Hey everyone this idea came to me after reading i believe its chapter 5 of lunar calling's maiko week submission which i unfortunately missed. As with her, i do not support the use of drugs or smoking in any shape or form, unless it's for medical reasons and you have permission from a doctor. So please don't read this story and take it that it is a cool thing to do, because it will make you nothing but a douche. I also do not support drinking large amounts of alcohol for no reason at all.
so if you didn't get the obvious hints above, this story will involve drug use, smoking, and alcohol use but don't worry, its not going to be a stupid story, it will result in becoming something like my original pieces.

Okay so this is going to be a A/U set in modern 2011 times.
starts as a kataang, sukka, doph and zuko/jin story. But don't worry, it won't stay that way, it will become a maiko at some stage.

character ages.
zuko 18
mai 17
aang 16
katara 16
sokka 18
suki 17
azula 16
ty lee 16
jin 17
haru 18
toph 16
the duke (nicknamed tuke) 17 (stayed back a year.)
jet 21
long feng 22 (xD)
Iroh 64
ozai 51
ursa 45

so shall we begin? See you at the bottom.

Disclaimer i don't not own avatar the last airbender, the basic plot of this story, or the car mentioned. Bryke, lunar calling and dodge own them in that order.

Vulnerable.
Chapter one.

Simple serenade.

Dumping the text books that weren't needed for the nights study into his locker, Zuko swung his back pack over his shoulder and took off out the main building, hoping to get a glance at his girlfriend before returning home for the night, of course he would be able to talk to her over the phone once he had finished with his homework, but nothing was the same as hugging her.

Zuko and Jin had been together for three months, and as it seemed they were obsessed with each other. But things not being as they seem, at first glance you saw love, but if taking a long, hard look at the couple you could see the strong amounts of suffering that the pair was enduring at the hands of the other. But poor Zuko could never get past the first glance, he never noticed that her smile was missing the love that it had when they first got together, her eyes missing the shine she had when she looked at him. All he saw was the act, the fine act that she had been working on, in high hopes of getting past the struggle they were in and into the love they had once shared. But she had tried, and Zuko being oblivious to it all did nothing but to ease her efforts. Drastic actions were to be taken soon.

Zuko scanned through the car lot quickly, having not seen her anywhere he made his way towards his car, a black 2011 dodge charger, a present from his father Ozai for his 18th birthday just four months before. He clicked the button on his key and the lights flicked, with the push of another button the door automatically opened a few inches, something his father had paid extra to have installed, just one of the many pricy adjustments made.

Twenty minutes later he arrived home to see his father's white hummer being loaded with bags and suitcases, as well as a large box, which content was unknown to Zuko, but what he did know, was it was that time again when Ozai went to Canada on a four to six month business trip. Before Ozai would hire a nanny or get his brother Iroh to look after his son and daughter, but since Zuko's 18th he had shown much more faith in his children.

This would be the first business trip Ozai went on without getting someone to watch his children.

Zuko parked his car on the nature strip just outside his mansion like home, leaving space for the departing hummer and Porsche.

Zuko climbed out of the car, clicking the button once again over his shoulder before walking through the gate and onto the arch shaped drive way, that led through one gate and out the other, with a double garage on each side, one for Ozai's cars, and one for his son and daughter. While in the middle of the garages a three story house, designed by Ursa herself before she divorced Ozai. Zuko's room was on the third floor, as well as his recording studio, study room, and indoor pool, the second floor, much larger than the third, held at back of the house Azula's bed room, as well as at the front Ozai's much larger master bed room. And all the normal house hold rooms taking up the rest of the space, while the first floor, consisted of nothing but a large open foyer like room with two large entertainment rooms on either side and at the back the large kitchen. The house was the biggest on the block and had white stone walls around its entire perimeter, not only the house was large but the back yard too, a small garden shed stood behind two large trees, a large decking area built coming out of Zuko's rec room that was in the top right corner of the yard, right at the back, and a huge in ground pool for everyone's use.

"Hey dad" Zuko said to his father who was still busily attempting to tetris all his belongings into the back of the hummer.

Without looking up Ozai mumbled a greeting, nothing more, nothing less.

Zuko walked through the large double doors of his home and through the foyer to the kitchen, he heard his sister and one of her friends gossiping in the lounge room, he had never paid her friends any mind, he had met one of them once, when they accidently ran into each other as Zuko was coming down the stairs, she was cute in a way, but nothing that really meant anything to him.

Fetching himself a drink and a sandwich Zuko made his way up the staircase and into his room, dropping his bag on the floor next to his desk he walked across the room to his bed and sat down. He pulled out his phone and smiled when he saw that he had three unread text messages from Jin.

Hey Zuko, we need to talk, its kind of important, can i come over tonight? – jin

Zuko i don't know what your doing, but i need your answer please? – jin

thats it im coming over, i don't care if Ozai orders the police to get me out, he may be the governor but not even he can stop me from seeing you tonight. – jin

Zuko chuckled at the last message, Jin's attempts at making threatening comments had never ceased to entertain him. What he didn't know was that he had taken the message the wrong way.

It was six thirty two when Ozai left the property, his business partner Zhao driving the hummer while he followed behind in his Porsche.

And it was six thirty nine when Jin arrived. Zuko met her at the gates with open arms, she shook her head and that surprised him, he lent forward to kiss her but she looked away, making him place a kiss on her cheek. "Whats wrong?"

"Zuko i need to talk to you." She stated looking him dead in the eye, her jaw set in a straight line.

"Sure babe" Zuko stated, his love for her still blinding him from what was coming.

"Zuko, its over." She paused for a moment, Zuko's smile was gone but he didn't look sad, his mouth mimicked her own, set in a thin line.

"Wh-what?" He stuttered, a fist clenching around his heart, squeezing it and drinking all the blood from his face. His already pale skin was almost ghostly.

"I don't want you anymore." She looked him dead in the eye "There is someone else."

Zuko felt the hand release his heart for a split second only to punch him in the gut before gripping his aching heart and tearing it from his chest.

He started to cry then, the tears coming out in nothing but thin lines down his cheeks. "Jin" He muttered, his voice small and weak.

Broken.

She turned away from him then and walked back to her car, that was the first time Zuko noticed the young man in the front seat, if able to control his feelings he would have gone over there and beaten the guy senseless for stealing her from him, but he couldn't. He fell to his knees, the tears having stopped and a haunting numbness over taking the remainder of his body.

Almost twenty minutes later he pulled himself up from the grass and walked back through the gates, he looked up to see a tall girl standing on the porch. He noticed he had never seen her before, and if his eyes hadn't been blurred by the tears he had left there he would have looked at her much more closely.

"You okay?" Her voice was raspy, like it had been unused in a long time. But yet, it didn't stop the shiver that went down Zuko's spine next.

"No."

He continued past her and through the foyer, he noticed Ty lee and Azula looking at him from the entertainment room on the right of the door but he ignored them, making his way up the rest of the stairs and slamming his door shut, pushing the lock into place he sat down at his desk, the numbness still there, smothering his body in its presence. He took out his English books and began work on his essay, it was all he could do to take his mind off of Jin.

That was the first time he saw Mai.


okay guys thats the first chapter, i do plan on writing more, thats just the break up of zuko and jin, i told you, they wouldn't be apart of it for long.

so from the story. Zuko's family is rich, Ozai isn't an evil dickhead, and hes a relatively nice parent, who is now gone on a 4-6 month long business trip, azula doesn't hate zuko, but they don't get along that great.

jin was cheating on him with some unknown guy.

mai is looking out for him, although they never met before their small talk.

yes zuko is in a band, more info on that later.

and the reason zuko has such a large amount of the house, compared to azula, is because she owns a holiday house on ember island.

there is no bending in this story at all.
toph isn't blind.
aang isn't vegetarian.
umm, yeh just stuff like that mainly will be given more detail later on.

and zuko does have a scar, he got it from his home being robbed and his head being held over a open fire stove top. – poor zu zu.

and for zuko's car, type in black 2011 dodge charger, and its the one with a little flaming guy in the bottom right.

i know this chapter is short, just wanted to end it here, and i will continue writing, and possibly upload two chapters tonight.

also the idea for the name came from my current fav song vulnerable by secondhand serenade. – hence the chapter name too.