October 94AG
Azula was lonely. Lu Ten would be going into war soon, so he had to spend his time training with his unit. Mai and Ty Lee came over sometimes, but that was the only attention she got.
Ozai was working on war plans for the Fire Lord. The Fire Lord was busy with strategizing for Ba Sing Se.
Zuzu spent all his time with mother.
In her room, there were books that Azula had already read and toys that she never liked.
She wondered outside to practice her firebending. She tried to focus, but she kept getting interrupted by laughter. She went over the hill to see Ursa playing with Zuko.
Ursa never played with her anymore. Azula didn't remember the days when Ursa used to bring her to the garden with Zuko.
She watched with envy and before she knew it, a stupid lotus flower was on fire. Azula was so angry, that she didn't even realize her chi had taken over and the flower was on fire. It was an accident, but that's not how the story got told.
Zuko quickly put out the fire.
"How did that happen?" Ursa questioned, only seeing the ash.
It had been a blue flame. "Azula must have set it," he told his mother.
Ursa never waited for an explanation. She just said, "you're grounded. It's not nice ot burn my flowers."
It's bad enough he gets all of mother's attention. He has to be a snitch too!
The next time she saw her brother, she burnt his bottom. She didn't even make a flame. She just used her heatbending to make him rather uncomfortable.
She winced as she heard him shriek before he ran down the hall.
Does he have to be such a crybaby?
"MOM! Azula burnt my bottom." He didn't see her do it, but it had to have been her.
Azula got sent to her room with no dinner.
There was a knock on her door, probably her mother coming to scold her some more.
Lu Ten arrived with a basket of cow pig steam buns. "You didn't get these from me," he said. He might have been busier, but he didn't forget his cousin who was somehow so easily misunderstood.
"Thanks Lu Ten." Why couldn't he have been my brother?
With steam buns in hand, she went to her journal and started thinking of ways to make her brother miserable.
AN: I'm writing a series of short stories about Azula in the same universe (eventually a multi-chapter story will emerge). Coming up are a series about Azula and Lu Ten and a series about Azula and Ursa.