Title: Raincolors
Author: tanikara kohitsuji
Theme: 22. Faded colors
Pairing: Zutara! Zuko x Katara
Raincolors
If there were one thing Zuko hated, it was rain. It made him cold, it made him feel useless, and most importantly, it made him wet.
If there were one thing Katara loved, it was rain. It made her wild, it made her feel powerful, and most importantly, it made her wet.
If there were one thing Zuko liked about the rain, it was the way Katara looked in it, hair catching the jeweled drops for just a moment.
She looked better soaked and invitingly soft, and the rain was the only way he could seem to find her like that.
When it rained, she went out to practice her bending. As she practiced, her clothes became soaked, clinging to her slight but curvaceous body in new entrancing, tempting ways. In the rain, Katara came alive. She absorbed it, embracing her falling element fully. It breathed color into her, heightening the blue in her robes. Her tanned skin glowed, catching the dim light in a glorious way. Her mahogany hair floated about her in loose, wet waves that caught the rain like a net of jewels for split seconds. Her eyes were the color of oceans in the wet weather, enticing as they caught his through the veil of drops.
If there were one thing Katara hated about the rain, it was the way Zuko looked in it, all drenched and washed out.
He looked better in color, and the rain had a way of fading all of the hues about him in a way that she did not like one bit.
His eyes went from smoldering amber to soft golden honey, slow, sticky, and captivating. His hair went from warm coal to hard ebony, all the invitation dragged out of it, hardened somehow, no longer to call her hand to it in the same way. His skin went from cream to porcelain. The warm reds and golds she associated with his robes faded to muted colors, as if the very water she loved so much falling from the sky pulled every drop of color from them and into it.
Overall, Zuko loved Katara in the rain, somehow saturated in color yet softer, lither than at any other moment.
Overall, Katara loved Zuko in the rain, somehow looking at her with more wonder, more love than at any other moment.
But most of all, both of them loved the way the other tasted of the sky and water and newness when they kissed among the falling heavens.
A/N: Aww…. I gave you a kiss! Ain't I the best? I hope you enjoyed all the parallelism overkill and bookending. I wanted to show contrasts and such with this one. So I kept switching back and forth.
*laughs* Actually, I was originally going to use a different theme for this! But as I started envisioning it, I decided this one fit better. So I switched.
I love the title for this one. I was going to use "Watercolors" but it seemed misleading. So I thought of all the rain in this one and changed it to "Raincolors." I'm so going to call any watercolor of a rainy scene that now! lol
Drop me a note telling me what you think.
