“One day...when this is all over.” Zuko's voice was low and serious. “When everything is in balance again and we have time...when you tell me that you're ready, I'm going to carve you your very own necklace.”

Katara felt herself take in a sharp breath, stunned for a moment. Zuko immediately took his hand away from her necklace, as if worried that he had done something wrong. It seemed that saying these things to her was incredibly difficult for Zuko. Katara knew perfectly well that Zuko's social skills weren't wholly developed. He'd been starved of human emotion for so long, it seemed as if he was having trouble catching up.

Did he...did he just ask me to...to marry him?

“I-I'm sorry.” he stammered, pulling away from her. “Maybe I shouldn't have said that. I'm sorry if that was too...I just...I-if it's too much then-”

But Katara caught his wrist before he could walk away.

“Zuko.”

He sighed heavily, as if he was mentally kicking himself and turned back around to face her. Katara gripped his wrist tightly, not willing to let him go. She never wanted to let him go as long as she lived.

“Zuko,” she looked up at him seriously, but with a small smile on her face. Happiness and joy exploded inside her. She could feel tears brimming in her eyes. “Did you just ask me...did you just ask me to marry you?”

His mouth twitched and he tightly shut his eyes. Zuko rubbed at the back of his neck with his free hand, as he always did when he was nervous. Katara tried not to laugh and pull him close, to kiss him. To always be able to kiss him and never stop.

“I-I guess I...well, I suppose that if I...” he sighed angrily.

Why does he always have to punish himself so much? Why won't he just say it?

“Zuko?” she said again, willing him to say the one word that she was longing to hear.

For a moment, Zuko looked as if he just wanted to vanish. Katara realised then that Zuko thought that she had denied him. She wanted to laugh out loud and tell him that he was an idiot. A sweet, kind, handsome, incredible idiot.

“Yes.” Zuko breathed irritably, unable to look her in the eyes.

Finally allowing the happy tears to fall over her face, Katara took a step towards him, placing his hand around her waist as she did so. Only then did he look at her. His mouth opened upon seeing her tears and he looked down at the floor guiltily.

“I didn't mean to make you cry. I'm sorry, Katara. Maybe I should go...”

Katara laughed out loud, unable to hold it back any longer. Her laughter was carried away by the gentle winds and dispersed out into the ocean. Zuko looked at her, with a confused frown on his face, his mouth open slightly in both surprise and worry. Katara cupped the scarred side of his face with her palm. He didn't flinch away as he once had, but looked down at her.

“You really are an idiot, you know, Jerkbender?” she teased, gently pulling his face down to hers. “I'm crying because I'm happy. And I'm happy because...”

Feeling the push and pull of the ocean waves beneath her and the energizing lull of the moon, Katara felt herself taken over. It consumed her wholly and everything around her seemed to melt away. Happiness. Peace. Love.

“...because when this is over, Zuko, years from now when the war is over and everything is alright again, I know that you'll be there by my side. Because I'm going to accept your offer. Because I want to marry you too, Zuko.”

I can't believe I just said that. This is really happening. I...I just agreed to marry Zuko. "
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Chapter 17 in the fanfiction , "I'll follow you home " a zutara fanfiction By meeoko

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I got inspired to draw this from that specific part of the fanfiction. I don't own anything. That fanfiction belongs to Meeoko and Avatar belongs to Mike and bryan.

In this picture, Zuko and katara just got married.

I have another picture (i'll scan later ) that was also inspired by this part of the story.
This is the best fanfiction ever. you should read it

(The chinese/japanese means "love"
(((well, its Kanji and Kanji is technically chinese so yeah))


I think this is the best zutara picture i've ever drawn