DOUBLE BENDER, 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙯𝙪𝙠𝙤 [DISCONTINUED]

III: Stealing from nice people

"ZUKO, WE CAN'T JUST STEAL FROM GOOD PEOPLE!"

Cheyenne's POV:
I lay down next to Iroh. I looked up at him and saw he was staring at a flower. He gasped, which made me look at him confused. "What is so interesting about the flower?" He was about to speak, but Zuko interrupted us.

"I didn't find anything to eat. I can't live like this. I wasn't meant to be a fugitive. This is impossible!" I laughed at him as he kicked the bush next to him. "Poor Zuzu, he can't live like this." I made exaggerated moves to dramatize my mocking.

Zuko just growled as he changed the subject. "Uncle... What are you doing?" I rolled my eyes. "Well, he was about to tell me before you came here whining." Iroh looked at me with a smile while Zuko just looked away.

"You're looking at the rare white dragon bush. Its leaves make a tea so delicious it's heartbreaking. That, or it's the white jade bush, which is poisonous." I looked at the flower, intrigued. "We need food, not tea. I'm going fishing." I stood up.

"I'm coming with you." I stopped to look at Iroh. "Do not touch the flower," I said before I walked away. Zuko took me to the river, which was close to where we camped. I started to take off my clothes as Zuko screamed at me. "What are you doing?!" I looked at him and he was blushing.

"I don't want my clothes to get wet, so I'm going to fish with my underwear." Zuko gulped as he looked me up and down. I just wanted to tease him. I could easily dry my clothes with waterbending. But what I didn't expect was that Zuko took off his clothes too.

I was now the one who looked at him up and down, face red as tomatoes. I looked away and got into the water, embarrassed by the situation. I concentrated and created a bubble of water with a fish inside. I squealed with happiness as I looked at the fish inside the bubble. I turned around to face Zuko and saw a tiny fish he had caught.

I snorted as I saw the small fish. "Nice fish you got there, Zuzu," Zuko growled as he splashed me with water. "Shut up, yours is not that big." I laughed at him and he splashed me again, but this time he got me all wet.

We started to splash one another, and I slipped and fell on top of him. There we were, half-naked and one on top of another. I blushed hard, and Zuko just stared at me. He started getting closer to my face, which made my heart race.

I stood up before he could get any closer. "We should go back," I said without looking at him. We both got dressed and grabbed our fish. We walked back without saying a word. When we got there Iroh spoke up.

"Zuko, Cheyenne, remember that plant I thought might be tea?" My eyes widened. "You didn't." Said Zuko, with the same look I had. "I did. And it wasn't." Iroh turned around, and I almost fainted at what my eyes saw. "When the rash spreads to my throat, I will stop breathing. But look what I found! These are Paku berries known to cure the poison of the white jade plant! That, or Makaola berries, that cause blindness."