I'd like to thank my previous reviewers and hopeful reviewers to come for the creation of this story. It wasn't just my idea. Because of previous reviews, I have continued this story! Thanks guys!

I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender, I just like to write for them!

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"That's the one…the girl over there."

People mumbled things repeatedly over the next few days. Koori had become the talk of the kingdom. She tried to stay away from going outside, but Itachi, her guard forced her outside at least once everyday. He trained with the female waterbender, the one named Katara.

"Good," Paku, her teacher said to her. "Again."

"I've done this four times in a row. I'm not doing it again!" Katara shouted, irritable.

"You will do that move again or you will no longer be a waterbender!" Pakku shouted to her.

She huffed out a swear word that his old ears couldn't hear and performed the move again. Itachi neared Pakku and bowed immediately. "Good morning Master Pakku. I'm here with the girl," Itachi said. Koori the named 'girl' looked to the ground with respect.

Pakku snorted. "Do yourself some use girl and fight with my trainees," he joked.

"Okay," Koori answered. "I don't know that much, but I pick up quickly," Koori answered, talking to the ground.

Pakku snorted again. "You're a firebender wench, you can't learn anything here."

Koori nodded her head. "I have heard rumors through a great firebender, that benders can learn from each other and improve their own bending. Perhaps you and your students can learn from me, and I from them?"

Pakku snorted so loud that Katara stopped her move completely. "If you hurt one of my students, then I kill you. I don't care what the Ocean Spirit says, do you understand?" Pakku asked.

"Of course Sir," Koori answered.

"Call me Master Pakku." Pakku was smiling as Koori cringed.

"I'm sorry Sifu Pakku, but I refuse to name you as my 'Master'," she said.

Pakku nodded and walked away. "Katara, you deal with her."

Katara walked over to Koori and smiled. The smile gave Koori the impression that she was hated, deeply. "Shall we start then?" Katara asked politely, a little too politely.

Koori nodded slowly and readied herself for a full-out attack. Although the first attack that she gave was powerful, it wasn't brutal. Katara's eyes had filled with hate as Koori blocked her next attack with a spiral of fire. Koori's foot slipped on the ice and she feel to the ground, hitting her jaw against the ice. A loud burst of laughter erupted from the sidelines. It was Itachi. Koori lifted herself from the ground and blocked another attack.

What am I going to do? Koori asked herself. I can't just attack her head on and expect not to hurt her…this is stupid, I'm going to have to loose! I have to prove that I am weaker than her, a lowly waterbending female…

Koori lost with a final move from Katara. She had blocked herself and fell to the melted ice bellow, covering herself in water. Her new parka that she obtained was a bright red (purposely) and was turning crimson with the passing moments. Koori placed her hand on her chest and the crimson parka returned to its original color.

"What a pitiful firebender!" Itachi shouted.

"That's the worst firebending that I've ever seen," Pakku mumbled.

"You're horrible!" Katara shouted. She stormed away, hitting Itachi with a firm water-whip. They all left Koori standing on the platform, her shoes soaking up the water that laid below her. When she could no longer hear Itachi's laughter she threw a giant orb of fire to the ground. Frustrated, she kicked the water at her feet up into the air. The water turned to ice immediately and she turned her body around, wondering where the waterbender was hiding.

She didn't see anybody and something would have to move if the water froze under her feet. She kicked the water again but it returned as water on her face. She wiped her face off and thought slowly about what had just happened.

Kicking the water bellow her again, she watched it freeze. The entire puddle below her feet froze to ice again. The ice wasn't a blue like the waterbenders ice, it was clear, she could see directly through it to the bluish ice bellow. (If that makes sense!)

"Hey, Miss!" a small voice called out. Koori turned to look around. "It's me. Aang!" the young Avatar stated, walking beside her. "I heard that you got your butt kicked by Katara and got laughed at by Pakku." Koori didn't look happily at him.

"I did it purposely," Koori said.

"What?" Aang asked.

"What am I supposed to do young Avatar? Fight them and be feared? I don't want to be feared anymore. I've lived my entire life in fear, I don't want anybody to live their life in fear as well," Koori said to him, looking at the clear ice.

Aang seemed to nod but Koori couldn't tell from his shadow. "Why is your parka red?" Aang asked stupidly.

Koori looked down on the long parka that reached her knees. "To mark me from the rest of the kingdom. I hate being a firebender. I'm hated wherever I go," Koori sighed. "I'm sorry Avatar, I must be leaving. Itachi seems to have forgotten his duties and I do not want to get him in trouble."

"That's not like a normal firebender," Aang said.

"I'm not a firebender," Koori blandly stated. "I never want to be firebender, ever."

Koori walked away from the Avatar and continued her pace toward her chambers, if she could call it that. It felt like a prison with a child and a watchdog.

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I hope that you liked this! It's my first chapter for Betrayal, as you have noticed! (Blond moment) R and R please? Have a nice day…or night….or afternoon!