again. He rolls his eyes and grabs one, pays for it and then drags me to a alley way. He shoves my head down and then does something with my hair. When he lets go I feel my head and note that he put my hair into a top knot.
"What's it with you guys and top knots?" I ask him.
"It's mostly for when we firebend, so our hair doesn't catch fire as easy. It's also to keep ourselves cooler" he replies. I just nod.
"Come on, let's go find the girls" he sighs.
We walk into a shop and I almost squeal again. The clothes were so cute! I run over to a shelf to look at a cute top. It was the crimson color of our robes.
"How about this one?" I ask holding it up to me. Katara nods. I walk to the back of the store and into the changing room. The top had thin straps and fit my curves perfectly. I walk out of the back and Katara gasps
"It's perfect". I nod and we start looking for a skirt to go with it. I sigh at the lack of matching skirts and decide on a pair on loose black pants instead. We pay for the clothes and we go to another store for my shoes.
"What's next?" I ask Katara as I pick up a red necklace with a blue teardrop stone on it and pay for it.
"We go grocery shopping, I need more rice and tea if I'm going to feed this big group" Katara says as I tie the necklace around my neck. We walk around the marketplace.
"Sapphire how are you?" a woman asks.
"I'm just fine Ona, and you?" Katara replies.
"Great! Um, where's your brother and family?" the Ona asks.
"Wang couldn't make it, he had to stay home and watch Maize and Kuzon" Katara replies.
"Oh, Lee's with you then?" Ona says a glint in her eyes. Katara nods.
"Who's this?" Ona asks referring to me.
"Oh this is my cousin Yuza" Katara says introducing me.
"Nice to meet you" I greet.
"You as well" she replies. That's when I see Zuko's head over the crowd.
"Lee! Lee!" I yell getting his attention. He looks over at me and makes his way over to us. He's followed by a goy I barely recognize.
"Hi Lee" Ona says flirtatiously.
"Hello Ona" he replies awkwardly.
"Who's this?" she asks taking note of Rai.
"Hi I'm Luten" Rai introduces.
"Hi Luten" Ona says getting closer to him.
"He's my fiancé" I say grabbing his arm possessively. Her face falls.
"Oh, well, nice to meet you" she says and walks off.
"Does she flirt with every guy she runs into?" I ask.
"No just Wang, Lee, and now Kuzon" Katara replies. We walk around town picking up what Katara needed. I found that a lot of girls thought Rai was cute. But I played the role of the possessive fiancée and gave girls glares when they stared to long.
We were done and about to leave when a group riding on these weird animals run up.
"Oh no, not today" Katara murmurs. The group stops a few feet in front of us. Their was a young guy in the front.
"Why, hello Sapphire" the guy says to Katara.
"Hello Zhan, can you move so we can get home?" Katara asks him politely.
"Why don't you make me?" Zhan says hopping off his mount. He glances behind Katara and his gaze lands on me.
"Why, who's this?" he asks walking over to me.
"I'm Yuza" I say.
"Why that's wonderful. Why don't we get a cup of tea together" he says putting his arm around my shoulder and forcefully moving me away. I duck out of his arm and walk back over to Rai.
"Why you bein' like that?" he asks trying to grab my arm. Rai catches his arm in a tight grip.
"Leave her alone" Rai says, an anger I've never seen in his eyes.
"Why are you her body guard?" Zhan asks.
"No, her fiancé" Rai replies.
"Why, in that case . . ." Zhan says and then punches Rai in the face. Zuko starts to move towards him but I stop him.
"Why don't we see about that cup of tea now?" Zhan says.
"First of all I'm definitely not going with you after that. Second of ann what the heck is it and you saying 'why' before every sentence" I growl.
"Wh-, I mean It's just what I do and you're going" the guy says grabbing my arm. I grab his arm with my other hand, twist around, and then I throw him over my head.
"I don't deal with guys like you" I hiss. I then throw a flick of fire at his hair. When he's screaming I walk over to Rai.
"You okay?" I whisper.
"Yeah, I've taken much worse, I was doing that for his own benefit" he replies. I help him up and pretend to help him as we walk out of town. Once we're out of the town's sight I let go and Rai walks freely.
"But I though you were . . .?" Katara starts.
"I did that for his self-esteem. That really didn't hurt to much" Rai replies. We make it to Aang, load up the supplies, and head back to the temple.
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So there's the long awaited chapter. I am SO sorry for not getting this sooner. I've had a lot to deal with in life recently. But I swear that my updating will become more frequent now. Also all chatting has been suspended for a while because it takes up to much time.