A Kiss in Ba Sing Se

[A/N: This is an A/U story. The Toph character does feel inferior to Katara and so in order to compete for Aang's affections pulls out all the stops. Aang is a boy with near infinite power and is being offered love and comfort from the two girls most dear to him.

Disclaimer: I do not own any rights or titles to the characters of Avatar: The Last Airbender. ]

Chapter 29

Simply Irresistible

After a few more sordid observations, Sokka and Zuko decided to stagger their way to their respective chambers, with the aid of several stewards.

Aang on the other hand, took a bath, an ice cold one. It was refreshing, even though at times, he made it steam up with candid visions of her in that dress. Still, he was now able to feel that he had a better handle on his emotions and could probably get some shuteye.

As he stepped into the bedroom, he smelled jasmine and orange petals, and the thought of sleep fled away.

"Oh no," he gasped as his heart started to pound wildly, "Toph, is that you?" Aang asked, looking at the wall where the secret passage was indeed standing open.

"Hi Twinkle Toes," she responded in a sultry note. "I thought... maybe, I'd get a kiss goodnight."

She stood at the foot of his bed, her hair no longer in the braids from earlier, but having a wavy appearance that caught the light of the green crystals in the room. He had to shake his head to dispel the halo effect that seemed to appear about her.

Her white robe hung loosely open, as she had the tie dangling about her thin neck. He could see by the soft light she wasn't completely nude under it, to his disappointment. But what she was wearing wasn't bad. The skintight pink lacy breast band and panties, cut high at the thighs, made him swallow hard.

"I'm all silky shmooth tonight my love... and I feel absolutely free and wonderful," the rosy cheeked princess exclaimed, her words slightly slurred.

"Have you been drinking Toph?" Aang asked, trying to evaluate just how sheer the lace was in the dim light.

She put on a girlish face, "Call me... your little lover, when we're alone, Twinkle Toes," she demanded with a slight stomp of her foot, "...and yes, just a couple glasses of wine... with my home girls... no harm in that, is there? It was just sweet wine. Same as drinking chuice... I mean juice."

Aang smirked and whispered, "I really doubt that... you're toasted."

"You know Twinkle Toes, I can still hear you quite well," she informed him, crossing her arms and taking his pleasant view from sight. "Are you looking for a fight... or something?"

His mind clicked into action, wanting her to lower her arms. "No... no... huh lover... I think this is the first time I've seen you like this. No harm, you were just having some fun with your... home girls? It just took me by surprise is all," he confessed with a broad smile, stepping closer.

She uncrossed her arms, resuming her enticing look. "Yep, sheerer than that first nightgown, by a lot!" the airbender confirmed to himself.

Toph pulled back the robe to rest upon her shoulders, "Well, you should see the others... especially Mai! She got totally wasted and even puked her guts up, yuck! I felt sorry for that girl who had to clean it, just hearing her retch, almost made me want to hurl. Then Mai started to cry about all sorts of dumb stuff that none of us could understand. I just heard every once in a while... oh my lord... I love you! Imagine that... calling Zuko her lord. Don't you ever get that notion in your head Twinkle Toes!" Toph warned as she started to giggle.

The airbender sighed, "It's not polite my love, to make fun of people in that condition."

Toph smirked, "I knew you'd say something like that Twinkles, but I also know if you were there, you'd be the first one to breakout with the snickers!"

The young monk flushed at the truth of the statement, "Aren't you taking an awful chance coming here through the passage. I mean with Suki and Katara being right there? What if they saw you?" he asked, attempting to deflect her.

She shook her head, "Shit... they're totally out of it, snoring like a couple of porcu-boars. Let me tell you, Sugar Queen can put it away, and boy does she know some raunchy jokes once she loosens up. She is almost as funny as Snoozel when she gets going. Have you ever heard the one about the traveling salesman and the koala-shepherd's daughter..."

Aang sighed, "Can you not call her that... please my love?"

"Call who what?"

"You know Toph... who I'm..."

"Hey, didn't I tell you not to call me Toph when we're alone?" she asked once more, crossing her arms.

"Oh yeah, sorry my little love," he uttered apologetically, "but I was..."

"Now that's better," she smiled. "You say that so sweetly, I just love it!" she squeaked in a voice he had never heard before. "And I only know what I came here for," she proclaimed softly letting her thick robe slip off her shoulders and pile up at her bare feet. It was then he also forgot his ask, seeing the whole of her.

She stepped closer, "I figure... I could get a kiss or two, or tree... I mean three" she giggled, stepping out of the heap.

The heat in the room seemed to rise, "I-I don't think... uh lover... you know... ah that wouldn't be a good idea tonight my little love," he stammered, cutting his eyes to the right and the left, looking for a likely path of escape. "Eh... uhm... I don't want... I mean... you're not yourself. Alcohol, it often clouds the mind... taints the judgement, we do things, we would regret."

Her eyebrows went up, "A kiss or two is all I asked. What were you thinking? Had to be something naughty... wasn't it Aangy?" she asked in a voice that made him shiver.

The name Aangy as well as the sound of her voice, was far to reminiscent of a little girl with very weird pigtails.

"I-I-I really didn't... have anything like that... in mind," he backtracked. "I mean... what could we possibly do... that we would regret...ehehehe... oh boy?" he stuttered, recalling the afternoon before the carriage outing.

"Hmm," she hummed strutting ever closer, "I can think up at least one... thing? Of course, I don't know if I would have any regrets... about doing it with you. You smell... wet!"

The young man rubbed the back of his neck, "I just got out of the bath is all."

"I thought you took your baths in the morning Twinkles?" she asked, now standing intolerably close. "Why did you need one tonight?"

He blushed furiously, "Huh... no reason."

She put a finger in the middle of his bare chest, "Have you forgotten, I can tell when you are telling the truth... Avatar?" her voice turning stern and a bit of sorrow. "I bet.. you were thinking of Katara! Splashing about with that floo..."

He took hold of her arm, "No... that's not it at all," he quickly said, "I had to relieve myself... you were the only one on my mind! The way you looked today, what we did... I... I just couldn't sleep!"

She smiled, feeling his sincerity, "Oh... it wasn't Sweetness after all," her hand now flattened out on his sternum, feeling his rapidly increasing heartbeat, "all that... because of little ole me? I would've relieved you."

The skip in both his breath and beat, made her own heart flutter, "Oh Aangy..." she sighed.

"My love... I uhm, don't mind the Twinkle Toes, as much as the Aangy... can you not call me that?" he requested.

"Oh... why I thought it was cute, and Katara said that you would like it..." her voice faded, feeling his mood swing.

His face now straightened, "She was just setting you up to tease me, she knows how I detests that name!"

A serious look appeared on her face. "Why would she do something like that Twinkle Toes. Do you think she suspects us."

The Avatar took in a very deep breath, "I really don't know, unless Sokka or Suki told her. We'll just have to find out."

"Can't do anything about it tonight," she proclaimed, smiling broadly once again. "Sweetness was using it tonight when she was talking about you... all half snockered! I guess she sees it more... endearing."

He clicked his tongue,"Not at all, she must be mad at me. Did somebody... tell her something to get her mad at me?" he asked flatly.

"Ah, I might have... but we can talk about it later," she confessed. "So just kiss me now... and lets..."

He leaned forward, "What did you tell her Toph?"

"I asked you not to call me..." she said sheepishly, feeling the mood darken.

He did something now he would have never attempted when she was his Sifu. He took hold of her chin and lifted her face to his.

"Toph, what did you tell Katara," he reiterated again, slowly, coarsely."

Normally she would have hit him or yelled, but tonight, as his lover, she trembled. "I-I, I told her what happened on the carriage... when the ostrich-horses jolted, and I fell into you. How you touched me." She took his hand from her face, placing it on her breast. "Here... like this. I told her... it was an accident in the end, and I was just teasing her."

"Wh-why would you do that?" he gasped, half in shock and half from the feel of the firmness.

"Suki, she was threatening to reveal us. She was drunk... and she's a mean drunk Aang. I thought, if I could say something like that, it would take the air out of her fan... and it did. I don't know if Sweetness will be mad... oooh... that feels... so good, your hand... so strong, so warm!" she groaned as his hand flexed.

"It sounds like... it couldn't be helped then," he concluded, continuing to enjoy his prize. "If she's still mad at me in the morning, I'll deal with it my love."

Toph moved his hand to the other side, "Sounds... good... let tomorrow... deal... oh, yes... warm up those fingers... lover boy!" she seethed through gritted teeth. "Two boobs, two hands... what's wrong with the other one?" she inquired.

"My love... I only have a towel around my waist, and if I let it go to... touch you... it will fall," he informed her.

"So... ?"

"So? I wouldn't have any clothes on at all," he almost shouted in her face. "Wouldn't that bother you... just a little?"

"Nope... not really," she responded matter-of-factly. "If you want, I can take these off as..."

For an airbender to feel short of breath, even under stressful circumstances, some would say would be impossible. Aang started wheezing.

"Slowly...deep breaths now big guy," she instructed him, having him bend over with his hands on his thighs. "Just hold it a couple of seconds before you let it out. That's right... count to ten and slowly exhale. I didn't think it was possible for an airbender to hyperventilate," she remarked with a long sigh, " Ya learn something new everyday."

Finally, he was sitting with his eyes closed on the side of the bed. The tension lifted from his body and the ability to inhale completely, gave him sweet relief. He never thought just breathing could feel so good. The small hand that rubbed the back and top of his head also felt great.

"You okay now Twinkle Toes?" she asked in an almost motherly tone, "I thought for a moment... you were going to pass into the afterlife on me."

"Yeah... wow... I've never had anything like that happen to me before," he announced, still not in full voice, "I guess, I was a bit surprised."

He heard her familiar giggle, "A bit... I could have knocked the mighty Avatar over with a finger just now! That sobered me up as well."

"Okay you got..." he stopped in mid sentence as his eyes opened. He realized that she was standing directly in front of him. His attention was completely focused on her body once more.

She felt him scan her, almost as if he were physically touching her body. It was exhilarating as her entire body grew hot.

He hadn't noticed before that the shorts up close were far sheerer and tighter than he had imagined. A look up at the breast band revealed that it was made of the same ultra thin material. He gulped hard, seeing how her alabaster skin contrasted with her darker attributes through the thin lace. It didn't do a very poor job of concealing her intimate areas, either top or bottom.

She was breathing heavily now, "Like what you see... Twinkle Toes?"

He stood mesmerized, "It is... more than... very nice. You're gorgeous... too gorgeous for words, my love," he expressed in a stuttering voice.

"Suki scolded me for wearing something so forward, even around girls," Toph commented, doing a slow spin, to give him a complete view. "That's when I knew it would be perfect for tonight."

"Why tonight?" he inquired, almost in a monotone voice, his eyes locked upon her blossoming form.

"As my thanks for all that you went through today," she confessed, standing before him with hands folded, like a humble servant. "It was... because of my foolishness, that you had to endure burning yourself... and don't tell me it was nothing or it didn't hurt! I heard... I felt... your pain!"

He looked up into her repentant face, "Okay, I won't... but Katara did heal me. I didn't have to endure it long... and I would do it again if I needed to, all for you, only for you my love!"

"That is why I vowed to make it up to you tonight Aang," she sniffled in a weak voice. "Please... be one with me tonight."

"We are already one," he declared, kissing her gently, still holding unto the towel. "Let me grab some shorts... we can..."

Toph reached over and snatched the towel away, "Like I told you before, I'm all yours! You can do anything you want with me. Earlier, you were willing to join with me... no chi sex... the real deal... all the way," she told him as her pale eyes glistened in the soft light.

He studied her expression closely, "You do realize, I am at the end of my control don't you my little love?" he admitted.

"Yep, and I'm amazed you've held out this long, not of course counting the breathing issue," Toph confided boldly.

Aang slowly laid her back upon the bed, "Listen Toph... I mean my little love... tonight is different. I won't be able to stop myself... even if you ask me to. I- I think I'm just too weak right now. You smell so good, I could eat you up! I'm just unable to resist you.., you're so soft and smooth. You are just so..."

"Irresistible?" she finished with a half smile, sounding so sexy, Aang took a deep breath, moving over her.