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"You're a fast runner." Iroh's dry voice sounded behind her. She didn't even flinch just sat at the edge of the harbor and looked at the sunset.

"And you are an fast observer." She said sarcastically. He sat beside her dangling his legs above the water along with hers.

"Are you okay?" he asked her truly worried mostly off her calmness.

"Do you care?" she turned her face away and grumbled at the water which pulled away in small waves. Iroh laughed softly.

"Even the water seems to fear you." He meant it as a joke but was aware she might jump up any moment.

"But you don't." It wasn't a question merely an observation.

"Who says I don't?" His tone was light and witty.

"You wouldn't be sitting so close if you did." Was her simple statement. He looked at the almost nonexistent space between them.

"Guess I wouldn't."

"You should." He looked at her in surprise. "You saw what I did today, you know what I am cable of."

"Hey" His tone were soft as if comforting a child. "What happened earlier wasn't you fault, if anything it was mine. You said you didn't want to but we still brought you in. Obviously there is some things you haven't told us yet but how could we expect you to, you've only just meet us." She looked away.

"I could have killed him you know, that temple dude and the other benders too... This isn't the first time something like that happens I have no control of my powers" Iroh reached out to brush her hair away and stroke her cheek.

"If you want to, I could help you with that.." She still didn't look at him.

"Why would you do that, you saw what kind of monster I can be?" Iroh shrugged.

"Because I know how it feels to have people believe that." She looked at him warily.

"You DO?!" Disbelief was clear in her voice along with a bit mocking. Iroh just nodded simply.

"Yeah… after my grandfather's sister went crazy the entire world still look warily too us. They think it runs in the family. Trough my grandfather did great and my mother are doing quiet well too.. It is like they are just waiting for it to click for me." He turned away obviously he had gotten more upset as he talked.

"Well then they are stupid." She stated looking at his back with care.

"No they're not. Every third member of the royal family has been crazy the next in line would be me…"

"That is stupid logic with a lot of holes in it. If you were crazy I think you would have known by now Iroh. I don't think you are and trust me I know crazy. Besides there must be someone else in the line other than you – the one you said were crazy, your grandfathers sister, didn't she have children?" Iroh nodded.

"Yes she did, a boy, we don't know anything of him tough, he was adopted away so his crazy mother wouldn't have the chance to fuck him up." Sparkle smiled, it was genuine one for the first time since he had meet her. It fit her he decided, she looked so beautiful he wished she would do it all the time. He decided he would try to make her smile more often.

"Then maybe he got a crazy kid." Iroh smiled at her and nodded before standing up pulling her with him.

"Come on." He said

"Why?"

"Because it is a dangerous area and I am in uniform." He joked and took her wrist dragging her with him. After a few meters she started laughing.

"Iroh where are we going?" She asked still laughing but he just shook his head. He dragged her trough most of the town before ending up at a small teashop. Sparkle was still laughing.

"What are we doing here." She asked a little impatient and wondering. Iroh's grip changed from her wrist to her hand and he started pulling her inside.

"This is the tea shop my great great uncle started before wandering off into the spirit world. His name was Iroh too, sometimes I come here to get a break away from the world. And-" He shot her a winning smile. "the tea is great too." They went inside the tiny store. It was late and there weren't many guests in the shop. A young man probably around 16 turned from where he was making tea to see who had entered and lit up in a smile.

"Iroh it is great to see you." Sparkle stood for a moment and looked between the two. If she didn't know better she would have passed them off as brothers the young boy certainly looked like Iroh.

"This is my cousin Zokku." He presented sparkle to the young man.

"Zokku this is the Avatar." Zokku smiled and held out his hand which he shock with sparkle's.

"Nice to meet you Avatar." Zokku said with a glimt in his eyes

"You too… Zokku?" she almost asked but both cousins laughed.

"Yeah my dad wanted to name me after my grandfather but my mom vetoed so they ended up on a combination on then being council member Sokka who apparently mom thought to be a hunk and my grandfather Zuko." Sparkle laughed and grabbed Iroh's arm lightly to which he first stiffened then looked at her hand holding his arm and smiled. Of cause she saw nothing of this since her eyes were focused on Zokku.

"Cousin could you show us the back yard and come out with some tea?" Iroh asked his cousin still lightly but Zokku took the hint that his cousin wanted to be alone with the girl.

"Sure thing cousin. This way Avatar." He held out his arm in direction of the narrow hallway between the kitchen and good knows what. Sparkle walked first lightly trough the hallway until she reached a door. Carefully opening it, looking out and gasped. Outside was a beautiful backyard with a little glowing pond and a cherry tree, a lamp and a bench at the wall.

"It is beautiful!" She exclaimed and almost turned around bumping into Iroh who took her by the shoulders and lead her over to the bench.

"Come on let's sit." She shook her head and walked to the pond where she sat down cross legged.

"There is fish in it!" She exclaimed cheerfully and reached out to touch the water. Iroh took of his uniform jacket and threw it over his shoulder before walking over to her spreading it out before sitting. He liked seeing her act so childish, it made her look more innocent less like the exotic dancer he picked up.

"You like fish?" He asked her awkwardly in the lack of anything else to ask. She nodded enthusiastic.

"Yes, well most animals really.." She was deeply concentrated on the pond. Behind them someone cleared their throat. Zokku stood there with a trey and a silly smile on his face.

"I bought you jasmine tea, Iroh's special." He handed the trey to his cousin and left smiling and shaking his head at the couple. Sparkle where looking at him questionly.

"Iroh my great great uncle's special." She nodded in silent understanding. He held out a cup for her.

"Here" she took it silent and looked at the pond again.

"I always wanted to know what it feels like to be a fish." She said in a dreaming voice. Iroh looked at her curious.

"You can bend water it is pretty much the same." He told her and she shrugged.

"I've never really felt close to the elements, sometimes it just feels like it weren't meant to be you know… Well except for fire that came pretty natural." Iroh chuckled.

"Which is funny since your eyes are green." She just shook her head at him.

"Please tell me." He asked. He didn't even need to be specific she knew what he asked for.

"I've already told you everything." She sighed. "I was an orphan then one day it happened and that is it."

"No I mean tell me. Your story, not just the avatar stuff. I want to know everything. Please?" She sighed and looked up at the sky. It was clear, the stars were blinking down at them.

"I grew up at an orphanage in Bei sing Sai. It was a religious group that lead it, crazy old ladies. They didn't believe in spirits you see, they believed in the avatar. Avatar Aang to be exact and nothing further than him. To them he was a god. Anyway I grew up there, they told me my mom had left me in a basket at their door when I was a few hours old. No message, no nothing just a baby in a basket. She hadn't even named me" She took a deep breath. Iroh grabbed her hand.

"We were a lot of kids there, some were treated better than others. I surely wasn't their favorite. But of cause that might have to do with my behavior. One day when I was six I took off. I decided I didn't wanted to live with some religious freaks anymore. So I lived on the streets for a few months but I wasn't the only kid living on the streets and eventually I realized if I stayed I would die. I heard two men talking one day, one were going to the old colonies to pick up red clothes and other goods. I sneaked into the back of his carriage and tacked along to the next city. There were fewer homeless and people felt sorry for me as I was so young. I lived a long time out of peoples kindness. But eventually I turned 10 and I wasn't so cute anymore. I had to find another way to get by. So I went off again this time by foot. It was almost two months until I came to a village. Looking back those two months were my happiest, but I was just a kid and being out in the wild by myself wasn't as attractive as it is now. That is when I meet a woman named Yaia at the village. She was dancing teacher and she was in trouble. She had promised some noble she would entertain with her girls at the next party but one girl had fallen ill and died. There wasn't any more girls around that age at the village so when she found me… She offered to teach me and gave me a place to stay while doing so. In return I preformed with her and the girls and helped her out at her home. Of cause I had a lot more time to learn than the other girls so I quickly got better than any of them. Eventually I got to preform alone.

I was only fourteen when I caught Kentis's eye. He was a young handsome man from the earth kingdom, his father drove an agentsy for dancers. He offered Yaia a lot of money in exchange I was going to tour with him and his father for the season. I didn't like it. He wanted me to like it but I didn't. I was dancing every night but it wasn't what I had learned. It was private dances for noble men it was parties with rich snobs and taking off my clothes when I didn't want to. I had no say in it I was to do as his father asked. Eventually I ran off.

Getting by was easier now. I had learned how to dance and I exchanged shows for other favors. Traveled from town to town only stayed a few days each place. Some places I would return to others I wouldn't. Then one day two years ago I was being chased by a couple of men down some alley. Growing up on the streets and at dance clubs I learned how to take care of myself a long time ago. But when I turned to punch one of them a flame burned his cheek before my fist connected with his jaw. It scarred them off but it scarred me more. I used a lot of time experimenting how to use my powers. That was when I learned fire wasn't the only element I could use. Eventually I figured it out you know. There is only one who can use all of the elements and that is the Avatar. I knew Korra had disappeared from my stay in republic city. I decided to keep low about it. I figured the world wasn't ready yet, still expecting Korra to return. But time went by and she never came. I knew she wasn't coming back of cause but the world didn't. I still heard people talking about her everywhere I went people were talking about great Avatar Korra and how she was soon to return." She let her eyes wander from the sky to the grass they were sitting on.

"And then I kind of got angry. I don't even know who got angry at it was just… they were all waiting for her and eventually the new avatar but… I was right there and they didn't see me, they never had and I decided they wouldn't. I decided that if I was to save the world then the world should have saved me long ago but it didn't. It failed me. Besides they were so busy thinking about their precious Korra and Aang.. They never would have accepted anything less than what they were. Korra was daughter of a chief, Aang the last air bender I mean he was stuck in ice for a 100 years! Who was I? just some street rat, the only ones who knew who I was thought of me as a monster." They sat in silence for a few minutes, Iroh was just taking it all in.

"Wow I can't believe it…"

"Then don't." She ripped her hand from his grip and started raising. "I don't need you to."

"No stop." He grabbed her hand and pulled her down to him. "I just meant I can't believe how much you have been trough… from the minute you were born.." they sat a moment he was still thinking it all over.

"So when you said you name was sparkle that it was as true as any other?" She merely nodded at his question.

"But the religious women they took you in right? They gave you a home and a name didn't they?" She laughed but it was a dry humorless one.

"Not exactly. I was born on the night Avatar Aang died. They believed every child born on this night was cursed. So they didn't name us, when referring to us they called us cursed."

"Then someone else did? What is you name?"

"I don't have any."

The thought that someone didn't have a name was so absurd to Iroh he couldn't even imagine it.

"So you named yourself?"

"No. I made up names where I went but I never kept one." He sat there thinking for a moment then he grabbed her chin to make her look at him.

"How about Azula? It fits you." She sat there thinking about it for a few moment trying it out in her head then nodded smiling.

"I like it, it is different, I've never heard it before." Iroh nodded.

"I've heard it I just don't remember where but Azulon is a very common name in my line lots of fire lords wore it." She looked down in disappointment.

"Then it is a royal name… I can't bear a royal name." He grabbed her chin again making her look at him.

"Of cause you can! No one has used it since before the war, if they liked the name they should have kept it." She nodded but then frowned.

"We have to ask your mother first, I don't want it if she doesn't accept." Iroh nodded casually, he knew his mother wouldn't mind.

"Alright." Then he smiled and she smiled back. They sat there in the moon light for what felt like hours just talking. Zokku was watching from the window shaking his head at his lovesick cousin.

She stirred her tea before taking another bite of her breakfast slightly worried it wasn't like Iroh to miss breakfast and she hadn't seen him come home last night but Lin had assured her he was with the Avatar so she trusted he was coming back. Surely enough just as she had dismissed her worry the doors opened and Iroh walked in.

"Good morning mother." He greeted her with a happy satisfied grin on his face. The fire lady looked at him from the top of her cup.

"Good morning what made you in such a good mood?" Truth was she knew the avatar had caught her son's eye but she wanted him to confirm it to her.

"Oh nothing just had some great late night stroll last night." She smiled to herself.

"That wouldn't have to do with a certain young and if I must say beautiful newly discovered avatar does it?" he sat his cup down and gave her a half smile telling her she had hit jackpot.

"Maybe, but speaking of the avatar mom there is something I want to talk to you about."

"And what might that be?" She had a feeling it was about the little episode the avatar made and prepared herself for a long boring talk about what they should do about her but Iroh surprised her.

"I found out something bizarre about her." The fire lady raised an eyebrow in question.

"She doesn't have a name." he stated and both her eyebrows flew up in surprise.

"She doesn't have a NAME?!" He shook his head placing some food on his plate.

"No which is why I gave her one." To the fire lady this conversation was getting more and more weird.

"You did?" he nodded again

"yes and that is what I want to talk to you about." The fire lady was getting very curious about where her son was going with this.

"Why?" He took a deep breath.

"Because I named her Azula." They sat in silence for a moment Iroh was watching his mother's expression while the fire lady was frozen in shock eyes wide open. She had never told her son about her father's crazy sister but she knew he knew about her from others he had talked to. Still she was assured he had no idea of her name which was why it was so absurd to her that it was that name had chosen to the young avatar. She cleared her throat.

"We would have to talk to your grandfather about that." She sated finally finding her voice.

"Why?" Iroh demanded. He couldn't understand why they were making such a huge deal out of a name that hadn't been used in forever.

"Because that was his sisters name." she said nonchalant focusing back on her breakfast. Iroh sat in shock too. That was the first time his mother had even mentioned that Zuko had a sister.

"The crazy one?" His mother nodded and he sat in thought for a moment then he nodded determined.

"Yes we should talk to him about it then." As if on clue Azula/sparkle came through the doors which stood open.

"Good morning." She greeted the two royals politely.

"Good morning dear." The fire lady smiled and handed her the tea pot. "Did you sleep well?" Azula thought for a moment of what to answer. Truth was she hadn't slept very much but of cause she rarely did, but she knew she couldn't tell the fire lady that as she would get the wrong idea about her relationship with her son.

"How could I not in those sheets?" she instead answered avoiding the truth. The fire lady just smiled secretly and emptied her cup.

"That is nice to hear. If you two young people would have me excused, I am going to have a talk with my father. She smiled at them and left them to their breakfast, she would take the discussion about the name with her father alone.

So her name is going to be Azula! That is if Zuko accepts of cause… Review please and tell me what you think!"