Ok…so I know it's been soooo long…but blame school, seriously. I've had like a bunch of essay's due and a lot of tests…and to top it off…my parents have been punishing me by taking away my computer...so I'm finally on and here's the next chapter! Also thanks for all your awesome reviews…I will really try to update ASAP all the time!

Disclaimer: I don't Avatar: The Last Airbender…but I know the new episodes are coming MARCH 17!

'Oh no, what am I going to do, how am I supposed to learn the four elements in time. It's going to be impossible!' Aang thought while pacing around in a circle with a worried look on his face.

Zuko looked over at Aang and sighed. The airbender had not been his normal self lately. Always staring off into space, or just pacing. It was really worrying Zuko and Zula.

"Aang…?" Zula spoke up.

"I can't deal with this anymore, I can't do it. I never wanted it to happen to me… I just can't handle it anymore. Too much pressure…too much. I don't even know how to Firebend!" Aang ran to Zula's arms trying to control his emotions.

Zuko walked up to Aang and put a hand on his shoulder, "If you want to learn firebending, I can help you. I mean I only know the basics but…"

"O THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I promise I'll do my very best!" Aang said so enthusiastically.

"Hold on tiger, we need to find a nice open space"

"Ok so let's go by the river, there's a ton of space there!" Aang said, too excited to finally start his task.

Katara was practicing her waterbending, moving gracefully through each move when the ship takes a sudden sharp turn. 'Why the hell have we change course?' Katara asks herself while running towards the inside of the ship. She finds Gran-Gran there with a worried look on her face.

"Is something the matter Gran-Gran?" Katara asks, sympathy in her voice.

"O Katara, its horrible!"

"What, what is it?"

"I…I've…lost my…. LOTUS TILE! I can't play Pai Sho without it!" Gran-Gran cried out while running towards her granddaughter for comfort.

'O brother,' Katara thought while rolling her eyes.

"OK, so I call this move, streaming the fire," Zuko shows Aang how he creates a ball of fire and then lengthens it, and moving it around his body. "It took me a while to understand but…"

He looks over at Aang to see that he was streaming the fire without any faults.

"Ok, so now we're gonna do a more advanced move. You have to create a wall of fire to block your opponents from an attack, I still haven't gotten it down and you might have some trouble too…"

"You mean like this!" Aang quickly creates a wall of fire bigger than any Zuko had ever made.

"Yup, Just like that…" Zuko said while grinding his teeth. 'It's not fair; he doesn't even have to try to do anything. Sometimes…'

"Great going Aang, you just burned all our supplies to crisp!" Zula said looking over at Aang.

"It's ok, I saw a little town nearby, I'm sure they'll have a ton of things!" Aang said happily while leading the way towards the village.

As the trio comes to the town, they realize it full of pirates. But they just ignore them; hopefully there would be no Water Nation soldiers in the town. Aang goes off in one direction but quickly comes back with something in his hand.

"Look it's a bison whistle!"

"Aang why did u go waste your money on something so useless…I'll keep the money with me from now on." Zula said to Aang as he sadly handed her the money.

"Come one and all, don't be scared, we'll offer you anything except for underwear! (Yes lame rhyme but just work with me) "Excuse me young sir may I interest you in some exotic curios?" The pirate asked Aang.

"Sure! What are curios?

The pirate looked puzzled but said, "I'm not entirely sure, but we've got 'em!"

"C'mon Zula let's just look inside, just for a second!" Aang put on his puppy dogface that no one could resist.

"Fine, but only for a little while."

As they walk into the ship they see different and unique artifacts, but they all looked like junk. But something caches Zuko's eye; it was a firebending scroll.

"Where did you get this?" He asked with shock

"We didn't steal it if that's what your wondering, and anyway its for sale…unless you have 200 gold coin." The captain said with smirk on his face.

"We have to get this scroll but we only have 2 copper pieces." Zuko said sadly.

"It's ok Zuko, I know pirates, the love to haggle with you." Aang said.

"Say, how 'bout we give ye 2 copper pieces." Aang said in a swashbuckling way.

The pirates all stared Aang incredulously, and then they started laughing. "Yeah right, come back when you have more money!"

They all come out of the ship but in the distance they hear someone yelling at them

"GET THEM!" They turn around to see a couple of pirates chasing after them.

"RUN!" Aang yells as they try to out run the pirate. 'What could have possibly got us into trouble with them?'

Zula, Zuko, and Aang run for their lives as they come through a narrow pathway.

"Grab on!" Aang said as he took his glider out and flew into the air with Zula and Zuko hanging on to him. As they take off they crash into a cart they hear a loud cry, "My cabbages! Oooohhh... This place is worse than Omashu!"

They soon run away out of view of the pirates and head back to their camp.

"Why would they be after us?" Zula asks Aang and then looks over at Zuko to see that he has a suspicious look on his face. "Zuko…what did you do?"

"Well..um..I….just took this." He takes out the firebending scroll from earlier.

"ARE YOU MAD? "Zula asks her dear brother, "We could've have almost been killed!"

"Hey wait a minute, they probably stole in the beginning, and I'm just taking back what rightfully belongs to us! C'mon Aang, let's see what we can do!" Zuko said while dragging Aang away.

The large ship docked on shore as Princess Katara, Gran-Gran and a couple of her guards stepped out.

"Let's go Princess Katara, I'm sure they have a lotus tile here somewhere."

"Can't I just stay on the ship, I'm not in the mood to look for a stupid tile, that may I mention cut us off track of the Avatar, that is for a stupid game!" Katara said as the waves around her started crashing into each other.

"Oh Katara, don't get your bun tied up in a knot and let's go!"

"Fine."

As they continue to search they find a pirate ship and their crew outside arguing over something. "If you had been keeping a better eye on that boy, we would have our firebending scroll in our hands!"

Katara walked over to the pirates, hopefully with her feminine charm, she could get some information out of them. "Hello men." She said seductively. "I couldn't help but overhear your problem and I was wondering if I may be of assistance?"

"Well miss, it's just that these three travelers came to our ship and stole a valuable item from us and we need it back." The captain spilled out, eyeing Katara greedily.

Katara stepped closer to the pirate, just a couple of inches from each other and looked straight in his eyes, she could see he wanted her badly and decided toy with him a bit. " How about a little bargain. I help you get your scroll back," She slid her hand down his shirt, "and you help me capture the one boy who took it from you. Deal?"

"Deal, But one more thing, I get to take you out to dinner tonight."

"Deal. Good then, we'll start right away."

"So first, you…no, you do this step..wait not that either..then you…why can't I do this damn move?"

"Zuko calm down, all you have to do is shift your weight between the stances, see like this." Aang said showing Zuko how the Sing Fire Whip was done.

"Do you HAVE to be like that, always showing off you great abilities?" Zuko yelled, finally letting his anger out. He looked down at Aang to see he had hurt the poor boy's feelings. "Aang, I'm sorry, I really shouldn't have yelled at you like that. Here, here's the scroll, I don't want it anymore." Zuko said and walked back to the camp sight leaving Aang alone.

Soon darkness swept over the land and the trio made a campfire. Zuko quickly opened his eyes and looked around him. Relieved to see that Aang and Zula were still asleep he quickly took the firebending scroll and set off towards the river.

"Shouldn't we check in the woods?" The captain asked the princess.

"We don't have to, they stole a Firebending Scroll right?" Katara asks as the captain nods.

"Then look for a fire"

"Ok, so you just want us to capture the boy like that?"

"No I have a plan, here it is…"

"Wait no..this isn't right why can't I do this damn…"Zuko stops when he hears a noise from behind the bushes. He sees Princess Katara being harassed by the pirates they saw earlier.

"Leave me alone! I haven't done anything to cause you trouble!"

"I know pretty lady, but you look very handsome..and besides you broke our deal!" Said the Pirate Captain.

"Stay away from her!" Zuko fought with all the pirates, although it did not take much effort. Soon they all ran away and Katara and Zuko were left together.

"What are you doing out here?" Zuko asked her eyeing her suspiciously.

"What do you think, I was looking for the Avatar." As Katara said that Zuko once again looked straight into her eyes and saw fear. "You're coming with me, I need to ask you a something."

Zuko had tied the princes against a tree to keep her from running away from him. He needed to ask her a few questions.

Katara kept her eyes on her enemy; she needed to know what he was up too.

"Why are you after Aang?" Zuko popped the question. He knew Katara was after him for a reason but he didn't know why.

"Fine you want to know, I'll tell you; I betrayed my father and family…then end. There happy!" She said, not wanting to bring up the horrendous memory, especially when her father gave her…. o never mind.

"By the look in your eyes I can see that there was more to the story please tell me."

"Why do you want to know? I'm just a banished princess, you don't even know me!" He was going to far, this was not the way she had planned it.

"Wait a second, I know who you are! You're that girl, on the night of the big WaterNation ball. I remember, my village and I were sick of your constant raids and this stupid war, so we thought if we could kill the water lord the war would be over, but we killed the Lady instead. And I remember one more thing, a girl, with sapphire eyes, just like yours, crying. You were the girl I kissed? Weren't you? It's all coming back to me now! We killed your mother. Is that why you're stuck chasing the Avatar?"

Katara had had enough; this boy was toying with her. She could feel the tears streaming down her face. She didn't want to remember that day ever again she had finally found hope, the avatar was alive and now all she could think about was that one stupid night. "NO JUST LEAVE ME ALONE! I can't handle remembering, I just can't…"

"Katara look at me, look into my eyes." She wouldn't lift up her head at first but Zuko put his hand under her chin forcing her to look up. When she looked in her eyes, She saw a mixture of emotions; sadness, compassion, grief, hate, love. Wait; love? A firebender loving a waterbender, impossible!

Zuko suddenly felt something inside of him, it was something he hadn't felt in a while, love. He slowly moved closer towards Katara, mesmerized by her beautiful eyes. He closed his eyes and moved his lips closer to hers.

Katara was captured by the firebender's eyes and then felt herself coming closer to him, like a magnetic attraction.

Zuko slowly, but gently placed his lips on the princesses'. He was surprised when she responded back to him. He never thought that his first kiss would be with the Princess of the WaterNation.

Katara was stuck in her own little world, she felt like time had stopped, like it was only Zuko and she. She had never felt this way before and she was exhilarated by it. She was in bliss when, suddenly, Zuko pulled away having to capture his breath. They both looked at each other once more. A blush spread across both their cheeks.

"Why did you do that?" Katara asked softly.

"Because, I think I like you."

"Oh, could you do it again?" Katara asked shyly as Zuko smiled and stepped close to her once more, first untying her from the pole. He placed his arms around her petite waist and skimmed his lips across her once more. Both of them felt a little braver this time and Zuko quickly deepened the kiss. He stuck his tongue in her mouth, gliding it across her pearly whites, tasting her.

Katara loved the feeling of Zuko's tongue in her mouth. There tongues danced with each other and they finally let go. They looked at each other once more and smiled.

"I really have to be going now, my Gran-Gran might worrying about me." Katara said abruptly as she turned around to leave.

"When will I see you again?" Zuko asked knowing her answer.

"Haha, when I'm trying to capture the Avatar again, which is always." Katara laughed but just when she was about to leave, she heard Zuko's voice once more.

"Why were the pirates harassing you?" He asked, having forgotten about it.

'Oh shit, he can't know, I don't want him to know.' "Umm…he he…no reason, just some bargain that I lost." Katara waved it off.

"Wait a minute, Katara, why were you here?"

"Whoops, look how the time flies I really have to go, bye!"

"ZUKO!" Zuko heard his sister and Aang crying out his name. "Was this all just some distraction to capture the Avatar, some GAME?" Zuko was now angry, he had finally found a girl whom he really likes and she just betrayed him.

"No Zuko, it's not what you think what we did was real..i do like you…a lot, but…"

"Forget it Katara, I have go save my sister and the Avatar." Zuko quickly stalks of leaving the Waterbender speechless. He quickly goes to the campsite to see Zula and Aang tied up with the pirates surrounding them. Zula was talking to the pirates.

"Are you sure you want to hand Aang over to Katara?"

"Why not, he's just a worthless boy and I made a "deal" with the princess."

"Oh it's really nothing, it's just that he's the AVATAR no biggie, I mean he won't be worth like A LOT of MONEY, but it's ok, just give him to Katara." Zula said hoping the pirates would catch on.

Katara comes back to see Zuko, Zula, and Aang captured. When she looked at Zuko, he looked hurt with his face turned away and that gave her a bad feeling in the pit of stomach, but she just brushed it off.

"Give me the Avatar" Katara ordered.

"Oh we've decided not too, he's worth a lot more than a stupid scroll." The captain said, "But we can still have our date."

Katara was upset by now; those stupid pirates don't backstab the princess. She suddenly took a massive amount of water and dumped it all over the pirates. "No one double crosses me." While all this commotion was going on, Momo had untied Aang, Zuko, and Zula and they had quickly gotten away.

"Zuko, where were you when the captured us?" Zula asked suspiciously.

Zuko smiled and looked towards the moon, "Nowhere worth mentioning." He said nonchalantly and turned towards his sister and the Avatar. 'They will never know.'

Katara had finally escaped from the pirates with Gran-Gran and continued their search for the pirates.

Katara had locked herself in her room once she got on the ship. She was just thinking about what happened between her and Zuko. Was there a spark or not? Next time he wouldn't get away. Next time… they would have a little talk.

Wow, I though I would never finish this chapter. Thank you guys for all your awesome reviews. I really appreciate it. Once again, I try to update as soon as possible and school always comes before my enjoyment. I really hope you enjoyed this chapter.

What's Katara hiding, what happened to her on the night of her banishment?

I really don't like this chapter, I kind of skipped the whole pirate-fighting scene. But review would be nice please!

I need some ideas. The next chapter is going to be based on Jet, so I hope that will be good.

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