Fresh new chappies of Forbidden Love people! Alright sorry I haven't updated in so long but my mom doesn't want me typing...I'll find a way around that... so let me continue with the story.

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Kaori groaned. She was in a cell. It was cold and dark. Her hands were chained to the wall she leaned on. There was a thin banage around her waist but it didn't help much. Her face was dirty and her cloths stained. There was a sudden opening of the large wooden door. A girl maybe a year or two younger than her walked in. She was wearing a black dress with her hair in a bun. She carried a damp cloth and a bowl with a spoon sticking out of it.

"Ah you're finally awake," the girl said.

"Who are you?" Kaori asked softly.

Her voice was gone mostly. It was dry and airy.

"Oh my name is Sifu. I work for Commander Zhao." the girl replied.

Sifu put the damp cloth to Kaori's side and patted it. Kaori winced.

"Why are you helping me?" Kaori asked.

"Well, it's my job to help the pirsoners. Some come in worse than you but I want to make your final days best,"

"Who cares...just leave me... I'm going to die anyway,"

Sifu was silent. She must have learned not to reply to these kinds of things.

"Sifu...what can you tell me about...Prince Zuko?" Kaori said slowly and suddenly.

That name...Prince Zuko... It was foreign to her tounge. Sifu seemed to think and try to find the right words. Then she spoke.

"I know not much about the prince. Only that he needs to capture the avatar to regain his honor. He was a traitor you know. But I have heard he is a very angry boy...very...unstable,"

Kaori digested this. So to everyone he was dangerous...and angry. But, that couldn't be... He had been so friendly. Stubborn, but friendly. Sifu stood up.

"Well I must be going now...get some rest," she said walking out of the room.

Kaori stared straight ahead. She needed to think. And boy, did she have a ton to think about.

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He could see her. Kaori. She was tied to a post. On her knees and her hands behind her. Zhao stood there. He held a large knife. Kaori's face was covered by her hair that hung down from her sholders. Zhao was laughing. He was on the ship. But for some reason his feet wouldn't move.

He could hear her voice echoing in the backround.

I thought I loved you. I thought I loved you.

"Kaori!" he screamed.

Zhao brought the knife to her neck and raised it. No. He was to late. How could he be to late?

Zhao brought the knife down.

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Zuko sat up sweating bullets. It had been a dream...only a dream. The door flew open. Uncle Iroh stood there.

"Prince Zuko. It's time," he said.

Zuko nodded and grabbed a shirt. It was night now. The sky was gray. At first Zuko couldn't remember what he was doing then he did. It was almost as if remembering a nightmare. Or at least it felt that way. He quietly snuck on when the guards weren't looking and made his way down the main chamber cells. He turned a corner but ran into a girl. She dropped a bowl she was carring. Zuko grabbed her around the waist and pulled her around the side. He put his hand over her mouth.

A guard came over. He picked up the broken bowl.

"Stupid mice.." he muttered then walked away.

Zuko let the girl go and she stared at him.

"Please tell me where the girl named Kaori is," Zuko said.

"Shee...she's right over in that room," the girl said.

"May I have the keys?"

"I'm not allowed to give them out,"

"Damnit give me the keys!"

The girl shoved the keys in Zuko's hand and ran. Zuko ran to the room she had pointed to and opened it. He swung the door open. There sitting against the wall was Kaori. She looked so lifeless. Zuko ran over to her and immediately started burning the chains. She stared at his hands while he did so.

"Kaori...I know I should have told you but you would have hated me...like you do now. I just..I don't know...I wasn't thinking,"

She didn't say anything. Just sat there staring at his flamed hand.

"I understand if you never want to speak to me again but I am going to get you out of here," he said.

"Shutup!" Kaori suddenly exclaimed.

She leaned forward and kissed Zuko on the lips. When she pulled back she stared at him angerily.

"Listen here whoever you are! I sat here against this wall thinking of ways to hate you. I should hate you. I do hate you! I told myself that you are scum and nothing! But I reilized I don't hate you and I can't make myself hate you. I'm in love with you. There's only one thing I want to say to you," she said.

"What's that?" Zuko asked fearing the answer.

She stared at him long and cold but then the tips of her frown flinched upward.

"What took you so long?"

He smiled. Quickly he burned the chains off her hands.

"We have to run," he said to her.

She nodded. Even though it hurt to run she still did. Her side ached. Getting out of the ship was easier than getting on. They made their way into a forest on the side of the city. Zuko took Kaori's hands.

"You have to run," he said.

"I'm not leaving without you,"

"You have to. If I don't go back then Zhao will know it was me that got you out of there. He may figure it out anyway but I have to go back,"

"But I love you,"

"And I love you Kaori. That's why you have to run,"

"Will I see you again?"

"I'll serch this whole city for you when Zhao leaves,"

Zuko began to turn away when Kaori caught his arm.

"Kaori-"

"Wait,"

She kissed him. Zuko smiled and turned. They both ran in different directions. Each way towards a different situation.

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wow chappie 9! does anyone read my story? oh well i'll post it anyway.

-emma