Foreword:
This is my first fanfic, so sorry if it's a little short. They may get longer or shorter, not sure yet. I have no idea what I'm doing, but please ignore that and try to get into the story.
Have fun reading.
Disclaimer:
I do not own Avatar the Last Airbender. If I did there would be a fourth season. I'll probably write part of a fourth season later.
Chapter 1
Toph has always slept on the ground, normally without a blanket. Last night was one of the hotter nights in Ba Sing Se, so the majority of the populace joined Toph in her blanket-less sleep. Unlike the majority though, Toph viewed clothes as optional while sleeping. Luckily her roommates know about her habit to strip before bed, also know how to deal with it. Not wanting a repeat of Aang's mysterious nosebleed incident it had been made Katara's responsibility to wake Toph.
The door to Toph's room has no latch, so Katara was able to nudge it open near silently. Katara also would take this opportunity to give Toph a much needed bath, much needed in Katara's opinion anyway. Toph hates anything that would separate her from her precious earth, and that made it impossible to get her to bathe of her own accord. The only way to get her washed was to sneak up on her with bath water, and Toph could only be snuck up on while asleep.
Bath water mixed with different perfumes was being suspended above Katara's head by a little hand motion. Katara made a few long, quiet strides into the dark cave of a room, and saw the slightly dark lump that was Toph. Then with a wide swing of her arm Katara pressured washed Toph. Toph's body slid from the pressure and then jerked into a somewhat defensive position as she woke up, but Katara was already started. Thin streams of water, formed from whatever water wasn't brown with dirt, whipped around a groggy, and soggy, Toph, and shaving her legs and armpits.
As Toph's mind cleared she said, "I smell like jasmine! What the badger-mole are y—?"
A towel to her face cut her off. Katara lowered her throwing arm, and said, "You were covered with dirt."
"I've told you a hundred times before, and I'll tell you again, 'What you call dirt I call a healthy coating of earth.' So stop dumping water on me!"
"Just dry yourself off…and get dressed."
"Sure, mom. Why do I have to get up, at all?"
"You don't have to…but Aang did make fruit pies."
Growling in indecision, Toph said, "You're lucky Twinkle-toes makes such good fruit pies."
It took Toph a minute to get dressed, and another five to brush her hair. Her hair took so long to brush because her hair is longer than she is tall. The only way she has been able to brush it is by using an iron toothed comb. After it was straight she went to work fixing it.
When Toph walked into the dining room, which was much too big for three people, she was wrapping her hair around a bun on the back of her head. She only wrapped enough hair to keep it from dragging on the ground. As she sat down in her usual chair she was forced to swing her head to one side so she didn't sit and pull on her own hair.
A blue apple cream pie was sitting in front of Toph already, not that she could tell what color apple was used for it. Rolling the sleeves of her brown tunic she prepared to pounce on the pie. As the blue blur made its way to Toph's stomach Katara walked in the room.
Katara was wearing a green robe with yellow flowers lining the bottom, but the flowers still had green ting from the green fluorescent rocks. Two braids went from her hairline to bun on the back of her head held together by her Gran-Gran's betrothal necklace hanging of the end of a hair stick. She walked with the confidence of a warrior, and the grace of a dancer.
How Katara walked was the only redeeming quality Toph could come up with off the top of her hair. Like always it took Toph a second to realize Aang was there as well.
Aang was dressed how he always dressed, in orange monk garb befitting a master airbender. He wore a necklace of meditation beads, and it had four pendants representing the four cardinal winds, and the air temples stand for them.
Aang sat down to Toph's right at the head of the table. Katara was about to sit directly in between Aang and Toph, but Toph mule kicked, pushing Katara's chair back. After falling down Katara said, "Ha-ha. Very mature, Toph."
"You're marring him?" Toph said, pointing at Aang, "And you're worried about my maturity?"
"I'll have you know Aang is very mature."
They both looked at Aang, and he was balancing a pie on his nose.
"You're right, princess. Your prince charming gives off such a mature…glow," Toph said, sarcastically.
"'Glow…?' You know, the 'I'm blind' jokes have gotten old."
"The only thing that's gotten old here is you, old maid."
"Old maid? What would make you say that?"
"You've been planning your wedding since the war ended five years ago. Yet you still haven't been able to tie the knot."
"We're getting married next month!"
A copper bell rang through the stone walls, but did nothing to stop Toph and Katara from bickering. Aang knew that neither of the girls would do anything about the quest at the door. He got up to see who it was.
He returned with three scrolls, and interrupted Toph and Katara's bickering, "Mail's here!"
Katara unraveled one, and read, "Dear Katara, Aang, and Toph, We will be there three weeks before the wedding. Ty-Lee is coming with us. She is bringing her boyfriend, Tako. We don't want to take up too much time, so we will catch up when we get there. Love, Sokka and Suki. P.S. Tako is foaming mouth guy."
"Three weeks before… so next week then," Aang said. He then began to read his scroll, "Dear Avatar, I, chief of the northern water tribe, regret to inform you that I cannot attend your wedding. However I am pleased to inform you that peace holds blah blah blah," Aang trailed off, and then said then said, "I don't even remember inviting him."
"Aang, he's the leader of the larger portion of the water tribe. Of course he was invited."
"You know, that's good, and neutral, news for you two love birds," Toph said, "But is there anything I should care about?"
While Toph took another bite of pie Aang said, "There's one more scroll… with the seal of the flying boar?"
Toph spewed blue across the stone table.
Afterword:
I hope you enjoyed this, and want to read more. There will be an update on Sunday, March 13. If it's not there I have been hit by a bus. Assuming there's no bus, you should checkout my profile.
Also, if you made it this far I know why. It's because of nude Toph, right? I'm not sure why, but Toph just seems like one of those people who doesn't like clothes while sleeping.
