Lloyd couldn't wait until the Ninjas got back from their trip into the city. Then they'd get Emmy out of their workspace for them to help train Lloyd some more. Unfortunately, it never happened. Once the guys saw Emmy, they couldn't get away from her. It just made Lloyd even madder than what he was before… if he had even been mad of course.
Why was that little finger-biting little brat getting all the attention? The Ninjas needed to concentrate on showing Lloyd how to become the Green Ninja, not awe over some three year old kid he found off the street to play with some fans!
Lloyd huffed as he folding his arms while everyone else surrounded Emmy. He couldn't see what she was doing, but it seemed to be more interesting than training him so he didn't want anything to do with it. Kai looked away from Emmy for a moment to look over at Lloyd, and saw the kid with a grumpy and semi-jealous look on his face. Kai took one last look at Emmy then walked over to Lloyd.
"Hey short stuff, something wrong?" Kai asked.
"No." Lloyd said quickly, turning away from him. But Kai knew something was.
"Follow me," he said, "I think I know what's going on."
"You do?" Lloyd asked in a confused tone, but followed Kai as he led them out of the room and into an empty one down the hall. There was a couch in the middle of the room, and Kai beckoned for Lloyd to sit there and he did. Kai then tapped his chin in a pretend decisive matter.
"You're jealous of Emmy, aren't you?" he asked.
"What?! No!" Lloyd quickly said, although he wondered if it wasn't far from the truth now that it had been said. "Why would I hate Emmy?"
Kai rolled his eyes and started to list the following reasons with his fingers;
"She's new, she's adorable, everyone's ignoring you, we'd rather watch her do a fan trick than train you…"
"Alright I get it!" Lloyd hollered.
"So you are jealous?" Kai asked with a raise of his eyebrow.
"No!" Lloyd quickly denied. "I just feel… I feel…"
Somehow, Lloyd couldn't sum up how he felt to Kai even as they were talking about it now. Kai gave a small reassuring smile as he sat down next to Lloyd.
"No one's ever told you how I felt when you joined the team, have they?" Kai asked. Lloyd thought about it.
"No, I don't think so." The boy admitted.
"Well…" Kai started, choosing his words carefully, "Let's just say that I wasn't too happy that the son of the Ninja's greatest enemy would be living down the hall from us at the time. And since this kid wanted SO BADLY to be like his father…"
Lloyd cringed; Kai didn't even need to finish that sentence. Not that Lloyd hated his past or his father; it was just that… he had changed so much within the past few months to be the Green Ninja. Give or take.
"I couldn't even sleep for weeks when you joined. Slept even less when your father bunked with us…"
"Out of fear?" Lloyd asked, almost sounding a bit hopeful.
"Nah." Kai shook his head. "I hated you. There was no way around it, I hated you so much I wished you'd leave to go away and never come back!"
"Oh…" Lloyd said, not sure whether to take it as an insult or not. Kai sensed this, and quickly tried to make up his mistake.
"But when we were getting the third fangblade, and I had to choose between saving a life or saving the blade, I knew I had to put that hatred behind me if I had to protect a human being like me, or even the Green Ninja someday."
"But… I am the Green Ninja…"
"We didn't know that then, and if I had gone with the fangblade instead of you, I would have failed myself and Ninjago before I even knew my true self. You know?"
Lloyd shook his head in agreement, thought about it for a little, then shook his head.
"I don't follow." He admitted. Kai smiled a bit.
"Look kiddo," he said, "One of these days, us Ninja may not be there for you like we are today. (Except for Zane unless his batteries seriously fail or die or something, I dunno.) And when that time comes you had better have a good team up on your shoulders to help you on last minute. Emmy could be one of those team members. Sensei believes she has a lot of potential in her one day when she's older (not as much of you of course, but it's still a lot), and if you just give her a chance and get to know her, you won't end up feeling the same way I felt when I saw you combing the ship like someone about to stab us in our sleep."
Lloyd smiled and laughed at bit.
"Yeah, I guess you're right Kai. Thanks."
"No problem short stuff." Kai said, ruffling Lloyd's hair a bit.