A/N: Fact: this is possibly my favorite update so far. I just had so much fun writing it.
I love the requests I've gotten so far, but I need to say that since I write them alternating with my own Tyzula ideas, it can be a bit before they're fulfilled. But they will always be fulfilled!
They perched together on the rim of the turtle-duck pond just like when they were children. They were even in the same order: Azula claimed the shady spot under the tree, Ty Lee sat to her left, and across from them Mai and Zuko leaned against each other. It was wide enough to sit cross-legged on and remain dry, but Ty Lee liked to take her shoes off and dip her toes into the cool water, giggling when a the baby turtle-ducks mistook her toes for food and nibbled on them.
"It's good to have you back, Zuko," Ty Lee declared.
"Perhaps we should celebrate the occasion," Azula mused innocently. Zuko narrowed his eyes in suspicion; Azula's idea of a celebration normally ended with other people in tears and her idea of a worthy event was normally winning a battle, not having her older brother reinstated as prince. "I mean it, Zuzu. Did you bring what I asked, Ty Lee?"
Ty Lee nodded, rolling off the rim and walking on her hands to the base of the tree, where she retrieved a tiny bag. It clinked as she carried it back over, this time using her feet for travel, and she handed it to Azula. Azula emptied its contents beside her: a bottle filled with a pale liquid and four tiny goblets.
Mai raised an eyebrow but otherwise didn't react as the goblets were passed around. "Azula, are you serious?" Zuko asked. "Since when do you like drinking?" He and Mai had actually shared some wine the day he returned to the Fire Nation, but he'd never known his little sister to want a substance that might inhibit her sharp mind.
"I've never drank," she admitted, "but a true ruler is versed in all sorts of matters."
"You're just curious," Ty Lee grinned and when Azula glared at her, she raised her hands in surrender and added, "Well, I am too!"
The wine was distributed among the goblets. Right as Azula's glass touched her lips, Ty Lee cried, "Wait!"
The other three lowered their glasses and looked at her and she explained, "We have to have a toast."
Azula shrugged. "If you insist." She raised her glass. "For having reuniting the lovebirds," she said, smirking at Mai and Zuko.
Mai went next. "For a less boring evening than usual."
"For regaining my honor" was, of course, Zuko's toast.
Ty Lee finished with, "I toast to the most beautiful and perfect girl I know!" Azula acknowledged the girl's typical way of praising her with a self-assured smile.
After that they sipped at the wine as dusk dragged on. It burned Azula's throat but she refused to show weakness by making a face or slowing her consumption. Mai and Zuko didn't react much to the wine itself but its effects became known when they kissed a little more than usual, something they normally only did in private. Ty Lee hated the taste and so drank it in huge gulps so as to not prolong the torture. When they were all finished, Azula produced a second bottle to pass around.
"This was a great idea, 'Zula," Ty Lee laughed, suddenly feeling quite light-headed.
Azula tried to think of some witty response but for some reason her vocabulary had shrunk and she just replied with "Uh-huh."
"You two are lightweights," Mai stated factually. Zuko started to feel a little guilty when he saw that the two younger girls were drunk.
"Are you two okay?"
"Of course we are, Zuzu," Azula said, but there was no bite to her words. She was genuinely smiling, and Azula never smiled. Smirked, leered, grinned evilly, sure. If alcohol was what it took for Azula to actually lighten up, Zuko decided there was nothing to feel bad about after all.
Anyway, Mai demanded his attention the next moment, pressing against him for a kiss. They became entranced with each other and completely forgot about the two across the tiny pond.
"They're so lucky to have each other," Ty Lee murmured, tucking her knees to her chest and casting the couple an envious look.
"You seem jealous, Ty Lee," Azula said, just barely managing not to slur the words.
"No, I'm happy for them, I just wish I could be with my true love."
Azula felt a strange pang in her chest at the girl's wording. "With your true love? So you've already found him?"
Ty Lee giggled and leaned towards Azula boldly. "Of course not. I've found her."
The sentence took a moment to register in Azula's muddled mind. Ty Lee was implying something all right, but anger was rising up in Azula at the thought of Ty Lee developing feelings for someone and not telling her about it until now.
"Well, congratulations," she sneered, poking at the bag and wishing there was another wine bottle. She shook her head in attempt to get control over her emotions again. She didn't remember it always being this hard.
Ty Lee was still getting closer, and her face was almost in Azula's. "I mean you, 'Zula."
"Ty Lee," Azula said calmly, "please remove your drunk self from my being."
Ty Lee hesitated. She never went against Azula's orders, but never before had she been so tempted to. It was time to throw caution to the wind.
She all but tackled Azula off the pond's edge and began kissing her furiously. Azula growled and flipped the acrobat over so that she was towering over her. She still couldn't fully analyze the feelings running through her mind and she'd really meant to make Ty Lee stop this foolishness but that fiery kiss had utterly swayed her mind. They kissed and kissed there on the grass, with stray leaves blowing over their entangled forms and turtle-ducks quacking a few feet away. They kissed until Mai and Zuko appeared and loomed over them and then they finally paused for breath.
"I knew it," Mai simply said while Zuko tried to conceal his shock at his suddenly quite normal, hormone-driven sister.
Ty Lee looked like she was on top of the world and she wrapped her arms around Azula when they both managed to stand. "I hope sober Azula likes kissing that much!"
"We'll see." Azula was secretly glad that Ty Lee was holding her, because she was feeling quite dizzy.
Night had fallen. They walked back to their rooms in the palace, trying to act nonchalant around the guards, with Ty Lee gripping Zuko and Azula, Mai for support; the alcohol hadn't taken too much of a toll on them. The three girls went into Azula's room for the night and Zuko continued to his room alone, shaking his head at all that had transpired that evening.
"The only bad thing," he concluded, "is that now I might have to go on double-dates with those two." But the thought of Azula doing anything romantic made him laugh until he was muffling the noise with a pillow.
In the palace that night, four content, smitten teenagers slept.
A/N: And now I feel the need to write a sequel featuring a double-date. I will probably do that sometime.