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.

Busted and Confronted, the two are posed an interesting plea.

More to Come!

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

Comments are welcomed.]

Chapter 49

Shadows

Toph's muted eyes almost doubled in size at the shouting of her name.

"Huh Twinkle Toes, tell me that was you doing a really convincing impersonation of Lili and throwing your voice like that guy did at that festival?"

The light from the two approaching torches were causing him to shield his gray eyes. "'Fraid not Toph, she's coming up right behind you."

The half-dressed princess gulped, "I gather from her voice... ah, she doesn't sound too happy either. How does she look Twinkle Toes?"

He peeked around. "Uh, about how she sounds," the nervous Avatar replied trying to cover what he could of himself with his hands. "Yeah, I think she's actually pretty upset right now with you Toph."

"With me? I'm not the only one here mister! I think... if she should be mad at anybody, it should be you!" Toph shouted pointing a finger his way.

"Me, why me?" he asked pointing at himself in surprise. "Hey, I'm injured and… (cough, cough), under the influence of all those powerful medications. I wasn't thinking..."

The little general's jaw dropped. "Oh no you didn't go there!" she snarled, as she stood to her feet, wincing at the pain that erupted through her lower body. Toph didn't let it stop her from taking her characteristic pose as she placed her hands on her hips, glowering at him... to his delight, a dream come true with the semi nude woman. "Are you trying to say you... or are you even insinuating in the slightest way, that you had to be drugged to make love to me Twinkle Toes?"

Suddenly, licentious laughter filled the space they were in, making it feel dirty and tawdry. Both Aang and Toph recognized the voice and their faces dropped.

"With average size tits like those, somebody had to tell you the truth eventually cousin," Mei Mei stated as she stepped out of the shadows, revealing who was carrying the second torch. "Sure they have a nice form but...," she now caught sight of the nude nomad, "... OH, why hello there big fella!" the Toph look-alike exclaimed, switching gears. "Oh my, my! What a fine piece of man-meat we have here. All slicked up and bloodied from his little royal romp time. Looks like he really split the cherry wide tonight! No wonder, that's quite the thick staff you have there... your Grace. Some would be hard pressed to get their mouths around that. Some... not all. Makes me wonder how you could ever get off the ground with that weight in your pants. Do you use it like a rudder when you fly?"

"That's enough," Toph warned in a low voice.

"Enough? Why I'm just getting started," Mei Mei brashly retorted, not bothering to glance her way or use any of her titles. "You know cousin, that wall of yours must have been pretty thick. Damn, it smells like a meat market in here... and I love it!" she exclaimed taking in a huge whiff. "Virgin pussy... tight, but unrefined and so untempered. So your Grace, ready for a real woman and not some simple little... girl?"

Aang looked away from her, still seated on the ground.

"Oh, not ready yet? Nothing to be ashamed of. That's okay... first timers are quick to recover. I'll suck you until he's strong again. I can definitely fit him in," she offered with a wink of her twinkling jade eyes.

"I said... enough!" the princess bellowed. "Have you forgotten..."

Mei Mei turned her way, "I've forgotten nothing... cousin! Not my station, not my responsibility or my duties, as some have… nor that little spin in that chair you so pleasured me with! But I think you forget, you two aren't the only masters here! I was the protege of King Bumi himself! The best he ever saw he told me... me, yes me, Mei Mei! That's right, so just because you caught me off guard once, doesn't mean you'll do so again... cousin!"

Aang saw that Toph's legs were shaking as she tried to shift into a bending stance.

Mei Mei smirked, "Not so easy is it? He just pounded the ever-living earth out of your insides with that big, thick pillar of his and now you're trying to bend? Just look at yourself... oops, I mean, feel or whatever you do... you can hardly walk!" she pointed out, shifting the ground beneath Toph's feet with a slight, sideways motion of her foot. The metal bender fell onto her hands and knees in surprise. "Songbird, you're insides must feel like mush right now... in a good way I hope."

"Lady Mei Mei, this indignity... will not go unpunished! I am your princess and your liege lord!" Toph threatened, attempting to rise again. "Countess Soo Hahn, why do you just stand there? Why have you not..."

The Countess stepped up beside the other lady. "Lady Mei Mei, undress and attend to his Grace, the Avatar as you have spoken. Make sure he recalls only you after you have finished with him," Lili ordered, ignoring Toph altogether. "I will be taking her Majesty back to her chambers for a hot bath and a change of clothes. We are fortunate, this is one of her safe days by our count from her last cycle. Your Grace, Lady Mei Mei will now indulge you. Ask what you will of her. She looks as the princess and will not mind if you call her by that name, once or twice. Afterwards she will assist you in redressing so that you can join the rest of your friends. Your items will be returned to the inn by morning. Forgive me for failing you in my attendance," she concluded with a bow from the waist. "This is all my fault, I take full responsibility."

Mei Mei stepped forward . "Trust me… Aang, can I call you Aang," the flagrant lady asked as she bent over in front of him, displaying her full cleavage, already undoing her dress. "You may think you're in love now with her majesty here, but the next pussy you slide into, which will be mine, will teach you a valuable lesson. All pussy is good! A motto I personally endorse. But I do have to say, mine is better than most... if not the best," she bragged. "Tell you what, after we join, you tell me who was better, me or the bloody little mess. Speaking of blood, she's gotten it all over you! Again not to worry. You don't even have to wash up for me. I'll take you as you are. I like my meat rare," the brazen look-a-like stated with a hungry stare and a flick of her tongue that made him feel as though he were being violated without a single touch. "Unlike you and the countess here... I am a meat eater and the taste of blood turns me on even more!"

The musty smells around them mixed coupled with Mei Mei's vivid illustration, formed a powerful image in the vegan monk's mind. Aang felt his manhood withering, trying to retract back into his body even as her dress fell away. He held back the urge to throw up in his mouth, covering it with his hand for a moment.

"Oh dear… you don't look so good your Grace," Mei Mei noticed stooping down to get a better look. "Could it be possibly someone you ate? She is a little sour puss you know."

He kicked back further away from her. "Toph… she-she's scaring me," he whined in a low voice.

The waterbender sat in a high-back chair in the enormous sitting room with her legs crossed, a position she has seen in the Fire Nation. Her top leg was kicking out nervously. "Where is he? What's taking him so long? It's been almost two whole hours since we left him! Zuko, how long does this type of thing usually take? You have a lot of experience from when you were on that ship for three years right?" she crudely asked out loud.

Between the white robes he was wearing and his almost glowing red face, the Fire Lord resembled a matchstick.

"UGH! KATARA! How should I know! Why would you think being on a ship would make me the expert in that type of thing?" he yelled back at her.

"Well I heard a lot of story about sailors, especially if there were no women on board. They usually took care of themselves, or each other." Her big blue eyes went wide, "Don't tell me you..."

Zuko threw his head back, "Of course not! Do you even know what you're saying Katara! Anyways, why don't you just ask your horny brother over there? He's the real expert! Between being down in that village with just his sister and a bunch of old women since like forever, I think he knows a thing or five about that! At least he's spent more time at it than me, I bet."

The comment didn't seem to phase the Vice Regent as he sat on a large pillow with the warrior in his lap. "Hmm, thank you for that heart felt endorsement Zuko. But don't be modest, we're probably pretty equal on the subject. Do you prefer overhand grip or under?"

The giggling from the girls in the room, including the servants, only embarrassed the young Monarch even more until he had no comeback.

The regent flared out his hands, "Don't know why you're getting all uptight about it bro? It's natural and healthy, nothing to be ashamed of," Sokka encouraged him. "Now sis, I think it's probably taking him sometime between his little sessions. Lili did say, two, maybe three times to cure himself."

Katara broke in with reddened cheeks, "Then maybe I should have..."

"Oh no way!" he objected. "Not with my little sister! I'm sure he can handle this alone. Like I said, you've got to give him some time to work it out. And you can't discount the embarrassment factor. Did you see how red his face was?" he stated with a look of concern.

"I'm impressed hun," Suki said, turning to deliver a peck to his lips. "That was a very mature thing of you to say."

Katara smiled at her sibling, "I really thought you would make some type of... you know, wacking-off joke. But instead, I think you surprised us all and said something very sensitive and caring. I'm touched big bro. I guess you have grown up."

Sokka grinned broadly, "Oh those... I'm saving them for when he comes! Can't wait to see him light up and get all red, especially with those tats! And i gotta have Toph in on it, it'll be a riot!" he laughed.

"And now were back to reality," Mai sighed as she took a sip of her drink. "Suki, do you need a chair to sit on, I think there are plenty available in the room," she pointed out in a monotone. "He'd might like some personal space."

The Fan Master sat back on her boyfriend. "No, I'm perfectly comfortable where I am Mai. Are you comfortable Sokka… need any, personal space?"

Sokka felt the underlying tension, "Well… actually my leg is getting…"

"See, he's fine," Suki cut him off as she shifted her weight to the other side and shot Mai a cold glare.

"I don't see a problem here Mai," Zuko stated as he smiled her way. "Why don't you come and sit here," he proposed as he offered her his lap.

"And why don't we just strip and hump in the center of the floor," the dark lady replied with a cut of her amber eyes. "I'd rather not put on a show for the peasantry just to try and fit in Zuko."

Zuko turned away, "You could've just said no thank you Mai. I wasn't asking you to make a public spectacle of yourself, just loosen up a bit. You're among friends here. How long is it going to take before you realize that!" he yelled away from her.

"Sorry I offended you Zuko," she suddenly said in a quiet voice. "I'll work on it… work on loosening up."

The Fire Lord's face instantly brightened. "Thank you Mai, I appreciate that."

She nodded graciously his way. "Suki, you said you are quite comfortable?", Mai asked as she stood putting her drink down.

The Fan Master grinned, "Quite comfy, you should try it."

"I think I will then," the blade wielder said as she lightly stepped across and took hold of Suki's wrist, pulling her up and to her feet, simultaneously depositing herself unto the stunned regent's lap.

The action was so fast, everyone in the room froze for a few moments as Mai nestled in.

"Hmm, you're right Suki, he is comfy."

The princess was sitting squarely in the Avatar's lap as he had both arms locked about her bare waist.

She was brandishing a small thin dagger, crafted from her space earth armband and pointing it in the general vicinity of her unclothed lubricious cousin.

"If you take one more step this way Mei Mei, I'll poke you in those things you're so proud of!" she warned, jabbing it into the air.

"Foolish girl, do you really think I would be intimidated by that... needle," Mei Mei sneered. "You might as well use it to pick your toes with."

"I have," Toph replied. "But I've also driven it through a man's skull, on more than one occasion. Trust me, I won't kill you, just leave a very nasty scar! Now back away!"

The buxom look-alike shifted into a fighting stance Aang was unfamiliar with for an earthbender. She looked more like she was doing a western Air Temple form. "Go ahead and try cousin, you'll be eating that thing!" she challenged.

"Do as she says Mei Mei," Lili told her. "We cannot risk endangering her."

"Yes countess," she replied as she broke her stance. While keeping her eyes on her blade wielding cousin, she stooped down and picked up her clothes, retreating back to where the countess stood.

Toph could feel Aang tensing up beneath her. "What's wrong Twinkle Toes, she's backing off, isn't that what we want?"

"Yes, but it's Lili," he whispered to her. "She's over there looking at me as if I'm responsible for all this and about to cry," he said sorrowfully with a frown. "She keeps giving me the... evil eye. She looks so disappointed in me."

"Duh, what do you expect Twinkle Toes. She had some pretty high expectations for you, unlike the people that really know you," Toph replied with a cheesy grin. "We all know you're a screw-up at heart."

"Thanks Sifu, and that's supposed to make me feel better how?"

She turned her face towards him, "Didn't say it would make you feel better. It's just the truth. Like when I say, I love you."

He smiled at her, getting her point, and it did make him feel better.

All the flirting and seeing them bonded together like they were, tore at Lili. She had seen enough.

"Why Master! Why have you done this... and with her! I told you the consequences and the outcomes. Nothing good can come from this union! You are the Avatar! You are the last of your people! You will breed only earthbenders or normals! Doesn't that speak anything to your heart? Is she worth all that! Will you would see the Air Nomads fade into the night for her sake? Will you be happy being the last of your kind?"

Aang held the petite princess tighter, partially burying his face into her wild hair. "Yes, she means that much to me Lili... and I think, even more," he replied solemnly.

The acolyte nomad stood very erect, "Then you are lost and deluded. You deserve everything that will befall you! Do you even know what you hold in your arms! Th-the thing that you have been lying with!"

"LILI NO, you can't!" Mei Mei shouted at her.

The words shocked the countess back from whatever place she was going or whatever she was about to say. Lili's voice trailed off as she choked back the tears showing how really upset she was. Aang saw her face twisted in anger and she probably would have slapped him if she could reached him. At this moment, he did feel ashamed of himself. Still her last words haunted him as he had felt Toph tremble against him as she said it.

"It was my fault Lili," Toph spoke up in a subdued voice. "I-I thought it would be the right time... the right place for Aang and me. I was really the cause of his injuries today, it was only right if I could help give him some joy... ya know. Aang was just along for the ride, like any guy would I guess. I am truly sorry, I caused you so much grief cousin."

"Don't patronize us," Mei Mei said as she placed an arm around her weeping cousin. "You really don't understand the shit you've caused by this little antic of yours, do you? Do you?" she yelled at the both of them, causing them to jolt. "We can all be sent away if we fail. And what I mean by that... made to marry some old fat bastard because he's rich and has titles and lands. But you two weren't thinking about that while you were humping your brains out now were you! You think you were the only people fighting during the war, or even fighting now? I personally saw action a month ago in Gaoling, right along side your father princess. He got paid a visit from some folks that didn't like the idea of a Bei Fong returning to the golden throne. I buried everyone of those fuckers! Sent them all to the netherworld! Where were you? Were was the self-proclaimed World's Greatest Earthbender, when her own father was in mortal danger. You probably got the credit any ways,. They thought I was you, screaming… kill the Duke and his daughter! Pisses me off, we look so much alike and I'm older and yet people always say, I look like you!"

Aang could tell Toph was feeling the impact of Mei Mei's words like a sledge-hammer.

Lili wiped her red-rimmed eyes. "Do you now understand what troubles this has wrought cousin," she asked trying to control her rage. "If the Queen hears of this... the gods only know what will become of myself, Mei Mei and Lei. She is a fearsome woman, as you know. Your maidenhood was our charge and chief concern by her order. And you know full well your father has other suitors in mind for you... men to sit on the throne after him. You've abandoned your duty and family as well."

Even though she was speaking to Toph, Lili's eye's were boring into Aang. He could only look away. "You mentioned only three of you," Aang remarked looking over at Mei Mei, "What about Lady Fong?" he inquired of the obvious oversight.

The nude lady shrugged her shoulders, "What about that virgin? She must have made an impression on you from last night, hey your Grace? But if she would have done her job last night, we wouldn't be in this mess now would we?"

"What is she talking about Twinkle Toes? Her job and making and impression on you. Just the things she's said made your heart jump."

"Eh, eh... yeah oh that?"

"Tell me Twinkle Toes or I'll personally feed you to this bloodsucking wolf-bat!"

Mei Mei started to clap lightly, "Oh goody, trouble in paradise! When do I get him?"

The nomad started talking fast "It was last night and she was coming on to me and she looked a lot like you but with brown eyes and you know I was really excited because of what we were doing but I told her to leave because I love you Toph. I was tempted but I didn't do anything with her… I swear!"

Toph smiled at his fast confession, feeling the heartfelt truth in it. "Thanks for loving me Twinkle Toes. So whose idea was it to offer Fong to this horny guy? I doubt it was really yours Lili?"

The countess dropped her head, "Your mother, she said Fong would make an ideal bond in bringing the Avatar into the family and making all air benders… Bei Fong."

Toph's mouth twisted, "Figures… that woman is always calculating!"

"Your Grace, Fong is a pure one, and quite a catch," Mei Mei informed him. "She is not required to whore like the rest of us because she is Bei Fong. Fong is safe cause she is part of the true Bei Fong family, like our princess here, the daughter of the king's first cousin. No one would dare lay a hand on her. Plus being a bender killer has a lot to do with that. She'd just cut their dicks off and shove it up their own asses. I think your Grace is the only man who has ever got her dripping in the britches like that," the saucy lady laughed mildly.

Toph shook her head even has her dagger snaked back up on her arm. "I have not abandoned my duty or my family! Aang is my duty and my family! I choose him. Why is that wrong Lili... why Mei Mei?"

"Your Grace has our princess ever told you she is from two royal houses?" Mei Mei asked with a raised eyebrow, now starting to redress as she spoke.

"No," he replied simply.

She shook a finger at the princess, "Shame on you. And I heard, you even battled your own great-grandfather. I know that was epic! I was his student... but I'm just one of the great-grand nieces... once removed or something like that," Mei Mei tried to clarify. "But I still got the privilege of being trained by him. That crazy, wise old man. Five long years and he said he'd never saw anyone progress so fast. But you see, I threw it all away. On a holiday, to a small resort village, I meet a boy. His name was Quin, eyes the color of harvest wheat. Tall, pale... handsome... so handsome. I tried to ignore him, but he just wouldn't go away. He was the son of a Fire Nation admiral. I told him I was the daughter of an Earth Kingdom viscount and general. Like you cousin, I chose him. Over family, duty... well you get the picture. My father was told by a family servant that I was meeting with Quin. They caught us in much the same state as Lili and I have found you two, I see the irony, even if you don't," Mei Mei sighed, brushing back her tears. "I begged and pleaded with my father to let me go with Quin, but he told me, 'if I was spreading my legs for the Fire Nation, I might as well be doing it for my own country.' That's when he sent me here... here to become a courtesan. I refused to do it at first, but they have ways... even if you are a bender. My father was killed about three months later in an attack by colonial earthbenders disguised as our troops. I guess that's when I sort of threw myself into this. I haven't thought about it all in years. Time does fly."

"Quin, whatever happened to Quin?" Toph asked quietly.

Mei Mei took in a deep breath, "He died about 2 years after I came here. His father was furious he had been with me and he asked to marry me. He sent him off to the naval academy in the Fire Nation capital. He had the honor of dying at your hands, your Grace in his very first action."

Aang's breath became ragged. "My hands... how?"

"He was part of the fleet that Admiral Zhao took to the North Pole. His ship was one of those that was lost on the first day. His mother sent me the message. We got along very well and I still write to her. It said when the catapult was stripped from the deck, part of it collapsed and damaged the engines below. Ensign Quin was crushed under the baffling plate when the boiler exploded. His mom had lost both husband and son," she informed him.

"I'm sorry... I'm so, so, sorry," he apologized in tears. "There were so many of them and only one of me. I didn't want to kill anyone. Believe me Mei Mei, I didn't want anyone to die!"

"It's alright now your Grace," the look-alike said as she gazed down. "I've made my peace with a lot of things, and this is one of them. War takes and breaks and kills and mangles. I hate it... not the people. I can understand that. My lover got caught in that. He died, and a part of me did as well. That war is over, but I'm still fighting this war that I live everyday and I'm asking you, I'm begging you two... please, help us."

"So, what do we do now Toph?" he asked, looking over at her almost mirrored images. "We can't just let your cousins be herded off like cattle."

"I know, I know! Give me a minute, I'm thinking here Twinkle Toes," she replied as she processed all she had heard. "No one is taking my cousins away… not even the bitchy horny one."

"I think she's talking about you Lili," Mei Mei giggled.