Title: Rebirth
Summary: AU. In a world where the Avatar failed and Zuko and Azula are traitors; they find happiness somehow only for it to be disrupted.

A/N: I had a blast writing this. I hope you enjoy reading it as well. To warn you though, there is a bit of OOCness here especially concerning Azula. Also, there isn't as much Zucest in here as there could be, I'm sorry. Lastly, Origami Flowers told me not to give up on Zucest. She's always encouraging me, so this is for her. Thank you, always!

She couldn't do this anymore, she couldn't allow her father to go on, however at the same time she was powerless. Even if she and her brother worked together, they couldn't take him down now. They would have to wait...meanwhile her and Zuko had to get away from him. He wouldn't hesitate to end their now-useless lives, if he had the chance.

What brought Azula to this conclusion? She realized that Zuko, and the child they created that was growing in her womb now, were more important than the Fire Lord who could care less about her. He cared for no one, and Azula--though she would never admit it--needed someone who cared for her and she him; and that was Zuko.

"What's your name?" the boy asked curiously as he was fascinated by the strangers that helped him from the bullies earlier.

"Er...Kuzon," the man replied. "This is my wife Sapphire, her brother Wang, and my sister Kuan Yin."

"Cool! Though you guys are traveling in fours, you do know that's not good luck," the boy told them matter-of-factly.

"Yeah," Kuzon replied, "But I don't want to leave my family. "

"You guys are travelers?" the boy asked. Kuan Yin was not liking how this young boy kept interrogating them like this. "If you'd like, you can stay at my house for the night!"

"Oh we couldn't," Wang replied. "We're in a hurry."

"Oh? How come?"

"...Eh...well...umm..."

"He's getting married," Sapphire replied. "We were traveling with him because he wanted to see the world before he got married, and now our journey's over."

"Ohh cool! Well please stay at my house, or at least have dinner."

They couldn't fight back, thus they followed the sweet boy home.

"You guys live really far off from the rest," Kuan Yin noticed.

"Yeah," the boy answered. "My mom and dad like the privacy. That's really hard nowadays with the Empire always on our throats here in the Earth Kingdom."

They finally saw where the boy lived and noticed two figures coming out calling his name. The boy waved and smiled, "Mom, Dad! I found some new friends today!"

The six grown ups froze, and simultanously yelled, "You!!!!?" It didn't take them too long to recognize each other, and the four visitors couldn't help but look confused at the former prince and princess of the Fire Nation.

"They're his mom and dad?" Kuan Yin whispered to her friends.

"Go to your room now," Zuko told his son, and when the boy began to protest his mother intervened.

"Do as your father says child," she told him.

"What the hell is going on here?" Sokka asked Zuko and Azula. "You were alive all these years? Why are you here of all places?"

"If you must know," Zuko began unpleasantly as his wife handed their guests cups of tea, which they did not touch fearing there would be poison in it, "we're traitors."

"What? Since when? And if you're traitors, why didn't you stay in the Fire Nation and find a way to kill your insane father from there?" Katara asked angrily.

"He had no need of us," Azula answered simply. "He would've killed us."

"You? Abandon your father?" Toph was shocked. "How the hell did that happen? And since when were you two...married?!"

"Is it necessary to know these things of us?" Azula asked sharply. "And apparently you're all alive. What? Have you given up?" She looked toward the Avatar, wondering why he wasn't fighting back.

Aang replied, "No we haven't."

"We want to help you," Zuko said. Sokka was suddenly on the defense, as well as Katara.

"Help us?" Katara laughed. "Just because you weren't there at the final battle doesn't mean you're suddenly free of blame. You're still the Fire Lord's children."

"Sh!" Azula hissed. "You won't compromise our lives here."

Aang looked at his former enemies and pursuers, "Okay fine. But you have to explain what happened; and then we can let you in our plans."

"Aang!" Sokka yelled.

"Have you lost your mind?!" Toph exclaimed. "We can't trust them! For all we know, they could betray us and then where would we be?"

"Toph, " he began. "During all this time, have you sensed Zuko lying?"

"It's not Zuko we should worry about Aang," Katara hissed, eying Azula. She was one of the very few, if not the only one, who had passed Toph's test. She coudn't be relied on, she couldn't be trusted; and Katara would be damned if she allowed the witch to slay her beloved again.

"We have no choice though. We need as many people--"

"Reliable people who aren't them!" Sokka corrected.

"Sokka, Katara, Toph do you think they would endanger that little boy over there?" Aang asked them. He then turned to Azula and Zuko, when his family could not answer in return, Aang demanded the siblings to speak, and tell them their tale. Of course they only allowed Zuko to talk, since he couldn't escape Toph's abilities.

In the room the four of them shared, Sokka was the first to break the silence. "Is it just me...or is it weird that Zuko and Azula are married and have a child together!?"

"Well the Fire Nation's royal family is insane, what did you expect? Especially the Fire Lord's children! I mean a man like that is bound to mess up his children," Toph answered.

"You sound so calm!" Sokka exclaimed, only to have his sister throw a pillow at him. "Hey!"

"Shut up," Katara hissed. "We're in their home, we should at least be quiet so they don't hear us!"

"Okay," Sokka mumbled. "But they're family! And Toph why aren't you with me on this?"

"Hey," the blind young woman began. "I'm from nobility. I'm just sorta used to this sort of thing. Uncles marrying nieces; cousins marrying cousins--I mean come on, nobility is pretty much all related since they're all about marrying in good families etcetera."

"And you're all right with that!?"

"I'm just used to it okay! Shut up an sleep!" she yelled.

"Cousins marrying cousins are normal, but brother and sister?" Sokka sighed. "Aang why you so quiet?"

"Because they're in love obviously. It's none of our business, we should just be quiet and go to sleep," Aang replied. "Isn't that right Momo?"

Momo had left a while ago and joined Appa outside to sleep though.

As they lied down on the bed they have shared for the last couple of years, Azula couldn't help but ask her husband, "Are you sure this is going to work?"

"Why not?" he asked her softly, kissing the palm of her hand.

"Sozin's comet came and the Avatar lost. There's no way from recovering from that."

"We have no choice," Zuko told her.

"Do we?" she asked, unsure. "We're living a peaceful and happy life with our son; what more could you want? We're not affected too much by the Empire--in fact some people think it's great we're united, why should we endanger our lives for this? I'm not leaving my son parent-less."

"We're not gonna die," he told her as he embraced her tightly.

"Zuko," Azula began. "If everything does go well then what? The throne will go to us, and our child will be heir; but do you want all of that, now?"

He looked at her lovingly, she really had changed. Whether it was being in love, being a mother, or being a simple peasant that changed her, he didn't know. Maybe it was all of it combined, and he loved her even more. However other people were suffering, and what their father was doing was wrong. "You don't want to be a sovereign?"

"I'm happy here, and our son is happy here. No one knows of our pasts, and no one knows of the sin we've committed here; we had a clean slate and we did something with it, and now you want to go back to that bloodshed? Why?!" she confronted him. "Are you no longer happy with me and our child, Zuko?"

He blinked, "No Azula. I never...I am happy, but so what? We send the Avatar, the only last hope, to his death? And maybe we don't have to take our place in the royal family again, we could build a new system where one elects their rulers every couple of years, you know?"

She moved away from his embrace, "You don't seem to care for our son. If we die, he is an orphan, who will he go to? And if we go, and things are exposed then people will shun him!"

"That's why we should take our place in the Fire Nation," Zuko replied. "They wouldn't dare. Besides it's not like this is the first time one married into the family, so closely. It's happened before."

"You're right," she replied, "but most of them were arranged; and also, you want him living in the palace and going through the pains of royalty when he's fully content here? You want him to give up his freedom and friends here? You want to enslave us again in the intrigues of court life?"

Zuko held her face in his hands, "Tell me, and I won't go. Tell me, and that's all I will need Azula. I'll do what ever you want."

A/N: If you like this plot line and want to expand it, go ahead as long as you credit me; and inform me because I'd like to read some of it at least. In addition, I left you at a cliffhanger didn't I? So it's up to you what Azula answered, but to me personally they (all three of them) would've gone to war with their father because Azula would've said, "I could never make you do anything you didn't want to do." Yes she would be POed at him for awhile.

Oh and I didn't know what alias to give Toph since all she has are the Blind Bandit and The Runaway; so I gave 'Kuan Yin' who was the Earth Woman, Goddess of compassion & mercy in Chinese Mythology. I didn't use Kwa Mei or Dong because those aliases were uncovered/discovered by Long Feng, while Kuzon, Sapphire, and Wang were unknown (because the teacher at the academy didn't know they were lying, right?) In addition I couldn't use "Li" for Sokka, like Master Piandao suggested cuz that's Zuko's alias, as well as that boy's name from Zuko Alone. Oh and one of the old ladies who's twin is Lo. XD hehehee I rant too much. Man...there are a lot of Li's.

Lastly I had to write the Gaang's reaction to Zuko and Azula getting together, cuz hardly anyone does when they do Zucest. Doesn't it curious you how they would react?