Element Girls: So the term Girls really means there's more than one of ya? Cool. D Well, it's a better image than Zuko dressed at Sailor Mars. o.O Someone drew that as a fanart and it creeped me out. Oh the pain!

But Aang is in this chapter like I promised, but only a few seconds. Sorry, but he'll have the whole chapter next time time.

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Zuko walked around the outskirts of the village, waiting on the troop that left for the south side of the island. Iroh came out and smile at Zuko's pacing, knowing his nephew didn't fully understand just how worried he was for the young girl.

"Zuko, relax, they'll be here soon," Iroh said reassuringly. "And they'll all be safe."

"I know that," Zuko said suddenly. "I just wish they'd get here sooner. M-maybe they'll have information on the avatar."

Keep telling yourself that, Iroh thought to himself with a sly smile.

Just then five men came running from out of the woods and towards. Zuko was about to yell at them for taking so long when he noticed something was not right.

"Where's Kiko!" He demanded. Iroh blinked and looked around, not seeing the young girl anywhere.

"Earth benders have captured her, sir," panted a soldier. "She ordered us to leave her."

"And yet you still abandoned her?" Zuko continued to shout.

"We didn't want to, but it seemed she was desperate to make us leave, sir," the lieutenant said, taking off his mask.

"Don't give me that attitude," he growled. "Where did they go?"

"We heard sounds going towards the north. That's probably where their base is located at."

"Get my rhino ready, I'm going after her," Zuko shouted to one of them and they quickly ran into the village to do just that.

"I should come, too" Iroh said.

"No, it will be faster if I go alone and the rhino can see in the dark," Zuko said as his rhino was brought to him. Him leaped into the seat and steered it towards the forest. "No one move from this village until I return, understood?"

"Yes, Prince Zuko," Iroh said dejectedly as he rushed into the forest. "Good luck, Zuko."

Kiko had men on all four sides, being watched with every move she made. She hadn't attempted to escape or even struggle when she was captured. That would only make things difficult for herself.

They had been walking for nearly three hours and it was well into the night. The earth benders knew the forest well enough to trip, leaving Kiko in a disadvantage. Whenever she tripped or lagged the man behind her or one of the two on either side of her would punch her or poke her with their rods of stone that they carried. She'd tried to suppress a groan of pain, but the man up front would hear it and order the others to stop.

Finally, after what seemed as miles of walking, they came to a stop. Kiko took a look at her surroundings, to the best of her sight n the dark, and was shocked. They planned on resting for the night here, one of the thickest wooded places they've come across? The ground was uneven and covered with rocks, the tree roots rose from the ground in arches, and enemies could be hiding anywhere in the surrounding trees.

With her guard down for a moment, a bender took the opportunity and roughly took her shoulder, forcing her to the ground. Another took a chain rope and tied her to a tree by her shoulders, leaving her legs and feet as the only unbound things on her body. After they had tied her they walked a bit further, Kiko able to hear the obvious leader of the group reprimanding the two for rough handling her.

Soon they hunkered down, far enough she couldn't get close to them, but they could see her in the light of the small fire they made. They began to warm some food and pass it around, making Kiko's nose twitch. After a day of training and going straight into a goose chase for the avatar, you work up an appetite.

The leader noticed Kiko watching them and stood up, walking towards her. As he came closer Kiko got a better look at his face, dark skinned, hazel eyed and dark brown bangs escaped his helmet and hung over his face. He was quite handsome, but it gave her the feeling she had seen him before.

He caught this look from her and was surprised she didn't look away when he caught her in the act. Instead she looked at him straight in the eyes, hazel meeting green. (Did I forget to mention she has emerald eyes? My bad!) He only smiled kindly before kneeling down before her, which wasn't much of an improvement, seeing how the top of her head only reached his chest, and she was sitting down.

"I'm sorry for them mistreating you, it won't happen again," he said in a soft voice. Kiko notice something move and looked to his hands to see a large slice of meat being handed to her. With her tied hands, she grabbed the piece and took a bite. Bland, but good to a hungry stomach.

"Why are you being so nice to me?" She asked as soon as she swallowed.

"You didn't think twice whether or not that meat was poisoned?"

"Please, if you wanted me dead you would have let me fall in that ravine. At least then you wouldn't have had to worry about a body, right? What's the point of dragging me out here and killing me?"

"We could bury you, but you have a point," he said with a smile.

"You didn't answer my question."

"There's no point to harm someone who isn't a part of this war," he said in what amazed Kiko a sad and sincere voice. "I didn't recognize you when you got off that battle ship."

"So if you recognized me, like someone as important as Zuko, you would have killed me," She said. The man only looked at the ground. "No, my fate is the same, even if it was Zuko you caught."

"You're to be brought to the general, it's his decision after that," he said with a sigh.

"That still doesn't mean why you're treating me different that the others, I am a fire bender after all."

"Yes, but a beautiful one who doesn't want this war as much as I do," the man said, winking once before returning to his comrades, leaving Kiko very red, but that only left thoughts of Zuko. Would he come after her or finally have an excuse to go on without her? She had hoped what little friendship she had gained will bring Zuko to her.

"Where is she?" Grumbled Zuko. He had been searching most of the sunset and onward and still no sign of finding her. "This is ridicules, why did she let herself be taken like that?" Maybe it was a plan, she had it was the Earth Nation she was up against in the future, maybe she's trying to find something. Whatever the reason, if he found out they harmed her in any way… Fire grew in Zuko's eyes as he kicked the sides of the rhino and ran it into the woods.

"Get more wood, the fire is dying too fast," said one of the earth benders said around the fire. The warmth and light were slowly draining away to the cold night. But before anyone could move they saw the trail of fire come towards the through the ground and ignited the fire. The four men turned and looked at Kiko, who's foot was extended towards the fire, flat on the ground.

"You're welcome," she grunted as she rubbed against the tree, trying as hard as possible to get comfortable to fall asleep.

"She can't be trusted," one whispered.

"Then why didn't she use her bending abilities in the one place you never would have guessed?" Asked the leader.

"You're saying she came with us willingly? OW!"

"You idiot," said his comrade, the one who hit in the head. "She didn't fight when we first claimed her at the ravine, and she just bent fire without meaning to harm us. There has got to be a plan behind this."

"There's always a plan or scheme behind everything, Argo," said the leader. "You thought Rajin was stealing reserves when he went to the bathroom." The burliest huffed at this.

"What crime has she committed?" Asked the leader. "Nothing. She's just born into a world that hates even looking at her kind."

"She's wearing armor."

"And we attacked her first, without her even lifting a finger against us in the first place," he argued. He sighed and took off his helmet, revealing brown hair down to the back of his neck. "Let's just sleep on it, I'll take first watch."

After they had finally gone to sleep, the young man walked over to Kiko. "Hey, you asleep?" She whispered to her still form.

"I'm up against a tree, in chains. How can anyone sleep?" She whispered back, opening her eyes. "I think I got a splinter in my side the size of a foot."

"Let me help you," he said as he reached over.

"Watch the hands," she whispered before wincing.

"It was just a twig," he said, pitching it to the side.

"You're a kind man," she said in a solemn voice. "Too kind to be kidnapping young girls."

"Please… uh."

"Kiko."

"Please, Kiko, understand, my orders are clear." When Kiko didn't respond he look her chin by his two fingers and made her look at him. "I'm Mijo."

Mijo! The ancestor to the King Mijo who would start the massive war between the Earth Nation and the Fire Nation. If she killed him, the whole thing wouldn't happen, and all would be well. But she couldn't kill an innocent man, he was too good to be harmed. And she could kill him now, after trying to get "comfortable", she had loosened the chains enough for her to be able to wiggle through and free herself. The only obstacle was how to do it without hurting him.

"Mijo, I have to leave," she said softly, her head hanging low.

"Leave?" With that she ducked under the chins around her shoulders and looped on of her arms around Mijo's head, brining the chin around her wrists to his neck. (Jack Sparrow action there)

"Uncuff me, Mijo," she whispered in his ear.

"Why are you doing this?" He asked, not frightened at all, just curious at to why she would suddenly change.

"Because I don't want to hurt you," she said desperately. Without question Mijo unlocked the chains that held Kiko's hands and she made a mad dash in the other direction. Mijo turned just in time to catch Kiko's hand and pulled her in, kissing her on the lips.

Just then Zuko was on top of a hill, looking down at the scene of a man pulling Kiko to him, kissing her hard. He turned to go back to his rhino to make his way down the hill when Kiko turned and ran the other direction, never to look back at the earth bender again.

A few minutes later stomping woke up the other earth benders, the first thing they noticed was the fire bender was missing. "Where's the girl!" They all demanded.

"That's what I want to know," a voice said as soon as the stomping stopped. Suddenly Zuko jumped from a tree and onto Mijo. He held a hand to the man's face when the others came onto him.

"Stay back, or he dies!" When they moved back Zuko picked Mijo by the collar, rage set on his face. "Where is Kiko!" He yelled.

"Wha-" Started Mijo, but Zuko cut him off. "THE GIRL YOU CAPTURED AND TRIED TO FORCE YOURSELF ONTO HER!"

"She ran!" Mijo yelled. "West, that's all I know!" Mijo was suddenly dropped and Zuko ran to get his rhino, but only when he escaped in the shadows did he throw a giant ball of fire in the middle of the camp, screams were heard from miles around. It did not kill them, but warned them not to mess with Zuko again.

Kiko ran through the woods, tripping on roots and such, unwilling to light a fire to give away her position. It had been a while since she left the came and she could almost smell the sunrise over the horizon. She couldn't believe Mijo had kissed her, but she believes he understood when she didn't say anything in return.

Tired, Kiko walked around now, leaning against the trees. The time she closed her eyes she tripped over something large and fell face flat in the dirt.

"Hey!" She heard. It was a male's voice, young by the sounds of it. "Aang, what did I tell you about-" Kiko stood up and turned around to see a boy in water village clothes in his sleeping bag and two others waking up by his yelling. One was a girl much younger than herself and she was also wearing water tribe clothes and her hair tied in a braid. The last one was a boy, younger than the others, he was bald and had blue tattoos on his head and hands.

"Avatar Aang?" Kiko shouted in complete shock.

Haha, she "fell" for Sokka. Haha...ha... Okay it wasn't funny. As it has been proven, if you review, the chapters will come. Byes!