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Chapter 11: Arguments And Return To Camping

The cloudy sky presented itself in the still early morning as gloomy yet ultimately calming. The clouds got darker as a wall of rain got closer. It didn't look anything close to a huge storm, but after no rain for three weeks in the city of Ba Sing Se, it was a foreign sight.

Most of the Gaang watched this wall of rain that was behind them as Appa flew over the outer wall of the city. They had finally left Ba Sing Se, and everyone knew that with the exception of Aang, they would not see the big metropolis for a long time. With this in their heads, they stared at the city one last time while they had the chance.

Aang only glanced back for a second before turning forward again. He was steering Appa and was trying to make up for lost time. He was positioned on Appa's head with Momo on his right shoulder. Katara had planned on sitting next to him but they both decided that it would be too big of a distraction if they were huddled together.

Instead, Katara sat at the edge of Appa's saddle right near his head. This way she could be close to Aang without getting in the way. Directly across from her were Sokka and Suki, who were holding hands. They wanted to spend as much time together as possible since they would soon be separated for at least a month.

Seated at the far left side of the saddle and in-between the two couples were Korra and Toph. Toph still gripped the side of the saddle instinctively, but she had become quite comfortable with flying by now. Since she was blind, Toph was the only who had not turned around trying to capture the last images of the great city as they flew away. Soon Korra turned back around and stared at the earthbender.

"Wow, Ba Sing Se is a sight to behold, isn't it?" Korra asked the uninterested girl at her side.

"If you say so", Toph said sarcastically.

Korra looked at Toph, wondering why the girl had acted so coldly towards her. Korra then realized she had forgotten that Toph was blind and quickly apologized, to which Toph put her hand up to stop the girl in her tracks.

"Listen, it's fine", Toph assured Korra. "We've only known each other for a few days so I can forgive you. It's not like I've known you six months and you still can't get it through your head that I'm blind!" Toph raised her voice when she said that last sentence, causing a reactive "hey" from Sokka in the background.

Korra smiled at Toph. Korra didn't have many friends who were girls; she usually hung out with boys due to her tomboyish personality. Even though Toph was as much of a tomboy as her, it was still nice to have a close friend that was a girl.

This made her think of her Republic City friends. Even though they had been fighting a lot recently, Korra couldn't deny the fact she did have a close girl friend in Asami. Thinking of Asami made her think of Bolin and Mako. She missed them all so much. She especially missed Mako. She regretted their last conversation.

Korra snapped out of her trance, having stared at Toph the entire time she was lost in her thoughts. Toph of course didn't notice, which brought a sigh of relief from Korra who proceeded with caution as she asked Toph a question.

"Toph, can I ask you for some advice? It's about a boy I like."

"If you are asking for romance advice I can't really help you there", Toph replied amused that someone would come to her, an almost 13 year old girl who'd never had a boyfriend, for romantic advice.

"You're right, I should probably ask Katara", Korra said as she started to get up. Toph reacted quickly and stuck her arm out to halt the future Avatar. She was able to grab onto her foot which caused Korra to trip and fall flat on her face. Needless to say this caught everyone's attention.

Reacting quickly Toph played dumb. "Sorry Korra, I didn't see you there."

Everyone but Katara went back to their business as Toph dragged Korra back to where they were previously seated. She knew Toph well enough to be suspicious of her actions and decided to eavesdrop on their conversation.

"You can't talk to Katara about your love life."

"Why not?" Korra asked and Katara thought to herself simultaneously.

"Katara is the kind of person who needs to know every little detail about everything. You can't go to her and tell some of the facts without her wanting to know all of them. I'm guessing this boy you're having problems with is from the future and if you talk to her about it your problems, she'll pull that part out of you."

Luckily for Korra and Toph, Katara had ceased listening halfway through and walked angrily over to Appa's head and plopped down right next to Aang. It was as clear as day to her now that Toph was trying to turn her own student against her. She didn't know why yet, but she knew Toph was up to something.

Aang didn't say a word, sensing that Katara was in a bad mood. He let her stay there and did his best to concentrate on flying south.


The storm was far behind them as they set up camp for the night. Despite starting later than they wanted to, the Gaang was ahead of schedule. They had found a small clearing in a forest with a multitude of stray twigs and many different kinds of berries and other fruits. Katara used this to her advantage, collecting as many as she could so she could save them for later meals.

Everyone started unpacking and setting up their tent areas as they had become accustomed to over the past year. Korra struggled a little bit at first but got the hang of it very quickly. She smiled at her handy work and looked around to see everyone had just finished up and they were now collecting twigs and other pieces of wood so they could start a fire. Korra wanted to contribute so she went into the woods and started cutting branches off with waterbending. She studied her cut wood and realized she had cut it too perfectly, showing she was a master. She immediately hid those branches and proceeded to cut off more branches while bending more clumsily to keep up her charade that she knew only a little waterbending. The cuts were rigid and downright disgusting to look at, but she knew it would be more believable.

Everyone placed the wood into the middle of the campsite and Aang threw a couple of fire jabs at the collected pile making a campfire. The Gaang gathered around the flame. Everyone was snacking on berries and some of their personal supply of food so Katara didn't have to make dinner. She used this opportunity to try and talk with Korra but couldn't find her.

Korra was behind a tree with Toph. Toph felt a little bad that she couldn't help Korra with her boy problems so she wanted to make it up to her by making her laugh and get her mind off the guy. She was going to fake being bit by a gophersnake and when she sensed Sokka coming their way, she knew exactly how she was going to do it.

"Ahhhhhhhhh", Toph screamed as came from behind the tree and fell to the ground. Sokka saw the blind girl scream and fall and quickly went to her aid.

"What happened Toph?" Sokka asked worriedly.

"Something bit me", Toph lied convincingly while pretending to be in pain. "I think it was a gophersnake. Please help me Sokka!"

"Just sit tight Toph, I'll go get Katara." Sokka was about to get up when Toph got a hold of him.

"Nooo," Toph groaned. "There's no time, you have to suck out the poison."

Sokka's eyes grew big at that statement but quickly regained composure. "Alright, where did it bite you?"

Both Toph and Korra were surprised by Sokka's response. The whole joke part was that gophersnakes weren't really poisonous, they just bite really hard. Toph couldn't believe Sokka didn't know that and couldn't pass on this opportunity.

"It bit me on the back of my neck", Toph said trying her best to still act in character.

Sokka was too worried to notice the crack in the blind girl's voice and without even looking for the bite marks began sucking the back of Toph's neck. Korra fell onto her back and put a hand over her mouth to stifle her laughter. Toph couldn't help but blush at Sokka's actions and was actually enjoying it until she heard an angry yell.

"What in spirits name are you doing Sokka?!" came the confused and angry voice of Suki.

"Suki, it's not what it looks like", Sokka pleaded as he removed his mouth from Toph's neck. "She was bit by a gophersnake and all I was doing was sucking out the poison."

"What?" Suki laughed incredulously. "Sokka, don't you know that gophersnakes aren't poisonous?"

Sokka stared blankly at his girlfriend's face and then turned his attention for the first time to the back of Toph's neck. The only mark on her neck was the red one he gave to her for sucking so hard on her skin.

Sokka was infuriated and proceeded to pin Toph to a nearby tree. Toph would have earthbended herself out of the situation but was caught by surprise and still lost in her thoughts about the whole situation.

Both Sokka and Suki were about to give Toph a piece of their mind when Korra came to the rescue.

"Stop!" Korra yelled as she revealed herself from behind the tree she was hiding behind. "Don't hurt her; all she was trying to do was cheer me up."

This perplexed both Sokka and Suki and gave Toph a chance to release herself from the tree and get back on the ground.

"Troublemaker over there was depressed over some boy so I wanted to cheer her up", Toph spoke up for the first time since her little "act".

Suki went over to Korra and gave her a big hug. "You can talk to me about it, if you want", Suki said as they ended their embrace.

Korra hesitated at first but nodded her head as they walked off to talk about it, leaving Sokka and Toph by themselves. Toph gave Sokka a nervous smile and giggled.

"Well…thanks for saving my life", Toph spat out as she walked back towards camp. Sokka just signed and followed her. On the way back both blushed as they thought about what had just happened a couple of minutes ago.

As they both returned to camp, Katara stopped what she was doing approached Toph with determination in her eyes.

"Where's Korra, Toph?"

"How should I know?" Toph asked back.

"Well, you two have been inseparable since the day she joined us, so I assumed that you knew everything about her", Katara spat out vehemently.

"Calm down Madame Fussy Britches, she's with Suki."

"Why couldn't you just tell me that in the first place!?"

"Jeez, what's your problem Katara?", Toph asked now getting very angry at the waterbender.

"YOU ARE MY PROBLEM!" Katara exploded. "You've been preventing me from spending anytime with Korra, including telling her not to come to me for help."

Toph just stared off into nothingness in disbelief and yelled back. "I don't know how you came to that crazy conclusion but if that's what you think I'm doing than fine, that's what I'll do."

Both girls stormed off to their tents and would not come out until the next day. Sokka, who had been standing there the whole time silent, realized that this could get ugly very quick and headed over to inform Aang of what happened.

An hour later Suki and Korra returned to camp to find everyone already in their tents for the night. Korra thanked Suki again and bowed to the warrioir as they both went to their tents.

Korra reflected on all the things Suki and her talked about. She definitely helped more than she hurt, especially when she was talking about trying to get her boyfriend's mind off of his previous girlfriend. The one big problem was that while Yue was no longer around in Sokka and Suki's life, Asami was still very much present in their life. Not that she wished Asami gone; it was just that the situations were different.

She tossed and turned for a couple of hours until she finally fell asleep from exhaustion. This camping thing was going to need some getting used to.

Thoughts I don't 100% own:

From Chapter 4, idea of Sokka showing Korra his new painting inspired by princessbinas

Idea of Toph pulling a prank on Sokka to make Korra laugh inspired by MakorraLove97

Idea of Korra talking with Suki inspired by CountingSheep07