One-shot VIII: Moon cakes.
Izumi and Tenzin were five years old; it had recently been their birthday and they were getting more and more naughty, they no longer only cut the strawberries that their "mom" grew and sneaked into their dad's office. Now they also fell asleep late playing with their toys, they tried to bring the turtle ducks to their bedroom to play and that day they would steal the delicious mini tarts they were making for the spring festival.
The twins tried to get to the kitchen as quietly as possible, although that was not really difficult because the kitchen was full of people coming and going, plus a lot of cookers baking and packing the delicious desserts in very pretty boxes. Waiting for nobody to see them, the kids got under one of the tables and only saw the people who worked there running everywhere, although they got bored quickly, they had the determination to wait for the right moment to take one of the boxes, so they decided to bring some of their toys so they do not get bored while they waited, until the moment they thought it was appropriate came up, there were far fewer people in the kitchen and the pastry chefs stood in front of the ovens waiting for a new tarts batch to came out, and noticing that, Izumi made a sign to her brother who took one of the boxes closest to the edge of the table and ran out taking his sister's hand.
Very excited thinking that they had gotten away with it, the kids ate one after another the desserts until out of nowhere they saw that their "mom" appeared with a very serious face to be so kind, approaching to them from the other side of the garden. The kids were now definitely scared and did not know where exactly they should flee, Tenzin hid the box behind his back and Izumi covered her face with her hands.
"NOTHING!" The kids yelled quickly when Aang was in front of them.
"Nothing what?"
"Nothing" they repeated.
"So, you didn't do anything?" He asked as if he did not know what they had done.
"No, nothing at all" Tenzin replied seeing that Izumi still had her mouth full and she could only deny still covering her mouth.
"I see, you didn't go into the kitchen, did you?" He asked, sitting in front of them and the kids only denied again; Aang just sighed tiredly "I know that you took the desserts, kids. Izumi, you keep chewing and Tenzin, your face is full of jelly" he continued wiping his son's face with a napkin.
"I'm sorry" they muttered sadly without wanting to look at their "mother."
"You know the tarts were for the festival and you couldn't eat any."
"It won't happen again" Izumi said sadly, wiping her face with the sleeve of her robe.
"Sorry" Tenzin continued.
"But you must not apologize to me" Aang led the kids back to the kitchen again where they apologized to the pastry chefs and returned the tarts that were still in the box.
However, the pastry chefs had been honored (though not that much) that the princes liked their food and offered them a few different kinds of desserts, plus Aang made them promise not to enter into the kitchen without permission, though Izumi and Tenzin might not fully fulfill that promise.