[This is an updated version; there is an added scene at the end] Hey guys! This is my first Avatar: The Last Airbender Fanfiction. Actually, it's my first EVER fanfiction. In truth it's actually the first piece of writing that I've ever shared publically! So, are a round of applause in order? No? Not really, huh? I guess not yet… So, this is going to start from directly after the series ended, in the middle of Katara and Aang's kiss. For my more die heart readers, I would like to point out that I'm a Kataang shipper, sorry to all of you Zutara fans out there (Wow that was the first time I've ever used those two words in a sentence!) For all of the other relationships, I will make and break them as I please; but comment if you have any preferences, and I promise that I'll see what I can do without straying from the story line that I haven't really planned!

Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar, but I swear that I might… possibly own it one day!

Avatar: The Last Airbender, Book 4: The Avatar

She smelled of Jasmine and her lips tasted sweet with honey. Katara wrapped her arms around his neck, warming his cold and quivering body, trying to remove his nerves. Aang nervously wrapped his arms around her waist, half expecting her to resist or twitch, but she only puller him closer. Gaining confidence, Aang began to kiss her more fiercely, noticing this; Katara followed his lead, somewhat surprised by his confidence. Neither of the two made any move to separate, neither of them even breathed- not wanting to ruin the moment.

Sokka scanned the tea shop, noticing the absence of both his sister and Aang. Suddenly very serious, he made his way to the balcony, but no amount of maturity could prepare him for what he saw on the balcony of the Jasmine Dragon tea shop. Sokka's legs started giving out under him and his jaw fell open, his eyes signaling that he was about to faint. Yet the sounds of Sokka's footsteps were drowned out by the soft moaning of the young couple, their lips passionately locked and their arms wrapped around each other. It was as though they were a statue, their bodies unmoving, only their heads rocked back and forth slightly.

Sokka too stood there motionless, his mouth agape and his posture awkward. Toph, of course had felt the vibrations of Aang and Katara's passion and grinned slyly.

Suki rose from her seat to look for Sokka on the balcony. She noticed Aang and Katara kissing, and then saw her boyfriend utterly stunned and immobile. She silently tried to coax Sokka into leaving, not wanting to disturb them.

Zuko resumed serving tea to his friends, a most humbling gesture from the Fire Lord. Noticing three of his companions missing, he moved to the balcony, carrying a tray holding three cups of tea, intending to serve a cup to each of them. When Zuko stepped onto the balcony, he assumed a similar pose to Sokka. Suki winced in anticipation of Zuko dropping the tray, though he did not.

Iroh, noticed the commotion on the balcony. He calmly stepped onto the balcony with the others, but rather than being shocked, he simply grinned, for Aang had taken the advice that he had given him while they wandered through the Crystal Catacombs of Ba Sing Se together. However, not wanting to further embarrass the couple, he turned to leave the balcony. Something then caused Iroh to stumble; he instinctively gripped his nephew's shoulder for support, but this caused Zuko to drop the tray of tea. Suki gasped and covered her mouth with her hand. The tray fell with a resounding crash and Aang and Katara instantly split apart, finally noticing their audience.

The two of them tried to hide the fact that they were blushing and act completely innocent as if nothing had happened, scratching the backs of their heads nervously. Sokka was the first to speak,

"Katara! What are you doing!" He waved his arms around desperately.

"Sokka, you're over reacting, let's go help Iroh with the tea," Suki offered, trying to spare the new couple further embarrassment.

"No, Suki! I need to say this!" Sokka imposed, his face flushed. "Aang, you… you… You betrayed my sacred trust!"

Aang and Katara stammered each trying to say something in response. Aang only barely managed to mouth the word "help" to Zuko. Zuko, who had regained himself, firmly gripped Sokka's shoulder.

"Maybe we should get you inside; this will take a while to sink in. Give them a break, they're not children," said the Fire Lord.

"Oh, no. They are NOT getting out of this, you hear me, Katara? Aang? I'm not finished here!"

Iroh then offered a piece of his wisdom to Sokka, "If two tea leaves are picked in a garden, and the two of them happen to make an excellent brew in a way that compliments their individual tastes, then I see no reason why those two tea leaves should not be made into one tea."

"This isn't about them not being good together! They simply aren't old enough!" Sokka raised his voice.

"A tea leaf makes the best tea when freshly picked," the old man stated calmly. Sokka realized that he had lost in group votes.

"I don't care about your stupid metaphors, but; fine… You two can… be… together… in that way… But I have my eye on you!" He warned, mostly looking at Aang.

"We don't need your permission!" Katara spat at him, her chin held high. Aang put a hand on her shoulder, the simple gesture telling not to get upset.

"Aang, you and I need to have a little talk… but later… I need a moment for this all to sink in." Sokka walked away from the balcony dizzily, his senses skewed.

"Well, I guess… Congratulations guys," Zuko managed awkwardly. He too left the balcony followed by his uncle.

Katara was first to gather herself. She wrapped her arms around his neck, blushing slightly and then said in her best seductive voice, "So, where were we?" She bent in and kissed Aang, and they resumed their previous "activities."

"Attack!" the earth bender ordered. "The Fire Lord is in that tea shop!"

Three massive boulders struck the walls of the Jasmine Dragon, causing the building to crumble. Aang and Katara immediately broke apart and ran outside; making sure that everybody had escaped the wreckage. Zuko, and Iroh, both of whom were engraged, charged at their opponents, but wishing to keep the peace, Aang felt the need to intervene.

Aang's eyes and tattoos glowed briefly and he assumed his earth bending stance. Punching his hands in the air, he erected a stone wall between the two groups. Satisfied, he jumped on top of the wall, facing the earth benders. He cried,

"Who are you?"

There was no response, the earth benders had vanished underground. Aang looked to Toph, who placed her fingertips on the ground.

"You're not going to like this, guys," She started, making sure that everybody was listening. "There are a couple thousand people hiding out in the crystal catacombs, and their numbers are growing."

"Like a resistance?" Katara interjected.

"It seems that there are people who don't want me here," said Zuko solemnly.

"That is how it looks," Iroh stated, staring at the rubble that was his tea shop.

"Then I'd best be going. Aang, we have business in the Fire Nation right now. But no one can hear about this attack."

"Then I'm coming with you," Katara offered, or rather commanded.

"If it wouldn't be too much trouble, would you guys mind dropping me off at home? I want to straighten things out with my parents," pleaded Toph.

"Sure!" Aangs face lit up in a way that caused Katara to blush slightly.

"Then we're coming to! I need to keep an eye on you two," announced Sokka, holding Suki's hand, his gaze set on Aang.

"Alright then, it's settled, we should leave at sunrise!" Aang finalized, making a point to re-sink the wall that he had made.

At sunset, the group climbed on Appa, ready for the two day flight to the Bei Fong family estate. Having woken up very early, the team was tired and found places on Appa to finish sleeping. Zuko and may cuddled together and slept, and Sokka and Suki did the same. Aang and Katara, however were still trying to get over the awkwardness of their new relationship, so while the rest of the gang slept, they decided to try and talk out the mutual awkwardness.

"Do you know when it first hit me?" Katara initiated the conversation cautiously, her voice cracking slightly.

"What?" responded Aang, rather puzzled by her question, his voice shaking.

"When I realized… You know…"

"When you realized what?" Aang was legitimately confused now, especially by the fact that Katara's face was a scarlet red. Blood rushed to Katara's face, turning her even more red out of frustration that she would have to spell out what she meant.

"You know… When I realized that I was falling for you…"

"Oh…" Aang scratched the back of his head, mentally slapping himself for making her uncomfortable by not figuring out what she was implying. "When?"

"Well, it started when you got killed by Azula."

"Yeah, I guess I was dead…"

"Well, when you got killed, I was so completely lost. When you fell to the ground, my… my heart fell with you. When I finally got you back, I was so relieved."

Aang blushed at this, even though any friend would feel horrible if he died.

"But, after that, we had to get to business and I had to push my feelings to the side."

"Oh… That's why you were sorta ignoring me huh…"

"Yeah, it was. But when I finally realized that I… liked you in a special way… Was at the dance party."

"Yeah, that was fun," Aang sighed, remembering.

"But it wasn't during our dance… It was before that."

"Oh?"

"While you were showing everybody how to dance, you brought On Ji to the center with you. I could tell that she liked you, you know. Sokka… He mentioned that the two of you looked good together and…"

"And…?"

"I got jealous," Katara whimpered peevishly.

"You…. Jealous… because I…. Oh man I'm such an idiot!"

"It's okay Aang, everything turned out well, didn't it?"

"I guess it did…" Aang, winced when the question came.

"So, I told you. When did you start falling for me?"

"Well… I… Umm…"

"It's only fair, Aang," she stated, crossing her arms. "I'm waiting."

"Well…. I guess it was sort of… Love at first sight?"

Katara, who had just regained her normal skin color, reverted back to her shade of scarlet red.

"All that time and I never knew…"

"Yeah…"

"Well, that's very sweet, and also… Behind us." She leaned forward and gave Aang an innocent peck on his lips. Matching the other two couples, they cuddled together and drifted to sleep. Toph only groaned at the public displays of affection.

Well, that was Chapter 1, for now. I'm going to be posting a new chapter every Saturday, you know, to alleviate some of that residual weekday stress. For those of you who don't have fanfiction accounts and are reading this, then, you rock! But you should make accounts and subscribe to my writing YAY! Anyways, to you pervs who are just reading these because you want to see Aang and Katara have sex, then you're in the wrong place… most likely. Feel free to review and make comments, suggestions. FLAMEO! Stay flamin' hotmans.