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"Where is she? She has to be near here….I have to find her…" Karoku thought to himself as he galloped along, he wasn't used to not getting what he wanted, he was very spoiled and didn't like being called on it.

A while later…

"Sir, we have reports of a camp in the forest east here, the Avatar might be camping there." An anonymous soldier told Karoku at their rest stop.

"Good, we'll search there in a bit; if that's her she won't be going anywhere soon." Karoku responded staring into the forest.

Zuke bounded through the forest, her earth kingdom clothes snagging on twigs, and her feet hurting from stepping on all the ground litter. She looked through the trees into the night sky and prayed she would get away.

Katarou was hot in her trail, he could see her running but hasn't gotten a clear look, he had already succeeded on turning her back towards camp without her knowledge, he smirked as he saw her bound up a tree. Katarou sprang into the tree and landed on a wide branch in a crouching position.

Zuke heard him land with a grunt; she climbed much higher into the tree as Katarou followed. The shadows covered her face and most of her body as she slowly backed up, Katarou stood up and started walking slowly towards her, he knew it was too high for her to jump so he bode his time as she slowly backed away.

"I finally have you right where I want you." Katarou said in a low and deathly tone.

Zuke took another step backwards and felt the branch curve to her weight; she stopped and held her fists up and shot fire from them but missed him. Katarou smirked and took another step towards her and attempted to grab at her wrists, she punched towards him making him lose his balance and ducked under his arms.

He caught himself on her forearm as he fell from the tree and plummeted towards the ground, she gasped and turned around as her hair whisked behind her, Katarou still had a strong grip on her forearm and she turned towards him and tried pulling.

Katarou refused to let go, he tried grabbing her hand off with his free hand, he succeeded and Zuke tried turning around. Katarou pulled Zuke hard against his chest as they fell as one to the ground.

Katarou landed on his back and let go of Zuke as the ricochet brought them back up slightly, Zuke tumbled away and tried getting up but Katarou put a dagger to her neck, unbeknownst to her it was a very dull knife that couldn't cut her if her tried.

Zuke didn't struggle against the blade, she was afraid she would get cut; so far she hated this boy, he was evil and obviously searching for a young maiden to forcibly spend the night with. She had seen his other two mistresses and figured he wanted more.

Katarou pulled her backwards and led her towards the camp, he got tired of her hands and took off the strap holding his kimono in place and tied it around her hands behind her back.

When he had gotten close enough to camp to smell the cinders he took a step through the bushes; Angie and Saki heard something from the bushes and Saki pulled out her boomerang.

They saw Katarou step through the bushes and he threw the girl down in front of the fire, far enough away to where she wouldn't get burned. The girls looked at Zuke like they'd never seen another girl before, Zuke jolted up and scooted backwards and against then tent.

"If you're gunna' force yourself upon me do it now and get it over with!" Zuke shrieked and winced.

Katarou looked at her strangely and looked at Angie and Saki who were looking at him furiously.

"What all I wanted to do was talk to her and she ran, I assumed she stole from us or something…" Katarou said as he scanned the girl over, and observed her Earth Kingdom clothing.

"You are surely NOT from the Earth Kingdom….FIRE BENDER!" Katarou spat at her accusingly.

"Of course I'm not, how many Earth citizens do you see with black hair? Why do you think I had to run away from that guard in the tavern?" Zuke argued with him.

"Wait…that was you who flipped over the guard!" Angie yelped, Saki looked towards her and the two girls starts laughing hysterically.

Katarou and Zuke looked at the two girls with confused looks on their faces; they didn't know what to make of the situation or why they were laughing.

"I told you Katarou would like her!" Angie said through laughs and breaths.

"Yeah, and look at how he brought her! Told you he was a womanizer!" Saki said between laughs, before turning blue and falling down.

Zuke looked at Katarou angrily, she wasn't happy about this but then again who would. She scanned the camp site and stared longingly at the turkey, Angie saw this and walked over to her and untied her hands, she threw the strap at Katarou and he sat tried to sneak up the rain fly.

Author's Note's Section-

Hey everyone...strange i swore this chapter was longer...oh well, i just have to warnyou that it may take me longer to update, because i want to prewrite part some of the story so i dont stress. So bare with me and dont kill me

...i WILL NOT have main character deaths in this story, i wont have much blood either, but i will have some...thats at least more then the show...it might get a bit lovey dovey as Zuke grows to like Katarou...another relationship might blossom later...who knows... ONLY THE ALL POWERFUL NARRATOR :)...well i must be off

Love always, Genaric Person o()o