Here's the next chapter! I'm just going to say right now that I used the last name "Smith" for Kai and Nya because...I don't know. I think it was a rumour or something? Whatever the reason for how it came to be, I'm just going to steal that last name because I'm too lazy to think of an original one :p so yeah credits to whoever first used that last name for them. Anyways, enjoy!

Chapter 3: Power Awakened

After Nya set the Bounty on course towards the Akra Forest, the team finished eating their dinner and went off to sleep.

"Remember everyone!" Sensei Wu called out. "Training resumes tomorrow so be ready by 6 a.m. sharp!" Their sensei's reminder earned a groan from the ninja, though Nya just gave a smirk that she doesn't have to wake up as early as them, but most of the time she does unless she's really tired.

In the morning, it was Nya's turn to cook breakfast so she made some pancakes and maple syrup to go along with it. The ninja quickly ate the pancakes in the 15 minutes time they had before their training would begin, else Sensei Wu would get quite disappointed if they were late.

"Soooo how talkative do you guys think I am?" Jay asked his brothers.

"Very." Lloyd gave a quick reply.

"Come on, I can't be that bad, can I?"

"No," Zane agreed.

"See? Even Zane agrees with me, and he's almost always right!"

Jay was oblivious to the fact that he used the word "almost", but Lloyd just had to point it out to him. "There was a keyword there, Jay. 'Almost always'."

"And it seems like this is one of those times he isn't right," Cole said.

"Well then, you haven't talked to my parents yet! One time they went on and on with one of my aunts and they talked for nearly half the afternoon! I was like…" Like this, Jay went on with his long rant for nearly another minute while the ninja and even Nya just froze and stared at him, looking bored and annoyed. "So tell me now," Jay finished his story. "I'm not that bad, am I?"

"Jay, you did not let me finish," Zane told the blue ninja. "You're actually worse than bad." Jay looked like he was about to cry (an exaggeration of course), while the others laughed and high-fived each other. Even Nya laughed until she saw Jay's sad expression.

"Come on, Jay," she gave a light punch on his shoulder, "you know they were just joking."

Kai noticed something about his pancake that the rest didn't. He stopped laughing. "Wait, why is this pancake burnt?" Kai asked his younger sister.

"It's just for you, Kai," she answered teasingly. It seemed like Nya was in a good mood today.

Kai scowled at her, and Nya made an annoyed face as well. "If you don't like it, you don't have to eat it!" All of a sudden, the tap started running, although there was nobody there. All the ninja glanced at each other.

"Uh, what just happened?" Lloyd asked the golden question everybody had no idea what the answer was.

"I don't know…" Cole replied.

Then Kai remembered something. "Nya…remember that sensei said something about a kunoichi of water being one of the kunoichi we have to find?" When Nya and the other guys nodded, Kai continued. "Well…I have a hunch you could be it…"

Sensei Wu walked in and saw the tap running but nobody attending it. "I was wondering why you had not arrived yet," he started. "Why did you not reach the outer deck yet?"

"Sensei, there has been a…strange incident." Zane informed the old man.

Wu raised his eyebrow. "Strange incident?"

Nya sighed. "I'll explain. I made pancakes for breakfast when Kai asked me something and I got a bit annoyed, and then the tap started running. By itself."

Things got silent until at last their sensei spoke up. "I see. Nya, I think you may have figured it out already, but I think your powers have awakened. You are the kunoichi of water."

Everyone gasped except Sensei Wu. "Whoa, you really think so, sensei?" Kai asked who was just as surprised as the rest.

"It makes sense to me now, Kai." Sensei Wu replied. "Nya Smith, your powers have awakened as the kunoichi of water. You are quite opposite from your brother, and fire and water can be considered opposites. You have a lot of strength and courage in you, Nya, and it has shown through your being of the hero, Samurai X. It is your decision, and only yours, if you want to become the kunoichi of water."

"Umm…I'll need some time to take in all this and think…" the young woman replied.

Wu nodded with understanding. "Very well then. You have until lunch to think while the ninja can begin their training again." The ninja groaned again on hearing the word "training". Wu and the ninja left to go to the deck of the Bounty.

"I still can't believe Nya is the kunoichi of water!" Cole whispered to the others.

"Yeah, me neither," Lloyd agreed.

"I think it makes sense," Zane said. "Nya is a strong and courageous young woman just like sensei said."

Meanwhile, Jay was speechless while he was walking, which was funny considering the joke they had just a few minutes ago about how Jay talks a lot.

"Uh, earth to Jay?" Cole said to the lightning ninja, not realizing he just used a pun with his element. Kai waved his hands in front of the usually talkative ninja to snap him out of it.

"Oh, he's a goner." Lloyd chuckled.

The ninja reached the deck and Sensei Wu turned around to find his students trying to "wake up" Jay. "Jay?" he asked as he walked towards the blue ninja.

"…"

"I think he can't get over the fact that his lover can be a kunoichi," Zane guessed.

"Well, I'll get him out of his state of shock," Lloyd grinned. He took a deep breath and screamed loud and clear into Jay's ear.

"AAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Jay screamed back. "WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT FOR?!"

"You were totally out of it, Jay," Kai smirked at his brother.

"Ugh," Jay groaned. "Let's just get to the training."

"Welcome back, Jay," Wu greeted him with a hint of a smile through his white beard. "Now, you will start with stretches. First, the swooping crane." Wu bent his back and knees a bit and raised his arms while the ninja followed.

"Ow ow ow ow!" Lloyd complained because they had not done any training in a couple of weeks.

"Good. Now do 20 lunges." Wu said as he turned around. He was going easy on them since it was their first day again. Normally, he'd make them do 40, sometimes even 50 if he was angry with them. After they were done their 20 lunges, he told them to do 100 push-ups straight. Again, he was going easy else sometimes they would do 200. After they were done 100 (which took a while except for Cole), Wu said "that is fine for stretches. You all are really out of shape, but you will be back to your usual stretches tomorrow, which means double what you did today." He smiled a bit again. "Now, it is time to start your actual training, with the training course again."

"But Sensei, we've already mastered the training course." Jay objected.

"I know, but you will follow my order. You haven't done anything in a while, but, like I said before, evil never sleeps so you will do your training course…for now."

"What do you mean 'for now'?" Cole asked.

"What I mean is you will do something else later before lunch after you successfully completed the training course. I will watch over, drinking my tea of course." As he said that, Wu got out the kettle of tea and a cup from nowhere and poured it and started drinking it.

"Geez, how does Sensei put up with that awful taste?" Kai wondered as he pressed the button for the training course.

One by one, the ninja completed the training course after a bit of struggling. "My analysis of us doing the training course shows we are very out of shape," Zane observed.

"Oh, great! You just had to record us doing this and failing a few times?" Jay hissed at the white ninja.

"Well, it seems you five have completed it at last." Wu said happily with a bit of disappointment as well in his voice. He had finished the kettle of tea long before the ninja finished the training course. "That wasn't so hard, was it?"

"What do we do now, sensei?" the black ninja asked with his arms crossed.

"Now you will practice your swordplay again." he said without hesitation.

"Oh, we've done that a million times!" the green ninja protested.

"And we don't even have our Golden Weapons!" the red ninja complained, throwing his hands up in the air.

"I miss them too, Kai," the white ninja sighed, longing for his Shurikens of Ice.

"Enough!" Sensei Wu scolded. "You will do as I say, understood?" When the ninja groaned for a bit and nodded, he nodded as well and left to go check on Nya. Wu didn't find her in the kitchen or the control room so he assumed she would be in her room, most likely thinking. When he got there, he found the door closed. "Nya?" He knocked on the door.

"Come in, Sensei," came the reply from the girl.

He opened the door. "Nya, have you made your decision yet?"

She nodded. "I have."

"Okay, then I will go call the boys in to hear it." He left before she could say anything.

"Ugh, I hate using these swords…" the red ninja felt sad.

"I know right! They feel so…powerless…" the blue ninja agreed.

They were just about to get their first fake fight between Jay and Kai when they saw their sensei walking towards them. "Sensei, is something wrong?" the white ninja asked his old teacher.

"No, but Nya has come to a decision on whether or not she wants to become the kunoichi of water or not."

"Oh, so we get to hear it?" the black ninja was delighted.

"Indeed. Let us all gather in the control room." Everybody quickly put their swords back and hurried to the control room where they found Wu and Nya waiting.

"Nya, what's your decision?" her older brother asked her.

"I…I'm ready to become the kunoichi of water."

Wu smiled while the five ninja cheered. "Good choice," Lloyd remarked.

Jay was just speechless as his eyes said it all that he was completely entranced over her.

"So, when do I get my new clothes like the ninja do?" she asked her teacher. She knew from what Kai told her that the First Spinjitzu Master's son would engulf her in his golden Spinjitzu and give her her kunoichi outfit like that.

"Now." Wu replied. "NINJA GO!" Sensei Wu used his golden Spinjitzu of creation and whirled right past Nya, engulfing her in his golden tornado and sending her back out, twirling. The ninja stared (somewhat) in awe, while Jay looked on at her dreamily at her new cyan clothing. Her outfit wasn't very different from the ninja; it had the same clothing, except instead of a ninja hood she had a "mask" tied at the back of her head that covers the lower half of her face but keeps the upper part open, whereas the ninja hood covers everything except around the eyes.

"Wow! This looks…good!" the kunoichi of water exclaimed, looking at her new looks. The colour of her kunoichi outfit was similar to Jay's blue ninja gi. "My favourite colour is blue too!"

"Sensei, when does her training start?" Cole asked with curiosity, always ready to help others.

"Yeah, we'll have to teach you how to control your element." Kai told his sister and sensei.

"Her training can start after lunch this afternoon while the Bounty continues its course to the surroundings of the Akra Forest. We will eat a quick lunch, which I'm hoping one of you can make," he said that last bit while looking at Zane with a hint of a smile. "Then Nya can start her training…with a regular sword that you four would be using." The ninja used regular swords now after their Golden Weapons were melted down into the Golden Armour, which was hidden away after the Overlord's defeat. However, Lloyd was the only ninja who didn't use a sword.

After a quick lunch made by Zane, Nya got ready for her first official training session. She had trained in the Monastery before it burnt down while the ninja were on a mission, but she never had proper training. "Okay, Nya," their sensei started, "the ninja will teach you how to control your element first. We already know you are a fine fighter so we will start with controlling your element, as we will for every kunoichi we find."

Nya nodded as she saw Cole bringing a bucket of water. "So what is the first thing I have to do?" she asked nobody in particular, hoping someone would know, though obviously Sensei does.

"First, just wait a bit and listen to what I have to say about your element. Water is an element that can be used to great effect, both offensively and defensively. Offensively, once you become better at controlling water, you can create tsunamis and other such waves of water. Defensively, you can use it to "absorb" things such as weapons that are thrown and the water can swallow it up so it doesn't hit you. Water as an element can also be used generally such as when there is a thunderstorm you can keep the Bounty relatively dry by directing the rain that is going to fall on it somewhere else."

"That was a lot to take in, but I think I understand," Nya said after her sensei's long speech about water was over. "So, who will teach me how to control it?"

"I will, of course. Your training starts now."

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