Chapter 2: Next in Line (Lineage of the Phoenix Emperor)

Crossing his arms over his chest, Hato frowns at his half-sister.

"What do you want, Izumi?"

If he sounds disgruntled and grumpy, well, there's a good reason for that. Hato is the firstborn son of the Phoenix Emperor Zuko, and the second child of Kaya, his Waterbender Slave turned beloved Mistress. Meanwhile, Izumi is the second daughter of Ursa, Zuko's own mother, born at almost the exact same time as him.

As a result, the two of them had spent most of their lives fairly close to one another. Despite having different mothers, they were born of the same father. Unlike their older siblings, Kanna and Kiyi, they weren't as prone to making everything a competition. Of course, given how Kanna and Kiyi ended up… well, it didn't matter. Or rather, it did, but it wasn't important right NOW.

What was important right now was that Hato was missing it!

He and Izumi were currently stood in the quietest room of the quietest part of the entirety of the Phoenix Palace… the Library. And normally, Hato wouldn't care, but he knew for a FACT that the Nested Assembly was currently in recess, which he'd long since come to understand meant 'taking a break to have an orgy'.

The Nested Assembly was his father Zuko and all of the other World Leaders coming together to talk things out and discuss policy, as it were. There was Zuko as the Phoenix Emperor, of course, and then there were representatives from every province in the Empire, which Hato was given to understand had once been sovereign nations in their own right, back during his childhood.

Auntie Azula was the Representative of Fire, his older half-sister Katara was the Representative of the Southern Water Tribe, Kinto was the Representative of the Northern Water Tribe due to Yue stepping down to be Empress, the Moon to Zuko's Sun so to speak, Jet was Earth Prince (a title he'd insisted upon) and Aang was representing the Air Nomads. Though, apart from her and her son Tenzin, there were no Airbenders among the bunch yet, just a bunch of non-bending voluntary acolytes.

Finally, Sokka was representing the new Republic City, a growing metropolis that Hato knew for a fact his father had his eye on.

The Nested Assembly was the reason that Zuko had the Phoenix Palace built in the first place, or so he'd told Hato. Personally, Hato believed that it was also a way for Zuko to catch up with all of his lovers for some annual orgies. The Palace itself was a massive thing with four towers on each corner, each serving as an Embassy for a given Element. One might say it was unfair that the North and South Water Tribes had to share, but they ultimately had no issues with it.

The towers were multipurpose though, each of them very nearly a palace in their own right, a miniature ecosystem that could almost be considered self-sufficient. There were training facilities for visitors and residents alike, and each tower was often guarded by the finest of each Province, such as the famed Dai Li, or the Kyoshi Warriors, or the Azure Blades, which Hato was given to understand were Jet Li's personal pet project, inspired by the Blue Spirit.

And that was just for Earth. On top of all of that, there was entertainment and Hospitality for adults and children alike, under the supervision of Jin, who's official title was Chief Courtesan, and who effectively administrated his father's harem on the daily.

Due to the rather unexpected rise of Republic City as the Phoenix Palace was still being constructed, the Republic City Embassy ended up getting stuffed into Maki's laboratory under the Palace, beneath the Island even, which the Mechanist was said to find appealing, as it gave her access to all the natural elements as she worked. Granted, she had since moved much of her work to Republic City after becoming one of its Council Members alongside Sokka, but that just meant there was room in her former laboratory to make an even more proper Embassy in respect to the unique place that Republic City had become.

All of this was to say, when the Nested Assembly went into recess, one could almost always expect this to mean they were all going to have sex with one another. Something that Hato had witnessed several times over the last year or two, ever since his older sisters had gone off the reservation and gotten themselves bumped out of their official positions as Imperial Princesses and reduced to his father's courtesans.

Not that Kanna or Kiyi had seemed to mind the change in circumstances one bit over the last couple of years. Ever since, they'd actually seemed happier to just… get pregnant and produce their father's children. Hato didn't fully understand it, admittedly, except he also did understand it, because now he and Izumi were next in line as the Emperor's heirs, leaving him with a much greater workload.

That was WHY he'd been so eager to get to watch the Nested Assembly's latest 'recess', having gotten rather used to getting to watch and… well, masturbate to the sight. Something Izumi should have understood, given they'd bonded recently over becoming voyeuristic partners in watching those recesses together.

"Don't worry Hato, I said I'd make it worth your while, didn't I?"

Sighing, Hato rolls his eyes and nods.

"You did. So… start making it worth my while."

Smirking, Izumi clasps her hands together in front of her.

"I brought you here, brother… to propose an alliance. I want us to prove ourselves worthy of being the Emperor's heirs."

Hato blinks and then looks at her incredulously, his dubious expression making it clear how little he thought of THAT idea. But just in case it didn't, he's all too happy to tell Izumi she's being stupid as well.

"Don't be daft, Izumi. That didn't exactly work out for Kanna and Kiyi, did it?"

Or maybe it did, but unlike Kanna and Kiyi, Hato wasn't necessarily equipped with the right genitals to become his father's concubine… nor did he particularly WANT to. Izumi was though… sheesh, was his sister that eager to hop on their dad's dick. Izumi just rolls her bespectacled eyes right back at him, pushing her glasses up the bridge of her nose and huffing.

"What those two did was a gambit, not a plan. And besides, they were both completely and utterly unprepared for the reality of the situation. Our father didn't conquer the world through brute force. No, he rose above that of our grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather, who collectively spent a hundred years fruitlessly trying to unite the nations under Fire rule."

Drawing herself up to her full height, which Hato knew to mean Izumi was going into lecture mode, the bespectacled daughter of Ursa harumphs.

"No, while father's Might certainly helped, it was his ability to woo people, to influence them and make them realize that his cause was their cause, that let him succeed where his forefathers failed. More than that… it was sex that bound Zuko and his allies together, into the harem we know today, and grew up within these past two decades."

"Almost two decades."

Izumi just rolls her eyes and pushes her glasses up her nose again at his pedantic correction. Stepping away from him, she beckons him over to a table stacked high with scrolls. Grabbing one, she pulls it open and leaves it there for Hato to read. As he does so, she continues her pitch.

"These scrolls tell the true story of our father's rise to power. The story that children don't get to know, because of all the naughty bits. It wasn't just dad's Strength and Might that led him to becoming the Emperor we know today, nor even his way with words. It was also his dick."

Hato whistles as he reads through the scroll in record time, having always been a bit of a speed reader. He grabs the next… and it's just more of the same. As far as he can tell, Izumi is telling the truth. Zuko might have become Fire Lord by killing his father and grandfather in a closed doors Agni Kai, but he STAYED Fire Lord, and built upon the position, by turning those who would have conspired against him into his concubines, and by conquering the nations of the world one sexual liaison at a time.

… It made sense, given what Hato had started seeing in recent years. As children, they'd been largely kept away from such affairs, but the older they got, the less they were watched and the more leeway they were given to be their own people. Hato wasn't entirely sure that his father and the rest of the Nested Assembly knew that he and Izumi were peeping on their 'recesses' all the time, masturbating as they watched the orgies taking place between their older relatives, but honestly? He wouldn't put it past them. Any of them.

These scrolls, which Hato had noticed were in his father's own handwriting, explained a lot. Zuko hadn't just become Phoenix Emperor AND then jumped into a life of hedonism and debauchery. He'd gotten to the point where he was THROUGH the debauchery and depravity. Which, to be fair, in hindsight, should have been obvious. For one, Hato himself was a product of sex between his father and his mother, who had originally been his father's slave.

Meanwhile, Izumi was the product of their father… and their father's mother, who was also Izumi's mother. Their family line was twisted, and while they might not have noticed it as children, it was readily apparent what sort of things had been going on back during the formation of the Phoenix Empire and their father's initial conquest of the world. All of this was to say though… what did Izumi want with him?

"… What do you have in mind, precisely?"

Once more raising herself up to her full height, Izumi's pale Fire Nation skin blemish free and drawing the eye as she pushes her glasses up her nose yet again, she answers him.

"We're in a far better position to take over the entire Empire than when our father began. Our father, Zuko had to work his way from the ground up, literally in the case of Ba Sing Sei, while all we need to do is work our way down. We start with our direct family members, and then move onto our indirect family afterwards. We are the next eldest after Kanna and Kiyi, but our positions are far from secure. I think… I think this is what father wants of us."

For the first time, Izumi sounds a little uncertain. So of course, Hato pounces on that insecurity.

"You think? I'm not looking to end up like Kanna and Kiyi. You might thrive in such a role, but I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm a man, Izumi."

Blushing, making it clear she's probably imagined herself impaled on their father's cock as his brand new concubine more than once, Izumi nods, her glasses fogging up a little.

"I assure you, Hato, I've noticed. And I do not believe our father will censure us for this. We aren't trying to usurp the Empire from him like Kanna and Kiyi did. We aren't going to try to take anything or ANYONE by force. We're just going to use his tactics, as outlined in these scrolls, for ourselves. Convince our family members to turn to our and our father's way of thinking with the proper incentive and make it clear that this is what father wants, a unified Imperial Family. It wouldn't even be a lie, necessarily!"

… This was the problem with his and Izumi's relationship. His half-sister, while the closest sibling he had, had always been a schemer. Meanwhile, Hato was a simple man. Not in the head, he had his father's wits about him, but he didn't long for a politically active or conniving life, per say. Perhaps that was why he and Izumi had always gotten along so well. He wasn't nearly as ambitious as her.

Still, that didn't mean he would just… give in or anything like that. Playing coy, Hato smirks as he begins to read the third scroll, even as they discuss terms.

"It'll take a while, you know. At least a year in fact before we can begin in earnest, since many of our younger siblings aren't quite at the right age."

Izumi, of course, has already thought of this.

"That's the beauty of the plan. We have plenty of time for preparation before we even begin. I've set aside this time to strengthen our bonds with each other and our siblings without arousing suspicion. When we finally start, we'll initiate the plan at such a speed that our father won't realize what we're doing until it's all said and done, and we've successfully proved our worth by securing the future of the Empire and uniting our family… behind us."

He's undeniably intrigued by this point, but at the same time, he's going to continue playing hard to get, just to see what else he can get out of this.

"This all sounds well and good, Izumi. Certainly, you're going to get a lot out of this. You've always been the more ambitious of the two of us, and besides, you're a daughter of Ursa, while I'm a son of Kya. It was always more likely that you'd take our father's place rather than me after Kanna and Kiyi's gambit failed. The Emperor doesn't seem all that inclined to put son over daughter just because of our gender."

Hato shrugs as he makes his point, to show it's no skin off his back. He really doesn't WANT to be Emperor necessarily… but he also doesn't want to be stripped of his titles and sent into exile or something as a result of one of Izumi's hairbrained schemes.

"… So, what's in it for me, Izumi? What do I get out of this arrangement, exactly?"

Pushing her glasses up her nose once more, Izumi blushes as she scowls at him. If anyone is used to Hato playing hard to get, it's her by this point to be fair. She knows he's in, she just has to offer the right incentives, the right enticements.

"I would think it obvious, but fine, I'll spell it out for you. If all goes according to plan, you'll finally be able to have your own orgies. You can breed Kya and Katara even. I know you've always wanted to. Our father's harem would be our harem too, by the time we were done. And any woman or man in the whole of the Empire that we've always wanted can be ours as well, if we play our cards right."

Heh, that does sound tempting. Hato has to admit, his sister knows how to get him interested. But also…

"That's long term stuff, Izumi. What about the immediate?"

He grins, when she blushes even harder before hesitantly nodding.

"O-Of course. I came prepared… I know what you want, Hato. And so, I propose we seal this deal… by claiming each other's virginities, and, taking a page out of our father's book, tying ourselves closer together than ever before through acts of intimacy."

Rolling his eyes at his bespectacled sister's verbosity, Hato cuts to the heart of the matter.

"You mean you want us to fuck."

"… Yes."

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"Glughk. Glughk. Glughk."

"Sheesh, the stuff in here is… did you read all of this? Ah, who am I kidding, of course you did."

Down below, the movement along his cock stops and Hato grins, lifting the scroll he's currently perusing up a bit higher so he can look down at Izumi. The pale bespectacled young woman needs his help, she needs the very dick she currently has her lips wrapped around if she wants to have any chance of recreating their father's efforts.

As such, it wasn't difficult for Hato to get the upper hand in their 'negotiations', resulting in Izumi on her knees before him, sucking his cock as he stood there reading further into the scrolls that she'd somehow managed to get her hands on at some point. Chuckling, Hato shrugs his broad shoulders.

"I didn't say to stop, did I?"

After a moment, Izumi returns to what she's doing, taking his thick, throbbing cock down the back of her throat. Her arms are wrapped around his waist, and she's slobbering all over the underside of his dick, even as she buries her face in his crotch again and again. It's not like Hato asked her to deep-throat him or anything, but more that Izumi is simply mimicking the things they've been watching for years now.

As far as the two young people are concerned, this is what fellatio looks like. Throating a hard cock, choking down the man's dick, and gagging all over it all the while. Izumi is just lucky Hato hasn't taken direct control, or those glasses of hers probably wouldn't still be sitting so nicely on her pretty, pale face. Instead, he's enjoying the stories of his father's exploits, written in Zuko's own hands. Honestly, the more he reads, the more he agrees with Izumi. This is the way to prove themselves to their dad. By following in Zuko's footsteps in a more peaceful avenue, they should be able to avoid Kanna and Kiyi's fate.

One of Izumi's hands suddenly slips down and around to Hato's balls, causing the young tan-skinned man to throw his head back and groan as she fondles his nut sack while continuing to throat his cock. She's getting more insistent now, and Hato can tell she's trying to get him off sooner, rather than later. To be fair, they've already been at this for a while… long enough for him to read through several more scrolls in fact, which is quite the length of time even with his speed reading.

… Alright, fine. Time to take mercy on his half-sister. Setting the scroll down, having already finished that particular one anyways, Hato looks down into Izumi's eyes, or what little he can see of them past her fogged up spectacles.

"Getting close, Izumi. Here it comes…"

She pauses for only a moment, before redoubling her efforts, stroking his balls and bobbing up and down his cock even faster. Hato just grins, and lets her do so, curious to see if she can handle his load. In appearance, Hato takes after his mother a little more than his father. Tanned skin unlike the Fire Nation's normal pale, but with his father's hair to balance the scales.

However, in terms of size and volume where it counts, Hato definitely takes after his dad, from what he's seen during his and Izumi's spying sessions. Zuko dominates the Nested Assembly's orgies, and not JUST because he's the Phoenix Emperor, though that's a large part of it.

Regardless, Hato cums and to her credit, Izumi seems ready for him… at first. She pulls back to just the tip of his cock and is fully prepared to swallow his seed from the look of things. However, it quickly becomes apparent that she hadn't realized the true size of the task she was making herself tackle. As Hato groans and cums into her mouth, Izumi's cheeks balloon outwards in record time, and her eyes widen as she chokes and then bucks backwards, unable to keep up with the speed and volume that he's disgorging his load.

The end result is her rocking back on her heels, and his cock popping out of her mouth halfway through the orgasm. The rest of his seed, thick and ropey just like their father's, ends up all over Izumi's face, coating her features and covering her glasses as she swallows what's in her mouth and gasps, panting heavily from the exchange.

Looking down at his half-sister, kneeling before him, covered in his spunk… Hato is pretty sure his cock doesn't even get the chance to go soft. It's just too fucking hot. Especially when Izumi reaches up after a moment and scoops some of his seed off of her cheek into her mouth, giving it a taste as she cusk her finger clean.

"Not bad, I hope?"

"… Salty…"

Hato just laughs and reaches down to drag his half-sister up to her feet. Izumi lets out a startled squeak as he manhandles her over to the table and bends her over it, but she doesn't resist, not even when he kicks her legs apart. Hiking up her dress shows that she's come prepared… she's not wearing panties, and boy is she sopping wet back there.

"Guess it's only right that I return the favor."

"H-Huh? No, j-just- eep!"

Rather than just sticking it in his sister right then and there like she clearly expects him to, Hato drops into a crouch and with one hand on Izumi's ass, he spreads her apart, pulling a thigh aside so he can bring his mouth to her glistening wet cunny. His bespectacled half-sister lets out a moaning mewl, as he sticks his tongue inside of her wet, hot pussy, writhing it around.

At the same time, his other hand is stroking his cock, keeping him rock hard and ready to go, even as he tastes of his sister. She's quite sweet, and he finds her much to his liking, even as Izumi shudders and quivers.

"H-Hato… Hato!"

Her protests or whatever they are don't keep him from going to town on her, and soon enough, Izumi is squealing as she ends up squirting all over his face. He catches what he can in his mouth, but much like his load on HER face, he underestimates her, leaving his chin and shirt drenched in her clear pussy juices.

Chuckling, Hato pulls back and stands up, grabbing Izumi by her hips and centering her in place. They're both more than ready by now, with foreplay taken care of and her pussy dripping wet while his cock is rock hard. As she feels him stop and hesitate, Izumi looks back over her shoulder at him, her fogged, cum-coated glasses askew, actually allowing her to be able to see out from under them as she bites her lower lip.

"You sure about this, Izumi? Once we do this, there's no going back. We'll seal this pact with our virginities, I'm fine with that… but you can't back out on me afterwards. We're doing this thing, no matter what comes of it."

Izumi shivers at the certainty in Hato's voice. There have been times when his ambitious half-sister has backed out on a deal or scheme or plan before. He's never really minded all that much, mostly because it's always been small stakes, and he really isn't as worried about things like she is. It's no skin off his back, usually.

But this time is different. This time, Izumi wants a lot more. And while it's true she's offering a lot more as well, he needs to know that they're in this together, that she understands there's no going back this time.

Flushed and clearly horny as all hell from their earlier foreplay, Izumi shakily nods.

"I'm… I'm sure. My plan… i-it's going to work. You'll see."

Hato just inclines his head. They would indeed see, but for now… well, it was time to seal the deal, so to speak. Izumi was giving him a down payment of the only thing he really wanted out of all of this, sex. Hato would be a fool not to take her up on her offer.

Grabbing his half-sister by her hips, digging his fingers into her pale ass, Hato lines up properly with her cunt… and thrusts forward. Izumi cries out, rocking against the table as he fills her with his cock. Eyes twinkling, Hato reaches forward after a moment and slips two fingers into Izumi's mouth, causing her to gag a bit as he leans over her, pinning her to the table.

"Quiet now, sister. We're in the Palace Library after all. Wouldn't want to get in trouble."

The likelihood of that happening was next to none. This part of the Library was all the way in the back and restricted to only a select few people. Most of THOSE people were currently participating in the Nested Assembly's 'recess', meaning they were with his father, taking part in a large harem-wide orgy. And once they were done with that, the Nested Assembly would resume, and they'd be back to debating policy for the next several hours at least.

The likelihood of him and Izumi being interrupted is next to none, but there's still something quite enjoyable about fucking his half-sister in a semi public place. Even as he's taken her virginity and begin to plow her against the table, Izumi is moaning, sucking on his fingers, clawing at the wood surface beneath her. Her legs are spread wide, and the girl herself is up on her tip toes, unable to do anything else as Hato's cock spears into her from behind.

Well, unable to do anything else but cum, of course. It takes a bit, but eventually Hato feels it. Her flexing cunt walls grow even tighter and begin to sporadically squeeze down hard along his pistoning prick. Izumi is cumming for him, climaxing around his cock as he fucks her silly. Needless to say, this is precisely what Hato wants to see. It's precisely what he was hoping for.

He is his father's son, after all, and judging by the scrolls he's read so far, he takes after Zuko more than he ever expected. Honestly, if anyone has any hope of pulling off Izumi's plan… it's Hato and her. Together, the two of them make one whole.

Together, they embody the greatest parts of the current Phoenix Emperor. Hato has their father's gender, and sex drive, and all around charisma necessary to talk the panties off most women. Izumi has their father's ambition, his cunning, and his scheming nature. On their own, they would fail… but together, they might just have a chance.

But as previously stated, that's at least a year in the future. This next year will be all about preparation, about shoring up their defenses, about building upon existing bonds. And… about exploring their new sexual relationship. They'd been enjoying each other's company in their little hiding place overlooking the Nested Assembly's orgies for a couple years now, but they'd never so much as kissed or touched each other.

Instead, they'd touched themselves, feet apart from one another, watching in silence, enjoying one another's company but mostly focused on their father and his harem's orgies. Now though… now Hato was buried ball's deep inside of Izumi, and the pale girl was loving every last bit of it. She'd be howling up to the ceiling, if he didn't have fingers stuffed in her mouth. She'd be squealing as she creamed herself upon his cock again and again.

As it is, her muffled voice is still creating a lot of noise, and so Hato moves his other hand up as well, hooking his fingers into both sides of Izumi's mouth and drawing her head back. As her spine arches, he fucks her even harder and she shudders and shakes upon his cock, her pussy walls clenching and tightening all the harder around his dick. His bespectacled half-sister likes it rough, Hato absently notes, even as he brings her close enough to his lips for him to whisper in his ear.

"Gonna cum soon, Izumi…"

"Nnngh! N-Naaaah!"

Raising a brow, Hato pulls his hands away from her mouth and directs them to her shoulders for a moment, to give her a chance to speak.

"N-Not inside! Can't… can't get pregnant yet!"

It makes sense, and Hato understands completely… but that doesn't mean he's not going to give Izumi shit for it.

"Really? But I was so looking forward to creampieing you, sister."

"No! You'll r-ruin everything! M-My ass… cum in my ass instead! I… p-prepared it beforehand…"

That takes Hato by surprise. But he wastes no time in taking her up on her offer. He'd breed his sister one day, but if Izumi was suddenly pregnant at any point in the next year, she was right, it WOULD ruin their plans before they could even get off the ground.

And so Hato pulls out of her cunt and shoves forward into her ass a moment later as Izumi reaches back and pulls her pale buttocks apart for him. His cock slides right into her lubricated back door, making it clear that his conniving half-sister had planned ahead of time for this. Perhaps she thought she might need to offer him all three of her holes, in order to get him to agree to her deal.

Either way, Hato fucks Izumi's ass as she moans and squeals, lasting a few minutes more in the slippery but also incredibly tight environment, before he finally gets what he wants, after a fashion. He spills his seed inside of his half-sister, albeit in her bowels rather than her womb, filling her back door as she shudders and shivers before collapsing forward onto the table with a panting moan.

As Hato stares down at Izumi, the young man can't help but smile… until a flash of movement catches his attention out of the corner of his eye. Gaze darting up, he makes eye contact with a young woman, an assistant librarian according to her robes. She freezes under his gaze, even as he raises an eyebrow at her.

"Well now, you're not supposed to be back here."

"D-Deepest apologies, your g-grace! I… I didn't mean to intrude!"

Hato just grins. He's not a virgin anymore… and if he's to play his part in Izumi's plan, he's going to have to get better at sex. This little librarian is no one that he recognizes, which means she's not even family. That's good. They can use her for practice, for what's to come.

"Come here. We're going to have a… chat about snooping."

Slowly, the trespassing girl shuffles forward. Hato's grin grows wider and wider, as he reaches for her.

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