A/N Okay this is a new chapter leading up to the storm which I think is going to be very important because it's raining and only good can come out of rain right? Alright hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: no ownage to atla watsoever!
Zuko's eyes started to close, it was morning, and they were about 50-60 miles away from the island. He looked back at Katara she slept so perfect; the best thing was the cute little noises she made, it wasn't exactly snoring just sweet small breaths. He'd hate to wake her but he had been paddling for 10 hours and was tired. So he tried to be gentle and lightly touch her, but that was a wrong move. She flipped him over and grabbed him, she held on to him as if he were a stuffed animal.
"Uh Katara?" She held onto him even tighter, "Yes I love you dear husband." She whispered. Zuko gulped, "Just great I'm stuck here while she dreams about…..Aang." But as always Zuko was wrong Katara was having a dream about her new firelord husband. She grabbed him tighter and whipered into his chest "Please, please don't leave me." (In the dream Katara was watching Zuko leave to go fight.)
Zuko felt bad for her because now he knew she was talking about Aang, then she slowly let go off him, "Promise me you'll come back; please promise me?"She started to squeeze tighter unto Zuko. Zuko looked down at her and moved her hair from her ear and whispered, "I promise you."
After that was said she let go, and went back to her normal small breaths. Zuko smiled at how she looked so fragile, but yet was so strong. He patted her back for comfort, but of course it woke her up. She screeched and then sucker punched him in the face, Zuko fell back (You know in the animated type of way with his nose bleeding.) Katara looked around trying to see where she was, and then saw poor Zuko holding his nose.
"Oh Zuko! I'm sorry! Here let me help you."
Zuko was still in a daze, "What? Oh hey Katara." He said dizzily. Katara laughed, Zuko shook his head trying to shake off the confusion.
"Wow that hurt." He said as he massaged his nose. Katara laughed again.
"Oh you think it's funny?" She shook her head as she laughed.
"Yeah you do." He said as he tackled her Katara laughed as he started to tickle her. "Oh! Hehehe-Zuko! Ha! Zuko stop!" Katara laughed and snorted. Zuko laughed too, he never had this much fun since, well never it felt good to laugh though. Then Zuko stopped because they were shaking the boat, Katara put her hand on his face, she looked sad.
"What's wrong?" Zuko asked her. "Nothing just had a bad dream." She said remembering how hard it was to watch Zuko leave.
"Oh." Zuko said now reminded about how she thinks of Aang.(They're both just stupid.)
"Zuko promise me you won't leave me. There have been too many times someone I lo-err um I mean care for leave."
"Was she about to say love? Wait, why is she asking me to promise, I guess since Aang leaves her all the time she wants to hear it from someone who cares about her."
"We'll Katara I promise you I'll never forget you, but if anything you're the one who leaves me."
Katara looked sad again, "I know, but what I mean is as long as I need you, you'll be there." Zuko smiled at her again, "That I will promise." Katara smiled and hugged him, as she went back to release from the hug, she looked into his eyes. Zuko looked into her eyes then her lips. "So close…" Zuko thought as he closed his eyes and went in for the kiss. Their lips had barely touched when Katara heard thunder; she turned around and saw storm clouds. "Hey you go ahead and get some rest, we need to hurry and get to the island before the storm comes." Zuko bit his lips and nodded his head, "So close…" Zuko thought.
Katara arrived at the island around noon, "Hey firebender wake up." Zuko looked around and noticed the island, then his eyes widen at the island.
"Come on hot stuff, we need to build shelter, it seems like tonight there will be a little rain and then the next day a storm." Zuko scratched his head "Hot stuff?" Zuko just rolled his eyes and got up.
Zuko and Katara walked around the island getting wood [just so you all know Zuko has he's dual swords]. Then they brought it back to the camping area and put down the wood and stood there and stared at it.
"Where's Toph when you need her." Zuko said. "Really." Katara agreed. So they started to make a little hut, they tied the wood with the emergency rope, used rocks as foundation to stable it, and tied on the tarp that was in the emergency kit. They stepped back, sweaty and breathing hard, admiring their work, they looked at each other and gave them both a hi-5.
"Nice work firebender." Katara said. "You're not bad either, waterbender." Zuko told her, Katara laughed.
"Well I'm gonna go look for a spring, after all this work I need a bath." Zuko kind of blushed thinking about Katara bathing, "You pervert." Zuko thought, but then told Katara, "Okay." He sat by the camp and made a fire, Zuko's stomach growled. "We'll, might as well go hunting for food." So he got up and went into the wilderness.
Zuko was looking everywhere for an animal, and eventually found a rabbit. He chased it through the woods and then it went into a bush, Zuko pushed through the leaves, and saw the rabbit hovering over a bunch of baby rabbits. Zuko sighed and walked away not wanting to harm it.
Then he heard something else, it was in the bushes. He slowly crept through the leaves and came upon fog and water. And there he found a beautiful animal bathing.
"Shit." Zuko thought, but luckily Katara didn't see him. She was humming to a song as she soaked in the water rubbing her hair. "Now would be a good time to leave, Zuko, I mean you haven't seen anything and-" Zuko thought, but then Katara stood up and revealed everything.
"…"
Zuko did not know what to do, he probably should of left, but she was keeping him there. "Oh. My. Spirits." Water dripped down her face to her neck then down her…cleavage. Zuko gulped, he wanted to move so badly, he was afraid if he moved 1. She would notice, and 2. He might not be moving away from her, but towards. "Those legs…" He thought, and then Katara bent over to grab her clothes. Everything in Zuko just shut down, he clawed the ground, "Don't move." He clenched his jaw and closed his eyes. He didn't want to move but his inner dragon, I guess you can say, was coming out. Luckily enough Katara heard something and it came from the opppsite side of the spring and moved away from him. Zuko took the chance to run. "Huh?" Katatar mumbled as she turned back around when she heard something move.
Zuko decided to try and not think about her, but we all know that doesn't work. So he tried to hunt for animals again and actually caught a little wild boar. He took it to the campsite roasted it and tried to fix his problem, and go to sleep, because he couldn't bear to see Katara after that happened. Katara came back and saw Zuko tossing and turning in their little hut. "What are you doing?" Katara asked him. "Damn it!" Zuko screamed in his head he didn't want to look at her, so he came up with a lie, "uh- I'm not feeling good, so I'm sleeping early. There's food if you want some." Katara looked at him strangely.
"Okay well goodnight." Zuko sighed, "That was close." He still had that problem in his pants he thought maybe he could sleep it off, ha sure….
So Katara ate the wild boar, and went inside the hut, because it was drizzling outside. There Zuko was sleep, and there was only one blanket, so she got under it with Zuko and faced the opposite way.
Zuko woke up from a dream where instead of running away from Katara bathing, he just had his way with her, so basically sleeping it off just doesnt fucking work. He saw Katara was still asleep except for the fact she was asleep on top of his chest. "Great! Just, f***ing great!" Zuko thought as he tried to slowly detach her from him. Eventually he moved her away without waking her up, "Success!" Zuko got up and away from her and then ran into the woods to work all this off.
Katara woke up and noticed Zuko was gone and decided to make him some breakfast, so she went to go find some eggs. By the time she found eggs Zuko was heading back to camp, he was sweating. "Hey Zuko! You feel better?"
Zuko started to laugh, a nervous one to "Yeah. Yes I am."
Katara's innocent little face just smiled, "Great! I'm going to make breakfast!" Zuko just smiled and nodded at Katara.
As they ate breakfast, Katara said something that was going to kill Zuko. "Don't think I don't know what you were doing in the forest." Zuko froze, "Ah, Katara I can explain-"
"You were practicing alone, because you're afraid I'll beat you again."
Zuko laughed and sighed a breath of relief, "You know what that wasn't fair and I let you win." Zuko told her.
"It's been a while since I've practiced care to join me?" She said as she stood up, "Or are you too chicken?" Zuko smiled and got up.
"Okay." He said.
A/N hope you guys liked it! please REVIEW! Thnx for reading stay awesome!