Chapter 14
As the Satomobile drove towards the Sato mansion, the girls were looking in the windows. "Wow, this looks amazing," thought Korra as she observed the landscape. The car had already left the inner city region of the Republic City and already for about a half and hour drove in its suburbs.
"Asami, your neighborhood is amazing" spoke Korra as she continued looking out of the window, looking at the rather large houses that stood nearby. The houses were bigger than those where Korra originally lived- whereas the average house in the former neighborhood had three bedrooms, a kitchen and a living room/ office as well as a small garden around, these houses seemed to be at least three to four times as large; their territories ranged from one to four acres.
"It is alright," replied Asami, "my house is somewhat larger" smiled the young heiress as the car continued its journey.
Soon, the car left the neighborhood and entered a road; the girls could not see any more residential property nearby. "Where did the houses go?" asked Korra curiously.
Her question was soon answered as the car soon approached a large gate; it opened and the car had entered the driveway. The Satomobile drove for another ten minutes before approaching a rather large house, where the former expensive looking houses dwarfed in comparison with this one. At first Korra thought that the car had arrived to some castle not a residential home.
"Welcome to my domain" spoke Asami as she opened the door, "The territory of Sato estate is about two hundred acres worth of land and the house itself is about thirty thousand square feet" spoke the girl as Korra's mouth almost dropped on the floor.
"I bet my entire neighborhood could fit into your estate" spoke Korra as she observed the new territory. The girls exited the house and walked towards the door. Asami pressed some small button next to the door and Korra heard some strange noise before she noticed that the door opened and a man, presumably Asami's butler had opened the door.
"Welcome back, Miss Sato" spoke the butler as the girls had entered the building. The main hall looked larger than Korra's former house; the room had many paintings on the walls, a vase stood on a table, and a few comfortable armchairs occupied one of the corners of the room.
On one of the walls Korra saw a portrait of a familiar lady, whom she meet a few years prior. The woman was wearing a red dress and looked very beautiful, her shoulder length black hair strongly resembled Asami's hair. "I am sorry about your loss" spoke Korra
"Its OK. My mother was a brave woman; she saved me from the benders who attacked her. When they saw us on that dreaded night, mom pushed me away from the room and singlehandedly destroyed the door to the room I was hiding. However, through the keyhole I could still observe the fight. My mother was a brave woman and she went out in a fight but there were too many of them" the girl looked on the floor and a few tears rolled down on her cheeks.
As Korra hugged Asami, a man entered the room. He appeared to be in his early forties. The man already had some grey hair on his head, and Korra noticed that his face appeared on some of the portraits on the walls.
"Korra, I would like to introduce you to my father Hiroshi Sato" spoke Asami as the young Avatar looked at the man
"It is my pleasure to meet you Miss?" asked the man as he extended his arm to Korra
"Korra, my name is Korra and I am Asami's friend. We like to hang out together from time to time" spoke Korra quickly. The girl was frightened, she did not what to say as she did not have much adult interactions during her first four years in the Republic City besides her adoptive father Noatak, who to her knowledge was gone.
"Its my pleasure to finally see you, Miss Korra. My daughter Asami once told me that you met her a few years ago and together you defeated some bullies" spoke the man
"Dad, Korra lost her home and her family is gone. Can she stay with us?" asked Asami as she made puppy eyes. Hiroshi knew that he could ignore many things but his daughter's eyes were irresistible to him, especially after his wife had died.
As the man was about to say something, Asami's driver arrived at the house. "Mister Sato, its urgent for me to speak to you. After your daughter Miss Sato had finished her classes, she was attacked by some criminals, who wanted to kidnap her. All your men were defeated and presumably killed" spoke the man
"What happened Asami?" asked Hiroshi
"Well, some men attacked us but Korra and I easily took them down. Korra used her earth bending to defend us and together with my defense classes training we made the men run," replied Asami, which surprised the man.
"To answer your question, Korra can stay with us. I will file all the papers tomorrow to make her my ward. Now, please excuse me, I have work to do" spoke the man as he retired to his study.
Asami led Korra to her bedroom, where the two girls soon changed their clothes into pajamas; they soon sat on the bed and began talking. "Thank you Asami" spoke Korra as she looked at her friend, who smiled.
"Korra, you are my friend. I never had many friends before, especially due to my status as my father had scared all of the children and after mom died, I was all alone. I am so glad that we found each other" spoke Asami
"We will be friends forever, remember" replied Korra
"Yes I do. And I will help in your journey to become a fully realize Avatar. Who knows, maybe we will meet some cute boys alone the way?" smiled Asami but Korra made a sad expression on her face.
"I cannot be the Avatar. I promised to never use Water bending again, and even if I learn the other three elements, I could not become the Avatar"
Asami looked at her friend. "Whatever choice you will make, I will always be there to help you" spoke Asami as the girls used Asami's room for a sleepover.
A/N:
Korra's decision not to use Water bending will be resolved at the end of this Arc 2: Earth.
Next Chapter: Lin's Academy and Sifu Bei Fong
The Chapter after that: Korra's first Probending match