A Heart Between Us

Chapter 6: Who's Who?

A Heart Between Us

Chapter 6

Who's Who?

Kairi had been living in the palace with the ninja now for a week. Her clothing changed from using Lloyd's to at least wearing some of the old clothing they found that might have belonged to Harumi. At least it fit her. They seemed to follow the same jade color scheme that the royal family used to wear. Made her wonder if Lloyd was a prince or something. They did live in the castle after all.

When all of her chores were done, and there wasn't anything left to do that Zane thought she might need to know in books, she would adventure around looking at the large building. She worked from the top to the bottom. The attic was dusty and had old furniture that was falling apart. The dust made her eyes sting so she didn't spend to much time up there.

The second day she was on the second level which is where the bedrooms were. She stopped as she heard someone singing. She looked within the room. It had been left open a crack. She looked inside seeing Kai singing into a brush. She knew next to nothing about music, but this song was way to loud and it kinda hurt her ears. His room was full of junk. Soda cans on the nightstand and dresser, mixed with old plates that smelled of cheese. Empty hair gel bottles in the corner. Not even in the trash bin which were overflowing by his desk. Let's not even talk about the cloths all over the floor and unmade bed.

It wasn't till a few days later that she was able to put her plan into action. Kai had gone to the market with Nya. She ran upstairs into his room and began to clean it. A few onlookers stopped by to find out what the noise was. She looked at them for a few seconds before going back to what she was doing. Before long she was finished. A healthy mound of trash bags were placed outside the room. The room looked cleaner than it probably had since Kai moved in. She couldn't wait to see how happy he was. He was what they called her uncle now and she wanted to make them all happy. This was the only way she knew how.

Kai spotted the bags beside his room. He walked in and screamed loud. That was not the reaction Kairi was hoping to hear. He turned to look at her the anger in his eyes. She turned and ran down the hallway, away from the very angry fire elemental. She could hear him arguing very heatedly with Zane.

It wasn't till close to one in the morning that they found her. Lloyd wouldn't have been able to find her if he hadn't heard a soft sniffle. She was hiding under one of the tables in a dark corner of the library. It was a very small table with a table cloth over it, so she couldn't have been seen otherwise. He turned and sat down next to the table.

"You know...when I first joined the team I was about 10 years old. The son of Lord Garmadon, no chance at being anything other then a warlord's son. I was determined to be just like him." The table cloth moved a little as if she was trying to push herself back against the wall more.

"I was bad...got into trouble. Did some horrible things. Even let the snakes clans out of there prison eventually setting this huge snake on the city." He hugged his legs. He could hear her sniffling again.

"What did you do?" Her little voice asked. It was almost inaudible from where he sat so close to her.

"Took responsibility for my actions...and helped them defeat it." He didn't tell her the part that Garmadon was the one to defeat the snake. That would have been a horrible idea yet. She lifted the table up to look at him.

"I just wanted to help." She sniffled leaning against Lloyd. He put his arm around her and picked her up.

"Yeah, but Kai likes his stink where he throws it. Its a Controlled Chaos." Lloyd said stood up. The walk back to Kai's room was the longest in Kairi's memory.

Kai looked around as he heard Lloyd come up. The anger still on his face. She hid in Lloyd's shoulder. He set her down and she looked at the floor. She slowly brought her wrists up. Kai looked baffled by this, but when the cloth fell away from them did it become clear. Old scars from where she had been hit before were very visible. Kai looked at Lloyd with extreme surprise. She thought he was going to hit her.

Every bit of anger drained from Kai as he understood her reasons for running away. It meant pain would be inflicted on her and she didn't know why. She had done her job, she had cleaned like she was taught to. Why was someone mad at her? What was going on?

Kairi flinched when she felt someone touch her. She opened her eyes to see Kai's fingers run over her wrists. She looked from her wrists to his large brown eyes.

"I'd never get this mad at you. I'll never hurt you. I'm a hot head...but never. Never like this." He picked her up and held her close.

Cole came running around the corner skidding to a stop thinking that his daughter was probably about to endure one of Kai's meltdowns. What he saw was not at all what he expected.

Zane, hot on his heels saw the same thing. Kai holding their daughter tightly. They weren't sure what had happened. But they were sure they'd find out eventually.