A/N: I promised myself I would only do oneshots for #TyzulaTuesday but then I liked this AU way too much to quit after one vignette.

I:Shiny

"ZuZu, you are being inappropriately judgmental," Azula said coldly on the sweltering day and Katara snickered.

"ZuZu," she muttered under her breath, but he didn't react to the archaic nickname.

He seemed to be concerned about Azula's assimilation into this dreadful culture.

He had no reason to be, despite Azula's lingering shock about the fact that she made this kneejerk decision, and she had ceaselessly wondered if it was worth it since she first arrived.

However, today Azula had decided that perhaps the beach was not as terrible a place as she imagined. Why? Because it warranted sunglasses… and no one could see what she was looking at behind sunglasses. Unless you were Zuko, apparently. Ugh.

"I'm not being judgmental at all. I think it is not at all horrible of you to be leering at that young woman over there," Zuko said with his eyes fixated on Katara. Azula admirably repressed her gag.

"Your sarcasm is not even funny because you're so terrible at it," Azula replied before lying down and then lying like a rug by saying, "I was not looking at her; I was looking at her confusingly shiny bikini. Maybe I want one like that. You don't know me."

Zuko did not know if he should laugh or not at the idea of his sister ever desiring a metallic, glimmering pink bikini. He went with not because it wasn't a pleasant image. This morning Zuko had already wanted to throw several towels over her the minute she was noticed by shameless men who didn't even bother to hide their stare behind their douchebag Ray-Bans. He did not think he could survive her leaving the house looking like that when she already was in navy Daisy Dukes with the matching tiny top.

"I actually know her," Katara remarked, abandoning her pathetic excuse for a sandcastle and crawling back over to the towels Zuko and Azula were lying on. She never liked to be on the sand; she always preferred to be immersed in the glistening water swimming or surfing, and therefore had no idea what to do with herself today.

"You do?" Azula asked icily, gently pushing her sunglasses down the bride of her nose and meeting Katara's gaze.

Zuko rolled his eyes and sighed because his fiancée had now unknowingly kicked off a disastrous sequence of events. Somehow, she had yet to realize over the past two days living with Azula that his sister was definitely the devil in disguise.

"Yeah. She went to high school with me," Katara said, shrugging.

Azula feigned disinterest and if they didn't buy it they didn't say so. "I'm going to go swimming."

"You hate swimming," Zuko protested but Azula just walked away, trying to brush the sand off of her ivory skin.

She hated sand. She hated beaches. She hated swimming. She hated her brother and his dumb hippie surfer fiancée. She hated her father for sending her here and telling her if she had such a problem with it she could live with her mother instead.

"You said you loved me!" was a completely appropriate reaction to his imposition.

The water glistened in the sunlight as if it were studded with transparent sequins. Azula lifted her eyes from it and easily found metallic bikini girl in the crowd of people who for some reason thought swimming in the ocean was okay.

And, finally Azula got lucky about something, because the girl was walking towards her. Not at her, but close enough that Azula could play this off as magnificently casual. The girl did stop by her, walking towards the water, and she smiled warmly at Azula.

"You're Zuko's sister right?" was literally the worst way this attempt at sex on the beach could begin.

"Sure," Azula said after managing to pry her jaw open. How dare he allow anyone to discover that they were related. She made him promise to introduce her as a distant cousin.

"Hi." The girl smiled so hard her eyes closed, and Azula walked forward into the awful, cold water before the girl shrieked in terror, "Oh my God watch your step!"

And that was the moment when a huge wave decided it would be hilarious to knock Azula face first into the water.