Of Love, Life, and Lies

By

Dragon Jadefire

Chapter I: The Unspeakable Crime

Me: I don’t know where this came from. I enjoy writing Maiko! It’s so fun to write about it. Especially, when Zuko was forced into a marriage with Mai and really loves Katara, but not in this drabble, in fact, he’s having an affair with Katara, though he does truly love Mai. Anyways, for those that know me from Fanfiction. Freezing Lightning’s squeal, Burning Ice, I will have a Maiko ending. Only because Zuko comes to terms with Katara’s death and well, I’m giving away the ending. Anyways. Yeah. I don’t know where this came from but I feel like writing a Maiko. I think I can write almost anything, but Kataang. I tried Kataang once but I ended up bashing it. See Poor, Poor Katara for details.

Maiko Kiddies (all girls, Chiyo isn’t a bender but her two sisters are)

Chiyo (love that name)- 14

Meiko- 8

Nikko- 8

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Mai lay awake at night, staring at the ceiling in an almost bored manner. She thought her life would be fun now that she was married with three children, but alas, life was still dull and boring. She knew something was wrong the moment that bitch, came back into her life. That stupid waterbending whore that always seems to catch her husband’s eyes. Mai fumed in the darkness. How could Zuko see anything in that waterbending whore? Mai didn’t know.

The shurikenjutsu master looked at her sleeping husband. She was surprise he hadn’t spoken to her about his lover, and played it off as nothing more than a phase. Mai wasn’t dumb, blind or stupid. She knew that Fire Lords in the past were prone to taking a concubine or two, but even before the war, never one from a foreign land. Mai folded her arms over her chest. She saw how her husband looked at the waterbender, and how the waterbender looked at him. Mai often found herself possessively clinging to Zuko, and fingering one of her many steel blades that she kept hidden in her robes.

Mai sighed, she needed a plan; she needed to get rid of the waterbender without her husband suspecting it was her. She couldn’t kill her with a knife, for that would leave blood and evidence. She could drown the waterbender; Mai smirked, thinking of killing the waterbender with her own element that would be an ironic twist of fate for sure. Or she could always go with death by asphyxiation. But if she did that, and suffocated the waterbender, how would she get rid of the body. Mai groaned loudly, waking up her husband, and she silently cursed Zuko for being a light sleeper.

“Mai?” he looked up at her with sleepy golden eyes that made the plotting murderess’s heart melt. “What are you doing still up?”

“Nothing darling,” Mai kissed him lightly on the lips. “I’m just thinking,” she smiled.

“Oh,” Zuko nodded with a yawn. “Okay,” he snuggled back down into his pillow. Mai looked at her husband, before crawling out of bed. She walked over and tucked him in, brushing back some hair before kissing his cheek.

“Sleep tight Zuzu,” she whispered, before walking off.

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Mai knew where the waterbender slept. It wasn’t hard to find the room. Mai opened the door and smiled evilly at the sleeping bender, the woman that was currently captivating her husband. Mai knew she’d put and end to this. Silently, the Fire Lady walked up to the sleeping bender, and pulled a pillow away from the countless others that cushioned the waterbender’s head. Mai pressed it firmly against her rival’s face. The girl made no struggle, and was soon dead.

Mai removed the pillow and looked down at the body. She swiftly wrapped it up in the silk sheets that covered the bed. “You!” Mai poked her head out of the room. The guard jumped. “Help me,” she beckoned him. The guard nodded.

They walked out to the sea cliffs, Mai tying the man’s armour to the body. With a great effort, Mai and the guard tossed the waterbender’s lifeless body over the cliff’s edge and watch it sink below the waves. Mai smirked, glad that her rival was gone for good. She looked at the east. The sun was almost peeking up from beyond the horizon. Mai bid the guard farewell and threatened him with his tongue being cut out if he so much as breathed a word to the bender’s brother or the Fire Lord, before leaving.

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Zuko woke up as Mai walked into the room. “Sweetie, what are you doing up?” Zuko mumbled.

“Oh, you know.” Mai sighed. “Just checking up on the girls,” Mai shrugged, and sighing happily as her husband’s warm arms wrapped around her.

“Hey,” Zuko looked at her. “If you see Katara today, tell her I need to talk to her, its important,” Zuko whispered.

“I will,” Mai beamed up at him. She had learned well the art of lying from her sister-in-law. She caught Zuko’s lips with hers, and begged for entrance, which he greedily gave. His passion was overwhelming and he soon had her backed up against the wall. Mai moaned softly in delight, every time they made love, the saying that firebenders were not only passionate fighters but passionate lovers as well, was reinforced in her mind, and she loved every damn second of it.

Zuko pulled away and looked at his wife, before cupping her face and gifted her thirsty lips with a hungry kiss. “Tonight,” he breathed.

“Yes,” Mai rubbed his shoulders seductively. “Tonight,” she kissed him. “I love you darling, more than you know.”

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Me: For some reason, I see Mai calling Zuko darling. Like in those black and white 20’s movies. Anyways, cheers to all you Maiko fans! R’n’R!

Dragon Jadefire