Blue fire burns the most

A chase, of cat and mouse.

I AM BBBBBBACK FROM THE DEAD

Suck my ball-

Memory is this font btw
Enjoy chapter 7!
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3rd pov

You had been with Zuko and Iroh for a week, in your opinion the most dreadful week to exist. But you still complied when Zuko threatened to destroy your emblem.

"I have bested your goddamn sister! Don't make me demonstrate my power."

"Pfft hah yeah sure, wouldn't me and uncle be already in prison if you were so powerful."

You let out a sound that could count as a growl, following with the cracking of your knuckles.

"Seems like you want a lesson on how to-"

"Knock it off! You two bicker like an old couple!"

Iroh cut in, he had been walking a few paces in front of you and Zuko behind you. Practically guarding you incase you tried to escape.

"'An old couple!?' Like I said, I hate you and your nephews guts. I'd rather lick the underside of a duck turtle than marry him."
Zuko scoffed behind you, throwing a small rock at the back of your head.
"Go fuck yourself."
Instead of the rock hitting the back of your head, it hit your recently cauterised wound.
Hissing in pain you rubbed the wound carefully, ignoring Zuko telling you to keep walking.

"Shut up Prince shit lord."

"What kind of insult is that"

"The one that made your mother wa-"

Iroh yelled your name.

"Cut it off! We're heading to an earth kingdom village, if they find out we're fire nation we are as good as dead."

"So? You both decided to take me here, if that didn't happen I could already have my reward money."

"The reward money would cost me and uncle's lives!"

"You'd just rot in prison, that's not being dead."

"Whatever."

An uncomfortable silence made it's way into the atmosphere, tension between you and Zuko being thick enough to be cut by a knife. Iroh however, ignored the tension and started talking about picking up tea in the next town. After a few more slow and dreadful minutes, you all arrived at a small town.

Zuko expressed his distaste about tea and Iroh ignored him, walking to a stand that was selling tea and asking about ingredients so he could make it himself.

"-Yes, I have the ingredients for ginseng tea, but you have to buy those for 3 copper coins."

"Do you happen to have the.."

You ignored the conversation, fiddling with an off piece of your uniform. Glancing over you saw Zuko, sitting legs crossed staring off into wherever that boy's mind was. 'This is the perfect opportunity.' You thought to yourself, quickly coming up with a plan.

A plan to escape.

In the upcoming minutes you slowly inched towards Zuko, who sat around 1-1,4 meters away from you. When you where close enough to bump into his legs, you quietly sat down next to him.

"What do you want."

"I want shade, you're taller than me."

You leaned your head on his shoulder, smiling internal at your great plan. But unbeknownst to you, Zuko took this as something personal. Something that would bring you both back to being those two little children.

Those two, little children.

He took a deep breath in through his nose, his lungs filling with fresh spring air. You looked up to Zuko in front of you, finding his dramatic breathing, weird. But then you spotted something tied to his belt, a small trinket. It was red and silver, you recognised it as a small lucky charm his mother got him.

You spotted the emblem, tied to his belt. You slowly and stealthy attempted to grab your emblem, you got close enough. And after a few seconds of making sure Zuko didn't notice you snatched the emblem, swiftly standing up.

You grabbed the charm, and taunted Zuko by blowing a raspberry at him. "Hey! That's mine, get back here!" You grinned "Come get it Zuko!" Sprinting away, Zuko got up and started chasing you.

You turned a corner, not looking behind you to see if Zuko was chasing you or not. He was. You heard Iroh yelling after you, but you didn't spare a glance. Just needing to get away.

You giggled, catching onto a pillar and climbing up the porch roof, it was a tricky climb due to the roof being slippery but you made it and looked behind you to see Zuko struggling to get up.

You panted, climbing on top of a roof. You could see the village gates in the distance and heard Zuko climbing onto the same roof you were on. You didn't wait, you jumped onto the next roof, and the next. You parkoured over the roof's and was one house away from the village gate.

You stumbled over a loose piece of moss on the roof, you slipped and attempted to catch your balance. But failed, you fell backwards sliding towards the edge of the roof. As you almost fell, someone grabbed your hand. "Y/n!"

"Let go!" "Y/n!" Zuko's hand clasped yours tightly, you wanted to be let go. But also didn't struggle because falling down 10 meters didn't sound very inviting. Zuko pulled you back onto the roof, he didn't have his shirt on, you assumed he discarded it because he was sweaty. Instead of a snarky remark from any of you, Zuko pulled you into a hug.

"You could've died.."

You kept quiet, silently returning the hug and resting your head on his shoulder. Zuko was resting his chin on your head and held his eyes closed. A minute went by before Zuko broke the hug and held your shoulders, shaking you.

"You ran away! Even taking your emblem with you! How dare you?!"

"..."

You didn't say anything, just grinned and held up the emblem. Zuko snatched it back, now putting it in his pocket.
You groaned, and face palmed. All this work for nothing.

"You know I should just burn the other side of your face off."

"You wouldn't, now get down from the roof uncle is looking for us."

You nodded and rolled your eyes, still getting off the roof and following Zuko who was walking towards Iroh.

You thought back to your hug earlier and couldn't help but blush.

'Get yourself together Y/n!'

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1023 words, thanks for reading.