We will always be brothers

Hi there! This is NOT a story that follows Ninjago's plot nor timeline.

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Jens and I thought about writing a story together, and this came up. O_o

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By GLACIER3 and Jens

And onto The Chapter!

Chapter 1

"Wake up, Kai! " Zane opened his window and knocked Kai, his neighbour's window. Kai stirred, then yawned. He opened an eye and took a glance out his window.

"I don' wanna go…" he rolled on his bed, then fell out entirely with his blankets, with a muffled "oof!" Zane chuckled to himself. He wondered when Kai would stop falling out of his bed. As he contested that Kai hadn't got up yet, he knocked another time on the window pane, a bit harder this time. Eventually, Kai's uncombed hair poked out from under the bed, and stared with sleepy at Zane. Kai grunted, then got up to get prepared for school.

As always, he took a good deal of time in front of his mirror, tiding his hair and checking himself out. He heard Zane's muffled voice from his room, which reminded him that he was going to be late for school. He threw on his bright-red anorak, then dashed down the stairs.

"Hi Mom, hi Dad," he called out gloomily to his parents who were sitting on the sofa, watching tv. As usual, he didn't get an answer. The fourteen years old boy hesitated a moment between going to meet Zane, who was waiting impatiently in front of the door, and to the fridge to get a something for breakfast. He ended up choosing breakfast. He opened the fridge, then took a look in it up and down, vainly searching for something to eat. He slammed it shut, then said angrily:

"Mom, why is the fridge always empty? You could find time to go to buy something!"

"But you see, I don't HAVE any time," his mother replied, her eyes fixed to the screen. "I'm busy."

"Busy doing what? Watching tv?" Kai felt himself boiling.

"Yeah," she replied faintly.

"And Kai, how many times have we told you to call us "Mother and Father", not Mom and Dad?" his father spoke up.

"A hundred times," Kai sighed. "See you this afternoon, Mother and Father." Kai hissed as he slammed the door behind him.

"Kai, what took you so long?!" Zane asked his best friend as Kai stepped out of the house like a hurricane. "Oh, your parents again, I guess?"

"Don't talk about it," Kai mumbled, walking rapidly next to Zane. Zane nodded. He knew very well that Kai's parents were very irresponsible. Kai thought about his them. They never took care of Kai, never cared about how well he was doing at school. Most of the time, they went to the fast-food shop, as they were incapable (or too lazy?) to make dinner by them selves. When Kai was younger, he used to have excellent scores at school. But as time passed, he understood that it was useless to have good scores to make his parents happy. Rather, he realised that the more he grew up, the more his parents became unhappy. He tried to understand the reason, but he never did. So a big wall started to build between him and his parents. At first, Kai started to show his discontent by creating troubles, but all that did was thicken the wall. His father started to yell at him, and tell him everyday how useless he was. Then one day, as Kai was all alone in the basement, punished by his father for having a fight with a classmate, his parents came in and told Kai that form now on, Kai will have to call them "Mother and Father". And that did it. Kai felt as if a massive block of ice had hit his heart, and frozen it. At that moment, Kai had understood that his parents didn't want his love. Or worse, they simply didn't want him. His heart cried for a long time.

That was seven years ago.

Zane, who hadn't spoken a word on the to going to school, asked Kai suddenly:

"Hey, what do you say to coming to play at my house today? It's been ages."

Kai, snapped out of his dark thoughts, answered after a while:

"Yeah, why not? It'll do me good." After a while, he laughed.

"What? What's making you laugh?" Zane asked, curious.

"Well, I was thinking about the first time we met. Do you remember?"

Zane smiled. "Of course. How could I forget?"

It was a deadly hot day. Zane, four years old, tried to block the burning rays of light with his tiny white hands while squinting up to the sun. He had his feet plunged in the cold water of the stream flowing next to his house. As he was a boy who almost never went out of his house, all this was quite a new experience to him. He heard footsteps behind him. He turned his head around, then bent his neck to look up at his mother.

"Hi Mom," he chirruped as his mother bent down on her knees to sit beside him.

"Hello, Cupcake," his mother said. "What are you doing?" she asked in a soft voice.

"I'm looking at the trees," he added seriously, his brows knitted oddly in confusion. "I think I saw something move. Do you think it's a furry manimal?"

"Cupcake dear, it's not manimal, it's animal," his mother corrected.

"A-ni-mal-seu." The young boy repeated, then smiled genuinely. "Do you think it's a furry animal?"

"Yes, probably. But don't touch it, alright? It might hurt you. Well, come back soon! It's almost time for lunch!" she said as she kissed her son on the head. Zane clutched her hand eagerly. "Don't go, Mom!" he pleaded, looking up at her with puppy eyes. His mother knelt down once more.

"I have to go to watch the soup," she told him. "You don't want the soup to burn, do you?"

Zane nodded sadly, and let go of her hand. When she had gone back into the house, he mumbled:

"I don't like soup."

The young boy's head shot up as he heard the bushes on the other side of the stream rustle. A horribly messy head poked up from the leaves, leaving a startled Zane staring. The brown head spoke brutally:

"What? You wan my photo?!"

Zane, not knowing what to say, asked randomly:

"Why are you so furry?"

"Wha…" Kai made an attempt to flat his hair down. "Then why is your hair so.. euh… white?" the other boy shot back awkwardly.

"My hair's not white, they're platinum blond," Zane replied.

"Oh. Whatever. And by the way, mah name's Kai. Who are you?"

"Sorry, Dad said that I can't tell my name to strangers," Zane answered in a tiny voice.

"Huh. You're funny," Kai tilted his head to take a good look at the pale boy. "Guess I'm gonna call ya Muffin head."

"Hey, my name's not muffin head! My name's Zane!" Zane protested, vexed that Kai called him a funny name, before realising his mistake. "Oops."

Kai laughed. "You see, this trick works with everyone," he explained. "How do I get over to you, Zane?"

Zane looked around him. "I don't know," he replied sincerely. He gasped as Kai jumped into the cold water, and his head disappeared in the current. His head poked out a few seconds later, gasping for air. He disappeared back in the water again.

"KAI!" Zane screamed, and he bent over too far in the water, his hand reaching out to Kai, but he resulted in a splash. He gasped for air, but inhaled water instead. He coughed and spluttered, waving his arms about in the hope to get out. Suddenly, he felt the ground beneath him. He stopped moving, and slowly put his feet down on the ground. He stood up, then looked at Kai awkwardly. They both snickered, then they burst out laughing both at the same time.

"Well, at least you got to join me on this side," Zane commented as they squeezed the corner of their clothes to get them dry as fast as possible. Kai shrugged, and continued squeezing. He shivered.

"Aren't ya cold? I'm freezing."

"No, not really," Zane replied. "I think that if we laid on our back, we would get more heat from the sun."

"Huh. Not bad," Kai murmured as he laid down on the grass, imitating Zane. He sighed of contentment as he felt the warm sunshine penetrate into his skin, and travel all along his body. They laid down there for a long moment, enjoying this moment. That was, until a high-pitched voice came by.

GLACIER3:

Hope you all enjoyed, and make sure to review down below for one-shots! (¯(●●)¯)

Jens:

Well, as GLACIER said everything, I have not much to say XD

Plus, we don't take OC application for this story, sorry. In the one-shots, though, it's possible.

GLACIER3 and Jens: Bye bye! See you next week!