I am dreading to finish this story, I feel like I rushed into the love too fast. Literally cant wait till I finish this story to make a new/longer one.

Finding Out

Zuko woke up to Katara's arms wrapped around him, she was snuggled up in his chest. He looked down to see that they were still bare-naked. Maybe it was best if he changed. He scanned the area, looking for the pile of clothes they had made. He put on his clothes and turned around to see that Katara was waking up.

"Morning" He said while giving her a smile. She smiled back to him,

"Good morning" She smiled and sat up, only to realize that she was topless. She gasped and quickly covered herself with her arms. She saw his face grow red and he looked away fast.

He laughed a bit, how funny that she didn't even realize she was naked.

She shot a look at him, was he laughing at her? She felt a bit insecure.
"What are you laughing at?" She said a bit angrily. "You have already seen me na-" she began but he interrupted her.

"Seen you what?" He said while smirking.

"Just… just forget about it" She said while looking away.

"Katara I didn't mean it lik-" He said but then was interrupted by her, "shut up" she said.
he looked at her confused, could she really have gotten that mad over it? "I didn't think it was a big deal" He said before she jumped on him and put her hand over his mouth, "shut up!" she whispered. "Look around" she said while letting go of him.

"It's daytime, the sun has risen. We aren't in the camp. The others… they will be looking for us. They could find us out here." She said looking worried. It was bad enough that she was out there so late into the day, but it was even that her and Zuko were gone. It was no secret that Sokka probably had the entire team looking for her. He probably already knew of her and Zuko now. Before he had only questioned it, but now, for both of them to be gone? She was certain he was going to ask her several questions on this when she returned.

"Sokka and the others, they are going to question this." She said with a nervous tone.

"shit" He said, he looked at Katara's face and could tell that she was panicking.
"If you want I can stay here while you return" He said.

"No… it doesn't matter, they probably already know" She said quietly. She sighed, looked at him and smiled, "lets go" she said.

As they both walked back to camp they were holding hands, with memories of last night on both of their minds. As they reached camp they quickly let go of their hands. Just as predicted Sokka was the first one to come up to Katara, checking her for marks or scars.

"Are you ok?" Sokka asked.

"I'm fine" Katara said back. She could see Sokka start to give Zuko an angry look. She could tell, no, she could sense that he was about to ask her questions.

"Where in hells were you two?" Sokka said a bit angry that his sister had just vanished like that, especially with Zuko.

"Hunting." Zuko said as seriously as possible. Sokka gave him a suspicious look,

"In the morning?" Sokka said giving them a weird look.

Zuko nodded his head, and was about to walk off until Sokka stopped him.

"And what about last night?" Sokka said

Katara shot a look at him "W-what do you mean?" she said with panic flowing through her entire body.

"Both of you were gone last night. I don't assume you guys were hunting both last night and this morning." Each time Sokka looked at how nervous Katara was he grew more and more certain that she was dating Zuko.

"I went for a walk. And we happened to cross paths" Katara said while stuttering.

"You said the same thing when Aang caught you!" Sokka yelled.
"You can't keep hiding things damnit!" Sokka yelled even louder at Katara.

"Don't yell at her" Zuko said sternly while looking at Sokka with a serious face.

Katara looked at Zuko a blushed, he was so protective of her, it made her feel loved.

"Why would you care?" Sokka said back while moving closer to Zuko, Sokka looked so angry, he looked as if he was ready to punch Zuko. But that wouldn't end good, she knew Sokka could never take on Zuko, even if Zuko didn't have bending abilities he would still be able to defeat Sokka easily.

"Sokka stop." Katara said while grabbing onto his shoulder and pulling back. "You are overreacting" she said.

"Overreacting?!" He said, "Overreacting!" He said once again but louder.
"What do you expect when you constantly disappear with Zuko!" He said.

Katara looked at him, she knew there was no getting out of this, she knew she couldn't keep it a secret from Sokka because eventually he would find out. Although she wasn't expecting him to find out so early, there was no hiding it. She had to tell him.

"Sokka, this is between you and me. Can we just talk?" She asked. "Please." She said.

Sokka looked at her, he turned around and walked to his tent. She knew he wanted her to follow. She looked at Zuko, "It'll be fine" she whispered and smiled before walking towards Sokka's tent.

As she entered Sokka was already yelling.

"Are you crazy!" He yelled, "Sneaking off with Zuko!? You know that he was our enemy back then! He could've easily hurt you!" He said.

Katara looked at him, she had so many things she could say back to him.

"He isn't like that." She said back.

"How do you know? Because you two like him?" He said harshly. Even though he wasn't a bender he looked as if he was about to explode the entire campsite. He was so furious that Katara had fell for an enemy. He was almost sure that Zuko would betray them in an instinct.

"It's not like that." She said while looking away from Sokka.

"Look me in the eye and tell me you don't like him!" Sokka yelled.

Katara slowly moved her eyes towards Sokka, his eyes filled with anger. He was awaiting her response, either response would make him mad. If she said no, he would get mad and accuse her of lying. If she said yes he would get mad for liking Zuko. There really was no way out of this, he had all the evidence he needed, she had used the same excuse with him and Aang about being with Zuko at night, and this time they were gone in the morning together. And how uneasy she got from Sokka's questions about where her and Zuko were.

She knew what she had to do. She looked him straight in the eye, "I don't like Zuko" she said.

"Liar!" Sokka spat out.

"I love him" she said back without stuttering, without hesitating. She could see the anger building up in Sokka. She had given him probably the worst answer he had wanted.

"He doesn't love you back" Sokka said coldly.
"You might as well end whatever you guys have, because it is fake." He said.

Katara laughed a bit, "Sokka, trying to convince me that he doesn't have any feelings for me isn't going to make me end things" She said.

"He is probably just using you." Sokka said.

"Stop." Katara said loudly.

"Why does it bother you so much? Why are you so uneasy about me being happy for once?" Katara said. "Don't you want me to be happy?" She asked.

Sokka sighed, "Katara, I'm your big brother, and I want what's the best for you. I want to keep you from harm" He said.

"Sokka I can protect myself, besides you cant protect me from feeling emotions" She said.

"I know… I just don't want Zuko to hurt you." He said, he really didn't want Katara to be hurt.

"Sokka you cant keep trying to protect me like this. If I end up getting emotionally hurt, then that's that." She said. "It's apart of life, you can't stop it. Like how your first girlfriend turned into the moon, you felt sad but you accepted it"

"Have you told Aang?" Sokka said, he realized how she froze up at that question, how her eyes went wide and she turned around and started at the floor, at anything as if she was looking for answer.

"I'm guessing that's a no" Sokka said.
"Will you tell him?" he said.

"Yes." She said, she was planning on telling him. But she just didn't know when she would.

"When?" he asked. Damn. Was he reading her mind? He was asking every question she didn't want him to ask.

"I don't know" She said quietly.

"Tomorrow?" Sokka said.

"Tomorrow!?" She screeched.

"Tomorrow." He said again. He really had no place telling her when she should tell Aang about her and Zuko, but to be fair Aang thinks that him and Katara are something, and that's not right.

"either you tell him tomorrow, or I will." He said.

"what! Sokka no!" She yelled, she should've just left as soon as things had calmed down. Now hes insisting that she tell Aang tomorrow of her and Zuko.

"You cannot keep leading him on like this Katara. He thinks you and him have a thing, its wrong for him to believe that when you are dating Zuko. It's rude and disrespectful. The longer you keep it a secret the more he will be hurt." Sokka said.

Katara looked down, she never thought it as that way, but Sokka did have a point, the longer she waited to tell him the more Aang would be hurt. She had avoided telling Aang because she didn't want to break his heart, but by doing so she was only going to hurt him more.

"Tomorrow." Katara said while walking out of his tent. She rushed over to Zuko's tent, she walked in and sat next to where he was sitting.

"How'd it go?" He asked.

"I have to tell Aang tomorrow" Katara said looking worried.

"Are you sure?" He said while putting an arm around Katara and pulled her closer to him.

"Yes… I know its for the best but I'm just a bit nervous" she said as she leaned on him.

"Can I sleep here with you tonight?" she asked.

"Aren't you afraid someone will find us?" he asked. "We aren't in the woods you know, we are in my tent. At camp where everyone is." He added.

"I don't care" She said while looking at him. He smiled at her and nodded.