Wandering around tired Zuko quickly, so he spent most of his time sleeping. Whenever he was awake, he was walking around as long as he managed, or was dragged to another healing-session by Katara. Those mostly ended with them spending the rest of the day cuddling in his bed, much to Sokka's dislike, who found out about that, because Lu Ten had to tell around, which resulted in Iroh wanting to have a private talk with Zuko, Hakoda dragging Katara away for a private talk on their own, Aang vanishing for two days and Sokka trying to catch Zuko alone. Lu Ten on the other hand seemed to really enjoy the outcome of his bandying. Toph seemed not to understand the whole thing, for she only complained about having nothing to do, since Aang had locked himself into a room.
As Hakoda had pulled Katara from the room and uncle Iroh had shooed out Lu Ten and closed the door, Zuko knew he had to punish Lu Ten for his babbling somehow. "Zuko, listen… It's not that we don't like you and Katara being friends…" Iroh started, settling himself on the bed next to Zuko "In your age it's perfectly normal to get interested in girls and…" "Uncle, I had had school…" Zuko interrupted him. "Just listen…" Iroh put in "You are a royal. It might well be you will be crowned Firelord. It would be quite problematic if you'd get a girl pregnant before marrying her." Zuko sighed and rolled his eyes. "As far as I know she can't get pregnant from holding hands and kissing…" he huffed "Therefor… be unconcerned…"
Luckily he managed to convince his uncle that they were not having any kind of sexual intercourse a few minutes later, and Iroh left him alone. Katara returned, before Sokka could sneak his way in. "Argh! Parents!" she cried out, closing the door behind her with a bang. "They really thought we would… argh!" Zuko had to smile about her outburst. "And my stupid brother is sneaking around your room now…" Katara continued, before turning towards the door shouting: "I saw you, Sokka! Get lost!" "I saw him…" Zuko shrugged "He's just trying to protect you, I guess…" "I can protect myself, thank you very much!" Katara yelled at the door. "Help me make a plan to punish Lu Ten?" Zuko suggested "At least it is his fault they all know…"