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The Zutara Family

Summary: Following the struggles of Katara and Zuko as they have a family (nine kids) and Zuko decides with his taking the throne...

Rating: K+ or T

Major Characters: Katara (27), Zuko (29), and kids (oldest to youngest as they'll come): Heishui, Little Zuko (Lil' Z as kids call him), Zarina and Zerifina, Jailia, Kaelea, Annalea, Kiki, and Heziah.

Pairings: Katara/Zuko, Toph/Aang, and Sokka/Suki and family relationships

Little Fighter

Katara moaned and rolled over in bed, her bare feet hitting the floor. She felt a sharp sting of pain below her eight month abdomen and gasped, her hand flying to that spot.

Mere moments later, she felt a rush of gooey liquid run down her leg.

"Zuko," Katara stood painfully by his side of the bed. She shook his shoulder again. "Zuko!" she gritted her teeth and tried again, clutching her belly painfully. "Honey, come on! My water broke...the baby's coming!" She became scared and frantic immediately, remembering what Suki had told her two months before.

Zuko blinked. "What?"

"The. Baby. Is. COMING!" Katara shouted painfully, her breathing hard and coming in quick gasps.

"Oh! All right, all right," Zuko got up and took Katara's hand, gently helping her back into the bed. "Shh, you're going to be fine," he told her when she started crying from the pain.

With pillows behind her for support, Zuko allowed her to squeeze his hand whenever a surge of painful contractions hit. And by the third scream of pain, Azula had run in.

"She's ready then?" Azula asked, thinking that it was just the usual pains.

"Yes! What did you think I was doing? Pretending!" Katara screamed at her.

"Shh, it's okay, Princess," Zuko calmed her the ebst he could as she cried. He then turned to his sister. "Grab Suki and Sokka and take Heis and Niamne to Uncle."

"What about Aang and Toph?" Azula wondered.

Zuko shook his head. "Toph needs her rest, and so does Aang. Sokka and Suki are the only two I need here apart from you."

Nodding, Azula took off, while Zuko stayed with Katara, hoping and praying that this time wouldn't be as horrible as Suki had said that it would be...

"Oahow!" Katara yelled, her feet on Suki's shoulders and her hands in both Zuko's and Sokka's each. She was two hours into already trying to push with no success at all. Suki had told her to relax after several tries and that she would take it from there.

Azula was standing by, only slightly nervous apart from Suki and everybody else.

"Ow!" Katara shrieked when Suki pushed hard on her,

Suki bit her lip. "Sorry, Katara. I'm trying me best. It's not coming so easily."

Sokka rubbed his bruised thumb across his sister's hand and hummed gently to her a song that he'd all too often sang to her before and now to Niam.

Katara closed her eyes and breathed, seeming to relax until Suki did something furthermore.

Zuko gently stroked Katara's sweat matted hair and talked softly to her. "You're doing great. It's okay. I'm right here."

An hour later, Suki smiled. "I'm almost through. Baby's slipping out easier now."

Katara gritted her teeth and moaned in pain a few more times before Suki breathed a sigh of relief and saying, "Done...done, he's out. Sokka, help me?"

Sokka nodded adn gave his sister a kiss and a smile. "I'm proud of you, Sis. You did great." He smiled again. "Love you, Tara."

"Love you..." Katara gasped. She turned to Zuko. "Our baby..."

Zuko gave her a kiss. "Don't worry. He'll be fine. Okay? He'll be fine."

Suki handed the baby to Sokka, who then brought him over to his sister and brother-in-law. "Suki says he's small, but he'll be just fine."

Katara smiled at this news as she took her second born son from Sokka. One look at him, and she thought of the perfect name. "Zuko," she smiled. "Little Zuko Junior."

"Why after me?" Zuko asked, looking at his look-alike son. "Other than the fact that he looks like me?"

Katara smiled at her husband. "Because," she looked at her baby, who was contentedly clinging to her finger, "he was a little fighter."

Aww, so sweet.

Well, there's Lil' Z for ya! ;) Addition #2 of the Zutara Royal Family!

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