Maiko Fluff Series # 3

Hi! Here is # 3! This one is a bit more serious than the others but cute all the same. K! Here we go! BTW, This story place a few days after the honeymoon.

Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar the last Airbender. Stop rubbing it in.

Theme: Heart Attack

Zuko hid in a bush in the royal garden and looked to the stars. They were shining brightly that evening. Surely they would give away his hiding spot, those traitorous lights, but he supposed they did also help him see his beautiful wife in the low moonlight a bit better. She sat, legs propped up sideways, on the edge of the swan fountain, the large centerpiece royal garden. Reading a large book, she brushed her hair from behind her eyes to keep the strands out of the way. It quickly was brought to Zuko's attention that she escaped to that exact spot every other night or so.

So many people wanted to meet her now that she was married to one of the most powerful kings in the land (who just had happened to be watching (cough, stalking) her a few feet away in a bush like a stalker). She sighed. Romance novels were not her thing at all. She quite hated them actually, but she was the newly-wedded wife of the king and had no idea how to be romantic. The things suggested in the book within her hands quickly told her of this. Mai looked up at the full moon above her, giving her just enough light so that she would not go blind trying to conjugate the words in the dark, peaceful garden.

Inside the bush, Zuko had rubbed his temples (something he had found himself doing that a lot lately) again. It felt like one of those days when all he wanted to do it pull out his hair and burn down a building. He looked up at his wife, her beautiful figure beathing in the night's soft lights. All of a sudden, great memories of their honeymoon came flooding back to his mind.

(For K+ Reasons , I cannot tell you this flashback. Long story short, they had A LOT of umm fun)

Zuko then started to notice that he was sighing. He never sighed. He was Zuko. Hard core of steel. No mercy. Getting married might just be turning him into a softy. But he sort of liked it.

Mai heard a rustle in the bush. Quickly averting her eyes from the book, she looked up to see who had made the sound.

"Maybe, it's just the bluebirds", she mused when she saw no one was there. Without fully letting her guard down, as the woman was trained, she directed the majority of her attention back to the book which plot was getting so steamy, she was expecting it to burn her hands at any moment.

Zuko walked silently out from the bush. With long strides, he pulled behind Mai, where he noticed that her eyes were glued to a romance novel. What he didn't know was that she was trying to pick up advice here and there within the almost cheesy thing. Zuko crept closer and closer. Mai still had her head in the book. Then with one swift side-step action, Zuko landed right in front of Mai. She went into ninja mode and threw her newly-sharpened darts at the so-called intruder. Zuko, being one skilled and lucky man, dodged them by inches.

"I am so sorry. It's just I didn't see you there and… holy agni! Look what I did to that statue. Wait, why am I apologizing? You where the one trying to give me a heart attack.", she said while her eyes got bigger by the second.

"I do submit my deepest apologies, my dearest Queen" Zuko said, bowing deeply.

She mentally smirked at the funny way he was acting. "Alright, my king" she following suit. "I am taking that you have came to my presence for something" she announced, closing her book with a quiet thud. "Only that I could accompany you" he answered. Mai smiled. "Then I demand you to sit her with me", she stated and smiled again he did as he was told.

Zuko went back to talking regularly. "So what are you reading?" he said grabbing for the book. "Wow, for someone who has so much business to deal with already, you sure like to get into mine " she said with the familiar no-joke monotonous voice while keeping him at bay from the book.

"Ok then" he relented, but with a swift move snatched the book anyway. "Ooh. You and romance? Something is wrong here." He said with a fake look of incredulousness. "Now, you just stop that" she said, snatching the book. "And now I won't use any of the advice I found on you, so yeah" Mai confirmed, an evil tinge evident in her words. She stood up and waltzed away, just the way the book had described the main character doing that had caused the man of interest to drool.

"I've done it now" he said to himself as he got up to chase after her.

She had a look a determination on her face. Which on Mai, could cut steel.

But he got to her any way.

And it was like the honeymoon all over again.

Tried to keep it k+. I didn't go into details at least :P. Please review.