Chapter 74
An Amusing Return
.:Nya:.
It has been three days since Kai and Violet had left the bounty. Of course Nya knows why thanks to the note that Violet left but her roommate also said to tell nobody, including Nathan. When the older boy asked her after the incident with Kai, Nya declined him straightaway. Never in her entire life has she met someone more protective than Kai. The Samurai X could remember when her first boyfriend –which she'll never admit to Jay- made her upset and Kai said he'll have the talk but Nathan… His talk is jump to the conclusion and beat the poor bastard, the bastard being Kai.
The raven-haired girl sighed as she looked back down to her invention with the morning sun as her source of light. The invention was a Mech similar to her Samurai X suit but this one is fit for her brother. Her plan is to design one for every one of her teammates… well excluding Nathan. It's not that she hated the guys but she found it hard for her to understand him. One moment he's shy and nervous, next he's kind and next protective and hot-headed like Kai. It's like Kai has rubbed his protectiveness and hot-headedness onto the male Samurai.
"Nya, are you in there?" She heard Jay's voice from outside the room.
"Yeah, come in." She called and she quickly fixed her attire up. The door creaked open and Jay popped his head in before allowing his body to come in. "Is there something wrong?"
"Nah, I thought I could spend some time with my girl now that her scary brother is gone."
"Kai isn't that scary." Nya defended with a smile as Jay sat on the ground next to her.
"What are you working on?"
"A Mech for you guys but Kai's first."
"How come?"
"So if it blows up Kai can let us know." Nya replied. Of course that isn't the reason. Kai has been doing all these stuff for her and she can't properly repay him back. The least she could do is give his first and make it the best out of everyone. Then Jay can be second best, Violet third and everyone else –Cole, Zane and Lloyd- can be the same.
"O-Okay then…" Jay muttered from next to her. Nya looked back to what would be the right hand of the Mech. Something wasn't right, she couldn't get the finger pieces to clench. "You got that little piece there upside down."
"Oh… You're right. Thanks Jay." And Nya turned her head to gently kiss Jay on the cheek. She giggled at the red hue that blossomed on his cheeks. Nya looked back down to the piece that Jay pointed out and tried to adjust it. Before she could touch it, she felt something soft and warm against her neck. "J-J-Jay?!"
Goosebumps rose along the back of her neck as Jay's kisses went towards her jawline. Frozen in place Nya couldn't do anything but sit there and let Jay take control. Softly, the tamer of lightning placed his larger hand on her cheek and gently push, making her look into his electric blue eyes. This time, he placed his lips onto her's and the samurai melted into the kiss. Slowly, Nya wrapped her arms around her ninja's neck and kissed back. Upon this, Jay placed his hands onto her waist and slowly pushed her back, making her lie down. The two continued their heated make out session until they heard someone clear their voice. Instantly, she felt Jay tense in front of her and like a lightning bolt, both of them have pulled apart and sitting up. When Nya looked to the door, she gasped.
"Kai? Violet? You're back!" Nya cried out and she scrambled onto her feet and jump onto the two, her right arm around the shorter Violet and the other around her brother.
"It's good to see you too." She heard Violet laugh and Nya stepped back to see that both Violet and Kai looked exhausted but they had boxes of stuff in their arms.
"I'm not sure about that." Kai muttered and immediately a soft blush entered Nya's cheek. When she looked back at Jay, he was now standing up looking sheepish but at the same time, he had mischief in his eyes as if revenge for them for interrupting.
"Oh, hey! How's the honeymoon?"
"What?!" Nya tried so hard not to fall on the ground laughing at how red Kai's and Violet's face went.
"Well I mean after the special event and night of Violet's birthday, it makes sense you two went on a honeymoon for a couple days. Had fun?" Jay pressed on, teasing the two.
"Jay, if you don't shut up, I'll make sure you won't be able to have kids with my sister."
"And I'll stab you with in the eye with my daggers." The couple hissed lowly but Jay ignored them. I have to watch this. Nya thought.
"There's no point in being embarrassed, everyone have sex eventually-"
"JAY!" And instantly, Nya watched as Kai dropped the box he was holding -Violet managed to caught it in time- and Kai pounced on Jay.
"Kai!" Both she and Violet exclaimed. Nya went over to Jay while Violet dropped the stuff and went to take Kai off Jay.
"I'll kill you Jay, I really mean it! No one can just go and bang my sister!"
"Dude, I haven't yet!"
"Geez, you boys really need to stop jumping into conclusions…"
.:Violet:.
It took a couple of hits when Kai stopped fighting against her and the ninja of air successfully pulled him away from the blue ninja.
"Ow dude!" When Violet looked, Jay was supporting a light bruise on the cheek.
"You're just lucky I didn't hit hard."
"See Nya, this is what I mean by your scary brother!"
"Yeah, you better be scared!"
"Kai enough!" Violet hissed as she reached up and yanked on Kai's ear.
"Ow ow ow! What are you doing?"
"Please excuse us." As soon as Violet dragged Kai out of her bedroom, she closed the door and let go of his now-red-ear.
"What was that for?"
"Oh come on, Nya didn't murder me for having sex with you-"
"But-"
"Not buts! If she didn't murder me then it doesn't mean you can murder Jay like that. You just need to let her grow up a bit-"
"But-"
"I said no buts!"
"No please, listen to me." Kai pleaded, his amber eyes were wide and round and a pout was presented on Kai's lips. With a soft sigh, Violet nodded allowing him to talk. "Nya didn't beat me up, that was your brother." Kai said through gritted teach; brother was spoke with venom.
"Well I still need to talk to him about that." Violet groaned. She thought when she got home she could just put all the problems away, it seems their trip to Cryleas wasn't just to solve some problems but store more back in the Bounty.
"Talk about me with what?" Upon hearing Nathan's voice, Violet flinched and turned around like a flash of light to see Nathan was standing in the hallway with arms crossed on his bare chest. The ninja of air averted her eyes since Nathan was wearing no shirt and only boxes.
"Why don't you put on more clothes, you're clearly making Violet uncomfortable." She heard Kai hiss lowly.
"I wasn't talking to you." Nathan snapped back and Violet could definitely feel tension in the air. Taking a deep breath, she looked between the two to see they were having a glaring competition.
"Kai, how about you go back inside and apologise. Nathan, you and I need to have a chat."
"Fine." Kai grunted and went back into her room. Violet looked at Nathan's face and only that.
"What's wrong with you lately?" She asked gently.
"Nothing."
"Really? Because I left breakfast for a minute and returned to see you bashing Kai's face and now you two are like throwing daggers at each other." Violet retorted but suddenly Nathan grabbed her arm and pulled her down the hallway. "Nathan!"
Then Nathan stopped and looked down at her, making the ninja of air feel small. "I just don't think he's the right guy for you. You were so happy on your birthday and then the next day you looked like a zombie who has been died at least a thousand times."
"That has nothing to do with Kai." Violet defended and crossed her arms.
"Look, I'm just concern. I lost my girlfriend, I lost your sister and I just want you to be happy. So what's wrong so I can help you? And why were you gone for three days?"
"One question at once okay?" Violet breathed, mentally debating whether she should tell Nathan or not. If he thinks Kai is the reason I'm upset, telling his I had a nightmare of Kai dying will surely infuriate him. She thought. But then again, I can't lie to Nathan… "I had a really bad nightmare that night…"
"About..?"
"Kai."
"What did he do?" Nathan asked, she could hint the annoyance in his voice.
"He didn't do anything. It's more like what I couldn't do… I was drowning, the Bounty sank and I couldn't find anyone. I managed to swim to the decks and I found Kai lying there dying… I couldn't save and it haunts me." Violet confessed and looked at Nathan whom suddenly turned distant. He was looking at the wall to her right and his brows were furrowed deeply. "N-Nathan?"
"I'm sorry… I just… I guess in a way it reminds me of Jessica, when I couldn't get to her when she was kidnapped."
"Nathan-"
"And it haunts me too… I see her so much in you." And at that, Nathan looked at her. "I'll see you at breakfast."
"O-Okay…"
.::.
After breakfast, Violet went to her room and lay on her bed. She knew it was bad to lie down with a full stomach but she felt so tired.
"Are you okay Violet?"
"Yeah, Kai and I spent most of our days and nights travelling to my home village so we didn't really get much sleep and when we did, the sleeping bags didn't provide much comfort." The ninja of air mumbled as she crawled over to her pillow.
"Was it hard?"
"The walk? Not really, it's in Cryleas, Kai told me you guys went there before so he-"
"No… I mean was it hard to revisit those memories? If I'm asking questions that are too personal, you don't need to answer." She heard Nya whisper gently. This caused Violet to frown but she answered Nya anyway.
"Yeah, it was. There were still evidence there… I mean the blood. At first it was really painful but your brother really helped me get through."
"Yeah, he always helped me after our parents passed… If you don't mind, can I go through the photos?"
"Of course." Violet replied and Nya went over to the cardboard box that was next to the door. The caramel-haired girl went over as well and took the three leather journal along with the necklace.
She went back to her bed and spread all three books before her. The difference between each leather books was the size and colour. Two of the books were very similar although one was darker brown than the other whereas the last book was different; it was more square than rectangular. The cover was a soft beige colour. Violet looked at the lock of the book to see it had a small red diamond in the colour. She quickly looked at the keys on the chain and found one of them had a large ruby on the bow of the key. The female ninja inserted the key and the lock opened with a pop.
"What's that?"
"I found these books in my father's drawer… I suppose it's part of my sixteenth birthday gift. There should be a small box in there with a sticky note."
"Okay."
After taking the lock off, she opened the cover and held her breathe at the first page of the book. On it was a picture of her father and mother, both of them looked so young as if they were her age or even younger. Both of them were wearing formal clothes in front of a backdrop and it made Violet wonder if they were at a school dance. The photos after that were little mementos of some occasion. Then there was one of their wedding day. A soft smile appeared on Violet's lips as she let her eyes take in the details of the photo. But she had to avert her eyes when there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." Nya called and when the door opened, both of them saw Zane's head peep in.
"Sorry if I'm interrupting but Sensei Wu wants Violet to train with us in half an hour."
"Okay, thanks Zane." And with that Zane left and Violet went back to the photo album. There were photos of her mother winning awards, the day her father was made head chief, when her mother was pregnant with Scarlett and when Scarlett was born.
After viewing all the photos, she locked the book back up and pulled and opened another book. To Violet's surprise, it was her mother's journal. Knowing she won't have time to read it all now, Violet locked that book up and opened the other, to only find that that was her father's journal. But with these in her hands, she can read what her parents were really like. The ninja of air quickly shove the books under her pillow and tucked the necklace inside the pillowcase. She then went over to the closet, grabbed her ninja gi, went behind the changing screen and changed.
Once all of this was done, she went up to the decks to see what Sensei Wu need to train them. It wasn't often that their Sensei would make unexpected training sessions like this. This must be important.
Ok, sorry for the rushed chapter but at the moment, I'm going through some tough moments with my guy friend (not boyfriend) and a guy I like. Thanks to everyone for letting this story reach over 800 reviews, I'm soooo grateful and congrats on ElementzGirl7 (who reviewed 8 times) to be the 800th reviewer. Love you all!