A New Life

Chapter 11

Just having a talk

Aura was upset that Azula didn't come to her party. She thought that Azula would be really exited. They were friends after all. She had a feeling Zuko was lying. She knew that Azula wasn't busy. She never really was. She only pretends to be busy so that she can avoid something.

To forget about all this, Aura got out the scroll about spirits. The one she got from the library, the one that apparently didn't belong to the library. She'd had it for a while now and she's read it a couple of times. It was interesting, there were stories of the Water spirits Tui and La, stories of earth he earth spirits, and the Fire Nation spirits Agni. There were stories of of the minor spirits. As she said before, it was interesting so she loved reading it over and over again. She read it for the whole afternoon. She knew that if she didn't keep herself distracted she would go back to thinking about Azula's real motives. Although she enjoyed her birthday very much, it still upset her that Azula didn't come.

A month later...

Aura heard the bad news. She heard that Prince Lu Ten died at the siege of Ba Sing Se. She thought that might upset Azula, so she went to visit the palace,/alone. Normally, she came with Ty Lee 'cause she didn't feel comfortable going by herself, for some reason. But this time she didn't really care. She knew how much Azula loved Prince Lu Ten, /before he went off to war anyway. Azula always tried sounding like she didn't care about him, but she talked too much about him for her to not care. She decided this situation will upset her and maybe, just maybe, she'll open up a little more.

Finally, after a long and lonely walk she arrived at the palace. The guards let her through 'cause they knew that she was the princess's friend. They didn't normally let anyone in.

Now she just had to go to Azula's chambers. Aura walked through the long corridors of the palace and finally arrived at the door that would lead her to her friend's room. She knocked on the door. A servant opened the door.

"Is Princess Azula inside? May I talk to her?" Aura asked. The servant nodded and let her in.

As she entered, she saw Azula sitting on a chair with several servants combing her hair, painting her nails and other essentials a princess needs. To be honest, all these years they'd been friends Azula never showed them to her chambers. But she went pass it a couple of times. The place was huge! The walls were painted in the most beautiful red with a banner with the Fire Nation emblem on it. The big cushioned crimson bed was to the side of the huge room between the window and an empty wall. Then there was a tall door leading to the balcony, (which was open for now) with small golden Fire Nation emblems. In front of where Azula was sitting, was a huge mirror, beside that was a dresser with jewelry and some make-up (Did she ever really wear that much make-up?) along with a couple of drawers. Plus here she had her own private bathing room. This is exactly where a princess would live in.

Aura walked up to Azula as she acknowledged her. "Why are you here?"

Ouch! That was rude! "I just came to talk to you."

"About what?" Azula dismissed the servants with a wave of her hands and soon after that they dropped what they were doing and walked out of the room in a line.

"About..." Aura didn't exactly know how to fraise it out, so she just said what first came to mind. "I was gonna talk to you about Lu Ten. I thought you might miss him and I know how much you loved him. No matter how much you tried to prove yourself wrong. And I came to help you with the feelings you must be feeling."

Azula sighed. "I clearly don't miss him and I clearly don't like him."

"Azula puh-lease! I know you. I know you like him and you miss him! I think you are just lying to yourself!" And it was the truth, Aura had been having this assumption for a while.

Oops, I guess that wasn't the right thing to say. Aura thought as Azula's eyes lit up with anger as she the rose from her chair and glared at Aura. "How dare you talk to me that way! I am not lying to myself! Don't make assumptions too quickly! Get out of my room!

"But..."

"Now!"

Aura hurried out of the room. That was rude. It's no way to talk to a friend! She might have thought that Azula might care a little more about her feelings. Well, obviously she didn't! But her outrage seemed to prove something to her. She doesn't want to talk about it? Then she is upset. She's angry? She's too upset to even care about others and didn't watch over her temper. Yup, she does care. With this new thought and feeling a little satisfaction, she went home.

A day later...

Two people died from the Royal Family and one disappeared, in the events of two days. First Prince Lu Ten and now Princess Ursa and Fire Lord Azulon at the same night. People told her that Princess Ursa disappeared all of a sudden at night. Then there's Fire Lord Azulon who died peacefully while he was sleeping.
Azula and Zuko must be grieving! Their mother disappearing without telling them and their grandfather died just like that! Aura knew how she would feel and she guessed that the two siblings would feel the same way. But Azula? She was not that sure about her. This time she must feel something since it's her mother and also her grandfather. At the most she must be sad about her mother.

This time Aura headed for the palace to accomplish something. As she did the other day, she knocked on the door and the servant let her in.

"So, did you come her to have another 'talk'?" Azula asked as soon as Aura walked in. It was as if Azula was expecting her.

"Maybe I did." For some reason Aura felt the need to stand tall and confident.

"Oh, you heard the news." It was not a question And it wasn't asked like one.

"Yes." Aura paused for Azula to say something. When It was obvious that Azula was not going to say anything, she said, "How do you feel?"

"Great."

"Aren't you sad?"

"No."

"Why not? Your mother disappeared and your grandfather died."

"So? Your point is?" Azula walked over to her and raised one eye brow.

"Aren't you gonna miss them? It's your family!" Aura looked at her disbelieving.

"No." That's it!? A simple no!? Ugh! This is going nowhere!

"I'll be going home now. Bye." Aura said and walked out of the room. It was obvious that Azula wasn't going to say anything. But before she left, she heard a little "Good Riddance" from behind her. That was hurtful.

She walked through the palace corridors looking defeated, heading for the exit. But as she was walking by she noticed Zuko on a left turn. He looked extremely sad and it seemed to her that he was heading towards the garden with the turtle-duck pond. She decided to go after him.

When she caught up she said. "Hi."

"Oh, hey." Zuko just kept on walking.

"Are you okay?" Aura looked at him concerned.

"No, I'm not! How can anyone expect me to be okay! My mom disappeared!" Zuko almost shouted with anger boiling inside of him.

"I'm sorry." Aura looked down at the floor.

"Why would you be sorry?"

"I don't know. The way you were talking made me feel like I was the one who expects you to be okay."

Zuko shook his head. "No, I wasn't talking about you. I was talking about someone else."

Aura was relieved, she didn't want him to be angry at her. She gave him a small heart warming smile. They walked in silence to the garden and when they arrived they sat under the tree.

"Why don't you try distracting yourself, as in try forgetting it." Aura knew she wasn't good at giving advice but right now she was concerned about Zuko. She was pretty much relating things to herself and what she would do if she was in this situation. As if she hasn't been separated from her real parents. "It sometimes helps. You think think about."

"Easy for you to say. Your not the one who's mother disappeared." Zuko said skeptically.

"You have no idea." Aura muttered.

"What?"

"Nothing." An awkward silence descended upon them. After awhile Aura got tired of sitting there doing nothing 'cause obviously Zuko won't take her advice. She she stood up and said. "I should be going now. My parents would be worried."

"Sure, see you soon." Zuko gave her a half hearted wave as he sulked under the tree.

"See ya."

A/N: Hi everyone! I'm back with this weeks chapter! I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I was planning on making it longer but for some reason I'm not all that good at making long stories, unfortunately. I never was, but I'm trying.

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