WARNING: the following chapter contains sexual content. Please do not continue to read unless you are okay with reading mature themes.
The moon just started to peak over the water in the distance as the remains of the sunset faded into the darkness. Zuko and Katara made their way to the beach slowly and by the time they got there, the stars were visible and along side the moon, they were the only source of light on that warm summer night. The frogs and night bugs stole the silence of night fall as the two benders walked along the cool blue sand.
Katara admired the stars overhead as she stopped near the waters edge, it was definitely the perfect night for a swim. She smiled shyly as she started to get out of her clothes, she giggled a little when she saw Zuko stumble a little out of his pants.
Were they seriously doing this? Zuko thought, he was still not sure this was a good idea but he didn't want his nerves to take over and make him miss out on an experience that could have been a good one. Plus he would admit, it was fun to try new things, especially exciting and risky things.
Katara had finally gotten all her attire off and she giggled nervously as she saw Zuko turned away from her, stripping out of his shirt now and she blushed when she saw him hesitantly climb out of his under shorts. Holding her breath she looked away, face reddening when she saw his bare bottom fully this time. For the few male bottoms she had seen, his was very nice indeed, she concluded.
Zuko respectfully didn't lay eyes on her quite yet, waiting until she approached him he walked into the shallows of the salty water. Katara followed shortly behind and she cleared her throat a little when they made it about thigh deep in the water.
Zuko turned slowly to face her and he couldn't believe his eyes. He gasped as he saw her fully nude before him for the first time, only seeing little glimpses before. His eyes fluttered in awe at her beauty, "You're so…", he gulped, " you're so beautiful Katara…", he breathed out the words softly, shivering slightly.
Katara pushed her hair behind her bare shoulder with a shy look away from his burning view, " thanks.…so are you..", she said with big eyes, blushing madly as they both slowly walked deeper into the water. They started to play around in the water to break the ice of tension a little, which helped greatly with the awkwardness.
They splashed about under the starlight, laughing and filling the night with sounds of their enjoyment. They were both in about waist deep now and Katara enjoyed taking advantage of her water bending while playing around. She sent a couple streams of glittering water at Zuko and he put his arm up as a shield, with a playful grin. It was nice seeing him smile more often, she almost never saw him smile. Could it be he was smiling so much lately because of her? She thought with a blush.
Zuko then suddenly made a swift movement towards her, pulling her close into a tight embrace. Her mouth opened with surprise at first but then she melted into the hug, wrapping her arms around him. Their hearts beated strongly against their chests, Katara broke from the hug and put her hand on his chest. Feeling his excited heart beat with curious, wide eyes, his heart beat so intensely it made Katara feel more alive.
Zuko grabbed her wrist and held it closer to his warm damp chest, bringing his face closer to hers so their foreheads almost touched and Katara's heart quickened at his touch. " You feel that?", he said softly, " yes..", she nodded, gazing up at him as his cheeks glowed pink. " That's all because of you…", he said with a dreamy gaze, bringing his forehead closer to touch hers, her eyes shut tightly with emotion.
Zuko started breathing a little quicker, " lately, you have been driving me crazy..", he admitted in a deep voice and her now watery eyes opened again, with a longing look.
He spoke again suddenly, "I think I'm in love with you, Katara.…", he said softly, with a hot breath and her heart skipped a beat. She held her breath, she couldn't speak, all she could do was pull him into a heated kiss to reciprocate her feelings.
He held the back of her head gently as he slowly delved his tongue into her warm mouth. She gasped as he tasted her and teased her sensitive tongue with his own, she still tasted spicy from the fire flakes earlier. He broke the kiss and panted with a yearning glance, then he kissed her again more fiercely.
Brushing his lip against her bottom one and then licking it slowly, Katara let out a small whimper and Zuko felt his heart ache. She teased his lips with her tongue as well and she began to feel her body heat quite rapidly. He growled lowly as he felt her soft damp breasts against his strong chest. His fingers were spread out on the small of her back, keeping her close, he started to kiss down her neck.
Katara mewled out her bliss as he tickled her neck with his soft lips and tongue and she gasped as she felt his skin become quite hot under her touch. She moved her arms to his shoulders and let out small gasps as he nibbled on her collar bone.
Zuko breathed hard and his face was flushed as he felt himself becoming more aroused by the minute, he nibbled at her neck and Katara moaned and giggled as she felt his hardness poke her lower abdomen.
"S..sorry..", Zuko said hotly and she kissed his cheek, " don't apologize ", she said softly with fully flushed cheeks. Feeling a little embarrassed at her own self becoming more and more aroused by his touches. He could sense it too and he enjoyed pleasing her, they were both new to these kinds of experiences but they let their instincts lead them as their bodies awoke with arousal. Zuko gave her another love bite on her lower neck and she let out a sheer noise of excitement and growing need.
The fire bender smirked, pulling her thigh up against hip daringly, she gasped at the new sensation. He then put her other leg around his hip and brought her to the shallows a little more and set her down in his lap. Both their eyes were dark, pupils blown wide with arousal, Katara felt her heart throb with nervousness, guessing what was to come next.
"Will you let me touch you more?", he panted slightly and Katara nodded, putting her arms around his neck and kissed him again. She moaned into his mouth as she felt him pull her against himself. His hips jerked up a little so that he was now placed in between her legs. Katara blushed harder with embarrassment as she felt his hardness between her wet flesh. She was shy at the new feeling but also couldn't help but want to continue.
He thought she was perfect, her cool skin and her warm heat against himself made him burn with desire. He moaned softly and rested his head on her shoulder, letting her shuffle forward a little before he started to grind against her warm flesh.
Zuko groaned loudly, looking down at what he was doing as he started moving up between her hot flesh slowly, and both released pleasured noises. The fire bender huffed, " ah! You feel ..so good..", he said, with his mouth open. He breathed hard and she gasped as his slick head touched her sensitive spot. Katara ground her own hips up into his and gripped his back desperately as she grew hotter and hotter. "You're so beautiful.. ", he breathed out, and she felt her whole entire body now flush with heat.
He threw his head back with a deep growl, feeling her dig her nails into his shoulders. Katara whimpered and trembled at the sweet sensation, growing more and more wet. With one last slow slide between her legs, she gasped as he then teased her opening, asking for entrance. He looked deep into her blue eyes with his own burning gold ones, " May I?", he asked with a grunt of apprehension. Katara clung to his back and whispered into his ear, " yess ", she hissed out the words, wriggling against him with impatience. Zuko smirked and let out a hot breath as he slowly positioned himself at her entrance and slowly pushed himself inside of her. He made sure she was nice and aroused beforehand, that way she wouldn't have too much discomfort.
Katara closed one eye and clenched her teeth as he carefully inserted himself into her velvet warmth. " unn..are.. you okay?", Zuko grunted the words out, " Katara huffed, " yes, ah..I'm fine..", she said breathlessly. They both inhaled hard as he got himself fully inside her and he waited for her to adjust her hips and relax a little before he started to move his hips. They both let out pure moans of pleasure and clung to each other as they connected in the most intimate of ways, sealing their growing bond. It was a little uncomfortable at first for Katara but once she relaxed the discomfort quickly faded into sweet pleasure.
Katara ground her hips down onto him and he growled, grabbing her hips to guide them against his own going slowly at first. She fisted his hair and gasped out his name as he curled his back making her feel sureal things she had never felt before. Hitting a deep spot inside her that made her feel like she was going to explode, she whined, unable to hold back her bliss as he thrusted a little faster but still as gentle as he could.
Zuko voiced his own pleasure and then went to bite her neck but not hard enough to hurt her. She felt so good around him he was fighting to last as long as he could, Katara cried out as he nipped her neck lovingly. He slowly picked up the pace as she clawed his back making him let out a deep growl, he moved his hands to her behind and then flipped her over onto the wet sand.
He pushed her against the sand, now they were half in the shallow water and half on the soft, damp sand. She arched her back as he grabbed her hips again as he thrust into her carefully. He groaned and then leaned down to kiss her, laying himself completely on top of her, Katara followed her instincts and wrapped her legs around his hips as he curled his hips into her.
He then started to move painfully slow and Katara mewled out his name behind kisses and complained as he slowed down the pace and teased her throbbing flesh. Katara pushed down on his hips and trembled as he slowly moved into her, " Ah! Zuko!", she breathed out his name between parted lips and he silenced her with another hungry kiss. He then moved into her faster with a hiss of tension, " ooh spirits! ", Katara cried out, " I love you.. ", she mewled.
They kissed each other passionately and roughly, biting eachothers lips and sucking them here and there. Their moans became more frequent as they both started to crumble under pleasure. Zuko shuddered over her, " Katara…ahh!", he called out her name with his face screwed up with passion. The water bender whimpered softly, digging her nails into his ribs as she became dangerously close to the edge.
"unn…Z-! Zuko I'm so close", she breathed out, arching and writhing underneath him he growled at her movements and moved his mouth to tease her neck again as he thrust into her at a fairly quick pace. Katara cried out his name and then suddenly went rigid as she reached her climax. Her voice caught in her throat at first and then she gasped and panted out his name as orgasm hit her hard in waves.
"Oooh Katara!", he moaned out her name as she clenched around him, crying out as he felt himself getting very close. With one last thrust he let out delicious noises as he pulled out abruptly, and came right onto Katara's stomach. Zuko let out a puff of fire from the built up heat inside his body. Both gasped and moaned as their powerful climaxes crashed through them both, they took a moment to catch their breaths.
Zuko collapsed on top of her and they both panted, damp with sweat and sea water. They sighed and voiced out the last of their pleasure and they both giggled a little at how dirty and covered in sand they both were, but they didn't care too much at the moment.
After he caught his breath, Zuko tackled her and kissed her passionately, they held each other tightly and tangled limbs until they both eventually fell asleep.
Zuko was first to wake up by the warm sun beating down onto his face as it slowly heated the cool sand around them. He stretched and yawned as he got up and brushed the dried sand off his bare body and then went to put his clothes back on. He brought her clothes to Katara's side and put her shirt on top of her since the morning was quite cold.
He gazed at her beautiful soft facial features as she slept soundly, she looked so peaceful and undisturbed. He got up carefully as she slept soundly and went back to their camp to go and get something for them to eat.
Katara opened her eyes slowly soon after the firebender left. She rubbed her eyes and then gasped as she saw how dirty her body still was. She got up slowly with a stretch and then went to the water to rinse herself off and then dried and put her own clothes back on.
Katara looked around at the quiet beach as she fixed her messy hair. She then blushed suddenly remembered what events took place last night. It's not like she had any regrets she just still couldn't believe it actually happened.
She heard soft footsteps coming slowly behind her on the sand and she pretended to stretch some more to avoid the awkwardness. She then heard him stop behind her so she was forced to look up at him. To her surprise he was holding a beautiful light blue flower towards her. Katara's mouth opened as she took the flower slowly, " it's beautiful... thank you ", she blushed and looked away and Zuko smiled with a dreamy expression.
" I thought it matched your eyes", he said softly and she beamed at him. She placed the flower behind her ear carefully and Zuko blushed at how nice it looked in her hair. He sat down beside her and handed her some dried peaches which were one of her favourites.
After they were done eating Katara offered to show Zuko how to ice surf and he hesitantly obliged after some minor convincing. The water bender skilfully made them both ice surfboards and then showed Zuko how to get started. She waterbended them both forward towards the small wave approaching them and after Zuko finally got his balance they caught the wave nicely, it was a good practice wave because it wasn't too large.
Katara laughed with enjoyment, easily leaning her body to the side to move against the wave. Zuko stiffly stood on the icy board, scared to fall off but he eventually got the hang of it and followed her body movements. It was more fun then Zuko ever imagined and for a firebender Katara agreed that he was not too bad at it at all. Though you can only do it so long before the ice starts to melt and it soon became uncomfortable under bare foot.
As the ice shrank and became more slippery they both toppled over into the cool ocean water. They both resurfaced wih a gasp of air and then laughed at how messy both their hair looked. They swam back to the shore which was thankfully not too far away because Zuko wasn't the strongest swimmer. They panted as they reached the shore and lay down with their backs against the wet sand, catching their breath.
Zuko huffed, " I haven't had that much fun since I was a kid..", he admitted with a smile and Katara blinked, " thanks for showing me how to do that ", he thanked her. Katara smiled, " no problem, chances are you are probably the first firebender to ever ice surf", she replied.
Zuko looked to the side at her and they both gazed into each other's eyes, " yeah, maybe ", he said slowly as he was lost in thought. He would love more then anything to just stay on this island with Katara forever, he thought as his face turned sad. Though he knew in his heart that couldn't happen, but for now he was going to enjoy every moment with Katara while they still could.
Then suddenly an idea occurred to him, " Katara..", he started to say with a serious tone. Katara looked at him with curious eyes, " what is it? ", she asked him, " every summer, will you come to this island with me, from now on?", he asked her with longing eyes and Katara gave him a smirk. " Of course ", she said in a promising voice and Zuko felt his heart quicken with excitement.
For the rest of the day they spent a few more hours together before they packed up their stuff and made their way back to the city. They promised eachother they wouldn't say much about their little trip together to the others, not wanting to complicate things. Their friends greeted them when they arrived back and they expressed their worry. The two benders just smiled and said they just needed to do something important like they did when they went after the souhtern raiders and left it at that.
Though the two knew their trip was much more important, it was life changing for them both. They would never forget their time together and from then on they kept the promise to eachother that no matter what, every summer they would take that trip to Ember Island once again. It became a sanctuary for their hidden love and as the years went by it became harder and harder to conceal their relationship but that didn't stop them from meeting in secret. They did whatever it took to keep that love alive and burning as if it were an eternal flame that could never go out.
Wow so that ended got supper dramatic lol. I really hope you guys liked my story and I hope the ending wasn't too bad! I tried my best to make it a good and hopefull ending, sorry it took so long. I also hope the love scene was okay because I haven't written one in a good while. I also apologize as I realize they are underaged ^^; I actually feel really guilty about that because sometimes I forget that they are just young teens. Although relationships did start fairly young in the days back then. I am sorry if it bothers anyone...feedback would be great but please be gentle! ^w^