Zuko x reader

Chapter 2

There is no reply. Still standing in his defensive position Iroh gets even closer and hears something in the trash cans, a cat hisses at him and scurries away with trash in its mouth. Iroh laughs, he looks around the alley one more time and almost walks away when he was able to pick up on this figure. It's you, but he can't obviously see you too clearly but he can make a decent visual of what he's seeing in the dark.

Iroh's stance is soon forgotten as the image he sees is a young girl, not too old maybe around Zuko' s age 15 or 16 maybe even 17. 'Now isn't the best time to be thinking about her age right now!!' Iroh thought to himself. Completely forgetting about the spark rocks, he grabs the girl and holds her bridal style.

He opens the door to the tea shop and makes his way upstairs, he goes to Zuko's room and thinks "He isn't here at the moment so it won't hurt to use his futon right?". Iroh places you in bed and leaves you to sleep, waiting for you to eventually wake up or face the wrath of Zuko first.

Flashback is over now and back to the present~ ( Still Iroh's POV)

We sit quietly as she ponders over the story I just told her, she still on her guard. Of course I would be too, she ask questions to try and see if we really are suspicious or not. After a long tense silence she finally lets out a sigh, she looks up at me "I will believe you for now, you seem to have done nothing wrong but take care of me. I truly am sorry for all the trouble but I must be going now." She starts to get up from her sitting position when a long grumbling noise stops her.

Iroh looks up at her and she's blushing out of embarrassment. He laughs at this and offers her to stay to get something to eat and have tea. She hesitates a little over it and minutes later she agrees. "It's been a while since I had some tea, but then again it's a been while since I have had a proper meal."

Iroh starts to get up and walk away from the room when suddenly a voice calls out for him. "Um sir! I haven't gotten your name yet"- " Oh yes I almost forgot about that. Apologies for not introducing myself. I am Mushi Hong and that was my nephew Lee Hong." Iroh says. He doesn't know if he can trust her but for now let's stick to the fake names.

"Apologizes, I haven't introduced myself either. My name is (First name) (Last name). I'll be in your care for now but, what are we going to do about" she pauses for a moment, hesitating to say his name. 'It just doesn't seem right, there's something fishy' she thought but said his name anyways. "Lee? We can't just leave him on the ground."

"Oh you are right, miss (Y/N). I'll just put him in the bed." Iroh says, making his way to pick up Zu- I mean Lee when suddenly as he bends down and a large crack is heard. Iroh falls to the ground and (Y/N) cringes as she heard the crack, and immediately goes up to "Mushi" and starts rambling on. "Oh my god!! I'm so sorry, don't worry I can handle this. You can go downstairs and rest your back as I'll pour you a cup of tea to relax yourself." She said guiding Iroh down the stairs.

"But-" I tried to argue but (Y/N) is too stubborn about it. "No buts go down stairs, I can take care of this, remember I brought him down with one hand I'm sure I can easily pick him up and put him on the futon." (Y/N) leads me to a chair to rest my back and she sits me down, quickly getting some leftover tea from the tea pot I lasted used to pour me a cup. She gives it to me with a smile as she walks up the stairs.

"Wow" I thought. "She's stubborn just like Zuko."

(Y/N)'s POV
I make my way back to Lee, up the stairs and slowly start to slide the door open carefully so I don't wake him up.  His face is planted on the floor with his stomach on the ground. 'Let's get this over with...' I think. I tried to pick up him up but he isn't budging. I try once more and he still ain't budging.... "Are you serious right now?!" I mumble to myself.  'If I can't pick him up, let's trying dragging him to the futon then.'

I muster up all the strength I could and started to pull him towards the futon by his arms. He slowly started to move, but it started to wake him up. I hear him groan a bit and I dropped his arms in a panic and his head slams back onto the hard floor. My heart was beating really fast and I didn't even breathe, he went back to being out cold. I slowly start to drag him along the floor again.

After what seems to be at least 10 minutes I have finally was able to drag him back to his own futon. I let out a little victory shout. My stomach grumbles again, asking for some food to fill in this empty void. I take that as my cue to leave when suddenly something drags me down by my arm to the floor.

It's Lee. He somehow managed to take me down with him. Maybe this is karma, I mean I didn't knock him out cold. I sigh as I struggle to get out of his grip. He doesn't budge, instead he takes both his arms and wraps them around my body, hugging me like some sort of body pillow, forcing my face to come very, very close to his face. I gasp and start to slowly look at his features, taking them into detail.

He is way more beautiful up close, and the scar looks worse up close. A look of worry passes my eyes and I wonder "What could he have done to deserve this? I wonder who did this." I stretch my hand out a little to go and touch his scar when suddenly his eyes flutter open. I immediately pull my hand away, looking like a dear in lights on an ongoing car. I awkwardly stare at him, blushing frantically and my brain starts to think of excuses before he starts yelling at me. He lets out a groan and then closes his eyes again and slowly his arms become loose and I'm able to break free.

Seems like he was half asleep. I quickly tuck in the futon and run outside his room and slide the door shut. I'm blushing like crazy, my whole face is red and so are my ears. My legs start to give out and I slide down the door, a hand covering my mouth.

"What just happened?"