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[So Masaomi Kida has a plan today. Namely, he's out to kidnap (for her own good) Katara. There's a few times he could do this. He considers going for her before school... but he's not a morning person and neither is she. After school feels like too little time, so he's opted to pull her aside towards the end of lunch (to hopefully evade Sokka), saying that he has forgotten something (which'll later evolve into "show you something" among other excuses). Well, him and Linda (because he's taken to bringing the pichu along to school, lately) And from there... the adventure begins.

Hours of inane things ensue, not to mention a handful of not-quite arguments about how late it is getting. Feel free to run into them more or less anywhere: item shop, Azzip pizza, various floors of various community buildings,Rec Center, south side of town, north side of town, generally more or less anywhere. Chances are you won't even need to be the first to speak, because you run a good chance of running into them talking! This'll be any time between lunch break at school and oh, early evening

Choose your own adventure location/time wise. This post is obviously joint with replies from Masaomi and

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"Y-yeah. Shock therapy isn't supposed to be recreational."

"W-working on it..."

Actually, she'd gotten very good with hand signals thus far. He just needed to, well, be more careful with their execution. And perhaps, he'd considered, he ought to get some rubber gloves

Frowning, Katara placed her hand on his forehead, soothing down his chi and... damnit, this really isn't good for him at all. The damage is relatively minimal, and she can fix it easily, but...

"Maybe she needs some cues on when a fight starts."

It's not going to break out every moment!

And her eyes were wide with concern and fixed on his face.

Buffy was more interested in Katara. Blame her recent desire to have the waterbender on her side.

"What's that you're doing to him...?"

His hands finally move off of Linda, who looked confused and maybe a little put out to be admonished like that. He gave her a stern look which screamed he would talk to her more later before he sighed. Katara's fixing things would make him feel better soon anyway.

"Linda has some very powerful electric attacks," Katara's voice was somewhat detached, it would be hard to tell if she was being complimentary or clinical. "And Masaomi just took the full brunt of at least a... partially charged one."

And a part of her was subconsciously impressed with the way he put himself in harms way to take care of what was his responsibility.

"So I'm healing the damage it did to his chi system and restoring the natural balance in his body."

The healing with her waterbending was uniquely suited to fire and electrical damage. Buffy may have noticed how the water on her hand and on Masaomi's forehead is glowing.

"His chi system?"

Buffy stepped closer. Strategy, now. Teasing and matters of the heart left well behind.

"Hey, one more thing."

Not facing Buffy, he lifted up his palms. Linda might not have been fully charged, but the little circles on her cheeks were basically electrical ports. He had what was no doubt the beginning of electrical burns there.

Also, he could not help but notice she didn't really ask permission to heal him. Again.

It made him smile, warmly. Just for her.

Katara winced at the sight of his hands, not really noticing his smile or the fact that she had, once again, healed him without permission. There were very few people in the world she would act so - not quite possessively, but with the instinctual knowledge that they wouldn't say no, or with the amount of concern that overrides the immediate necessity of getting permission.

"Oh, I didn't even think--"

She will be right with you, Buffy. It's not that Katara is ignoring the question, it's that she had explained this so many times before it doesn't really take priority right now. She streamed up some more water from her waterskin to place both water-coated hands lightly on top of his. This will take maybe thirty seconds to fix.

She hates burns.

Amazing. Buffy didn't mind the wait; she simply watched -- not quite managing to hit the right level of sympathy for those burns. She interpreted pain differently from others. And it was hard to be concerned when Katara had things so readily and easily under control.

Oh... that felt better. Much better. He waited for Katara to finish her thing and give him a seal of approval, but once she did he pulled them back, flexed his fingers, and then go to pet Linda. See, Linda? You did not do bad, you just... ought to control your impulse a bit.

Katara sighed a little in relief as he was evidently all better and turned back to Buffy. She'd told them to be careful. She'd told them that she wouldn't always be there to help. It was really far better for everyone concerned if she didn't deal with Linda and Masaomi right now.

"His chi system - chi is... I've heard some people here describe it like chakra, or... life force. Do you have anything like that in your world?"

"No, I think I know the stuff. I've...let Willow borrow mine. Before. To heal. Does it work kinda like that?"

And then, to Masaomi: "What does it feel like?"

He considered and was so. So tempted for one moment to give a flippant answer. He in fact smirked, looking up from Linda, who was by then pouting. In the end though, the smirk gave way to-

A much more genuine smile.

"Cold, actually. Like a refreshing sword of cold - an icy hot patch? But inside and better."

Katara gave Masaomi a quick glance and then she nods with a small smile. She's never actually... asked anyone what it felt like, so that's interesting.

But now that Buffy had brought it up, Katara felt it was important to clarify: "I'm not borrowing or taking anything. I'm just... encouraging the natural balance to speed up, making things right. The body wants to function properly, I just help make that happen faster."

...so yeah. Basically she manipulates someone's life force for their betterment with casual ease. Not scary at all, right?

A nod. What Willow had done had been similar -- the damage had been so much that Buffy had been able to lend her own natural balance to the effort.

"And it's side-effect free?"

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...Was it?

Good question.

"Yes." Emphatically yes, but she just said it with simple confidence.

"Unless you count feeling better as a side-effect. It's not as effective with puncture wounds or broken bones, those take a lot longer to speed up the healing then something like this which is basically energy-based."

Water is the opposite of fire.

"...What about sickness? Y'know, like the flu?"

Okay he also... did not know that.

Wow he never questioned it, did he?

"It can help, but it depends on the sickness."

She gave a wry shrug. "I wasn't able to use it to cure my cold. It's best with infections, rather than viruses. If I really want to heal someone like that instead of just... giving them a strengthening boost, I'm not sure what it would take. Each time, it's been a little different."

Possibly, she's theorized, because viruses are alive in their own way, and the natural process of killing them isn't one that can really be sped up in a natural way. It was one of the reasons why she was working with Chopper. And... talking about how her healing helped with mental blocks or spiritual taint or... bringing people back from the dead... could just get... overly personal.

"I'm...doing that thing where I probably shouldn't be poking and prodding at you on your--"

Date? No. That was clearly not it.

"Excursion. Co-excursion. To the beach. Isn't it a little cold for the beach?"

"It's getting warmer, isn't it? She wanted to see the ocean."

Katara agreed with Masaomi's answer, at least in choice of what he chose to answer. Even the thought of defining what exactly they were doing made Katara sense storm clouds, and she'd much rather not deal with that.

She shot him a sidelong glance, straightening up. "Something like that, anyway."

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