"DON'T SAY THAT!" He yelled so loud I jumped involuntarily and we stopped walking, the hall was silent and deserted, "Don't ever say that again to me Kiki. I can even imagine a world without you in it…I WON'T imagine a world without you, through all of this I was never worried about me or my wellbeing it was concern for my new friends, the world, and mainly you" said Zuko his eyes burning into mine. We stopped moving resting against the wall as we caught our breath; Zuko brought me into a hug pulling me against his body resting his forehead against mine as I closed my eyes taking in his scent. He smelled of fire, sweat, smoke, and something else something I couldn't quite put my finger on…Blood?! I thought to myself as my eyes flew open wide. I stepped back from him quickly taking his hands from around my waist,

"Your bleeding" I say quickly looking at his bloody hand, "Why didn't you say anything instead of rambling about my feelings I could have been healing you" I say harshly. I start searching around his chest area for any wounds that we didn't get to heal properly but wasn't finding any,

"Kiki stop" said Zuko I ignored the urgency in his voice as I continued to look for the wound to explain the blood, "KIKI!" he yelled I stopped my hands dropping to my side in both confusion and anger

"WHAT…you're bleeding and I have to find the wound and heal you," I say

"I'm not the one bleeding Kiki it's you…look at your side" he says as he tears the remaining shreds of robe off of his body. I glance down at my side in even more confusion, "What happened?"

"I…I don't remember…: I say in honesty my brows narrowed in concentration, "Wait…it was Azula… the guard came out and started attacking Katara and I turned because I heard her cry out and she caught me by surprise with a blade" I explained. Zuko narrowed his eyes at me as he used the shreds of robe to make a makeshift bandage tying it around me waist a few times covering the wound and tightening it.

"How can you forget something like this?" he asked seeming to get more strength as he was angered,

"I didn't feel it" I said quickly,

"How could you not feel it?" he asked glaring at me

"There was so much going on that the adrenaline must have canceled my pain receptors" I explained.

"Well lets go find Katara so she can heal you it looks like you lost a lot of blood it's all over your clothes" he said glancing down at the outfit I was wearing at the moment I glanced down too it was covered in blood. I nodded my head as I wrapped my arm around his waist,

"We'll find her but first let's get you somewhere to sit down I won't be able to support both of us if I'm about to feel the pain" I say leading us down the hallway following his directions. We turned entering into room that was bigger than Azula's bedroom was, there was a single big bed made with red silken covers with red and gold throw pillows. The walls were also painted with the same crimson color as the bed I walked him over to the bed and laid him down on it he cringed slightly, "You'll be ok here for a few minutes right?" I asked him glancing at the door.

"Yea I'll be fine" he said nodding his head, "Go find Katara and get healed" I nodded my head and leaned forward hugging him softly, before standing up and rushing from the room closing the door behind me. I hurried my way back through the corridors before I ended back into the courtyard. I glanced around looking for Katara but only finding Azula still throwing a fit and screaming, I ignored her as I walked towards the water near Azula. I bended the water up and out of the grate that was under her and let the cool water slide over my hand, I ripped the bandages off of my side of Zuko's robe and dropped them as I placed my hand over the wound and the water began to glow blue healing the wound. I heard a low rumble and glanced up to see Appa coming down from the sky he landed and I see Katara jump from his head and land on her feet looking out of breath, I ran over to her.

"Katara are you ok?" I asked she nodded her head placing her hand on her thighs,

"Yeah I'm ok just had a bit of a battle getting to Appa…but it's all taken care of now, how's Zuko?" she asked.

"He's doing better he's laying down in a room inside I came to look for you and to see if you could heal my side but I did it myself the wound wasn't too bad."

"You were hurt?" asked Katara surprised looking at me I nodded my head,

"Yeah but it wasn't anything too major…come on let's go we still have a lot of work to do" she nodded her head and followed me back inside where I lead to her to Zuko. When we walked into the room Zuko was breathing softly sound asleep I couldn't help the warm tug that pulled on my heart as I looked at him. I turned to face Katara, "Katara I need you to do me a favor" I said turning serious,

"Sure anything" she said quickly I smiled at her then glanced at Zuko, "Your…leaving us aren't you?" when I turned back the look on her face tore at my heart.

"I need you to look after Zuko for me…keep him out of trouble, I'm leaving but only for a little bit…there's something I have to do and I don't know how long it will take me to find them." I said,

"Find them…who is them Kiki?" she asked glancing at me,

"My family…Rouki and my Mema they are out there somewhere in all of this…I told them where I was going and what I was doing…but I should have made sure that they were safe before I left them." I said quickly, "Katara you can't tell anyone where I'm going understand?" she nodded her head quickly.

"But…what about Zuko?" I glanced back at him,

"No not even Zuko…I can't handle the fact that I abandoned my family and I don't want anyone to know the shame that I am carrying with me…especially if anything happened to them." I said quickly she nodded her head, "I will be back in a couple of hours hopefully" I hugged her and then glanced once more at Zuko before running out of the room and out into the courtyard where I jumped onto Appa, and grabbed the reins. "Appa yip, yip" he gave a groan of a noise as we lifted into the air and flew off, we were headed in the direction that I had last seen them my heart pounding in my ears as we went. I see the flying blimps from the fire nation there were four of them lined up shooting scorching flames down at the trees of the forest. My brows narrowed as I glared at them I stood up on Appa's head and took a deep breath before lifting my right arm up over my head and then shooting out my left fist throwing a scorching wall of flames at the blimp. When it collided with the engine I was aiming at there was a big explosions and it started going down quickly, I turned my attention to the other three but stopped when I noticed that Sokka and Toph was on one of them. I flew in closer, "Sokka…what are you doing?" I yelled over the wind he turned in my direction,

"Kiki" he hollered back, "Where have you been…..where's Zuko and Katara?" he hollered.