Hello all and welcome to ZUTARA WEEK 2010! I am so excited, and the first promt is . . . FAMILY! This is my first Zutara Week and i'm PUMPED! So now, I will leave you to your Zutara Week fluff!
This is set somewhere between The Boiling Rock and The Southern Raiders. Enjoy!
Disclaimer- I don't own Avatar. If I did, considering the finale, do you think I would be writing Zutara fanfiction?
Zuko woke up first as usual. He looked out his window at the sunrise before stretching widely and stepping out of bed. He washed the morning breath from his mouth, shaved his stubble and peach fuzz, made his bed, and cleaned his face. When he walked outside, he knew his companions were just waking up. He sat over by the edge of the temple, thought about it, then moved at least twelve feet away from the ledge.
' I don't need Katara having an 'accident' while i'm peacefully gazing at the sunrise'
Zuko gazed at the extravagant colors of the beautiful sunrise as he absorbed the power and strength it gave him. He started to hear movement around the gaang's dining area, then talking. He heard the voices of his friends Aang, Toph, Sokka...
He began to stand up to join them.
He heard Katara.
He sat back down and continued to find comfort in the colorful sky.
It's not that Zuko was scared of the waterbender, oh no, that wasn't it at all, he just wasn't in the mood to deal with her yelling at him for no reason. He knew Katara hated him, and he knew why. He didn't need it all to be yelled in his face reminding him of his betrayal to not only her, but his Uncle as well. He had betrayed her and this is how he is to be punished for making her suffer. Zuko had been able to gain the trust of all her companions but she refused to forgive the firebender for his past wrong doings.
Zuko heard Katara ring the breakfast bell; he rolled his eyes and let out a groan of frustration before getting up to go to breakfast. He walked over to the dining area slowly, the gaang's conversations getting louder and louder as he got closer.
Everyone looked at him with bright smiles and told him 'Good Morning' before returning to there previous conversations, well, except Katara. Katara had her back to him preparing the last of the meals which, apperantly, this morning was vegetable soup. He sat quietly between Aang and Suki as he waited to get breakfast. He heard the chattering of who could only be Momo and watched as he made his way stealthily over to one of the bowls. He watched, disgusted, as Momo began to lick one of the bowls, drool running down his tongue into the contaminated soup. He grimaced as the lemur snuck away, just as Katara turned around. Zuko would have to warn the person who got the cantaminated soup bowl. Katara passed around the bowls and as Zuko received his meal. He looked down to see saliva and bitten vegetables in his bowl.
'Of course' he thought 'did she plan this or something?' he wondered as he glared at the bowl in disgust.
"Is something wrong?" he heard a voice ask him. He looked up to see Katara glaring at him from accross the table.
"N-no" he said caught off guard "Nothing's wrong, it's jus-"
"If you don't like my cooking, you can just go make your own food for all I care!"
"No! it's just-!"
"What? Is vegetable soup to good for the prince of the firenation? Oh, or should I say banished prince"
"What is the matter with you, you ps-"
"WILL YOU TWO GUYS QUIT IT!" Toph yelled at them standing and slamming her first on the table.
Her face relaxed and she sat down peacefully. "It's hard to eat a peaceful meal with you guys flirting with eachother so loud, it's making me sick AND giving me a head ache" she said calmly before flashing a small smirk.
"FLIRTING?" Katara screamed in rage.
"TOPH!" Aang yelled rising out of his seat
"Ahh, shut it Twinkle Toes." she said before making the earth slide beneath his feet causing him to fall back into his chair.
" I would NEVER flirt with or date Katara!" He said outright disgusted and stated her name as if it were a disease. "She is a water tribe peasant! My current family would never except her, and my heirs would have watertribe blood tainting the royal family blood line, THEN ruining my LATER family too, not to mention she's a CRAZY WITCH!" He said clearly angered.
But he immediately regretted his words and looked over at Katara. For a second she had an expression of hurt on her face which quickly tranformed into one of anger and fury.
"Oh yeah! Well my family wouldn't except you either!" She said trying to get revenge "They would never accept my going with a pompous, spoiled, arrogant, heartless, jerk like YOU"
"Katara I-"
"Not that it will ever matter!" She said fiery fury burning in her ocean blue eyes
"Because I would NEVER date you in A MILLON YEARS!"
-=-8 years later-=-
Zuko and Katara were on a couch in the royal firenaton palace making out.
Katara stopped
"I can't believe it" she said
"What?" Zuko asked just wanting to continue kissing "That we're getting married?"
"No" she replied " That I have to tell my family we're getting married"
Zuko flinched
"Oh yeah, that"
"Sokka is gonna FREAK! Dad is gonna try to kill you!"
Zuko glared at her, Katara ignored him and continued rambling
"And oh gods Toph is gonna be all like 'I told ya so' and Yue knows what AANG is gonna do"
She started biting her nails and pacing back and forth before Zuko took her hand in his and lightly squeezed it before kissing it.
"It's all gonna be alright" he said softly trying to calm her down.
"Easy for YOU to say!" she said smirking "Azula is in an asylum, Ozai is in prison, and Iroh and Ursa are gonna be ecstatic!" she stated lifting an eyebrow.
"Hey! I intend to tell Ozai. . . eventualy" he stated blushing and rubbing the back of his neck.
"uuuuughh" Katara sighed falling back into the couch leaning her head back in exasperation.
"At least were gonn have some beautiful steam babies." Zuko said smiling with an 'on the brightside' tone in his voice. Katara laughed before rolling her head over to the side to smile at him.
A/N AND THATS ALL FOR DAY 1 OF ZUTARA WEEK! Can't wait for tomorrow! Tomorrow's theme, CHANGE! Also, the reason this was published July 27th instead of 26th is because I posted it a wee bit after midnight since my story got deleted FOUR TIMES before I was finally ably to write it and post it successfully! I actually like this better than my first try so I guess everything happens for a reason!
Also! For anyone who wondered if Zuko actually DID tell Ozai. He did. It went like this.
Four years later Zuko walks into the prison room holding the hand of his three year old daughter.
"Daddy?" The little girl asked tugging on her father's robes "Where are we going?" she wondered, looking up at her father.
"We are going to see your Uncle Ozai" he said as he opened the door to get to Ozai's cell.
"Oh" Ozai stated hatred and disgust laced in his voice, he turned around to look at Zuko and the girl with blue eyes "What are YOU doing here with that abomination!"
"Don't talk to me and my daddy like that!" the girl lashed out at Ozai "You are the WORST uncle ever"
"What does she mean uncle"
"Ozai, this is my daughter Kaya"
"Why are her eyes blue then?" Ozai questioned studying the child.
"I am married to Katara of the water tribe and-"
Ozai's eyes widened
"YOU ARE MARRIED TO A WATER TRIBE PEASANT ! YOU HAVE DARED TO TAINT ROYAL BLOOD!"
"I AM YOUR FIRE LORD AND YOU WILL SPEAK TO ME WITH RESPECT!"
"I AM YOUR FATHER AND I WILL TALK TO YOU HOWEVER THE HELL I WANT!"
"YOU ARE NO LONGER A FATHER TO ME! IROH IS! YOU ARE ONLY KAYA'S UNCLE BECAUSE YOU ARE IROH'S BROTHER"
"I HELPED GIVE YOU LIFE! YOU'RE A TERRIBLE FIRE LORD AND A SHAME TO YOUR NATION!"
"THE FIRENATION IS DOING BETTER THAN EVER WITHOUT KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE AND LOOK WHERE YOU ARE! ROTTING IN A PRISON CELL! AND I'M THE SHAME?"
Ozai only glared at him. They both just stood there and glared at eachother for a few minutes.
"Just thought you'd know" he said before walking away after picking up his scared daughter and holding her in his arms after brushing some of her wavy black hair out of her pale white face.
"Goodbye Uncle" she said to Ozai glaring
The door shut closed
"Goodbye Kaya" he whispered to the ground.
Thank you guys SO much for reading and I hope you will read tomorrows prompt too (technically today considering the time)! Hope you enjoyed reading! Please leave a review telling how you feel about this. CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM IS GREATLY APPRECIATED! Happy ZUtara Week!
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