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chapter 4

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All Katara could seem to see was Zuko, as if everything faded away with only them left in the world. A strange stillness, as if time had stopped.

Zuko's bright amber eyes seemed to glow . To katara, they could light up the dark.

Zuko casually inched closer to her she didn't seem to notice.

"I'm really glad you're here, Katara" Zuko said sweetly to her, running his fingers through his dark, black hair.

Katara nodded and smiled warmly to her friend.

"Yeah. Me too."

The two continued talking and catching up and recalling past experiences and good memories between them.

It almost looked like to Katara that Zuko was getting closer to her but it didn't seem like that big of a deal to point out.

There was a sudden silence between them.

Zuko inched closer and his hand slowly met with Katara's slender, dark hand. The smooth and sudden warmness of his hand made Katara shudder at his touch. She felt warmness take over her hand and felt Zuko slowly lace his fingers in between hers. Katara glanced down at their hands and then back at Zuko. Katara began to feel her face heat up.

This feels weird….but in a good way katara though randomly. She quickly starred at her shoues at the off chance Zuko could see her blushing.

Wait, what and I thinking?

"Katara…" zuko's smooth voice said in a soft whisper.

Katara looked at him and met her shiny blue eyes with his piercing amber eyes.

"Yes?" Katara replied, feebishly.

Zuko slowly raised his other hand and gently broght it up to softly meet Katara's face. The heat of his pale hand warmed her already some what flushed cheeks. His hand was so gentle and soft to the touch of her face. It gave Katara a sudden and strange feeling of relaxation and comfort. One of those feelings that you want to keep and hold onto forever.

What is he doing? Katara thought, still holding onto his other hand.

Zuko then smiled softly and leaned in slowly to her face and his lips met with hers.

Why is He kissing me? Katara thought instantly, her eyes wide. She half considered parting away from his lips but pushed that thought into the back of her head, where it would be forgotten. Katara smiled slightly to herself and lwered her eyes until they were shut.

This is random.. She thought. But feels….right..in a weird way

Zuko's lips were so soft and his touch was so gentle it gave Katara a weird, but really good feeling inside. She felt his hand move from hers and soon the gentle warmness felts as if it blew away. His strong pale hand moved from her hand to around her slender waist, slowly pulling Katara into a tight embrace.

Katara brought her hand up and wrapped it around his neck

This is soo sudden. It must be a dream Katara thought logically.

She some what half wished that it wasn't a dream.

Zuko's lips slowly pareted from hers. Katara slowly opened her eyes when she felt his soft and tender lips no longer touching hers. Zuko smiled lightly.

"What was that?" Katara whispered, smiling ad blushing again, still in Zuko's embrace. His amber eyes seemed to sparkle but he said nothing.

"Katara…" Zuko began softly. Katara blinked. The firebender began to slowly fade away. Katara's eyes widened as she heard the voice again. Only this time, it half sounded like Zuko and a mix of some one else.

"Katara".

"What?" Katara answered .

Zuko disappeared.

"Katara" the voice said again. Only this time, it wasn't Zuko. It was some else. Katara's eyes shot open. She was no longer with Zuko. She was lying on the top of a furry sleeping bag on the bottom floor of a boat.

Crud

"Katara, the boats coming into port, We're getting off song. Get up." The man, crouching down next to her said. It was Bato.

Katara squinted her eyes to adjust them seeing her dads friend.

"O-okay." She replied, drowsily sitting up.

"We'll see you on deck." Bato said and climbed up the wooden ladder to the deck.

Katara recalled the dream she had that night before Bato came in and interrupted it.

That was really really weird. Why did I dream that? Out of all the things to have a dream about, why that?

It wasn't necessarily a bad thing to her, just strange.

Can dreams actually happen sometimes?

She pondered, rolling up her sleeping bag. Katara recalled any dreams she had in the past that actually happened in real life; Nothing that could be remembered.

"Oh well." Katara sighed, Picking up her sleeping bag and bag and made her way to the ladder.

It was just a dream, Wasn't it?

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The light from the mid morning sun was blinding to katara compared to the dark coolness of under the water tribe boat.

The sunlight instantly warmed and rejuvenated Katara.

Once She adjusted her eyes to the new light, Katara could see that there were several other ships and boats in the port they were coming into. There was a heavy throng of people walking around and on the dock.

The boat came to a stop and katara watched the boat be tied up with a large and heavy rope. One by one, Katara, Bato and the other five water tribe men stepped off of the wood boat.

Bato turned to Katara

"We are leaving here in about four weeks. Make sure you meet us here then." Bato told her. Katara nodded.

"I will" she said and quickly dipped her head in respect.

"thank you for letting me travel with you" Katara thanked gratefully.

"No problem" Bato smiled. "See you" and with that, he turned around and walked away. Katara was now on her own.

Okay, fire nation palace…fire nation palace…. Shouldn't be that hard to find Katara thought ,walking through the capital city. Not too long later the huge fire nation capital palace was standing right before her.

Here we go

She though as she got closer and closer to the front doors. There were two guards standing in front of the doors. They looked like they had been there all night. The closer she got the guards almost looked they recognized her.

"Are you Katara of the water tribe?" One of them asked her.

Well duh, I'm Water tribe. Do you see anyone else here wearing blue and white and looks….water tribish?

"Yes" Katara answered politely instead.

The guards opened the doors and ushered Katara inside.

"Fire lord Zuko has been expecting you" The other guard told her. "You can find him inside"

"thank you" she said before they shut the door behind her.

She was now face to face with the large and magnificent looking courtyard. It was so pretty, peaceful and tranquil.

Katara half felt as if she was trespassing but she remembered that she was expected so that feeling went away.

I wonder where Zuko is

she wondered as she walked deeper and deeper into the courtyard. Katara glanced around slowly. She was hoping that she would see Zuko soon so that other guards would know that she wasn't intruding or anything.

"Katara!" A voice called that sounded excited.

Zuko?!

Katara shot her head around to see a tall man with dark red robes and a scar on his right eye coming closer to her.

"Zuko!" Katara said, her face lit up. She fast walked over to him and stopped when she was inches away from her old friend. Zuko looked down at her. He was a well four inches taller than she was.

"Hi, Katara" He greeted her, softly smiling.

Katara grinned. "Hi, Zuko" she said back.

He lifted his arms and warpped them around her in a friendly embrace. Katara did the same. She then closed her eyes and leaned her head onto his shoulder.

"I missed you" he said, Almost sounding like a whisper.

Katara sighed and smiled.

"Me too."

woot. that took a while to type! lol

haha!! If you fell for the dream thing HAHA!...sorry. but HAHA!

it was fun writing zutara fluff. it was. I never wrote a fanfiction where i described it THAT much. ...it was fun.

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