butterflies. [ninjago oneshots)

sleeping, at last. (Nya, Lloyd, Ray and Maya)

Misako walked in with a tray. The tray held three cups of tea and a few extra bits of food, while she held it with her two hands. Her feet was used to close the door, before she approached three other people as careful as possible.

"Sleeping at last, I'm assuming?" She suggested, which earned a light nod of her son, who was sat on a chair near her best with a empy looking expression on his face. He clearly was exhausted, whichever way gave it away was prominent and the woman only felt her worries for her son rise.

"I know we've not been there, but.." Ray started, looking down at his daughter. "I've never seen her so upset, ever." Maya sighed next to him.

The two had been called when they were broken the news by their once sobbing daughter. And when they heard the frantic voice of her teammate asking them to come over, they knew it was bad. Lloyd would never think about risking anyone right now, but he misses the rest of his team just like Nya does, however after a long day of seeing everyone else cry and scream it out, they assumed that she had cracked and wasn't able to hide it anymore.

Lloyd doesn't blame her though; the amount that she's been through and have been able to just suck it up and not break down must've been so tiring to do, day in and day out.

"She's lost a lot, Ray. Including us." Maya replies. "I knew that one day she'd crack under it all, and it just so happens to be the day that her older brother isn't there to protect her.."

"I'm glad she did break." Lloyd stated out of the blue.

Misako placed the tray down onto a beside table, raising an eyebrow. "What do you mean, Lloyd?" She responds with a question. She looked down at her son, who was fiddling with the blanket he had given Nya.

"I don't mean it in a bad way. I know she's been through too much, we all do. And believe me, I know it's bad to bottle it all up. And I don't care if today was the day she would break. If she loses her voice, if she makes herself sick, if she passes out all from crying and screaming too much, I'm at least glad she cried it out before she could've possibly done something worse." He explains, not looking up to her mother or to the other two adults in the room, instead he was dead set on keeping a close eye on Nya.

"Nya, please. You need to breathe."

"If I die from it then at least I get to see them again!"

"Somethings that she said were questionable." The blonde says, clearing the silence once more. "That's why I can't leave her. You heard her, I'm pretty sure the entire warehouse did." His eyes still did not move. "But she didn't care. She is that distraught by her deaths that she'll do anything to see them again."

Misako felt a bit of a shock halt her body. "Oh." She muttered out. It was all coming together now; she was expressing grief in other ways.

"Nya, dear, why won't you eat?"

"I've told you, I don't need to. Not at the moment anyway."

"That's why she barely ate.."

"What are you doing up? It's 3am."

"Just a littl headache, I'll be okay for a night or two."

"Or slept.."

Lloyd's dull green eyes looked up and nodded at his mother, confirming her mumbling.

"Did she actually tell you this?" Ray asked, his concerns for his daughter sky rocketing. Maya nodded, signalling that she was going to ask the same question.

"No, but I can tell." He pointed to her face. "She has heavy eyebags, and you can see a change within her body. She's a bit more pale and somehow more underweight than before. It's quite obvious that she doesn't wanna live without them anymore."

"And I don't blame her."

"Lloyd.." His mother tried to start, but a monotone voice cut her off.

"i've felt like it since I saw it." Lloyd stated. "They...can't be gone."

Ray sighs. "Is that what Nya said to you?" He asked. The green-eyed nods.

"They can't be gone! THEY CAN'T!"

"Nya I- I..I'm sorry."

Maya looked down at her daughter, and gently squeezed her hand. "I'm glad she's sleeping."

"Yeah. Sleeping, at last."

"K-Kai? Jay..?"