THIS CHAPTER IS RATED M FOR SEXUAL THOUGHTS, AND LANGUAGE, AND SLIGHT NUDITY. ALSO FUTURE CHAPTERS WILL CONTAIN LEMONS!

A/N: Hey everyone! Well this is my FIRST Fanfiction here at FFN. It is of course about ATLA! I love ATLA with all my heart, and I can't wait for ATLK to come out! Now, this ATLA story is a Zutara! I love Zutara and Kataang, and please both sides do not kill me for saying i also love the oppisite :( ! i have to admit though, since ive seen so much Kataang in the Seris, i am becoming more ajusted to liking Zutara. So i am mostly a Zutarian! Yeah! I love all other secondary main character pairings! And personally i think that when it comes to Zutara, Taang happens! Or Aang finds some other nice Random person he loves! Oh and I will very much accept any type of constructive critisim! Please Review! If your anonymus i accept those reviews too! Please even if you read one chapter, review! :D I want all opinions! Oh and i will be posting chapters weekly no matter what! BECAUSE I AM INSPRIED B-

Muse: BY ME! MWAAHAHAHAH! This is my A/N now!

Disclaimer: Muse leave her alone...you did nothing tonght! Oh and Nattia dosen't own ATLA. Bryke does :(

Nattia: Yeah, Disclaimer's right. And Muse, you weren't that helpful tonight, I had to watch my recordings of ATLA to get ideas!

Muse: Pfft, i was challenging you.

Nattia: Such a liar. If your telling the truth than give me some ideas next week will ya?

Muse: Fine.

Nattia: Don't sass me. Anyways! Have fun reading! I hope you like the first chapter! Oh and trust me the story will get better as i continue! Humor, Romance and everything else!


Aang POV

Appa groaned restlessly as he flew, it had been days of flying since the gang left the Southern Water Tribe. "Don't worry buddy we will be at the fire nation soon, and then you can eat all the hay you want and rest up in your new stables that Zuko had built for you!" I said as i tried to comfort the tired bison. "I hope your right Aang…I can't wait to get under the sheets and just..." Katara yawned as she dozed off on the bison's saddle.

'She wants to get under the sheets with me I bet…heh..wait….no…no…Shove those thoughts away! You're a monk for sprit's sake! You shouldn't be thinking about Katara's body that way!' I thought with a irritable look on my face. "Don't be getting no funny ideas once we reach the palace Aang! I know that look on your face! Suki gives me those feelings all the time!" Sokka spoke irritably as he resisted himself from bonking Aang on the head with the hilt of his Space-sword that Toph recently found for him after ages of relentless begging.

"I would never think of doing anything like that to Katara while we are only a couple! I am a monk and I as an Air Nomad practice celibacy before marriage." I spoke defensively. "Fine, you can get away with it for now…But when we get to the palace I'm keeping my eyes on you two!" Said Sokka.

Just then Toph burst out laughing from the other side of the saddle. "Yeah right Snoozles! You will be too busy stuck up in your room with Fangirl! I swear you two are like…Sex maniacs! I'm surprised she's not pregnant yet with little Snoozle's running around everywhere wreaking havoc!" Sokka shut up at this comment with a irritated look on his face.

"Were here! Look it's the palace, and Suki, Iroh, and the rest of the Kiyoshi Warriors are waiting to greet us!" I said excitedly. "Uh-wha-huh?" I heard Katara speak suddenly and tiredly as she snapped awake.

As Appa landed I hopped down with Sokka and reached my arm up to offer Katara some help getting down. I sighed and watched her decline as she hopped down herself. "I am perfectly capable of getting down myself Aang, I don't always need your help as if I'm a little girl!" She yelled at me. 'What did I do? Does she not like me all of a sudden or something? She knows I love her very much, ever since that wonderful kiss in Ba Sing Se….Ugh…girls are so confusing…' I thought to myself as I walked over with the others to meet Iroh and the Kiyoshi warriors. I sighed as I watched Sokka run and take Suki into his arms to kiss her passionatly and deeply. 'I wish Katara would kiss me like that...then again...I wonder if she even considers us as a couple...' I thought sadly to myself.

I bowed in respect towards Iroh in a greeting type manner. "Greetings young Avatar Aang, Master Katara of the Southern Water Tribe, Sokka, and Toph." Iroh spoke kindly. "Hello Iroh! How are you, and how come the new Firelord isn't here as well to greet us? Is Zuko piled up with paperwork or something?" Katara asked jokingly. "Ah that is how it seems, and he is also dealing with many other issues that need tended to at this time. Although he will be attending us later tonight at dinner, and for now I am here to show you all to your quarters so you all may settle in for your time here." Iroh smiled and motioned for them all to follow.


Katara POV

Once I got settled into my room and had everything laid out I smiled. 'Oh La...Im so tired...Maybe i'll take a nap and bathe...then maybe go out to the springs and practice some waterbending.' Smiling to myself I started to strip to my underbindings. I always loved to just sleep in them when I had a room to myself, it was much more comfortable than sleeping fully clothed, and I tended to sleep better at night. As I finished taking off my Water Tribe clothes, I laid in bed and got under the blanket, then drifted off into a peaceful sleep.

About an hour or two later I woke up to a loud noise. It sounded like one of the doors slamming from outside of my room. I got up and put on one of the red Fire Nation robes and wrapped the sash around my waist so it wouldn't come undone when i walked. Trying to hold back a yawn, I opened my bedroom door, and outside I watched Mai walk away looking angry. Raising an eyebrow I wondered what the hell had went wrong? Considering it was none of my business for the moment I went back into my room and as i went to shut the door it opened back up. I turned around and Aang was shutting the door behind him. 'Oh Tui...I never hear that boy coming! He really should be named Twinkletoes...He's like a ninja Avatar or something.' I thought to myself. "Aang what are you doing in my room?" I asked curiously.

"I just wanted to come and talk, is that okay Katara?" Aang asked. "Yeah sure. What do you want to talk about?" I asked as I tightened my robe around my body so my cleavage line wouldn't show. I noticed him gulp nervously as he noticed I wasn't wearing my Water Tribe blues and in the Fire Nation reds of the robe I had earlyer put on. "Well...i just wanted to know if everything was okay between us? I've begun to think you're a-angry with me or something Katara, and im not sure why." Aang studdered nervously.

I sighed. "Aang it's nothing. I just have been tired lately, and I got some rest earlyer so im fine. You have nothing to worry about." I assured him. He looked relieved. "Well Katara...do you want to go to the Fire Festival with me after dinner? It's supposed to be really fun!" I heard him ask hopefully. "Sure, Zuko and the others can come too. I'll have to probally drag Zuko out of his office he's cooped up in though. From what Iroh's told me, Zuko has only left his Office to eat or retire to his quarters for the night." I told Aang. He suddenly looked slightly annoyed at this. 'He probally thought he would get tonight to be alone with me. No way i was going to let this happen...He may think were together...but at some point I'll just have to tell him NO. I hate to hurt him like this, but it needs to be done...I can't let him think I love him the way he loves me much longer...' I thought to myself. "Uh, well okay then. See you later Katara." He said in a dissapointed tone as he walked out while shutting the door behind him. I smiled to myself knowing this shannangain would soon be over and I headed towards the bathroom that was ajoined to my bedroom for a nice long hot cleansing.

Soon after I finished cleaning myself up, I got dressed and waterbended all the extra water from my hair and body. I then put my hair up in the traditional braid and loops. 'Soon in a few months i will be able to wear my hair down all the way with straight braids, and i will be signified a adult, and I will be of marrying age. Thank La! To think Father aggreed with me that I was aloud to find my own husband. I was definatly not going to marry some stranger that he would pick for me.' I smiled to myself as I finished the last hair loop. As I left my room, shutting the door behind me I decided to head towards Zuko's office to let him know about the plans for tonight. 'The only plan he won't know about is what im going to convince him into...' I smiled to myself.


Zuko POV

'Ugh...so much paperwork...so little time. I knew there would be alot to fix when i became Firelord...but i didn't think Ozai would have screwed thing's up this much...Wait? What the hell am i fucking thinking? It's Ozai...Man i can be such a dumbass sometimes...' I thought to myself as I sat in my office sifting through mounds of papers. Just then, my office door opens. I look up and see Katara in the doorway. 'Agni...shes so beautiful in her Water Tribe blues...Now if only she wore Fire Nation reds...and the crown of the Fire Lady...No..think damnit! Shes the Avatars girl, not mine...and you have Mai remember...depressing,bossy all-i-want-is-sex Mai. Ugh...Agni help me.' I thought with a digusted look on my face.

"So the O' Great Firelord is too busy to grace his guests with his prescence? Sheesh, what a Firelord you are." Katara said jokingly as she sat down in the nearby chair. "Well maybe if we didn't have a hundred year war recently, I wouldn't be stuck with all this paperwork." I said as I eyed her and let a half-smile envelop my face. "Why don't you just hire someone to work on stuff like this for you?" She asked curiously. "Well, most of the old palace guard and staff members still work here, so I have no idea on weather who would try and go against me with these matters and plot something or if they wouldn't. Although later on at dinner I'm planning on asking Toph to check all my Staff members and the Palace guard." I told her. "Well okay, but speaking of dinner, it's ready. Come, you need to eat and get away from all this paperwork, and afterwards were all going out to the Fire Festival! I don't care what you have to say, but you're going and thats that! Being stuck up in here all day is going to turn you into a groggy old man by your next birthday." She said as she looked at me sternly with a small smile creeping against her face as if she was trying to hide something. 'It's like she is ethier planning on something or knows something i don't...but what the hell could it be?' I thought to myself as i complyed and started walking with her to the dining hall.


Katara's POV

I smiled as me and Zuko entered the dining hall. Looking ahead, I saw the look on Aang's face, it looked like a childish face of jelousy. 'Why is he so jelous? He needs to start understanding lately that i just don't love him the way he loves me. He's more as a brother to me than anything...and I shouldn't have kissed him in Ba Sing Se. I was thinking of Zuko when I kissed him anyways..Jelousy overcame me when I found out he was with Mai...I knew that Zuko could see outside on the balcony where I walked out and stood with Aang...so I kissed him...and I know I made him jelous. His face was so full of jelousy when I walked back inside with Aang...And I will find a way to get Zuko to be mine.' I thought to myself with a smile on my face. As I went to sit down, Aang motioned for me to sit next to him, but not thinking much of it like he probally did. As I sat down next to him he gave off his usual toothy smile at me and I respectfully smiled back. We all started eatting, joking around, and laughing while we told old stories. Many times Aang would try to lace his fingers through mine, but each time I avoided it. Ethier by taking a drink of wine, or eatting small bites of my food. Alittle while later Zuko spoke up. "Please excuse me as I must go finish up some things before I prepare to join you all for tonights Fire Festival." He then departed.

Alittle while later after his departure, dinner was ajourned and I started off towards the hot springs for alittle waterbending. Behind me, Aang followed and caught up with me. I decided that this would be the perfect time to end what he thought was a relationship. I felt a twist of guilt as I knew this was going to hurt him and I didn't want my family to be hurt, and he was like a brother to me. "May I join you beautiful?" He asked trying to be charming. I smiled at the compliment but waved it away anyways. "Sure, I was just heading for the Hot Springs for some practice." I spoke softly. He smiled at me.


Aang POV

I smiled at Katara as we walked towards the Hot Springs. 'She looks so beautiful in the moonlight...and maybe ill finally confirm are relationship with a passionate kiss tonight..' I thought to myself with a toothy smile. As we reached the hot springs we both started to practice silently until I decided to speak up. "Katar-" I began to say until she interupted me. "Aang...I just want to be friends...no family. I only see you as a brother and I hope you can accept that. Im sorry, and I know you love me, and I love you too. Just not the way you love me..." As I heard each word I felt more sad and hurt. "B-but the kisses...the past...I thought you felt the same?" I studdered as tears slowly falled. "Im sorry Aang, I should go. I hope I can still be like a sister to you, as you are a brother to me." She spoke sadly and yet slightly less pressured as I watched her walk away toward the palace.

I sat there in the grass for what felt like many hours until I felt Toph coming with my Earthbending vision. "Hey Twinkletoes, comon its time for the Festival!" She said happily. "I-I don't want to go anymore..." I studdered trying to hold back slight tears. "Why not Twinkletoes?" She asked curiously and sat down next to me. "Katara broke up with me." I said softly. "Well, you know she's not the only girl you can be with. There's others out there..."Toph tried to hint. "Like who?" I asked solemly. "Me...I like you alot Aang." Toph said softly. It hit me like a rock to the face from a earthbender. I sat up rapidly and leaned in to kiss her passionatly, after a slight moment of relization, she returned it. It was like the hidden lion finally found it's prey, and it's been waiting for a long time.


A/N: Thank you if you made it this far on reading! Oh and if i made any spelling mistakes let me know! I checked the chapter, but if i missed one just tell me! I hate when i have errors i don't know about! xD What do you think will happen next at the Fire Festival? Will Katara put it into overdrive on being determined to be Zuko's? Where will Mai come into this? Who knows! Please please review! And i will try to make each chapter this long or longer!(I hit a 3,000+ word count! YAY!) Each new chapter will be updated once a week! Unless my muse kicks in and is agitating me enough for another chapter in the same week! Anyways please! Review!

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