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"Prince Zuko," Ozai knocked. Zuko was still sleeping. "Zuko," Ozai opened his door and grinned when he saw his boy. He was getting older and so much more mature and yet, he still looked like such a kid in Ozai's eyes. "Zuko, boy, get up." Ozai growling startling the young prince. Zuko looked over to his father. Ozai stood holding a box in his hands. Zuko rubbed his eyes and sat up.

"Hm?" Zuko grunted out.

"Katara's parents leave today." Zuko nodded. "Your mother and I think that you should give her this after...or when ever you're ready." Ozai extended his arms out towards Zuko. Zuko crawled over to the edge of his bed and grabbed the box. "Careful," Ozai warned. Zuko glanced up at him before opening the box wooden box. The box was a beautiful, dark wood. Carved in gold were two dragons that were playing book-ends with a fire colored jewel that had a blue tint. But, the most beautiful part of the box was what was held inside. A blue jewel. Carved in this was a dragon the wrapped around it. Under the dragon were bellowing waves. The dragon breathed out five fire blasts. Four surrounding the fifth one. The fifth one was in the shape of a heart. 1 :]

Ozai sat next to Zuko and held the jewel. "This magnificant piece of art has been passed through our generation, boy. Do you know what this is?" Ozai asked.

"A blue jewel." Zuko stated out.

Ozai chuckled and shook his head. "Yes, maybe, but it's so much more than that. This is blue amber. There is also a very important story behind this." Ozai paused, making sure Zuko was listening. "Your great-grandfather, Sozin, once traveled to the Earth Kingdom. In Ba Sing Se he had meetings with the king and his noblemen and there he fell in love with one of the noble women. She would never even give him the time of day, but he was patient. He searched and searched for something that he knew would catch her eye. One day he saw this in a store. This blue amber is a rare, rare gem only found only in the Dominican Republic of the Earth Kingdom's second lower island. He gave this to her and they fell in love. He told her that the waves represented the oceans he crossed to get to her and the dragon was telling the lady across the seas that his heart burned for her. Azulan gave this Ilah and I gave this to your mother. Now I'm passing it down to you for you to give to Katara." Ozai said slipping the large gem into Zuko's hands.

Zuko looked at it and turned it towards the light for a better look. When he did he was taken back. It had changed from blue to a firey color.

"Whoa," He said taking it back into his lap.

"Now it's time for you to have your own story behind this heirloom." Ozai said standing and leaving.

The blue coloring stood for Katara's heritage and the red/orange color that shown when it was held up to the light stood for Zuko's heritage. The water and dragon stood for their symbols and the heart was for their love.

Zuko got up and dressed in his robes. Today was a just a day he would spend with his father learning about what it takes it to be a successful fire lord and being tested on the past ones.

On a usual day he would go straight for Ozai's courters, but he had other things on his mind. Other people to be exact. He went towards Katara's room

Just like the day before she was still sleeping. Today she was on her back with the sheets lightly covering her her right arm above her head. He smirked and crawled up onto her bed. He hovered over her and her eyes opened slowly as she smiled. He smiled back and leaned down to kiss her.

"Good morning." He greeted with a smile.

"Morning." She mumbled as she stretched. He leaned down and kissed her again, but this time with much more passion. After a while he moved from her lips to her neck. She let him do as he pleased while she rubbed his arm. She loved feeling his rock hard muscled underneath his skin. "Today my family leaves, don't they?" She asked without thinking. He pulled away from her and gazed into her eyes. They were fogged with on-coming tears.

"Oh, Katara. We're not going to keep you from them. They'll be here for any and every special occasion."

"Only special occasions?" She tried hard not to let a single tear slip down her cheeks.

"We can't keep your father from his duties or his people. They belong in the South Pole. We can't ship them back in forth, babe. I'm sorry." She clinched her teeth and clamped her eyes shut. She turned onto her side and covered her face with her hands. He laid down behind her and hugged her. He knew that she didn't want him seeing her cry. He didn't know why, but he didn't mind. He didn't want seeing her cry about anything. "It's okay," He whispered. "You can spend all today with them."

"No," She sniffed, rolling onto her stomach and propping herself up with her elbows. "The more time I spend with them, the more I'll miss them." She said leaning into him.

Katara fell back asleep not long after and Zuko woke her up for breakfast.

The whole day Katara tried to avoid her family and friends. She didn't want to think about them leaving. She had looked around for Zuko, but she couldn't find him anywhere. After lunch she ran into her mother.

"Katara, dear, I've been looking for you everywhere." Kay called.

"Mom,"

"Katara, what's wrong?" Kya asked seeing Katara's hazed eyes.

"I don't want you to go." Katara said looking up at her mother.

"Katara, Maria is due any day now. I must get back for her. I don't want to leave you either, but this not where I'm supposed to be. I was planning on having the whole day with you, but I guess you planned differently."

"The more time I spend with you the more I'm going to miss you and it's hard enough." Katara whined with tears streaming down her cheeks.

"Oh, Katara," Kya pulled her daughter close to her. "I'm going to miss you, too. Our ship is about leave. At least say good-bye to your father and brother. The others will understand." Kya guided Katara to the rest of their family.

Katara said her good-byes with hugs and kisses and tears while the royals merely shook hands and waved. Zuko wrapped his arm around Katara's waist while she watched the ship pull back from the dock.

"Can we go?" She asked. Zuko nodded and took her to her room. She changed into light pants and shirt that was low cut and almost too small, but she didn't care. She got onto her bed and sat in the middle of it. Zuko laid beside her using his right elbow to keep himself up. Zuko rubbed her back while she cried.

"Would you like for me to get you anything?" He asked.

"No," She mumbled.

"Kay, I'll be right back." He said getting up. She huffed at him and scooted back so she could lean against her headboard and pull the covers over her.

He came back with a bowl filled with white stuff and two spoons. "Here," He said handing her the bowl so he could get comfortable next to her under the covers.

"What's this?" She asked.

"It's vanilla ice cream." He told her dipping his spoon into it.

"It smells like the bath soup I have."

"Mhm." He hummed. "Taste it." He said scooping out another bite. She did what he did. It tasted sweet and for some reason calmed her and distracted her from the thoughts of her family.

"This is good." She told him. He nodded in agreement.

"We use the scent as a remedy for a fever, but the cream always makes me feel better." About half way through the bowl full Zuko remembered. "Oh!" He jumped up leaving the spoon in the bowl and rushing out the door. He rushed to his room and grabbed the box that had been forgotten on his bed.

Once he got back to her room and crawled back into his spot. "I want you to have this." They traded. Katara slowly opened the box and gasped when she saw what was inside.

"Oh wow." She said gazing into the box.

"That's blue amber. Um... Sozin gave it to his wife and Azulan gave it to Ilah, my father gave it my mother and now I'm giving it to you." Zuko said wrapping his around around her pulling her close.

"Thank you, Zuko." She said looking over at him and placing a small kiss on his lips.

Zuko smiled and placed the bowl on her dresser. She handed him the box and he put it beside the bowl. She motioned for him to come back to her. He grinned and like before he hovered over her. Again he leaned down to kiss her. She wrapped her arms around his neck lightly and pulled him closer. He parted her lips with his tongue asking permission. Without any hesitation she kissed him back.

She ran her hands up and down his back and stomach. She loved the heat that came off him. It seemed to warm past her skin and into her soul. She let out a moan when began to kiss her even deeper and pressed his body against hers.

Then thought began to race through her head. He had been with someone else before her. She wasn't the only girl he knew. How far had he gone?

"How far have you gone with Mai?" She asked. She knew she had just ruined the moment, but she didn't care. She wanted to be with someone on her level. He left her neck with a smack noise and pushed himself up so he could look at her.

"What?"

"How far have you gone? With Mai. With anyone." He sat down beside her.

"Only has far as kissing." He told her looking over his shoulder at her. She raised a bow. "Really. I never wanted to do anything with Mai. I wasn't sexually attracted to her."

"Well that's kind of mean," She said sitting up. "I assumed she'd be pretty if you where with her."

"Well, she was pretty, but...never mind." Zuko said looking down at her bed.

"What?" Katara asked scooting closer to him.

"It's nothing. I don't want to talk about it." The thought of the subject made Zuko laugh.

"What? Tell me." She said grabbing his arm.

"No. You'll laugh."

"I will not." Zuko began blush at the thought. "Awe. Is Zuko too manly to tell me his girlie secret?" Katara teased kissing his check. Zuko huffed.

"Mai was..very numb and demanding and...um." Zuko fiddled with his thumbs.

"What?" She whined rubbing her hand hard against his back.

"Most of the things about her attitude towards certain things...most things...Katara, you'll laugh!" He told her.

"I will not!" She said putting her arm over his shoulder and leaning against his back.

"A lot of things about her made me feel...un..not..emasculin."

"Like, not manly?" She asked pushing him down onto his back and straddling his hips.

"Yeah," He admitted resting his hands on her legs. "Like she could over power me."

"And I can't?" Katara continued to tease.

"You're smaller than her," He said running his hands up from her legs to hips her and to her waist. "But more developed," He said rubbing her hips and gazing at her cleavage, pointing out her well in size breasts. "You're prettier, too. Exotic to me. Sexy." Katara blushed and rolled her eyes at the last one.

She loved knowing that she was attractive to him in more ways than one, but at the same time since he was older and stronger, it kind of scared her. They were both at the age when their hormones were raging and knew she could control hers, but could he? She sure hoped so.

"Do you want to go to dinner?" He asked. Katara thought for a second before shaking her head. He smirked as she leaned down to kiss him....

1: Go to Wikipeadia and wiki Blue Amber and you will see the "jewel" I was talking about. I know the fifth one is a circle, but lets all pretent it's a heart, okay? It's a heart.

2. (I know I didn't point this out] If you were wondering, yes the Dominican Republic is real in our world. It is locaded on the second island of the 3/4 islands under the Bahama's. On Avatar's map they have 3 islands under the Earth Kingdom. Much like America has three major islands under Florida.

3. I repeat. Vanilla is an aphrodiac.

Too early in the story for Zutara smex, but is it too early to shake up their relationship? I think not.