A/N: Sorry for not updating since……a really long time ago. I had bad writer's block like most of you already know. So….in order to not get killed by angry mob fangirls…on with the story!

Disclaimer: All I own is Giana, her mother, and this plotline. Other that that I pretty much mooch off my parents for everything. (Sadly, they have denied me ownership of Avatar)

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"Katara!" Aang's voice rang out around the town square, almost every head turning towards him.

At this, Zuko ran for it. I didn't feel like bothering the Avatar today, not like it would do him any good, anyway.

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Katara's head perked up from the crowd and Aang spotted her face from atop a nearby building. Her rushed down to her on his glider.

"Katara!" He ran from his landing spot right into Katara's arms. She, at this motion, pushed Aang lightly away.

"Sorry, I wasn't aware that you hand missed my sooo much!" Her mouth dripped with sarcasm.

"Well, anyway! Look what I found! It's an Eagle-Dog Statue! Sokka didn't want me to buy it, he thought it was a waste of money, but I bought it anyway! So, whaddya think?"

"…" Katara was still lost in the conversation she had just had with Zuko, he had seemed to change. He was wearing green Earth Kingdom robes and his hair was no longer up in a traditional ponytail, instead it was short and unruly. She kind of liked it that way, it made him seem nicer. At this her eyes blinked and she mentally slapped herself.

"KATARA?"

"Wow, huh?"

"Did you even hear about my statue?" a hint of sadness could be found in his voice.

"Oh yeah, it was great."

Aang turned away and motioned for Sokka, who wasn't happy, to come over.

"Katara…where were you? I was scared…I told dad that I would protect you." Sokka still was mourning the loss of Yue and was constantly being overprotective of his little sister.

Katara was once again mentally debating with herself, should she tell them the truth? That she had seen Zuko, and he didn't even look like, well, Zuko? That he looked well, good? Yeah, they probably deserved the truth at least most of it anyway.

"You guys saw Zuko right?" The boys both nodded their heads. "Well, I wanted to know what happened."

"Right." Sokka said, shaking his head. "What exactly happened then?"

"No…not that. I wanted to know who that girl was, but he didn't know. But if you ask me they look pretty similar. Black hair, high cheek bones, pale skin, firebend- "

"A FIREBENDER? LIVING HERE?" Sokka shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Yeah he told me she was a firebender, how good, I do not know." She replied.

The three gathered up the few things they were able to purchase and Aang's eagle-dog statue and walked back to camp where they had left Appa and Momo.

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Ever since Iroh had died from an infection he got in the wound Azula gave him, he had been wandering from town to town on his ostrich horse. He worked odd jobs so he could pay for food as well as a room at an inn when he could afford. That – that – girl was the first good thing that had ever happened to him since then. His temper had flared down considerably and he was much more like Iroh now, he took in what was around him. He never wanted to blow his cover so when his temper flared up he calmly apologized to whomever he had flared on.

But that girl – she had an impact on him. Since no girl ever wanted to hang out with a traveler who would leave the next day, so he never had much company. But somehow, hugging that girl made him want company again, and for Iroh to be alive. But some wishes, he found out, never come true. No matter how hard you try.

Zuko checked into the cheapest local inn for the night and just fell on a bed. He was exhausted, not physically, emotionally.

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A/N: Okay, so Zuko's still kinda angsty. Other characters seem to be a little OOC though.

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