A/N : This chapter was a little inspired by 'Song For Someone' because I find the lyrics are perfectly fitting this story. Enjoy !
"Can I help you with the dinner ? I need to empty my head a little." asked Nya as she stumbled in the kitchen.
She chuckled when she saw the pink apron Zane wore.
"You still use that hideous apron Kai offered me for my birthday ?"
"What is wrong with it ? I find it comfy."
"I know you're a robot, but even robots should have a minimum of dignity."
"I'm scanning if this is an insult."
"Can I at least help you with the cake ?"
"That was an insult !"
"I thought robot were a little quicker." she smirked.
"Please, quit being rude."
"I'm sorry, I'm just a little angry at Jay, and probably jealous of Cole."
"I will never understand how your human relationships work."
-TRANSITION-
This time the kiss wasn't sloppy. Not at all. Cole felt it came from the heart, so he replied softly.
They pulled away and Jay placed his small hands on Cole's sturdy shoulders. Cole brought the frail ninja closer, so close their foreheads were touching.
Jay was a little bit lost in the dark blue sea that was Cole's eyes.
-TRANSITION-
Meanwhile, Kai and Lloyd were looking through the crack of the door.
"They kissed ! You owe me five bucks !" snickered Lloyd.
"Shush ! They could hear us ! And I don't believe you, they can't have kissed. I know Jay wouldn't leave my lovely sister for this tool." replied the fire ninja, a little upset.
"I have a proof. I got it on tape !" claimed Lloyd as he waved his phone under Kai's nose.
"You freak !"
"You're calling me a freak ? Coming from a guy who watches his roommates sleep, it's not really convincing."
"It's not my fault, I have some trouble sleeping and watching people sleep relaxes me !"
"Right, maybe you should just stop taking a whole coffee jar before going to sleep." the green ninja remarked, "You still owe me five bucks."
"Show me the video first."
While watching the video, Lloyd giggled like a girl reading fan fiction and Kai just snorted.
"That's what you call kissing ? It's so mush !"
"What are you going to do about it ? Show me ?" asked the blond sarcastically.
"That's an awesome idea !"
"T-That's not what I meant-"
Kai cupped the young ninja's face and pressed his lips against his. Lloyd subconsciously parted his lips to give access to the dominant man's tongue. He held back a moan, afraid that the others may hear them.
Lloyd knew perfectly well his father wouldn't be proud of him right now, so he just broke the kiss, a little out of breath. But he couldn't help saying :
"That was awesome."
"We should do it more often."
"But not here ! If the others catch us, your sister will probably fall in some kind of panic attack if she learns that half of the men here, including her ex-boyfriend and her brother, are gay."
"Cole already knows."
"What ?! You have to be kidding !"
"No, I'm Kai."
"Very funny and mature, Kai." snapped Lloyd, "If he knows, he'll probably tell Jay, who will tell Nya, who will tell Sensei Wu ! We're totally screwed now !"
"Don't worry, Jay and Cole know how to keep a secret."
"Jay knows as well ?!"
"I assume. These two guys are like connected with their minds or some stuff." the spiked haired man shrugged.
"I can't believe you're so careless !"
"And I still can't believe you don't have a boyfriend yet !"
He pulled Lloyd in a second kiss.
-TRANSITION-
At first, Jay din't see anything different on Cole's face.
But when he took a closer look, he noticed the swollen eyes, the shaking lips and the dry water traces decorating the tough man's face.
He held him with all his might, and started softly crying as well.
"I'm sorry I made you feel this way…I didn't want to hurt you in any manner."
"Don't worry, I've been through worse."
Jay let go a little, facing Cole.
The raven haired man wiped the tears off Jay's pretty face with his thumb.
The lightning ninja pressed his hand on Cole's ones, to hold them in place.
Jay stared into Cole's beautiful eyes, one of the basic movements lovers do, even though it is almost never mentioned.
The leader's eyes were so deep and piercing, the brunette felt like he was reading in him like a book.
Cole felt a little tired and heavy, so he just drifted away in Jay's arms, somnolent.
They heard whispers, that sounded a little like Kai and Lloyd's voices.
"Cole, I think I heard someone."
"Hmm ?" he groaned, as he was pulled out of his cozy Utopia, "Can't we deal with that later ?"
"I want to know who's bothering us !" protested Jay as he leaped to the door, leaving the earth ninja alone on the floor.
He spotted Kai and Lloyd, who looked back at him, startled.
He noticed a line of saliva linking the two boys. He bit his bottom lip to retain himself laughing.
"Crap !" the fire ninja swore, running, pulling the blond with him.
"You'll never guess what happened !" Jay shouted as he came back in the room.
Cole grunted, sprawled on the floor, in a way that meant "I DON'T CARE". He closed his eyes and started snoring.
Jay rolled his eyes, and proceeded to lift the asleep ninja on the bed.
"Argh ! You're so heavy !" complained the brunette.
After a few attempts of carrying the earth ninja on the bed, Jay only managed to turn him around. He was still laid on the floor, but on the back.
"It's useless !" pouted Jay.
In an ultimate try, the ninja tripped and landed on Cole.
"It feels like I've landed on a rock…" whimpered Jay.
He glanced at the thing that made him trip : it was one of Cole's shirts, lying around carelessly on the floor.
"No wonder he has no clean shirts."
Jay felt a pair of arms imprison him and squeeze him. So hard he thought his bones might be crushed.
"DINNEEEER !" yelled Zane.
This familiar warning woke up Cole who loosened his grip.
"Cole, holy pop dancing unicorn on a chili con carne salad, you have to control your force !"
The earth ninja arched his eyebrow at the unusual expression.
"C'mon, we gotta go, I think I smell cake !" Cole licked his lips, dragging Jay by the sleeve.
-TRANSITION-
After dinner, Zane heard a ringing :
"The caaake is readyyyyyyy !" Zane sung, twirling through the room.
Cole pinched the bridge of his nose and shut his eyes in frustration.
"Who played with his buttons this time ?"
Lloyd smiled in embarrassment, making himself smaller, showing he was the culprit.
"TA-DAAAAA!" Zane claimed, as he distributed everyone's share of cake on the table.
The raven haired ninja grimaced at the piece of cake in the plate :
"I don't really want cake right now, I'll pass." he apologized when he left the table, without even touching the cake.
Everyone watched him go, then stared at Jay.
"What ? Why is everybody looking at me ?" he asked with a mouthful of cake.
"What did you do to our friend ?" they asked suspiciously, "Cole would have never left this table, leaving a single crumb of cake."
"Fine ! I'll go talk to him." Jay sighed.
When Kai was sure Jay was out of sight, he stole Lloyd's phone. Unfortunately, the Green Ninja noticed it a little too quickly and stretched out his arms to get the phone back.
Kai just hung it in the air, out of Lloyd's reach.
"Give me my phone back, you chump !"
"I think Lloyd has something to show you guys !" shouted Kai, to get both Zane and Nya's attention.
Sensei Wu had already left, probably not wanting to assist to this childish scene.
Kai rolled the video, Zane and Nya's eyes were glued to the screen.
Lloyd curled in a ball, his arms folded around his legs and his face hidden in his knees. He raised his head when he heard his three friends giggle.
"You're awesome, Lloyd ! I can't believe you had the guts to actually film it !" squealed Nya.
"It is absoluuuutely incrediiiiible !" sung Zane, in a high pitched voice.
"Somebody has to turn off this button."
-TRANSITION-
Cole was lying on one of the two available beds of the room, his face crashed in the pillow, his limbs sprawled all over it.
The room only had two beds, so the rest of the ninjas slept on mattresses put down on the floor. They changed every night, because sleeping on a mattress isn't really pleasant.
Jay sat beside Cole, it hardly made any difference due to the weight difference.
The leader sat up, placing Jay on his lap, face to face with him.
The lightning ninja automatically wrapped his arms around Cole's neck.
"What's wrong, Cole ? You left hardly even looking at the cake."
"Maybe it's because I found something much sweeter." he smiled.
"What is it ?"
"Sometimes, you're not really sparkling of intelligence." Cole smirked, leaving a small kiss on his forehead.
Jay left the room, with a dumb wide smile stuck on his face.
When ha came back, he heard Nya ask :
"Play it again !"
He saw everybody, except Sensei Wu and Cole, gathered around Kai, who was holding a phone.
Jay guessed they were watching a video, due to the muffled sounds the phone was making and the giggles of everybody.
He sneaked up to the group, none of them noticed. Not even Zane.
Because of his small size, he didn't see the whole video, but enough to understand what it was about. He also noticed it was Lloyd's phone, because nobody would ever lack style as much as him to chose a bright green and yellow striped phone.
He ran back to the room, panting :
"C-Cole ! Kai…Kai and Lloyd filmed us kissing !"
The earth ninja spit out the water he was drinking. His face flushed red in a mix of anger and embarrassment.
He stomped out of the bedroom, so heavily the ground was shaking. He clenched his fists so hard his knuckles turned white.
His look was turning yellow and red, like an animal's one.
"Cole, calm down, it's not a big deal !" said Jay, trying to settle the ninja.
"But I AM calm ! I just need to show Lloyd and Kai they better not violate my privacy !"
Jay decided to try a more subtle way to calm him down. They were in the upstairs hallway, so he had to act fast.
The earth ninja wasn't totally used to their pushed physical contact, so he would try a more abrupt approach.
The brunette jumped at Cole's neck and planted a kiss on his lips, for the third time in a day.
They broke the kiss.
"Jay I-"
Jay took advantage of Cole's open mouth to slip his tongue in his mouth; pulling him into a deeper kiss.
At the beginning, Cole was caught by surprise but he took the head of it in a no time.
Jay didn't expect Cole to dominate this quickly, but he wasn't complaining. The ninja really knew how to use his mouth.
Another thing he didn't expect : Cole biting playfully on his bottom lip. The lightning ninja moaned in pleasure and tangled his fingers in Cole's dark locks.
One of Cole's hand was slipping under Jay's shirt, and the other was pretty low on his back.
They made out without stopping, except to breathe, but these moments never lasted long before one of them continued playing with the other's mouth.
-TRANSITION-
Lloyd was running after Kai, who still had his phone with him.
"Give me this damn phone, you bastard !"
"Come and get it, blondie !" replied the spiked hair man waving the phone in the air, sticking his tongue out.
They ran upstairs, but they noticed the two men. They stopped and lied on the stairs.
"Oh…My…God…I have to film that !" Kai whispered, pulling out Lloyd's phone, "See ? That's how you kiss someone !"
The young ninja blushed, remembering what they did earlier in front of the room.
As he watched the scene, he retained himself doing with Kai what the two men were doing.
At a certain point, he couldn't stop himself.
He licked his lips and snatched the phone from Kai's hands.
"Enough with that stupid phone." he said taking the fire ninja's face, shoving a kiss on his warm lips.
-TRANSITION-
Nya was bored of waiting, so she started fixing up Zane.
A bunch of buttons displayed under the man's chest.
All of them were labelled, but a different button in a combination, his character could be completely messed up.
Nya knew all the buttons to make the real Zane come back, but she didn't know the last one.
Nya tried all the buttons left to end up with the default Zane, but you can guess it didn't work out on the first try :
"Get your hands off me ! I don't like filthy people touching my systems !"
"Here's the grumpy one."
"Nobody will ever love me…Or anybody who did died…"
"Here's the emo one."
"Feed me paper !"
"Is this a printer ?"
"Mi amor, estas en mi corazón."
"Spanish one."
"I'll be back."
"Schwartzeneger ?"
"Hello, Nya."
"Zane ! You're back from the dead !"
"I have never died."
"Zane, it's a joke."
"Oh. It is a joke. Haha, very funny."
'Maybe I should have pressed the humor button…'