This chapter goes along with the 4th chapter of 'Through the Headlines'.
"Hi beautiful,"
Korra put down the magazine when she heard Asami's voice. The engineer was standing at the edge of the garden, smirking slightly.
"Hey you," Korra patted the patch of grass next to her. Asami moved closer, leaning down to press a soft to Korra's lips, before she lay in the grass next to her, placings her head on her shoulder. Korra placed her arm around Asami, weaving the fingers of their left hands together.
"How was your day?" Asami asked.
"Nothing eventful. Bo and I helped reinforce some buildings near Harmony Tower. What about you?"
"Started clearing away land for construction on the outside of Dragon Flats. The most exciting thing to happen was a bulldozer breaking down."
"Hey, guess what Ikki gave me earlier," Korra smirked holding up the magazine.
"Oh no," Asami said, sounding amused, "Who are we dating now?"
"It's just about us actually,"
"Like, us us?"
"Yep. Well, not us as 'a couple.' But they're pretty close" Korra flipped to the page, "The Avatar's Best Friend," She read, "Is there any better way to spend a moonlit night that with a romantic stroll? If you're the Avatar or Asami Sato there is. A stroll with your best friend."
"Well technically it was both," Asami chuckled.
"Get this thought someone said you're never home, and they quoted it as 'a source close to you.'" Korra used air quotes to emphasis the last part, "Who do you think is spilling the beans?"
"Mmm," Asami hummed in thought, "It's probably the gardener again,"
Korra raised an eyebrow and turn to look at her, "The gardener? Again?"
"For my place. I found out he talked to some journalist when I first let Mako's and Bolin's family say at the estate. There was a story or two about me opening my home to riffraff,"
"You know he talks to the tabloids and still keep him around?"
Asami shrugged, "He's a good gardener, and I really don't have time to worry about looking for someone to cut my grass right now,"
Korra chuckled and kissed Asami's forehead.
"Let me read that," Asami took the magazine from Korra, reading the article quickly, "Flame-o is defiantly on to us, but it doesn't seem like they realize it's more than platonic. Not yet anyway"
"They started a bet," Korra smirked.
"On what?"
"How long it's going to take the press to figure out we're dating, and which magazine or paper is going to be the first to break the news,"
Asami laughed, "And who exactly is the 'they' that's betting,"
"The better question is who isn't betting. Everyone is having way to much fun which this." Korra chuckled, "Almost everyone has some yuan's down. It started with Bolin and Kai, then Bumi and the twins got in the action and it spiraled from there. I have thirty yuans on Flame-o being the first to figure it out,"
"Korra!" Asami admonished, half upset, half amused.
"What? If everyone else is going to make money off our relationship why shouldn't I? And besides I'm not even in for the entire pool. They wouldn't let me bet on a time frame because they said I could influence that in my favor. They have a point thought,"
Asami hit her not so gently.
"Ah-ow!" Korra laughed despite the pain, "Alright I'm sorry. I'll tell you what, any money I might win I'll use every yuan to buy you something special. Does that make it better?"
"No,"
Korra took Asami chin between her fingers and kissed her softly, "How about now?"
"You're really lucky you're cute," Asami muttered against her lips, twining her fingers into her hair. Korra chuckled kissing her again.
"Hey save that for the main land! I have money that they'll figure it out before two months,"
Without breaking the kiss Korra kicked the ground, earthbending the ground to send Kai flying.
"You could have hurt him," Asami said, although she didn't sound too disappointed.
"He's an airbender he'll be fine, now come here,"
Nardragon~ until the next page.