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Chapter 2 – She Really Left

It was no more than two minutes after sunrise did Zuko notice something was wrong, terribly wrong. At first, he waved it off blaming that his mind was still grogry from sleeping.

He was walking to his dresser to find a shirt when he saw a small folded up paper. On one of the sides of the paper, it was folded in 3, was in neat script, Zuko.

He wasn't sure if he should be excited or nervous. Besides wondering who it was from, he really wanted to know how someone was able to put it there without him noticing.

He thought maybe it was news from…. Well, someone.

But how did someone get this here? Who knew he was here? Only one way to find out…

"I hope that you know I have already forgiven you and I am now trusting you with my family. Goodbye Love, Katara" Zuko spulttered unsure of what to think.

"Wha….what? This is isn't happening, this is a sick, sick joke." Zuko muttered this to himself. He looked over the letter again to see if there was someplace where it said that the whole letter was a joke.

He got up and ran to Katara's room, silent but quickly.

When he got there, he couldn't believe it, it was…..empty. Gone, all the little things that used to fill her room were gone.

This wasn't happening it wasn't. Zuko decided that he would let Aang sleep in today. He needed to meditate…..alone.

Zuko slowly walked out and took one last look at the room, shook his head and walked out to the fountain. He sat there for a few just looking, before walking to his meditation spot.

He sat down in a lotus posistion and took a deep breath.

Katara. What was she going to do? How was she supposed to take care of herself?

Katara was a strong girl, way more than any other he knew. She even gave Azula a run for her money sometimes.

But besides Katara, he was worried about something else… The Gaang. It wasn't so long ago when he was begging on his knees for them to forgive him.

How was he supposed to take care of them? Katara said in her letter that she was trusting her family with him, he couldn't do that.

But how were they supposed to survive. They would have to sacrifice a lot of time to get things back to normal like when Katara was around.

But another thing left him confused. Katara had said that she would help out in a different way.

How was she supposed to do that?

Zuko noticed when he walked around the temple that everything else was there. Nothing was gone except Katara's own personal things.

He looked at the position the sun was in, the others would start to wake up soon. Zuko wasn't sure how they would react to it.

Would they cry? Would they look for her even after she told them not to? He didn't know what they would do considering his family as the only example.

Then he remebered yesterday, her distraught face and he knew she was upset and a bit angry hidden behind all the hurt. He didn't blame her though.

They made her into a servant, to cook, clean, do laundry and take care of everything. But did they treat her right? No, not really, she did get a lot of complaints though.

He knew what it felt like, what she was feeling. Back at the palace, Azula and Ozai used to make him do all these impossible things just to throw all the mistakes he made at the end.

Zuko stood up and made his way back to the temple to wait for the other's to come out of their rooms. While he was walking, he noticed how deadly silent it was.

He was used to the sounds of water running, the sounds of breakfast being cooked and Katara's mutters that echoed through the room.

He could barely even hear his own footsteps from his days as the Blue Spirit. It wasn't right you just had to look and see that nothing was like it was supposed to be.

Agni, why was fate so cruel sometimes?

The only thing Zuko could do now was wait until the other's woke up and then figure out what to do.

When Sokka woke up, he knew something was wrong. He could feel it, he knew it. Then he heard it… the rumbleing of his stomach. Then he smelt it actually it was what he didn't smell.

There was nothing cooking, he could tell the air was too thin compared to other mornings. Sokka walked over to Suki's room to wake up her up, after some coaxing she came with him to the fountain.

But first, he went into Toph's room, careful not to upset her this early in the morning, but still she had to wake up.

He went closer to her to be able to nudge her, but instead she startled him by jumping up. Then she sniffed the air with a confused face asked,

"What? Can not. Smell. Food. Explain. Now" She got off her bed and headed toward the fountain where they usually waited for breakfast to be done.

While walking, Toph could have sworn that she couldn't hear Sugar Queens vibrations. She simply brushed it off thinking that it was because her feet were still asleep.

Aang caught up to them and was worried that Zuko didn't wake him up for meditation and he didn't smell any porridge either. He also wanted to show her a new trick he learned since he figured she wasn't busy.

But all four stopped dead in the middle of their conversation when they saw that serious face that showed so many emotions. Confusion. Shock. Tired. And Disapointed? What happened? And where was Katara, she wasn't anywhere in the whole temple?

Author's Note-

Well, to be honest I wasn't exactly pleased with this chapter.

So sorry if you wanted to see the Gaang's reactions.

I felt that they needed their own separate chapter from Zuko, who was put in charge of them so he's like in a state of shock.

However, I want to thank people who story alerted my story and reviewed.

Moonwilow, zukosbiggestfangirl, and theatre4life

Trust me I appreciate it a lot.

Okay, details about the story that can be confused.

The only people in the temple are Aang, Sokka, Toph, Suki, Zuko and Katara, well not anymore. However, this is after the Southern Raiders. Complicated, I know.

Also like I said before, it may or may not contain Zutara, it depends on if people want it and will work into the story. If they are not romantic, they will be close.

So to clear up anything, just in case, the reason Katara wrote Zuko a personal letter was because he was the most mature and capable of taking care of them, he also is able to do things Katara could do like one was cook so they didn't starve.

Also Katara saw how determined Zuko is for Aang to defeat "The Father Lord" so he will keep them on track.

NOT because Zuko and Katara had some forbidden love.

So review enjoy and um.. Bye!