A/N: I'M BACK!!!! lol My camp was amazing since it was in colorado! Wooo! The only problem was the altitude since I was staying in Denver which fo those of you who dont know is a mile above sea level and stuff. Well now that I have returned I have internet once again and can update. Hope you guys like this chapter! And btw I found this guy of Youtube, his name is Shane Dawson. And he is hilarious! You guys should really check him out if your over the age of 14. lol hmmm...on with the story now!!

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KATARA POV

"Katara, how could you be so careless?" Aang asked disappointed, a frown on his normally carefree face.

"What do you mean me? He's the one who attacked me first!" I said annoyance written all over my face.

"Did he hit you?" Aang asked looking me over for burns.

"Well no." I huffed. "But he sure did try."

"Katara could you at least try to get along with Lee? I mean I'm the Avatar. And If I can't keep peace between you two how am I going to do it with the world?" He said calmly, but his eyes were full of worry. That made me realize just how much was riding on Aang defeating the Firelord. How much pressure was on one boy who hadn't even hit puberty yet.

"Oh Aang I'm sorry. You are going to bring peace again. I just know it." I said comforting him.

"And?" He prompted.

"And...I'll try to not fight with Lee anymore." I grumbled crossing my arms.

"Thanks Katara." He beamed. He was so easy to please.

"Of course Aang. You know that I'll always be here for you." I said brightly hugging him. At least he was smiling now.

"Y-yeah Katara." He stuttered, his cheeks flaming red.

I cocked my head at him curiously and pulled away. "Are you okay? You look like you might have a fever." I said pressing my hand to his forehead, my mind flashing back to when I almost did the same thing to Lee. Thank the gods I didn't! I shook my head to clear those thoughts, banishing them from my head. They were two completely different incidences. Why did I keep thinking about that anyways?

"You don't have a fever." I murmured confusedly.

"I t-think I'm fine Katara." Aang stammered, his wide gray eyes cast to the ground.

"Well okay. But If you start to feel light-headed you tell me, got it?" I ordered withdrawing my hand.

"I'm sorry am I interrupting anything?" Iroh asked amusedly as he walked up to Aang and I.

"What?!? No! Why w-would you think that? Katara was just checking to make sure I wasn't sick! I can't save the world with a fever!" Aang quickly jerked away from me sounding rushed and nervous.

"Yeah he was acting kinda strange and looked feverish so I wanted to make sure he wasn't coming down with something." I explained to Iroh, still puzzled about Aang's unusual behavior. He didn't have a fever but he did look flushed and nervous. It didn't make any sense.

"Ah. Maybe we all need a break. Perhaps a swim is in order?" Iroh said wryly a knowing grin tugging at the corner of his mouth.

"Did someone say swimming?!?" Sokka called excitedly entering the room, dragging Suki with him.

"Yes I was just suggesting to your sister that maybe-" Iroh started.

"What are we doing standing here talking about it?!? Let's go!" Sokka crowed in delight.

"What about Toph?" I asked glancing back to the building where her unconcious form occupied one of the rooms. We couldn't just leave her here alone. What if she woke up and no one was here? I would feel terrible if she had to wake up dazed, confused, and alone in an empty room.

"I think Miss Katara, you need to take a break. You've been taking care of young Toph ever since we arrived." Iroh said patting my shoulder. "I'll stay and watch her. Don't worry it'll be fine."

"Are you sure Iroh?" I asked biting my bottom lip unsure.

"Of course. Now go have some fun." He shooed us away turning back to the constantly lit fire- gotta love firebending at times like this- and started on a pot of tea.

"You heard the old man! Let's go Katara!" Sokka whined impatiently

"Okay Sokka, but only if you promise to share Suki with the rest of us." I teased him started towards the river from earlier.

"Psshhh what are you talking about? Suki just happens to like my company. See Katara, I can get along with others and not cause bending fights." Sokka said pointedly grating on my nerves.

"Why does everyone keep bringing that up?!? Is there nothing else to talk about?!?" I hissed out in aggravation and stomped the rest of the way to the river.

"That would be kinda hard Sokka since you cant bend and all..." Aang trailed off.

Why couldn't everyone mind their own business?!? Seriously, I mean I feel bad enough about it without everyone talking about what happened every five seconds. And the fight hadn't even been that bad! Granted, it would have escalated had Aang not intervened, but he had and it didn't!

"Hey are you okay? You've been...frustrated ever since Aang broke up the fight between you and Lee." Suki asked coming to walk by me.

I sighed in acceptance. "I don't know Suki. There's just something that makes me either boiling angry or horribly confused when I'm around him." I confessed in a whisper, recalling what happened exactly:

"What are you laughing at?" He growled angrily.

"N-nothing." I said amidst my laughter.

My eyes widened suddenly and I summoned a shield of water just in time to block a fireball from hitting me.

"What was that?!?" I hissed turning to the maker of the flames.

"Nothing." He said smugly stealing my earlier excuse.

"Well this is going to be a lot more than nothing." I said glaring at him as I moved into my bending stance.

"If you fight the same way you did on Kyoshi, I doubt that." He said smirking at the furious look on my face, stepping into his own bending stance.

And then our two opposing elements met.

He did a spin-kick a burst of fire following his movement. I summoned my element and blocked the fiery kick, quickly freezing the extra water and shooting razor-sharp ice-daggers towards him.

He ducked and side-stepped all my attacks with surprising speed and retialiated with an impressived jet of flame straight at me.

Stepping it up a little, I bent a stream of frozen water in the shape of a ramp and ran up it, flipping mid-air and landing directly behind my opponent.

I gathered more water in my hands just as he turned and we exchanged punches and kicks having each of our elements with them.

Growling with frustration he landed a kick to my stomach, sending me skidding back a few yards away, and slashed at me with a fire version of my water-whip. Unable to gather enough of my element in time I chose the next best option- I ducked.

"You copied my move!" I accused, narrowing my eyes as I stood back up.

"I improved it." He corrected smirking as I narrowly avoided the flames. It was so close I had felt the scorching heat against my back as I ducked.

I formed eight strands of water and shot them all at the firebender watching as he erased them all with a wave of fire. Immediately I started forming more ice-daggers and shooting them at him in different key places. His face, chest, legs, shoulders, and heart. He turned three to steam and dodged one, but one lucky one hit it's mark, leaving him with a 2 in. long scratch on his cheek.

He blinked in shock for a moment, wiping the drip of blood away, before starting up again with amazing ferocity. Minutes passed and neither of us landed a blow. Blocking, attacking, Dodging...It had turned into a dance. A dangerous, deadly, elemental, battle.

"Well you two do bend opposing elements. Maybe that has something to do with why you two don't get along." Suki offered shrugging as I blinked out of the memory.

"Maybe." I muttered as we approached the river.

"Water fight! Benders against non-benders! Come on Suki, we can take them!" Sokka declared before stripping down to his swim-trunks and jumping in.

Suki rolled her eyes but divested herself of her robe as well, joining my now speechless idiot of a brother in the water. I looked at Aang and saw him attempting to persuade Momo to go in the water also. I giggled watching him talking to the lemur, my laughter getting Aang's attention.

"I don't think he's going to listen." I stated biting my lip to keep from laughing. Could he even understand what the flying lemur was saying?

"Yeah. He's afraid of the water."

Well that answers my question.

"Come on guys hurry up!" Sokka called again.

Rolling my eyes, much like Suki earlier, I changed into my white training clothes and put my hair up in a tiger-pony tail before wading into the mildly cold water.

"Okay guys ready? Oh yeah no bending." He added making me gape at him.

"What the heck Sokka?!? Why would it be benders vs. non-benders if we can't even bend." I pointed out what I'm sure everyone else was going to say.

"What don't think you can beat us without your precious water-magic?" Sokka goaded knowing I couldn't ignore the jibe.

"What afraid that if we bend you'll lose?" I shot back.

"Fine. Each team will have one bender and one non-bender." He said finally compromising.

"Better." I said approvingly, smiling to myself.

I guess Sokka can be mature when he wants to be.

"I call the avatar on my team!" My brother said quickly, grabbing the boy's arm.

I spoke too soon.

"Zuko what are you thinking? Fighting will only cause more problems within the group for us." Iroh said to his nephew, interupting the teenager's meditation.

"I know." Zuko grumbled, keeping his eyes closed.

"Just try to remember that next time you get into a situation like that. I know that you are a firebender and therefore have a...firey nature." Iroh said grinning impishly and making Zuko glare at him. "But you need to think about someone other than yourself and make the best of the situation.

"Fine." Zuko exhaled.

"And one more thing." Iroh started. "Why did you insist that I call you Lee instead of Zuko? I'm sure they would understand-"

"No they wouldn't." Zuko interrupted quickly. "Uncle the whole firenation is after them! You saw how the Kyoshi girl reacted when she noticed we were firenation! Imagine if she found out that we were not only firenation, but two former Princes!"

"Hm...I see your point and I'll go along with it. But eventually you should come clean about your identity." Iroh finally agreed.

"We'll see." Zuko said, dismissing his Uncle as he returned to meditating.

"I know you don't feel like your a part of the group, and you have a habit of distancing yourself but it wouldn't hurt for you to join in on group activities Zuko." Iroh said eyeing the raven-haired teenager sadly.

Zuko had gone through a whole lot more than any boy his age should. Dealing with his cruel sister Azula, his power-hungry father, the disappearance of his mother, and his banishment and scarring. Ursa, before she left, gave Iroh one last request: to watch over her son Zuko. And while Iroh did his best, it obviously wasn't enough. Which was why Iroh was making it up to him now by staying at his side and offering him advice and help in any way, shape, or form...even when it was un-wanted.

A/N: Just to let you guys know that when the story is in Katara's POV Zuko will be called Lee because thats what Katara thinks his name is. READ and REVIEW! And btw i called Katara'a icicles ice-daggers because icicles sound so...not dangerous. lol