Finaly! done with this! This was long overdue and i'm sorry for not getting this chapter done earlier. but stuff happens so what can you do? anyways Disclaimer: I don't own ATLA or its characters but I own the OCs. R&R please.

-chapter 5-

"So, Jet, what is it that you are planning on doing?" Sayuri asked nervously, noticing the two swords that Jet had in his possesion.

"We're gonna raid the kitchen," Jet said, "the captian's been keeping all the good food for himself and serving the passangers slop."

"But what happens if we get caught?" Sayuri asked the dark haired boy.

Jet shrugged off the question. He turned to Smellerbee and Longshot.

"Alright, here's the plan," Jet said to Smellerbee, "You and Longshot will stand gaurd. Lee, Sayuri, and I will go into the kitchen and get the food."

Longshot nodded at his comrade. However, the boy did not say anything back to Jet or Smellerbee. The pair of lone freedom fighters made their way off to act as lookouts while Jet, Lee, and Sayuri made their way to the kitchen.

Upon finding the kitchen, Jet used his swords to open the locked doors. The three teens moved into the kitchen quickly, packing up the plates of food that sat on the counter tops and stuffing them into bags. They did this for what seemed like the whole night untill they had gathered enough food to feed all fo the passengers on the ship. When Jet felt that they had aquired enough food, he told Sayuri and Lee that it was time go.

Sayuri was glad. She didn't want to risk getting caught by a member of the ship's crew. That just wasn't in her plans for tonight, so she hoisted her bag of food and followed the freedom fighter away from the kitchen. As Jet led Sayuri and Zuko over to a balcony-type platform, Longshot shot an arrow with a rope attached to it at the balcony.

"Would you like me to give you a lift down, Sayuri?" Jet asked, his tan hand outstretched toward the sepia-brown-haired girl.

"Sure," Sayuri replied as she took his hand in hers and the two slid down the rope fairly quickly. Jet had just put his swords away as Zuko came slidding down the rope. He appeared to have two broadswords in his possesion.

'Since when did he get those?' Sayuri asked herself. Surely she hadn't only just noticed them. Sayuri left the question of the broadswords to sit in her mind until she could afford to spend time toiling over it. There was still work to be done if they were going to sneak back into the passenger area of the ship without being spotted. Luckly enough for the little group of teenagers, all those years that Sayuri had spent traveling around the Earth Kingdom had given her a set of eyes that were able to see in both nighttime and daytime light, allowing Sayuri the ability to see faint lights from a far off distance. A skill that was about to come in handy.

A small light was making it's way toward the group of five. They all were able to find some place to hide... except Sayuri that is. She only had enough time to hide the sack of food in a small crack when a guard called out to her.

"Hey, little girl," he said, his voice was squeaky and high-pitched.

Sayuri only put on an innocent face and told him that she'd been looking for the bathroom and she'd simply gotten lost on her way back to the passenger area. Asking for his help in locating the area, Sayuri nearly smiled when the guard didn't ask her anymore questions as to why she was wandering about the ship.

Once the guard had escorted the dark-haired girl back to where the other passengers where, the guard left to finish the rest of his patrol. About fifteen minutes later, Jet, Zuko, Smellerbee, and Longshot made their way into the area.

"Sorry about letting you get caught like that, Sayuri," Jet said, a slight chuckle in his voice. "but thanks to you, we were able to get the food back without interference."

"Don't worry about it," Sayuri told him, a small smile tugging on the corner of her mouth. "How about I help you pass out the food?"

"Nah, it's ok," Jet said, waving her offer away, "You can just go back to the group you were sitting with earlier."

Sayuri nodded and walked away. She settled down against a wall and tried to fall back to sleep. It didn't work though. Anything that the young magmabender tried to get herself to sleep failed epically. Her mind being to overactive at the time to do anything rest related.

"You look like you have something that is troubling you, Sayuri," Iroh's voice boomed cheerily. She noticed that he had a bowl of food in front of him, "Would you like something to drink?"

Sayuri sat up and stared at the old man who was holding out a cup. Taking the cup from the old firebender, Sayuri thanked him and drank it.

By now, most of the other passengers had been awoken and were now recieving bowls of food from the freedom fighters. Sayuri felt someone staring at her and looked around, her eyes meeting for a moment with Jet's and then turning away suddenly. She didn't feel like herself now that she knew he was watching her. The dark-haired girl feared that she may be falling for him.

"Hey, Sayuri," the voice of Smellerbee called out. "here, this is your bowl."

"Oh, thanks," Sayuri said, "If you're done passing out the food, maybe you could sit with us."

"Sure, I'll take you up on that offer." was the reply from the freedom fighter.

It wasn't long until all the food bowls were passed out and the rest of the passengers were awake on the ship eating. Jet, and the others had eventually joined Sayuri, Iroh and Smellerbee in the group.

*** A few days later***

Sayuri had just finished up her shift at the local daycare center when she decided to stop at a tea shop for something to drink.

'It seems like its been forever since I've been to a tea shop,' the brunette thought to herself as she strolled down the street. When Sayuri reached the street that led to shop, a fight broke out of the building. The shop patrons looked on in horror as two boys with swords started swinging at each other. As Sayuri got closer to the crowd that was starting gather around the boys, she realized that she new the both of them from the ferry ride to Ba Sing Se. It was Jet and Zuko that were fighting.

'I can't go anywhere in this stupid city, without running into either of those boys!' Sayuri mentally sighed as she pushed her way through the crowd. As the brunette got to the fornt of the crowd though, two agents of the Dai Li had stepped forth and stopped the fighting. They managed to subdue Jet and were in the process of dragging him off to who-knew-where. Jet didn't go quietly however, as he was screaming at the top of his lungs about firebenders. After the Dai Li took Jet away, things began to go back to normal and Sayuri entered the tea shop.

"What are you doing here?" She heard Zuko ask her as he stood by the table.

"I just wanted some tea," Sayuri said smartly, "And I can go wherever I so please. This is a free city after all."

"Yeah, sure." The scarred firebender grumbled sourly, "What do you want?"

"Ginseng tea would be nice, please." Sayuri asked politely.

Zuko took her order and went around to the other tables. As Sayuri was waiting for her tea, she began to delicately trace designs on the wooden table with her fingers. By the time the female magma bender noticed her tea beside her, she was the only customer in the shop.

"So what's wrong? Didn't like the tea?" Zuko asked as he stood next to her.

"Oh no, that's not it. The tea is delicious. I just kinda zoned out."

"Oh, okay then," The firebender started, "Could you hurry up? I would like to go home sometime tonite, if you don't mind."

"Well that's kinda rude don't you think?" Sayuri pouted.

"Don't act like a child," Zuko scolded her, "you're a teenager aren't you?" Sayuri nodded, "Then act like one."

"Who're you? My father?" Sayuri asked pointedly as she drank the last of her tea.

Sayuri got up from the table and headed toward the cash register.

"So I saw your fight with Jet earlier," Sayuri said as she paid her bill.

"You did?" Zuko asked, not looking up from the register.

"Yep," Sayuri said, "You're pretty skilled with swords, aren't you?" the firebender nodded, "Maybe you could give me a few pointers one day."

"Maybe," Zuko said as he handed Sayuri her change. "But don't hold your breath. I don't have alot of free-time lately."

"Alright then," Sayuri smiled as she left.

XXX

"So, Sayuri," Lea said as she watched two toddlers playing with a set of builing blocks. "A little birdie told me that you were chatting with that waiter boy at the tea shop a few blocks from here."

"Yeah, Lea. What's your point. We're just friends, nothing more." Sayuri said.

"My point is that he's cute. You should date him." Lea said.

"Sorry, but I don't think he's the right one for me." Sayuri chuckled, "And besides that, i don't think that he's interested in me. There are girls that are tons more prettier than I am."

"But if you don't take a chance, you'll never know if he was the right one!" Lea exlaimed loudly.

"Okay fine," Sayuri sighed. I'll go back to the shop tonite, okay?"

"You have to tell me how it goes, okay?

"Sure thing, Lea."