Hey there. I am really happy that I got to work on this story some more. I am not sure after this chapter when I will be able to update. Shouldn't be too long, hopefully. Well here is my next installment.
*Zuko POV*
Why the hell does she not obey! I hate acting like a dick, but I can't allow a disobedient prisoner, no matter who she is. If she disobeys one more time, I don't know what I will do, but I think I got my point across enough so that I she won't.
I enter the food quarters knowing that Uncle will be in here. He was making himself tea. I slammed the door announcing my entrance.
"What's wrong Zuko, having problems?" Uncle asked.
"No, what ever gave you that idea Uncle?" I asked sarcastically. "All she does is testing my temperament; she is contradicting everything I do."
"Well do you blame her nephew? You kidnapped her from her friends, you're holding her against her will, and you are trying to use her as bait for the Avatar." Uncle says.
"Yes, but at least I do not have her in the cells where my guards can have easy access and I am feeding her. And I haven't done anything unruly to her." I said.
"Which I, and I am certain she, is grateful for nephew. Give the young water bender time. She will begin to obey. But do not do anything rash. That will certainly have her never obey you. Be wise nephew." Uncle says in his calm collective voice.
"Whatever Uncle." I say before leaving the room.
Just as I exit the room one of my guards alert me that we are low on supply and that we will need to stop at one of the colonies to restock.
Great. Now this will extend our time to catch up to the Avatar, and if I am not too careful, it might give Katara an opportunity to escape.
*Kataras POV*
It took us two days, but we arrived to the fire nation colonies. I behaved during our journey, but only so I could convince Zuko that he could trust me enough to let me get off the ship with him.
"Fine, but you are to speak to no one, you are not to bend. And if you even dare an escape attempt, I will throw you down in the cells before you can even blink." Zuko says in a condescending tone.
I walked around with Zuko ignoring him arguing with the shop keepers. There are kids laughing and playing games. Oh if Sokka was here he would call them "lil monsters in training." One of the kids kicked a ball and it rolled over to me. I bent down to pick it up, but as I am rising my head bumps into Zuko's.
"Ouch." I say in an annoying tone.
"Well be more careful, and then maybe you wouldn't of bumped my head. And besides I thought I told you not to talk to anyone." Zuko says.
"I haven't Zuko. But if you want me to, then fine I will." Before he can say anything I walk away from him with the ball in hand and towards the little kids. "Here you go." I say smiling down.
The little kid quickly takes the ball away from me, but not before I notice the little burn on his arm. "Thank you." He says smiling tentatively.
"What happened to you arm little one?" I ask.
"My daddy got mad and fire bended at my mom, but I got in the way and he burnt me." He said in a sad voice.
"Oh my." I quickly glance back at Zuko who was glaring at me. Well I already disobeyed him once, might as well make sure my punishment is worth it. "Well I'll fix that up for you."
"How?" The little boy asked.
"With "magic."" I say. I then bend the water out of the puddle beside me and put it on the boys burn. I then focus all my energy into healing the burn. It only took a matter of minutes. "There." I say smiling.
"Oh thank you, thank you, thank you." The little boy says smiling and hugging me around my legs.
But before I can say anything I feel two very strong arms wrap around my waist pulling me away from the little boy. He pulls me into an alley and presses me in the wall. "Bad idea Katara." Zuko whispers in my ear. His teeth graze it and cause me to shiver. "I told you not to talk to no one, and I most certainly told you not to bend." He whispers.
He pulls his face away from me, but only kept it mere inches from mine. "I don't care Zuko, I was only returning him his ball and I noticed his burn on his arm. He said his dad gave it to him. I wasn't gonna let him live with that scar." I say, knowing that it would strike a nerve in Zuko. "And besides it's not like I told him who I was and ask him to send a message to Aang. But if you want I can do that right now." I say trying to get out of the wall between me and him. But he only pushes me more up against it. Causing every part of his body to be flush up against mine.
"Fine. But if you do any more bending, or if you talk to anyone else, I will have to punish you." He says.
"Whatever." I say while pushing him back away from me. I know he didn't like it, but he only glared and waited for me to move.
We kept walking and Zuko wraped his arm around my waist. I retaliate at first, but he tells me it is so if I try to run he can more easily grab me.
It was sundown by the time we arrived back at the ship. I was exhausted and felt dirty. I asked and pleaded with Zuko to let me bathe.
"Fine, but you only have 10minutes." He says irritated.
I go into his bath chambers and start the water. It comes out warm automatically and after it is filled up I sink into the tub. It is huge; the tub could fit almost 5 other people. I massage the shampoo into my hair, I don't care if it was Zuko's, I felt disgusting. As I continued soaking, I played with the water. I didn't intend on bending any at Zuko, I knew if I did he would ban my bathing privileges, or worse, he would have to come in and bath me himself.
At first I was disgusted at the thought, but the idea of Zuko seeing me naked gave me butterflies in my stomach. No. He was the enemy, I shouldn't be even thinking about that. I quickly destroyed that image as fast as it came in.
I got out of the tub and drained it. I put on one of Zuko's robes to avoid getting back into my dirty clothes. I then brushed out my hair, for I didn't dare bend the water out, knowing Zuko would know I water bended.
As I walked out Zuko was only in his boxers. He looked at me and glared.
"Why are you wearing my robe?" He said looking me up and down.
"I didn't have anything else to wear, my other clothes are dirty and I didn't exactly want to put them back on. What would be the point in doing that?" I said.
"Fine, I will get you one of my tunics to wear for the night." He says walking over to his drawer. "Put this on, and I will get your other clothes washed. At the next port I will get you more clothes. I wish you would have said something today so I could of got them while we were at all the shops."
I just glare at him and go back in and quickly put on his tunic. It is huge on me. When I re-open the door I see Zuko is in his bed waiting on me to join him before he dims the lights.
As I drifted off to sleep I felt Zuko move in closer to me and wrapped his arm around me.
Well that's it for this chapter. Hope you guys liked it. I feel like I am repeating myself a lot with the he said and she said or I said. So if you feel that let me know and maybe possibly give me ideas to help improve that. I don't generally write stories in this way, so I am hoping that writing this story will help me improve. But please review, thanks for reading, will update as soon as I can.