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Zuko woke up and rolled lazily from his bed. He got up and walked slowly to his dresser. He did not want to get up today. He felt drained and he hoped a nice breakfast would help that. He decided to take his time since he didn't have any plans until after lunch. He combed his hair back it put it into a bun. Slowly, he walked over to his armoire and pulled a normal Fire Nation outfit. After he put his boots on he made his way to the dinning room.

He looked at the food once and realized he wasn't hungry. Without bother to say a word to anyone he went in one of the dinning room and out the other. Great. He had absolutely nothing to do. He was still tired, but not tired enough. Plus he didn't want to go back to sleep because he had just got dressed. So, Zuko decided he'd go out to the town and walk around. He wasn't going to see Mai, so he wouldn't be getting into any trouble, right?

Katara woke up a couple hours after he did. She had plenty of energy. She noticed she slept a lot better on these beds than the ones at home. She got up and grabbed an outfit before going into her bathroom.

This was her first time really seeing it. She's seem some of it when the door was open, but she had always used the one near the dinning room. Her bathroom was spectacular compared to that one. She had a shower in the corner and to the right side of the shower was her bathtub. It was large and deep. She absolutely loved it. On the wall in front of the left side of the bathtub was a mirror covered wall with counters from corner to corner and two counter sinks. She placed her clothes on a small side table that was next to the tub and ran her water.

She grabbed a brush from one of the drawers and brushed through her hair. She turned in the mirror to see just how long it was. And it was long. She wanted to cut it, but at the same time she didn't. Her mother had cut her own hair before, but that was just a trim. Katara hoped she wouldn't have to really get her hair cut since it was water tribe hair and she would be living in the Fire Nation now.

Katara removed her shirt and wrappings. She decided that she would trade from her wrappings to actual bra's. She turned and looked at the one she had gotten yesterday. It was maroon with black lace trimmings. The under ware matched. At least the Fire Nation had cute things. She thought. She removed the rest of her clothes and stepped into her bath.

The water perfect. Steam floated around the tub. Katara reached over and grabbed a bottle labelled bath bubbles and she added some to her water. They gave off a sent she had never smelled before. It was beautiful though. The sent was pure and delicate.

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Once she was done she changed into her new clothes. The bra fit perfectly and she loved her new robe. It was a simple black, but it had baby blue trimming and a even lighter blue design that ran thin, swirly lines through out the robe. She looked at her hair had trouble deciding rather to wear it down or up. It it was down, it would bother her so, she decided to put it up in a normal pony tail. She put it up with a light blue ribbon to match the trimming on the robe.

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By the time she was finally done it was only about an hour until lunch. Katara felt great. She had soaked in the water and the sent seemed to calm her. She decided to walk around the Palace.

Zuko came back about a couple minutes before lunch. He walked slowly to the dinning room.

"Miss Katara," A servant called. "Lunch is prepared." He told her. "May I escort you?"

"Sure." All this 'Miss Katara' and proper-ness was going to need some getting used to.

Lunch was a nice Beef Negimaki. As usual it was quick and silent.

After lunch Zuko and Katara met up.

"You ready to see the library?" Zuko asked.

"Mmhm." Katara nodded. She looked up at him. For some reason today he was looking really, really nice.

Zuko led her to library and Katara's jaw almost dropped when she saw the amount of books. It was row after row. Column after column of books.

"Where do I start?" Katara asked herself out loud.

"Well, what do you want to know?" Zuko asked putting his hands behind his back.

"Everything I don't." Katara decided to get a few books about the Fire Nation. She got one about the cuisine, one about the flowers, another she about the herbs, and one about the history. She stacked them on top of one another on a table and continued looking around. Zuko took a seat on the table and opened on of the books.

After a few minuets Katara came back with about five more books.

"You really like to read, don't you?" Zuko asked looking up at her.

"Well, at home all there really is to do go penguin sledding or water bending. So I picked up on reading, but I've already read most of the books there." She said setting her books down.

"Well, there's plenty to read here." He said slightly picking up the book from his lap. Katara nodded and pulled a book off the top of her stack and opened it, sitting down in a chair.

Again, silence came over the two teens.

"Prince Zuko," A servant called entering the library. "What flavor cake would you like at the ceremony?" He asked bowing on one knee.

"I don't care as long as it's not chocolate, carrot, or cheese."

"Yes, sir." He said getting up, bowing one last time, and leaving. Katara looked up at him with a questioning look.

"It's not the wedding," He said before looking back down at his book. "So, uh. How do you like it here?" He asked looking towards her.

"It's fine. Hotter than I'm used to, but it's very beautiful."

"Beatiful? Ha! Than you must not have seen the lower towns."

"What do you mean?"

"The war." Katrara nodded, understanding.

"So um...when is..the....uh." Katara couldn't say the word.

"I don't know the exact date yet. They haven't been telling me anything." Zuko said turning a page.

"Oh....so what ceramony was he asking about? If you don't mind me...asking."

"My seventeenth birthday is like a couple weeks from now."

"Oh." Katara said, interested.

"And the one person I wanted to spend it with I can't see anymore." He said sighing and closing the book.

"Why?" Katara asked joining him on top of the table.

"My...beacuse of this arrangement..I can't see my girlfriend anymore..well I guess ex now."

"Oh," Katara sighed out looking down.

"It's not your fault," He said giving her a weak smile. "She wasn't much of a girlfriend anyways," Now that he thought of it, she wasn't.

"Zuko!" She scolded.

"Well, she wasn't the nicest person and she was dull."

"Then why did you stay with her?"

"Well," he started leaning back, putting his arms behind him to prop himself up. "I don't know." He admitted. Katara looked at him. His hair was put up perfectly, his sleeves were cut short and she saw how muscular his arms were. His face was freshly shaved and his eyes seemed to glow. She bit her lip and continued looking at him. "Why are you starting at me like that?" Zuko asked.

"Hm? I wasn't staring." Katara said, snapping out of her "trance".

"Yeah, okay." He said sarcastically looking her in the eyes. She had beautiful deep blue eyes and he inched closer to her. She didn't pull back or push forward. He lowered his left arm to his elbow and he wrapped the lower part of his arm around her and got a little closer. Just before they were close enough Katara moved her arm, her elbow hitting the stack of books causing them to tip over and tumble onto the floor.

Zuko chuckled and got up to help her with the books.

He carried six of them and while she carried the other three. He guided her to her room and helped her put them up.

"Thanks." She said looking up at him.

"Yeah." He smiled.

"Are you going to dinner?" She asked.

"Nah." He said. He had plenty of the beef Negimaki from lunch.

"Oh, well, thanks again." She said standing on her tipy toes and kissing him on the cheek. He smiled and nodded before turning to leave for dinner.

:] The sent was vanilla :] An aphrodisiac :p Beef Negimaki is a Japanese meal of broiled strips of beef marinated in teriyaki sauce and rolled with scallions. :D mm yummy.

Ha! I had 10 "parahgraps" with no dialoge!

Please please please please PLEASE review!

Mmm...what should happen in the next chapter?

Oh, btw this is like the shortest chapter. Sorry :/