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azula

set around the time azula is 17 in the spirit temple (one of her finest times)
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You hadn't seen her in a while, Azula I mean, she'd gone off to who knows where, your only knowledge being that she was seeking "a better way to herself"

You didn't ask if you weren't told else, mostly because you weren't really in a place where you had to know everything she did or everywhere she went. Of course, you wanted to be in that place.

But with a person like Azula it was impossible to determine whether or not she liked you, and if she did, if she was in the right state of mind to sustain a relationship

How would you know all that? Reader may be wondering right now. Well, it wasn't like it was your first time going through this situation, you see, Azula and you had been kinda on and off for a while of your teen years

Not quite there, but also there at the same time. Not entirely a committed relationship but you did things a couple was supposed to do yet none of you would recognize that

But one thing you knew, there was definitely some type of love there, but for her, it was so hard to acknowledge love that something that could've been great never developed correctly

And now that she's away, you miss her more than anything and you wished you knew where to find her. She was a complicated person, hard to love in other words, but throughout the years you learned how to love her, if it weren't for you, azula would've never been able to know what love was.

You learned to love her by listening to her, pressing her to talk about her childhood and how she really felt about it all, not hiding it for her honor's sake. With fire lord Ozai gone, she had nothing to worry about and she could finally start healing. She talked to you for hours about all the times she felt rejected by Ursa but praised by Ozai, and how she basically had no choice but to turn into her father's war machine after Ursa left and Zuko was banished.

She had nobody, but you, god bless you. You were her lifeline, the one who could keep her sane, like what Katara was to Aang, you were to Azula. (Flashback) And the little while you were gone, on the year of the black sun, you had left, you were tasked by your father to go to a remote location somewhere in the Earth Kingdom to fulfill your duty as a Fire nation soldier. You feared Azula would slip if you weren't there for her, and as you heard the avatar had returned, you were ready to go back to the fire nation and be by her side

What you didn't know was that you weren't going to be allowed back home and you were forced to stay in that meaningless place. You thought maybe she could hold up on her own, as she'd wrote you that she had gone for Ty Lee and Mai, as a part of her plan to help the fire lord get rid of the avatar

But after a while, she stopped writing. You grew confused and deeply concerned for her, you occasionally heard from new soldiers posted up to your position that there was no way fire lord Ozai could be defeated by the Avatar, the most you heard from Azula is that she organized a coup in Ba sing se, and came out successful

As much as you wanted to be proud of her, you couldn't help but feel this wasn't going to do her any good, a possible reunion with Zuko could reignite any trauma inside of her and she'd finally lose it. But there was nothing you could do for her.

Time passed and 4 days after the day of the black sun, you were able to make it back to the fire nation, and boy had she slipped. You had never seen anyone in such a deranged, broken manner. It broke your heart, but during the 3 years she spent trying to overthrow Zuko, you were there, not really supporting her plan, but lowkey prevent her from doing it, and it was during those years when your relationship started taking a turn, a more romantic turn.

Uncalled for hugs which she barely ever gave to anyone, sweet words that she actually meant, even almost giving her life for you on one occasion, then things started to escalate, you couldn't deny a wavering tension between you two, when your hand would accidentally rub hers while walking, moments of unspoken feelings igniting your stomach when she would "accidentally" fall asleep on you during late night conversations, and that one day; the day you kissed her for the first time, you and her encountered a man awfully similar to Ozai while in the newly rebuilt Omashu, she was starting to break, she was about to aim lightning at the man, and in an attempt to calm the rage building up, you shoved her and threatened her with a fire strike

You could see the tears forming in her eyes, she probably thought you looked at her how Ursa saw her, like a monster, a killing machine that lived up to her father. But no, you didn't, you just didn't want her to commit such a terrible mistake, you didn't see her as a monster because you knew she was a good girl, she just had so much pent up rage and childhood scars that weren't easy to get rid of, and she had every right to be a villain

Of course, you didn't want her to continue making such bad decisions, so you finally put her in her place, you couldn't help but feel bad though, so to let her understand you didn't mean to harm her, you leaned in.... 'I'll never see you as a monster Azula' so there you went, you gently placed your lips on top of hers and she never once tried to pull away. From then, you didn't really talk about it, never confessed the very clear feelings you had for each other, it just kept happening, you just didn't want to ruin it by having to have such an awkward feeling talk.

A/N: this started to get long so I figured I'll split it into two parts🙏