Before Note: Okay, before you all go WHAZZAFUDGENUGGET? I have long black hair(that goes a little past my waist)and brown eyes. I'm not sure about the whole blue eyes, black hair or whatever... I just saw it in the main characters and a few episodes of the random people, so... that's why I did that. Yup, hope you enjoy this chapter!

Chapter 11: Sure, whatever Ko-chan

"She can't be from an Earth-bender tribe, she may havebrown eyes, buther hair is jet black. Earth benders only have brown hair," Zhao remarked, holding up my long braid. Zuko growled, almost. Iroh-san frowned, probably thinking that I'd get busted.

"She can't be a water bender either," Zhao continued. "She doesn't have blue eyes."

OH, I'm busted. I guess, all fire benders must have GOLDEN eyes. Jeez, what a bummer. Can't a girl have brown eyes around here? Zuko tugged me closer to him.

"She's a misfit from the Earth-bending tribe," Zuko stated, pulling me to his side now. He glared at General Zhao. Maybe I'll be lucky and he'll believe Zuko. "She was abandoned by her parents and ended up stowing away on our ship. She's my servant."

"Fine, but I warn you," Zhao said, anger flickering in his eyes. "A misfit like you should stay farther away from Fire Nation waters."

Zhao left to his boat and it left pretty quickly. Zuko let go of my hand and glared at me. "HOW DID YOU LET YOURSELF BE CAUGHT?"

"How could I not be?" I retorted, puffing out my cheek angrily. I calmed down and fell to the floor with a soft 'thump.' Haha, I just remembered, I'm still under that bending sickness. Whatever. I got up.

"Hey, I just noticed," Zuko said, looking away. "Why are you so pale?"

"I'm not pale, just a little lighter in skin color than others," I replied, turning away and getting ready to walk back to my room. I turned my head around just to look at Zuko for a little bit. "Thanks… for saving my butt back there."

Zuko made a small 'hmph' sound and smirked at me. Suddenly, Iroh-san popped up and ran to me. I was so shocked for a few moments. To have an old man run after you feels a little weird. He swirled me around so I was facing Zuko again.

"You're not under bending sickness, are you?" he asked worriedly. Zuko suddenly looked surprised. I did my cute little V for Victory sign.

"No, how can you think that?" I asked with a little grin on my face. Zuko nodded in agreement.

"She can barely walk on her own two feet without falling every other step, Uncle. If she's lived her life falling over herself, I'm sure she's fine," Zuko stated, very mean and rudely. I am so ready to get out my metal baseball bat again. Although, I'm afraid it might melt due to his fire bending. That'd be sad… for the bat and me.

"I overheard some of Zhao's men that they had barely escaped from a battle with an Earth-bending tribe because of a spunky girl with long black hair who told Zhao to go bother himself or something like that," Iroh-san explained. I sweat-dropped anime-ishly. Oops, was it that memorable? I shook my head.

"No, Iroh-san, I'm perfectly fine. I mean, look at me," I said, punching the wall. I showed my fist and grinned to show I was all right. "I'm pretty hyper if you ask me. I feel like I could take on Zuko and beat him ten times over!"

"I'd like to see that, useless," Zuko remarked.

"Hah, I will someday," I replied smirking. He glared at me, but I just stared back blankly. We stayed that way for a couple minutes before Zuko walked past me angrily, mumbling something about having to go check his records. I giggled.

"That's one for me, Iroh-san," I said with a smile. "Keep track, okay?"

"Sure, why not?" Iroh-san answered, laughing himself. He looked at me with worry, still. I bowed deeply.

"Don't worry about me, I'm not that sick," I answered waving my hand to send Iroh-san off.

"So you do have bending sickness!"

"Don't tell Zuko, I don't want him to worry too much about me," I replied, smiling. As Iroh-san left, I let myself fall to the ground. Boy, a lot of excitement today. Can you blame a girl for being so popular with this show? I don't know why I was sucked into this, but I hoped that I wouldn't get sacrificed. I forced myself to get up. It was only midday and well…

A growl came from my stomach.

"I could go for some food," I said, going to the kitchen. I found Hana and I slid over to her and explained my problem of hunger. She smiled and gave me some food… that was delicious, by the way. My eyes sparkled.

"You're such a good cook, Hana!" I told her after I had eaten. Smiling, she handed me a tray of food with 6 plates on it.

"Could you take that to the benders in the planning room?" she asked. I nodded and left immediately. The map that Iroh gave me showed me where everything was, so I was able to get there easily. I knocked on the door and came in.

"Your food everyone!" I said with a bright smile on my face. I handed out the plates to everyone and took note that Zuko wasn't in this room. Strange, but Iroh-san was here. I ran back to Hana with the large tray and asked her to give me more work.

"It's fine, that's all I needed you to do," Hana replied. She was so pretty with her short layered, jet-black hair and large golden eyes. I was jealous that I couldn't be that pretty. Oh well, whatever.

"Oh, that's right," Hana suddenly said, making me jump. "Zuko wants to fight you! He came in a short while ago."

"Okay! I'll go," I said grinning.

"Good luck!"

"Don't worry, you should be telling Zuko that!" I replied, winking and leaving. Dashing down the hallway like there was no tomorrow, I crashed into Zuko who was on his way to the arena. I fell, he was just a little shaken. Gosh, I want to crash and still be standing someday.

"Taking your time, Zuko-sweetie?" I asked, getting up and rubbing my behind. He sent a flurry of flames right at me, but I dodged as if it were nothing. C'mon, I'm so used to the sudden attacks. Attack me when I know you will, Zuko.

"Stop calling me that!" he commanded. I winked.

"Sure, whatever, Ko-chan," I replied laughing. He was still steaming, I could tell. Swirling around, he stomped down the hallway.

"Stop giving me nickname that sound cute!" Zuko said, frowning.

"Fine, I'll call you the Avatar Hunter," I replied, giggling. "Or Zuko of the Flame, or something manly like that."

"Just call me Zuko!"

"Okay, whatever Ko-chan," I replied, sticking my tongue out cutely. We entered the arena and there were fighters here.

"IT'S OUR TURN," Zuko declared and the arena emptied. We went into the ring of the arena. Well, this will be my 3rd battle and my 2nd fight with Zuko.

I giggled.

"What's so funny?" Zuko asked.

"I'm thinking of how I'm going to beat you."

End of Chapter 11: Sure whatever, Ko-chan

Author's Note: Okay, for the Ko-chan thing... You know, his name is Zuko and you don't have to always say Zuko-chan or Zuko-pii or whatever nicknames you can think of, you can shorten their name and it'll end up like that. I thought Zu-chan wasn't as cute as Ko-chan, so that's why I said that. And I do NOT like Zuko! NO! NO! He's pretty cool for a guy, but I got Tao Ren from Shaman King. Although, I got a soft spot for all those evil guys, NOT ZHAO, HE'S FUGLY. You know, like Raistlin from the Dragonlance series, or Hao from Shaman King, or Izumi from Full Moon wo Sagashite (okay, he's not really a bad guy, but you know). Yeah! I'm almost finished writing the next chapter! I'm half way through! XD XD See you next time!