*Rubbing of sweat* Finally completed the chapter. I started rereading the comic, and I finally get to see what happens. And I thought that this might be AU, but it won't be much of it. And since I don't want to copy the whole entire thing, I am adding an Oc for the heck of it. Assuming, or I'm supposing, it will be a girl, but she won't show up for awhile, and she I think is important in a way to Ursa's whereabouts.

Anyways, I don't know what these chapters will range, but I will try to make them at least 2,000 words, since I don't want to have a short chapter when it takes so long to update *cough* (Eighth Deadly Sin: Fullmetal fanfic)

Sorry if these are too short. I want this to be longer than four chapters, so I'm only adding part of each chapter at once in these chapters. So...uh...sorry if I'm disappointing you.

Enjoy it though. Reviews always make me happy. :)

Disclaimer: (Well I haven't really done any, but I'm trying to start them.) I don't own Avatar the Last Airbender. I actually don't know the author, but I still don't own it. I only own my possible (girl) Oc that should be coming up soon.

Chapter 2 Tell Me The Truth

One year later...

At the Royal Palace, Zuko was having his 'bad' dreams, and suddenly woke up, from the feeling of an intruder in the palace nearby. He gasped and yelled out to no one. "Who's there?!" He jumped off his bed, and went out the door, finding two of the guards standing by the door. "Someone's here! I can feel it! Someone's trying to assassinate me," he worried, with the guards in confusion.

"Fire Lord, please. Go back to sleep. We're in the most secure tower in the entire palace," guard one informed, blurting out how safe it was there.

"No one will get you tonight. I assure you," guard two calmly confirmed, trying to calm Zuko down with his anger.

"Don't mock me! There have already been five attempts on my life since I took the throne!" he continued with even more anger.

"And that's why we moved you here. Please, you have to trust-"

The guards, fell being knocked out before guard one could finish his sentence.

"Show yourself!" he yelled to the anonymous, fire bending ahead of him. He looked around seeing no one, until a girl, with her chains and some type of ninja suit, jumped out from behind to attack.

"Down with the traitor. Down with the Fire Lord who betrays his own people," somewhere she said out loud, spinning her chain, and throwing it at him, but with enough time to notice, he jumped out of the way to dodge it. He fire bended back, but it only made her jump away, so she stroke back, finally knocking him to the ground.

Just as she went towards him, he quickly used his foot to fire bend, making a fire circle in seconds, also using his fists to fire bend along. But that did nothing, since she leaned back to not get scorched by the heat. Her loose end of her dark belt, flew up, and he rapidly grabbed a hold of it to keep her from running and jumping some more.

"Convince me not to take your life," he demanded, getting ready to continue using his fire.

"Go ahead," she replied, eyes locked on him furiously. "My family has been loyal to yours for generations. By getting rid of me, you would simply complete your betrayal."

"Your family?" he questioned in concern of not knowing who she was talking about.

"My father is the mayor of Yu Dao," she stated, telling the truth about all of it.

"Yu Dao...The first of the Fire Nation Colonies."

"Yes, my home. And now you and the Avatar are going to destroy it with your precious harmony restoration movement!"

In the city of Yu Dao, in the Earth Kingdom, the yelling of torture went throughout the city. "Stop! Stop!" A man ran out, seeing his daughter run towards her desperately. "Kori! Where have you been! Your mother and I have been worried sick!" The brown haired girl, followed by two Fire Nation soldiers, followed up. "Wait...Who are these people? What are these chains?" He looked at his daughters arms, which had cuffs and chains around.

"I went to go see someone about our problem father," she responded, making him even more worried.

"Who?" he wondered.

"Him?" As in who was him?

Zuko came up, bringing two guards behind himself.

"Fire Lord Zuko!"

"You must be mayor Morishita. Your daughter snuck into my home and tried to kill me," he accused Kori.

Morishita was also getting the confusion of this. "Kori?"

"Someone had to do something." That was her excuse for doing something dangerous, especially the dangerous being against someone more powerful then them.

"my sincerest apologizes for my daughter's rash behavior, Fire Lord. Have mercy," he begged and pleaded. He bowed in the ground with his mostly brown hair, with some grey, with two small mustaches, one on each side, along with a small beard on his chin. He continued to bow on the ground with his red Fire Nation clothing.

"Why bother the harmony restoration movement will accomplish the same thing without you having to lift a finger?" Kori ranted, ferociously.

"Why can't you colonials get it through your thick skulls? The harmony restoration movement is a means to peace."

'Peace?' Morishita thought. "Peace for whom? With all due respect, your majesty, my family has lived on this land for generations. This city was built on our blood and swear. We have as much a right to be here as anyone else."

"You're Fire Nation citizens? You should live in the Fire Nation." Kori was a one to not agree on that, but for Morishita...

"You're right Fire Lord. We are Fire Nation citizens. And I'll tell you this...your father would have let the Avatar and the Earth King bully him into something so obvious bad for his own Nation's citizens."

"My Father..." He started to think about visiting Ozai before.

"Why have you come here?"

"You can't see that you are speaking to the new Fire Lord? You have no rights to not listen to what I have to say."

"Why are you really here?"

"Because you are going to tell me something you should have told me a long time ago."

"And what is that?"

"Where is my mother?"

He smirked, with the desirous feeling in him. "You ought to bring me some tea, Zuko. We'll talk by sipping on steaming little cups, much like you did with my traitorous brother. I'll give you advice on how to be a good Fire Lord. Wouldn't that be nice?" Zuko turned with a frown all over his face. "Perhaps even the subject of your mother will come up."

"I don't need this." He clenched his fists, being irritated.

"Do you think being Fire Lord is easy?" He didn't reply to it. "The throne comes with many pressures, and those pressures will change you! But if you can stand the heat, you'll become something more. Of all the people in the world, I have the wisdom you need, the wisdom of experience." Of course it was him, the only Fire Lord that stopped being one, that was alive. But the possibilities of him telling Zuko where she was or a clue, could be a low percentage, like less than five. "Be honest with yourself, Zuko...Do you really believe you can handle it all on your own?" That just made him leave through the door. "You'll be back. And I'll be here waiting for you...son."

The door closed, making a clicking and scrunching noise together.

"I'm not my father!" Zuko firebended at Morishita, with his tone full of rage, mostly because of the memory he had.

"No, young man. You're not. Fire Lord Ozai had many faults, but he was never a coward. He was never a traitor." Zuko widened eyed at the thought of it.

Off the coast of the Fire Nation, a Fire Nation ship had been heading towards the palace, along with Appa, in which a bunch of citizens from a Fire Nation colony, had been on his saddle.

"Don't worry Mayor Nishi," Aang assured of. "My team and I have helped dozens of Fire Nation colonies move back to your homeland already. They've all loved coming back."

"Those colonies were young. Their people had no roots in the Earth Kingdom." Um, hello, the war has been over for a year.

"Things are different in the Fire Nation now. You'll see. Fire Lord Zuko is reintroducing classic Fire Nation culture to his people. You'll learn so much about your past by living here. And you'll have fun too," he grinned, calming her worrying of the idea. Aang jumped it, doing a dance from the Fire Nation. "Check it out...This was one of their dances a hundred years ago. How fun is this?" Nishi looked down the big bison's head, watching Aang do his annual Fire Nation dance.

Soon the ship arrived in the city of the palace, at the docks, on the outside of the city.

"Stop! Stop unloading," one of the docks men yelled out, with Aang airbending some supplies off. Then the man went up to Nishi. "You're colonials?" he wondered surprisingly.

"Yes," she replied.

"Return to the Earth Kingdom, by order of the Fire Lord!" *!*

"What?!"

"Fire Lord Zuko has officially withdrawn his support of the Harmony Restoration movement!" The others gasped at the short speech.

Aahhhh, I made it too short. I am very, very, very, very, very, very, very, etc. of very's, sorry that I can't add much, when I can make these into 4,000 word chapters. I just wish you like this *sigh*

Buuuuuuuut, even though this isn't really fluff, I will still try to make this humorous, as much as I try. (I may end up adding irrelevant things to the story.)

Well then, see you sometime when I update, which is not going to be determined by anyone and not even me.

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