Disclaimer: I do not own anything. Everything, except plot and my own original characters, belongs to Nickelodeon, Mike, and Bryan. How ever before reading my story, you might want to read Silk by Musicbender. This is a sequel to that story.
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She stood there in the hallway staring at the portrait. He looked so proud and sophisticated. He wore the finest red and gold robes and his hair was up in a top knot. How she missed her old her friend. She wanted his words of wisdom, his laughter, and talk about tea. She was lost in daydream full of snow, laughter, and snow fight. A time were she felt like nobody could hurt her.
"Nami, honey, are you okay," he said gently.
Ever since their little fight, he had acted strange. He walked her to her room, tucked her in bed, kissed her forehead, and whispered goodnight. She was left in the room confused and shocked. She bought he would have been furious at her for attacking him in his own home. She thought he would have banished her or worse, but he didn't. He did the complete opposite. He was being nice to her, and it put her in an awkward position.
She simply nodded and turned back to continue looking at the portrait.
Seeing how concentrated she was on the painting, he told her, "That is General Iroh. He was my uncle."
"I know who he is," she said avoiding eye contact.
"Of course you do." He moved his stare from her face to the portrait. "He was kind, loving..."
She cut him off and continued, "Wise, generous, brave, strong, funny, friendly, helpful, honest, trustworthy, and my best friend." She sighed. "I miss him so much."
"You really did know him," he said surprised.
"Yes, he was my teacher. He thought me everything I know. Everything I can do, I owe to him."
"He taught you?"
"Yeah. He also insisted that I called him grandfather," she said shrugging her shoulders.
He felt betrayed and hurt. His own uncle. The uncle that was more than an uncle to him. He had known all this time and he didn't tell him. He looked up at the portrait of the old man and glared at it.
"The first time Iroh said I could call him grandfather, I was six. I had asked him if he was my real grandfather, he responded, 'Kind of.' I never did figure out if he was my grandfather or not. It would have been an honor though."
"Oh. Later this evening you and your family will go out on the town. I'll have my wife's ow you around," he commanded and left the hallway.
"One minute he's nice. The next thing you know he's becomes the Fire Lord he is. What's his problem," she said under her breathe.
Katara sat on the bed remembering the last time she was on this bed. It was in the evening. The sun shared the sky with the moon. He was sitting down. His toes touching the water of the pond. His knees to his chest. There was tears in his eyes. She came up from behind him. She kneeled down behind him and rested her hand on his shoulder. "Zuko what's wrong?"
He turned back to meet her blue eyes and said, "What can I do for you to stay here with me?"
She hugged him and ran her fingers threw his hair. "I love you so much and you know that, Zuko."
"Then stay here and marry me. I don't want to marry Mai. I want to marry you," he said holding back tears.
"You know why I can't marry you Zuko. The sages forbid our marriage. They said you had to marry a Fire Nation citizen," she said tears beginning to stream down her cheek."
He leaned in and kissed her. His tongue dance with hers. He leaned in closer making her lean back until she left back to the ground. His body followed hers. He began to peck her neck. Then he stopped he looked around him. "We should go."
She pulled her body up and said , "Oh...yeah...of course."
He lifted her up in his arms and walked towards the palace. She rested her head on his chest. She inhaled the smell of smoke were he had been practicing his firebending. He took her in to her room and laid her in bed and made love to her. The next day he awakened to see a note were she had slept, saying, "If I could have just one wish, I would wish that I could wake up to the sound of your breath on my neck, the warmth of your lips on my lips, the touch of your fingers on my skin, and the feel of your heart beating with mine. Just know that I could never find that feeling with anyone other than you Zuko."
He folded the paper, held it close to his heart, and began to cry.
She sat on the edge of the bed stroking the sheets of the bed. She though to herself, "Why would he give me this room? Out of all the room in the place, he gave me this one. Does he want me to remember? Does he want me to know he still loves me?"
He stormed in to the room and yelled, "Katara!"
She jumped up from the bed and turned to see him marching towards her. He grabbed her wrists and slammed her back to the wall.
"Why didn't you tell me Nami is my daughter?!"
Katara felt her heart fall to her stomach. "Who told you," she murmured.
"Oh my..." He released her wrists, walked away from her, then walked back towards her. "Who else knew Nami was mine?"
Seeing the anger in his eyes, she didn't reply. He threw a flame out the window and shouted, "Tell me NOW!"
Startled by the flame, she quickly replied, "Sokka, Suki, Toph, and... Iroh."
"So basically all of our friends," he said starting to calm down.
She nodded.
"My uncle. The man that I saw as my father, knew and didn't tell me," he said coldly.
"It wasn't his fault, Zuko! I made him promise not to tell you," she yelled at him.
But trying to defend Iroh's honor, only added fuel to the fire.
"You made him promise," he shouted.
"Yes. If your going to be mad at somebody, be made at me!"
"I am mad at you! How could you do this to me? Keep a me away from her. You know how much I love you. We both know this is what I wanted. Your selfish Katara!"
"Funny that's what Iroh called me. How did you find out," she said staring at the ground.
"Hmmm, well first she attacked me. Then she lite her hands on fire," he said sarcastically.
Sokka, Suki, Toph, Jet, Yisu, Mai, and all the children were outside waiting for the carriages to come and take them to the city.
"Man this is gonna be great," Kane said as he put his arm around Mayumi's waist.
"Yeah. I've never been to the city," Mayumi said blushing as Kane wrapped his arm around her waist.
"Sokka, tell your son to keep his arms away from my daughter," Jet commanded.
"Jet. Behave. Don't you remember when we were there age," Yisu said kissing his cheek.
"Yeah. That's why I want him away from her. I was thinking about some inappropriate things when I held you like that," he said teasing her.
"Okay I'll tell him when you tell your son to be nice to my daughter," Sokka said looking at Kai.
"Fair enough," Jet agreed.
The carriages arrived. "Ooooo, I call the big one," Toph said.
"Toph the big one should go to the children," Suki explained.
"You're right. Kids who wants to go in the big one." All of the children raised their hands. "Well none of you are getting it," she teased.
Suki put her hands on her hips and said, "Toph."
"Alright you guys can ride with me."
"Yay, we get to ride with Aunt Toph," the children said happily.
"Actually you both are wrong," Mai said. "That carriage is for the Fire Nation's Royal Family."
Offended Toph said, "I'm so sorry you royal highness. I just thought the children should get the carriage cuz let see there is ...eight kids and six adults. The kids overrule the adults."
"You mean nine children," Mai snapped.
"That's it you uptight..."
Suki grabbed Toph's arm and pulled her away before she said or did something she would regret.
"What's her problem,"Toph said.
"I don't know but I want to beat her as much as you do," Suki answered.
"That's why I like you Your Majesty," she said curtsying before her.
Suki gave her a gentle push, "Shut up."
Everybody got in to the carriage except Nami. Nami stood looking at the palace.
"Nami are you coming," Momoru asked
"You guys go, I'm going to stay with my mom."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah. Go have fun."
"Okay."
She walked to the palace hearing the carriages take off. She looked for her mother all over the palace but couldn't find her. Then she heard screams coming from one side of the castle. She recognized her mothers voice. She ran towards the direction of the yelling. Reaching the room she heard, "You are not taking her away from me Zuko!"
"I have missed sixteen years of her life, Katara, I'm not going to missing anymore! I am her father doesn't that count for something!"
"Father," Nami questioned.
Katara eyes widened at the sight of Nami at the entrance of the door.
Author's Note: *dramatic music* How will Nami react to knowing the truth about her father? Will she accept it or not? I don't know. You're just gonna have to wait to find out in the next chapter. Please Review!
