Hi! This is just a random one-shot I thought of, and I decided to write it. Please review!
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Big Brother
Summer was coming, and everyone could feel it. The sun was warm and high in the sky even though it wasn't near noon. The birds were singing loudly and cheerfully, as if to say it was nearly summer. The slight breeze made everyone feel lazy and sleepy. But Katara wouldn't let the Gaang lie around.
"Come on, people. We've got chores to do!" she said loudly, tapping everyone with her foot.
She was the only one standing; everyone else was lying under the cool, shady tree they had camped next to the night before.
Toph got up slowly.
"Snoozles," she said, poking Sokka continuously. "Snoozles I want a piggy-back ride to the mud."
Sokka groaned as a sign of "No way."
"I'll take you," Zuko said, getting up as well.
"Okay!" Toph said happily as Zuko crouched down to let her on his back.
Katara forgot all about the chores that had to be done as she watched Zuko running off with Toph on his back.
Xxx
Zuko got to the mud out of breath and full of dust and scratches.
Him and Toph had played all sorts of games on the way there. They had played what Toph liked to call 'Get Zuko while he is hiding in a bush' and 'Be worms in the dust' and a whole lot of other ridiculous games which Toph had made up to punish Zuko for stopping her piggy-back.
"Heads up!" she yelled as she threw a mud ball at the sitting Zuko.
He barely had time to look up before it splattered against his lower jaw.
He pretended to be mad.
"Did you just throw a mud ball at me?"
"Maybe," Toph replied with a grin. "Maybe not."
Zuko got up.
"Are you going to chase me?" Toph asked, backing away.
"Maybe. Maybe not."
They stood like that for a moment, then Zuko started to run after Toph.
Laughing, she ran away from him. He chased her around the big pool of mud, and finally caught her. He picked her up and held her under his arm sideways.
"What are you going to do with me?" she asked, trying to squirm from under his arm.
"I dunno," he said, pretending to think. "Maybe something like this!"
At the last word he threw her into the mud pool. She gave a small shriek before she landed with a splat.
Zuko started laughing, but stopped when Toph grabbed his ankle and pulled him into the mud with her.
They laughed and played for about half an hour. They crawled out of the mud when they had done playing. They were out of breath and laughing.
They lay down under a tree to catch their breath again.
"We should get back for lunch," Toph said after a while.
"Um… I think we missed lunch," Zuko replied, looking at the sun's position in the sky.
"So what we gonna eat?"
"Fruit."
"You mean the one's way up there in the tree?"
"Yup."
"How we gonna get them?"
Zuko didn't answer.
"Don't worry," Toph said when Zuko stayed silent. "I've got a plan."
Xxx
Zuko didn't notice how dark it was getting until he saw the stars coming out.
"We better get going," he said as he stopped playing the game they were busy with. "Come on Toph."
The two had gotten the fruit they had wanted a few hours earlier and had spent the rest of the afternoon playing games.
Toph climbed onto Zuko's back and he ran towards the camping site.
"This is fun!" Toph said when Zuko started doing some tricks.
"Glad you like it."
"I wish you had become all friendly sooner," she said, putting her head on his shoulder.
Zuko just smiled.
Xxx
They got to the campsite after the sun had fully set and the moon had come out.
Katara yelled at them for ten minutes before they could sneak into the tent.
"Lets play a game," Toph said when she was on the ground again.
"It's late, we can play a game tomorrow."
"Okay," she yawned, lying down.
"Night."
"Night night," she whispered sleepily as Zuko pulled her blankets over her. "Big brother."