The fire war renaissance

Chapter 58: Tai Mori and Suo, part one

Alright, it's been an "interesting" week off, but now I'm back with Toph and Yuexi's last big plotline. I think they've been the best couple I've ever 'made up', mainly because I got to make up everything about it. The back story, the connection, and the development, and I'm sure a lot of you can agree since it seems that Toexi is a pretty popular couple in this story, as far as OC couples go, of course.

And just a warning to all of you, Toexi fluff overloads and angsty preludes are coming…beware.

Chapter Fifty-Eight: Tai Mori and Suo, Part One

The thought of steering Appa was still so foreign to Yuexi, and the fact that it would be just him and Toph was all the more nerve-wrecking and burdensome. He knew he'd have to steer the whole trip, no breaks, and no one to tell him which way to go because Toph really was blind when put up in the air, but for the most part, Yuexi spent his time sweating over the fact that he and Toph had unfinished business as to what they—or more like he—were trying to discuss before the earthquake hit.

He still hadn't heard her say that she loved him back.

"I think we're almost here." Yuexi announced after five days of flying.

"What a relief!" Toph sighed in annoyance and dry excitement. "You are the worst navigator ever, Yuexi."

"Hey, it's not my fault I got lost." Yuexi tried to defend himself. "This is the first time I've actually had to chart out the way home."

"Chart out," Toph snickered under her breath. "Aang gave you a map, all you had to do is read it."

"Well at least I'm trying to do something instead of sitting on my butt the whole time, miss can't read and can't steer!" Yuexi spat at her without thinking, and the silence that came after his comment was enough to assure him that he was going to be in trouble, if not then than certainly later. "I'm sorry, Toph." He told her almost ten minutes later, egged on to apologized because he knew the issue wouldn't get solved unless he decided to be the bigger person. He shook his head, he loved her, but she was so stubborn.

"Whatever, we've been up here for five days, we're gonna pick at each other." Toph muttered, so much that Yuexi barely heard her. He smiled to himself, it was the best thing he could get to an 'I'm sorry, too,' from her at the moment. He heard a rustle in the saddle and turned to see Toph snuggling up into some blankets during the late hours of the night.

"I'm going to get a few hours of shut eye, wake me up when we get there." She told him quietly, but before she knew it she felt Yuexi's body heat right next to her, leaning over her sleeping form, probably with a smile on his face. "Why aren't you steering?" She asked in a sing-song yawn.

"Because I wanted to kiss you goodnight." He told her, just as sweetly as he always did.

Sometimes, Toph just didn't get Yuexi. They fought over silly things. Saying hurtful words and getting jealous over insignificant people, and yet every time he'd be so sweet to her minutes later. Toph leaned forward and titled her head up, waiting for Yuexi to place his lips on hers, but instead he decided to tease her, mostly likely for revenge, she supposed. And in all ways she knew she deserved it.