I don't own ATLA. Thank you to AnnaAza for editing my mistakes. Please review! Oh and did you hear the good news? ATLA is going to be continued in graphic novels in 2012! What happened to the characters after the war! P.s I'm looking for a story but I only remember one line, Zuko and Katara were sparring and Katara won and Zuko says something to her and Toph starts clapping and says "Great teach you have, he teaches you how to be a better bender and a ladies man!"

"Why hello, Katara!" Lady Ursa smiled at the young Water Tribe girl. Katara curtsied and smiled back at the older woman. Katara was one of Azula's friends from school. The young girl was Water Tribe, they just moved to the Fire Nation.

"I want you to meet someone!" Lady Ursa took Katara's hand and led her further into the palace and stopped by a library. A young boy was trying to practise bending movements from a scroll.

"Zuko!" Lady Ursa's voice called.

The young boy jumped, then quickly rolled up the scroll. "Yes, mother!"

"I'd like you to meet someone." Lady Ursa gestured someone who was clinging on her robes. A young girl who had two locks of hair on either side of her head were fastened with clips onto the back of her head, hanging down more loosely than the rest of the hair. She wore a light blue dress.

"Hello." The young girl squeaked.

"Uh, hi." Prince Zuko rubbed the back of his head. The girl ran behind Lady Ursa again. Prince Zuko rolled his eyes.

Lady Ursa stooped down to Katara's level. "Now, please be patient with Zuko; he doesn't have any friends so he's a bit lonely—will you be his friend?" Lady Ursa asked.

The young girl's eyes widened and she nodded furiously.

"Really, thanks, now go play!" Lady Ursa told the young girl.

Katara skipped over to Zuko. Zuko winced and gave his mother a look.

"Don't leave me alone with her!" Zuko mouthed to his mother.

Lady Ursa gave Zuko a stern look. "Be nice. " She mouthed.

"What are you doing?" Katara asked.

"Trying to read!" Zuko turned away from her.

"Wow." Katara gasped.

"What?"

"I think it's cool that you can read; I'm too young and no one's taught me yet!"

Zuko brightened a little. "I can teach you!"

"Really?"

"Sure!" Zuko smirked. He liked the idea of having a student. He felt grown up.

"Mom, this is a private lesson; you're dismissed!" Zuko told his mother. Lady Ursa giggled behind her hand. She gave one last smile as she walked out the room.

"Zuzu is a terrible bender!" Five-year-old Azula said.

Zuko fumed. "I'm going to be a Firebending Master!" Zuko snarled. "I'm going to practise!"

"To fail!" Azula taunted.

Katara placed her hand on Zuko's shoulder. "I'm sure you'll do great!"

Zuko blushed and stumbled out of the room.

"I'm sure you'll do great!" Azula mocked. She crossed her arms and looked at Katara. "Explain."

"What?"

"What was that?" Azula asked. "You turned almost as red as my mommy's make up!"

"No I didn't!"

"So are you crushing on Zuko?"

"What! No way!" Katara's eyes widened. "He's a lot bigger than me!"

"No, crushing means like, or at least that what it says in my mother's romance scrolls…"

Katara looked around. "Azula, promise you won't tell."

Azula nodded.

"I like Zuko. " Katara whispered in Azula's ear.

Six-year-old Katara was sitting with her back to a tree. She looked to her left to see eight-year-old Zuko and his mother walking down the path across the courtyard. She looked away; her cheeks were blushing red and a small smile stole across her face. Zuko looked over to the garden area and smiled softly when he saw Katara. Azula noticed.

"Watch this." Azula whispered to Sokka. Sokka sometimes would come and hang out with Zuko and Azula. Azula picked an apple hanging from a tree.

"Here's the way it goes." Azula placed the apple on Katara's head. "Now what you do is try to knock the apple off the other person's head. Like this."

The apple sat atop of Katara's head. Azula fired a blast at the apple, whose stem caught on fire. Katara looked scared. Zuko stampeded over to Katara. He jumped on her, knocking the burning apple off her head, but also knocking them both into the pool.

"See, I told you it would work." Azula told Sokka.

"Kissy, kissy!" Sokka puckered up his lips at Katara and Zuko.

"You two are such—ugh!" Katara said as Zuko got up and left.

"Zuko! Zuko!" Katara ran into the Palace.

"What?"

"Here!" Katara panted. Zuko raised his eyebrows at the present. It was a blue mask. It was a little too big for his face.

"I made it in school today!" Katara said proudly. "Don't worry; you'll grow into it!"

"Thanks, but why?"

"Well, you always give me presents, so it's my turn!"

"Here!" Zuko passed Katara a box. Eight-year-old Katara giggled.

"More gifts?" Katara opened it and saw knives. Katara gasped.

"I know you aren't allowed to Waterbend in the Northern Water Tribe and there's no one to teach you in the Southern Water Tribe so I thought these might come in handy one day…."

Ten-year-old Katara lay down on the beach. Azula and two of her friends, Mai and Ty Lee, were on a further side away from her.

Zuko sat next to Mai and passed her a shell.

"Why would I want that?" Eleven-year-old Mai asked.

"Don't girls like stuff like this?" Zuko played with the shell.

"Stupid girls." Mai muttered. Zuko sighed and got up. Katara patted a side of her blanket. Lady Ursa had disappeared a few months ago. Zuko was still trying to heal. They didn't know what happened to her or why she left. Azula found her own way to comfort herself in the disappearance of Lady Ursa. She found two new friends, gloomy, monotone Mai and bubbly Ty Lee . Zuko also distanced himself a bit from Katara. Zuko started hanging more around Mai. Azula often tried to set them up together. Katara knew Mai had a crush on Zuko, but she hoped feelings weren't the same. Zuko picked up another shell. It was pale yellow.

"Do you still like seashells?" Zuko asked, passing it to Katara. Katara inspected it and placed it in her bag.

"It's a keeper!"

Eleven-year-old Katara stayed up all night working on her knives. She had successfully used the seashell she got from Zuko to hide a three pointed device; she pressed it and it unfolded into a talon shaped throwing star. Katara had knives, stilettos, a miniature sais that was at her disposal that appeared like a very sharp dagger, and a spring-loaded holster. She kept them hidden in her robes. She even had a water skin. She hadbeen teaching herself from scrolls how to Waterbend. Since moving to the Northern Water Tribe, Katara only visited the Fire Nation every once in a while. Today was her week to stay at the palace. She wanted to show Zuko her bending and knife throwing skills. Katara ran into the palace. She searched everywhere, but no Zuko.

"Hey Azula, where's Zuko?" Katara asked as she saw Azula.

"Don't you know anything?" Azula raised an eyebrow. "Zuzu's been banished!"