A/N: Slowly coming out of writer's block! Yay for me!
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Zuko slowly got up from his overly firm bed and rubbed his back, he had had a hard time trying to fall asleep. The more he thought about it, the more he missed that girl, whatever her name was. Zuko wasn't even sure that sure was still in the town, she may have left while he was asleep.
He slowly stood up, getting used to it again and headed to the marketplace. He was going to try to find the stand that he had met her at.
Almost as soon as he arrived, perhaps before, he realized that he was the only one there, he rose with the sun. He was so frustrated!
He wandered around the marketplace, then through the side streets. Zuko wandered around until noon, searching the city streets. His eyes caught a glance of a sign for a bar. He walked towards it, his stomach rumbling.
As he approached he looked down an alley, only to find what he had been searching for.
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Aang woke up bright and early the next morning and ricocheted himself into he air, the young avatar was ready for today.
He wandered over to Katara's sleeping bag, pick up a stick and moved it all over her bag.
"AHHH!" she screamed and immediately reached for her water skin, thinking they were under attack. When she came to her senses she silently stood, glared at Aang, and water whipped him on the shoulder.
"That wasn't funny Aang."
"Boy, someone woke up on the wrong side of the dirt!" Sokka chimed in, laughing at his own joke. Katara glared angrily at him.
"Good one Sokka!" Aang cheerily cried.
"I'm going down to the river to take a bath and fill the water skins. How about you two find some food and pack up camp?"
" 'K, Katara!" Aang replied.
"How come she gets to tell us what to do? I am the leader of this group!" Sokka countered.
"Shut up, Sokka."
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"Oh my Angi, it's you!" Zuko quietly said to himself. His presence was unknown to the girl until he tripped and sent a pebble flying.
Slowly, the girl looked up for her corner, thinking that it was one of the town drunks that hung out at the nearby bar.
Instead, she saw Zuko.
"What do you want Zuko?" she asked him.
"I want to know why you ran away. What's your problem?" he asked, getting frustrated.
"Do you want to know my problem? ARE YOU SURE?"
"..."
"I'm here, living in this stupid earth kingdom town, because some stupid drunk killed my mother, who was only here because my stupid father exiled her! And now my stupid brother is here, trying to figure out what's wrong with the stupid girl!"
By this point, the alleyway was completely filled with steam and Zuko could only see about three inches from his face.
"Uh, rewind, 'stupid brother' how am I YOUR brother?"
"Because, my bastard father didn't want me! He married your mother, Ursa, the second my mother left the city with me. Do you wanna guess what they did their honeymoon night?"
"Uhh, I don—" he didn't finish, she cut him off.
"YOU! That's what they did. Nobody ever heard from poor Sienna or her bastard kid, Giana ever again." Giana said mockingly.
"Wait. Let me get this straight, you're my older sister, daughter of Ozai and Sienna, you live in an Earth kingdom town because our bastard father banished you too, Sienna died and now you live in an alley?" Zuko summarized.
"Yes. But all I want is to go home and take back MY rightful throne."
"And I want a travel companion."
It was a silent deal. Zuko got a travel companion and Giana got a chance at her throne.
The two headed on their way after getting some supplies.
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Zuko sat up camp in a clearing in the nearby woods looking up at the stars. Giana had already fallen asleep and he was watching over his new, older sister. It was amazing, within the last eight hours, he had found not only a companion, but family. For the first night in the many months since Iroh's death, he slept well.
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A/N: Aww…sibling love. Zuko's happy now! Yay! And yeah I know, it's been like over a year since the Yue thing, but hey, Sokka's very sensitive to death(in chapter 6).
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