Zukka Au Where Zuko Works At His Uncle’s Bakery, The Jasmine Dragon. He Helps With Everything, But

Zukka au where Zuko works at his uncle’s bakery, The Jasmine Dragon. He helps with everything, but he’s best at cake decorating. 

As the bakery gets popular, Iroh needs more help, so he hires Sokka to do miscellaneous tasks that need done. 

Now, while Zuko may be amazing at cake decorating, he’s also very slow because he has to get everything perfect. This wasn’t a problem before, but now that the bakery is more popular, he’s having a hard time getting all the orders done on time. 

So, Iroh sends Sokka to help speed up Zuko’s cake decorating. 

Turns out, Sokka sucks at cake decorating, but that’s where they need the most help, so Iroh keeps him there, insisting he’ll get better with practice. 

Zuko is irritated to say the least. He works best alone and in silence, and now he has a “helper” who won’t shut up and can’t even pipe a basic flower. He tries to get Iroh to move Sokka somewhere else because he isn’t even helping, but Iroh insists that if Zuko just tried to teach Sokka how to decorate, he’d actually be helpful instead of a burden. 

So, Zuko starts teaching Sokka how to decorate cakes. 

Zuko can’t take time out of his work day to teach Sokka because of all the orders he has to fill, so they start meeting up after work and on their days off. 

At first it’s painful, Zuko is still irritated that Sokka has to help him, but eventually they become friends. Sokka is a fast learner and picks up cake decorating relatively quickly, though he isn’t as precise as Zuko and likes to improvise his decorating, which drives Zuko, who meticulously plans his cakes, crazy. 

Over time, Zuko learns to be less anal about his decorating, and Sokka learns to be more precise and technical. Together, they make a great team, and not just at cake decorating. 

Sokka has had a crush on Zuko since pretty much when he began working at The Jasmine Dragon, and as Zuko got to know Sokka, he developed a crush on him. 

Sokka is hesitant to ask Zuko out because frankly, he doesn’t think the guy likes him; they’re just friends who work really well together. Zuko is afraid to ask Sokka out because even though he thinks Sokka is flirting with him, he’s not sure and doesn’t want to ruin their friendship or their cake decorating team.

Eventually, after seeing them dance around each other for a while, Iroh mentions to Sokka that he’s never seen his nephew work so well with anyone, let alone enjoy it, and that Zuko must really like him. 

Thanks to Iroh’s meddling, Sokka finally decides to ask Zuko out. 

He decorates a cake for Zuko, complete with his favorite flowers and designs (which Sokka knows because Zuko always gets a small, almost imperceptible smile on his face whenever he gets to pipe them). 

When he gives the cake to Zuko after their shift one day, Zuko is speechless. It’s the best cake Sokka has ever decorated, and it has all of his favorite design elements. Zuko obviously agrees to go out with him, and they start dating.

When Iroh eventually retires, Zuko and Sokka take over the bakery. Customers love hearing Zuko or Sokka (usually Sokka) tell the story of how, even though he didn’t know it at the time, it was in this very bakery that he met his future husband.