I thought about it. Hesitated for a bit ,and even argued with myself. Let Zuko help me? That's basically me telling him oh I forgive you for everything you've done let's be friends. It's been a couple of days since the offer, and Aang has been practicing with his mentors (including me) non- stop. Now, I think he's training with Toph and Haru again. Sokka as well as The Duke are also watching the practice. I swear, it's like the universe is telling me to go right this second and get Zuko to show me his bending forms and techniques. Well you know what universe? No, I will not give in to that hotheaded, annoying prince.

Okay. I'll do it. Only because there is nothing else for me to do, and I bet it's the same situation for him to. But how do I come about this? "Zuko come show me what you got!" No that sounds dumb. "Come and teach me." Oh spirits not that one in a million avatar's lifetimes. This is going to be harder than I thought but I think I've got something.

I pass Appa and he groans at me. "Not quite lunch time yet." Turning a few halls and walking up the stairs I peek into Zuko's room. Is he sleeping? Yes! It's a sign, I shouldn't be asking for tips from him. As I'm turning out he calls my name.

"Katara?"

Ugh. I walk into the room and lean against the wall. With one two fingers I rub one of my temples. "Look, I've been thinking about the offer, and I guess there's not much harm in trying to find a new way to improve my bending or whatever you want to call it."

He sits up and scratches his head absorbing what I had said. "Oh, well when do you want to start?"

I shrug. "Well everyone else is training and what not so now would be alright."

He nods and stands up. We walk out of the room through the silent halls of the temple. I hope I'm not going to regret this. When we reach the bottom of the stairs Zuko trips on the last one, and I burst into laughter and immediately cover my mouth.

"Yeah haha." He continues walking towards the fountain and I snicker behind him.

When we reach the fountain we are both silent for a moment wondering how we will work this out. Zuko turns to me and frowns.

"What are you making that face for?" I question him.

"I'm not making a face, this is just how I always look." He retorts back.

"Hm well the facial expression doesn't look very pleasant."

"I'm not trying to please anyone right now. Can we just start?"

Sighing I nod and roll my hand telling him to proceed.

"Now, stand back I don't want to have to burn someone else." I take a step back and find myself taking a seat on the fountains ledge.

Zuko takes a deep breathe and begins to firebend. He takes a step forward with his left foot and it crosses his leg crosses over his right. While his right arm is extended straight, his left is pulled back to his ear, and his hand bawled into a fist similar to his right. The fire is warm, but not too hot. I believe firebenders can control the heat similar to how waterbenders can control the temperatures and physical states of water. It's a bright orange but I can see a light colored red swirl around the outsides of the flames. It comes out both of his fist and during this time I realize something. Fire just isn't destruction. It's life, warmth, and light. My entire life I've only seen it as that. Destruction. But as he continues to cross leg over leg, arm over arm, turning back and forth, shooting these amazing and beautiful flames I am starting to see the other side to fire. Although water and fire are and will always will be natural opposites they are somewhat similar.

He finishes his bending with one final blast, then breathes again. Zuko turns to me, but I'm still in awe of what I've just learned. I'm speechless.

"So did you get anything out of that?"

"Feh. Actually, yes. I did. While I noticed some similarities between our bending forms, I noticed something about firebending in general. It's.. not just destruction. It's life, and light, and warmth. My whole life I hated the element. I only saw it as something that hurt people and ruined things, but when it's used like this.. what you just showed me.. it's actually…" I paused then finish. "No, it is beautiful."

His golden eyes widen, and his mouth is faintly but noticeably open. Zuko's head turns to his left I can no longer see those eyes but I know I saw a smile on his face.

"Well, I'm glad. While Aang and I were at the Sun Warrior Civilization, I realized the same thing. And so did Aang. He adds that last part quickly.

A smile dances on my lips. "So what now? Should I show you some of my bending?"

"I guess it would be appropriate." He shrugs.

I walk to the side of the fountain and bend the water. I start with my left hand just below my right, as if I was showing someone how tall something was. Making a pushing movement the water in the fountain sways backwords, then I pull it forwards and a fair amount comes to me. I whip the water around me and allow it to splash on the edge on the temple. Shooting my arms behind me, I make a loop around my shoulders and bring both arms as high as I can and about 20 icicles plant their way into the ground. I turn back to Zuko and he's still watching me closely before he stands up.

"Not bad. I'm trying to think of what connections I can make between fire and water. Similar movements, anything really."

I place my hand on my chin and think about the things I observed while he was bending. "Not sure if this would help the situation but we can both control the temperature of our elements. You can make it as hot as you want and I can freeze, and even boil the water."

He's nodding his head now. "That's a good point. What else, what else."

I'm thinking now to, I really want some new moves, I hope we can come up with something.

"Come here." He motions for me to come over, so without hesitation this time (shockingly) I do.

"Um is it okay if I.." He shifts uncomfortably and rubs behind his neck. I look to him with an eyebrow raised. Oh I see why he's struggling to ask this with the predicament and all.

"Yeah uh sure." This is most likely just as awkward for him as it is for me.

I turn so my back is facing him. What he was so uncomfortable asking was if he could touch my arms and possibly my hands so he could show me how I couldn't possibly bend in another way, similar to a firebender.

With his left hand he grabs hold of my left wrist and pulls it gently so it's over my chest. My arm is slightly bent and then he begins on my right arm, and with his right arm he moves mine so its straight out with my hand facing outwards.

"Now, push your arms at the same time towards the water and when you pull it back do what I'm about to show you."

He does the moves which he first shows me then begins the new ones. He brings both hands up and over from the position in which they first were. Then Zuko shifts his hands downwards like they were going down a hill and pushed them forward. It was the last part that stood out, it was the firebending incorporation. At this point his arms and hands were parallel to each other.

"Ok, I'm ready to try it now." I say nodding my head once. I really like this, it's edgy , besides people of the watertribe are able to adapt to change easily, and this was definitely a change.

I start bending, it feels strange at first but I get the hang of it after a second. I'm at downwards part of the move and I quickly shoot my arms out forward in front of me and the water follows. In the middle of the move when I'm bending at the top, I make the water split so that when I'm finished bending water it comes from the top and bottom parts of my hands striking more powerful, and possibly more than one opponent.

I turn back to Zuko after I finish with one of the biggest smiles I've had in a while. "Did you see that! That was amazing! He smiling to, pleased with himself noting the fact that his bending form actually worked, or maybe he's smiling because I am? Either way, I noticed how dorky I must look and sound so my smile disappears.

"Thanks. That really was something."

"So that's all I'm going to get is a thanks?"

"For now, yes."

Wow, this chapter was a bit difficult for me to write. It was kind of hard to find things that water and firebenders had in common and such. Also I wanted to keep Katara and Zuko in character as much as I could, but I also need to show their relationship progress so it would mean a lot if you could leave some feedback on how I'm doing with the dialogue, and characters, and anything else really. Once again thanks a bunch for all the follows and favorites I'm getting on this story. It's nice to see that everyone is enjoying it! Thanks for reading, next chapter coming up soon.