I'm Just Your Problem Chapter 1

I do not own Avatar The Last Airbender or any of its characters or the title or the song "I'm Just Your Problem" by Rebecca Sugar

*This fanfiction is not related to Adventure Time I was listening to this song while thinking of this story idea and it stuck

I ran through the land known as Hira'a while knowing that my brother and the Water Tribe peasant were hot on my trail. But that didn't matter to me now, especially after I discovered the truth. I ran quicker towards the house that belonged to the couple Noren and Noriko… no not Noriko… Ursa. She was right under our noses the whole time mocking us with her façade. Not only that but the fact that she had a child with that peasant, a daughter of a things! The audacity!

"How dare she mock me!" I mumbled under my breath.

Kiyi. That was the child's name. The child of Noren, or Ikem as he had been previously called in the past, and Ursa. I knew there was a reason why she couldn't stand the child the moment I first saw her and now I knew the reason. She was the daughter that Mother had always desired in me. She was everything sweet and nice wrapped into a package while I am a package full of hate and anger. She has the life that I always desired… she has everything I wanted in my life!

"Let's see how that child feels when her mother leaves her," I said. "I'll make sure she feels the same pain I felt when that happens. Only this time mother will be gone… for goo. I will see to that."

Mother will feel my wrath as well; she will be punished to the fullest extent of my anger. How dare she play house and make a new family for herself while I stayed locked up in the palace being properly "educated" by father to do his dirty work and in the nut house. Not only that but she made the whole situation easier on herself by forgetting me! She figured that forgetting about her responsibilities as a mother to her other children would put her a step closer to happiness. That selfish woman!

"It is time for this nightmare to end," I stated as I reached my destination.

I saw the little house; I saw the "family" sitting down together and eating dinner as a family. Look at the way she tends to the child, making sure her face is not dirty and that she eats with her mouth closed. How sickening! She doesn't even realize that she has other children out there that have been affected by her decision to leave the palace. Oh I didn't forget that the husband helped her act out this façade either, he will be the last one I finish off. He thought that he could waste my time by feeding me lies about the whereabouts of mother just so he could continue living the façade. He will pay!

It is then that I see Zuzu and the Water Tribe peasant make their way toward the house; thankfully they didn't take the same path as me. They were conversing with each other; no doubt they were taking about me. Zuzu knocks on the door while the other starts patrolling around the house. Noren answers the door and invites him in, I see the child embrace him in a welcoming hug.

"She doesn't even know... she doesn't know that her 'mother' already has children beside her," I said.

The door closes and Zuzu joins the family for dinner, the other boy is still walking around the house while looking in all directions. Trying to make sure I don't get the drop on them. Knowing Zuzu he's not going to tell mother who she really is, he's too good to destroy another's 'happiness.' Even if it means he'll never see her again as mother… our mother.

"But I'm not good… I'm not… anything relating to good," I cry to myself. "But at least I can finally rid myself of her presence after this."

I came on this journey to find mother and now that I've found her I'm going to do what I should have done a long time ago. I charged towards the house, the peasant sees me coming and stands in a defense position. I let out my firebending by punching in his direction; he dodges then swings his boomerang at me. I dodged it and let out another blast of fire at him then another, hoping to divert his attention away from the house. After this I propelled myself into the air using my firebending, I landed on the roof.

The peasant quickly turns his attention back to me and manages to climb to the top. He tries to block me from using my firebending; however I decided to use my other method of fighting off the enemy. Lighting generation. I motioned my hands and produced the lighting; I was prepared to strike him until I thought of another idea. Instead I placed my strike into the roof of the house. The roof collapsed beneath the both of us and we fell into the house, I see that Zuzu is still inside the house. I let out a kick his is direction as a way for him to back off. I landed on the table.

Finally I saw her. The woman who pretended to be another was sitting right before me with a look of terror and shock on her face. The man and child stood on the other side, the child in her father's arms. I turned my attention back at my real target.

"At last! I've finally found you! Oh how I've longed for this moment for years!" I yelled at her.

"Mommy!" the child screamed.

I felt my anger boil even more as she said that, she's not only your mother you stupid brat! Focus Azula!

"Tell me Mother, did you have another daughter to torment me? Or was it because your last daughter became a monster?" I yelled.

The peasant tried to stop me by throwing his boomerang, unfortunately it managed to hit me on my head. It stunned me long enough for the man and child to be escorted out by the peasant, mother tried to get away as well. I wouldn't let that happen I quickly jumped at her; I managed to grab hold of her and pushed her back into a wall. The elephant rat had finally been cornered by the cat owl!

"I'm ending this!" I exclaimed to my corned victim, my firebending charged in my hand waiting for the inevitable.

Mother insisted that she didn't know what I was talking about but I wasn't a fool. She wasn't fooling me, Zuzu tried to talk me into letting her go. It was too late. I'm making my choice. It was then that I felt a warm hand touch my cheek. It was her hand.

"If I really am your mother… then I'm sorry I didn't love you enough," she quietly stated as her eyes were filled with tears.

I just stood there, shocked couldn't even begin to describe the emotions that were running through my head. Without realizing it or meaning to tears welled up in my eyes. I didn't let them fall but the fact that they were there was painful and humiliating enough. Father had always taught me that a true warrior never shows their emotions, they never let their feelings cloud their judgment. Yet that's what I was doing right now. Father was right I am a failure.

Zuzu knocked me out of the way; a firebending battle broke out between us neither one of us getting injured. I tried my lighting again only for it to be redirected at me, it knocked me back into a piece of furniture. I tried to talk Zuzu into letting me finish what I came here to do but instead he insists that it was his destiny to rule over the Fire Nation. Even when I pulled out the letter to try to persuade him but he just rebuked me. He placed the crown on his head as he said this to me. Mother stood behind him watching with interest.

"Azula our relationship is so messed up, it's always been that way in the past," he said then his face held a sad expression. "I know it will probably be like that in the future as well… but that doesn't change the fact they we are siblings. You are and will forever be my sister."

My words failed me. Zuzu… Zuko… my brother… the Prince of the Fire Nation… the current Fire Lord.

"Shut up," I said softly then let out another attack.

I made a run for it with Zuko and mother behind me, Zuko was yelling for me to stop. In my haste I ended up dropping the letter but I didn't care at this point. He even pleaded for me to come back, insisting that he only wanted to help me. Help me? I knew that I was a hopeless cause… I finally realize that now. I have no hope and no future… I am a nobody.

"You're still the same Zuzu; even in your moments of weakness you still hold strength. While I…" I didn't finish my sentence as I continued my run with tears falling in the wind.

I heard Mother say yell something to Zuko but I didn't understand what she was saying. I ran back into the forest that I had found myself running through earlier. This time I felt as if I was going to break, I didn't get the chance to carry out my task. I failed once again but this time it really stung. Once again my mother cheated me… she cheated my big time in my conquest for revenge. I never got to complete my statement to Zuko… I never got to tell him how I felt about myself.

"I'm just your problem."

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