The Crisis /NinjagoxFem!Reader/

The Fight

Your POV

It continues for four days. You wake up to only one of the Ninja there, and the others return before "dark," and turns out they've found nothing. It is getting tiring.

Physically, you're fine. You aren't so exhausted that you can't keep your eyes open anymore. Emotionally, meh? You still feel a lot of anxiety and your sure that you should probably be taking medications after all of this, but it's... better? You haven't cried for a few days though, that's good. But you still are almost always shaking and you always have a deep fear of... most everything involved in this. It's like post tramautic stress disorder or something. You're often curled up in a ball, reliving everything that's happened since the day Roy brought you to the park. If not, you're muscles are tense and your knuckles are white.

Today is a little different though.

Today you slowly wake up. It takes half an hour for you to actually get out of bed. Rather than being an emotional mess, you are also dead inside. It's totally a great combo, emotional mess and dead on the inside. Note the sarcasm.

"You seem...different?" someone asks from behind you. You turn around to see Kai in his flaming red suit.

"I guess," you say.

Kai sits down next to you and wraps an arm around you. You tense a little, not expecting it. Usually this doesn't happen until later in conversation you have with whichever Ninja when they feel bad and try to comfort you. You lean your head against Kai's chest and sigh. You kinda hate your life right now.

"I'm just kinda dead right now," you say as you shrug.

Kai nods understandingly and tightens his hold on you. For the first time you aren't shivering. This realm always seems to be cold, no matter how many blankets cover you, you're always cold. But for once you're warm. You figure it's a Master of Fire thing.

"I'm just, I don't know, anxious? About all this?" you say.

"Hey, we're gonna figure this out. We'll bring Damien down and get you back home and make sure no one ever hurts you again," Kai says.

You sigh. You never have felt so powerless in your life. You can't do anything. All you think you can do is sit here and pray/hope that the Ninja can figure something out.

"But I feel like it's a little more than anxiety," Kai says.

"How did you know?" you ask, marvelling at the fact that he could read you so well.

"Well, I have Nya, my little sis. When it was just us, I learned how she acted when she was stressed, and from what I've seen a lot of girls act in similar ways," he explains.

"Are you saying women act the same?"

"No? You're all very different, and I respect that," Kai says, confused by your question and worried that he offended you.

You laugh. "I'm messing with ya. But, yes, I think it's more than anxiety."

"Then what is it?"

You shrug. "I dunno how to explain it. Ever since Damien killed Roy, I've felt vulnerable and paranoid. But since he came back and kidnapped me, it's been worse. I feel...powerless."

Kai nods. "I get that. I first became a ninja because Lord Garmadon kidnapped Nya. I felt so powerless. Sensei Wu came and knocked some sense into me many many times, but that feeling of worry and helplessness always came back to haunt me until I got her back and stopped Garmadon and the skeletons...for a while, that is."

You sit in silence with him, leaning against his warm chest and being calmed by his steady, consistent breathing and heart rate, when Kai finally speaks up.

"Ya wanna know what helped?"

You nod slowly, not moving from your position.

"Well, with my fear and anxiety and anger, one thing helped me the most, once I actually tried. I was training to be a Ninja so I could get the Golden Weapons, save Nya, stop Garmadon, so on, so forth. Well, training actually helped my emotions a lot."

You laugh. "You've gotta be kidding me! You're saying I should learn how to fight? Kai, I've tried before. I'm no good at it!" you say. A month after Roy died, you tried to take self defense classes, but you never had the heart to punch someone.

Now it's Kai's turn to laugh. "This isn't a few months ago. It's a different situation. Now knowing how to fight could save your life."

Kai stands up and holds both of this hands up. "Punch my hand."

"What? No!" you shout. You aren't sure if this is a good idea.

"Just trust me, y/n. Punch me. As hard as you can."

Reluctantly, you stand up. You look at Kai's hand and hold your arm up and put your hand into a fist. You swing wildly at his hand, only for him to stop it easily.

"See? Didn't work!"

"Y/n, this is gonna sound weird since I guess I'm the one with a hot temper, but you need patience. C'mon, I'll help you."

You figure you have nothing to lose at this point, and let Kai lead you to an area for him to teach you how to fight.

Kai's POV

I watch y/n as she takes a defensive stance. She's a fast learner, but she is scared to go hard on me. I mean, I have been a ninja for a while, so she can't hurt me that easily, but I can see that this would be difficult for her.

"Alright, I'm gonna come at you. Ready?" I say.

"I guess," y/n says, unsure of herself.

I run at her, but I go easy. This is her first day fighting like this, so I don't want to make it too hard on her. I throw a fist toward her face, and she deflects it fairly easily. For her first time, it was really good. We can improve later.

I send a kick toward her stomach, and she steps back instinctively. It's not really fighting, but, hey, it's better than getting hit. She had pretty good reflexes already.

I run at her again, but I slide on the ground to get behind her. It throws y/n off guard long enough for me to get a hit on the back of her legs. Her knees buckle and she falls to the ground.

I'm worried that I went to far, but she quickly gets up. I smile at her, trying to say sorry. This time, she comes at me, and I let her. Offense takes more confidence than defense, and if she has the confidence to do it, I'm not gonna stop her immediately.

She throws a punch at my shoulder, and I block it. I twist my arm, causing y/n to turn her back to me. It's a super vulnerable position that no doubt she's learned. I've seen Damien put her into this position. It's dangerous. It's where you get choke holds and knives to your throat. Of course, I'm not doing either of those. That's a little...extreme. But I want her to know how to get out of that if she ever needs to again.

As a substitute to pressing a knife against her throat, it's almost like I'm hugging y/n from behind. I actually kinda like doing it. But it ends quickly.

Y/n kicks my feet out from under me and I go down laughing. "You did it!"

"Oh my gosh are you okay?" Y/n asks in concern.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I would rather fight you than Damien any day still, but you learn fast. We just needa let your confidence grow."

Y/n smiles. I haven't seen her this happy, well, ever. "Thanks for that," she says quietly as she helps me up.

"No problem! And I'll help you out even more. Deal?"

"Deal."

A/N
Yo I did it! I've wanted to do this chapter for a while now and I've finally done it! I hope y'all like it. Love y'all and please vote and comment!
💘 Michelle