Chapter Twenty: Missing His Spark

"I spike my hair?" Kai asked as he was getting ready in the morning.

"Yeah," Nya said, "like this."

She squirted some hair gel in her hands and began to attempt to spike her brother's hair like she had seen him do so many times. The finished result was not quite as Kai always kept it. The spikes weren't uniform and most of them were drooping down like sad bunny ears.

"Like that?" Kai asked horrified at his hair.

"Well, not really. I'm sure you'll be able to do it yourself. Just work on it a bit and then join me and the others."

"Alright," Kai said hesitantly.

The red ninja squished some more gel in his hands and tried his signature spikes. Normally, it doesn't take him long at all, but when you loose your memory, it tend to take one longer to do most things. Time after time Kai got the same result-floppy hair spikes. He wasn't too happy how they were turning out and he was getting frustrated so he grabbed a comb and tried combing down his hair. That also did not work out for him. Down, his hair looked similar to Cole's but not as nice. The gel wasn't helping, but still, it looked bad.

Kai was bewildered at how he ever put up with his longish hair and was tired of it. He searched through all the bathroom doors until he found what he was looking for-the scissors. Carefully, he began chopping off his hair until it was as short as Jay's. The ninja cleaned up his mess and neatly combed over his remaining hair until it did look almost identical to Jay's except for the fact that it was dark brown, not ginger, and a bit more uneven. Satisfied with his work, Kai changed into regular clothes and went to join with the others with whatever they were doing that day on the deck.

"Hey, Kai," Jay began until he saw his hair. "What in Ninjago did you do to your hair?"

Kai reached up and touched his hair. "Oh, I just cut it. Did I miss a spot?"

Before Jay could give back a reply Nya said, "Nope, it looks fine. Let's move on."

"Ok . . . we're going to do some basic training and see if that sparks any of your memory. Nothing too much considering your bandaged leg and limp," Cole said.

"Oh, ok," Kai said.

"I'm going to go fly the ship if that's okay, Kai," Nya said.

Kai wearily looked at the ninja and then back at Nya. "I guess it will be alright," he said hesitantly.

"First, let's star with some stretches," Lloyd said.

The green ninja proceeded to show Kai the pinching crab, the crane, etc. and gave demonstrations to each as they stared at Kai's new hair. It's not that it looked horrible, they just had never seen his hair in anything other than spiked; even in the morning it looked the same.

None of the stretches had any kind of effect on Kai like they had hoped and they couldn't get any major training moves until his stitches were removed. Lydia suggested to try whatever Kai's favourite activity was, other than fighting snakes, which happened to be playing Fist2Face.

They made their way into the game room and Jay turned on the game and Lloyd handed Kai his game controller.

"What's this?" Kai asked confusedly at his controller.

"It's what you play the video game with-the controller," Jay said.

"How does it work?"

Jay sighed. After giving Kai to entire run down on how to play and work the controller, the game was started between Kai, Jay, Lloyd, and Cole. Zane and Lydia just watched as only four were able to play.

"Woohoo! I win!" Cole shouted.

Normally, Kai would deny Cole's winning and get in a huff, but now, he didn't really care.

"Aren't you upset Cole won, Kai?" Lloyd asked, trying to spark some memory.

"No, who cares if he won?," he said calmly before yawning and limping out of the game room.

"Well that didn't go as I had hoped," Lydia said.

"I'm sure once he can do his normal training and spinjitsu Kai will remember," Cole said.

Zane added, "You hope."

Until that time came, ten long days passed while they waited for the stitches to be removed. In that time, Nya collected any pictures she could find and all the others talked about past adventures and missions but nothing seemed to work. They feared their Kai would never return and this "new Kai" would never be the same. He still didn't completely trust the others and one could barely call him the ninja of fire-his fiery temper and personality were gone, he refused to spike his hair and kept it short, and Kai wouldn't even attempt to use his fire powers. He didn't want to believe he too was an elemental master.

Finally, the wait was over and Kai's stitches were out. This meant that the real training could begin.

I'm a little early but happy Christmas to everybody! I hope you have a fantastic timeXD

A Kai with short hair! Can you imagine? I have a question for all of you: Do you like first person or third person stories better? If you don't know what that is (I will admit that I had to check) or you do not want to review your answer, I have it as a new poll question. That would really help me out so I can write more fanfics for you all:)

Thanks for reading and thank you Kairocksrainbow and The Mayor of Ninjago City for reviewing! I have over 100 reviews now, you all are the best:D

Kairocksrainbow: Aww, thanks so much:) I'm not sure about Lou being Cole's stepdad though. I mean, have you seen their eyebrows? If he's allergic to flour, it must have been terrible that episode he got covered in it. Also, congratulations on being my 100th reviewer!

The Mayor of Ninjago City: I know, I was mad at the doctor as I wrote it.

God bless!