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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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Author’s Note- See when you send me good reviews they not only make me dance around like a fool, but they also make me crank out chapters at warp speed.

Azula looked over her hand of cards. First over at Ty Lee, she’d bent into a smooth backbend, put her weight on her palms. Then she shifted lower, tucked her head under, moving her weight to her forearms, then chest. Her legs lifted from the ground naturally, and she kicked them above her eyes a few times as she smiled, looking across at Azula over her cards. The position was slightly painful to look at and it was just a little disturbing that she could hold it so freely.

Azula moved her gaze over to Mai. She was lying prone, facing the chair that Azula sat in. Her cards held lazily in one hand off to the side as she waved her feet back and forth. The three were in Azula’s room playing cards. It was Azula’s turn. “I’ll raise you both.” The princess smirked and threw a few coins into the pot.

Mai yawned. “Not that this isn’t fun and all… but shouldn’t we be I don’t know, preparing to pursue whomever?” She tossed a few coins into the pot as she spoke and looked over at Tai Lee.

“Well Tatsuya’s going to fine us and brief us on the meeting once it’s over, right?” Tai Lee tossed some coins in and looked up at Azula. Who responded by glancing at her cards and throwing a few more coins in.

Mai laid her cards down in front of her. “Well, it’s almost been an hour, how long do these meetings normally last?” She looked over at Tai Lee; the bet was getting a little too high now.

“Too long normally, they’re mostly just one general trying to convince you that their reports are more reliable than another’s too. Not really worth my time. But I guess it’s a good way to break in the new guy.” Azula leaned over on one side of her chair lazily. She’d forgotten that her friends hadn’t had to deal with things like military meetings in the time they’d spent apart. She vaguely wondered what they normally did with all their free time.

Tai Lee flipped over onto her back and stared up at her hand. “I think the Captain is cute. Don’t you guys?” She tossed her hand in and folded. “With those charming little three hairs he lets stick out over his eyes?”

“I don’t know… He seems kind of… scruffy to me.” Mai rolled over onto her back and lay out on Azula’s floor. “And what’s with the obsession with facial hair around here? What can’t you be in the fire navy without having a beard?” Azula leaned over and gathered up her winnings. Tai Lee blinked looking as if it had just dawned on her that nearly every fire navy leader had ridiculous facial hair.

“Who knows why boys do what they do.” Azula smirked as she started sorting through the various coins she’d won from her friends. “It’s best not to think about it too hard.” Off handedly Azula had wondered about that herself. She’d privately decided it was either a guy thing, or the naval officers trying to look like her father without looking like they were trying to look like Fire Lord Ozai.

It was about then when someone knocked on the cold metal door to the princess’ room. Now most people aboard the ship had learned quite quickly that when the princess was in her room, you didn’t disturb her. However Captain Shouhei had yet to learn this, and thus it was him attempting to shorten his life by knocking on her door. “Uhm Princess? The meeting has ended, if you have a moment I could review the minuets for you.”

Azula rolled her eyes, sure it wasn’t like she was doing much, but it was still more interesting that having someone tell you about what happened during a meeting you deliberately didn’t attend. “You may enter Captain, but please do try and be quick.” She finished sorting her winnings, and aside from the fact that he lap was filled with money she looked quite commanding leaning back in her chair.

The captain hesitantly pushed open her door and walked in a quick glance around before he spied the three girls gathered around their card game. He coughed into a hand and took a few quick steps over, caring with him a small clipboard and letting the door swing closed behind him.

Azula smirked at him. She vaguely wondered where he was going to situate himself. She only had one chair in her room, and she was in it. Mai and Tai Lee were lying out on the floor; well Mai was Tai Lee was contorting herself on the floor.

His choices were, stand, the most probable independent yet still respectful, sit on the floor, the second most likely it was respectful yet rather submissive. He may have been her subordinate but he was still and older man, and there weren’t many on the ship who would sit on the ground before a fourteen year old girl, even a princess, without a little hesitation. Alternatively he could have tried to sit on her bed, which was unlikely because her bed had that drape over it and he’d have to get it out of his way or pull it down to sit on her bed, and while that would make for an amusing scene the Captain seemed too observant to let something like that happen.

Tatsuya walked right over to her side and knelt down next to her shoulder, his topknot ending up right about her head level. Azula concealed a pout, sure he could have knelt too, but no way would he want to kneel on the vaguely concealed metal floor for very long. “Where would you like me to begin Princess?”

“Oh I don’t really care… why don’t you just start at the beginning Captain, and I’ll interject when I want to hear more on something.” Azula smiled she was going to deliberately draw this out until he was squirming to get off his knees.

The captain put a hand to his chin and thought for a moment before looking down at his clipboard. “Well, General Mao’s scouts report that they saw the Avatar’s flying bison over the desert to the east. However unconfirmed reports state that those scouts have been over indulging a ‘cactus juice’ craving… Apparently cactus juice can cause hallucinations, among other things…”

Tatsuya would have continued but Azula interrupted him. She hadn’t left the meeting just to be told about intoxicated scouts in the comfort of her own room. “Captain, had I wanted to hear every detail of the meeting I would have sat through it myself.” She knew he was no fool and knew that she hadn’t actually been needed elsewhere. “Now I left you in charge because I believe that you would be able to give me a reasonable summery of the meeting. Now I wasn’t wrong in that belief was I?” Her tone was that special one that only certain people in power were able to use effectively, the one that threatened pain of death if you said yes.

Tatsuya swallowed hard, clearly he was not one who handled threats well, that would have to change as he spent any time around Azula. “N-no, Princess, ahem, well then, I guess, summarized version would be…” He paused to think for a moment; privately Azula timed him, for her own reasons. “The Avatar has been sighted a number of places, most of which we can’t guarantee are accurate, most soldiers don’t know what a flying bison looks like, especially from a distance. Figuring that they had to just be in Omashu for you to encounter them, the most likely sighting to be true would be the one headed south, toward the swamp. Your brother and uncle however are much easier to track, though we have fewer sightings of them. They know how to avoid our patrols but it seems like they’re wandering around in free Earth Kingdom towns, currently we suspect they are begging to sustain themselves. We’ve put wanted posters up for them, but we don’t expect much from those, Earth Kingdom citizens seldom check Fire Nation wanted posters.”

Azula smirked a little; just the thought of her heavy set patronizing uncle and dear little Zuzu taking to the streets begging for their food money was enough to make her smile. “So, what do you think we should make our priority Captain?” She smirked, she liked asking pointless questions of her underlings, and it put them on the spot.

The captain blinked and looked over at Azula confused. “P-princess? It’s not my place to say…” Of course this was the proper response but quite often Azula didn’t want the proper response, she wanted a real one. It was so much easier to read people when they weren’t putting on a show for you.

“Oh come now Captain sitting through that entire meeting you didn’t think of a single course of action?” The Princesses smirked as she played with a lock of her hair.

“W-well… yes I have given the matter some thought… But mind you only in a preparatory function. I wanted to plan for all possible courses of action.” Azula smirked, this man certainly knew how to speak to a superior, perhaps his tale of woe and misfortune had trained him well. At least he learned from misfortune, Zuko just complained about it and broke stuff… “It seems to me, from a planning perspective at least, that the best course of action would be to head south. From our current location off the coast of New Ozai we could sail down and dock at Commander Jang’s Camp just inside the mouth of the river that feeds the great swamp. I’ve already had a messenger hawk sent down to request a report of his situation and if he would be able to outfit and expedition into the swamp.” Tatsuya bowed his head a little and avoided looking Azula in the eyes, something about that perked her curiosity.

“Hmm… Jang’s tough old soldier, I doubt he’d respond to a hawk from a no name captain like you. No offence of course captain.” She smirked, as that had made him swallow hard, he was hiding something…

The captain looked up and scratched the back of his head. “W-well, actually princess, the hawk wasn’t signed by me… um… You sent it, or at least he’ll think you did.” Tatsuya forced a smirk and prepared himself for some pain.

Azula however was actually trying to decide how to react; he’d used her name without her permission. Normally she’d punish the perpetrator of such an act with some light torture, maybe some disfiguring scars, but that would be when she found out about it through other means, no one ever told her when they did something she was likely to not approve of. And what was worse is she actually approved of his actions, she would have told him to do just that had he not already. “Hmm…” She rolled her tongue around while looking at the forced smile of the wincing captain. “Well then I’ll be expecting his reply. Nice work captain, you get things done, despite what needs to be done to do so. I appreciate having someone like that under my command. Though next time you want to use my name, ask me. Or else I’ll have to hurt you…” Azula smirked to herself holding out her nails before her and inspecting them off handedly deliberately not looking the Captain in the eyes while she threatened him.

A great look of relief flashed across Tatsuya’s face, words couldn’t describe how happy he was that his confession hadn’t been met with a fireball to the face. He coughed and shifted a little whipping the smile from his face. “So, uhm, Princess, what course of action would you like to take?” He couldn’t help but smile at her as he readied himself to go execute her will.

The princess pouted. Only for a second, she didn’t like being manipulated. She only took some solace in the fact that she knew she was being manipulate, unlike most people around her. The Captain had read her, probably even done some research on her before actually meeting her. He knew just how to behave around her. He even knew her orders before she gave them. While this would have normally been a good thing in a subordinate, Azula didn’t like not having control over, well anything. Sure he was doing what she wanted, but he was doing it without her having told him to. And that meant he was acting on his own, and what was worse, is that he was doing what she wanted him to anyway, she couldn’t punish that. “Let’s head for the swamp, after all I wouldn’t want Commander Jang to think I sent him a pointless message now would I?” She made sure to stick her words in him like needles; he however merely bowed his head a little.

“Very well princess, I’ll tell the navigator to head for Commander Jang’s encampment. I’d estimate our arrival for just after lunch. This ship is much faster than most in the Fire Navy.” The Captain stood up and took a step for the door before pausing. “Oh and for lunch I plan on preparing a lovely bisque composed of Crabster meat as well as a few different kinds of small fish we’ve been catching off the edge of the ship. Is there anything else you’d like me to make?” He smiled at her; much like a caring parent would smile at their child when asking what they’d like for their sacked lunch.

Azula was largely tempted to hurl a fireball at him just for smiling at her like that. Tai Lee tried to chime in but the Princess cut her off. “No captain, that sounds fine.” She only decided not to on grounds he might fall and ignite her carpet.

“And where would you like me to serve it?” He continued the smile, completely unaware that doing so might be hazardous to his health. “I could prepare it in the dining hall, or I could bring it to you three here.”

“Here will be fine Captain.” Now she just kind of wanted to get him out of her room, it wasn’t that she didn’t like him. It was that she didn’t know how to handle him; or rather she’d never encountered someone like him before. Most people spent as little time around her as possible, which was fine with her as it gave her plenty of time to think of how to behave around them. But this man, he seemed not to actually enjoy being around her, or at least showed no sign of disliking it. That was new, and she’d have to learn how to respond to it.

“Very well then, I’ll tell the navigator the new heading and then start preparing lunch. Will you be dining here as well Lady Mai, Lady Tai Lee?” Tatsuya looked over to the other girls in the room for the first real time since he’d entered. Azula leaned back in her chair a hand raised musingly to her lips, she was busy thinking, or more accurately, plotting.

Tai Lee had put herself back together from being twisted around on the floor and was currently laying on her stomach kicking her feet back and forth while smiling up at the captain in such a way as to make one question how much sugar she had just had. “Oh here will be fine Tatsuya, oh you don’t mind me calling you Tatsuya do you? I mean Captain Shouhei is just such a long name to be saying, and if we’re going to be traveling together we might as well be friends right?” She giggled a little and batted her eyes at him.

He smirked and nodded. “Call me whatever you like lady Tai Lee, and what about you lady Mai?” He crossed his hands behind him and leaned towards the girls.

Mai rolled her eyes and shifted to lean on her arm. “Wherever will be fine Captain...”

With one final bow the Captain left, shuffling out the door without turning his back on the girls. It was possible he sensed a fire ball imminent if he stayed much longer. Azula hadn’t moved in a while, she was still just sitting leaned back in her chair with her hand to her mouth and her lap full of her winnings, though they clearly didn’t interest her anymore.

Once he was gone Tai Lee glanced from side to side, then smiled up at Azula as she rolled into a sitting position. “You were right Azula… He’s not cute…” She smiled and hugged herself enthusiastically. “He’s adorable! Asking us where we wanted to dine, telling us what he’s making for lunch. He’s like our own personal restaurant!”

Mai raised an inquisitive eyebrow at her cheery cohort. “Well, technically he is… After all he was hired to be our cook. Well mostly Azula’s…” The gloomy girl shifted slightly to sit with her legs under her and leaned back on her arms.

Azula pondered this thought for a moment. True he was hired or rather assigned to her elite team as a chef, but he was taking on more than just that, he was acting as her personal assistant, taking it on as his job to act out her will. Not that that was a bad thing, after all having her will be done by large heavily armed men was one of the perks of being the princess of a warring nation, but there was still that fourteen year old girl part of her that was currently on trial for trying to make her giddy. It was that part of her that was bothering her the most. She wasn’t use to being a fourteen year old girl, she was use to being the cold ruthless princess of the most brutal and murdering nation in the world. Yet how did a cold ruthless princess react, to an, admittedly attractive older boy who ran around making sure everything in his ability was done to make her happy? “Well… I’ll admit, he is growing on me. He’s perhaps a little too enthusiastic, using my name without my permission.”

Tai Lee chose that time to throw in her two cents. “Well it’s not like you wouldn’t have had him do that anyway. You hate writing those military request letters, and when you do they always come out so… what’s the right word?” She looked over at the most literate member of their trio.

“Menacing?” Mai supplied.

“Yeah, menacing.” Tai Lee smiled over at Azula like that wasn’t really a bad thing. “Maybe his version will be nicer.”

Azula pouted a little, not enough to seem like she was pouting, but enough so that she was clearly less than happy, she didn’t actively trying to be mean evil and menacing, most of the time, there were occasions where intimidating someone was useful, but most of the time she was just, her. “Hmm… Still I can’t help but feel like I should punish him in some way. After all if he tried a stunt like that with any other commanding officer he’d probably get thrown off the ship, or at least given some horribly demeaning task…” In truth she was still trying to think of some efficient way of punishing him. There was always the ever popular fireball to the face punishment, but something about a fire bender with a facial burn spoke too much of her brother, and she didn’t want people thinking she was copying her father.

“You could always make in run around in an apron, or a maid’s outfit, after all he is your chef.” Mai of course came up with an interesting, if mildly perverted course of punishment. It had its advantages, but ultimate its probability was nil. There probably wasn’t a single outfit sufficiently… feminine on the entire ship. Azula certainly didn’t have one, and the captain would never fit into one of Tai Lee’s outfits.

“No… where would we even get something he’d fit into?” Azula leaned forward; brainstorming punishments for the newest member of her team could be fun. It certainly promised to be interesting.

“We could always make something; I’ve got some old cloths that we could whip into the cutest things!” Tai Lee was more interested in the arts and crafts than the punishment, but hanging out with Azula for as long as she has did have some effects. “Oh I’ve got this cute little outfit that I sometimes wore when I performed; it’s pink and has this kind of frilly poofy dress that sticks out around your waist. I think Tatsuya’d just look so cute in it!” She giggled to herself, nearly giddy just from picturing the captain in her tutu.

Azula got a kick out of picturing the young soldier in anything Tai Lee’d wear. It was a fun idea but still not a terribly practical one. Plus it required her to sow, which just wasn’t going to happen. “Hmm… It’s a nice idea Tai Lee, but still, not one that’s terribly practical, after all he’s still a soldier, we don’t want to get him killed. Just… Oh what’s the proper word for what I want to do to him?” Azula looked over to Mai, she might have been the quietest, but she had the large vocabulary.

“Tormented?” Mai smirked, it was just that kind of conversation, you couldn’t participate in it without smirking at least a little. Azula thought on this for a second. She decided that while that was probably the correct word, she wasn’t going to open say so. No one spoke afterward so Mai was forced to continue the conversation. “Well there’s always a more traditional punishment. You could make him be one of your throne bearers, a few days of carrying you around with three other guys and he’ll probably think twice before using your name without asking.”

“Hmm, yes I suppose that would work, but we’re to be leaving the royal procession after today, so it wouldn’t really be much of a punishment to make him be a throne bearer for one day.” Azula thought a little, she played with the idea of making him carry her around by himself. Now of course he could never carry her throne by himself, but the idea of making him carry her around on his shoulders put a devious smirk on her face. Of course she couldn’t do that either, but it was another nice idea.

Their conversation circled around like that for another few hours. They never really decided on an idea, but came up with more than a few more, nice ideas. The most popular of which was to make him let Tai Lee fix up his hair. She had several fun ideas for what she could do with his hair, including both Azula and Mai’s hair styles. The girls just generally got a kick out of tossing around ideas for the Captain’s punishment, until they got board. Eventually they just got board and went back to their card game. Azula continued to win shamelessly. Tai Lee couldn’t hold a decent poker face and Mai would fold at the first sign of trouble. Eventually they got board of that too and just started lying around being board.

“So… how exactly are we going to be traveling around anyway?” For once Mai was the one to break the silence. “Because I am not ridding around on one of those horrid rhinos.”

Tai Lee thought on this for a second. “Oh… I don’t know, I think some of the rhinos are kind of cute… But they do tend to have a rather unpleasant smell to them. I’m not sure how much I’d like smelling like a rhino…” Even she found something to oppose in ridding a rhino.

Azula, now lying across her chair, leaning against one armrest with her legs draped over the other, leaned back. She had giving a proper means of transport some thought but nothing had readily appeared to her as an effective solution. “Hmm… well what other mounts are there?” She didn’t really know who she was expecting to know the answer. Tai Lee might know of a few odd exotic mounts from her circus days, but Azula didn’t really want to ride around on anything that could appear in a circus. Mai on the other hand might know of some mounts from her books, but would have no idea on where to get such a beast or how to actually ride one. Of course riding one would be easy enough once you had one to learn how to ride.

Mai was the first to chime in, perhaps it was because she’d chosen the subject, or maybe she’d just already given it some thought, but for whatever the reason she spoke up. “Well… back in the Fire Nation there’s a large lizard thing that lives in the tropics… I suppose it wouldn’t be so bad to ride one of those. I doubt a lizard would smell as bad as a rhino…”

“Oh I think I’ve seen those! They’re really agile little guys, they can crawl strait up walls trees, anything really.” Tai Lee smile as she bounced up to her feet and attempted to demonstrate by running up the wall next to Azula, she of course couldn’t stick and eventually just slid down once she lost momentum.

Azula rolled this thought about in her mind. A giant lizard that could cling to almost any surface, it sounded almost perfect, the perfect mount to fight an earth bender from. They could summon all the road blocks they wanted and she’d just be able to ride right over them. She smirked a little. “Hmm… if they’re from the fire nation then they should be easy enough to obtain, but if we don’t head off after the Avatar soon we’ll lose their trail.” She posed this like it was a problem, but no one in the room was under the delusion that obtaining anything from the fire nation would be hard for them. The only real question was where they would have it shipped so they could pick it up.

Tai Lee looked like she was going to say something but didn’t as there was a knock at the door. “Lunch is served!”

It was the Captain, no doubt with his hands full of a full and balanced meal for growing girls. Azula rolled her eyes. “Tai Lee be a dear and get the door for him would you. He’s bound to have his hands full.”

Tai Lee scurried over to the door and opened it with a wide smile on her face. “Hiya Tatsuya!” She leaned over him as he walked in and took a deep whiff of the plates he was carrying, three trays two in his right stacked one on top of the other, and another one in his left, each with a steaming cup of tea, a bowl of thick creamy bisque and a spoon. It appeared that he had been attempting to open the door with his hip while balancing the trays.

He didn’t remain that way for long; once he noticed the door was open he quickly aligned himself as a proper soldier should. He half bowed to Tai lee as he walked in, chuckling a little. “Hehe… Thank you lady Tai Lee… My hands were kind of full.”

Tai Lee giggled and meandered after him. “Don’t mention it Tatsuya… Lunch smells really good you must be an awesome cook.” She batted her eyes at him as he handed out the trays, first to Mai then to her, and finally giving the one in his left to Azula.

He didn’t seem to be paying her any attention. Azula smirked as he was apparently a quick learner. He did however smile over at Azula and sort of hung around. Azula watched him out of the corner of her eye while she started eating. She took a small spoonful of the bisque up to her lips and swallowed, all the while Tatsuya watch, clearly waiting for her appraisal on his latest meal. “Hmm… not bad Captain…” Azula said returning the spoon to the soup. “Though I hope you’re aware… I do not share my uncle’s love of tea.” She said picking up the tea cup that accompanied her soup and looking at him over it.

Tatsuya smiled. “I was aware of that princess.” He looked up and scratched the back of his head smirking at her. “Though I couldn’t really think of anything else you’d like. So I made you a special blend, I hope you like it.”

Azula raised an eyebrow at him, no one had ever gone so far as too make a unique blend of tea for her before. Most of the time they just gave her milk or some sort of juice, which she wasn’t terrible fond of either. She tentatively took a sip of the tea. It was strong, imposing, with an almost aggressive flavor. “Hmm… It’s good.” She set her cup down. “But it’s still tea.” She smirked at the captain from across the room.

Tai Lee chose this time to state her approval of Tatsuya’s meal, but nether neither Tatsuya nor Azula actually listened to her, or Mai, she never really listened to her anyway. “Mmm, this is really yummy Tatsuya!”

“Thank you lady Tai Lee.” The captain responded without looking away from Azula, he was still grinning at her.

Azula smirked and went back to eating her meal. “I think having you around is going to be… interesting.” She looked at him without really looking at him. Shooting him an almost playful smile, she was going to have fun with him.

“I couldn’t agree more… Princess.” He returned her smile, right down to the subtext, and bowed his head.
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