I wanted to get this out earlier but Fanfiction wouldn't let me. First I had to wait for those two-day spam things, which were making me mad, then it told me I had errors in the uploading.

And I got grounded. But I'm not anymore.

So do me a favor, and review please? I know the chapter isn't so great, but it's the first chapter. Give me a break.

Chapter One: Rose Buds

The closet door opened, and a young girl stepped out.

"There you are!" The servant bellowed. "Young Miss, we've been looking all over for you!"

The girl rolled her eyes.

"I was playing hide and go seek," she said. "Of course you're going to look for me in hide and go seek."

The servant laughed nervously. Of course he didn't know the girl was playing hide and go seek.

"Sorry, sorry," he said. "But your father is waiting for you."

The girl rolled her eyes once more, before exiting the room. The servant sighed nervously, that girl could have harmed him in a heartbeat, and she was so uptight. Well, so was her father, except her father was more of a snob, a heartless snob, than that girl could ever be.

The servant watched her leave, hoping her heart wouldn't disappear as her fathers had.

XxX

"Dear… Are you lost?" A gardener asked. "Your father is waiting for you in the thrown room. Maura did tell you, didn't he?" Kaiya smirked, and nodded.

"He did," she said, sitting on top of the stone wall that circled the garden. "I just don't care." The gardener smiled, and continued to his work. It was a normal day for Kaiya, and everyone else in the castle.

But it wasn't a normal day.

Zuko was getting angry.

"Where is she?" He practically yelled. "You did tell her it was urgent, didn't you?"

Maura tried to stand proud, but Zuko's gaze was too strong. "I told her you were waiting for her, sire."

Zuko stood up forcefully, and it looked as if flames were about to shoot from his eyes. "You know my Kaiya! Since she was mere five years old! What makes you think that she's actually going to listen to that?!"

Maura nodded frantically, "Yes! Yes! I will get her!" The servant ran out, soon returning with a bickering Kaiya behind him. Zuko looked at his daughter angrily, and she could see it. Kaiya didn't care; she followed Maura across the carpet and stopped a few feet before the throne. She did not bother to bow to the fire nation "king".

"Kaiya…."

She huffed, "What is it, your majesty?" she asked. "Make it quick. The rose buds are blooming and I would like to see them before the gardener trims them away." Zuko became annoyed at this statement.

"After these few words, Kaiya Ai," he stopped at her middle name, and then sent Maura a look that said Get out. "You won't think the rose buds are so interesting anymore." Maura scampered out of the room, probably to attend to other royal members, or catch up on his reading.

Maura was a sucker for a good book, the little nerd.

"Why is this? The rose buds are beautiful, I haven't seen a more interesting thing in my life." She then looked her father straight in the eye. "Or maybe I have, only in different terms."

He became infuriated at that point.

"Do not interrupt! Anyways, Kaiya, we've come to a little mishap with the Nations, once again," He waited for his daughter to interrupt, but she did no such thing. He went on.

"This time, it is not us who is the cause of it, but I am sure we will gain up speed in the wars again. The Fire Nation will be the cause of the terror throughout the land, and we will still be on top. Though, the Avatar has returned…."

"You told me you had captured and disposed of him."

"I did…. But not in the way of killing him."

"You liar! So we are the cause of this, whatever this is! Because you did not dest-"

"I had told you to keep quiet!" He scolded, standing up, flames rising up from behind him. "Listen to me, Kaiya, I will get right to the point. It's time for you to grow up a little…"

Kaiya listened carefully, not sure if she wanted to hear what he was abut to say.

"You've been kept inside these walls too long, as I would have liked. But seeing, and hearing about, your actions, I see it is time to let you go…"

She was about to shout, Go? Go where? But for once she listened about the not interrupting part, and decided to listen to what her idiot of a father had to say.

"I am not doing this to hurt you, but to show you what the world is like. And also to serve our nation…."

"Kaiya, you are going to be sent on a trip. I promise, it will only take a few years at the most…."

XxX

Kaiya screamed as she slammed her door. Flames shot out from all over, damaging her bedspread and some more of her personal items.

Like it matters, she said aloud, not realizing it. It's not like I'll be using any of this shit anyways!

She threw herself on her burnt bed, and screamed at the top of her lungs.

"Maura!" She cried. "Maura!"

"What is it, Princess?" Maura asked, coming into the room. His eyes widened at all the burnt suplies.

"Pack my stuff! I'm going for a walk!" Fourteen years old, and she was being sent away already. What had she done? She had known her fathers story, the story of his lost honor. Searching for the Avatar to regain his name as Fire King. He had found the Avatar, but clearly had not killed him.

Now, because of his stupid actions, he was sending his daughter away to finish what he started.

His fourteen-year-old, under experienced, daughter. She couldn't believe this.

Running down the hallway, and down the stairs, past the thrown room, she opened the rather large doors to the garden. "Stop!" She said to the gardener, who had automatically turned his weedwacker off. "Let me see these roses one more time."

The gardener smiled at the girl, and tipped his hat to her.

He watched her as she leaned over the wall, a pink rose had bloomed right before her eyes.

Happiness could come from the simplest things.

Yet, so could all the other emotions humans carried.

Aang and them will be in the next chapter.

This isn't ALL focused on the OC, don't worry :