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Chapter 1

On a night, brightened by the full moon, 3 teenagers sit close to the shore. "I'll be back; I'm going to get ZuZu." The leader of the group said. She was the daughter of Fire lord Ozai. She was a very skilled firebender and princess of the fire nation. Her name was Azula; she was named after her grandfather Fire lord Azulon. Her friends were Mai and Ty Lee, who weren't firebenders, but they were from the Fire nation and the closest thing she had to friends. Mai was from an important family that was close to Azula's and her talent wasthrowing small knives and other throwable objects. You could say she was like Tenten from Naruto. Ty Lee's talent is chi blocking which is the ability to temporarily take away a person's bending and movement. It's basically a weak version of what Aang does to Ozai at the end of that show. (AN: Be on the lookout for the Next Avatar: The legend of Korra) She headed up the hill and to the house that her family owned and used to go to when she was younger. She really missed those times, with her, Zuko, Her father, and mother. As she entered the door she saw her brother Zuko sitting on the steps.

"Hey ZuZu." She said

"What? What do you want?" Zuko coldly replied.

"Come on. Let's go down to the beach with the others. It's depressing here." She said as she led him down to the beach. When they got there Zuko walked right past his girlfriend Mai. She looked back as he looked away.

"Hey" She said.

"Where's your new boyfriend?" Zuko asked coldly as she turned her head away. He felt wrong for treating her that way so walked over and sat down next to her, "Are you cold?" He said as he tried to put his arm around her and she slaps it.

Ty Lee responds to his question by saying, "I'm freezing." He smiles.

"I'll make a fire." He says. "There's plenty of stuff to burn in there." He continued as he looked up to the house. Ty Lee follows where his eyes are looking and turns to the house on the hill behind her.

When Zuko returns and creates a fire he throws his old family portrait into the fire. "What are you doing?" Ty Lee asked

"What does it look like I'm doing?" Zuko replies.

"But, it's a painting of your family." She stated.

"You think I care?" Zuko responds.

"I think you do." She answers.

"You don't know me." Zuko says harshly as he looks away from her, "So why don't you just mind your own business." He says as he walks away. She scoffs and says, "I know you…"

"No you don't. You're stuck in your little Ty Lee world where everything is great all the time."

"Zuko leave her alone." Mai interrupts.

"I'm so pretty, look at me I can walk on my hands, woo." Zuko says as he mocks Ty Lee and does a handstand. After he falls to the ground he says, "Circus freak." Azula giggles at this. Ty Lee forms tears in her eyes and says, "Yes I'm a circus freak." Ty Lee says as she looks toward Azula, "Go ahead and laugh." Azula stops laughing and looks away pouting. "You want to know why I joined the circus?" Ty Lee states as Azula grumbles, "Here we go."

"Do you have any idea what my whole life was like? Growing up with 6 sisters who look exactly like me. It was like I didn't even have my own name!" She exclaims as she stands up. "I joined the circus because I was scared of spending the rest of my life as part of a matched set." She says as she drops to her knees and let's more tears drop. "At least I'm different now. Circus freak is a compliment." She finishes

"Guess that's why you need 10 boyfriends too." Mai jumps in.

"I'm sorry what?" Ty Lee says as she puts her hands on her hips and looks at Mai.

"Attention issues. You couldn't get enough attention when you were a kid, so you're trying to make up for it now." Mai answers as she looks away.

"Well, what's your excuse Mai? You were an only child for 15 years, but even with all that attention your aura is this dingy, pasty, gray…"

"I don't believe in auras." Mai interrupted

"Yeah you don't believe in anything." Zuko said as he stood up.

"Oh well, I'm sorry I can't be as high strung and as crazy as the rest of you." Mai said.

"I'm sorry too. I wish you would be high strung and crazy for once instead of keeping all your feelings bottled up inside. She just called your aura dingy, are you going to take that?" Zuko asks

"What do you want from me? You want a teary confession about how hard my childhood was? Well it wasn't. I was a rich only child that got anything I wanted. As long as I behaved, and sat still, and didn't speak unless spoken to. My mother said I had to keep out of trouble. We had my dad's political career to think about." Mai finished.

"Well that's it then. You had a controlling mother, who had certain expectations and if you strayed from them you were shut down. That's why you're afraid to care about anything and why you can't express yourself." Azula deduced.

"You want me to express myself? LEAVE ME ALONE!" She screamed.

"I like it when you express yourself." Zuko said as he walked over to Mai.

"Don't touch me! I'm still mad at you." She said after she backed away from his touch and sat down.

"My life hasn't been that easy either Mai." Zuko said while he pointed to his chest.

"Whatever, that doesn't excuse the way you've been acting." Mai said while glaring at Zuko.

"Calm down you guys, this much negative energy is bad for your skin. You'll totally break out." Ty Lee intervenes.

"Bad skin? Normal teenagers worry about bad skin. I don't have that luxury, my father decided to teach me a permanent lesson on my face." Zuko rages as he points to his burn.

"Sorry Zuko I…" Ty Lee starts

"For so long I thought that if my dad accepted me I'd be happy. I'm back home now, my dad talks to me. Heh he even thinks I'm a hero. Everything should be perfect right? I should be happy now, but I'm not. I'm angrier than ever and I don't know why." Zuko states as he makes the motion of pulling his hair out.

"There's a simple question you need to answer then. Who are you angry at?" Azula asks.

"No one I'm just angry." Zuko says as he looks at her then away.

"Yeah who are you angry at, Zuko?" Mai asks

"Everyone, I don't know." Zuko says in confusion.

"Is it dad?" Azula asks.

"No, no" Zuko says

"Your uncle?" Ty Lee asks.

"Me?" Azula asks

"No, no, no, no" Zuko says as he grabs his head.

"Then who, who are you angry at?" Mai asks

"Answer the question Zuko" Azula says

"Talk to us." Ty Lee says

"Come on answer the question" Mai says

"Come on answer it." Azula says

"I'M ANGRY AT MYSELF!" Zuko says as he makes the flames from the fire rise straight up in front of his eyes.

"Why?" Azula asks

"Because I'm confused. Because I'm not sure I know the difference between right and wrong anymore." Zuko states.

"You're pathetic." Azula says.

"I know one thing I care about. I care about you." Mai said as she walked up to Zuko and they smiled at each other and kissed.

"Well that was a wonderful performance everyone." Azula said while she clapped jokingly.

"Guess you wouldn't understand Azula." Zuko replied. "Because you're just so perfect."

"Well yes, I guess you're right. I don't have sob stories like all of you. I could sit here and complain about how our mom liked Zuko more than me, but I don't really care. My own mother thought I was a monster." Azula said and after a brief silence she continued, "She was right of course, but it still hurt."

Mom really hurt me back then. I remember how I promised to spite her… Wait I did want to spite my mother for her feelings. Is it possible that I'm not a monster? Is it possible that I only acted bad to get back at my mother? Azula thought

"I feel all smoothed." Ty Lee said. "I'll always remember this."

"You know what would make this trip really memorable?" Zuko said as he looked around.

As the boy opened his front door he saw the 4 people that left his party earlier.

"We've got some bad news chan." Ty Lee giggled

"Party's over." Zuko said. After that they all trashed his house and burned it down. Afterwards they all felt so good that they had a big group hug.

AN: Sorry if the chapter seems weird. I wanted Zuko to mention going after Chan's house cuz he was disrespected. Azula felt good because she helped her brother. She is very confused about her past now.