#firebender

some Avatar/Legend of Korra OCs i made! i’m really happy with the way they each came out and will probably post more of them in the future! ❤️

Itachi & Sasuke
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Inspired by Ateez costumes in The Real!

Does anyone else know the undying struggle of being a Slytherin, a Firebender and an INTJ? Seriously I’m not gonna murder your children and steal your life’s fortune I just like being alone and think too much calm down Tiffany.

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The fire siblings ☀️

Pairing: Zuko x Reader

Word Count: 2,347

Warnings: Blood, stabbing

Request by @queenofmankind 

Summary: The reader is a skilled firebender despite her young age which allows her to become Zuko’s firebending teacher. When she feels an instant click between them, but Zuko keeps avoiding her until one day he gets into some trouble that threatens his life.

A/N: This was really fun to write, but it’s not as good as I’d like it to be, I still hope you like it nonetheless, as always feel free to leave feedback, I appreciate every like, comment and reblog

Your eyes widened as a ball of fire barreled towards your face. You leaned backwards watching the flames swirl above you, the heat slightly singing your eyebrows. Then the fire slammed into the wall behind you and dispersed. 

You came back up and smirked at Zuko, his eyes narrowed and more flames dancing between his fingers. “Come on, you can do better than that” you taunted and he yelled before rushing at you aiming a punch, his fist ablaze. You reached up with your left hand and knocked his hand to the right of you. He used this momentum to move his torso to the side so his right leg could come up to hit you in the face.

You ducked under his leg and then came up kicking your left leg to hit him in the chest, however he reacted faster than you thought he would and he was able to grab your leg in the air. He pushed your leg backwards and you stumbled back, able to keep yourself from toppling backwards but when you fully regained your balance a wave of fire came crashing towards you. You were just able to put up a wall of fire to block the wave but the force knocked you backwards onto the ground and you slid back a couple of feet. 

When the flames finally disappeared Zuko was standing above you, this time he was the one smirking, “How’s that for better?” You answered by swiping your legs into his making him fall to the ground, you then got up and assumed a defensive position over him, your fists aflame. 

“Your better could do with some work, first of all, never assume that your opponent will give up when they are on the ground.” Zuko rolled his eyes and you extinguished your flames, extending a hand down to him to help him up.

Zuko just grunted in annoyance and waved away your hand before pushing himself up off the ground. 

The sound of clapping came from behind you and you turned to see Iroh standing by the helm of the ship smiling and clapping. 

“Wonderful performance you two” he praised and you put your fist under your open palm, bowing to the man. 

“Thank you, General Iroh” you said. 

Iroh just shook his head, “I am not a General anymore, please just call me, Iroh.” You nodded your head and turned back to Zuko to commemorate him but he was already at the door that led to the downstairs of the ship, slamming it closed behind him.

“Pay no mind to my nephew, he just…has a lot to learn” Iroh said, walking up to stand beside you. 

You turned to face him, “I know, thank you Ge- I mean, Iroh,” you corrected yourself and Iroh smiled, “but I’m feeling a little tired and I think I’m going to retire to my room for a while." 

He nodded and you made your way to your room. You passed Zuko’s room on the way and you raised your fist to knock on his door but then let your hand fall, deciding it was better to leave him to himself for a bit. You then walked into your room, shutting the door and then collapsing on the bed.

You stared up at the ceiling and began thinking back to when you first met Zuko. You had excelled in your classes as a firebender and as a soldier, and, despite your young age you were able to rise in the ranks of the fire nation army. 

Although Iroh had been retired as a General by the time you met him, you still called him General Iroh out of respect, though he argued against it. He began mentoring you and helped you train to be one of the finest warriors Iroh had seen. 

That’s why, when Zuko was banished and Iroh planned to leave with him, he asked you to come with him. You declined at first, wanting to stay in your home nation, but when Iroh sent a letter a couple of years later that Zuko had found the avatar and would need a firebending teacher you decided to take him up on that offer. 

When you met Zuko for the first time you remembered looking into his fierce, golden eyes and it was like something inside of you clicked, like a piece of a puzzle. 

"Zuko, this is y/n, she is going to be your new firebending teacher” Iroh said, introducing you to Zuko. Zuko stared at you with a puzzled look on his face but then he caught himself and his face regained a more neutral expression. 

“Nice to meet you, y/n,” he said and then he turned to his uncle, “I have some avatar business to attend to.” He turned to you again, nodded and then he walked away. 

“Does he not like me or something?” you asked. 

“Of course not, my nephew just takes a bit to warm up to people, I’m sure in a couple of days you two will get along swimmingly." 

It had been a couple of weeks since then and Zuko still hadn’t warmed up to you, in fact you rarely ever saw him unless it was when you were training him, even then he still would barely look you in the eyes. You wondered if you had done something wrong and just wished Zuko would talk to you about it. 

You were brought out of your thoughts when you heard a knock on your door, you sat up in your bed, "Come in." 

Iroh opened the door, "We were going to stop soon and go to the market to get some more supplies, did you want to come with us?" 

"No, thank you, I think I’ll stay behind and get some more firebending practice." 

Iroh raised one of his eyebrows, "Are you sure? I hear they have delicious hotcakes there." 

You laughed, "I’m sure, Iroh, go, enjoy yourself.” Iroh then shrugged and left the room, closing the door behind him.

It had been a couple of hours and Zuko and Iroh still weren’t back, you were beginning to worry and you wondered if you should go out and look for them. You walked up from your room to the deck of the ship and were surprised to see two figures in the distance walking towards the ship. 

You squinted and realized that it was Iroh and Zuko, but Zuko has leaning against Iroh for support and as he got closer you saw his face was drained of any color and his hand attempted to cover his stomach which was steadily oozing crimson blood. 

“Shit” you muttered to yourself.

You ran down the ramp that was extended off the ship and raced towards the hobbling figures. 

“What happened?!” you exclaimed. 

“There was a fight, we were outmatched” Iroh explained, . You tried to loop your arm under Zuko’s other arm but he cried out in pain so you quickly let him go. 

“We won’t be able to make it to the ship, lay him down here.” You put your hand under his head and laid him gently down on the ground. You took off your over-shirt and balled it together removing his hand and quickly pressing it to his wound to stop the bleeding.

From the quick glance at Zuko’s wound it did not look good and he had lost a lot of blood. Zuko groaned, his eyes fluttering open and closed as if he were fighting to stay awake. 

“Come on, Zuko, you’re going to be okay, I promise” you said, trying to think of something, anything to do to help him. Zuko gave a small exhale, his breathing then stopping and his eyes stopped fluttering and completely closed. 

“No, no, no, no! You can’t leave, wake up!” you cried, grabbing Zuko’s limp body and holding him close to your body in a tight hug. You rocked back and forth, tears streaming down your face. 

Suddenly there was a painful burst of energy that erupted in your heart that began to spread down your arms and to your hands. A bright, yellow glow shined from your hands. You tried to pull your hands from Zuko’s back but it was like they were glued to him. 

Then the glow faded and the pain stopped. Zuko inhaled sharply, coughing hoarsely and he pulled away from your embrace, a puzzled look on his face.

“Zuko, you’re okay! But..how?” you said, looking at your now normal hands and then at Iroh who gave you a look that said, I’ll explain later. 

“What do you remember, Zuko?” his uncle asked. Zuko blinked, thinking for a moment before starting to answer. 

“We were at the market, there was this man.. he was getting robbed, I tried to help him, but there were too many of them and I got stabbed!” he said with revelation at the end. He immediately reached down and searched his abdomen for the wound. 

He looked up at you, his eyebrows furrowed, “What happened?" 

"I..I think I healed you” you said. 

Zuko opened his mouth to ask another question but Iroh interrupted him. 

“I think that’s enough questions for now, I’ll explain later, right now I’m just glad you’re okay.” Zuko looked gratefully at his uncle and went to stand up but his knees buckled and he almost fell backwards but you caught him. 

“Be careful, even though you’re wound is healed, you still lost a lot of blood and I don’t think I was able to heal you all of the way, you’ll need to take it easy.” You and Iroh helped Zuko onto the ship and you got the ship moving again, you wanted to be far away from that place.

It had been a couple of hours and you were able to clean the blood off of you and change, but you felt an immense amount of fatigue. Your curiosity of what happened earlier staved of your tiredness and you went to go find Iroh. 

“Ah, y/n, how are you feeling?” Iroh remarked when he saw you walking up to him. He was sitting at a table on the deck with a cup of tea. 

“I don’t know, I feel..drained. In fact that was what I was going to ask you about, what happened earlier?” You asked.

Iroh set his tea down and gestured for you to sit in the chair that was directly across from him. 

“The moment I saw that glowing light I knew exactly what had happened.” He paused, pouring you a cup of tea and setting it in front of you. 

“What do you know about soulmates?” he asked. 

“Not much really, do you think Zuko and I are soulmates?” you asked, your face gone practically slack with the incredulity of Iroh’s theory. 

He nodded at you solemnly, “Yes, I do. Soulmates are essentially two halves of a whole, they are two people that complete each other like puzzle pieces fitting together." 

Suddenly that feeling that you felt when you first laid eyes on Zuko made sense and you wondered if Zuko had felt it too, which would explain why he looked at you so weird the first time he saw you. 

"I had heard stories about people with a soulmate bond so strong that they are able to heal each other by giving each other some of their life force. Even I didn’t think it was true, until today. That’s why you were able to heal Zuko, that light was you transferring your life force to Zuko. That’s probably why you feel so drained" 

You sat there, in complete shock, you didn’t know what to say. "Well, uh…thank you, Iroh, I think I’m going to go talk to Zuko now." 

He gave a single nod and you went to go talk to Zuko. You had no idea what you were going to say, you had barely talked to Zuko and he had made sort of a habit to avoid you so you didn’t even know if he was going to listen. You sighed, finally deciding to just knock on his door. You raised your fist and knocked twice on his door. 

"Come in” you heard him say.

You walked in to see him sitting on his bed, the map of where the avatar was spotted was sitting in his lap. 

“Are you, um, feeling better?” you asked. 

He gave a half-smile, “Uh, yeah, thank you for healing me." 

You nodded, "You’re welcome." 

It was silent for a moment, awkwardness practically filling the room. "So, did Iroh tell you that we’re-" 

"Yeah, well, no, he didn’t tell me, but I knew from the moment I met you." 

"Oh,” you said, you didn’t know what to make of that statement, he knew and he didn’t tell you? What if you never found out, was he ever going to tell you? 

“Yeah, my uncle had talked about soulmates before and so I just put two and two together." 

You crossed your arms and glared at Zuko, "Were you ever going to tell me?" 

Zuko looked up at you sheepishly, "Well, I was eventually going to bring it up, but my number one priority is finding the avatar and I didn’t want the whole soulmate thing to get in the way." 

Your look softened slightly. You could understand where Zuko was coming from, his father had banished him and his only hope at getting his life back to how it was was to capture the avatar. 

"So that’s why you avoided me." 

"Yeah, uh, sorry about that, I promise I won’t do it anymore." 

You gave a small nose exhale and you smiled and shook your head slightly. 

"What’s so funny?” he asked. 

“Nothing, I just never thought that the Fire Lord’s son would be my soulmate." 

He smiled slightly before retorting, "Well, I never thought my soulmate would be my firebending teacher." 

You laughed and Zuko’s smile widened and his usually fierce eyes seemed to sparkle with a small hint of humor.