A/N: So I finally got myself to write one with Sasuke. Gosh, writing him is hard. Anyway, I used a defected from Konoha but not yet killed Itachi Sasuke. Sorry it's so long.


Why had he let her talk him into it? From what she had said about her 'friends' they were the last people on earth he would want to spend a whole week with. "Toph, I don't think this is such a good idea, and what am I doing on a 'vacation' anyway?"

"You're clearing your head," she said as she looked round, searching for her friends who had promised to meet her at the market entrance, "You need a break where no one knows you and you can just be yourself for once," she looked at him accusingly as she added, "and for once get your mind off revenge."

"You know I can't"

"I know you can but won't." Toph sighed, "Just tell me you'll try and be nice, and bite your tongue as well."

"What do you mean?"

"You're rude as hell and honestly, it can get pretty annoying; I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to send you straight to the center of the earth."

"You're one to talk," Sasuke shot back; "you're an incessantly proud pain in the ass and if it wasn't for restraint you would have experienced chidori first hand."

Toph was about to retaliate when she was interrupted by a very excited water-bender practically suffocating her in a hug, "Toph!" Katara yelled.

"Nice to see you too sugar queen," Toph said as she practically pried the waterbender off her. Katara noticed the dark haired boy standing next to Toph,

"Hi, I'm Katara – you must be Toph's boyfriend." She extended her hand which Sasuke shook only after a slight hesitation. He had to be nice.

"Thank you." Toph whispered to a clearly uncomfortable Sasuke as Katara dragged them away happily,

"No problem," Sasuke whispered back sarcastically, "in fact, I enjoyed it as much as I would enjoy having the Konoha elders carve out my eyes."

…..

That was it, Sasuke concluded, Toph had to die; this was absolute torture - what kind of girlfriend would do this? He cast a bitter glare at her but she ignored him and continued to pet that thing – Momo – absent-mindedly while he had to suffer inane question after inane question.

"Toph told us a lot about you in her last letter." Katara said sweetly,

"I know;" His irritation and boredom was evident in every word, "I wrote it."

"Of course, but she did not mention you were so good-looking."

"Katara, I'm the one who'll have to deal with his big head." Toph said calmly as she continued to pet Momo, "although... you should continue, maybe if it got big enough it'll explode."

Sasuke held back the urge to roll his eyes, "Must have been an oversight on her part." The moment he said those words the ground shifted violently; Katara, Aang and Sokka fell over but Sasuke, who had been the target of the attack, was unaffected. He smirked triumphantly at Toph as those who had fallen over sat up.

Aang frowned. He had been mostly quiet, only speaking to introduce himself. He was not jealous of the fact that Katara obviously liked the dark haired ninja, no – of course not; jealousy was not in his nature – he just did not trust the boy, there was something about him that was too dark and too bitter for his liking– there was something about Toph's boyfriend he could just not bring himself to accept, talk less of trust.

"Oh, Sasuke isn't here just to accompany me; he's here to relax a bit." There was a mischievous smile playing at the corners of Toph's lips that Sasuke did not like, "working was stressing him out."

"Work?" Sokka asked incredulously, "what does he do?"

"He's a ninja." She was setting him up and she really hoped he would catch on.

"A ninja?" Sokka exploded to which Toph broke into a full grin, "that is so cool! I can't believe you're a ninja! What can you do? Can you leapt from building to building? Oh I bet he been on all kinds of super secret dangerous missions – have you? Like what? What kind of weapons do you have?" The flurry of questions was too much, even for Sasuke. He looked at Toph in panic but she simply gave him the thumbs up sign and said,

"Sokka seems to like you."

'You are dead.´ he mouthed at Toph, he then realized the futility of his actions and hung his head in defeat – now she had to die. Sokka grabbed Sasuke's shoulders and leaned close to him as he stared at him in awe,

"Are you a day ninja or a night ninja?" Sasuke furrowed his brows, befuddled, by Sokka's question and Toph burst into laughter.

"Is there a difference?" He asked so slowly he himself seemed to be unsure.

"So you're both." Sokka let go of him and stepped back, he walked with the slow gait of someone who had been recently enlightened, "Cool. Where did you learn to become a ninja? I've never seen a ninja school around. I mean, is it like a special group and you have to be in it to know about it." No one noticed Aang's unusual reserved.

"No." Sasuke answered flatly. He did not want to say anymore because he was very sure he was about to pass a 'rude' comment about the uselessness of Sokka's question.

"So where did you become a ninja?" Katara did not miss a beat as she pressed on for her brother. Great, now the irritating one wanted to get in on the madness as well. Sasuke was about to look over to Toph for help but stopped himself when he remembered that she was enjoying his discomfort – in fact, she was the cause of all this rubbish! "I started training in my Village, Konohagure, but then I left when I realized that they had nothing more to teach me."

"You left?" Katara asked, "what about your family? Or they didn't live there? Didn't you miss them?"

Toph's reaction was almost worth the question. She froze so abruptly that it frightened Momo and he instantly jumped away from the earth-bender. "The only family I have left is my older brother."

"I'm so sorry."

"Don't be; I plan to kill him."

Toph was shocked that he admitted it so plainly, normally Sasuke preferred to keep his plans to himself but here he was, freely saying he planned to kill his brother. Of course this was the worst possible place to do so but Toph was too busy suppressing the urge to strangle Katara for bringing up the subject to actually realize just how inconvenient this all was for her. "Kill him?" Katara parroted.

"You want to kill your older brother? Are you ok?" Sokka then turned to Toph after directing the first question to a partially amused Sasuke, "is your boyfriend perhaps crazy?" he asked her.

"No," Toph shook her head slowly and then flashed him a warning glance, "at least I don't think so."

"If he's not crazy then why on earth would he want to kill his last living relative? Only crazy people do that!" Sokka practically screamed. Aang continued to stare critically at Sasuke. He was right; this boy was not to be trusted not to mention he was an absolute lunatic.

"Because he is the reason I have only one living relative." Sasuke said so slowly that ice began to creep up the spine of the others. "He betrayed and killed my whole clan. That is why I must get stronger so I can avenge my clan."

Katara's hands dropped onto her lap and she looked at Sasuke sadly, "that is so horrible." Toph furrowed her brows slightly. Something was wrong with this whole set up; Sasuke was never this open.

"Wow," Sokka said in disbelief, "that's… something."

"I agree that what happened was horrible but should you really be seeking revenge?" Aang's words caused Sasuke to twitch ever so slightly, Toph noticed and she almost laughed. "Your brother killed your clan, yes," Aang continued, "but what would you achieve from killing him too?"

"Everybody has to pay for their sins." Sasuke was quickly getting annoyed with Aang. He was already regretting his decision to speak about his clan and the air bender was making it worse.

"But you're not the one to bring justice."

"You're an Idiot and I'm not suprised." Sasuke said calmly despite the fact that he was steadily losing his patience, "Following your logic there should be no law enforcement. Justice will not come unless you drag it yourself, do you even know what it is like to lose everything?"

"As a matter of fact, yes." Aang was proud of himself; he could match Sasuke story for sad story and prove to him that revenge was not the path. He still would not trust him though. "I am the last air bender. The others were killed off by the fire nation."

Toph just sat there, rubbing her temples in frustration – how did she not foresee this being a bad idea?

"Fine, but did you have to watch them do it? No. You were not forced to watch all those you care about be killed so really you have no business trying to lecture me. And as far as I know did you not defeat the fire lord?"

"Look Aang," Toph said, "you don't understand so just drop it, ok?"

"I don't understand? Toph how can you encourage him to kill? Are you even Toph?" Aang practically yelled, "Oh and tell me, if this is how he is, you are aware of the fact that when you break up with him he'll probably kill you as well!"

"Don't yell at her." Sasuke said in a tone that clearly meant business.

"Shut-up pretty boy." Toph said as she rose to her feet for her it was not the fact that Aang was yelling - he could yell all he wanted - but the latter part of his sentence was pushing her to kill someone herself, "I can deal with twinkle toes myself." She turned her attention to Aang who looked every inch as determined as she did, "You know nothing of the outside world twinkle toes. And even if I do not agree with what Sasuke wants to do it's not my place to tell him what he has to do; I'm on his side, end of story. You put your two cents in and you get the hell out because in the end it is not your battle nor your inner demons so you don't get to go around sounding all high and mighty and trying to tell people what to do because to be honest, you would not survive a day in his shoes. And you say something like that again, I kill you. "

"I kind of agree with a summary of what Toph says." Katara spoke up.

"Yeah, me too." Sokka nodded.

"Everyone has to do what they have to do and find their own way. I thought I was going to kill the guy who killed my mother until I got there and honestly, if you had tried to stop me it would have been useless because you can't really understand someone else's pain." Katara explained.

"You're siding with him?" Aang seemed genuinely surprised.

"You're being hypocritical; you exacted your revenge so why can't anyone else exact theirs?" Sasuke asked.

"I did not defeat the fire lord because of what he did to me but because of his crimes and the ones he was committing!"

"And you don't call slaughtering a whole clan a crime?" Sasuke snorted, "then I guess joining an evil organization and endangering millions of innocent lives is fine as well – after all you are the all knowing book of right and wrong."

Aang intentionally ignored his sarcasm, "I did not kill the firelord."

"Of course not, you just took away the power of the man who used to be on top of the world and threw him in jail– Toph told me about the battle." Sasuke stared Aang squarely in the eyes; suddenly the air-bender for some strange reason began to feel smaller and smaller. "I hope you know, Aang, that some fates exist that are far worse than death – if anything, by killing by brother I'm actually being generous."

"Stop it already!" Toph yelled at Sasuke, "Can't you just get revenge out of your mind for even a second? Gosh, it'll eat up your life!"

"Toph!" Katara snapped, "You don't know what you're asking because you've never been there. Some hurts run deep enough to haunt forever." Toph's mouth slipped open in surprise,

"Now Sugar queen's lecturing me?" She said in disbelief to which Sasuke smirked triumphantly. This visit was turning out to be more entertaining than he had anticipated.

"You can't hold back someone who is ready to avenge, just like you can't hold back someone who wants to fight and you of all people should know that."

"You know what," Sasuke said, completely pleased with himself, "this week might not be so bad."

"Oh shut-up," Toph stamped her foot and Sasuke was forced to stand up as the ground lurched upwards, "it's just because everyone is on your side."

"And they are not standing in my way – that's the most important part."

"Let's go." Toph said as she dragged him away,

"Where to now?" Sasuke sighed in irritation, "We've already met your friends."

"Nope, not only of them; there's one more."

"Who?"

"Zuko."


A/N: You can PM me if you have any other requests (I can even do Bleach characters). Till then, Bye and sorry this took so long.

Oh yeah, and I think Katara would understand the whole 'revenge' idea and yes, Aang is most likely to be self-righteous.

(Please forgive me for what is below)

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