HI! Thanks to all who read the 4th and 5th chapterMODERN TIMES! ( but will have lots of references to show)

Toph can see ( for now that is I may make something happen to make her blind)

Monk Gyasto is Aang's adoptive father ( because of all the stuff about him being a father to Aang)

Tanks to kthao65, Momo the Original, hmcja, and gutairfreak888 for reviewing chapters 4+5!

Now that the boring stuff is over, let the fanfiction begins!

Aang's POV

"Wow Toph, you okay? It looks like you didn't sleep a wink." I slide into my homeroom seat, right next to hers.

"I uh, ididn't..." She looks up at me and then turns her gaze back towards the desk, what is up with her?

"What Halloween got you down?" Halloween was only a week away and I thought she'd love the idea of terrorizing young children...

"No, Twinkle Toes,, I just... never mind. But I have good news! My parents are letting me invite the whole eighth grade to a Halloween party in our backyard! My parents don't trust having 200 kids in their house, but you are helping me plan! And we also need to call Sweetness and Snoozles to see if they will bring some of their friends it can't be all eighth graders, and I cannot believe Sparky's gonna miss this!" Toph is practically gushing with happiness, it's scaring me.

"Snoozles?"

"You will not believe how deep of a sleeper Sokka is, so he's now Snoozles, live with it." She smacks my arm playfully, the spot has been hit so many times there it hardly hurts...

"Fine, but can you come over so we can work on the English paper Mr. Bumi assigned?" I'm hopping she'll say yes, I need to get out of going to yet another charity auction with Gyasto. I love him and his job, but once you've been to one charity auction, you been to 'em all...

"Sure, but I have the perfect idea! We need to wear coordinating costumes, like a geisha and a ninja, and if we do that you're being the geisha, or pirates, or what about zombies!"

"Uh, sure, just please come over, I really need your help." My mind was far from Halloween. I just needed an excuse to stay home.

You need my help? You know you are the smart one here, right? Or is it opposite day? Since when do you need my help?

"I just do, okay!"

"Testy, no need to shout twinkle toes..."

"GRrrrrrrr..." some days she is such a pain in the ass...

*After school*

"Mario or Luigi?"

"Luigi ,duh, I'm for the underdog with great fashion sense." Toph said, sipping soda, she's like some black pit for junk food.

"Why do you eat so much junk food, and please keep it away from the computer, this is my third one, I learned not to have water near electronics the hard way." My finger fly across the keyboard, they don't call me "King of the Keyboard" at Dark Knights online for nothing ( A/N: Yeah it seemed fitting he played online games like that...)

"Try eating almost only organic steamed veggies for the first ten years of your life, it'll change ya." She sighs pulling out another handful of potato chips. "Want some?"

"No thanks. I try not to eat processed foods."

"What are you? My parent's age? That's what being a teen is all about! Eating junk food, goofing off, being angsty, it's all part of the teenage experience, and you my friend are just wasting it!"

" I am not, I'm spending it with you, that enough teenage indulgence I'll ever need, you're like a whole high school packed into one, you got a nice side, a scary side, a sarcastic side, and a weak side that if I tell anyone about even dental records will not identify me after you are finished." I recite; it was one time with a mouse, so she clung to my shirt for half a second? What does it matter?

"I'm not weak, I just easily frightened sometimes!" She smacks my arm angrily, and goes over to my bed to fume.

" oh, somebody got her bloomers in a twist?" I don't look from the screen, I have twenty words to type and we are both in the clear. That and I think Appa just attacked Momo downstairs.

Thud. Crash! "I'm gonna go check that out. Toph leaves the room and stomps down the stairs. I run after her and almost let out a huge F-bomb when I see what happened. The couch was shredded. The table was overturned. The glass vase that was on the table was in pieces and in the midst of it was Momo and Appa, hissing and barking at each other, ready to strike again.

"MOMO, APPA! OUTSIDE!" I yell at the two animals, forcing them into the backyard.

"Twinkles? You okay? You look ready to bitch slap a bush baby, why not sit at the kitchen table and we can calmly discuss this." She grabs my hand and drags me over to the table, we sit down and we are still holding hands, it fells nice, like her little hand fits perfectly in my large one. She notices the prolonged hand holding and abruptly stops, and I was beginning to enjoy it... weird...

" Alright, first you need to take a deep breath, and uh, don't forget t let it out." She's trying and I can tell. Her speech is stuttered just teeny bit and the look on her face I just adding to the case. This is just one of the few times I'm thanking the spirits for Roku picking me to lead her around. I found something I thought I'd never find twice, a true friendship.

"Twinkle Toes? HELLLOOOOO!" She yells right in my ear making me jump.

"Ooh, a 'fraidy cat! But going back to relaxing, is that couch relatively new?" She looks hopeful, and I wish I could give her good news.

"Not at all. I think the couch is from the 70's that Gyasto got at some store that has been out of business for a long time."

"Well then tell him I did it. And then we have to work at my house from now on, which isn't that bad." Toph said, trying to bring my mood up..

"No, even you can't shred a couch like that, sorry." I look at her sheepishly and she laughs, loudly but I think it's lovely- wait, what? Did I just? NO! No! I LIKE KATARA ! I like Katara! Toph is my best friend, I can't- I I've only known her for two months!

( A/N: I skipped a month from when Toph met Katara and Sokka to the fight in the cafeteria ...)

Luckily, Gyasto walks in, he's my savior, I was about to have a panic attack, but my glee lasts until he sees the mess, which was about two seconds.

"Do I wanna know?" He looks up at our faces. "No, I guess not. But I always buy spares so..."

"Wait! You have an identical couch in the basement and you didn't tell me?" Toph yells.

"I didn't know!" I retort, holding my hands up in defense.

"Okay, before this turns into world war three, let's switch the couches." We follow him and descend the stairs to the basement. I haven't been down here since last year when we were unpacking everything, and it looks like the junk down here reproduced, it looks twice as crowded.

"Wow, it's like a museum in here! You must have like every record ever!" Toph exclaimed looking at the boxes of records. We descend deeper into the junk breeding grounds to find the couch. Of course it just has to be stuck in the corner with mountains of junk around and upon it.

Toph looks ready to dive into the mess but something catches her eyes. Her face contorts and she screams rather loudly and jumps back hitting the mountain of clutter behind her, and it lolls back and forth threatening to fall on her. Before I can blink again, my instincts take over, I pull he towards me, and she fits nicely between my arms and my chest- no time for hormones!-, and the boxes crash with a lots of smashes, cracks, splats, and thuds.

"Oh, sorry, these piles have a mind of their own. Ooh, lookie, so that's where my weights, my glass vases and rat poison are." Gyasto picks the broken vases , weights and rat poison, while I still hold onto Toph. She's looking at the couch in fear and lets out another wail.

"Gyasto, you might want to use that rat poison right now, I just saw a huge one! Twice or there are two giant rat down here." She snuggled into my chest in a way only girls in movies do, stupid hormones...

"Um, why don't you guys go upstairs? I think there are Oreos in the cupboard." Toph nods and runs out of there like a bat outta Hell, and I do my best to keep up.

When I get upstairs, she's already got the Oreos out and is munching on them. " Twinkles, I thought you were au natural and all that jazz, what gives?"

"Gyasto has a soft spot for 'em, it like the only processed food we buy." I pull the trays of them away from her to grab one. I have an obsession for them too but, not knowing isn't gonna kill her. Ooh, they are double stuff mint Oreos, my fav! ( A/N: they are good! And my favorite type of Oreo too...)

" Remember, if you tell anyone..." She leaves the threat open-ended, letting me imagine the possibilities...

"Yeah, yeah, we all know you can kick my butt. Put a sock in it." I take one of the Oreos and stuff it in her mouth. She pelts me with a few. We throw them back and forth, until we hear Gyasto's stirs trotting up the stairs.

"Looks like we'll be eatin' rat stew for the week!" Gyasto says holding two dead rats. Toph's hand grasps mine in a death grip. She must really hate rats.

"I-I though you guys were vegetarians!" She looks at us with dumfounded eyes.

" You really thought we'd eat rats? Smooth Toph, smooth." I laughed and slap her on the back she punches my arm in response.

"Sorry, I get rid of them. I can see they cause you discomfort." Gyasto walks out the door to dispose of the rats.

"Why do you hate rats so much?" I ask her and she chokes on a Oreo in response. I pat her on the back and she waves me off when she stops.

"I had like twenty of them on me when they broke loose form the science room in third grade. Not fun . I took twenty showers that day, one for each rat..."

"Ewww. That must have been awful."

"Yup. Nothing I can do about it." She says licking the cream of the bottom half of the cookie. On the table her green Pearphone starts to vibrate and play the song "Riot" by Three Days Grace. She picks it up and walks over to the stairs to talk. she looks quite angry, her face is a scrunched up and see looks as if she's trying not to yell.

"Sorry, my parents request that I come home, they are sending the leather deathtrap." She sighs and sits back down.

"It's 7:30, isn't your curfew like 10?"

"Yup, but they need to discuss something.,... I'm betting on either I need to pick up my grades, though they are higher than ever thanks to you, or I need a boyfriend to show off to the press and for my parents and his parents to dream about mergers and grandchildren, makes me sick , I'm no baby wielding heiress."

"I can get you out of that."

"How twinkles toes? I'm all for it. I do not need to spend another night with a nerd or a jerk."

"We could fake go out. You know like be all lovey dovey around your parents and just drop it everywhere else. And maybe have a mock date just enough to get your parents off your back." I had this thought floating in my head that kept telling me I just wanted to be her real boyfriend but this all I get for now... I hate being a teenager, to many emotions, feelings, and other unpleased things that made you sweat.

"Wow. I'm so dumb for not thinking that! Sparky and I do this all the time! But like when so person is hitting on him or vice versa and we want them gone. You're a genius, Twinkle Toes!" Toph jumps out of her seat and hug me and my cheeks turn a rosy red. I try to cover it before she drops the hug but it's too late.

"You okay? Your cheeks are a little red." She looks at my face before grabbing her bag.

"I'm just gonna tell Gyasto the I'm coming with you."

"Tell me what?" just then Gyasto came back into the house "That you guys are gonna fake go out? Don't act all surprised, heard, just don't go nuts with it, or drop the act. Somebody from school may tell their parents and then it will get back to your parents. It happened to and Roku's wife once. She wanted to make Roku jealous, look at 'em now!" Gyasto laughs and retreats to the basement with the package of Oreos.

"Let's go twinkle toes, my parents are waiting." Toph pulls me out the door and into the car which reeked of leather. I'm gonna need a shower after this...

*** Heeheheheheheheheh fluff for the Taangers!***

So they are starting to feel something for each other and now they have to fake date... heheheheh the shignanagins that will ensue!

And I'll put Zuko in when Christmas rolls around ( for them I'm not gonna stall for that long!)

Hope you guys liked the fluff, I wish it could be more prevalent but they are only 14 and they really just met...

Happy Sunday and Labor Day! (or Monday in other countries were they don't celebrate the holiday!)

May the elements be with you!

PFB!