It's Complicated

I'm Leaving

Jay POV

The Junkyard was always big to me. I was used to being surrounded by the junk that was left from other people. Sometimes, I would find parts for things I was working on. Other times, I would find things that I would work on later. Sometimes, the Junkyard seemed like a blessing in disguise. A place that could unleash all of my creativity.

That was my life before becoming a Ninja. My life before a Ninja was perfect in its own right. I was able to have my whole life planned out. I was able to be myself, or at least I thought what myself should be.

Now that I'm a Ninja, I have learned how the world works. Often times, it is do what you gotta do to survive. That is what it is at least for the Criminals that are locked up because of me. 

I don't have time for things that I could once do anymore. I don't have time to play video games as much as I once did. When I'm inventing, it is only for things that I need to complete certain Missions that Wu sends me on.

The other day, I had invented a Training Course in the far back of the Junkyard. It wouldn't seem like much to some people, but to me, it was a place that I could become better everyday. It was where I could lose myself to the pressures of my life, and let out all of the negative emotions that I was bolting up inside me.

I hated the mask that I had to put up. I hated how one wrong emotion could set my body to sparks. I hated how I always had to be happy around people. It was very unnatural, and I wondered if people saw past my act anyway. It makes me wonder why I even bother staying with people even when I can cause so much damage to their life.

Yet, I love my job. I love that sense of freedom as I'm running on the rooftops. I love how I feel like I'm on top of the world. I like how I am my own Boss. No one is telling me how to do my job. They are only guiding me.

However, even then, I had to put back the key, and go back to the reality that the First Spinjitzu Master wanted us to have. I have to go back to the life where I was trapped no matter which direction I went.

Though Ed and Edna may have hated me, I still loved them. There will always be a part of me that will always love them, no matter how angry I was. That was at least what I thought. That was before I realized how cruel and inhuman people actually can turn out to be. I wonder if the Monsters that people tell us about like Werewolves and Vampires were all just people that had a mask on them. Like they were the actual Monsters, and not the figures themselves.

I sat at the small round table that was I guess supposed to be like the kitchen area. The place was such a big mess now. I couldn't even remember the last time I saw it clean.

Even then, I knew that was a lie. It was clean before I left this house. It wasn't a mess before I and Eds temper got the best of us,  and damaged our relationship probably beyond repair.

I heard the door slam open, and I instantly got into a fighting pose. I wasn't expecting them today, and I was shocked to see Ed and Edna their, also in a shock.

"Now you're trying to attack us Jason? It is like you really want us dead." Ed said as he glared at me.

"It wasn't like that! I just thought that there was intruders." I tried to explain.

"Or you are using that as a cover up because you think that we are intruding on your 'Lone Wolf' life." Ed snapped.

"I would never attack you guys! I still care for you, even if I'm not home anymore." I said as I held onto my arm.

"LIKE YOU CARED FOR US WHEN NELSON DIED!?" Ed shouted.

"I didn't know it was Nelson. I was 10." I said as I felt myself shaking.

"No! You couldn't accept the fact that maybe, Edna and I liked our own bloodline better. You thought that you needed to get rid of the competition, well let me tell you, it made me hate you more than I ever did." Ed said as he glared at me.

"Nelson was my Best Friend! He was my Brother. I cared for him because at the time, he was the ONLY one who understood me. I am starting to wonder if YOU were the one that got him killed, you crazy son of a bitch." I told him as I tried to calm my boiling blood.

"THAT IS THE LAST STRAW! GET OUT OF MY FUCKING HOUSE!!!" Ed said as he pulled out a gun and pointed it at me.

Edna gasped, then quickly left to go to their room. I honestly forgot that she was here.

"You wouldn't..." I started to say, but was silenced when the bang of the gun filled the air.

He shot just above my head, to the center of the door frame.

"Do not test me. Get out now, or next time, I wont miss." He said as he put his finger on the trigger.

I sprinted out of the house as the tears spilled from my face. I couldn't see anything. I couldn't feel myself fall.

Was I an Orphan? Was I Abandoned? What was I? Disowned?

"Jay sweetheart?" I heard a soft voice.

"What?" I said as I continued to sob.

"Oh what happened, Sweetheart?" Maya gasped as she pulled me to her arms.

I stayed silent as I continued to cry.

"Where is your house? I could take you home." Maya said as she brushed my hair with her hand.

"I don't have a home to go back to anymore." I whispered as she gasped again.

"Hey, it's going to be okay sweetheart. Lets get you home." Maya said as she tried to help me up.

I stayed frozen stiff. There was no way I was going to go back to the Junkyard.

"I mean to my house with Kai and Nya. You will calm down, and then clarify what you mean." Maya said as she pulled me up.

I sighed and looked up to her. As the Lightning flashed towards the sky, I saw her figure flash. She looked like the Elemental Master of Water from all of those years ago. Just as those images appeared, they also disappeared. I cleared my eyes. I must have just been seeing things.

"Okay." I whispered as she led me back to her car.