Hey everyone! Thanks for all the wonderful reviews on the first chapter! You're all amazing, and I'm glad you like it so far.

Prompt: little things seemed to matter an awful lot to them.

Ships: none

Characters: Cole and Kai

Setting: The middle of nowhere, lots of mountains in the area, in between Skybound and Dotd although this technically could be between several different seasons.

Other Notes: nothing that I can think of

"Where did you learn to draw like that?"

Cole slammed shut the spiral ringed notebook he'd been sketching in. "No where! I was just doodling!" He insisted.

"Yeah right," Kai rolled his eyes and sat down beside his friend, "You're worse at hiding things than my sister."

Cole turned his body away from Kai, "It's stupid."

"Just tell me. If you want to know what's stupid, it's that Wu thought a weekend all together alone in the woods was a good idea," Kai pleaded.

"Fine!" Cole sighed and opened up his sketchbook again to reveal a half complete drawing of the campground. He'd included all of the ninja in it sitting on logs around the campfire roasting hotdogs and marshmallows, "You know how my dad sent me to Marty Oppenheimer School of performing arts?"

"Yeah, and then you ran away?" Kai interrupted.

"Well, he enrolled me when I was eleven, I didn't run away until a few weeks before I met you when my mom left us. In that time, I proved to be a terrible performer, but I loved art. I used to hardly be able to draw stick figures, but my art teacher never gave up on me. She had me help paint sets for the school musicals and plays every year and let me stay late to work on my drawings. After doing it enough, I eventually improved."

"That's amazing. Why didn't you tell anyone before?" Kai asked.

"Maybe because Jay never gives any of us the chance to talk," Cole replied sarcastically.

Both guys stared over at Jay who was currently talking Nya's ear off and chuckled.

"Seriously, how does that guy even breathe?" Kai laughed.

Cole smirked, "I have no idea. Anyway, my art teacher gave me this sketchbook days before I cut and run. I guess it's my last token of a past life."

"That's awesome man. I wish I had something like that to carry around with me."

Cole elbowed him, "you could always carry around one of those misshapen swords you used to create."

"Very funny," Kai punched him lightly in the shoulder, "Did Nya tell you that?"

Cole avoided eye contact, "she might've told us that once."

"That's it. I'm telling everyone about how she used to do ballet!" Kai stamped his foot on the ground.

Cole stood up beside him, "Hey Nya! I didn't realize you used to do ballet!"

Nya turned from her conversation with Jay, "yes, and it gave me the strength to strangle both of you with my feet!" she retorted.

Cole and Kai belted out laughing... that was until Nya began charging at them. Soon enough, Nya and Jay were chasing Cole and Kai around the campsite like school kids much to the confusion of the others.

Awhile later, they all flopped down around the campfire to join everyone else for dinner.

"That was fun," Cole laughed as he and Kai sat down together, "I didn't realize we'd be playing tag today."

"I guess that's what we get for making fun of those two love birds," Kai shrugged towards Jay and Nya from across the fire pit. Nya had taken one of Jay's sweatshirts, and they sat snuggled together as they held their hotdog roasters over the fire.

Cole grinned, "Yeah. Oh, Hey! I thought about what you said earlier about how you didn't really have anything to carry around with you, so I wanted to give you something."

"Oh?" Kai raised an eyebrow.

Cole flipped his sketchbook open to a page near the beginning and tore it out. He handed it to Kai.

In the dusk and flicker of their campfire, Kai could make out a drawing of himself. In the margins Cole had scribbled My new teammate Kai. He's kinda hotheaded, but I think we'll be great friends.

"I... I don't know what to say," Kai sputtered.

"Well, thank you would be a good start," Cole nudged him.

"Thanks buddy. When did you draw this?"

"Shortly after we all moved in together. I forget what the others were doing, but you were in the room reading or something, so I decided to draw you."

"I'm keeping this in my wallet, so I don't lose it. You don't mind if I could it at all, do you?" Kai enthused.

"Not at all bud," Cole smiled.

Kai grinned back as he carefully creased the drawing and tucked it in his wallet. No matter where he went, the gift from his friend would always be with him. It made him happy to know he and Cole had grown a little closer as friends. It was crazy how the little things mattered so much to both of them.

Well, I hope you all enjoyed. This was my first story ever with Cole and Kai as the main characters. Now that I think about it, I feel like I haven't even read any fics with these two as the leads together. Do you guys think we need more fics with these two? I think so, so I'm definitely going to write more in the future should a good idea come to mind. Thank you all for reading. Have a fantastic day!

#God's Not Dead!