A shout out to ShinyShiny9 for having given me a great idea with her comment! Thank you so much! :D

Great, More People Are Coming

When Kai opened the door to the Headmaster's office, he was surprised to see Lloyd next to Sensei Wu, both leisurely sitting back in leather seats, each with a steaming cup of black tea in hand.

"Oh hey, Lloyd!" Kai greets as he closes the door behind him, then walks toward them.

"Hi Kai!" Lloyd responds, setting down his cup for a moment to shake his hand.

"I haven't seen you in a while. What brings you here?"

Sensei Wu takes a sip of his tea before saying, "He just came to stop by and see how the new school was doing."

Lloyd nods in response. "Yeah, and so far, I think that you guys are doing a great job." He laughs lightly, adding, "At least for amateurs."

Kai chuckles, saying, "Well, we're doing our best with what we learned. I mean, we're not exactly professionals."

"Yeah, Sensei told me here that you had to go into some sort of teacher training session over the summer."

Kai replies, running a hand through his hair, "It was more of a crash course. And I think the instructor was insane, because he kept waving a yardstick around and continually tried to smack us the first week every time we were acting like 'incompetent imbeciles'."

"You guys might've peeved him on the first day, so maybe he was just frustrated?"

Kai shrugs and says, "I don't know. I don't remember any of us making him mad."

Sensei cuts in, saying, "I don't mean to interrupt, but I remember correctly, you all happened to have overslept on that day, so you all were half an hour late."

"Yeah, but that was the first day," Kai retorts.

"Yes, and you all came in with your Ninja gi. After you were all told that you could dress casually for the sessions."

"Okay, so that might've been our second nature making us put those outfit on. Look, we were all running late and didn't really have time to think put together something decent."

Sensei sighs as Lloyd bursts out in laughter. "Wow, it sounds worse than you make it out to be." Then he looks over at Sensei Wu and asks, "So why didn't you think to hire actual teachers if you would've guessed that something like this would happen?"

"Hey, I take slight offense to that question," Kai says, crossing his arms.

Sensei shuts him up with a glance, then replies, "Well, my nephew, I didn't have the money to pay off even a couple of teachers for giving lectures to students, so I had to get the closest resources to make ends meet." He then turns to look over at Kai and says, with a dead serious face, "That and the fact that I couldn't just let my students sit around doing absolutely nothing after the Defeat of the Overlord. They'd just be mooching off of my resources and I need them around to be useful."

Lloyd takes time to think it over, then says, "Wow, yeah, I guess that sounds like a pretty valid reason. I mean, it would be pretty boring to do nothing all days."

"But what about training in case the Overlord happens to return?" Kai asks.

"It's been how many months since his Defeat, around 3. There are no signs pointing exactly where he is so that we can stomp him out and, even with Misako's efforts, nothing has yet been discovered relating to his return."

Kai sighs, saying, "Alright, I guess you have a point. Oh wait, I almost forgot to tell you, Sensei. Me, Nya, and the other guys are planning to go over to the mall so that we can get some clothes before school starts."

"Cool, that sounds like fun!" Lloyd responds.

Sensei Wu has a bothered expression as he says, "This sounds extremely unsettling. I can sense no good coming out of this."

Lloyd laughs as he says, "Uncle, you make it sound as if a simple trip to the mall is a recipe for disaster."

He shakes his head, replying, "Like you wouldn't imagine." Then he sets down his cup of tea and gets up, grabbing his staff, which leans against the hardwood table. "I must accompany you on your trip to make sure that no property or people get damaged."

Kai facepalms, then says, "Okay then, if you think that we need to be chaperoned over to the mall, then fine, be my guest. I swear that even if you didn't come along, we would've behaved. Come on, we're all just responsible adults purchasing clothes."

"I would believe you if you were just referring to a couple of people, like Zane or Nya. But, since it is all 5 of you, I don't."

"Hey, Kai, is it alright if I come along too?" Lloyd asks. "It's been some time since I've just hung out at the mall and I might happen to buy some clothes for the future interviews and events that I was scheduled for."

"Sure, why not," Kai says, barely able to hold in his jealousy for the fact that Lloyd was famous for the Defeat of the Overlord, although the others also did a fair amount of the work in taking the Overlord out. Then he mutters to himself, "Just another extra space being taken up in Nya's car. Boy, it's going to be cramped in there."