Akira followed the script to verify he was a member of the white lotus with serving tea to master Pakku and playing the game with the lotus stone in the centre of his tactic.
Why are you a member of the white lotus? You are a child!" master Pakku asked with narrowed eyes.
"Despite my age I am an expert chi master and the son of Iroh" Akira explained "and I am the best firebender in the entire world"
"Are you pranking me? Didn't you just ask to recieve waterbending training from me?" master Pakku asked.
"I had an encounter with a lion turtle. It gave me the ability to bend water out of curiosity if I could archive internal balance even with such opposing elements. The destruction of fire against the healing of water" he said "and I apologise for pretending to be from the southern water tribe but I didn't want to be mistrusted just because of me being a firebender especially now at times of war"
"Alright, what do you need?" he asked.
"I have come to you to give you more information. First, because the Avatar is here a whole army of fire nation ships will be here in a few weeks led by general Zhao a very cruel man" Akira said but master Pakku remained collected.
"If the fire nation thinks we are easy to conquer then they are soley mistaken. Don't worry, we are well prepared for an attach of the fire nation" he said.
"Alright, I just wanted to let you know. Then on a brighter note how is it to finally see your grandchildren?" he asked and smiled at Pakkus clueless face.
"Sokka and Katara, they are the grandchildren of Kanna...and you" he said still smiling.
"If you want proof just look at the necklace Katara is wearing. It is the same one you gifted Kanna for your engagement" Akira said and sipped on his tea leaving Pakku completly speechless.
"What?" he just muttered confused "how do you know this?"
Akira just smiled "I forgot to mention, I am also very good when it comes to gathering information" he said.
"I...I have grandchildren?" he muttered to himself.
"Yes, that's why I need you to forget your useless traditions and teach Katara waterbending" Akira said.
"But..."
"She is a very talented bender master Pakku and she is accompanying the Avatar. She should at least be able to defend herself in case of danger don't you think so?" he asked leaving Pakku thinking in silence.
"I will think about it" Pakku finally said and Akira smiled.
"Great, it was nice talking to you. I look forward to your lessons tomorrow" he said and bowed respectfully "good night"
"Good night" Pakku just mumbled still deep in thought.
Akira walked away to their house and lied down very tired.
He was asleep before he knew it and woke up shortly before sunrise.
After stretching and a short warm up exercise he made his way to the training grounds together with Aang and Katara.
"Good morning master Pakku" Aang screamed.
"No please, march right in, it's not like I am trying to concentrate or anything" he said sarcastically.
Aang just ignored him and pointed to Katara.
"This is my firend Katara I told you about and you already know Akira" Aang said.
Master Pakku came nearer and looked at Kataras necklace.
"You told the truth, this really is the necklace I made for Kanna, the love of my life" Pakku said.
"What? You knew Gran Gran?" Katara asked.
"I didn't just know her, I was engaged to her" master Pakku said "it's good to finally get to know my grandchildren. Hello Katara"
Akira smiled seeing this. It seems like master Pakku has decided to teach Katara.
"Alright, you wanted to learn waterbending right? Let's start right away" he said and launched a wave of water at them.
Aang and Katara werent able to react but Akira raised an ice shield out of the ground and blocked the wave, then circling the water around his body and blasting it back towards master Pakku.
Pakku then split the water and let the two streams of water shot at him from different directions.
Akira manipulated the ice under him and shot into the air pulling up a giant wave.
He then slammed down and let it run into master Pakku.
"I am impressed but that isn't enough" Pakku said and broke through the wave with raw power.
He then copied Akiras move and manipulated all the water of the wave to circle him and then shot at Akira.
"Oh fuck...blublublub" Akira could only say before he was swept away be the giant wave which turned into ice, trapping him with only his head above the ice.
"Alright, you win old man" Akira said and Pakku let him down smiling.
"Woah, that was so cool. Where did you learn these moves Akira?" Aang asked.
"I trained by myself" Akira said and stood up again assuming fighting position.
"Again!" Akira said and faced Pakku.
Like that the three of them got beat up the whole time.
Even after the training was over Akira continued to train till deep in the night.
He needed to get as strong as possible during his time here.
To practice the more taboo techniques he went out to the icy tundra with Noir to hunt for a few animals for bloodbending practice.
His goal was to archive the level of psychic bloodbending without the full moon.
Because of his discipline he created a strict shedule for his training to have the most results.
In the mornings he would practice with Pakku and his other students, after that he would practice by himself.
The afternoon he would spend to sleep to go out during the night to practice his bloodbending with his captured animals.
At first he thought it was easy but he underestimated the sheer concentration one needed to perform something like this.
Bloodbending isn't just control of the blood inside the body, you could also manipulate the muscles and nervous system of a human or animal.
He practiced on a small fish but even then everything he managed to do for now was a few twitches here and there.
Sweating he gave up for now. Even with him having extensive knowlege of anatomy and energy flow because of his chi training he still lacked the raw ppwer to force another body to move after his will.
As time went on he grew rapidly and was soon on the same level as master Pakku.
"You monster" he muttered as he was trapped inside an ice block after one of their duels.
This was the first time Akira had won a battle against master Pakku.
Akira just grinned and let him down.
"Your control really is scary. I never saw such a precise and fast way of waterbending" Pakku said "I have nothing left to teach you, from now on you can call yourself a master of waterbending"
"Thank you for your teaching, I will always see you as my teacher" Akira said humbly and bowed to him.
"I'll continue my training alone" Akira said and mounted Noir to go into the tundra to finally master his bloodbending.
He definetly saw improvements and he had more control every day. Now he could control up to four medium-sized animals even without the full moon but he was still far away from psychic bloodbending.
He had started to move normal water with just his thoughts, without the bending movements and also tried to replicate the water tendrils that Ming hua used as prostetic limbs using waterbending.
It was incredibly difficult and those things were the true mastery of waterbending.
Inspired by this he also tried to move his flames with just his thoughts and it worked. He also tried it with lightning but his control for that was still lacking.
After practicing for day and night he finally got it.
After almost a week of self-torturous training he finally archived the control necessary to replicate the waterbending art of Ming Hua.
His psychic waterbending also took a leap but he still wasn't able to perform psychic bloodbending.
However, his time was up. The black snow told him that the fire nation had arrived to attack the northern water tribe and judging from the giant black cloud of black smoke in the air they brought hundreds of warships.
Everyone gathered in the great hall of the palace to discuss this urgent situation.