Avatar The Last Airbender Fan Fiction ❯ A Kindling Love ❯ Smoke On The Water ( Chapter 1 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Smoke On The Water

Takes place after The Southern Raiders. Katara is intrigued about Zuko after their trip but is to shy to initiate anything. Zuko also finds himself drawn to Katara and decides to take a chance at getting her affections. M-Rated for language & lemons Zutara

 

Katara sat next to the fire slowly stirring the soup. Aang, Zuko, Toph and Sokka also sat around the fire waiting patiently for dinner.

“Is the soup ready yet, Im starving.” Toph broke the silence

“It is now”

Katara picked up the five bowls and filled each bowl up and then handed it to a person. Sokka and Toph proceeded in shoveling the hot soup into their bodies as quickly as they could. Aang bowed his head and gave a small smile when handed his bowl. She then handed Zuko his bowl and he smiled and gave a small ‘thank you’

The group sat in silence eating their soup the only sounds was of spoons to mouths. The sun was close to setting on the beach the group had made camp on for the night. Sokka and Toph finished their soup first.

“that was some good soup Sis.” Sokka stated as he laid down and closed his eyes.

“yup, it really hit the spot.” Toph agreed and followed suit with Sokka but crossed her leg over her knee.

“Thank you, we should lay out the bed rolls and get a goods night sleep since we had a long day of travel today and have to cross Fire Nation territory tomorrow.” Katara said finishing up her last spoonful of soup.

Katara when to Appa’s saddle and took out Sokkas and Tophs bed rolls and laid them out next to each other.

“Sokka, Toph here your bed rolls are laid out over here” Katara poked the two who where drifting off to sleep.

Toph and Sokka both grunted and slowly moved to their bed rolls and all most instantly were asleep. Aang finished and looked to Zuko then to Appa and walked over to Appa and rubbed his nose, in return Appa licked him then yawned. Aang yawned and laid down on Appas leg, snuggling into the soft fur.

“Goodnight Katara, goodnight Zuko.” Aang said sleepily

“You ok Zuko? You haven’t touched your dinner.”

Katara was standing in front of Zuko watching him poke at a piece of potato.

“Yeah, I’m fine just tired” Zuko sat his bowl down and stood up striating his robes. “Im going to take a walk would you like to join me?”

“Ok” Katara felt her cheeks heat up ever so slightly.

Zuko smiled and turned and walked into the forest behind the camp, Katara following close. The two walked in silence, though they did lock eyes several times as they walked down the path. The large pine trees smell mingled with the smell of the ocean and the orange light shone in dim rays through the trees.

Zuko made a sudden turn toward the ocean Katara followed Zuko into a small clearing where a low cliff met the forest. Zuko stopped a few feet away from the cliff edge and looked out over the vast ocean that was a shining orange and yellow with shades of blue and green. Katara stood at Zuko’s side and looked out over the ocean and was stunned.

“It’s so beautiful” she said still stunned

“Yeah, I thought you would like to see it” Zuko turned to Katara and locked gold eyes to silver.

Katara felt her cheeks heat up again, Praying that Zuko couldn’t see her blush.

“You know this sunset isn’t the only beautiful thing here…” Zuko let the sentence hang with a caring smile on his face.

Katara’s brain stopped working at the comment and at Zuko’s smile and at his hypnotic and exotic colored eyes. Her cheeks were burning now. Finally Katara’s brain came back online.

“Umm…yeah the trees are pretty too. You know what we should go back to camp and go to bed.” she said quickly trying to avoid where this was going as well as avoiding locking eyes with him again.

“If you want to” he replied a lil let down.

Zuko’s mind was racing now should he do what he was thinking or hold off and wait? He couldn’t decide now or later? Zuko thoughts snapped when he saw Katara starting to turn back toward the forest. He made up his mind and reached out and grabbed her wrist and pulled her up against him and put his lips to hers and closed his eyes.

Katara was completely caught off guard, her mind reeled as it tried to comprehend what was going on and this new and strange sensation. Then in a rush reality came back and she realized that Zuko was holding her close and kissing her! Katara jerked back and broke the kiss gasping from the shock and the strange sensation.

Zuko stood there smiling with his eyes locked with hers again. Zuko put his arms to his side letting Katara stand free from his embrace. Katara about fell when Zuko let her go. She hadn’t realized that she had been using him for support. Zuko caught her in his arms, their faces coming close. Zuko pulled her back up.

“You ok?” Zuko asked looking her in the eyes.

“Yeah, yeah Im fine… Just fine.” Katara stuttered feeling her cheeks burn like mad now.

Katara was mentally screaming at herself. She couldn’t look away from those perfect gold eyes, its like they beckoned her to stare at them forever. She pulled away again this time was steady on her feet. Regaining some of her confidence and her voice she broke the spell of his golden eyes.

“We should get back to camp.” she said as she turned back to the forest.

This time Zuko followed. Yet again the two walked in silence for a time. Katara was still in a reeling train of thought. Zuko broke the silence.

“Hey, It’s a full moon tonight.” Zuko said trying to ease the tension

She hadn’t realized he had spoken to her till a few moments later.

“Oh, yes its very pretty… You know my waterbending is at its strongest when the moon is full.”

“Oh I know. Remember our little fight at the North Pole, you kicked my ass.” Zuko gave a small laugh

Katara chuckled feeling her tension give way a little. The two arrived back at the camp everyone was sleeping peacefully. The fire had burned its self to just embers casting a dim glow on the ground. Zuko stopped her in front of the dying fire.

Katara held her breath waiting for what he was going to say. Then with out knowing her eyes wandered back into the golden spell of his eyes.

“Im sorry if I startled you, I didn’t mean to.” he said looking to the ground

“Umm…Its ok?” Katara said scratching her head.

Zuko went to the saddle and pulled out two bed rolls and handed one to Katara. She laid her bed next to the fire and watched Zuko move off a couple yards to give her space, where he proceeded to lay out his roll. Katara slipped into her bed and snuggled in. She peeked at Zuko who was taking his robe off then followed by his shirt. There he was standing there in his pants she noted the pronounced chest and the finely chiseled abs, she felt her cheeks warm up and then rolled over. She herd Zuko slip into his bed and get comfortable.

Her mind wandered, reliving the kiss and the incredible feeling that came over her. Over the past week she had found herself ’observing’ Zuko, watching everything he did. Not because she thought he might pull a fast one on the group and try and take Aang out but because she found him quite fascinating.

Ahh! I still cant believe he kissed me! Not like it was bad, he is very handsome and dare I say sexy? I want to get to know him better before this goes any further. I cant believe I chickened out Iv kinda wanted this or at least try at him and I get the chance and…and… Grrr, I need to just calm down and go to sleep.

Katara after a short time fell asleep leaving only Zuko awake.

Fuck! Why am I so stupid, what the hell was I thinking she probably hates me know or thinks im insane!… Maybe I didn’t do any harm… I want to have her I just don’t know if she feels the same way. I hope this doesn’t come back to bite me in the ass.

Zuko finally drifted off into a dream filled sleep