ninjago imagines

tonight i feel like a shadow | kai s.

a/n: the context is kai to nya after seabound

Dear Nya,

Today marks the one year anniversary since you sacrificed yourself for Ninjago. Everyone is coming down to the sea and lighting lamps with messages for you in your honor, so I thought I'd do the same.

Except I'm not by the sea. I'm at the pond in Ignacia, where we used to go with Mom and Dad before they left. Remember? You'd stay in there for hours, looking at the fish and swimming, faster than me even though you were so little. We'd have to drag you out from the water at the end of the day, but I think you would've stayed forever if you could've.

Everyone wants you to come back, Nya. That goes without saying, and I miss you more than anything, I do. And Jay, and Lloyd, and everybody else.

But you're gone now, forever, and there's no changing that, if Bethomaar is right. So. I also remember when we went down to the docks to look at the stars, and everyone had their eyes glued to the sky, but you were just looking down at the waves, the way they washed into the beach and back out, the light refracting over the water. I'd never noticed the way they looked until I saw the way you looked at the sea, and I've never seen you that... content before.

And I hope you're happy in the sea. I think you were, in those few seconds before you left. I don't know about after, of course, but there was always a part of you that loved the water, in a way nobody else could see, and I don't think there's any better way you could fulfill that than, well, turning into the sea.

So more than anything, I want you to do what makes you happy. Even if that means you never come back. Even if that means we never see each other again. I'd understand.

It sounds selfish to ask you to keep away from Jay and the others, but you're my sister, and I don't want you to return because you feel like you have to.

I know firsthand how power changes someone, and I can only imagine how turning into your element would change you. Not your human form... but you.

And you did infinitely more than you ever had to do. You owe us nothing.

You saved Ninjago. I hope you remember that, even if you don't remember us. I think you were beginning to forget when you said goodbye, but that's okay.

And I know I said it was okay if you forgot about us, but I really hope you remember that we love you, no matter what you are or what you do. You can always come back. Always.

I don't know if you'll ever see this, or if you even can, but part of me thinks you will. You were always the one who found a way through the impossible, after all.

With love,

Kai