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 Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:09 pm
Tsuzuki grinned, "And what about those idiots you mentioned who don't know the meaning of rescue?"
She knew first-hand that most rescues didn't go as planned which was contrary to popular belief but still the fact of it all.
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:25 pm
"There's a reason I have no solid alliance with my own nation..." He replied with a slight growl. Raj folded his arms on the table and sighed. His first mistake had been making any mention alluding to his family. Not like he planned to tell Tsuzuki about that particular part. Few people were allowed to know, and he still hadn't found that few.
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:31 pm
Tsuzuki raised an eyebrow in interest but didn't pry any more than she already had. "Well, anyway," she continued while walking towards the door, "We're going shopping today for more supplies and such. And I need to go get changed. I'm obviously no waterbender and the Fire Nation and the Water Tribes arn't really friends right now. So I'll be going in Earth Kingdom garb, 'kay?"
She didn't wait for an answer as she walked out of the kitchen and back down to her room where she got changed into her Earth Kingdom clothes. She hadn't worn them since she had left the Earth Kingdom last time. . . after her fight with Kazuki. 'Stop thinking about him,' she told herself angrily as she put the finishing touches on her look and went back upstairs.
"Tadah!" She said as she danced into the kitchen.
Tsuzuki was now wearing a dark green long shirt with an Earth Kingdom symbol on the bottom instead of her dark red long shirt. ((picture what Zuko wears in Book 2, I'm too lazy right now to describe it any further xp ))
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:54 pm
Raj just shrugged in response to her talking about changing, jumping a bit when he realized she was basically talking about having multiple disguises. His eyes widening when he saw her changed into the new outfit.
"Tamu..." He looked away immediately and went back to eating the soup, trying to block out the mental image. His sisters were dead, it wasn't Tamu he saw, it was just some firebender posing as an Earth Kingdom civilian.
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:46 am
Tsuzuki smiled and made an outragous pose until she fell over. "I never really had a center of balance when it came to anything except for bending," she laughed, "And the ice doesn't help."
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:55 am
Raj glanced at her a moment, then back at his breakfast. Definitely not Tamu, she wasn't as...flourished as this girl. "If it was a bad idea, then why did you do it?" He asked simply, not actually caring one way or the other.
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:33 pm
Tsuzuki made a fake gasp as she joked, "There is no such thing as a bad idea! Just wrong ones!"
She smiled as she moved towards the doorway, "I'm going shopping now whether you're coming with me or not. If the latter, have fun staying on the ship all day."
With that, she left the ship and walked down the gangplank to the ice port below her where she waited for a few minutes to see if Raj was coming or not.
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:42 pm
"O..kay..." Was the response. Raj had no idea why she thought that was supposed to matter to him. But between looking like Tamu and the politeness his sisters had nearly beaten into him, he quickly finished his soup and got up to follow her. He was starting to dislike the influence his sisters had on him, he was being nice to a firebender. The fact of her being a friendly girl aside.
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:52 pm
Tsuzuki smiled knowingly at Raj as he came to join her off of the ship, "Soooo," she said as she started walking off, "Have you ever been to the Northern Water Tribe before?"
The market place was not far from where they were. Most watertribesmen that owned shops placed them conveniently next to the ports where newcommers would see their first glimpses of the Water Tribes and not know where to get the same items at a better price.
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:00 pm
Raj looked at her oddly. Why was she so talkative, he hit her when they met. She should be afraid of him or at least want to distance herself from such a violent earthbender. Then again, now all he had was trying to hit her, he cursed the ocean in his mind again as he remembered that the North Pole was mostly just ice. So he had nothing to throw at anybody.
"No...I've never left Earth borders. Not really anywhere for me to go other than between Ba Sing Se and my home." He mumbled, looking around at the things the marketplace had to offer. "Do you always make conversation with people who attack you?"
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:11 pm
She picked up a small statue of a turtle and examined it while answering his question, "Usually. You have to be an interesting person if you just go around attacking people all the time."
Tsuzuki placed the turtle back on the booth and went across the market to another one, "That's sad. About you not traveling and all. The world's a big place. It just so happens that this specific place makes me very nervous."
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:20 pm
She was nervous here, well that made sense. Everyone around her could fling water at her and if she did too much of her own bending, she'd put herself into the ocean. "So does that mean you can't swim or you're just a cat?" He asked, looking at her again.
"I think under normal circumstances, you would've just had very dirty looks to deal with. But you were screaming and I didn't want to learn how to swim and tend burn wounds at the same time." He explained, feeling a little awkward talking about this with her like it had been just slightly unusual.
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:31 pm
Tsuzuki frowned slightly (the first time since she had finished her first meeting with Raj) as she looked away and murmured back, "No, it just means that my ex best friend is pretty much the leader up here and we had. . . a falling out. People up here know me and, ever since we broke each other's hearts, everyone up here that's known about it hates me and pretty much wants me dead like Kazuki."
It pained her to talk about it but making it a talk with almost a complete stranger helped. She didn't want someone she knew worrying unnessicerily(sp?) over her for the rest of her life. "Ever since then, I haven't really felt any desire to come back to any Water Tribe place. See," she pointed to a large mansion (the only one in the entire Northern Water Tribe) up on a hill of snow and ice, "That's his house."
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:50 pm
Raj shrugged. "Well, if it's anything from the way you sound, they don't have a very good reason to hate you." He said, looking at the mansion and making a face. No way was some spoiled rich kid the innocent victim of something like that. "Other than the fact you're a firebender, of course." He added quickly, trying not to let himself feel too much for Tsuzuki's problems. Now that he thought about it, maybe a male would've been better, he probably would have been fat and out of shape and much easier to hate.
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:01 pm
Tsuzuki turned around and gave Raj a small, grateful smile before continuing, "I think that we should go to the Earth Kingdom next. I mean, I am the hostage here and shouldn't have any say in the matter but it's so much nicer and everyone can bend there. Besides, I need to send a letter to a certain Duke Baolin. . . On that subject, as long as we stay out of Ba Sing Se, I'll be fine with wherever we go."
She suddenly realized that she was the one doing most of the conversation here and asked, "Why did you want to kidnap a Fire Noble anyway? I mean, it's not like we're a precious commodity or anything. There are certain sects as to how high up we are and all. For all you know, no one couldn't care less if I vanished or not."
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