This chapter completes the challenge. Thank you so much for reading, following/fav-ing, and commenting :)!

Review Replies (wow, the latest chapter was really popular!):

Dr. Fluffmuffin - Wow, thank you so much for all your nice reviews! I've tried very hard to find the right moments in (or after) the seasons for these one shots, so I am really glad you liked the scenes :). Garmadon is one of my favourite character in the show (excluding seasons 8 and 9)!

pagolia1905 - Thank you. I love writing Jaya and I have written a lot for them, that's why I didn't want to do this challenge just for this pairing.

Endeavour16 - Thank you. I've really enjoyed writing this chapter. The conversation between PIXAL and Lloyd in episode 83 was the reason why I chose PIXane for this season ;).

YellowNinja - PIXane is my second favourite pairing.

Isabella camovic - I love PIXane too, but I've picked a different pairing for this final chapter.

RandomDragon2.0 - Thank you. Initially, Jay and Nya were going to give them less helpful advice, but they both have made a lot of mistakes in their relationships and learned from them. Also, I like fluff :).

JayaKrokmou - Thank you. I love Jaya too - no real surprise here ;) - and I've really enjoyed writing these stories set within the show. I still have a few unpublished (on this site) Jaya stories (not for this challenge).

I know a lot of people hate Harumi, but I really like this pairing 😉. This is not really a season 9 story, more of an 'Harumi throughout the seasons' but the requested 'couple's moment' takes place in episode 92 - which means I have to end this book on a sad note 😢.


Just an Ordinary Girl

A few years ago, Harumi was just an ordinary happy little girl.
For her parents, of course, she was the most special person in all of Ninjago, and the hard-working couple wanted nothing but the best for their daughter - and they especially wanted her to be safe. Thus, following some Serpentine attacks on their village, the family had recently relocated to Ninjago City where they now lived in a small apartment.
Harumi didn't really mind. The girl had already found some new friends, and she would have gone anywhere as long as she was together with her mum and dad.
There was a little detail though that made her slightly different from most other girls of her age - while the majority of Harumi's friends admired N-pop groups or The Royal Blacksmith, the sandy haired girl was the Ninja's biggest fans.
Unlike her classmates, she didn't dream of being a princess or a superstar. Harumi rather wanted to protect Ninjago, just like they had saved her village from the evil snakes.
Posters of the five teenage boys plus a few more also with the female Samurai and their wise old Sensei covered the walls and even the ceiling of her bedroom. The green one was her favourite. His name was Lloyd, and while he wasn't that much older than Harumi herself, he was already destined to be a hero. And, he was also rather cute.
She would never admit this to anyone, but every evening she would kiss his picture goodnight.

Then all of a sudden, from one moment to the next, Harumi had become an orphan. Sadly, this was nothing out of the ordinary, for there were many other children who had also lost their parents during the Day of the Great Devourer.
But what made her special was that she didn't blame it on the Serpentine. No, in her eyes, it was all the Ninja's fault. They were responsible for her parents' death because they had failed to protect Ninjago City - and her family. And she was going to make them pay for it.

It came as quite a surprise to everyone, most of all Harumi herself, when she got adopted by the Emperor and Empress. And, at least to her, it was not a good surprise. She had never wanted to be a princess, and, worst of all, people suddenly called her 'special', when all Harumi wanted was to be just an ordinary girl living with her parents in a small apartment.

The Quiet One was not an ordinary villain. For several years, she patiently plotted her revenge and (im)patiently waited for the right moment to strike. To her own surprise, she managed to stay hidden as she set up her gang and carefully observed the Ninja's every move.
And then, the right moment had finally arrived.

Lloyd Garmadon was not an ordinary young man. Not only was he the destined Green Ninja, but he had also been forced to grow up prematurely because of Tomorrow's Tea. And, Harumi had to admit, he had aged rather well.
When he and his team came to the palace to protect her and the Oni Mask, the cute little boy she remembered had turned into an incredibly handsome guy.
You are an ordinary hormonal teenage girl. She told herself. And it was completely normal for such to be attracted to a somewhat attractive boy. Okay, scratch that, he was gorgeous. His wavy golden hair, his piercing emerald eyes, the determined smile on his face, his kindness when he had helped her take some leftover food from the palace kitchen to the poor, the powerful yet surprisingly soft hands that had then given out the fruits to the children, his abs (which Harumi had of course only seen purely by accident when she had completely unintentionally seen him training shirtless - for about two hours) and toned legs, his firm bu... - no, there was absolutely nothing special at all about her messed-up feelings.
Interestingly, he didn't seem to be indifferent towards her either. And hot or not (okay, definitely the former), Harumi was going to use that against him.

Harumi's first kiss was rather unspectacular. In fact, it wasn't even a proper kiss, just a quick peck on the cheek to distract Lloyd and make him stop asking questions. The only things that one could maybe call special about it was the venue, the Primeval 's Eye in the middle of the jungle.
But then, why couldn't she stop thinking about it?

It was not just another ordinary day in Ninjago when Harumi had finally achieved her goal. The Quiet One and her gang had found the three Oni Masks, they brought back Lord Garmadon, he had easily conquered Ninjago, and she was now the Emperor's second-in-command. All could be fine, yet Harumi didn't feel like it.
Because this time, she was responsible for all the children who had just lost their ordinary happy lives.

And then came the day when Harumi found herself at a loss. Sure, she had been many times before, and she had always been the one that had gotten away. But she already knew that this was not an ordinary situation.

Trapped inside a collapsing building, she was desperately looking for a way out. And it had been her own fault. Had she not led this ordinary little boy and his family to an exit, the evil mastermind would have long been gone herself.

Harumi ran up the stairs to the rooftop, hoping to somehow be able to jump onto the next building. Only, there was no other building left that she could reach.
And as she was frantically looking around for a way out, she saw him. Lloyd was standing on another rooftop not too far away, and he was looking at her too.

"Rumi." Was all he said. She couldn't see his face, but the tone of his voice told her enough to make her relax.

She simply wasn't going to get away this time, so what would be the point in panicking?

Instead, she started to walk closer towards the edge, her eyes fixed on the green clad person on the other roof. And for a brief moment, she could simply pretend that she was just an ordinary girl looking at an ordinary boy.

And Harumi smiled.

Lloyd didn't look away. Even when the building collapsed, he kept his eyes firmly fixed on Harumi for as long as he could spot the white hair through the dust. Only when the debris had covered her small body entirely, did he stop watching and he turned away, tears silently running down his cheeks.

Harumi had stopped being an ordinary girl long ago. But she would never know how special she had been to him.