Behind those crystal blue eyes...(zutara love story)

19. One rough day

This is going to be a short chapter! Mostly for filler! Hang tight for the next major chapter!

Katara pov

I returned to the camp as the sky turned orange, I walked down to the river to practice my bending. As aang was being handed a smoking leaf, " concentrate on the fire, I want you to keep the flame from reaching the edges of the leaf for as long as you can." The master spoke sternly and crossed his arms behind his back. Aang lets out a frustrated groan as one of the guards runs up to them. "Master there is trouble!" Aang worriedly asks " what's going on?" Jeong Jeong starts to run off with him, "concentrate on your leaf!" As he disappeared into the woods Aang looked at me and complained, " this is the worst fire bending instruction ever. All he does is leave me alone for hours to concentrate or breathe!" I sighed and tried to help him understand, " i'm sure there's a good reason. He just want you to be careful and be safe, haven't you seen his scars?"

" I understand that but I'm ready to do so much more!"  He widens his stance and takes several deep breath's while holding a leaf. A few seconds later he had a flame in his hand.
"hey I did it, I made fire!"  I stared at him worriedly. "Aang that's great but you should take it slow please be careful!"  He made a larger flame and almost caught himself on fire. Then he shot a line of fire into the air, " now that's fire bending!"  I moved closer to him trying to get him to stop and calm down but he wasn't listening, "Aang, you'll hurt yourself!! please just wait! You're being too impatient!"
He completely ignored me and started throwing around the fire like it was a toy, then suddenly he seem to get an idea. " I wonder how that juggler did it?" He spun around and shot a circle of fire into the air around him with a huge smile on his face.

The fire blast was coming straight for me, my eyes widened and I held out my hands to protect myself but it was to late. I screamed loudly as the hot fire burned my bare hands, I'd never felt such pain in my entire life. I fell to the ground clutching my scared red hands and I cried harder. I couldn't even talk because of the pain. Aang and sokka ran over to me, " katara I'm so sorry!! Are you ok? I'm sorry!!" Aang tried to apologize but I was hurt to bad to answer. " katara whats wrong? What did you do?!?" Sokka asked before yelling at Aang.

" it was an accident!! I was-uh.. Katara I'm so sorry!!" Aang was stuttering and trying to explain himself But I just kept crying. This hurt worse than losing my innocence earlier, I couldn't control my tears and sobs as I watched Sokka tackle Aang to the ground. " I told you you shouldn't mess around with this!! Look what you did! You burned my sister!! She's badly hurt because of you! You need to stop treating everything like a game and grow up! You could've killed her!" I couldn't take anymore and I ran into the woods as fast as I could. I couldn't watch them fighting, and I needed some time to myself.

I found myself running to the river I needed to be close to the water. I crouched down sobbing and I slowly looked at my hands, I was going to be scarred just like zuko. My best friend burnt me, and all because he couldn't be patient and listen to his master. I wondered how zuko felt when he got burnt.. his was in his face.. I can't imagine how painful that was. I briefly thought about how he got his scar.. did he get to close to a bender too? I always knew that fire vendors were dangerous, but I never thought my own friend would hurt me. I know he didn't mean it but.. now I was afraid of fire even more than before. I reached my hands out and placed them in the water gently, it hurt at first but then the pain started to fade away. I looked down at my hands in shock as The red marks faded away in my hands glowed blueish white. I felt someone come up behind me, " you have healing abilities, The great benders of the water tribes sometimes have this ability. I always wished I were blessed like you, Free from this burning curse." Jeong jeong approached me as he spoke and crouched down next to me. " but you are a great master, you have powers I will never know!"