Zeeva: Hey everybody! Hey, can I as you all a Q, before I do the disclaimer? Why is it that you don't leave reveiws? I like to hear waht you all say! Not to mention, I got more hits on this than on my other avatar story. Make me happy, please R&R!

Ayumi: Z?

Zeeva: Yeah?

Ayumi: Just do the disclaimer, and stop whining. It's not your fault that the world is messed up.

Zeeva: KK! I do not own Avatar: the Last Air Bender, or any or it's characters, but I do own all the rest.

Chapter 3: Deceived

No, this wasn't possible. They kids must have played a prank on him. Trying to fool him. The girl looked too childish to steal from anyone. She walked in a circle around Zuko, and examined him, then said, "Yep." Even her voice was childish. She couldn't have been over the age of 10! When she stopped her vulture circle of the new guy, she stood right in front of him. Zuko thought she was short before, but now she was looking directly up, as he looked straight down.

With a "better" view of her, Zuko could tell that she was skinny, and his coat on her was gargantuan. She looked like a little girl trying on her father clothes. Masahiro and Oguri walked over to the girl, and gave her a hug. She hugged in return, but didn't let her eye off Zuko. "So is he your victim, Ayumi?" Oguri asked, a little surprised at the situation. Masahiro was the same, and he looked over to a waving Endoh. The girl with the two different eyes walked over, she was in-between the height of the other two girls, and very curvy. She looked over Zuko, just as Ayumi did, and smiled. She put out her hand and told him, "Hey, I'm Emi." Zuko shook her hand, and she stood next to Ayumi, who was about ready to show him her true colors.

"So you caught me," she said, her childish voice growing up about 5 years. She poked his chest, and stated, "You followed your thief, not sure if it was a little girl, or a muscular grown man. That either means that you are very brave, or incredibly stupid." She walked away, and Zuko gave her a look of annoyance. He followed her, and spun her towards him. He reached out his hand, and demanded his belongings back. She looked at his hand, then at his face. After that comment, He was sure she was the thief, but he still thought she was young enough that he could intimidate her. Again, he was wrong. She removed his coat, revealing that it definitely was big. Under the coat, she was skinny, but she was about as curvy, if not more, than Emi.

She had been wearing a blue tank top under the coat, and she had three necklaces around her neck. She handed him the coat, and told him, "I'll give this back, as for the money I stole, that's mine." She walked into a room, after telling everyone that she was going to leave for a bit, making the room hush over.

Zuko stared at the now closed door, and he felt two people grab his arms. Emi and Endoh turned him around. Masahiro was looking at the door, too, when Oguri broke the silence of the room by saying, "I think she likes you." Everyone looked at Oguri; he cleared his throat, and began his introductions of the girls. The other girl with glasses was Hasagawa, the one with fluffy brown hair was Watari, and the last girl was Endoh's sister, Asuka.

The girls began to leave, one by one, until only Endoh and Emi were left. They were Ayumi's roommates, so they weren't leaving for a while. Masahiro and Oguri stayed with the girls, and Zuko was afraid to venture in this madhouse on his own. Masahiro flirted with Endoh, and Emi was talking about the arrangements for Zuko. Zuko sat in the corner of the room on a poorly crafted chair, most likely built by one of the girls. Ayumi had come out of the room earlier, with her own blue coat now over her top, and told the group that she was going to the river. The others saw her off and stayed behind.

The conversation of everyone, not including the secluded Zuko, turned to something that Zuko had not seen coming. "Ayumi told that her water bending has really improved since she started practicing at the river. I guess with the fast current, it makes her work harder, so calm water is easier to control," Emi started. The others nodded and agreed to the statement. Zuko went over to listen more. Endoh added on to her friend's comment by saying, "And she probably trains with Watari. Since they are both water benders, it must make it easier on both of them. As for my bending, it sucks. I can't practice with anyone. On the other hand, Emi, your can, there are a good amount of earth benders, but you just don't practice." Emi smiled at that last part, and looked over to Zuko, who was now a bit confused.

"Endoh, was it?" He asked, "Are you a fire bender?" Endoh gave him a harsh look and replied, "No way am I one of those over grown, idiotic matches. I'm a bit different. You see, I was born on a neutral island, and my parents, Hasagawa's and mine I should say, and fire benders killed them when the island attacked. My sister and I were sent to an orphanage on the island. We were about six when they made us evacuate the island, because they wanted to save the children, and here I am now. My family may have been neutral, but I was a bender, in fact, I was the only bender. For some odd reason, there had not been benders in my family for about a hundred, or so years. I was the first, and besides the avatar, the only."

Zuko was now very confused. She couldn't possibly mean, "I'm an air bender," she finished. She did mean it. Zuko looked at her with a look of utter astonishment; Masahiro had to hit his head to snap him out of it. She was right, with that as her element, the only person she could train with was the avatar, and as far as Zuko knew, the avatar was long since gone looking for an earth-bending master. He would be nowhere near here. Masahiro put his arm around her and told Zuko that that was how most of the kids came to live here. Not necessarily from that orphanage, but from their parents being killed, because of the war. Zuko bowed his head. He couldn't tell them about why he was traveling, at least not the truth. If none o the kids knew who he was, or what he was for that matter, they would let him stay.

Emi looked out the window. They had been talking for almost three hours now, and the boys needed to go back to their house. They said their good- byes, and left. Emi giving everyone hugs, including Zuko, who wished she hadn't. When the boys were gone, the girls left as well, and headed towards the river, to check on Ayumi. She had said she would be back in a short amount of time, but three hours was not a short amount of time. The girls had been friends for years, and they knew Ayumi well enough to say that she had gotten caught up in a new technique.

The boys in the village didn't let the girl fight, no matter how good they were. Emi, Endoh, and Ayumi didn't approve of it. Thou Endoh and Emi didn't want to fight, Ayumi hated the fire nation more than anyone on the woods did, because her parents were more than killed by the fire nation, they were tortured, and Ayumi had had a front view seat.

The girls approached their friend at the river, and were drenched in the first few seconds. They had been right about the technique, and Watari practicing with her.

Watari wanted to fight, too, but she wanted to fight because not only did the fire nation kill her parents, but her little brother when they were on the run. She needed to avenge her brother, before she joined him.

Watari and Ayumi were working together to control a wave, when the other girls surprised them and they turned around, soaking the girls with the giant wave. Thou Endoh didn't have a teacher, she taught herself, and for that, she was exceptional. She dried her and Emi off, and told the girls of their day with the boys. Ayumi and Watari could only laugh. Emi and Endoh weren't boy crazy, but when they had the opportunity to be with a boy, they would take it with no hesitation. As for Ayumi and Watari, boys were one of the last things on their minds. They only time they did think of boys were when they were trying to prove that they were better than they were.

They didn't believe that boys being greater because they were boys, as a matter of fact, the girls' favorite pastime was beating the boys at everything. What one lost at the other would win with flying colors, but together they beat the boys, every time. Ayumi was stronger, than Watari, but Watari was more patient and calm, when she wasn't mad. Ayumi had the temper of a fire bender, and the attention spanned of a rodent. Watari was faster than Ayumi, but Ayumi solve almost any puzzle with time. They were each other's Ying and yang. With out the other, the woods would only perish. With both of them, they would control each other, for the most part.

But, of all the things the girls all agreed on hating, "Oh girls!" Another female voice called out from the trees. The only thing they all absolutely hated, where the other group of girls in the woods. The owner of the voice stepped out from the trees, followed by a group of around ten more girls. The girls all wore skirts and light colors, compared to the Ayumi, Watari, Emi, and Endoh; they were stereo type damsels. The lead girl, who had short black hair and dark brown eyes that matched her perfectly tanned skin, walked up to Ayumi and said, in a very feminine tone, "We get the river now." Ayumi looked at the girl, she was about Emi's height, and said, "Ok," then followed her response with another wave, knocking the girl off her feet, and onto the muddy ground.

Cliffy! I hate cliffies, but I know it'll make you come back for more if I do them! (works when people do it to me all the time!)

So what wil happen when the girls face off? And Will Zuko treat Watari and Ayumi like girls? R&R

P.S.There was no pun intended by Watari being a water bender. Her full name is Saruwatari, the girl's, and everyone else, just call her Watari for short. So no flamers on that. Watari got her name before she became my second water bender.

P.P.S. for those reading my other story, Avatar: The Earth Girl's Secret, I'll try to update asap, but my week/weekend were hectick to the extreme, so I didn't get to worl on them, and when I work on 2 stories in the same day, I get all scewed up, so, sorry, if it's a little late.