Discovered ||Zukka Fanfic||

Chapter 6: Don't Be Scared

Sokka's POV

I woke up in Zuko's arms, still lying on top of him. For the first time in my life I was up before everyone else. I looked up at him, noticing how strong his jawline is. Damn, I thought. My hands were on his neck and by his thigh. I moved my hand up to touch his arm, the one wrapped around my body. His biceps were huge ; so much bigger than I expected them to be, and they were really toned. My other hand slowly creeped up his face onto his jaw, I wanted to stay right here forever. "Hello Sokka." "Agh! Ummmm Zuko. Good morning," I quickly moved my hands off of his body. Zuko chuckled a bit seeing my reaction. Gosh that was embarrassing! I could feel my cheeks becoming redder and redder by the second. "Sokka it's ok," He told me, placing both hands back onto my back, "Are you sure?" I asked. He nodded and I went right back into his arms. "Thank you for yesterday," I told him, "Sorry for crying so much. I just got so upset after what happened." "It's okay, I'll always be there to help you." Zuko said, making me smile a bit. "Can I ask you something? It's okay if you don't want to tell me. Actually you know what, never mind." "Sokka what is it?" Zuko asked. I looked up at him until our eyes met. "How did you get your scar?" Zuko hesitated for a moment. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't hav-" "It's fine... I spoke out of term at a war meeting when I was thirteen. A general suggested that we put the weak new soldiers at the front lines as a distraction, allowing them to die so the other soldiers could sneak up and attack. I told the general it was wrong to sacrifice innocent loyal soldiers like that. For speaking out I was forced to do an Agni Kai." He paused, "But when I got into the arena I wasn't fighting the general, my opponent was my father. I begged him for mercy, refusing to fight him. So Ozai burned my face and banished me from the Fire Nation. He told me that the only way I could return home is if I captured the Avatar, that was the only way that I could regain my honour." "That's awful! Ozai is a terrible person." I felt so bad for Zuko, he was only thirteen. How could someone hurt a child like that? I hugged Zuko a little tighter. "It's okay. I am actually thankful that he banished me. It sent me on the right track of life, it made me realize that only I can restore my honour. It also made me realize all the lies I was told growing up about the war." "I think your scar is beautiful." I pushed myself up, kissed his scar and went back to sleep.

Katara's POV

I woke up with tears dried on my face. I was a master blood bender. The thought scared me. What scared me the most was that there were others out there. How many people knew about this? How many people has Hama taught? And why were Kenla and Survu working with the New Ozai Society? I couldn't take this anymore. I decided to wake up and start packing. "Aang, get up we need to get going." He nodded, and I walked over to Sokka to wake him up. What the heck is going on?! I looked over at Sokka topless sleeping on top of Zuko who was also topless inside his arms. Are Sokka and Zuko together, together or just together? Did they? Oh my goodness did they do the thing? If they were together why wouldn't Sokka tell me? We told each other everything. Maybe they aren't. "Wake up!" I splashed water onto them. Sokka rolled off of Zuko. "What was that for?" Zuko asked me. "Good you're up, we need to get going now." I bent the water off of them and they put their shirts on.

Before we woke up Kenla and Survu we decided to make a plan. We want to get to Omashu tonight, that way we can head to Lizhou a day early in case anything goes wrong. Maybe King Bumi knows something about The New Ozai Society, maybe he'll have some clues that could lead us to Toph. Once Appa was ready to go I water whipped Kenla and Survu up. "What happened?" She asked weakley, "Aang took away your bending and we are dropping you off at the closet jail on our way." I said keeping my distance. Zuko tied the ropes on them tighter, chucking them onto Appa. "Even though they don't have bending anymore, I'm still scared of them." I whispered in Zuko's ear. "I know what you mean." The ride to drop off Kenla and Survu was so awkward. Aang sat in the front driving Appa, while I hid behind Zuko and Sokka behind me. I grabbed onto Sokka's hand, which gave me some courage. However every time I would see Kenla's piercing grey eyes I would shiver. Like somehow they would start bending us again. "Why are you working with The New Ozai Society? Hama hates them. She only wanted me to learn blood bending so I could help stop the war, to stop people like that." I said finally getting the courage to speak to them. They didn't reply. "You two tried to kill us. You tried to kill my brother even though we are family!" I cried out to them, "We spared your lives. I spared your lives even after I thought Sokka was dead! The least you can do is answer me!" I was now full out crying. "Why are you working with The New Ozai Society?!" The silence was so loud. "Can we visit our son first?" Kenla finally asked. "Not until you are behind bars, and not until you answer Katara's questions." Sokka told her, staring deep into the murderous woman's eyes. Once again she said nothing. After one hour we finally saw a town and landed. "Aang and I will put Kenla and Survu in jail, you too go find food for breakfast." Zuko told us. I nodded in agreement, I never want to see those people again. The walk around the town was nice, Sokka and I spotted a farmers market and got all of our food for lunch and breakfast there. Sokka wasn't impressed that there was little to no meat. "I can't believe that Aang's a vegetarian! His taste buds must be dead by now." After we got the food we walked back to Appa. "So," I said to Sokka, smirking. "Zuko huh?" I wanted to get to the bottom of this, even though this wasn't any of my business I still desperately wanted to know. "What about him?" Sokka said slightly defensively. "Are you guys dating?" "No!" "Do you want to?" Sokka paused, oh my goodness! What is he thinking? "Yes. I don't know. It's ... complicated." "How so? You like him and he likes you." "Zuko likes me?!" Sokka's eyes lit up. "Well yeah, he was hugging you in your sleep. Also when Kenla froze your blood Zuko was sobbing so much, more than me and that's saying something. He looked so broken and lost. I can tell that he really cares about you." Sokka was now grinning from ear to ear. "Katara, is it normal for me to think of Zuko in that way? I mean we are both guys," Sokka asked me. "To be honest I'm not really sure, I don't see why not though. If you truly love him then that's all that matters." "I really do like him, it's just that it's different this time. With Yue I wasn't her friend at first, I just fell in love. With Suki we weren't the closest of friends, we just started to date, but everything with Zuko is way more complicated. He's my best friend and I don't want to mess that up... I can't tell if I like Zuko as a friend or more than a friend." "I think you like him more than a friend. Friends don't sleep on top of each other topless." "Shut up!" Sokka then playfully punched me. "How long has this been going on between you too?" I asked, "I'm not really sure. I think we've gotten super close after my break up with Suki, I guess things just started to happen slowly. I mean yesterday I kissed his scar and he started fire bending my inner thigh so-" "You did what?! He did what?! Damn Sokka, that's huge!" "You think so?" "Obviously! Friends don't do that. Aang has never even touched me anywhere near that place! Are you going to ask Zuko out?" "Probably not, I'm just going to see how things play out." "Smart. That's what Aang did with me, playing the long game." I was happy for my brother. I have never heard of two guys liking each other before, but if it makes Sokka happy then I'm all for it. "Look Aang and your boy Zuuuuko is back." I teased while giggling at Sokka. "I'm going to regret telling you this, aren't I?" "He grabbed my inner thi-" "Katara, shut up!" Sokka was now laughing with me hysterically, leaving Zuko and Aang so confused.