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This is dedicated to Harlequin Jade‏ ( love the name by the way) a little brotherly sisterly fluff between Zuko and Toph ( sorry no Jet, maybe in another one) o and sorry its kind of late, stupid education.

Hair

"Will you please stop fidgeting Toph" Katara yelled as she tried to untangle the comb that had now gotten stuck in the black mass of hair. "I can do it myself, back off Sugar Queen" Toph's equally irritated voice screamed back. With a sharp pull Katara dislodged the comb and some of Toph's hair along with it. Toph naturally screamed, very loudly in fact. "O come on it couldn't have hurt that much" Katara stopped when she saw the look on Toph's face. This look was usually accompanied by the throwing of large, painful rocks at people's heads. Katara backed slowly out of the room " I'll just go and get some more hairclips now then, okay, bye" reaching the door she ran just fast enough to avoid one of the afore-mentioned rocks.

"Toph why are you trying to add an extra door to the palace" came a level voice from the new doorway which just so happened to be beside the old one. "Stupid comb, stuck, Sugar Queen, nice hairstyle, stupid ambassador's ball" was about as much as he could glean from Toph's muttered rant. "I see, so Katara has been trying to help do your hair and a rock is thrown through my wall because of this?" Zuko raised one eyebrow, usually an intimidating gesture but lost on Toph, for obvious reasons. He stepped through the hole and took the comb that Toph had been struggling to run through her hair. "You know its okay to accept a little help once in a while" he gently ran his fingers through her hair, undoing the larger of the knots. "You sound like your uncle",

"I'll take that as a complement"

"As long as you don't start talking about tea"

"Well actually"

"Zuko" he smirked and began to rhythmically run the comb through her hair. "I hate these stupid diplomatic functions, why do I have to get all dressed up, what does me putting a bunch of powder on my face have to do with keeping the nations from arguing".

"Well arriving covered in mud and smelling like a swamp may offend some of the dignitaries" he finished combing her hair and began dividing it into bunches. "Not the ones from the swamp".

" Perhaps but I do hope they wear pants this time, it was very hard explaining to the old minister Chao that they were in fact guests. But then again he must be nearly a hundred and never had good eyesight".

"At least he set the curtains on fire and not them" Toph squirmed, tired of sitting still and received a tap on the nose with the comb for it. She promptly stuck out her tongue in return.

"It has been a very long year and I don't think the palace can take much more damage" he sighed, tiredness beyond a lack of sleep creeping into his voice.

"Okay so I'll keep the indoor rock throwing to a minimum, except when Sokka is around of course" Toph joked, knowing the painful memories behind the seemingly innocent rebuke , raw wounds, so she tried to keep them away just for now. Just so she could have a nice moment in which Zuko could act like the older brother he never got to be and Toph could have the happy family she always wanted.

"Ah good point, yes well Sokka is always the exception" he twisted the hair into two plaits either side of her head and tied them with the green and golden ribbons that had been left on thedresser table.

"Hey where'd you learn to do whatever you just did anyway?"

"Azula sometimes needed help with her hair, if you ever tell Sokka or Haru or Katara or Iroh come to think of it, well just don't tell anyone I can do this or else"

"Or else what and you had better not of made me look stupid"

"You look very pretty in fact, O and isn't a certain water tribe warrior coming ". A faint blush was just visible underneath the pale make-up. "Yeah, so"

"Well we wouldn't want him thinking the great Toph BeiFong looked stupid or else"

"And they called Azula the evil one"

"Done" Zuko said as he placed the ornamental flowers in her hair.

"I don't care what Sokka thinks anyway, why even say anything like that" Toph desperately continued.

Katara arrived back just as Toph's protests died out. "O Toph you look amazing, everyone will be looking at you tonight, I can't believe how grown up you look".

"Okay Sugar Queen I get it apparently Sparky's good at this kind of thing". Katara stared in shock at Zuko, who just slapped his forehead and shot Toph a death glare as Katara broke into a fit of giggling.

"Okay that is enough of that come on" he said taking a hysterical Katara's arm and leading her towards the ballroom, Toph following behind them. Just before they entered the room Zuko whispered just so Toph could hear "I agree with her though everyone will be looking at you including a meat loving sarcastic idiot, I mean swordsman" then turned leading Katara who had finally stopped laughing and was now making tormenting comments about Zuko's skills and applying them to his own hair, into the ballroom.

Toph smiled at his turned back and when she heard a familiar voice yell out her name quietly said "Thank you for the help".