A/N: Do the weekend whip! Yes! I made it through my first week of school unharmed! Anyway, this chapter is a bit sad too, but not so much that you'd cry, unless you're super sensitive.
Chapter 2: Jayleene to Jay: Jayleene's POV
I walked out of my brother's hospital room and looked at everyone waiting outside. "He's gone…" I whispered, still crying. Suddenly everyone wrapped their arms around me in a group hug, bowing their heads. I tried my best to contain myself but I broke down, sobbing. Eventually the same happened to everyone else around me. Kai turned his back to the group, clenching his fists; I could tell he was crying by how he shook. Cole folded his arms and looked down, but I noticed a single tear fell from his eye and onto the clean white tiles below. Zane, being a nindroid, stood still, but a tear ran down his cheek. Lloyd's eyes darted around the room, obviously trying to find an excuse not to cry. Nya sat down, shaking just as badly as me as she sobbed. Sensei Wu stood with his staff at hand, bowing his head. My parents still had their arms around me, crying just like how I did. "Guys…Its okay…" I hugged them back. "Jay told me something before he…You know…"
Everyone looked up, wiping away their tears. "What'd he say? Did he leave something for you?" Lloyd asked.
I smiled lightly and pulled away from my parents. "He told me not to let anyone forget about him." I said.
"That's ridiculous, we'd never forget Jay." Nya stood up with the help of Kai.
"No, by never forget him, he means he doesn't want to end up being the ninja that died." I explained. "He told me that he wanted me to…"
"To what…?" Kai stepped closer to me, making me looked down. The master of fire always had a weird effect on me.
"He wanted me to take his place as the master of lightning." I finally got the words out. "Those were his final wishes and I plan on fulfilling them." I noticed that I sounded a bit like Zane. I turned to Sensei Wu. "I really want to do this for my brother…Please?"
The old man looked directly at me, as if examining every inch of my face. "If that is what Jay wished for, you will be able to fulfill it."
"Thank you." I turned to everyone else. "Don't call me Jayleene, call me…Jay."
Kai's POV
Jayleene looked at everyone in the room, obviously trying to read their expression, I made my feeling clear: Anger. I shot my meanest glare and folded my arms defiantly. Even if they were Jay's wishes, nobody could ever replace him, sure he talked a lot and was annoying as hell, but he was my ninja brother, I loved him. Though, I still had way too much pride to admit that. I still couldn't help my tears, I tried my best to keep my crying quiet, but I let out a gasp for air, trying to hold it all in. When Sensei Wu touched my shoulder, I immediately pulled away and ran out of the building. I could never handle when someone close to me died, I never handled my feelings "the correct way", therefore when someone was gone, I couldn't help but try to express my sadness in any other way but crying.
My dad always said crying was for girls and that it wasn't manly to tear up, I had to suck it up. Still…I got a sharp pain in the left side of my stomach as I held in my emotions.
I remembered this was how I felt when mom and dad died, girls were so lucky. They got to cry all they wanted and not be judged, but guys…I turned to the nearest thing to me and punched it as hard as I could. Unfortunately, that turned out to be a brick wall. I pulled my fist away and grabbed it in pain, emotional and physical. That was it; I broke down crying as I fell onto the ground. The pain in my side faded away as I continued to sob and rolled onto my back, looking up at the sky, which was starting to turn gray, matching my ugly mood. "You had to die, didn't you?" I shouted at the sky with a shaky voice. "You might as well have driven a blade through my heart…" I said in a now lower voice.
"I miss him too, Kai." A gentle voice made me jump up and wipe my tears away. I turned around and saw Jayleene; she must've followed me without me noticing.
"You're stupid for thinking you could replace him." I growled. "All you're gonna' do is cause everyone more pain being a constant reminder." I got onto my feet and stepped closer to her, making her back away a bit. "Why don't you just go home and deal with it? He's gone, we don't want to keep thinking about it, we all have to move on and that's impossible with you around."
Jayleene's POV
Tears started to roll down my face as I thought about it more and more. "You know what?" I stepped closer to him this time, clenching my fists. "If my brother wants me to replace him, let me. If you don't like it, you should leave." I hissed. "I love Jay and I know you love him too, so let me do what I have to. Deal with it, because I'm staying. And what's with using the words the others? By that you mean, you. You don't want me around because you know you'll just break down, what happened to Mr. Tough Hothead? Huh?" I gave him a small push in the chest and he pushed back. Soon, this turned into shoving, then slapping, and then punching. I jumped on top of him and punched in right in the bridge of his nose, making blood pour. He pulled my long brown hair which was my only disadvantage and made me shriek in pain. "Let go of me!" I screamed, punching him in the chest repeatedly.
"Like hell I will!" he shot back.
I punched harder and harder, trying to knock him out, but the boy remained alert, pulling on my hair harsher. Suddenly two strong hands grabbed my waist and pulled me off of Kai, I shrieked in even more pain as some strands of my hair gave way. When I looked up, Kai had a few of my hairs in his grip. I looked at who was pulling me away and saw Cole. "Stop fighting!" he yelled as I tried to punch Kai again. Zane immediately went over to hold Sparkplug back as well. "Let me at him!" I yelled.
"Cool it, Jay!" Cole turned me away and led me off into the direction of the ship they lived on, The Bounty.
Tears were still in my eyes. "That son of a bitch deserves a good ass kicking! Give me a few good minutes with him and he's dead!"
"Jay would not want you to fight one of his brothers." Sensei said, making me stop and go pale. I realized that I had pushed myself away from my goal: Replace my brother. That meant making friends with the other ninja, unfortunately that meant Kai as well…
I sighed. "Yes, Sensei, I will apologize…" I looked back at Kai who was being dragged onto the ship by Zane. "After he cools down," I added.