Zutara Week Day 4: Date
When Fire Lord Zuko woke up this morning he hadn't expected to be dragged out of the palace by a bouncy, annoying Ty Lee and a slightly more subdued Katara. He was forced into civilian clothes by the hyper pink bundle that was zooming around his room talking nonstop. He stopped caring about what Ty Lee said after a few moments of staring stupidly at her and decided to dress himself. When he returned he found Ty Lee jumping on his bed doing numerous flips and turned his attention to Katara, who was smirking at him. "What?" he asked.
Katara smiled this time and said, "I just think that a firebender should be more of a morning person, don't you, Zuko?" She giggled lightly at his scowl and moved foreword with a hand outstretched to his head. Zuko dodged warily and she hit his arm in a disproving manner so he stilled. She ran a hand through his hair and started to 'fix' it. "You have bed-head, have you ever heard of a brush?" she asked. She was still trying to flatten an extremely stubborn lock of his hair that just wouldn't cooperate.
Ty Lee jumped from the bed and landed a foot away from them and said, "Kai and I want to spend a day on the town and you two are coming with us! It's like a double date! But not really, 'cause that'd imply that you two we're a couple but you're not… Anyway, since you two are the only one's here besides Sokka and Suki and they didn't wanna go, I decided we should all go together! There's no backing out of this! So… HA!"
Zuko just rolled his eyes as Ty Lee dragged both him and Katara out to the front of the palace where Kai was waiting. Zuko shared a look with the waterbender and prayed to Agni to have mercy on his soul.
"Morning!" Kai beamed happily at them while bowing to Zuko, who shook his head and told the man to stand. "We all ready to go then?" he asked, when Ty Lee answered in the affirmative they started on their way to town. "So, Katara, how's the Avatar?"
"I don't know… I haven't talked to him since we broke up, or the last time he was here… When was that, Zuko?" Katara asked.
Zuko thought for a moment, "When Mai broke up with me, remember? You two had already broken it off, right? Yeah, that was it. About three months ago."
Zuko yawned. Why did they have to leave right when he woke up? He was hungry and didn't get the chance to even think about breakfast.
"So the two of you never got back together that's a shame, Katara… but I guess it was for the best. You can't stay with someone you don't love, can you?" Kai asked wrapping an arm around Ty Lee's shoulder.
Before anyone could say a word, Zuko's stomach growled and he blushed, "I haven't had breakfast yet…"
Katara smiled and suggested they get something from one of the stands to munch on while they walked. With Zuko's hunger satisfied they decided to go window shopping, well, Ty Lee actually decided but she liked to think it was a group effort. In the few hours that had gone by, Zuko and Katara were bored, and Katara suggested that they go to the lake to relax.
Zuko smiled at the sight of Katara bending a stream of water and settled down on a patch of grass to close his eyes. Ty Lee saw him and bounced over, "Zuko, you can't fall asleep on a date!"
He was about to reply when Katara said, "Oh, let him, Ty Lee! He doesn't get enough sleep as it is, and today was his day off; we all know that he sleeps on his day off." Ty Lee let him be but a few minutes later he felt someone on the ground next to him and opened an eye. Katara was lying there smiling at him and said, "Hey…"
"Hey," Zuko sighed and moved one arm from behind his head as an invitation for her to use him as a pillow. As always, she snuggled onto the fabric of his shirt and sighed.
Zuko was beginning to think this day was going pretty well when he heard Katara say, "I guess it was a date after all…" and then he thought it was going even better.