Avatar Hitokiri Battosai {Kenshin Himura x Reader} Vol.1

Chapter 11: The Storm

Aang woke up in a cold sweat, naturally,  they woke up, too.

"Huh? What's going on? Did we get captured again?" Sokka immediately gets his boomerang and dagger out.

Looking down, sliding right; Aang turns to his friends. "It's nothing. I just had a bad dream." He curls up, facing away from them. "Go back to sleep."

Kenshin and Katara on the other hand, show concern for Aang. "Is everything alright, Aang?" Kenshin asked.

"I'm okay."  Aang looking lost

"You seem to be having a lot of nightmares lately. You want to tell us about it?"

"You guys want to hear about my dream?" Katara glares at him, an expression Sokka returns. "That's okay. I didn't want to talk about it anyway."

A wave crashing on a sandy shore under a blue sky. Sokka lies down, Katara does the same. Kenshin carries their packs toward Appa, who yawns. As the animal closes its mouth again, Aang was sitting on his head, while Sokka sits on the saddle. "Look at those clear skies, buddy! Should be some smooth flying."

Katara looking into a bag before holding it upside down, sprinkling the ground with crumbs; Momo instantly eats them. Sokka walks past her toward Appa, carrying some of their luggage. Kenshin looks from the contents of the bag up to Aang. " We better fly smoothly, That we must. We should restock our supply of food."

"Guys wait! This was in my dream. We shouldn't go to the market", Sokka warns.

"What happened in your dream?", Katara asks.

"Food eats people! Also, Momo could talk." He glares at Momo while crossing his arms.  "You said some very unkind things."

{~With (Y/n)~}

It was in the morning when Iroh started acting strange. You stood behind Zuko, who looked out of his telescope with precision.

You watched as Iroh began sniffing the air. "What is it General."

Iroh turned to you in concern. "There is a storm coming. A big one."

You looked into the clear blue sky. Older people being able to sense the weather changing before it even looked like it would change. Still, it seemed a bit far fetched.

Zuko lowered his telescope and rolled his eyes. " You're out of your mind, Uncle.  The weather's perfect. There's not a cloud in sight. "

Iroh turns to face Zuko. "A storm is approaching from the north.  I suggest we alter our course and head southwest."

"We know the Avatar And Battosai  is traveling northward, so we will do the same."

You froze. It's only a matter of time before Zuko realized you were headed for the Northern Water Tribe. You stepped in, going along with Iroh's future weather forecast for the moment. "Brother, maybe Iroh is right. We should consider the safety of the crew."

Zuko turned towards you. "The safety of the crew doesn't matter!"

Just then, your eyes landed on Lieutenant Jee, one of the senior officers aboard the ship, who walked onto the deck. As Zuko realizes Jee is behind him and turns to face him, his expression briefly loses its raging intensity. Jee raising an eyebrow as Zuko walks over to him addressing Jee directly, struts up to him, dominantly looking him right in the eyes from a close distance as he finishes speaking.

"Finding the Battosai and Avatar is far more important than any individual's safety."

As Zuko walks away, Jee glares after him. Jee, who looks slightly enraged as Iroh walks over to him. Reassuringly, a twinge of uncertainty in his voice, almost as if he does not fully believe what he is saying. "He doesn't mean that. He's just all worked up."