Me: Yes, I know really late update. I'm sorry. I am thinking of discontinuing this story. I've written 6 chapters in my notebook, and it isn't up to par in my opinion. Well I'll see what you think. Well read and enjoy!
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Katara became breathless as those ember orbs glared down at her. She shook her head of the Déjà vu and began to struggle thrashing around her arms.
"What would be your purpose with her?" Zuko growled shoving Katara behind him with one arm still holding her against him.
Katara scoffed. Pfft, Chivalry. The drunken pirate slurred," Well me and my buddies heard about this one's feisty attitude toward another crew. I heard it was about a waterbending scroll. I for one wanted to see if this wasn't another one of their fantasies." He grinned at the blue clad maiden who reeled back in disgust.
"That is pathetic." Zuko scoffed his grip loosening ever-so slightly.
"Why don't you go to a brothel you SICK FREAK!" Katara screamed uncorking her water skin smacking Zuko in the head with a strip of ice. Zuko fell to the ground in an unconscious heap and the pirate glared at her with lust. Katara flinched again, getting a sickly feeling.
"Stop." She growled. The man moved slowly closer. He licked his lips and jumped out her. Katara brought up moisture from the ground and she swayed a thin wrist downward. A wave of water collapsed onto the despicable man. The man pulled out two daggers and slashed at the ground, eventually hooking onto a loose root. Katara groaned as he got back up and she froze the water airily before walking off.
"Yeah, that's right you better walk off. You weren't good enough for such pleasure anyways and you know what…"
Katara plugged her eyes and snapped her eyes shut. She really didn't want to know. By the time she was halfway to the forest she unplugged her ears and she still heard obscenity spewing from his mouth.
She ignored it then realized something. She groaned inwardly for perhaps what was the 10th time that night. She forgot the herb. She walked back begrudgingly and then she heard um…. More of his speech. Giving a growl of annoyance erupted from within her and she brought water from her pouch and sealed it over his mouth.
She glanced around her and spotted her bag , which had fallen when Zuko grabbed her, and she picked it up and began to walk back. She tripped over something and cursed profusely when her skin was cut from a rock. Katara hissed and glared over towards the obstacle. It was a leg. Zuko's leg to be exact. She frowned. She really shouldn't leave him there should she? Well, she could, but she might have one of the guilt trips so got so often. She bit the side of her cheek with uncertainty. Freedom or sympathy.
She could just hear a chorus of freedom, and also, her Gran-Gran scolding her in every corner of her mind.
"Fine." She shouted to no one lugged Zuko's arm over her shoulder. She tugged and pulled for a few seconds then Zuko's body fell on top of her after the force of the last pull. Katara gasped in surprised and collapsed over, Zuko falling right afterwards, onto her.
"Well this is great." She muttered to herself.
"Peachy!" she screamed in blind frustration slamming her fist onto the rocky dirt. She placed her head onto her hand for a few minutes before crawling out from under Zuko. She stood up and glared down at the toned young man. She had felt his biceps on her shoulder. She shivered. It was a weird sensation when he was on her shoulder.
There weren't really any young men in her village before, so she had no real experience with anything like that. She shrugged it off and brought a water whip down from the stream nearby and coiled it around Zuko. With an easy flick of her wrist she made an ice slate and dropped him on it. She grimaced at the water. A light shade of red was noticeable in the flowing stream. Katara raised an arm and the ice levitated for a while and she brought it away from the stream over a rocky path, into the forest.
She stepped forward into the forest cautiously. Her eyes darted around the forest. Hey, being circumspect never hurt anyone. Except maybe her brother. As she was halfway back to camp she heard a sound.
"Oh gods no." she groaned as her water whip sizzled to steam. Zuko's face shone anger in the bright moonlight. His fists ignited with blazing fire. The fire flick an orange glow onto his features. The smirk was evident across his lips, and Katara didn't even need to look at him to know it was there.
"You really thought that knocking me out would do anything."
Katara's eyes narrowed and she gave in to her fighting stance. Zuko sprang forward, fire spouting from his fingers. Katara dove in between his outspread legs, uncorking her water skin as she went. She quickly wrapped water around his ankles with ice, leaving them locked in place.
Zuko flailed as he fell onto his face. Katara wasted no time in water whipping him on his pressure point then freezing him face first to the trail. She began sprinting in the direction of the camp. She heard a roar and adrenaline kicked in as she ran faster when light shot past her face. A red and orange flame soared fast her waist and she rolled off to the right sticking out her foot in the process.
Zuko saw this and leapt over her outstretched foot and his foot struck out with flames. The streak caught Katara in the shoulder and she quickly collapsed on the ground. Zuko jumping on top of her pinning her arms together above her head with one fist. Gasping for as his hips slammed into her delicate stomach, she struggled harshly against his narrowly missing his "precious" as she kneed him in the stomach.
Scowling, Zuko brought his face close to hers. Katara held her breath and his fierce golden eyes met her spiteful glare. For a split second, Zuko forgot to breathe. He forgot all human instinct. He now realized how hard his heart was pounding against his rib cage, a lot like the ocean against stones.
Katara stared at his softened eyes for a moment before leaping at an opportunity to strike. She flipped over swinging her leg over his side.
"Pedophile." She said pulling moister quickly out of the ground. She separated his arms on his sides. Panting and grunting was issued from both parties and fire erupted from his mouth. Dodging the projectiles she froze his arms to the ground and sent a swift punch to his face. Katara got up and heard Zuko panting.
" Coward!"
Katara clenched her fists and began walking again. Well, her bag was gone. She pouted inwardly. She had really liked that bag. She liked it a lot.
"Boneless waterbending peasant!" Zuko roared. Katara's walking ceased.
"Why are you still there? You could have probably melting the ice on your arms by now."
Scoffing like it was the most obvious this in the world Zuko retorted," Because, I don't need my arms to beat you."
Katara's fingernails pierced her skin and she scream.
((CRACK))
"Say it again." Katara mumbled menacingly scratching Zuko with the tip of her ice dagger. Jumping on him really cracked through some ribs. She smiled inwardly at the thought. Blood trickled down his cheek and Katara moved her dagger towards his naked neck. "I dare you."
"I do not need both arms to beat you. You're a pathetic waterbender, and a little girl. How old are you exactly? Six? Seven?" He spat cocking his head away from the dagger.
"Fifteen you stupid boy." She growled poking the skin of his neck.
Katara grips the dagger holding it to Zuko's perpetrating neck.
"Do it." He growls feebly from under her. Her brow furrowed and her grip on the elemental weapon lessened and fell farther away from his exposed jugular vein.
"What?" she asked dumbstruck.
He wriggled underneath her and she tightened her grip and thrust the dagger closer. Zuko reeled away.
"Kill me, you win. I will die with honor." He panted. For some reason his heart was beating faster than ever. He now was quiet aware of her slim body plastered against his own. Katara started to shake, thought her eyes were steady and held determination. They tried to mask her slight fear. She had never killed before. The action was futile. Zuko smirked and unsheathed his earthbender knife and sliced the ice dagger in half.
Katara remained immobile with shock. A quick reflex later he had Katara pinned underneath him. Zuko's smirk made Katara shiver. Her heart beat increased tenfold when she saw his sickly grin.
"Your hesitation amuses me peasant." He smirked. He peered down at the girl with her eyes completely shut at his closeness to him. His gaze softened though Katara didn't pick up on it. On impulse he pulled his face closer to hers until Katara felt his breathing light on her cheeks. She opened her eyes and saw his soft golden gaze. She stopped breathing and he just observed her beautiful pure eyes. He closed his eyes and she closed hers. A light feeling of completeness surrounded Zuko as his lips grew closer.
The last thing Katara would ever feel, smell and touch was her mortal enemy. How ironic. A hairs length separated them. The last thing she heard would be a-
((THUNK))
"Get your hands of my sister you sick jerk!"
Katara's eyes shot open and she breathed a sigh of relief until she realized whose face was plastered against her shoulder. She grimaced in disgust and took a sidelong glance at his peaceful face in unconsciousness. Pushing him off her, Aang ran over and offered her a hand up.
"Are you alright? Katara its nearly sunrise!" asked exasperated looking at her then at the exiled prince's form on the ground.
"I'm fine," She said as her brother inspected her. Toph lifted her foot and slammed it to the ground placing Zuko in a earthen cell.
"That asshole better not have done anything! Who KNOWS what could have happened if I didn't fling my boomerang." He shrieked waving his boomerang in her face frantically. Katara grinned.
"Well now you can't send you boomerang after my soul. Huh Sokka?"
Sokka pouted and couldn't contemplate a suitable excuse, and settled for scowling instead. Toph smirked and Sokka and Aang mentioned something about food before scurrying off. Katara gave Zuko a soft look of confusion as Toph pushed Zuko through the air. Toph glanced sightlessly at Katara before giving her a questioning look.
"Katara, why is your heart beating fast?" She asked. She knew better than to voice her own thought about why, thinking something along the lines of hormones.
"I was nearly killed! Don't you think it would be natural for that to be happening!" She answered with annoyance. Toph scrunched up her eyebrows in thought before speaking.
"Then why did you stop breathing a few minutes ago?" she asked.
Katara scoffed," I was scared! What to you want me to say. "
Toph shook her head and dropped the earth cage as they approached camp.
"Never mind." She said sitting down on a rock. Maybe her suspicions were wrong. Maybe she had interpreted Katara's heart beat wrong. Toph scoffed at the idea and Katara looked at her weirdly before assuming her cleaning duties and plopping some of the pink flower Toph had collected in a tea pot. Toph's face grew grim. She was never wrong.
Me: Again, I apologize for really late update. I just have been busy. Yeah. Please review.
Sokka: Ditto
