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Jealously Raged in his Eyes
"Korra, it is time to wake up." A deep voice spoke as Korra felt someone shaking her by the shoulders.
Korra mumbled an incoherent noise, before wrapping herself tighter into her blankets. A soft smile formed on her face as the warmth began to radiate throughout her body. The fuzziness of sleep began to take over her mind and her breathing began to slow, but before she could be completely taken by sleep someone shoved her off of the bed.
"Gahh!" Korra yelled as she found herself falling towards the floor; she hit the ground with a loud thud. "Ow, what the spirits was that for?" Korra asked as she sat up straight and rubbed her now sore butt.
"Like I said," Mako spoke as he tried to hold back a laugh, "It is time to get up." With that said Mako let out a chuckle, and made his way out of the young woman's room.
Korra sat on the ground for a while before she was able to convince herself to stand up and get dressed; with a loud groan Korra slowly pushed herself off of the ground. Korra slowly began to pull her shirt off over her head; stumbling around for a moment when her shirt got stuck on her face. A little aggravated Korra threw the shirt across the room after she was finally able to get it off. Korra quickly peeled off her upper bindings, a sigh of relief when her boobs were free of the tight fabric. Korra bent over and began to shimmy her way out of her baggy sweats; after the thick material softly hit the ground she took a step out of the fabric and made her way to the bathroom.
A long sigh slipped through her lips as she starred at herself in the mirror; her tan fingers gently ran over the rather large scar that ran from the top of her left shoulder, across her heart, and curved around her breast. Small jolts of pain made Korra rip her hand away from the scar; she had no idea how or when she got this scar. She didn't have the scar before she woke up with everyone in the room, but she didn't know how she received it. This wasn't the only weird thing that was happening to Korra.
The other night Korra was awaken by the White Lotus guards, the strange thing was that Korra was found passed out on the beach close to the water. Korra had no idea what happened; she remembered going out there to water bend because she couldn't sleep, but she didn't remember passing out or falling asleep. Deep down Korra knew that she was missing something, but she couldn't put her finger on it.
Slowly Korra began to untie the small knot of her lower bindings, once it was done just like her pants, the bindings cascaded to the cold ground. Korra did not mind walking around her room naked; it was her room after all. Plus, where she grew up both men and women shared bathhouses, so she wasn't a very modest person. Korra's eyes kept landing on her scar; it almost hurt when she tried to remember. Shaking her head Korra took her hair out of her the ties, and let her hair fall across her shoulders.
Slowly stepping towards a large bucket of water, Korra began to water bend the water out of the bucket to wash herself. Guiding the water across her smooth skin and through her fine hair Korra found herself at peace. Recently Korra has been on hinge, and not very relaxed. Korra put the water back into the bucket and grabbed the bottle of hair products that Asami gave her, Korra put a large amount of the liquid onto her hand and then rubbed it into her hair. Korra then grabbed a bottle of body wash, that yes Asami gave her, and rubbed it all over her body making sure she was getting every nook and cranny. Although she purposely avoided the large scar, she did not want to feel that pain again. Once Korra felt she had gotten every inch of her body she bent the water from the bucket once again and ran it all over her body and hair. Once the water was back in the bucket, Korra bent the water off of her body and out of her hair.
Not needing a towel since she was already dried off, Korra simply walked into her room naked like she usually did. Korra walked back into her room with her eyes closed and whistling a tradition southern water tribe song. Of all the things that Korra expected when opened her eyes, she did not expect Mako to be sitting on her bed.
"Gah!" Korra yelled as she realized that Mako was sitting there waiting for her, "What the spirits, Mako?"
"Sorry!" Mako yelled as he quickly stood up and turned himself in the other direction, "I figured that you were already dressed." Korra groaned and walked back into the bathroom to grab a towel before his eyes would pop out of his head.
"Well you figured wrong!" Korra called from the bathroom; Korra walked back into her room for the second time, but this time she had a towel wrapped around her, "You can turn around, I have a towel on." Mako slowly turned around, making sure Korra was telling the truth; his face was bright red, but he was trying to have a serious and calm face. It was almost enough for Korra to laugh, almost.
"Well that's better," Mako paused for a moment, but continued once Korra raised her eyebrow at the fire bender, "We have a pro-bending match tomorrow an—"
"Yes I know that," Korra said cutting Mako off, crossing her arms causing her boobs to push a little more out of the towel; causing Mako to stare at them, her voice called him back to reality, "Now why did I find you in my room, uninvited?"
"If you had let me finish my sentence you would have known, wouldn't you?" Mako said with a hint of annoyance in his voice, "Bo, and Asami have to work afterwards since it is an early match, I was wondering if you would want to go do something afterwards."
"Are you asking me on a date?" Korra said raising her eyebrow, "Are you joking? Last time something like this happened Bolin left crying and you storming away in anger. Plus, you are dating Asami."
Mako wanted to smack himself in the forehead for being so stupid; sometimes he forgot that Korra was still back several months in her mind. One of the last things that she remembered is when she kissed him, and Bolin had seen them. This meant that Korra still really liked him; maybe he could get their relationship back on track. Mako sat back down on the bed, and let out a sigh.
"Korra, me and Asami broke up, weeks ago." Korra's heart stopped at the sound of that, was him and Asami really over? This is what you always wanted, but then why does it not feel as good as it should?
"Well, if that is the case," Korra said purposely taking her time; finding some joy in the fact of how nervous Mao was, "sure, why not?"
"Great!" Mako said sounding truly happy; Korra felt a little disheartened that she didn't feel like that. Mako quickly stood up and stared at the young woman as she hinted towards the door. Mako did not get the hint at first, but he did after a moment, "Oh! Yeah, I'll get going, I'll let you get dressed."
With that said, Korra watched as Mako made his way out of her room; he stopped right at the doorframe, turning around he smirked at Korra, and then continued on his way. Korra sighed and fell forward right onto her bed, taking small comfort in the comfortable mattress. Korra should be the happiest girl right now; she should be screaming in joy into her pillow and smiling like crazy. If this is the case, why does deep down she feel like this isn't what she wanted?
Sweat dripped down Korra's face as she flipped in the air to doge yet another earth disk that was flung in her direction; Korra could feel the air coming off of the disk as it just passed by her face. Pulling the water up from beneath her, she twirled it around her body as she flew through the air, and once her foot touched the ground Korra let a turret of water fly from her hands at the opposing Tiger Seal. The water threw the earth bender to the arena ground, flip off of the ring, and into the water below.
The crowd's cheers filled Korra's ears and filled her heart with pride, but she did not allow herself to be distracted for much longer as a blast of fire spewed in her direction. The announcer was announcing every move as Korra and the fire bender battled for the win. The Tiger Seals and Fire Ferrets were tied for rounds; Bolin and Mako were pushed off of the ring earlier in this round. Bolin had knocked the other water bender off of the ring before the earth bender knocked him off.
Korra jumped around her zone dogging attacks; she realized that she was tiring faster than the Tiger Seal was tiring. Korra pulled up a stream of water and quickly released it at the opponent; the fire bender recoiled and let loose a shot of fire at Korra's feet. Korra did a sideways flip in the air. The Tiger Seal smirked in Korra's direction, and Korra quickly realized her mistake as she saw a huge blast of fire coming at her fast; there was no way Korra was going to be able to doge this attack or stay on the ring when it hit her.
A set of grey eyes narrowed as he watched this barbaric form of bending; he had no interest in this degrading sport, but he hadn't seen the young woman since she had fallen to the ground in front of him, for the second time. Zaheer had spent the last couple days looking through all the scrolls that the library had on the Avatar, Raava, or the spirit world. So far he has found nothing that could be used to help them.
Zaheer would never admit it as he watched the match with a bored expression, but he was extremely impressed by the way that Korra was bending. Korra was almost untouchable; nothing was able to touch the Avatar. But Zaheer was able to see quite clearly that Korra was growing really tired as the match went out on. The other bending brothers did not do much in the beginning of the match, so Korra was doing most of the work. It was no shock that she was growing tired.
Zaheer's eyes went wide when he saw the amount of fire that was blown at Korra as she was still in midair. Zaheer quickly, with a flick of his wrist, shot a small stream of air towards the fire pushing it away from the young woman. It wasn't enough to make it noticeable, but it was enough for the brute of the blast to miss Korra.
Korra felt the heat of the fire graze her arm, but none of the actual flames touched her body. Korra did not know what happened that caused the fire to change courses, but Korra was not one to miss out on an opportunity. Korra whipped water up from the vents below, whipping it in front of her. Once her foot touched the ground, Korra let loose the water with as much force as she could muster. The Tiger Seal was still in shock that Korra was standing that she did not move fast enough to doge the attack. The water hit her with enough force to push her back to Zone three.
Korra, being one to kick an opponent when they are down, started to dart towards the Tiger Sea currently still on the ground. With a stream of water curling its way up Korra's arm, Korra released the water with a loud yell. With widened eyes, the Tiger Seal was thrown off of the ring and into the water.
The crowd erupted with cheers as Korra, while panting, and took off her helmet. Korra put her helmet under her arm and waved towards the crowd with a huge smile on her face. Bolin and Mako ran to Korra who was standing near the opponents third zone; both a smile on their faces, both wanting to congratulate Korra, but both in different ways. When Mako finally reached Korra he dropped his own helmet, reached down to wrap his arms around Korra's waist, and lifted her in the air. Mako twirled the younger water bender in the air; leaning forward he placed a kiss on her lips.
Everyone in the crowd cheered for the young couple, but an older man with grey eyes that had widened at the fire bender's act of affection. He glared daggers towards the younger man before he left the stadium looking back once with a calm face but jealousy raged in his eyes.