Chapter 4 of Zuko's Sick day.
Last chapter, Please enjoy :)
2 Years Later, in this chapter Zuko and Katara in this story have now been married 3 years.
Zuko was training with his wife in the sparing yard - they had this specially installed so the Fire Lord could practice his bending in peace. Zuko was throwing a couple of fire balls at his wife and his wife easily dodged his attack with an ice shield, the sparing yard was next to a river so Katara had plenty of access to her element. Suddenly Zuko had formed his bending into a fire whip and prepared to aim it at Katara, with all the strength that she had she managed to form a big wave before Zuko could attack her with the whip. The wave flooded the entire yard and when Katara let the wave subside she noticed her husband had been washed into the river, soaking wet he smirked "You win this round, water bender"
Katara held out her hand for him to help him out of the river but Zuko had other ideas, he grabbed and pulled her into the river with him, they were both laughing pretty loudly.
"Hey I was trying to help you get out of the water!" Katara managed to say as she was calming down from the laughter, Zuko's smirk just got wider as he replied with "But you beat me in the sparing match, I'm just getting my own back" he said as he chuckled.
They both helped each other out of the river and dried off before heading back inside the palace, Zuko had meetings to attend all day so Katara was going to be alone for quite a while. Katara went into the nursery where her son Lee was supposed to be asleep but he had climbed out of his bed and was playing with his toys, when he saw his mother he ran up to her arms wide open.
"Mommy!" he screamed as he ran up to her, Katara wrapped her arms around him and picked him up, she kissed his cheek." Did you get out of bed again" Lee just giggled mischievously at what she said before she took him out into the garden to play.
Katara put Lee down by the flowers before she went to go sit down on the bench so she could watch him. Katara and Zuko still did not know if he was going to be a fire bender or a water bender because children did not show signs of bending until they were at least 4 years old, even though Lee looked like his father - Katara secretly hoped he would be a water bender, Zuko and Katara had placed a little bet before he was born. If Zuko won Katara would have to give him backrubs for a month and if Katara won, Zuko would have to do whatever she wanted for the month.
Suddenly Katara was snapped out of her thoughts when she saw her two year old heading for the pond. "Lee don't go in there" Katara yelled out to him but he did not listen, he sat at the edge of the pond and did somthing his mother did not expect he bended a small amount of water out of the pond and then used his other hand to bend a small flame out of his finger.
Katara was amazed and shocked at the same time, her son is a water bender...and a fire bender? How is this even possible she thought to herself. She quickly picked up Lee and rushed to where Zuko was holding his meeting with the elders.
Once Katara got to into the palace, two guards were standing either side of the curtains.
"Sorry no one is allowed in." The guard said in a serious tone
"Let me in please, I have something very important to tell Fire Lord Zuko" Katara said as she tried to push the guards.
"Hey!" the guard stood directly in front of Katara, towered over her and stared directly at her. "I said no one is allowed in that room" he quietly hissed at her.
"Zuko!" Katara yelled at the top of her lungs before the Fire Lord himself rushed out hearing his wife's cries. He was startled to see the guard looking at his wife in a threatening stance with that Zuko slammed the guard against the wall.
"If you ever speak to my wife like that again, I will have you executed. Do you understand?" Zuko said with a tone of venom in his voice, this made the guard back down and return to his post knowing his place.
Zuko rushed over to his wife and son "Are you okay Katara, did he hurt you?" he asked with a concerned look.
"No Zuko I'm fine, but there is something I really have to tell you" she said before they went back their bedroom, Katara put Lee down on the floor and she turned to face her husband. "Lee..he was bending fire and water.." Katara managed to say, she still had not gotten over the fact he did it and at such a young age.
"How is this possible?" Zuko said with a shocked look on his face as he looked over at his son " The only one who can bend multiple elements is the avatar"
"He is still our son no matter what his element is" Katara said as she picked Lee back up "So no one won the bet either" she sighed as Zuko came up behind her, wrapped his arms around her waist "I'll still do whatever you want you know" his voice was husky in Katara's ear as she turned around to face him, they shared a brief kiss.
How was that? I hoped you all enjoyed this story as much as I liked writing it. Please R&R