Scars and Bruises

Once Prince Zuko got to the hull, a solider walked to him and told him that his bath was ready. With that, Zuko walked into the empty room where they put a tin barrel over a fire and it would heat up the water, making a hot bath. Zuko stripped down and got into the bath. Soaking, relaxing. Now, I shall take time to explain the layout of this room. It is a rectangle room. With a wall near the frount of the room, which made a small square space for the clothes to go into the wash. A basket lie there with the clothes that the bathers took off and a place where the towels are.

"Miss Hilda." A diffrent solider said to her once he walked into her cell. "Your bath is ready. The bathroom is just down the hall."

"Thank you." With that, she walked down the hall and into the bathroom. She stripped down as well,grabbed a towel, held it infrount of her chest and opend the door that allowed the bather to get in and out of the larger half of the room. At the exact moment she did this, Zuko stood up to get out. There was a silence. Zuko staired at her and she staired at him for a breif while. Zuko saw that on her somach, just above her belly button and under her breasts, she had many bad scars and bruises. Thats what he mostly staired at. She walked backwards through the door, she put her shirt,pants,and underwear back on, stepped out of the room entirly, and screamed. So loud that all the soliders came to her aid and as did Iroh. They asked her what was wrong. "Theres a pervert in the bathroom!"

"Uh oh.." One of the soliders mumbled. "Prince Zuko was taking a bath in there."

"Uh oh.." The soldier who told Hilda she could take a bath repeted. "Im sorry Miss.Hilda."

"Damn strait you are!" She screamed at him. Zuko walked out of the room, dressed. Red as well. He had seen something he had never seen before. A woman's naked body. His face got redder after Hilda gave him 5 hard smacks on the face. "Damn pervert!"

"Who are you calling a pervert?" Zuko yelled right back. "You walked in on me!"

"Yeah well its diffrent when a girl looks at a boy! Pervert! Peeping tom!" Hilda screamed at him. Another five hard smacks and she walked away from him. Flipping him off.

What were those wounds on her stomach..? Zuko questioned himself that whole night after the little insadent. Hilda avoided him that whole night. At dinner, she served everyone dinner except Zuko. He scolded her and told her he was hungry. She just gave him a cold glare and said. "Get it yourself." and walked back to the deck where she played her guitar. Zuko would have to find some left over Puttanesca and figure out how to heat it up. The question still remaind in his head. What were those scars? Before his Puttanesca was heated up, he walked to the deck and asked her point blank.

"What were those scars on your stomach?" He asked her.

"Up your's princie." she hissed. Strumming the strings on her guitar as she rehursed. Steam came out of his mouth. "Don't over heat. You'll explode."

"Shut up and tell me already!" He barked at her. She just strummed the strings again. She shook her head.

"Im not gonna tell you." She told him, playing her guitar as if he hadnt ever come to talk. He spit fire off to the side into the ocean. She just laughed at him and continued to play her guitar. She played a random song. "Zuko wont ever know, Wont ever know about the scars,because he is a pervert!"

"Stop that!" He barked at her. She kept singing.

"Pervert! Peeping tom!" She continued to teasingly sing.Zuko threw some fire at her and she dodged it. "peeping tom! Spitting fire like an erupting volcano!"

"Knock it off!" He yelled attacking her again. Throwing fire at her. She just laughed as she dodged all the flames, very gymnasticly, as she dodged it she'd jump, catch herself with her hands on the ground and flip over again. This time however, she flipped over to far and fell off the side of the boat. But Zuko grabbed her hands before she fell too far down.Once he pulled her back onto the ship, she took her hands back.

"Keep your hands to yourself!" She hissed. Zuko spat fire off the side of the deck again.

"Is that any way to treat someone who just saved your life?" Zuko asked her. Bitter. Then, it hit her.

"I get it! You wanted to hold my hand!" She teased. Zuko flushed.

"Did not!" He barked. "Don't flatter yourself!" Hilda just laughed at his embarrisment. Had he really wanted too? He didnt know right off but ah well. "Now. Tell me what those scars were!"

"Not on your life." With that, she left.Walking back to her cell. Zuko just stood there, fustraited. He had learned nothing about those scars. He didnt just want to know because he was an ass. He wanted to know how she got them. He had a scar too, but he didnt try to hide it. That would actually prove to be exidingly difficult, for his scar was on his eye.Her scars were on her stomach. She was half way off the deck before Zuko grabbed her wrist and forced her to stay and tell him. "I told you. Its my own buisness!" Zuko still kept a hard grip on her wrist. Hilda heard Iroh coming up the stairs to the deck. She laughed at Zuko and unbuttoned her blouse. She placed his hand on her boob and held it there, she let out a loud scream. Iroh ran over to her and rose an eyebrow to what Zuko was doing. Or more, where his hand was. Hilda had tears in her eyes as Zuko's hand was still on her boob. "He tried to saduce me! He tried to rip my blouse off and throw it over board." Hilda cried. Zuko was shocked by her words.

"I didnt- Uncle I-" Zuko defended, he twitched his hand a bit, relizing he still had a hold of her boob. But not before Iroh said:

"Then why do you still have a hold of her?" Iroh asked his nephew. Zuko quickly pulled his hand away from Hilda as she wiped the fake tears from her eyes. "Hilda.go into your cell." Hilda nodded and giving him a hard slap, Hilda ran down the stairs after buttoning up her blouse again. Hilda fell asleep that night smiling at herself for her accomplishments. "Prince Zuko."

"Uncle-" but his uncle wouldnt let him finish.

"Prince Zuko. Why did you grab her?" Iroh asked him. Cross.

"I didnt mea-" But again, he was cut off.

"Boy. While there are wemon on this ship you will treat them with respect! You got that?" Iroh hissed at his nephew. Zuko nodded and walked down to his room. But it wasnt my fault...

As Zuko lie in his bed, he staired at his hand. He had not only seen a woman's body that night, he had felt her breasts. He had never experianced this before. This was all so new to him. He had been raised by his father and never thought much about how a woman's body looked. But what were those scars?

omg. Damn writer's block. It explodes but not where it is suppost to! So please forgive me if Its a while before the next chapter.