InsaneFun disclaimer: Okay then, this is my take on an Avatar fanfic. It's starts off just like the show only Katara and Sokka live in...Ba Sing Se. Yeah, it will be different. I know I've written Dear Katara…and Zuko. However, I hope you all enjoy this, oh and please review, I said please?

Chapter One: The Beginning

"Duke, you stupid idiot, give back my hair pin!"

Katara pouted with a frown brushing back her brown, luscious hair. She, in that moment, felt like modeling in the street however a little thief had just stolen her hair piece.

"You little piece of-give it!"

Katara raced around the corner, seeing the Duke in sight. He was holding her treasure loosely in his arm. Katara smiled as she sped up a little. Kicking an old bottle in the street she aimed it directly at his hand.

She smiled with triumph as she saw it fall from the Duke's hand. Katara ran up behind him, scooping up her hair pin. Stuffing it in her pocket, she threw the shocked the Duke to the ground.

"Don't you ever think of stealing that again. You hear me!?"

"How did you do…do that?"

"What?!"

"How did you knock it out of my hand?"

Katara grinned evilly as she backed away, "I'm just lucky, I guess."

"Where have you been? Gran Gran was looking all over for you."

Katara sighed, pulling at her green skirt.

"The Duke stole my blue, hair pin…again. So I had to stop him…again."

"Well tell Gran Gran that, it's your problem."

"Thank you Sokka, you know, I'm glad to have a brother like you."

Sokka smirked as Katara rolled her eyes. She played with her hair pin, staring at it's blue waves. Katara believed it to be the prettiest thing in the world. Plainly, it was the only thing that wasn't green or cream like everything else in Ba Sing Se.

Ba Sing Se was a good city. In that way Katara was grateful. But it was…not a home. It seemed like everywhere she went she was being watched. Katara even remembered not being able to talk to a girl just because she lived in lower ranks than her. Sometimes she dreamed there was a world outside the walls but that was just a stupid dream. Of course there was nothing beyond the huge walls.

"Can you tell Gran Gran I'll be out tonight?" Katara asked her brother.

Sokka returned to the room. He was pulling at his green ribbon that tied his hair in a bun. He hated the color the green and cream. So far, that was all he wore everyday.

"What do you mean going out tonight? You've known the Ba Sing Se curfew is eight."

"Well then just tell her I went to bed earlier and make sure she doesn't go to my room."

Sokka sighed, "If you don't get caught I won't tell but if you did…god-speed."

Later On

"I can't believe you have to sneak out a night just to see me."

Toph said this while pulling at her hair. She was pulling it out of its refined beads and into a messy bun.

"Me too… and it's just because I'm a lower rank," Katara stated.

"You're not; you just live in a different neighbor hood. Ba Sing Se stinks."

"You don't have to tell me twice."

Katara straightened herself on the library stairs, pulling out her blue pin.

"The Duke tried to steal this again."

"Really, that kid needs a life."

"Yeah…it's the only thing I own that isn't green or cream."

"I wear those two colors too, right?"

"Yeah…most of the time."

Toph nodded as Katara handed her the hair piece.

"It's pretty," Toph muttered.

"How do-" Katara started.

"I can tell."

The two sat in the darkness, both with alert ears for any Ba Sing Se guards. They would be put under immediate lock down at the nearest prison until their parents or guardians came and picked them up. It would be put on the record for the rest of their lives. Katara though was willing to take that risk for her best friend.

"Hey Toph?" she asked.

"Yeah," Toph answered as she fell back on the stairs.

"Do you believe those rumors about Di Lee agents and how they brainwash people?"

"Nah, that's just a bunch of crap people used to entertain themselves. I hate Ba Sing Se with a passion but it's no voodoo crazy mind place."

"I guess your right."

Katara kept her mind occupied on that for awhile before she heard some noise in the distance.

"What the heck was that?" Toph screeched, bolting up.

"Do you think it's the guards?"

"Do you-"

The two could hear the footsteps coming closer down the street.

"It's them, run."

They sprung off the stairs and raced down the pavement. Their hearts were beating fast as they ran quickly down the darkened path ways.

"Do you think we lost them?" Toph whispered.

"I think I heard something over there!" they heard guard scream.

"That would be a no!" Katara said her voice filled with worry.

"I know what I have to do. Katara, you keep running, I'm going to earthbend a wall."

"But Toph, you know that's illegal. You'll get caught."

"Katara, there's no time to argue about this. Run, I'll hold off the guards."

Without wasting a second more, Katara turned from, hearing the sound of earthbending from the distance.

"She'll make it out, I know it," Katara told herself, slowing down.

She was about to make another turn when her heart literally stopped. Katara threw herself against the wall as troop of guards stood along the alley she was about to enter. She knew it was a transfer.

It's where people from somewhere outside of the walls were moved to Ba Sing Se. Katara believed these people to be outsiders and she was forbidden to speak with them. However, on rare occasions, her curiosity grew and this day just happened to be that "rare occasion".

Katara peeped around the corner, making sure not to be seen and stared at the people. They looked nothing like outsiders. They looked hungry and tired but besides that they seemed positively normal. To her they seemed almost friendly.

"Why would I be forbidden to talk to people like that?" Katara thought deeply.

The one that stood out the most was the old man who was smiling. He was heavy set, had a long beard, and warm face. Katara felt like walking up to him and saying hello.

However, the next person that came out of the wagon took her aback. He looked young, with his dark black hair and built body. He also seemed crude by the way he was frowning. But putting all that aside, the thing that shocked her the most was the scar upon the left side of his face.

"What happened to him? I wonder if that's what the rumors are all about."

Katara was about to leave before she saw something that would change her way of life forever. Fire, fire that came suddenly from the young man's hand.

Katara instantly ran from her spot against the wall. Her mind couldn't believe but it was real.

Were there really things, people, different than what lied in the great walls of Ba Sing Se?

InsaneFun…again: So did you like…did you, did you, did you? Please review…I kind of want this story to be a success but then…who wouldn't want their story to be a success? Any who, please review, please, and I'll try to update this thingy sometime before I die.