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At First Sight

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

In his 23 years of life Zuko was never able to understand women, but this one was destroying his brain.

He liked to say that he didn't have a type, but he did, and pretty well defined actually, that made his experience with women even more scarce. After his relationship with Mai he thought he would remain single for a couple of years, and by a couple of years he meant like fifty.

No one could blame him, he just had no luck with women. He had no luck, period.

It was fine, really. He focused on his studies and enjoyed his friends, he worked, exercised, he actually had a pretty good life and didn't need anything else.

That was until her.

Katara's new roommate, a pale breathtaking beauty with tick black hair and long toned arms and legs. She was gorgeous, and her eyes... Well he couldn't totally see her eyes due to her long bangs, but the colour was definitely unusual, almost as pale as her skin. He never believed in love at first sight, but with his heartbeat going like crazy he had no option but to start to doing it.

Zuko waved his hand when she looked at his balcony, the girl ignored him. That was fine, maybe she was shy.

Five days later, he learned she was crazy... or at least he suspected she had some kind of personality disorder. She always went out to her balcony at the same time and seemed to be looking at him. There were days when she smiled, others when she looked at him with anger or disgust (Was it because of his scar?), most of the time she was blank. He didn't dare to confront her, she scared the shit out of him but at the same time he couldn't get rid of his attraction for her. It was really weird, it was so fucking ridiculous...

He knew he was completely desperate when he found himself telling Aang about the situation. (Aang the -I'll drool over Katara every second of the day without doing anything about it- guy). His friend laughed at him almost five minutes, he would have probably keep doing it but Zuko decided he had had enough and asked what the hell was so funny.

"She isn't looking at you, Zuko. She can't."

"What the fuck are you talking about?"

"Katara's roommate is blind. You will have to talk to her if you want to get her attention."

It wasn't his fault! Her bangs didn't allow him to see her eyes, he must have guessed it given the unusual paleness but still...

Ok, he felt stupid.

That afternoon he went out to the balcony and paid attention to more than just her porcelain doll face. She was holding a strange book, her fingers moved constantly over the pages. Braille, he thought.

Giving himself courage, he decided to speak.

"Hi..." her hands stopped and her face moved closer to the balcony railing, as if trying to confirm that she had heard right.

"Hi me?" she asked, her voice was a little childish, but cute.

"Yeah" he replied slowly. She closed her book. "Are you Katara's new roommate?"

"Yeah..." she sounded unsure "You know her?"

"She's my friend's...umm..." What were Aang and Katara anyways? "My friend knows her better than I do. We're the neighbors next building... " Toph laughed.

"Is your friend the boy that kisses the earth she walks on?"

"That's the one" he chuckled "Is he that obvious?"

"Even I can see that, and I'm blind." she was joking and letting him know that detail of her at the same time, that had to be good, right? They both laughed, he decided not to make any comment, it didn't matter to him after all. "I'm Toph, by the way"

"Zuko."

"Oh, Katara talked about you. She said you're a jerk"

Well Thanks, Katara.

"Yeah, we don't have the best relationship. We're improving though. Al least she hasn't threatened me this week" Toph was laughing again and he felt fascinated by the sound of her voice.

"Well, Katara's temper is something else. I think she thinks everyone's a jerk. Even I."

"Why are you two living together?"

"Well I needed a place, and she needed a new roommate, hers left with a guy"

"Sokka. He's Katara's brother and our friend too, Suki is living with him now"

"Yeah, that's the one" they stayed silent for first time, things were good until now. He needed to keep it that way.

"What were you reading?" She moved her book, uninterested.

"Something about some dead musician that's not even half as good as I was at twelve. Bumi, you know him?"

"I heard of him, so are you a music student?" She grinned.

"I'm a goddammit prodigy. You might have heard of me as well"

"Do you have any nickname?"

"I do, but you'll have to figure it out" She was talking about future now, that definitely had to be good.

"Well, I'll have to know you better then. Maybe we can go for a walk together...?" That was it, he said it. She paused, a soft smile settled on her lips.

"I'll like that"

And then he was sure... He definitely felt in love at first sight even if his girl couldn't look him back.

Perhaps Katara would need to look for a new roommate again.

A/N

Hello, there!

This is my first attempt to write something in English! I really want to improve so I hope some feedback from you!

I want to write all kind of stories for the Gaang, I decided to start with ZukoxToph because they're my favorite pairing in the ATLA universe.

If you're a Zutara or Tokka, Taang, etc. shipper I think you'll feel disappointed cause I only ship Toph with Zuko since I was a child haha of course both will always be +18 whenever I write them romantically speaking.

I'm currently writing another Toko story in Spanish but inspiration is being a bitch with me, I can't finish chapter 5 yet.

Hope this isn't as bad as I think it is.

See you soon!