A/N: This is a translation of Vivre au manoir Sato. It was written during a writing night, in one or two hours with the themes 'Hospitality' and 'Tart'.

Enjoy!


Grandma Yin would never be grateful enough to Asami for having hosted herself and her whole family. Her really large family. And not anywhere! She had hosted them in her mansion. It was like a huge house where everyone was so hospitable!

Never in her life in the Earth Kingdom she had lived in so much comfort. Yet, at this moment, she had worked, suffered to get that little piece of house where they had lived all together. It was misery.

When people live this life, they don't really realize they have so little and they enjoy the misery they can get! Because it's not everyone who has a roof on their head. And even if it's for twenty people living in only one room, without much of furniture, it makes them be in a safe place when the weather is pretty terrible.

So, today, she was living in a big mansion, huge enough to contain her whole family, even though they had had to get some new mattresses for everybody to sleep comfortably. The bedrooms were not enough at the beginning. Yet, there were a lot of them! Then, as the time went by, this family had got a bit separated. But not in a bad way! Asami had managed to find a job for some of the former citizens of the Earth Kingdom, some others had actually got back to it. Some had sometimes the chance to have become perfectly independent and to own their own apartment. But a part of them were still living in the Sato mansion.

They were not troublesome and didn't annoy the businesswoman most of the time. This woman was so kind, and so hospitable, it was unbelievable! Not once had she kicked them out, even though it had been a long time since they had got there. She didn't spend much time at her mansion, though. Besides being so nice, she was also a powerful and brilliant businesswoman who was successful. But that made her spend less time at home. So, it was probably best that others enjoy having a home!

It was true that Asami sometimes forgot to come back home to sleep. Too much work prevented her to do so. The first times, grandma Yin was very worry, but she understood really fast that the young woman was spending her night at her office. She was working, and sometimes collapsed because of tiredness. As a mother and a grandmother, Yin's maternal instinct had forced her to try to reason with Asami. But the CEO didn't want to hear anything. She claimed that she had to work, that she had big responsibilities. However, her look had something tired and faded, as if something was wrong. The young woman was as stubborn as a mule and made them believe that it was only because she was working a lot.

It was in the middle of the Kuvira crisis that her eyes lit up. But she was still very busy and didn't spend time at the mansion. Well, while preparing a war, how can someone not be busy? And even after! Yin couldn't understand how that woman could be so occupied. Mysteriously, she disappeared off the map for a little bit. And as inexplicably, the Avatar disappeared too.

Most of the people wondered. How come the two most powerful women of Republic City, and maybe of the world, had disappeared simultaneously? Strange, wasn't it? Lots of rumors spread out. Some of them said that they were on a vacation, some others said that they had been abducted by a few of Kuvira's partisans and that the war wasn't over yet.

Yin had mixed feelings. She was still living in that sublime mansion, but her owner was missing; was it right to stay in it? It was not like she could live somewhere else, anyway. If Asami didn't let her stay, she would have nowhere to go with the ones who were still in the mansion. They might be able to be hosted by the ones who were independent, but their houses weren't big enough for all of them! It would be quite an organization, and maybe not everyone would have a roof on their head. However, Yin was so old that she would hardly be able to do something about it. She couldn't work anymore so, she couldn't earn money. If anything happened to the CEO of Future Industries, she would not only lose someone she cared about, but also a housing.

But in the end, she didn't have to find any solution since Asami came back. She came back even very healthy! And would she dare say: happy? Happier than usual, anyway. She began spending less time at work and coming back more often at home and earlier. The Avatar, who had also come back, made sure she didn't work too much. Good: someone had to take care of this woman!

So, sometimes, she took her back home and stayed for the night. Like there was still no free spare room, she slept with the CEO. Grandma Yin felt a bit guilty to force the two women to sleep in the same room. They weren't kids anymore! They had the right to have their personal space. She knew they were really good friends, but still! Even though Asami was still really hospitable and didn't ask at all for them to leave, the old lady started to tell herself they were annoying her. And the more Korra was spending nights in the mansion, which was more and more often she had to admit, the more she was feeling guilty. One night, during these insomnias people get caught into, she decided she was going to talk to the businesswoman the next day.

Yin didn't sleep very well the rest of the night. What was she going to say? How was Asami going to react? She might offend her, mightn't she? She might go back in the streets, mightn't she? No, of course not, Asami would never allow that. She knew this woman had a heart of gold. Never she would kick people out. She had already hosted them for so much time…

The morning, the grandmother was up at dawn. She forced herself to be patient. Korra had once again spent the night in Asami's bedroom. Later on, walking past that room, Yin heard that the two women were awoken and were speaking. Sometimes, they chuckled too. Sometimes, there was like a little silence, but she didn't know to what it corresponded… What was her problem with listening at the door? She shouldn't be doing that! Yin reprimanded herself mentally, and preferred let the two young women get up before going to talk to Asami.

Consequently, she had to wait again. She spent a little time with her family. They were totally oblivious to the fact that they might bother the CEO. In the end, she decided to go to the kitchen where the two young women were certainly having breakfast. Getting closer, she was already hearing they conversation:

"Korra! Stop it!" Asami reprimanded, though she was laughing.

"What? I'm doing nothing wrong," Korra responded.

Yin could hear a smile in her voice. The two women were bickering like children.

"Give me back my tart!"

"Nope."

Yin got a view on the scene at this moment. Korra had her look into Asami's as she put a piece of tart in her mouth.

"Ain't scared," Asami said.

So, she bit the piece which was sticking out of Korra's mouth, her lips touching hers by the way.

"Hey!" Korra exclaimed, once she had finished chewing. "That's not fair!"

"You're the one who stole it from me and I am not fair?"

"You weren't supposed to take it back."

Asami laughed when Korra started faking pouting.

"Well, I think I have something to comfort you," she started again.

The Avatar looked vaguely interested, and Asami purely and simply kissed her. Their kiss lasted a few seconds, during which they let their hands explore the other's body.

"Better than a tart, don't you think?" she asked once their lips were far enough from each other to talk.

"Much better."

And they both laughed. Meanwhile, Grandma Yin hardly knew what to say. How stupid she was not to have seen it sooner!* It didn't seem to bother them that much to sleep in the same room.


A/N: So, leave a review? I don't feel very good about this OS. My verb tenses got all messed up in my head; I hope it turned out okay. I have two others chapters I have to translate!

*This play on word doesn't work in English, because in French you can say someone is a 'tart'. It's not really flattering, but it's still not as pejorative as the 'tart' in English. I thought it was better to change it.