I warned you that it would be descriptive, didn't I? About Aang being able to stop, I told you that it wouldn't be a lemon. I don't want it to be a lemon. I also figured that Aang had to show a certain amount of self-control, considering that all this stuff was still clearly branded in his mind as 'wrong' by the monks.

And about the 'Sokka and Toph' chapter… This is it. I'll continue with Aang and Katara next time.

The Sokka and Toph chapter… It's actually pretty much a Toph chapter only. It's basically Aang and Katara viewed from a 3rd person perspective.

THIS 3RD PERSON IS CRUDE AND MEAN! SHE WILL SAY RUDE AND UNNECESSARY THINGS! YE BE WARNED!!!

I don't own Avatar.

Ch.20

(The Sokka and Toph Chapter)

A few hours ago…

"A SEA SPONGE?!" Sokka cried out to the sky, cursing his luck. He, who tended to be a pessimist, gave up on catching food. He was now tired, wet, and hungry. That had to be the only thing that could convince him to eat fruit. So he did.

He made his way to the shore with his equipment, muttering unkind things about The Ocean and the creatures that live in it.

On his way back to the cave he grabbed whatever fruit seemed edible off of whatever trees were in his way. When he got back to the cave, he had a small bag-full of different looking fruits.

As he entered, he saw Toph sitting on the ground against the wall, her face in her hands.

"Hey Toph, you alright?" He asked dropping the bag on the ground.

Toph heard his voice and her head shot out of her hands, some red still on her cheeks from her previous thoughts. (Chapter 14, last paragraph)

"Oh, I uh… Didn't feel you come in…" She forced her blush away. Her face changed to an expression of confusion. "Are you wet?"

Sokka's face went grim. "Don't ask…"

Knowing Sokka, she probably wouldn't even want to ask. "Alright… So, where's lunch?"

"In the bag I dropped on the floor."

Toph got up off of the floor. Before she even got close to it, she noticed the smell of fruit. "Didn't you go fishing?"

"…"

"… And… that's why you're wet…" She spoke slowly, as if trying to comprehend what she was saying. A moment of silence ensued, followed by loud hysterical laughter from Toph.

"It's not that funny!" Sokka yelled, still aggravated from his fishing trip gone wrong.

"Yes it is!" Toph said while still laughing. "How does one fish do that to you?"

"It wasn't one fish! It was a bunch of fishes! And some seaweed. And a sea sponge."

This just made Toph laugh louder. It got to the point where she couldn't laugh because she couldn't breathe. Sokka gave up on it eventually and just walked away to eat something.

Once Toph's respiratory system was back in full working order and she had laughed her last laugh, she walked over to the bag and grabbed a random fruit. She did her best to sit, facing directly at Sokka. It was time to ask a few questions.

"When are we getting out of here? Aang and Katara are together already, we can leave."

Sokka took another bite out of his fruit. "We have to wait until they find us. If we go to them and it just so happens that we found them after they got together, they'll figure out that this was all our idea. They'd kill us."

"Or thank us."

"Either way, I wouldn't want to find out what they'd do. Not when the first one is still a possibility."

Toph began to peel the skin off of the fruit the best she could with her fingers. "So what do we do until then?"

Sokka was already on his second fruit. "Sleep. Eat. Spy on them. Make sure that I don't kill Aang."

Toph took the first bite out of her fruit and gagged. She chucked it behind her and decided that it might be safer to not eat anything that Sokka picked.

"How are you eating that?" She asked him, still trying to get the taste out of her mouth.

"By pretending that it's blubbered seal jerky." He replied, taking another large bite out of his fruit.

Toph stood up and walked to the cave's entrance. "I'm not hungry anymore. I'm gonna go check up Aang and Katara."

"I thought that you wanted to leave them alone."

"No, I wanted you to leave them alone. You're afraid that Aang's going to do your sister. I'm just worried for their safety."

He was about to retort angrily to her comment about Aang and Katara, but realized she had already left. He returned his attention to his fruit.

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Okay, so Toph lied. She wasn't just worried about them… This was a good chance to find something to hold over the couple for years. Toph knew a good opportunity when she saw one (it's a figure of speech, I know, I know: 'SHE'S BLIND, YOU IDIOT!'), and this was one of them. There's no greater weapon than blackmail.

She felt the vibrations caused by footsteps off in the distance. She could make it out as both Aang and Katara, they were moving together slowly, as if looking for something. Toph figured that they were looking for her and Sokka.

As she began to approach the couple, her heightened sense of hearing could make out their conversation. Something about all the random crap that they've had to deal with on their travels… A few had caught her interest, like the ones that happened before she joined the gang. The 'giant water monster awesome spirit attack thing' seemed interesting enough. No one liked to talk much about what happened at the North Pole. She knew that Sokka had some issues about someone who died there. And then Aang had to talk to someone in the Spirit World, something that he was told must have scared him (Koh, about the woman one of the past Avatars loved). She knew that Katara had almost lost Aang, and knowing how much Katara cared for him, it wasn't surprising that she didn't want to recall any of it.

As she continued to approach them, she could begin to 'see' them with vibrations. She ducked down behind anything that she could, following the two. All of the sudden, she felt Katara push Aang up against a tree. Hard. She pushed her face up against his.

Damn! Katara's going to hurt him if she does that again! Toph thought to herself. The strong resonating vibrations she picked up from where they were didn't seem too pleasant. I'm sure that Aang doesn't really mind, though. She reminded herself, a smirk moving up onto her face.

She felt the vibrations caused by the slight movements of Aang's hands. One was slowly making its way down Katara's back, only to stop at Katara's waist.

Aww, c'mon Aang! Don't be the clean guy! Go for it!

She was disrupted from her thoughts when she felt another series of intense vibrations. Katara had just thoroughly pressed herself up against Aang, and Toph could have sworn that her heightened hearing picked up a strangled moan from Aang.

She felt the vibrations as the hand that was on Katara's waist slid lower… If Toph hadn't known better, she would have jumped up and started howling, cheering them on. She struggled to keep her laughter down.

The next thing Katara did almost had Toph crying out in laughter. Aang finally made his way down, and Katara pulls away…

You're an evil woman, Katara…

Toph listened to the conversation they had, continuously stifling laughs at picking up the hints extreme frustration in Aang's voice. Then she began listening to Katara. She was doing a good job of disguising her feelings, but not good enough. To Toph, it was clear that Katara was having fun with this.

The next thing she heard brought blood up to her cheeks, no matter how hard Toph attempted to keep it down. Katara… What she said… It was unexpected, to say the least.

Tonight?! What the hell's gonna happen tonight?! Don't do anything stupid!

Toph was a little more relieved when she heard Aang go all responsible, and then she began to laugh again at feeling Katara punch Aang's arm, telling him that 'that' wasn't really what she had in mind.

What do you mean 'romantic evening alone'?! … Stop teasing him before you do some damage.

Aang didn't really take too hard to the dirty trick, but he still complained that Katara cut off the kiss so suddenly.

This next part, Toph had to bite her tongue to keep from laughing out loud. Katara had just stepped as close as possible to Aang and began whispering what the night would have in store for him in a seductive tone. Then she suddenly turned and walked off, leaving Aang standing there, his face a bright red, his breaths shaky and unstable.

Toph was still trying to keep from bursting out in laughter. Her only thoughts were on how evil Katara was being to Aang.

Katara's gonna badly blue-ball the kid in a few years… So… Tonight… That'll be too good to miss!

--------- (a few hours later)

Toph had asked Sokka to tell her when the sun was setting. When he asked why, she told him that it was a part of an old earthbending training schedule that she had, and that she was so bored that she'd rather practice than stay in the cave with him all day.

Sokka took it just as Toph hoped that he would. He got angry and paid no attention to where she was going.

Toph began heading towards Aang and Katara's campsite, but stopped when she heard voices coming from somewhere near the shore.

She approached them, but stayed away from the sand. She got behind a tree and began to listen in.

It was mostly sappy mushy-gushy crap. Aang had given Katara a ring, Katara sounded like she would faint, they talked about getting married some day, blah blah blah.

The action finally started and Toph straightened up, straining her hearing to pick up as much information as she could, since she could not 'see' on the sand. The moment any garment of clothing came off of either one of them, she would begin planning on how to use that to her advantage some day.

Toph got bored quickly. There weren't many sounds to assume things off of. At the moment, Toph could tell that they were just kissing softly, to go along with their conversation about them.

What happened to 'Tonight'? Weren't you guys gonna make-out or something? C'mon, blackmail only works if you guys do something wrong.

Toph easily lost her patience and turned to walk away. Just as she was about to leave, she felt a weak and distant vibration. It felt like someone was… shivering. She took her place back at the tree.

Okay… Now which one of you did that?

Toph felt another faint vibration, this one feeling like someone rolling on the ground. It didn't take much guessing to figure out that the action had picked up.

But the question was still left, 'Who shivered? If this is gonna be blackmail, I need to know the person responsible'

The answer came quickly enough. Toph heard Katara release a soft whimper, followed by several vibrations.

Even though they were on sand and Toph couldn't 'see' them that well, all the vibrations could only mean that they were getting more into it. It was difficult to tell the differences, but she could tell that it was Aang who was moving the most.

Wow… Twinkle-Toes is being the aggressive one… And by the sound of it, I think Katara likes it!

The thought made her laugh for a moment but it was all brought to a screeching halt when she heard the next thing.

Whatever Aang was doing, Katara enjoyed it. She let out a distinct hissing sound that Toph could tell was caused by large amounts of pleasure coursing through her body. (In the Prologue it mentions Toph being able to pick up emotion and feeling in voices)

The vibration was faint and weak, the grand majority of it lost in the sand, but after concentrating on it enough, Toph was able to 'see' that Aang was tugging on a piece of fabric attached to Katara.

These two were her friends, and it was wrong to think of what they could be doing, but Toph couldn't help the massive blush that now covered nearly her entire upper body.

Much to Toph's relief, the vibrations stopped. Toph heard them talking about being more careful when the heat gets too high.

Toph sighed in relief. For a moment, she had thought that her friends would go too far, but forgot that they're smart people. They wouldn't risk anything like this. Not when the world was still depending on them. And not when they were so young.

She decided that after what happened, stalking them for possible blackmail material wasn't such a good idea. She began to return to the cave, making a mental note to not reveal anything that she had heard that night to Sokka. For Aang's and Katara's sake.

Okay, it might not have been the best chapter, but I needed to make up for Sokka and Toph's absences.

And, just a side note, the last chapter (Chapter 19) was probably the highest the story will get in the rating factor. That is, until something better crosses my mind. Lol.

And, just in case there are any thick-skulled people who still don't get it: THERE WILL BE NO 'M' RATED CONTENT IN THIS STORY!!

I as a person believe that premarital sex is wrong. And I as a teenager also believe that it is incredibly easy to get carried away. So the solution to these 2 contradicting things? Have them get dangerously close to it, only to realize that it is wrong. And thus, Chapter 19 was born.

Just one more time… IT WON'T BE A FREAKIN' LEMON!!!

Okay.

Oh, before I forget, if any of you were looking forward to the sequel of "The Life of a Monk," you'll have to wait a while. It was pretty much a side project for when I needed a break from this story.

But, I might as well give you some facts. It will be a 3 part series, the sequels will be different fics, not added chapters. All the kataang fluff will be in the 3rd installment. The 2nd will be centered primarily around Katara.