Dance of the daggers!

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar. I own Kaori and any Oc's. Yes that sounds about right. Also, -- I went braindead on the Kumi one. SORRY!

Kaori worked all that day. When she finally finished all the orders she was given without question, she went to Zuko and asked him a question that he has never really been asked before.

"Do you have anything else for me to do? Give me an order." Thats what suprised him, usually when all his orders were fufilled, the person would usually go with the other crew members and enjoy themselfs, but Kaori was diffrent, she wanted to work.

"Not really. Did you get Dinner cooked?" Kaori nodded.

"Yes. We are having Kurigohan" She informed him, he nodded and told her to take a rest untill dinner is over. She denied and demanded that she be given more work.

"Okay okay. Go...clean...something." He orderd, she nodded and began to mop the deck again. That day she had mended the wounds the crew had gotten from Zuko's fire bending training, she had cooked dinner, and cleaned the deck over five times. Was she trying to keep her mind off of something? She seemed to be wanting to work, he never really entended that she'd work untill she collapsed. After dinner was finished, Kaori was caught scrubbing the deck once again. Iroh and Zuko really wanted her to stop, but she couldn't. She refused to obay the order to stop working. She had worked long after dinner was finished and everyone was just hanging out on the deck. Thats when it happend. Kaori finally accepted that there was no more work to be done, she got up and began to wobble; then, she fell. She fell onto her knees first, and then the deck. Zuko and Iroh gasped, and surrounded her; She had her eyes closed and wouldn't open them.

"Probably just tired." Iroh told his nephew. Zuko nodded in agreement. "Take her to her room. I will prepair her some herbal tea." Zuko nodded again and picked Kaori up, and took her to her room. On the way, she grabed onto his shirt and seemed to be having a nightmare.

"Momma!" Kaori cried. Her mother shoved her back against the wall of their large house. "MOMMA!" Her mother was stabbed once, then twice. Blood gushing everywhere, from her stomach, from her arms and legs. She managed to crawl over to her daughter.

"My little Kaori..Run...and never look back...If you look back...you won't like what you will see..." Her mother cautioned, when Kaori didn't run, her mother yelled at her to run. "RUN KAORI!"Kaori looked at her mother for a moment, and then ran. "I love you Kaori!" Kaori didn't head her mother's warning, she looked back and saw the man who was killing her mother chopped off her head.

The shock woke Kaori up, with Zuko and Iroh surrounding her with herbal tea. Zuko himself even was sipping at a cup. Kaori looked around for a moment, and then Iroh handed her a cup of herbal tea. She took it and staired for a bit, and then drank it. She had drank the entire cup before Iroh and Zuko began to question her.

"You looked like you were having a terrible nightmare Miss...I don't believe we ever got your name." Iroh said to her. She swollowed the last bit in her mouth and then replied.

"Kaori." She replied. "And I did. But its nothing." She told them with a smile on her face. Of course faking it. Zuko smirked.

"Nothing? You were screaming and clinging. I wouldn't call that nothing." He said to her, he was right; screaming and clinging isnt something one would do in a normal nightmare. Iroh poured her another herbal tea cup once she asked for it.

"Really. It isn't anything." She lied again. She hated all of this lieing, but it had to be done; she could hurt these people if they found out anything about her. So to them, she would be just Kaori. She took the new cup of tea once it was given to her and sipped at it, they looked strangly at her; she had been lieing to them, but they didn't know it one bit. She assured them one more time that she was alright, that it wasn't anything. They believed her and went off to bed, leaving her alone with her pets. She sighed and stroked Sasha.

"I don't like to lie to them. But They can't know..."

When Kaori woke the next morning, breakfast was awaiting to be made, along with other chores. So she got out of bed and instantly started work, having slept in her uniform. She cooked some rice for breakfast, and put it out on the table before Zuko and Iroh had come, she set out some pickle slices and soy sauce. When they took their seats, both began eating without a word; Iroh however thanked Kaori and asked that she join them. She shook her head.

"I have too many chores to attend to." She told them with a smile, Zuko shook his head.

"Nope. Deck's spotless, laundry is clean, dishes are clean, nothing else for you to use as a cover." He smirked. Proud of himslef for telling her that no other chores had to be done. She glared at him and wanted to drive a knife in his back.

"Well then, I have to go train. I can't be slothful like you Zuko!" She taunted, sticking her toung out at him. He glared and put his breakfast down.

"You wanna fight me right now?" Zuko challenged viciously. She crossed her arms and smirked.

"I would. But I don't want to make a big boy cry." This was fun! She liked to taunt him. "Besides, my secret move is to only be used when Im ambushed and its the only one I know, and one Jackass isn't an anbush."

They ended up fighting anyway. Zuko had gotten a few of his men to ambush her along with himself, She stood in the middle of the curcle of fire benders around her, with only two daggers in her hand. They all charged at her at once, all she did was raise her hands with the daggers and the next thing they knew, they were cut and bleeding. She didn't even have to move.

"Beware. Dance of the Daggers." She smirked at the armie of fire benders around her, bleeding and then sighed. "I have alot to clean up. Who to start with...?"

At one point, she finished bandaging everyone up and started to bandage Zuko up. "Now." She asked him. "What did you learn?" He sighed,

"Don't ambush you or You'll kick all of our asses without even moving." He said bitterly, she nodded. "OW!" The cut stung. She sighed as she wrapped some bandages around his muscular arm.

"God you are such a wimp." She taunted some more, Zuko just shook it off, not in the mood in the moment to fight with her.

"How did you take down my entire army without even moving?" She smacked a band-aid onto his face.

"I can't tell you anything about Dance of the Daggers. All I can tell you is that I made it up and use it alot." Zuko growled and orderd that she tell him about the dance of the daggers thing. She shook her head.

"Noope." She refused. Then she sighed. "I'll tell you about dance of the daggers." she made a hand gesture for Zuko to lean in for the secret. He did so and began to whisper to him. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" She screamed right in his ear, causing him to fall backwards.

"What the fuck was that for?" He yelled back at her, she smiled.

"You should know better then that, Did you really think I'd tell you anything. All that I'll ever tell you is that it took me three years to perfect." Zuko growled, that didn't help at all! All it told him was that it would take him three years just to get her to tell him about it, and she's not going to be on his ship that long, so he probably would never learn it! Kaori sighed. She without another word walked into her room and placed her daggers on her dressers.

KurigohanRoasted chestnuts I think.