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Disclaimer: I do not own Avartar : the Last Air Bender, but neither do you!! hehe

Chapter 1: General Iroh

It was midday at the Western Air Temple and Zuko and Aang were in the middle of yet another training session.

Since Zuko's arrival, only Aang and Toph had warmed up to him; Sokka and especially Katara still didn't trust him. At this moment in time, Sokka was on the verge of trust; he liked the guy, yeah sure he had a complicated past, and could attack them at any moment if he wanted, but he obviously wanted to help and redeem himself after his past mistakes. Katara, however, still hated his guts after his betrayal in Ba Sing Se.

Aang's training was going really well. After he and Zuko had been to the Sun Warrior civilisation and they had faced the masters, he was looking at fire in a whole different light. Before, he had been cocky and overconfident and had therefore burned Katara. He never quite forgave himself for that and so was consequentially very timid around fire. Then he had been shown visions of the meaning of fire by the dragons and had changed his perspective on fire for it to not just be destruction as Zhong-Zhong had said, but life as well.

Katara watched in silence as both Aang and Zuko aimed fire blasts at each other. Every time even a puff of smoke erupted from Zuko's fist, she felt queasy. She refused to forget the times that he had mercilessly attacked them. She also refused to trust him – she didn't want to feel the pain of another betrayal like in the caverns of Ba Sing Se.

Zuko was distracted as he attempted to improve both the Avatar's fire bending and his own. Where has Uncle gone? These thoughts of his tea-loving, probably mentally unstable uncle crept through his mind. He tried to block them out so he could concentrate, but death-stares being aimed in his direction from a certain water-tribe peasant weren't helping at all. He wanted to spit at her: 'why can't you just trust me already you peasant?! After all, I've been with you for a couple of weeks now! I haven't done anything in that time to suggest that you shouldn't trust me!!!'

He decided against bursting into a rage.

Just then, a perfectly aimed blast came within centimetres of his face, yanking him out of his reverie.

"Are you okay?!" an extremely worried looking avatar rushed over just as he fell to the ground, his good side being singed. Katara let a grin widen on her lips.

"Katara! Get over here!" Aang's face was so good at the puppy-dog look. "Katara, you've got to heal Zuko!" Her Smile lessened at this, but she had to admit, as much as she hated him, she couldn't let his good side scar as well. That would just be cruel.

She covered her hands in a glove of water. They glowed slightly. She let out an audible giggle as she saw Zuko's face when she started to heal him. It was distorted into the shape of an embarrassed pout.

Through all of this going on, Toph had been quietly (well if you could call it quiet) earth-bending.

She suddenly stopped and looked up from the area of wounded rock which she had been practicing on. She looked around to make sure no one would notice if she quickly snuck off. She smirked – no one would ever know.

As quietly as she could, she bended herself onto the sunlit ridge under which was the hidden temple.

"Hello again!" was all she could say because her visitor gave her a big bear hug. "It's so good to see you again!" she squeaked as he pulled her in tighter. There was nothing she could do because he had lifted her off the ground and was holding her so tightly that she couldn't move her arms, legs or even her head.

He finally let go of her and she breathed the warm air in deeply to fill up her now flat lungs.

"It is so good to see you Toph!" Iroh said, tears glistening at his eyes. "May I come down and join you?"

"Of course you may Iroh! We would all be glad to see you again! Did you know Zuko is with us?"

At this, Iroh's eyes narrowed. "So he has finally seen sense has he?" Toph nodded happily. "And he's not trying to kill you all?" Again, Toph nodded.

"I'm sure he'll be really glad to see you." Toph gave him a warm smile.

Katara had finished healing Zuko whose face was still bright red with embarrassment and irritation.

Suddenly, they all heard a huge rumble as a giant rock floated down to them. They all took fighting stances, when Appa bellowed a huge grumble as Toph and Zuko's Uncle descended.

"Uncle!" Zuko happily shouted.

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