"I think I see a cave below." Aang said, as we were flying near a Fire Nation island disguised as a cloud.

"Shhh. Keep quite." Sokka quickly snapped. We landed and saw that there was no one there.

"Great job with the cloud camo but next time let's decide keep ourselves as the kind of cloud who knows how to keep its mouth shut." Sokka said, taking cover behind a rock, the rest of us just stood there.

"Yeah we wouldn't want a bird to hear us chatting up there and turn us in." Toph scoffed.

"Hey! We're in enemy territory, those are enemy birds." Sokka pointed up to one next to his head. It jumped on and made the cutest bird noise, we all had to laugh.

As we were walking to the cave, Sokka jumped in front for some reason. "Well this is it. This is how we'll be living until the invasion begins. Hiding in cave after cave, after cave, after cave." Sokka lowered his head each time he said 'after cave.'

"Sokka we don't need to become cave people. What we need is some new clothes." Katara replied, I sat in a corner of the cave.

"Yeah blending in is better than hiding out. If we get Fire Nation disguises we'll be just as safe as we would be in a cave." Aang added with a smile.

"Plus, they have real food out there. Does anyone want to sit in the dirt and eat cave hoppers?" Toph hit the rock of the cave to make hoppers jump out. Momo was already trying to eat them.

"Looks like we got out voted sport. Let's get some new clothes." Sokka said pointing a finger up with some relief.

                                     ~*~

We found a house and lucky they were drying clothes. We quickly snatched stuff, all I grabbed was a dress and pants. I already had a jacket and bandanna, I just needed something to cover my hand markings, which was red wrapping.

"Tada normal kid." Aang said, after putting on a headband, we were all just about done.

"Umm I should probably wear shoes but then I won't be able to see as well. Sorry shoes." Toph pulled them down and popped the soles off.

"Finally a stylish shoe for the blind earth bender." She sighed after Sokka just got smacked in the face by her soul. (Tokka!)

"How do I look?" Katara asked, after changing.

Aang looked at her with lovely crushing eyes, then to realize her necklace. "Uhh your mom's necklace."

"Oh.. oh yeah, I guess it's pretty obvious water tribe isn't it." She replied, slowly taking it off.

                                     ~*~

When we got in the closet town she bought a new necklace, Sokka bought a hair band as well as Toph.

"I used to visit my friend Kuzon here a hundred years ago. So everyone just follow my lead and stay cool, or as they say in the fire nation. Stay flamin." Aang said, as we stood in a corner of the town.

"Just don't say that." I remarked as we started to walk in the street.

"Greeting, my good hotmen." Aang waved at a random dude.

"Huh hi, I guess." He replied when we were almost past him.

"Oh we're going to a meat place?" Aang asked, while we were about to walk in.

"Come on, Aang everyone here eats meat. Even the meat." As Sokka said, I could smell it, taste meat, I hadn't had any ever since I had arrived here and I was a meat person. This was torture!

"You guys go ahead. I'll just get some lettuce out of the garbage." Aang replied pointing at the street, while I was trying to get by unnoticed by him.

"Well I'll just go in with them." I tried to make a run for it! But! Aang grabbed my collar right before I was through the door to near heaven.

"No, no, you got to stay with me. We're vegetarian remember?" He chuckled, while I began to get teary eyed at the small sight and smell of meat I couldn't have.

"Hot men. Hot men." Aang waved to random people as they walked by. I was leaning on the building, pouting that I couldn't have a normal meal ever again.

"Stop it." I growled as he kept waving.

"Why? Hot men." He asked before doing it again.

"It's over! We caught you." A rough looking man yelled as we turned stiff.

"Who me?" Aang asked pointing at himself.

"It couldn't be more obvious that you two don't belong here." He responded staring us down, Aang was giving him puppy eyes while I wasn't going to back down.

I did NOT want to go to school.

"Next time you play hooky you might want to take off your school uniform." He said, making Aang no less tense.

"I don't have a uniform on!" I protested pointing at myself.

"Does it matter?" The girl scoffed, before grabbing us.

"Great." I groaned, this was going to be junior high all over again.

                                     ~*~

"Oh are these new minds ready for molding?" The history teacher asked, as the guards threw us in the class.

"That's right let the molding begin." Aang replied with a smile, I wanted to knock off his face for getting me into this.

I'd rather wait around that cave, thinking about shit I couldn't get like meat and Zuko.

"Oh blow off." I growled under my breath, my arms folded, I rolling my eyes.

"Oh I'm sorry for my sister." Aang tried to cover up with a bow at a very angry teacher, but she's always angry.

"Wait a minute. You're not from the Fire Nation!" She gasped making Aang, and the guard who grabbed us tense.

"Clearly you are from the colonies." She finished, the guards were relieved and walked out.

"Yeah the colonies of course. The Fire Nation colonies in the Earth Kingdom." Aang tried to lie, he was terrible, I was shocked he was so smooth about the sister thing.

"Your etiquette is terrible, in the homeland we bow to our elders. Like so." She bowed to show us, I didn't budge, I was going to be the emo kid.

"Sorry ma'am." Aang said, before bowing to have a girl correct him and then he kicking me to making me do it.

"And we don't wear head coverings indoors." The teacher added.

"Bite me." I replied with my arms still folded, I could careless if they found out who we were.

"We have birth marks, it's really embarrassing." Aang answered for both of us after hitting my arm.

"Very well, what is your name? Or should we just call you mannerless colony slob?" The teacher bickered making Aang chuckle.

"Just slob is fine. Or... Kuzon." He bowed to the class before hitting my arm again.

"Alu." I responded, taking my old friends name. Weird how I knew her but never actually met her.

                                     ~*~

"We made it through the day and it was pretty fun." Aang whispered to me and Momo.

I was about to tell him how much I hated it when a girl started taking to us.

"Don't let the head master catch you with that monkey." She giggled, she clearly liked Aang.

"What monkey?" Aang asked, turning around after hiding Momo again.

"Don't worry I'm not a tattle. My names Ongi, I like your headband by the way." She smiled before mr. popular walked up and put an arm around her.

"Ongi, you don't have to babysit the new kid- hey, what's up? I'm Edai." He then stopped himself and walked very close to me.

"Wow, you must be one of the those popular kids I've been hearing about." Aang marveled. But I mean, Why???

"Yeah that's right. Now listen I know a great place where we could get to know each other a little better." He flirted badly making me grin and shake my head at his fail.

"Hey." Ongi tried to correct her overdone boyfriend.

"Sorry but I got to look out for my little bro." I answered side-hugging Aang. He growled before walking off with his actual girlfriend.

"It was nice meeting you." Aang waved.

"I don't believe it, he didn't beat up you up. Not even a little." A little boy said in amazement.

"I guess we're just lucky." Aang replied with a smile.

"We were on our way to play hide and explode. You want to come?" He asked, I noticed he had green eyes, something I hadn't seen here.

"We'd love to!" Aang answered, not asking me.

"Hey I don't know about that." I said as I grabbed his shoulder so he couldn't run.

"What's wrong?" He asked, leaning in to hear our secret talk.

"You know, 'Mom and Dad' said for us to go straight home. Remember?" I said, with a slight growl. I was starting to talk like a certain prince.

"It's okay it won't take that long." Aang smiled, before running off with them again.

                                     ~*~

"Where have you been?! We've been worried sick!" Katara gasped, as we walked in the cave after hanging out with the 'enemy.'

"We got invited to play with some kids after school." Aang replied like it was no big deal.

"AFTER WHAT?!" Sokka squealed, getting up like a statue.

"We enrolled in a Fire Nation school, and we're going back tomorrow." Aang answered like there was no problem.

"I don't know about this 'we' you got going there?" I sulked, pointing at him.

"Enrolled in WHAT?!" Sokka shouted again, stiff as a statue.

                                     ~*~

"Aang I'm trying to be mature and not immediately shoot you down on your idea but it sounds really terrible." Sokka said, after Aang explained his plan.

"Yeah! We got our outfits, what do you need to go to school for?" Toph added with a mocking tone.

I sighed, I had no energy to fight Aang about this so I went to a corner of the cave and curled up with Momo. School always got the better of me, even if I have fought giant beasts.

"Gyawa, are you okay with this?" Sokka asked, as I was half asleep.

"Do whatever." I whispered, going back to sleep.

                                     ~*~

The next morning I found I had made a terrible mistake as I stood up to say the Fire Nation oath. "Blah blah, hot Fire Nation men. Fire benders, Fire Lord- attack. Bla blah." I grinned, as Aang and I had no idea what to say.

"Since it's obviously hilarious to mock our nation's oath. We'll begin a pop quiz on great civilization." The teacher said, making everyone in the class sigh while turning their pages.

Same thing happened, Aang knew better then the teacher.

In 'music' class I was playing the guitar, fun right! Wrong; I was just hitting a D flat the whole time!

"but what about expressing yourself?" Aang asked after getting shot down because he was dancing.

"Don't tell a fire bender to express himself." I chuckled to Aang, making everyone look at me weird, I just shrugged and ignored it.

"I know sometimes we become so moved by our love for our nation that we can't control our own bodies." I think I could hear the violins going as he spoke from personal experience.

"If you must you may march in place quietly when the urge is on you." And I had to go and to a super simple D flat.

"Did you-?" Everyone was whispering to each other as we walked in the courtyard.

"Huh hi, Kuzon, I really liked that crazy dance you were doing." Ongi said with a slight smile.

"Thanks, Ongi, I could show it to you again if you like."

"What's you'd say colony trash. You're gonna show her something?" Edai asked, as he walked up and pointed at Aang's chest like he was going to fight.

"Just some dance moves." He quickly replied not a bit scared.

"I'll handle this." I grinned. "I'm hurt you just called me colony trash." I fluttered my eyes and fixed my hair leaving him dazed.

"I didn't mean you, meant your brother he needs to be taught a lesson." He replied putting his fist together.

"Back off my bother or you'll get it." I grinned as I got within inches from his face, I could smell cologne on him, way too much.

"Get what?" He got a dirty smile across his face.

"You want me to show you? This!" I then formed a fire ball right next to his face with a grin. I then backed up and shot it at his feet.

"Hey, no fire bending!" A guard yelled at me.

"Damn it!" I groaned, I wanted to beat him up.

"Making fights on your second day? We need to have a conference to discuss your punishments." The headmaster bickered as he ran up and saw his favorite student in fear.

"A conference? What is this school?" I scoffed before getting yelled at.

"Bring your parents to my office after school."

"Parents but-" Aang tried to say.

"Don't be late." He snapped before walking off, Aang shot me a look like this's all my fault.

                                     ~*~

"Thank you for coming, Mr. and Mrs?" He asked, to Sokka who was now wearing the beard as me and Aang sat between them.

"Fire, Wang Fire. This is my wife Sapphire." Sokka answered in the most manly man voice he could come up with. Even though I was as old as my father he put years in himself.

"Sapphire Fire, nice to meet you." Katara said, with the most friendly smile she could come up with.

"Mr. and Mrs. Fire. Your son and daughter have been enrolled for two days and they're already causing problems. Kuzon has argued with his history teacher, disrupted music class. But your daughter now she's another story, she has disrespected the teachers, and roughed up my star pupil." The headmaster glared at me, I could tell he hated emo.

"That doesn't sound like my good boy and girl." Katara gasped as she put a hand to her mouth.

"That's what any mother would say, ma'am, but none the less you are fore warned, if they act up one more time I'll have them sent to reform school! By which I mean the coal mines. Are we clear?" I looked down at Aang who looked like a guilty child.

"Don't you worry, Mr. headmaster. I'll straighten these two out something fierce." Sokka than deepened his voice even more. "Young lady, as soon as we get home you gonna get the punishment of a life time!" Sokka- Mr. Fire yelled in his 'daughter's' face.

"Your crushing my individuality!" I grasped trying to come up with the most emo teenager face and voice. Copying Sue's modern art son.

I saw a slap coming from Sokka a mile away but I let it hit. It hurt more the I thought it would, I then heard my mother Katara fake gasp.

"That's what I like to hear." The head master said, before we all walked away overly tough looking, trying to look pregnant, trying to be emo, and there was Aang who acted just content. Which didn't help.

                                     ~*~

"That settles it! No more school for you young man!" Sokka said, 'fatherly' when we were back in the cave.

"I'm not ready to leave, I'm having fun for once. Just being a normal kid. You don't know what it's like Sokka, you get to be normal all the time."

"Ah ha." Toph mocked, to Aang's comment. Speaking of comments, the writer would be more than happy if you took the time to leave anything, roast me! I dare you!!

And now I'm in trouble! I wasn't suppose to brake fourth wall!

"Listen guys those kids at school are the future of the Fire Nation. If we want to change this place for the better we need to show then a little taste of freedom." Aang said, trying to convince a sinful quire.

"What could you possibly do for a country of deprived little fire monsters." Sokka asked.

"I'm going to throw them a secret dance party." Aang smiled, before dancing in front of us.

"Go to your room!" Sokka ordered in his 'father' voice, pointing out the cave.

                                     ~*~

Of course Aang still got what he wanted and we had to set things up. "I can't believe we're throwing a dance party. It seems so silly." Sokka said, as he and I were putting out candles.

"Don't think of it as a dance party, but as a cultural event celebrating the art of fancy foot work."

"They're coming everyone stop bending!" Toph yelled at everyone.

As the party went on I found myself waking out, parties were never my favorite nothing to do. Even if some boy who looked like Keith of Voltron had just asked to dance with me.

Growing up my dad told me to never get a boyfriend or listen to them, of course he was joking with his four year old, but that's all boys want to do at parties.

I always left parties because I had something better to do, like right then I was star gazing as I thought. Then the weirdest thought popped up, if my dad would like Zuko, it was something I would never have to worry about yet it was there in my mind.

I'd like to think that when you die you live forever with your loved ones, but it's something else for them to be there right then and there.

Zuko wasn't there, and I was starting to fear if him not changing sides made us impossible.

If I blew it somehow, like I did everything. Why would he even go for me, he was probably half banging Mai right now for all I knew.

I wondered if the Avatar and the next Fire Lord could even work. Two powerful people aren't exactly a great couple, when you see world leaders you think they're married to other people.

I wondered if he was thinking of me, if he cared about me in the way I wanted. What he was thinking of the last few weeks after Ba Sing Se, if he felt bad about me. What he was doing right now, what he was feeling.

                           ~Zuko POV~

I went to the prison to see uncle, there was something in my head I couldn't drown out of all of the thoughts.

Gyawa, she died in Ba Sing Se but I knew better. Yet I didn't want to go after her, even if it meant me losing my place again. I wondered if she was okay, if she was healing.

She probably hated me now that I helped my sister. She tried to understand me and I threw a knife in her back.

I couldn't trust my own head anymore, I was tearing my hair out for this. I cared about Gyawa, The Avatar!

"I brought you some komodo chicken. I know you don't care for It but I figure it beats prison food." I said, placing it down for uncle in his cell.

He kept his back towards me, not saying a word.

"I admit it; I have everything I always wanted but it's not at all how I thought it would be." I said, hoping for Uncle to say something, anything.

"The truth is I need your advice, I think the Avatar is still alive. I know she's out there..." I didn't want to admit I found myself caring about her, thanking of her and her beautiful features.

"But I don't want to find her. It's like I... I care about her. I'm losing my mind!" I finished with a shame, I still couldn't believe I was saying this.

Yet I got no reaction, but he had to say something, he had to have an opinion on something. "Please, uncle, I'm so confused I need your help!" I pleaded as I held the bars tight. I wanted him to tell me to forget about her and move on like I should. Or say it's good and tell me to leave her alone, something. But nothing.

"Forget it! I'll solve this myself! Waste away in here for all I care!" As I yelled this I immediately regretted it, what did he do to deserve this, Nothing.

And I was just as confused about Gyawa as I was before, I was losing my mind

                            ~Gyawa POV~

"It is a dancing party. You did the right thing by telling me, Edai." I could hear the headmaster say as they looked at the cave.

"Anytime, headmaster sir." I immediately got up and was about to run in the cave when hands grabbed my shoulders.

They slammed me again the rock and I looked over to see the headmaster and Edai grinning.

"Hey come on, I thought we had a thing." I teased at Edai before blowing weak fire at one of the guards to let me go.

As soon as I was free I ran in the cave and tried to get through the crowd.

"Okay there back again." I heard Avery unsure voice say, as he saw the headmaster.

"Those two with the headbands!" He yelled as he pointed at me and Aang.

"Kuzon run!" I shouted as I gragged his arms.

"Uh oh!" He stared before we split.

"That's not the one. Don't let them leave the cave." I could hear as the crowd put headbands on to confuse the guards.

Without hesitation I earth bended the end of the cave up and we got away on Appa.

                                     ~*~

"We're safe, Sokka, you can take off the mustache now." Katara said, when we were on Appa flying away.

"Oh no I can't. It's permanently glued to my skin." He replied stroking his bread.

"Wait a go dancey pants. I think you really did help those kids, you taught them to be free." Toph said, with a content smile.

"I don't know it was just a dance party that's all." Aang replied.

"Well that was some dance party Aang." Katara leaned over and kissed Aang on the cheek.

"Flameyo sir. Flame-e-oh-." Sokka clapped still in his 'father' voice.

                              ~Zuko POV~

I walked in my room later that night and sat to write a letter.

A letter to an assassin to meet me at the abandoned docks. I had every word played out, even my grammar. But when I looked down my fingers weren't moving.

I couldn't write something that could kill Gyawa. When I saw her free falling I had the worst feeling in my gut.

Fear, shame, care, regret, but most of all I was confused. I was the Prince of the Fire Nation, and I had fallen in love with an enemy.

Before I knew it, I had told myself I loved her, the Prince of the Fire Nation loved the Avatar.

I could never let Azula or Mai find out, but that was the least of my problems. I had fallen in love with someone I should kill, that's a number one rule for an assassins.

I couldn't let anyone hurt her when Azula had already hurt her enough. I had hurt her enough, I chased her around the globe and she still cared.

I knew she wouldn't ever forgive me, that was a fools dream I wished for, and I needed to let it go.

I needed to be the perfect Prince, a married and straight minded man. Not his head in the clouds for a girl who he could never have.

But I only thought of two things; my uncle, and Gyawa. I didn't know if I would get over her, and if it would ruin my life with Mai. I didn't know if I could, would she even want me. I didn't know if even if she excepted me what then?

My father would kill us both, if the Avatar and a Prince would even work. It had never happened before, a world leader and the Avatar, she would have duties and so would I and they would definitely clash.

I didn't know anything, just that I couldn't write the letter to kill her.