One-shot XIV: Quirky vacations.
Aang was starting a different vacation, it was his first mother-son trip with Tenzin, now that the kids were a bit older Aang and Zuko thought it would be a good idea for them to take a separate trip so that the kids knew more about their elements and their cultures. Aang was with Tenzin flying over the sea in Appa, but Tenzin no longer seemed so excited to be flying through the clouds.
"Our first stop will be at the Southern Air Temple… do you remember that we once went there with Izumi?"
"Yes, there are many sky bisons."
"It will be fun."
Tenzin nodded without speaking and kept looking at the clouds until they arrived at the temple, Aang went down first being almost idolized by the Air acolytes, Tenzin went down after the bison not wanting to call much attention, he knew that some acolytes there did not agree with his appearance. He already had his hair shorter than his sister, now it was just at the level of his cheeks; since Izumi had started wearing glasses and grew a little older than him, the two of them resigned themselves a bit to not being so equal. Only for this trip he agreed to wear the airbender robes; however, he did not go unnoticed by those who lived in the place, instead of asking him about his appearance, they all greeted him effusively.
"Young airbender, welcome."
"Hi, thanks for receiving us" Tenzin made a small bow greeting the adults who came to see him.
"He's already an airbender."
"Maybe it was good that he got away from his sister a bit" said someone else, although Tenzin wanted to hide it, those words made him feel bad.
"None of that, he has only grown up a bit and he no longer cut his sister's hair" Aang replied in a kind voice, taking his son's shoulder.
Tenzin nodded, he entered seeing everything that was in the temple, they had made reconstructions of many things to make it more habitable. Aang had been surprised to see Tenzin so calm and serious, he was even going to meditate by himself. What Aang did not know is that Tenzin had discovered astral projection, he knew that he could go anywhere like that and he wanted to go see his sister, he thought she was having a lot of fun looking at the dragons, but he missed her.
On the other hand, Izumi had just arrived with her father at the place where they would train, they got off the great dragon that Zuko had, the girl seemed very curious, they told her that she would see huge dragons, as much as her father one, but she could not be at all animated, she was also serious and calm. The Fire Sages also praised the girl, she seemed to be a prodigy of firebending, some of them saw that she was beginning to be more and more disciplined, another also commented that it was good that she got away from her twin, she thought that Tenzin would be flying with baby bisons or it would be very entertained, but she wanted to see him, she missed him.
Their vacation was over, a week had passed, Aang and Zuko almost thought that their kids had not liked the holidays, they looked almost down until they got back home. It was the strange coincidence that they arrived almost at the same time, the kids, realizing that went down as fast as they could and ran to meet each other, hugging as if they had not seen each other in months, although only a week passed, and they began to cry.
"I missed you so much" Tenzin said through tears.
"I missed you too."
They know that and once they separated and dry their tears, they began to talk about the great things they saw and how they would have liked the other to have been there. Only at that moment, Aang realized that he had also missed his little girl and Zuko a lot, he also went to hug him as if he had not seen him in a long time, although he was ignored a bit by his daughter, he understood that the kids needed time, they had never been separated and less for so many days. He would not be separated from Zuko either, he knew that if he organized a vacation again, it had to be with his whole family.