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This story will have 32 chapters. I'm grateful to everyone who read this and followed along on the journey with me. I've really loved writing this story. I hope you could tell. I have another Avatar Zutara coming up. It's titled "It's About Time" I will post the prolog. I hope you enjoy that story as much as you seemed to enjoy this one.
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Zuko laid in bed next to Katara. He was so content. She was smiling at him, and he laced their fingers together. "Good morning."
She let her eyes fall shut for a second and smiled, "Hmm. It sure is. I'm becoming a morning person more and more every day."
He chuckled, "I can make sure you like them even more." He climbed over her and hovered there. "After all, it would be a waste not to take advantage of the fact that we're both naked in bed." He then laid on her and pressed his cock against her thigh.
She giggled, "We're always naked in bed. You, Fire Lord Zuko, outlawed clothes in bed completely. You even wrote up an official-looking document and signed it. Then you declared it an immediate law and pulled off my clothes. You even claimed a violation would result in me having to stay in your room naked all day as punishment."
He smiled and said, "It was one of my better laws." He then ran his fingers through the folds of her wet pussy as he moaned in pleasure. "I don't remember you objecting at the time. I think I remember you saying, 'Oh, hell, yes.' That was a direct quote." He smirked at her.
"I didn't say that I objected. I said you made it a law. I was still technically right."
He kissed her nose, "You do like to be right about everything, Katara."
She shrugged and stroked his cock. "It's just that I'm used to it. I'm right, a lot."
She continued stroking him, and his eyes rolled back in his head. He groaned out, "I'd agree to anything right now, and you know that."
"I do," She gave him a heated look. "Right now, I want you to agree to oral sex. I think I should sit on your face while I suck you off. We're still trying to prevent me from getting pregnant."
Zuko flopped on his back immediately. "I'm ready for you."
She burst out laughing. "Someone's in a hurry."
"Hell, yes. Now, come over here. I want to taste your sweetness on my tongue and feel your mouth on my cock." She sat on him and then leaned forward and took his large cock in her mouth. They brought each other to orgasm. He loved feeling Katara moaning with his cock in her mouth.
Katara crawled into his arms and laid there, sated. "I love you."
"I love you too."
She drew lazy circles on his abs and said, "Aang wants to meet with me today for some reason. I'm… I'm not looking forward to it. Please, tell me you plan on being there."
Zuko pushed her to lay on her back and leaned over her. "It's already on my schedule." He caressed her cheek. "It's going to be okay. He has a good reason for meeting with you. Even I can honestly say that."
She breathed a sigh of relief. "I'm glad to hear that. I was really nervous."
"Katara, I'm sorry I didn't say something before now. I know what it's about, and it's really good."
She reached up and caressed his scarred cheek. "Thank you. I know this is all weird for you."
He shook his head, "It's more that I feel a bit of guilt now. I know where we stand and that he can't get between us. I know what he's missing out on, and I wish my happiness didn't mean crushing his."
"That's really overly dramatic!"
He looked her in the eyes, "I can't imagine being happy without you, Katara. How could anyone be?"
"You're so sweet, Zuko. I love that I mean that much to you. He'll find someone more suited to him. After all, I don't believe your happiness is contingent on anyone else being unhappy." Katara hoped that Aang and Toph would work out. She liked the idea of them together.
"I sure hope so. He's my friend. I will say, though, that even if I knew for a fact that he wouldn't be happy without you, it wouldn't change anything. I won't give you up."
"That's why we're marrying. We're forever."
"Forever." He laced their fingers together and kissed her.
Zuko walked away from Katara's training session with Aang. He was so glad he went. The joy on her face when she realized that Aang not only accepted her bloodbending but accepted being controlled by her was incredible to watch. She cried, and he pulled her into his arms and patted her on the back. She then thanked Aang for accepting everything about her.
As Aang trained her in an airbending move, he watched them work together. That put the death blow in his worries regarding Aang's feelings for her. He obviously was struggling a bit, but Zuko knew he was on his way to moving on. It was a huge relief to know one of his best friends wouldn't covet his wife.
By the end of two hours, Katara was able to airbend using Aang. Zuko was so proud of her.
When she left to tell Toph and Chie all about it, Aang faced Zuko. "I can't believe how good you are together."
"What?"
"I couldn't have ever been that to her. I'm realizing now that I'm happy for you both. She seems so different now, not in who she is but how she is. She's happier and more confident. I'd lose her as my girlfriend easily if this is what she becomes. What I'm sure of is that even as a friend, I love her. I want this for her. That and I didn't know how right you were. It really mattered to her to have me accept her bloodbending."
"You don't know how happy you made me. I'm so relieved you see what we are together."
Aang nodded, "For the first time, it doesn't hurt to think of your marriage. I realize now how much we didn't work. Not if the way you are together is deep love. We never had that."
Zuko smiled, "I'm relieved. I wanted to ask you to stand up at our wedding. I know it might be difficult, but one day I knew we would both be glad you were there."
Aang nodded, "I'd be honored. Your marriage is going to be the stuff of legend."
"Thanks."
Sokka and Suki arrived two days later. As soon as Zuko got Sokka alone that afternoon, Sokka handed him a rock and said, "Here's the rhyolite. I got your letter."
"Thank you. I haven't given her an engagement necklace, and she hasn't commented about that. I'm so glad you were able to bring this. I wanted to carve it out of a stone from the South Pole."
Sokka drooped his shoulders comically, "Damn, I made Suki a necklace that looked like mom's, and I thought I nailed it. I didn't even think to use a stone from where she came from."
Zuko patted him on the back, "She'll be the Chief's wife one day. It will point out who she is to the Southern Water Tribe. Katara wears Fire Nation clothes in bloodbending red and will have the title of Fire Lady. I wanted her necklace to be something she could hold onto from the Water Tribe."
"Since when did you get moves?!" Sokka lamented, groaning.
"The moment I started dating the most incredible woman I ever met." Zuko smiled at him. "You helped raise her, thank you. Do you know that it was your blessing that mattered to her? Her father objected initially, and she didn't care."
Sokka shrugged, "It's not like I had to do much."
"All you had to do was be there for her. That was huge. Her own father couldn't manage that."
"I tried to talk to him before he came here. He did say he had a great talk with Uncle," Sokka leaned back in his chair. "So, you're marrying my baby sister. If you hurt her, I'll have her kill you."
Zuko burst out laughing. "And how is it going with Suki in the South Pole?"
"Great. She commented that with the men gone to fight the Fire Nation, a lot of the women were left to learn to protect themselves. She's excited to train up an elite warrior group. She has a lot of women she thinks would work out. I'm so relieved that she can be herself and be my wife. You get that though."
The council was all excited the week leading up to the wedding. They requested that Katara become a full member even before their wedding. She had already solved many of their problems with her abilities or her unique perspective.
The day before their wedding, she stood and officially thanked them all for their support and acceptance. She said she looked forward to years of working together with them in harmony. It was a word that defined her and Zuko's rule of the Fire Nation for years to come. Zuko was careful to always live up to her promise.
When Zuko gave Katara the engagement necklace he'd made of rhyolite, she instantly knew what it was and where he'd gotten it from. She kissed him passionately. "Thank you for giving me a reminder of you, my mother, and where I was born. It's perfect."