It's me! This is my first Avatar fic, so be gentle.. Enjoy!
Chapter 1 Opposites Attract
Zuko stared down into his cup of tea. He could still see the tea leaves swirling around from the stiring he had given them. He look up to see the girl of his dreams:Katara. She noticed he was looking at her and he quickly put his head down and blushed. Zuko cleared his throat,
"Um...Katara."
Katara looked up at him and cocked her head slightly,
"Yes?"
"Well...umm...you see..uhh" Zuko stuttered for the first time in his life
"I was wondering. You know, we've been seeing each other ever since the war died 2 years ago and I was wondering..."
Katara's eyes began to gleem with excitement and a grin in progress began to spread across her face,
"Well, If you wanted to marry me?" Zuko finally finished.
Katara jumped up and cried,
"YES! Of course I will!"
Katara leaped into Zuko's arms and clamped onto him tightly. In his mind, Zuko sighed with relief,
'Oh Katara, I can't wait for our future to unfold together. Our wedding, honeymoon, me gaining the trone, having children together and watching them grow-up and growing old ourselves, all of this with you by my side'
Katara ran out of the tea room where she and Zuko had been sharing a cup of tea. She ran twards Sokka who had been shopping with Aang. Aang looked up and yelled,
"Hey Katara, how'd things go with Zuko?"
Katara smiled and replied,
"Great! Guys, I have great news...I'm getting married!"
Sokka and Aang smiled and said in unison,
"Cool. To who?"
Then Katara realized that she had never really explained fully to Aang or Sokka the love she had shared with Zuko. Katara kicked the dirt and said,
"It's...umm...uhh...Zuko. Wait, before you say anything, you knew we were going out and I love him, so at least put up with him for my sake. Please."
Sokka then replied,
"Katara, of course I'll put up with him. If he's the one you love... by all means, get married. Heck, I'll even show up for the wedding"
Aang looked over at Sokka and kidded,
"Yeah, you just want your share of the cake. And Katara congratulations and good luck."
Aang began to play with a miniuture fire ball in his hand, letting it fall in and out of his fingers and hands.
Katara began walking around the market. Zuko stalked up behind her, locked his arms around her neck and whispered in her ear gently,
"Pretty girls like you shouldn't walk around a busy market like this without a strong man."
Katara turned around and put her arms around his waist. Zuko leaned forward and kissed her on the forehead tenderly. He then said to her,
"I just remembered that it's custom for a girl of the water tribe to wear a betrothel necklace."
They began to walk along the busy street till they came to a jewelry vendor's stand. Zuko look up and down the display shelf untill he found a beautiful necklace carved with a Fire Nation sign in a ruby,(It looks like Katara's mother's necklace except with the differences listed above) Zuko turned to Katara and asked,
"How's this one? It looks like a Fire Nation version of a Water Tribe betrothel necklace."
Katara looked at it and nodded. Zuko asked the vendor how much the necklace cost. The man furrowed his brow in thought and answered,
"Oooo say 20 silver pieces. That there is a good deal."
Zuko nodded and replied as he paid for the necklace,
"I'd of paid 1,000 gold pieces for the item, if that's the one she wanted."
Katara waved good bye and they continued to walk through the market. Katara turned to Zuko and said,
"Ok, I have my betrothel necklace, What about you? Don't you want a ring or something?"
Zuko looked down and answered,
"Mmmm. Let's go by the Silversmith and see what he has in rings."
Katara look around and saw a small shop on the cormers with characters on it's sign that read something like Silversmith. She pointed twards the shop and said,
"Maybe they'll have somthing there?"
Katara and Zuko walked hand-in-hand into the shop. When they walk in, windchimes rang above their heads. They walked twards an elderly and wizened man who appeared to run the store. The man had been looking over some receipts untill he felt their gaze on him. He looked up and put on a smile and asked,
"What can I do you for young people?"
Zuko replied,
"What do you have as far as rings go?"
The old man shuffled around and lead Katara and Zuko twards a shelf that displayed an assortment of silver rings. Katara peereed into the case and studied the rings. She pointed out a larger ring that had a depiction of waves crashing along a shore. Zuko smiled and said,
"How much for this ring?"
The man replied,
"O, what say 'ye to the price of 10 gold pieces?"
As Zuko started to reach for his coin purse Katara stopped his hand and said,
"I've got this one."
Katara counted out the man's money and as they were walking out the door the man said to them,
"It's odd. You, young lady have a Fire Nation necklace round ye throat while ye appear a of Water Tribe. And the young man has the strong stance of a Fire Nation soldier yet he now has a ring with a Water Nation design. Ye be a odd couple indeed."
Zuko nodded and stated,
"Opposites attract right."
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