Hey guys. This is another pure taang story from me. I thought of this and told this to my little sis, flamma09 and she corrected some rough edges. By the way, don't forget to read "Slightly Revised Truth or Dare" by flamma09. Don't worry, there's Taang. Okay... enough said... LET'S GO!!!

Of Shoes and True One's

The gang was greatfully happy in their return to the village at the foot of Mt. Mahaku. As they walked through the bricked floors of the village, they reminisced the moments that they left when they were first there. "And, and!" Sokka said as he tried to hold back his laughing fit. "Remember the time when Katara always had Aunt Wu to tell her fortunes?!" Aang chuckled, Sokka laughed, Katara turned beet red but Toph... well, she had a scowl on her face.

"Hey!" Katara pointed at Sokka's chest. "Remember the time when you tried telling fortunes but it always turned out to be the opposite!" Aang released laughter while Sokka growled at his sister.

Aang noticed Toph's scowling face... "Cheer up Toph!" Aang said.

"Why should I when I haven't been here before?!" Toph stated, her scowl grew bitter and wider. "And also, there are people talking about us..."

Indeed, Toph was right. People whispered things to themselves. People gossiped. People squeeled. People watched how the four warriors marched into the village.

'The Avatar's back...'

'He has another girlfriend?'

'That girl's blind, isn't she?'

'Why would the Avatar need a helpless tiny blind girl?'

'Heard she was an earthbender...'

'No kidding...'

'The girl looks cute...'

'She looks... vulnerable...'

'I bet the Avatar had a lot of hard time saving that poor blind girl...'

'She must've been a real pain in the neck...'

'Oh my... that guy in blue is super cute... what's his name again?'

"Aang!" a girl in briads and pink robes holding a basket ran up to him.

"Meng!" Aang said and closed the hug. "It's good to see you again!" Meng blushed a little and then nodded happily.

Meng was a little younger than Aang. She still had those naughty brown stick-up braids and those gaps between her teeth. She was a little tanned skinned and had a little round nose. She had dark brown eyes and a cute little voice.

Meng was giving hugs to them but then stopped when she was about to hug a girl she still hadn't known. "Umm..." she mumbled. Toph raised an eyebrow at this certain expression. "Who... who..." Meng mumbled while a finger pointed at Toph.

Aang's face lightened up and went behind Toph and held on her shoulders which annoyed her a bit. "Oh Meng!" Aang said happily. "This is Toph, my earthbending teacher."

Meng scowled at this statement. 'Another one to the floozy collection...' she thought and held out her hand. "Hi... my name's--" she started but got cut off.

"Yeah, yeah..." Toph said and shooed the hand away. "You're not as greatful in greeting me as greeting Aang and I don't even need a greatful greeting... seeing how it is that you have some... fluff towards a person..."

Meng's calm situation went to disaster. "I don't have any fluff towards a person!" she denied while she threw her arms in the air.

"I can sense that you're lying..." Toph calmly and simply said. Meng's face redenned.

Then she looked at the arrow tattooed kid standing beside the blind girl. She snuggled closer and flashed her eyes a lot of times. "So... Aang..." she started. "Have you found your true one?"

Aang's eyes widened and tried to translate what she said. "True one..." Aang thought and it snapped to him. "Oh yeah, I found the true one..." Meng's eyes flashed in great hope that it was her. "... I found her some months ago..." he said and glanced at the now-scowling Toph. Meng's hopeful expression turned to bitter sadness.

"True one?" Sokka asked. "What's that?"

"Nothing much..." Meng said sheepishly. Toph's scowl furthered. Meng saw how the blind girl's expression showed. Toph was about to open her mouth and Meng found the right timing to speak. "By the way... Aunt Wu's expecting you..."

"As always..." Sokka said and shrugged calmly. "She's expecting us because she misses saying the exact line in front of my face: Your future is full of struggle and anguish, most of it self-inflicted." He said as he mimiced her ways.

Katara's hands clasped together and her face brightened. "I'll be able to continue the fortunes I left hanging!" Katara said and her eyes glistened at this.

Toph's hands reached her pockets and shoved them in. "Yeah... fortunes..." Toph said plainly. "How... exciting..." she sarcastically said to herself. She kicked the ground and kept her head hung.

Aang smiled at Toph. How beautiful is she while she was just being plain and not expressing something. His smiled reached his ears, not that his smiles really reach up to his ears, I'm just saying it idiomatically. "That's the spirit, Toph" Aand said.

Hearing this, Toph blew off some bangs and sighed. "Yeah... wee..." she said sarcastically.

'Floozy...' Meng scoffed mentally.

Aang grabbed Toph's hand and ran. "C'mon!" he said gayly (happily). Toph was surprised on how he acted and held on her bun as he pulled her intently. Katara ran after them.

"Wait for me!" Katara said happily.

Sokka kicked the ground and scoffed. Meng scowled and ran after them. "Aang! Wait!" she said while she caught up with her.

They reached a huge house and remembering the past times, Sokka and Katara took their shoes off and went in. As Toph was about to set foot on the wooden floor, Aang held her. "Toph, you're supposed to..." Aang's voice then trailed off and looked down at her bare feet.

"I'm supposed to do what?" Toph said with an annoyed tone.

"Nothing..." Aang said and smiled. "Never mind." Toph got her hand off Aang's grasp and went inside.

Aang watched her go inside when Meng cuddled to him again and flashed her eyes at him. "So..." she started with a hopeful tone. "...is she your true one or she's just your friend?"

"Umm... she's the riii... I mean no..." Aang said turning slightly red.

"No what?" Meng asked and stopped doing the annoying things she did.

"No no."

"No what? No, she's just not your friend or no she's not the right one...?"

"No the second one..."

"Be specific!"

"No, she's not the right one... or true one... that's it... why'd you ask?"

Meng rolled her eyes and played with the silken robe she had. "Well... I'm just asking..." Meng said with a little wave in it. Yes! Yes! Aang's not in love with that floozy number two! she screamed in her head.

"Meng...?"

"..."

"Meng?"

"..."

"Meng?!"

"..."

"MENG!!!"

"Awhatdowho?!!!!" Meng snapped as she looked around. Aang wasn't there anymore. Stupid Meng! Why'd you let Aang go away like this?! she mentally scolded herself.

"Aunt Wu needs you..." a lady in a purple robe in a bun said as she put her hands on her hips. "...just what does that space out adventure mean?" she said and raised an eyebrow.

Meng chuckled to herself like she was drunk of cactus juice... and she hasn't even tasted cactus juice before! "I...It's nothing..." she said as she walked inside, forgetting to take off her slip-in shoes. "...see you inside..." she said with a bit of heaven's cake in it.

The lady in purple robes and in a bun placed her hand on her cheek and sighed. "What is wrong with that girl...?" she said to herself with her purple gaze looking at the door.

From the inside a shout was heard...

"MENG!!! TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF!!! YOU'RE GETTING THE FLOOR DIRTY AGAIN!!!"

The lady in purple robes and in a bun was quite shocked and picked up her robes. "That'll be my queue..." she said and zoomed off.

Okay... how was that first chapter?? I can't believe I wrote a Maang segment!!! I AM SO GONNA REGRET THAT!!!! And I really did mean it repeating the lady in purple robes and in a bun line to that lady in purple robes and in a bun. Okay... hope you liked it!! REVIEW AND YOU'LL GET SOMETHING GOOD!!! FLAME AND I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN, TAKE YOUR LIVERS OUT, FRY THEM AND STUFF THEM INTO YOUR EYES UNTIL YOU YELL OUT "MERCY!!!"