The False avatar

Chapter 8 Grieve is love with no release

In the last day of the week
Shoto was busy with finishing the final touches to the few of dishes that he was making. He smirked a bit, who knew after becoming a literal prince. That he would finally learn how to cook for himself. He recalled how it got these point. He remembered having a craving of cold soba. In the middle of the night, so he went into the kitchen and realising that the servants were asleep decided to not be rude by waking them up.

Before he left he found a cook book and thought, 'How hard could it be ?' So he attempted to make soba. But keyword here attempted, but what he actually made was an amorphous blob that look it crawled out of depths of hell. He right then and there, lost his appetite and burn it to ashes. From that night, it caused to him to look into and findout where he made mistakes. So whenever he went to the kitchen he would watch the chefs pepare the dishes of the day. From there on, his curiosity with cooking increased. He wanted to learn how to make any and all food he saw. As the first thing he did and after finishing his firebending and earning a mastery, was to learn culinary skills.

As shoto finally added the finishing touches to the three dishes. The first dish he made was a soup dumplings followed by a large fish cutlet. Last but not least he made hippo cow meat skewers. He compared to his cooking to past self. He gotten better, and he hoped things would continue to be so. He then quickly picked up a tray and placed each of the dishes gently on it. While also placing chop sticks on the tray. Before holding the two ends of the tray and picking it up. He then left the kitchen and headed out to the garden. Where he watched his siblings and his mother were busy feeding the turtleducks. He had to bit his lip in an attempt to hold in his laughter.

When one of the turtleducks jumped from the pond and bit down on Azula's leg. Ursa gently got the turtleduck off her leg and threw it back into the water. She then said a few encouraging words to azula. While zuko was just smiling and laughing at his sisters misfortune. He then made his way towards them. Both Azula and zuko perked when they say their older sibling with a tray. He placed it infront them, zuko immediately tried to get his hands on the dish first. But shoto gently slapped his hand. "Zuko where your manner ? Eat with the chopsticks not your hand." Shoto said with a playful expression.

Now it was Azula's turn to grimace. She elegantly picked one of the pairs of chop sticks. While flaunting alittle as she did so, and then picked one of the soup dumpling and ate it. She gave a squeal saying how good it was. Zuko after a moment of giving a glare at Azula, picked one of the chopsticks and took one of the dumpling and ate it whole. Immediately his eyes widden a little and with the soup dumpling still in his mouth said, "Sho-sho this is so good. Your the best older brother."

"Sometimes I wish your the only older brother I had. It's a shame zuzu had to come along. " Azula said playfully. Zuko looks flabbergasted and said, "I hope you don't mind me eating all the dumplings then lala." Zuko then began devoring the dumplings. Azula immediately inserted herself in and tried to take as much of the dumplings as she could. While the two quarrelled over the food. Shoto handed ursa the plate of fish cutlets. She welcomed it and ate some of the pieces. Shoto walked over the two of them, and grab them by their shoulder.

"Okay both of you timeout or neither of you are getting any hippo cow skewers got it." Shoto instructed them. The both of them be grudgingly stop their food fight. While they sent nasty glare at the other. "Good now both of you, share the skewers together." Shoto said as he handed them the plate filled with hippo-cow skewers. While the both of them shared it. They were still glaring at the other as they did so. Shoto gave a sigh and walked over to his mother.

She had a smile on her face, whilist she giggle slightly. "Is something funny mom ?" Shoto asked. "Oh nothing dear, I am just imaging the lucky lady that's gonna have you as a husband." Ursa said to him. "MOOOOM!!!" Shoto groaned. "Come on darling your about to turn twenty two soon. You should get a fine lady and settle down." Ursa commented. While taking another bite of her fishcutlet. "I still have time mom." Shoto said to her. Just as ursa was about to respond a servant quickly walked towards them. "A message has arrived from Iroh from Ba Sing Se. Firelord Azulon wished you to read it." The servant then presented the letter. Ursa took it and noticed that the fire nation seal was broken and that meant Azulon or someone else had read it's contents.