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Pre story. How the characters died.

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Zuko

There was nothing but chaos surrounding Zuko. He was running to a safe spot so he could rest after battling endlessly for endless hours. The problem was a safe spot didn't exist. Suddenly, Zuko felt a blast of white heat burn his back. Lightning surrounded him, and in Zuko's last painful moments of life he turned around slowly to see his killer. The first person he saw was Iroh.

"Uncle….?" Zuko asked in a weak and almost hurt voice. Then everything went black.

The spirit council decided to take mercy on him and abolish any of the punishments that he had not yet lost out of life's good deeds with the exception of one, due to the fact that his life had ended before it should have. Destiny had great plans for him, and Azula would be punished severely.

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Iroh

At the age of ninety-eight Iroh had lived a long life. It was a good one with very sad area here and there, but one thing had always haunted him - the look on Zuko's face the moment before he died.

Iroh saw Azula strike Zuko on the back, murdering him with lightning. She ran immediately, confusing Iroh: hitting and running just wasn't her style. When he saw the look on Zuko's face he knew why she did it - Azula wanted to hurt Zuko one last time. She let him think the man who he always ran to, was always the first to trust, and the shoulder he had cried on more than three years ago was the one who ruthlessly slaughtered him.

All these thoughts ran through Iroh's head, as he died a silent natural death. Almost everyone that he had met had come to say his or her final goodbyes. He breathed his last breath and went on with hope to tell Zuko the truth.

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Katara

Katara put herself to bed for the night. In the boredom that always happened before one went to bed, her mind began to wander. Katara thought about the great grandchildren she should have had. She remembered her last visit to Aunt Wu.

Katara had helped Aang defeat the fire lord three years ago, and she had no passionate romance or any sign of marriage in her future.

"You again?" The aged doorman asked inquisitively"I want to know if I will meet the love Aunt Wu said I would," Katara explained forlornly.

"Welcome in," he said in a sympathetic tone.

"Aunt Wu," Katara called out.

"Yes? Oh, it's you," Aunt Wu said flatly.

"I haven't met anyone who could be my true love, and it should have happened years ago," Katara defended emotionally.

"Come here, and let me read your palm again," Aunt Wu comforted her hastily. She led Katara into a private room and sat her down on a seat cushion. "The markings on your palm seemed to have changed drastically."

"Does that mean I will never find love?" Katara asked with fear.

"I'm afraid so. It says here that your love has already found his death," Aunt Wu said sadly.

Katara walked out of there with a broken heart.

It was only years later that the idea of Zuko being her love occurred to her, and even then she just brushed it off.

Katara had learned to hate Zuko when he was alive, but knowing the way he died made her pity him. No one deserved to die the way he did - thinking the only man who ever truly cared for him killed him in cold blood, but she didn't forgive him. Those were Katara's last thoughts and recollections before she went to sleep for the last time.

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Aang

The Air Nomad children called Aang the "Powerful Old Fart". He had found a pocket of surviving Air Nomads at age 125, right around the time he had his first child with Toph. Right now he was just bordering 200. He had seen Katara, Iroh, Sokka, Toph, and Zuko die; Zuko's had been the death that haunted him most.

When he saw Iroh bringing Zuko into camp he had prepared to fight and he was hurt that Iroh had betrayed him. Then he saw that Iroh was clutching Zuko's body.

A man who was writing Zuko's tragic biography came up to Aang, and from what Aang had read of his notes it was a story worth telling.

"What was Zuko face like when you first saw his dead body?" The man asked in a hurried reporter-like manner.

"His face resembled an innocent child who just fell into a dreamless sleep," Aang said in his old fraying voice. "It was then that I realized that the world lost what possibly could have been one of the greatest men of all time."

"Thank you for your limited time," The writer said crudely.

Aang humphed at the writer, but Aang knew as well as everyone else that his time in this life was limited.

Just as Aang thought that he walked off into the sanctuary of the Air Temple nearby and vanished.

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Sokka

Sokka was 70 years old and still hunting. He had his pride about hunting and never accepted that he was growing out of shape. That pride was about to become Sokka's downfall.

"You are 70 years old and you went seal-bear hunting?" A healer asked him grimly.

"I would rather die this way then die of just plain old age," Sokka's said with all the resilience a dying 70 year old could muster. "There is one thing I would like to say before I go: Zuko had it coming. I never heard the sob story about his past and death, and I don't care. I don't care about what other people say and I think Katara suspecting that Zuko may have been the man she should have married because of that Aunt Wu's prediction is stupid."

In the middle of the night Sokka died of a combination of his old age and injuries.

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That's all the necessary deaths I need to cover. The reason I need to post this is that the characters will have hunches about others due to that characters past life. They will also have little voices in their heads from their past life. Not the crazy kind, but the kind that tells you that you are going to far or that's wrong.

I am sorry if I am screwing up the whole reincarnation thing for all of you that believe it, but cut me some slack. I have no clue about this stuff and I thought that reincarnations living in modern day would make an interesting story.

To all those who will flame me for killing them I accept that kind because it is a little justified, but if you insult my story itself I do not take that kind well.

If you are wondering why I didn't put as much effort into Zuko's death the answer is mercy. I didn't want to hurt any Zuko fans like myself more than necessary.

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