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Hidden in the Dark	By : HUgirl16 Category: Avatar - The Last Airbender > Het - Male/Female > Katara/Zuko Views: 13466 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Zukos's POV

I don't remember much other than jumping off and then suddenly being grabbed and lifted up. 'No! Let me be!' I screamed in my head. I started struggling and squirming trying to get out of the grip the person had on me.
"Stop struggling Zuko or we're both going to fall." I heard Aang yell over the wind. I scowled and kept struggling trying to feel free again.
"For the love of. Stop it Zuko!" Aang yelled again and finally threw me back onto the floor of the temple and landed on the floor putting his glider away. I was about to get up when suddenly Sokka threw me down again.
"Nuh-Uh buddy. You're staying on the ground, so that way you don't try anything like that again." Sokka frowned. I glared at him.
"You're lucky that Toph told Aang before you died!" Katara said.
"Yeah seriously you could have died! Where would we be now?" Suki added in. I glared at them all while they scolded me. I cut them all off with me yelling.
"I wanted to die! Don't you understand! I want too! You guys took that away!" I grew quieter and started sobbing. "You took the last thing I wanted away…" They all looked at me with worry, sadness, and pity. I grew angry. 'I don't need anyone's pity!' I thought in my head.
"Why?" Toph finally spoke. I glared at Katara and finally looked down, but everyone saw me glance at her.
"It's none of your business…" I mumbled and got up again and running to my room before they could stop me.
Once I got there I slammed my door and leaned against it and fell into a sitting position. I started sobbing with my head in my hands and I looked back on all the things I may have done to deserve this and became more depressed. I wasn't going to let anyone get close to me and hurt me again.
(Later on the next morning)
I felt the pull of the sun rising and opened my tear stained, red, and swollen eyes from crying all night with little sleep. I got a little over two hours of sleep and I was exhausted mentally and emotionally. I got up, grabbed some clean clothes and went to the bathing house.
I walked in to see no one in there and sighed in relief. I ran the water in the tub and stripped of all my clothes. I saw a tall mirror and caught a glimpse of the scars that marred my body. There were slashed across my back crisscrossing each other from the fire whippings I would get as a boy after my mother left. There was also scars on my stomach and torso from the frequent beatings and continuous hard trainings my father put me through. I looked at my scars that showed on my body and I shamefully looked away. I didn't like to practice shirtless for a reason. I was ashamed of the scars I got. I was weak and pathetic and I deserved them all. I was brought out of my thoughts and I looked back at the tub to see it almost full. I turned the water off and got in, warming the water to the perfect temperature. I sighed happily and relaxed for a while.
When I was done I got out and drained the water than throwing some clean clothes that I had brought and went back to my room to get water pouch.
Once I got it I headed off to practice firebending because Toph has Aang for some odd reason. I didn't ask though because if Toph got up this early it must have been important, so I left it alone. I walked out to our usual eating spot and saw Katara fixing breakfast. I decided to practice no too far off from her.
I started warming up with basic forms and then moved on to more of the advanced forms and grunted with all the anger I was blowing off while doing so. I was so zoned in that I over-twisted my hips and I twisted my ankle wrong. I heard a pop and I screamed so loud that Katara came running quickly to me.
I was grunting in pain when she sat near my right ankle and pulled some water out, trying to touch my ankle, but I moved away from her.
"Don't touch me! Don't ever touch me!" I yelled at her. I saw the group running towards Katara and me. She looked hurt for a second and then glared at me.
"Zuko! Stop being stubborn and let me look at it!" Katara growled in frustration. She tried to touch me again, but I rolled away from her while hissing in pain that came from ankle and by then everyone was there. I must have screamed a lot louder than I thought.
"Don't touch me!" I repeated. Almost everyone sighed or rolled their eyes at me. Katara gave up and sighed.
"Fine. Have someone else look at." She huffed.
"No. I didn't need help. I can do it myself." I said.
"Zuko. You can't set this yourself!" Katara exclaimed gesturing towards my ankle. I narrowed my eyes at her.
"Watch me." I dared her to test me. I got up ignoring the pain in my ankle and started limping away.
"Dang it Zuko! You're going to make it worse!" Katara yelled at me. I ignored her and kept limping to my room.
By the time I got to my room I was covered in even more sweat with the exertion of moving my ankle. I closed my door and limped over to my bed. I collapsed on it while panting from the pain. I looked and saw that my ankle had become more swollen from walking on it. I grabbed my bag and took out some wraps. I looked for two supports and looked at the chair at my desk. I limped and grabbed the chair and swung it at the wall, breaking it into pieces, I grabbed two pieces of the legs. I got back on the bed and grabbed my ankle and placed into the right place. I hissed and tears welled up in my eyes. I put the chair fragments on each side of my ankle and started wrapping my ankle.
When I finished wrapping my ankle there was a knock at my door and I grunted. My door opened to none other than Teo. He looked nervous and rolled in on his wheel chair. I smiled grimly, trying to be nice to him considering how nervous he was, thinking that he might think I'll snap him in half.
"I-I thought y-you might want th-ese b-because of your ankle. You know b-because it's h-hurt." He stuttered nervously while presenting me a pair of crutches.
"I-I made them wi-with no problem, bu-t if-" I cut him off and smiled kindly while taking them from him.
"Thank you Teo. That's really nice of you. I appreciate it." I smiled and ruffled his hair and he lit up with a big grin.
"You're welcome! If you need anything else I'm glad to help." Teo said excitedly. My heart grew warm at his happiness.
"Thanks Teo. I'll remember that." I said and saw him turn around wheel himself out while saying goodbye. I looked at my crutches and saw they were smoothly carved and put together. I looked closer and saw small fire designs throughout them. I smiled at his unique touch to it. He's like the little brother I never had.
I got up and put the crutches under my arms and slowly starting hopping out of my room towards the area where we ate. I entered to see everyone sitting there talking and Toph didn't acknowledge I was there, but Teo noticed right away.
"Zuko! I saved you a bowl of food!" He yelled and gestured to sit next to him. I smiled and hopped on my crutches towards him. I sat down and he put the bowl of rice in my hands. I nodded my thanks and started eating.
"Oh! I brewed some tea for you. It will help with pain and swelling. My mother was a healer and my father picked up a few things from her before she died and he showed me most of them." Teo explained while giving me the tea.
"Thank you Teo. It means a lot to me for you to do this." I said. Teo grinned and went back to talking to Aang and Haru. I finished my food and tea and went to get up, but The Duke grabbed my dishes and ran off before I could protest.
"Don't worry Zuko! I got it!" The Duke said. I frowned and nodded my thanks. One thing I hated was to be babied considering I was never showed affection throughout most of my childhood, other than my uncle and my mother when she was still there. Everyone in the group looked confused at why the two little brothers of the group were helping me out.
The Duke came back and sat in front of me. I looked at him and raised my eyebrow. He just grinned his goofy grin and stared at me.
"Can I check your ankle?" He asked and I raised my eyebrow. Did he even know how? He must saw my doubt and grinned even bigger.
"I may not be a waterbender healer or even a regular healer, but living in the woods and trees you get quite a few hurt ankles. I learned a few things about wrapping them and proper setting for more serious ones." Duke explained. I wearily and hesitantly nodded putting my ankle in front of him. He smiled and unwrapped it trying to be careful. Once he unwrapped my ankle, it revealed my swollen ankle.
"I'm going to put some pressure on some spots and give me a number on how much it hurts." He said and started on the top of it pushed on it making me wince a little. He went until finally he finished, to my relief.
"You haven't broken anything as far as I know. Katara would know for sure, but considering how you feel about that...It's not really an option. So I'll set it properly and wrap it and I want you to keep it elevated while you're sitting or resting to get the swelling down. Also some ice that we can wrap up and set under it to help the swelling go down." Duke explained. I looked at him with wide eyes. He smiled at my expression.
"Didn't think I knew that huh?" He said as he looked for praise. I remember that look so much. I had the same look when I tried to get even a tiny bit of praise from my father. I smiled and ruffled his hair.
"That's amazing buddy. You're one smart kid." I praised him giving him the encouragement that I never got. He lit up like a firefly in the fire nation's summer nights.
"How old are you?" I asked him. He gave me a big grin.
"I'm eight, but I got made fun of because I was the youngest of everyone and they said I wasn't as good as any of the other Freedom Fighters." Duke explained sadly. I frowned and knew exactly where he was coming from.
"You shouldn't listen to them. You're just as good as them and you're as good as a fighter as you want to be. Nobody is perfect, but when you put your heart and soul into what you want to become, no one can drag you down and make you feel inferior unless you let them." I told him. "If you want I can show you some moves. Even if I can't walk or use my ankle I'm still willing to show you some stuff if you want." I offered him. He grinned and nodded his head quickly.
"What would you know about fighting?" Sokka huffed offended that I was teaching him. I rolled my eyes and scowled.
"In the fire nation we're trained into hand-to-hand combat and weaponry. Not just firebending. It's the only thing that came easy to me as a kid. So I'm good at it and I'm teaching him." I angrily. Sokka just glared at me and I turned towards Duke.
"How about tomorrow morning I'll wake you up and we can start?" I suggested. Duke grinned.
"Really! You're serious!" The Duke exclaimed. I chuckled and nodded.
"Yeah I am. I promise I'll teach you everything I know about hand-to-hand combat and weapon fighting." I promised. Katara was quickly to object.
"No! He's too young Zuko! He's eight!" She yelled at me. 'God damn it can't she for once not object to everything I do!' I thought. The Duke looked really sad at the thought of not being able too. That made me angry.
"Katara! I don't care what you have to say! He is eight! I'll tell you one thing though! I got beat at the age of eight and I didn't know how to defend myself! What if he happens to be in a predicament where he's alone and facing someone or even multiple people twice his size? Of course he'll run first, but the fact is that sometimes he won't be able to run. He'll have to fight his best out of it. He needs this. So you have no say in this because you don't and won't ever understand." I told her. She just sat in silence staring at me-no-really looking into my eyes as if she was trying to see my soul. Katara just nodded and stood up, walking off. I smiled to The Duke.
"See you tomorrow morning buddy." I grinned. I got up and put my crutches under my arms and hopped to my room leaving The Duke smiling happily.
Katara's POV
I was walking to my room after the whole arguing with Zuko-if you want to call it that-and suddenly I heard Aang yell my name. He came running down the hallway and right next to me.
"So Katara. How was your day?" Aang asked. I smiled politely and answered.
"It was fine Aang. Thank you. That's sw-" I was cut off by lips being placed on mine. I was shocked first than relaxed molding into the kiss. It was a shy and innocent kiss. His lips were soft and tasted like lychee nuts. It was a nice and simple kiss, but nothing. No spark. No connection. Nothing. I suddenly thought back to what Zuko had said the last two times we fought.
"I gave you my heart and all the love with it!" "I'm sick of feeling numb and angry because of you!" "You shattered me and you don't care!" "It's either you break my heart or his!" He screamed at me.
He was wrong. I was wrong. I couldn't love Aang even if I tried. Zuko was right. He was wrong about one thing though. I do care and I'm going to make it right and I was going to fix Zuko's broken heart even if I have to beg for forgiveness.
I pulled away and looked at Aang sadly who looked sad that I had pulled away. I sighed and looked away from him, dreading what I was about to tell him.
"Aang…I can't…I thought could love you, but I can't. I wanted to save you the hurt, but I realized that I'd live in misery knowing that I never went after the one person I truly love…" Aang looked so hurt from me telling him this.
"It's Zuko. Isn't it?" He asked. I looked away.
"I thought so…When he looked at you when Toph asked him why he wanted to die. He looked at you with so much sorrow and love that anyone could have seen he is in love with you. And you're in love with him? Huh?" Aang said sadly. I looked him in the eyes and nodded.
"Yes…I'm in love with Zuko…" I said out loud for the second time ever. I couldn't think of a life without him. If he had died when he jumped I would have died inside and would have become empty without him. Aang smiled sadly.
"Then it's ok. I want you to be happy. If he makes you happy than I'm happy." Aang smiled. I smiled happily and gave Aang the biggest hug.
"Thank you Aang for understanding! There's a girl out there for you. You just have to look." I reassured him. He grinned and pulled away, walking off saying good night. When he was gone I decided I needed to see Zuko and took off towards his room.
When I arrived at his room I knocked and heard him grunt and say come in. I threw the door open and saw him sitting on the edge of his bed. He looked up and saw me. His eyes narrowed and he became stiff.
"Katara wha-" I cut him off throwing my body on top of his and I started sobbing into his chest. He made an oof! Sound and managed to keep his both sitting.
"I'm sorry Zuko. I'm SO sorry! I never should have chosen Aang over you! I'm in love YOU Zuko! Not Aang. I told him that I couldn't do it. I told him that I loved you. I can't live any other life unless it's with you. I want to get married to you. I want to be pregnant with your children. I want to grow old with you while you say I'm beautiful even though I'll be wrinkly and saggy. I do care about you Zuko. More than anything in this world. Please forgive me. Please forgive me Zuko. I can't live without you." I pleaded with him sobbing into his naked chest making it all wet from my tears pouring down. He tried to me pull me away from his chest, but I tightened my grip on him scared he was going to throw me out. I heard him sigh.
"Katara…Katara. Look at me." He pulled me away from his chest and made me look into his molten gold eyes that held many emotions. Most hurt and love. I sniffled and waited for him to continue.
"I'm in love with you too Katara…But you broke my heart. I just couldn't live life knowing I wasn't going to be the one to give you a family, a home, a life, or children. I hurt so bad Katara…" Zuko started crying. I put his face between my hands and looked at him while I cried silently.
"I'm sorry Zuko. I'm sorry causing this much pain. I promise you'll have all those things with me. And only me. I make your pain ease. Just let me love you Zuko…Just let me love you…" I sobbed. We both sobbed in each other's arms.
"Please love me Katara. Don't break me again. I don't think I could take it…" Zuko sobbed. I shook my head and gently pecked his lips.
"I won't. I won't ever break you again, I promise." I said. Zuko looked at me than slowly moved his face closer to mine. 'This is it Katara…The moment of truth…' I thought. I closed my eyes and leaned my head towards his. Finally our lips met. Zuko and I. Fire and Water. Hot and Cold. Opposites, but perfectly synced together. His lips tasted of cinnamon-the kind of spicy that makes your mouth turn to fire-and smelled like pine and a hint of what you smell when you burn wood. I felt it. That spark. That connection. Like soul mates. No. We are soul mates. I hadn't noticed that out perfect kiss got more heated until I let out a groan when Zuko nipped at my lip. Suddenly he pulled away and I opened my eyes while frowning at the loss of his heat. I kissed him again and he melted into it while I lightly tugged his hair, making him groan.
"Make love to me Zuko…Please…" I moaned as he kissed my neck. He stopped and pulled away.
"I can't Katara. As much as I want to make love to you right here and right now. I can't. I want our first time to be special. I want you to remember it and never regret it. Now isn't the time. I promise I will one day, but not today. For now I just want to hold you and fall asleep with you in my arms." He explained to me. I smiled and nodded.
"Okay." I smiled and cuddled up to where he had laid down comfortably and he took me into his arms snuggling me into his chest.
"I love you Katara…" He whispered as he slowly fell asleep.
"I love you too Zuko…" I murmured back with the darkness of sleep over coming me.
Hey everyone sorry for not updating sooner! Anyway I hope you liked it and please review if you like it! Thank you and have an amazing day! (:
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