This one is sheer silliness, and really, I ougth not to end the series on such an abrupt note. (shrugs) If I have time during my studies...

Prompt: #35 just think happy thoughts, from Irrel's "My Chemical Romance" fic-challenge (on LiveJournal)

Summary: Ignore the obvious. You'll be glad you did.

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Ignore the Obvious

Sokka returned from an unsuccessful hunt to find two of the party conspicuously absent. "Where…?" he began.

"They went off thatta way," Toph said before he could even ask, chucking her thumb over her shoulder toward the woods behind her.

"At this time of day?" Sokka demanded, somewhere between surprise and disgust, "I thought we were all tired from fighting off those Fire Nation bounty hunters!"

"I guess they weren't," Aang observed (somewhat more acerbically than was his wont, but Sokka might have just been hearing things). "They started even before they left the camp."

"What!" Sokka turned on the one person who had thus kept out of the conversation. "You really need to talk to that nephew of yours," he said to Iroh, trying to keep his tone respectful, "I know it was inevitable and all, and I said I wouldn't try to get in their way, but he's taking things too far!"

Iroh cocked an eyebrow, sorely tempted to point out that it takes two to tango (or whatever the Water Tribe equivalent was). However, the retired general merely suggested, "When they return, perhaps it would be best if we all voiced our concerns to them. Your sister and my nephew can be made to see reason."

"As if, the way they go at each other," Toph snorted.

Sokka frowned, and decided to ignore her.

And the not-quite-distant-enough shouts he could hear from the forest.

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"Is that all you got, Zuzu?" Katara crooned, sweeping tangles of sweat-soaked hair from her face.

Zuko vehemently wished the Avatar could have kept his airhole shut about his unfortunate nickname, but he was enjoying himself far too much to let her know that it bothered him.

"I'm just getting started," he replied huskily.

"Hmph."

Fire and water rejoined in battle.

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"It was an argument over how to fold tarp!" Sokka asked, bewildered.

Iroh, Aang, Toph, and even Momo nodded.

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Yeah... ya'll got dirty minds... (The Narrator cackles like the mad-woman she is) Wish me luck in Japan!