Take a good read you Zutara fans, because this is all the Zutara I'm writing for a long time. Maybe I might continue, but maybe not. I just thought I'd go for something new because I'm writing so many Kataang stories and I got a little tired of just AangxKatara fluff! It was disgusting, even to me! So now, I did this and I'm also working on Into the Darkness (even if it is filled with fluff to). So maybe if people ask nicely and don't flame my story, I'll make another chapter on Zuko's hidden love.
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Zuko sighed, defeated in his path toward victory. It was his one chance and he failed at getting to his main prize and then have it turn back to another thing.
She was beautiful and strong. Hotheaded at times and wistful. And her name was Katara. But as he sat there and let her heal him, all he thought of was the times he had done wrong to her. He didn't deserve her, he didn't think he did. And she never thought of him as more than a friend. Or an enemy if you count the times he tried to kill her and her friends. But he liked her. It wasn't love, not yet, but if she would just give him a chance, maybe it could turn into something more. Maybe, just maybe it could. He would have liked that, but how about her?
She was content with the Avatar. Zuko could see it when they looked at each other that Aang and Katara were meant to be, but jealousy always took over, and so he decided to lay off watching them flirt endlessly.
But that one time he could have kissed her, hugged her, done something, he chickened out, telling himself that she would just be mad at him and wouldn't like him as even a friend anymore.
So from the point she started dating that Avatar and on, he was in the Friend Zone with her. And he knew they would always be. He had Mai, yes, but she wasn't as fun as Katara. Yes, Mai made him happy, but Katara would make him even more so.
And then came the time that he hurt her at Yu Dao back when the colonies were still trying to get out of the Earth Kingdom. He regretted that for days after, writing it off as his inner Firebender and putting it aside in the back of his mind to forgetfulness. But he did think of it whenever the subject would come up or an event would take place to make him think of it.
So when the Avatar announced that he would be marrying his longtime girlfriend and now fiancée, Zuko was more than broken that he had lost his chances at her. But he knew in the first place he would never get her.
And then Aang and Katara had their first baby after years of marriage. It was a girl with beautiful blue eyes and brown hair with a mix of her parent's skin tones. And Zuko knew it was over, to stop thinking of her in that way and move on with his life. He didn't need some married woman with a new daughter to cheer him up, he needed Mai herself. But he would never stop thinking of Katara's blue eyes and beautiful smile or the time she had saved his life, or even that time when she had offered to fully heal his scar. He would never forget, ever. Zuko would always love Katara like the woman she was, he would just never tell her.
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Sorry for the length! I didn't know what else to write! It didn't have any dialog, so there was nothing more to add. Again, sorry and please review and tell me what you think of my first one-sided Zutara story!