Requested by: LucyBrick123, Awesomesauce Samurai 15
Request: Jaya
Warnings: None
Jay sat down at his desk, pulling out a piece of paper and a sharpened pencil. He took a deep breath and rubbed his hands together. "Okay, Nya," he said, determination filling his voice. "Prepare to be blinded by my creativity! I will show to you that I can be the best boyfriend you have ever had!" He raised a fist into the air. "I will not fail!"
"Jay, shut up!" Cole shouted from outside in the hallway. "The entire building can hear you!"
The redhead sat back down, glaring at the door, and looked back down at the blank piece of paper. It was about a year after Lloyd defeated the Overlord, and a few months after his and Nya's one-year anniversary of when they started dating. He decided that for such an event, he would write her a poem.
Jay grinned as the pencil tip touched the paper and he began to write. "Roses are red," he murmured aloud. "Violets are..." He shook his head and put the pencil down, picking up the paper and crumpling it into a ball and throwing it over his shoulder.
"No, it has to be something original. Think, Jay, think!" He pressed his hands against the sides of his head, gripping handfuls of hair as he struggled for an idea. While he constantly said he wrote poetry often, he was now at a complete loss as to what he would write. He'd never written anything for Nya before, how was he supposed to do that now?
"Maybe we could try something else..." He pulled out another piece of paper and wrote out the first few sentences. "Hair black as night, lips red as cherries..." He crumpled the paper up again and groaned. "Already been used by someone."
Pencil to the paper. Crumple. "That doesn't even make sense!"
Pencil to the paper. Crumple. "She'll just think I'm weird if I give her this one!"
Pencil to the paper. Crumple. "Stupid, stupid, stupid! Stupid, useless, empty brain!"
Jay slammed his head against the surface of the desk, pounding his fist against it. "Why can't I think of anything?" he grumbled. He looked to the side, spotting the notebook in which he wrote most of his poems. He picked it up and opened it, curiously flipping through the pages, hoping he could draw some kind of inspiration from his previous poems.
He visibly cringed at the writing he saw. It was a complete mishmash of flowery or disturbing descriptions and words. All of the poems he wrote down were either too cheesy or too dark for him to give to Nya. He groaned again, snapping the book shut and throwing it across the room.
"I need to be inspired," he decided. He grinned suddenly. "Maybe if I talk to the guys I'll figure out what Nya likes! I'll be sure to impress her then!" Jay sprang from the desk and rushed out the door, running down the hall to Kai's room.
"Hey, Kai! You in here?!" he shouted. "I need to ask you something!"
"I'm in here," the brunet responded, poking his head out from the doorway to his small bedroom. "Can you make it quick? I just got out of the shower and I would love to wear clothing right now."
Jay rolled his eyes at the last comment. "Okay, well, I want to do something special for Nya for our one-year anniversary, and I just wanted to know what she likes. I want to be able to impress her, you know?"
Kai raised an eyebrow. "Wasn't your one-year anniversary thing a few months ago?" He shook his head, not knowing why or how he knew that. "Anyway, what does she like...?" Looking up to the ceiling, deep in thought, he said slowly, "Well, she likes you, obviously, and she likes...the colour blue, and, umm..."
"You have no idea what she likes, do you?" Jay asked, his blue eyes narrowing.
"Hey, give me a second!" Kai snapped. "I'm still thinking!" After a moment of silence, Kai spoke again, "Wait, now I remember! She likes Haiku poetry."
"Haiku?"
"Yeah. You know, five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second, and five on the third? It's usually written with really descriptive words, but it doesn't rhyme and it's still really simple in its own way."
Jay stared at the ground. He was surprised there was another way to write poetry besides having it rhyme. As he thought about what he would write, he suddenly came up with an even better idea than before, knowing exactly what he would write for Nya now.
"Hey, you know what else she likes?" Kai asked.
"What?"
"When you leave me alone." The fire ninja slammed the bedroom door. "Now please go away."
Jay opened his mouth to say more, to thank Kai for giving him an idea for the poem he would write, but decided against it and raced back to his own room, pulling out another piece of paper and writing once more.
Later that day, he met up with Nya outside the apartment complex, feeling a bit nervous as he looked over the Haiku poem again. He hoped she would like it, but at the same time he wasn't even sure if he liked it.
"So, we can finally celebrate our one-year anniversary, huh?" Nya commented, smiling at Jay as he approached. "I'd say it's about time. Any longer, and our second-year anniversary would have been coming soon."
Jay laughed nervously. "Yeah... Um, hey, so I was thinking that for something like this I would do something nice for you, so I..." He trailed off, not sure how he would word what he would say next.
Nya raised an eyebrow. "Yes?" she said expectantly. "What did you do, Jay?"
He gulped, reaching into his pants pocket and pulling out the folded piece of paper. He looked over his poem again, then looked back up at Nya, then back down again. "I decided to write you a poem. I just don't know if you'll like it." He inhaled slowly, and after another long pause he began to read the poem out loud.
"Strong, kind, and clever," he said, his voice shaking slightly. He took another deep breath to steady himself. "A brilliant light to my life, my beloved Nya." When he looked up, she looked slightly confused, and held out her hand towards him. He handed her the paper and waited anxiously as she read over the poem.
"This... This is a Haiku, isn't it?" she asked. "How did you know I liked this kind of poetry?"
Jay grinned lopsidedly. "Well, I kinda went to Kai and asked him. I really wanted to write you a poem that you would like, and none of the stuff I wrote sounded good enough, or it just sounded weird, and I couldn't come up with anything else, so I-"
His rambling was interrupted as Nya pressed her lips against his, caressing his face in her hands. He immediately flushed a bright pink, and he kissed back gratefully, trying to stifle a nervous laugh. She stroked her thumbs against his freckled cheeks, eliciting a calm sigh from him, before she finally separated from him.
"So, uh..." Jay murmured. "Did you like it? The poem?"
Nya nodded, a wide smile present on her face. "It was wonderful, Jay. Thank you." She pulled him into a hug, resting her chin on his shoulder. "I love you so much."
"Yeah... I do, too, Nya. I mean, I love you too, not I love me, but... Oh, you know what I mean!" He frowned as Nya laughed at his awkward tone of voice, but then smiled again, remembering how much he loved to hear her laugh.
Nya suddenly pulled back from the hug, the look on her face suddenly serious. "I wasn't supposed to get you anything for our anniversary, was I?"
If anyone's confused as to where the Ninja are living in this oneshot or as to where they are, they're in that Hero's Suite thing. Yeah.
So, I'm basically doing the requests in the order that they're received, so don't worry if your request doesn't show up right after you send it in. It'll show up soon enough, don't worry :)
Oh, and I forgot to mention this: I'm not going to do any Ninja x Reader oneshots. Mostly because they're apparently against the rules or something. So...yeah.
Thanks, LucyBrick123 and Awesomesauce Samurai 15!