Seeing you my way (Zuko x Heraini)

-Hunters routine-

Heraini woke up groggily only to be hit in the face with a ray of strong sunshine, and the smell of dew fresh speckled greens. She smiles slightly as she props herself up on her elbows, yawning before sitting up and rubbing her good eye, opening it slowly, then opening the blank one, blinking a couple of times and rolling over only to meet noses with sleeping Zuko. She squeaks and stumbles back.
"W-what in the hell...?" She murmured as she examined him. He was silent, his chest rising and falling perfectly. Thorn didn't seem to care that Zuko probably got up right in the middle of the night and just layed down with her. He wore a calm and collected expression on his face, his eyebrows weren't furrowed as usual, they were relaxed. She didn't know what to think more strange, the fact that her hunting job is a reality, or the fact that the one who she thought that she admires most, is right next to her, seemingly without a single worry on his mind. She tilted her head, reaching out a gentle hand to touch his cheek. Mid way there, she stopped, seeing him twitch as she pulled her hand away, laying it on the deck right next to her right thigh. Thorne woke up, perking his ears up as his mole appendaged nose grabbed at the air, and snorted as he lowered his head to the inside of his stomach, where Zuko slept. He sniffed him a couple of times before grunting, and 1 breath into a sneeze. Thorne often fid this to Heraini when he was younger to wake her up.
Yes, he sneezed on her.
Heraini rushed over to Thorne, holding his nose, and keeping his muzzle shut so he didn't sneeze on Zuko. Let's just say this wasn't the finest treatment to get out of your hair. She looked at him dead in the eye sockets, shaking her head. He whined as she let him go, and Heraini went to just splash her face with water. Thorne wanted to join her, and assuming that Zuko would want to go join them as well, He wraps his tail around Zuko, as he finally starts to get comfortable, he starts to drag Zuko to the front of the deck. Still wrapped up in his tail, he giggles softy, burying his face in his spine. If shirshu had eyes, Thorne at this exact moment would be rolling them. He hangs his head overboard, and examines that Heraini splashing water on her face. He uses his nose to inhale about a litre of water, using his nose appendages to keep his nostrils closed, and turns to Zuko.
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Zuko snores peacefully, that is , until Thorne shot water put of his nose, right onto him. He jumped up and woke up with a scream as Thorne pulled him to his side and began to groom his hair. Heraini turned around to see this, and couldn't stop laughing.
"H-hey! What the hell was that for?!" He growled as his eyes narrowed on the shirshu. Thorn snorts and continues to groom him thoroughly. Zuko grumbled something under his breath as he looked at Heraini.
"Thorne! That is enough, fluffy!" She laughed as her cheeks were dusted in light pink. Thorne stops at his attempt to clean Zuko and gets up, leaving the boat and swimming across the river to the other side.
Zuko wore a lot of discust on his face.
"...were you in on this? " Asked Zuko. Heraini shook her head.
"Then why did he sneeze on me...?" He murmured.
"He didn't sneeze on you, he gave you a... shower of some sort." She giggled as she snorted.
"Shower my a-"
Thorne barks from the other side of the river,standing on his hind legs and sweeping his tail back and forth.
"Hold that thought.. I'll be back. " She said as she jumped into the water swimming to Thorne across the river.
"Heraini where are you-" He stops mid in his sentence, Heraini can't hear him. She disappears among the brush. He sighes as his eyes followed her.
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It has been around an hour since Heraini has left, Zuko getting nervous about her whereabouts, he jumps into the water to find her. As soon as his foot hits land, he began to call out to her.
"Heraini!"
He wandered for about 10 minutes, until he heard her voice, singing melodically. Following the sound, it leads him to Heraini, who didn't notice Zuko, as she ran her fingers though her wet hair that was plastered on her face. He stood behind a tree and listened to her singing, despite the fact that she was totally naked. He stood on one of the roots of the tree, eager to get closer to the beautiful sound, but slipped on the root and fell back flat , right within Heraini's view, and he was within pretty good view as well, and was blushing heavily, as if paralyzed, he just stared at her.