Afternoon-

Team Avatar and their friends from the Earth Kingdom, arrive at the Western Air Temple. Everyone was setting up for their little camp-out at the ancient area. Teo, Haru, and The Duke decided to explore the Western Air Temple, leaving Team Avatar behind. Before Team Avatar started getting into business and discussing about what will happen next, Toph senses an unwanted visitor behind Appa. Appa moved out of the way and the rest look at where Toph is pointing. The person waived. "ZUKO?" yelled Katara. "Uh, hi, everyone..." Zuko said shyly. Katara glared at the Prince. "You just don't know when to quit do you? What the hell do you want now?" Katara was extremely pissed. "I was just wondering if I could join you guys..." Katara cuts him off. "Oh why? So you could stall us and distract us so you could take us and the world's only chance in finally stopping this war? NO! You are not welcomed here, just LEAVE!" Katara gets her water ready to bend at Zuko. "I want to join so I can actually teach the Avatar fire-bending, and I'm not lying this time. I want to stop this war too." "Well you're on your own! We do not accept you or your apology!" "I'm sorry alright. I'm also sorry for sending a crazy killer after you guys. Well if you won't accept me to your group, then accept me as your prisoner," Katara has a straight face and she gets mad again. "What? You sent Combustion Man after us? Zuko, you're CRAZY!" yelled Sokka. Katara bends water at Zuko and looks away, "Just. Leave. Us. Alone." Zuko looks at Katara then at Sokka, Aang and Toph. "Alright..." Zuko leaves them alone and after he's far enough, Toph turns to look at Katara and Sokka. "Okay! Uh, he wasn't lying at all," Katara looks at her. "What, that's not possible. Toph! He lied to us about teaching Aang fire-bending once before and now he wants to join our group, ugh it's another one of his schemes!" yelled Katara. "Yea he did lie but this time, he wasn't. Aang really needs a fire-bending teacher and when one comes, you just throw him away and not think! He even offered to be our prisoner! Jee Katara! Think more!" Toph yelled back. "But Zuko has been after us for a while now and see, he lies to us every time and you can't just go ahead and trust him all of a sudden!" "Well, I never lied to you guys about anything and I sensed that he was NOT lying at all this time! No matter what he's done in the past, this time, he has a halo over his head!" "Okay! You know what..." Aang cuts them off, "OKAY OKAY! Calm the fuck down people! It doesn't matter anymore! Zuko is already gone and I don't need a teacher!" Aang walks away. "Yeah, fire-bending is a horrible element, I wonder why he'd need a fire-bending to defeat Ozai," said Sokka. "And Aang burned you one time," "Yeah, but I healed my self, it wasn't a big deal..." said Katara. "You cried okay Katara, that is a big deal," "Okay you know what, whatever, let's just forget about this," said Katara. "Alright then," Sokka said.

With Zuko-

Zuko was pacing back and forth, regretting what he said. "Oh my fucking god, I'm such an idiot!" he yelled. "Why couldn't I have said Azula sent the guy? They would have believed that! This is so gay!" Zuko was breathing hard and fire bended towards the air. "You know, I'm feeling something else, something besides regret...it's a warm and exhilarating feeling...felt that since I looked at Katara...whoa! Please don't tell me I'm in love with Katara...a part of me is saying no way but the rest is telling me...yes...oy, this is crazy..." Zuko sat down to think "But, she'll never feel the same way...unless, I go back and try to convince them again...but chances are I might fail...I don't know what to do, but if my uncle was here, he would tell me go ahead and try again, but harder...wait that sounded so wrong, ew...but yeah, I will try again. Tomorrow...hopefully they are still there..." he said.

Night-

While everyone else is asleep, Toph wakes up and sneaks out. She goes to where Zuko is camping out, above where Team Avatar are sleeping. Zuko hears something in the bushes and he fire-bends. Toph used her rock bending to block the fire and when she stepped back, she burned her feet. Toph yelled and Zuko realized it was her. He ran to her and she tried to stay away from him and threw rocks at him. Zuko was hit and Toph ran back into the bushes. "Ugh! Why am I so stupid. Next time, I will wait to see who it is!" Zuko laid back down and clutched his fists.

Morning-

Katara feels the warmth of the sun on her skin. She opens her eyes and stretches, having her arms in Sokka's face. He wakes up too and shoves Katara's arm away. "Your arm was in my face," Katara stuck her tongue out at him. Aang walks to them and noticed something. "Uh guys..." "What's up, Aang?" asked Katara. "Where's Toph...?" Katara looks around and doesn't see her blind but strong friend anywhere. "Toph! Where are you?" "Maybe we could look for her in the temple" Haru said. Katara agreed and him with Teo and The Duke go ahead and looked in the temple. A few seconds later, Toph came in with a nice entrance. Through the wall. Toph fell and Katara runs to her. "Toph! What happened?" "My feet got burned!" she said. "Aw! What happened?" "I told you, my feet got burned," "Yes but I mean how?" "Well, I kinda went to see Zuko, last night..." Katara and Sokka were shocked. "Why Toph?" asked Sokka. "I wanted to talk to him, about yesterday," she said. "So, Zuko burned you?" asked Sokka. "Well kinda, and not really." said Toph. "But he burned you right?" "Yes." said Toph. Katara went and used her healing powers to heal Toph's feet. "See? He burned you and you trusted him. He really hasn't changed" said Sokka. They carry Toph to the fountain and set her down in it. "Oh that's the stuff." They sit around and wait for Toph's feet to feel better.

Above the cliff on the other side-

Combustion Man spots them and aims. Zuko sees him and thinks, "Oh no, Katara is going to get hurt! Wait, I'm thinking about her...Oh, I think I am in love with her..." He ran and pushed him so he shot and it hit way off target. Team Avatar noticed him and they ran behind a wall. "I don't want you hunting the avatar anymore! I'll pay you double if you stop!" said Zuko. Combustion Man pushed him out of the way and shot multiple times and Toph knew that he was going to blow the whole place into the canyon below them. Zuko fell off the side of the temple. Luckily, there was a small branch for him to hold on to.

With Team Avatar-

"I can't go out there and battle this guy without getting blown into pieces!" Katara said. "I need a better angle..." Sokka then had an idea and takes out his boomerang. "You can do this boomerang!" Sokka looks at where Combustion Man is shooting and he aims. "Okay, don't fail me now boomerang!" Sokka throws his boomerang and it curves and hits Combustion Man on the head. The boomerang comes back and Sokka cheers. Combustion Man tries to shoot again but bad choice...he exploded and fell into the canyon below. Zuko climbed up and crossed to the other side where Team Avatar is at. He goes to them and Aang thanks Zuko for saving them. Sokka looks at him and said he should get credit too. Aang gives him the credit and looks back at Zuko. "I'm sorry for all the things I've done to you guys in the past. I regret a lot. And I've realized that in order to regain my honor, I needed to regain it my self. I want to help you defeat my father so I can become Fire Lord and stop this war. And another thing I realized is that fire bending needs to be used carefully so I don't hurt the people around me." Zuko looked down. Aang realized something too. "I think you are suppose to be my fire-bending teacher. You now understand how fire-bending is dangerous and can hurt people. Like how I burned Katara." said Aang. "It's no big deal Aang," "Remember, you cried, Katara..." said Sokka. "Shut up, Sokka," "Well, I guess I accept you," said Aang to Zuko. "Oh thanks! I'm honored to be accepted into your group!" "Wait, I need to ask if everyone agrees, Toph, you got burned, do you want him in our group?" asked Aang. "Oh sure! It'll give me time to get back at him for burning my feet!" said Toph. "Sure, maybe we could be friends." said Sokka. Aang looks at Katara. She looks away and finally says something. "I'll go with what ever makes you happy," Aang looks back at Zuko. "Welcome to Team Avatar!" said Aang. Everyone walks back to the temple and Zuko smiles about Katara accepting him. Well technically, she went with what Aang said but still she accepted him.

Evening-

Sokka shows Zuko to his room and he leaves. Katara comes in and Zuko smirks at her. Katara glares at him and said," Listen, this better not be a joke. If you even, think about hurting Aang again, I'm going to hurt you back and make sure you don't EVER strike again," Katara said. She looked into Zuko's eyes and stopped glaring. She was stunned and thought about how beautfiul his eyes are. She's still staring and Zuko smiles at her. "Katara, you're feisty and you like my eyes :D" said Zuko. Katara came back to reality. "What? No, I don't..." Katara ran out of the room. Zuko smiles and thinks about her eyes too, a sparkling blue.