Kiss THIS!

zutara drabbles. (Plot, what plot? Have you ever heard of this strange thing they call plot?) A series of drabbles concerning a certain fire prince and water peasant and an authoress' many ways to get them to kiss.

Taken from the sixteen zutara prompts on lj. This is the fifth one. Expect at least eleven more. (I plan to finish) I don't know for sure if all of them will have a kiss, but I'm going to try. Sorry if you didn't get to read the last chapter, was a bitch yesterday and I don't think anyone got to read much of anything. So here's a new chapter to keep your interest.

BTW, here's you some fluff. Just twist my arm about it/sarcasm Also, prompt is stretched so it may not follow exactly, but, well, what the hey?

"What is sea-born dies on land/ Soft is trod upon. / What is given burns the hand - / What is gone is gone..." – Peter S. Beagle

"Marry me." He said, an impish grin on his face as the flowers fell off of his head.

She rolled her eyes before she continued with her flower-weaving. "Did you become a priest all of the sudden and I didn't know about it?"

"You never know," He answered coyly, grabbing her attention away from the flowers. "I could have."

She snorted and turned away from him, expertly avoiding his gaze. "Why would you want to marry me, anyway?" She answered in a semi-serious tone. "I thought I was just a stupid, barbaric water-witch from the south." She threw his own words back at him playfully, cockily throwing a fist-full of flowers at him.

"Oh, but you are a stupid, barbaric water-witch from the south." He leaned in closely to her, planting the smallest of kisses on her nose. "But you're my stupid, barbaric water-witch, and I wouldn't have you any other way." He kissed her again, this time square on the lips.

"You seriously want to marry me?" She asked, leaning against him for warmth.

"Yes." He answered. "Right now, actually."

She grinned. "Now I know you're crazy." She laughed. "How are we suppose to get married right now? We're in the middle of nowhere!"

"Simple." He stated, standing up and brushing the grass off of him. He pulled her up beside him, holding her in his arms tightly. "I, Zuko, son of Ozai, of sound mind and spirit, do take thee, Katara, daughter of Koda, to be my lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, to love and to cherish, in sickness and in health." He leaned in closely, rubbing his nose against hers. "Till death do us part."

"This is the part where you speak, you know." He whispered, and she hit him playfully.

"Very well." She laughed. "I, Katara, daughter of Koda, of sound mind and spirit, do take thee Zuko, son of Ozai, to be my lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold, to love and to cherish, in sickness and in health." She kissed him lightly on the lips, almost mockingly, before speaking the last line. "Till death do us part."

"Tsk." He whispered, brushing a fallen flower out of her face. "You were suppose to wait until now to kiss me."

"Oh darn." She whispered, leaning in closer. "I suppose I'll just have to do that again, won't I?" She leaned in, closing the gap between the two, deepening a kiss that had already been started.

"I guess we're married now." She spoke softly after the kiss ended, teasing him playfully as the whole thing was.

"Yeah," He noted, pulling something out of his pocket. "Except for this." He carefully undid her mother's necklace around her neck and replaced it with another, one he had made after much trial and error.

She gasped. "You…"

He smiled at her, amused. "I wasn't joking, you know."

"What about your home?" she shrieked. "What about your family—your people! How are they going to react to—"

He kissed her nose again, just for good measure. "I don't want to lose you, so I best make use of you while I have you," He pulled her closer, a glint in his eye that was all-to familiar to place. "Whether anyone else likes it or not, I could care less."

"Even conduct your own marriage ceremony?" She asked.

He scoffed. "I'm the Prince of the Fire Nation. I think I can get away with marrying myself, you think?"

"I hope so." She added, and it was the last thing either of them remembered for the night.

XXX
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Zuko was a little OOC, but he's in love, so it's okay. :)