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Nothing good ever happens when one caves to Lloyd's innocent-little-angel-look; well, not to Morro at least.
Which is precisely why whenever aunt Misako, or even Wu give into the little terror, Morro simply scoffs and thinks how he would never let the brat get one over on him. So, no matter what sad little puppy dog expressions he makes, or promises of Morro being his 'favorite cousin in all the realms!', Morro is not falling for it.
Not a chance.
Which leads him to his current, and very headache inducing situation he's now faced with.
"Please, please, please, please, please-" Lloyd continued to plead to his older cousin as he had been doing for the last 10 minutes.
"No." Morro firmly stated. "Now stop asking."
"PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!" Lloyd both unsurprisingly, and VERY annoyingly did not listen.
With a sigh, Morro grabbed a pillow from his bed near by and, ever so gently stuffed it into Lloyd's face to hopefully stop the begging.
Hope though, apparently wasn't enough. How very typical.
Because even with the pillow placed against his face, words muffled, Morro's little cousin still somehow managed to pester him with his insistent begging.
"Pweas, pweas, pweas, pweas, pweas, PWEAS!" The words themselves while nearly unintelligible, were still loud enough and asked enough times to make even someone with Wu's patience snap
And Morro was NOT Wu.
"Alright." Morro said. Then before Lloyd could say one more muffled 'pweas', Morro yanked the pillow away from Lloyd's mouth, stood up, and in one swift motion, grabbed Lloyd by his scrawny ankle and held him upside down the way that a toddler holds out a teddy bear in particular need of a washing.
Momentarily stunned, Lloyd finally stopped his pleading and just hung there looking up at his cousin.
But because Morro can't have anything the easy way, Lloyd once again opened his mouth.
"So will you help me?" The little gremlin had the nerve to ask. "Please?"
"No." Morro said, eyebrow twitching in barely contained rage.
"PLEA-" before Lloyd could start his triad again, Morro cut him off
"Nope." He said, tossing Lloyd on to the bed. Then slightly curious, Morro asked "Way do you even have hair dye? WHERE did you did you even get hair dye?"
The little snot simply shrugged off the question saying, "I found it."
"You found it?" Morro asked with a raised eyebrow. "You really expect me to believe that?
"It's true!" Lloyd insisted. "I FOUND IT-"
Morro held a hand up to cut the kid off before this could turn into a whole other argument. "No. Forget it. I don't want to know."
"So will you help me with it? Pleeeaassss?" The brat STILL continued to ask.
Sometimes Morro forgets how irritatingly persistent and plain STUBBORN his little cousin is.
Well, so is Morro.
"NO. Forget it. Now leave me alone." Morro stated in a tone that for most normal people would mean the conversation is over.
Sadly, and so, SO annoyingly, Lloyd proved once again that he is not a normal person.
Why did he have to get stuck with babysitting duty?
"But uncle Wu said that he wouldn't help and that I wasn't allowed! So your the only person to help me!" Lloyd whined.
"So Wu already said no? Then why are you bothering me?" He definitely didn't scream at the child. Nope, not at all. "Then what makes you think I would help you turn your hair into the Green Giant?" He finished with a scoff.
"Because it would be so cool!" The kid practically screeched.
And because the little gremlin couldn't shut up he added, "And besides, uncle Wu's not the boss of you... " Lloyd said with such a devious little smirk that no kid other than Garmadon's spawn could ever come hope to master.
Oh, so that's how he's going to play it.
"Yeah, not falling for that. Go watch cat videos or something." Morro said making a shooing motion.
"But you always say that uncle Wu isn't the boss of you!"
Morro crossed his arms. "I do NOT."
"You said it the other day when uncle asked you to turn your music down!" Lloyd argued, mirroring his cousin's stance.
"I DID NOT-"
"YOU DID TOO!"
Both cousins glared at each other.
Taking a deep, not as soothing as he'd hoped breath, and pointing to the door, Morro said "Alright, that's it. I'm done. Out. Now."
"Bu- Ahh!"
Picking the little brat up like a rag doll, Morro walked towards to the door to finally, FINALLY get some peace.
At least the kid is easy to carry. Like a runty little kitten you'd find in a sewer drain.
An annoying kitten, one that scratches up your t-shirts and tries to steal food off your plate. But still a kitten.
Just as he deposited Lloyd outside the room and was about to slam the door shut, the kid went back to trying his 'kicked puppy' tactic and looked up at Morro with those big red, deceivingly innocent eyes.
Morro however, knew that those eyes were far from innocent. So instead of falling for the kids decently impressive Puss In Boots impersonation, he simply glared at the younger boy daring him to say anything.
But as fate would have it, right as Morro was closing the door, at the very last second Lloyd JUST HAD to say something.
In a small rather pathetic voice Lloyd said "I just wanted to match you..."
No. No, no, no, no. He did NOT just pull that-
And of course, his little cousin contented to speak in his dumb, little not at all heart wrenching tone. "I just thought that if I was more like you that people wouldn't pick on me as much..."
Stop, stop, STOP TALKING-
He didn't.
"Everyone's always mad at me because my dad, and I thought that if I looked less like him then people wouldn't be so mad at me all the time." Lloyd said, still in that STUPID little voice.
And then to top it off that little shit added, "I can't really change my eyes or my fangs... so I thought that if I looked more like YOU then then people wouldn't be so mad. And nobody EVER messes with you- but I guess it was a dumb idea..." Lloyd finished, again looking up at his cousin with those big red, kitten like eyes.
This kid.
This DAMN, manipulative, and irritating, and sad, tiny little kid.
Morro cast his eyes heavenward hoping that SOME day the kid's grandfather will grant him the strength to be able to stand firm when the kid pulls this shit.
But today apparently, is definitely not that day.
With a defeated sigh, Morro says to Lloyd "Fine."
Just like that, Lloyd's head shoots up at once. "Really? You'll do it?! REALLY?!" The kid is practically bouncing on his heels.
"Ugh, yes. FINE. Just go to the bathroom before I change my mind."
Lloyd just stared.
Before Morro could say that it was too late, that he'd already changed his mind, Lloyd launched himself at Morro and hugged him with all his might; which was was admittedly more strength than Morro thought possible for his tiny cousin.
"Thank you!" Lloyd said in a way that Morro just KNEW meant he had a big smile on his face.
So, ruffling his hair a bit, Morro said, "Yeah, whatever pipsqueak. You're the one who's going to explain to your mom why her kid suddenly has a green streak in his hair though." With one last ruffle of Lloyd's currently all blond hair, Morro said, "Okay, go. I'll be there in a minute."
With that Lloyd raced out of the room and headed to the bathroom, box of green hair dye in hand.
Morro stood there in the doorway for a long moment, hands running through his own green streaked hair, trying to comprehend how he'd ended up in this situation.
He caved.
He really, truly caved.
To his six year old pipsqueak of a cousin! Him!
Well at least it was only one green streak. He could do that. After all, they couldn't possibly trash the whole apartment dyeing one streak of hair.
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Oh how Morro hated to be wrong. Very, very wrong at that.
Seriously, how did they manage THIS?!
While in the end Lloyd miraculously managed to stay still long enough for Morro to dye a fairly good deep green streak into Lloyd's fluffy blond bangs without covering the kid's whole face in green dye.
Lloyd did still end up with green on the tips of his ears and some on his forehead, and Morro somehow dyed both his hands green even while using gloves, and both boys now having green patches all over their clothes resembling an odd version of green tie dye.
Oh, well. That's fine. Nothing a few showers and a few runs in the washing machine can't fix. Mostly.
The REAL problem lay with the bathroom itself. The bathroom that was currently covered in green spots, and streaks, and what looked suspiciously like hand prints that were much too small to belong to Morro.
In other words, Morro REALLY should have just stuck to his original plan and ignored his cousin and slammed the door shut.
Too late now.
"Alright," Morro started. "We probably don't have much time before your mom gets back from the museum, and wherever the heck Wu went off to for tea this time."
Both cousins cringed a bit at that.
"So you go get whatever cleaning stuff you can find, and I stay here and get to scrubbing. Got it?"
"Got it!" Lloyd nodded, getting ready to run off to collect his supplies.
But then with the speed that only a ninja master could possess, Wu appeared at the opened bathroom door.
Morro suddenly cursed himself for leaving the door open to air out the room instead of just closing it. If only to have bought them a few more seconds.
"Uh oh..." Lloyd said now looking at his uncle.
Looking at the mess of a bathroom, Wu said, "I hope you boys have a good explanation for this."
He then turned his eyes to Lloyd. "Especially since I told you that you could not dye your hair Lloyd."
Lloyd gulped.
Wu turned to Morro. "And you went along with this? You are older. You should have know better Morro."
And okay, RUDE. Was it true? maybe. But Morro wasn't going to admit to that.
Before Morro could start to tell Wu that he is not, in fact the boss of him-
Oh, no. Lloyd was right. Damn it.
The front door opened, Misako was back from work.
And approaching the bathroom all too quickly.
Well crap.
"Do you have anything to say for yourselves?" Wu asked.
"Sorry?" Lloyd answered, because of course he did.
Before Morro could tell Wu that no, he DIDN'T have anything to say about this, Misako entered the doorway.
"I'm back. How was everyone's day-" and then she saw the walls, and floor, and ceiling... and Lloyd's hair. "What happened in here?!" She exclaimed.
Suddenly Morro realized that, yes he DID have something to say about the situation.
So Morro turned to Wu, looked him dead in the eyes and promptly said, "Fuck."
The End.