"Wake up!" 

Iroh threw a pillow at zukos face as he saw his nephew was still sleeping on the Saturday morning. He bolted awake with a small gasp of surprise but remembered where he was and looked at his uncle tiredly. 

"Nooooooo," Zuko groaned as he pulled the pillow to his body and flipped over. 

"It's my opening day, your helping," iroh walked over as he saw durk sleeping on the end of the bed. 

He gently picked up the sleeping cat and set him on the ground. 

Then ripped the covers off zukos body as he was left in his shorts and topless. 

"im not letting you become lazy, you're helping," iroh told him as Zuko glared up at him. 

"Fine! For agnis sake I'm up," Zuko sat up finally as he growled a little. 

"Don't be cursing at Agni, it's bad luck," iroh took the pillow back and nodded with a satisfied smile. 

"I ironed your shirt, come on I made breakfast," he smiled sweetly back at the boy as Zuko rubbed his head with a yawn. He got to his feet and grabbed a black shirt from the ground that covered his dragon tattoo that wrapped around his left bicep and to his shoulder down to his elbow. He grabbed his jeans as well to get to work sooner as he yawned walking out of his room. 

"Everything ready for the grand opening of the jasmine dragon?" Zuko asked as he uncle was pouring them both a cup of tea. 

"Yep, I just hope your cat doesn't find his way down there during open hours," iroh nodded as he handed his nephew a cup. 

"I'll make sure he's inside before I go downstairs," Zuko nodded sitting down at the low table with light yellow cushions around it. 

"Make sure you brush your hair, I don't want it getting matted," iroh touched his head walking behind him as Zuko waved him off whining. 

"I know how to take care of myself, stop it," he mumbled as iroh chuckled sitting across from him. 

"It's easy to pick on you," he hummed as the old man sipped his tea. 

"Did you take your medication?" Iroh asked as they enjoyed peaceful quiet. 

"I do when I brush my teeth," Zuko rolled his eyes at the constant reminder. 

"Are those jeans washed?" He asked again. 

"I did laundry last Saturday, I'll wash them tomorrow," the boy groaned at his uncles picking. 

"Before you come down change into a clean pair with no holes, first day," iroh finished his tea and Zuko chugged the rest of his quickly and took both of the empty cups to wash in the sink. 

"Okay, I'll change before I come down to help, do you need me to grab anything else before I head downstairs?" Zuko asked as iroh grunted getting back up. 

"No thank you, I'll start opening the shop, don't take to long," iroh smiled back at him. 

"Okay," Zuko smiled back as durk rubbed against his leg while he dried the cups and set them back inside the cabinets. 

He grabbed the green and grey shirt his uncle ironed for him and went to change into a different pair of jeans as he threw his black shirt in the basket on the side and put the other on. Zuko went to his bathroom to brush his teeth, he when in the cabinet while he brushed to take out his bottles of medication.  He finished up but remembered to brush his hair as well before he left. 

"This is why I don't comb my hair," he mumbled seeing it fluffed up, he sighed running his hands under the water and ran them through his hair to shake it out instead. 

Zuko straightened out his shirt as he went to pick up durk who watched him from the hallway. He set the cat on his bed and put a treat next to him to stay distracted, the paler boy made sure he wasn't followed before closing the door to head to the downstairs shop without the cat. 

He saw his uncle boiling a kettle of water already while some people walked in curious of the new shop in the town. They were teens around his age and maybe younger that where in awe of the tea shop and were checking out the paintings on the walls. 

"When did you guys open?" A girl asked as Zuko took out some herbs. 

"Today's the first day, take a seat anywhere," Zuko told them simply. 

"Thanks," the girl smiled at him as she sat with her friends at the table. She blushed a little when Zuko turned around but iroh noticed and grinned. 

"You may be pulling in lots of lady's here," iroh teased and Zuko looked at him confused. 

"Should give her your number," he hummed. 

"We literally just opened, I am not giving strangers my number and you better not either," Zuko hissed at him as iroh chuckled. 

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Jet walked down the street with two of his friends with him, they chatted as he noticed there was a new shop across the street until he could see through the large window that showed the whole inside. 

"You can't be serious..." Jets eyes widen as he jogged across the street, leaving his friends.

"Jet? Where are you going?" Smeller bee cried out seeing him ditching them. 

Jet ran up to the window and looked inside with narrowed eyes. He was right, that bastard was here. 

He sneered a little seeing Zuko was serving a girl a drink as she smiled up at him while thanking him. He nodded politely with a customer friendly smile before letting her get back with her friends and he walked over to an old man preparing the drinks. 

He immediately whipped out his phone and texted Katara quickly as he felt rage seeing Zuko even come close to a smile. 

J: do you wanna hang out Tuesday? Found this neat little shop down town, jasmine dragon 

Katara: sure, I think I'm free 

He looked over his shoulder seeing long shot and smeller bee catching up with him looking fairly annoyed with him. 

"What the hell was that man?" Smeller bee snapped at him. 

"Sorry, thought I saw someone I knew," he turned back to them with a smirk. 

"Did you want to go in here at all? Looks like they just opened," she noticed the shop behind him. 

"Nah, maybe another day, let's keep going," jet shrugged as long shot looked in the tea shop curiously and gave Jet an unamused look knowing better. 

"Come on, let's go," jet whined a little as he started to walk away, the two gave each other a knowing look but followed him anyways down the sidewalk.