Chapter 4: When they fight

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AN: After I post this chapter, I am going to correct the name because it's killing me. I am so retarded.

Previously on chapter three:

That started a chorus of kiss him's, but one voice wasn't there, Aang's. So Katara, look at Zuko and said, "I'm sorry," then ran, going to find Aang.

Katara ran along the corridors of the palace, screaming Aang's name at the top of her lungs, until she was hoarse. He was nowhere to be seen. After checking the palace/palace gardens, she fell to her knees and started sobbing. 'It's my entire fault,' she thought. 'If only we had taken a ship instead of taking Appa. Wait- Appa! Maybe Aang is with Appa. He probably wanted some alone time, but it's getting awfully cold. He couldn't still be flying, and if he is, he has to be flying low, where the air is warmer. Or he stopped somewhere secluded and sat there. Either way, Katara was leaving, going to look for Aang.

But, amazingly, Katara found Appa still at the palace, eating some cabbage. Aang must have taken his glider, which she has suggested that he take to the Peace Conference. 'Where in the world would he be in the Fire Nation?' she asked herself underneath her breath. She had no idea. 'I'll start with the town, then the rural area and then the woods. She rode Appa around the town and rural area, but she didn't find him.

It ended up that she had Appa land near the woods, and started crying again. Aang, her best friend, was gone because of one little mistake and now she wouldn't see him again and then she would have to live with the pain of knowing that she was the one that made him leave.

Katara was on the hard, forest floor, when she heard footsteps behind her. Quickly, she wiped away her tears to find Toph behind her.

"Oh, it's just you," Katara said.

"Yeah, just me," Toph said. "Who were you expecting, Sparky? Twinkletoes? Really?"

"Well, just someone that could help me find Aang. I don't mean that you can't help me, but I'm going to be flying on Appa, and your blind and all..."

"What if I could tell you where Aang is right now, without having to really search?"

"Really? You can? Why don't you tell me? I NEED to know where he is!"

"Why don't ya look up Sugar Queen?" Just as Toph said, Katara looked up and Aang was there in the trees, not 10 feet away, but 100 feet up. It looked as if Aang was asleep or talking with Avatar Roku inside himself again. Katara looked again at Toph, who was picking at her nails that Katara had done for the Peace conference. Katara started climbing the tree that Aang was on, but Toph held her back. She looked angrily at Toph, but she just shook her short black hair, and said, "Whether he's asleep or not, we should leave him alone. Remember the last time that you tried to wake him from the Avatar state?"

The last time Katara tried to do that, she ended up barely living, because he blasted all the elements at her*, and Katara healed herself from the water that Aang used, coming out with only a couple of small scars from that. She's never going to do that again. 'Never again will I attempt to take Aang out of anything like that.'

"Come on SugarQueen, let's go back to the palace and see if they have any dessert left, because they made me come get you when they started serving the Rocky Road Ice Cream, and you know how much I love that stuff!"

************************************************** (later in the palace dining room) ********************************************************

"Toph, really? 95 bowls in 15 minutes? How is that even possible?" Katara complained as yet another bowl of Rocky Road Ice Cream came out to be devoured by Toph.

"Mmph," was Toph's genius response. She swallowed what she had in her mouth, then turned to the water tribe ambassador, and shoved another spoonful of the stuff into her mouth. When Toph did that, there was a clattering in the kitchen, and one of the waitresses came out shyly.

She smiled shyly, and then said, "Lady Katara, Firelord Zuko would like to talk with you in his study. If you could follow me please."

Katara got up reluctantly from her seat and followed the petite girl out of the dining room, and through a bunch of corridors. She quickly got lost, and knew she was going to get lost, or was going to depend on Zuko to help her out of the maze of hallways. Finally, they got to his study library thing.

"Wait here one moment please. Let me see if he's ready for you." She went inside; leaving Katara alone in the hallway to ponder what Zuko wanted her for. After a few moments, the waitresses returned.

"You may go in now, Lady Katara. It's been an honor showing you the way."

'More with the honor stuff,' Katara thought as she bid her farewell and turned to face the doors. Katara took a deep breath before opening the door to find Zuko and Iroh there. The two were discussing something in quiet voices. When she saw, she started to back out, but the door squeaked, announcing her presence to them. They immediately stopped talking and turned their attention to her.

"Ah, Miss Katara. I will leave you two alone now." Iroh bowed to her and Zuko then left the room.

Zuko then turned to Katara and sighed. "Iroh has really been getting on my case about me finding a Fire Lady. I was wondering if you had seriously been considering my offer. I wasn't kidding at all Katara. Deadly serious." He looked so cute with his golden eyes staring at her in seriousness.

"How many times do I have to tell you? I am marrying Aang. Not some Fire Nation dork that has to ask a girl twice to marry him, when he knows that she is totally and completely taken." Zuko looked offended and tried to argue, but Katara cut him off. "You little firebender has to look to the most powerful waterbender in the entire world for marriage. What about Mai? She is still in jail, or whatever, and you didn't even think to ask her. Why in the freakin' world would you ask me?"

"I don't know Katara, I don't know. I just did, and for my sanity, give me an answer!" Katara looked scared at Zuko. He seemed to be fuming, and he could burst out in firebending at any point in time.

"Okay, here's your answer oh –so –mighty –Firelord-Zuko. No, never, never in a million years. And do you want to know why? It's because you are a selfish little brat that can't even run his country without his Uncle or anyone else beside him." She left Zuko in his study, with the look of shock on his face, to look for Aang again.

*Like at the finale of the series.

AN: So…. Yeah… Sorry for posting late. Really, I truly am. Hope you enjoyed it!

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