Avatar: the last airbender belongs to Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko and Nickelodeon.

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Jin sighed as she drank another gulp of her tea. The shop was deserted save for her and the cute waiter on whom she had a crush. As for his uncle, he had taken advantage of the current lack of clientele to go chat with the neighbours and compliment them on their baby, who was named Hope from what she gathered. She sighed again as she glanced sadly at Lee who was sweeping the floor half-heartedly after cleaning the windows outside. Jin looked down in her drink.

She couldn't help feeling disappointed about their date. Lee walking away had hurt her feelings, but not as much as knowing he didn't want to sort out his 'complicated' problem with her. She didn't like to see him so miserable. Unless he had another girl in his heart, it constituted a good reason to flee the date as well. Perhaps that was why he was so sad, perhaps he missed his significant other. Jin heaved another sigh, she had wanted to be this important person.

The door opened and someone came in the almost empty tea shop. The girl wore a long green robe with a dark armour protecting her chest and hips, as well as a golden head piece. She was very pretty, but Jin didn't know whether it was natural or caused by the amount of white and red makeup covering her round face. The Kyoshi warrior scanned the room and suddenly, her eyes were lit and a sly smile was gracing her lips.

Jin frowned as she watched the girl walk toward the waiter, hands on her swinging hips. "Hey there sweetie!" Zuko turned his head, raising an eyebrow and she winked at him. "I saw you outside. How's it been since last time?" She flashed him a grin. Jin tried to calm her breath as the possibility that the newcomer was her crush's girlfriend dawned on her. Still, she listened on the upcoming conversation.

"Who are you?" Zuko asked suspiciously, still sweeping the floor. The girl's outfit looked quite familiar. Jin discreetly pumped her fist in the air with a triumphant smile.

"You don't remember me?" She pouted, faking disappointment and sadness. "But we slept together!"

Jin dropped her fist, tea cup and jaw while Zuko let his broom go, crashing on the floor, his eyes bulging out of their sockets. "I never slept with anybody!" He cried and took a few steps back, as the girl leaned closer to him.

His claim was true, he had never seduced nor been seduced by anyone. Granted, there was that one time in that one tavern in the northern Earth Kingdom after the defeat at the North Pole. He recalled being very drunk as well as certain bounty hunter, very sober, who really wanted her reward for the help she had provided them to track the Avatar. But it was an alcohol-induced accident, so it didn't count.

Ty Lee, in her Kyoshi disguise, smirked mentally. Teasing Zuko was so much fun. "Well, to be perfectly fair..." She pressed her body against his, causing his cheeks to heat very much while Jin thought her blood was going to literally boil. "We would have done so..." She lifted his chin and her voice became a purr. "If it weren't for that little interruption..."

Zuko finally found the strength to push Ty Lee from him. But her comment had triggered his memory and he now remembered the outfit's origin. The island of Kyoshi, where he had been stuck for a few days due to the ferocious attack of a giant eel on his poor, helpless and obsolete ship before he could chase the Avatar after his escape. He then had been forced to help repairing the houses he had burnt and he remembered the very interested glances the Kyoshi warriors shot him as he worked shirtless... It seemed the interest of the one in front of him didn't diminish at all since then.

The banished prince tilted his head and narrowed his eyes, examining the girl in front of him. "You don't look like Suki." He replied, unconvinced. The memory of that little Koko girl walking in on him and the attractive leader of the Kyoshi warriors undressing each other in the deserted training room brushed his mind. He coughed to cover a nervous laugh as he recollected their furious blush and their pathetic attempt at a reasonable explanation to the innocent kid. Then, he realized what he had just let slip and covered his mouth in a hurry.

Ty Lee didn't bother to fight the sly smirk growing on her face and her eyes lit up with amusement whereas Jin's own eyes widened greatly. "WHAT?" She screamed, jealousy taking over the part of her mind telling her she was in no position to be possessive. "Who's Suki!" She demanded as she got up from her chair and marched toward Zuko, hands slightly twitching.

Zuko swallowed the lump in his throat before backing away. "Well, you see..." He tried his hardest not to stutter. "I hadn't seen a pretty girl in three years, the only good-looking boy she had known in ages had just fled before me, and..." Neither one of his listeners managed to understand his babbling. Zuko realized it and thought that it was better that way.

Then, he decided he should not be intimidated by a commoner and, in the most princely and manliest manner he could manage, he dashed off the tea shop while screaming like a manly, princely little girl.

Jin picked up the broom, casualty of war and fallen comrade of her crush. "Lee?" She heard a laugh and shot its source a look so dirty, it could have scared the broom away if she didn't hold it so firmly. "That's your fault." She eventually said. The acrobat ceased her giggle, looked at Jin with surprised eyes, and doubled up. "What's so funny?" She barked.

"Please, I'm so much prettier than you. You scared him away." She giggled again. Her voice wasn't laced with venom when she said that, but that angered the refugee more. She would have retorted something nasty, but someone walked in and interrupted them.

"Ah. Here you are." Jin looked at the bored newcomer. Save for her head piece, her attire was identical to the girl she was about to admonish. Her face was more angular than both of theirs and her hair, black as night. "I've seen some poor guy sprint off the building and thought you'd be here." She dusted off the back of her gloves with mastered nonchalance. "I've been searching you everywhere. Azu..." She shot an uninterested glance at Jin. "We have to go."

Ty Lee walked toward the exit. "If you see 'Lee' again, tell him I'll see him soon." She winked at her. "Very soon." She then disappeared of sight as well as her friend, leaving a fuming Jin to tighten her grip on the broom even more.

"You're really a flirt, you know that?" Mai deplored as they walked down the street.

"I know, I know..." She replied, a smug grin on her face. Zuko's presence would be her secret, for now. She preferred to keep him as long as she could, before Mai monopolized him all for herself. She started to muse and stroked her chin. Mai noticed.

"What are you thinking?" She asked, hiding her anxiety. Ty Lee thinking never meant any good.

She waved her hand dismissively at the blade specialist. "Oh, nothing." She pondered, what did Mai think of time-share?

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Why did Jun go to Zuko instead of Iroh for her, erm, payment? How did Suki and Zuko come to the point described in the story? Did they pretext it was a game and will Koko use this game on Aang the next time she sees him? All that is up to your imagination, people!
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