Well here's the sequel you have all (I hope) anticipated for. I could go on for ever about how I'm sorry that I haven't updated for 5 days or so because I've had exams or you could just start reading...

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The Cave

Aang's POV

Katara had kindly offered to catch fish for breakfast, if you replace 'had kindly offered' with 'forced to'. She didn't have much choice in the matter, as we were all able to come up with excuses for not being able to catch breakfast. Even I had an excuse, which wasn't really genuine, but I said that I needed to rest for my training today. And when she tried to reason with us, we just complained about either getting wet, hating the water or in my case I had to meditate, which I have just finished doing, so I wasn't exactly lying. Defeated, Katara had given up and huffed, trudging off to catch some fish. At least it was a refreshing early morning swim for her.

Of course I feel sorry for her, but hey, she always usually offers or goes off on her own free will, so what was wrong with this morning? And she is a waterbender, so it'd have been easier for her to do it than someone like Sokka who couldn't catch fish with his spear if his life depended on it.

So now we sit around a burning fire, courtesy of Zuko, eating well done fish. Katara received some thanks from us and that earned us a smile, so she can't have been that upset.

When we had all finished everyone had set their plates on the ground and got up. Zuko and I had agreed that we would leave to find somewhere to train after breakfast. As we were about to run off to get out of doing chores we were stopped in our tracks. "Um, can I get some help washing up?" Katara asked, her demanding eyes watching our every move.

We all shot wary glances at each other and once again came up with our own excuses. Sokka and Toph rushed off into the house hurriedly after Sokka said something about Toph not winning again and Zuko and I headed toward Appa with no explanation, whilst Iroh stayed behind with an annoyed Katara.

"Where do you think you two are going?" Katara asked us, tapping her foot on the ground impatiently, her arms crossed across her chest.

I shrugged and replied quickly, "We're going to start some firebending training, bye." We began to walk off quickly when we were stopped again.

"Wait! Why aren't you training here? Why do you need to take Appa?" Katara questioned curiously.

I opened my mouth to respond but Zuko cut in. "Your right Katara, we'll just walk."

And before Katara had time to respond Zuko and I had gone to leave an aggravated Katara standing with her mouth hanging open. It seems like everything is back to normal already...

Behind her Iroh chuckled and Katara turned around to face him. He shook his head happily, "Boys."

Katara threw her hands in the air in frustration and began to gather the plates in a pile.

"Miss Katara, you can do that later, come and have a cup of Jasmine tea; it'll make you feel so much better."

Considering her options Katara let her shoulders slump relieving her tension slightly and sat down next to Iroh and silently agreed to join him in a cup of tea.

"Ok, here looks good."

Aang nodded in agreement. Both Zuko and Aang hadn't been walking for too long when they had come across a large cave, where the entrance was covered by scrub. It was hard to find a big enough place with no vegetation around.

They slowly walked inside the mouth of the cave taking tentative steps as Zuko lit a fire in his hand, which outlined the walls that surrounded them. Considering that the ground was rocky they noticed that it had been roughly smoothed out. And there were unlit torches on the walls, which Zuko lit to enhance the light in the dank cave, extinguishing his own.

"Footprints," Aang breathed. "Zuko, these footprints look recent, do you think someone uses this cave?"

Zuko ran his hands along the wall and looked down. "Well if someone does use it, they definitely aren't here now. So if someone comes along we'll leave, but for now let's start training. Ready?"

He nodded again.

"Ok, copy me." Zuko shifted into his offensive stance and stilled himself as Aang copied.

Once Aang thought he was in the right position Zuko walked over to him. "Bring your right arm up a little more." Aang did so. "And widen your stance." Aang moved his legs apart slightly. "OK, perfect. Now, first I-"

Zuko abruptly became silent as they heard the distant sounds of voices and laughing. The two boys turned around and faced what they thought to be the wall that indicated the end of the cave. The supposedly solid wall quavered and disappeared in one motion. When the dust had settled there appeared a young boy and girl lit up by a tunnel of lit torches that were lined along the walls behind them.

The kids hadn't noticed both Zuko and Aang standing in the middle of the cave in their attack stances. The young boy whispered something to the girl and she giggled, as the boy clasped her hand tighter.

Feeling a presence in the cave the boy looked up to see Zuko and Aang, and was startled by the appearance of two strangers. The girl gasped and they shifted into their own bending stances.

The young boy asked hastily, no hesitance in his voice, "Who are you and what are you doing here?"

Neither Zuko nor Aang backed down. But before they had time to respond the girl questioned with furrowed eyebrows, "Kuzon?"

She asked again with more confidence, the shock wearing off, "Kuzon, is that you?!"

Aang rubbed the back of his neck nervously forgetting about any kind of threat. "Uh, hey, uh, Onji..."

Did you like it? Or did you hate it? I didn't get much feedback for the pairings so I'm still kind of keeping it open but I'm now thinking of having Aang & Onji and Tokka and Zutara. So I hope that's cool. So anyway I got a fair bit of inspiration from The Headband, I had to get something written down. Next chapter may take a fair few days...again.

Note: I know that Katara can easily wash/dry the dishes herself but hey, it's my imagination =P