Fan Fiction ❯ Admiration ❯ Admiration ( Chapter 1 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]
Admiration

By Iras (lurkindarkness to some)

Rating: PG

Warnings: Shounen-Ai

Pairings: Zuko x Sokka, Aang x Katara (only hinted)

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender! Infact, I don't own pretty much anything except the remainder of my sanity...

Summary: What started with slight admiration evolved to the point of no return...

A Green Blobby Thing: NA NA NA NA NA NA NA!!! (blows rasberry at Iras)

Iras: ... what the hell are you?

Green Blobby Thing: Your sanity... Try to catch me (flies away into the sunset)

Iras: NOOOO!!! COME BACK!!! (runs after it but for some reason background with sunset turns out to be billboard for Hawaii) There it goes... Gone Forever... WHY?!?! (falls to knees and cries)

Dracken: Get over it, at least yours didn't pull a whole out of it's pocket, throw it on a mountain, then go through... but when I tried to reach it I just ran into the mountain with black paint on it... Go Figure

Iras: (sniffle) I'll miss my sanity...

Dracken: In about 20 Minutes you won't

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"Zuko, the Avatar and his friends are resting in an Earth Nation town near by, shall I have the ship switch course to Sunaracha?" Iroh asked.

"Yes, yes..." Zuko said and waved his had at him. Iroh nodded and left Zuko's room. Zuko sighed and looked into the fires burning beside him as he thought.

'Sokka still fights for his nation, even when all of the southern water fighters have been captured or killed, he still fights, no matter how outnumbered...' he thought, then remembered something a fire bender told him from the recent prison escapade.

'He lost his mother aswell, the girl... Katara, I think... still morns her death, why doesn't Sokka?'

~~~In Sunaracha~~~

"Hey Sokka, you want some fruit? Momo and Appa found some in the woods," Aang asked as he carried in a few oranges and held one out to Sokka.

"Sure..." he said and put his hand out to take the one Aang held out for him. Aang looked at him weirdly.

"Normally you would have just taken all of them, are you sick or something?" Aang asked. Sokka merely shrugged in return as he bit into the orange, not knowing, or just not caring that the peel was still on it.

Aang looked at him weirdly before leaving the small hut they were staying in to go find Katara (to go impress her with a new airbending trick he learned the other day).

'Zuko is a banished prince, I heard his uncle mention that once... he is really dedicated though, he still fights for them even though his father and most of the firebenders think he is a disgrace...' he mused as he bit into, the actual juicy and edible part of, the orange.

'I don't get why he stays loyal to people who look down on him so much...'

"Sokka!!" Katara yelled from outside. Sokka was pulled from his thoughts as he ran outside with his boomerang.

"What?" he asked. Katara pointed to the water line where a fire nation ship, or more specifically, Zuko's ship, came towards the Earth Nation City.

"Sokka! We gotta go fight them and protect Sunaracha!" Aang said as he ran over to Appa. Sokka nodded and followed Katara onto Appa.

"Yip Yip!" Aang yelled. Appa flew into the air and headed towards the Fire Nation Ship.

Within ten minutes, Appa flew down beside the ship and Sokka, Katara, and Aang jumped off, they were greeted by a group of Fire Benders.

Aang took them out easily with a ball of air as they continued through the ship looking for Iroh and Zuko.

But they were too late, by the time they dealt with the fire benders, the ship had landed at the shores of Sunaracha.

"Uncle, get the benders out into the city," Zuko ordered. Iroh nodded and ran out of the room to gather up the fire benders, or fire bender, most by now were knocked overboard or unconcious.

Zuko walked out of his room and headed off the ship. Aang and Katara were trying to fight off Iroh, whom was much more difficult then Zuko and needed the extra man/woman power.

"Sokka, fend off Zuko!" Katara yelled as she waterbended to keep her clothes from catching on fire.

Sokka nodded and ran up the hill to where Zuko was as Aang, Katara, and Iroh fought up a flat stone bridge between two buildings nearby.

Sokka was still quite skilled in the fighting technique Suki tought him and he used his boomerang like they used their fans.

Sokka charged at Zuko as he was holding his arm up to shoot fire at Sokka. Sokka hit Zuko's arm, making him lose his concentration and the fire dissappeared.

Zuko growled at Sokka and tackled him to the ground... being on top of a hill, making them tumble to the bottom as they fought.

Sokka landed below Zuko when they reached the base of the hill... he was breathing heavily, as was Zuko. After a moment of staying like that, they remembered they were fighting and shot up.

Zuko looked at Sokka whom was dusting himself off. 'Damned Emotions,' was the last thing that went through Zuko's head before he grabbed Sokka by the arm and pulled him into a kiss.

Sokka stared wide-eyed and stiffened (no not THERE, as in his body in general) for a moment before closing his eyes and kissing back, loosening up and dropping his other arm which he had up before to block Zuko.

Meanwhile, Katara was about to try to make Iroh slip on some ice before her head tilted towards the hill... "Holy..." she said.

Aang and Iroh looked at her, curious on why she was gaping into thin air before they looked at where she was looking.

Aang twitched his eye before they widened immensly. "What the---" the said shocked.

"This isn't what I expected," Iroh said, less shocked then the other two, but still a tad surprised.

Sokka and Zuko parted. "Woah..." Sokka whispered and looked up at Zuko. Zuko was in a bit of a daze, but he was looking at Sokka aswell.

The other three ran down to them, Aang and Katara pulling Sokka away from Zuko, as did Iroh with his nephew.

"What were you doing Zuko!?" Katara yelled at the fire Prince.

"Him?! What about your brother!" Iroh yelled back.

"Are you accusing Sokka of actually wanting to----" she shuddered, "well, you know.... with HIM!" she yelled and pointed at Zuko.

"My nephew wouldn't have done that, especially with a guy... I mean, Sokka's the one who wore a dress!" Iroh yelled.

"That was the fighting tradition!" she yelled back.

Aang was still staring wide-eyed at the two.

"THEY kissed EACHOTHER Katara..." Aang said in a droney voice, his left eye twitching occassionally.

"but, but, but..." Iroh and Katara both stuttered, they both refused to believe that.

Sokka and Zuko, now seemingly out of their trance, spoke up.

"I happen to admire Sokka for his courage and will to never give up," Zuko stated.

"Really? I always admired you for being so loyal to your nation, no matter what they did," Sokka said and smiled a bit at Zuko's statement.

Katara and Iroh both stared at their relatives, then fainted.

"I don't suppose you'll stop trying to capture me will you?" Aang asked.

Zuko and Sokka looked at eachother... it would be difficult to carry out this relationship if both were so loyal.

"For Now... when you master the four elements however, I will have to send every man in the nation after you Avatar, unless of course, you attack me, in which case I must insist on retaliation..."

"What about you Sokka?" Aang asked.

"I can stop all raids and attacks on your nation and free all of the captured men from the area if you were to stay with me on my ship... I don't get to stay on land much," Zuko said.

Sokka looked at Katara and Aang. "Appa could track you every once and a while so we can visit you, of course it would have to be in private so that the fire benders don't catch us and report Zuko,"

Sokka nodded and turned to Zuko. "I think that works well for both of us, shall we go before your men wake up.. or catch up for the ones overboard... and know that you let the Avatar walk away?"

Zuko nodded and looked over at his uncle. "Help me with him..." Zuko said and grabbed his uncles legs to try to carry him onto the boat.

Sokka turned to Aang. "Tell her I said Good Bye and that our nation is safe... oh, and Aang..." Sokka said.

"Yeah?" he asked.

"As an older brother I must say one thing, don't try anything with my sister," Sokka smiled at Aang's blush before helping Zuko with Iroh onto the ship.

~~On Zuko's Ship~~

"Ok Sokka, just tell everybody that you are learning water bending and that you have sworn total loyalty to the Fire Nation, they'll go with it, we had an earth bender do the same once," Zuko told Sokka as they got on the ship.

"I'm learning water bending?" Sokka asked.

"It would be difficult to explain why you're here, unless you were a spy, if you don't bend something, seeing as your of the water nation, your natural bending powers are centric around water,"

"I don't know how to bend at all though!" Sokka said.

"I can teach you what I know... or perhaps my uncle would be better for this..."

~~An Hour Later~~

Aang was riding on Appa as they continued on to the North Pole, just as Katara woke up.

"Where's Sokka?" she asked dazidly.

"He left with Zuko... he told me to tell you he said good bye and that we could visit him in secret sometimes, as long as the fire benders on his ship don't notice..."

"WHAT?!?!?!" Katara screamed.

"He just told me to tell you that... you can bombard him with you comments about this when we see him next..."

"Oh, you mean when he is trying to capture us?"

"No, Zuko said he would hold back on the attacks until I learned all four elements... after that though, who knows what'll happen..."

Katara sighed, "We'll just have to wait and see..."

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Dracken: A sequal is already in progress, it will be in a couple of years when Aang has mastered all of the elements.

Iras: What will happen?!?

Dracken: We'll just have to wait and see