Well from the reviews I decided to expand this into a two-shot. Hopefully this is as good as the first part was.

I own nothing, but i have been forced to play a similar name game as Zuko a few times.

Name Game

It was the middle of the night, Zuko assumed, when the avatar- er Aang- came into his room again. Zuko had been dreaming about koala-sheep for some reason when one of them started talking, more like shouting, in Aang's voice.

"Zuko, wake up!" it shouted.

"Go away stupid sheep," he growled, igniting his fists to show that he meant business. The koala-sheep didn't seem to get the message.

"Zuko, c'mon you need to get up!" it shouted, nudging him with its nose.

"I SAID GO AWAY!" he shouted inches away from the creature's face. The koala-sheep looked sad.

"But Zuko, I'm not a sheep!" it shouted in his ear. Of course it was then that Zuko finally woke up for real to see Aang sitting at the foot of his bed. For a moment he forgot where he was and almost burnt his new comrade to a crisp, but then Katara's word echoed in his mind.

"If you do anything to hurt him, I will end you"

Zuko frowned, at least more deeply than before, and set his glare on stun even though he knew Aang was immune to the power of his emo boy glares.

"Aang, what are you doing here?" Zuko asked slowly. "It's not even sunrise yet."

"Well I was thinking…" the boy began.

"I'm fine with that so long as your thinking doesn't wake me," Zuko interrupted.

Aang continued as if Zuko's negativity couldn't take away his sunshine, which it couldn't.

"I thought that if you didn't know my name then you don't know everyone else so you should try to reintroduced yourself to them!"

"Right now?"

"Right now!"

Zuko took a deep breath and reminded himself that Aang was still a little kid as such he probably had endless pools of energy and didn't understand that everyone else did not run that way as well.

"I'll learn everyone else's names later," he grunted, pulling his lone blanket over his head.

"But Zuko!"

The fire prince cut him off, "First fire bending lesson: FIREBENDERS WAKE UP AT SUNRISE!"

With that he kicked Aang off his bed and tried to go back to sleep.

At sunrise five or so hours later Zuko half expected to find Aang shouting in his ear to wake up so he could learn everyone's names. Zuko saw no point in consciously redoing what he had the night before with Aang with everyone. He only had done it then because it was a spontaneous thing and he thought it would never have to happen again. Didn't Aang realize that he could learn names just by listening to the group in conversation settings?

Of course not.

When Zuko swung his legs over the bed he almost stepped on a sleeping Aang. Apparently the boy had thought it would get in his good graces if he were there and ready when the training began. Zuko smirked. If he was going to get Aang ready to fight his father then he'd have to be a harder teacher than his tutors had been. It had annoyed him when he was young, but since he was in the position to be a sadistic teacher he couldn't help but enjoy it.

Zuko took a deep breath, "WAKE UP!"

Aang yelped and jumped almost five feet into the air. He, of course, landed gracefully on his feet though and stood in attention.

"Yes sifu?" Aang exclaimed.

Zuko's eye twitched. It was going to be a long day.

A few hours later the others had woken up to find Zuko and Aang doing breathing exercises. Many times had he tried to lodge a complaint or at least get Zuko to show him some fire bending. Even though they had been nemeses for the latter part of the year Aang and Zuko actually hadn't fought that much. The times that they did fight, Zuko noted, Aang had been preoccupied with surviving than studying the art.

"Wow, I thought fire bending lessons would be a lot more intense," Katara's brother chuckled with the blind girl…her name started with a T, right?

"Yeah me too," Aang sighed.

"No talking," Zuko ordered sharply. "Focus on your breathing!"

Instead of replying annoyingly "yes sifu Hotman" as he had earlier that morning Aang grinned.

"Hey guys, why don't you come over and learn to breathe with me?" he said in a sing song voice.

"Nope, I'm can breathe just fine," Katara's brother scoffed, obviously intrigued by this friend.

"Come on man," Aang said purposefully placing emphasis on the substitute for Katara's brother's name.

Zuko did not like where it was going.

The blind girl grinned back. Zuko made a note to ask how she always seemed to see while she was blind. Was she like the Fox-Bats with echolocation or something along those lines?

"Yeah," blind girl said. "I think we should breathe with Twinkle toes and Sparky."

"Sparky?" Zuko intoned, glancing at Aang who just shrugged.

Blind girl gave out nicknames? Maybe that meant he could just call her, and the others he didn't know by some random nickname!

"Zuko doesn't know any of our names," Aang said suddenly, dashing his plans of totally faking it. "And his pride won't let him ask sooooo…"

Katara's brother interrupted, "Wait you spent all that time hunting us down and didn't know our names?"

Zuko put his hands up, "I know Katara and Aang…"

Katara scowled. It was most likely because he had learned her name quote unquote first of the members of the "Gaang." It didn't help matters that it was when they had been trapped in the crystal prisons and were actually bonding. For a moment Zuko wondered what would have happened if he had just gone with the avatar, slip up again, Aang when they had been rescued. It was likely that he would have had more time to teach the airbender how to firebend with some help too…

"But why don't you know us?" Katara's brother demanded, puling Zuko out of his musings.

"He said that it was some kind of hunting thing," Aang hastily explained.

"Oh, well that makes sense," Katara's brother nodded. "I'm So-"

Katara interrupted, "Wait, I say we make Zuko work for it."

Zuko's blood ran cold, just because Katara didn't like him didn't mean that she had to make it so difficult to learn two names!

"What do you mean, Katara?" Aang asked.

"They give him one clue each to their names and he has to guess." Katara said simply.

Zuko nodded, that was reasonable and it didn't hurt that he already had a clue from each of them already. Once more the blind girl's name started with a T and Katara's brother's name started with So. It was going to be easy!

"My name is really cool," blind girl said.

"And my name is two syllables," Katara's brother smirked.

Zuko's jaw dropped. "What kind of clues are those?"

"Your clues," Katara smiled. "Now get to guessing."

It had been an hour when Zuko realized that he was never going to figure it out. The only way to call off the challenge was to, and he really did not want to do it unless it was completely necessary, humble himself before Katara. She was doing something with a boiling pot of water when he found her.

"Katara, I don't think I can figure it out," he frowned.

"Figure what out, Zuko?" Katara asked, not looking up at him.

"Names, I don't know them still," he sighed.

"What do you want me to do about it?"

"Maybe get Aang to call off the challenge?" He muttered. "He does listen to you."

Katara sprang up and was bright red.

"What do you mean by that?" she demanded. Zuko rolled his eyes in disbelief at how blind the two were. It was obvious to everyone but them that they had romantic feelings for each other. Instead of pushing it further he just decided to go the direct route. The blind girl was closest so he went to her first.

"What do you need Sparky?" she scoffed while he was ten feet away.

"How do you do that?" he asked instead. "Know that I'm here."

Blind girl turned to face him and pointed her finger in his face.

"You and I both know that's not what you really want!" she exclaimed.

Zuko couldn't help but feel amazed that she was able to figure out what he really was there for.

"The clue you gave about your name wasn't helpful," Zuko said keeping it short.

The blind girl rubbed her chin in deep thought, and then a look of inspiration dawned on her face.

"Tell me how I can see you and you have to surprise me too," she smirked. "And I'll tell you my name."

The blind girl stepped back a few feet, span herself around in circles, and then covered her eyes for good measure.

"How do I…"

"You can firebend if you want, or get those swords of yours if you like" Blind girl interrupted.

Zuko wished that he had his swords. He was still a bit wary of fire bending around blind girl since he had burned her feet…

"Just get to it already Sparky."

So Zuko did. He assumed that her "sight" had to do with her hearing so if he could be as silent as possible he could get close and… well whatever he came up with.

Moving silently was of no problem for him so with ease he slipped closer and was about to unleash a small fireball when a wall of earth rose in front of him.

He yelped. Her hearing was not the way she saw things so it didn't matter what he did. Zuko leapt over the wall and while he was still in the air he saw the slightest twinge of confusion on the girl's face.

It came to him.

Instead of landing on the wall Zuko focused his fire to act as propulsion and landed inches away from the blind girl's face.

"You feel vibrations through the earth," he whispered in her ear.

Even though her eyes always looked blank Zuko swore he saw a flash of surprise. Blind girl thrusted out her hand and took Zuko's.

"My name is Toph Bei Fong, and you're smarter than Snoozles thinks,"

Zuko stalked off into what he knew to be Katara's brother's room. The boy seemed to be building something, but Zuko wasn't exactly sure what of…

"You figure out my name yet?" he chuckled, still wholly focused on the contraption.

"No, but I was wondering if you could just give me a challenge to complete instead," Zuko explained.

Like Toph the boy was excited. He forced Zuko to cover his eyes and led the prince outside.

"All you have to do is catch me,"

And with that Zuko opened his eyes to see that the water tribesman had disappeared. He sighed inwardly. A game of tracking was just salt to his already wounded pride since he had spent years hunting one person and never actually caught him.

A flash of blue appeared out of the corner of his eye and Zuko knew where to go. He couldn't believe that someone who claimed to be so smart wouldn't realize how much the blue of his tunic stood out against the green on the forest.

Of course then he saw a flash of brown out of the other corner of his eye.

Zuko looked once more at where he had seen the blue and realized that it was the lemur flying through the trees with Katara's brother's tunic wrapped around it. Zuko smiled and ran off to pursue his target. Zuko decided against being quiet and just pounced. He landed gracefully right in front of Katara's brother and tapped him on the shoulder.

"I win," he said simply.

"Aw man!" Katara's brother exclaimed. "I thought Momo would totally throw you off!"

Momo was the lemur's name?

"It didn't," Zuko lied. "So now you tell me your name."

The boy nodded, "I'm Sokka,"

Zuko restrained himself from jumping for joy since that was something a prince never did, but instead thanked Sokka and made his way to wherever Katara was.

He had found the water bender with Aang doing some training.

"I learned their names," he called out to them.

"Yeah, I knew you could do it!" Aang exclaimed, floating in the air.

Katara briefly nodded, a sign of acknowledgement, and Zuko had a feeling that he was on the road to earn their trust.