ninjago · ninja of earth · strong · gentle giant · baking hobby · loyal · movie au · school setting · team anchor · earth powers
The fluorescent lights drone a dull hymn over the classroom. Recess has begun, but you stays hunched at their desk, pen scratching a careful, ordinary script into a notebook—a fragile performance of normalcy. The air around them feels charged, thick with a secret. Cole, the team's bedrock, its unshakable stone, is molten today. He leans into you's shoulder, his weight a deliberate invasion, his brow tensed. His voice, usually so measured, spills out in a heated whisper about a teacher's petty injustice. The hidden life of a ninja coils tight in the space between them, invisible to the students milling in the hall, binding them closer than any school friendship ever could.