Zutara Week '09
Alright! For the first time ever I'm stepping off of the taang turf (only temporarily) and giving full on Zutara a good shot! Now I warn you, I'm not the best when it comes to Zutara, but I'll do the best I can. Also I'm actually starting this on the third day, so I'm going to submit the first three days (Crossover, Blood, and Jealousy) all in one day (which today is Jealousy) then I will continue on. Also I worked very quickly on this, so apologies for any missed spelling or grammatcial mistakes in advance! So without further ado… let's begin!
Day one: Crossover
Katara sat in her New York apartment. It was a small place, just somewhere she could finally be on her own for college. She was pursuing her degree in biology for acceptance into medical school where she would become a family doctor. It was early in the morning and class didn't start until the afternoon.
So she just sat watching T.V. for any interesting news that may be on or watch an episode of the House marathon. As she flipped channels though, something interesting caught her eye on CNN: "This just in… It seems a bank robbery was foiled by the mysterious Blue Spirit! This blue masked vigilante swooped in just at the nick of time when the robbers had strapped all those in the first national bank in the safe depository with a bomb!
"But luckily, New York's very own hero came to save the day once more, brandishing his trademark Dao Swords! After miraculously stopped the robbers, without getting hurt or hurting them, he opened the depository door and recued all the civilians and defused the bomb!" She news anchor continued with the rest of the report continuing to praise the miraculous feats the Blue Spirit had performed.
Katara smiled, it was about time that people started to step up as heroes to help those who needed it. The Blue spirit once helped an old man, Zuko's uncle, as a matter of fact, from the dastardly Admiral Joy who was a psychopathic mad bomber. Even the old and powerful Sensei Iroh couldn't stand a chance against the Admiral's crazy feats. If it wasn't for the Blue Spirit; Iroh and half of New York City would be gone.
But stopping evil arch nemeses and stopping bank robberies weren't the only things the vigilante did. He helped the police all the time. It was said that police commissioner Hakoda (Katara's father actually) had received a lot of help on cases and other problems the police had. And her brother Sokka, a P.I. had received help on some of his toughest cases like the Adventure of the Red Ruby (that's another story Aang would have to tell you).
And occasionally you could see him jump across the rooftops and help in smallest of petty crimes like retrieving a purse or wallet or maybe a briefcase. He was around to stop muggings, and if he couldn't stop it he vigilante wouldn't rest until the muggers were found and brought to justice. And if that wasn't enough, he would even be seen helping a child find his lost balloon.
He was the most admirable of heroes she had seen. And in some cases the sexiest, but what girl couldn't resist the mysteries of who hid behind that mask, and what kind of body could he have being a martial arts expert, sword master, and acrobatic. It was just one of her many nightly fantasies.
She was brought out of her daze by a knock at her door. She walked over and opened it to reveal Zuko who smiled politely and tapped his watch, "You might want to get ready for class you know… don't want to be late." Katara almost blushed and ran to get her purse and school bag. She followed Zuko down to his parked Mercedes, just one of the many cars a rich boy like him had.
Even though he was rich, he was also polite, friendly (even wit his quick temper), a bit dorky (he could be unusually smart at times), aloof, and many other odd characteristics for a rich boy. Along with his long jet black hair and stunningly attractive burn scar that took up some of the left side of his face, he was on hell of a boy toy for girls.
Katara had the pleasure of getting know him at a café when Zuko had left his keys and wallet at his table. He got up in such a rush he must have forgotten them and ran off for no apparent reason. She was able to find his house and return his belongings. He was so grateful he took her out to what was probably the fanciest dinner she had ever had. They had become good friends and he had agreed to take her to her classes with her lack of funds for a car of her own.
"Did you hear about the Blue Spirit's latest success?" Katara asked.
"You seem to talk about him all the time… I don't think I even need to watch the news anymore to hear about him, I should just go to you." He returned jokingly.
"Ha, real funny. He happened to stop a bank robbery and save everyone inside of it from a massive bomb for you information." she replied knowingly.
"Something tells me you want him to save you like some prince charming, am I right?" he asked his passenger.
"Well excuse me for asking!" she yelled jokingly.
"I think somebody's in looove!" he replied mockingly.
They laughed and there was a moment of silence when Katara asked, "How's Toph been?" Toph was Zuko's adopted sister. Her own father had disbanded her as a member of his family. So Zuko took her in and it turned out she must have been a natural born martial artist. In fact she was one of the few people who could fight completely blindfolded, which helped since her eyesight was lacking enough already.
"She's fine. She can be a bit obnoxious, but the best sister I've had. She's a sister to me like Uncle is my father." Zuko replied. Both his original sister and father might as well have been psychopaths like the Admiral Joy. It was Zuko's own father who had given him that burn scar and his sister had nearly killed Zuko with a .357 magnum that she had unknowingly got her hands on. It was a sad story, but thanks to Sokka and Aang they had helped so long ago with Ozai and Zuko had stopped Azula himself without getting hurt too bad at all.
After a few more minutes, he dropped Katara off at her classes and drove off, promising to meet her promptly when classes were over. He took the back roads that he knew so well, but had refused to let Katara know about, or it would reveal his secret identity.
He returned home and when he did he saw Toph sitting at the kitchen island, "About time you showed up." She said, taking a bite out an apple "That police radio just picked up what seems to be a hostage crisis at the New York Times publishing building."
"Why didn't you page me?" he asked furiously, running up to his room, Toph close at his heels. "You know I don't use the mobile police radio when I drive Katara to her college classes!"
"Did ya ask her out yet, by the way?" Toph decided to ask.
"I don't think this is the right time to ask that!" he said, pulling the Blue Spirit clothes from behind his closet.
"You chickened out, didn't you?" she stated rather than asked.
"We'll talk when I get back." Zuko said to her, putting his mask on and strapping his dual Dao Swords on his back.
He jumped out his window and began traversing the many rooftops of New York. As he ran and jumped he heard Toph say over the communicator, "Seriously, why didn't you ask her out?"
"How about seriously be quiet now! You know to use the communicator only for when there is an emergency."
"This is an emergency! You seriously need a love life! If you don't you're going to get yourself killed!"
"If I think about Katara I will get myself killed!" he retorted angrily, "Now be quiet, I'm almost at the office." It wasn't hard to notice the many S.W.A.T team cars and police cars surrounding the building where every room was dark. The used spot lights to see any of the hostages or anyone inside the building at all, but it was as if the offices were completely empty.
Zuko ran carefully and stealthy and made his way to a higher building farther away. He looked down upon the publishing building and judged the distance carefully. He walked to the other side of the roof and prepared to sprint. He took off and propelled himself off the ledge and dived to the building below. His dark clothes made him nearly invisible in the dark of night.
When he made a perfect landing, he ct a hole into the air ducts and started moving through the ventilation system to find where everyone was. It actually didn't take him long. It turns out there was a small group of gunmen on each floor guarding a small amount of office workers. The power was obviously cut off and the gunmen were using night vision goggles to see. Zuko knew exactly what to do once he saw the night vision goggles.
He made his way to the basement and knocked out the guards near the power box. He searched carefully for the lights and activated them and made a brake for the floor above. When the lights went on he could hear the multiple shouts of panic, surprise, and to his pleasure, pain. The increase of light overloaded the night vision goggles, since they work only in small amounts of light. Too much and it nearly blinds the user.
He agilely knocked out the gunmen he came across and disarmed their weapons before moving to the next floor and repeating it again. He worked his way swiftly to the top floor where he was easily able to tell the leader of the operation, and all he had to do was draw his swords and the leader dropped his weapons and raised his arms in surrender along with the rest of the men on the room. Zuko knocked each one out with a simple strike with the hilts of his swords.
He exited the building just as the S.W.A.T teams moved in to capture the assailants and save the hostages. Everyone knew it was the Blue Spirit was behind the rescue, but he was no where to be found. Instead Zuko was already rushing back to his house, "I need to get to my car and get Katara!" he shouted in his communicator.
"I'll get the car ready." Toph said with boredom.
As Zuko sprinted across rooftops, he heard an eerily familiar scream, "Katara!" he shouted. He looked down one alley where he saw Katara and three men surrounding her.
"I get to have fun with her first!" one yelled maliciously.
"Lets just take her money and kill her." Another suggested.
"Or rob her, have fun with her, then kill her!" the last suggested. The other two laughed in agreement. They started to close in on her, when Zuko swooped in and knocked the three muggers down with little difficulty.
Katara watched in amazement through her sobs of terror. Zuko was about to leave when it started to rain heavily and Katara held up a hand, "Wait!" she yelled.
He turned to look at her. She walked up to him and smiled weakly, "Thank you."
He turned again and she took his hand and pulled him close to her, she lifted his mask slightly and kissed him and returned his mask to the proper position. Zuko then turned and left as Katara walked home feeling much safer now that the Blue Spirit was watching over her too.
"She kissed me!" Zuko explained to Toph, who reclined on his bed, listening to her music.
"Uh –huh." She said absent mindedly.
"She smelled so beautiful, and the kiss was great! I've never been happier to save some one who was about to be mugged!"
"But you haven't asked her out yet, have you?"
"You ruin everything for me, don't you?" he asked morosely.
She smiled and got up and stood on her toes to kiss Zuko's cheek, "Good night, big brother." She said politely before leaving.
The next day Zuko went to Katara's earlier than usual. This time instead of saying hello when she opened the door he took her in his arms and kissed her. When they parted he said, "Would you mind going on a date with me tonight?"
She smiled, "I'd love to."
He smiled back and left to his car where Toph was sitting in the passenger seat, "She said yes, didn't she?"
"Yeah… she did." He said happily.
Toph socked him in the arm and yelled, "Why don't you ever listen to me in the first place then… Now come on, uncle has some lessons for us, let's go! Oh yeah and there's a robbery on fifth street."
Zuko looked at her angrily and drove off quickly.
Katara watched them drive away and she said quietly, "go get 'em, tiger"
A/N- Obviously this is a crossover of Avatar and spider man or the Dark night. I'm fairly sure you might be able to work out the other crossovers… Day two is also here with day three (today). Hope you enjoyed and leave a review! Remember this is my first full Zutara thing!