Chapter 3

"Zuko?" Katara's eyes grew. He was the least person she was expecting to see.

"First of all, I'm not Suki." Zuko crossed his arms. "Second, if you don't want to come, you tell them. And Lastly, I want you to tell me why."

Katara came to her senses, "What? You mean... I called you?"

"Obviously." Zuko answered.

Katara put a hand on her forehead. "But I called Suki." she kept insisting.

Zuko glared at her, "I don't know how but you called me and thought I was Suki."

"Yeah...I guess so.." Katara's voice was shaking.

"What's is wrong with you?!" Zuko hissed and raised his hand.

At a moment Katara, thought Zuko would've hit her, but instead put his hand over her forehead.

"What are you doing?" Katara backed away, trembling.

"I'm trying to check if you're sick. Do I still have to explain that?" Zuko said.

Katara looked away, "You don't have to do that, I'm not sick!"

"Then why are you acting like that?" Zuko asked.

Katara stared into his eyes, unable to answer him, even she can't explain why, but being with him right now made her feel really uncomfortable. But she realized she can't continue their conversation like that on her doorway. As she gulped away her hesitations, she managed to speak the words, "Do you want to come inside?"

"No." Zuko was straight.

Katara was surprised, she looked into his amber eyes.

Zuko looked away, "It won't do any good if people see us at this time of night."

Katara blushed, wondered if he was really concerned or he was just thinking about his status. "Oh, I guess you're right."

"Are you sure you're okay?" Zuko asked softly, ruining his aggressive look he showed when he came.

"Yes, yeah." Katara smiled as she hid half of her body with the door.

"That's good then." Zuko turned and walked away, "I'm going now. Have a good night."

Katara felt she had to do something, she had to say something... but she didn't know what.

"Wait! Zuko, Don't tell them about this." Katara said.

"What?" He stopped.

She tried to hide her smile, "Because I decided to go."

Zuko smirked, then left silently.

She still felt uncomfortable, but she knew had to fix that, their co-workers, and on top of that, friends.

Zuko parked his black Cadillac Escalade beside a F350 Superduty Pickup Truck. Zuko was surprised to see the pick up truck and wondered if the car belonged to any of his friends. He then turned around and saw Aang with Zach Eisen, his manager arguing outside of the coffee shop. Azula and Ty Lee were just on the next table. He came to them first so not to disturb Aang and his manager.

"What's going on?" Zuko asked Azula but looking at Aang.

Azula smirked, "Zack won't let Aang because he's got tons of work to do."

Zuko then looked at her, "But we all have a lot to do."

Azula just shrugged.

Ty Lee smiled, "Even I had problems convincing my manager. But I promised Olivia that I'd bring her a souvenir!"

"How did your manager go, Zuzu?" Azula asked as she curled her hair.

Zuko took a seat, "First, Dante didn't want me to go. But then he remembered that I'll be doing a photo shoot for a whole week next week so he let me have my vacation."

Ty Lee sipped her coffee.

"So where are the others?" Zuko asked, looked at Ty Lee, then Azula.

"Haru's over there." Azula pointed to her left.

Zuko looked at where she was pointing, a bench where Haru sat and all their bags beside him.

"And Suki and Toph are still inside. They said they want to eat during the trip.

"Where are your bags?" Ty Lee asked.

Inside the car." Zuko said.

"YES!" Aang jumped. "That's great! Thank you!!!!"

His manager sighed then he bid all of them good bye.

Toph and Suki finally went out, some people asking them for their autographs.

"Wow, is Zack really gone?" Suki asked.

"Yeah. He really let me."Aang said excitedly. Then all the fans who asked Toph and Suki's autographs ran towards Aang.

"Is that Katara?" Ty Lee's head directed to the slowing cab.

It stopped in front of them. Katara went out and tried pulling her bags out.

Aang stopped minding the fans and ran towards Katara to help her with her but the poor guy couldn't handle the huge luggage.

Toph and Suki laughed. Zuko sighed and gave Aang a hand.

"Uh, thanks, guys." Katara blushed.

Haru walked towards them, "So. Are we all here?"

Ty Lee answered first, "Nope. We're still waiting for Sokka, Mai, Jet and Uncle Iroh." he wasn't really her uncle nor anybody's, but they just called him uncle anyway.

"Oh." Zuko grabbed their attention, "We're gonna drop by to Iroh after the rest gets here."

"Woah. Zuko, is that the car you were talking about, the gift from your birthday?" Sokka came, carrying his bag.

"You walked here?" Toph couldn't believe that Sokka walked to get there.

"Duh, how does it look like." Sokka said, then waited for Zuko's response.

"Uh, yeah. My..... dad gave it to me for my 18th birthday." His words becoming weak.

"It's them!" a fan girl screamed.

"Yes. It really is!!!" another girl said.

Aang, feeling confident with his fans, moved forward and opened his arms, sort of a warm welcome for them. The two girls passed the 14 year old kid and ran straight to Zuko.

"Zuko please, let me have your autograph!" fangirl#1 took a pen and a paper out.

Zuko smiled and asked her if she wanted to put any messages on it.

Ty Lee, Suki, and Sokka giggled. Toph almost fell from her seat, laughing. Aang was actually ignored!

Fangirl#2 took her camera out, "Let me take a picture of you and Katara!"

Zuko stopped writing; Katara blushed, remembering the website she had seen last night. "What?"

Fangirl#1 pulled Katara and let her stand beside Zuko. Fangirl#2, who held the camera, asked them to get a little closer. Katara's eyes were wide open, and Zuko remained on his place. But prompted to put a hand on Katara's shoulder. Katara blushed. Zuko gave a shy smile. The fan girls screamed and took their picture. Toph and Suki eyed each other. Then the fan girls left and both screamed from afar, "We love Zuta--"

A car screeched, overpowering the fan girls' shouts and screams.

"Wha--?" Zuko tilted his head. He didn't quite hear.

Katara remained silent. Thank goodness he didn't hear!

A Chevrolet camaro stopped in front of them, Mai came out with a certain look that meant 'I woke up on the wrong side of the bed so don't bother me'... or something like that. Her driver took her luggage out. Then the car drove off.

"Hey." Mai said, with her usual impassive voice.

They all looked at Mai.

"What happened to you?" Zuko asked.

"Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?" Aang chuckled, but stopped when he saw everyone looked at him.

"Sorry." Aang slumped his shoulders dejectedly.

Mai crossed her arms, looked away and sighed, "It doesn't really matter."

"Lighten up, girl friend!" Ty Lee stood up, "we're having out vacation and we should all have fun!"

"Yeah, I guess Ty Lee's right." the silent Katara said.

"While Jet's still not here, I want to talk about who's car we're riding." Sokka said.

"I brought my car." Zuko used his thumb to point his Cadillac.

The girls showed interest.

"And mine's the one next to it." Haru said happily.

Jaws dropped, eyes wide open, except for Zuko and Mai, all said in unison, "a pick-up truck?"

"What's that supposed to mean?" Haru raised an eye brow. "At least its a Ford!"

Sokka thought for a while, "Well, the girls could split into two."

Azula, who didn't want to ride in a pick-up truck stood beside Zuko, "I don't know about you but I'm riding Zuzu's car."

"Me too!" jumped Ty Lee. Then she pulled Mai with her, "come on, Mai."

Zuko looked at Azula, to Ty, then to Mai. Then glanced at Katara. He caught those sapphire eyes looking at him, he tried to read her thoughts, but can't think of anything she might have been saying.

Katara looked at Suki and Toph who decided to ride with Haru. In Katara's mind, she was a bit happy not to ride on the same car with Zuko.

While they continued talking about who's going to sit where, Jet arrived with a cab. He was told to sit in Haru's car along with Aang, Toph, Suki, Katara, Sokka, and Haru himself. They all took their things and put them in the backs of the cars. Mai's huge luggage didn't fit inside Zuko's car so she placed it on Haru's pick-up. Jet was going to help her but she just gave him a grunt and tried lifting her bag. Zuko saw her and went to help. As soon as the bag was placed, Mai left without a word. Then they left.

Sokka and Suki sat on the passenger's seat, even behind the cameras they share a special bond. Jet, Aang, Katara and Toph tried to breath at the back of the car. Haru apologized that they had to open the windows because the air-conditioning didn't work.

"Argh! I wish I was in Zuko's car right now." Toph cried.

They looked at Zuko's car who drove faster than them. Zuko was driving and beside him was Azula, leaving Mai and Ty Lee at the back.

They arrived. Zuko was the only one who went outside and knocked on the gate.

Sokka went out of the car, "Where's the door bell?"

"He's just inside waiting." Zuko answered. A guard opened the gate. From inside the car, they can see Iroh's beautiful estate.

"Wow." Everyone in Haru's car said.

"Wow, I didn't know this man, owns something like this." Sokka said.

"Sokka." Zuko eyed him, dismayed, "that's my house."

"What?!" They all reacted, their mistake, Zuko's beautiful estate.

"Then why is he here? Why didn't you bring him with us earlier?" Sokka asked.

Iroh came out, with a bag in each hand, "It does not matter!" he smiled and gave the bags to Zuko which he slid into the back of Haru's pick-up.

'What a strange man' Sokka thought. Azula came out of the car and went at the back with the girls, then Iroh sat on passenger's seat.

"He didn't ask for his manager's permission yet so, he didn't want to be seen." Zuko whispered to Sokka.

Sokka was surprised.

"Hurry!" Ty Lee said excitedly.

"Coming." Zuko said.

Author's Note:

alas! I have finished making this chapter...

thank you for the reviews! I really appreciate it! because of my first reviews I couldn't wait to start another chapter! I also appreciate my readers... and those who just scanned the first chapter but didn't read the second one, (it's ok T.T) I still thank you for reading it... :)

Any way, I am a 'zutara' fan... but i'm not sure if i will make this a zutara fic... =P But maybe I will...or will not? who knows?

Oh yeah, their managers are their voice actors, just in case some does not know...

deathangel acey waved, "Bye!"