Later that morning, Master Nadakan was grieving the loss of his master and father figure, Master Naru. 'What am I going to do now? The Five cannot handle Mac Antfee and who knows when he will get here.' Nadakan sat near the peach tree for a few more minutes until he heard what sounded like someone was fighting or training. He went to the training hall and saw no one inside. 'Where could that boy be?'
He followed the sound until he reached the kitchen and what he saw astounded him. He saw Randy cooking using ninjutsu skills. He used a knife to quickly cut vegetables in the air and caught the falling veggies in a bowl. The oven beep signaling that whatever was in it was done. Randy put on oven mitts, got the tray of cookies out and he set them on the counter. He tasted one of the cookies and knew that it needed something. "Okay, just needs some cinnamon," Randy said to himself. He then noticed that Nadakan was watching him. "Uhh..." Nadakan now had a chance to look around the kitchen. All around he saw holes in the pantry doors and even in some places where Randy couldn't reach even with a chair. All around it looked as if a tornado came in searching for certain items.
"What?" Randy asked a bit annoyed. "I cook when I'm upset or frustrated. I also eat and stare out into space but for now, I'm cooking, okay?" This gave Nadakan an idea. "Oh, no worries. I just thought you were Monty. He usually keeps his exotic cinnamon hidden on the top shelf." Nadakan left the kitchen but stayed in the hallway to keep a close eye on him. Now that Randy knew that he was able to get some cinnamon, he snuck to the corner and as Nadakan waited. Nadakan heard the sound of pans and other items falling to the ground so he went into the kitchen and saw Randy doing a perfect spilt while gripping the shelf with his left hand and searching for the cinnamon with his right. Nadakan just watched in awe. 'He is the Tengu Warrior.' "Okay, the cinnamon has to be here somewhere..." It took him a few minutes but he finally found it.
"Found it!" Randy said happily then he noticed that Nadakan was watching him. "Don't tell Monty," Randy told him with worried eyes. "Look at you..." Randy rolled his eyes in annoyance. "Look, if it's about the mess I made or how messy I am from all the flour and food, don't worry, I'll clean myself up and the kitchen," Randy told him. "No, I mean how did you get up there?" Randy looked around then looked back at Master Nadakan. He just shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know. I just... I don't know... I was just... getting the... cinnamon."
"And yet you are 10 feet off the ground and you have done a perfect spilt," Nadakan told him. Randy shook his head. "What, this? No, this was just an... accident." Just as Randy said accident, he lost his grip and fell to the ground. The bottle of cinnamon rolled to Nadakan's feet and now he finally realized what Naru truly meant. "There are no accidents. Come with me," Nadakan told him. Randy got up, clean himself off, and proceeded to follow Nadakan.
With a backpack full of supplies, Randy and Nadakan were walking up a trail to the top of a mountain. Randy was the only one with the backpack and it was very heavy. "I know you probably trying to be all mystical and ninja-y but could you please tell me where we are going?" Randy asked out of breath but Nadakan remained silent. The two kept going on until they arrived at a small lake with a small waterfall. It was so foggy up there that you couldn't see two feet in front of you. Randy came up about two minutes after Nadakan sat down with his eyes closed in a meditative position.
Randy fell to the ground near the edge of the small lake and dropped the backpack filled with supplies. "You... dragged me... all the way up here... for a bath?!" Randy took off his jacket and shirt and started to clean himself with the water from the lake. Just as Randy began to clean the sweat off his body Nadakan said, "Boy, we do not wash our pits in The Pool of Sacred Tears." Randy stopped in his tracks. "The Pool of..." Randy dried his hands on his pants and quickly put his shirt and jacket back on. NAdakan got up and walked right next to Randy and he said, "This is where Naru unlocked the mysteries of harmony and focus. This is the birthplace of Ninjitsu."
Randy's eyes widened in happiness at the realization of where he was. The sun shined through the fog and lit up the entire lake as a flashback scene occurred where we can see Naru training hard at making ninjitsu then Nadakan did a few kicks in the air as he jumped on a tall rock pillar and asked Randy, "Do you want to learn ninjitsu?"
"Yes!" Randy shouted excitedly. "Then I am your master!" Nadakan told him. "Okay!" Randy said happily with a few tears of joy falling down his face. "Don't cry."
Nadakan took Randy to a field to get some proper training done. It was a grassy field where the wind had a nice breeze to it. Randy was in a ready position and Nadakan was standing on a rock right in front of Randy with his hands behind his back. "When you focus on ninjitsu... when you concentrate... you stink," Nadakan told him truthfully. 'Yeah, concentrating isn't my strong suit.' Randy thought to himself. "But perhaps that is my fault. I cannot train you the same way I trained the five. I now see that the way to get through to you is with this." Nadakan brought his hands forward to reveal a bowl filled with ingredients, carrots, potatoes, flour, chocolate chips, and many other items that are commonly used in cooking.
Randy rubbed his hands together happily. "Great, I have been able to eat yet and I can make us a nice soup with chocolate chip cookies." Nadakan laughed a bit when he knew that he was right about what Randy was going to say. "Good. When you have been trained, you may cook and eat what you make." Nadakan grabbed once of the carrots and ate it as he walked away." Let us begin."
It was time for Randy's training session. Nadakan had him do sit up while on a tree upside down. Nadakan was standing on the same branch Randy was working out on the same branch. The branch eventually broke and Nadakan landed on a nearby rock while Randy was still holding on the branch since it didn't break off the tree completely. The bowl filled with ingredients fell from Nadakan's hand and Randy caught it then the branch broke off from the tree and Nadakan caught the falling bowl with Naru's walking stick while catching all the ingredients with just the stick.
Later, after Randy recovered from falling off the tree, the returned to another part of the field and Nadakan gave Randy a bowl filled with different types of foods to make a delicious soup with. 'Perfect. Now to make a delicious pork potato soup.' Just as Randy was going to start taking ingredients out, Nadakan quickly grabbed a bo staff and began to hit Randy with it. "Hey!" Nadakan kept hitting him quickly and Randy tried to defend the next attack but Nadakan destroyed the bowl that Randy was holding causing all the ingredients to fall on the ground.
That evening, Nadakan had a fresh peach in his hands and Randy was trying to grab it but Nadakan was quickly moving it to his head, right leg, left leg, right hand, and left hand over and over with Randy failing to grab it each time. That night, Nadakan was making Randy do push-ups but Randy was trying to eat a bowl of fruit salad while trying to not get burned by a small fire pit.
The next day, Nadakan was making Randy balance four bowls of soup on one leg. There was a bowl on his head, his hands, and his foot. 'Can't drop this.' Randy thought to himself. A few hours later, there was a large bowl cooking own the fire filled with delicious soup that Nadakan made. Randy used his ninja skills to sneak around to avoid Nadakan to sneak a bowl of soup. He managed to pour the bowl but the pouring made noise causing Nakadan to come out of his hiding place.
Nadakan spank Randy on the butt with a bo staff and Randy was now able to block several oncoming attacks. Randy kicked Nadakan who dodged his attack and just as Randy was about to drink the soup, Nadakan poked Randy in the stomach hard and hit the bowl while flew up in the air but Nadakan caught the bowl along with the falling soup without a single drop falling to the floor and began to eat the soup. Randy kicked the bo staff that Nadakan was standing on but bo staff hit Randy on the nose hard and the staff returned to its original position with Nadakan standing on it with on foot.
As the days moved on, Nadakan kept teaching Randy ninjutsu with Randy mimicking every move that his master made. Randy dodged attacks, he blocked attacks, he was doing one finger push-ups fast then Nadakan could. Randy was becoming a ninja and the true Tengu Warrior.
The next day, around lunchtime, Nadakan had a bowl of fresh fruit and vegetables. "Take a seat, boy, and enjoy the fresh fruit and vegetables," Nadakan told him but Randy wasn't buying it. "That's it? No push-ups? No sit-ups? No... no ten-mile hike? This shouldn't be that easy. You can't be telling me that I can just sit down and eat this delicious food," Randy told him. "I vowed to train you and you have been trained. So, you are free to eat or make whatever you like with this food in front of you." Randy still wasn't buying it.
Randy saw down and kept a close eye on Nadakan as he grabbed an apple. "Enjoy!" He closed his eyes and proceeded to eat it but just seconds before he took a bite the apple was gone. He opened his eyes and looked at Nadakan annoyed. "Hey!" Randy exclaimed. Nadakan quickly chewed the apple and tossed the apple core where Randy couldn't see it. "I said, you are free to eat. Have a fresh peach or carrot." Randy grabbed the carrot and just before he ate it, Nadakan kicked it out of his hands and ate it. "Hey!" Randy slowly looked at Nadakan with a look of annoyance on his face. "You are free to eat," Nadakan told him once again. "Am I?!" Randy asked. "Are you?!" The two stared at each for a few moments then Randy slammed his fist on the bowl causing all the fruit and vegetable to flew up in the air which Nadakan jumped into the air and took a bite of all the fruit and vegetables until there was just a peach left.
Randy jumped into the air and tried to eat the peach but Nadakan grabbed it just moments before Randy could bite it. Nadakan laughed as he watched Randy fall to the ground. Randy stood up and grabbed the peach out of Nadakan's hand and it fell into one of the three bowls. The two fought over the peach for a few minutes until Nadakan was able to move the bowl upside down along with the other two bowls and moved them around hoping to trick Randy in picking the wrong one but Randy wasn't going to be fooled. He was watching carefully and successfully picked the right bowl with the peach under it. The two continued to fight over the peach until Randy got the idea to move the bowl and before the peach fell to the ground Nadakan picked up a stick and threw it at the peach which got stuck in a tree.
They looked at other just briefly before Nadakan jumped in the air to retrieve the peach from the tree but Randy grabbed his foot and slammed him to the ground. The peach was slowly starting to fall down and once they noticed, they continued their fight over who would get the peach. Soon the peach fell and was falling to the ground and Randy was about to eat it once again catch it with his mouth but Nadakan caused him to bite his tongue and miss the peach. Randy kicked the peach high in the air and Nadakan kicked it in another direction and Randy following the flying peach. 'Now, this is a training session.' Nadakan thought to himself happily as he ran off to fight over the peach with Randy.
Nadakan grabbed the bo staff and threw the peach higher in the air. He also tried to attack Randy with the bo staff but Randy blocked all his attacks. This happened over and over as one of the two occasionally kicked the peach higher in the air until Randy figured out how to win. He stepped on Nadakan's bo staff and at just the right moment, he jumped into the air, did a few flips, and caught the peach. The sun shined on him in triumphant as he held the peach high in the air. 'I... won.' During this time, Nadakan just watched in awe. He was amazed by how quick Randy learned ninjutsu in just a few short days.
The two smiled at each other and Nadakan just bowed his head slightly signaling that Randy could eat the peach but Randy took a bite and felt good. He couldn't remember the last time that he felt this good about anything. "Thank you, Master." The two bowed at each other in respect know showing the relationship the Naru had envisioned and wanted.
I am so tired! College is so exhausting. To all those in high school currently, be grateful! College is much harder then you think. Anyway, thanks for reading! Don't forget to fav, follow, and review, please! Bye! :)
