A/N: I admit. The last chapter SUCKED! I'm a lazy writer, I'm so sorry. Anyway, recent update here! I started writing the kid!Zutara story, but it hasn't been published quite yet. The poll from last chapter didn't get enough results, so I'm still waiting on that. Enjoy this update (which is extremely long)!

DISCLAIMER: Michael and Bryan said I can have the show when pigs fly. Maybe I can get a White Flying Boar from Toph...

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A month later.

Aang and Zuko were practicing more firebending stances on the courtyard of Zuko's Ember Island summer home. Katara and Toph were watching under the nice shade of the open corridors. After an intense practice, the two firebenders bowed to each other respectfully and Zuko headed towards the fountain for his towel.

"Don't you think it's kinda weird that we're hiding from the Fire Lord in his own home?" Katara asked, rolling her head, bored.

"I told you," Zuko spoke up, rubbing the towel behind his neck, "my father hasn't come here since our family was actually happy," he put the towel down and hung his head, "and that was a long time ago. This is the last place anyone would think to find us."

Then, Sokka and Suki ran up to them, Sokka with a rolled up poster in his hand. "You guys will not believe this! There's a play about us," he said, almost smugly.

"We were just in town when we found this poster!" Suki said as Sokka rolled out the poster dramatically.

Sure enough, the poster had a boy in center resembling Aang, a girl resembling Katara on the left and a boy like Sokka (only a bit more..."buff") on the right with Zuko's eyes on the back, his scar on the wrong side. The description was below the picture with the picture of the playwrite on the side.

"What? how is this possible?" Katara said, astonished.

"Listen to this," Sokka started reading the poster, " 'The Boy in the Iceberg is a new production from acclaimed playwright Pu On Tim who scoured the globe gathering information on the Avatar from the icy South Pole to the heart of Ba Sing Se. His sources including singing nomads, pirates, prisoners of war and a surprisingly knowledgeable merchant of cabbage.' "

" 'Brought to you by the critically animated Ember Island Players.' " Suki added.

Zuko groaned loudly, slouching in his seat, "my mother used to take us to see them. They butchered 'Love Amongst the Dragons' every year! They aren't very accurate," he said disgusted.

Katara looked at her brother, "Sokka, do you really think it's a good idea to be attending a play about ourselves?"

"Are you kidding?!" Sokka exclaimed, "a day at the theatre? This is just the kind of whacky, time-wasting non-sense I've been missing!" he grinned widely.

After a short debate, Sokka won out.

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Intermission.

BEST. DAMN. PART. OF. THE. DAMN. PLAY!

Everyone sat outside of the theatre box, in which Toph called the "nosebleed section," ranting about their characters and playwrite potrayals. Almost everyone was angry with their characters. Katara was a preachy crybaby who can't help but give speeches of hope all the time, Sokka only jokes about meat, (and bad ones, note that) poor Aang is portrayed as a girl, and Zuko's character has the scar on the wrong side! Suki was decent and Toph hasn't showed up just yet. And maybe Toph wouldn't mind her character, considering they're sitting in a higher box

"Look, friends, I know it must hurt, but everything you see on that stage is the truth," she said knowingly.

Zuko tapped his chin for a moment, "Lo and Li, Azula's mentors, once told us that Ember Island gives everyone a clean sleet, a fresh start. Maybe the play will help us realize something about ourselves," he said.

"Right, and I thought the play was crazy," Sokka shot, going back inside the theatre box, followed by Suki. Soon, everyone else came in as well, same seating as the last time, which was Toph on the right, next to Katara, next to Zuko, next to Aang, with Sokka and Suki in the row behind them.

The play began again in Toph's home village, Gaoling, and the "gAang" is just standing around as the curtain goes up.

"Well, we're finally here in the Earth Kingdom," the Katara actress said in her womanly voice.

"I better look around and see if I can find an earthbending teacher," the Aang actress added in her squeaky, upbeat voice as she popped out a mini-glider and hung by a rope to "fly" over the audience in the floor section.

"This is it!" Toph exclaimed excitedly, "this must be when I come in!"

Actress Aang landed neatly on her feet, "I flew all over town, but I couldn't find a single earthbending master," she whined.

"Here it comes...!" Toph was near breathless.

In Toph's perspective, all she heard was a rumble and a buff voice yell, "you can't find an earthbending master in the sky, you have to look underground!"

Wait...is that supposed to be...

She felt something paper-light fall to the ground in front of Zuko and her friends snickering, but payed no attention to it. She leaned a little over the railing to hear better.

"Who are you?" a whiny voice asked.

The same person spit before speaking, "my name's Toph, cuz it sounds like 'tough,' and that's just what I am!" the he-she bellowed.

Toph cleaned her ear, unsure if she heard right, "Wait a minute...I sound like...a guy! A really buff guy!"

"Well Toph, what you hear up there is the truth, hurts doesn't it?" Katara teased, hoping that Toph would understand how they felt.

But she didn't notice her grinning ear-to-ear. "Are you kidding?!" she yelled in a whispered, "I wouldnt've cast it any other way!" she giggled before continuing, "at least it's not a flying bald lady!"

Aang shifted uncomfortably in his seat, unhappy with Toph's remark.

"So...you're blind?" actress aang says, waving a hand over the actor Toph's eyes.

He laughed deeply, "I can see you do that," actress Aang flinched, "I see everything you see, except I don't 'see' the way you do. I release a sonic-wave through my mouth."

When he breathed in, everyone knew this wasn't gonna be good.

He screamed extremely loud in the actors' faces. Everyone in the theater, maybe even some nearby citizens (except Toph, of course) cringed at the sonic boom of a yell, some covered their ears to block off the awful sound!

"There," he said after he stopped, "I got a pretty good look at you." Everyone applauded.

The play continued, and it seemed to mock the gAang. Zuko and his uncle splitting up after Zuko's new hairstyle, them meeting up with Azula and losing her, finding her again, drilling the wall of Ba Sing Se, Jet's death in Lake Laogai (well, it was really unclear) and one of the most confusing one: Zuko and Katara in the crystal catacombs of Ba Sing Se.

"I have to admit, Prince Zuko, I really find you attractive," actress Katara started.

"You don't have to make fun of me," actor Zuko spat, turning away from her on the rock he was sitting on.

"But I mean it," actress Katara countered, sitting next to him, "I had eyes for you since the day you first captured me."

Actor Zuko got closer to her while the real Zuko and Katara shifted away from each other awkwardly. Aang was a bit irritated and jealous just seeing this.

Everything you see up on that stage is the truth.

"Wait! I thought you were the Avatar's girl!" actor Zuko realized loudly, getting up from his seat. Aang nodded in pride. That pride fell as actress Katara laughed.

"The Avatar? Why, he's like a little brother to me," the actress laughed, getting up to stand next to him, "I certainly don't think of him in a romantic way!"

Aang's face fell.

"Besides, how can he ever find out about this?" she said dreamily, hugging the actor, who smiled.

Aang couldn't take it anymore. He got up and walked out of the box. "Oh, you're getting up? Can you bring me some fire flakes?" Sokka whispered after him, putting an arm around Suki...then continued his request, "ooh! and fire gummies!" he added.

Meanwhile, Katara and Zuko alike couldn't stop blushing. That was one moment in their life where they felt something different about each other. The one moment that felt unconditional. It could've started something they both knew they wanted.

Now they'll never know what could happen if it did turn out that way.

The play went on. It showed Zuko choosing his side to Azula (when this part happened, Katara put a hand on his shoulder comfortingly), Mai and Ty Lee (who were...interesting), and Aang's death, I think...?

"Azula" had just bellowed that the Avatar was killed. The gAang seemed offended, especially Zuko, who seriously didn't want to be reminded of that day.

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Another intermission came by and the gAang was grateful for the sweer breaks from the humiliation and reminding.

The only ones left in the hall of their theatre box was Toph and Zuko. Sokka and Suki went off to find the actor Sokka to give him some more appropriate jokes and Katara went to find Aang.

Zuko told Toph that she didn't get that every single mistake he made was shoved right back in his face, especially betraying his uncle, while her character was just as awesome as she was (that's how Toph took it), but she reassured him that his uncle would be proud that he found his way and did the good thing.

After just a moment of comfort, a little kid dressed as Aang came up to the prince, saying "your Zuko costume is pretty good, but your scar's on the wrong side!" and with that, he "flew" away.

Oh. No. He. Didn't.

"THE SCAR'S NOT ON THE WRONG SIDE!" Zuko yelled after him, pulling his hood back over his face while Toph laughed. "Would you stop?" he almost pleaded, "after the good assurance, you laugh at my face again?"

"Sorry scarface!" she said between giggles, "I can't help myself sometimes!"

Zuko groaned. "I'm going to find Aang and Katara, the intermission is almost over," he sulked while getting up, still hearing Toph's muffled giggles.

Zuko walked on, trying to find the outside Katara meant when she said she was going to look for the little airbender.

"-what you said in there," he heard a voice say. No doubt it was Aang.

"In where? What are you talking about?" Katara.

This seems like a bit of a private conversation between the two and Zuko knows he shouldn't be eavesdropping like this, but he stopped and continued to listen, unable to help his curiosity.

"On stage! When you said I was just like a brother to you and you didn't have feelings for me."

The kid was clearly hurt. Typical pre-teen.

"I didn't say that, and actor did."

"But it's true, isn't it? We kissed at the invasion and I thought we were gonna be together, but we're not."

They kissed? Zuko thought, shocked at the fact, but not at all suprised, of course they did. I'm willing to bet that once Aang defeats my father, Katara will be his. Almost like a reward. Typical. Boy likes girl. Boy saves world. They fall in love...Agni, I hate love scrolls!

"Aang...I don't know."

"Why don't you know?!"

"Because we're in the middle of a war and we have other things to worry about. This isn't the right time."

"Well, when is the right time?!"

"...Aang, I'm sorry, but right now I'm just a little confused."

Silence stilled time for a moment, then the unmistakable sound of a kiss reached the firebender's ears. His face and heart fell with jealousy, but then leaped when Katara annoyingly said, "I just said I was confused!"

She was clearly unhappy with that kiss.

"I'm going inside," she sighed. That was Zuko's cue to try to stay out of view. He walked back a few steps, acting as if he had just arrived and didn't hear anything. When Katara opened the curtains, he spoke up, "hey...uh...the intermission is, uh, almost over," he stuttered. Katara looked to him, sadness still lingering in her eyes.

"Okay, let's go."

She walked beside him, then began to lean into his shoulder. "What are you doing?" he whispered, grateful that it was too dark to see his blush. She simply shrugged. When she didn't move after a few paces, he gave in and gingerly wrapped an arm around her waist. She smiled sweetly.

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The play ended badly.

Aang returned from his brief sulking just in time to see the failed invasion and a prediction of the day of the comet.

Zuko had to go up against Azula, who, after a quick battle, burned the actor to a crisp as he yelled something about his honor (it's acting, so not literally). The wherabouts of the gAang were unknown as the actress Aang tip-toed on stage to face a highly decorated Ozai. The battle didn't last more than a minute as the Fire Lord "summoned" a ribbon of "fire" on stage, wrapping the actress. She fell with a defeated, "NOOOOOOOOOOooooooo..."

The rest of the play was a blur. The only thing known is that the Fire Lord defeated Aang and took over the world, just as Sozin, Azulon and Ozai wanted.

The audience cheered loudly, but the gAang just sat there, still unable to believe what the doodle just happened.

Ember Island is a weird place.

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A/N: DONE! Dear Agni, it's done! I'm sorry it took forever. I had togo to the hospital the other night and wasn't able to write. Don't worry, I'm fine.

Zutara fluff! YAY!

We're nearing the end! Get ready!

Also, check out my newest Hunger Games fanfic PLEASE!

Love you!

-zutarianbelieber