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Finally, the plane began to come to a slow stop and it arrived in the FN Airport. Waking up from her long nap, Katara noticed everyone standing up to get ready to leave and quickly got all her things together. As she was, she noticed Zuko's shirt, the one she threw up on, on the pocket of the chair.
Walking into the FN Airport, Katara started wandering around with her luggage in her hand and looked around for any signs of Zuko Bei so she could return his shirt.
Finally spotting him walking coolly with many bodyguards surrounding, him, Katara started to call out, "Excuse me…this…you forgot your…wait a moment…please wait up!" Katara shouted as she ran toward him.
Zuko Bei, totally zoned out, walked through a secluded aisle for First Class passengers. But as Katara tried running through the aisle, she was immediately stopped by a security guard.
"Over there ma'am." The guard said in FNese, a language in which Katara was struggling terribly with.
"No, that's not it…" Katara tried explaining.
"Over there."
"No, this belongs to that person."
"Please go over there! This lane is only for First Class Passengers only!"
"This belongs to that person!!"
"Go over there."
"All right. Fine! God." Katara gave up and walked over to the other lane while eyeballing which direction Zuko was heading.
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As soon as Zuko walked out of the airport, once again, immediate screaming was sounded along with numerous flashes from the cameras. Still walking flawlessly, he stepped into the limo waiting for him and closed the door behind him.
"Woo-hoo! Zuko Bei! Zuko Bei! Zuko Bei!" the fangirls started cheering.
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Meanwhile, Katara walked out the middle class lane and out of the airport. Remembering what Sokka told her about somebody waiting for her there. Though there were actually many people waiting, all of the signs they were holding up were all in Fnese. Desperately, Katara continued looking.
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Walking into the fancy 4 Star Hotel, two guards opened the double doors as Zuko walked in. Finally making it into his suite, Zuko carelessly took off his jacket and threw his sunglasses on the table and entered the bathroom. Washing his hands, he again, smelled something funky and sniffed his arm, the one that Katara threw up on.
"Ugh…" Zuko muttered and started washing his arm again. Damn it, why'd she have to throw up on my arm?
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Back at the airport, Katara was busy dialing numbers on a payphone. God, this is driving me crazy, why aren't they answering the stupid phone?! I mean, how am I gonna find my way around here?!
Finally giving up, Katara headed outside and called for a taxi.
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"Hello, what kind of movie will you be filming here?" the FNese interviewer asked.
"What kind of movie will you be filming here?" the translator next to her translated.
"It's a period film about a guy who lost his best friend and his lover and all the hardships he had to go through." Zuko explained. As the translator translated back again, Zuko silently yawned.
"Ah, so is it your first time doing a period movie?" the interviewer asked and the translator translated.
"Yes, it's the first time."
"Do you think there will be any difficulties?"
"No. I don't think so."
"Ah, I heard that you were dating your co-star actress/singer Star. Is that true?"
"No. It's not true."
"Then, do you have a girlfriend?"
"I thought I made it clear that I won't be answering any personal questions." Zuko answered rather coldly, his smile disappearing.
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Looking out at the sights of the Fire Nation (FN), Katara grinned enormously and took a look at the payment machine over by the taxi driver. Immediately, Katara gasped noticing how much money she had to pay.
"Oh my god." She muttered and took out the money that Suki handed to her back in Ba Sing Se. "What do I do?"
Arriving at the Rubina Hotel, Katara quickly threw the money at the passenger seat next to the driver and ran away into the hotel. Annoyed already, the driver got out of his seat and yelled, "Hey lady! Hey lady!" But was interrupted when the car behind him started honking. Giving up, he just got back into his taxi and drove away.
The car behind that was honking opened up to reveal an elegant looking man.
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"Oh my god, so embarrassing." Katara muttered to herself and entered the hotel doors. "Where is it?" Getting confused, Katara quickly scurried over to the check in desk.
"Hello, how can I help you?" the check in lady asked.
"Uh, can you speak Airean?" Katara asked, even though she wasn't really good in that language either.
"Sure, what can I do for you?" the check in lady asked in Airean.
"Uh, uh, uh, hold on a second." Katara asked and shuffled through her backpack for her Airean dictionary. "uh, I made a reservation. My name is Katara Kuruk."
"Oh, wait a minute." The check in lady replied and checked through the computer.
"--I'm looking for Mr. Zuko Bei. He's staying at this hotel." Someone's voice said. Katara quickly turned her head around to the right and saw a good-looking guy next to her, also speaking in Airean.
Ring. Ring. Ring. His cell phone suddenly rang.
"Hello? Yes, I know…" the man started talking in FNese. As the man turned off his phone after his conversation, Katara's and the man's eyes made contact, and Katara shot him a flirty look.
"What you looking at?" Katara mumbled in Waterean, thinking that he wouldn't be able to understand. "Am I that pretty?"
Understanding everything she just said, the man silently smirked.
"Aw, why are you smiling? For an Airean, you speak really good FNese." Katara complimented.
"I'm sorry, perhaps there's something wrong. You haven't booked any room. Will you please make sure again?" the check in lady asked.
"Excuse me?" God, what's she saying?!
"She said that you haven't made a reservation." The man next to her explained to her in Waterean suddenly. "Are you sure you made reservations?"
"Y-Yes." She stuttered, with her voice somewhat caught in her throat.
"Are there any rooms available?" he asked the check in lady in FNese.
"Yes, there is. How many days will you be staying?"
"How long will you be staying?" he asked Katara.
"U-Until Friday."
"She'll stay until Friday." He translated and told the check in lady.
"Is Room 1305 okay?"
"Yes. You can go to your room when the lady hands you the keys." The man told Katara. "Is there anything else I can help you with?"
"No, thanks for your help." Katara stuttered nervously, and the man left. As soon as he was out of sight, Katara whined and banged her head on the counter. Ahh! I would've rather died!
Arriving in her room, Katara put down some pictures of her and her family and friends on the counter against the wall.
Grr..
Katara's stomach growled. Realizing that she was hungry, she went to the fridge and got out some cup ramen. Noticing that there wasn't really anything to heat up her ramen with, she headed downstairs to the lobby. She quickly got her ramen heated up and headed back upstairs. As she was walking toward the elevator, she bumped into that man from before.
"Oh my..Oh! Hello!" Katara greeted cheerfully.
"Hi. We meet again." The man smiled.
"I'm really sorry about before." She apologized.
"You must be having dinner." He said and pointed at her ramen in a cup.
"Yeah…by the way, my name is Katara Kuruk." She introduced herself.
"Hi, I'm Haru Yil."
"Are you staying here?"
"No, I just came to visit a friend. Zuko Bei, the actor."
"Oh, I see." Katara said, remembering how she humiliatingly threw up on him.
"Um, I'd like to continue this conversation, but uh, it looks like your ramen will be over cooked."
"Oh! Then I better get going then. It was nice meeting you!" Katara cheerfully said and ran into the elevator.
Back into her room, Katara quickly scarfed down her ramen in a matter of minutes, due to her starving hunger. "Ah…" she sighed and headed toward the telephone. She, again, dialed in some numbers. But nobody answered.
"Ugh! Why isn't anybody answering?"
"--At the tone, please leave a message--"
"Hey! Why aren't you answering the damn phone?! Nobody picked me up from the airport! And I'm out of money! Hurry up and call the hotel! Okay, I mean, I don't even have a passport right now! You two are so dead when I come back!"
Lying back down on her bed, she began to think. I swear, something definitely went wrong on this stupid trip. Whatever, I'll start on the thinking once I go back. But how am I gonna go back to Ba Sing Se?! Whining in her head, she turned over and noticed Zuko's shirt that she washed and dried hanging on the shirt.
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Sitting quietly on a chair, Zuko began to think and stared at the phone. Hesitatingly on whether to call a special someone, the phone suddenly began to ring.
"Hello? Who? Katara Kuruk?"
Zuko opened the door and there standing was Katara.
"Hi. Do you remember me?"
"…"
"You know…the person on the plane…" Katara pretended to gag.
"Ah, yeah. Why are you here?"
"Oh yeah, you forgot your shirt. Don't worry, I washed it and ironed it myself.
"Thank you. Bye." Zuko grabbed the shirt and closed the door in her face.
"But--" Katara tried to say.
Sniffing the shirt just in case, he quickly threw it on the chair, sniffed his hands, and grimaced at the disgusting lingering smell of barf.
Knock, Knock
Zuko once again opened the door, and there she was, Katara standing at his doorway once again.
"Other than that, I also have something to say to you." Katara smiled. "Is it okay if I come in?"
"Just say it here."
"Well…it's kind of long…"
"Then make it short."
"But…it's long."
"Then goodbye." Zuko said and began to close the door again, but just as it was about to close, Katara held her hands out stopping the door.
"Can you lend me some money?" Katara immediately asked.
"What?" he asked coldly.
"I don't have any money to pay the hotel or to buy a plane ticket."
"…"
"I'll pay you back when we go back to Ba Sing Se. Okay?"
"You're really something…" he scoffed.
"Please?"
"I don't have any money." He said and slammed the door.
She knocked again, and he opened up exasperating.
"I know you're overwhelmed, but I'm really desperate. I'm in this foreign place all by myself, and I saw that we're both from Ba Sing Se. That's why I'm keep coming to you for help."
He slammed the door again. Sighing sadly, Katara looked down on the floor.
But, miraculously, he opened up again. "Don't bang on the door again, got it?"
Zuko closed the door on her face again and went back to his room.
Knock, knock
"HEY!!" he yelled in her face as he opened up. "I thought I told you not to bang on my door!"
"Then…can you at least give me Haru Yil's contact number?" Katara asked.
"What?"
"Haru Yil…he's still here, isn't he?"
"How do you know Haru?"
"I'm guessing that you two must be close…can't you help me because of him?" Katara asked.
"Mm?" Zuko mumbled in a confused fashion.
"But, why can't you speak politely to me?"
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"So, what's your relationship with Haru?" Zuko asked taking a seat, sitting across from Katara in his suite.
"We just…know each other." Katara said.
"Then what do you mean by can't I help you because of him?"
Sighing, she replied, "Well…the past is the past…I don't really feel like talking about him now." She bluffed. "It's out problem."
What? What's she talking about? "Ahem, Haru's not here anymore. Actually, I don't really know where he really is right now."
"He's not here?" Damn.
"But, did you guys date for a long time?" Zuko asked curiously, obviously falling into Katara's trap.
"What?" Huh. This could work. "What if we did?"
"…"
"If fate hadn't played its stupid game on us, we could've been married by now..." Katara lied.
"…" Huh?
"Everytime I think about him, my heart still aches painfully." She explained and put on the best sad face she was able to. Please make this work!!
By now, Zuko's face expression practically proved that he fell for the little bluff Katara made.
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Sighing, Katara plopped herself on her bed with a straight face, but her lips slowly curved into a giddy grin as she held up handfuls of money in her palms. "Did I go too overboard? Oh whatever, I'll just pay him back later. Oh, thank God, I'm alive. What a relief."
Friday finally came and Katara was now seated on the plane back to Ba Sing Se, as was Zuko. Thankfully, they ended up in different parts of the plane, unlike last time. As time flew by, the plane finally arrived in Ba Sing Se. Katara was quickly able to get out of the airport. As soon as she did, she ran to the payphone and immediately dialed in Sokka's number.
Unfortunately, since nobody picked up, she decided to just leave a message.
"Hey, Sokka! Suki! Hey, I'm back in Ba Sing Se now. If you guys don't call me back with a good explanation, I swear, I'm gonna chop you up into little pieces and burn you all up! Got it?!" and she slammed the phone back.
Calling a taxi, she made it home to her beautiful enormous house.
"I'm back!" she cheerfully yelled as she opened up the front door and entered. But immediately, her smile was completely replaced with a jaw on the floor as the door opened up to reveal the entire house completely empty!
She immediately dropped her bag and ran upstairs to check out the other rooms. She opened up the large room with the red doors just to have it completely empty. She ran to the other side and opened up the blue doors and saw that it too was completely empty as well.
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"Excuse me, is Sokka here?" Katara asked the man sitting at the counter in the bank.
"Sokka already resigned." He replied simply.
"What?! When did he resign?!" she yelled.
"About a month ago."
"A-a month?!" Katara grunted. "No wonder, I knew that jerk was up to something. God, he really is something."
"Customer, Is there anything else I can help you with?"
"No thanks." Katara said gritting her teeth. "You guys planned this from the start, you even steal my house. I really should eat you two alive!" she muttered to herself.
"Oh wait!" Katara gasped as she ran back to the counter and asked the man something. "Excuse me. I have some money in my account. Can you please check it for me?"
"Oh sure. Uh…let's see. It says here that you already took all your money with you."
"I don't have anything?!"
"Oh, wait, it says here that you still have 75 cents left. Here, you can check for yourself." He said and handed her the paper.
Her hands shaking furiously, she muttered, "Sokka" over and over and left.
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"Hi, hello. Do you know where your neighbor, a guy named Sokka, moved to?" Katara asked an old lady.
"Oh, I don't know." The old lady replied.
"Can you think carefully?"
"I don't know anything." The old lady replied again and went back into her house.
Katara then left and asked around at any other place he might have been. Giving up for now, Katara walked back the long way home and stepped into her house. Still extremely annoyed and angry, Katara frantically searched her house for anything that was left, but she found nothing. Looking through all the drawers in her kitchen, Katara finally came across a small letter.
Look Katara, forgive us for having to do this. There really was nothing else we could do. We swear, we'll come back once we succeed. But by then, hopefully, we'll meet with happy smiles. P.S. Suki's pregnant! By the way, an ultrasound scan is included. We love you. Sokka and Suki.
Furious, she crumbled up the paper and threw it across the room and took out the scan picture from the envelope.
"God, you guys are officially crazy. Crazy!"
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Looking out from the window in his silver car, Zuko kept his golden eyes on a clothing store in which a dark brown headed girl was in charge of. Finally making his decision, Zuko stepped out of his car and into the store.
Walking around a corner inside the store, he saw the girl designing an outfit on a mannequin, but she quickly turned around and faced him. Instantly, a smile was placed on her face.
"Zuko!" the girl said.
"Are you busy?" he asked and took a seat on the couch as the girl walked over to him.
"You stayed there for more than a couple of days and you didn't even call!" the girl said. "Then again, you never ever call me first."
"Ahem, I didn't have any business with you." Zuko smiled.
"You only call me for business? You're no fun."
"Why? Did you wait for my call?"
"Yeah, so I can ask you to go and buy me presents." The girl laughed. "You didn't buy me anything huh?"
"Well then let's just go out for dinner tomorrow instead." Zuko flirted.
"Okay, fine, that'll do." The girl laughed.
"Jin?" Zuko sighed.
"Yeah?
"I met Haru. He seems to be doing fine."
"Oh, really?" Jin replied, her face brightening up slightly more.
"He said he's coming back to Ba Sing Se. I think he found a new publishing company."
"Oh…" she sighed.
"He says he misses you." He replied, trying to cheer her up.
Ring…Ring…ring…
"Hello?" Jin asked picking up her phone. "Haru? What's up? You calling me…Really? You're coming tomorrow? Come over, we can have dinner together. Really? You better keep your promise or I'm gonna get really mad. Okay? Okay, I'll see you tomorrow. Bye." Jin hung up her phone and began to blush.
"…" Zuko remained silent.
"Hey Zuko, Haru is coming over tomorrow." Jin told Zuko.
"Yeah, I heard."
"Hey, can Haru join us tomorrow? Huh?" Jin asked. Hesitantly replying yes, Zuko drove home and went into his room.
Damn. Zuko thought and furiously threw his jacket onto the ground.
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Entering the fashion store in a careless manner, Haru walked in and saw Jin fixing up an outfit on a mannequin. Haru silently walked up and pretended to be an employee there and started looking through the rack of clothes near her.
"Will it be cheaper if I just by all the clothes here?" Haru asked and Jin faced his direction. Seeing his face, Jin just turned back to the mannequin and pouted.
"How are you?" Haru asked flashing her a smile.
"Who are you?" Jin frowned and pretended not to know him.
"Uh, You don't know me? Well, I must have come to the wrong store." Haru said playing along. "I should leave then."
"Oh, haha." Jin giggled and walked up to him and gave him a big hug.
Outside, Zuko walked toward the store entrance but saw Jin and Haru hugging through a window, and his narrowed into a mad expression. Becoming jealous, Zuko walked back to his car and sat down sighing. Right then, an idea formed in his head and his lips curved into a smirk.
To be continued…
Well, this turned out longer than I thought it would. I know that almost everyone is completely OOC in this chapter, and probably a few of the following chapters after this, but don't worry, everything will fall into place after a short while.
As for Jin's character, I was normally gonna do Mai, but she didn't really fit the character. Plus, I always thought Jin and Haru would be good together.
-zkjanie