Chapter Eleven: The Beginning and End

Exhausted, Kai practically dragged himself to the couch, his temporary bed, and flopped down on it without bothering to remove the crumpled blankets on top. However, there was more than blankets on the couch.

"Hey," Lloyd said, "Get off me!"

Startled, Kai was pushed off the couch and landed on the floor.

"Sorry, kid, I didn't see you there."

"Eh, it's alright," Lloyd said, sounding like he had gotten better some. "What took you so long?"

"Oh, I uh . . ." Kai was not really too sure what to say.

"And where are the tissues?"

After yawning, Kai said, "Well you see, the shop was all out and then I got lost on my way back."

Shrugging his shoulders, Lloyd laid back down and fell back asleep while Kai immediately dozed off still laying on the floor.

Early the next morning, Lloyd woke up and found the red ninja still asleep so he carefully and quietly stepped over him and left the room, shutting the door behind him. Zane was already up and eating a bowl of cereal for breakfast so Lloyd joined him. Presently, the others got up one by one until everyone was awake except for Kai. The ninja and Nya were feeling much better and their fevers had almost completely gone down; they were just left with some stuffy noses or a small cough.

As that was the day their Sensei was scheduled to get back, Nya flew the ship (much better than Kai had done) back to its original spot so that Wu would be able to find them. After landing, the ninja were cleaning up their breakfast, when the five heard a "I'm home!" from the Bounty's door.

"Sensei!" they all yelled as they rushed to greet him.

"It is good to see you all after my trip," Wu said.

"It is good to see you too, Sensei," Zane said.

"But where is Kai?" the old man asked.

"Yeah, where is he?" Cole said.

"He's still sleeping since he was pretty late getting back last night," Lloyd answered.

"Where did he go?" Sensei asked, confused.

"A lot happened while you were gone, we'll have to fill you in," Cole said.

"Yeah," Jay began, "we were all swimming, but not Kai because he can't, and it started to rain and . . ."

It was a good few hours before Kai came stumbling out the room, his hair going askew (at least more than usual) and his ninja outfit wrinkled from being slept in. Rubbing his eyes and yawning, he went out onto the deck and sat on the steps, watching the others as they trained.

"Well look who is finally awake," Sensei Wu said.

"Welcome back, Sensei," Kai hoarsely replied with a slight nod to his head.

The red ninja slowly got up and made his way over to his teammates when Cole said, "Hey you don't look too good, Kai."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Kai said with a glare.

"He's right," Jay said. "I think you're sick now."

"I am not sick," Kai demanded, hating to show any kind of weakness, but going into a coughing fit, his words were proven false.

"You really should go inside and rest, Kai," Zane said.

"I said I'm fine."

"No, you're not," Nya said. "Now stop being so stubborn and listen to Zane."

Knowing he could not win this argument, Kai went inside to lay down on his actual bed while Lloyd went to get the medicine. The green ninja found the pill bottle, but it was empty.

"That's alright," Wu said, "I have some medicine that will work just as well."

Lloyd chuckled to himself and when the others asked him what was so funny, he just replied, "You'll see. Uncle gave that medicine to me once as a kid, and trust me, you do not want to try that stuff."

Nya and the other ninja followed their Sensei into Kai's room where Kai was sitting on his bed, scowling thar he had been forced to rest. As Wu poured out his medicine onto a spoon, Kai asked, disgusted, "What is that?"

"We have run out of the usual medicine, but do not worry, this works just as well," Sensei said.

"But that looks awful!"

And Kai was right, it did look bad. Not only was it a horrible green colour, it had a thick and somewhat lumpy texture to it.

"Butts are for sitting, now take your medicine."

"There is no way I'm eating that."

Putting the spoonful of medicine next to his pupil's mouth, Wu said, "Yes you are."

"No, I'm not."

"Yes, you are."

To the watching ninja's amusement, their Sensei lunged at Kai; plugged his nose, forcing his mouth open; and shoved the medicine down the squirming ninja's throat. Bursts of laughter erupted from Jay, Nya, Zane, Lloyd, and Cole as Kai began to gag, sticking out his green dyed tongue.

"That stuff is horrible!" Kai said, still gagging.

"Yes, but it works. Don't worry though, you only have to take it six more times," Wu said.

"Six more times!"

Growling, Kai put his pillow over his head and laid back down, trying to block out his friend's laughter. Oh how he hated being sick.

I'm super sorry it took me so long to update, but it looks like we've finally reached the end of my story. I hope you liked it, but please tell me what you think. :) I was glad to hear that you all liked Simon too. Maybe I'll write a separate story about him if you want but there's a good chance I won't have another story up for awhile even though I have some more ideas I like. But hopefully you will hear more from me soon.

Anyway, thank you very, very much for reading and Ninjagymnistgirl, The Mayor of Ninjago City, Kairocksrainbow, ShinyShiny9, Skylark Starflower, AntauriFangirl13, ThatIsNotACoconut, and AveXCninja11, for reviewing! XD Sorry if I ever forgot to mention somebody because I just found out that sometimes I did not get notified when I got a review.

Ninjagymnastgirl: I think I wrote a fanfic like this because I have always liked stories where the characters are sick for some reason so I thought I'd make my own. And then I guess I kind of got sidetracked with my bit about Kai and Simon.

Kairocksrainbow: Thank you so much for your reviews. :) I look forward to your story updates but I'm not a big fan of lavashipping.

AveXCninja11: Thank you! Your review was really nice.

God bless!