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Claimer: Z is mine! All mine!

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2

Habit

Aang and Z drew in the race back to the house. So they had done rock, paper, scissors to decide if Z would tell. She lost so she kept her mouth shut. Z wasn't Aang's blood relative, neither was Gyatso. They were a mismatched family. Gyatso was Aang's Godfather and when his parents died Aang was handed over to him. Z had been a later addition. She was a problem child from an orphanage she had been sent to the same school as Aang and had grown to think of him as a big brother when he had taught her how to skate and how to defend herself. But they looked enough like each other to pass as siblings.

"I may not be tellin' Gyatso but I'm still teasin' you." Z said dumping her helmet and skateboard in the hall.

"What's there to tease about?" Aang whined doing the same.

"Let's see, apart from the fact that you did a perfect trick and then busted up so very badly?" Aang narrowed his eyes at her "Well then, there's always the fact that you got the hots for a girl you don't know!"

"I do not!"

"Oh, my little Aangie is growing up!" Z pretended to get all choked up.

"Z!" Aang complained laughing. She grinned and ran upstairs to her new room. Aang shook his head and went into the kitchen. "But who was that girl?" he muttered to himself.


Katara took a deep breath. She was wearing the school's baby blue swimsuit. She needed to take a break, before her race was up. That's what Toph said. But she couldn't relax she was in the finals. If she won this race the gold would be hers. Her race was called, this was it. The school swim team was counting on her, her dad and brother were in the crowd with Toph and so was Zuko. She waved to them all before taking her place at the start line. Lucky for her this was her best stroke, the dolphin.

"On your marks, get set, GO!" the ref shouted above the noise. Katara dived in. She made her body ripple and shot along with small, short and vicious tugs at the water with her arms, taking rapid, sharp breaths whenever possible. She knew she was in the lead and the finish wall was in sight. She felt the pressure in the water shift slightly as someone closed the gap between them. Not good. She tugged harder, faster and her body flowed like the water itself. Making herself more streamlined she rocketed down the aisle. She hit the wall and waited as the others did the same. The referee then allowed them to climb out. Had she won?


Yes. At school everyone cheered and patted her on the back in class and Toph had needed to begin shouting, "Back off, your queen needs air!" At the end of the day Katara retreated to the hall. But there was a surprise there. Zuko stood leaning on her locker.

"Hey Katara. Nice going." He said smiling."Thanks." She blushed.

"How about I walk you home today?" He said standing up properly. She blushed again and opened her mouth to reply but was cut off by a yell.

"Aang! Get back here!" Katara blinked she had heard that voice and sure enough the boy from the park appeared skating down the hall and the girl running closely behind her. "You have your own skateboard." She said.

"Yeah but stealing yours makes riding all the more fun." He called without turning round. He laughed.

"How'd ya get into my locker anyway?" Z fumed had stopped running and stood hands on her hips.

"Hey, you're the one who taught me to pick locks in exchange for skateboarding lessons." He called over his shoulder. Z's eye twitched. Aang laughed harder and skated straight into Zuko's bag. He fell forward and landed face down in front of Katara. He glanced up grinning nervously.

"Habit I guess." Katara muttered. Aang got up and rubbed his head. By now Z had retrieved her skateboard.

"Hey," Z said picking it up. "Your one of those girls Aang crashed into on Saturday as well." Aang glanced at her and sawshe was right. Katara looked at Aang and that familiar confused feeling returned. Zuko wasn't very comfortable with this.

"I've got to hurry Katara are you coming?" He picked up his trampled bag, Katara nodded as Toph came out of the classroom.

"Toph Zuko's gonna walk me home ok?" Katara said hurriedly unlocking her locker grabbing out her bag and closing it. She threw it over her shoulder.

"Ok Katara I-" Toph cut herself off. "What's skater head doing here?" She jerked a finger towards Aang. Z went goo goo eyes and clutched her hands together giving off the false impression she was sweet and caring.

"He camemany milesto find his true-" Z was abruptly stopped by a hand clamped around her mouth.

"Z! Say anything and I'll tell the entire school your fist name." Aang threatened before removing his hand.

"Aw man! How'd ya know?"

"You forget I was there when Gyatso signed your adoption papers." He said with a cheeky grin.

"Crud," Z pouted "two hits in one day, I will get you back."

"You can try." He replied. Katara rolled her eyes and started down the hall with Zuko. But half the time her mind wasn't with him.


'He is so immature!' Katara yelled in her mind 'He and that sister of his are going to cause so much trouble around school I know it! Wait a second, what am I doing? I'm walking with Zuko here and all I can think about is some childish boy's irresponsible antics? No, I'm with Zuko for now and I intend to enjoy it.' She looked at him and realised he had been talking.

"Um...yeah, I guess." she said nodding. Unfortunately she wasn't paying attention to the path and walked into a lamp post. Zuko couldn't help but burst out laughing. Katara went red. 'Not Good!'


Not as good as the last chapter I don't think but I enjoyed writing it which is the main idea I guess. Since you've read please review! All those who have reviewed the last chapter please continue doing so! The Swimming bit was pretty boring sorry I just thought I should put it in. Toph will hopefully be less OC in the future ok? Oh and before you start cussing the skater head comment I have no idea where that came from I just used it, I hope my character, Z is to your liking if she's not you're welcome to say but I won't do anything about it, since I like her in it.

PS.Z has no relevance to Zuko what so ever I didn't realise the Z and Zuko until I finished writing this chapter in fact Z is gonna end up hating Zuko's guts eventually.