A/N: I know this is a little shorter but I wanted to start moving things along a little more so here this is!

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Katara smiled politely as the eleventh or twentieth or fiftieth member of Zuko's council gave their congratulations (she'd started called it the condolanulations in her head as they all sounded like Zuko should be in mourning over his marriage). Her cheeks hurt from the forced smiles and she could feel the trickle of sweat down her back under her heavy robes. She liked the blue and gold thread of the dragon design that from the bottom of her robe to her left shoulder. She didn't want to think of how long it took some poor seamstress to make or how much it cost (she could probably feed all of Jang Hui for at least a week with the amount that was spent on this).

In all she was feeling rather miserable and the only upside was that her hair was up enough to let a breeze tickle the back of her neck and try to cool her down.

"That's the last one," Zuko said with a sigh. She noticed his ram rod straight posture slipped slightly as he said the words.

"That was…" she tried to find the best word to describe the parade of well wishers.

"Soul crushingly terrible?" Zuko offered.

She frowned. "Tedious was the word I was looking for."

"You're too nice."

Katara was about to reply when a little girl screamed "Zuko!" and rushed towards him like she was about to jump into his arms. Instead of doing just that she stopped just short of the cushion he was sitting on (no one had bother to come to the other side of the table the two were sitting at) and hastily bowed as was proper to the Fire Lord. Zuko promptly hugged her. She laughed as he asked "how are you, kid?"

"Great! Daddy says I can maybe have a role in the upcoming play if I do well in school and learn all my lines and Mommy agreed and I got a new sister!" The girl, who Katara had to admit vaguely reminded her of Zuko's half sister, said. "You are my sister, aren't you?"

"Uh," Katara began. How could she nicely tell the child that, yes, as of right now she was technically this girl's big sister but wouldn't be soon? She looked to Zuko who was looking away from her at that moment. "Yes, right now I'm your sister," Katara finally said.

The girl beamed. "I always wanted a big sister!" She seemed to realize her words after she said then. "I mean," she tried to recover, "not that I don't have a big sister, but well, see Azula doesn't really want to see me-"

"Don't worry about it, Kiyi," Zuko said with a wave of his hand.

Katara noticed the girl fidgeting and smiled. "It's ok, I always wanted a sister too. Plus I know how annoying older brothers can be, " she said with a wink.

"I'm sitting right here," Zuko protested.

"Zuko's not annoying!" Kiyi protested. "He always brings me special things when he visits! Oh and I have a favor to ask but Mommy and Daddy said I should wait until after your wedding and stuff but I don't want to forget so here goes: see there's a new girl at school and she says you can't be my big brother because if the Fire Lord was my big brother I'd be a princess and I'm not so she's calling me a liar and I want to prove her wrong." Katara was impressed at how fast Kiyi said that.

"Kiyi," an older man Katara recognized as Noren/Ikem (she'd never actually asked which name he prefered) said as he approached the table.

"I didn't want to forget," Kiyi said sadly.

"It's all right," Zuko assured him. "I'll come visit as soon as I can and you can take me around your school." Kiyi's eyes lit up at Zuko's suggestion.

She throw her arms around him again and said "best brother ever!"

"I don't know," Katara said, "I'm pretty sure Sokka might have Zuko beat."

"I'm never going to make Kiyi wash my dirty socks."

"You're right, you do have the best brother ever," Katara admitted.

Ursa joined the little family and put her hand on Kiyi's shoulder. "Come on sweetheart, let's go eat and leave Zuko and Katara alone for a little while. You can see talk to them more later," Ursa said.

"Fine," Kiyi said with a huff. "But you have to promise we will."

"I promise," Ursa said with a wink to Zuko and Katara.

The little family walked away and Katara said "Kiyi looks...different."

"I know," Zuko confirmed. "I asked about it before. Ikem said she always took after Mom. Now that Mom has her old face back it looks like Kiyi is growing up to look more like her."

"Which is kind of creepy because she's starting to look more and more like Azula too."

"It's her eyes," Zuko agreed. "But they're different. Mom's and Kiyi's eyes are warm while Azula's are-"

"Deadly?"

"Cold was what I was going to say."

"Of course," Katara said while she gently patted his hand. "Now let's eat before someone else comes up and tries to wish us well while simultaneously mentioning how his daughter is still single."

"You picked up on that, did you?" Zuko said sarcastically.

"Only the first dozen times."

Over the next week the happy couple received congratulations from around the world. King Kuei sent a life size statue of Basco the bear, complete with a hat made out of jade and emeralds for eyes, along with a promise to send stuffed bears for any children the two of them would have. Zuko gave the statue to Iroh. Bumi sent them a hundred cases of rock candy and a very lewd scroll that had Katara laughing at some of the positions ("I don't think you can even bend backwards with your feet in that position!" "It just looks uncomfortable and put that way!"). Arnook sent a set of spears and hunting knives for Zuko and bolts of blue fabric, tanned leather, and fur for Katara with instructions to save some fabric for baby clothes. Katara let Zuko burn that letter.

It was Kiyi, who insisted on staying longer as schools were now on vacation because of the Fire Lord's wedding (she thanked Zuko on behalf of her classmates for that), that brought the most shocking letter of all eight days after their official recognition ceremony.

"WHAT?!" Katara screeched as she read the letter.

Zuko looked over to see what was so wrong and choked on air. After recovering from his coughing fit with a hearty slap to the back from Katara he finally stammered out "That can't be right."

"What isn't?" Kiyi asked.

"Toph and Aang are getting married."

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