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Character Names: Aoko (

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When: Avatar plot - sometime after Aoko got dragged off to see Iroh
Location: Entrance hall - outside
Summary: Yoh attempts to teach Aoko to fire bend... which isn't exactly successful.
Ratings: PG13 just because Yoh is there
Warnings: .....Takami Yoh is his own warning, this has been mentioned. Also cute and fluff. :|

Aoko was in an even more sour mood then before. Not only had Kaito and Hakuba insisted she go back to talk to Iroh about the problem but they had picked her up and carried her to him! Where did they get off thinking they could just lift her up and take her where ever they pleased!? Not to mention it probably looked really strange to anyone that saw. They were both idiots!

And maybe-just maybe she wouldn't be so mad if their attempts had actually worked. But No. It didn't. Again, all she managed was a puff of smoke so that meant something was wrong with her. And that wasn't really a thought she liked thinking about.

But maybe Yoh was right and it had something to do with how she was being taught and had nothing to do with confidence and a proper drive or inner conflicts that she'd really rather just ignore. Part of her feared that, that was what was wrong but the other part ignored that thought and settled on the idea that she just couldn't do it.

After escaping her two best friends she made it to the entrance hall looking.. perhaps a little put out and annoyed.

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"And that is?" Maybe later she'd apologize for being in a bad mood-after all she never had been one of those people that could never apologize--well.. most of the time anyway.

Still, she took a deep breath and got ready to try again, ready to listen to whatever Yoh had to say.

Yoh didn't mind. He understood annoyance and anger. In fact, that would help. Yoh gives her a cocky half smile, "get mad."

...Surely she had heard him right- get mad? What exactly did he think happened when she decided to give up? She had gotten mad and stormed off. She let out a sigh and shook her head- yeah that really wasn't going to work.

"Yoh-kun, how is that going to help? I'll just get even angrier when it doesn't work."

"Good! Use that! Think about everything that makes you angry! Think about when Kaito flips your skirt, and when Hakuba and he dragged you back to lessons, and when Kaito calls you names, and when I cut class," Yoh said encouragingly. Maybe this would be enough, but Yoh had more situations at his disposal. If he could get her mop-wielding mad he was sure he'd get at least a spark out of her.

Everything that made her angry? Of course, Kaito made it into that category, Next would be Yoh with some of the stupid stuff he'd done, Hakuba had good intentions and that one time had been a misunderstanding- but definitely being lied too- that made it to probably the top of the list. Kaitou Kid, obviously was also somewhere at the top. And Always having to take a take a back seat to everything because-No! The didn't make her angry. She knew how important it was so she was perfectly content to step aside.

She thought again on Kaito-thinking about every mean things he'd ever said to her. She thought about her birthday- she could still hear his stupid voice 'Aoko, are you actually a male?' And suddenly she could feel something building inside her with her anger- would it actually work this time? It had too, right?

Aoko focused on how mad that had made her until puff of gray smoke came out. Again, absolutely no luck.

"Damn it!" she turned sharply to kick the nearest hedge. "I give up! I'm going to my room." She turned abruptly on her heel to storm off.

"Hey wait!" Yoh jogged after her through the snow. "Maybe you're not focusing on the right thing!" He knew he could get her powers to work, he knew she could get it! He caught up to her quickly and overtook her easily, stopping short in front of her. "What about the Kaitou Kid!" Then he made his mistake, "what about your dad?"

Aoko stopped in her tracks- face over-shadowed by her bangs as she looked down at the covered ground. What had he just said?

"What?" She demanded- her tone icy. Surely, she'd misheard him- surely he knew better then to mention anything about her dad that wasn't positive. Sure he knew just how thin the ice he was standing on was. There was no way he could think for even a moment that she was angry at her dad. He knew her well enough to know that she happily accepted having to step aside and take a familiar backseat to everything going on around her- that she didn't mind it at all because Kaitou Kid and her dad's job was vastly more important then she was- and her Dad had been chasing the thief for twenty years. It was only fair that she step aside.

So it didn't make her angry at all that Hakuba and Kaito got to spend more time with her dad then she did-not at all. She was a bigger person then that.

He had forgotten how scary she looked when she was angry. Yoh could practically hear that thin ice cracking. "I...uh..." Luckily Yoh thought fast on his feet, but before he could say he was projecting a very stupid but insistent idea got into his head. Tell her the truth about what he said and maybe her Firebending would work. Sure, he'd suffer some second and third degree burns, but Aoko would be happy. "I said that you're really mad at your dad."

"Well you're wrong." Her eyes snapped back to him. "I'm not mad at Daddy. I have no reason to be. Do you understand? No. Reason." she took a step closer- that fire she should be able to conjure reflected in her eyes as she moved closer.

"So don't ever say I'm mad at him again. I'm not an ungrateful little brat and it doesn't bother me at all that my friends see him more then I do. Not. At. All." One more wrong move and she will end up striking.

Yoh knew this was going to end badly for him, but he hoped that he could manage to get her to produce fire before he ruined their friendship. "That wouldn't make you a brat," Yoh said helpfully, showing no fear even the slightest hint of a smile on his face. "It'd make you right." Come on Aoko, show him that fire he knows is in you.

It made her... right? No. No, couldn't be-it had to be that he was lying. Or didn't know what he was talking about- but it wouldn't be the first lie she'd ever been told.

"Shut up. You obviously don't know how it works back home- My dad's job is very important. It's more important than I am. So back off." She gave him a nice hard warning shove.

Yoh watched her hands, there was definitely something starting there. Now he just had to bring it out. "You know it's true."