Hi there guys! This will be my first fanfic ever, my first Zuko/Katara fanfic ever. If I make mistakes and errors please let me know, and also if I make the characters too OOC. This is not a Zuko captures Katara story, because Zuko will not be having his ship anyhow.

Disclaimer I do not own Avatar the Last Air bender. If I did, Zuko would be a little bit more appreciative to Iroh, just a bit.

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He was tired, for the first time in two years Zuko was actually tired. He was always full of energy and anger. Always after the Avatar in hopes of returning home, but now he was tired, tired of chasing something that seemed impossible, tired of everything. He looked at the clear blue sky, then turned to his uncle who was looking out at sea. There was nothing to do on that raft, just sit, doing nothing in hopes to find land and think, and Zuko was tired of thinking. He had no plan in capturing the Avatar, what could he do? He had no ship, and everyone in the fire nation was probably looking for the 12 year old, hoping to get it good with the fire lord. He sighed. Nothing ever went his way; it was as if the spirits cursed him ever since the Agni Kai with his father. To make things worse, his uncle was now a traitor of the fire nation, and the fire nation probably thought Zuko was dead since he was attacked by the pirates. His father most likely thought of Zuko as more of a failure. He could never impress his father. He thought of what he told the Avatar in that cave. What had possessed him to do that? He never told anyone about his past not even his uncle, it was too painful. It was probably because the boy wasn't paying attention, Zuko thought, that must have been it, because Zuko told his story and the Avatar wasn't listening to judge him.

Zukothought more of what happened in the North Pole, his fight with the girl. He frowned, that water tribe peasant actually improved greatly since he last her, she was going to more of a thorn in his side when he sees the Avatar again. He knew he was going to see the Avatar and those peasants again, they always ran into each other. The spirits were taunting him, "Look there's the Avatar! Go catch him!" Like he was some dog to amuse the spirits. But he will catch the Avatar, he will no matter what, and return home with honor.

The raft swayed gently against the water. Iroh was bored, there was nothing to do on this raft, no pai sho, no tea, their food was running low, all Iroh could do was look out at sea to find some land, and think. He thought of many things, such as, as soon as they find some land he is going to the nearest town and buy and crate full of ginseng tea, and buy new clothes. He had to get rid of the clothes he was wearing, they screamed Fire nation, and he was a traitor now. He thought of his nephew, he looked toward Zuko with sorrow in his eyes. Zuko was thinking, Iroh knew. He had a faraway look in his eyes. It wasn't fair that Zuko had to grow up so fast. He should be living a life of a teenager, flirting with the girls and lazing around, not chasing the Avatar. Besides Iroh did not want the Avatar to be captured, but he will never tell Zuko that. The Avatar gave Zuko hope that he will return home, but Iroh knew better, he knew Ozai never had the intention of letting Zuko return. Ozai knew that finding the Avatar was supposed too be impossible, that capturing him was supposed to be impossible and to make sure Zuko never had a chance to capture the Avatar; Ozai gave the mission to Zhao to capture him. What happened to Zhao Iroh didn't know, he saw the Avatar merge with the water spirit and defeat the fire nation. Maybe Zhao was killed, that was what he deserved, no one was suppose to trifle with the balance of things. That was why Iroh wanted the war to stop, if the Fire Nation won, the balance would be destroyed. Iroh hoped that the Avatar would master the elements in time, the Avatar was the only hope left to restore the balance, he was everyone's hope.

Iroh looked out at sea again, he could see land, but it was very far, it would probably take the rest of the day to get there. "Prince Zuko," Iroh said. But Zuko wasn't listening. "Prince Zuko?" This time Iroh nudged the teenager with his foot. Which broke Zuko's concentration.

"What uncle?" Zuko said with a little annoyance. Couldn't his uncle see he was thinking?

"I just wanted to tell you that I spotted some land," Iroh said pointing out at sea, Zuko followed the direction.

"Finally we could get off this stupid raft!" Zuko exclaimed. He looked at the land mass ahead, it still far away but at least they found some land. "Uncle, when we reach the land we have to destroy this raft and get new clothes, no one must know that we are here." Iroh shook his head in agreement. Zuko hated to go into hiding but what choice did they have at the moment? He still had to come up with a plan.

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They've been flying for three days now, Appa was getting tired and they were running out of food, but at least the Northern water tribe was generous enough to give them enough money for there trip to Omashu. Aang really wanted to see Bumi again and ride the mail system, he wanted to feel like a kid at least for a little while. The attacked on the Northern Water tribe changed them all some more than others. Aang knew of the importance to master the elements he wished he paid more attention to Master Pakku, but at least Katara would train him to become a master water bender. His thoughts drifted to Katara, she was a bit more quiet than she usually was, like she was thinking about something, he hoped it was about him. He really liked Katara, a lot. Whenever he lost hope in himself she was there to push him back on his feet, always there to help him. Did she know how important, she was to him? If he lost her he would be lost. He didn't realize how long he'd been staring at her but Katara noticed and gave him a sweet smile, and returned to her thoughts. Aang blushed and sighed happily. As long as Katara, Sokka, Momo and Appa were with him he'd be happy. He would fight for the world just for them.

Katara felt uneasy, ever since her fight with that arrogant prince Zuko she felt uneasy, he really was getting on her nerves, gods he was so annoying, so full of himself, good thing she showed him that she wasn't a weak girl to push around, she wasn't going to let him hurt Aang. He was the world's hope, and he was foolish to think she would give up Aang. She remembered the time when she was tied up on that tree how he spoke to her like she was beneath him, how he invaded her personal space, how close he was to her, whispering so close to her ear she could feel his breath on her, his body heat. He was so pigheaded like as if she could bribed into giving up Aang, even for her mother's necklace, she remembered when she lost it how lost she felt, she reached up to her neck just to make sure it hadn't disapeared, the only thing she had left of her mother.

Katara remembered that Pakku carved it for her gran-gran. She was happy that Pakku was going to the South Pole to help her tribe, but at the same time she couldn't help but think Pakku was going there mainly to see her gran-gran again. She wondered what her gran-gran's reaction would be. She let a soft chuckle escape her, which knocked her out of her thoughts, she looked up then saw that Aang was staring her, he probably heard her laughed she thought. She gave him a smile and returned her head to her knees and looked towards Sokka, he was always looking to the sky now, he hardly spoke, he still ate like a fool, at least that didn't changed she smiled. She knew that Sokka cared for Yue but didn't know how deep it went, she thought it was just some crush like how he was with Suki at Kyoshi. She wish she knew how it felt like to be in love with someone. But with this stupid war, love would only get you hurt. She slowly put her hand on Sokka's shoulder, he was startled and turned to Katara and gave her a slight smile, she smiled back at him. Momo then jumped off Sokka and onto Katara, with her other hand she petted him.

"Well I hope we find some land soon, I'm hungry!" She heard Sokka say. She smiled again, her brother's hunger would always lighten the mood. She heard Aang laugh too and turned to him.

"Well there's some land ahead, if there's a town why don't we eat out instead of buying food to cook tonight? Aang asked with a smile.

"I don't know Aang we..." Katara said but was cut off but Sokka. "Yea! Maybe they'll have some juicy steak and blubber seal jerky! C'mon Katara, just for today, please?" Sokka begged and gave her a sad puppy dog look.

"You're so pathetic Sokka," Katara laughed but Sokka still looked at her with puppy dog eyes. "Alright but we can't spend a lot we still have to buy supplies, and we can't cause a lot of attention to ourselves okay? There could be some fire nation soldiers there," Katara stated a matter-of-factly. But who was she kidding? Attention followed them everywhere. She just hoped there was no one there that wanted to harm them, like a certain arrogant prince who would not be mentioned.

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A/N: So did you guys like it so far? It's probably pretty short but I hope you guys like it. Please review and let me know what you think! Thank you!