Requested by: Guest

Request: Jay/Lloyd

Warnings: Yaoi

Jay followed Lloyd up the dirt path leading to Sensei Garmadon's monastery, looking around at his surroundings. They had recently defeated the Digital Overlord, Lloyd having returned not long after, and were now on somewhat of a break as they tracked down where Pythor and the Nindroids could have gotten to.

Lloyd decided that while the others continued their search, he could take this time to do a few things he didn't have much time to do while he was travelling around Ninjago as the Golden Ninja accepting awards and attending ceremonies, or hiding in the outskirts of the city with his father. Unwilling to leave the Green Ninja unprotected, Jay decided to tag along, hoping the others could search just as well without him.

"Thanks for coming with me today, Jay," Lloyd said with a grin. "There's a lot of stuff back at home that I've been meaning to organize and all that. I haven't even been able to get my room completely set up!"

Jay tilted his head. "I can understand why you haven't been able to set it up, what with it being a relatively new monastery and you travelling all over the place, but couldn't your parents do it for you?"

The blond shrugged. "My dad's busy training his students, and my mom said she wants me to decide how everything should look."

He walked through the arch into the courtyard, greeting his father's students as they rushed up to talk to the pair. Jay couldn't help but smile as the kids practically surrounded them, asking for autographs or to come with them on their next mission.

"Sorry, everyone!" Lloyd said above the clamour the students made. "Jay and I have some stuff to do today, so we can't stick around for long!"

"We can help!" one student chimed in. The others quickly agreed, the noise level rising once more.

Lloyd shook his head, giving them an apologetic look. "It's ninja business. We'll be back out later, though! Until then, you'll just have to stay out here."

Even though they all looked very disappointed at not being allowed to know what they were doing, the students all nodded and obeyed, returning to whatever game they were playing before Lloyd and Jay arrived.

Jay looked up at the monastery before him, remembering when they last came here to hide from the Nindroids, and failed at doing so miserably. "I never noticed it before, but your dad's monastery is pretty impressive," Jay remarked. "How long did it take to build?"

"I think at least half a year, maybe more," Lloyd replied. He slid the doors open, the main room being the training facility. "The second floor was probably the harder part, since that's where all our rooms are."

He led Jay up a staircase hidden behind another sliding door. "This is the kitchen," he said as they reached the top of the stairs. Gesturing to the left, he added," And over here is the living room."

He continued down another hallway, pointing at the different doors as they passed each one. "There's the bathroom, my parents' bedroom, a hall closet..." Jay couldn't believe how much work had been put into building this one specific floor of the monastery, continuing to remind himself that all of it happened in at least six months.

They soon reached a pale green coloured door, Lloyd's symbol of a dragon carved into a panel beside it. Jay smirked at the design choice, wondering whose idea it was to have it look as it did. Lloyd slid the door open, grinning at Jay's astonished expression. "And this is my bedroom!"

The room was almost completely barren, with several boxes stacked in the corners here and there. A weapons rack leaned against the wall, but was completely void of any weapons. The only thing that did look typical of the room was the bed, which didn't even have a simple bedsheet spread on it.

"Well, you weren't kidding," Jay said finally. "There's not much in here."

"Come on, help me take some of this stuff out," Lloyd said, already peeling the tape off one of the boxes and lifting the flaps. He pulled out a few weapons, ranging from katanas to throwing knives, and hung them up on the weapons rack.

Jay nodded, digging through a box that was already open. He pulled out a fishing rod, raising an eyebrow in confusion as he didn't remember Lloyd ever saying he enjoyed fishing, and a boom box, putting it down beside his bed. At the bottom of the box lay several rolled-up papers. Jay took them out and unrolled them, grinning when he saw what they were.

"You're still into Starfarer, huh?" Jay asked. "I knew you were still a kid inside under all your mature behaviour!"

Lloyd looked over his shoulder at the large poster. His eyes widened and he snatched the poster out of Jay's hands, quickly pinning it to the wall. "Y-yeah, so what?" he replied defensively. "I'm allowed to like what I want, aren't I?"

The redhead raised his hands in defence. "Hey, I'm not gonna make fun of you, Lloyd, calm down. Just making a comment." He went to open another box, peeling off the tape and lifting the flaps, only to find it was full of comic books.

"Look, I can explain-"

"Like I said, not gonna make fun," he interrupted, picking up what appeared to be the first issue of Starfarer. "So...what is this comic all about, anyway? Why do you like it so much?"

Lloyd shifted uncomfortably on his feet as he hung up another poster. "Oh, you know...the art's really nice, there's a decent storyline, lots of action and fighting..." He shrugged. "It's kinda more of a guilty pleasure now that I'm older."

Jay flipped to the first page, his jaw dropping at what he saw. "Man, you weren't kidding! It even starts with a fight scene!" He sat on the edge of Lloyd's bed, reading the comic excitedly as Lloyd watched with amusement, continuing to organize his room.

"I'm gonna guess you really like what you're seeing so far," he said once he was finished, coming to sit next to Jay. "I can let you borrow all of them if you want." He peered over Jay's shoulder, noticing he was almost finished. "Or we could read them together now, if you want?"

Jay lifted his eyes from the comic, his blue eyes bright. "That would be awesome! Hey, c'mere." He pulled Lloyd close to his side, bending over to pick the second issue of Starfarer out of the box. "We'll read the next one together. Just tell me whenever you're ready to go to the next page, okay?"

Lloyd blushed at the sudden closeness, but grinned and nodded. "Sure. We'll have time to do the rest of my room soon enough."

As Jay hugged him closer, Lloyd felt comfortable that someone was finally sharing his interests with him. He'd been wanting to admit that he still liked reading comics and generally enjoying the things he always did when he was still a kid, but wasn't sure how they'd react. Now that at least Jay knew...

"I'm glad you came with me today, Jay," Lloyd said suddenly. "I was worried the others would make fun of me if I said anything about Starfarer, so I kinda just kept quiet this whole time."

"Well, now you've got company!" Jay replied, elbowing him in a friendly manner. "I'm just glad you introduced me to it." Fiddling with the edge of the page, he added, "Is there anything else associated with the comics, like a show, movie...?"

"As a matter of fact, there is a movie coming out in a few days..."

I always wondered when and how Jay got into Starfarer in the first place, but apparently Lloyd had something to do with it XD

Thank you to Guest for requesting this pairing! Stay tuned!