AN- Chapter 3 Near The Middle- Has been shifted and edited. You don't have to reread the whole thing, just right after the GAang read's the letter. You don't have to read it but it'll make better sense.

Chapter 5 Pride over Family?

After Zuko witnessed the breakdown of the Gaang, he got nervous and expected them to continue this for a while. To just stand there each in deep thought.

Zuko didn't exactly know Katara like the rest of them, he would probably Never mention that he would miss her. But the others were all a family. Zuko didn't feel like he should be there having knowing most of his time with Katara as a fighting partner/opponent

Although he knew they probably wouldn't eat anyway. He slowly left the room and went to the kitchen and came back with the breakfast Katara had left for them to eat.

It wasn't much but at least they were able to eat something. He placed a bowl in front of the others. At first none of them touched their food or even gave it any thought. But slowly hunger came over them and they were soon in a small circle eating their rice slowly. It would have been like any other time had it not been so quiet and one spot missing.

As Zuko looked over the group, he realized that this would be harder to accomplish and that after breakfast he would have to find out how to be able to cook and feed the others. Sure he could make tea, that was good enough before but now he would have to make breakfast, lunch, and dinner until it was time to leave.

Zuko had figured that since Katara had left because they had no appreciation or any help from the others, they would be more considering now and pitch in and be more grateful about everything they had left.

He was very sadly mistaken.

When he finished training Aang, which had been cut a bit short, he went to the kitchen to learn how to make dinner; they ate leftover breakfast for lunch in silence. He had seen Katara make it plenty of times before. Surely it couldn't be that hard, right?

Ten minutes later found Zuko a mess with an strange, a bit oddly colored, concoction bubbling over the pot and some drops landing into the fire beneath it.

The stew, or that was what it was intended to be, slowly stopped bubbling and dripping over the pot as Zuko lowered the fire. He cautiously tasted the 'food' and found that, although not as good as it should be, was edible.

Zuko cleaned himself off quickly and left the mess in the kitchen for later. He brought the pot outside to where they usually ate and set up another low fire to keep it warm. Then went back into the kitchen to get bowls and spoons. After setting everything up, he realized he wasn't sure how to call them. He remembered that Katara usually came around and individually told them dinner was ready.

The thing was Zuko didn't exactly know where in the temple the others are; it was mystery how Katara knew. He walked around the temple for about 15 minutes when he gave up. Zuko didn't exactly look he just wandered around, he was sure he passed that statue at least twice, while yelling out lunch was ready. When he came back he was relieved and a bit agitated that they were already there.

He walked over to the pot of stew and placed some into each bowl, although he had expected them to serve themselves, and handed everyone a bowl. After giving out a bowl to everyone, he went back into the kitchen and brought out the tea that he had brewed while cooking. He handed out the tea and waited patiently for a thank you. Two minutes passed without a single word in the air.

Toph was the first one to break it with her own thoughts knowing that no one else was going to. During lunch, no one talked so she would do the talking. And she had plenty to say.

"So where do you think Sugar Queen is hiding? She left us here with no decent food to eat."

"Actually she left bre-"

"She just left! She chickened out of doing simple things. For what nothing?"

"Katara had a lo-"

"Then she leaves us with this whole dramatic letter and then leaves because she doesn't do anything but cook and act like she's high and mighty then when you don't bow down to her in gratefulness!"

"Katara didn't jus-"

"No! She didn't stop there did she? She complained about not finding her and about taking care of ourselves. Like we wouldn't survive without her because our world revolves around her. Well you know what? WE DON'T NEED HER! I don't need her!"

"Toph, maybe you shou-"

"Well you know what? I am going to find her to give her a piece of my mind to annoy her!"

"Maybe you should calm down"

"Yeah Toph-"

"I don't understand how you could not be upset and angry that she just left! Right in the middle of preparations to defeat this war!"

"Top-"

"You have to defeat the Fire Lord and she waltzes right out to have her own adventure so we have to deal with the little meaningless things that she had to do! And you-"

"ENOUGH!"

Zuko had finally lost his temper and after his little outburst, promptlystopped out and went to his room. Zuko didn't realize how tired he was until he laid down on the bed. He usually never was this tired. He spent the day training and meditating mostly.

But then again today was a very long day.

He would probably have to do this everyday. Okay, backtrack that last statement.

It was going to be a long way to the end of the war.

He didn't comprehend how Katara still managed to be able to do this. He really wished that he could have stopped Katara from leaving. But of course, being the complete idiot he was, he didn't notice it. He should of tried harder to stop them from being so hurtful to Katara. Sure he had long talks with Toph, tried to explain to Aang that what he was doing and saying actually hurt Katara's feelings and had a man to man with Sokka about treating Katara.

Gah! He could've should have tried harder but instead he was just be a oblivious idiot!

Toph was so angry and upset that they weren't angry with Katara! She left and ditched them! Katara was supposed to be there no matter what! If anyone should be leaving, it would be Toph, not her! Katara shouldn't have left…Well, you know what? Fine! She would march up to her and tell off Sweetness herself since no one else would.

But Toph wouldn't do this by herself; no she would just have to convince everybody to do it. She wanted to find Sugar Queen to tell her off and about how she didn't care about anyone in the group…not like they needed her anyways. It wouldn't be hard; Toph would recognize her foot patterns anywhere. Twinkles had his own flying bison and Snoozles should have known his own sister. And Sparky even chased them half around the freaking world! They should be able to find her in a second; she was only in a small town. But none of them wanted to find her. They wanted to respect her wishes even if we don't want to. Sometimes bunking with a monk was extremely annoying.

This shouldn't be a problem though, after all Toph managed to scam dozens of people that were twice her age or older and supposedly smarter. She could manage convincing a couple of people to find someone. It's not like they didn't care, she knew they wanted to find her. So tomorrow morning she would convince everyone to look for Katara. But this was going to take patience and she would probably have to do one on one to convince them or in some cases, bribe them, maybe.

It should be fairly easy for her though; she felt their heartbeats when they read the letter. The hardest would be probably be Twinkles or Sparky. But Toph wasn't exactly to sure about Sparky, Katara didn't even address the letter to him or acknowledge him, that was pretty mean and that was coming from Toph herself. She had figured that they made up already. Psh! Figures, Katara was inconsiderate of other people, she was selfish. She only looked out for herself, she didn't care that she hurt other people's feelings. Well you know what? Forget her.

Toph was going to find the jerk, and give her an earful about just leaving them without food. Come on, Katara barely did anything at all! She cooked. Wow! Because that was such a big thing for her to do right? No she even couldn't get that right either! Then she goes and runs off in a big stink all over dramatic because she couldn't get it right and being mistreated and how she was so upset and all that junk. Well it was settled, she would make them find Katara and she would just need a little convincing to get the job done.

Author's Note

So…. This is very very very late.

Um… Excuse was that….. Well, I did most of it a couple days after I posted my last chapter but never got around to finishing it. I have a life so I was busy.

So my idea about this is that Toph doesn't want to be upset so she forces herself to get angry with Katara. But somewhere in the back of her mind she wants to still find Katara because she misses her. But she convinces herself that it's because she wants Katara to see what a horrible mess she made.

So another reason I was late was Puckleberry fan-fiction.

This part is for Gleeks/ Puckleberriers and Zutara

So while I was thinking about Puckleberry, it reminded me so much of Zutara. Is it just me or like they have the sorta same plot.

Puck/Zuko are bad guys and torture Rachel/Katara but when they join the club/Gaang they become nicer and friends and a little more but then the writers ruin everthing by pairing them with the main guy. Which sucks.

It's the whole opposites attract thing. Bad boy and good girl. Just think about it for a while…

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Goodbye!