I'm so happy that that people are enjoying this story. There isn't nearly enough love for Korrasami on this site.

Iroh still wasn't around when they woke up the next morning but there was a pot of warm tea waiting for them.
"I guess he was here earlier," Korra said as she poured tea for her and Asami.

"Did he say anything to you?" Asami asked the spirits.

"He only mentioned a special treat for later," A masked spirit replied.

"Special treat?" Asami looked at Korra, "Does that mean anything to you?"

"No, but we'll find out later won't we,"

"I suppose we will," Asami sipped her tea, "What are we doing today?"

"Anything you want to," Korra replied.

"Avatar, we can show you and Asami around if you wish," The spirit who helped Korra in the swamp suggested. A couple others made sounds of approval with this idea. Korra looked at Asami.

"What do you think?"

"Sounds like a plan to me,"

"Okay, we're in,"

After a light breakfast of fruits and nuts they followed the spirits as they played tour guide. They showed them several groves, forested areas and even a few caves, each beautiful I their own way, and all populated with spirits that came out when Korra came around. They were all friendly and respectful, and all seemed to be in a good mood. It was late morning (or since times of days were hard to tell in the spirit world the more accurate thing to say would be it was a few hours since Korra and Asami woke) when the spirits lead them to a field filled with bright red, white, yellow and blue flowers, at its heart was a lake. The surface was covered in large patches of lily pads and the water reflected the sky and Hai-Riyo peak in the distance.
"The water looks perfect for a swim," Korra said brightly.

"I don't know, what about everything not being what it seems," Asami's voice held a bit of skepticism.

"I'm sure it will be fine," Korra waved off her comment, "You guys wouldn't have brought us here if it wasn't safe, right?" She asked the spirits, "We can go swimming."

"Of course Avatar,"

"Alright,"

"Korra,"

"Let's get a closer look at least."

A few spirits ran ahead of them. Korra followed eagerly…too eagerly. She didn't realize the spirits could run across the lily pads and they were so thick, if you weren't looking carefully, it was difficult tell where the grass ended and lily pads began. Korra wasn't looking carefully, running right off the edge, falling face first into the water. Asami ran forward, worried, until Korra's head broke the surface, lily pads and grasses caught in her hair. Asami broke out laughing at the sight.

The lake was like a natural pool, were the ground suddenly gave away to a depression, without any shallow gradient land as a median. Which explained why Korra fell right in.

"Why didn't you warn me?" Korra snapped at the spirits.

"We thought it was obvious," One said sincerely. Korra huffed and turned towards Asami, who was doubled over laughing. She narrowed her eyes.

"It wasn't that funny," Korra fumed. Asami didn't hear. Korra suddenly smirked and water bended a stream of water, grabbing Asami by the ankle and pulled her into the water. Asami shrieked as she hit the water and when she reemerged it was the Avatar who was beside herself with laughter. Asami managed to look mad for all of ten seconds before she started laughing again.

"Was that called for? Asami asked, her voice pitched with annoyance, but the smile tugging at her lips told her true disposition. She climbed out of the lake.

"You were one laughing at me. Where are you going? Since you're really wet might as enjoy a swim."

"Are you going to swim in all your clothes?" Asami asked. She pulled of her jacket, leaving her standing in her racer back bra and pants. She tried to squeeze out the water from her jacket

"Good point," Korra waterbended herself out of the lake and then waterbended her clothes dry.

"Show off,"

"Jealous," Korra smirked, wigging her eyebrows. Asami pushed her back into the water. She giggled when Korra reemerged from the water shooting Asami a hard look.

"This means war," An evil grin slowly appeared on the Avatar's face.

"Wait," Asami started backing away from the edge of the lake, "Korra, hold on there…what are you thinking?" She held up her hands in a defensive way. Korra lifted her hands as well, and as she did so a mass of water rose as well. Asami's eyes grew wide, staring at the wall of water now well over her head. She turned tail and ran. But her still wet pants were hindering her movement, and even if they hadn't been she would have never been able to out run the surge of water Korra made.

She was literally swept off her feet, completely surrounded by water. Opening her eyes she realized Korra had her in a water bubble, suspended high over the lake. She wouldn't Asami thought. But even from high up, through her distorted vantage from inside the bubble she saw Korra's smirk. She would. That was all Asami had time to think before she felt her stomach flip and gravity's pull took control of the bubble and her.

Korra laughed in triumph, grinning brightly. She wanted her victory grin to be the first thing Asami saw when she came back up…only she didn't come back up. Korra's smile diminished somewhat as she looked towards the center of the lake. Rings were still spreading out from the epicenter, but there was no sign of the engineer. Korra swam forward, her smile completely gone now. As she took a breath in preparation to dive underwater Asami broke the surface right behind her.
"When'd y–" And the rest of her sentence was lost as Asami jumped on her shoulders, forcing her under.

She reemerged spluttering, hair and a lily pad covering her face. She pulled the lily pad off, swiped her hair away, and was meet with the triumphant grin of one Asami Sato. "How's that for a non-bender?" She smirked.

"Water went up my nose just now, thank you very much,"

"You dropped me from fifty feet up,"

"It was not that high, and you were in the bubble so it wasn't like the impact would hurt,"

"You used a tidal wave to grab me,"

"I…" Korra thought for a moment, "Okay, I'll give you that one, but you started all this by laughing."

"I didn't tell you to faceplant into the lake,"

"How about we call it even?"

"Fine. But you're finding my shirt,"

"What?"

"My shirt got swept up too and I lost hold of it. It's somewhere in the lake,"

"I'll find it, don't worry,"

They changed out of their clothes and dived back into the water in their undergarments. It took Korra a while, but she finally she finally found Asami's jacket floating on the far side of the lake. She swam back to the other side, and, after drying it, she tossed it with the rest of their garments. Then she joined Asami floating on her back near the center of the lake.
"The water's really calm," Korra commented.

"When people aren't being hurdled into its depths," Asami said with a chuckle.

"I dropped you. Not hurdled. There is a difference,"

"I'm sorry, when people aren't being dropped into its depths," They both laughed.

"I wouldn't have let you get hurt,"

"I know," Asami's voice was barely a whisper. Korra, even though she couldn't see it, knew Asami was smiling. Their hands brushed in the water and Korra wove their fingers together. Small spirits that looked like cuddly spiders, only with four legs appeared around them, skating long the surface of the water. Koi spirits also became visible, swimming in the water around them.

"Spirits follow you around more than the tabloids follow Ginger,"

"I think they're here to see the pretty engineer,"

"I doubt that,"

"Well there were never this many spirits hanging around me when I came to the spirit world before,"

"Maybe they were there and you just didn't know. Spirits can choose to make themselves invisible to humans."

"I may not be the most spiritual avatar ever, but I think I'd be aware if there were these many spirits hanging around me."

"Well whatever reason their hanging around I don't mind. They're beautiful to look at,"
Korra turned her head slightly, looking at Asami floating nest to her, "They're not the only thing," She said it in a low voice so Asami wouldn't hear. But she didn't notice the way Asami's cheeks colored.

After floating peacefully, hands linked, for close to an hour Asami swam back to shore, sitting on the edge. By some small mercy the bag they brought their food in had fallen from Asami's hands as Korra pulled her into the lake, remaining dry. She took out one of the sweet buns Pema made for them, unwrapped it and took a bite. This buns, unlike the ones Pema made especially for Meelo, didn't have a smiley face drawn on top, but it still tasted as good.
"Aren't you going share?" Korra asked, wading closer.

"There's more in the bag," Asami indicated with a thumb.

"Too far," Korra made an exaggerated show of being unable to reach the bag from the water. Asami rolled her eyes.

"You could get out," Asami deadpanned.

"I could," Korra agreed, placing her forearms on the bank and pulling her body parly up from the water, "Or you just share that one with me,"
Asami rolled her eyes again, but held the bun towards Korra. The bender smirked and bit the bun still in Asami's hand. Asami mumbled about lazy avatars, a faint blush dusted across her cheeks, as she took a small bite of the treat.

It was late in the afternoon by the time they headed back to the tea shop. As they approached the clearing they heard a soft strumming.
"Do you hear music?" Korra asked.

"Iroh must have gotten Luwy, Jin and Yo" The six legged cat spirit cried jumping from Asami's shoulder. The other spirits rushed ahead as well.

"Who's Luwy, Jin and Yo?" Asami asked. Korra shrugged. Once they entered the clearing they saw Iroh was back, and he had a horn in his hands. Sitting with him where two monkeys, one's fur was blue, the other's white, but their faces where the same dark grey color with yellow eyes and a large panda bear wearing a leaf hat. In the blue money's hand was an instrument that looked like a guitar only the base larger and rounder. The white monkey also had a string instrument but it had a small hexagonal base, and a narrow neck along with a bow. The panda was sitting in front of a drum.

"So you've returned," Iroh greeted them, his eyes crinkling with his smile, "How was your day?"

"Nice. The spirits showed us a few places and we went for a swim," Korra replied.
"That sounds relaxing,"

"The swimming wasn't at first, but after a while…" Asami laughed, smiling at Korra and the avatar returned the gesture.

"Allow me to introduce some friends of mine. This is Jin," He indicated to the white monkey, "And his bother Luwy."

"It's a pleasure to meet you Avatar," Luwy inclined his head.

"Iroh told us you were here, and we figured we could play for you," Jin lifted the bow for his instrument.

"The big guy is Yo,"

"Yo," The panda inclined his head.

"Nice to meet you," Korra said.

"Yo," said Yo.

"Ah…" Iroh laughed, "That's all he says.

"Really?"

"Why do you think we call him Yo?"

"Where in the spirit world did you find a tsungi horn, an erhu, a djembe and a ruan?" Asami asked indicating to their instruments.

"You'd be surprised what you come across here," Iroh said with a smile. He poured two cups of tea for the girls. They sat down at the table, the spirits gathering around them.

"So you know how to play? I didn't know spirits were interested in things like that," Korra said to the monkeys.

"Music is one of the nicest things you humans created," Luwy said.

"Yeah, unlike those metal sky bison. Why would you need those ugly things when you have actual sky bison?" The Jin screeched.

"And don't forget the things that move on the ground. So noisy. And makes no sense. An ostrich-horse or a mongoose-lizard are just as good. And so are basilisk hounds. Actually those are better even,"

"Hey," Asami blinked, her brows frowning down and fist clenching "satomoblies and air ships aren't…" Korra placed a hand on her arm, shaking her head.

"It's not worth it, trust me,"

Asami pouted, "But,"

"Don't let it upset you." Korra gently stroked her thumb over Asami's fist until it loosened, "Remember spirits don't care much for human things."

"Yeah, sure…fine" Asami grumbled, crossing her arms, shooting the monkey's dirty side long glances.
Iroh didn't say anything, using the excuse of playing a short tune on the horn to hide his smile. The monkey brothers and Yo joined in with their instruments. The melody was upbeat and lively, but Asami was still pouting so Korra couldn't enjoy it.

"Come on, don't be like that," She wrapped one hand around Asami's waist, "We're on vacation remember. You're not allowed to pout." She muzzled Asami's cheek with her nose and her lips brushed the skin for a brief second. A quick sharp breath was sucked involuntary into Asami's lungs and it stayed there until Korra whispered in her ear, "I don't like seeing you upset."

Asami turned to look at Korra. She was wearing a smile so tender it left Asami's chest in knots.
"Please smile. For me?" Korra's voice was soft and endearing. Despite herself Asami felt her lips twitching upwards. She glanced down, biting her lips. But the smile broke through anyway. Korra tilted her face upwards again.
"That's better," Her voice was still soft, but rang in Asami's ears. She reached up, curling her fingers around the ends of Korra's hair.

Several spirits started to dance along with the music. Some swarmed around Korra and Asami pleading them to come dance.
"Hey wait," Korra cried as several different spirits grabbed her hands, pulling her to her feet, "Guys wait."
Asami laughed as the Avatar awkwardly stumbled to her feet. She got up, taking one of Korra's hands. Korra blushed but let Asami pull her into a clumsy dance. Well, she was clumsy, Asami was her ever gracefully self. It took a moment but Korra found the rhythm and two danced around the clearing, their laughter clear and bright in the air.

After a few songs Iroh slowed the temp of the music and the pair, unconsciously, adjusted to the speed, drawing closer to each other. Korra was no Aang when it came to dancing but with Asami leading their movement were graceful and mesmerizing. A number of spirits stopped their own dance to watch them. The flower spirits appeared, hovering around the two, their colors pulsing in time with the music.

Korra pulled Asami until they were dancing cheek to cheek. The world fell away, everything beyond their little bubble becoming hazy and unfocused. All she knew was Asami, the faint smell of jasmine from her hair. Her warmth against her hand as she held her waist. The gentle pressure in her hand where hers and Asami's fingers were laced. She could feel her chest rise and fall against her own with their breaths. Asami pulled back just enough so they were face to face and Korra found herself trapped by those jade irises. Their center was like an inky pool, the pupils dilated and Korra felt the air catch in her throat.

And suddenly their bubbled popped, fractured by the sound of applause. Blinking Korra stepped back and realized the spirits were clapping and cheering (or in the case of some spirits who could clapping jumping up and down and other such moments to show their approval). Korra blushed. She stepped back, letting her hands drop, but she didn't let go Asami. Asami's cheeks were flushed and there was a shy smile on her lips.

Iroh couldn't chuckling at the two as he started another song. The spirits begged for the two to continue. Korra looked Asami with a sheepish smile and shrugged. Asami laughed lightly, and, despite her still pink cheeks, let Korra pull her closer and lead her into another dance.

Iroh knows what's up.
Look out for the last chapter in a couple days.

Nardragon~ until the next page.