One of the fire nation islands, two years after the war

Zuko and Azula walked up to a small hut next to a great stone wall. They had searched for so long, now the rest of the Gaang had stayed back with Appa, because this was their moment of truth. What would they find? Her mother, or not her but another woman? Or nothing at all? Or… a grave?

For the first time in years Azula took her brother's hand out of free will. He gave her a surprised look. She blushed a little, "I'm just nervous.". As an answer her brother smiled nervously back at her. Together they went down to the hut.

Zuko knocked on the door. For a long time nobody opened and they almost thought, they had come in vain, but then the door was opened a few inches. The woman behind the door took a surprised breath before she opened the door fully.

For a few moments they stared at each other. Ursa had changed, but her children didn't doubt that this was their mother. She wore her hair differently, in an easy knot behind her back. It was still black, but a single white strain hung into her face. She stood not as straight as in their memory, and her face showed a few wrinkles. Her eyes were a little red and she had bags under them, she couldn't sleep that much, that was visible. Her clothing was a simple white blouse with a long reddish-brown skirt and a darker belt, holding both close to her thin body. Zuko wondered about that, his mother had never been heavy, but now she was almost skinny.

A second later he found himself and his sister in his mother's tight embrace. He could feel her cry, his sister was crying too. After a few moments his mother broke the hug and watched them curiously, a hand on their cheeks. "You finally found me. I was wondering how long you would need.", she said smiling. "Now come in."

Silently they followed her inside the small hut and sat down in front of a small lacquered table. A little vase with cherry tree flowers stood on it. Their mother came back with a tea pot and three cups.

Over the tea Ursa insisted on hearing every little detail of their search. Afterwards Zuko changed the topic, there was something he desperately wanted to know, "Mom, why didn't you just come back after the war?"

Ursa looked at him, surprised for a moment, but then her expression changed to a sad, but stern and maybe even hopeful one, "I waited for something that didn't happen yet. This is why I am here."

"One year after Azula was born your father and I had another daughter. But just when we wanted to give her a name, the midwives found that she would be no bender, but she had different powers that weren't natural at all. And before we could do anything Azulon had heard of it and ordered them to get rid of her."

Zuko and Azula listened in shock, they knew already that her grandfather had been a pretty ugly character, but that he would order his own newborn grandchild's death?

"Ozai and I chose not to tell you. For your own safety as well as for your respect for your grandfather. A few years later one of the former midwives told me they had brought her here and shoved her through a portal that had closed afterwards. And this is why I wait here, maybe it will open again and I would be able to get her back.", she wiped a few tears off her face afterwards, before smiling back at her children.

Azula didn't understand something, "But how would she know who you are? Maybe she found a new family."

"She was given a small wooden medallion, like you were too, where it was written when she was born, who her parents are and what positions they have."

S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarter

Nick Fury stormed into the conference room where Maria Hill, Tony Stark, Natasha Romanoff, Steve Rodgers, as well as Bruce Benner and Thor were sitting, "Everyone prepare! Matt Murdock just called from New York. He's sending someone over, someone dangerous."

Immediately everyone stood. Nick Fury tapped on a tablet a few times and a few pictures appeared on the wall. They showed a girl in ninja like clothing, another one was a headshot of her without the mask, she was black haired, had amber eyes and the palest skin they had yet seen.

"She is called Kasai. All we know about her is that she can't be that old and only appeared working for the Hand, an organization fighting Matt in New York, so she probably was raised by them. She's an elite fighter, but we don't know that much of her fighting technique because even Matt didn't have a lot of contact with her. She seems to avoid conflict or she was just not deployed that often, so maybe she was thought a secret weapon.

She appeared at Matt's office and said she wanted to change the sides, thus he's sending her here. We are now going to pick her up at the airport and drive her here. We have a nice room for her, whatever powers she has."

Black Widow protested, "But how do we know she's not just a spy sent by the Hand? Or she just plans to kill us all at once?"

"We cannot be sure about her objectives, but you can interrogate her once she's here, Ms. Romanoff.", Fury said, already walking out the door.

Airport near the Headquarter, 15 minutes later

They were all nervously scanning the arriving plane, all standing next to a hastily organized s.w.a.t. bus. The people went down the gangway one after another, all looked common. The last person to emerge the plane was a young girl, clothed in a black vest with a black T-shirt underneath, black jeans and black sneakers. The only things with color were her amber eyes and a brown medallion on a red band around her neck.

The girl immediately got aware of them and scanned every one of them individual, in the end looking at Nick Fury suspiciously. Afterwards she hurried over to him. Scanning him again she said coldly, "You're Nick Fury, head of S.H.I.E.L.D., I thought you would come to pick me up. I see, you brought support."

Fury retorted with a military like tone, "You're Kasai. You worked for the Hand. Now you are here."

"Now I am here, but I'm not Kasai any longer. I am Tan. It is an honor to meet you all.", with that she bowed and entered the bus.