As promised to RiaKitsuneYoukai, here is the next chapter.

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(Appearences)

Chapter IV (Personal Space)

Aang's heart, stomach, and the rest of his internal organs all seemed to jump into his throat, and for a few moments he couldn't breathe. Toph seemed to be unaware of this however and continued to reach her arm down the back of his shirt.

As her right hand moved down, following the tattoos she couldn't see, her left hand had pulled the string around his collar, loosing it so that her arm would fit. He had thought that she was close before, but now she was really close.

Uhhh… this close. Toph. Happened not. Errr…

She shifted her weight and was almost in his lap when her fingers brushed against his scar and the sensitive nerve there.

"Ahh- " He just managed to bite down a scream of pain.

"Twinkletoes! I'm sorry, are you all right?" Her words tumbled out in a concerned tone.

Her hand had come to rest just over his scar, her fingers feeling around the edges of it. Most of her arm was down his shirt, and his sudden cry and jerk had startled her so that her knees were now on either side of his.

"Aang, are you OK? Answer me."

He blinked to find Toph's eyes gazing intently into his from only a handspan away. Her left hand was grasping his chin, forcing him to look at her. He had never seen her eyes so close before.

"Yeah… sorry Toph, I'm fine."

She gave him a suspicious look and removed her hand from his chin… only to flick his nose.

"Good, then don't scare me like that again."

She withdrew her hand from his shirt and wrapped both of her arms around his neck for the briefest of moments before removing herself from his lap to sit beside him.

Toph… isn't scared easily or often. She gives hugs even more scarcely.

They sat silently next to each other for a couple of minutes. Aang felt a blush rise to his cheeks as he remembered the feeling of Toph's hands on his back, and the intense look in her eyes when her face was so close to his.

Please don't let her know I'm blushing. Please don't let her know I'm blushing. Please don't-

"So do I get to see the others?"

Toph startled Aang from his thoughts.

"Uhhh… you mean the ones on my legs?"

Toph rolled her blind eyes at him as she set her head to an angle. "Duh."

"All right, you can see them." He said as he swung his legs off the side of the rock and into Toph's lap. She put her hands on his bare feet, he had taken to going barefoot lately, like Toph, and ran a hand over the soles of his feet.

"You've been training well, Twinkletoes," She smiled at him.

Aang beamed under her rare praise and scooted a bit farther from the edge and a bit closer to Toph. She placed her first two fingers on top of his foot.

"Is this the arrowhead?"

"Not exactly, let me show you." He placed his hand over hers and guided it around the outline of the arrow. He continued to guide her hand up the path of the arrow until it turned at his knee and went under his pants leg, which was tight at his knee.

"… where does it go from here?"

"Uhhh, under my pants."

"Can't I see it?"

"… Its under my pants."

Toph rolled her eyes at him and leaned in close. Her voice was softer than before, but Aang felt even more scared when she challenged him, her lips mere inches from his ear.

"So take them off."

A/N: Are you happy now, Riia? I hope that you like it!

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