"This isn't really what I had in mind when I was told that we're going to school, y'know. Us? Being able to go to school to actually achieve something other than destroying a continent every year? Never heard of it.
"Us having to act like a ninja in a high school, yes please Sensei Lloyd, yes, please. Seriously, just when I thought that we can finally get a proper education, bam! Boom! Ninja shit," Nya complained.
"You're starting to sound like me, Nya," Jay said, walking alongside his girlfriend, "It's not THAT bad. At least we got paired up. We're chaotic and we make a good team. High school, it's meant to be an experience or something, but were celebrities in said high school. It'll be fun," He continued, nudging her side with his elbow.
"Plus our uniform isn't as ugly as the school Kai and Lloyd are going to. God, does your brother look awful in yellow."
"It's shit," Nya laughed and kicked a stone with her black school shoe.
"That's more like it, Nya! Speaking of uniforms, you look great in that skirt," Jay added with a wink.
Nya rolled her eyes, biting her lip, trying to hide a smile, even though Jay couldn't even see it.
"You look nice too, Jay," Nya whispered shyly.
"I disagree, but thank you, nonetheless," Jay said and readjusted his tie, "not really a tie guy. However, Twitter polls do not lie! I, Jay Walker, the Blue ninja, has the greatest ass to ever exist and I do believe that I look pretty good in these shorts right now."
"Seriously," Nya laughed and grabbed his right hand with her left, "You look handsome. The blue shirt compliments your left eye. The blue one,"
"I can't wait to explain that one. 'Say, new nerdy kid, who is a ninja who will kick my ass, why do you have two different coloured eyes?' Too much attention."
"We'll blend into plain sight. It's our job as ninja, after all," Nya tried to reassure him by giving his hand a squeeze.
"It's not that easy when you're wearing a literal ninja mask to a high school full teenagers who are aware that two of the six ninja, mind you THE ninja, will be attending their school.
"We barely ever make public appearances, now we're being thrown right into the middle of the people who are fans of us. Teenagers! No, no no no, I'm not very positive about this anymore. What is Lloyd thinking!" Jay said and stopped in his tracks. He threw a glance in the direction of the school and then at Nya.
She stepped forward and put her forehead to his. She gently grabbed his face with her hands. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"It's going to be fine, Jay. The schools gave us this opportunity. There is possible gang activity in these areas and in the schools itself. These schools need us, so why not get an education at the same time. Shady shit is going on and we have to get to the bottom of it. We can do this. We might be chaotic, but as you just said, we make a good team," Nya whispered, rubbing her thumbs against his cheeks, "Trust me, we will be blending in as the ninja we are. We won't be bringing too much attention once people get used to it."
"It's just, this is so weird. We've never done this before and the setup of this whole thing is just, odd. We've fought snakes, more snakes, ghosts, a djin, skeletons that one time, another lot of snakes the other day, but this is a whole new level of weird," Jay groaned and readjusted his tie once more.
"I know, it really is weird. But if shady shit is going on we have to do something about it. Shady shit is shady shit," Nya explained and dragged Jay closer to the gate.
"Shady shit is shady shit."
The moment Ninjago's hottest couple stepped foot onto the school grounds, eyes flew to them as if they were a Bengal tiger roaming their school grounds, mouths wide open, watering for their next prey.
Jay didn't feel like a tiger. He felt like a scared dog with his tail tightly locked between his legs. Looks of confusion and astonishment seemed to follow their every move. His footsteps on the bricks were echoing in his ears and several students were too astonished to utter a word. Jay kept his gaze straight ahead, hand wrapped around Nya's, ignoring the stares from the students.
After the initial shock passed, the whispering started. "His eyes, look at them holding hands, what the fuck, it's the blue and water one, they look different in person, I wanna say hi!, " and more surprised and attentive phrases were whispered between the students and it all hit Jay's ears at once.
Attentive comments about his and Nya's appearance and what was happening flew at him from left to right.
To their surprise, they weren't swarmed by students. Only a few giggly girls wanted to take photos with the two but were a bit nervous to come too close.
Jay thought that it had something to do with the aura he gave off and the slight electric field he surrounded himself and his yang with as extra protection. Never would he harm them, no, it was simply a sign to stay back as a defence mechanism.
In classes, they stayed at the back, keeping an eye on the students while focussing on the lesson at the same time. The students would still look and still comment; ask questions, but a stern look from the blue and water ninja made them turn around to rather focus on the teacher talking about something they couldn't care less about.
Jay and Nya made sure to stay clear of any confrontation with anyone. Don't talk, don't make friends and stay clear of big crowds, as what they were assigned to do.
And that's what they did. They made no eye contact with anyone, ignore all to come too close. They allowed a few photos here and there but made no conversation. Their focus was to stay as invisible as possible.
Jay had no idea how they did it. They were celebrities, and the students knew that and they tried to come close to the two ninja, but a stern look from one brown and one blue eye from the blue ninja seemed to make them get the message.
The whole school knew by the second period, and they hype soon died down by the last period, as the students got the message to stay back or possibly get zapped. It was creepy to some. Hell, they could only see eyes. Communication is harder when you can't even see a facial expression.
After having a slushie with his beautiful girlfriend on the roof of the math class during second break, Jay had to use the loo in the last period with urgency. He needed a break from the childish boys in his last period English class trying to catch his attention.
Jay leaned against the bathroom wall and quickly checked his phone, snickering at Kai's complaints about "clingy grade 9 girls who wouldn't stop chasing him around the school ground in the first break".
Jay put his phone back into his pocket after replying with a "lol can't even relate the kids scared of me" and went to the sink to wash his hands.
After squirting some handsoap onto his hands, another boy joined him to wash his hands. Jay ignored him at first, but when he spoke to him, Jay turned his head towards him.
"You coping in this school, bro?"
Jay could recognise those curls and freckles anywhere. His were the exact same, after all.
Jay croaked out a "yeah" when he saw what he looked like. Jay's mouth suddenly went dry and his stomach knotted when it felt as if he was looking into a mirror.
"He speaks!" The boy laughed, identical dimple than what he has swallowed the same freckles he has on his own, but covered cheeks.
"O- of course I do," Jay responded and dried off his hands with a paper towel, turning his back toward him and Jay muttered a quiet 'shit' under his breath. The boy leaned against the sink and smiled.
"And everyone told me you two don't speak, but here we are."
"I'm not permitted to speak to anyone. Luckily for you, I have an itching desire to talk people's heads off," Jay laughed and turned to the boy, leaning against the wall.
"I can't believe I'm talking to the Blue Ninja right now. Weird."
"I'm a normal dude just like you."
'And we look the exact same.'
"But you can control lightning. And your eyes are two different colours. And you only show your eyes. And you can't speak to anyone? It's freaky."
"I'm a tad freaky, I guess."