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A/N: Avatar the Last Airbender is wholly owned by Nick.

Truth can be cleansing but also painful.

(This was meant to be a one-shot but it's evolved.)

Chapter 9

Full Disclosure

After a few moments of silence, Toph punched Aang in his shoulder to get his attention. "Ow, what did you do that for Toph," he asked, and he rubbed the sore spot she had left.

Toph took a deep breath, "I asked you a simple question, and you seem to be ignoring me for some reason, husband," she clarified while delivering another solid hit to the exact same area, causing him to wince in pain. "So are you going to tell me or are you going to make me hit you again? We both know how much you like the kinky stuff."

Before Toph could wind up and deliver her next assault, Aang stepped away from her, keeping a safe distance. "I remember now what Katara is talking about," he sighed rubbing his forehead as if he were getting a migraine. "Bato made me an honorary member of the Water Tribe years ago. Is that what you're talking about, Katara?"

The waterbender nodded, tapping the end of her nose.

Aang chuckled softly. "I honestly forgot about the whole thing because it was only an honorary title. Sokka told me the next step to getting in and becoming official meant getting circumcised. That's when I decided to leave it at honorary," he added, resisting the urge to cover his crotch.

Toph 's jaw dropped in disbelief. "Is that the best you can do Katara, the best you can come up with? I mean seriously, I've heard better alibis from children. They were only stealing rock candy from the stands, but you want to take my husband. Do you earnestly think I'm going to let that happen? You had your chance Sweetness, but you made a choice to walk away. I can't help that now, but I'll be buried alive if I'm going to let you ruin my life!"

The waterbender rolled her sea blue eyes. "I'm not trying to ruin your life Toph, I'm only trying to get mine back," Katara reassured her. "Besides, I wouldn't be replacing you. Just think of it as taking our friendship to the next level."

The petite metalbender started rubbing her chin. "I can see what Aang would get out of this arrangement, but how does it benefit me?" she asked candidly.

Katara smacked her lips. "As the first wife, you're in charge. I would do anything you say Toph, and I do mean anything, short of murder. If you wanted me to rub your feet... and pick your toes, twice, I would happily comply!" Katara added for emphasis.

"You know I can tell when you're lying Sugar Queen."

"Please Toph, just give it a try. I'll work on my attitude and would even though I hate the idea of groveling, I beg you to accept me!" Katara pleaded in growing desperation.

"You know Sweetness if I rolled towards girls, I would totally be into you, and this offer would rock. But, I'm too selfish to share. Sorry," Toph concluded with a shrug.

The waterbender's face became a scowl. "Okay Toph, if you want me to be your wife too, I'll do it! I'll do anything you want, right here, right now, the three of us!"

"No, Katara, get a hold of yourself! Where is your pride!" Toph asked feeling the waterbender's panic.

"Pride, I don't have any left Toph. To tell you the truth, if you would say yes, I would lick your feet, and anywhere else you asked," she stated. "I've made my share of mistakes after leaving Aang and listening to all those people around him, letting them drive me away. If I had just taken Sokka's advice, I would have been able to…" Katara suddenly stopped speaking as she swallowed hard and her face flushed a deep crimson realizing the depths of her own words.

Toph took advantage of the pause. "Yeah, you blew it Sweetness, and I can't help that, but I'm not going just to let you barge in here, on my wedding day, and claim some backwater right to my husband that is probably written on some block of ice in your shitter along with your what's left of your dignity.!"

"Tiger-seal."

Toph's brow scrunched up. "What?"

Katara's big eyes shifted up. "All our laws are written on tiger-seal skin scrolls. That way they don't crack in the..."

"Katara?"

"Yes, Toph?"

"I don't care a hog-monkey's fuck if they were written on your big ass! The point is that they don't apply to me or Aang, is that clear now?" she screamed loud enough that the waterbender had to cover her ears. "How can you possibly think that something, that happened when you guys were just kids, means anything now? Ain't going to happen, Miss Fussy Britches. And why would I want an upstart like you as a slave, I love you too much!"

Toph's last comment felt like a gut punch. "I... I know that b-but I love Aang still," Katara insisted as she rubbed the tears from her eyes. "We promised each other!"

"That promise ended when you left," Aang interjected.

"I didn't leave because I wanted too, they forced me to go!" Katara cried back. "And you didn't come after me, you shit! You selfish bastard! I should have left you in that damn iceberg for another 100 years!"

Katara's pain was making Toph's eyes tear up, and she could feel the wetness rolling down her cheeks. "Then why did you leave him? Why did you walk away when he needed you most, Sugar Queen?" Toph asked as she clenched her fists, making her knuckles white.

Katara steadied yourself as she cleared her throat once more. " I wasn't strong enough back then Toph, I just wasn't able to think it all out. I-I got confused and scared. People said that I would become the mother of a nation. That's a lot to put on anybody. You know as well as me, the chances of me giving birth to an airbender isn't that good. That's why we stick to our own kind usually. Most of the time they're regular or follow the mom's bending."

"I get that. So you were afraid that if you didn't deliver an airbender, everyone would be disappointed in you Sweetness?" Toph charged with a deep sigh.

Katara swallowed hard. "You don't understand! No one does! I felt like I was on my own Toph! I thought I was suffocating, surrounded by all those airbending wannabes. They all kept talking about restoring the Air Nomads as if I were just breeding stock and not a person. They didn't see me, all they saw was my uterus and a chance to bring back the Airbenders. I think that Aang lost sight of me as well."

Toph turned towards the weeping waterbender with trembling lips. "You never came to me Katara. You never asked me to help! I would have told them for you where to put their Restore whatever plan! I would have buried the lot of them for you, Sweetness, don't you know that?" she responded in a broken voice.

"Why? Why would you do that for me Toph? Didn't you say you loved Aang?

The Avatar stepped forward. " I didn't realize you were going through all that Katara; I really didn't."

Katara stared into his eyes. Aang saw a mixture of sadness and rage in the blue orbs.

"Would it have mattered to you Aang if you knew how I felt?" she asked bluntly. "I doubt it!"

This time it was the Avatar's turn to swallow hard. "I-I guess... I did get caught up in all the talk about bringing back my people. But, honestly, I didn't want to lose you in that process. I wished we could have talked this over and maybe this could have come up differently," he expressed looking away with a sad downward glance. "But, huh, through all of this, I found out that I loved Toph, and I have no regrets about the way things have turned out..."

"Aang, that's a mean and thoughtless thing to say to her right now," Toph corrected him.

Katara's face shifted from sadness to cynical rage. "Are you sure Aang, you have no regrets at all? You told me once that you loved me and that we would be together forever. You told me that I was the only one that mattered to you. Were you lying back then?" she asked stepping closer to him.

Aang's expression went neutral. "Yes, I was lying, even when I said those words. I was trying to be honest, trying to make them come true with you Katara. I was telling you what I thought you wanted to hear, even though in my heart, I was fighting my feelings about her," he admitted as he bowed his head. "Every day that I saw Toph, I was growing more and more in love with her, but she never knew it. I was determined to be faithful to you because I had made that promise."

The sound of the slap that went across Aang 's face startled the blind earthbender.

Katara's right hand hurt as if she had broken it. Still, it did not even turn his head. The avatar could taste the blood in his mouth from where his cheek had been cut on his teeth.

"You lying son-of-a-bitch!" Katara screamed at him. "How can you say that you were even trying to be faithful when you were already with her in your heart! More than that! The two of you were swapping spit on every occasion you could, now tell me you weren't, you two-timing skunk-monkey!"

Aang looked over at his wife. "You told her Toph?"

The earthbender smiled back weakly. "Well... kind of. I wanted to clear the path between us. I thought maybe we could be friends again."

Aang's face turned red and not from the slap. "How do you think she would feel knowing I felt up her best friend? Did you think about that Toph?" he demanded as he glowered at her.

It was the earthbender's face that changed into an emotionless mask this time. "I didn't tell her that much you moron!" she seethed in a low whisper. "I just said we kissed a couple or three times."

Katara stood with her arms folded over her breast, tapping her foot loudly. "So you were cheating and apparently doing more than just kissing! How often Toph and please don't lie to me," she asked with bitterness and hurt resounding in her voice.

The Avatar went to answer, but Toph raised her hand to silence him. "She asked me Aang. I'll answer her."

He stepped back quietly and crossed his arms, mimicking the waterbender's stance.

Toph stood silent for a long moment and then began in a hushed voice. "We never meant for any of this to happen, well at least I didn't. I told you when he first kissed me, and that was the truth. What I left out was that we laid on that beach and kissed and I let him touch me wherever he wanted. When it went to join me, that's when I said no. He tried to talk me into it, saying that he would break up with you if we did. I figured he was just horny and the fight had gotten him all wound up, so I jacked him off. and that's all we did, I swear."

Katara nodded her head. "You swear, huh? You give my boyfriend a hand-job and what part of that was supposed to be okay Toph?"

The guilt would not let the metalbender alone. "He, uh he, saved my life and the life of my students Katara. It was the least I could do to thank him, or so I thought back then. Should I have let him fuck me instead? I was thinking about you!" Toph barked back.

"So you were thinking about me, hey Toph? Was that before or after you let him play in your swimming hole or stroked his pole? I don't think you were thinking of me at all! I'm sure of that just like I know that wasn't the last time. How long did your little tryst go on for? Can you at least tell me that?"

Toph dropped her head and wiped at the tears of shame that freely flowed from her eyes. About 3 or so years. It was, it was right after his nineteenth birthday party, and we had come so close to doing it. I almost couldn't control myself I wanted him so badly. We were doing other things to satisfy each other, but not joining."

"So you were blowing him off now?" Katara asked shamelessly.

"No," Toph answered back meekly. "I would let him rub between my breast or my thighs, but nothing went in... that was the rule, stupid right?"

"That we both can agree on!" Katara said as she glared over at Aang. To her surprise, his attention was fully on Toph. It looked as if she was recollecting some fond story as he stood smiling/smirking. That just made the waterbender's ire grow. "So Aang, you wanted Toph all along. That is why you refused all those times I offered myself to you, heart and body. When I tried to suckle you all those time, and you made that lame ass excuse about saving ourselves, you were being faithful to her!" Katara realized even as the words passed her shaking lips.

"I didn't know how to tell you Katara," he exhaled, leaving his previous revelry.

It was like an epiphany hit Katara. "You deceitful, cowardly, butt-wad! You used those people to drive me away, and you know it! You figured if I left on my own, you could be with this ugly, ignorant slut," she accused him as she delivered the second slap with her other hand. This one was loud but not nearly as hard. It hurt his pride more than his face.

"My wife is the most beautiful and smartest woman in the world," Aang defended Toph. "If you want to see…"

"That's enough Aang," Toph broke in. "I know you love me. Katara is just angry, and I would be too if I were in her place."

The Avatar took in a deep breath. "Everything Toph is telling you is the truth. We stopped doing anything, even after you left. She would just kiss me only after we decided to date. No hands, nothing else. Toph called it a reset. It wasn't easy resisting her, but I'm glad we did. And you're right Katara; I turned you down because I was already in love with Toph… I'm sorry."

"So, so…. You were thinking about this cock-sucking floozy all that time! Leaving me alone and playing healer with her and all you can say is 'you're sorry'? So can keep your lame ass sorry and shove it up… no, you can shove it up her ass!"

"Hey, I appreciate the suggestion Sugar Queen, and we might even try it, but I'm nobody's floozy," Toph fired back. "I think we already established who the floozy is here!"

"So you're just a cock-sucker?" Katara countered with a sneer.

A huge grin exploded on the new bride's face. "Well, as of an hour or so ago, I guess I am!"

Katara rolled her big cerulean eyes as she flushed once more. "By the spirits, you two deserve each other! I don't know how I could ever have loved you in the first place, Aang," she swore at the both of them.