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Okay, so I know I should update NOJY but this started bouncing around in my head tonight and I want to get it out. So this might be by big thing for a while. At least until more people review on NOJY and Shelby says that if you don't review I should hit you over the head with a bat. And I just might, so I suggest you review. Anyways this is an AU so Enjoy.

Tenneyshoes

A girl of fourteen opened her eyes. It was useless though, since she was blind. Toph Bei Fong was the princess of the entire Earth Kingdom. And she hated it. Her father never let her outside the palace gates. She hadn't even been to the highest ring of the capital of the Earth Kingdom, the great stronghold of Ba Sing Se, or so her parents thought.

Toph stood and walked into her closet. She put her hand on the wall. Her father had an inventor come to the palace when they had discovered the princess was blind at her birth. The inventor was a genius, who had an equally brilliant son, but he spent most of his time messing off. Teo, the inventor's son was a brilliant boy, who loved flying, pranks, and every other thing that was against the rules. He was also stuck in a wheel-chair. Which was one reason him and Toph had been friends practically since birth. Two people with disabilities that acted like they didn't have them.

The inventor had designed an alphabet for the blind. All the person had to do was run their fingers over a series of bumps and they could read just like any other person. (I know it's called Braille or however you spell that, but I'm not very creative. Sorry) Toph ran her fingers over the bumps and read where her favorite dress was.

The blind girl walked farther into her closet and found the dress. It was a simple but beautiful emerald green dress, like most Earth Kingdom cloths. The emerald was complimented by yellow ribbons tied around the upper arms. There was also a green and yellow ribbon that wound around the waist as a belt. The neckline a modest v neck with a yellow shirt under it.

Toph carried the dress out into the main part of her room. There she found her best friend Teo.

"What are you doing in here so early?" asked the blind girl. Toph may be blind but she had a unique way of seeing. Vibrations. (Everyone knows this so I'm not gonna bother explaining it. If you don't know go find another story that does explain it, and find out there.)

"Just thought I would come and see my best friend today, I didn't know it was a crime."

"Aren't you a rotten liar? My parents sent you to get me didn't they?" Toph asked as she laid the dress out carefully on her bed.

"Yeah, sorry. Apparently today is all about your suitors." Teo wheeled over to Toph and picked up one of the sleeves on the elegant dress, inspecting it carefully.

"But I still have two years before I have to get married," whined the girl. "And I haven't been outside this dang palace to meet anyone that actually likes me without knowing I'm a princess."

"Now who's the rotten liar? We snuck out of here last night." And this was true. Toph and Teo snuck out of the palace a lot.

When the two were both five, Toph was fed up with being pampered, and followed everywhere by her bodyguards, or as she like to call them "shadow guards". Because that was really what they were. Her shadow. They didn't intervene unless the princess was in danger.

So Toph and Teo had decided to sneak out. Toph was a gifted Earthbender. A complete prodigy. But royalty was forbidden to bend. It was an old law that had been around for centuries. The people were afraid a bending family on the throne could become a dictator and not be stopped.

When Toph discovered her forbidden talent she had started to hone it secretly. Teo was the only one that knew she could bend. At least the only one in the palace. When the two had snuck out, they had stumbled upon a bending tournament. All benders welcome. Air, Fire, Water, and Earth bender all competed for the pedestal and throne.

Toph and Teo had watched and a year later when the young princess was six, she entered in the tournament and had topped the rankings ever since. And the good thing about being a blind princess with over protective parents, was the only people that knew what she looked like where the ones that worked in the palace. Not even her suitors were allowed to see her. They talked through a sheet.

Toph smiled as she remembered the night before. She had gone to the tournament and beat the snot out of an incompetent firebender. He had underestimated the reigning champion and thought he could beat her without much effort. He was quickly corrected.

Toph had beat him within the minute the gong was rung.

Toph walked into her bathroom while Teo waited. The young princess walked back out dressed in the beautiful dress, brushing out her long black hair.

The princess had more unique qualities than just being an amazing blind bender. She looked more Fire Nation than Earth Kingdom. While most Earth Kingdom citizens were tan and had dark or light brown hair, Toph had skin that looked almost like porcelain. Her hair was midnight black.

The only trait that really stuck to the Earth Kingdom was her green eyes. But even those looked different. Her blindness fogged her eyes, making them a sea-foam green, instead of a bright emerald.

Toph wrapped her long hair up into a scruffy bun. She put the brush down on her bedside table, and along with Teo walked out of her room to find her parents.

The two friends met the King and Queen of the Earth Kingdom in the throne room. Toph's mother walked over to her and started fussing about tiny details that no one else would notice, trying to make her rebel daughter look perfect.

"Toph, I really wish you would leave your hair down. It's so beautiful, it really is a shame you keep it up. Except those bangs. I wouldn't mind you tying those back at all."

Toph's blind eyes were covered by her overgrown black bangs, but she really didn't care, seeing as how they didn't mess with her vision at all.

"Mother, it doesn't matter what I look like," said the princess swatting her mother's hands away from her. "No one is going to see me anyways."

"Actually," Toph's father had apparently decided to join in the conversation, "Prince Zuko, and Princess Azula of the Fire Nation, and Prince Sokka, and Princess Katara of the Water Tribe are coming to for a visit."

Toph and Teo jolted in the direction of the King. "Are you serious? They are really coming?" Toph was best friends with the four other royal children. Azula could be a brat sometimes, but most of the time she was civil and actually pretty nice. (Yes Azula is going to me majorly OOC)

Toph and Teo hadn't seen their friends in over a year. The two were already planning how to sneak the others out of the palace when a guard came in and announced, "My Lord, the princess's first suitor of the day is here."

Toph groaned, it was going to be along day.

Okay, so yeah this is really short, and tell me if you like it. This was just kind of bugging me today when I was in church. So give me suggestions, tell me if I should get my butt in gear and just work on NOJY, and reviewers DON'T SWEAR! It's annoying as heck! So if you review you get the usual reward, a giant cookie, maid by the one and only… YOU! So get YOUR butts in gear and review.

Tenneyshoes