Title: Zuko's Great Escape..Or not.

Prompt: #11 Blue Spirit

Summary: Zuko and the Blue Spirit get along very nicely. But Zuko and the actual Spirits? Not so much.

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: the Last Airbender.

Written for the LiveJournal Group Capstara's 37 Days of Capstara.

Zuko's Great Escape..Or not.

Wow. Just–wow.
Who would've ever thought that Zuko, of all people, would be dancing with the water peasant, of all people. It was blasphemy. But her hand felt warm in his and her hair smelled so good an her skin was so soft and–

Oh. Time to switch partners. Well. Wasn't this a coincidence? The tea girl, what was her name...Jun. No. Jin.
Jin was now in his arms, her brown hair spiriling around her face and her smile bright and her chest squished up against him. Crap. Zuko needed a distraction. He kind of wanted to go back to the waterbender. He strained his neck to search for her but the bell chimed and off he was with another girl.

Oh dear Agni.

The spirits hated him. They really did. Now he was twirling around Song.
Her braid flipped around and whacked him in the face a couple times but she kept giving him her big, brown goo-goo eyes. Where the hellw as that water brat when you needed her?

Now. If you're confused. Which, surely you are, you'll have to go back a little bit...

[A FEW HOURS EARLIER]

"Zuko, where are you going?"

"Li. It's Li now, Uncle Mushi. And nowhere."

"Nowhere? Huh? So is that why you are bringing your mask?"

Busted.

Zuko/Li turned around slowly, his fist clenching and unclenching. Uncle...
Unable to play it cool, Zuko was a terrible liar, he sighed and averted his uncle's gaze.

It wasn't like he was going to go steal something...or something.

Alright, so they were running low on money and needed some more tea. It was for a good cause, after all.

But Zuko just stomped back into the apartment, head bent low. Iroh studied his nephew for a moment before chuckling to himself. "You know, Nephew. If you were to stop by the festival on the way to your activity, I would not forbid you to do so."

Zuko groaned but obliged and went on his merry–sarcasm–way.

So as Zuko/Li was borrowing some tea ("Borrowing? Yeah right."), her might've had a run in with the Dai Li and might've had to actually attend the stupid masks festival. Apparently, being the Blue Spirit did come in handy.

So why were all these girls that he knew keep showing up in his arms?
It was becoming quite difficult to concetrate with Song batting her lashes at his Spirit mask.

The bell chimed again and he was back with the girl. Thank Agni.

She grinned and batted her own lashes and Zuko blushed beneath his mask. Though it was only because it was just so hot in there...you know. But then she giggled and whispered into his ear, "I'm Katara."

Katara. The water peasant now had a name. Interesting. Very, very interesting. The Avatar-hunting-obsessed part of Zuko screamed to kidnap her and the hormone-driven-teenger part of him ordered him to do the same. Both for very different reasons.

The girl–Katara started to lift up his mask and he stiffened. But she only slid it up to his nose and left it there before placing a soft, chaste kiss next to the corner of his mouth. Zuko's face heated up. The mask was just so hot.

"KATAAARRAAAAAAAA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING DANCING WITH BOYS? SHAME! SHAME!111!"

Katara rolled her eyes and pulled his mask back down before curtsying rather clumsily. "You're an excellent dancer." She whispered before giggling and running off.

Perhaps, the Blue Spirit was an alter ego to keep around.

...

Now, after the male watertribe brat threw a boomerang at him and tried to beat him to a pulp, Zuko thought that maybe it was better left stashed away. Only taken out for special occasions...

A/N: forgive me for this terrible piece of trash i present to you! I just reeeaalllyy wanted to write Zuko and his other flings. Minus Mai...muwahaha. No, I love Mai. No bashing of her here, ever. But you know what would be great? If you reviewed. I'm such a review!whore. No lie. And if you have any critiques. For example: "Make it longer!" "Shorter!" "Funny!" "Sad!" "Romance!" "BLAHBLAHBLAH!" Or if you have any favorite pairings you want me to squeeze in. You know, unless its the opposite of Zutara. Well, I apologize for the super long author's note that you probably stopped reading by now. So. Farewell fellow Avatards!