Teenage Crime Affairs (Ninjago Mafia AU)

Chapter 11: Are We There Yet?

~Ronin's POV~

I open my eyes and blinked a few times. I looked around and see Kai and Skylor on the opposite couch. I reach my arm up and rubbed my eyes. "Look, sleepy head is up." I hear Skylor say and she points at me. "Did you have a nice nap?" I hear a voice say and I look up and see Dareth above me and I realize my head was on his lap.

"Uh?"

I quickly got up from Dareths lap, "How long was I out?" I asked looking at Dareth and he instantly replies, "You we're out for about two and a half hours. Everyone's in the kitchen, you hungry? Zane made burgers." I blinked a few times to process things. Oh yeah, we're on a trip to the city. "Does anyone know how long we've been on the road?" I ask looking around. "The last time I asked Pixal she said about seven hours." Kai replies and I tilted my head, "Only seven fucking hours?" I groaned and slid down the couch crossing my arms.

"Dareth, come with me." I say and stood up to walk towards the door. "Okay!" Dareth pounces up and follows me into the kitchen, where Zane, Pixal, and Nya were hanging out. "Hi Dareth." Nya says looking past me at Dareth. Dareth waves back and I scoff, "Nice to see you too princess." I laugh and look on the counter to see a few burgers piled on a plate, I walk over past Zane and grabbed one and took a bite out of it. As much as these guys can be annoying Zane can definitely cook, it's probably one of the reasons why I still work with these guys.

"Pixal, what time is it?" I ask and I hear her gears working for a moment before she replies. "The current time is four twenty-three PM." Only four a clock? "What's the expected time of us arriving?"

"Time varies dues to the type of people grouped together in one space, and also anything that I cannot predict."

That's great, it makes sense though. I took another bite of my burger and I walked past everyone to the next door and opened it, it was the beds and I see Jay and Cole sitting on one lower bed on one side and Lloyd sitting on the other side. "Mind if we sit with you guys?" I ask and Lloyd nods and scoots over as I walk towards him and sit next to him and Jay scoots over for Dareth to sit next to. "What makes you wanna sit with us?" Cole asked with a slight chuckle and I shrugged my shoulders, "I mean, we're stuck with each other for a couple weeks might as well get used to communication."

"What were you guys talking about?" Dareth asked and I see his eyes bounce between the three and Jay giggles, "Oh, just stuff from when we were younger. Like when Lloyd found me." I raise a brow, "Found you?" I question and he smiles. "I'm sure you can guess I was bullied a lot as a kid for several reasons, to the point I didn't want to live. Until Lloyd found me and told me all my problems would go away if I come with him, and I'm just glad he didn't lie." Lloyds laughs, "Yeah, you two were easy to recruit when all you wanted was to leave the life you use to have." A few things popped up in my mind I started to question, might as well, right? "Bullying? How old were you Jay?"

"I was nine when Lloyd recruited me. My parents took me to a park and Lloyd just happened to be there."

"Woah woah woah woah, you're telling me you've been part of this mafia shit since you were nine years old?"

I see Jays face turn slightly pink as he nods, "Something like that." "What about you Lloyd? You're the leader, how did you get into this shady ass shit." I ask, looking at him and Lloyd freezes for a moment then looks away from everyone, "I-I...don't wanna talk about it. It's kinda confusing and weird, and just complicated and really fucked up. One day I promise I'll tell you all but...right now I don't feel too comfortable going back to those memories."  I kinda feel bad for this kid, hell if Jay was nine that could only mean Lloyd was eight.

I then hear Cole sigh and I watch as he leaned forwards to reach his hand towards Lloyd cheek and cupped it to make him look at him, "It's okay Lloyd, tell us when you want to." he says and Lloyd nods and Cole lets go of Lloyd's face and sits back normally in his position, "I can tell you my story."
Intrigued, I nodded my head and Cole took a deep breathe.