Modern AU, could be the Miraculous one, but there's no hint at that.
Day 6: Power Couple
"Come on, it'll be fun!" she said. "It won't take long," she said.
It is not fun, and it definitely already has taken too long.
"Don't give me that look, Zuko!" Sokka complains, gesturing around with the camera in his hand.
Zuko's scowl deepens.
Katara squeezes his side, which makes him look at her. Her smile is sweet and hopeful. She smiles like that, when she hopes to get what she wants. "Pleeeaaase! Just one wide toothy smile!"
His nostrils flare.
Posing for pictures in ridiculous poses is apparently not enough. Now he has to smile with his teeth?
"I just don't like faking a smile!" he grumbles, and crosses his arms in front of his chest.
"Zuko! Come one," Aang urges. "It's graduation! It's a reason to celebrate, and it goes for you, too, Mister Kasaishi Zuko Sir!"
"Yeah, no more grades, no more lessons, no more getting up early," Sokka counts off his fingers, grinning.
"I know," Zuko says, feeling tired. His friends are a lot.
Katara presses closer to his side. "Just one! Please! Believe me, I won't forget that you're not a smily person, even when I will look at this picture in sixty years! I'll still think 'Aw, he's smiling there, even though he was always so grumpy, and just because I asked him nicely, and he was such a nice boyfriend to do what I wanted'!" she grits the last bit out between her teeth.
That's when he actually smiles with his teeth, painfully and forced, trying to look sorry.
Sokka immediately uses that moment and makes pictures from every angle, until Zuko has enough, and barks at him to stop.
Katara squeezes his side again, this time it hurts.
"Please," he adds to Sokka, who presses the camera to his chest and pouts.
"But I still have one pose in mind!"
"Grr!"
"Great, which one is it?" Katara chimes.
Why does he have to like these people? Why is his girlfriend always dragging him into situations he hates?
"I actually liked Zuko's murder look before, could you do that, too, Katara?" Sokka said, pointing a finger at her.
Zuko raises his eyebrows, and his eyes widen in surprise. Really? Is Sokka serious?
"What?" Katara dead pans, and Zuko fights the urge to grin.
"Yes, really. But put some arrogance into it. I want you two to look like special agents or assassinates or something like that," Sokka goes on.
Katara turns her head up to Zuko who tries to tell her with his eyes that they have to get out of here.
Uncle Iroh was already embarrassing enough with the pictures earlier, but this is ridiculous.
Katara shrugs. "It's probably going to be fun. And you don't have to do much."
He scrunches his nose. "Are you saying that I look like an arrogant murderer?"
A grin spreads on her lips. "No, of course not. Just arrogant and annoyed right now."
He narrows his eyes at her.
"Zuko, give me that look! It's wasted on Katara!" Sokka orders, and Zuko immediately raises his head and glares at his best friend.
"Yeah, exactly like that! Chin higher!"
Zuko tries hard not to sigh, and instead takes deep calming breaths. He knows he's not a calm person, but he's been very on edge today. With his father soon standing another trial, it is all pretty much, and he still doesn't know what to do after school.
But it is graduation, and his friends are happy. So he gives in to their silly demands.
"I want you back to back."
They cross their arms, and stare into the camera, their backs touching.
Maybe he'll be happy later to have these pictures of Katara and him. They probably look very adult together in her long blue dress and his smoking.
They stand shoulder on shoulder, but slightly turned away from the camera, as Zuko puts a hand on his bow tie to loosen it a bit, while raising an eyebrow at the camera.
"Oh, this is great!" Sokka gushes. "You just look like Mr. and Mrs. Smith! So powerful! Come on, give me your powerful "we-can-crush-you-like-bugs-face"!"
Zuko tries to look like Azula sometimes does, and it obviously works, since Sokka can't stop telling them how great this is.
"Sokka, you're a genius!" Aang says, crosses his arms and smiles.
Zuko looks at him, wide eyed. Please don't make this go longer!
"Oh, yeah, that totally looks like they could rule the world!" Toph says, who is standing next to Aang and smirks.
Zuko has to smirk at that, too. He knows exactly what's coming.
"Why, thank you, Toph, but I'M NOT FALLING FOR YOUR TRICKS ANYMORE!" This distracts Sokka, who throws himself into a verbal fight with Toph about his intelligence and honour.
Katara chuckles next to him, and he smiles down at her, pulling her closer to lean down.
He whispers into her ear. "I think Toph is right, because you do rule my world."
Katara tries to fight a smile, he can see it, and finds it adorable, as she smirks instead. "And don't you ever forget that!"
Smirking back, he quickly presses his lips to hers. "I couldn't, even if I wanted to."