As the dying man lays on the mat in the little igloo, his wife weeps standing next to him. His daughter has tears streaming down her face, and her husband has his arm around her sympathetically. The man's infant grandson is in his mother's arms as she weeps.

Zuko closed his eyes breifly and sighed, knowing his end in this world was near. Katara looked up from her sobbing when she heard her husband sigh. Kya also looked up, gently pulling away from her husbands arm. Kuruk, the man Kya had married, wiped away Kya's fallen tears from his son, Hahn's, face. The little family was huddled around the healing bed in the South Pole's healing community (a collection of smaller igloo's where patients are kept). The healers of the village had told Zuko and the rest of his family that he was going to die. But Zuko told his family that he was going to die happily.

He could not have enjoyed his life more. He can die saying that he went to the North Pole, the South Pole, and everywhere in between. He can die saying that he went back to the place his wife was born and had met her father, had died about a year later. He can die saying that his daughter found love at last in the North Pole, and the man she's met had agreed to come with them to the South Pole to marry her. He can die saying that he has a beautiful grandson who he loves very much. And he can die saying that he accomplished his perfect goal in life: to make his family happy.

Katara, Kya, do not cry. he says, As I have told you, I lived a very happy life. I know it is my time to go, and I will not fight against it. I do not want my last memory of my family to be a sad one. Please...just be happy. I want my spirit to remember you that way. Now, please, come up to say good-bye to me. One at a time, though, I am quite weak.

Kuruk looks around at his wife and mother-in-law, and walks up to Zuko. Good-bye, my boy. You have always taken good care of my daughter, and I know you will until your own death-day. the old man said.

Thank you so much, Zuko. I'm going to miss you. the middle-aged man replies.

He steps back, and Kya walks up with Hahn. Good-bye, father. I love you so much. she says.

I love you, too, my dear. And you, too, little Hahn. Perhaps my only regret is not getting to watch you grow up. Kya hands the baby off to Kuruk, and leans down to hug her father. Farewell, Kya.

Kya now steps back also, and the old, frail woman that is Katara walks up. Zuko leans around her to face his next generation. Give us a moment, please. he says, and Katara giggles a little. Zuko has always loved Katara's carefree giggle, and now, ever if it is sad and elderly, it still sounds beautiful to Zuko.

Please, Katara, do not be sad. I have done everything I ever wanted to accomplish in my life. Especially the things with you. Zuko says.

Katara nods, smiling and trying not to cry for his sake. Me too... I love you. So much.

I love you, too. I am so glad that I got to spend almost all of my life with you. It made my life so much more special. And now I am ready for it to end. Seeing the tears starting to form in her eyes again, he adds Are you?

Katara pauses as the tears start again to run down her cheeks. She leans down and kisses her husband one last passionate time. When she finally pulls away, she looks through the tears bravely. Yes. I love you.

And once Zuko knows his family is not going to be too sad, he lets down the shield he'd been holding in his heart, and closes his eyes to pass quietly into the world of death.

A/N - SUCH A BEAUTIFUL ENDING! =) Hope you all enjoyed! 3 3 3

(PS- I will now be switching over to my other Avatar fanfic "Avatar: The New Waterbender." I don't think I'm going to continue that one all the way to the end, because that would be around 100 chapters or something. Anyway, I'm probably going to get them all squared away with their current...situation. Then, I may just end it with a similar ending to the last chapter and an epilogue. Dunno. Point is, that's the one I'm going to be working on for the next few months. Then...I may go to my Labyrinth fanfic "Sarah's Return." Oh, by the way, if you're not already reading the other Avatar fanfic and have no clue what it is I've been talking about...start reading it please!

BYE-BYEZ! SEE YOU ALL IN THE WORLD OF KURA! =] =] =]