A/N: Yes, I know, another ficlet collection. They just make everything easier. If you haven't caught on from the summary and such, this is going to focus on Korrasami, and in the beginning, it's going to hold all my stories for Korrasami Week 2018. (I should have done this for Kataang Week too and regretted I didn't only a couple days in, so we're rectifying that this time.)

This is written for day one of Korrasami Week with the prompt "hero". Word count: 551

Hero

Korra saw the boy before he wanted her to. He was half hiding behind a tree several meters away, his mouth hanging open as he watched the Avatar have a simple picnic with her girlfriend.

With a sigh, Korra put down her half-eaten sandwich. Asami followed her gaze until she saw the boy for herself and sent a gentle smile in his direction, which was the encouragement he needed to come out from hiding and hurry towards them.

"You're Avatar Korra," he said in the same stunned voice people often used when meeting her. If they agreed with her decisions at least. They always made it sound as if they were stating something Korra herself didn't know.

"Yep," Korra said.

There were days she was in the mood for this, but she was getting tired of random people interrupting each time she tried to plan a nice date for Asami. If he weren't only a year or two older than Rohan, she might have told him to get lost.

"You're my hero," he rushed to add, bouncing on his toes. "I can't bend, but I want to grow up to be just like you."

Korra sighed. She hated when kids did this because she couldn't bring herself to lie and say their dreams would come true. The kid knew he'd never develop bending powers; she knew he did. Somehow, they still always looked crushed when she pointed it out.

While Korra struggled with how to respond, Asami swooped in to save the day.

"What's your name?" she asked, causing a blush to color the boy's cheeks.

"Kosei," he said, puffing out his chest.

"Nice to meet you, Kosei. I'm Asami."

She held out her hand, and the boy took it, doing everything in his power to appear like the adult he believed he was being treated as.

"Are you friends with Avatar Korra?" he asked.

Korra snorted.

"She's my girlfriend, kid."

Kosei's mouth dropped open.

"Really?" he asked, bouncing on his toes and gripping his hands together in excitement. "Can you bend too?"

Korra couldn't help but laugh at that one, earning a confused look from the boy in response. Asami smiled and shook her head.

"No, I'm a nonbender like you."

Kosei's eyes grew wide.

"The Avatar's dating a nonbender?"

"Why's that so hard to believe?" Korra asked flatly. "Nonbenders do lots of cool stuff, Kosei."

Her earlier annoyance with the boy was largely forgotten as she began to recount some of the many impressive things she'd seen Asami do over the years. The boy listened with rapt attention, and Korra felt pleased with herself when he began looking at Asami with the same reverence he'd been showing Korra previously.

"You're my hero," he declared to Asami once Korra had finished. "I want to be just like you when I grow up."

Asami waved her hand through the air, her cheeks a light pink.

"Good choice," Korra chimed in, high fiving Kosei and making him giggle.

He ran off soon after that, no doubt to share his story with his friends.

Korra leaned into Asami, elbowing her lightly in the side.

"Thanks for stealing my fans."

Asami shoved her back.

"Stop it," she laughed. "That was your doing."

Korra laughed, leaning in to press a quick kiss to Asami's cheek.