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For the Throne	By : LunarEclipse Category: Avatar - The Last Airbender > Het - Male/Female > Azula/Zuko Views: 16700 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Author Note: I know that the first chapter was a little short (I apologize), but I was getting a feel for the story. I just wanted to get the first chapter out there and see what results I got from it. Those results weren't good, but I'll get to that at the end of the chapter. Please read the author note after the story. This chapter is longer. I promise!

Last time: ‘He looks good now. Like when we were younger.’ She thought, sadly. ‘Yes, I think I would. Now, I just have to convince him.’

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~One Week Later With Zuko~

Zuko sighed as yet another customer walked in the tea house. ‘If I have to wait on one more peasant I’m going to be sick. I can’t believe I’m reduced to this. I’m a prince and I’m waiting on these dirty... things.’ Zuko thought bitterly, while he watched a drunken old man follow an extremely younger woman inside.

A lip curled up in disgust as he watched the old man throw his arm around the girl and slur, “Ah want da bes table ya got in tha place.” The girl gave a drunken, high pitched giggle and wrapped her arms around the man.

‘These people are driving me insane.’ Zuko tried to calm himself and said through gritted teeth “Right this way.” He turned and led them to a table in the corner. ‘Hopefully they’ll cause less of a commotion here.’ Just when Zuko was turning around to face the vulgar people behind him he felt something roughly slide over his butt. Rage flowed over Zuko. ‘Did that little wench grope me?’ Zuko thought angrily.

“I have had enough of this!” Zuko screamed spinning around to face the suddenly quiet patrons.

“Zuko?” Iroh asked coming out from the kitchen.

“Uncle, I’m sorry, but I can’t take this anymore.” Zuko said, storming out of the tea house.

The cold air nipped at Zuko as he walked down the street. ‘Probably should have grabbed something warmer to wear before I left.’ A few minutes later, Zuko was turning down an alley, shivering. ‘I should go back.’ He thought, sadly. ‘No, I made an ass out of myself. I can’t go back, at least not right now.’

A bang suddenly sounded from the entrance to the alley and Zuko spun around. An orange cat looked up from a smashed crate. The cat looked at Zuko and yowled before scampering off into the shadows. Suddenly unnerved, Zuko turned back toward the exit of the alley, when pain exploded from the back of his head. He stumbled forward and collapsed to the ground. Lights danced before his eyes as he struggled to remain conscious. Fearing for his life, he tried unsuccessfully to pull himself to his feet. Voices whispered behind him before everything went black and he collapsed back to the ground.

~With Azula two hours before~

“So, let me get this straight. You drug us to Ba Sing Se at full speed all the way from the palace, just to kidnap Zuko?” Ty Lee asked skeptically. “Are you sick?” She placed her hand on the fire princess’ brow and waited a moment before saying, “You do feel warm.”

Azula’s brow twitched in agitation. “I’m warm because I’m getting angry.” She growled.

“Oh,” Ty Lee said eyes widening. “Sorry.” Ty Lee removed her and and asked, “So why are we taking him?”

“I need to have a little chat with my dear brother.” Azula said cryptically.

“So, you think he’s here?” Mai asked.

“Yes, some of father’s spies have been watching him.” Azula replied, leaning on the famous stone wall of Ba Sing Se. “Uncle, now, owns a tea house.”

“I always knew you’re uncle was a simpleton.” Mai cut in.

“Everyone knew my uncle was a simpleton.” Azula replied, unamused at the attack on her uncle from someone who wasn’t her family.

“How are we going to get into the city.” Ty Lee asked, trying to deflect the negative emotions flying between the two girls. “Ba Sing Se’s defenses are impenetrable.”

“That’s why I told you to bring the kimonos. The guards wouldn’t keep ‘defenseless’ women in danger by refusing to allow them through the walls at night. When they ask why three rich women were traveling alone and with no money, we’ll just tell them we were robbed and our attackers killed our guards a few miles back. They might go back to find the bodies, but they’ll wait until morning to do so and by then we’ll be long gone.” Azula said, thankful for the change of subject. The failure her uncle had become wore at her pride. Royals simply did not behave like Iroh currently was. A tea house? Had the man gone mad with the loss of his son and wife? It was a disgrace and, along with Zuko’s banishment, it would serve as a joke for the soldiers to laugh at, once the gossip got around. Another blemish on the stoic face of the royal family.

“Well, girls, let’s changed.” Azula said, smirking.

~Later Inside Ba Sing Se~

As soon as the three girls got into the city, they immediately split up to find the tea house. They agreed to meet up in half an hour at the town square. Azula was the one to eventually find it. Flirting with guards could get you far. They always seemed to know all the latest gossip. The tea house was on the richer side of town, the kind of place only nobles could afford to buy from.

‘With how much tea Uncle drinks, it’s no surprise he’s good at making it.’ Azula mused. An hour was spent spying on the tea house, waiting to see if Zuko would emerge from the place or if they would have to go in and get him. There was one thing that Azula was certain of: Zuko would not talk to her unless he was highly sedated or just unable to move.

‘Even then it’s a long shot,’ She thought. ‘I’ll just have to make him listen. It should be fun, it was when we were kids.’ Azula quashed a smirk at the memory of some of the stupid things she talked her brother into doing. ‘He really was gullible.’

“Azula can’t we just go in and get him?” Ty Lee whined annoyingly. “These kimonos itch, it’s cold, and my knees are cramped from staying like this for so long.” The girls were situated behind the gate of a closed jewelry shop across the street from the tea house. The fairly impressive gate consisted of iron bars spaced a fist length apart. It was about shoulder height and a row of bushes were planted at the front. By kneeling down, the bushes concealed the girls from on lookers and gave them the perfect vantage point to watch the only entrance to the tea house.

Even if this was a tea house was a brilliant hiding spot, that did not for one second mean that Iroh would forget that there was a bounty on their heads from two nations and Azula would be willing to bet that there was at least one hidden exit in the building. If they revealed themselves too soon then Iroh and Zuko would make a break for it. It was worth waiting a few hours to capture Zuko if it meant that they could do it with little interference from Iroh.

‘Iroh really is brilliant, in a demented sort of way.’ Azula thought, with some admiration for her uncle. ‘Not many fugitives would be so smart or so brave as to hide in plain sight.’

“Oh, stop complaining.” Mai growled. “You’ve been whining for the last forty minutes and it’s pissing me off.”

“Well, excuse me!” Ty Lee said acting offended. “I can’t feel my legs.”

“You really won’t be able to feel them when I...” Mai started venomously, only to be interrupted when Azula shushed them, pointing across the street. Zuko had stormed out of the tea house and was striding briskly down the street.

“Well, Well,” Mai snickered. “Doesn’t he look happy.”

“You can’t possibly say you’re shocked.” Ty Lee said watching the retreating prince. “He’s always been a little emotional.”

Azula bit her tongue to keep from laughing. ‘What would Zuko do if he heard that?’ She thought bringing up an image of a shocked and blushing Zuko. ‘He looks good like that.’

“We need to catch up with him, but stay out of sight until he gets away from the crowds. My brother likes to sulk by himself, so he’s probably heading for the alleys and back streets.” Azula said, rising from her kneeling position. She had to admit that Ty Lee was right in her complaint. Azula’s legs trembled to support the sudden weight as she stood and her arms were numb from the cold. When she was planning, she didn’t take into consideration the fact that it was winter in Ba Sing Se. In the Fire Nation, it was always hot, even in the winter. Light kimonos were needed just to keep from passing out due to the heat, so that was pretty much the only type of kimono owned by most women in the Fire Nation. She was lucky that all three girls even owned a green or brown kimono. Most influential women chose colors to match the government they supported. It was like walking propaganda. It screamed, “I’m influential follow my lead and throw your support in for this nation”. Naturally, most of her kimonos were red or gold.

“Let’s go.” Azula said following the quick, angry strides of her brother with her eyes. ‘He must really be angry.’ Azula thought sadly. ‘He’s holding back a lot of aggression. He should know better. It’s not safe for a fire bender to hold back that much.’ Countless tales were told of fire benders who held their anger and frustration back so long they ended up setting fire to everything around them, even the people they loved. Since fire benders had a tendency to have violent tempers and constantly changing moods, meditation was taught to all fire nation citizens at a young age to prevent damage. An hour of silence a day was worth it to keep random fires from springing up all over the place.

The girls followed him for about five minutes before he turned into an alley way.

“Wait here.” Azula said before entering the alley. The alley narrow, but dark and shadows sprung from the stacked crates on both sides of the alley that camouflaged her small body easily. Seeing a pipe sticking out of one of the crates, Azula picked it up preparing for what was to come.

She was a few feet from Zuko, when a crash sounded from the end of the alley she had just come from. Quickly, she ducked behind some of the crates on her right. She held her breath, hoping that Zuko had not seen her before she was hidden.

‘What are those idiots doing?’ Azula thought, enraged at them for giving up her position. ‘If he finds me I’ll burn them alive.’

After a moment of hesitation, the sound of Zuko walking reached her ears. She gave a silent prayer of thanks before she used her agility to rush out and deliver a good swing to the back of his head. ‘Not the best way of doing it, but what works, works.’ Zuko stumbled a few steps and then fell on his knees to the ground with a grunt of pain. For a moment, she thought he was going to stand up again.

“Is he out?” Ty Lee asked, coming up behind her.

“Not yet.” Azula said, getting ready to swing again. Right when she was about to knock him upside the head for the second time, Zuko fell forward in a dead faint and a small trickle of blood dripped out from his hair.

“Now, he’s out.” Mai pointed out.

Ty Lee nudged him with her foot, and when he did not move she said “Yeah, now he’s out. He must have a really hard head though!”

“Let’s get him out of here before someone comes.” Azula said bending down and lifting his shoulders. Her brother had definitely grown since she had last seen him. He had gained some weight from muscle and he was a little taller than she remembered, too. With the changes in weight and height, he almost looked like a completely different person. Mai took up his feet and Ty Lee became the lookout. Luck was on their side as they came across no one on their way to one of the deserted borders of the wall.

‘The only flaw of the so called impenetrable wall of Ba Sing Se.’ Azula thought wryly. ‘They weren’t expecting their enemy to be breeching the wall from this side.’ The lay out of the wall was quite simple. When enemies attacked, they usually attacked the sections of the wall that were close to the richer parts of town because those sections were closer to the palace. Most soldiers were posted there to protect the palace and the rich nobles and merchants. In fact, during times of peace, close to no soldiers were even posted on the poor and middle class sides of town. After all, who needs to protect peasants?

‘Disappointing, really. I would have expected them to be more wary of invaders from all sides of the wall, after uncle Iroh.’ Azula mused.

Ty Lee went ahead of them to scout for the few soldiers that roamed these parts of the city, while Azula and Mai hobbled on with the heavy Zuko.

“Man, your brother’s gotten fat since he left the palace.” Mai complained, glaring at the unconscious prince. Biting back the need to defend him and his obvious lack of fat, Azula simply grunted and picked up their pace. They were almost to the wall, when Ty Lee met up with them again.

“All I found was one drunken soldier and his passed out girlfriend.” She reported happily.

“Good.” Azula said shortly. Despite the cold, sweat was beading on her forehead and her muscles ached from carrying the heavy load from one end of the city to the other. What was more, once they got him to the wall they would have to heft him over it.

‘This is gonna be fun.’ She thought sarcastically.

They had been smart enough to predict that they would have trouble getting him over here so they had left camp fairly close to this side of the wall.
‘Still, just getting him over that wall’s gonna be a bitch.’ She glared at the man resting in her arms. ‘You just had to get tall and muscular before we got here.’

When they got to the wall Ty Lee climbed up and waited for Zuko to be passed up. Azula and Mai hurriedly pushed him up into the girl’s arms before slumping over on the wall to catch their breath.

“Hurry up!” Ty Lee whispered loudly. “The guard is due to switch soon and if I’m sitting on this wall I’m gonna be seen.”

“We’re coming.” Mai growled, rubbing the ache from her muscles. Both girls hauled themselfs over the wall and then dropped to the ground below. Ty Lee moved Zuko so that his legs would go down first, but stopped before she dropped him.

“What are you waiting for?” Azula asked impatiently.

“Um... Azula?” Ty Lee said nervously.

“What?” Azula hissed.

“I... I think you hit him too hard.” Ty Lee responded.

“Why?” The princess asked, her blood turning cold and her breath stilling in her lungs.

“He’s still bleeding... really badly.” Ty Lee said, her voice quivering.

“Drop him down.” Azula said breathlessly. Ty Lee gently lowered Zuko and Azula pulled him into her waiting arms not even giving Mai the chance to reach for him.

‘Oh no.’ She thought, feeling the blood on his head. ‘If he dies... father, the plan,... Zuko... ’

“We...we have to get him somewhere where we can light a fire.” Azula said, forcing herself to remain calm. “We have to check his wound.”

Ty Lee hopped down from the wall and took his legs giving Mai a break. Mai sprinted ahead of them and lit a fire at their camp. When the girls got there she said, “This spot will have to due until we treat the wound.”

By the time they had gotten Zuko on his stomach, the fire was bright enough to illuminate the gash on Zuko’s head. Azula traced the gash with her finger in confusion.

“This was caused by something sharp.” She said, eyebrows furrowed. “The pipe must have been twisted at the end. I must have missed it.”

“No time to worry about that now.” Ty Lee said as she brought over two of their canteens and some bandages. “We have to treat that wound before he bleeds to death. Head wounds bleed more heavily than most other wounds.” Ty Lee finished.

Azula pushed aside Zuko’s blood matted raven hair and took one of the canteens from Ty Lee. She gently poured the water on the wound until the bleeding lessened and then wrapped Zuko’s head tightly with two of the bandages.

“I don’t know how to treat this. This can’t be enough to help him.” Azula said. “We need to take him to the nearest healer.”

The girls then packed up the medical equipment, readied the rhinos, put out the fire, and rode for closest town to Ba Sing Se.

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Author Note: ok. Now I would like to address the reviews. For the first chapter, I recieved 2 reviews and 4 votes out of over 200 hits. First of all, I would like to thank Shard and Jayrich for their reviews (Jayrich I would also like to thank you for pointing out the spelling error in the title). Secondly, I would like to thank the people who voted for the story whether good or bad. Now, I have to say that I was disappointed by the number of reviews. I asked for feedback on the story because I'm not so good with maintaining plotlines, my grammer obviously needs improvement, I make constant spelling mistakes that I don't catch, and I really do like to know how certain parts of the story sound. If people don't care enough about the story to review then I really shouldn't be continuing it. I'm only a novice writer, so of coarse I miss plot holes and other things. This why I need reviews. I can't make the story better if I don't know what is wrong with it. If I don't recieve more feedback then I won't continue with the story. But obviously no one will care because they didn't care enough to review.
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