One-shot III: Food

Aang loved spending time with his children and if there was something he especially liked, it was feeding them, especially making their food by himself; despite the fact that in the palace there were cookers willing to fulfill all his whims, he was a bit uncomfortable and liked to pamper his babies himself at least sometimes because among so many responsibilities it was difficult.

And just that day, Aang had decided that he wanted to make a great meal for his children, Izumi and Tenzin were one and a half years old, therefore, Aang had prepared a fruit compote that the children happily ate.

As Aang saw that his children ate well, he heard someone approach the small dining room where he was and after a few seconds, two children came running excited. Kya and Bumi ran towards Aang, they looked extremely excited about their first vacations in the Fire Nation; Kya wore a flower crown and the two wore light clothes.

"Uncle, look what I found, aren't they pretty?" the five-year-old girl yelled hugging Aang and pointed at the flower crown.

"They are exceptionally beautiful, Kya. Bumi, did you find anything interesting?"

"A beach where it's hot... and this" he said taking a turtle-duck in his arms, it was relatively large and did not seem uncomfortable in the child's arms "he followed me out of the garden"

"You better leave it, it's not so good that they come in, they don't like being inside" the boy nodded and lowered the animal that left the room.

"What are you doing?"

"Well, Kya. I give your cousins a snack."

"And why don't you feed them in the mouth?" Bumi asked this time seeing how the children misused the spoons to eat alone.

"They no longer leave me, they don't eat if it's not for themselves" his nephews laughed at that statement "well, sit down, kids." Aang saw one of the girls who was helping in the kitchen approaching to them and asked for a chocolate cake for her nephews, the young woman nodded and quickly returned to the kitchen "I suppose your parents will take a while, so stay and eat something with us "

The cakes were not taken long to come in and the children began to eat excitedly, but Tenzin no longer took his eyes off his cousins' cake and began to ignore his own food.

Aang was amused at the scene until someone else entered in the dining room.

"Avatar Aang, we need you to come."

Aang got up a bit frustrated and almost gave the one who was talking to him a bad glare, but he only gave a tired sigh and got up from his chair.

"I'll be back in a moment, I won't be long, just look at Tenzin and Izumi for a second, a babysitter will come to look after them" his nephews nodded and kissed his children's head who saw him a little upset because they knew their 'mom' would leave.

Aang left the dining room and the children were silent for a moment, until Tenzin brought the spoon with compote to Bumi, he understood that he was trying to feed him in his mouth.

"No, I'm old enough" but the baby kept insisting and babbled a little, until Bumi ended up accepting the bite that the child gave him. He was a little surprised by the taste, he knew it was made of fruits but I never expect it to be so sweet, although there were fruits in the Southern Water Tribe, they were very scarce and had very faint or somewhat bitter flavors, they almost always arrived canned or with rather salty flavors.

When Bumi looked at Tenzin again, he saw that he was pointing at his chocolate cake with his small hand and then pointing to his little mouth, so thinking that there would be no problem, he also gave him a little.

Aang had not been long, there had been a couple of problems in Republic City, which he knew Toph could solve well and he also knew that if he tried to get in, she would feel somewhat humiliated even if she did not say it out loud. Luckily, he did not have much to do and was able to quickly to go back with the kids.

He went quietly to the dining room believing that he would find the kids eating and being watched by a couple of babysitters, but when he was about to enter he heard Izumi's crying which made him suddenly enter, finding an almost comical scene. Tenzin was smeared with chocolate all over his face, eating the cake with his hands, Bumi in a similar situation using the baby spoon which was considerably small and spooned like there was no tomorrow; Kya was under the table eating her cake with an angry face and finally Izumi was crying with her empty plate being hit by the spoon that she still held tightly in her hand, she was also muttering something like "Kya" and "cake".

Aang carried Izumi to calm her down and asked Kya to come out from under the table; he had to scold his nephew and his son. He knew from that day that children might not be left alone for one second.