AN//: Hey, Here is my first attempt at any Zutara stuff. I decided to take on the Zutara 100 challenge (I know- that's a little ambitious). I probably won't write them all in order, but I will put which Prompt number it is before I start the chapter.

Category: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Pairing: Zuko and Katara

Rating: M (to be on the safe side)

Disclaimer: I do not now, nor have I ever owned any piece of A:TLA. If I did, the ending would not have happened the way the writers wrote it. For one thing, Ozai and Azula would be dead. For another Kataang would not exist. (be honest, if we saw a "ten years later" segment, they would have broken up and we all know it.)

Zutara 100 number: 001. Beginnings.

Enjoy!

Beginnings:

She gazed at him through the fog over his bathwater. He was nothing like she had expected. She had thought he would be rude, arrogant, and obnoxious. She had treated him coldly and yet he was never anything less than chivalrous and kind to her. Could she have been wrong? What if he really wasn't the monster she had painted him to be?

Deep down she knew he wasn't a bad person; he had just made some bad choices. Her heart knew, and no matter how her head tried to deny it, she couldn't get over the longing she felt for him. Every time he moved and she saw his muscles ripple underneath the skin she wondered if those same muscles would strain under her as she rode him in bed.

Would his forehead bead with sweat as he gave the concentration he devoted to his exercise now devoted to pleasuring her? Would his eyes have that intense look in them as he gazed at her naked waiting body?

Finally she couldn't stand it anymore and had snuck into the bathing room to confront him about her longings and desires. But once she was there, she couldn't say anything; just stare at his sculpted body as water trickled into and over the hollows and grooves of his muscles.

"Katara," his voice broke through her thoughts, "why are you in here?"

She took a deep breath and dropped her robe before slipping into the hot water with him. She swam across the small pool, surfacing to straddle his lap. "I'm starting a new beginning for us," she murmured before capturing his lips.