Warning: I do not own avatar the last airbender. This story is purely fan made and non-profit. The story below contains themes of romance between Toph and Katara so if you don't like same sex couples don't read it. If you're okay with them, feel free to read on and please comment. I want to improve my work so I love constructive criticism and if you have ideas for the next chapters please feel free to send me a message and i'd be glad to look them over. No hate mail please.

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The night was still as Toph came through the trees of the forest. She wore an expression of annoyance as she retreated through the woods away from the camp site. The girls grumbling ,was notable even from a distance, as she walked in the direction of the river. Closely following behind, at first but catching up fast, was Katara who didn't look like she was fairing any better.

"Toph slow down" the waterbender shouted after her shorter companion ,who did no such thing.

Katara could not help but wonder why Toph was acting this way. All she knew was a man showed up looking for Toph and when she got back he asked to speak to her in private. Not even ten minutes later, Toph came storming out of her tent without a word and took off into the woods. Since then Katara had been chasing the blind earthbender, trying to catch up with her. This was due in part to two reasons. One the man had come out of the tent saying it was urgent that she bring Toph back but that there wasn't time to explain,' and the second was that Toph was her friend and she was acting very strangely.

The case wasn't going too well for Katara considering earth kept flying up in her path and she was loosing track of Toph.

"whats wrong with her?" Katara thought bitterly as a particularly large hunk of earth jetted up nearly slamming into her. Then she realized it. The young earthbender was nowhere to be seen. "Toph where are you?" Katara shouted trying to get the bender's attention which was not going to happen apparently.

Katara wandered the woods for what felt like hours, looking for the stubborn girl without success. This was getting tiresome and rather annoying. To Katara ,Toph seemed to be being such a brat about whatever was going on. Toph didn't have to almost injure her just because she was in a pissy mood, Katara thought angrily.

She was beginning to seriously wonder if she should just leave Toph out here and go back to camp. Maybe their blind friend just needed time to work this out on her own, she thought. However, a moment later she knew she couldn't do it. She had seen Toph's face when she ran out. She had looked so angry and ready to cry and it hurt Katara to remember that expression on Toph's face. It was haunting her now and making it so no matter how angry she was with Toph she couldn't just abandon the blonde girl out here. Even if she was being a bitch.

After walking a few feet further into the woods ,she heard the faint sound of water splashing. She was getting thirsty now because she was getting exhausted running around the woods looking for the group's lost companion. She had been at it for hours now and to tell the truth she was getting worried about Toph. She could have gotten hurt in here if she wasn't careful and everyone in the group knew Toph had always seemed to have, and still seemed to have a reckless streak about her.

So feeling slightly bad, Katara headed in the direction of what she guessed was the river to get a drink of water. She would continue her search after she had a drink, she thought.

The river was not too far away, to Katara's surprise, but as she got nearer she heard weeping. Looking down the river bank she saw her. Toph was siting on a rock overlooking the river with her face glistening with tears. If Katara hadn't known better shed have thought the girl was looking at her own reflection in the shimmering water illuminated by the moonlight ,but Katara did know better. She looked so sad sitting there, maybe because she was crying, maybe because of her utterly defeated expression. Katara had never seen Toph look like that and it was painful to see her proud friend look like that. She also couldn't help but take note of how pretty toph would have looked had she not been crying or wearing her current expression.