Hey. Thank you for coming to my story! This is a Zutara Fan fiction so yeah. This is

my second story on FF and first that had to with Avatar. Anyway before I say anything else,

there is a healer in this story who is in it a lot. SHE DOES NOT LIKE ZUKO. ZUKO DOES

NOT LIKE HER. I just want to make it clear that she likes no one in this story. This is Zutara not Mary-sue with Zuko. And no shes not a Mary sue, LOL well anyways let me do the disclaimer

and then I will begin.

Disclaimer:I do not own Avatar: The last Airbender. If I did I wouldn't be sitting here making

a story, I would be plotting a secret Zutara episode. Mwahahaha. (clears throat)

Now it shall begin,

Chapter 1 of Healing and Matching

On prince Zuko's Ship his uncle is trying to get Zuko to let himself get healed.

"Zuko you do in fact need a healer, we have none at the moment besides--" Iroh began but he was cut off by his nephew.

"I do not need a healer Uncle" he began, "I will heal on my own like always"

"No you need one right now right now and you will listen to me for your own safety Zuko" Iroh said sternly. His Uncle then left and two minutes later a girl came in. She was wearing an outfit much like that of a water tribes'. But hers had a pastel pink almost white ending strips instead of the light blue ones. The blue part was a light blue. She also had a pastel pink sash tied around her waist area. Her skin tone was a slightly tan color. Her eyes were the most unusual thing about her though. Her eyes were a soft hazel color with a gold tint in them. Her hair was a medium brown color left out a little in the front and then was divided by a pastel pink sash tied under her hair like a headband. She looked about 14.

She slowly walked over to Prince Zuko with a bowl of water.

"Now what am I supposed to heal?" she asked in a kind soft voice.

"Nowhere because you look nothing like a water bender and I don't trust you." Zuko said harshly.

She just looked at him for a second before speaking again.

"I am a water bender, I'm a healer, believe it or not. I wouldn't come in here for no reason, that would be a complete waste of my time." she said what with sounded like attitude to Zuko.

"Well you look like a Earthbender to me. You don't even have the blue eyes that most waterbenders have. Also your hair color--" Zuko started but was cut off by the swooshing sound of water.The girl had lifted water out of a nearby cup and as she gently waved her hands around, the water moved around the room and then she placed it back in the cup.

"Now do you believe that I'm a waterbender?" she asked.

"Yeah sure whatever, just finish the healing and then you can leave. Its my arm that needs to be healed as says my Uncle." he said with impatience in his voice.

She began and as two minutes passed she began speaking again. "My mother was a waterbender and my father was a firebender."Before she said anything else he though 'A firebender married a waterbender?' She could tell he was thinking about this by the shocked expression on his face.

"Unbelievable huh? Well all I'm going to say is that the genes all got mixed up and created my eye color, hair color, etc." she explained.

"Oh well that explains why you look like a Earthbender , anyway how long is this going to take?" he asked impatience coming back into his voice.

"About seven minutes Zuko." she said concentrating on the wound.

"How do you now my name you mere wa--" he was going to say mere water peasant but he didn't know if she was a water peasant so he just finished his sentence with "peasant".

"Well who doesn't know of Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation? Anyway how would you even know if I wasn't Princess Salina of a water tribe or something?" She asked forgetting that she just gave her name away which she doesn't like to do.

"Oh so your name is Salina, Well Salina you wouldn't be healing someone on a ship if you were royalty." he said quite sure of himself.

"Yeah it is and fine I wouldn't want to be royalty anyway. So your used to calling some a water tribe peasant huh?" she said and asked. He thought about this before saying anything. He does remembering calling the girl traveling with the Avatar a mere water tribe peasant a couple times. So he then responded with a No why do you ask.

"Because you sounded completely confident in saying it. Like you knew how and were used to saying it. Oh and just four minutes left." she said calmly while concentrating.

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While the above was all happening Appa landed in a forest filled area. Katara, Sokka, and Aang got off and stretched. Even Momo did a little stretching.

"Its nice out today, looks like a great time to relax." Katara said with a big grin on her face. They have been on Appa for a pretty long time and they haven't really touched group in a while.

"Yeah just hope we don't run into the Fire nation." muttered Sokka.

"What was that Sokka?" asked Aang.

"Oh nothing." replied Sokka with a sigh. So they began to set up camp. Since they were near water Katara decided to practice her waterbending. Aang was playing with Momo while Sokka was practicing his aim with his boomerang.

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"Well thats a lie. You cant exactly tell everything by someones tone of voice." Zuko said trying to make a point he knew wasn't true.

"Whatever you say Prince Zuko, whatever you say." Salina said with a sigh. She stayed quiet for a little while which was about 30 seconds while concentrating on the wound. Then out of boredom she decided to speak again. "You don't have a girlfriend do you?" she asked. He was completely taken back by this question. She saw his shocked looking face and responded quickly.

"Because every time I heal some guy he seems to have his girlfriend with him. Once this guy was actually kissing his girlfriend while I was trying to heal his shoulder. It was so wow that it was funny." she said with a little chuckle at the end. Zuko did nothing but look straight at the floor. Salina wasn't trying to be nosy but she just had to ask.

"Do you like anyone?" she asked trying not to sound annoying.

"No now why do you keep on asking these kind of questions?" he asked his voice getting stern.

"Well I get bored healing and not talking at all. Its either talk and maybe make a new friend or silently feel uncomfortable the whole time." she said. After that she didn't say anything until she was done.

"Well I'm not here hope your arm stays in shape." After she said this she silently left the room.

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Appa lay in the forest white the three and Momo go into town to get some supplies.

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"WHAT?" Salina must have been beyond mad

"Sorry miss we forgot that you were aboard and we left the current island we were on, but we are approaching some other land inhabited with people miss." said the captain of Zuko's ship.

"Whatever you stupid..." she let her words drift away as she went on the deck. What was on the deck surprised her. There was prince Zuko firebending with what looked like a guard. Once she noticed he was training she wasn't as shocked but what she was shocked about was that 5 minutes ago he had been healed and already hes ruining his chances of staying well. He beat the guard firebender with ease. That's when she noticed that he was a powerful bender.

Finally they reached land and Salina left and went to the market just to browse when she bumped into a cute little lemur who looked up at her with confused big green eyes.

"Hey little guy aren't you just the cutest little thing!" she said in a cutesy baby voice while picking him up wondering where its owner will be. That's when she say a boy about 12 years of age with an arrow on his head run towards her all out of breathe.

"Thats(pant) my (pant) lemur(pant pant pant) May I have it back please?" he asked politely

"Yeah sure." She said handing him back the lemur. Then Katara came up and noticed Salina's water tribe-ish dressing style.

"Are you from a water tribe?" asked Katara

"Um yeah pretty much kinda." responded Salina.

So then they walked and talked. Salina introduced herself and walked with them back to their little camp site. Soon they found out that she was a waterbender and she and Katara were showing each other moves and other waterbending tricks. They didn't even realize how fast time was going. It was already almost dark out then sitting around the camp fire, they talked. Salina wondered why Katara was so quiet while she was staring at the fire hugging her legs. She didn't even have to ask though.

"Have you ever been to the fortune teller, called Aunt Wu?" asked Katara

"Yeah a couple of times, why?" responded Salina.

"Well I went and I was told what the person I was going to marry will be like." Katara said.

"Oh so hows he like?" asked Salina

"I was told he was a powerful bender, and I think it might be Aang but he's like a brother to me kind of, I know there are a lot of other powerful benders out there but its just he sicks out..." she slowly responded.

The words Powerful Bender stuck out in Salina's mind so much. Oh did she have a idea.

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A/N: Yep and that was the first chapter! I know it wasn't great and I know there wasn't much fluff in this but I kind of couldn't because of specific reasons.laugh maniacally hehe haha.

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