Author's Note:

This is a fanfic I wrote about my favorite characters from Avatar,

Toph and Zuko. This is my 3rd fanfic I've wrote so far, so it should be a

good one. It's not entirely about just them though, but it's mostly based

on them. Well, I hope you enjoy this one Please review!

Disclaimer:

No, I don't own Avatar or any of its character's, although I wish I did;)

Anyway, onto the story!

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Cloudy Eyes

Chapter One: Give it Your All

One morning at the team's house in Ba Sing Se, Toph woke up earlier than the rest of the group. Usually she always was the one to wake up last before everyone else, but for some reason today she woke up at a different time.

"Huhhn…" Toph yawned and sat up off of her bed. Everyone else was still sleeping, but she couldn't get back to sleep knowing that in a couple of hours everyone else would be up too. So she just stayed where she was and started thinking.

After a couple of minutes of just sitting there, Toph's stomach began to growl. She let out a huge sigh and got out of bed, then headed off to the kitchen and looked for something to eat.

As she searched, Toph heard something outside. She could tell it was coming from the window near the door, but the noise wasn't that easy to make out. So once she found something to eat, she walked over to the window and put her hand on the ground to try and make out the noise. She could sense that it was about three kids making the noise, and they were certainly earthbending something across the ground outside.

"Ok, now it's your turn to start! Ready… set…GO!" She heard a boy about her age or less say. By now she could tell exactly what they were doing. Toph remembered back at her home when she used to listen to kids playing outside her house, they would always throw a ball made from wrapped fabric around and earthbend it to other players. She never got to play with them back at her house though; her dad would never let her make any friends because he was afraid she would get hurt since she was blind. But now that she wasn't at her home she could do whatever she wanted. She could play that game too now.

Her stomach filled with excitement as she opened the door to go outside and play with them. But when she made it over to where they were playing, they all stopped and stared at her.

"What do you want?" The older one glared at her, but since Toph was blind she didn't see him. She could tell by his voice she wasn't wanted, but once they saw how good of an earthbender she was, they would surely let her play.

"I wanna play too." She said with a grin on her face, then with her feet, she earthbended the ball right out of his hands and into hers. Toph knew that if she kept going on like this, they would try and test her, which would be the perfect time for her to show off and prove to them that she's a better earthbender than them.

"Why would we let you join, you're a girl, and if you haven't noticed, the only good earthbender's are guys." He told her and the rest of them laughed. She actually almost laughed too, for they had no clue how good she was, and that she was the Avatar's earthbending master.

"Oh, I don't know," She put an innocent look on her face and tried not to smile. "What about the Blind Bandit?"

"The Blind Bandit? Never heard of her."

"You've never heard of the Blind Bandit?!" Toph tried to act surprised. "She's only the greatest earthbender ever!"

"Who is she then?"

"I'll tell you, but only if you let me play."

He thought for a minute and looked at the other two boys, then back to her. "Fine." He sighed and took the ball from Toph, setting it on the ground in front of them all.

"Ready…set…GO!" He shouted and they started the game. The first person to get the ball was one of the boys, supposedly the youngest one compared to his size. He quickly earthbended the ball high into the air, and when it came down he kicked it at the oldest one, their leader, and he earthbended it at Toph with all of his might. Toph could sense exactly where the ball was and knew it was coming right towards her. Now was her chance.

As the ball neared Toph, she bended it up into the sky, then jumped up high above them to hit it. The ball flew past all of them and hit the older one, which flung him back against one of the houses next door. The two other boys stared at Toph in amazement. Toph had a feeling they were looking at her and just grinned in accomplishment. She had finally got to play.

The two boys ran over to their leader, and Toph shoved them out of the way and beamed at him.

"Still wanna know who the Blind Bandit is?" Toph said and leaned in on his face. "Me."

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Let me know if you like it so far:) Next chapter will be mostly switching

between Toph and Zuko. I haven't caught any errors in the story so far, but

let me know if you see any.