Hey! I thought of this while I re-watched the earlier episodes today. Nya spent a lot of time with Lloyd on the bounty, and since she's the only girl on the ship, I thought that she had to have some kind of sweet relationship with Lloyd. So, this was born. I'll probably add onto it with other one-shots, related to what Nya talks about, but this is it for now. :)

ENJOY!

"Would you stop squirming?"

"But it hurts!"

"Of course it hurts, you managed to cut your face using a wooden sword! How is that even possible?" I grabbed the finnicky green child ninja by the hood and pulled him back onto the middle of the bed. Lloyd had somehow managed to hurt himself during his training while using wooden weapons. Lloyd pouted and squirmed again as I tried to press the aneseptic soaked cotton ball to the long gash running down his face. There was a little bit of dry blood on his light blond hair and smeared on his cheek. My other hand was firmly gripping his shoulder to make sure he didn't escape. How did he even do this? We had made the wooden weapons specifically to avoid any big accidents. Bumps, I understood. Bruises? Sure. But big gashes?

"Nya..."

"I know it hurts sweetie, but I have to clean it or else it would get infected." I gently cleaned out the wound before reaching for any soothing cream. Lloyd was fine really, but honestly, he had some kind of crazy talent for getting into the worst of situations. The white box next to him on the bed was filled to the brim with medical supplies and yet, I couldn't find the cream. I turned to the green ninja and huffed, tucking loose strands of my hair behind my ear. He was idly swinging his legs, looking around my room, seemingly thinking of nothing. But I could see in his eyes that the cut really hurt him. He could try all he wanted to act all macho, but I knew that he was in pain. My heart ached. I didn't want to admit it...but I loved this kid. Sure he could be a brat, and sure he could be conceited, and did I hate it when he put fake snakes in my shower or when he superglued my drawers shut? Yes, of course I did, but this was still the kid that I had spent almost every waking moment with ever since he came to live with us.

When I was scribbling up a storm of impractical upgrades for the Bounty while the boys were off on a mission just to get my mind off of all of the bad things that could happen, Lloyd would sit next to me and calmly ask me what each crazy machine did or what it was made of. He would listen to my long, winded explanations patiently and when I was finished, he would begin to tell me about his comics. It would keep my mind occupied and my heart relatively calm until the ninja came back and I could hug my brother and be sure that he was okay.

When he would have a nightmare, he would walk into my room quietly and sit on the edge of my bed until I woke up. I would then take him into my arms and hold him until he wasn't afraid anymore. Sometimes I would sing him a song my mother sang to me and he would cry quietly until he was all cried out.

The things we did...it-It reminded me of me and my mother. The simple give and take, the unspoken amity between us. I didn't care if I was just 10 years older than him. I loved him like he was my son.

"Nya?" His voice brought me back to the present and I realized that I had kneeled in front of him so that we were roughly eye level. The blond boy looked at me curiously as I smiled and reached for a soft wipe. When I found it, I gently cleaned his face of any blood and put a bandage on the wound. He winced as I applied pressure but stayed quiet. I then sat next to him on the bed and turned to face him.

"How did you do this, really?"

"Umm...well..."

"Did Kai do it?"

"No." He looked at his hands. I put my hand under his chin and made him turn his head to face me. The bandage made him look smaller and frail. I felt an overwhelming need to protect him well up in my chest.

"Did Cole?"

"No."

"Zane?"

"No." he began to chuckle and I couldn't help but smile.

"It had to be Jay, didn't it?"

"Well, it was kind of funny, actually." He had this mischevious glint in his eyes and I couldn't help but feel a bit of curiosity and frustration at the same time. What had he done? He seemed to sense my question and he began to laugh.

"You provoked him, didn't you?"

"Well all I did was point out that if he didn't move any faster with you, that you would lose interest! It was a joke, but I guess he took it seriously. He got this serious expression and he got all red - like Kai's suit - and then he just said that he wouldn't take relationship advice from a kid and started being harder on me. I guess he didn't like getting advice from a nine-year old!" Here he started to laugh harder and I couldn't help but laugh along. It was a pretty funny thought, Jay with his blue suit and bright red face. Still that didn't give him the right to hurt Lloyd.

"Well you shouldn't be getting into other people's business. What Jay and I do is comepletely up to us." I tried to sound serious, but I ended up laughing. Lloyd was trying to get us to become some sort of super couple. Well, it wouldn't work.

"Yes, mother." he said. I think he meant it as a joke, because he was still chuckling, but it plucked at my heartstrings. Something about that word...mother. It sounded right. Although, I knew Lloyd had a real mom somewhere who was actually old enough to be his mother, I liked to think I held the title as honorary mother...for now. I smiled and gently kissed his forhead.

"Now go. Zane's cooking tonight." He smiled widely and ran out of the room, tripping over the door frame in his now half-blind state. I just watched his retreating green form and started cleaning up the medical supplies, mind wandering to the blue ninja of our conversation.

"Ah-hem. Nya?" Speak of the devil...I turned to see Jay, still in his ninja suit, shyly standing at my door. I couldn't help but smile.

"Yeah? What's up?" I put the last of the supplies in the box and put it under my bed. When I turned around, Jay was barely a foot behind me. I jumped a little. He needed one of those cat bells!

"Well, I..." his face was bright red, and he twisted a hanging strap from his suit anxiously. I tilted my head. He was almost never speechless. Was he okay? Was he nervous or what? Before I could ask, a warmth enveloped my lips and two hands placed themselves firmly on my hips. The warmth spread from my lips to the tips of my toes as my knees threatened to give out from under me. Jay's smokey scent overwhelmed my senses as he pressed me closer and my stomach was over run with butterflies. Wow. As fast as it happened, the kiss stopped and I was left tingling and warm as Jay stared wide-eyed at me. I couldn't help but smirk mentally. I rendered him speechless.

"Hah! You DID listen to me!" I looked over Jay's shoulders to see Lloyd standing triumphantly at my door way. Jay whirled and sputtered a protest, but Lloyd was long gone. I laughed as his shoulders drooped. I began to walk past, and intertwined our fingers. He followed, grumbling something about annoying kids before I stopped and turned to face him.

"Don't ever hurt Lloyd again." I hit the back of his head and watched his expression go from surprise, to annoyance to shame in a blink of an eye. He smiled sheepishly and I raised an eyebrow before continuing to walk to dinner. I could hear Lloyd laughing in the dining room. He probably told everyone what had happened...I braced myself for the onslaught of jokes that I'm sure we would get once we stepped inside. In spite of it, I smiled.

I guess I did have to thank Lloyd. Not for getting Jay to kiss me, but for everything. Just everything.

So, how did I do? You guys seemed to like the other one-shot I wrote (THANKS FOR ALL OF THE AWESOME REVIEWS, BTW :D) so I want to know how this one turned out. :)