A/N: So this is my first ever Legend of Korra story, I would love some feedback on how I'm doing and what people think of Kanna and her is going to be a multi-chapter story that I'm hoping leads to a happy ending. Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Legend of Korra, but I do own this little tale.

Chapter One

Sisters Reunited

Awaking with a start a young girl looked out the porthole and smiled. So this was the great Republic City, where her sister had gone to do her training? It wasn't quite as she imagined it, but it sure was better than being home. Quickly making her way around the men unloading the boat she set off to find her sister, wishing she knew where the arena from Korra's letters was.

Dodging past a group of people she quickly turned a corner and ran headfirst into someone, falling backwards and hitting her head on the pavement. "Owww…" she grumbled, her vision going blurry for a moment as her rubbed her head, her hair falling into her face.

"Oh gosh! I am so so so sorry! Here let me help you!" came male voice, followed by a pair of strong hands engulfing her own, pulling her to her feet. "Are you okay? I hope I didn't hurt you- wait… Korra?" came the voice with confusion when she moved her hair out of her face.

Blinking to clear her vision she looked at a boy her own age in complete confusion. "You know my sister…?" she asked in a surprised voice, wonder who this boy is.

"Wait, you're Korra's sister!?" he asked with shock, his green eyes full of confusion. "I didn't know she had a sister…"

"Yeah she doesn't talk much about herself; she likes to focus on things around her. She's been that way for as long as I can remember." She said with a giggle. Smiling, she offered her hand in introduction. "I'm Kanna, and you are…?" she asked, looking up into his forest green eyes.

"Bolin, I'm on the same pro-bending team as your sister. The Fire Ferrets." He said, taking her hand and shaking it with a smile.

Kanna blushed lightly; surprised by the warmth she felt when his large hand enveloped her own small one. "So… would you happen to know where my sister is?" Kanna asked, calming herself to control her blush.

"Yeah, she's supposed to be at the arena for training in about… half an hour. If you like I can show you around until then." Bolin said with a huge smile, making his face seem even more boyish.

Kanna blinked, surprised at how nice he was being. "That's nice of you… do you perhaps know of anywhere that has some good food. I'm starved." She said with a sheepish smile as her stomach growled loudly.

Bolin thought for a moment then smiled, snapping his fingers. "I know just the place! You'll love it!" he said, grabbing her hand and leading her to Narook's Seaweed Noodlery and grabbing them a table. "I heard about this place a while back and this is the first time I've been in here, hope it's as good as everyone says."

After ordering their food Kanna smiled, the noodles were amazing and Bolin, who seemed like a really nice guy, kept making her laugh over his exclamations on how amazing the food was and when he would end up hitting his nose with a noodle.

Kanna kept slurping her noodles and trying to ignore the fact that Bolin was staring at her, but eventually she sighed and looked up. "Is there a reason you're staring at me so intently?"

Bolin blushed, his eyes wide as he looked down at his bowl of noodles. "N-no…. it's just… you look A LOT like Korra. It's almost like you're twins… Are you twins?" he asked suddenly, surprised he hadn't thought about that possibility before then.

Kanna laughed, having heard all of this before. "Actually Korra is older than me by almost a year. You should have seen us when we were little though. Other than the fact that I was always the scrawnier one we basically looked alike."

"Well you still look a lot like her. Other than your hair and skin tone are kinda different, oh and your hair is a lot longer too." He said, gesturing to her long dark chocolate colored braid tossed over her right shoulder. "So I was just wondering… what brings you to Republic City?"

Kanna stared at her nearly empty bowl, her mind moving quickly before replying. "Oh I just wanted to visit my sister, see the place she wrote home about and all." She said with a chuckle and a smile that didn't quite reach her eyes.

Bolin nodded, not noticing her hesitance at answering his question. "That's understandable; this is a very active and interesting place to be."

Kanna nodded, finishing her food and gesturing for the check, pulling out her coin purse from her parka.

Bolin frowned and snatched the check from her, paying it and thanking the waiter. "This was my treat." He said stopping Kanna before she could argue. "Consider it a 'Welcome to town' present."

Kanna stared at him, he just kept surprising her. "You sure aren't like other guys; I'll give you that Bolin." She said while shaking her head and getting up from the table. "It's been about twenty minutes, should we start heading to the arena?" she asked.

Bolin smiled and hopped to his feet, looping his arm through hers and leading her along. "Yeah let's go. I'm sure your sister will be surprised to see you."

Kanna blushed, looking up at Bolin's side profile she smiled at his exuberant energy and the barely there dimple in his right cheek. "So Bolin… how did you meet my sister?" she asked, quickly looking down so he wouldn't think she was staring.

"Oh that… well she showed up at the arena before one of our games and I saved her from getting thrown out. She stayed to watch the match, our waterbender quit after that and she offered to step in. After finding out she was the Avatar and that she had a bit of a knack for the style of bending needed to be a pro-bender we agreed to have her on the team. Since she helped us get into the Championship Tournament as well as helping to save my life." He said, barely pausing to take a breath.

Once reaching their destination Bolin led Kanna to the practice room, smiling and having her hide behind him so she could surprise her sister.

"Hey Korra, where's Mako?" Bolin asked, looking around for his older brother.

"He had to use the bathroom, should be back in a few minutes. Where have you been, you're five minutes late. That's not like you." Korra said while stretching, looking at Bolin questioningly.

"Oh sorry about that, I had a bit of a run in with someone you might know…" he said, his smile so wide you might think he face would rip.

"Who-" Korra stopped and stared as Kanna stepped out from behind Bolin, a shy smile on her face.

"Hey Sis..." Kanna said, hoping Korra wouldn't be mad about her being there.

Korra stared for another minute blankly before lunging at her sister, pulling her into a bone crushing hug. "Kanna! I can't believe that you're here! Why didn't you tell me you were coming?" she asked excitedly before gasping. "Do mama and papa know you're here?" Korra asked, holding her sister at arm's length and glaring down at her.

"Yes I'm here, I didn't tell you because I would have arrived before my letter, and I'll tell you later." Kanna said looking down at the last part before smiling up at her sister and hugging her. "It's so good to see you Korra."

Korra smiled and hugged her little sister tight. "It's good to see you too Kanna."

After talking and catching up a bit, Mako came in, rubbing his eyes as he looked at the sisters. "Am I seeing double?" he asked, surprised to see a Korra look-a-like standing right next to the original.

"No see this is Korra's sister Kanna. She just got into town today, her and Korra were just catching up." said Bolin with a knowing smile.

Mako stared for a moment before nodding, noticing the differences between the two he had initially over looked. "Yeah I can see the difference now. So you a waterbender too?"

"Yes I am." Kanna said shyly, looking down at her feet.

"Alright… let's see what you've got." Mako said, wondering if Korra's sister was as good of a bender as her.

"I don't know… you have a very different style of bending then I know about according to my sister." Kanna mumbled her eyes uncertain.

"Kanna, you'll do fine, just go with the flow." said Korra with a comforting hand on her shoulder.

Kanna looked up and into her sister's eyes, gathering strength from the encouragement she saw there. "Alright… I'll give it a shot." She said with a sigh before taking a few steps forwards and pulling off her parka to reveal an outfit similar to her sisters. Closing her eyes she let all of her muscles relax, a content smile on her face.

"Ready?" asked Mako as he got into his stance, his eyes sharp, trying to read her body language.

Kanna opened her eyes, the timid girl from before all but gone. "Ready when you are." She said with a small smirk.

Mako decided to test her reflexes a bit and threw a triple combo at her, two quick blasts aimed at her chest and a large burst curving and heading to where he predicted she would dodge to. He was surprised though when her hands shot out quickly and blocked each hit, the water surrounding them only sizzling a bit.

"You didn't honestly think that you could get me to go where you wanted me to, did you? Big mistake." She said before feigning an attack on his left side and then knocking him sideways from the right with the slamming force of a wall of cold water. Smiling she moved back quickly, leaving him an opening which he took.

Mako lashed out at her, though too late realizing he was doing what she wanted and he ended up on his back with a large shard of ice mere inches from his face. "How…?"

"Korra isn't the only fighter in the family." Kanna said before pulling back her attack and offering her hand to him, with a surprising amount of strength for a girl so small she pulled him to his feet. "Who do you think used to spar with her during waterbending training?"

"That was amazing! I've never seen someone take Mako down like that!" Bolin bounced in front of Kanna with a big smile.

Kanna blushed, looking down at her feet again. "Oh… I… just went with the flow…"

"Kanna, you've gotten better since our last training session." Korra said while slapping her little sister on the back affectionately.

"Well that's understandable sis, it's been almost two years since you started to solely focus on your fire bending training. Then you left home, so it's been a while." Kanna said while going over to pick up her discarded parka.

Mako looked between Kanna and Korra for a minute before talking. "You know if you like, you can stay and train with us, it could be helpful, plus you can help us work on our dodging." He said off-handedly.

Kanna looked up in surprise and smiled, glad to have something to do. "That sounds great to me."

A few hours later the girls bid the boys farewell and then headed over to Air Temple Island for Korra to work on her airbending. Kanna smiled as she watched her sister try to be light as air and graceful, two things Korra had never really been.

"Keep this up sis and soon you'll be dancing your way through fights." Kanna said with a giggle.

"Shut up Kanna, you know I don't dance." Korra growled as she got knocked to her feet. Getting up she dusted herself off, then sighed, looking at her sister and gesturing her over to sit down. "Alright, now fess up sis; you didn't come all this way just to see me. Why are you here Kanna?"

Kanna sighed, plopping down next to her sister and fidgeting with her braid. "Well… after you left Togaru started hanging around our house more, you remember him right? The guy who had been trying to get papa to agree to you and him marrying? Well after you left he turned his sights on me, if you can't have the Avatar, marrying her sister is the next best thing, right?"

Korra looked at her sister with wide eyes, yeah she remembered Togaru. He wanted to have the fame of being married to the Avatar, as well as being related to the Chieftain and had been trying for almost a year to win her favor. "So that slimeball turned his sights to you huh? That's still no reason to leave home, he's ignorable."

"Korra…. Papa told him yes. We were to be wed by the next full moon." Kanna said forlornly, a few tears leaking from her eyes as she dug in her pocket and pulled out an engagement necklace that was very simple and lacking the craftsmanship of a necklace meant for ones beloved.

Shocked all Korra could do was pull her sister into a hug, smoothing down her hair. "Okay I can see why you ran… but why didn't you just talk with mama and papa. I'm sure if they knew how you felt they would have reconsidered."

"They thought it would be good for me, that Togaru would give me a good home, a family and anything I could want. They're wrong, he wouldn't love me. All I would be is a second place trophy to him, a shadow of what his greedy heart really wants." Kanna cried, holding on to her sister for dear life. "I don't want stability… I want true love and happiness; I want to know that I'm loved by the man I marry."

Korra smiled, knowing her sister to be quite the romantic. "I'm sure you will find that Kanna. I'll keep you being here a secret from mama and papa. I won't send you back to a man you don't love."

"Thank you Korra… Thank you." Kanna said, giggling as Naga butted her head in between them and whined. "Hey Naga, I missed you too." She hugged Naga's head and smiled contently, having truly missed the big furball. "Well it's getting late and I'm tired, I'll see you in the morning Korra." Getting up Kanna made her way to the room she would be staying in and fell onto the bed, all of her energy spent from the day's activities.

Stretching she yawned and curled up in a ball, thinking back to the events of the day, one memory stuck out more so from all the others. There was just something about Bolin that made him different from most of the guys from her village, as well as every other guy she had met in town. Thinking back on when they were at Narook's Kanna blushed, he had been ever so sweet and it had almost seemed like a date.

Shaking her head she tried to clear away those thoughts. No, he wouldn't ever look at you like that Kanna, stop trying to kid yourself. All you are to anyone around here is the Avatar's little sister. Nothing more. Rolling onto her side and facing the wall Kanna sighed and quickly fell asleep, the last image on her mind being Bolin's sweet and boyish smile.