Of Berries and Tongues
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Ship: Tokka
Genre: Romance/Fluff
"Ooh, look, Toph! Berries!" Sokka cried, running towads the small bag of berries, half-hidden among the bags.
"Yeah, I see them! Don't they look great, Ponytail?" Toph rolled her eyes, "I can't see, idiot!
"Katara or Aang must have picked them, and left them here for us!" he continued, ignoring her. "Here!" he poured some berries into her hand. She tasted a handful of them, tossing them into her mouth. "Hmmm. They're not bad."
Even with her blindness, she could feel Sokka's steady gaze on her. Her cheeks reddened slightly. "Hey, Ponytail! I'm talking to you here!"
He ignored her, entranced by her mint-green eyes. He knew she was blind, but her eyes gave the impression of taking in everything around her…
"Sokka!" she waved her hand in front of his eyes. "You can't ignore me when I'm talking to you, Ponytail! Are you in there?!"
He blinked. "What?"
She snorted. "What were you staring at?"
There were so many things he wanted to say. 'You', he would tell her. 'The most beautiful thing I've ever seen. The only thing I need to see, to be happy.' And she would blush, and hide her face. He would reach down, lifting her face up by her chin, forcing her to look at him, and he would kiss her gently. She would be shocked, of course, but then she would reach up, on her tiptoes, as he was much taller than her, and wrap her arms tightly behind his neck, responding…
But then he remembered Suki. Suki, the girl he was supposed to have feelings for. Suki, his girlfriend. That Suki. But then… why was it Toph he wanted to kiss, Toph's arms he wanted wrapped around him, Toph's voice he wanted to say his name, Toph he wanted to be with, Toph…
"Your- Your l-" he came very, very close to saying, 'Your lips'. He wanted to say it, so badly…
"Your tongue!" he said instead. He diverted his eyes to it quickly, hoping she wouldn't notice he had been staring at not it, but her lips, prior to this. "It… it's purple?"
He blinked. Her tongue was purple. Odd…
She cocked her head to one side. "Oh."
"A-are you sick? I think you've got the same thing Appa has!" he said, now horrified. He tried to back away a few inches without her noticing.
"I'm not sick! I feel perfectly fine!"
He frowned, eyebrows creased. "Then… then…" He blinked slowly as realization hit him.
"So Katara's probably been feeding them to Appa, making his tongue purple! Appa was never really sick, and we've just been wasting our time here in this town!" Anger began to return to his voice as realization hit him.
Toph rolled her eyes. "Way to go, Captain Obvious. Give a prize to the boy with the boomerang."
And so, you know the rest… Katara was in hot water with Sokka. And all over a bunch of berries.
AN: Okaaaaaay. I hate the ending… Ugh. I couldn't think of anything else for it. Ah, well…