For You

Book One Chapter Eleven: A Tale Of Fate

"He's quite the view." bliss chuckled.
You were in Zuko's room, standing in front of his sleeping body. He looked peaceful, and less annoying. Next to him, you saw your own body.

Very weird.

You looked around and fell a curious feeling rise, oh-oh.

"Bliss?"
"hm?"
"Am I dead?"
Bliss laughed and fell on her back. "No, you're just dreaming."
"Oh thank you." you held your stomach and sat down on the bed.
"Is it the Fire prince ?" bliss asked while floating your way. If it wasn't a dream, it was the confirmation that you were going mad from not sleeping enough.
"Yeah, Zuko."
"That's odd, why would a Prince have such an awful hairstyle."
You chuckled, "I ask myself why he kept this hairstyle too."

You cleared your throat, "In my country, this hairstyle means that you have done an offence against the Fire Nation. Zuko is accused of traitory."

"Interesting." bliss took human form and sat next to you.

" His only sin was to be born as a good person in a house of mad men." you looked at him thoughtfully.

"I'm sure he will find his way in this house of mad men someday." Bliss' voice echoed in the room.

Time Skip

The boat stopped for a while at a village port. There was a huge market place where merchants would sell pearls, jewelry, food and all sorts of stuff. Zuko refused to tell you why they stopped at this place but you knew it was because Aang passed by here.

Although you missed the GAang, you wished they were gone far away from Zuko and his crew.

Zuko was gone on what looked like a little ship accompanied by some strange looking men while you and Iroh went exploring the market.

"I heard there were hot springs somewhere under those hills." Iroh said while pointing at four hills close to another. "Ah~ the hot water will be so relaxing for my old bones." Iroh sighed while dreaming of bathing in those hot springs.

"Hm, relaxing for a bit would be appreciated." You've been walking for hours now and given your current situation a little pause wouldn't be too bad.

"Go ahead, I will go to the ones at the other end of the hills. You deserve some alone time young soldier."

"I'm not a soldier anymore Uncle." You faintly smiled, it was partly true. You weren't a soldier of the Fire Nation anymore, but there was still a battlefield you needed to fight on.

Iroh simply hummed and walked away giggling, he is one odd man.

As you walked towards the hills, you played with the hilt of your spirit sword. Not a great name but you temporarily called it so, Sokka was particularly pushy on the fact that you need to have a healthy and trusty relationship with your weapons. Taken that he talks to his boomerang you never asked why, that would mean you'd have to listen to his 'teachings' and that's a no-no.

When you walked deep enough in the woods, you saw a few hot springs. You  observed your surrounding carefully. and saw no one. You were alone.

"Come to think of it... I didn't use you, yet." you took your sword out and swung it around. It was lighter than last time, easy to yield. The blade was beautiful, how did bliss call it again? Lazule... Something something.

You took a tree as opponent and started to use the sword. You remembered your father saying that the key to a good sword fight, is to know how to use your opponent's strength against them.

Well at the moment your opponent is a tree and it didn't move much.

You kept approximately six inches between your hands on the handle, that made it easier to swing the sword around. More than just this back and forth motion you'd see beginners do.

When you were done with that tree, it had a couple of scars. Deep enough for the sap to ooze out. You breathe heavily and walked past the trees to reveal the hot springs. You looked around once again, then striped down your clothes. You folded them into a little pile next to the Ringed shaped pool of water.

You were left in your underwears, a strapless dark red bra and matching panties. You cuped a little of the water in your hands, it was the perfect temperature. Not too hot and not too cold. You sat down in the warm water and felt your back muscle relax to its contact with you skin. You sighed and closed your eyes. The ends of your hair were soaking in the warm water, so they curled up and shrunk really quickly.

You inhaled sharply when you heard footsteps not so far from you. Your first instinct was to grab your sword, no time to dress up. You'd prefer fighting half naked than dying while dressing up.

"Uncle? Uncle, are you there?" Zuko pushed away a branch that prevented him from seeing the pools.
"Zuko?" you were standing up meters away from him, and when you realised that you were underdressed. Your face burned up and you sat back down in the water.

When he realised that he just saw you in your soaked underwear, he let the branch go which hit him right back in the face. "OW!" He stroked his nose now a bit red.

"I'm sorry Y/N, I didn't mean to."
"Man, why do you always appear at the most unfortunate moments Zuko!" you said quickly putting on your shirt.

"I'm sorry! I was supposed to meet Uncle around here for some reasons..." he turned around to apologise, and saw you once again, half naked in your panties.
"Stop peaking!"
"I'm not! I'm sorry!" He covered his eyes and turned around once again.

"Oh this sketchy old man! I knew something was up." while you were finishing dressing up, Zuko stood there eyes still covered. He was cursing his Uncle thousands of times in his mind but his body wasn't too mad about what he saw.
;)

You walked towards him angryly, Zuko stepped back in a bit of fear.
"Let's go back to the ship. If you dare to think about what you just saw or mention it ever again I will slit your throat open. Do you understand ponytail?"

He gulped and held his hand in front of him, pressing down his hardened dick. "Yes y/n."

"I swear I will kill this man." you claimed as you face palmed yourself.

TIME SKIP
"Tea?" Iroh proposed with a sheepish smile. You were sitting in Zuko's room combing your hair as he inspected maps that showed where he found the Avatar these past months.

You glared at Iroh then looked away, you were still mad about how he set Zuko and you up in the hot springs. Although he hoped that the end would've differed.

"You can leave it here Uncle." Zuko said pointing at a table, eyes still on the map.

"You know the fable of the turtle and the rabbit. Well I think I might have been the rabbit here and rushed what fate has already sealed." He hid his hands in his sleeves and smiled. You and Zuko exchanged a look of utter confusion.

"Huh?" You were completely missing the point, in fact it flew right past your head. Zuko was too busy inspecting the map to think any further on what his Uncle just said. Little did you know that Iroh was not quitting on you two yet, he's abandoned your futur in the hands of the fates.