Disclaimer: No I do not own Avatar the Last Airbender, that right belongs exclusively to Bryke.

The sun slowly climbed over the soft green hill spilling its light on the young man sitting cross legged eyes peacefully closed, face stretching toward the sun like a daisy grown in a window pot. His soft, tousled black hair fell gently over his face almost covering the left side and the angry, scarlet, flame shaped scar there. The fact that he was royalty was evident in the regality of his features and in the bright, burning gold color of his eyes when he opened them. He rose meditatively to his feet and carefully stepped over the gently sleeping bodies of his friends until he found the one he was looking for. Gently he shook the shoulder of the sleeping girl clad in the brightest of blues. She opened her cerulean eyes and tried with limited success to rub the sleep from them. "Zuko?!" she whispered having enough wherewithal to not want to wake the others. "What are you doing here?"

"Well, uh, I'm going to do my morning excercises and uh,… Ithoughtyoumightwanttojoinme." He whispered the last part quickly, nerves obvious in the tone and speed of his voice.

"What?" Katara hissed having not caught the last part. Zuko's hand shot immediately to the back of his neck a faint blush appearing on his alabaster cheeks.

"I thought you might want to join me. Since you're, uh always asking about them and stuff." He finished looking nervously away. Katara's eyes lit up.

"Sure, just let me grab my water pouches." Zuko nodded his acquiescence

"I'll meet you in the next meadow over." Katara nodded distractedly, searching through her satchel for her water pouches. Within ten minutes they were both doing their warm up stretches and preliminary exercises and then it began. Katara's slow, gentle and smooth arcs of water both mirrored and countered Zuko's quick and agile fire whips. They both bent completely lost in their elements weaving complicated patterns of unbelievable beauty. It built Katara adding more and more water from the world around her challenging Zuko to bend more and higher, which he did matching her every move. They both sent huge bursts of their element straight on a collision course for each other! Closer and closer the waves of fire and water came until finally they came together, collided as was always their destiny and created…..steam.

"Alright Toph you win." Sokka muttered sulkily amidst the laughing. Everyone was there Toph, Aang, Suki, Sokka, heck even Momo and Appa were there.

"Hey Sugar Queen were you and Sparky planning to open up a spa? 'cause if you were we can tell them you've already got the sauna." Toph fell knocked back by the force of her laughter.

"Ha ha very funny." Katara retorted unable to think of anything else to say.

"So Katara this is why you've been waking up early." Aang innocently piped in. Both Zuko and Katara blushed at this.

"I'm off to uh.. gather firewood, yeah that makes sense, firewood." Zuko left trying desperately to hide his ever reddening face. The rest of them turned to Katara.

"Uh… dishes!" she exclaimed and hightailed after Zuko….despite the fact that the camp was in the other direction.


A/N So yeah, I probably should have been working on my actual story instead of writing this but this was just too good to miss and I had a blast writing it. So here's a somewhat fluffy Zutara oneshot for you.