..:: 5 Point(s) of View ::..

I hadn't thought time would pass that fast.

One hundred years in ice.

Seven years with my friends, my family. In order to save the world.

And still I have that huge crush on Katara, can't help it. She has gotten more beautiful than ever. With 21 years she is in the blooming age of adulthood, while I am in the middle of adolescence to become a man. And just like me my earth bender tutor, Sifu Toph Bei Fong is in the state of becoming a beautiful woman. If she would dress more like a woman and behave like one she would have been what her parents had dreamt to have as daughter. But Toph, the greatest tomboy on earth (literally) would never be the princess of the Bei Fong family. She is a pro in earth bending, had been and still is the Blind Bandit, so what? She is a great friend and tutor. I've learned to bend the earth in a very short time thanks to her.

I'm not sure whether I can really beat her if we would fight with only earth bending. I, the Avatar, don't think I would beat the princess of earth bending. Her strong will and determination but at the same time her patience was something that had impressed me the most about her when we first met. It had impressed me even more when I saw the way she acted as a blind person. Almost like she wasn't. She was and she still is.

She might be patient but I think as well that she can be very grumpy. Just like a certain fire prince. Only that this prince barely had patience.

I as an air bender represent the element with my carefree and mostly independent character. Oh, Toph said that I am really naïve...

Katara is caring, nice and sensible, just like the water she can bend.

Toph is calm, determined, headstrong, logical and most important patient. Maybe the fact that she is blind helps her to be that good. Listening to the earth...only a few are doing it and barely anyone with such ability like her. She is still the one I admired the most.

Zuko is impatient, total opposite of Toph, fiery and stubborn (although Toph is this way as well). The best way to represent the never-resting fire.

Although earth and fire are close to each other like water and wind is, they are so different from each other. Still I wonder when Toph and Zuko had begun to give each other that longing look without each other's notice.

I never ever had thought that this would happen. And I'm still confused. Look, Zuko and I are in the same age of 23. I have had a lot of girlfriends already. And NO! No, I'm not a ladykiller or playboy. Just...all the ones I loved had to go someday, leaving me behind... and hey, I attracted one of my enemies... and I'm not sure whether I shall be happy or not. Ty Lee can be very scary...

Well, Zuko had some secret admires and just one date (Iroh had told me her name was Jin). He was of course not as good-looking as I am. But even with that pretty nasty looking scar on his left eye he is a very handsome young man. Only his attitude...ew! He is even grumpier than Toph and he is getting angry way too fast! Seeing Toph and Zuko either pulling pranks on each other (if Toph isn't trying to do on me or the others) or quarrelling ...it is giving me quite a headache sometimes.

But you have to be either blind (sorry Toph, but you, of course, would have heard it anyway due to the heartbeat) or just plain stupid to not notice the way they both sneaked glances from each other, and that without the other knowing.

It had taken a while for them to notice how they feel, I guess. I'm just wondering what Toph thinks everytime she hears Zuko's heart beat. And Zuko...does he feel Toph's heat rising?

I'm currently betting with Iroh. Who will do the first step? I say Zuko will. Do you wanna bet with us?

I think if even Aang had noticed, and he is normally the slowest to realize such a thing, then everyone knows, except of them. Well, Aang had matured a lot since we first met. But he has still left that naïve innocence in his heart. Makes him adorable.

I never thought that it would take them so long to just realize. Now they even have to move a step further but it doesn't seem like any of them would try very soon. I don't think that Toph is shy, it's more that Zuko is that way. No, I think Toph is unsure. And too proud to admit that she had fallen in love, something normal girls usually do. And since she is the greatest tomboy I've ever met...

Zuko is...well hesitating and shy. Yep, he's shy, really! He might be a fighter but in those things he just seems to be a normal, inexperienced teenage boy. Hm...he's too proud as well...they're both so stubborn!

Oh well, if they both would open up a bit to each other it would work out well. They are a nice couple. With Toph's determination in fighting and patience she can help our once banished prince a lot. He needs someone just like her. And Toph needs Zuko's gentleness that is locked deep down in his heart, that's bigger that he ever would admit.

I'm not betting with my brother Sokka and Iroh, but personally I think that Toph will make the first step. She's a woman after all and we females are way stronger than these weaklings called "males".

By the way, Toph and Zuko of course hadn't found out about this secret betting yet. Neither did Aang.

Yes, yes...young love, isn't it? Ah...I remember...

And now it had hit my dear nephew, huh? I knew it would soften him a bit if he would have more association with females. This Jin was a nice beginning. I wouldn't have thought that he really would fall for my favourite earth bender girl. Such is destiny, I guess.

It's entertaining, to watch him and her, so much in love and not wanting to admit to each other. Knowing my nephew I should be glad that he had at least admitted to himself already. Toph is really smart. But when it comes to such things that are requesting her to be and think more like a female she's completely lost.

Well, I'm not too sure about Zuko (although I can't recall that he was already, since I spent a lot of time with him from when he hit puberty) but I'm pretty sure that Toph is truly in love for the first time. Well, actually I don't think that she really knew what LOVE is. Ah...youth...

Well, right...I'm drifting off once again. I'm sure that it'll work out fin for them. I just hope they won't need too long. Not only that I care about their time together, no. It's because I want to see grand-nephews and –nieces before I'll die... ain't I selfish? –chuckles-

I'm glad that Zuko and I met the Avatar-gang (or like Sokka likes to call them: GAang). They're all very kind and after a while they treated Zuko like they treated each other. Especially Toph, who hadn't really cared about him being a Firebender or Fire Nation Prince. No, she never had cared and still doesn't. I guess that way to think had made her running away from her noble and wealthy home.

Yes... while Zuko is a sometimes rather spoilt bird with broken wings, Toph is one held in a golden cage, whose wings were trimmed – or so her parents thought. Well, other kind of wings had grown for her. But they both had been... raised securely from the cruel world (or so their parents intended to). Both hadn't been happy with it.

There they are now. I'm sure they'd have teamed up to rebel against their parents if they had to. Zuko is very proud while Toph is pretty independent, or wants to be. Which is rather unlike for earth bender in general, but whatever.

I'm pretty sure that Toph will make the first step. And I rarely lose a bet, because I always put my most precious to me on it. Losing a bet means losing a cup of ginseng tea! That's hell for me!

When I first watched them to spy on the group (GAang! What creativity of names...! Do you hear my sarcasm?) I had the urge to rub my eyes twice. Yup, there had been Zuzu with his ever-lasting scar father had given him. And he was practically lusting after that earth bender girl. Nah, okay, not really lusting, but in any case with a very lovesick gaze. Ugh...I'm feeling like throwing up...

It reminds me of Mai's lovesick glances at him. I'm not sure whether this crush had lasted till now, but I'm not very eager to find out, so it doesn't really matter... And Ty Lee's gaze I actually don't want to mention. ...no it's not because I'm scared (I have to admit that her obsessive stares at that water tribe guy are rather disturbing), I'm just sick of this topic at all. Why do you think I know about my fellow female's love interest? Do I have any benefits from it? No. Question answered?

Fine. But that they're in...love (this word is absolutely unnecessary and I really don't get why people claim that it's actually existing...I never saw love between my father Ozai and my mother Ursa...)...is pretty obvious. And Zuko hadn't noticed...

Well, that just proves what I always think of him: He's a weakling...and very dumb. Feh...such a someone is my bigger brother... But I've complained about that since I can remember.

That earth bender girl is very cool. Impressive, her skills. I like her will never showing weakness, for example her blindness. She's a true fighter. I like that kind of will. Too bad the Avatar had found her first. If I'd have, I think she'd have being even better use than Ty Lee and Mai. And maybe we would have become ...friends?

Ah, never mind. I'm thinking too much about these topics lately, since I've realized that my oh-so-dear brother Zuzu had fallen in love with a girl that he actually doesn't deserve. See? I do care for him and thanks to that idiot I'm constantly thinking about these topics that are completely waste of time in my opinion.

Okay, I don't really act like a girl, like the earth bender does. Maybe it's this as well, why I feel some sort of sympathy for her, unlike I do for the rest of that bunch of so-called heroes.

Don't think I don't understand anything about that sort of relationship. I just think that they're an obstacle if you want to archive what you want. And the world itself isn't really caring for something like feelings, friends or love. The world was full of evilness, but that's okay.

Meh, I think I'm going to get insane. Just a while ago I caught myself thinking about nephews and nieces. Ugh! Confirmation! I AM insane, damn that Zuko-jerk. I saw myself with Zuko-miniatures in my arms...

Oh, and since Zuzu is a total looser and weakling, I'm sure that Toph will tell him first, whenever this would be. Unless I capture them already (surprisingly they're always slipping out of my grasp...). I'd lock them both up in a room, just because I'm getting annoyed of their secret sneaking-glances-game.

And then I'd wonder whether I really will end up with a bunch of little kids looking like Zuzu in my arms...ewww!!! Argh...I think I have to go...to the bathroom...!

Both Toph and Zuko had been having a sneezing-competition lately. their noses were running non-stop. It was spring and they definitely hadn't any allergies. What the heck was wrong with them? And where the hell were the rest of the GAang? (Zuko shuddered at the paranoid thought that his sister might be hiding behind some of these bushes...and he wasn't sure why she had popped up in his mind so out of sudden.)

The only other notable thing is that everytime when Zuko sneezed, some leaping flames escaped his mouth and nose. When Top did the earth shook for a short while.

"HACHOO!"

"Bless you."

"Thank yo-HACHOO!"

..:: () (5) Points of view owari () ::..

I agree with you, this one was boring. I suddenly had felt the urge to write something without any actions...I believe. And I wanted to try out the 1st Person Narration, since I hate it (and I found out that I am comfortable with that kind of narration when it's used to tell one's thoughts. For thoughts it's just a horrible choice...).

Right, thank you all for these lovelies reviews! You still can review! It would be very nice.

The chapter title is ambiguous in a simple way: either you can use it as "Chapter 5: Points of View", or "5 Points of View". Whatever you prefer (it was coincidentally, really!)

Oh, and guess who told what ;) Greez, Celes...and the Disclaimer you can look up in the...second chapter, I think...(I'm too lazy now xP)