Sorry if I took a while to post the new chapter but just like you guys, I have been busy reading a lot of Kataang stories as well. Just a quick FYI though, telling me to update my stories isn't going to make me do it any faster. I always appreciate the reviews you all have been leaving me. Hope you all like this chapter.
Aang, Appa, and Momo finally arrived at Omashu after a few days of traveling. The citizens of the kingdom cheered when they saw them land in the city, the Avatar's presence was just as a big deal here as it was everywhere else. Aang wasn't sure if he would ever get used to all the love and praise he had been receiving since ending the war. Not wanting to be rude, he waved at the citizens.
Bumi came out of his palace with his royal guards at his side. Aang felt a surge of joy as he saw his old friend walk up to him. He jumped off Appa's head and the two friends hugged it out.
"It's always good to see you Aang.", Bumi finally said.
"Likewise, Bumi", the air bender replied. The two friends broke off the hug and Bumi turned to face the crowd.
"Ladies and gentlemen! The savior of the world, AVATAR AANG!", he addressed the crowd, holding Aang's arm up.
The crowd cheered, the air bender blushed, still not used to this kind of attention. The two friends turned and walk to the palace with the royal guards waking behind them while Appa and Momo were led to the stables.
"You didn't have to announce my presence here like that.", Aang said.
"You deserve it after all that you've done for the world", Bumi replied.
"I was only fulfilling my duty as the Avatar. Besides it's not like I did it all by myself, I never would have been able to end the war without my friends."
"I swear Aang, you're just too modest. But its one of the many things that I like about you."
The palace doors closed as soon as Aang and Bumi entered the building. The king led his friend to the dinner table. The table was filled with freshly made food that suited Aang's vegan diet. The two friends sat down and continued their conversation.
"I didn't think that you would be traveling alone. I at least expected your friends to come along with you, especially Toph. She and I still have a score to settle after all.", Bumi said as he took a bite of his chicken drumstick.
"I just need some time to myself. Ever since I woke up from the iceberg, I was always with my friends, so I never really had time to myself.", the air bender replied then sipped some juice.
"And….?"
"And what?"
"Aang you're an extrovert so I know that there has to be more to why you are traveling by yourself.", Bumi knew Aang well and figured there had to be another reason as to why his friends weren't with him. The air bender sighed; he was going to have to tell Bumi the truth.
"I just needed to get away from someone in particular…", Aang said, looking down at his food.
"The water bending girl, Katara I believe her name was."
"How did you know?", Aang looked back at Bumi with a surprised look on his face.
"Who else would it be?", Bumi chuckled, "If it was any of your other friends then I'm sure whatever issue you had with them, you would have settled it. But in her case it's different isn't it?", Bumi answered
'Guess there's no point in avoiding telling him', the air bender thought to himself. He took a breath and told Bumi everything. The king listened intently to everything Aang was telling him and felt a great sadness for his friend. While everyone was celebrating the end of the war, his best friend was dealing with a broken heart.
"I already had a feeling that you liked her, but I didn't think that you were in love with her.", he finally said after Aang finished talking.
"It started as a crush when I woke up in her arms but in the time that we've spent together, I fell for her.", Aang admitted. It didn't surprise him that Bumi knew about Aang's feelings toward Katara, despite coming off as a crazy old man, Bumi had always been observant.
"Since it has already been a while since you've seen her, how do you feel?", Bumi asked.
"Honestly…I still love her but every time I think of her, I see her and Zuko together and then I start to feel the pain in my chest again. So, I just avoid thinking about her by keeping myself busy with my avatar duties.", Aang answered.
"Just how long do you think you can just avoid her?"
"I don't know Bumi", the air bender said dejectedly.
"Well then maybe I can help keep your mind off her. It has been a while since we took a ride on the delivery system, has it not?", Bumi suggested smiling.
"Well what are we waiting for then?", Aang stood up with a smile.
"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHOOOOOOOOOOO!", the two friends screamed as they were sliding down the Omashu delivery system. The citizens of Omashu turned when they heard the screaming and saw the Avatar and their king using the delivery system as a slide instead of it's intended purpose. The two friends made sure to go down every route that they could go through around the kingdom. By the time they were done, the sky had darkened.
"That was fun Bumi!", Aang exclaimed. He never realized how much he missed sliding on the delivery system.
"It sure was. No matter how many times I do it, sliding never gets old.", Bumi replied.
"I don't know about you but I'm tired", Aang yawned, "I need to get some sleep."
"I'll have you escorted to your room then.", Bumi waved to one of his servants, "Take the Avatar to his bedroom".
The servant bowed and led the air bender to his chambers.
"Good night Bumi", Aang waved to his friend.
"Good night Aang.", Bumi waved back. When Aang turned away Bumi chuckled to himself.
"Get some rest old friend…you're going to need the energy tomorrow.". The old king couldn't wait to see his plan go into action tomorrow.
The next morning, the Avatar felt additional weight on the bed he was sleeping on. Slowly, he opened his eyes to see a woman he had never met before sitting on top of him. She had light brown skin, jet black hair, and looked to be in her early twenties.
"Um, can I help you?", the air bender nervously asked. The woman just gave him a wicked smile in return.
"You can help me by letting us help you", she replied.
"Us?", Aang questioned and then looked around the bedroom. There were nine other woman, all very beautiful, looking at him like a predator ready to pounce on their prey. He then noticed that they all had robes on.
"What's going on?", he wasn't sure if he was going to like where this was going.
"King Bumi has requested that the best women from the Omashu Brothel come to the palace and offer their services to the Avatar.", the woman still sitting on top of him answered.
"BUMI DID WHAT?!", Aang screamed. This isn't what he had in mind when Bumi said that he would help take his mind off Katara. He sat up and pushed the woman off him.
"This is a mistake! I don't need you ladies to do this for me.", he said.
"Oh, but we want to do this.", one woman on the right side of his bed said.
"It's not every day we get to pleasure the Avatar", another woman on the left side of his bed spoke.
"I've always wondered how good an air bender could be in bed.", the lady he pushed off said. They all started to crawl on to the bed and reaching out for him. Aang backed up as much as he could.
"That's nice and all but I would rather that we didn't.", Aang jumped off the bed and made a dash for the door but was stopped when the earth from the floor came up and kept his legs in place. Then two small pillars rose up at both sides around him and encased him hands. The air bender turned his head back and saw that it was one of the sex workers that used earth bending to keep him in place.
"We were also told that you might resist so we were prepared.", one of them said. All ten of them walked up to him and surrounded him in a circle.
"Come on ladies, can't we talk about this?" Aang nervously asked. Unfortunately, the women weren't listening as they stripped off their robes. None of the women had worn anything under their robe, Aang's face couldn't get any redder from blushing.
'I need to find a way out of this.', he thought to himself.
Back at the fire nation, Katara was practicing her water bending at a fountain within the fire palace garden. It was the only thing she could do to keep her mind off everything, including Aang. But lately, not even water bending had helped in keeping her mind off the air bender.
Ever since his absence, the water bender just was not the same. Almost every night she had been crying in her room. Katara missed him dearly and nothing was the same with him gone. Just when she thought that she wouldn't lose Aang again like before, she did. She was familiar with the pain because she had gone through it before when Azula struck Aang in Ba Sing Se and when he flew off after waking up on the fire nation ship. Although the pain she was feeling currently was ten times worse because she knew that Aang didn't want to be found. He was avoiding her, and their friends and she couldn't figure out why. She would have understood if Aang really felt that he had to go traveling the world and fulfill his avatar duties if he had just talked to her before leaving but he hadn't. He just went off while everyone was sleeping, leaving only a letter that didn't explain enough about why he left.
Katara sighed to herself as she dropped the water she was bending.
"You okay Katara?", a voice asked. She turned around to see Zuko standing behind her.
"Yeah, I'm alright Zuko.", she replied but Zuko wasn't convinced that she was being honest.
"That isn't true, and you know it. You haven't been the same since…you know", the fire lord said.
"Just say it Zuko. I haven't been the same since Aang left.", Katara looked back at the fountain.
"I also know that you have people listening for any information on his whereabouts. What are you hoping to accomplish from that?"
It was true that she had people bringing her any information they had on the Avatar. From what Katara had heard so far, Aang really was going around the world helping wherever he could. He was constantly on the move.
"I'm going to find him."
Zuko let out a frustrated sigh.
"Katara, its been made clear to us that he doesn't want to be found. Why can't you just leave him be for now?"
"He's my best friend Zuko! I just have to find him. I need to know why he left the way he did and why he needed to be alone.", Katara knew she was being unreasonable but couldn't help it.
"Do you think he found out about us before we told everyone?", the water bender asked as she turned to face Zuko.
"We were careful with our secret meet ups, so there is no way he could have found out about us.", Zuko replied. His assurances didn't seem to convince her though.
"And besides, nothing in his letter indicated that he left because of us.", continued Zuko.
'He's right but there just has to be more than what Aang told us in his letter. It just doesn't make sense for him to just go off to travel the world, fulfilling his avatar duties and not say anything to us about it. We've helped him stopped the war so why doesn't he just let us help him with his avatar duties?', she thought to herself.
Katara had tried to rationalize why her best friend left like he did for months now but could never come to a logical conclusion. It had been little over a year since she and Sokka found Aang in the iceberg and started their journey together. She had spent so much time with the air bender that she got used to him always being there and now he wasn't. It was as if he took a part of her with him when he left.
As much as Zuko assured her that Aang didn't leave because of their relationship, he himself wasn't so sure. He had his own suspicions that Aang left the way he did because of him and Katara but didn't know it for sure.
"I'm sure that we'll see him again Katara. Let's just give him some time and he'll come back.", the fire bender said.
"Time?! He's been gone for months now, how much more time do you think he'll need?", Katara snapped.
"He's the Avatar. Aang is probably going around helping people around the world and I'm pretty sure that can be time consuming. I'm in charge of the fire nation and it keeps me busy too so imagine how it is for him since he has to work to take care of the world.", asserted Zuko.
"No one is forcing him to do it alone. The others and I could have gone along with him.", Katara countered.
"That's true but I'm sure he has his reasons. Maybe what Suki said before was right and we'll see him again soon."
'We'd better see him soon. I'm miserable without him', the water bender thought to herself.
The king of Omashu couldn't contain himself when Aang finally got away from the women in his bedroom, although not unscathed. With the women all over him kissing his upper body and his face, he used his fire bending to heat up his hands and feet in order to melt the earth off of him. Aang then blew away the women with his air bending before they could successfully take his pants off. Without hesitating he ran through the doors, leaving an Aang-sized hole. He ran as fast as he could to the royal court where he knew that he would find his old friend.
Bumi immediately started cackling with laughter at the sight of Aang, not even the royal guards with him could stop themselves from giggling. There were lip stick stains all over his upper body and face and his pants were somewhat torn thanks to the women that tried to tear them off.
"Oh yeah! Laugh it up why don't ya?!", Aang was fuming, "Not like you didn't order a bunch of women to sexually assault me."
"Oh, calm down Aang.", Bumi wiped a tear from his eyes from laughing so hard.
"Calm down? Bumi this isn't what I had in mind when you said you would help me get Katara off my mind."
"Well if you want to stop thinking about her then I suggest you start thinking about other women. How else do you expect to get over that girl? You can't avoid her forever.", the king replied.
"Not like this! Plus, I can't be doing something like that with just any woman.", Aang replied.
"What do you mean by 'that'? You're 113 years old now, just say sex. We both learned about it before you were in the iceberg.", said Bumi. The air bender had an embarrassing blush on his face.
"That's beside the point! I want my first time to be with someone that I love, not with ten strangers that I don't know."
"Hogwash! I'll have you know that those ten strangers are the best sex workers in all of Omashu. And the whole 'with someone that you love'? Oh please, in my experience it's a lot more fun with more than one woman.", Bumi snickered.
"Well that's just how I want it to be.", Aang retorted. The king stood up from his seat and walked up to him.
"And just how long will it be for you to find someone else to love when you're still not even over that water bender?", Bumi questioned.
"I don't know…", the air bender lamented, looking away from his friend.
"We both know that she doesn't love like you love her from what you have told me so why torture yourself like this? You may be avoiding her but you cannot do that forever."
"I know that I can't do it forever Bumi.", Aang growled. He knew that better than anyone, but he didn't want to just move on with a different girl. He couldn't kiss Kano without Katara popping up in his mind.
"So toss away that fantasy of waiting for someone new to love. Just go back to that room and get on with it."
"I'm not doing it Bumi. This isn't how I want it to be. I'll have sex with the woman that I know I'll want to marry and have a family with. That's just how I am.", Aang wasn't going to be swayed, "Plus, you have a wife too don't you? One that you started a family with as well."
"Wives."
"Huh?"
"I don't have a wife Aang. I have multiple wives, eight to be exact.", Bumi stated with a deadpan look on his face.
"Really?", the air bender was astonished.
"Yes really. It's called a harem which is something I would suggest you have as well. Especially considering you are the only air bender alive; you can have a harem to repopulate the air nation. I was able to sire sixteen children and now have twenty-four grandchildren.", Bumi said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Oh wow. You really have that many kids and grandkids?"
"I am a king. My father had a harem and so did his father."
"I don't know if I can imagine myself marrying multiple women though."
"Well it's up to you either way. No one will force you to have a harem if you don't want one.", Bumi shrugged. He then put his hands on Aang's shoulders and had a serious look on his face.
"Aang you have been and always will be my best friend so I just want to help you as much as I can. I may not have suffered a broken heart like you are right now, but I can see how much pain you're in. I only did what I did to help you."
"I appreciate what you're trying to do Bumi, I really do. But I'm not ready for the kind of help those women could have gave me. I may be 113 years old but I'm still physically and mentally a thirteen-year-old, so I don't think I'm ready for sex anyway. I was thinking we could just have fun by pulling shenanigans like we used to back in the day.", Aang replied with a smile. The king let out a sigh.
"Alright then Aang. If that is what you want then I will be happy to oblige. What would you like to do then?"
"How about before we pull some shenanigans, we do some earth bending sparring? Toph taught me well and I want to see how I fare against the king of Omashu.", Aang said with a devious smile.
"I can get behind that. Let's see how far you have come, young Avatar.", Bumi challenged with a smirk.
"Don't worry Bumi. I won't disappoint you."
This ends chapter five, hope ya'll liked it. Be sure to review if you can please. I'm going to work on chapter six before I get back to "Yandere Katara".