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Warnings: same as in previous chapters.

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Lucy hummed contently as she wandered down the streets of Crocus with her team.

"It's much busier this year." Jellal observed, glancing around at the hundreds of people, and those were only the ones he could see.

"No kidding." Toph groaned with a grimace. "It's hard to keep up…too many footsteps and heartbeats…"

Lucy winced sympathetically. "Sorry, Toph. Anything we can do to help?"

Toph opened her mouth to reply in the negative, but then she paused, feeling a certain group of familiar people heading towards them. She grinned. "I'll be fine. Incoming. Hey Twinkletoes!"

"Wh—" Lucy began, but she was cut off as a boy launched himself from the crowd towards Toph, arms open as if he was about to give her a hug.

She turned to her team. "Go on, I'll catch up. These are just some old friends."

Understanding, Lucy and the others left to continue on to their hotel.

Toph turned back towards the boy and dodged swiftly, bringing up a column of rock for him to crash into.

Of course, Toph's avoidance just moved her closer to the rest of the group, and Zuko gave her a hug in greeting before Katara and Suki got to her, and then Sokka.

"Come on!" the first boy groaned, falling down to the ground pitifully. "Toph, I'm sixteen. Can you stop calling me that?"

"Not a chance." Toph grinned at him before turning towards the others. "What're you guys doing here?"

Suki chuckled, smiling widely. "We came to support you, of course!"

Toph laughed, and was about to respond when she noticed something odd coming from Suki.

Was that…

Her eyes widened, gasping in shock as her head shot up, staring where she presumed her friend's face was. "Are…?"

"Yep!" Suki answered.

"Do they…?" Toph continued.

"Katara does, but not the boys." Suki answered. "I'll tell them after the Games."

Katara smiled as she realized what the two were talking about.

"Huh?" Aang asked, eyebrows furrowing in confusion as he scratched at his head.

Sokka freaked out, wondering what his wife was hiding from him, and spent the next few minutes begging for them to tell him.

Zuko, on the other hand, frowned thoughtfully, staring at the three girls.

What could Suki be hiding that Katara would know about, and that Toph would be able to sense almost immediately?

Wait.

Katara was a healer, and Toph could feel heartbeats…

"Oh!" His eyes widened in shock, turning to the auburn-haired girl. "Really?"

Suki beamed up at him, and he smiled back.

"Congratulations." He said sincerely, causing the slightly younger girl to smile even wider and thank him.

The other two boys looked at them, completely baffled.

"Well, the secret's out for Zuko, and I never had hope of keeping it from Toph…" Suki said with a laugh. "So the question is: should I tell them, or wait until they figure it out?"

Toph smirked. "Eh, let them wait."

Suki wasn't so sure, but when Zuko and even Katara (who thought her brother's reactions when he didn't know something were hilarious) agreed with Toph, she decided to follow the advice.


A few streets away from Itachi, his younger brother Sasuke was following his blonde boyfriend (not that he would ever say the word) as the slightly younger ninja tried to find a ramen stand.

"Come on, Sasuke!" Naruto groaned desperately, trying to sniff out the delicious noodles. "I'm hungry!"

"Dobe." Sasuke sighed, walking sedately as Naruto sped off again.


Astrid scowled as she saw the shore of the kingdom of Fiore.

It wasn't her place to question her chief, but she really wondered why he had decided to come to this horrid land now, to show the Vikings' superiority over mages, while he hadn't even sent anyone to check her claims that Hiccup and his beast were still alive and living here.

If that little runt (she conveniently forgot that he had been taller and more muscular when she saw him last) happened to be here…

She would make him pay for humiliating her, both in dragon training and when the other villagers hadn't believed her.

Revenge would be sweet.

'And in the meantime, maybe I'll get to spill some mage blood.' she thought, swinging her axe around absentmindedly.


Shiemi clasped her hands together nervously as they crossed over into Fiore territory.

They had heard rumors that there were a few half-demons in Fiore, living amongst the citizens without persecution, free to live their lives as they chose so long as they didn't break the laws that everyone else was expected to follow.

That being said, was Rin here? Was he okay? What if—

Her thoughts were cut off by Izumo, the purple-haired girl giving the blonde a reassuring squeeze on her shoulder.

"Calm down, Shiemi. The bastard is looking our way." The older girl whispered, nodding subtly towards Yukio, who was indeed staring at her in concern.

Shiemi flinched beneath Izumo's hand, turning so that her back was to Yukio

And to think, she had used to have such a huge crush on him.

Betraying his older twin for something that not only could Rin not control, but for something that Yukio himself was guilty of as well? Just because Yukio apparently hadn't inherited Satan's powers didn't mean that he didn't have demon blood running through his veins just like Rin.

From his place a few meters away, Yukio's heart clenched painfully (a familiar feeling over the last few years) as Shiemi firmly turned away from him.


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Yes, SasuNaru is included. It won't be a major pairing. I will not change it. Feel free to ignore it if you have a problem with yaoi or the pairing itself.