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Azula's Lost Chapters OR Azula's New Cook	By : DecieverGod Category: Avatar - The Last Airbender > Het - Male/Female Views: 13899 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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The two didn’t speak after they left Azula’s bedroom. Well after Tatsuya left her bedroom. He left first, a good thirty minutes in advance of when the princess left. There were still things in town that needed arranging before the four of them could depart.

Not the least of which was the procurement of a carriage. Though the Captain managed to ‘convince’ one of the more wealthy local merchants to donate their personal carriage to the war, there was still the matter of making it look less like an Earth Kingdom carriage and more like something that could bear the princess of the Fire Nation. This was mostly because it wasn’t wise to ride into a Fire Nation war camp inside a vibrantly Earth Kingdom carriage, but was also partly because Azula was getting tired of the color green.

It took the four of them roughly an hour to gather their supplies and pack up. Well it took the Captain nearly an hour to gather their supplies and pack them up. The girls were visiting the local shops one last time upon the prodding of Ty Lee. The gymnast girl had wanted to gather some clothes to replace those lost in the swamp. Mai had pointed out that they would likely be able to resupply at the Fire Nation encampment, but it was hard to argue with Ty Lee, particularly when they didn’t have much else to do for an hour.

Ty lee found a few things she liked so much the merchants decided to ‘donate’ them, after perhaps just a little convincing on the part of the princess. The other two girls found little that interested them, Mai got dropped off at what apparently passed for a book store in the town, though it was really little more than a magazine stand. While Azula stayed with Ty Lee, though only for lack of anything better to do.

Shopping wasn’t exactly the princess’s idea of fun, though she did find it amusing to watch the venders squirm as Ty Lee browsed through their goods. Truthfully Azula probably spent more time looking at her nails than the Earth Kingdom merchandise. She honestly trusted Tatsuya to procure anything they would need for the day’s trip.

That and the princess’s mine was elsewhere. She was plotting. Azula had let herself become distracted in this village, and though she wasn’t exactly upset about how her time had been spent, she did need to catch up on important things like capturing her brother and the little bald boy god. Of course her brother wouldn’t be too hard to track down again. He wasn’t the stealthiest boy in the world, what with that scar on his face, and there were wanted posters. Truth is Zuko likely had very few friends left in the world.”Hmm… he probably won’t be Zuko then…” Azula muttered under her breath as Ty Lee ogled some ‘fine silk merchandise.’ Azula simply noted that it would be likely her brother would be using an alias and turned her mind toward her other quarry.

The Avatar would prove to be a good deal harder to track. Though flying bison were fairly rare in the world today, equally rare were those who would know one when they saw it. Most just disregarded it as a cloud, and those who did think they saw something often didn’t feel they should tell anyone for fear of not being believed. That was one of the only problems with being known as a vicious evil little girl, people didn’t want to waste your time with what They didn’t think was important. There needed to be more people like Tatsuya, people who not only knew what she would deem important, but would take it upon themselves to investigate to see if it was really important.

Oh sure every General and Commander in the Fire Nation wanted to be the one who caught the Avatar, but after what had happened to that one brownnoser Zhao there were very few who were taking it upon themselves to track the monk down. She would perhaps have to hand out new instructions for the processing of Avatar sightings. She could just have them be given to Tatsu, have him sort through what was credible and what wasn’t, though that seemed like it would be a lot of extra work to push on the Captain.

As the princess pondered the best method to track down her future victims she found herself entering a rather nice red carriage. The red was clearly a recent paintjob, but as Tatsuya sat in the front holding the reigns of the four ostridge-horses that lead the carriage she knew it was theirs. “Perfectly prompt work captain, now let us depart from this nowhere town. It’s high time we returned our focus to our original purpose here, finding my brother and eliminating the Avatar.”

The Captain nodded as the three girls bored the carriage, Azula smirked a little, there was a large ornate chair cut into the back bench, an adequate replacement for her throne. It wasn’t necessary of course, but a nice thought on the part of the Captain. Azula took her seat in the replacement throne and neatly crossed her legs in front of her, knitting her fingers together as Ty Lee skipped in and took a seat on the far side, leaning out the window there a little as she seemed fascinated with the view from inside the carriage, despite the fact that they hadn’t actually gone anywhere. Mai just slipped in and sat facing the princess, though she two leaned against the window, the dower girl didn’t draw the curtain back.

There was a light snap form in front of them and the carriage started forward, rocking back and forth a little before it got up to speed and the four Fire Nation citizens rolled out of the Earth Kingdom town. No one was going to miss them.

The three girls rode in relative silence. Relative silence in this case means that none of them carry anything that could be called a conversation with each other, though they each did respond when Ty Lee insisted on talking to them about something. Including one peculiar instance where the gymnast began talking to herself about how lovely the breeze, sky, sun and weather in general were. Neither of the other passengers could be bothered to notice.

Azula was busy thinking. Mai probably was too but her thoughts would remain a mystery to the princess, as they likely should. Azula was thinking about a number of things. Her thoughts shifted from what her brother or the Avatar’s goals were, to how she would create an opportunity for the Captain to distinguish himself, to why she wanted to do so in the first place. It was no mystery to her that she liked the Captain, but it was so rare for her to like any boy, particularly an older common blood boy, that she wanted to understand what it was that attracted her to him.

It could be the simple fact that he was blindly loyal to her it was decidedly true that that was something she enjoyed about the boy, but there were others who would be willing to give their lives for her, though she’d always assumed that was more for defense of her as that she was her father’s daughter than for her personal safety. That they were loyal to her father rather than to her, and she felt that that wasn’t the case with Tatsuya. He didn’t seem to hold any loyalty to the Fire Lord in particular. It seemed, or felt, like he needed her. Though what it was he could possibly…

Azula smiled, just for a second, hidden behind her knit fingers. Maybe that was it. He needed her. She’d never really been needed for anything before. Even this hunt was just her father’s way of showing the public he was taking it seriously. That and the less people who knew just how traitorous her brother was the better, even now the word was only to detain him until her arrival. There wasn’t even a whisper that he and Iroh were traitors. They kept it quiet. Their secrets were deadly and couldn’t be allowed to fall into the wrong hands.

But the Captain, he needed her, desired her, longed for her control to guide him, and he had no secrets. His heart was born to her, nothing mattered to him enough to keep it secret. He didn’t care if he died for her. The princess grinned a little, musing as she pondered when he’d first known it was her spirit that would give him the direction he desired. What had he thought of her when they’d first met?

Him standing there expecting some pampered blue blood princess. What had he expected when she’d walked through the door? Had he known even then that he needed her? How had he felt even then that she possessed the control he longed for? Was it something he’d learned from the time they’d spent, or the conversations they’d shared? Or had he felt it on her from the start, like Ty Lee’s seeing of auras?

Azula leaned on one hand and stared out the window Ty Lee leaned out of. Men were such curious creatures. Most she could deduce the motives of in an instant, but hers, hers she had to ponder, think about, and wonder. Perhaps that was why she enjoyed him so much, he wasn’t simple, he wasn’t plane, he wasn’t just one thing. He was a soldier of the Fire Nation, but he was also the child of the Earth Kingdom, and at the same time his heart belonged to neither nation. His heart belonged to her.

She rolled that truth around in her mind a little, continuing to question the events of the past few days as they rode, wondering vaguely what to do with his heart now that she had it. It dawned on her that she’d just spent near an hour thinking solely about Tatsuya, and she ground her teeth. What was she thinking, she wasn’t just some gaggling school girl who couldn’t stop thinking about ‘the love of her life’ when he wasn’t around, and it wasn’t even like he wasn’t around. He was right outside driving the carriage.

The princess found herself growing annoyed. Not with the Captain, but with herself. Azula refused to believe that she was growing attached to the Captain so easily. She’d always prided herself on her ability to remain detached from the world, to remain cool and calm under even the most dangerous situations. And now she was losing that because of a boy?

It wasn’t right. It wasn’t her. She’d have to find some way to keep from losing herself simply because she’d found something to care about. Azula smirked a little, having a lover was certainly turning out to be a great deal of trouble for her. Though she didn’t mind in the least.
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