Boredom is Blue
Chapter Six
Nya's P.O.V
Jay and I stay hidden away for a while. Not doing anything, really. We just needed some time to deal with the events of the day. Jay was still feeling the effects of my almost demise, even though I got him to stop blaming himself. I still scared him and the bruise around my neck only reminds him of how close I came to death. The security of having me in his arms for a long time was the only thing he needed.
I completely understand that. In fact, I think I may have needed the firm warmth of his arms around me just as much as he did. It never truly hit me until now, but I almost died today.
I could've left Jay all alone blaming himself. That's what scares me the most. Not dying, though I think it's only rational to be frightened of it. But leaving Jay alone, that terrifies me. Not to sound sappy or anything, but I know I couldn't cope without him. And therefore I know that he couldn't cope without me. We need each other. If one of us died, both of us would die. I know that.
Jay gently kisses the top of my head. We've been lying together for a couple of hours now. It was time to get up and debrief with the guys.
Getting to his feet, Jay stretches his muscular arms over his head. Shooting me a cheeky grin, he takes notice of me watching him.
"Like something you see, baby?" he asks with a naughty laugh.
"Yes," I reply with an equally naughty smile. "Everything." I wrap my arms tight around his waist and kiss his bare chest. Somehow, and I'm not sure when, he lost his shirt. Why do these ninja have such a problem with wearing shirts? Not that I mind when it's Jay, but still.
"As much as I would love to stay here and continue this conversation about how perfect I am, I think we had better get going." Jay says playfully. I nod in agreement, but neither of us moves.
"Aaand break," he gently disentangles himself. Any other day, I might've been insulted. But right now we have to go talk with everyone about what happened. Shrugging on a shirt, blue of course, Jay takes my hand and pulls me out of our pretty purple bedroom. I still find it hard to believe that Jay let me away with that one.
When we reach the meeting room, the guys are all in there. I didn't very much like the meeting room. There are hardly any windows, so the place was all dark. And cold. Every surface is littered with scraps of paper and debris from lord knows what. These boys weren't very tidy, and sadly, Jay is the worst of them. Personally, I think it's got something to do with growing up in a junkyard. I'm not criticising him or his parents, but I reckon Jay never really grew up with being told to put stuff away; there wasn't any point in the junkyard. I have to be constantly picking up after him, or my perfect room would be a sty. Sigh. It used to drive me nuts but now I see it as a very small price to pay to be with him.
It does still drive me a little crazy sometimes though. Like the time he left a screw on the floor. With the point facing up. Unfortunately, I was unlucky enough to stand on it. Hurt like a bitch, that did. Jay apologised at least fifty times on the way to the ER. He's been a little better since then.
Where was I going with this?
Oh, yeah, I don't like the meeting room. Messy, dusty and dark. But it was called the meeting room, so that's where we had the meetings. That's guy logic for you.
When we enter the room, Cole looks up from the newspaper he was reading. His lips pull up into a smile and his eyes gleam with a mischievous glint. I hate that glint.
"Had a little fun, did we?" Cole says with a wink.
Jay flips him the bird. "Shut up, stone-brain. You're not amusing anyone."
"Yeah, Cole. That's my sister you're talking about." Kai throws the apple he was eating at him, but sadly, Cole caught it easily. Casually taking a bite, he grins at me again.
"Strange that we didn't hear it this time, though. Nya's usually very vocal."
My face heats up and I duck my head. God, I must be as red as a tomato... And I'm not that loud! The various objects thrown at Cole didn't miss this time. Even Zane and Sensei Wu threw stuff. Jay thought it best just to throw himself; he's currently punching Cole in the gut. Cole grunts with each hit, but he's still laughing.
"Students, that's enough!" Sensei Wu doesn't really need to shout; every time he speaks, we listen. Just shows how exasperated he is with us, I guess. Jay gets off Cole, still grumbling under his breath when he reaches my side. Taking his hand, I lean against him and feel him start to relax. Jay can be very short-tempered, especially when it comes to me. I think it's just part of his excitable nature. Though, it would usually be him making those jokes, especially to Kai when he has a new floozy.
"Sensei, we're all over twenty now. Not really students anymore," Kai whines.
"I'll treat you like adults when you start behaving like adults! Now sit down." Sensei's voice leaves no room for argument, so we all take our seats. The table is circular and can fit twenty people, so it looks rather silly with only six. Sensei remains standing, his face showing that he was not particularly happy with us.
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Jay's P.O.V
Fucking Cole. I shoot furious glares at him from the corner of my eye, but he just takes them all with his stupid, shit-eating grin. Man, no wonder Kai gets pissed at me when I say those jokes about the girls he gets with. Should I stop? Hmm… nah. It's just too much fun. Still doesn't give Cole the right to say those things about Nya. Kai doesn't care about those girls, but Nya's important. To all of us. Her blush when Cole said that was adorable, though.
Ha, I should embarrass her more often. Just not with my brothers around.
"…about half an hour. Jay, are you listening to me?"
"Hmm? No."
Oh crap, now was probably not the best time to be a smart arse. Wu doesn't look to be in a very forgiving mood. Nya giggles under her breath. It was worth it.
"Pay attention, Jay." Wu continues to prattle about how we're going to save the world, blah, blah. I never listen to these things anyway. Find it easier to just wing it, to be honest. Cole and Zane are the more planning guys. Kai and I prefer just to jump straight in and deal with it later. Probably wasn't the best technique, but it worked for us.
"We need to learn more about these 'Amazons.' From what you've told me, they're vicious and have no qualms about killing, especially males. Zane, can you get your Falcon to spy on them?"
"Should not be a problem, Sensei," Zane's musical voice sounds a little contrite. He always did take Sensei's displeasure the hardest out of all of us. At the start, before he remembered his father, Zane looked up to Sensei as a kind of father figure. We all do, to some extent, but Zane definitely the most.
I love all my brothers (except for Cole at the moment), but I know we all have strange little quirks. I feel kind of bad for Nya, with her being the only girl on this ship. Growing up with Kai, she claims, prepared her for living with messy guys, but I still worry a little. I wish she had a close friend, one that's female, that she could really talk to. She has Kai and me but I just don't think it's the same.
Ha, maybe if one of my brothers got a girlfriend, then Nya would get a friend. Quickly scanning my brothers, I try to think about the kinds of women they would fall in love with. My eyes travel to the brother closest to me: Zane. Oh, jeez, can he get a girlfriend? He's not even human.
Thinking deeply, I realise that Zane's really the only one who needs a woman to fall in love with, and who will love him back unconditionally. When he thinks I'm not looking, I see the flash of loneliness and jealousy in his eyes sometimes when he looks at Nya and me. It really can't just be any girl, though. I think it needs to be a girl with fire, you know? Not to sound cheesy, but his woman needs to be able to melt his frozen heart. Hehe, see what I did? Frozen. Classic.
Kai's a little different. Being a playboy, some normal girl really isn't going to cut it. He'll need someone unique, a woman he's never slept with before. Probably not a warrior. I'm not sure, but knowing my brother, he'll need a woman he can protect. Not to say she'll be weak. She'll just have to strong in another way.
Now Cole's more difficult. He's our leader, and we respect him. But I think that to be able to fall in love, he's going to have to really, truly respect her. I'm not talking about the way that all men have to respect a woman. I'm saying that he's going to have to respect his woman in all things, in her strength, in her decisions, probably in her fighting ability. Otherwise he'll railroad her, and make every single decision for her. I don't know about you, but I think if I were her, I'd start resenting the man.
Wait. What am I even doing? Considering prospective partners for my brothers? Man, I really must be bored. I would love to see all my brothers happy, as I am with Nya. But they're all so stubborn that I worry that they'll never open their hearts to someone. I sneak a look at Nya. She's looking at me, eyebrows crunched in an adorable way from her confusion.
"Penny for your thoughts?" she barely whispers, not wanting to upset Wu. I smile and take her hand.
"Just brainless jibber-jabber in my head, sweetheart."
My brothers don't know what they're missing out on.
Sensei Wu flings an annoyed look at me. Goodness, it's a far cry from his usual self. A little OOC, as fanficcers would call it. I wonder if any girls write fanfic about me.
Although I really want to continue that thought, I'm rudely interrupted by Bean-Sprout walking in, as clumsy as he was before he aged five years in a day. As much as I want to bully him about that, I'm just too glad to see him.
Outcries of "Lloyd!" fill the room and we all rush to give him (manly) hugs. Except Nya, of course. I imagine her hug was more womanly.
"Why are you back so soon, man?" My innocent question is met with blank stares. Oh, yeah. Amazons. Laughing to cover my slight embarrassment, I ruffle his hair.
"Good to see ya, Bean-Sprout."
He grins back at me. "Yeah, good to see you too, Bolt."
"Okay, look man, I know you just got back, but there is no reason to nickname me after some dumb acting dog that didn't realise he was acting." More blank stares. Apparently I'm the only one who watched that movie. Darn.
"Okay, so why do ya call me… ooooh. Lightning bolt. Okay, I getch'ya." Numerous headshakes in my direction.
Sensei Wu, with all his students back, seems to be a little more in character, calmly drinking his tea. I smile at him, trying to show him I really was sorry for my rudeness and lack of attention before. He nods in response; I know I'm forgiven. Sensei Wu has always been very understanding. Sometimes he gets my motivations better than I do. He knew I was just acting out to help with the stress of the day. And, besides, who could stay mad at my handsome face?
Nya's P.O.V
Wow, everything's being kind of boring. After all the excitement of the day, this seems kind of… anticlimactic. You know, this dumb meeting about strategies that should be, but aren't, reconsidered and adapted to our new threat, how all the guys don't really seem to be taking it that seriously. Even Sensei Wu is a little more relaxed than what he probably should be. Only Jay seems to think these Amazons aren't to be missed with, but I have a feeling it's because of the threat on my life. Otherwise, he'd be exactly like them. And even then, Jay simply can't pay attention in these kinds of things, so he's not paying attention either.
I mean sure, Lloyd got called in, but really, they're all just catching up and getting nostalgic. Why am I the only one concerned about this?
"Guys, shut it!" I shout at the top my lungs, to get the attention of the noisy and laughing males. They all stare at me with large, round eyes. Kai goes to say something, but Jay punches him on the shoulder to prevent him.
"Why am I the only one that seems concerned about these Amazons? They're planning to take over Ninjago! Don't you think we should be going through all the possible ways to stop them?"
They still looked very, very shocked.
"But, Nya, we don't really have to," Cole says, his thick black eyebrows a question.
"Yeah, I mean, we've got all the pre-planned strategies down. Why would we need to go through it all? It's not as if they're an actual risk to Ninjago." Kai stares at me in puzzlement. He truly doesn't see why we need to talk about these things.
Oh, I really don't like where this is going.
"What do you mean, Kai?" I say through gritted teeth.
He starts to look a little uncomfortable, but a bit of discomfort has never stopped him before. "Well, it's just… they're just girls."
"What does gender have to do with it?" I feel like I'm about to explode.
"They're just… they're just not really a match for us, that's all." That's it. I punch him in the nose. I would've down worse, but Jay's arms are around me, pulling me back. He tries to calm me down, whispering sweet nothings in my ear, but I am having none of it.
"Ow, Nya! What the fuck?"
"You are a misogynistic bastard!"
"I don't know what the bloody hell that means!"
"It means you show hatred toward women," Zane says calmly from the corner of the room he had retreated to.
Kai grins slowly through the ruby red blood pouring from his nose. "No, I surely do not."
I pull Jay's arms from around me and storm from the room, too angry to even scream. Jeez, I really am an emotional thing, aren't I? Up and down, all the time. What's wrong with me? I haven't always been like this. Jay calls after me, but I don't wait up. I want as far away from these men as possible. Hating being so angry, but unable to pull myself out of it, I leave the house and walk the streets of Ninjago. After what seems like hours later and the streets are starting to light up from the dawn, I have calmed down enough to check my phone.
Five missed calls and six texts from Jay, two missed calls from Cole, a few (a lot) of texts from Kai and one missed call from Zane. Sensei Wu doesn't have a phone and Lloyd probably doesn't want to get involved. As I'm looking through Jay's increasingly panicky texts, he calls again.
"Nya!"
"Yes, Jay?"
"Baby, where are you? You left six hours ago."
"I don't know, shopping district somewhere."
"Okay, sweetheart. I'll be there soon. Don't move. Love you."
"Okay, love you, too."
Hanging up, I look around. Okay, where the hell am I? I was right before; I am in the shopping district somewhere. I just have no bloody clue where. Trying to figure it out, I don't notice the woman sneaking up behind me. Not until something hard smashes against the back of my head. My phen drops from my hand and onto the hard concrete below. Darn, Kai was right. The Amazons were shopping. Then, nothing but darkness.
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Katy's Note: Hey, y'all! Sorry for the slow update, studying and exams! I have only one to go, and then I'm done burger! Once that's done, I'll be updating at least once every two weeks. So look forward to that. Just a quick question, did you like the longer chapter? Hopefully, you're not too pissed at Kai; he just doesn't think about what he says sometimes. Please review!
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