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"How was your date otherwise…oops," Katara stumbled.
"Date!" Toph and Aang yelled in unison.
"You set us up," Toph accused, but she didn't sound as angry as she could have been.
"Lets get off this subject, so is Zuko important?" Katara asked desperately trying to change the subject.
"I think you're in love with the Ghost!" Aang accused. Now he did sound as angry as could get. He seemed about ten seconds away from entering the Avatar state.
Katara didn't defend herself against Aangs accusations.
"Aaagh!" Aang growled. Five seconds. "Come back in one hour and if I still feel this way you may get me tell the whole truth about the Ghost. You wont be in love with when you know who he really is." Aang stomped away from the scene.
Zuko had watched the entire scene from the rooftops, and as soon as Aang took a shortcut down a dark ally Zuko swooped down. He placed his hand over Aangs mouth to keep him quiet.
"Just because you have girl issues doesn't mean that you blurt out my secret," Zuko hissed into Aangs ear.
"Mmmphhh," Aang responded. Zuko lifted his hand. "Sorry, It just that I think she's in love with you and like her so much."
"Have you tried to tell her how you feel?" Zuko groaned. He really didn't want to deal with this right now.
"No," Aang admitted.
"Then you can't stop her from falling in love with some other guy," Zuko told him shortly.
"Do you realize that you are the second person to say that to me this week?" Aang asked him.
"Yes," Zuko answered. "Wasn't it that blind girl that told you first?"
"You've been watching us?" Aang asked in shock.
"Hey, the only highlight of my day before you guys came along was racing ally animals for food scraps," Zuko said defensively. "Now the highlight is seeing what kind of trouble you guys will get into next."
"My friends and I are entertainment to you and you refuse the constant entertainment of living and traveling with us. That makes no sense," Aang told Zuko.
"I do that to everyone so just be grateful that I am telling you this," Zuko said.
"By the way how did you get those squirrel cats to attack the butcher?" Aang asked.
"If you leave a litter in a bag overnight they tend to attack the first person they see," Zuko explained. Aang looked horrified. "I leave food in the bag fort them and if they're from the same litter they don't fight. Plus I always use a big bag, so it's perfectly humane. Those things just get very angry."
"Oh," Aang said in a relived tone.
"Are you going to keep your mouth shut?" Zuko asked him his voice suddenly very harsh.
"No," Aang answered. His voice was laden with guilt.
"Good," Zuko said then he relaxed.
Aang walked back out into the streets and was met by the staring eyes of the townsfolk.
"What are you looking at?" Aang asked innocently.
They remembered Aangs previous outburst so they just went along with their business. Then he heard a very quiet and barely audible laugh come from Zuko. Then Zuko regained his serious composure.
Katara walked up to Aang very cautiously.
"You don't have to do that. Zuko talked some sense into me," Aang said softly.
Katara seemed glad that Aang felt better, but deep down she was saying "Oh snap!"
The disappointment must have showed on her face at some time because Aang saw it.
"Don't act so disappointed," Aang said angrily.
"Aang I care about you and I hate seeing you so upset," Katara said genuinely.
Toph stormed up to those two and screamed. "Buzz of you two. Katara, Aang is right. Aang you know what I have to say."
"I will talk to Zuko tonight," Katara offered out of the blue.
"I don't thinks it's a good idea to leave you two alone so I will go," Aang said to Katara.
"I will go since both of you are probably going to argue about this until your faces turn blue," Toph said. "You two are too much like brother and sister for your own good."
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Aang and Katara were still sour about their discussion when evening rolled around.
"Remember Toph he is fast and gets angry very quickly when you treat like he isn't human," Katara fussed over Toph.
"And he will come to you faster if you have fresh meat," Aang put in. Toph and Katara just stared at him. "He hasn't had any in a long time, so it's kind of a delicacy to him since he is living on the streets."
"Why do I need to know this stuff anyway?" Toph asked both of them.
"Just go out there," Katara said and she finished off with a playful shove out the door.
Toph walked out of the door and into the ally where they aways met him.
"Hey Ghosty, I have some fresh hot meat for you here," Toph called out in any general direction.
Zuko jumped down from a tall building and into the ally.
"All the food we've given you has made you stronger," Toph thought aloud.
"Yes it has. Not eating anything decent for a few years can make you a little weak," Zuko commented.
"I also 'see' that your muscles are actually getting fuller, but the ropiness was probably because of the food you had to eat," Toph said.
"Yep, so are you going to give me that food?" Zuko asked pointing towards the food in her hand.
"In exchange for some information, like your name, your parentage, and why you refuse to teach Aang," Toph said to Zuko.
"Zuko, classified and classified," Zuko answered.
"Not so fast. You have to give me the name of at least one of your parents," Toph demanded.
Zuko thought very hard about how he should answer this question.
"My mothers name is Ursa," Zuko said softly.
Toph tossed him the food.
"Thank you," Zuko said to Toph.
"Why are you so secretive about your identity?" Toph asked.
"No one would treat me the same way if they did know. In fact I would probably be run out of town if anyone knew," Zuko said bitterly. "By the way I like what you did to the butcher."
"I like how you got revenge on him, but I wouldn't have been nearly as subtle as you were," Toph responded.
"How is setting a mob of squirrelcats on him subtle?" Zuko asked while slowly backing away.
"There is so much you have yet to learn," Toph said in a sifu like manner. "By the way is there anything you would like in your next meal?"
"I would like a little more fruit please," Zuko said cautiously.
Toph just shrugged and walked back into the Inn.
"He doesn't want anymore fruit," Toph said to Katara as she walked into the room she and Katara shared. Katara just blinked in return.
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"Let me get this straight. Zuko wants more meat and less fruit," Aang repeated.
Zuko watched Toph and Aang as they talked and walked right past the restaurant they had trashed.
"Are you still angry at Katara for setting us up?" Toph asked.
"Yes," Aang mumbled.
"I think you're mad at her because she thought that someone other than herself was romantically compatible with you," Toph said.
"I guess you're right," Aang sighed. "I am going to tell Katara how I feel."
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Sorry for the long wait. I had a bad case of writers block, and I wanted to celebrate the season premier so I trudged through it to create this chapter.
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