This is a very short chapter after a very long break. I wanted to assure everyone I will finish this story. I have finished everyone I have posted. I just am struggling with massive writer's block across the board right now. It's hugely frustrating. I hope you enjoy this short one.
Zuko was in a sitting room in the palace with Katara, Kyo, Tohru, and Toph. He was snickering at how excited Tohru was to be talking to Toph. She was going moment by moment through every one of Toph's fights. She even added in how she had been reacting in the crowd. Toph actually blushed a few times.
Once Tohru finished explaining everything, Zuko mentally added, in exhausting detail, everyone else was able to talk.
Katara got Toph's attention and asked, "so, what do you want? I assume your father intends to try to get you back."
Toph shook her head. "I'm really good at escaping. He wants me to meet him somewhere in the next two days."
"But what do you want?" Katara reiterated.
"To fight?" Toph said. "I mean, I never had options before. I snuck away to annoy my parents, but I always went back. It's not like I have anywhere else to go."
Zuko laughed. "And here is where Katara explains that now you do. She'll invite you to come along with us and tell you that the fighting will get very real. I'm taking the throne from my father. Want to help? Katara wants you along, and I do too."
Kyo was chuckling as Toph crossed her arms. "You speak for her?! That's… As bad as my father!" She was obviously mad.
Kyo spoke up, "no, you misunderstood. She's trained him that well. She made him, and he knows it. He's showing he understands the way she thinks."
Tohru nodded, then blushed, knowing Toph couldn't see that. She said, "He respects her. We all do."
Toph cocked her head and picked her nose with her pinky, and flicked it. "Interesting. I've offended you both. I can hear it in your tone."
Kyo said, "yes. You have."
"He's a good loving man," Tohru added. "They are so rare, and he had to become like that despite what his father is. He… It was him, in the worst moments, that made me believe a man could be kind. He helped me learn to trust Kyo. Watch them together. You'll see."
"Nice!" Toph said. She then waved her hand in front of her face. Pick on the blind girl." As Tohru was tripping over herself, trying to apologize, Toph was laughing. "I was kidding. I know what you mean."
That night Toph stood in her room, and behind closed, locked doors, she cried. No one had seen her tears since she was six, and she realized they made her parents even more protective of her.
Zuko, Katara, Kyo, and sweet Tohru had all treated her in a way she hadn't experienced except when she was Earthbending. They all treated her with respect.
She didn't care that her parents were waiting for her. They didn't even acknowledge her. She would be returning to the Fire Nation with her new group. She hoped they would become her friends.
"More," Katara begged. "Please."
Zuko smiled from between her thighs. "You know I'll give it to you. I always leave you wrecked." He then went back to sucking her clit into his mouth and flicking it with his tongue. He loved the incoherent works that came from Katara in a rapturous litany.
His eyes flicked up to her as he licked between her folds. "So, sexy woman, having fun yet?" He began tonguing her.
She rocked her hips, riding his face. "So much fun!"
As he kept licking and sucking on her pussy he reached up and grabbed her breasts. He pinched her nipples, and she rode his face frantically.
"So close!" she screamed out. "I'm so close to" Her orgasm cut off her words. Her thighs were trembling, and her hips twitched due to the overstimulation of him continuing to lick her clit.
He licked his lips and climbed over her. "I love you in so many ways. You're so beautiful too. But times like this, when you're blissed out from an orgasm, is when you are your sexiest." He then moved and thrust his cock in her. "Seeing you with my cock in you is a very close second, though."
He locked eyes with her. "Mine forever. I love you so much."