Disclaimer: I don not own The Legend of Korra

Anyways, I've been really interested in the Young Linzin theories.

One, Tenzin and Lin were best of friends so... in other words, they were inseparable.

Second theory is that they were rivals at first sight.

Third is that Tenzin has been trying to court Lin for a few years until she finally said yes.

Lastly, we have one where Lin is the first to fall because I read it on Linzin Tumblr. LIn fell in love first because Tenzin was always a serious one and Lin is interested in serious guys? o.O Well, anyways, I am too lazy to find out who this last theory belongs to so... I'll just cite him or her in next chapter. So long~


Light Up The Sky

"She was annoying me so I just flung her out. There's nothing wrong with that you know?"

"Yes but that wasn't nice and gentlemanly of you to do that."

"Why not? It wasn't ladylike for her to annoy me and irritate me and taunt me."


"Come on, is that all you can do? You really are weak." She threw a spike of earth at him which he dodged easily with no trouble or effort.

"What's wrong? Can't move due to my amazingness?" She flung a tiny pebble at his forehead but again, he dodged it. He blew at his bang hanging in front of his eyes as he circled around the ground. They were circling each other so intently that some audience got bored and left.

"What? You can't talk now? Am I that amazing?" She let her arms cross over her chest.

For a moment there, she had let her guard down and he went for it. He blew a gust of wind at her, knocking her down onto the ground flat on her butt.

She had let her guard down and didn't even know it. That much he could tell by her shocked face and out of breath panting.

"I win." He turned around and left without another word to her.

Lin huffed and got up. She glared at Tenzin's back with all the hate that she can muster up even if she knew it was wrong.


"Yes, I know but it still wasn't nice of you to do that to her."

"Fine! Okay, I get it. I was wrong. What do you want me to do? Apologize? For something I didn't do wrong?"

"You don't have to do anything for me." Lin said as she walked in on the quarrelling two. They both turned to look at her. She had a pout on her lips and arms crossed, eyes glued to the floor.

"I was the loser after all. I'll just have to train harder and better next time and win him. It's not that hard. I am one of the greatest Earthbender after all."

"See? She doesn't need an apology dad. Just leave it be." Tenzin turned around to leave but not before making eye contact with her.

"Don't worry, I'll win next time too." Tenzin said and left her there angry and shocked.

"No, you won't. I will. I'll train hard to beat you." Lin said and stormed out the room, pushing him as she went by. He huffed at her.

"She's so rude you know."

"I can still hear you!" Lin yelled from outside the house.

"C'mon. She can't be that bad." Aang said, trying to convince the young boy.

"Uh yeah, she can. Did you not just see her? She pushed me dad. I was going to leave first but she beat me to it and pushed me. Does that mean nothing to you at all?"

"Um, you guys just have a 'rocky relationship'?" Sweat dripped from the sides of his bald head.

"What kind of line is that? And did you honestly just try to defend her? I am your son you know. Shouldn't you be on my side?" He walked out on his father.

As Tenzin was heading to his bed on the other side of the building he could see her, concentrating hard. Breathing evenly. Seeing with her feet. She was practising but he was not. If he had to say, honestly, she was trying harder than he ever did. Truth to be told, all he needed to do was get some air under her feet, flip her over and he wins. Not so hard after all right?

Lin also had to take care of her little sister, Suyin. That must be hard for her. Or not... they fight all the time. You couldn't really call them a family after seeing them fight.

But all you have to know is that, deep down, they cherish and love each other to death.

The next day when they went to school there were whispers all around them. It went from them being enemies to them actually fighting. How cool was that?

"Come on, I need to hurry up and go to my classes too." Lin said as she pulled on Suyin's hand.

"But I wanna go play." Suyin said with a pout.

"I know. I'm sorry but you really have to go. I promise you ice cream on the way back okay?"

"Okay."

"Good. Now let's go." Lin and Suyin walked off to the little kids side as his eyes were still glued onto her.

"So… are you guys gonna get a rematch? Huh? I bet you anything, she tripled her training." The boy said with a smug look on his face.

It was true. She did. He saw it with his own eyes. It always nerved him that every time when they sparred, she always lost. She trained but he didn't yet he always won. It's not like if he let her win she'll be happy. She would make him fight her again until she actually beat him but not because he let her win him easily. But… even so… he kinda felt like she always went easy on him too.

Everytime they sparred, she only taunted him threw pebbles at him but she had never done anything else to him. Why? It's not like she liked him a lot so why?

They faced each other and bowed, showing respect for sportsmanship.

"Why don't you really fight me?" His question threw her off guard. That much he knew because she had stopped circling around him. She got back into her stance.

"Why does that matter to you?"

"It doesn't. I was just curious why you always said mean things but never really meant it and you never strike at me. Why is that, Lin?" She came to a pause and took off her helmet.

"I don't want to be seen like this. I don't want my sister's life to be about her cool older sister who can beat up a boy a year older than her. And to make it even worse, one of the last Airbenders. Our mother was enough. I don't want her to feel the need or pressure to be good or better than me. I want her to be free and happy." Unknown to him, he had also stopped what he was doing just to look her in the eyes. They were so into each other they didn't hear their audience booing them and telling them no talking.

"Besides, not everyone is a show off you know? Show off." Lin threw tiny pebbles at him while he was still registering what she had just said.

He can't believe it! He was distracted by her and let his guard down. Now he's gonna be teased of.

Lin flicked some more pebbles at his forehead, one by one, little one by little one.

"If you don't want this, just say so." Lin stopped throwing pebbles at him and threw her helmet on the ground and walked off the matt that they were sparing on.

"Boo!" The crowd started booing them as she made her way off.

As they were too busy booing and berating them a rock came flying there way and made a dent in the earth.

Lin raised a fist at their way. "I'd like to see you guys out here messing up and fighting!" Everyone slowly got quiet and Listened to her as she earth bended a rock for her to stand on.

"Yeah, that's what I thought. You guys are too weak to be up here doing all the fighting. You guys aren't willing to take a risk and mess up in front of everyone so shut up! You don't know what it feels like to mess up but get stronger by it. You guys don't know how to learn from your mistakes. Let this be your lesson." Lin jumped off her rock and slam into it, crushing it into millions of tiny little pebbles and walked off, never turning back to look at their faces or his. She just kept on walking with her head held up high, back straight and arms flinging to her every step.

Tenzin was still there on the matt looking at her departing back. He was stunned by her words. Not only had she told them off but she had stood up for him.

He turned around and looked at the crowds' faces. They were just as shocked as he was. She never got angry this easily or lost her temper. Not even when she was the one who was always losing to him.

He quickly turned back and hurried off the matt, throwing his helmet on the ground. He ran off the direction she left. He ran through hallway after hallway trying to find. In the end he couldn't find her anywhere.

With a sigh he gave up and went to go change his clothes. On his way back from the dressing room he saw her. Of course, she was with her little sister. How could he have not thought about that? She wasn't changed, clearly, she still wore her fighting outfit.

He wasn't going to walk up to her and say 'thank you'. He wasn't even going to pass by her and say 'hey'. He thought that it would be easier to wait for her to leave first before he leaves. But apparently, the spirits weren't on his side seeing as his father was across from him and waving at him. He sighed and shook his head as he made his way over to his dad. He doesn't need to see her to be able to know that she was staring at him. To be exact, him and his father.

He was on the other side of the sidewalk and turned around to see her with a smirk on her face and arms crossed, her little sister hanging behind her with an ice cream.

He frowned. "She's so evil you know?"

"Huh?" His father said, too busy putting his things on the back.

"Her." Tenzin pointed at her leaving figure in the distance. "She's so evil, making me feel guilty and bad." He crossed his arms.

Aang gave a small, gentle laugh at Tenzin.

"What's so funny?" He asked. His father only laughed more and got on Appa's back and flew off.

When they got back he went straight to his room and fell asleep without eating dinner that night.

"Is he alright?" Katara asked.

"Yeah, he's just tired is all." She nodded and went back to eating.

The next morning he woke up to the rise of the sun. Although they didn't have school today he woke up early anyways to meditate for a while and to do other things.

He got up from his bed got dressed and went out into the kitchen to get breakfast. When he got there he was surprised to see Lin there with her little sister too. She was practising her earthbending moves again. Doesn't she ever get tired of that?

He grabbed a chair and sat down. Unfortunately, he had the seat next to Suying who was eyeing him curiously.

"Hey, you're the enemy of my enemy." Aang bursted out laughing when he heard this.

Tenzin just stared at her confused.

"LIn doesn't like you all that much. You're boring." She frowned at him as he ignored every single thing she had just said.

By that time Lin had already walked in and sat across from Tenzin. She looked back at him as he stared at her. When their eyes met they averted their eyes. Finally, Lin sighed.

"What? Is there something on my face?" He stared at her for a moment more before shaking his head.

"Look!" Katara yelled as she walked in with a book in her hand. She set the book down and it caught Lin's attention.

"Tenzin's picture book?" She looked at Katara. Katara shook her head.

"Baby picture book." She said with a smirk. Tenzin's whole face turned beet red as Lin took the picture book into her hands and flipped through them.

Aang chuckled at Tenzin as he frowned with arms crossed as Lin laughed at his baby pictures.

"Oh man. This is too funny." Lin wiped her teary eyes from laughing too much.

"Oh yeah? At least I wasn't the one running around saying I was a child made of steel." Now it was Lin's turn to blush.

"I never said those words! Did I Uncle Aang?" She looked towards Aang.

"I have to admit, you did." Lin covered her face and planted her face on the table.

"Anyways, it''s time for me to go and meditate." Tenzin got out of his seat and left without saying another word. Lin looked up and knew that he was still pretty angry that she laughed at his baby pictures. She got up also and followed him.

She found him sitting alone in the meditation room. She walked up to him, his back facing her.

"What do you want?" He asked but he never opened his eyes or moved out of his position.

"I just want to say that… you have lovely pictures." He scoffed.

"Yeah, sure." He said bitterly.

"No, really, it's beautiful. It shows how much you've grown and how much your mother loves you… how much your father loves you…" He turned around and looked at her. Never once in his life had he ever imagined this look on her face. She looked so serene he didn't even know what to do.

"My mother was blind so… I rarely get to see any pictures of me. I wouldn't know if I was ugly or not. I didn't have a father too so... " She smiled at him and he was sure… that his heart had stopped beating for a moment there.


He breathed out and saw his foggy breath in the cold winter. This was Republic City's first winter and it was super cold. Truth to be told, he wouldn't be that cold if it weren't for that jacket he was holding in his hand right now. It was green and had fur around the collar piece.

Lin didn't bring her coat so his mother made him bring it to her. From behind him he could hear footsteps. He turned around and saw a flash of green past by him. He was shocked so he stood frozen there until he heard a small chuckle. He turned and saw the 'thing' itself staring at him with no coat on, short sleeved shirt, and short pant that only came above her ankle. Such an idiot, she'll catch a cold.

"Here's your coat, you big idiot." He threw her coat in her face. She stumbled back and fell on her butt. She took it off her face and smiled at him, hugging her coat close to her.

"Thanks." She said. He didn't know of it was for the sudden energy in him to speak to her or of it was her being so damn cute but he was definitely warm in the face and head now. His body too actually. The weird effects she had on him, he'll never know.

Even though she said that she didn't put her coat on. She stood up and jogged in place.

"Why don't you put your coat on? Don't know how to put it on?" He was expecting a smart retort back but she just shrugged at him.

"If I jog around I'll get warm soon, T." New nickname? Cool.

"Why?" He asked.

"Because I'm smart." The bell rang and she ran off, not bothering to even yell 'I'll get ya tomorrow' or a 'I'll beat you tomorrow'. Nothing… She's crazy.

He walked off on the sidewalk and then back to the spot he was before. He was waiting for Aang. don't know why he was so late but he was pretty fine with. More time to wonder about LIn and her strange behaviour. After the parent talk with her, they've gotten closer.

He walked back and forth. Aang was still not there yet. He decided, he was gonna walk home. Or so he was thinking until she came running into his arms. Tears rolled down her eyes.

"What's wrong?" He asked, clearly worried about her.

"Lin. Sh-she's not waking up and-" She did not need to finish her sentence for he has already picked her up and ran off the direction she came from. He noticed that she was wearing Lin's coat.

"Idiot!" He yelled out in the cold as Suyin hiccuped and sobbed some more. It didn't help him anymore since it started snowing now too. He ran and came to a stop with a four way direction.

"Which way?" He asked, so out of breath. She drew in a breath and pointed to their left. He nodded and ran that way until he saw Lin. He ran with all his might to her. He kneeled down next to her shivering body as Suyin was safely placed on the ground.

"Stupid." He yelled at her and threw off his coat and wrapped it around her body and hugged her tightly, rocking her back and forth.

He didn't know why but he started to tear up too. "You gave her your coat." He said and let out a small cry. "Because she didn't have a coat." Suyin was beginning to cry again. "You thought that you would get warmer but you didn't. You're not a firebender idiot…" He sobbed into her hair. "You're an earthbender." He slowly let her go, wiped his tears, and carried her on his back.

"Grab my hand Suyin." She nodded and wiped her running nose.

"You're crying for her." Suyin said and more tears rolled down her eyes. He smiled a little at her.

"Yeah, I am." They walked back to the school and found Aang standing in front of the school talking with a teacher. When Aang saw them he ran to them and hugged them tightly. When he saw Lin he immediately got her on Appa's back and went straight to his home.

Katara had taken care of Lin and the two kids when they got home. Lin was sleeping in a bed, all warm and comfy.

Suyin walked up to him and hugged him from behind. "Are you angry at me?" He turned around and looked at her.

"No. Of course not. Things happen." He said to her and she gave a smile of relief.

"Thanks, for being there." He nodded and hugged her back before he went to go see who his father was talking to.

She was a short lady with a police uniform on.

'Lin's mom.' He thought. She walked up to him.

"Is she sleeping?" She asked and he nodded, not wanting to start a conversation with her.

"I guess she's asleep." She turned around and started leaving before Tenzin stopped her.

"Aren't you going to check up on her?" He asked and she looked back in the direction of her room.

"No, I guess not. I'll come back when she's awake." She turned around again and left without ever looking back.

Tenzin was just too shocked. Didn't she care for her child? She was just about to die today and that's all she'll ever say? He walked back to Lin's room to find her sniffling.

He looked down at the floor as she sobbed now. His fists clenched tight.

"You were awake all along." He said, not asked.

"I should've said something. I knew you were awake." Tenzin said with regret and guilt. She shook her head.

"If she cared, she'll still come in no matter what." She said with bitterness.

Tenzin huffed angrily and took a seat next to her bed. He reached out a hand touched her forehead. she jerked away in surprise but he stood up and put his hand on her forehead again.

"Stop. Don't move. She won't take care of you so… I'll take care of you. Trust me, I was the one who saved you." Lin nodded as silents tears strolled down her cheeks.

His cheeks colored pink as he pouted a bit. "Stupid, take care of yourself and your body. You don't know when I might want to… to…" He couldn't finish the sentence as she waited for him patiently. His hand went back down to his side. How could he when she looked at him like that? In fact, he didn't even know where he was taking the conversation.

"To?" She said quietly.

He blushed even redder than before. She was just so darn cute like that.

"You're blushing." She said with a smile. He jerked away from her.

"No! It's just hot!" She giggled at him, making him blush more and more by the ticking of the time.

"Yes you are." No! She cannot have the upper hand of this conversation. She was sick and he was lovesick. So uncool.

"Stupid. Just get quiet and go to sleep so your body can heal!" He yelled nicely(?) at her as a hand clenched his shirt.

He was starting to leave until she called out to him.

"Stay with me please? Just until this storm pass and I'm good, I'll leave you alone." He covered his mouth, still blushing very hard.

He turned around and sat back down. "Fine, but don't complain if you're uncomfortable." He said and put his head next to her hand.

She gently touched his hair. He was red by now. Lin giggled.

"Purple… your arrow is purple." She giggled some more as he muttered 'idiot' under his breath and fell asleep next to her hand.

Aang walked in on them sleeping and took his camera, snapping a picture of them. He took the picture, walked into their bedroom, and handed it to Katara.

"The next one should be 'Tenzin's Romance Years With Bei Fong'." He said dreamily and Katara laughed at him.

"Then I guess you wouldn't mind these." Katara said and pulled a bunch of taken pictures of the said kids from one of the drawers in their bedroom. Aang gaped at the million of pictures.

"When-how-where-" Katara cut him off with a kiss.

"Things like this would never go pass a mother like me." She said mischievously and Aang smiled. "Besides, how can I not when they are this cute?" She handed Aang a picture of Tenzin eating Lin's veggies for her.

Aang grinned from ear to ear. "He was a momma's boy after all." Aang said as he looked at a picture of her with the kids.

"So, wanna start now?" He asked and she grinned.

"You bet!"


I am so sorry for the late update! Thanksgiving came so... I got lazy! I admit it! BUT! You guys don't understand! I had things like homework to do and because I was working on other fanfics of mine. You guys should be grateful, because I wasn't even gonna update my other fanfics.

You guys should be very hapy because I know I would! Hah! But anyways, I hope you guys like the new found fluff I came up with. I was interested in this a lot because I don't really write these type of... romance. You guys read the first ones right? You know how it's all just fluff but this... actually had deeper meanings to me.

Have a nice day you guys! XD