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Lu Ten stared at Zuko fo a minute. "Um...no! You don't want to say that! That's a bad word." Lu Ten frowned and shook his head.

"Fuh-ker." Zuko said again.

"Sucker! Suh-ker." Lu Ten tried to make a desperate attempt at teaching Zuko a new word. Lu Ten picked up a pacifier and sucked on it to demonstrate. "See? Sucker!"

"Fuh-ker." Zuko giggled at his ability to speak now.

Lu Ten spit out the pacifier and looked around the room. He spotted two small portraits of Ursa and Ozai. Smiling, he got up ad grabbed the portraits and brought them to Zuko,.

"Look who this is!" Lu ten said in his baby voice. "Mama and Dada. Can you say 'Mama'?"

"Fucker!" Zuko exclaimed as he pointed to his father's portraits.

"...Yeah, you got that right..." Lu Ten muttered darkly. His uncle was a freaking forty year old in a nineteen year old's body. He was so stiff and humorless.

"Fucker!" Zuko exclaimed again.

Lu Ten just stared at his cousin. "You're never going to give up on that, are you?"

Zuko shook his head. Lu Ten sighed and got up to put the portraits back. Lu Ten stood there and sighed heavily.

'What am I gonna do? Ozai and Ursa will kill me for teaching their son profanity!' The Fire Prince thought worriedly. Lu Ten heard a click behind him and turned around. Zuko was nowhere to be seen. He somehow managed to get out of his playpen and left the room. Lu Ten's eyes widened in horror and he ran from the room. "Zzuko?" He called out. "Zxuko! Damn it..." Lu Ten ran down the hallways looking for Zuko.

A few turns later, Lu Ten almost ran into a servant. "Aah!"

"Pardon me, Sir, but a friend of yours stopped by to visit you." The servant bowed.

"Lu Ten looked around the servant at a tall, smiling girl of fifteen.

"Kairi? What are you doing here?" Lu Ten asked his best friend. "I told you I c can't hang out today. I'm baby-sitting my cousin."

"I know." Kairi answered. "I just figured you need help."

Lu Ten sighed in defeat. "I do need help. Zuko got out of his playpen, and is now running around the freaking palace!"

"Okay. We'll find him better if we split up." Kairi suggested.

"All right." They split up and ran to find Zuko.

About twenty minutes later, Kairi found himself in the east wing where Ozai and Ursa resided. She heard giggling and a thud and went to investigate. She gasped.

"Um...Pince Lu Ten?" Kairi called over her shoulder. She saw Lu Ten run past another hallway. "Lu Ten!"

Lu Ten stopped, then ran back to Kairi. "Yeah?"

"I found your cousin." Kairi said simply. She pointed to Zuko, who was now covered in ink. The walls were splattered with inky handprints and smears. The entire room was trashed.

Lu Ten paled and slowly pointed to the mess. "My...uncle...is...going...to kill me..."

Kairi sighed and walked over to Zuko and picked him up. "Hey, Prince Zuko. Let's get you cleaned up, huh?"

"Fucker!" Zuko exclaimed.

Kairi gaped and turned around to stare at Lu Ten in shock.

Lu Ten shrugged. "It just slipped out."

"Uh...well, did you try to teach him a new word?" Kairi asked.

"Yes, but that didn't work." Lu ten replied.

Kairi just shook her head slowly. "All right, well...let's get this little ankle-biter cleaned up."

"Yeah..."

The duo managed to clean Zuko up without incident. It was dinnertime, so he trio headed t the kitchen and dining hall.

"Wow! I have never seen this part of the palace before!" Kairi exclaimed, excited.

"Well, now you have!" Lu ten set Zuko in his high chair. Unfortunately, when Lu Ten had his back turned, Zuko managed to wriggle out of his chair and fled the room.

"ZUKO!"

Lu Ten and Kairi chased the toddler out of the dining hall. As soon as they turned around a corner, Lu Ten slipped on a puddle of some liquid and fell. Kairi gasped.

"Oh my God! Are you okay?" She asked her friend.

Lu Ten groaned in pain as he sat up. "Please tell me that was water..."

Kairi sniffed the liquid and wrinkled her nose. "I'm afraid not."

"Ugggggh!" Lu Ten stood up and walked away. "I smell like crap!"

"No freaking kidding." Kairi agreed.

"Where's Zuko?" Lu ten wondered. They kept walking down the halls. Lu Ten spotted Zuko going through the curtains of...the...throne room... "AAAHHH!" Lu Ten sprinted towards the throne room hoping to Agni that his grandfather wasn't in there or doing something important.

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