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"Thank you again for inviting me over for dinner, Hinata-san," [Name] smiled happily as she spoke to her best friend's mom.
The kind older woman gave a smile of her own, ruffling [Name]'s hair as she would often do to her eldest child. "It's no problem at all, [Name]-chan." Turning her attention back towards the boiling pot of water on the stove, the kind woman gestured towards the opposing countertop on the other side of the kitchen where her son was busy chopping vegetables. "If you wouldn't mind, could you please help Shouyou?"
"No problem," [Name] chirped, happily skipping over to her best friend.
Hinata let out a short grunt as the sharp end of his kitchen knife sliced through the thicker end of a carrot. He grimaced at the fresh scent of the vegetable wafting through the air, not particularly liking the thought of having to consume it later that night. Upon realizing that his friend was standing next to him, Hinata nodded his head in the direction of the second cutting board on the counter, silently asking [Name] if she could chop the onions. He'd rather spare his eyes the tears when the fumes from said vegetable filled the air.
"Where are the kitchen knives?" [Name] asked.
"In the second drawer to your left," Hinata answered, not taking his eyes off his own work in fear of cutting a finger.
Opening the drawer she was directed to, [Name] was just about to chastise Hinata for telling her about the wrong drawer, but a certain object caught her attention. The drawer she had opened, instead of holding kitchen knives and other cutlery, held random objects that had no other place such as batteries and thumbtacks, but the object that had caught [Name]'s attention was far more interesting. Picking it out of the drawer, [Name] silently made her way back to Hinata.
"What are you doing?" Hinata asked, noticing that [Name] had picked up one of the oddly shaped carrot stubs he had failed to cut. It was chopped at an awkward angle, severing the stub into a cracked and uneven mess.
Taking the oddly shaped carrot stub, [Name] opened the object she had found in the drawer and pressed the flattest end of the stub into it, letting the ink on the spongy surface stain the vegetable. When she pulled it away from the ink pad, the bright orange vegetable had been stained a dark blue. Promptly, [Name] used the soiled end of the carrot to stamp onto a nearby paper towel. It left behind a lumpy stain, resembling nothing but a blob. [Name] did this a few more times, leaving less and less ink on the paper towel with each press. Finally, when she was satisfied, she pressed the vegetable to a page of her journal before throwing the carrot stump away and showing Hinata her masterpiece.
"Look, it kind of looks like a smiley face!" [Name] held up her book, showing the blue blob with a slight orange stain. "Maybe I can make another face with the onions!"
"Eh, but [Name]-chan, we need to eat those! Don't dip them all in ink!"
…Make prints using an ink pad and cut vegetables.
