Ninja x Male Reader

It's True Potential Time

Look at how cute he is!!!!! This picture brings me so much joy :D

tw: sw3@ring and mention of st@bbing (Reader's foot)

Word Count: 2,538

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Reader slowly opens his eyes and squints as the sun beams down harshly onto his tired body. He lifts up a hand to try and get the sun from burning his eyes. Reader groans as he tries to sit up. His arms stumble a few times before finally being stable enough to lift Reader up enough to see around him.

Reader gasps when he sees Kai laying face-down in the hot sand. He scrambles over to him and push him onto his back. He's not looking forward to Kai dying because there's sand in his lungs. Me neither tbh.

"Come on, Kai. Wake up wake up." Reader begs as he lightly taps at his face. Kai scrunches up his face and groans as he opens his eyes. Reader smiles and makes a breath of relief.

"Welcome back." Reader says hoarsely as he smiles. Kai smiles and laughs softly.

"How's your foot?" Kai asks, his throat feeling like gravel.

"Think it might be infected. 'Cause, you know, sand." Reader says as he looks at his foot.

"Heh, yeah." Kai says weakly as he turns his head away from Reader. A few minutes pass before Reader gently takes ahold of Kai's hand. He looks at Reader before turning his head again.

"How long to you think we're gonna be out here?" Kai asks, his voice barely above a whisper.

"To be honest: I don't know. I just hope they'll find us before we die." Reader answers grimly.

"Do you think the others are having a better time than we are?"

"Hopefully." A grim silence falls over the two ninja. Reader lays down beside Kai, too tired to keep sitting. Kai squeezes his hand before saying, "I'm scared, Reader."

"Me too, Kai." Reader turns his head and sees something in the sky. He squints his eyes and sits up, alerting Kai.

"What? What is it?" He asks.

"Sit up." Reader commands. He does so and when he sees what Reader's seeing, a big smile forms on his badly sunburned face. Reader lifts his arms and waves them around, Kai does the same. He stands up and waves his arms wildly in hopes that the thing in the sky will see them. As the thing on the sky gets closer to the two friends, they realize that it's the Bounty! They actually came! The Bounty gets lower and the anchor is dropped, stopping mere feet from the two.

"Come on, Reader!" Kai urges excitedly. He pulls them up and quickly leads them to the anchor. He helps them onto it and hops up on it himself. The anchor begins to retract back into the giant ship, leading the two ninja up from the sandy ground. Reader heaves a sigh of relief when he sees his friends' faces looking at them from the deck.

When the anchor is all the way in, Cole and Zane reach down and grab their two friends.

"Thank the First Spinjitzu Master you're alive! We were so worried!" Nya exclaims as she gives Kai a big ol' hug.

"Yeah, I thought we were gonna lose you two. Thank goodness we didn't." Jay sighs. Reader smiles as he leans on Cole and heads inside.

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Jay walks into their shared room carrying some long metal things. Reader sits up, wondering what the fuck he's doing. He places the long metal things down on Zane's bed where Reader's resting for Zane gave up his bed for him again.

"Uh, Jay? What'cha got there?" (a smoothie) Reader asks as he raises a brow.

"Oh! Well, since your foot got stabbed, I figured it'll be kinda hard to walk so I made you some crutches!" Jay says proudly, gesturing to the long metal things that're lying next to Reader.