Book 2 Chapter 7

A Day Full of Suprises

The water glistened early in the morning as Korra floated on her back, letting the cool waves guide her along the shore. Her eyes were closed and felt like just falling asleep. This was her safe haven, like the water was a part of her. It didn't come as a surprise to her, obviously, being a water bender and all. She remembered when she was little her father would take her fishing and she always had the urge to jump in the water, but he wouldn't let her because it was too cold. These memories had her longing to see her parents again. It's been almost a month since she last saw them, and wouldn't mind going back to see them sometime soon.

"Hi sweetie" Korra drifted back to reality at the sound of the familiar voice. She opened her eyes to see Mako taking his shirt off joining her in the water.

"Whatcha thinkin about?" he swam closer to her and wrapped his arms around her.

"Just thinking about my family...and now you" she leaned in and gave him a kiss. She loved the sensation of being with Mako. Not too often did they have a chance to be alone together, but when they did it was the best feeling in the world.

"Let's make plans to go to the South Pole soon" Mako said embracing Korra.

"Really?" she said with a smile on her face. "Yea anything to make you happy" he smiled back.

"Well aren't you the sweetest" she grinned and hugged him.

"I think we should go inside, I'm getting all pruny" Korra said swimming back to shore. Mako followed her and the two picked up their things and went inside.

Everyone gathered together for breakfast and it was apparent who was missing. "No Asami again for breakfast?" Bolin said as he took a seat with his plate.

He seemed a little sad as Mako shook his head, "Ever since she moved out, no one's really seen too much of her" he added.

"Well, I would assume it would be very hard for a young girl her age running an entire company by herself" Tenzin replied.

Korra kept awfully quiet as she thought about her friend that she was starting to miss seeing every day, "Let's go visit her" she smiled.

Meanwhile at the Sato mansion, Asami was just now heading to bed. She didn't bother changing and just fell softly on her bed. She took in a deep breath and closed her eyes. She had been up all night working on a new design that could potentially revolutionize the Sato Airplanes and wanted to get every idea down. Future Industries couldn't be in a better place right now, the new design of the Sato Mobiles really captured consumer interests and were increasing sales tenfold. She has been pretty content with the success of her company and all the publicity she's been getting lately.

As she began to doze off, her stomach growled and looked at the time. 10 a.m. This is about the time where everyone would be sitting together eating breakfast she thought. She missed Pema's cooking and kinda missed being with her friends. And just like every other day, she missed Iroh the most. It's been exactly one month since he left, and remembers the last night they spent together as if it happened only yesterday.

"I got a letter from my mother today. She needs me to return to the Fire Nation."

For some reason those words stung and made her feel sick to her stomach. He can't leave her yet. Asami sat there stunned at what he just told her. Every time she tried to say something, no sound came out. It took her a while to finally say something.

"Wh-when do you leave...?" she choked.

"Tomorrow" he replied. It hurt Iroh seeing her like this. He knew how much he meant to her, and how much she meant to him, "I'm sorry."

Asami sat with her arms crossed in silence. "I'll write to you every day, and I really truly am sorry I have to leave you. I know you're going to do great things with your company and I wish you all the best. I am a General after all, I'll always be on the go, but I'll come back as soon as I get a chance. I promise" he took her hand in his and raised it up to give her hand a kiss.

"I'll miss you" she turned to look at him as he gazed in her green eyes one last time. He leaned in and gave her on last kiss.

"I'd stay the night, but I must go pack. I leave early in the morning, so there's no need for you to interrupt your sleep to see me leave. Goodbye Asami" and with that he left.

Asami sighed and got up to go find something to eat. She scoured the kitchen only to find a couple of crackers and cookies, other than that her fridge and pantry were bare. She munched on those as she looked through her mail for the day. No letter from Iroh today, but she made the front page of the paper again.

The Sato Girl does it again! Market shares skyrocket as her inventions continue to revolutionize the motor industries!

"hmmph..." she threw the paper aside and slouched on the couch. When she was just about to doze off her doorbell rang.

"What the f- uhhhh.. seriously..." Asami got up "what's a girl gotta do to get some sleep around here?"

She went to the door and peeked through the peep hole to see a giant green eye trying to stare through from the other side.

"Whaa..?" She opened the door as Bolin fell in.

"Asami!" Korra stepped over Bo to give her a hug. Asami wrapped her arms around Korra to return the hug.

"Guys, what are you doing here?" she said surprised.

"We haven't seen you in a while so we thought we should come visit. Everyone misses you" Mako said putting his arm on her shoulder and gave her a quick hug as Korra let go.

"My turn!" Bolin got up and pushed Mako to the side, "but Pabu missed you the most" he smirked. "I can see that" Asami giggled.

They spent most of the time in the living room sitting on the couch and catching up with one another. "We've read the papers, looks like you've been doing pretty good for yourself" Mako said taking a sip from his cup.

"Yea, I really love my work. I would have come and visited you guys, but I've just been so busy lately" Asami told them.

"We get that you're busy. Not a lot of 18 year old girls run their own company you know" Bolin said reassuring her.

"So Asami, any word from Iroh? How's he been?" Korra winked.

"I get letters from him about every week. The last one I got said he was going to the Earth Kingdom to take care of some matters there, other than that he's been doing good I guess" she looked away from Korra and started playing with a strand of her hair.

"Well I'm sure we've taken up enough of your time. We should head back to Air Temple Island, Korra's got some air bending training lessons with Tenzin, isn't that right Korra" Mako said rubbing Korra back with one hand.

"Yea, I guess so" she pouted.

"It was great seeing you Asami" everyone got up to hug her and say their goodbyes. She closed the door once they all left, and even though it was a short visit she felt a lot better seeing her friends again.

Later that evening, once Korra was done training she walked to her room to freshen up. When she opened the door, she saw a bouquet of flowers laying on her bed with a note attached to it.

Meet me at Narook's 9pm

Korra checked the clock on her dresser, it read 7:30. Just enough time to get changed and head out. She rode the ferry with Naga to Republic City, which takes a good half hour and made it to Narook's a quarter till 9. She entered looking around trying to find Mako, but didn't see him anywhere. She thought it would be strange for him to write a note to her to meet him here and be late himself. "Where is that boy at?" Korra complained.

"Looking for me... Uh-vataar?"