Zuko listened to the music playing on the bridge, there was more of it now, he allowed it only because it allowed his men to work faster, the door to his room opened and the woman walked in, she had gotten a habit of doing that, she would either bring in tea or snacks for him.

The woman placed the food on his desk and sat on by the floor, she never said anything to him, she just sat there more than once he had ordered her to eat the food and drink the tea.

If she had poisoned it, then she would have to eat everything and drink everything on her own.

From time to time he had to admit that he looked at her when she either walked in or left the room, her clothing didn't suit her at all and her plain face could easily be fixed with some makeup, her long brown hair was simply combed.

It had been a few weeks since she arrived, from port to port she was there like a rock on his shoe, there's a reason why women aren't allowed on ships, should she allow the men any ounce attention they would begin to try to impress her and slowly but surely there would-be infighting.

It was for this fact that he didn't stop her from coming to his room, he was certain that either that fool Kaazuma had sent her or his uncle had been the culprit.

Still, why did he find himself looking at her, was it because she looked at him and didn't act as if she was looking at a monster because of his burned face, was it the woman bright brown eyes, in truth he, himself didn't know.

Perhaps it was her womanly charms, he had once heard the men talking about and how they had the power to make men's heads turn, simply because she was there.

The woman didn't show any unnecessary amount of skin and yet, he could just see the size of her but, how large her chest is and the smell she had seemed to bring flowers into the room.

Kazuma continued his worthless act, he had allowed it, simply because it allowed him to get information, but he hated seeing what was happening before his eyes.

He was prince Zuko, people feard him, men hid their daughters and children so that they wouldn't offend him by accident and that man had caused it all to change.

From port to port, the people's eyes no longer showed the fear they once had, and the children that would have run away from him the moment they saw him, now even dared to hand him toys and candy.

The problem is, he couldn't just get rid of Kazuma, the man-made a profit wherever they went and the men took advantage of their increase in pay to send money to their families whenever they could, the elders of the water tribe en cured all of the illnesses that showed up.

He stopped himself from writing.

"Eat" he ordered the woman, she rose to her feet and ate, whatever the food was he didn't care he just watched her eat.

His room was cold like usual, the walls of his room were dark despite having fires meant to both give warmth and light to the room, even he himself was said to blend into the unwelcoming darkness and yet she just kept coming back.

The door to his room slammed open and Kazuma walked in. "Zuko and and ...what are you doing in here Zuko." Kazuma said to him, he held something that looked similar to a dandelion but it was pink and the man was eating it.

"What are you doing in here Kazuma, you know you're not supposed to come into my room" he said to the man.

"Yeah I know, but I wanted to tell you that there's a circus next to the ship." Kazuma answered him bwefore continuing to eat the dandelion.

That wasn't normal, the curiosity got the better of him and so it was better to go see what nonsense the man was saying, from the corner of his eye he could see the woman following him from behind.

The moment he reached the dec of the ship, he stopped at the sight in front of him.

"Kazuma whats the meaning of this?" he asked the man as he tried to keep his anger under control.

"What your uncle said he was tired of playing alone so he graved a couple of the old ladies and they started playing that boardgame of his. By the way who knew your uncle was such a ladies man."Kazuma answered him as he pointed towards his uncle who was indeed playing with some of the o;d women.

"Not that that" he said to the irritating man.

"Well a circus ship started siling next to us and it's been there for a while," Kazuma said to him faking ignorance.

"Kazuma I'm really restraining myself here, but why is that woman on my ship!?" he said to the increasingly infuriating man.

Standing in front of him was someone he hadn't seen in years, Ty lee, a girl that was his older sisters friend someone that used to pick on him a lot, she didn't bully him like Azula his sister did, looking back had the girl gone against his sister things would have ended badly for her.

Still, Zuko didn't like the fact that someone that had helped his sister bully him was in front of him right now.

"Zuko!" she said as she ran up to him.

Out of sheer instinct, he dodged her attempt to hug him, how the woman managed to stop in half a step turn around and leap towards him, was something he would eventually find out.

Zuko could see her life in the circus had done wonders for her because he was forced to dodge her attempts of intimacy that seemed to come from every direction.

"AMMM, please don't bother Lod Zuko" he heard the other woman say to Ty Lee.

Ty Lee jumped in the woman's direction but a wired wrapped itself around her chest and pulled her back before she could reach the woman who had already used her hands as a makeshift shield.

"What are you doing here Ty?" he asked her, however, he could see her face become somewhat confused before a wide smile spread across her face.

"Zuko, when did you get yourself a girl? don't try to lie to me, look your already protecting her." Ty Lee said to him.

It was true that he did put himself between her and the woman that was currently on his ship, but that was because he had promised her a safe passage, nothing else.

"Fine, we're headed to a city for a show and from there to the next show, by the way, I heard you became a merchant and so when we saw your ship, I thought I'd say hie. We haven't seen each other in years." she answered him, her voice sounded genuinely happy.

Suddenly she leaped towards him, but this time the wire didn't pull her back and she managed to hug him, he slowly lifted his right hand and hugged her back, slowly, admittedly hesitantly his left rose until he gave her a complete hug.

"I'm happy to see Zuko" she whispered to his ear