Ok, so these are gonna be like related-oneshots, if that makes any sense. The first few chapters are gonna be more related than the ones later on, but these are just kinda ideas I come up with, and instead of making them seperate oneshots, I'm gonna try to make them work together. I just don't feel like making seperate stories for each of them, soo yeah.

Disclaimer: I don't nor will I ever own avatar(blast!)

The title of this came from the song New Slang by the Shins(I lurv them)

It was cool out, and there was a soft breeze. Zuko paid no mind to this break in the hot, muggy weather they had been enduring the past few days.

The rest of the gang was done celebrating the arrival of their three new members, and had begun to get ready for bed.

He had too much on his mind. He had thought joining the Avatar and his gang would put his mind at rest. It had for a while, until now.

When Zuko had left the Firenation, the only thing he had really left behind was Mai. He hadn't wanted to get her involved, so he plainly left a note saying he was leaving. He never wanted to even put an ounce of thought in her mind that would make her do something traitorous as he had done. He never thought he would see her until after Aang had defeated the Firelord and the war was over. Then he would explain everything to her and hopefully she would understand.

Things don't work out for Zuko that well.

Unfortunately when Zuko and Sokka went to the Boiling Rock prison, Zuko was discovered. Even more unfortunately, the warden just happened to be Mai's uncle and had told Mai he was there. Ultimately, it resulted in an unpleasant conversation, which Zuko had thought made her hate him even more.

Surprisingly enough, Mai had saved them. Now, well, that was what was bothering Zuko.

At the time he wanted to go back and get her out of there so she wouldn't have to face Azula, but he knew he couldn't. They had been able to get out alive, and he didn't want to put everyone at risk again. Especially since Sokka had newfound happiness in his two rescued loved ones.

He let out a sigh while leaning on a railing overlooking the cliff at the Western Air Temple. He wanted to know what happened to her. He wanted to know that she was ok. That Azula hadn't done anything too drastic.

He heard someone walk up behind him. He turned around to see who it was. Sokka joined Zuko in leaning on his railing. There was some silence before either one spoke.

Sokka was the first one to break the silence. "Hey man, are you all right?" he asked.

Zuko replied with a half sigh, half spoken answer, "Yeah." Sokka could barely here him.

"Its kinda obvious there's something wrong," Sokka said. He was afraid that Zuko was going to blow up on him, but it was really obvious.

To Sokka's surprise, he didn't blow up on him. He just turned to look up at him and then shook his head before standing up straight.

"I'm just thinking about someone, that's all," he said, his gaze now straight ahead of him.

"Oh. Who are you thinking about, your uncle?" Sokka asked.

Zuko shook his head. "No. I know he's fine, wherever he is."

Sokka tried guessing again. Then it hit him. "You're thinking about your girlfriend, aren't you?"

He took Zuko's silence as the answer.

"I can't believe she did that. I mean, she never seemed like she wanted to really fight unless she had too. She even let us take the Earth King's bear without argument." Sokka looked at Zuko before to see if he was going to say anything before continuing. "Although, I can't blame her for that. That bear was a huge waste of space when we were traveling with the Earth King." Sokka paused again, still with no reply from his comrade. "She must really be into you to do that."

Zuko shook his head. He looked frustrated, and Sokka was afraid he had said something he shouldn't have. Zuko let out an agitated growl before speaking. "This wasn't supposed to happen. She wasn't supposed to betray Azula and get herself in trouble. Now I don't know what happened to her."

Sokka tried comforting him the best way he could. "I'm sure she's fine. I mean, I had known Suki was in trouble ever since I saw, well, your girlfriend and the other girl in the Kyoshi Warrior's uniforms, but I just had this feeling that she was going to be ok."

"Look, Sokka. Suki isn't Mai, okay? Suki didn't betray her best friend, who is crazy and has too much power than she needs, to save her friends brother," Zuko was starting to get agitated. He shouldn't have expected Sokka to understand.

"Well that should make everything better shouldn't it? I mean, your sister was friends with her, so she should have even more mercy on her. Right?" Sokka put on a fake grin, hoping he wasn't making Zuko more depressed.

He grabbed onto the railing tightly and tensed up, trying to hold in his anger as best as he could. "No, Sokka, with my sister it works the opposite way. If she trusted you and then you betray her, she won't have any mercy. That makes things ten times worse that Mai was close with her."

There was a silence between them. Sokka couldn't think of anything else to say without making things worse. Obviously Zuko knew more about what they were talking about than Sokka. He tried a different approach.

A small grin appeared on Sokka's face. He loved it when he came up with ideas. "Well, maybe we could go rescue her! I mean, we have the Firenation war balloon. We were able to infiltrate the Boiling Rock once, I'm sure we could do it again."

"No, we can't." Sokka's smile turned into a frown when Zuko shot down his idea. Zuko didn't seem to pay any mind and just continued, "Aang has to learn more firebending now. We don't have any time to waste focusing on other things than defeating my father. We only have a few weeks before the end of summer and we have to be ready by then. Plus, even if we had the time, we couldn't go to the Boiling Rock. I highly doubt Azula would've put Mai there. Her uncle's the warden. She'd be too suspicious of him helping her. I'll just have to wait until the war is over, and hope she's still ok."

A deep breath escaped from Zuko. That seemed to be all he could do was hope. He had to hope his uncle was ok, and now Mai.

Sokka yawned and stretched out his arms. "It's getting late. I'm going to head off to bed. You should too."

Sokka placed a hand on Zuko's shoulder, knowing he couldn't do anything else. "I know it'll be hard, but try not to think about it too much. I'm sure she'll be fine."

Sokka headed off to bed.

After a few minutes, Zuko decided to follow his advice and try to sleep.

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The next morning Zuko got up and headed off to breakfast, still groggy from his lack of sleep. He saw everyone jumbled together giving each other hugs. Confused, Zuko rubbed his eyes and proceeded over to the gang.

"What's going on?" he asked Aang.

"They're going to go rescue the other prisoners of war," Aang stated.

Zuko watched Katara and Sokka as they hugged Hakoda. He thought of his uncle and wondered where he was. He probably opened another teashop somewhere. The thought made him smile to himself.

He watched Haru, the Duke, Teo, and Chit Sang board the airship being lead by Hakoda, as they waved goodbye to everyone with big grins on their faces.

The gang sat there in silence watching the airship launch off until it was barely visible.

Toph was the first one to speak. "Well, now that that's over, let's eat! I'm starving!"

Well, I hoped you liked it. Chapter two is going to be coming sometime, but I'm not sure when. I honestly do think that in the show, all those people who left to save the war prisoners, are actually going to go save the war prisoners, because they aren't shown with the gang in the trailer or in that Ember Island Players clip. Just thought I'd let you know.

If you're a reader of my other story, don't worry, I'm still working on that. I'm almost finished with the next chapter, but I've been a lazy butt and had my mind occupied with other things.

If you're not a reader of my other story, then you should become one. Just sayin...