Someone Like You (Lloyd x Reader)

Chapter 20

I'm Born To Run
— American Authors

"All these things I have seen and done
I've lived my life, like I'm born to run...
I'm gonna live my life like I'm gonna die young
Like it's never enough, like I'm born to run"

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The next week went by like a blur, passing through a system of celestial bodies that filled our world and gave it life. Things were still the same however, with the ninja training Lloyd and Nya teaching me what I should expect with the body I was still getting used to. Meanwhile I managed to proportion my time with Kai's sister and Misako while also squeezing in early morning training sessions.

After the events of last week at the museum, I found myself glued to Misako's side about how on Earth she knew who I was— more specifically my mother. Arashi wasn't the most common name after all.

Apparently Misako and my mother were, once upon a time, quite good friends. Which didn't surprise me in the slightest. Much like Misako, my mother was a history buff which stretched above and beyond. She craved knowledge of anything ancient and even mythological, although these days I had a sneaky suspicion that some mythology beliefs were more real than what most people in Ninjago could believe.

Much like Misako, my mother had abandoned me to Sensei Wu, only she didn't have a reason and keeps trying to take me away from Wu and the ninja. At least Misako was trying to save her family which in the end only seemed like a futile attempt. You can't change destiny.

As the warm water I allowed myself to soak in slowly lifted the tension off of my body from this mornings training, I began to ponder all of the prophecies I might someday be apart of. Besides the ones I already knew of. For starters, my elemental power — as well as fire, ice, lightning, and earth — and how they slotted into the Green Ninja's Destiny. Obviously we knew that our Golden Weapons revealed who the foretold powerful ninja was, but what was our true purpose beyond that? Or even, what more could our elemental powers do? Could we one day conjure our elements like Lloyd did with his green energy?

So many thoughts and so little time.

Eventually the taps were turned off and I wrapped a towel around my body before sneaking out into the hallway and finding my room rather quickly. I then barricade the door — because people here are awful at knocking and don't even know what the word privacy means — and let the towel drop from my body.

In front of the mirror I stood, examining the new body I had now, despite it already being a month almost. Unfortunately, I had gotten my period and it's safe to say I'd rather the meticulous hours of Wu's Spinjitzu training again, rather than the gut wrenching cramps and the emotional toll it had on me. I felt like I was the Spinjitzu.

My eyes were brought back to my body however as I noticed how my belly hung out a little bit. It was weird because as I pressed down to smooth it against the rest of my body, it didn't disappear. It just stayed hanging out. I furrowed my brows at the sight but quickly realised that according to the diagram Nya had given me, it looked normal. The belly fat acted as a protection around my uterus and probably whatever other organs in my body, so I wouldn't complain.

However, I did manage to remember that my presence was due in Misako's study, or the scroll room as everyone else calls it. So quickly slipping on undergarments to chuck on underneath my gi, I find myself removing the barricade from the door and headed up to the deck on the Bounty.