Challenge

One-shot Zutara

The tension was thick enough to cut with a knife. Toph and Katara glared at each other. Both benders had their elements ready.

"You want to run that by me again?" Katara's steely tone was as sharp as a knife. Toph smirked as she repeated,

"Sure Sugar Queen, you can't sweet talk a mouse-squirrel into eating a piece of hickory nut cheese. You are way too uptight."

Sokka and Aang were watching the argument with keen interest. It had started with a small remark made by Toph and it had snowballed from there. Now it was a full fledged brawl between the two girls. They were glad that Haru, Tao, and The Duke had gone exploring the temple and that Katara and Sokka's father had been out hunting, or else there would have been a large crowd gathered. Sukki was in her room or somewhere. Zuko was a bit to the side absorbed in some firebending.

"Oh really?" Katara said, getting an idea.

"Yes really." Toph answered, "You couldn't seduce a seven-toed sloth-monkey."

We'll just see about that! Katara thought, bending her water back into the fountain. She sauntered over to where Zuko was leaning against a pillar.

"Zuko?" she said in a sweet voice. The flame in Zuko's hand disappeared and he straitened up looking at her.

"Yea?" he said.

"Did you know your looking very good today?" she said running her hand up his cheek and through his hair, her other hand on his chest. Her voice was soft and she talked slowly but her friends could still hear her.

"Uhhhhhhh..." Zuko's face registered first shock, then confusion.

"And your arms are so muscular," Katara ran her fingertips up his arms. She could feel him shiver under her touch.

"Katar..." Zuko got only half of her name out before she placed a finger to his lips.

"And your scar, it makes you look so... wicked." Katara's finger played along the edge of his scar. She took a step closer to him, her chest was pushing against his and her left hand stayed pressed to his shoulder. There was a small smirk on her face.

Zuko's mind was racing a mile a minute. Damn! He thought, Katara's acting frickin hot!!! He could feel his face getting red. Really hot... He didn't even know what was going on anymore.

Katara leaned into Zuko and pulled his face down a bit. She pressed her lips against his in a slow and unhurried fashion.

Zuko couldn't even think anymore. He had no control, no sanity left. He simply reacted to the hot girl in front of him. He kissed her back.

Katara pulled out of the languid kiss. She ran her hand through Zuko's hair one more time.

"Oh look at the time, I've got to go." she said still seductively, she turned and walked out, her hips swaying, "Bye Zuzu." she called behind her. Katara walked out of the rotunda and into a hallway, heading toward her room.

Zuko stood there face in a dazed happy grin, hunched over a bit, eyes glazed over. No one could say Katara was a bad kisser. He was severely seduced.

Toph was, for once in her life, in shock. She had nothing to say to that. Her mouth just hung open.

Aang was practically in tears. He knew, or rather he hoped, that Katara had only done it to prove a point but still.

Sokka stared first at the doorway Katara had disappeared through and then at Zuko then back again. His head flipped back and forth between the two destinations while his brain tried to process what he had just seen.

"My sister.......kissed...... fire nation.....kissed....Katara.......ZUKO!!!" at that point Sokka, quite literally, had a conniption fit. Thankfully he passed out before he could draw his boomerang and throw it at the still dazed Zuko.

Katara popped her head back around the door frame.

"Oh and Toph, that answers your little challenge."