Hot Water: crack!Zutara
Fire Lady Water Bender
"I can't believe he's marrying her…" The three Fire Nation citizens sat at the counter in the Jasmine Dragon Re'.
"Do you think its some sort of Peace Agreement?"
"What ever happened to traditions?"
"Can you just imagine them married?"
"I have to say, It'll probably never work…"
"…"
"Don't be so cynical, Lady Katara won't let him pussy out of this marriage."
"I still think she could do so much better."
"Have you noticed the people being… somewhat… I don't know, hostile about our marriage?" Zuko asked Katara quietly as they walked down the street of a medium sized town.
Katara returned another smile, another wave, "How are you Ren?"
"Very well indeed, thank you, Lady Katara," Ren bowed deeply to her as she passed.
"No, not really Zuko. They're just as nice to me as they were during the war… after I finally got to meet them anyway." A child's cry was heard around the corner, Katara hurried toward it, leaving Zuko in the dust.
Whack!
"Hey!" Zuko spun around after something hard had hit him in the back of the head. He looked from the doorways to the rooftops, but nobody was there, even Ren seemed to have disappeared quickly.
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"Thank you for healing my arm, Lady Water bender!" A small girl smiled up at the Fire Lady, flexing the arm she had broken when falling out of a tree.
"Zhi!" the girl's mother chastised, "Its Fire Lady Waterbe- I mean, Katara."
"Its no problem," Katara smiled, giving the girl a kind pat on the head.
A young boy walked out of the nearby house with four glasses of water balanced on a tray. The three females each took a glass and drank thankfully. The boy, Jian, saw the Fire Lord approach, and quickly downed the remaining glass of water. Jian pretended not to notice when the Fire Lord flinched after being hit in the back with another pebble.
"Katara, lets go."
Not one to obey orders, she turned back to the young mother, "So how have things been this last year?" Katara asked solemnly.
"Well, you know, it was hard learning that my husband had died, but we've been doing better, and at least Jian has a future now… You've brought us hope Fire Lady."
"No, she's still in Ba Sing Sei," Katara joked lightly; the legend of Baby Hope was well known across the Nations. The small family shared the light moment before exchanging bows as Zuko turned to walk back toward the dock.
"Zuko!" Katara chided loudly, "Did you go rolling in the dirt? You're filthy." Splotches of dirt covered his hair and the back of his royal robe from where tiny mud clods had broken up upon impact. With each step Zuko took, a cloud of dust rose into the air.
Zuko turned and glared at her, "These were supposed to be my people."
"They are your people Zuko," she said with her head held high, hands clasped in front of her, walking centimeters ahead of Zuko. "But you aren't their Cheif."
Zuko flinched and Katara smirked.
Jian lowered his emptied slingshot and exchanged a high-five with Ren.
AN: Walah, next drabble-chapter as originally mentioned in the AN of the first chapter. Not what you expected? Have an idea you like to see? just post it and I'll see if I can get it to work in my messed-up head. I was thinking some Blutara goodness if no other ideas came to mind...
Inspiration: Why do writers have the Fire People make such a big deal about Katara being Fire Lady? They fight the pairing more than Kataangers and ruthlessly sabatoge Katara's well being. I guess I can understand some nobles being that way, but I think the everyday people would probably like her more than Zuko.
And in the continuation of OOCness, Katara has successfully conquered the Fire Nation? (with love of course)
I'm going off these definitions of ré: 1 hot 2 enthusiastic 3 with power and influence 4 envious 5 new 6 ardent; profound 7 noisy 8 intimate 9 be acceptable; be well received 10 hot object 11 heat 12 fever; temperature 13 temperature 14 craze; popular; be in great demand 15 heat up 16 burn 17 be fidgety 18 excite. In case you couldn't figure it out, it's a Fire Nation's franchise of the chain of Iroh's Jasmine Dragon tea shops… XD
