"Alright, I have to take care of a baby. What should I do?" The earth ninja pondered this question while pacing around his room.

"Maybe I should give her a bath, wait no that's a bad idea. A terrible one."

While carrying her around, he learned that she isn't just a cake that turned into a baby, no. She was more like a cake in the shape of a human baby that was alive.

Her dark skin had turned out to not be skin at all, it's the cake. Her milk-white hair with brown highlights are actually frosting and some chocolate shavings. Her big red eyes are really just two cherries. Even her tears were milk.

It's definitely a bad idea to wash a cake baby with lots of water. Her fragile cake body might be destroyed. Maybe he could use dry towels to wipe her? Yeah, that would do.

"Okay, baby. Stay put, and please, for the love of Firstbourne, don't cry. Everyone will find out if you do." Cole wasn't sure why he's keeping this a secret. They're gonna find out one way or another. Eventually. Just not now.

Just as he was about to turn the knob, the baby cried. Loud. Nope nope nope. He lets go of the knob, and the crying stopped.

Okay, so she doesn't want him to leave. He can do that, he just needs someone to get the towels for him. Jay? Nah, he would accidentally reveal the secret. Zane? No, he just lied to the nindroid, he's not gonna immediately tell the truth after that. What about Pixal? Yeah, he could trust her to keep a secret.

Suddenly, the door opened and Kai barges into his room.

"Hey man, I heard a loud noise coming from your room and went to che-" He stopped mid-sentence. "WHAT THE F-"

Cole glared.

"-airy is that?!" The fire ninja pointed to the baby.

"That there, is a cake baby," Cole answered. Kai raised a finger to ask more but he shut him down. "Don't ask anything else cause I don't know anything either. I defeated a witch and then there was a cake baby."

Kai dropped his hand then raised both. "Why am I surprised? Of course you would go adopt a cake, that's like your two defining traits combined into one."

"Hey, I did not adopt her!" The earth ninja objected. "There was no one else who could take care of her at the time, so I did."

"Uh huh, keep telling yourself that. By the way, did you give her a name? Please don't tell me you named her Cole Jr. Actually, don't eventhinkabout naming her Cole Jr. Just, no."

"Fine, whatever," Cole actually did consider that name, but Kai didn't need to know that.

"Hey, could you get a towel or something? I gotta clean her but she won't let me leave the room." He touched the knob and the crying started again. He quickly took back his hand. The crying stopped just as fast.

"Uh, sure man. I'm guessing you don't want me to tell anyone?"

"Yep."

A few minutes later, Kai returned with the towel.

"Okay, so I got you the towel, and a spare one just in case. Are you seriously gonna do it in your room?"

"Yeah, are there any problems with that?"

"Nope."

Kai bent down to wipe the baby's arm, but she suddenly cried. Cole's first instinct was to slap Kai's hand away and raise her up. She stopped crying but started to giggle instead. Cole looked at her arm to see it slightly soggy.

"Did you use a wet towel, Kai?"

"Um, of course, it would be easier to clean her like that," Kai answered casually as if putting water on a cake won't destroy it.

"She's literally a cake, Kai. You don't wash cake."

"Oh. Shoot. Lemme just," before Cole could stop him, the fire ninja took the baby and lit a very small fire under the soggy part. Somehow, it returned to how it was before. She giggled even more.

"H-how?" A confused expression was clear on the earth ninja's face .

"She's cake, so naturally she needs a little heat."

"I'm pretty sure that's not how it works."