Chapter Four: Dinner

It was only a little after three in the afternoon when Kai started to make dinner. He had decided it was best to get an early start since he had no idea how long he would be. Usually, he would either luck or sneak out of cooking when it was his turn because he simply did not like to cook. Unlike Cole, he was not bad at it, but Kai was still no Zane.

Figuring the best place to start was with a cookbook, Kai pulled it out from one of the cabinets. There was not too much in it since Zane stored most of his recipes in his database, but he thought that there must be at least a soup recipe. After flipping through all of the pages a few times, Kai found out that his assumptions were wrong. There was, in fact, not a single soup recipe. However, there were many chili recipes that the ninja shuddered at the thought of.

"Well," Kai said aloud to himself, "it looks like I will have to use technology to find out how to make some soup."

The way he said "technology" you would think it was poisonous or deadly.

Shutting the recipe book, Kai made his way to the bridge where Nya's large computer screen was. Growing up in Ignacia had its downfalls like not being exposed to hardly any kind of technology-computers included. To Kai's dismay, he found the screen turned off and he was not quite sure how to get it on. None of the buttons on the keyboard seemed to work, and if the fire ninja had to ask for help on turning a computer on, he would never hear the end of it. Finally, Kai found the on button and he was delighted until a screen popped up, saying that he needed the password.

"Ugh, what could it be?" Kai thought.

At first he thought it was "Samurai X" but when that turned out to be wrong Kai tried "Jay".

"A little weird but worth a shot," he thought.

After that, the ninja tried random things such as "lightning", "iloveblue", "Kaiisthebest" (hey, it was worth a try), and simply even "password", but nothing worked. Kai was about ready to give up and ask his sister until he remembered that Nya had written it down . . . on the bottom of the keyboard! Eagerly flipping over the keyboard, Kai found the password "NyaandKai4ever" written on it. He was very touched that that was her password and could almost hear her and Jay groan as he typed it in. His typing was an evenly spaced out "click click click" as Kai only used his two index fingers to type.

Finally, he had gotten on the computer and began to search for a recipe. A website that looked perfect came up, pleasing Kai as he thought his technological journey would soon come to an end. Clicking on the link, a box came up on the screen, and from some things Nya said, he knew this could only be one thing: an advertisement. A video began to play for who knows what, and unfortunately for Kai, the volume was turned all the way up.

"No, stop!" Kai said as he frantically searched for the volume switch to stop the blasting music.

He was never able to find it, but the ad soon ended, leaving the ninja back on the recipe website. Hoping the others had not heard that, Kai read over the chicken noodle soup recipe, deciding it would do. Now he was left with yet another problem. How would he get the recipe to the kitchen?

"Ugh," he said to himself, "I hate technology!"

You would think a simple answer to this would be to write down the recipe, but already being frustrated, Kai did not think of this. His solution was to run back and forth from the kitchen to the bridge in order to make the soup. The fire ninja quickly memorized the ingredients he would need and went to the kitchen to lay them out. He then ran back to the bridge to see what he should do next. It read, "Boil four and a half cups of noodles with the stove on high." Running back to the kitchen, Kai found two different types of noodles. There were the usual long, skinny ones and another type that looked like little bow ties. He went back and forth in his head but eventually decided on the noodles that looked like bow ties. Getting out a measuring cup, Kai began to measure out the raw noodles, but after contemplating the type, he had forgotten how many he needed. All the way back to the bridge he went and then all the way back to the kitchen to slowly and carefully measure out his four and a half cups. Kai filled the pan with water, set it on the stove, but he was not sure if it was to be set on medium or high.

This went on for over three hours, until finally, the soup was done. What should have taken no time at all, took Kai until it was pushing eight at night with his added computer time.

"Dinner's ready," he called out to his sick comrades.

Soon they all came into the dining room, looking worse than before.

"How much soup do you all want?"

"I don't think I better eat anything, otherwise I might throw up," Jay said.

The others then proceeded to explain how they were no longer hungry either, crushing Kai.

"Not even you, Cole?" Kai asked.

"No, not really. I just lost my appetite, sorry," Cole said with a stuffed up nose.

"It's alright," Kai said as they left the dining room, but really he felt like screaming. After all that, nobody was even hungry. "Well, might as well have some myself."

As the fire ninja ate alone for the second time that day, he concluded that he could make some pretty decent chicken noodle soup and it had only taken him an upwards of three hours.

Sorry if that's not how you make soup. I am by no means a cook myself. Well I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and that you enjoyed this chapter! Please review, it means a lot, and vote on my poll:)

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