i had a lot of fun writing this. thank you for the prompt and reviews so far :D anyway, read, review and enjoy

Item: mud

Pairing: Kyalin

Prompt by: UnicornSky 31186

It wasn't their fault a war involving mud broke out, honestly. It was Su and Bumi's fault.

Lin was rubbing the back of her head nervously, as she received a complement from Kya involving something about her looks. Bumi couldn't really tell from his position in a tree overlooking the sparring grounds.

"Big Bu to Little Su, do you read me?"

"Bumi, I'm right here."

The wild man looked down at the younger Beifong, who was leaning against the tree trunk and gave her a glare. "I know, but I think we should have fun with this, especially when those two will most likely kill us for our plan."

"Your plan."

"When they capture us, I will be taking you down with me, so it's our plan. Besides, you're thirteen and you should have some fun."

"I have plenty of fun.

"Prove it by doing what I say."

Su let out a sigh. "This is 'Little Su,' I read you."

"So what have you been up to since I've been gone Beifong?"

Lin stared at the ground, trying desperately to avoid eye contact with the Water Tribe beauty. "I joined the force. I get my armour next week."

"Isn't there a ball to celebrate that?"

"Yeah, there is…"

Kya held back the urge to grab Lin by the shoulders, shake her violently and yell 'GO OUT WITH ME!' One, because she was a grown woman, two, because Lin might think she was insane, and three, because she wanted Lin to ask her out without any help. "So, have you asked any one to go with you?"

"No. I just figured that I'd hang out with my mother."

Kya turned around to face away from the metalbender and rubbed her hand on her forehead out of frustration. "Hang out with your mother? Lin, why don't you just ask m-" Something hit the waterbender in the back of her head and it hurt. Reaching to touch the substance, Kya looked at her hand and found it covered in brown. "Did you bend mud at me?"

"What?! Why would I do that?"

"You're the only earthbender I see, so it had to be you."

"Kya I did-" Mud flew through the air and hit her square in the mouth, majority making its way down her throat. "Spirits!" The younger woman was hacking all over the place, in an effort to get the earth out of her mouth. "Why?!" Lin summoned the mud around her, and attacked her oldest friend, with the ferocity only a Beifong could have.

Mud was flying left, right and centre, getting stuck in each other's hair, eyes, nose mouth and as- no, not there. Their fighting drew them closer until they had their arms around each other, in an effort to slam the other into the ground. Lin would have won too, if Kya hadn't gotten her ankle behind Lin's and tossed her over her shoulder.

The waterbender was about to get into her victory pose, when she noticed the earthbender not moving. Quickly running over to her comrade's side, Kya went to place a hand over Lin's heart, when a hand grabbed her wrist and unexpectedly flipped them over. "I don't go down that easy."

The two women were both laughing good naturedly, when it became quite. Wise blue eyes met dangerous emerald green. Much to the older woman's delight, Lin leaned down and kissed her first without prompting. It was slow, tentative at first but it held so much power, that was until someone broke it with a shout.

"We did it!"

The new couple stopped kissing, to see Bumi in a tree and Su running away in the distance. "Kill them unexpectedly, or now?"

"I think now. At least while we're muddy."

"Okay. And Kya?"

"Yeah?"

"Would you like to go to the ball with me?"

"I thought you'd never ask."