A/N: oh yeah who's quicker then the Flash? I am! (That's because I am the Flash shifty eyes shhh!) Anyways this is where the real story begins so enjoy.

Story time!

Zuko groaned at the sound of his alarm clock, he didn't want to get out of bed yet; he felt that if he was seventeen he was too old to be getting up for school. Of course his uncle didn't see it that way.

He slammed his fist onto the small noisemaker and it stopped making noise immediately. He rolled out of his bed and walked to his bedroom door rubbing the back of his head. He came out into the hallway and down the stairs to see if his uncle was still around and if he was going to make him some breakfast.

But instead of Iroh Katara sat at the table looking at the TV guide that was left there. She looked up to see Zuko standing in nothing more then his boxers and scratching his head.

"How can you not be ready yet?" Katara asked unfazed by the amount of skin that was revealed, apparently she had seen it before.

"Where's uncle?" Zuko was now rubbing his eyes and totally ignoring her first question.

Katara rolled her eyes. "He went to work early, he let me in before he left and told me you would be up soon."

Zuko let out a noise and began to walk upstairs, but Katara quickly grabbed his hand and spun him around into a kiss. He smiled into her kiss and wrapped his arms around her bringing her in tight to his exposed chest. She wrapped her arms around his neck and continued kissing before finally pulling away.

"You need to get ready for school your going to be late." Katara smiled at him.

"Can't we just skip school and stay here all day… uncle won't be back till late." He gave Katara a playful look and she rolled her eyes.

"As tempting as that sounds I think we should get to school, you have to start picking out Universities and you want them to except you." Katara sat down at the table again and picked up the TV guide once more.

Zuko shook his head and went upstairs to take his shower. Ever since he had been going out with Katara his sour attitude seemed to have been lifted, it seemed as if some of her sweetness had rubbed off on him. He now wanted to go to school everyday in order to be with her, and he almost forgot all about his past when he was with her. Someone like that you know is the one, and he hoped that someday they would get married.

Katara at one point worried over the fact that this was Zuko's graduating year. She had often wined about him leaving and hooking up with other women for one night stands every night at some bar called "Bop" or something. He would just laugh at her and shake his head. He had already came up with a plan, he was going to stay an extra year so that he could get his marks to a perfection and get excepted into a really nice school. Or at least that's what he told the teachers, he was really just in it to stay for Katara's graduating year and go to university with her.

They were both excellent students, always getting top marks in their classes so it shouldn't be a problem for them to get into the same school, and if one got into a nice school but the other one didn't, the one that got accepted would decline.

After all this thinking going through Zuko's head he got out of the shower and toweled off. He through on some close including some jeans and a white T-shirt with read outline and a black leather jacket. He looked in the mirror and shook his hair, then he walked out of the bathroom.

Katara looked up at him when he came down the stairs. "Looking handsome as usual."

Zuko smiled, even though he didn't think so Katara always had a way of boosting his confidence. "Let's go." He said grabbing his bag.

Katara stood up and grabbing her backpack, Zuko went to kiss her but she put a finger to his lips. "Did you brush your teeth?"

Zuko shuffled through his pocket and pulled out Listerine breath spray. "Nope." And with that word he sprayed his mouth and kissed her.

The two now headed out the door, the snuck past the sleeping Labrador in the wicker basket and closed the door behind them.

The bus was coming down the road when Zuko started to get on his bike.

"Zuko, how about we take the bus? I mean it would be good for the eco zone? And remember all the fun we used to have on the bus?" Zuko groaned at Katara's words. "Sokka and Suki will be there."

"Fine." He said getting off of his bike and walking to the bus with Katara as it stopped in front of his house.

The two of them walked onto the bus and were immediately greeted by Sokka.

"Hey guys! Glad you came on the bus, you know how boring it is without you here." Sokka smiled giving Zuko a high five as they sat down across from them.

"So then why do you come on here?" Zuko asked putting his backpack under the seat.

Sokka rolled his eyes. "You know how Suki is with the whole green house gasses thing."

Suki hit him on the head with her notebook.

Zuko smirked at them, he always loved to see what stupid thing Sokka was going to do next that would get him smacked in the head. He turned his head and put his arm around Katara. "So what's up for today?"

Katara looked up from the magazine she had pulled out. "I'm not sure, this is the A week so I have spare, then history, then art, then we have lunch, then I have Math and then another spare."

"Good, our spares are the same then, I just have gym, auto shop and history." He paused for a minute. "Hey, I think we have Parliament today."

Katara thought for a moment. "Yeah we do… crap."

"Why did you forget to count spirit points?"

"No I did I just forgot to write them down…" Katara bit her fingernail.

Zuko shrugged his shoulders. "Meh, just tell them you did anyways, they don't need to see it."

Katara nodded. "Good idea."

Parliament was something very few school's had, it was basically the schools government system, there was a Prime minister, this years was voted in favor of the red party witch was of course Azula, and there were different ministries, for example Katara was the ministry of Spirit, she had to organize spirit days and make sure people participated, if they did she marked it down as spirit points and at the end of the year would award the student with the most spirit points.

Zuko hated Parliament but in the end Katara eventually talked him into being the ministry of communication, all he had to do was so if anyone was absent for five days and give them a gift basket, that and great the new students that would come. In other words, he basically did nothing.

The bus came to a stop and everyone got off the bus.

"Why didn't you let me bring the bike? We could have signed out and went to McDonalds for breakfast." Zuko grumbled as they walked into the school.

"We can still walk there, but not this morning, we should go to the bakery instead." Zuko smiled, he loved the pancakes at the bakery, and he always loved spares in the morning.

They walked up the stairs to their lockers on the third floor. And threw their things in, Katara's locker was decorated with pictures of friends and family, there were so many pictures of her and Zuko or her at least trying to get Zuko to look at the camera.

Zuko's locker was basically bare except for the few pictures of Katara and a magazine clipping of his favorite band.

Katara pulled out her purse and slung it over her shoulder, she always had a different one to match her outfit, today was a tight fitting pare of dark black jeans with a pointed heel, an I nice blue top, not to fancy but still very pretty, her purse matched with her heels, shirt and her earrings, she knew how to accessorize.

"Ok Zuko, I need to find my deputy and get him to type up sheet, you should get down to the office and do your job, that way you can at least say you did it on your sheet." Katara gave him a peck on the cheek and began walking down the hallway towards the computer lab.

Zuko groaned and walked down two flights of stairs till he got to the office. He walked in and leaned on the counter. "Hey miss Wu, got any-"

"Wait! I predict that you want…" The elderly women put one hand on her forehead and put the other one gracefully in front of Zuko. "Permanent black markers!"

"Uh no… but you were close this time. " This lady is too twisted for color TV Zuko thought to himself watching the old lady talk to herself. "I'm actually here to see if there are any new arrivals or sick people."

"Ah yes, yes, I knew you were going to say that." Zuko rolled his eyes. Miss Wu began to shuffle through papers. "Aha, here it is, there are no sick students over four days but there is a new student."

"A new student?" Zuko was shocked, who in there right mind would want to go to a school like this?

"Yes, her name is…" She squinted at the sheet; she rebelled against using her glasses. "Cindy Pennington."

The name Cindy stuck out in Zuko's mind but he brushed it off.

"I think she's in the resource office, I'll go get her." Miss Wu walked around the counter and through another door. Zuko leaned on the counter and waited for her to return. "Ah, here you are dear." Miss Wu smiled and left the girl as she went back behind the counter.

The girl had long black hair, her eye's were blue and her bangs were pushed out of the way so you could see them, She wore a white tank-top with a blue skirt with knee high socks and black dress shoes. "Hi, I'm Cindy."

Zuko shook her outstretched hand. "Hey, I'm Zuko, Welcome To Athens home of the Warriors." He hated having to say that all the time. "I would love to show you around but I'm rather busy this period, but my deputy Sokka would be more then happy to show you around." Zuko turned to miss Wu. "Would you call him down here for me."

"Why of course dear." Miss Wu picked up the phone and pressed a few things. "Would Sokka South please come to the main office, Sokka South." Her words rang throughout the whole school as she hung up.

Sokka who was just down the hall in his spare came into the office in no time at all. "You wanted to see me Miss Wu, if it's about the shaking the vending machine thing it wasn't my fault it ate my money!"

Miss Wu laughed. "I need you to show this young lady around the school, she's new here and Zuko is busy this period."

Sokka glared at Zuko knowing fully well he wasn't really busy. "I'd be happy to do it."

"I thought you would." Zuko said patting his back and leaving the office.

Katara was coming in as Zuko came out and they crashed into each other causing Katara to drop the papers she was holding. Zuko bent down to pick them up quickly and handed them to her.

"Thank you." Katara smiled taking her papers. She looked into the office to see someone talking to her brother. "Who's that girl?"

"Huh? Oh, she's the new kid here… uh, Cindy something." Zuko said trying to remember her name.

"Oh… there's something really familiar about her." Katara looked at the girl long enough to see her turn her head slightly and give her the nastiest glare. Katara gasped but then shook it off when she saw the girl looking back at her brother and talking to him.

Zuko put his arm through Katara's and began walking. "Come on, I don't want to miss the pancakes!"

"Zuko it's only eight fifteen, breakfast doesn't end till eleven!" Katara and Zuko left through the school doors and walked down the street. "Did you sign us out?"

"Uh… no." Zuko had forgotten all about that. "No worries, principle Roku is nice about those kind of things, besides, we aren't skipping when we don't have a class."

Katara rolled her eyes and gave a small sigh before resting her head on Zuko's shoulder.

A/N: I hope you guys enjoyed that chapter, and remember all good horror stories start out sweet and innocent! Please leave reviews!

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-Teenfox