In the back of the palace there was a training ring, that's where student and master were.
"Here put these on." He went to Kanan and put on Platinum Handcuffs.
"Um...what are these for?"
"I need to see how well you do under pressure" Kazuki turned his back to get the blindfold but when he turned around Kanan had already broken them off. "Did you just take those off?"
"Ya is there a problem?"
"THERE IS, nobody can bend platinum, not even Toph herself could bend platinum."
Kanan just put on his smug face and said, "well I'm not nobody, I'm the avatar and you gotta deal with it!"
Kazuki just started shaking his head, this was going to be a challenge, but then again every avatar is challenging.
"So you know water, earth and some firebending, what else do you know?" He knew that Kanan's personality was very similar to Korra's, at least based on what he had read about her it was. He knew that Kanan was headstrong and sarcastic but he wanted to see to what extent. Everything he was told in the past pegged the extent as far.
"Ok I know Northern and Southern style waterbending, I know how to heal properly as well, I know metalbending, sandbending, and lavabending, which is so cool when you do it, I'm not very good at firebending but and I can make a big flame, if that counts."
Kazuki just looked at him in disbelief, if a 13 year old knew how to do all that, then he could certainly learn to firebend. "Wow Kanan that's quite the resume, don't worry about firebending, it's just do to your personality fire is the opposite and therefore the hardest for you to learn, but don't worry I will teach you."
Kanan looked as though a great weight had been lifted off his shoulders, he also wasn't very good at airbending but that would have to wait, due to the avatar cycle he would have to learn that after firebending.
"Have you been into the avatar state yet?" Kazuki asked Kanan as they walked back to their rooms.
"Yes I have and I talked to Aria and Korra."
"Avatar Aria, she was another student of mine as well, she could have been a great avatar but her mind was not in the right place due to the brewing war. She didn't even fully grasp waterbending, she didn't accomplish as much as you already have."
Kanan knew what happened to his predecessor, Avatar Aria, who was assassinated by "rogue united forces soldiers" while at a peace rally in Republic City. It was a great tragedy to all the people there, she was born in that city after all. But then came Kanan and although people didn't know much about him, they liked his charisma and his boyish charm, the Earth Kingdom really loved that he was more like an earthbender than waterbender, because of his personality.
Kanan made his way back to his room after saying goodnight to his new master, in the morning they would start the rigorous training that was firebending.
He thought to himself that night that he would not be another Aria and he would master the elements and become a fully realized avatar, or else who would stop the war that was approaching.
"What element is he up to?"
"He's up to Fire, sir." The messenger stood there while the other man just drank his tea, he smiled and said, "Good, once he masters all four we will need to bring him in."
The messenger looked uneasy, like there was a problem, and to him there was, "Sir, that could take another ten years, we don't have that kind of time."
"Yes we do, and so does everyone else."