Ha-ha! I didn't really mean the whole review thing! But it worked great, didn't it? Eleven reviews within a day of posting… That's results. :)

Hmmm, I don't really know why I'm mentioning this, but how come only so few songs could apply to a Kataang songfic (and not sound totally weird)? I was looking though all my music on my computer for a possible Kataang songfic song and I just started laughing. I like semi old music, and I'd just love to see someone write a Kataang songfic on Sir Mix-A-Lot's "I Like Big Butts." That would have me rolling on the floor in laughter for a few hours.

So that was some more of my randomness. This chapter still doesn't deal with Sokka or Toph, I'm planning on writing an 'all Sokka and Toph' chapter to make up for all their absences of my more recent chapters. The separations of sections with the dashes are changes between what Aang is doing and what Katara is doing.

If I owned Avatar, would I be on this site? Hmmm, I don't know… Would I?

Ch.17

Katara and Aang had made their way back to their campsite after their search for her brother and friend. Neither of them was paying to much attention to the search, though. They didn't want their good time to come to a screeching halt so suddenly. They knew that as soon as Sokka was around, he would make sure that all romantic activities would be kept to a minimum. So they enjoyed their time together while they could.

Aang was lying on the ground, not doing anything in particular. He was just thinking about what that night would have in-store for him. He knew that nothing major would arise from it, but he still felt extremely nervous. Maybe it's because this will be our first real… date. As great as making out with her several times in the past few hours was, he was even more exited and anxious about this. A date with Katara… It had been one of the top 5 things on his to-do list for a while now. Hell, it was tied for first with 'stop the war.' He wanted to make it special, no mater how hard that would be on an uncharted island. He wanted to give Katara something that would surely make this night a memorable one.

He didn't want to do anything too extravagant, but he didn't want his gift to seem simple. He had made several little pieces of jewelry for her in the past. Necklaces, bracelets, one or two hair ornaments… he wanted to do something more personal this time. He lied on his back he stared up into the clouds, remembering the village he had passed by so long ago. He remembered Aunt Wu, and how she told him that if he trusted in his heart, he would be with the one he loves. He remembered Aunt Wu's cloud readings, looking at the odd shaped clouds in hopes of finding any good ideas.

He watched as the white puffy clouds moved along the vast blue sky, being pulled and shaped by high altitude air currents. He saw a fluffy bunny and laughed a little at the foolishness of it. Fluffy bunny cloud forecasts doom and destruction… he recalled from their last experience with cloud reading.He couldn't tell how much of Aunt Wu's superstition he believed, but she had been right about him following his heart. And it was enough. A few more clouds passed by, none with any true shape, just messy puffs of white.

One more cloud passed by, this one looking circular in shape. He squinted, trying to focus some more on it. Some wind drew a little bit of the cloud out of the middle, leaving a wide hole in the center. It looked like a … ring. Aang's eyes widened at his realization. That is what he would make. With his earthbending he could probably make a real good looking ring if he found the right stone. It would be difficult, though. He had never used his earthbending on something so small, requiring so much precision. Earthbending is mostly used on a large scale, with large boulders or walls. It dawned on him that Toph might not have even tried to do something like this. But it was worth it. This was a special occasion…

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It was the afternoon, about 3 o'clock. Katara was in their tent, also not doing anything in particular. She lied down on her side thinking about what would occur in a few hours. She, like Aang, respected the fact that they were far too young to get into anything serious. Besides, it had been predicted that they were to be married. They didn't need to rush into anything.

But still, she knew that tonight would be something else. Sure there would probably be lots of making-out and such, but that's not what would make it special. This would be the first time they were truly alone. They had been alone the whole time on the island, but this would be alone in a different sense. There would be her and there would be Aang. That's it. They were done worrying about Sokka for the day, and there was no one left to fight after the previous events that took place. All that was left was for one to enjoy being with the other.

She began playing with her traditional hair loops, twirling one of them with her finger to the point where it was about to detach itself from her braid. She let it loosen a little, and then she slid her finger out of her hair, watching the loop bounce down in a tight curl. How come I've never tried any other hair style? I wonder what Aang would think if I tried something different… How about letting my hair down? The only time he's seen me like that is when I wake up… and it's always a mess then. Maybe I should let it down for tonight… Maybe Aang will like it… I was going to wash my hair before tonight anyways.

She decided that she would ask Aang to leave the camp for an hour or two so that she could bathe and get ready for tonight. By the time Aang would be back, it would be starting to get dark and she would be ready for him to go all googley-eyed over her. Hopefully…

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Aang was sitting outside of the tent on the dirt with a stick in hand. He had doodled several ring designs in the dirt and was working on his last revision, a final drawing incorporating the best ideas from all his previously drawn-up rings. All 127 of them. It would be a simple enough design, but still challenging to make. He would have to walk around the island searching for the best stone he can find.

Using his earthbending, he would cut out a small cube of rock, its size just slightly larger than the diameter of Katara's finger. Then he would slice about ¼ of it off the cube, this being what the ring would be made of. He would bore out a perfectly round hole, using sand as an abrasive to smoothen and polish it so that it would feel comfortable on her finger. Next he would round out the outside edges and make the rest of the ring circular as well. Except for the top.

The top part would remain flat, with just enough room to carve out a small inscription. Aang preferred the inscription to anything else, seeing as how it would be rather unlikely to find any precious jewels or metals out in the middle of the island. He had carefully selected what it would say; there were only a few phrases that would fit both the ring and the occasion. He had decided on 3 simple characters, 完全地, meaning 'heart and soul.'

The inscription would be carved in either by chiseling or by extremely careful earthbending. Once the inscription has been made, he would go in search for berries. He needed to find something that would give him a darkish-blue fluid. Berries seemed like the most appropriate way to go, seeing as it would already be thick enough for what he was planning. The blue paint-like substance would fill the engraving, and he would superheat it using his firebending, letting the paint become near molten.

Once it was ready, he would rapidly cool it with a combination of waterbending and airbending. This process would allow the paint to quickly solidify, creating a blue, glass-like filling for the inscription that would remain in place forever. Then it would finally end with smoothening and polishing the entire ring with sand.

Now all that remained was to select a stone. Aang naturally selected blue for the inscription, seeing as it is the color of her element. Of her people. Of her. The stone would have to match the engraving, so he would follow it up with another one of her usual colors, white. A white stone, perhaps off-white, it might have a few specks of other colors that often appear in rocks like those. The rock was fairly common and wouldn't require much searching. All of the things he needed were readily available on the island, he just needed a reason to go off and find them. As luck would have it, turns out he didn't need to find a reason; Katara was going to give it to him.

Aang heard her moving about inside the tent and he panicked. He dropped his left hand to the ground for support as he swung his right leg out in a circular motion in-front of him (think 'break dancing'), creating a burst of wind that removed any and all traces of his plans to make Katara a ring. The air was filled with dust and dirt and he quickly earthbended it all down before Katara peaked her head out of the tent.

"Umm, Aang? Could you, uhhh, leave the camp for a couple of hours? I wanted to wash my hair and get ready for tonight… I don't want to make it sound like I'm kicking you out, but, uhhh, I'm already… Ummm…" Katara was desperately trying not to say she was naked, it just didn't sound like a good thing to say to Aang. Especially now. She was hoping he got the picture.

Lucky for her, he did. He shook his head violently; trying his hardest to push away whatever images had crawled into his head. "Yeah, I was going to go train a little, anyways." He lied. "A couple of hours, right?"

Katara nodded.

Aang airbended himself off the ground. "See you then." He turned and walked off, leaving to find all the components necessary to make her gift.

So I was feeling uber-descriptive with the whole ring thing… I'm like that. I used to be in architecture and drafting so I guess now it's just part of my character to describe things thoroughly.

I made a small drawing of the ring in Microsoft Paint, it came out semi-okay. It even has the inscription in Chinese characters but that didn't come out so well. You can sort of see it if you zoom in enough… It could have been better but I didn't have access to a Photoshop-enabled computer. Tell me if you want me to email you the jpeg in your review. If your email isn't in your profile, leave it in the review.

Rest in Peace, Mako Iwamatsu (Voice Actor for Uncle Iroh)