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 36
Wanting
Lili sat against the cool damp wall of the tunnel, allowing it to siphon away the heat that had built up over her brief time with the Avatar. Her mind flashed to Aang, laid upon the floor with only a towel wrapped about his waist. She was administering to him his first... by his report, shiatsu massage. The way the young airbender was moaning and sighing as she worked out his tension and kinks, was driving her crazy.
"Ohhh... Lili, that feels oh so,so, good," he had said in a deep low growl that reverberated through her, surprisingly stirring her desires.
She let her head flop back with a deep sigh, knocking it a bit harder than she wanted to against the stones. "Ouch... but maybe I needed that. What has gotten into me? I'm behaving like some love struck schoolgirl. Maybe that knock will help erase some of these nasty thoughts out of my mind... or take the feeling these hands still hold! The absolute wondrous feel of you, my master!"
She recalled gently massaging around his scars, amazed that at not even twenty, he had so many of them, even for an Avatar. But her greatest pleasure was those intricate blue tattoos. As a Nomad, she knew every meaning and their relationship to the 4 Great Winds. She slowly, methodically had mapped them, rubbing along the meridians they followed as she chanted a small prayer of gratitude.
The countess shivered inside as she envisioned his extremely tone body that through his rock hard muscles, constantly radiated this intoxicating energy.
"I can see why you like him so cousin, he is quite lovely to the touch," Lili thought as she slowly mimicked her earlier moves. "His aura... he's like... living sexiness. It... it moves me... it... stirs me to the core," she sighed into the darkness, her free hand finding its way up her skirt.
She had to admire Toph's stamina up until now. She personally was already fighting returning to his room and just mounting him.
As she shifted and half slid more unto the floor, she let her lust take full control, "Master... you... will be... mine!" she huffed and sighed as her green eyes rolled up into her head.
"Lei, have you seen Lili yet?" Fong asked as she entered the princess' study. "She should have been back by now."
"Nope," she replied simply, as she placed some scrolls upon the huge oak desk. "Where'd she go? I saw her leave but..."
The second lady rubbed her chin, "She went to speak with the Avatar... especially after that little fracas we had. She figured he'd be in a pretty sour mood this morning and her Majesty wanted to make sure he was alright. "
"Ya know, boys don't like having their play things taken away from them Fong. It's much like a Tiger-dillo having its meal snatched away from it... puts it in a real... gnarly mood, if you know what I mean," Mei Mei stated from the chaise across the room. "But you already know that from last night, right cousin... after he threw you out."
"The Avatar, was... understandably upset about the whole ordeal Mei Mei," The brown-eyed lady replied. "It was a regrettable turn of events."
Lei gazed compassionately at her cousin, "I understand Fong..."
"No you don't my little saphhic cousin, I don't think you do," the sharp tongued lady quipped. "Our little virgin here, wanted that airbender to blow a little air up her skirts... didn't you Fong? Even when she got back from his room last night, her cheeks were as red as the Fire Nation emblem. And when they do red... they do red!"
"You... you just shut your stupid mouth Mei Mei!" Fong warned, pointing a finger at her. "You know nothing... you always say such stupid things an-and... and then try to make everyone else look... look so..."
"Let me guess your next word Fong... oh yes... could it be... stupid?" the Toph replica teased bitterly. "One thing I'm good at cousin... and that can't be denied, is telling when a bitch is in heat. Look at her Lei, she can barely put a sentence together just thinking about him... now can you, Miss Cool and Collective? How bad did you want him? Lili told me he was in the natural when you two caught them... just before the... well, act. He must have been swollen to the max, ready to break his way through her veil and fill her with..."
"SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" Fong yelled closing the distance between them. "Why must everything be a joke to you? Why do you have to drag it through the sewer of that cesspool you call a mind... with that filthy mouth of yours Mei Mei? Why?"
"You want to know why Fong? You really want to know why?" she asked sardonically as she stood to face her taller cousin. "I'll tell you. I am so damn jealous of you right now... I could just scream! Do you know... just in the last two days, I have turned down four men and two women because of... of him," Mei Mei confessed angrily, compressing the stone tile under her foot. "If I was alone with him... and he naked and engorged before me... the only thing this filthy mouth would be doing... is draining him!"
"B-but I offered... I said..."
"Fuck saying Fong! You have to do, in a situation like that. Take advantage, don't give him time to reason with the head on his shoulders... you want the little one to do the reasoning at that point. Didn't they teach you anything at that fancy assassin's school in the Fire Nation?"
Lady Bei Fong looked down, "I-I did take a class in... the Theory of Elementary Seduction... but when he pressed me against that wall... all thought... all reason abandoned me. I felt it pressing against my thigh, throbbing so hot, and yes... I wanted him to split me with it right then and there Mei Mei! I offered..."
She stopped speaking as she heard the snarky clapping of her nymphomaniacal underling.
"Spoken like a true... virgin. I'm sure he appreciated the... offer, but trust me, your mouth could have been put to better use if you would have just sucked it... well him in... but what am I saying?" she laughed bowing her head. "You're just as much a novice as our little princess... aren't you? You really didn't know what to do. Lili left a child, at least in experience, to do a woman's work. You had your chance Fong, and you blew it... well, because you didn't... you did... am I making sense Lei?"
"As much as you normally do Mei Mei," Lei answered, rolling her soft green eyes.
"Well maybe next time you could coach me in the ways of men cousin. Ya know, share with me some of your vast experience, minus the diseases," Fong huffed as she stared into her green eyes.
"It would not only be my honor, but also my pleasure, dear cousin," she relayed with an unexpected bow.
"I don't know who she thinks she is... but if she believes I'm just gonna hand my new boyfriend over to her grungy little ass, she has another thing coming!" the waterbender warned as she strode away from the door. "The nerve of her... did you see her Suki?"
"Yep," the Fan Master sighed, following her lead. "I think she's got a case of Avatar fever really bad and she doesn't want to get over it anytime soon Katara."
"Well... if she doesn't, it may prove fatal... that's all I'm saying," Katara growled as she folded her arms.
"Or... she could just be goading you into another fight," Mai suggested, tapping her sharp chin.
"Now, after all that shit, why would she want to do that?" Suki asked raising an eyebrow.
"That should be very obvious now," the blade wielder replied flatly. "Katara isn't this the second time you've pumped her for information in her sleep?"
The blue-eyed girl looked away, "Actually... make this the fourth time. The second time was when my under things got filled with prickly-burrs..."
"Uh yeah, I remember that," Suki exclaimed as she started to laugh. "You swore Toph had done it out of revenge for... for that whole cherry thing."
"But she hadn't?" Mai inquired, turning towards the blushing waterbender.
Katara shook her head, "No... it was Momo. He had gotten himself into a burr bush. He then proceeded to get into my kit and used my wrapping to get them out of his fur. I guess the material held the burrs better than his fur," she summarized. "Anyways... I had to go for two days without anything underneath until we got to a village. Toph was actually very considerate of me... she... um... let me borrow her linen undershirt... a bit tight, but it at least kept the jiggling down."
"Why didn't you borrow something from Fan Girl here, she's closer to your size," the tall lady asked with a smirk.
"Have you seen the rope she uses... I just don't see how anyone can call that stuff underwear. It totally leaves your butt cheeks all exposed," Katara explained. "Plus, she doesn't bind her breast..."
"It's proper attire for a warrior, I would have you know," Suki defended. "Plus, Sokka likes it."
Mai shook her head, "I'm sure that moronic pervert does. He probably would also prefer you barefoot and pregnant."
The warrior offered her another insulting hand gesture.
"But was even more amazing," Mai continued, "... she didn't take advantage and choose to embarrass you further out of spite. I know a lot of rich young nobles, and most of them are selfish, arrogant and petty. That one in the bedroom is full of surprises. So, Katara, the third time would be?"
"Uh... this is so embarrassing," the waterbender exclaimed. "I'll just leave it at... it was very personal... and I did something very stupid. I had to know if she knew."
"Did she know?" Suki asked, totally enthralled now.
"Oh yeah... she knew and she... and she, cried for me... in her sleep... she cried for me," Katara recalled. "What a terrible friend I am... a wicked, twisted woman to even suspect that she would even think about stealing my boyfriend."
Mai sighed, "See Suki... this is why you have to be on your guard. Just because you have close friends, doesn't mean they won't take what's yours."
"Wh-why would you say that Mai," Katara asked nervously. "I just thought..."
"You just thought what she wanted you to think," the Blade Wielder spat.
"But now I'm confused," the waterbender admitted. "Didn't you just say that she could be trying to just pick a fight..."
"Yeah," Suki agreed, nodding her head.
"Yes... but then again she could be out to steal him as well Katara," Mai said sternly. "You have to be ready for either situation."
The Water Tribe lady took in a deep breath, "Then I'm going right back in there and confront her again," she declared, heading for the massive doors.
"And what will that prove?" the dark, somber lady asked. "In fact, if she wasn't serious about going after Aang now, just get into a fight with her... challenge her, and I guarantee, she'll move the earth itself to have him."
Katara seemed to deflate, "Then... then what should I do?"
Mai stepped up to her, "You must have him accept you unequivocally before her. That way she will have no grounds to continue this useless quest. If he chooses you..."
"Then he has denied her," Katara followed with a twisted smile.
The little Princess let out a ragged sigh as she flung herself unto the bed beside him, her body still trembling.
"Oh Twinkle Toes, that was... was amazing," she kissed exclaimed breathlessly. "You did that without any chi sex what so ever... and wow... I'm still... WOW! I didn't know you could do that."
He gazed over at her, seeing her hazy jade eyes uncovered as her bangs clung to her damp forehead. A deep rosy hue adorned her cheeks as her lips also appeared more full and redder.
"Neither did I... until this moment," he admitted proudly. "You must be my muse... my little love. I saw you, and the idea of how delicious you are, just... just... like came to life in me. You smelled so sweet and orangie under those blankets... and you tasted... all warm and tangy... like orange meringue!"
The punch to his arm told him he had definitely gotten to her as her face flushed even further.
"Stop it you pervy... pervert,"she stuttered, half covering her face, not able to hide the hint of a smile. "You know that kind of talk makes me uncomfortable... even when it's just the two of us."
He chuckled lightly, "You better get use to it, because I'm not going to stop," he declared with a wide grin. "I figure one day you'll not only have heard it so often that you'd expect it, but that you would want me tell you such things."
She let her hands drop from her beet red face. "To tell you the truth Twinkles, when I was at my father's house, I could hear the servants and the guards... well, doing this and that... if you know what I mean. An-and some nights... I would even hear my own parents... saying stuff like that. So, if it's hard for me to accept... this kind of love speak... can you see why?"
He thought about it for a moment. As an nomad, he really didn't have a frame of reference as to why she would have a hard time with intimate conversation. "I-I think so Toph... but I still have like talking to you this way. I love the way you look when I do... so soft and warm," he sighed, letting a finger run down the side of her face.
"Aang," she began to speak slowly and thoughtfully, getting his full attention, "... remember how you tried... chi sex with Sweetness?"
"Yes," he replied in a low voice, already know where this was headed.
"Please... can this be between just you and me? I-I know you still have feelings for Suga, an-and I can accept that for now... but..."
She felt him take hold of her, pulling her into a close warm, but very strong hug.
"I swear... I swear by the Four Winds, and the sacred way, hidden in the sky, I will only do this with you... my truest love," he whispered sincerely. "This is the highest vow an Air Nomad can make. To break it would be akin to blasphemy."
"Thank you Aang... thank you oh so much," she whimpered lightly, resting upon his chest. "You don't know what this means to me."
"I know Toph, you feel the same for me," he retorted, pulling back enough to stare into her face once again.
The urge to kiss those moist, pouty lips of the earthbender was overwhelming as he leaned in. The impression upon his own lips and tongue was not what he expected. As Aang opened his eyes, he observed that she had placed a hand over her mouth.
As he withdrew, she began to speak, "What was that Twinkle Toes?"
"Whaddaya mean... what was that? That was what it always was," he replied a bit put off.
"I know what that was... but I'm asking you... what was THAT?" she repeated.
He was now thoroughly confused, trying to make reason out of what she was saying. "I was simply trying to kiss you... that's all..."
"After having kissed me... you-know-where," she proclaimed wide-eyed. "I-I just can't believe..."
He started laughing, seeing her shyness as Toph began to frown and turn her head away with a shudder.
He stopped laughing as he watched her shoulders droop.
"Does it really bother you that much Toph?"
"Yes! Think about it for a minute Twinkle Toes. I'm not a Hog-Monkey, eating out of my own behind. Why would I want to… ugh… even taste… myself...ew, even the thought is too gross for word," she gagged, trying not to throw up into her mouth.
"But you're okay with me... tasting you?" he questioned coyly.
"Are you... okay with... tasting me?" she replied tentatively, her weak voice almost cracking.
He could tell she was on an emotional precipice, one that he had taken her too. He had already seen how delicate she could actually be.
"Yes, yes and a million times, yes!" he said boldly. "I love the taste of your warm and tangy! I could do this all day long!"
Her face was aglow once more as she pursed her lips together. "It... it is only right, Twinkle Toes, if I return... you know, the gesture."
He startled in surprise, "Honestly my love, this is my gift... my expression of love to you. You don't have too..."
"I know that," she broke in, "... but as a Bei Fong, we always repay, even favors. I-I think, if you would guide me a bit, this would be... could be..."
"My love, why not wait until tonight, like we spoke of," he suggested, his breathing already starting to deepen. "I think... I want more... of you first. My love... you're like my very own, human cream puff."
She picked up on his queue, "So Twinkle Toes, are you hungry for more dessert?" she offered in an husky voice. " I hope this cream puff has enough orange meringue for you?"
He slid down beside her, "Oh, I'm sure you'll have plenty, I think the bakery is cooking up a lovely batch of the sweet stuff right now, even as we speak."
Toph laid upon her back, resting her head upon the soft pillow with a sexy smile as she enjoyed his touch, the way he was gently making her feel so wanted and alive. The sounds he exuded though, did embarrass her... a bit.
The rush and poundings that threw her body into conniptions, once more consumed her until she was spent.
"All done my love," he finally asked.
"Are you?" she breathlessly answered, with mock bravado. "Like you said, I could... maybe... do this all day."
"You know, I've been thinking," he started wistfully, always a warning sign to the princess.
"Oh... and did you hurt yourself, Twinkle Toes?"
He chortled lightly,"Left myself open for that one... but not as open as you are right now, my love."
She tensed, "C'mon Twinkle Toes, can't you take a little joke... you still wuv me right?"
"Yes your Highness," he replied, kissing her inner thigh. "More than life itself."
The sincerity of his words and that small act caused her to relax in his hold once more.
"And I, you Aang," she confirmed. "More than life, title or wealth. Where you go... I go, I swear."
"I know," he whispered. "I want to make you happy Toph."
She reach down to rub the top of his incredibly smooth, bald head,"You do Twinkle Toes... more than I have ever been in my entire life."
He smiled, rubbing her leg, "Thanks for telling me that. I need you to tell me things like that my love."
"Okay," she acknowledged. "Aang, you have to know you are the most important person in the world to me. I really don't know where we are headed, but as long as it is with you... I don't really care. Please, just let me stay by your side forever and ever. I have so much still to tell you about me... so much I want to know about you as well. You can put your hands wherever you want to on me... I'm all yours."
He wiped away a tear from his gray eyes, "And I'm all yours... only yours Toph. Please don't worry about Katara. After tonight, we both will tell her everything... okay?"
She nodded, "Okay... that would be wonderful Twinkles," she agreed with a soft smile.
"Oh, and guess what... Toph?"
"What?" she replied with a furrowed brow.
"Your cousin lied to you. You have quite the seal down here," he breathed out heatedly. "I guess I will have my work cut out for me tonight... just like that Fire Nation drill we took down. Remember the way it went through that wall... VROOOMMMM... bash... BOOM!"
His statement, together with the added sound effects, caused her to shake and tense.
"EEEP!" she spontaneously squeaked out, as she covered her mouth.
"Now that was a cute noise, I never heard you do that before," he stated, laying a peck to the back of her calf.
She suddenly felt the touch of his hand. It was warm, almost hot as his fingers traced along her vulnerable place.
"Aa-Aang... what are you doing... where are you touching me?"
"You said wherever I needed to touch you... this is where I need to be so that... I can try my little experiment," he said in short gasps, caught up in the wonderment of the sight before him.
Her head popped up" What experiment do you plan to do down there?"
He grinned wickedly "Want to find out?"
She looked panicked, "NO!"
"Okay you win... we do the tasting and the chi... together!" he announced to her shock.
"Oh no... don't you dare you... you... oh my... OH MY... AHHHHHH!" was all she managed to get out as the swirl of warm air, combined with the hotter inner heat, exploded through her. The little princess now rocked back under his touch, unable to speak, but letting loose one solitary perfect note.
The Avatar was in full light and his energy coursed through her small frame lifting her completely off the bed.
Aang felt his own moment approaching as he watched closely his little love bloom to fullness before his eyes.
"Do you hear that?" Suki asked suddenly. "What a beautiful tone."
"I didn't know she could sing," Mai stated, tilting her head up to catch the fullness of the melodic report.
"Cheeky show off!" Katara huffed, throwing another vengeful look at the wooden doors.