Hey, just letting you know that the next few chaps will have a lot of dialogue out of the actual show. I put in extra parts, but I figured I would just have it because it was crucial to the story. anywho, seeing as it was going to be a little bit before any lemony stuff I thought I'd toss in something extra in the beginning. Also, it came to my attention

Badonyx: I apologize again; I wasn't thinking clearly and put the wrong ages for Sokka and Zuko. They are both 17.

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The cool air felt good on Katara's exposed skin. A sheet had been carelessly pulled up sometime in the middle of the night, covering most of her body. She had fallen asleep on Zuko's chest, one leg thrown over his in possessiveness. Her other leg was exposed to the cool air. She looked into the firebenders face and had to stifle a giggle. He hadn't changed since she fell asleep. He still had a small smile with his mouth slightly parted, and still turned toward her. The only difference was the small sliver of drool escaping his mouth. She wriggled closer to him. A small snore escaped Zuko. Poor guy is exhausted. She turned her head and kissed his chest.

"-tara….sleep…" Zuko groaned. He yawned and moved his arm that wasn't holding Katara to him, over his eyes.

"You don't want to try for five?" She grinned as he groaned.

"Spirit….willing…..body….dead…" he moved his arm about as if trying to convey his message before it slumped back down.

"Okay." She giggled. She pulled away, moving her leg off of him. She winced as a pain shot between her legs. I didn't think I would be this sore. She grinned at his sleeping form before crawling over him. His eyes fluttered open. She began kissing his neck, careful to not leave any marks then she trailed kisses down his chest.

"Katara…." He attempted. She ignored him and moved lower, pushing the sheets down as she went. She laid kisses all around his belly button and kissed lower. She made it halfway down his lower abdomen before Zuko figured it out. "Katara?"

She grinned mischeviously before sticking her tongue to his skin and moving herself down lower, allowing the tip of her tongue to make a line straight for his cock. It began to rise with the new attention. "I don't think this part of your body is dead." She giggled. He groaned.

Staring at it she bit her lip. She shrugged, I'll figure it out. I mean how hard could it be? Bending down she planted a kiss on the tip. It moved upward as Zuko gasped. Um, maybe not like that. She gently grasped it and began to kiss the end of it again. It hardened in her hand. Much better. She licked the top of it and his hips bucked up.

"Sorry, it's just-" he was cut off as Katara's mouth covered him halfway down his shaft. He forced himself to keep his hips from bucking by clenching his teeth and grabbing onto the loose sheets. She removed her mouth and he breathed out. He looked at her to see her looking at his cock with a concentrated look. She then grinned and lowered her head back down. He grabbed the sheets to prepare himself. As her mouth went down his shaft again, he shoved his fist in his mouth to keep from crying out. She pulled her mouth almost all the way off before moving back down again, this time going farther. He shifted his hips slightly trying to keep from bucking. He moaned loudly against his hand as it made her mouth turn about it. Katara began to imitate the turning sensation and Zuko reached for the pillow to cover his head. He stuffed it in his face just as Katara began to suck harder while slowly twisting her mouth. He yelled into the pillow as his hips bucked. He felt Katara pull away. He could hear her breathing heavy. She traced her fingertips on his upper thighs, moving up and down. They moved upward and grasped his cock firmly. Her hand moved up and down, he wriggled some more. He could feel her breath on him again. She placed her mouth on the very tip and sucked gently. He could feel the pillow tearing where he was grabbing it. Then her mouth moved down, all the way down where he could feel himself in the back of her throat. He was pretty sure his eyees rolled into the back of his head. Her mouth moved back up his shaft and back down to the base. The pillow ripped further. She bagan to move her mouth faster, sucking harder. Her hands grasped his hips and her nails dug in. he was close, he arched his hips begging her to take more of him. As her mouth glided down his shaft again he pulled the pillow away.

"Katara, I'm ….about…to-" He tried to clench out, but she didn't stop. She sucked even harder, twisting her head. He shoved the pillow back over his head as he yelled into it. He could feel the orgasm all the way to his toes as they curled, grasping bits of sheet. He breathed heavily into the pillow. After a minute he finally trusted himself to remove it. He looked to see Katara on her knees between his legs grinning.

"Not bad for a first time, huh?"

Oooooooooooooooooooooooo

"The sun is rising." Zuko said quietly. He could feel his inner temperature rising with the sun.

"Yeah." Katara said sadly. She lay in his arms, her breast against his chest, their legs intertwined.

"This was it, wasn't it?" Zuko laid his chin on her head.

"…I don't know." She said quietly. Zuko blinked in confusion.

"But you said-"

"I know what I said." She said irritably. "It's just…I still don't know if I can be with him. Not after all of this."

"Oh…couldn't deal with the guilt."

"Among other things." She breathed in. "I could always give Aang a kiss on the cheek but I could never get any further than that. Every time we did, it was always him pushing."

"I don't think you should be with him." Zuko said quietly.

"I'm sure Mai would appreciate the thought."

Zuko sighed. "Katara, you deserve to be with someone who you would actually want to kiss, otherwise it's all going to be a lie."

Katara pulled away. "For now, we do nothing." She stood up and turned toward him. "Let's see what happens during Sozin's comet first. I can't decide anything now." She fidgeted with her hair.

"You need to go." Katara looked at him hurt. "I mean the sun is getting higher. We can't risk anyone catching us right now." She nodded and bent down to retreive her pants. Her eyebrow twitched as she held up her burnt underbindings.

"You thought it was funny last night." Zuko shrugged.

"Okay that's everything." Sokka said as he moved toward Appa. They had just finished packing all their belongings and were about to head off toward the fire palace.

"No, it's not." Toph said. "Where's Aang?" Zuko and Katara looked at each other. They both ran to go find the Avatar.

"Aang! Aang!" Zuko yelled. Are you running away again?

"Come on lazy bones, let's go" Toph yelled. Zuko ran with toward Aang's room. He threw the doors open but nothing was there. He walks out to see Toph tossing up her hands.

Zuko followed the sound of Sokka's voice to see him on a balcony holding Aang's staff. He couldn't have gone far. "Aang's not in the house. Let's check the beach." That's where he was that one night. Maybe he's just sleeping.

They gang raced down to the beach. The only thing there was dark shadows of footprints.

"Look, there's his footprints!" Sokka follows them. "The trail ends here." He stops at the edge of the water.

"So, he went for a midnight swim and never came back?" Suki asked. Zuko's eyes widened. Aang couldn't have found out could he?

"Maybe he was captured?" Katara asked worriedly. She looked toward Zuko. Did Aang find out?

"I don't think so. There's no sign of a struggle." Sokka said.

"I bet he ran away again." Toph said matter of factly.

"Nuh-uh. He left behind his glider and Appa." Sokka said.

"Then what do you think happened to him oh Sleuthy one?" leaned against her arm.

"It's pretty obvious." Sokka stands up. "Aang mysteriously disappears before an important battle? He's definitely on a spitit world journey."

"But if he was, wouldn't his body still be here?" Zuko asked.

"oh, yeah. Forgot about that." Sokka slumped.

"Then he's gotta be somewhere on Ember Island. Let's split up and look for him." Katara said determined. Aang where are you?

Toph grabs Zuko's arm quickly "I'm going with Zuko!" she said cheerily. Zuko turned red as everyone stared at them. Please, tell me Toph doesn't know. "What? Everyone else went on a lifechanging fieldtrip with Zuko. Now it's my turn" She hugs onto Zuko's arm even tighter. I'm doomed.

Everyone shrugged and headed out in different directions, leaving Zuko and Toph alone together. "I think we should check the rest of the beach." Zuko began walking along the coast. He kept his head turned away from her, his face still red. Breathe Zuko, you are on sand. She has a harder time with sand.

"So, you want to tell me why you don't want to be stuck with me?" Toph grinned.

"Not really."

"Oh I will find out eventually what happened, so don't worry about it." Toph walked past a frozen Zuko.

"I'm not that bad of a liar." Zuko glared.

"Uh, yeah you are. But that's not what I'm talking about. I think the reason you and Katara are so worried about where Aang is, has absolutely nothing to do with the comet." Zuko frowned. "He caught you didn't he?"

"No. He didn't" Zuko growled. At least I hope he didn't.

"So, something did happen. And 'if' Aang caught you, that could be the reason he's gone"

"Can we talk about something else?"

"You bet, I still want my lifechanging field trip." She grinned. "Now what to talk about."

"Let's just find Aang." Zuko sped up.

"Let's see, I know! My parents! You get the whole parents not understanding you!' Zuko hung his head, "let's see. When I was really little I ran away, it's when I met the badger moles and learned how to see more clearly with my earthbending. After I came home I tried to tell them that I could see! But they just added more security to me making sure I wouldn't run away again. When I was 6 I ran away again to see them. I was there a whole month before I came back. When I was 7 they decided my running away was me trying to find an outlet and got me an earthbending teacher. The jerk wouldn't even go past the beginning level, not even when I met Aang. And then when I was nine, I ran away again."

"Uh-huh" Zuko continued looking.

"I know I shouldn't complain, my parents gave me everything I ever asked for. But they never gave me the one thing that I really wanted: their love. You know what I mean?"

Zuko stopped in front of her, "Look, I know you had a rough childhood but we should really focus on finding Aang." He walked away.

"This is the worst fieldtrip ever!" Toph blew her bangs out of her face. They continued walking in silence. After trailing around the entire Island they returned to the house, waiting for the others to return.

After a while Appa lands in front of them, "Judging by the looks on your faces, I'm guess you guys didn't find Aang either." Sokka jumped off.

"No, it's like he just…dissapeared." Zuko said. Is Toph right? Did Aang actually figure it out?

"Hey, wait a minute" Toph sits up. "Has anyone noticed that Momo is missing too?"

"OH NO!" Sokka yelled. "I knew that it was only a matter of time. Appa ate Momo!" Sokka begins crawling into Appa's mouth. "Momo! I'm coming for ya, buddy!"

"Sokka, Appa didn't eat Momo. He's probably with Aang." Katara sighed.

"That's just what Appa wants you to think!" Sokka crawls further in.

"Get out of the Bison's mouth, Sokka!" Zuko yelled. "We have a real problem here. Aang is nowhere to be found and the comet is only 2 days away.

"What should we do, Zuko." Those beautiful blue eyes looked up at him. Behind her, Sokka slid out of Appa's mouth, covered in saliva.

"I don't know," Zuko noticed everyone was staring at him. "Why are you all looking at me?"

"Well, you are kind of the expert on tracking Aang." Katara said.

"Yeah, if anyone's got experience hunting the Avatat," Toph began. "It's you." Zuko thought for a second. We only have two days, where would he have gone. There's no way to even track him over water. An image of a gigantic beast jumping onto his ship and tearing through the metal came to him. June and her Shirshu!

"And the reason you broughts us to a seedy Earth Kingdom tavern is what now?" Katara looked around the very loud and busy tavern.

"June," Zuko pointed toward a dark haired lady drinking hot teas and kicking a man down.

"Oh, yeah. That weird bounty hunter with a giant mole." Sokka remembered. June dodged an uncoming attack, almost dancing between her opponents.

"Mole?" Suki asked. "Her skin is flawless."

"No, she has this giant mole creature she rides around on." Sokka explained.

"Her Shirshu," Zuko said. "It's the only animal that can track Aang's scent anywhere in the world." He turned to look at Katara. "It's the one shot we have at finding him."

June tossed her tea in the air before tossing a man across the room. She reached out and grabbed the tea without spilling a drop. "I don't know who this June lady is but I like her." Toph crossed her arms.

"Hey, I remember her! She helped you attack us!" Sokka's eyes widened.

"Yep, back in the good old days." Back when everything made sense. Zuko walked toward June.

"Oh great," June noticed Zuko. "It's prince pouty. Where's your creepy grandpa?"

"He's my uncle, and he's not here." Zuko said.

"I see you worked things out with your girlfriend." June smirked, looking at Katara.

"SHE'S NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!" good thing Aang isn't here.

"I'M NOT IS GIRLFRIEND!" Why is Everyone saying this. We can't be this obvious!

"OK, Ok" June puts her hand out. "Sheesh. I was only teasing. So what you want."

"I need your help finding the Avatar." Zuko stated.

"Hmph doesn't sound too fun." June sipped her tea.

"Does the end of the world sound like more fun?" He yelled at June. She blinked for a moment, looking toward their faces.

"Fine. Let's get this over with." Outside the Shirshu and Appa were growling at each other. Appa licked the shirshu's face and they both calmed down.

"Nyla," June held up some raw meat and then threw it to the animal. "Who's my snuffly wuffly?" The shirshu shot out its tongue."WHOA! Careful there. Ok. Who's got something with the Avatar's scent on it."

"I have Aang's staff!" Katara pulled it out of Appa's saddle. June offered it to the animal. It began to sniff around the area, going in circles. After a few moments it put its paws over its head and whimpered.

"Well," Zuko crossed his arms. "What does that mean?"

"It means your friend is gone." June said.

"We know he's gone, that's why we're trying to find him. Toph said exasperated.

"No, I mean he's gone, gone." June said. "He doesn't exist." Zuko's eyes widened.

"What do you mean he doesn't exist? Do you mean he's….you know, dead?" Sokka asked.

"Nope, we could find him if he were dead. Ah, it's a real head scratcher. See ya." June jumped onto the shirshu's saddle.

"Helpful. Real helpful" Toph said.

"Wait. I have another idea." Aang if you can't help us, then I know who can. "There's only one other person in this world who can help us find the fire lord. I'll be right back with a smell sample." Zuko ran over to Appa and began rummaging in his sack. He pulled out the very stinky sandle. He ran back holding the sandle at a distance.

"You saved your Uncle's sweaty sandle?" Sokka plugged his nose.

"I think it's kind of sweet." Toph said. The shirshu sniffed the sandle.

"Let's do this." June said, the mole ran quickly into the trees.

"Hey wait up!" The gang Ran to Appa.

They trailed after the mole, flying as fast as they could. Uncle, would you even help me if I found you? Are you still angry? Why wouldn't you be? I betrayed you. I don't deserve your help. Zuko looked down at the reins in his hands. It's probably my fault the Avatar's missing in the first place. He turned toward Katara, who looked at him worriedly. You think it too, don't you Katara. We may have ruined the world's only hope.

Appa soared across the sky, after a while the terrain became familiar. I broken wall loomed ahead. "We're going to Ba Sing Se?" Zuko asked.

"You're Uncle's somewhere beyond the wall." June said as Nyla snifffed at the rubble. "Nyla's getting twitchy so he can't be far. Good luck" June pulls on the reins and takes off.

"It's been a long day," Zuko sighed. "Let's camp and start our search again at dawn." How can I face you Uncle. After everything I did to you. After everything I said.

I am still trying to put these chaps up between my schedule so it may be a few days. Though I have been thinking about the next chapter nonstop. It should be from Zuko meeting Iroh all the way till after the comet. And then finally after that I will begin again on my own ramblings. (Jumps up and down in excitement.) PLEASE REVIEW! It makes me ever so happy! :D