This chapter is the companion for chapter 6,7 and 8.
Asami and Korra walked through the courtyard having just returned from the city
"Meelo," Asami called when she saw the young airbender, "I have a gift for you." She tossed him an airball made of metal.
"You made it!" He cried holding it above his head. He tossed up and used air bending to keep it suspended. "And it's not that heavy,"
"I tried to make it as light as possible,"
"Thank you," He hugged her tightly, "Korra come on," He said as he let go. He grabbed the Avatar's hand.
"Whoa, wait,"
"We have to find Wing and Wei," He said.
Asami chuckled as Korra gave a fleeting wave goodbye.
"Did Su come back with you?" Ikki asked.
"No, sorry,"
She stamped a foot impatiently, "Doesn't she know it's her turn?"
Since everyone was following the newspapers and magazines for the bet they'd worked out a system where they'd take turns buying the papers so they didn't end up with several copies each day.
"She'll be back soon," Jinora said. "Why don't we go watch the game in the mean time?"
They went over the gardens where Wing and Wei had set up the court. It looked like a normal power disk court only instead of nets there were raised hoops like in air ball that were above the level of the pit.
The teams were Korra and Wei (Wing lost a coin toss) and Meelo and Wing, a metal and airbender. Kai, Mako, Bolin and Opal joined the girls to watch, all of them sitting in the grass.
"I want to play the next round," Kai called down.
"You can have my place after this game," Korra promised.
Opal noticed Bolin was pouting. "What's wrong?"
"I wish I could metalbend, so I could play too,"
"I'm sorry Bolin,"
"Remember Korra you can only airbend, if you used metalbending too it wouldn't be fair," Wing said.
"I got it," Korra said tossing the ball up in the air, "Don't forget I used to pro-bend," She spun the ball between her hands with a gust of air and sent towards the goal. Wing kicked it back making it ricochet of one of the metal pillars. Wei bended it back, making it bounce of the ground and upwards towards the hoop. Meelo jumped to block the shot, catching the ball with air bending. He sent the ball flying straight to the other side. Korra just managed to hit it back, bouncing off two pillars and past Wing through the hoop.
"Yeah Korra! Nice shot!" Bolin cheered as the others clapped.
"Alright!" She and Wei high-fived.
"You're playing. Tenzin, come check this out!" Bumi joined them outside. Tenzin, Pema and Rohan came out too.
They started another bout making the ball bounce back and fought.
Su walked out, "Oh, I see you finally got to play your new game,"
"Did you bring the papers?" Ikki asked excitedly.
Su chuckled and handed her several newspapers and magazines. Ikki handed some to Opal, Bolin and Kai and they all started flipping through.
"I didn't get a chance to read them all but you should check out page 34 of the United Daily News,"
"Is it about Korra and Asami?" Ikki asked.
"You could say that," she said smirking at Asami.
Asami's expression grew puzzled. She looked on as Ikki quickly flipped through the pages. Kai was leaning over her shoulder. Both their eyes lit up when they got to the right page. Kai burst out laughing.
Smiling Ikki read, "Avatar involved in a vehicular accident,"
Korra heard and looked up, "No, no, no," She leapt out of the pit.
"Korra where are you going!" A distracted Wei was knocked back by the ball.
"Sorry!" Wing called.
"Don't read that!" Korra said.
"Too late," Ikki giggled, "Who'd you hit?"
"A stupid guy, now please stop reading,"
"Avatar, master of all types bending, including fender bending." Bolin hooted with laughter, "That has to the best headline I've ever read,"
Korra groaned and dropped into the grass.
"There's an article in that one too?" Kai asked.
"Yeah," Bolin grinned as he read. "Oh, did you really almost attack the guy?"
"I would have punched him if Asami had let me," Korra mumbled. "He was being an idiot. There was a barely a dent in his sato-mobile and he was acting like I totaled it,"
"Why were you driving?" Mako asked.
"It's all her fault!" Korra pointed at Asami.
"Hey, don't blame me because you didn't hit the brakes hard enough," Asami said lightly.
"You got arrested?" Ikki asked as she read the line of her article.
"What?" The others moved at once to take the newspaper from her.
"No, I wasn't. I only got a ticket," Korra pouted.
Asami chuckled soft, moving closer to her. She ran her fingers through her hair soothingly. Wei, Wing and Meelo got of the pit joining the others as they scanned the papers.
"Why didn't you tell us about it?" Tenzin asked.
"Because I didn't want you find out," Korra blushed, turning to hide her face against Asami's side.
"But what happened exactly?" Jinora asked.
Asami answered when Korra didn't, "She was driving to get practice and didn't react quickly enough then the car in front of us stopped,"
"It says you caused a lot of traffic," Opal said.
"Only because people kept slowing down to watch," Korra said, "It wouldn't have been so bad if they just minded their own business,"
"That always happens with accidents," Mako said.
"And I'm sure the Avatar and Asami Sato being involved only made it worst," Su said smiling.
"I found another one on it!" Wei said holding up a magazine triumphantly. Wing grabbed it from him reading, "Avatar Korra above the law?"
Korra snorted, "Yeah right. Lin made us pay the charges plus the fees for a learners permit,"
"Well you shouldn't have been driving on the roads without one," Mako said.
"I will take fault for that," Asami said still brushing her fingers calmly through Korra's hair, "We'll stick to the test track until you get a better handle on it,"
"I'm never driving again,"
"Don't be like that. You can't give up after your first accident. And it wasn't even that bad,"
"No thank you. I'm very happy with Naga,"
"Hey, that's exactly what this article says to do." Bolin said, "Stick to your glider and polar bear-dog,"
"Not helping Bolin," Asami said.
"Oh, sorry…" He sheepishly hid behind the magazine.
"I want to know what you had to give the guy so make him stop yelling," Bumi asked.
"Future Industries is repairing his vehicle free of charge," Asami said, "He wouldn't shut up until I said it wouldn't cost him a yuan."
Korra looked up Asami, "I'm sorry about that…again,"
Asami smiled at her softly, "I keep telling you not to worry about it. If you want to make it up to me you can get behind the wheel again and give it another try,"
"I'll think about," Korra said softly. Asami bent down to kiss her forehead.
"Awww!" Ikki, Jinora, Opal and Bolin cried. The others were smirking at the couple.
"Oh shut up!" Korra blushed.
Nardragon~ until the next page.