"Then don't call me a guard.  I'm not losing you, whether you want this or not, until everything is straightened out, I have to be there for it," Hiresh said without budging even a little bit.  Siku stared daggers at him.

"Hiresh.  You're a private.  Get off your fucking horse - you've been a cop for barely a couple of years and all you do is complain about how little they let you do.  Well [i]I'm[/i] your assignment.  Katsu's free to do as he pleases unless "Being the Avatar" is against the law," She stated venomously, "So you're going to be watching [i]me.[/i]"  Flicking her hair back, she watched his reaction with only half interest, "As I go with him."  Her guns turned on Katsu once more, "God, could you be more [b]thick?[/b]"  She spat angrily, her fists visibly shaking at her sides, "Like I would let that happen - you could have been killed!  But no, you're too high on your horse...  You don't know you're better than everybody else, even if you think it, and you can't do everything alone.  I know we're not exactly... close... to you, but..."  She clammed up, holding her lips shut tightly as she looked away, her voice lowering to a near whisper, "I... don't really have many friends...  So yeah, I'm going to be interested in the few that I can be, alright?  And I'm going to be hurt when those few keep things from me because they think I'm going to tell my father, like I'm some amazing, perfect, star citizen."

Her mind couldn't help but wander again to where she was initially planning to spend her evening.  There was a match at the arena tonight, between the Wolves and the Platypus Bears but her team found a new water bender, they didn't even tell her until a few days ago.  So yeah, she wanted to have as many people at dinner tonight as possible, to keep her mind off of things, and here was Katsu: bringing it up again.  Asha was the only one who 'had time' to go.  So she dragged Hiresh and, from the moment she knew his schedule was available, Katsu.  The back of her fist rubbed her eye slightly.  She wasn't crying, an eyelash wouldn't get the hell out...  That was all.

'... Lost all my autonomy when I ran into you.'  She couldn't control herself as her hand wheeled back and met his cheek with a surprising amount of force, leaving a big, red mark on his face.  "How [i]dare[/i] you.  Don't [i]ever[/i] call me that...  If my life is [i]soooo[/i] great, then why did you run away? You could have had it, and then some.  But you ran away...  Except you didn't have the brains that Aang did, did you?  You could have disappeared for a few years for real and people would have thought you were actually gone.  You didn't.  You stuck around, you wanted to be caught, because you [i]want[/i] the attention," She accused, holding his gaze through eyes that fought tears through years of practice.  "Don't accuse me of being spoiled, I didn't choose this life, and you didn't choose yours; the difference is that I'm not the coward who ran away from it.  You wanna make the stupid decision to go back to your little hideout?  That's fine, but until that's cleared as legitimately safe, I'm going with you.  And you're not getting away.  You may be faster than me, but I've got something you don't," She smirked, "An Airbender."

She glanced to Asha, her smirk turning to a slgiht smile, "I'm glad you're okay, Asha.  You gonna be okay tagging along for a bit longer?  I'll make sure you get back safely."