Zuko's capture

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 and Zuko, they stopped talking. Zuko wasn't getting through to her, and she wasn't convencing Zuko that her life is a living hell. The feeling of betrayl had come back to Kaori's heart.

"How could mom do this to me?" She asked, mostly herself but Zuko heard it. "She just left me all alone. She didn't have any plan for me when she died at all." Zuko put a hand on her shoulder, but she shrugged it off.

"Don't think things like that. It wasn't her fault, You shouldn't beat yourself up over something that wasn't your fault." Kaori staired into space for a moment. Then chuckled.

"Thats the kindest thing you've said to me the whole time I've been here." She told him, Zuko smirked.

"If I said something mean, that'd give you more of a reason to hurt yourself." Zuko yawned. He was really tired. Kaori smirked and told him to go onto bed, he shook his head. "No, Im suppost to make sure you don't hurt yourself again." Kaori sighed and held out her pinkie to him.

"I promise that I won't hurt myself anymore, if you go onto bed." Zuko staired at her pinkie for a moment, and then locked his with her's and nodded. He walked off to bed, with Kaori standing there. Knifes in sight, he was gone, everyone else was asleep, she had lost alot of blood, so she could easily end her life right there, end all this pain, but then rememberd the promise she made to Zuko. "I promise I won't hurt myself anymore.." he just doesn't get it...im a muderer, I don't want to live life like this anymore... She yawned. Guess Im tired too..might as well hit the hay. With that, she walked down to her room and crawled into her bed. Snuggling herself up next to her black panther, black cat, and white kitten. Saying good night to them.

Zuko was sitting in a feild of red poppies, The sky was blue and had only a few puffy clouds, a black shadow beside him.

"Im glad you talked me into comeing. This is beautiful!" The shadow said to him. Its voice echoed at every word, so who it was couldn't be desiferd.All that was known, was that it was a female. Zuko smiled at the shadow.

"Im glad you decided to come." He tackled the shadow into the poppies and kissed her. They both laughed, and tackled eachother back and forth. Who was that strange shadow? "Im happy that I could make you feel better about yourself Kaori." The shadow blurred and It became Kaori, she smiled and played with his jet black hair.

He was interrupted by his uncle shaking him awake. Zuko opend his eyes to his uncle, still tired.

"Prince Zuko, we have landed. After Kaori goes to the docter's at the island, we are going to cheak out the market place. Do you care to join us?" Zuko staired at his uncle for a few seconds, then nodded. Iroh left so Zuko could get himself dressed. Kaori had borrowed some of Zuko's clothes, after explaining to him that she was probably wanted on this island by bad people, she bound her hair up like Zuko's and tried to desquise herself as much as possable. Using some soot to put hide her characteristics, whithout looking like she was trying to hide anything. Zuko's clothes were like, a million sizes to big for her. He isn't fat, but VERY muscular and hott; while she was a skinny, boney armed school girl. Of course they'd be too big for her! the soot she didn't quite know what to do with. Fire bender's really didn't hide their faces. She'd actually have better luck with a helmet or something. Yeah that sounded better. So she walked upto a soldier and asked if she could borrow his helmit. He was more than glad to give it up, it felt like wearing a tin can on your head. So she took the hemit back to her room, and tied her hair up into a bun, and put the helmit on. She giggled to herself, no one would ever know who she was! she looked like a total fire bender! which is usually a bad thing.

"Who are you. and why are you in Kaori's room?" A voice asked from behind her, she turned her head and saw Zuko leaning on the doorway with a smirk on his face. "C'mon. Were going to get that hand of your's examoned, and check out the market place. Lets go." Kaori nodded and followed him. She followed behind both Zuko and Iroh, for firebenders, they were quite human and kind. They walked through the town without Kaori saying a word. When they walked into the Clinic and the docter was ready to see them, he unwrapped the bandage around her hand to see the broken blood vessels and the bone of her hand.

Zuko looked away and almost gaged as the docter examoned it. He hated to see such a gory sight. Blood vessels on the bone and the bone just so visable. That made him know that a bigger version of her hand was under his skin, and that made him choke more.

"Sir, if this is making you uncomfertable, you can go wait outside." Zuko shook his head, unable to really say anything, but seeing that was torture. After the docter examoned it for a bit longer, Zuko couldn't take it anymore, he walked out of the office and leaned on the wall.Having to catch his breath for a moment. How could that docter not see that bone and blood vessels and not get sick to his stomach? He got himself a small cup of water and drank it down quickly. That was the worst sight he had ever seen. He had burnt down Kyoshi, captured that water tribe girl and forced her to tell him where the avatar was, threatend to burn down a scroll, sliced some fire benders with swords in trying to save the avatar, and yet, he had not seen anything grosser than what Kaori's hand looked like. Ripped open with blood vessels broken and visable, her bone exposed like that. Just thinking about it made him sick.

His uncle came out of the room a few minutes after Zuko had left. He had some news about Kaori.

"She is okay, but she'll need some stitches on her palm, and they will try and fix her bloodvessels, She'll need to relax some so her heart can produce more blood into her bloodstream." Zuko nodded in understandment. But thinking about it made him gag, and his uncle laugh. "You truly are a funny man Zuko, you act all tough, but you are afraid of alittle exposed bone." Zuko blushed. Had that really been what made him gag? That dream he had made him wounder about his feelings for Kaori, they had only just met, but he had a feeling that he knew her all his life. But he was positive he hadn't. Was the reason he gaged because the bone was Kaori's hand and it was just a relfex? Nah. It was the exposed bone.

"So? I don't know how you couldn't be." Zuko replied. Pushing all those thoughts into the back of his mind. "Its weird." Iroh just chuckled.

"Your not feeling Sympathedic of her, are you?" Zuko blushed again and shook his head quickly.

"Of course not! Its her own damn fault!" He defended. "If she hadn't tried to kill herself, none of this would have happend!" Iroh didn't believe his nephew's argument, but decided it was best to leave it at that. But Iroh knew the truth, Zuko was feeling sympathedic of Kaori.

Iroh had really got Zuko thinking, was he sympathedic for Kaori? No. Of course not. Of course he wasn't! Kaori was a suicidal orphan! But...that doesn't mean he couldn't have feelings for her. She was really pretty. She had kept her promise to him, she didn't hurt herself again after he went to bed, infact, she went to sleep herself. He didn't know what she had done to make her hate life so much, but he knew it had to be bad. It had to be something unforgivable and mercifulless. He didn't have any ideas for what that would be,but he knew that no matter what Kaori did, he would never, ever hate her to the extent of her wanting to kill herself. There was nothing in this whole wide world she could possably do.

Kaori was going to go have her stitches put in. Zuko and Iroh were free to do what they wished for the next few hours. So they went looking at the market place for a bit. Zuko found a stand that had a bunch of chinese stuff. Chinese clothes, chinese lanterns, chinese fans, stuff like that. But what caught Zuko's eye wasn't at the stand, but at the stand diagnal from him, about three stors down. He saw Jhou looking at some scrolls. Zuko was trying to go without having to talk to Jhou, but sadly; Jhou noticed Zuko and went upto talk to him.

"Hello Prince Zuko! What brings you here?" Zuko glared at him for a moment.

"Looking for the avatar. He wasn't on this island so we were about to leave." Zuko lied. He wasn't about to tell Jhou that he had come to the island because Kaori had tried to commit suicide and needed to get stitches put in. So he'd lie, using the avatar as a lie.

"Really? Are you sure you checked the whole island?" Jhou asked Zuko, he nodded. "Then you won't mind if I check it"

"Go ahead." Zuko told him, Jhou smirked and began to walk. Zuko hoped that the avatar really wasn't on the island, if he was..then there goes his country, his honor, and this throne.

Kaori sat alone in a dark room, she was still getting her stitches, but she had been knocked out so she wouldn't feel the pain. Her mind was the dark room, and she sat in it, weeping. Before her came a candle. Why do...I do these things? Do I want revenge? Do I want to know what possesed my father to kill my mother? or do I just want to feel alive? Probably the first two, pain can make me feel alive. She brought her hand over a candle, it didn't hurt. A knife appeared beside the candle, she took it and cut her wrist, and it didn't hurt or bleed. Am I...dead? No I couldn't possably be! I was alive when I came! I can't be dead! Her eyes flutterd open a few hours later, the docters had finished,and she could see them through the eye holes in the helmit. With getting up and giving them the money she had, she left to find Zuko and Iroh so they could get out. But she didn't see them anywhere.

"Kaori!" Shouted Iroh as he ran to her from the distance. "Prince Zuko has not come back yet!" Kaori lifted an eyebrow, but no one could see it.

"Where could he have possably gone?" Iroh had to catch his breath for a moment.

"He went to cheak the island for the avatar after Jhou and he hasn't come back!" Kaori glared under the helmit. But let out a sigh.

"I'll go find him.." She first went back to the ship and got her daggers. With that, she went out searching for him. He was found bound to a tree at Jhou's camp site. She quietly jumped out of the tree, but her helmit made a CLANG sound when she hit the ground, and every fire bender at the camp site had seen her.

And the fight began...