Azula Week 2022 Day 1
Burn
"Where did you get those burns from?" Zuko asked with a shocked look on his face.
Having nothing to do that day, he decided to watch Azula train. It was something that Zuko found himself doing as of late whenever he was bored. At first he hadn't noticed the burn marks on her shoulder since her back was turned. The minute she turned around and started walking towards him was when he noticed it. Azula stopped and blinked at him, not realizing what he was talking about at first. Zuko noticed the look of confusion on her face and pointed to his right shoulder. Azula then looked at her own shoulder, "Oh, you mean this? This just happens to be a result of one of father's corrections back when he used to train me as a child. I quickly learned after that to not get a form wrong again, and if I did to make sure that by the time he would summon me to check on my progress that the form was perfected."
Zuko stood there, stunned. Ozai had burned Azula? And she never said anything about it? Why? If she had, Uncle Iroh may have been able to-
Zuko stopped himself from thinking about that any further. Uncle only ever saw Azula as an extension of father, and an obstacle for me to overcome. And she knew that. So of course she wouldn't go to him for help. He then remembered when they all went to Ember Island during the war, and how Azula was wearing a bathing suit that day. There were no burn marks to be seen.
"When we went to Ember Island during the war, those burn marks weren't there. How did you hide them?" Zuko asked with a confused look on his face. Azula looked at him as if he had 3 heads,"It's called makeup, dum dum."
Ah
That left him with another question though.
"Why did you decide to stop concealing it?" Azula turned around so that he wouldn't see the blush on her face as she responded, "Sokka convinced me to stop hiding it. Try as I might it's never going to go away, so what's the point? It's a part of me now and I have to accept that." And with that she made her way back into the palace. Zuko stared after her as she disappeared inside, and then smiled to himself. Perhaps Sokka being together with his little sister wasn't such a bad thing after all.