Woohoo! The next chapter! This is like my first attempt at those really long stories, so if it's not good, loses its sense, or you just don't like it, please still be nice. And I'll be nice back XD.

Disclaimer: I still don't own Avatar or its characters
Spoilers: No spoliers in this chapter

Ages still the same as last chapter.

Chapter 2: Suspicious

It's been three months since their first day of Fire Nation elementary- and not much has changed, really. Ty Lee and Mai are still Azula's best friends- even if other kids were still trying to get to her. Azula is still the same bossy, pushy princess to her brother and her friends. And Mai and Zuko are still friends. Yup, just friends.

"Hi Ty Lee, hi Mai." Azula approached them at the playground. School hadn't started yet, so they were free to play until 8:30. The two looked up from the floor to see their friend.

"Hello princess Azula!" Ty Lee quickly stood up from the sand. "So, what do you want to play?"

"I don't know..." she looked around. "I suppose we could just sit on the swings and wait for Ms. Hirano to call us in." she gestured over to where the swings were. Mai shrugged and followed. But right when they were about to get on the swings, a couple of kids ran right in front of them and sat down where they were about to.

"Hey, my friends and I were going to sit there!" Azula, being pretty much the leader, got right in front of them. "Move!"

"Make us!" the girl answered back. Pretty bold answer to a princess. Azula frowned at first. But that frown turned into a smrik as she carefully walked over to the kids and pushed them off. Only hard enough for them to slide off and fall into the soft sand. "Fine!" the girl walked off with her friend leaving Azula satisfied.

"But, there are only two seats left," Ty Lee noticed. She thought for a moment.

"Um, it's okay..." Mai spoke up. Then turned to Azula. "Where's your brother?" she asked shyly.

"Zuko? Oh he's over there." she pointed behind Mai. She turned around to see he was practicing his firebending. She watched as he gracefully stepped into a front stance and blew out fire from his left hand. "Why?" she interrupted her thoughts.

"N-nothing," she lied. "Just curious..." she stared down at her feet. The princess raised an eyebrow and turned to Ty Lee who easily read what she was thinking and shrugged. They watched as Mai just sat on the sand-covered floor occasionally shifting her gaze over to the prince.

"Uh, I have to...use the bathroom." she stood up and left.

"Just out of curiosity, do you think Mai actually likes Zuzu?" she asked using the nickname she knew he hated. "I mean, you know, lately..." she stopped there.

"Well, maybe." the young acrobat answered. Azula snickered. "I mean, they have been talking a lot."

"We'll just wait and see..." she kicked off the ground to let her swing get higher.

At this point, Zuko was half-way through his form he learned from his master. It was required for everyone who had the gift of fire bending. But still being the 6-year-old he is, he only needed to learn half of it until he turned twelve. He carefully lifted his right leg to do a sidekick, of course while blowing fire, when Mai had surprised him.

"Good morning, prince Zuko." she greeted. Still on one foot, he lost balance and ungracefully landed on the grass with a 'thud'. He looked up to see who had caused him to fall. "Oh, I'm sorry, I was just-"

"It's okay," he smiled as she helped him up. "So, where's my sister?"

"She and Ty Lee are playing on the swings." they both turned to look at the playground seeing them on the swings go back and forth just talking and laughing. "Of course, there were only two more swings left so..."

"I see..." he was happy to know he was the next person she would turn to.

"So what do you want to do now?" she asked apparently bored.

"Well, Ms. Hirano's already out here so I guess it's time to go in." he spotted his teacher just about ready to call everyone in.

"Okay, let's go." she grabbed his hand, of course causing them both to turn pink, as they ran off. From the other side of the playground, Azula spotted them holding hands. She gently got Ty Lee's attention without taking her eyes off them.

"Aw, how cute!" she cooed folding her hands together by her face. "Now that's-"

"Okay everybody! Time to go inside!" the teacher called as all the kids dashed out of the playground afraid of getting in trouble if they didn't listen. After all, this was a private school. Everyone had to behave.

"Let's just talk to them later," Azula smiled. Ty Lee caught on as the smile spread across her face too.

Wow. I really have no comment at this point, other than I might update a little faster. Maybe every two days or so. As long as it takes me to think, write, edit and post XD. Now check out my cheesy commercial!

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