Alrighty! Chapter 1 is here and everyone is happy... so I hope. Oh well, Zuko and Kiko finally meet and sparkes fly, almost literally. I really don't have anything to say, so I'll stop blabbering.

Kiko opened her eyes and winced as the sun suddenly hit her. She was soaked to the bone and noticed the weight of her armor had been taken off. When she got used to the light she looked around seeing men from the fire nation surround her, but the armor they wore was unfamiliar to her. Suddenly she heard a voice from behind the crowd.

"Move aside, let her breath for heaven sake," said the voice, which sounded of a older man. The crowd parted to reveal a old man in royal armor and robes. He bent down towards her, placing a gentle hand on her forehead, smiling widely.

"You're lucky, if we weren't here you would have most certainly drowned."

"Where did you come from?" Said a harsh voice. Behind him stood a young man whose only hair was tied in a ponytail and a large scar covered his left eye. His clothes and armor also looked royal and his face was of anger and curiosity.

"I asked you where you were from," he repeated when she didn't answer. "There is no sign of another ship anywhere near here, so how did you end up in the water?"

"You won't believe me even if I told you," she replied. She was irritated at the man's attitude. She nearly drowned and all he can do is interrogate her.

"Try me." growled the man.

"Now, Prince Zuko, she has had a hard experience. Maybe we should let her rest with a fine cup of tea," said the older man.

"Prince Zuko!" Yelled Kiko. "You're the banished prince?" She looked over to the older man and looked at him strangely. "General Iroh?

"Retired, but yes, and who are you?" He asked.

"I am Kiko, daughter of an admiral for the Fire Nation."

"You're admiral Zhao's daughter?" Asked Zuko astonished.

"I did not believe Zhao was even married," said Iroh.

"I am not Zhao's daughter," she growled angrily. "But then the rest is the part you won't believe."

"Please, tell us my dear," Iroh said kindly.

"I am from the future," she said. "Two hundred years in the future."

"You were right," Zuko said. "I don't believe you. You're obviously lying."

"It's true whether you want to believe it or not," she argued.

"That's not even possible!"

"The Avatar from my time sent me here."

"And why would he want to send a girl like you to the past?"

"She sent me because I am her daughter and she wanted to protect me." The others around her could only stare as they tried to absorb what was said to them. The crew looked at her with awe and respect as well as Iroh. Zuko on the other hand looked like he fought to roll his eyes.

"Well, one thing is for certain," Iroh said, noticing Zuko's look. "You are going to have to stay on the ship until you can return home."

"What!" Yelled Zuko.

"We can't put the poor girl out in the ocean," said Iroh calmly as he helped Kiko to her feet. She started to shiver as the wind hit her soaked clothes. "The only responsible thing to do is keep her here until her mother claims her again."

"I don't want her to stay on my ship," Zuko said, his voice never lowering. "I'm busy enough looking for the avatar, I don't have time to baby-sit."

Kiko finally had enough. Every word that came from Zuko's mouth only made her more and more upset.

"Who says I want to stay with a murder like you?" She screamed. Zuko, Iroh, and even the crew looked at her with disbelief. Zuko had never murdered anyone. "That's right, in one month's time, you go into a raging fit and kill every single person on this ship, including your dear uncle!"

"That's just - I've never - You expect me to -" Zuko couldn't finish his sentences, finding what she said completely crazy. He finally let out a frustrated scream and marched to the stairs that led below.

As the crew watched Zuko leave they began to debate in their heads whether it was safe or not to stay with Zuko when they heard someone trying to contain a laugh. They looked at Kiko when she let out a stream of laughers.

"So that was a lie after all," everyone heard Iroh say.

"Oops," was the only thing Kiko could say as she turned to look at Iroh, who looked angry, a look the crew found rather funny in itself.

"The first part was true?" She nodded yes in answer. "But the part where Zuko kills everyone?" She shook her head slowly.

"Well, I just have on thing to say…." The crew looked on waiting to hear what he had to say. In a flash his angry exterior turned to his happy self and said, "Call my uncle Iroh from now on. But we'd better get to our duties before Zuko really gets mad." The crew departed, chuckling to themselves from what had just happened.

"Thanks," she said quietly when they were finally alone.

"No problem," Iroh said. "Come on, there's one spare room left and you need to dry off before you catch a cold."

She noticed him bend down and pick up the armor that was removed from her and walked towards where Zuko headed.

"Is Zuko always like this?" She asked as they walked through the inside of the ship.

"He has his good days," Iroh replied. "He opened a door to reveal a nice spacious room filled with candles and a carpet was with the fire nation symbol was in the center of the room and against the right wall was a bed with a simple white sheet over it. "It's not much but it can make due for a short while."

"It's more than enough," she replied.

"I will have someone bring you towels and you can rest. I'll come back for a visit after I talk to that nephew of mine." She nodded once as she took back her armor from him and walked into the room. He closed the door behind him and asked one of the men who was walking down the corridor to bring her towels and warned him to knock before he entered. Then he walked a few doors over and knocked.

"What is it?" Came the reply. Iroh opened his nephew's door finding him sitting in the middle of a circle of candles, meditating. Larger than the room that was given to Kiko, Zuko's room was decorated with his duel swords and armor on one wall, his mirror and tables was set to the wall next to it. Beside the door was a tarp of the Fire Nation symbol and the final wall held Zuko's large silk linen bed.

"Yes, she was lying about you being a murderer," was Iroh's first words. Zuko only snorted in response, as if saying it was obvious from the beginning. "But I believe what she is saying about being from the future."

"How can you believe such lies?" Zuko asked, his eyes remaining closed.

"Because there have been legends that the first avatar had the ability to bend time."

"I never heard of that," said Zuko, his concentration broken, he opened his eyes to look at his uncle.

"It was rarely spoken of," replied his uncle, sitting on the edge of his bed. "Only because no other avatar has been able to bend time, so it was thought to have been only rumors and stories."

"So you think she's telling the truth about the avatar bending time in the future to send her here?"

"Yes, but she said the avatar sent her here to protect her. My question is, from what?" Said Iroh as he rubbed his chin. "Her father is an admiral and her mother is the avatar, that much we are sure. What was so dangerous that they could not protect their own daughter from?"

Zuko could only look down at the floor as he considered his uncle's words. What was so bad that they had to send her, not to another place, but another time? Zuko tried to consider this when he heard the sounds of his bed move and looked up to see Iroh walking towards the door.

"Where are you going?" He asked.

"I said I would visit Kiko," his uncle replied. "Besides, I want to hear stories from the future. From the sounds of it, we take an important part of history." His uncle smiled at the thought and left Zuko to himself and his thoughts.

After a few minutes Zuko sighed in frustration and stood up. He put on a robe and walked out of his room and walked to the only vacant room he knew of on the ship. Without knocking his opened the door and saw both her and his uncle sitting on the floor with cups of tea before them, Kiko was talking.

" - benders managed to start making a return around thirty years from now," she said, then saw Zuko enter the room.

"Ah, you've come to hear the stories too," Iroh chuckled. Zuko grunted and took a seat beside his uncle, looking straight at Kiko.

"How did the air benders manage to come back?" Iroh asked.

"Avatar Aang, he had a son with a water bender who had the ability to air bend. His son now has six children, all of which are air benders. Also people are being born with the nature ability. So we predict if it continues the air benders will fully return."

"Did you say water bender?" Zuko said, putting two and two together.

"Yes," Kiko said with a chuckle. "His friend that he's traveling with now."

"Like we didn't see that coming," grumbled Zuko.

Iroh laughed at this, "Well, what do you know, Zuko made a joke." Iroh cleared his throat and looked at Kiko with interest. "I'm actually curious about your role in the future.

Kiko looked down and smiled sadly, causing Zuko to become curious. "I'm a commander for a fleet, we fight the Earth Nation for our very lives."

"Why are you and the Earth Nation at war?" Asked Iroh. "They are the least violent people, second to the Air Nation. Being monks and all."

"Their king as somehow been corrupted and demands payment be made for what happened during this war," answered Kiko.

"But if what you say is true than a hundred years has been between the two wars. It's absolutely ridiculous to bring back a dept that old."

"Debt? It's a slaughter," Kiko whispered. "King Mijo of the Earth Nation wants all the Fire Nation exterminated. We have come to terms with the other nations, but they will not fight with us. Mijo has convinced them to at least stay out of if, seeing how they will not fight against us."

"Why won't they help fight with you?" Asked Zuko.

"Because of what the Fire Nation has done to them during this war. Wiped out the air benders, captured all the earth benders, raided the southern water tribes? And that's all that's happened to this day. Right now, only I know what will happen in later days. They will not fight against us because my mother is an air bender, but they, too, cannot forget what we have done to them in our past. Of what Emperor Ozai did."

"My father is the cause of the war in your time!" Shouted Zuko getting to his feet in a single leap. "Is that what you're saying?"

"That is exactly what I'm saying!" Kiko said as she got to her feet as well.

"No one talks about my father that way," Zuko growled, steam emitting from his hands.

"Prince Zuko, Kiko, please," Iroh said in desperation. "No one can change what has happened, whether it be true or not."

"I don't have to stand for this," Zuko said in a quiet, menacing voice.

"Then you can go back to sitting," quipped Kiko.

Zuko brought back his fist when Iroh shouted out, "Will you really strike a woman!" With that Zuko turned and stomped out of the room, slamming the door behind him.

"I can only hope my mother will bring be home soon," Kiko whispered as she sat back down. "I'm afraid with my bad luck, I will be killed by the man I always admired." Iroh looked at her surprised and looked at the door Zuko had walked through and thought, This will be most interesting indeed, though I hope for the best.

Not as much suspence as I would have hoped for, but hopefully it'll make you want more. Please be as kind as possible in the reviews.