All the Things She Said
"So what is like being the Āsupurinsesu?" Huan asked.
"Have you always known you were the Āsupurinsesu?" Wing asked excitedly.
"Is there one for each element?" Opal asked jumping in next.
"Can you earth bend while you're in this form?" Wei asked tilting his hand as he looked her over as if he could tell.
"Whoa one question at a time." Kuvira said with a laugh. "I think Tenzin should be here when I explain it. You know so it cuts out of how many people that I should tell. And yes I can still earth bend." She picked up a small part of her earth and placed it in front of her.
"I'll go get dad and the others." Ikki said getting up and running off.
Kuvira watched her go. It wasn't long before Ikki came back with the adults.
"What is all this about?" Tenzin asked as he looked around.
"You're alright right?" Kya asked as she approached Kuvira.
"Yeah I just wanted to cut down on the number of people that I explained this to." Kuvira said patting the spot next to her.
Kya put Rohan down and he ran over to his brother. Meelo fell back acting as if Rohan tackled him. Rohan laughed as Meelo sat back up rearranged him in his lap. "What exactly are you explaining to us?" Baatar asked unsure if he was allowed to be a part of this or not. "Me being the Āsupurinsesu (earth princess) and everything around that I think." Kuvira said.
"Good I was hoping we would be able to talk about this." Tenzin said nodding his head in approval.
"Just as the avatar is chosen by Raava. The spirits also pick someone for each element. They pick you from your based upon your soul. You know you are chosen at a very young age. My parent told me I bent our house after I was born just from crying. It had never been heard of before. The spirits started coming to me at the age of three. By the age of five I had learned how to bend earth, all kinds of metal, mud, sand, and lava. They were all pretty easy. When I turned seven I had accepted the title A. I knew I was going to accept it the moment I found out I was chosen. Even if I wouldn't have accepted it the title was still mine but I wouldn't be recognized and it wouldn't affect my bending ability. Being the Āsupurinsesu mines I am a representative for earth spirits. I am the in a sense the greatest earth bender alive. The Yōso horudā (element holders) are all tied to one another. They are also paired together. Earth with fire and air with water. Unlike Raava when can tell who the other Yōso horudā are. And as you can see we can energy bend. We can also enter the spirit world from anywhere. We do not need a spirit portal to do so. And there is one more thing that we can do that I cannot tell you. Humans must not know of it. And even if we wanted to do it then we have to have approval."
"So do you know who the person is for air is?" Jinora asked hoping Kuvira would say it was her.
"I do." Kuvira said looking at her. "But it is not you. I know who it is and she hasn't accepted so I cannot say."
"Well if it would be anyone I thought it would be Jinora she connected with the spirits, all of her work with the Avatar, and she is most deserving of the title." Tenzin said and everyone agreed.
Kuvira growled glaring at them all. "How dare all of you sit in front of me and insult Ea Alii (air princess)! An Yōso horudā is not chosen she because you think a person is deserving. Did you not hear me just say they are chosen from their soul. Spirits never chose wrong. I'm sure they are very aware of what Jinora has done but she is was not chosen so be respectful of that." Kuvira said angrily. "If my Huǒ gōngzhǔ (fire princess) was here she would have lit you all on fire and I would not have stopped her."
"I'm sorry." Jinora said looking down ashamed. "I am just jealous that I was not chosen. You said that they have not accepted yet. How can they not jump right on the title? It is their responsibility because they were chosen."
"You are wrong again." Kuvira said annoyed. "I wish Raava was here so she could back me up on this. Ok listen because I'm only going to say this once. It is not our responsibility to do anything. And I mean us or the Avatar. The spirits have no idea where such claim of responsibility came from. However if we or the Avatar don't want to do anything. We don't have to. The title can be ours all day long and we don't have to lift a single finger. We can just live a normal life if we want. The Avatar can also do this and Raava can't make them do anything. She can however take over the Avatars body and step in when it is absolutely necessary but nothing more than that. You may think of it as abandoning or whatever but it's really not. Just how you do not chose to be born. They did not chose to be avatar. We do get to choose if we want it or not." Kuvira relaxed letting the tension go. "Not everyone is me. I was ready to accept. To a child it is overwhelming and a big decision to make so young. Especially when you do not know how the world works." Kuvira said looking up at the sky when the wind blew.
"So since you already know about the fire and air what about water?" Bumi asked.
"He hasn't been born yet." Kuvira said. "Sometimes the title is not passed on right away. They really look for a specific soul so the chosen should always feel honored. It'll be soon though really soon though." She smiled.
"Lady you're turning out cooler than I ever imagined." Meelo said smiling at her.
"Why doesn't Raava know about any of you?" Tenzin asked.
"We are not Raava's. We belong to the spirits so she doesn't need to know about us. Unless she calls upon us and we can chose to speak to her or not." Kuvira explained.
"So how many styles can you bend at once?" Bolin asked her.
"I can bend them all at once. I am a master remember? I haven't showed anyone what I am capable of." Kuvira with a smile as she flexed her fingers. She waved one finger around a small ring of lava came out of the ground. The piece of earth was lifted again and a metal band from Wing's arm floated over. Pema gasped as her golden earrings came off and went over. "That's all for now right. I can show you more in my body later. I don't want to make a mess with the mud or sand. I also can't feel a lot of different metals around right now." She said playing with what she had.
"Did you tell them your other talent?" Kya asked. She rolled her eyes at the confused look she got. "Kuvira has mastered every bending technique."
"What!?" Everyone said looking at her.
Kuvira laughed returning what she had been playing with and cooled the lava. "My mother was a master water bender, my father a master earth bender, my grandfather a master fire bender, and my grandmother an Air Acolyte."
"Can you stop adding on more things to make you incredible?" Wei deadpanned.
"So are you're just telling me you learned them all for like fun?" Huan asked in disbelief. He was good with knowing earth bending. Learning the other would be a waste because he wasn't the avatar.
Kuvira nodded. "I liked learning them. They were something fun to do with my family. I rise with the sun like my grandfather but instead of meditation. I go through each style. It's as easy as breathing now." Kuvira said with a shrug. "It also helps me feel close to my family."
"Is there anything else that you need to throw out there? Oh I don't know maybe you can teleport to a different universe of something." Bolin said and Opal elbowed him in the side.
Kuvira laughed. "No but let's see I can dance, speak many different languages. know sign language, sing, cook, I'm great with kids, love helping others, pretty amazing with a sword and hand to hand combat, an amazing leader, and oh! I'm gay. Just wanted to throw that out there. Maybe pass it on to your older brother." Kuvira said pointedly looking at the earth siblings.
Opal laughed. "We will see what happens."
Asami waited at the bottom of her stairs for Korra to come down. The place she had chosen wasn't that fancy but they had both agreed to dress up. She had put on a simple black sleeveless dress. It half down her thighs. She decided to tie her hair back in a little messy bun. She looked up when she heard a door close. She was sure she stopped breathing as she saw Korra.
Korra smiled as she walked down the stairs. "I didn't know you owned anything other than blue." Asami whispered as her eyes still looked over Korra's body.
The Avatar was dressed in a grey long sleeve dress the hung off her shoulders. It stopped where her halfway down her thighs and her hair was in lazy curls with part of it swooping to one side. Korra blushed. "I thought heels would be a lot harder to walk in." She said clasping her hands behind her back. She became worried when Asami hadn't said anything else but just stared at her. "Are you alright Sami?" She asked tilting her head to the side.
"Yeah." Asami said taking a deep breath and smiled at her. "You look really beautiful."
Korra blushed looking away. "So do you."
Asami raised an eyebrow as she took her hand. "What? I don't get to be snazzy as always." She teased as she led them to the garage.
"Ha ha." Korra said rolling her eyes.
Asami opened the door as they reached the car she had picked out. "Thanks." Korra said as she got in. "Think I can drive this someday?"
Asami shook her head as she pulled off down the driveway. "Oh I get it since I'm taking you to dinner you think that entitles that you get to wreck my babies?"
Korra blushed. "Hey I've gotten better at it." She said trying to defend herself.
"No you've gotten better at your avatar abilities and bending. I haven't seen you touch a motor vehicle since you've been back." Asami said waiting for Korra to tell her she was wrong.
She laughed when Korra leaned over and turned up the radio instead. She just rolled with it and sung along with her. Asami opened her door when they pulled up at Lin's house.
"I can't believe Huan made this for her." Korra said looking at the weird door as Asami rang the doorbell.
"Well she didn't want to turn it down and risk hurting his creative flow." Asami said using air quotes giggled.
"Come in!" They heard Kya yell.
"Kya has been such an improvement on Lin." Korra said as they walked in.
"I heard that!" Lin said from where she helping Kya set up the table.
"Oh no just like I wanted you to." Korra said monotone as they walked in the kitchen.
"You girls look beautiful!" Kya yelled as soon as she saw them.
"Kya inside voice." Lin said as she rolling her eyes.
"Lin inside attitude." Kya said as she gave the girls hugs. They giggled as Lin huffed leaning back on the counter.
"What's with all the yelling?" Kuvira asked as she floated into the kitchen.
"Whoa." Korra and Asami said as they saw her.
"That should be my line." Kuvira said standing in landing in front of them. "You two look beautiful." She said excited.
They both blushed. "Where's your body?" Asami asked.
Kuvira rolled her eyes. "Over there resting on the couch."
"Really?" Asami asked walking into the living room. "Is this what it was like when you did it?" She asked Korra.
"I'm not really sure but I was aware of where my physical body was." Korra said then she got a mischievous look and winked at Asami. Kuvira saw the look but before she could question it they attacked. Kuvira doubled over in laughter as the other two woman tickled her body. "So you can feel when you're not in your body." Korra said as they kept up in their assault.
They gasped as Kuvira grabbed their hands. "Enough." Kuvira giggled one last time as she panted.
They stood their shocked not expecting her to jump back into her body so fast. Asami was the first one to recover and pull her hand free. "This is not how you treat people that come over to check on you."
"Yeah." Korra sassed.
Kuvira gave them an incredulous look. "Well excuse me for not being a fan of getting tickled." Kuvira said as she sat up.
"It was to see if you would feel it." Korra said with a shrug.
"And you couldn't just ask like normal people?" Kuvira asked raising an eyebrow at them.
"We're not normal people." Korra said smirking at her.
"I've noticed." Kuvira said dryly.
"Does it hurt?" Asami said touching the bandage on Kuvira's nose.
Kuvira flinched back glaring at her as she covered her nose. "Yes! What is with you two and touching?"
"Avatar." Korra whispered waving her hands around.
"And I'm an engineer. My hands are my life." Asami said when Kuvira looked at her.
Kuvira sighed rubbing her temples. "So where are you to headed?"
"To dinner." Asami said.
Kuvira nodded turning back to Korra. "Avatar I heard that I am in your care?"
"Oh yeah sorry about that. It was a spur of the moment thing with Su. I wasn't going to just let it go but I thought about it. There might be more people in the world that could possibly feel like Su does. So I'm going to stick with it. We can figure it all out later." Korra said.
"Yeah sure and thanks." Kuvira said getting up.
"Let's get going Korra." Asami said taking her hand again.
"Alright bye guys." Korra said smiling at every one as the two of them left.
Kuvira sighed when the door closed and went to sit at the table. "So um that was interesting." Kya said taking her seat.
"What was?" Kuvira asked fixing her plate.
"The way all three of you forgot that me and Lin were here." Kya said taking a sip of her wine.
Kuvira looked up from her plate and then to Lin who wasn't even looking at her. She squinted her eyes. "What are you trying to say? They are obviously in love with each other."
Kya held her hands up in surrender and smirked. "Nothing."
"I don't believe you." Kuvira said looking between the two women.
"Kya told me how you werepractically selling yourself today at the Island." Lin said and Kuvira blushed looking down at her plate.
"You are a great, successful, smart, funny, talented, beautiful,-"
"Lin!" Kuvira said covering her face embarrassed.
Lin and Kya chuckled. "Sorry I got carried away with the truth again." She glanced at Kya who smiled. "I guess I just want to know why a woman like you is single. Or do you already have your eyes set on someone?"
Kuvira huffed pushing her food around on her plate. "Maybe I like being alone." She mumbled.
"Really?" Lin asked.
"No." Kuvira mumbled again.
"Then?" Kya asked.
"What is it?" Lin finished.
"I have different taste. I guess you could say. My wants are more than different and it's not an all common thing. It's known but kind of frowned upon in most places." Kuvira said worrying her lip. The two older women glanced at each other confused. They chose to wait instead for her to finish. "I um believe in loving more than one person. It's called polygamy."
"Oh is that all?" Kya asked and Kuvira looked at her.
Lin reached over smacked her on the back of the head. Kya glared at her but she was ignored. "We know what that is and it's a pretty common thing here in the city. So I don't think you have anything to worry about." Lin assured her.
"And you're okay with?" Kuvira asked making sure.
Lin shrugged. "I don't care as long as you're happy and they treat you right."
"Yeah I thought you were going to say you have kinks. Because that's normal. We both have kinks to so you could have joined the club." Kya said as she started eating.
"Kya!" Lin hissed as she and Kuvira blushed.
Asami pulled up at the front of the restaurant. A valet opened her and she handed him the keys. "If it is not returned to me the way it is now. I'll make sure no one can find your body." She said and the teenager gulped nodding his head. "Oh and I know how much gas I have it."
"Asami." Korra said with a laugh from where she stood waiting on her. "Leave him alone."
Asami hurried over and offered her arm. "Hey I'm just making sure he doesn't go out for a joy ride in my baby."
Korra shook her head as she looped her arm through Asami's. "Your baby is going to be fine so let's go get our table. I'm hungry." Korra said as they walked through the entrance.
"Ah Ms. Sato we have your table ready in the back." A waiter said motioning for them to follow him.
"Come here often?" Korra asked looking around.
"No but when I was driving by yesterday I stopped and made a reservation." Asami said squeezing the hand on her arm.
"And what would you have done if I didn't agree to this?" Korra asked as she moved in the booth.
"Called and canceled of course." Asami told her as she slide in on the other side beside Korra. "No need to tell them the Avatar turned me down."
Korra chuckled. "I wouldn't have turned you down."
"What can I get you to drink?" He asked.
"A water." Asami said opening her menu.
"A glass of wine for now." Korra said smiling at him. He bowed before waking off to get their drinks. "You seem like the type who would order for both people." Korra said watching her when they were alone.
Asami laughed turning a page in the menu. "I am not. I'm the type of girl who would actually want to choose what to eat together." Asami said sliding the menu between them.
"Why'd you chose a booth?" Korra asked her as they looked the menu over together.
"It seemed like a better choice than a two person table. We have more space to ourselves and it's more comfortable. Plus I thought you might like the idea." Asami said bumping her with her shoulder.
Korra leaned into her. "I do." She pointed something out that she never heard of. Asami explained it as the waiter came back with their drinks.
"Are you to ready to order?" He asked getting out a note pad.
"No but we'll flag you done when we're ready." Korra said taking her glass.
"Yeah sorry first time here." Asami said giving him an apologetic smile.
"No problem and I hope you like." He said giving them a smile before he walked away.
"Mako I told you it was them!"
They both groaned at the voice they just hear. Korra hid her face in Asami's shoulder. "Please tell me that isn't Wu."
Asami chuckled dryly. "If I could kill you right now to save you I would." She whispered in her ear.
"You're to kind to me." Korra said kissing her cheek.
"Hello ladies!" Wu said seating beside Asami. "How are you this lovely evening?"
"If you value any of your body parts then you'll stay at the end of the table." Asami said glaring at him. The prince stopped advancing his way over and stayed put.
"What do you want?" Korra asked looking at Mako.
"You look beautiful Korra." Mako said giving her a smile.
"Yes we both do but what are you doing here?" Asami not liking the way he was drooling over Korra's exposed shoulders. They were shoulders for crying out loud. Korra placed a hand on her thigh and gave it a light squeeze.
Mako frowned at her. "We were on our way out when Wu saw you. We just wanted to say hi."
"Saying hello doesn't involve you sitting down at our table." Asami grumbled taking a sip of water when Korra gave her a look.
"Are we interrupting something?" Wu asked making his presence known again.
Korra glared at him. "We were trying to decide on what to have for dinner."
"Maybe you would like some company..." He trailed off after receiving death glares from the both of them.
Mako looked between them. "Is there a problem Mako?" Asami asked through clenched teeth as she leaned forward.
He glared at her then looked at Korra. "No."
"Good because I would really hate to cause a scene after you came over to bother us." Korra said resting her chin on her hand. Asami water in her cup started to swirl around as Korra stared at Mako.
"Let's go Wu." Mako said as he got up and walked away. Wu hurriedly followed and they both did a sigh of relief.
"I'm sorry I don't know what came over me." Asami apologized.
"It's ok. I was ready to air bend them out of here the minute I heard Wu's voice." Korra said looking for their waiter.
"Mako was right about one thing though." Asami said drinking her water.
"And what was that? All he did was drool over me." Korra said annoyed.
"You do look really beautiful tonight Korra. Don't get me wrong you look beautiful even covered in dirt but tonight. It's like you pulled out the big guns." Asami said looking at her.
"Thank you." Korra said smiling at her and Asami was reminded of the hand resting on her thigh.
She reached down and threaded her fingers in hers. "How about we just focus on us and enjoy the rest of our night. And anymore distractions we send flying away."
"Yeah best idea of the night Sato." Korra said smiling at her.
They had stayed well past their meal. Just talking anything and everything. They were surprised when their waiter came and told them that it was closing time. "Tenten why didn't you tell us sooner? We would have left." Korra said as she got to her feet.
"Yeah we didn't mean to cause any problems." Asami said taking Korra's hand.
"You didn't really." Tenten assured them as he walked them out.
"We've already cleaned the place up and washed everything. Your table only needed a wipe down. Honestly we felt rude having to put your amazing night to an end." He pointed back to the restaurant crew who were following them out.
"Thank you so much we had a wonderful time." Asami said giving them a small bow.
"And we will be back in the future." Korra said giving them a little wave before they stepped out into the night.
"We are huh?" Asami asked spotting her car.
Korra laughed at the amusement she heard in her voice. "Asami we stayed till they closed I know we're coming back one day."
"Maybe I have other locations planned out to take you to." Asami said as she opened the door for her.
"Well I can't wait then." Korra said winking as she got in the car.
"You're not going to fall asleep on me are you? I can carry you but it's just doing it in these heels will be a bitch." Asami asked glancing over at the other woman who was looking out the window.
Korra laughed lightly. "I wouldn't dream on it. I'm having such a wonderful time." Asami didn't say anything but she did ease p off the gas just a little bit for the rest of the drive.
"Hey can you hold on a minute before heading up?" Asami asked as Korra leaned against the couch and took off her heels off.
"Yeah." Korra said as Asami walked out off out of the room. Korra sat up on the back on couch kicking her legs as she waited. A few minutes later and she heard a click. Looked over and saw Asami with a camera.
Asami smiled at the picture before looking up at her. "How about you model for me a little bit?" She asked.
Korra blushed as she got down to her feet. "What would I need to do?" She asked nervously. "I've never modeled for someone before."
"You don't need to do anything besides be yourself. You can do anything you want and I'll just snap away." Asami said giving her a smile as she waved her camera around.
"Ok I can do that." Korra said more to herself as she walked away some. Asami watched as Korra decided how she wanted to do this. "So when did you buy this house?" Korra asked as she walked slowly.
Asami followed but kept her distance so she could pick her angles. "I got it a year ago but didn't start living here until four months ago."
"Why?" Korra stopped and looked over her shoulder.
Asami's breath hitched as she took the shot. The way the moonlight reflected off her mocha skin. She truly looked otherworldly in her natural beautiful. "There were a few things that needed to be done." Asami said as Korra looked at a painting. "I wanted to have all year access to the pool so I had patio room added around that opened up to a sparring room. I also store my musical instruments in there. The garage obviously needed to be bigger. I need to work and to park my cars."
Korra turned the corner and leaned up against wall. Asami snapped picture after picture. Korra's shyness as she slowly progressed along the wall made for some sexy shots. Her movements showed that she was still unsure but the picture told a different story. Though her eyes spoke that she was somewhere in the middle. Asami continued talking as Korra walked over to the stairs.
"I needed to make sure that my property line was big enough. I had every door except for the front door widened. The stairs and upper floors reinforced with the strongest material." Asami waited until she turned around to look at her before finishing. "Polar bear dogs are huge in size and weight." She watched as Korra processed what she meant. She captured the exact moment that Korra's face lit up.
"Do you ever stop being amazing?" Korra whispered as Asami came closer.
"Not when it's concerning you." Asami said picking up her hand and kissing her knuckles.
"Thank you." Korra said wrapping her arms around her neck and hugging her. "No one's ever done anything special like this for me."
Asami chuckled as she hugged her back. "I only took you to dinner and took pictures of you. You deserved all of that and more. So much more and I have no problem giving it to you." She said kissing her temple. "Want to see your pictures?"
Korra nodded pulling back some but only removing one of her arms so she could turn and look. Asami kept her close as she put the camera on a slide show for her. Korra gasped. "Is that really me?" She whispered.
"Yeah after you told me you didn't know what to do." Asami teased.
"I didn't think they would turn out like this. It's hard to believe it's me. I mean I look so beautiful and sexy." Korra said still amazed by her pictures.
"Yeah you really do." Korra looked up to see Asami looking at her. She blushed and quickly looked away.
"How about we go to bed?"
"Yeah that sounds good to me." Korra said stepping out of her embrace to lead her up the stairs.
Asami knew she shouldn't be looking at Korra's ass as they walked up the stairs but she couldn't help herself. There was nothing really wrong with looking. It was all good if she kept her hands to herself. They changed and dressed in silence. Sending each other shy smiles when they had caught the other looking. Asami fell into bed first and opened her arms. Korra wasted no time getting into them and resting her head on Asami's chest.
"Good night Korra."
"Night Sami."