"This is really getting boring."

Sokka sighed as he placed a yawning chin on his hand, as he propped an elbow on Aang's head. The sun was shining down, and the center of attention, once again, was Katara and Zuko's bickering over a map.

The world's greatest earthbender fell face first into the dirt, sluggishly, as she heard another insult be thrown into the air.

"Boring."

A dark finger came into his view as blue eyes flashed angrily at him. A defiant raise of her chin showed she was not ready yet to back down, as the hand on her hip distracted Zuko's attention for the slightest second. So fast, that not even Toph noticed, or so he thought.

"Let me guess! You hate me, right?"

An accusing finger pointed back at her, as he raised his voice. Katara's tight lips curled, as her knuckles turned white from for determination to not hit that, amazingly, handsome chin.

"Of course you idiot! I love you!"

Zuko's face froze, and suddenly it seemed the whole world joined with him. It took three seconds for her to realize what she said, and her once tight face loosened as her jaw hung open. Her hands flew straight to her mouth as she gasped and shook her head in quite embarrassment from herself.

Toph lifted her face up from the dirt.

Well, this got interesting.

"I so didn't mean that! I meant, something else...and not...t-that..."

From somewhere, and she knew exactly who, she heard a "she's lying" but decided to deal with that person later.

Katara glanced from side to side, ignoring her wide eyed brother and Avatar, and the smirking Toph, before looking back at the frozen exiled prince.

Releasing her fist so that it was flat and took a deep breath as she desperately tried to ignore the fact her cheeks were flaming red.

"It's all your fault!" She accused, once again, at the speechless Zuko.

Two seconds later he was on the ground with a burning cheek which her small hand had punched.

She ran far away, far, far, far away after that.

Because, really, it was his fault that she had fallen in love with him.

"Stop giving me reasons not to hate you!"