A/N: Zutara & Taang & ty lokka :) Enjoy.

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"Look! Zuko! It's a carnival!" Katara said, pulling him by his arm into the small Earth Kingdom town. The rest of the group following behind, Aang and Toph's arms linked, Iroh with his hands in his sleeves, and Sokka… well being Sokka, I believe this time he is picking his nose with his boomerang?

"yeah, it is…" He said, Zuko had never really cared for carnivals…

"well guys, I think I'm going to go watch the show…" Sokka said with a dreamy air to his voice. Aang snickered before nudging Katara in the ribs and pointing over to the poster for the show. She laughed out loud. So that's why Sokka was going to do something civil. Ty Lee was in the show… in fact she WAS the show.

"What?!" Toph demanded, "What's so funny?!"

Aang laughed a little more under his breath before he leaned down to Toph's ears and whispered to her what was happening and she laughed out loud. "Snoozles is in love with Princess of the Wheels!"

Everyone else snickered and they could have sworn they saw Sokka put something thin up over his shoulder… (You know…)

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Iroh went off on his own as the young kinds went their own separate ways. He looked through the booths until he came across a booth with many other 'older citizens' playing Pai Sho. The only person without a partner was a very pretty (in Iroh's eyes) woman, around his age with long redd-ish hair with a few white streaks in it and bright green eyes, with visible laugh lines.

He eagerly sat down next to her and extended his hand.

"Hello," he said, as friendily as possible.

She smiled warmly at him before extending her hand and saying, "Hello, my name is Mikka."

He looked down at her hand, which had no ring on it, her throat bare as well. He smiled, inwardly and outward also. "What are the stakes?"

"Loser buys the winner some Ginsing Tea?" she asked him, and he could have sworn he saw her wink. His smile widened to the point where it was almost engulfing his face.

"Deal."

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"Ewww." Aang and Toph said in unison. Aang had decided to win her a small prize since she couldn't really see to throw anything at the balloons, but instead they got a little… sidetracked. Toph had heard, and Aang had seen the interaction between Iroh and said woman, and all either of them could do was gag.

"Old people love, gross." Aang stated boldly.

Toph hesitantly nodded her agreement, but from behind them they both heard a woman's voice, slightly muffled and gravelly, "Love comes in all ages, old and young."

Both of the children blushed before walking away.

"haha… ha… us, in love… kissing… ha… oh that's funny." Aang said, trying to end the awkward silence, only making it more so.

After a few minutes Toph turned to him and said, rather forcibly, "Just kiss me you idiot!"

And that he did, that he did.

"Do you really think I'm an idiot?" he asked softly, panting slightly.

"Yes," she stated simply, catching her breath. Then she added before giving him another gentle kiss, "but you're my idiot."

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"And now, I need a volunteer from the audience please." Ty Lee stated to the crowd.

She saw a figure clad in blue jumping up and down in the air, a boomerang in his hand saying 'Oh, Oh Me! Me!' over and over again.

She giggled, he was kinda cute. "You… Boomerang Boy!"

"YESS!" He said before climbing up on the stage with her.

"You're really pretty." He said, a dazed look on his face.

She giggled again. To tell the truth ever since her days with Azula she had had a crush on this boy.

She leaned into his ear to whisper something, "Can I tell you a secret?" she asked him.

He nodded, somewhat stupidly. She smiled and continued, "I think your cute too."

She said that before crashing her lips into his. Teens 'whoop'ed, mothers covered the little children's eyes, men sent catcalls their way, for after all they were kissing in the middle of a show she was supposed to be performing in. Suddenly something bumped into her head and she opened her eyes to see what it was.

"Uh…" she said, slightly grossed out by what she thought she saw. He opened his eyes to look at her and she pointed to the end of his boomerang, giggling slightly.

"Is that a booger on your boomerang?"

"Y-yes…?"

"CAN I GET A DIFFERENT VOLENTEER PLEASE?!" She said into the crowd.

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Katara and Zuko walked down the little path through the stalls, hand-in-hand, watching the children play. They reached a sweets booth and saw many kids grouped around it. Katara giggled, but Zuko merely looked away, slightly disgusted by their childish mannerisms…

But they were, after all, children.

Katara looked at Zuko, and he got caught up in her eyes. He began to lean in, closing his eyes. He could feel her breath on his face and her lips ever-so-slightly touch his own when she pulled away.

"what now?" he asked, annoyed.

But Katara was already bending down, a little boy that looked to be about four, with a blanket on his hand, the thumb of that hand (and the blanket) in his mouth, and in his other hand was Katara's necklace. He was returning it to her… she must have dropped it somewhere.

"Thank you." She said kindly to the boy who smiled as she tenderly patted his head.

"Can you please go away?" Zuko snapped angrily to the little boy whose eyes welled up with tears as he went running the other way.

"Stupid kid…" he mumbled under his breath.

"Are you telling me," Katara said, eyes narrowing, "That you do not like children?"

"Oh no, I absolutely adore children." He said sarcastically.

"Oh good." She said, her eyes lighting up with fake cheeriness before she walked away from him and bending down with all the children at the candy booth.

She gathered them all around her and began to whisper, stealing glances towards Zuko every once in a while.

"Alright, see that man over there? If you all go and play 'tackle the nice man to the ground' I'll buy each of you a piece of candy, okay?"

All the children nodded and Katara grinned evilly at the look on Zuko's face as he disappeared into the ocean of children.

Carnivals… You gotta love them.

A/N: Alright, this one was fun to write.

I did it mainly for the Ty Lee / Sokka and the Katara / Zuko parts though. Then I had to think of a place where all of that would happed and it came to me, CARNIVAL.

:) Oh, and if anyone wants to give me a challenge writing, I'd love to try it.

Stuff like that is so FUN.

P.S.- I have two more Zutara atorys done, one extremely short, the other pretty long. If I get to ten reviews I'll post them (both) tonight. If I get to 7 reviews I'll post one of them. (of my choice)