Hello people! This is my very first fanfiction book so be nice. I hope you like it. No wait i take that back, I hope you LOVE it!

NO i do not own Avatar: the last airbender. if i did we would still be watching the first series and not waiting for the new one to come out. But dont fret i do own a few characters whose names you will find out later.

CHAPTER 1

THE NEW MEMBER

The sun shone through the window onto Katara's face. "The sun feels so warm." Katara thought, "I wish I could be outside instead of being in this meeting." Katara, Aang, Sokka, Toph, Suki, Mai, and Zuko were all in a meeting discussing what they should all do now that Aang had defeated the Fire Lord.

"Well I have to stay here to fix the mess that my ancestors created; and I'm going to go look for my mom," said Zuko.

"Well ok then, so Katara, Toph, Sokka, and I are going to head over to Ba Sing Sa and help rebuild their city and government; then we are just going to fly around and help anyone who needs it, Zuko and Mai are staying here so that just leaves you Suki what are you going to do?" said Aang.

"I really miss my parents but I also want to help people so I guess I'll go with you guys to Ba Sing Sa," said Suki.

"Well now that we got that over with bring on the meat cause I'm starving."

"For once Sokka is right lets go get something to eat," said Toph. Everyone then got up and started leaving but on Aang's way out Zuko grabbed his arm and pulled him aside.

"Aang now that I'm Fire Lord and not traveling with team Avatar anymore you should find someone from the Fire Nation to travel with you so no one thinks you hate the Fire Nation," said Zuko.

"You are probably right I should find someone else but were should I look?"

"You could look at the schools or parks I guess."

"Ok thanks; let's go eat with the rest of the gang."

UNDERGROUND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN

"You need to gain his trust or our plan will never work."

"Ok, but why can't we just tell him?"

"It's too dangerous this is the only way our plan will work. So don't make the mistake of telling him too soon."

"Yes master, I understand, but after I gain his trust what do I do then?"

"We will send you directions as you travel, remember your training and you will do fine. Goodbye my young pupil it is time for you to go."

But I never finished…"

"I know, but you must leave now if you are to catch them."

BACK ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN

Aang and Zuko walked down the street to the restaurant where the rest of the team was eating at. Aang and Zuko walked in and sat down with the team, Aang sat next to Katara and Zuko sat next to Mai. "So what's the plan after lunch?" ask Suki.

"Eating more food so hungry," mumbled Sokka whose mouth was full of food.

"What you don't need any more food you have already had 6 plates of food," replied Suki.

"But I'm still hungry."

"So you need to stop.."

"GUYS GUYS! You need to stop arguing we are going to the park after we are done here!" exclaimed Aang.

"Really we are going to the park, what for?"

"Well Katara, we need to find someone else from the fire nation to travel with us. That way we have one person from each nation. By doing that nobody will think we hate the fire nation plus it would be nice to have another fire bender in the group." Aang said to Katara.

"Well that's smart," said Katara, "but how do we know when we find the right person?"

"I guess we will just know," he said smiling at here.

An hour later Team Avatar was walking down the street towards the park in the center of town. They had been to 5 others but found no one who they really liked. While walking to the park they were all talking about what they wanted this new person to be like even though they all knew when it came down to the final decision Aang would be the one to choose. Then as they neared the park they heard laughter being the curious group that they were they went to see what was so funny. But what they saw was not funny at all. Sitting under a tree was a girl about 13 years old with hair unlike anything they had ever seen. She had strawberry blonde hair with just a touch of brown in it, and dark emerald eyes. Half of her hair was pulled back into a bun and was held there with 2 pins; the rest of her hair was hanging down covering the back of her neck. The pins in her hair were black with what looked like a snakes head carved into the top of each pin. She was also wearing a black and red scarf that was wrapped around her head. And she was wearing a school uniform.

The girl was sitting under the tree arms wrapped around her knees and she was staring at the ground. Two boys stood over her. "Look at her hair it's so ugly," said one

"Yah I know, and what with the stupid scarf you know you're not allowed to wear those to school," said the other. Then another girl walked up.

"Lee, Kahi leave the new girl alone every time there is a new kid you 2 always make fun of them," said the girl. The boy named Lee walked up to the girl and said "Ok we won't pick on the new girl we will pick on you," he said with an evil smile on his face and then he punched her.

She fell to the ground and started crying. Aang started walking over he didn't want things to get worse. Out of nowhere the boy fell, he tried getting back up but was pinned to the ground. There was two knifes pinning his sleeves to the ground with to snakes heads carved into the top. Everyone looked over at the girl with the red hair. Her hair was no longer in a bun; she had a sour look on her face as she walked over to the boy. She looked down at him bent over and pulled the two knifes out of the ground. The boy stood up looked and her looked at his friend, then he turned and started fighting her.

The fight was one sided the girl was beating him pretty bad

He was throwing punches and all she was doing was blocking the punches with the two knifes in her hands. His arms had cuts all over them but because the girl was so accurate and precise he was not bleeding. Lee then jumped backwards; the girl looked over right as Kahi was throwing a fire ball at her. She never saw it coming in time to move, but Aang did. He bent a slice of air at the fire ball and saved the girl from a painful burn. Team Avatar took their fighting stances, but Kahi and Lee turned and ran down an alleyway. The girl looked at Aang and the rest of team Avatar. "Thank you for putting out that fire," she said.

"No problem," replied Aang "may I ask what your name is?"

"My name is Kaji, what's yours?"

"Well my name is Aang, and this is Katara, Sokka, Suki, Toph, Mai, and Zuko," said Aang "Oh and this is Momo."

"Wait! Zuko, Aang you're the Fire Lord and the Avatar." She gasped in surprise.

"Ah yah," Aang rubbed the back of his head "but you can just call us Aang and Zuko."

"Ok fine with me," Kaji replied.

"So where did you learn to fight like that?" asked Suki.

"Well I mostly taught myself but I learned how to use the dual swords from an old friend; and I learned how to use fans from my orphanage when I was like six," Kaji said.

"Oh cool I know how to use fans," said Suki.

"And I know how to use the dual swords," said Zuko.

"Well that's not all I can do I am also an expert in many different forms of martial arts, like taekwondo,"

"What is that?" questioned Sokka.

"Well it's kinda like bending but without an element," She answered.

"Oh I've heard of that," said Zuko.

"Would you guys like to come over to my house?" asked Kaji.

"Well we have nothing better to do," said Toph "so we might as well." Then Team Avatar headed over to Kaji's house.

Ten minutes later Team Avatar plus Kaji were sitting in her house talking about their lives. Kaji was explaining how her parents had died when she was young and how she had lived with so many different families that it was hard to count. "And that my friends is why I have never stayed with a family for more than four months."

"Wow that must be so hard for you Kaji; I don't know how you can possibly stand that."

"Well you get used it," she said looking down.

Katara looked at Aang "can I speak to you for a moment?" Aang nodded his head and then the two got up and walked outside.

"What's up?"

"Aang I feel so bad for her, I mean, I know she can't firebend but she is a good fighter and she has never had a real family…"

"Katara."

"Aang we have to let her join our group it would be horrible if she had to live like this for the rest of her life."

"Katara! I know I was going to ask her if she wanted to join Team Avatar."

"Oh my gosh, thank you so much Aang." Katara hugged him and then kissed him on the lips and ran back inside to share the good news. Aang dreamily sighed and then thought back to that night when he and Katara had kissed on that balcony. He knew that they would be together he just wasn't sure when to ask her out and how well Sokka would take. Cause if he knew one thing for sure he didn't want to die. Aang pushed the thought aside and then walked back into Kaji's house. When he got inside everyone was hugging and Kaji had a huge grin on her face.

"I'm guessing someone said yes then?" said Aang.

"Yes, yes, and a hundred times yes! I'll go pack my things." Then Kaji ran excitedly to her room to pack.

Yaaaaaaah very first chapter complete! hope you love it. Next one should be out soon.

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Jk you dont have to do that but i would love it if you did.