Kane the Avatar Helper Chapter 4: Past Returns, an avatar: last airbender fanfic

New character and you find out what happened to Kane after the Fire Ball came at her. Oh and Happy Birthday Megan. (She is the new character.)

Chapter 4

Kane sat on the other side of the fire. "This dress is hard to walk in. Is there a village near by?"

"Yes, we'll stop there to get you clothes on our way to Uncle."

Kane nodded and began to take her clothes off. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Kane looked over at Zuko. "Do you know how many layers there are under this? There is one small layer that I will were for a while. The others I will hang on this branch right here." She took off eight layers of clothes and left the ninth on. Wow that is a lot of layers.

Zuko noticed that strapped to her waist was her sword. "You had your sword under all that?"

"Without it I am defenseless."

"Oh that explains why you also had it strapped to your leg that night when we ate together."

"Were you looking at my leg!"

"NO! That is not what I meant I saw it while you walked."

"Then you looked at my leg!"

"You know what never mind that I even said anything."

"You never did tell me why you cut your hair."

Zuko looked up and began to tell her the story. She listened and when he was done she shook her head. "You should have known that is was a trick. But you were excited to finally go back to your country after all."

"How should I have known that it was a trick?"

"People don't just change unless something bad happened to them. Like you discovering something that you hoped to be true. It must have really hurt you."

"What do you know about all that?"

"Yumi's uncle is Zhao. He hated her ever since she was a little girl. And when she told him that she loved this boy from the Earth Kingdom that rebels against all the people like him, he hit her. Like your eye there is now a red mark on her arm that I healed half way. The Earth Kingdom boy told her that we should let our scars show to say that we can make through anything. That boy that she fell in love with protected both of us.

"When he died not only was I sad but she was heart broken. She doesn't even try to hide her scars about that. She lets it all out with her anger on the Fire Nation. That boy was Mamoru my brother. That is another reason why she is over protective of me. To keep my brother's spirit alive. To prove that if she can protect me he is still here.

"Because you killed her uncle she can't seek revenge on him. He didn't kill Mamoru but he left a scar both emotional and physical. And she is proud to show it. But no matter who many Fire Nation soldier she kills, she can never seek revenge on her uncle.

"He hated her all those years and never did forgive her. What does that have to do with you? Everything. Zuko you must understand that people like that don't just change. It takes years and years for them to realize what they have done. Your father hasn't even received half of those years."

"I guess I see what you mean."

"I know it is hard for you to understand that but soon you will see what I mean." She got up and lied down on the grass and fell asleep. He stayed up and kept watch to make sure no guards were coming for them. He looked at her and noticed that she fell right into a deep sleep because she snored softly and her mouth was wide open. She kept her sword clutched in one hand and with her other and touched her necklace.

He sat there for two hours starting to go off into a sleep when he heard Kane shudder and her teeth started to chatter. He looked at her and saw that her lips were turning blue. He got up and put one of the layers of the gown over her to keep her warm. Then he sat down beside her to make sure that he could get to her faster if anything did happen.

Zuko drifted off to sleep and fell down next to Kane.

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Zuko woke up to the smell of berries. Looked up and saw that Kane was pounding some of time in two huge piece of cleaned out and dried barks. She turned around and smiled at Zuko.

"Breakfast is ready!"

"Oh thanks. Did you make sure that they weren't poisonous?"

"Yup these are raspberries and blueberries they grow really big out here in these woods. My brother once brought I whole bunch of them home and my mom and dad would work together to make this really cool dish. That is what I am making now."

"How long have you been up?"

"Not long. Come here and help me. For this next step it takes two people but you have to but your whole heart into it. You have to show love. Is that too hard for you?"

"NO!"

"Good than come over here and help me get this done."

He walked over and began to help her make the dish. She smiled the whole time and seemed to be dazed off into her own world.

"You know it was always fun to watch my mother and father make this dish. They said that the legend is that when there are mixtures of different berries in these woods that you have to have someone else to make all the dishes that go with them, make them with you. One person can't do it alone and two that dislike each other make the dish awful. My parents put their love in it and the love they had for each other made it taste even better.

"They served this at weddings in my village and in different parts of the world. It proves that we should all get along."

Zuko looked down into the disk and saw that it looked very good. He saw how the red and blue mixed well with each other. Fire and water. "Which of the four Nations are you more of?" Zuko asked.

"The Water Tribe, because it is the only bending I can do difficult bendings to without my sword."

"I guess you are right about the fire and water thing. It seems so normal when you look at these fruits."

Kane bent down and saw the twirl of the berries and saw that the blue and red mixed in a perfect swirl without turning purple just like it was suppose to do. "You did it perfectly Zuko! You twirled it without making it turn purple just like you were supposed to do!"

Zuko looked at Kane and saw how happy she was. What is so exciting about doing this right? It must mean a lot to her.

He began to eat the dish and it tasted so good! He kept eating until Kane gave him the rest of hers. "You will need it more than me."

They cleaned up camp and started on their way to the village. They went through the woods with Kane surrounded by animals. They followed her and she would talk to them. Zuko looked out of the corner of his eye and saw a fire dragon coming out of her necklace and wrap around her and a light blue wolf walk by her. He quickly turned and stared at her but didn't see them. He turned back and looked out of the corner of his eye and there they were. I guess she has guardians. But surely that dragon isn't her brother. After all wasn't he an Earth Bender?

They arrived at the village sooner than he thought that they would. "Kane I have to stay in the shadows. Here is some money just go and buy your outfit."

"Ok I just have one question."

"What is that?"

"Do you still wear your red suit?"

"No, why?"

"What color is it?"

"A dark brown and dark green suit."

"Ok thanks bye," and Kane ran off into the village. She came back real soon with light green and brown boy and girl suits and a straw coolie. She dressed into the boy robes, put her hair up in a ponytail, and put the coolie over her hair with part of her hair rolling down her back.

"What do ya think?"

"Wow, why does it look sort of like mine?"

"In my village when you are promised to someone you wear the same clothes."

"But we aren't promised to each other."

"No, I mean in both marriage and service."

"Oh that makes more since." They were on their way. Two hours later, with Kane humming out of key on purpose to annoy Zuko, they finally made it to where Zuko and Iroh were staying.

"Ah, Zuko oh and I see you brought Kane with you!"

"Uncle…" he caught the sight of John sitting in the corner. There was a girl with green eyes, tanned, she came up to Kane's eyes and Zuko's chin, and she had black hair.

"What are you doing here?"

"I saw you with this Water Tribe girl here and I knew that you had to have kidnapped her so I came to get her back. And Rao wants to say hi."

Just then a Fire Bender girl came down from the roof and threw a fir ball at Zuko who easily brushed it aside. "Your stupid army wiped out the people in my village. YOU ARE GOING TO DIE FOR THAT!" Kane's head popped up. "I know that voice," she said under her breath. She looked around Zuko and saw Nayru.

The girl was from her village. She was fifteen now and had reddish-brown eyes and long wavy auburn hair. She was a little bit taller than Kane but not as tall as Zuko. Kane remembered that they use to play together and Mamoru also had lessons for her in secret. She was the only outsider besides The Old One that knew he was Ryu. She soon mastered her Fire Bending and Kane helped her on her Air Bending.

"Rao? Is that really you?"

Rao stopped shooting fireballs and looked at Kane. "Kane, no you are dead you died with the rest of them. I even saw Mamoru's body!"

"But it is me Rao."

"Wow, talk about your wake up and smell the Ginseng Tea," John said. They all stopped and looked at her. "Um, yeah, I'll just be right over here."

"Ok, whatever, prove you are the real Kane," Rao said.

Kane smiled and said, "Remember when you and Yumi went to the woods and all the sudden you found a cave and I came out and it scared you? Then I hid back in the cave with seed weed and waited for Yumi to come but by the time ya'll got there Mamoru saw me and screamed like girl?"

"That proves nothing but that you found a document!"

"But think Rao the only one who knew was The Old One."

"She knew that she swimming and know all that," John said. Everyone stared at her again. "I'll just be quiet now."

"Show me physical proof," Rao said. Kane got out her sword and did the fire dragon going through the water ring trick. "Happy," she asked.

"You really are Kane!"

"The one and only, well not only there might be other Kanes in this world."

"Ok, we got this whole thing straighten out but who are you?" John asked pointing at Kane.

"I'm Kane the Avatar Helper."

"How did you survive?" Rao asked.

"Mamoru hid me and Yumi."

"Yumi is alive? Where is she?"

"Not here I am afraid. How did you survive?"

"I don't really remember. I remember getting hit over the head when the alarm came up as I ran out. Then nothing. I woke up in a cellar under a house. I found nothing but the old one gasping his last breath. That was when I met Jet and John and stayed with them even though I was a Fire Bender. I vowed to revenge my village."

Kane nodded. "So is this where we are staying?" John asked. "Wait what do you mean by we?" Zuko asked.

"Me and Rao of course."

"I already had to put up with you once!"

"Zuko show some common respect I know that must be hard for you to do but soon you will learn to do it or just keep your mouth shut!" Kane snapped at him. John smiled at him as if saying, ha you got told!

Zuko rolled his eyes, "Fine where ever you want to stay I am tired so good night good morning good whatever just leave me alone!" He walked up the stairs and into his room. They heard the door slam.

"Well, me and John had a long trip here so we are going to sleep to," Rao said.

"There are some bedrooms right around that corner there. Kane yours is upstairs," Iroh said to them.

"Thank you Iroh, is there anything you want me to do?" Kane asked as Rao and John headed to their rooms. "Good night Kane, Zuko might not be able to tell time but I can!" John said with a smile.

"No, I am going to go to bed too. Good night Kane," Iroh said with a chuckle as he saw John head to her room and shut the door.

Kane sighed as she was left alone in the room. Might as well hit the hey too.

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A small Kane cried over the dead body of her brother. She looked up and saw a huge Fire Ball come straight at her. "NO!" she yelled using her Fire Bending to block it. She stood up with fire in her eyes. "I am going to destroy you!"

Her eyes started to turn different colors and her birthmarks began to glow brighter than ever. She walked slowly out of the torn up house. Guards began to rush up to her as she stopped on the cliff she did her Earth Bending and caused a crack in the Earth in which the guards fell in and she closed up.

She looked at the water and with her Water Bending she made a huge wave that took out half the ships. The rest started to hurl more Fire Balls at her. She began to lift in the air. "I'll kill you for what you did!" she screamed at them. She did Air Bending to push the Fire Balls back at them which exploded more because to the collision.

More guards came up behind her as she began to lift up higher in the air. They did lots of Fire Bending moves and she felt it burn her hand and back but she was too angry to care. She summoned all the Fire Bending she could do and took out all but one young teenager who seemed to have just joined the war.

She looked at him. She had him lifted off the ground so that they could be eye level. She was now even higher off the ground. She stared at him and saw how much he looked like Mamoru. She began to cry and her eyes softened. They stopped turning colors and went back to being blue. The two of them began to float gently back to the ground and he got up and ran back to his ship with the other surviving member. All the ships left with Kane still falling to the ground. Her feet touched and then her knees. She brought her head down and began to cry.

She looked around and saw how much of the village she had destroyed and how much of the War Ships she damaged or blew up. She began to cry harder. Mamoru just said to never go without that sword or she would destroy the world and she had already destroyed more parts of her village.

Her birthmarks went away because of all the anger she had let loose. She walked back to the house and saw Yumi still with Mamoru. Kane picked him up and with her Earth Bending she made a house of coal. She set that coal on fire once she out his body in it. Then set it out with a wave of her hand. It was now a diamond tomb.

Kane woke up with a start. She hated that dream so much. That dream of what happened all those years ago. She wish she could just forget them but she couldn't. She had healed her burned had but not completely because Mamoru told her that it is a reminder of what should not happen again.

She sighed and climbed onto the roof. She began to sing the song that her father sung to her when she had a bad dream. Her mother would stand at the door smiling. He always sang the same thing though. She closed her eyes and began to sing.

"I set out on a narrow way many years ago
Hoping I would find true love along the broken road
But I got lost a time or two
Wiped my brow and kept pushing through
I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you."

Her voice flowed through the upper level of the house and into Iroh's room. He smiled realizing it was Kane's voice.

"Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you."

Zuko looked up from meditating in his room. He heard the voice but didn't recognize it. He looked out his window and began to climb onto the roof.

"I think about the years I spent just passing through
I'd like to have the time I lost and give it back to you
But you just smile and take my hand
You've been there you understand
It's all part of a grander plan that is coming true."

Zuko peeked his head over the edge and saw the back of Kane. He lifted himself up and walked quietly to where she was and sat behind her.

Now I'm just rollin' home into my lover's arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road that led me straight to you."

She heard clapping behind her and turned around surprised to find Zuko. "I should have known that you were singing out of key back there on purpose."

"Shit you mean you heard me?"

"Yeah kind of anyone on the top floor would have heard you."

"Please don't tell anyone that it was me."

"I promise I won't," he said lifting up his pinkie finger to her face. She looked at it and then smiled and lifted her pinkie finger and wrapped it around his. "Thanks Zuko."

"Where did you hear that?"

"The song, from my dad and my mom when I had bad dreams. They would sing it to me to make me feel better."

"It is nice."

"It's alright."

"What was your dream about."

"Um… It was about the past."

"Oh was it good or bad."

"It was about what I did after Mamoru died," she said softly looking away.

"If you don't mind me asking, what did you do?"

Kane sighed and told him all that had happened. "Wow you were angry. I remember hearing something like that before. I didn't know that kid was you."

"Surprising I know, but it's true."

"You best get some sleep."

"Me? I slept the whole time and when you feel asleep you would sleep talk none stop. Man if you did that when you are awake people would dislike you more than they do now. That is not normal Zuko," she said with a grin.

"That is cruel beyond all reasons."

"Yeah whatever just go and get some sleep and you better wake up late!" she said as he walked back to his room shaking his head. Kane lay down on the roof and looked at the moon. She let out a sigh and fell asleep.

Yeah I am done! And the song by the way is sung by Rascal Flatts.