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"Kissing 101"

1.) A kiss is the touching of one's lips to another person or object, used to express love, passion, affection, respect, greeting, and good luck. ...

"So tell me kidlings," Toph said in an authoritative, yet mischievous tone, "Have any one of you had any difficulty getting up the nerve to kiss a member of the opposite sex?"

Seven pairs of extremely wide, slightly frightened eyes looked back at her. Toph nodded her head as if one of them had spoken. "That's what I had predicted." She stroked her chin, lost in thought.

Suddenly she snapped her eyes towards a child, no more than seven or eight, in the front row. The poor Earth Kingdom child, her short, brown hair pulled around her face like a curtain, shielding her blush, didn't even see the devious grin playing across her teacher's face.

Toph stomped her feet closer to the girl and lowered herself to the child's face. The little girl's green, frightened eyes snapped towards her. "What's your name, kid?" Toph asked.

"J-Juna." She told her, voice quivering.

"And have you, Juna, ever wanted to kiss a guy?"

The girl's eyes widened and her blush intensified. "Well…uh…uh…"

"Toph!" Katara yelled, her voice slightly muffled through the rock encasing her. "LET ME OUT OF THIS PRISON! I SWEAR I—"

"Shut it Sugar Queen!" Toph yelled back, still grinning. "I'm trying to further the education of our future!"

Katara huffed in aggravation. "Tell me, why am I stuck in here with Zuko?"

"You say that like it's a punishment," Zuko muttered.

Toph grinned. "Oh, don't worry Sugar Queen. You're fixin' to find out."

"Sensei Toph… may I… may I please leave?" Juna pleaded.

"No," Toph snapped. Immediately the girl looked away, blushing fiercely.

Toph sighed. "On with the lesson."

Flicking her wrist lightly, Toph allowed the earth wall to disappear back into the ground, releasing a very angry Katara and a very annoyed Zuko.

"What in Agni's name are you teaching these children?" Katara ground out.

Toph smiled. "Oh… valuable lessons on life."

"Well I—"

"No one needs your opinion Sugar Queen. You are simply an experiment."

"I'm what?!"

Toph sighed, shaking her head as she flicked her wrist again, caging Katara and Zuko in rock bindings. Moving her hands together, she brought the two annoyed, bound individuals closer together, a mere two or three inches separating them.

Both teens looked flustered and highly embarrassed.

"TOPH!" they yelled in unison. A few children giggled.

"Now, our first lesson is going to be on the different types of kisses. What does each of them mean?" Her voice was dramatic as she intentionally ignored Katara's cries of outrage.

"Okay, specimens," she addressed the water and fire benders. "Show my class an example of a friendly kiss."

Katara's eye twitched and Zuko nervously averted his gaze between the two girls, scared out of his mind that Katara was about to attack the closest thing available… which at the moment was, unfortunately, him.

"WHAT?!" she screamed. "You are suggesting that Zuko and I kiss each other?! As if!"

Toph glared. "You are disrupting my class, Sugar Queen." She threatened.

Katara glared right back. "I guess you just won't get set free then," the younger girl drawled.

Gritting her teeth, Katara sucked in a breath and kissed Zuko's cheek.

Toph clapped, as did the rest of the class. "Very good. That, my children, was an example of the "friend" kiss. Would anyone like to try it?" One girl raised her hand and quickly gave the boy next to her an unexpected kiss on the cheek. Both of them blushed feverishly.

Toph smiled." Very good. On with the next example."

"WHAT?" Katara yelled, thrashing in her bindings.

Toph tightened them, but otherwise pretended as though the other girl hadn't spoken.

"The next example is the "sweet- heart" kiss. This type of kiss is usually a quick peck on the lips, often seen by couples who are in a public place." Toph signaled for Katara and Zuko to continue.

Katara's jaw set defiantly. "Ohhh, no. No way am I—"

Zuko cut her off with a quick kiss on the lips, silencing her tirade. He quickly pulled away from her; Katara was too stunned to scream at him.

"Thank you Sparky. I would like to see Sweetness behave as well as you are," she set a pointed glare on Katara, which the other girl ignored; too busy staring at Zuko, who was purposely staring at the market place.

"Finally, our last kiss of this class is the… passionate kiss." She emphasized passionate.

"Show us this kiss my two lovelies." Toph demanded, grinning.

Both Katara and Zuko looked at Toph threateningly, and then glanced at the other. Finally, the two of them, hesitantly, leaned closer together until they reached the other's face. Two pairs of lips moved against the other, equally exerting a forceful push on the other. The kiss was almost like a battle, both of them trying to receive the upper- hand, fighting the other for total domination.

The group of young children looked on, eyes wide. Each child exchanged glances with the others around them, admiring Katara and Zuko.

The two benders didn't even realize that they were no longer bound.

Toph smirked, rewarding herself with a mental pat on the back as she observed her newest feat with smug knowingness. And Sweetness and Sparky said they hated each other! Ha! It was so painfully obvious to everyone, well maybe just her, that the two of them loved the other so much that they couldn't stand it.

She was so caught up in her musing that she didn't hear the footsteps behind her.

"WHAT THE—!" Sokka screamed, looking murderous as he stared at his sister sucking face with the fire bender.

Aang looked shocked… but not because of the two people on stage, he hadn't even looked that way yet. He was staring, unbelievably, at the seven year old children sucking face with each other.

"Toph…?" Aang asked, almost afraid of the answer. Toph laughed out- right when she felt the anxious hearts of several mothers bustling over to their children as they attempted to pull the kids away from each other.

"Aww… " Toph said, placing a hand over her heart dramatically. "My students learned something from me. I'm so proud."

"I'm going to kill you," Sokka muttered darkly when Toph restrained him from separating Katara and Zuko. "After I kill the traitor fire bender."

"Whatever Sokka," Toph sighed. "But look, my class is already 99% effective. You can't take my two specimens away from me, otherwise the class won't be able to function."

Aang looked at her questionably. "What about the other 1%?"

Toph pointed to Katara and Zuko, "Well they didn't rip each other's clothes off, did they? That means that I need to work a little harder to get that to happen next time."

Aang blanched, Suki giggled and Sokka screamed like a wild, wounded animal.

Even then, Katara and Zuko didn't break apart.

****This idea sounded sooooo much better in my head. Anyway, I loved the idea of Toph making a class on kissing, using Katara and Zuko as her examples. Well… I don't think this turned out near as good as I thought it would… but I really hope you liked it anyway.

Also, I had no idea how to end it… so sorry the ending sucked.

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