If the format looks weird, it's my first encounter with this site lol i don't understand how things here work yet
any advice (for the story and how to get used to this site) would be appreciated
Anyway
Found this:
Young! Lloyd crushing on Fem!Kai
with some other details that will be spoilers in one of my plunny lists but i wanted to know if this is nice enough or nah (if anyone ever reads this of course)
and maybe i just hit writer's block you never know
Disclaimer: I don't own Ninjago or any affiliated characters
also i dun remember how fighting games work kill me
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(It's his first day living with his uncle and the ninja.)
The game cartridge is set in place with a soft click.
(He feels awkward to say the least, considering what he's done since they met and who his father is, but he tries not to let it show on his face (or anywhere, period!) because he is Lloyd Garmadon and he does not let those kinds of...feelings...get to him!)
It lights up, animated colors filling the screen, as the standard opening sequence begins. He lets his mind wander while he waits for it to finish.
(And imagine his surprise when he finds out that the red ninja - Kai, he remembers from battling banter he overheard each time and from the earlier introductions- is actually a female.)
It's done.
'Finally,' he rolls his eyes, pressing the start button and selecting which character to fight with.
(And Lloyd Garmadon, son of Lord Garmadon, is not entirely sure how to react to that, errm, tidbit of information because:)
READY?
Lloyd narrows his eyes in concentration, bright red spheres glued to the screen. He readies himself, fingers hovering over the controller's buttons.
FIGHT!
(One: this is his first personal interaction with a female since Darkley's was an all-boys school and no female teachers had the guts to teach there.) *
The health bar of his opponent is drastically low, as opposed to his. Just...one...more...
"Yes!"
His character lands a blow and the other falls to their default loss reaction. He grins in triumph as the screen displays:
K.O.
ROUND ONE
WIN!
(Two: he doesn't get it? Kai looks and acts so much like a male and his brain just goes what?)
Drat, he let his guard down.
"Come on, come on..." He bit his lip, the health bar of his character turning orange and almost running out.
"If I'm not careful, there might be a Round 3."
A wrong press of a button was all it took.
K.O.
"Auggh-! Nooo-!"
ROUND TWO
LOSE
(And three: girls have cooties, don't they?! Does this mean he'll get them now? With how he- gah, she- manhandled him before?!)
Lloyd huffs in frustration. He was so close to winning!
FINAL ROUND
His hands were shaking. Why were his hands shaking?
(Haah, deep breaths, deep breaths. Now is not the time to panic.
oh spICY CHRISTMAS HOT SAUCE HE COULD HAVE COOTIES!? HE COULD HAVE COO-)
START
"Hey, squirt-"
The young blond ends up throwing the controller upwards and topples over his seat with a scream. "I DIDN'T DO IT!" And add insult to injury, the controller hits him on the head.
"Pfft," is what he hears before the brunette in front of him blows up in laughter. The younger is about to tell her off when a cry from the television catches his attention.
His character was getting his butt kicked!
Kai grabs the controller before he could and he struggles to get it back, thinking that he -she, he reminds himself- will make him lose the battle. Surprise fills him when she pushes him away and begins to play. "I got this, Lloyd. Calm down."
"But-"
"Butts are for sitting," she grins at him cheekily (he'll deny that he found that cute), fingers fluidly mashing across the controller with ease. His character had been down to, at most, a quarter of their original health, there's no way she's going to-
She uses a move that he's never used nor seen before and the opposing character's about three-fourth health reaches critical and is left disoriented, leaving Kai to attack them with just one more kick.
K.O.
WINNER
-win...?
Lloyd stares at the screen, mouth agape. "How-?"
"I'm the Video Game Champion here for a reason." She stands up and pulls him up at the same time, his insides fluttering at her touch. "And I came in here to tell you that," she stretches her slightly stiff body, "dinner was almost ready." They walk out the room, Kai leading the way.
"Was?"
He's sent a wry look. "We're probably late, honestly. Sensei's being a stickler for rules today and wants everyone at the table so we could all eat together," she chuckles. "'Cause we're a family', he said. But I think he's just happy that you're here now."
A foreign feeling washes over him at her words. It was...nice.
After that, silence covers them. It wasn't uncomfortable, but he'd rather they talk if he were to be honest.
"So, uh, that move you used earlier..." He wrings his hands together. "Coul-"
"No."
Ack! Flat out rejection stings...
"Aww, why noooot-?" He whines. (Inwardly, he's glad that the silence is gone.) "I promise I won't tell the others about it!"
"And give you the chance to beat me? Hah, not happening, little man. Besides," she stops, Lloyd nearly knocking into her, "we're here."
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* this is from Lloyd's POV, maybe there are and he hasn't seen them and it's a bad boy school come on, people there probs lie lmao
okay fine i have writer's block someone help me
might continue, plunnies have started to develop kek :v