Movie!Ninjago AU where our beloved Lloyd is full Oni blood and he embraces that crap like it's a good thing

Platonic!Greenflame I guess

The grammar in here is wacky, luckily, it's supposed to be :)

Focus, focus, focus. Keep your eyes on your paper, you've got a test tomorrow, Lloyd. Stop doodling on it, Lloyd. Focus Lloyd, don't chew on your pencil, that's disgusting. Focus. Can you just keep your eyes on your paper for one second?

"Can you stop talking to yourself, Mr. Garmadon." The teacher tapped on his desk with his ruler, he flinched, the class laughed. He slid down his chair from embarrassment, he'd been talking again. "You're disrupting the class."

"He always does this," He heard someone whisper. "The rumors are true, maybe they really are gonna kick him outta here. I sure hope so."

"One time, he beat the everloving crap outta Chen five years ago, for no reason!"

That was so long ago.

"Yeah, I heard he pushed his cousin off of the Lighthouse three years back!"

It was an accident. His cousin can't swim. He wondered where they got that information, he made sure he burned all the newspapers.

"Bet you twenty bucks that he goes to join his dad."

"Think Lloyd Garmadon will join forces with his father?"

"He's such an emotionless freak, just like his father."

Stop talking, you're hurting me again. Stop, stop, stop, stop. They'll make me hurt them. St-

"Shut up! Stop talking about me!" Lloyd shouted. His classmates gasped.

"Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon! That is enough!" Someone snickered at the name "Montgomery". The teacher slapped his ruler across his desk, Lloyd flinched again. "You've been disrupting this class for the last three days with your outbursts, week's detention!" Lloyd buried his face with his hands.

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.

Lloyd sat up, he'd cry if he could. "I'm going to the bathroom." He grabbed his bag and made his way out of the room. He ignored the teasing of the other students, he ignored his teacher calling after him, he ignored his impulsive feelings to hurt someone. That'd be bad.

Lloyd could never get people, it was a thing he was incapable of. The human emotion was foreign to him, he understood why they smiled, he understood why they got frustrated, he even understood why they laughed. But he never understood why they cried when they got hurt, when they did, they'd go on for hours and hours on end on why it hurt, he found that annoying.

Maybe being an emotionless freak wasn't so bad.

He sat on the cold bathroom floor, next to the sink, he liked that bathroom. No one came to bother him, no one interrupts his thoughts, no one came to touch him. He'd be fine on his own. No one came in there because he'd hurt them if they did. They were afraid of the things he'd do to them. He liked being alone.

The bully becoming the bullied was a funny thing. Lloyd felt so conflicted with his actions, first, he's an emotionless teenager who feels nothing but his pride in his heritage, then he's a raging monster who leaves scars and bruises in his wake. So conflicted, so tired.

"Hey buddy," The bathroom door opened, there was Kai. Suddenly, the atmosphere seemed tense, Lloyd doesn't like tense atmospheres. "I'd thought you'd be in here," He kept it a secret from them, they'd be scared of him if they found out. He doesn't want them to be scared of him. "...saw you running out of your class...decided to follow you...okay?"

"Hm?" Lloyd only caught bits and pieces of their one-sided conversation, he only answered in nods with occasional "yes" and "no". He wanted Kai to go away, to stop asking questions, he wanted him to disappear. Kai placed his hand on his shoulder, Kai was his best friend, he wouldn't hurt him. Maybe.

"Lloyd, you're not answering my questions, yes and no aren't the words that I'm looking for. You know that." Kai said. Lloyd returned his concerned stare with a blank one, he wasn't even listening, he was too busy thinking of the things he could do if Kai didn't leave him alone. Bad things.

"I like being alone in here, can you go now?" Lloyd responded. Kai furrowed his eyebrows. Lloyd then added softly: "I'll hurt you if you don't."

"You don't know me, Kai. Not like you think you do," He sighed. "You can't possibly understand what I do in here, it's a coping thing. These outbursts are uncontrollable...these unearthly coping mechanisms."

"Coping?" Lloyd shrunk back, he'd already said too much. Kai would be mad at him, then he'd never trust him again, he'd tell the others about it, then it'll be another accident. Kai sat down next to him, the bell rung. "Lloyd, what exactly do you do in here?"

"Do you ever wonder why we get attacked by my dad so often?" He changed the subject, completely off topic from Kai was trying to get at. Kai looked almost hurt when he dodged the question again. "I come in here to think about that."

"Lloyd, please don't lie to me." Kai formed his mouth into a thin line to find the lie. Kai was onto him, he wasn't buying it. Lloyd gathered his thoughts together, it was like a game of cat and mouse, he was the feeble mouse while Kai was the dangerous cat, ready to strike at any moment. He was afraid of that. "You're a good liar, you know that, right? If you have anything to say, you might as well say it, I might be able to help you. I'll understand."

"You ever wonder why the janitor's arm is broken?" Lloyd hinted at what he was going to put out there. He didn't think Kai could help him. Kai would never understand. "You ever see kids around school with black eyes and bruises? How about the ones who don't laugh or tease me? Or the teachers who are even afraid to speak my name?"

"Lloyd," He was afraid of that. He knew what Kai's fear was like. "What did you do?"

"But, but, you said you'll understand, right?" Lloyd widened his eyes, searching for some hope that'll his best friend would agree with him. But that wasn't Kai, the fire ninja was all about justice for those who deserved it. And Lloyd most definitely didn't deserve justice. "So what if I broke a couple of bones and ribs? I made them promise not to tell! You believe me right?"

"You can't just hurt people and get away with it." Kai protested. Lloyd moved back, further away from him, his mother said the same thing when he was eleven. "You had no reason too."

"Maybe I don't, but they wouldn't leave me alone, they talk about me like I'm some monster."

"You are a monster if you hurt people!"

Lloyd doesn't like it when people yelled at him. Lloyd doesn't like it when his friends got mad. Lloyd doesn't like it when no one believes him. Lloyd doesn't like a lot of things. He definitely doesn't like it when someone calls him a monster.

Kai looked anywhere but Lloyd's eyes, he failed to see what he was doing was justified. Was it just for fun? For vengeance? To clear his good name? Or maybe it was for the personal issues he clearly had.

"I'm going to tell the others." Kai got up, he put on his backpack. Lloyd was once again afraid. "I can't see-"

"No!" Lloyd shouted. Matching his facial expressions to Kai's, he smiled. "No. You won't see, and if you leave, I'll make sure you can't see at all." Grabbing Kai's hand and yanking him down, Lloyd locked his into Kai's. "Just let me explain, please?"

"Let me go, Lloyd." Kai tugged at Lloyd's fingers as if they were sharp claws. Lloyd kept his eyes on Kai's, he wasn't about to let his secret go public. That went against his rules. He squeezed Kai's hand, he heard several joints pop, Kai winced indicating that he felt it. "Lloyd! What's the matter with you!?"

"I thought we were friends, I thought friends would understand each other, Kai!" He was crying again, emotions were a terrible thing. "Maybe I sunk too far into that hole of infinite hatred and spite of nothing," He grabbed his wrists now, twisting them ever so slightly. "Maybe I want to stay there, only where I'm understood, I'll be fine, you'll be fine."

Lloyd didn't really know if inflicting pain was the same thing as getting hurt, it was a theory he was trying to test out. Whenever or not the mediocre human was capable of telling the difference, he was not human for his case. His father was the most terrifying thing the city had ever seen, but he wasn't afraid, he had never been afraid. He doesn't like to hurt himself.

It was a strange thing, that a well-known hero of Ninjago City should resort to a violent tendency, a violent impulse. He felt like a caged monster that needed to let free the frustration to do something bad, he didn't necessarily like playing the good guy, wasn't who he was. He had been keeping newspapers of his father's attacks, he's been playing his two-faced hero personality again, fascinated by them. But his father was intentionally trying to kill him, the Green Ninja.

He was sixteen and going under, sixteen and not human, sixteen and a terror. Lloyd let out a laugh, he'd been thinking too much again. He eyed Kai, fear stayed with him through. Then Lloyd took out a pen and ink, keeping his death grip on Kai's arm. He was sixteen and wasn't going to let his life go to hell.

That wasn't his job.

"Just promise that you won't tell, promise me that I won't get hurt again. I don't want to get hurt again. Just don't leave me." He felt thirteen again, speaking in sentences that made no sense. Kai wasn't going to leave him like his cousin did, it was an accident. He brought his hand to Kai's right eye, feeling the scar, Kai gave him a confused look but continued to struggle against him. Lloyd felt guilty. He found that funny. "I like your pretty eyes."

"Lloyd, let me go and maybe I'll spare you a roundhouse kick to the face!" His naysayer pulled, his efforts were useless, he couldn't understand. It was ridiculous, last time he checked, Lloyd had been the weak link between the two, so very ridiculous.

"You've got a pretty face, Kai. Wouldn't want to ruin it." Lloyd hummed. Lloyd knew Kai's fears, he was afraid, afraid of what his father could and can do, afraid of water, afraid of himself. People hurt him because they are afraid. He hurt them because they were afraid, afraid of him. He was afraid of people. The instincts of an Oni were a scary thing.

Lloyd brought his hand down to Kai's neck, he pressed lightly onto his pressure point. The fire master's eyes rolled to the back of his head, he was knocked out, missing in on the action. Lloyd took his pen and drew symbols, patterns, words. He can't tell the difference between inflicting pain and receiving pain. Kai was his best friend.

Kai was snoring softly now, Lloyd liked his facial expression. It was soft and harmless, incapable of reaching out to others, he liked that. He let loose his grip on Kai's hand, he then placed his pen and ink into it, allowing the ink to spill. What a mess, Lloyd was going to have to clean it later.

Kai wouldn't remember what happened the next day, he'd have to read between the ink on his skin for answers, ancient letters that only a few could read it. He'd wish he could see.

Maybe his tomorrow could read it to him. That's what he liked to do before he died. The instincts of an Oni were a dangerous thing. He had broken one of his rules

That's what he was afraid of.

Rule Number One: Don't be afraid to lie.