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Sorry. I know the ages are screwed up, but I needed them all to be in school at the same time. Words in Italics are song lyrics. I will list the songs that are in each chapter at the beginning w/ artist. The idea is that there singing and thinking at the same time, so it looks a little confusing with the scattered lyrics... but I like it so... meh.

Songs: I do not own and am not affiliate with the songs or their artists logos etc.

In chapter one (with a few minor changes) White Houses by Vanessa Carlton with a few minor changes Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day

Zutara: The Musical

chapter one: Back to School

Katara:

KIU. Kyoshi Island University. Back at last! Suki and Toph had come to stay at the south pole for a few weeks before school started, with Sokka and I. Now Sokka, my brother, and the three of us pulled into the oh-so-familiar drive. The looming dorms and the huge halls. My mind raced and my heart quickly followed suit. I knew that I was grinning from ear to ear. All four of us were practically out the door, and we weren't even at the dorms yet...There it was! The great dorm sprang up in front of us.

"Finally!" I was practically shouted. I loved KIU. It had been my home for so long now. Actually it had only been two years... Ah well. Memories flew by, literally and metaphorically. Both parents and students ran around trying to get unpacked. A junior! I can still remember being a fresher. Both Sokka and Suki were seniors, and Toph was a sophomore. I thought back to my first year here...

Crashed on the floor when I first moved in. A little bungalow with some strange old friends.

I remember the stress of the first week well. I slept on the floor the first night 'cause I couldn't find my sheets in time. I moved in with Suki. I'd known her for a year at that point. She was Sokka's girlfriend, but we happened to get along really well. Of coarse I got to see Sokka a lot because of that and that was okay. Toph had opted not to room with me this year. She had last, but had made a good friend named Song and wanted to room with her. Back to being a fresher though. I remember the partying well...

Stay up to late and I'm too thin. We promise each other it's 'til the end.

That was bad, and had some interesting results later on... I brushed off the memories that accompanied that thought. But I got better...

Now were spinning empty bottles. It's the four of us. With pretty eyes boys girl died to trust.

We got over our partying addiction, and sobered up. There were four of us then... It was Sokka, Suki, and I. Ha. I just skipped right over him didn't I. Aang was the fourth. He was then anyway. He had moved out and transferred to the much bigger, but less prestigious Ba Sing Se Collage last year. It happened under... interesting circumstances.

But back to happier subjects. Now we were four again. Toph was here. Enough time dwelling on the past. I have to go unpack!!!

I can't resist the day. No I can't resist the day.

Sokka:

Senior year baby! Haha! The big man is in the house! I'm on top of the world! I have probably one of the hottest girlfriends on campus she is after all the head cheerleader of the famed Kyoshi Warriors team. (They incorporate martial arts into there routines. There one the most grueling sports teams in collage history.) , my sister is rumored to be in the top 10 of her class not to mention a master water-bender, and my newest roommate friend-y person was the most powerful earth bender in the entire world... at 12.

Katara was dominating my vision. She had become so grown up. She loves to dance, and gets really into it. I couldn't be prouder of her! Well...

Katara yells out and it's no pose. When she dances she goes and goes.

She's also one of the happiest and most fun people to be around ever! Always making jokes. She loves laughter. Always provoking and taking part in it. I chuckled. She could always find a way... most of the time anyway.

She so pumped about school this year. Things ended interestingly last year... but there gonna get better. She's not the only one who's pumped either! I could barely speak I was so exited on the way here! The plane ride seemed to take forever though... Well at least I had Suki, and Katara.

Soda through the nose on an inside joke, I'm so exited I haven't spoken

A sigh escaped. When we lost our mother I thought things would never be right again. Man was I wrong! I happened when Katara and I were little, I thought Katara would turn out all emo or something. But no. She still wears that pendant that Dad gave her for a wedding gift on a blue ribbon around her neck... but I don't think she's any less amazing because of her death. She's top of the class. On crew, and swim team. She's a master bender. Oh, and over optimistic...

And she's so pretty and she's so sure. Hey I'm not more clever than a sis like her.

What am I doing sitting here?? I mused. Everyone was unpacking, jeeze!

Summer's over already! What an idea! It seems to weird! But the end is really close and schools starting! Senior year for that matter! Suki passed in front of my vision. Good god, she gets more beautiful every time I see her...

The summer's all in bloom. The summer's ending soon...

Narration (everyone sings):

Katara, Toph, Suki and Sokka continued to unpack, the car slowly emptying and there belongings slowly appearing in there proper spots. Katara and Suki were rooming again. They had ever year since being freshmen.

Sokka was in the next dorm over, and Toph on the floor above. She and Song had developed a connection the year before and wanted to room. She wasn't sad to leave Katara and Suki alone. They were to girly for her. It wasn't that Song wasn't girly, but she was quiet. Toph smirked. At least until you get under her skin.

She was a calm level headed business major to everyone on the outside. Toph had been in her same interpersonal class the year before. Toph was majoring in international relations. She wanted to see the world, and help to restore it to a little of it's former glory. The world had just come out of a economic slump, and it was a little rundown. However her guidance councilor told her she needed to work on her communication skills... so she had signed up for interpersonal communication class. Song had been her partner for a while. In that time she had annoyed Song enough that she opened up, because of her fogged judgement due to anger. The first thing Toph found out was that she was wicked with a Katana. That had been an interesting day in the practice courts.

Toph had steadily found out more about her. She had taken lessons since she was little. However when she had scene the destruction it caused with her on the end when her family was attacked, she renounced that trade. Or at least she publicly laid down her weapon, but just like Toph she practiced in secret. She was every bit as rebel and punk as Toph, she just hid it.

Suki pulled her trusty dress form out of her stuff. It had affectionately been named Audrey over the last few years thanks to Katara who really thought it should have a name. Suki lived with it. She was a fashion major and needed her little Audrey...

Sokka was majoring in engineering. He really wanted to design faster better ways to send information around on the web. He was already working on a system called MessengerHawk. He had always wanted someway to search and access things without so much... to-do.

Katara on the other hand was double majoring in Bending and Pre-med. Along with her other schedule she had no idea how she balanced her time. Her bending abilities enabled her to heal a larger injury much faster than normal methods. By combining those majors it would give the credentials to go to a med-school and to be able to use her abilities in a real hospital setting. Water healers were in high demand. She hooked up her fountain to the wall. She always kept a small amount of water somewhere near her. As a freshman she tried just a bowl, but Suki would trip on it or It would grow... mold stuff. After a while they decided change was in order.

Everyone was busy, but everyone was also reflecting on the past and similar thoughts went through there heads...

It's alright and it's nice not to be so alone. But I hold on to your secrets in dorm houses.

They all knew the troubles of each other and each others joys. They knew there secrets were safe with one another. They liked being together. They liked not feeling so alone.

Suki:

Wow! Senior year! It's all gone by so fast! Well at least there's the guys... By guys I mean Sokka Toph and Katara. So... girls and one guy I guess. Oh well.

I hoisted another box up, and dutifully headed for the entrance to the dorms. I glanced next door. It was Sokka's dorm, and sure enough there he was holding the door for another guy, that I didn't recognize. He was rooming with a pre-law major named Haru. His family had been through a lot of grief from the system during the decline and he wanted to make sure that other people don't go through the same thing. Sokka noticed the tall graceful figure of his girlfriend as she stood in front of her new dorm. They were the same white dorms as always, but... He couldn't help but crack a smile. She always did that to him. Suki's mind reeled. His smile is so, oh I don't know! It's to perfect. Gah! She thought. Suki knew she was in love with him. She wondered what this year would hold...

Maybe I'm in a little over my head. I come undone at the things he said.

Sokka ruffled his hair. It was sooo cute! I love the way his blue t-shirt looks. He is from the water tribe, but the t-shirt was of my design. Suki headed forward and entered the dorm, her mind swimming with images of her... what is he? Boyfriend sounds to juvenile, but lover seems a bit racy...he was somewhere in between. Standing in between boyfriend and lover, in that bright blue shirt...

And he's so funny in his bright blue shirt. He was so in love and he sure got hurt.

Sokka had been in love before he met Suki. They were high school sweethearts. According to Katara he as even ready to purpose. And then the worst happened. A tragic car crash killed Yue, that was her name, the summer before freshman year.

Sokka and I had gotten together in our sophomore year. I wasn't a rebound girl, but I still feel inferior sometimes. She died at night... it was a full moon. He always watched the full moon. Well, except for one night over the summer, but there wasn't much opportunity for star gazing...sometimes I feel like I need to be reassured that he's mine though...

I sneak into his cars cracked leather seat. The smell of gasoline in the summer.

The smell reminds me of our first kiss, and of a lot of other times we've spent together. It helps to ease the feeling of rebound.

We are going so fast. Well I think that sometimes anyway. Then he comes up behind me. Or he kisses me, and I realize that it's okay to go fast. Especially when it feels soooo right... but still I wonder sometimes, if it's natural to really feel this much for anohter person in only what two years now?

Boy are we going way to fast. It's so sweet it's gonna last.

Well! That's almost it! Just a few more boxes! I cringed at the thought of lugging more cardboard contraptions up those stairs. Might as well get started though...

Narration (everyone sings):

Back at school. It sent memories shooting through the minds of everyone. Having people around seemed to make all te difference in the world. Old friends introducing new friends. Broken friendships being mended in the spirit of the new beginning. New and old. So many opposites were coming together here, and our foursome was right at the center. Familiar hands locked with long missed partners-in-crime. Sincerely missed friends threw themselves into each others arms. They finally felt home again. The could feel the communal love of striking out on their own and were raring to go!

And it's alright. I put myself in your hands. But I hold onto your secrets in dorm houses.

There was so much love swirling on campus. Old couple were reunited and crushes were scene for the first time all summer. There was no safe nook in the buildings at this point. Even if you didn't have somebody you still felt the tell tale signs. Adrenalin pumping, heat rising, and the dumb feeling where your mind goes completely blank. Anyone who those symptoms affected were relishing the feeling. No one wanted the over whelming bubbly happiness that comes along with loving feelings to go away. Such pure and sincere pleasure was so rare. And yet feels so good.

Love, or something ignites in my veins. And I pray it never fades in dorm houses.

You could pick out the freshmen running about with nervous faces. Or they were sobbing, with parents trying to comfort them the best they could. They all could remember being away from home at first. It was exiting and scary. Your blood was pumping and your adrenaline levels were through the roof. You had taken a leap, and some were only expecting a step. For most there was also a certain amount of pain. Stabbing little daggers when reminders of home left behind came up. Sometimes the pain gets the better of you, but most of the time it was a happy experience.

My first time away from home. Rush of blood, oh, and little bit of pain.

They remembered how it ht hardest when it was a sullen day. Without the sun to cheer them up a lot of people found it hard to be happy. It was their mistake. You have to work at it to be sure, but you always need to be happy. It was instruction Katara had received multiple times when her strong emotions just got the better of her. She was reminded to be strong. She had also passed this advice along, as things progressed into her sophomore year.

On a cloudy day it's more common than you think. They're my first mistake.

Toph:

I unpacked a little slower than everyone else. Most attributed it to my disability, but Song knew better.

"Toph... what's wrong?" her gentle voice reached my ears, even if they were covered in my shaggy black hair. I didn't look up. There wasn't much point.

"Nothing really." I tried to sound casual. Like there really was nothing wrong.

"Toph I may not be able to read vibrations, but I can read facial expressions..." it was almost a warning. I could feel that she was annoyed.

"It's just weird. I mean Snoozles, and his Fangirl are seniors. Sugarqueen is a junior. I'm afraid there all outgrowing me." I used my pet names for Sokka, Suki, and Katara.

"Toph they love you. They always will."

"Thanks Sweetstuff." I used my pet name for her too.

Maybe you were all faster than me.

"Hey Toph? Are these your parents?" Song had picked up a picture. And was looking at it.

"Yeah, they are. I still don't see the point in me having a photo though." I tried to make a joke, but she missed nothing.

"Do you wish they would just accept that your not weak?" She knew the answer and I knew she knew. So I just looked away.

"There was just to much said. To much ever really been taken back." I had tried going home to Gouling last summer. After about a month I left for the south pole to see Sokka and Katara.

"Things will just never work with them."

We gave each other up so easily. These silly little wounds will never mend.

Songs long brown braid rustled against her light pink shirt.

"Do you ever think about going back?" She pushed for some answers.

"No."

I feel so far away from where I've been. So I don't go and I will be back here again.

"It's been to long for them. They'll never be able to see me as the Blind Bandit. To them I'm just a porcelain doll." They never could. I was to fragile to them. I could never be anything other than a pity factor for them. It really hurt that they couldn't love me for who I am. But I'd gotten over that hurt long ago.

"You don't have to pretend. I know that's the one regret you have about being blind." Why was she so darn perceptive!?!?

"My disability is nothing to me. Sure I can't see, but that clearly doesn't inhibit work! I am at the top of my class, and a world class earth bender! I just wish sometimes that I didn't have to fight every battle to get people to treat me as an equal twice as hard as everyone else because of my disability. I wonder sometimes how great I would have been if I wasn't a blind hindrance to my family." I trailed off.

"I can't believe you!" She practically shouted. "Being blind makes you who you are! It what makes you so strong and that's what people admire about you!" She made a good point.

I sighed.

I'm here as the day fades away on dorm houses. I lie. I put my disability in the dust.

"I just love you all to much to hurt you. You're my first real family." I tried to continue to explain, but was stopped when I was muffled by Song.

"And we love you toph. You're family does love you, because we are here, at KIU" A tear rolled down my cheek.

In my heart it's the four of us. In dorm houses.

Narrator (everyone sings):

What song said held true, all though four had become five, each one of them held the others in there hearts. They weren't just friends, they were family. And so much more. They all knew that there little families time was coming to a close though... and it hurt but it was also happy. They got to see each other grow, and it was time. They gave each other there hearts as friends, lovers, siblings, anything and everything. They were one in friendship. They were sisters and brothers. And that would never change. Ever.

And you maybe you'll remember me. What I gave id yours to keep.

And so they fivesome unpacked, and moved in to their familiar old dorms houses.

Dorm houses, dorm houses, dorm houses.

Zuko:

I trudged up the steps of his dorm. I was always grumpy on the first day of school. My past made sure of that.

"Zuko! What is wrong nephew?" Iroh, cheery as ever, was also incredibly perceptive, much to my incredible dismay. I shot a withering glare at my uncle. He didn't seem perturbed.

"You know that I'm always in a bad mood on the first day of school." I tried to retain control over my temper. Seeing as I was a fire bender having a temper was a severe flaw. Ah well, nothing I could do about it. "I wish I could just by pass September, like sleep through it or something."

Summer has come and passed, the innocent can never last. Wake me up when September ends.

Every school year for the last seven years the first day has brought... difficulties. Seven years ago, today was the anniversary, (a hard one to forget) my life had suddenly been uprooted, changed, moved. Those were words therapists and the like had used with me. I preferred to think about it as irreversibly screwed. I smirked. What I positive person I was. Well actually uncle Iroh has enough pep for us both. And a few more people for that matter. He had been there that day. That day that my mother died, and my father cast me out.

Like my father cast me out, seven years has gone so slow. Wake me up when September ends.

My father had always hated me. Sure I was his first born son, but he hated me. I think it was because I loved my mother while I could never love him. He was the president of a high powered firm and had only married her because she was the bosses daughter. He hadn't really loved her, so granted when I took after her he hated me too. She was in a car crash. My father never called 911. He didn't care. He just told them she was already dead.

Later that day he told me to leave and never come back. I was shuffled between families for a while before my uncle adopted me. I've been with him at his tea shop ever since. He had lost his son, and I became just like one to him. But I still missed my mother, and today was the anniversary of the day she left me.

As my memory rests, but never forgets what left me. Wake me up when September ends. Summer has come and passed, the innocent can never last. Wake me up when September ends.

"Zuko!" A familiar voice jolted me out of my reverie. I put my box down, and turned. A familiar frame entered by arms. Mai. She had been my girlfriend since senior year of high school.

"Hey Mai." She pulled back a little and then leaned closer. Her kisses always made me feel better, and I felt deprived after being away all summer. It was long and sweet. It spoke of long afternoons of remembering me, and longer nights doing the same. Finally we broke apart.

"I have to go." She told me. It didn't seem to bother her. That was Mai though, not bothered when things got screwed up. She couldn't care less about anything for that matter. She spoke in a gray monotone. And I'm in love with her. Well, at least I spend a lot of time with her. She had helped me a lot recently. Like feeding the turtle ducks (something my mother and I ahd done) or just being there most of the time.

Feed the turtle ducks again, like we did when spring began. Wake me up when September ends.

As her red skirt and black tank-topped form darted off into the crowd to go do something related to her culinary arts degree, it started to rain. Crap. Rain. It was raining during the crash, and rain always put me in a funk. Since I was already in a funk, it didn't do much. Except get me wet. Just what I wanted to be. Iroh's ever beaming face peered through the door.

"Zuko! Come in or you'll catch a cold!" Iroh called to warn him unnecessarily to the danger. He trudged toward the door. His uncle ran the Jasmine Dragon Tea Retreat on campus, so he could let himself into the dorms. They delivered.

I quickly slammed the trunk shut and bolted for the door. I made it in fairly good time . But after all I train hours everyday in Northern Shaolin Kung Fu, also with fire bending. I also meditate, it helps with my temper. As soon as I entered the building it started to rain harder.

Here comes the rain again, falling from the stars. Drenched in my loss again, becoming who we are.

I got into the elevator and slid my id. Gears ground and chains that had long been out of use slid back into there old routine. Everything seemed to be going back to routine, the people bustling about, and the sounds of freshmen either partying or weeping. And me remembering the past. Everything was here.

As my memory rests, but never forgets what left me. Wake me up when September ends.

The annoying ding that haunted me from my last two years came back again, and the metal doors reluctantly slid open to reveal a bustling hallway. I had my own room, which also meant that it was small. Very, very small. However being the veterinarian major I was I didn't need a ton of space. Yes I get comments about being a vet, but I have always loved animals, and wanted to do more than feed the turtle ducks by my house on the weekend. I still couldn't believe summer was over. And it was the anniversary of the worst day of my life. Joy.

Summer has come and passed the innocent can never last. Wake me up when September ends.

"Zuko! That's the last box!" He cheerily announced as I walked up to my already open door.

"Thank you for your help uncle." I hoped he would pick up on the silent que I was giving him to leave.

"Your welcome nephew. I must get back to the shop though!" He announced with vigor. An angelic chorus rose in my mind. "Maybe you will bring your lady friend by later, eh?" He smiled and walked away. The angels in my chorus laughed at me. I walked into my room and fell back onto my bed. Memories of past school starts flooded my mind. I hate this day so much.

Like my father cast me out, seven years has gone so fast. Wake me up when September ends.

I would go to sleep but I have to unpack. I got up and started to shove things into there place. It wasn't fun, but it got my mind off worse subjects.

Wake me up when September ends, wake me up when September ends.

end chapter one