That'd be my honor, actually. I mean, it's on Soren and Ikki to cooperate, but. [Like... him and Linda. Man that was an uphill battle. But he doesn't want to highlight that to Ikki and Aang. Katara... knows. How much he had to struggle to become proper battle partners with her]
october 4th Aang->Masaomi->Ikki->Katara