To serve my master
by Etherealstar
Author's notes: Okay I wrote two versions, the version you'll read in here is the clean clear-cut version (which anyone can read). My unedited and the seductive version is in my profile. Just scroll right down to the bottom and you'll see it. 14 years and over to read the uncensored version. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: Avatar and Avatar Manga is owned by Nickelodeon and Sitcom. All rights reserved.
Chapter 13: One love.
Clean and censored version.
Zuko blinked back. He shouldn't have stared. That was rude.
Pulling her to the shore with him, he heard her bitter screams and nasty statements she dashed at him. She ridiculed his dignity and mocked him audaciously.
Lifting her up from the water, he whispered, "shut the hell up" his brows narrowed in. His voice present with anger.
Stooping down, he placed her roughly on the shore.
Placing both her hands over her head, he saw the scream that was about to fly out her mouth. Leaning over on her, he shut her off with a kiss.
Her large eyes were shocked by his sudden behaviour. She felt his lips move against hers, but she was way to tense to give in. Feeding her with his undying touch, her eyes became hazed and fluttered when she joined in the kiss. Moving her innocence lips against his, he relished the moment. The moment of having something beautiful touch him.
Pulling back for air, Zuko breathed in and found eyes looking back at him.
"W-What was that for?" Katara asked looking at Zuko.
"Shutting you up of course" he smirked
She punched him, "Zuko"
"Alright. That was to tell you, I was afraid of losing you" he paused, "I like you Katara…more than a friend"
"Oh Zuko" she jumped hugging him with her dear life. (trust me the uncensored version doesn't sound so lame and fast-fetched)
And the stars remind me that a beginning will come,
For a dark lord who wishes to be free,
To feel the magic of love,
Will alas see…
That love was made above.
Zuko held Katara as they looked out at the stars…
"My wish was to be happy Katara" he whispers in her ear.
"Are you?" she turns to him.
He leans his head against hers, their lips touching.
"Never been happier"
"Good" a smile came to her face.
Leaning his head into her neck, he closed his eyes and smelled her scent of wild dandelions. 'Katara'
Finally Katara could smile. The smile she wanted to smile. Finally deeply in love and have it given back at her, she felt precious and special. Like a star. Looking at the shimmering beauties in the night's sky, Katara whispered a special thank you to Kami. 'Without Kami, I'd never have this incredible man'
Zuko saw the smile on her face and couldn't help contemplate himself, 'The voices of pain once whispered in me as a child are gone. The shrouding darkness, though it was breached in me, it didn't control all of me. The part of me that wanted to live again, did, and found a light that saved me. Katara. Today I know what it means to be smiling and happy. I always wondered how people were happy, and now I know, and its an incredible feeling. I'll always take care of this emotion and nurture it with much care.' Zuko thought.
As two lovers kept in each other's embrace, the world for the first time seem to revolve around them. The stars, they glittered just for them, the Moon, it poured its neon milk across the sea in beauty. The world simply grew in beauty just for these two lovers…
Katara closed her eyes absorbing the feeling of having everything her heart could want. No longer was she fighting a battle of having the man she adored return his emotions. That battle was won. In the sweet righteousness of doing what was right. Zuko was now the only thing that mattered to her. She didn't have one burden rested on her back, she was burden-free and living the life few rarely did.
Zuko watched her. The peace and artistic solace plastered on her face. Now for the first time he felt peace looking at her face. She exuded a calm cascade of inviting surrender. A surrender called her heart. A place Zuko dropped on bucked knees to have her hold him and whisper words of love and comfort. He would trade anything and everything to be loved and held once again, to regain his sanity and dignity as a man, but he figured all he ever did need was a little hug and a small whisper saying, I'm there for you. No longer did he have to dream that such a day would come, because alas it was here.
Zuko felt the air blow cold. He averted his eyes to the sky watching the stars blink and shimmer back at him. Rare jewels that always glitter from shore to shore, from heart to heart, made Zuko finally realize something. That love, something so divine, can be the most beautiful and ethereal thing on this earth.
'And all I ever had to do was close my eyes and wish it hard that something beautiful would find me.' He thought, 'and I did close my eyes, I closed them to find her. In the dark where I often resided, she showed herself to me, first as my enemy but then as something beyond believable. She took my heart and I was brought weak to her knees. I tasted it, the feeling of being in love and I hope nothing will pull us apart.'
Zuko closes his eyes and tightens his hold on Katara. Right now, when the stars shimmered brilliantly and the world spun for him, he wanted to treasure the feeling of being in love and being loved. It was all that mattered, 'and all that will ever matter'
Katara felt the hold around her waist tighten. She fluttered her eyes open and leant into Zuko. Seeing his eyes screwed tightly, she smiled. 'As much as you think it's a dream and wish it wouldn't disappear, I feel the same way my beloved'
To these two lovers, all that mattered was their heartbeat which finally beat as one.
Closing her eyes, Katara allowed the feeling of bliss and everything perfect take her over. And what a feeling it was, she thought.
"KATARAAAAA" a scream could be heard.
The both grew startled.
Katara looked at Zuko who also gave a quizzical, uncertain stare.
Katara pushed herself out Zuko's grasp. Running out to the balcony she couldn't believe who she saw.
"Aang?"
To be continued