(Kai POV)

Kai was frustrated. How was he supposed to keep this stupid sword straight? It seemed that no matter what he did it was always the same. Nya had offered tips before she left to get lanterns, but now she was gone, and the sword he was attempting to straighten didn't look any straighter. Kai refused to give in before the sword. It was disgraceful, not even being able to finish a simple sword. So, he stared at it, and stared, hoping that somehow his glare would straighten the blade.

After a while, he finally caved, and blinked. Then lifted the hammer once more, it's shadow hanging over his head. There was another shadow next to it, and Kai blinked once more to be sure he wasn't imagining things. Nope, it was still there, so he reluctantly turned around to deal with a customer, a nice looking old lady. She was panting, and, after catching her breath, simply stated, "Some people are so gullible." Kai blinked, and blinked again, it looked as though the nice-looking old lady wasn't actually that nice. "Why's that?"

"Well, of course," her voice changed to an old, grandmother like tone, "I really need help with these letters for the festival, could you be a dear?" Her snippy tone was back as she replied, "Of course, being the newcomer he was, he bought it, and now he's passing out letters that I'm being paid for! Isn't it great?" Kai stared, and then his gaze hardened, a warrior fought for honor, and he felt pity for whatever poor sap had ended up doing all the work for this woman. He would get revenge for them, it was only warrior-like after all.

"Get out." Kai glared as hard at her as he had at the sword. "I hate people like you. Not even working for yourself. You disgust me, get out." His face was turned up in disgust, and he reached for a sword on the wall next to him. He had to seem like he meant business, or she would ignore him. So, he picked up a sword Nya had crafted, a really long, shiny one, and pointed it at her. "I won't say it again, get out!"

The old lady was gone as fast as she had come in, and Kai hoped that whoever was stuck doing her job would find her, and get better revenge than chasing her out of a store. It made Kai feel good, though, to command such an aura that she would run. He was holding a sword though, that might have been part of it. Kai got back to work, happy that he had acted as a warrior would, and he couldn't wait to tell Nya of what had happened.

It was a few hours later, and Kai was still stuck on the same, stupid sword. He brought the hammer down as another attempt at straightening it, and it stayed exactly the same, despite being almost melted from the heat. There was a ruckus at the front, and Kai sighed, if that was that old lady again, he would hit her with this hot sword. She had come around again several times that day, and had to be scared away with something more intense every time.

Kai felt a presence behind him, and, turning around, he did not expect to see two people almost right at his back, and another slightly further away. Glaring at them, all of them, even the dude with almost white hair, he managed to spit out "Hey! Back off! If you mess with me, you'll be beaten by the best warrior legend there ever was!" That certainly scared them, Kai thought, as they seemed to slowly back away under his hard gaze. It felt good to be feared. The guy in the back, with the almost white hair, seemed to flinch at something before giving a small grin.

"What're you smiling about? Can't you see I'm trying to work here?!" Kai had snapped, first the sword, then the old lady, and now this doofus. The dude in the back flinched more violently before straightening. "Do you know where the tea shop is? I need to get tea to my Sensei."

Kai could almost feel steam coming out of his ears, that guy had nerves. While he was snapping at that guy, the other two had started bickering as well. There were random mentions of lightning and "That's not a thing!" It was kind of funny to watch, actually.

"Why are you people here?" Kai finally said, leaving the other guy's question unanswered on purpose. They all responded, after the two had stopped arguing. The black haired one snidely said that the shop looked worth his time. The one that kept making jokes said that "Like lightning, he was hit with a flash of inspiration" while the last one seemed to be debating what to say, and finally just said "I'm Zane."

Kai just looked at him, as did the others, the lightning guy nodded his head sage-like and said "I know, you've said that already" There were laughs all around this time, and even Kai had to give a chuckle, some of the jokes were pretty good. The Zane-guy just looked at us though, as if he didn't know why we were laughing. The black-haired one gave a snicker at the blank look on Zane's face. Something about Zane seemed to rub Kai the wrong way. Come to think of it, all of them annoyed him in some way or another. The black haired one seemed snobby, the lightning guy made way too many jokes, and Zane was just, it was like he wasn't really there, in a way.

The black haired one spoke up. "Well, since Zane here already took it upon himself to start the introduction, I'll go next, I'm Cole." He crossed his arms in a way that made him look more tough. Kai almost laughed. Cole thought he could intimidate Kai, who would one day be a legendary warrior? As if. Kai gave a snort and nodded his head at lightning guy to go next. "I'm Jay, master of jokes and electricity, almost as great as lightning is!" Kai just nodded his head. The guy, Jay, told some good jokes, but most were awful, he was too intent on the lightning ones. It just ruined them. Zane offered another detached "I'm Zane." And went back to looking uncomfortable. Kai just nodded his head and introduced himself. "I'm Kai, now if you're not here to buy, leave."

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A/N: Thank you for reading! It really makes my day! I'm sorry for any out of character thoughts/moments, I'm not the best at sticking to specific ways of speech and thoughts. Please give feedback on how I can better my writing, I really appreciate it.