(Katara's POV)

"Uh…sorry" she said quickly moving out of the way of the stranger, she looked after him as he said nothing but picked up speed, she shrugged and continued walking and then spotted Kiki in the distance, "Kiki there you are, I was looking for you…did you get anything good?"

"Yeah, come take a look" she said and opened up a bag and reached in what she pulled out I couldn't believe my eyes when I seen it.

"Oh my gosh…t-that's a water bender scroll…w-where did you get it?" I asked quickly reaching for it like a little kid mesmerized by a new shiny toy.

"Heh…it was in some pirate's store and I knew he must have stolen it from somebody…he priced it way to high but I believe in the end he saw it my way." I said smirking, "You and I can study from it and then teach Aang the moves after we've mastered it ourselves." I couldn't stop myself from laughing and pulling her into a hug, we laughed and headed back towards where we had booked some rooms.

(Normal POV)

We entered the room to see Sokka lounging around, "Don't you ever do anything other than lounge around?" I asked while putting the bags down on the floor he looked at us.

"Maybe" he said lazily, "It's a little hot" he said I smirked and quickly moved my hands and the water that was in the big water bowl sitting on the floor quickly rose and then flew at him hitting him. His eyes flew open, "AH…w-what did you do that for? That was cold" he hollered Katara was holding her side laughing.

"Because Sokka…we don't want you to melt away I mean who would protect us poor weak girls right?" I said smirking, "But seeing as you're not hot anymore how bout you get off your butt and go find Aang" I said. He grumbled about being wet as he climbed to his feet Katara was still laughing as he sloshed by her, I went through the bags and grabbed two wrapped up squares and tossed one to Katara she caught it and unwrapped it, it was a square with icing on it. We bit into the cakes and ate them in silence, "So how long do you think we'll be here?" I asked her. She shrugged her shoulder's and started to explain that it all depends on how fast we find the girl but I stopped listening getting lost in my thoughts. I wonder how long it would take Zuko to catch up to us, when he will attack, and when he will get in contact with me…it shouldn't be too long…but I wonder what he has planned for me, will he capture me again or just talk to me. By the time Katara and I were done training with the water bender's scroll it was past midnight and she was half standing and half kneeling looking extremely tired, "It's okay Katara you can go to bed I'm just going to go find the hot spring okay?" she nodded and waved a lazy wave and wondered off in the direction of the room. I glanced around and then took a deep breath then shot flames into the water making it hot and steamy I removed my clothes and lowered myself into the water. I sighed in pleasure as the water washed over my body, it felt wonderful I could feel all the tight muscles loosening, I reached up and removed the hair pins and ties letting my hair fall to my waist I went under the water letting it get wet. I surfaced and just laid there letting myself float my hair floating in the water covered my chest while I floated, I thought I heard a rustle and I quickly righted myself standing in the water and glancing around. Then I saw a small animal scurrying about and I relaxed some I went back to rinsing myself with the water by using my water bending, the water ran down my body that's when I heard the rustle again and I gave a small laugh. Thinking it was just another animal but when I turned around I was shocked to see the pirate from the shop,

"I believe you have something that belongs to me" he said taking a step towards me I gasped my arms were now wrapped around my upper body to cover myself.

"Stay away from me…I'm warning you" I said taking a hesitant step backwards,

"Oh no my dear I want my scroll"

"It wasn't yours and we both know it, just like we both know that you stole it on some raid of a village or a boat, just like I know that if you try to attack me you're going to get hurt" I said glaring at him.

"Heh, that's where you're wrong my sweet…did you honestly think that I would come alone?" I gasped as a man grabbed me from behind and another quickly covered my mouth so that I couldn't scream. His hand was quickly replaced with mud that was quickly hardened by an earth bender, I struggled back against the man that was holding me but it was useless. They carried me and then slammed my bare back against a tree and quickly tied me to it, I glared at them as they finished tying me to the tree. "You seem a whole lot more interesting then the scroll and my men agree" he laughed getting a strange look in his eyes his hand reached out for me. I struggled against the ropes binding me but I couldn't break them and I couldn't water bend or fire bend my way out of this. His hand was about an inch from my bare chest when there was a blast of fire that hit him and sent him flying; I turned my head and caught sight of a hooded figure. He charged into the crowd of men attacking them left and right he twirled a dagger and then threw it in my direction the blade hit the rope and it went limp dropping to my feet. He grabbed the earth bender and held a blade to his neck he whispered something in his ear that I couldn't catch and then the earth that was covering my mouth so that I couldn't talk dropped from my mouth. The hooded figure then slammed the earth bender into the ground head first and then approached me but not too fast. He held up his hands, as I watched him approach,

"Who are you?" the person didn't answer instead they stopped and removed the hood and I gasped it was Zuko but his eyes were closed as he finished removing the robe and tossed it in my direction. I caught it and pulled it on and fixed it so that it would stay closed, I then walked up to him and threw my arms around him hugging him gently. "Zuko…thank you" I said into his ear hugging him tighter he brought his arms around my waist and hugged me back,

"Kiki… I never want to see you get hurt" he said as he said this he pulled me into a tighter hug.

"Z-Zuko what are you trying to say?" I asked my heart picking up speed,

"Kiki, I came looking for you to give you these" he said and brought a bag from behind his back I stared at him as he handed it out to me,

"W-what is it?" I asked he gave me a smile and leaned down and whispered in my ear.

"You'll like it, but for now it's been a long night, I think you should get some sleep" and with the swiftest movement he hit me in the back of my neck and scooped me up into his arms. My unconscious head was laid against his chest as he carried me silently back towards the room he knew we had gotten to stay in.