Chapter Description: To Jay, Kai was the hotheaded one of the team. But Zane was the levelheaded one just as much, and the one who sealed the cracks between the elements with ice no matter how much the fire burned.
A/N: Time for a little bit of comic relief to distract you from the increasingly heavy stuff. And a little bit of fluff. Also, Jay loves in a strange way.
-Chapter Seven: hold on tight (sleep better at night)-
To Jay, Kai was the hotheaded one of the team. He was constantly angry (usually at Jay) and the Ninja of Lightning could hardly find it within himself to really forgive him for every outburst of anger. He did usually forgive Kai eventually, but Jay held grudges. And he really couldn't help but hold a tiny one against Kai. Their characters just didn't mesh well, each of them always competing for the spotlight, and their constant fighting over the center stage usually resulted in one or both of them huffing and walking off with a heavier heart, both much too bitter and prideful to admit defeat to another no matter how much they wanted to. But after every fight, either Cole would talk one into confronting and apologizing, Lloyd would encounter the two and decide it was a time for their lecture about the importance of teamwork that probably was recited word for word from Wu's journal, or Zane would bring the two together and talk to them in the quiet, firm way only he could and mend their bonds, a further example of why he possesed the power of ice.
Of course, the other ninja besides the Lightning/Fire duo fought. Cole and Jay had mainly put aside their feud over Nya, per her wishes, but the former, level-headed leader sometimes couldn't find it within himself to handle the flashy Jay, but managed to let only bits of anger out, instead saving it for the battlefield. Lloyd didn't fight much with the ninja, but when he did, things got messy real quickly.
Strangely, Zane never fought with anyone. But boil down the other ninjas' problems to their core and the reason Zane never had a feud became clear, as well as something else.
Cole and Jay still fought over Nya, no matter how much Cole insisted he was over her, there was still bad blood between the two. But nobody but Zane courted Pixal. The two androids were over the moon for each other, Jay doubted that even if someone else tried to court Pixal she'd outright reject him. How in the world would that happen anyway, with Pixal stuck in Zane's head?
Jay and Kai fought for the spotlight, the center stage. As so it seemed. But really, if they had to admit it, it was all for the fangirls. The fans of Zane, however, were quiet and conservative, they kept to themselves mostly and didn't cheer loudly. And Zane understood that, and he was content with the small amount of fans he had, no matter how devoted. He didn't like to be in the limelight, either, instead letting Lloyd and who ever wanted to be in the spotlight at that time take it.
He didn't really have any personal feuds. But he healed them as if they were his own, though usually not swiftly.
Not even many villians had something against him to a personal level! Usually, the villians regarded him the same as the other ninja, albeit knowing that he was 'the smart one'. But there was one exception... Cryptor, the long-deactivated Nindroid. The black android loathed Zane, and though Zane didn't care much for him as well, no other villian could come close to the level of hatred Cryptor had for Zane. Before he was deactivated, Cryptor had caught Zane out amongst the other ninja and completely wreaked him before trying to rip out his power source, which shocked him and sent him into temporary stasis long enough for Zane to freeze him and run. The evil android regarded the white ninja as a sort of traitor, hating him at an extemely personal level.
Though Zane didn't really hate him back, Jay had plently of anger toward the android. He was made out of the same blueprints as Zane was! Just scanned and made a little bit differently, as Pixal had revealed once out of the control of the Overlord. Jay was an inventor just as much as Doctor Julien, though a lot worse at it. He would hate Cryptor out of respect for the deceased inventor just as much as the black-wearing android hated his fellow white ninja.
And as a fellow brother to Zane, he was prepared to hate a lot of people who meant more than Cryptor. To make up for the emotions the Nindroid hadn't learned.
Heck, he was going to teach Zane everything about being human. Just his duty as a fellow human being.
