Hello everyone and welcome to my humble fanfic! I've had this idea in my head for months now and I finally decided to write it out since it just won't leave me alone. This story will mostly focus on the relationship Between Jee and Ursa (strange, I know, give it a chance!) but will also have some Zutara in later chapters. I admit I am not much of a writer but I hope you enjoy anyway!
Disclaimer: Avatar: The Last Airbender belongs to Nickelodeon, not me.
Shimeiishiki: The Awareness of Duty
Prologue: Makaseru - To Entrust to Another
I have always been loyal to my nation, but I would be lying if I didn't say that the request given to me by General Iroh all those years ago was an easy one for me to agree to. Oh, if it had been a regular military mission given to me by the General where I was faced with the possibility of death I would have stepped right up, no questions asked, without any hesitation about throwing myself into battle for the man I so looked up to.
But this… this was a completely different type of assignment and as such it required me to sacrifice something even more valuable then my own life. Going along with what General Iroh wanted meant that I would have to give up my hopes for a peaceful family life after retiring from the military. Admittedly I knew it was a feeble dream anyway, I would have to deny the odds and manage to survive the war before that vision could come to pass.
My mission, and I did choose to accept it, was to marry someone I had never met and keep her identity hidden from anyone searching for her. As if this odd request itself wasn't shocking enough, imagine my surprise when I learned that the girl, no… the women, I was to wed was no innocent peasant charged wrongly in Ozai's court for a crime she did not commit. Oh no, if only things had been that simple then maybe I wouldn't have ended with a part to play in the final battle that would ultimately end the 100 year long war for good.
For you see, the person General Iroh wanted me to make my spouse was none other then the recently disappeared Princess Ursa, wife of newly crowned Fire Lord Ozai.
At the time I remember wondering just what I had gotten myself into.
This is going to be a sort of Drabble-fic (Unless I'm able to flesh it out into something longer, but no promises there). Every other chapter is going to go back and forth between Ursa's and Jee's point of view, starting with Jee in the next chapter. Please give it a chance!
I'm not going to ask you to review because I'm horrible at doing it myself (If you've written a Zutara fic I've probably read it and not reviewed... I'm sorry!), but if you so feel the need to send one my way I thank you in advance!
Raika
