Disclaimer: Bryke owns, not me.
A.N.: I just really wanted jealous Kai or jealous Jinora. As you can tell I went with Kai.
Kai vs. Agni
Chapter One: A New Visitor
Tenzin was walking throughout the Northern Air Temple, observing the new airbending trainees in their training. He had left Jinora to teach the lesson to give her some experience, which will be a necessity if the number of airbenders at the temple rises. He also wanted to allow himself some time to meditate, as it had been awhile since he had had the time to do so. He began to walk down the hall when he heard giggling come from the training area. He walked back to the training area, only to see that little liar, Kai, doing airbending assisted somersault jumps around Jinora, causing the small girl to laugh at his antics.
"Uhum!"
Kai stumbled backwards after landing his last jump when he heard Tenzin clearing his throat. He looked over at Jinora, who was covering her mouth and blushing, trying not to laugh, and then at Tenzin, whose face was set in a stern expression.
"Jinora, you are the instructor. You should not allow one of your students more attention than the others. Also you should be able to keep them in check."
Tenzin turned to face Kai.
"And you should not be putting so much effort into distracting your instructor. It diverts the focus of everyone and hinders all of your learning. If you don't shape up, I'll be your sole instructor. Would that work for you?"
Kai looked down, "Sorry, sir."
"Very well then. Just so you all know, we will be having two fire citizen natives coming here to stay for a bit. They wish to study and record our ways and customs. I hope that you will all be on your best behavior during their visit. Jinora, I will require your help to make sure everything goes well. Understood?"
Jinora nodded, "Yes, dad."
Kai was intrigued by the news. Finally, some new people around here. Maybe they'll be a livelier bunch of people than the ones around here.
"When will the get here, Master Tenzin?"
"Later this evening. And you should be happy, Kai. The man visiting us is bringing his son. He's around yours and Jinora's age. Just don't steal any of their stuff. Now back to training, all of you."
Seriously, he hasn't stolen anything since they got here. Evidently, Tenzin doesn't like giving second chances. "Oh well," thought Kai, "at least there'll be someone I can hang with. These guys are way too old." Which in all reality was true, the nearest one to him in age was a seventeen year old girl. After that was a twenty year old guy. Kai doubted either of them would have a lot in common with him.
"Kai! Back to training!"
Jinora's voice brought him back to reality.
"Yeah, sorry."
He blushed at Jinora's responsive giggle. The rest of the trainees rolled their eyes. How Tenzin has not noticed what these two are was beyond them.
"Everyone, gather up! They're landing!"
Tenzin shouted out to the airbenders as a small airship began its descent on the Northern Air Temple. The airbender trainees rushed to help land and anchor the airship.
Once properly anchored, Tenzin awaited, with the rest of the airbenders in tow, for their anticipated visitors. Before them, the door to the airship opened and two figures appeared. A tall, scrawny , 30-something year old man and a young teenage boy stepped out of the airship to greet the airbenders.
"Thank Master Tenzin for allowing us to observe your culture and your customs."
"No, it our pleasure, Professor Lee. We are pleased to have such an esteemed professor of culture to document our ways."
The man known as Professor Lee took a moment before brining up his next point.
"Also, this may be presumptuous of me to ask, but would you allow my son, Agni, to practice with your airbender trainees?"
Tenzin gave the professor a look-over before answering. "I suppose he could, but as he is not an airbender, what could possibly come from him practicing airbending forms?"
Professor Lee smoothed out his robes before answering.
"One of our greatest generals, the late General Iroh, once said that the best type of knowledge comes from various sources. He learned how to redirect lightning by observing waterbenders. As such, it is my hope for my son to learn how to utilize all the different bending styles to better his firebending."
"Hmm. That sounds interesting. It is fine by me if he attends the lessons then."
"Thank you very much."
Kai looked over at the new guy. "So, you're a firebender?"
The boy looked over at the dark-skinned airbender, "Yeah. You an airbender?"
Kai nodded, "Yeah, I'm quite awesome for a newbie, actually. I even saved Master Tenzin's daughter from some evil earthbenders."
The kid called Agni looked at Kai with a smirk, "Modest aren't we?"
Kai scoffed, " I'm always modest."
"Really? Doesn't seem like it?"
"What was that?"
Agni looked at Kai with a crocodile grin, "I bet I could beat you any day of the week," he paused for your second, "Sorry, it's hard to trash talk you if I don't know your name. What is it? Mine's Agni."
Kai laughed at the kid. "Kai. And I'd beat the tar out of you anyways."
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah, lets go to the training area and I'll show you."
Agni huffed, "Lead the way."
"Ready?"
Kai looked to the other side of the training area to check if Agni was ready for their match.
"Yup."
"Then let's g-"
"What's up you two?"
Kai and Agni pulled back from unleashing their bending when their unexpected visitor popped up. Kai instantly blushed.
"Ji-Jinora! What's up?"
Jinora shrugged, "Not much, just saw you two sneak off and I was curious to know what you were up to. I know how bad of an influence you can be."
"Hey, that's not true and you know it."
Jinora laughed at his response before looking over at the visiting firebender. He was a little taller than Kai, with short, messy black hair. His build was about the same as Kai's. His skin had a nice tan, probably from all the travel. His golden eyes shone with the setting sun's reflection in them. She giggled when she saw him blush at her.
"Your dad was looking for you. And my dad noticed that you were missing too, Kai. They were wanting to know where you two were, so I volunteered to find you both."
"Wait a second," Agni paused a second before finishing his question. He was trying to keep his blush hidden, this girl, what was her name, Jinora?, was seriously cute. So was her laugh and her voice and...he shook his head to clear it, "You're Tenzin's daughter? So tell me, did this chump really rescue you from evil earthbenders?"
Jinora stepped back in surprise and looked over at Kai.
"You told him about that?"
Kai rubbed the back of his head and looked down, "Yeah..."
"Did he also tell you that I was the reason he isn't being held captive in the Earth Kingdom's prisons?"
Agni fought back a grin, "No. No he did not. So, she had to rescue you too, mister tough guy?"
"Yeah, so she helped me out. What of it? I'd rather be helped out of prison than just sitting there indefinitely. And either way, I'd still beat you in a bending battle."
"Fine, let's do it. Jinora, would you like to be the judge?"
Jinora looked at the boys and shook her head with a small chuckle.
"What?," both boys asked simultaneously.
"Just thinking about how my dad told me and my siblings not to be hot-headed teenagers. And I'll be happy to be your judge, but first," Jinora grabbed both of the boys' hands and ran towards the dinning hall, "we need to get dinner."
Kai blushed. Jinora was holding his hand. He looked up and saw that her other hand was outstretched as well. He looked to where her hand was and saw it was connected to an irritating sight. A blushing Agni. Kai lowered his eyebrows in anger. This boy won't get near Jinora, not if he could help it.