1Mud Is Your Color

Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar the last airbender.

Takes place after 'Tales of Ba Sing Se'. My first fanfic

Chapter 1 "Nice Morning"

On a cold morning in Ba Sing Se, sightless pale green eyes awoke from a long peaceful sleep. Those sightless eyes belonged to Toph Bei Fong the worlds greatest earthbender. Tossing the covers aside Toph sat up in her futon taking a deep inhale then slowly letting it go. Rubbing the last bit of sleep from her tired eyes she slowly stood up.

Toph then proceeded with her morning ritual, taking a stance she stomped her foot fairly hard letting the vibrations carry her real sight through all corners of the house. As the vibrations traveled outward she could feel three very familiar vibrations she knew to be Sokka's, Katara's, and Aang's. Toph always like d to know where her friends were in the morning. The vibrations telling her all was as it should be in the house and that all three were still sleeping as it was still very early. Toph proceeded into the bathroom.

Toph never looked in the bathroom mirror she wouldn't see anything anyway, but as most people got ready for the day there she simply did it out of habit. She didn't need a mirror all she did was put her up in her usual bun letting some bangs fall over her eyes. After her hair was set in place Toph left the bathroom and headed down the hall stopping at everyone's rooms as she did every morning to once again feel their vibrations. First came Sokka's room she lightly tapped her foot outside his door though she could ave tapped much harder. A rampaging herd of Platypus-Bears couldn't wake him. As the vibrations found his body she saw that he was still sleeping but she didn't need her special sight to tell her that, he was snoring loud enough for her to hear him from outside his room,

She moved on to Katara's room. Light tapping her foot again the vibrations glided silently along the floor until they came upon her body. The vibrations told her she was sleeping silently except for the slight moan that escaped her lips as she turned on her side. She left Katara to her sleep.

Toph tenses slightly as she came to Aang's room. Ever since the young earthbender realized those weird feelings she'd have when around the bald monk was love, she ad felt so awkward around the airbender. Luckily she was able to cover up her feelings well by drilling him extra hard during earthbending practice. She actually remembered the exact moment she realized she loved the little bonehead.

Flashback

It was sunset they had just landed Appa for the night and were setting up camp . Though Toph was barely focusing on what she was doing , for some reason she just kept her blind eyes on him. Tapping her foot every few seconds to see exactly what he was doing. Watching him intently as he started making the campfire she couldn't help but wonder what she was feeling as she watched him 'Why can't I stop staring at him, he's just making a stupid fire. Why is he so damn fascinating. And why does my chest feel funny'. She sighed. 'Maybe I'm sick or something... but that doesn't explain why I'm still staring at him'. As she pondered this, she remembered the stories her mother told her about how she felt when she first fell in love with her father. And that's when it hit her, harder than any rock had.

'Oh No' she thought. And then she did the first thing that came to mind. She screamed. And loud enough to reach the fire nation to. Everybody jumped at the loud scream dropped what they were doing and rushed over to her.

"Toph are you okay?". Katara asked in her worried mother-like voice. Toph simply stared at them unmoving dumbfounded at what she had done. She screamed like a little girl. "Toph is something the matter?", Aang asked with concern in his voice. The young earthbender turned her head toward him and stared, saying nothing. She could feel a blush start to rise in her cheeks as she remained silent staring intently at him with a weird look on her face.

"Toph?" he asked again. At the sound of her name she snapped back to reality and realized the situation she was in and how stupid she must look. So she did the first thing that came to mind again. She bolted. She made a mad dash to her earth tent then sliding on her belly into the tent itself. Then quickly closing the earth tent with an earth door. The two boys stood there with confused looks on their faces but Katara rushed towards Toph's tent coming to a halt at at the door.

Knocking softly asking her what was the matter. Toph remembered telling her some stupid story about stubbing her toe really badly and was nursing it in her tent. Still skeptical but satisfied with her answer Katara walked back towards the two still confused boys to tell them the story. A close call.

End Flashback

As she reminisced about that flashback she lightly tapped her foot feeling the vibrations find his body. Toph stood there awhile sending a few more vibrations his way letting them carom his body just wondering what was it about the young avatar that she liked so much. She thought about this several times mostly on the longer rides on Appa's back. Appa. They still hadn't located the flying fluff ball yet. But they were still optimistic they would find him in Ba Sing Se.

She ceased her foot tapping and smiled slightly as she remembered what today was. Aang's birthday. This wonderful news was first brought to her attention a week ago by Katara. While Aang and Sokka were out grocery shopping one day, Katara told Toph the whole story on how they wanted to throw a small surprise party for him. Toph pretended not to care, but she was already forming a plan to confess her feelings for the airbender. But more on that later. She left the hallway and entered the kitchen. Once there she opened the cupboard and took out a teg packet. Yes tea, ever since her encounter with the old tea man, Toph had developed quite a liking to the hot brew.

She had had tea before in her old life but not like the old man's, his was absolutely delicious. Since then she has tried making it herself but none of her tea was nearly as good as the old man's but she was getting better. She put the water on the stove to boil. In five minutes the kettle started to whistle and she quickly took the kettle off the stove not wanting to wake the others.

She poured the hot water into the tea pot along with the tea bag and waited for the two to mix. When she felt enough time had passed for the tea to be ready she slowly poured the tea into her cup. Once done she walked to the front door still in her sleeping clothes; an oversized shirt and baggy shorts slowly opened the door careful not to spill the tea in her other hand, and stepped outside into the cold morning air and slowly closed the door behind her so not to make any noise.

This was the time of day Toph loved the most. It was the time of day when it was til dark out but there was enough light that one could see very well without trying. She loved it for more or less the same reason. It was perhaps five o'clock in the morning. Taking another deep breath of cold air she stepped further out onto the porch and sat down the stone steps of the porch.

Sipping her tea she planted both feet on the ground and became tapping her feet in an almost musical way. She loved this time of day because it was very easy for her to 'see' so to speak. No one was out at this time of day so every tap of her foot sent her sight much farther than it would in the crowded afternoon. She felt she could see best during this special time of the morning.

This was Toph's personal time and she wouldn't allow anyone to ruin it for her. Just her on a quiet peaceful morning with a hot cup of tea, she did this every morning at the same time see loved the particular vibrations that came from the empty streets of the city, aswell as the cold bracing air. Toph mostly spent mornings like these thinking of the various things on her mind.

And nowadays Aang was on her mind most of the time. The airbender had a permanent place in her thoughts and heart. But Aang wasn't the only thing she thought about. After another sip of tea her thoughts went to the kind old tea man. He was such a funny man, more than that he treated her like an equal when not a helpless blind girl like most people did. Strange... so did Aang. She sat there on the stone porch for several long minutes enjoying her tea, her special vibrations, and her morning. Once every few minutes she would tap her footto see if her friends had woken up yet.

She had just finished her first cup when she tapped her foot yet again and saw that Sokka's and Katara's vibrations had moved from their beds and were perparing for the day in their own personal bathrooms. Toph took yet another relaxing breath of cold refreshing air and stood up from the porch. She tapped her foot one last time before going in hoping that one day she would be able to share her special mornings with Aang one day. "Well... one day" she said with a small sigh.

Toph then proceeded toward the door again and enter the house to meet her friends for breakfast and perhaps have another cup of tea. As she walked toward the kitchen with a small smile on her face at the thought of what a good day today was going to be she smiled and thought. 'What a nice morning'.

I just finished the first chapter 11:17 PM