At the kitchen Nayuki places Kawarama at the floor near his toys. Afterwards she straightens and turns to Tobirama. "Now, what do you want to cook?", Nayuki asks him. Tobirama looks at her and thinks, "I don't know. I let you decide" She regards him with a thoughtful look. "Do you like Miso-Ramen?" "I've never eaten Ramen before" "Really? Blasphemy! That's the food of gods! Alright, then let's cook some Miso-Ramen" Nayuki begins to look through the kitchen for the needed ingredients. After some time she has found everything she needs. "Tobirama, do you mind cutting the vegetables? However, you have to be careful with the knife" "Got it. I'll be careful" She gives Tobirama the vegetables he needs to cut before beginning to prepare the broth. They work together in silence. Tobirama decides that he likes cooking; after all he can taste the broth and eat some of the vegetables while preparing. After some time he stops cutting the greens and looks at Nayuki. "Have you ever gone on missions before? Because you said that cooking will come in handy on some?" Nayuki pauses now too and turns to the boy next to her. 'He's too observant... Well, I'll tell a simple lie he should believe. I mean I can't tell him about my experience from the future...' "No, but your father explained your mission system to me. He said that on long-term-missions his shinobi stay away from villages to avoid enemy contact and therefore, it is practical when there is at least one that can cook on each team" After her brief explanation Tobirama nods accepting and turns his attention back to the greens in front of him. Because cutting is rather easy, he begins to get careless – ending up cutting into his hand.
"Ouch! That hurts!", the white haired boy calls out. Immediately tears run down his cheeks and Nayuki rushes to his aid. "Did you cut yourself, Tobi? Come, you have to show me! There, there … Let me look at it", Nayuki soothes the wailing boy. She inspects his hand and decides that he isn't hurt too badly. He's most probably crying because he's surprised. She takes his hand into hers and starts to use one of her few medical ninjutsu to close the little cut. Tobirama slowly calms down and watches his wound healing in fascination. Still amazed he looks at his now fully healed hand. "How did you do that?" "I can use some minor medical ninjutsu.." "That's pretty cool, you know…", he tells her while acting totally out of character. Soon he gets his act back together. Suddenly they hear someone enter the kitchen behind them. When they turn around, they come face to face with Butsuma. Tobirama gets up to tell his father about his little accident and how Nayuki helped him.
Butsumas eyes harden as he looks at the woman before him. Feeling slightly betrayed that she didn't trust him enough to tell him about her medical knowledge he accuses her, "'Yuki? You never mentioned that you were a medic-nin" She looks at him apologetically and answers, "I didn't tell you because my knowledge is rather limited. I know about 3-5 techniques and have a little bit of knowledge of herbs – well, what I learned in the last 2 years. Sorry I didn't tell you 'Suma" His eyes soften at her guilty face. "It's alright …. Would you mind helping out at the infirmary some time? You could extend your knowledge. Our clan is famous for our enormous medical knowledge" "That would be great, 'Suma", Nayuki answers her lover. "Great. Well, then what's for dinner? I could smell this wonderful aroma already at the front door" "Miso-Ramen", says Tobirama when he returns back to cutting the remaining vegetables. "Ramen? Didn't know they could smell that good" "Are you discriminating the food of gods? 'Suma, I'm disappointed", Nayuki states playfully while trying to keep a disappointed look on her face. Needlessly to say she fails miserably. Butsuma and her break into a laughing fit.
"Now that I think about it, where's Hashirama? Shouldn't he be here?", Butsuma asks Nayuki and Tobirama. Nayuki looks at him and tells him, "Well, your son made a grave mistake some hours ago" "What kind of mistake?" "He was brutally honest about your and Hanabis cooking skills. Hanabi should be chasing him around somewhere…" Butsuma sighs slightly embarrassed because of his sons actions and thinks, 'Sometimes Hashirama is such an idiot….'