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So This is random, get over it!

-Tenneyshoes

Teachers

There were so many different teachers in her life. And all of them had a different title. Toph contemplated all her teachers as she watched her light-footed student run through various earthbending drills.

Her tutors when she was little were a different teacher in their own sense of the word. They didn't teacher her anything really. They just recited the lessons they had been taught in school, none of them really knowing how to teach a blind girl how to read, write, or even how to teach her history without books.

Her parents were teachers, in a sense of the word. They were technically the ones that taught her to talk, walk, and act like a nobleman's daughter.

Her earthbending teacher, Master Yu, had the title of teacher, although he didn't really seem to know anything about earthbending, let alone teaching. That's why she never called him Sifu or master. Only ever "Sir".

The Badgermoles were her true teachers. They taught her not only how to earthbend, but how to interact with the world. They were blind like her, but showed her that through the earth, and her heightened senses she could live, interact, and be a part of the world in her own way. These were those that received the title of Sifu from her.

Her friends were also her real teachers. They showed her how to be a friend. How to interact not with the world, but with people. Her favorite name for a teacher was friend.

"Toph? Was that right?" Aang looked at his blind master wondering why the form had not resulted the same way with him as it had with the blind heiress.

Toph corrected the young Airbender, before moving back to her position.

She smiled at the thought that Aang had finally stopped calling her Sifu.

When Katara had heard the Title of respect, she had been jealous, holding that title in much more esteem then that of Friend.

Katara could have Sifu. Toph finally had the title she had always wanted.

Friend.

So I don't really know what is going on here. It just kinda came out of my head. I was reading Lady of Bei Fong by Dadaismo when this came into my head and I wanted to get it out of the way before I forgot it, so here it is. Process and reply please, you get a cookie!