Hiya Folks! So I have posted stories in the past that are not that fantastic and I didn't really know where I was going with them, but this story I am psyched about! I have a fellow friend who helps me out here and there so I hope this is good. It is a work in progress, but I do appriciate CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. If you do not like my story after you read the first chapter, then do not tell me you hate it, just don't read it.

Well, I'll stop talking know and let you lovely people read my story. ENJOY!

Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to Legend of Korra or Avatar: The Last Airbender.

It was quiet in Republic City. Unless, of course, you count the excitement of the upcoming pro bending tournament that was going to be taking place. Then that was a completely different story altogether. Not only had the underdog team, The Fire Ferrets, made it through to the tournament, but they were one team that was watched a lot for one reason. They had the Avatar on their side.

"I have to go! I'll be back later!" Korra yelled over her shoulder as she ran out the door. She was again going to be a few minutes late for practice, but she couldn't help it. Learning how to air bend just wasn't one of her strong points. Well, let alone that she couldn't really do it at all yet, but who was commenting.

Through about the two months Korra had been in the city, she had made some great friends and a new enemy. The latter one not to thrilling, but she was working on bringing him down. Her two friends, Mako and Bolin, were part of her team for the pro bending team and it has been the funniest thing yet. They had practice every morning and afternoon to help stay in sync with each other.

"Korra, wait! You have air bending to be practicing on!" Korra stopped and spun around to face the one who was yelling after her.

"Don't worry, Tenzin," she remarked with a mischievous grin on her face. "I'll practice when I get back later. I always do. Naga," Korra yelled to her polar bear dog, which all but ran to her side. After her best friend was done licking her face, Korra hopped onto the saddle and was off.

Tenzin was standing at the edge of the stairs watching the young Avatar race off. He shook his head and began walking back to his house. It had been a while since such a vigor spirit was at Air Temple Island. That was not including his kids. Tenzin chuckled to himself as stories of his father in his younger days came to his mind. His mother would always share these stories and they were quite fascinating. He stopped his walk and turned to look over his shoulder in the direction that the young Avatar had just rushed off in.

"She has your spirit, doesn't she father?" Tenzin remarked with a sigh and a slow smile crept to his lips as thoughts of Avatar Aang, his father, filled his memories.

"She's late…again," Mako remarked as he checked the clock on the wall for the time. His face showed agitation for their new partner on the team. The first few months had not been a problem, but lately her tardiness seemed to be happening more often than not. This would not continue if he had any say in it and being the team captain, he did have a say in it.

SMACK!

"Oh come on, bro," a cheery young man remarked after his finishing combo. "She'll be here. Showing up late is just now happening to be part of her charm." His cheerful smile was wiped off his face as his brother threw fire at him.

"Shut it, Bolin. This cannot keep going on. We have a tournament to win remember? Losing practice is not going to be helping us any." Mako ran a hand over his face. Bolin, who was still recovering from almost being set on fire, treaded his water carefully. Well, as careful as Bolin ever was. He was the jokester and the trickster of the family after all.

He looked at his brother's agitated face and had an idea pop into his head. A mischievous grin settled upon his lips at one of his million brilliant ideas. And that was a lot. Walking over to his brother, Bolin slung his arm around his brother's shoulders and began leading him towards the doorway.

Mako, who did not like not being told what was going on and being lead somewhere that wasn't the practice area, un-weaved his body from his brother's and looked at him funny.

"What are you doing?" Bolin stopped in his tracks and turned to his brother with an innocent expression on his face.

"Why dear brother, whatever do you mean?"

"Cut the crap, Bolin. Why the hell were we headed towards the doorway when we are supposed to be practicing?" His brother's eyes lit up and Mako was sorry he had asked. Bolin again grabbed his brother and brought him close so he could tell him of his brilliant plan.

"Well," Bolin began in a hushed tone, looking both ways to make sure no one else was around. "You are tired of Korra always being late, right?" Mako shook his head still not understanding where this was going. "Well, then we give her a punishment!" Bolin had thrown his arms into the air to finish his brilliant plan idea!

Mako sweat dropped at how his brother was acting. He was curious though at what he meant.

"What do you mean by 'punishment'?" The mischievous gleam in Bolin's eyes returned.

"Funny you should ask, my dear Mako." Mako began thinking he shouldn't have asked at all. "We hide ourselves throughout the practice area and wait for her to enter through the doorway. After she looks around for a few minutes, Korra will enter farther into the room, obviously calling out our names and wondering where we are. Of course, our positions cannot be given away, so as she enters farther, we start throwing bending at her." Now Mako was confused. Bolin's shoulders slouched a little and his face contorted into 'are you kidding me right now, you don't know' face.

"Just tell me!" Bolin shook his head at his brother's naïve ness.

"Fire," he pointed at Mako. "Earth," he pointed at himself. "Bend both earth and fire at her…ambush her…make her fight against us with only using water for being late all the time…does it make sense now?"

Mako was following Bolin's little hand movements that he was making and finally caught on to his brothers plan. Not that it was going to make a certain water, earth, fire, and air (so to be anyways) bender angry, but Bolin would take full blame for this little scheme and he would make sure of it.

Bolin waited for his brother's reply as he watched his face looking for the answer. When he heard the sigh, he knew he had won.

"YES! This is going to be great!" Bolin said throwing his hands in the area and jumping around like a little kid. Mako shook his head.

"Just go where you want to hide and we will wait until she enters," Mako replied coolly, walking off in the direction of his little hide out.

Bolin's mischievousness came crawling back and he could not wait until Korra got there.

Republic City was not a quiet place to think by any means. The streets were filled with sellers, traders, and people just out for a lovely stroll in the morning. Not to mention all the cars that travel through the streets on a daily bases. Korra's mind was swimming with thoughts that she just couldn't seem to shake and the city was not helping matters.

As Naga was making their way through town a little easier (most people would just move out of the way if they saw a big polar bear dog coming their way), Korra thought back to previous practices, fights, and even the first day that she met Mako when Bolin had introduced them. That's all she seemed to be thinking about lately and it bothered her a little. Not in a bad way, but in a way she knew it couldn't happen.

Korra looked to her right just as she was about to turn down the road towards the practice arena when she saw something that boiled her blood every day she went by. The pain in the ass, as now Korra called him, was again yelling how benders were the worst things imaginable and needed to be stopped at all cost. That meant following the man Amon that has shown he can take bending away for good from anyone.

The thought made Korra shiver and she turned her head away from the man yelling nonsense.

"They just look at the bad, Naga…they never look at the good that some of us benders can do. We aren't all thieves or hooligans like he thinks…" Korra's mind drifted again to thoughts of what Amon could really do as Naga made the way up the steps to drop Korra off for training. Naga's head turned to look at Korra to let her know that they were there and Korra got off slowly. Patting Naga and telling him to stay put, that she would be back later, she made her way up the steps still in a somewhat of a daze.

Korra didn't even notice the quietness of the room until she was half way in. Looking around, she became very confused. 'They said eight was practice.' She looked at the clock on the wall. 'But that was almost twenty minutes ago. Maybe they went to their house…' Korra began thinking as she was still looking around the room for her two teammates.

"Mako! Bolin! Did you guys leave?" Silence answered back as she called out their names. She walked farther in not thinking anything of it. Calling out their names, she started to become a little worried. They never missed practice, let alone didn't tell her if they were not coming at all.

The swimming of thoughts in her head came back and she was completely unprepared for what was going to come next.

"All yours!" Korra looked up and saw Bolin jump down from his spot and completely nail her with a rock, pushing her backwards. Shock was all Korra could muster onto her face at the sudden attacks that were coming after her. After landing on her butt from the impact, she had to quickly roll to the side to dodge the fire that was coming her way.

This went on for a good ten minutes and Korra was having a hard time regaining her stance to be able to bend anything back.

'Now is the chance I have been waiting for!' Bolin remarked in his head as he watched his brother fighting Korra a little ways off. Making it seem like he was going to bend earth against Korra, Bolin curved the earth to trip them both; which in the process had them landing against each other and onto the floor.

Bolin snickered to himself, but became composed as the dust settled around them and ran to their aid. He was spitting out apologies as he was throwing his hands in the air in his head at his brilliant idea. What he wasn't prepared for was what he saw as the dust settled.

Mako had flipped their positions as they were falling so that Korra wouldn't get hurt. His brother had token his little 'punishment' way out of hand. Opening his eyes, Mako saw how close they were. And how close she was to a certain something else.

Korra's eyes hadn't opened yet and Mako knew she was still waiting for the 'thump' of the impact that would happen. Her face was so close that he was becoming a little too uncomfortable with their little positions that they were in. They were both breathing heavy from the fighting that they had just done and it was making his little situation a little worse.

"Korra…" Opening her eyes slowly, she came face to face with the gold eyes that she seemed to be thinking about way to much lately. She was a little confused at what was happening at the moment, but as she was beginning to move to get off, her leg brushed something hard and it was not his six pack abs she knew he had.

Korra's face became inflamed as did Mako's. Neither of them moved as they both just kind of stared at each other, both still bright red.

Bolin couldn't decide what he was going to do. He knew that Korra had feelings for his brother and that Mako had feelings for her, but he didn't he had THAT much. He debated on just leaving them both alone and let them have a moment or to save his brother from the slight embarrassment he knew he would be feeling later. Being the brother he was, Bolin stepped a little closer and gave his throat a good clearing to remind them that there was still someone else in the room.

Both their faces turned to Bolin and became more inflamed than before. They looked back at each other and quickly jumped apart like two kids who had been caught stealing out of a cookie jar before dinner.

"So Korra," Bolin began, trying to get rid of the awkward atmosphere that now surrounded their practice arena. "What did you think of the little punishment game?" Korra looked at him funny, but wouldn't make eye contact with Mako.

"That was my punishment? For what?"

"Being late of course," Mako remarked, his head still turned to the opposite side that she was not on. Korra made the O letter with her mouth as she thought about it.

"Yeah…sorry about that. I have been getting up early to try and get some air bending practice in and then time just slips away. Before I know it, I'm running down the stairs to meet you guys here for practice. I'm really sorry about that." And she really was. It wasn't like she was purposely missing practice, but she had to learn air bending. It was part of who she was being the Avatar.

Bolin made a face and began mocking Tenzin.

"KORRA," he began. "You must stay and practice till you cannot stand or move. This is the only way you will get anything done. Now, let us go meditate and calm our minds like an air bender should have." Bolin began walking to a little area, sat down and began to pretend meditate. Korra let out a snicker at how off Bolin was at making fun at Tenzin, but followed his little act all the same.

"Of course, Tenzin. How could I forget such a crucial thing." She sat next to Bolin and they both began meditating. That was until they looked at each other and busted out laughing like school girls.

Mako turned to look at the two bone heads that were laughing hysterically and sighed to himself. His gave landed on the blue eyed girl who was next to his brother and his mind wandered to the position they were in before.

"I'm going to go home," Mako began getting up from the floor awkwardly. The two teens stopped and starred at their teammate a little confused.

"I thought we were practicing?" They both asked at the same time. Mako shook his head.

"We can practice later at 5. That is when we have the gym next. Besides we would only have five minutes and it takes us five minutes just to stretch out to make sure we aren't hurt." He said walking towards the door.

Korra frowned a little at this, but agreed that it wouldn't do them any good to just practice for five minutes anyways. She watched as he retreated through the door.

Bolin watched as well as his brother walked out the door and turned to look at Korra. Seeing the frown on her face he knew that he had to cheer her up somehow.

"Hey Korra," he remarked. "Wanna go get some breakfast or something?" She turned to look at him and smiled.

"Sure," she said. "How about that little shop down at the corner?" Bolin nodded stood up and held out his hand to help her up. Gladly taking it, they walked out to get some food.

Korra's mind was anywhere, but on food. It was on a certain dark haired, golden eyed, fire bending boy who seemed to have the same thoughts on his mind.

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End chapter one! I hope that you all enjoyed it! Pretty please Review :) First Five will get honorable mention in my next chapter!