~♥THIRTY-TWO♥~

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[So Masaomi Kida has a plan today. Namely, he's out to kidnap (for her own good) Katara. There's a few times he could do this. He considers going for her before school... but he's not a morning person and neither is she. After school feels like too little time, so he's opted to pull her aside towards the end of lunch (to hopefully evade Sokka), saying that he has forgotten something (which'll later evolve into "show you something" among other excuses). Well, him and Linda (because he's taken to bringing the pichu along to school, lately) And from there... the adventure begins.

Hours of inane things ensue, not to mention a handful of not-quite arguments about how late it is getting. Feel free to run into them more or less anywhere: item shop, Azzip pizza, various floors of various community buildings,Rec Center, south side of town, north side of town, generally more or less anywhere. Chances are you won't even need to be the first to speak, because you run a good chance of running into them talking! This'll be any time between lunch break at school and oh, early evening

Choose your own adventure location/time wise. This post is obviously joint with replies from Masaomi and markofthebrave]

Comments

[markofthebrave]

Stop moving! [Katara is still entirely focused on her brother, moving to support his back with one hand and touch his forehead with the other. This will also effectively stop him from getting up, but really she's focused on the damage and only vaguely noting Masaomi's (to her mind) entirely appropriate response.]

Just hold still!

[markofthewise]

[The apology is barely even heard between everything going on, but he at least lies his head back. The sooner he can kill Masaomi, the better.]

[generalflirt]

[Left with nothing but to stay in that position, he just... well, does. Rambling excuses (including the obvious: you snuck up on me) would be entirely shameful right now and not in the way he usually shames himself. So. Still there]

[markofthebrave]

[Right, so this will be a few minutes, but when she's done, the lump is gone, the swelling completely decreased, and there shouldn't be more than a vague headache about the eyes.

Katara's shoulders slump with relief as her adrenaline finally starts to die down.]

You're going to be all right.

[She leans her hand back, still supporting him with her other hand and half her shoulder.]

[markofthewise]

[His hand slips up to his forehead, where the impact was. He can still feel it, but that's probably some sort of phantom pain or something. His head still hurts, but he can think straight. Mostly. Sort of. His mind is kind of clouded by being pissed.

Which is why Katara won't have to support him long as he starts to scramble back to his feet.]

What the hell, Masaomi!?

[generalflirt]

[He's still in the deep bow position. Oh, is this where he explains...?]

You took my by surprise, that was reflex.

[He doesn't even get his head up for that though]

[markofthebrave]

[Katara also stands, a little behind Sokka, and moves more to his side. She's still a bit pale from her scare, and her eyes are filled with concern and a sort of dread anticipation of this conflict. But for now, she's silent.]

[markofthewise]

Reflex? That was reflex? Do you just clobber anyone behind you!?

[Sure. Sokka knows those kind of reflexes. But a real warrior is in control of his every move.]

[generalflirt]

[No. Normally he's very self-aware. normally he borders on paranoid. But. he was relaxed right there, which doesn't couple well with his not great control. He doesn't get up from his bow though. He has no real answer to that one.

Linda, meanwhile, is getting more confused. Is Sokka is an enemy? He might be. She actually goes to poke Masaomi's arm to try to get an answer. Can she shock people?]

[markofthebrave]

Sokka...

[Tentative shoulder touch.

She's not really sure how much she should intervene, and she's... kind of upset about this whole thing too, but she can tell that Masaomi is completely sincere.]

It was an accident.

[markofthewise]

Some accident. [He turns back to Katara.] Does he have these a lot? [Has he ever hurt you like that?]

[generalflirt]

[Yeah still in the bow. And then Masaomi hears Linda's cheeks sparking, He breaks the bow just a bit to thwack her on the head. She pouts at him. But-!]

[markofthebrave]

No. [She drops her hand from his shoulder.]

He doesn't.

[And she even believes that. After all, when she's seen Masaomi lose control before, it had been in a battle. And he'd stopped in that fight with Shikamaru, just as he'd - eventually - stopped in that fight with her.]

[markofthewise]

[Sokka is still pretty much unbelievably pissed even after four days to calm down and just decides to tighten his fists and keep walking away.]

Well watch what you're doing from now on. I won't be off guard next time.

[generalflirt]

[And he finally gets up a bit now. Still on his knees-]

Yes, yes sir.

[markofthebrave]

[Katara frowns at Sokka's back, wanting to go after him, but...]

Sokka...

[...but really, it might be better to let him cool off. And although he certainly holds the majority of concern, he isn't the only one she's worried about right now.]

[markofthewise]

I'll see you at home, Katara.

[But he won't be happy about it. He just keeps on walking before he does something he'll regret.]

[generalflirt]

[There's really nothing to say here... maybe. If he just - well he definitely needs to get the mood back, but he can't dare do that until Sokka's away and it seems like it should be something like. Wait for Katara to speak firce]

1/2

[markofthebrave]

[...this is just really not good.]

[markofthebrave]

Well, that was... [she turned her gaze to look at him.] I know you didn't mean to.

[She's not mad at him.]

you know what I'll reply to here too just because

[generalflirt]

[...Oh. Well then. Sheepishly-] Mah, even so, that was bad.

makes sense

[markofthebrave]

Yeah, he was pretty upset.

[Like. Really upset. More upset than he would have been, she thinks, if it was anyone else. But she's not sure... maybe she's wrong, and it was just anger at being mistakenly attacked.]

[generalflirt]

I can't really blame him. [Because that hat to hurt, after all. Sigh]

[markofthebrave]

No, I guess not.

[...]

He really took you by surprise, huh.

[generalflirt]

Yeah. I guess I wasn't paying attention...