Planning

Waking up in the new world felt incredibly awkward at least for the reason that I had 3 people running around and someone crying in the background. My head hurt incredibly bad because of all the extra memories that have been pulled into my brain at impossible speeds. I saw the whole life of this kid called Obi who had 2 commoner parents and a cute younger sister. His father, Mikao, was a fisherman just like his own father and expected to teach the trade to Obi, while his mother, Anila, worked in the post office and was happy to have her own family ever since her parents died. Younger sister was 3 years younger than him and dreamed of moving to the Fire Nation Capital where she can become famous – as expected of a 5-year-old kid.

- Could have been worse, - was my first thought when I finally opened my eyes.

- Obi, how are you alive? You barely made it! I thought you died… - said my mom while trying to remove her own tears that were now safely dropped on my t-shirt.

As for how I even got into this situation, it seems that the kid didn't know how to swim and fell into water while fishing on the pier. His sister called for help when he started crying, and dad came shortly after and pulled Obi out of water.

Funny thing is that the kid actually died, so I feel a little bad for the kid, but not too much since at least his parents won't grieve for his death. Also, if it wouldn't be for me, my younger sister would never get to move to the Capital because she would probably be expected to settle down here.

- Huh? My head hurts so much… - this was my strategy for explaining all the different personality changes. This body still has reflexes of the old owner, but with time they would disappear as well. My best strategy is to slowly mold this kid's behavior into my own and pretend that me almost drowning changed my personality somewhat.

- Son, what happened? Araya said that you felt into water while fishing.

- Yes, that is what happened, dad. I felt like something pushed be from my back and lost my balance. I tried to swim like you taught me, but I panicked too much. Thank you for saving me, father… - and now I jump to hug him. This would have been almost in-character for the kid, so I don't worry too much. Besides, parents are probably just happy to see their son alive after almost drowning. "Almost" hehe.

- Obi, I was so sad. I thought you died. *sniff* *sniff* When you fell into water, I thought that you would never come back… - yeah, I guess it is a good thing that I have this cute little sister with me. Can't wait to threaten her boyfriends so that they treat her right with my Scorch Release.

- Hey, Araya, - I said while holding her hands in my own, - It's ok. I am still here, and it is YOU who saved me by calling for father. I must say that I am thankful. I owe you one now, - I said which made the face of Araya at least a little happier since now she can ask anything she wants from me. I hope this probably never bites me later.

With all of that, my parents and Araya finally made sure that I was doing fine and went back to whatever they were doing. Since both parents were here today, it must have meant that they had a day off and we would have a family dinner later on today.

Well now that I survived, I guess I would want to show off my firebending to my parents. I am actually not that familiar with the whole process of how one gets into army, since benders are rare in our town, so my best bet would be to first show my Scorch Release as a unique type of firebending to someone that can give me some connections. This can help me in the future, since I would need to somehow get into bending academy. From what little this 8-year-old remembered, there was no bending academy in the town. At some point Obi even dreamed of becoming a firebender just like all those soldiers who everyone seemed to respect, but all his dreams were crushed when he learned that he will never become a bender just like his parents never did.

On the other hand, I may try to first make a name for myself by going to some tournament where royalty and other nobles would be trying to entertain themselves. I guess the image of 8- or 9-year-old kid crushing people left and right, would definitely get me noticed as a possible candidate for the Royal Guards.

I also have to prepare for a conflict with Zuko when he will be trying to steal my girl away. He would also probably complain to his mother about it, if she is still around. Considering my age, Ursa should be departing quite soon. I mean why do I even care about it as much? I can't lose to a crybaby like him. Maybe I should even usurp Fire Lord's throne, it's not like he ended up being a good Fire Lord or anything in canon… That could work, but those plans would be extremely long-term ones.

Now that I am still pretending to fish on the pier with my sister running in the background, trying to catch butterflies, I need to test my kekkai genkai – Scorch Release.

I try my best to imagine how a huge Scorch Release orb appears on top of my open palm, but nothing happens, so after 15 minutes of pointless exercise, I decide to try something different and make smaller orbs – for example the size of my nails.

This immediately brings me some success as I finally am able to get an extremely small orb of white fire in-between my thumb and index fingers. Also, it is good that I don't feel affected by own scorch release at all since I get to touch it my other hand's finger just fine. It just envelopes itself around me and ignores my body parts as if nothing happens but scorches the stick instantly.

Hmmm, with these results at the beginning I guess my adventure to a tournament can wait since I won't be much of a competition – even with my kekkai genkai. I guess my goal for now would be to get into any academy where I will impress someone with my "white fire" so that they give me a better teacher. I need higher chakra reserves and physical training. I guess I can start with the physical training part right now and then go and eat dinner with my family to show them my new "development".

I guess it is settled then, a plan for my new life has been successfully formed…