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The ride to the north was smooth, the silky hair of Cheshire against my skin made for the perfect bed, that accompanied by the night wind that was pleasantly cool tonight. It was perfect.
From above Cheshire I could see the sea, and more, the waves of the water moving side to side, up and down. A beautiful sight to behold.
While I admired the view from above, Ursoc was, in the meantime, talking about how many people he would challenge. And things like that, showing he still had his one track battle lusted fueled mind.
"You think the humans will recognize you?" Ursoc inquired, taking a break for his battle talk, how odd.
"I don't know," I sighed, "But I sure hope Yue and Sakura do, if the rest don't it would be a plus,"
I chuckled.
"Oh yeah, the humans that shunned you for being the strongest!" Ursoc growled, "I shall burn then to the ground!"
"Haha, no need to," I waved his idea off, "But thanks, the sentiment is nice," I could tell that much, he was actually mad I was shunned, I could feel it on his emotions.
"Very well," Ursoc pouted.
"I wanna meet that lady… the one that cooks like a goddess," Cheshire added, drooling at the idea.
"You will… you will," I answered.
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The next day we arrived at the Tribe. It was around noon, when we got to the Moonlight inn, the streets around as always, were so busy that, at first, I didn't notice Sakura had changed the outside decoration of the Inn.
Opening the door, I walked inside with Ursoc and Cheshire by my side, like always Sakura was serving tables with a happy smile. Seeing her brought a sense of nostalgia I didn't know I even had, for without noticing and thinking I rushed at her, hugging her.
"Emmmmm…." Sakura said looking around, "Who are you?"
"I missed so much you crazy lady," I chuckled, as I let her go, just now remembering I had a new face, so I had to make her remember, "Fuck Pakku,"
"Akira?!" Sakura gasped after I said that, "How? Why? And can whoever made you a new face make me younger?" She added with a smile.
"Really that's all it takes for you to recognize me?" I chuckled.
"Nobody says fuck Pakku with the same feeling you put behind the words," Sakura winked, "That and your voice is the same,"
My voice was the same? I could've sworn it was different, well it doesn't matter, "I missed you,"
"Oh you are making me blush," Sakura joked as she gestured me to follow her to the back, "So why the new face?"
I hummed, deciding whether to tell her the story or not, "Well," in the end deciding to retell all my misery with details. Excluding Vaatu out of my tale.
From getting my new face, to being tortured by the big spirits, to traveling around the world, making sure to evade telling her about Vaatu, some part of me was scared she and Yue would outright shun me for having the spirit of darkness and chaos within me.
So for now, I would keep it a secret.
After a few hours catching up, with Cheshire and Ursoc eating the restaurant out, Sakura basically dragged me to the palace, to see Yue.
Not gonna lie, I was a bit stressed about it, but mostly excited to see her, wondering what had she been up to all this time. And if she like Sakura would recognize me at first glance.
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Inside the palace we were led to Yue's bedroom by a guard, inside Yue was sitting on her sofa reading a book. Putting the book down she looked towards the door with a scrutinizing look, staring at me.
"Akira?!" Yue gasped in shock, jumping out of her sofa and tackled me into a hug.
I blinked in surprise, wondering how the fuck did she know, I didn't even talked, "How?" I mumbled hugging her back.
"Haft spirit remember," Yue chuckled.
So that's how she knew it was me the moment she saw me, "Well, I am glad…"
"I have a question though," Yue said, breaking the embrace, "Why do you have a spirit inside you?"
I blinked in shock, instinctively taking a few steps back, while trying to formulate an answer for her inquiry, "I…" well fuck it, time to be completely honest, I can't lie to them… if they like me, they have to do it with Vaatu inside, "I merged with one,"
"Elaborate that answer," Sakura added with a confused expression.
Taking a deep breath I started to tell them about Vaatu, about how he was one of the spirits that formed chaos and order. That Aang had the order and I had the chaos. That because of that there were two avatars now, I spared no detail in my journey… from me becoming the dark avatar to almost killing Aang.
"Wow," Yue said after a long moment of silence, assimilating what I had told her.
"So you are the avatar…. or rather an avatar?" Sakura concluded.
"Pretty much," I nodded.
"And… you feel okay?" Sakura added, "That empathetic thing you said you had…. doesn't got crazy with the spirit of chaos inside of you?"
Yes, yes it does, "Not much,"
"Liar," Yue sighed.
"Alright, it does bother me… but not as much," I chuckled, "So you two are okay with… everything?"
"Yep," Sakura winked, "No matter how powerful you get kiddo… you will always be my little Akira,"
"No chaotic spirit can change what we feel, or new face," Yue giggled.
"Thanks," I smiled hugging them both, forcing myself not to cry, not wanting to show weakness, but I couldn't, it felt nice to be loved. Even with all the darkness inside of me, they loved me. They weren't even a bit afraid of me.
"Now, how about we have a nice dinner?" Sakura said, "I'll pay,"
"Deal," Yue and I both said in one voice.