Hello again everyone! Once again thank you for the kind reviews! You guys really do inspire me. Sorry for the super long wait but I have been kinda swamped lately... Anyways, here is chapter 3!

Chapter 3: Sparring

Even at ten years old, Lin Beifong was a force to reckoned with when it came to earthbending. SHe already knew many of the advanced moves her mother taught her, and even could use a bit of seismic sense, although sparingly. That is why, when Lin asked her eleven year old best friend to spar with her, he would hesitate even if just a little.

"Come on airhead, don't be a weenie!" she shouted.

"I am not a weenie!" Tenzin shot back, "I just don't want to get hit in the head with a giant rock like last time!"

"It was a pebble, Twinkletoes Jr." Lin replied.

"Tell that to the huge bumpo I got!"

"Puh-leeaasee. My mom has done way worse to me! See this bruise on my arm?"

Tenzin came over to her and undoubtedly saw a greenish-purple bruise directly above Lin's left elbow. "Ouch! What is that from?" Tenzin asked, concerned.

"I wasn't being careful enough during one of mom and I's sparring matches. She got me with a rock the size of your head!" Lin replied, almost proudly.

"Maybe you should heve my mom look at it." Tenzin said, still staring at the bruise.

"Nah, I am not a wuss like you. I don't need to get it checked."

"I am not a wuss!" With his outburst, Tenzin released a gust of air that unintentionally blew Lin on her back. "Oops, Lin, I didn't mean..." But before he could finish his apology, Lin disapperaed under the Earth. "Oh God, oh God, oh God, I am so dead..." Tenzin said to himself, looking around to see where Lin would come up from underground. In a split second, he found out, when Lin reappeared directly in front of him, knocking him backwards, where Lin hopped on top of him, pinning him to the ground.

"So, you tried to use a sneak attack me. huh? Clever, but not clever enough."

Tenzin groaned underneath her anaconda like grip on his wrists, and replied, "I wasn't trying to sneak attack you, I just haven't quite mastered controlling my bending without gettng emotion and I..."

"Excuses, excuses. Anyways, I win this round. That's 21 Lin, 0 Tenzin." She smirked, getting up off him.

"Oh yeah, I want a rematch." Tenzin replied, using a gust of wind to get up and brush himself off.

"Fine by me. I will beat you anyways."

And with that, the two friends went at itg again, unaware that their parents were watching them from inside the air temple house.

"Are those two at it again." Katara asked, looking outside, answering her own question.

"I tell you, those two are so getting married." Aang said proudly.

"Yo, feathers for brains, could you quit pairning our kids together? They will end up with who they end up with, there is no way of telling now." Toph chastised, taking a short power nap on the couch.

Meanwhile, outside, Tenzin and Lin were getting heated in their fight. Tenzin was deteremined to win atleast one round today, and Lin was determined not to let him have it. They swooped and ducked and dodged eachother's attacks, looking almost like they were involved in a choreographed dance. Lin finally got the upper hand as she moved to give the final blow to her friend, but Tenzin drifted up and away, landing a safeways behind her. Lin turned around, but not in time, as Tenzing had created an air scooter and gotten close enough to Lin so that when she turned around to face him, his proximity completly threw her off.

Lin made a move to uproot him, but Tenzin thought quickly, and did the only thing he knew would throw Lin completly off her game.

He kissed her.

Lin recoiled immedietly, backing away from him and wiping her mouth and shouting, "Ugh!" As Tenzin reacted quickly, using a gust of wind to make her trip and fall on her butt.

Tenzin claimed his victory, putting both hands in the air, and shouting "Yes! I win!"

"You did not, you cheated!" Lin shouted back, still wiping her mouth off and sitting on the ground.

"Did not! There are no rules in sparring, therefore you can't cheat!" Tenzin replied, crossing his arms and smirking at his defeated friend.

"Oh yeah? I'll ask my mom then. She'll agree with me!"

"Then I will ask my dad, and he'll agree with me!"

The two ran inside the house, where their parents sat in the living room, drinking some afternoon tea. Somehow, they had missed the entire kissing incident, due to a heated discussion they were having on how to deal with petty criminals.

"Mom!"

"Dad!"

"Oh goodness, what is it this time?" Katara sighed.

Both kids started talking at the same time.

"Whoa, whoa, slow down, rewind, replay. One at a time." Toph interrupted.

"Tenzin cheated. We were having a nice spar until he decided to kiss me, so he could distract me so that he would win." Lin said.

"It is not cheating, there are no rules against kissing your partner." Tenzin added.

The adults looked at each other, unsure of how to react to the situation at hand. Finally, Toph said, "Sorry Kiddo, but that's technically not cheating."

Lin looked as though she were about to explode. "Ugh! This is... preposterous! I am deeply offended!" Lin shouted.

"Geez kid, quit talking like you're an 100 year old acolyte, and suck it up, you lost." Toph replied.

Lin looked at Tenzin in disgust, he meerly smiled innocently back at her. "Ugh. Fine! I am going to clean my mouth out with soap." Lin muttered as she stormed out.

Aang finally turned his attention to his son, and beamed with pride. "Tenzin, did you relly kiss her?" Aang asked.

"I had to distract her somehow." Tenzin replied, nonchalantly. Aang laughed and pulled his son in for a hug.

"Wherever did you think to do something like that?" Katara smiled, amused.

"I see dad do it to you when you guys are sparring all the time. It seemed to work, so I tried it."

At that, Tenzin walked out of the room, leaving his red-faced parents and a hysterically laughing Toph behind him.