>>5688408Yama yawned after getting up the next day and felt pretty exhausted from the prior day. He coughed up some more containment foam that had managed to stay in his lung for the night. Morotoki meowed and rubbed its flank against his leg before jumping off to chase the bouncy ball of left over foam.
"At least one of us can be free of worries for the day." he laughed and caught the cat to give him some scratches before playing a bit with him, though that last part quickly devolved into some training for the morning.
When he wanted to leave for the day he found Toma standing in front of his door, a small picnic basket in hand. She quickly scrambled backwards and blushed. "Here.... I... got you something.... hope... you recover faster...." she murmured and shoved the basket into his arms before rushing into her own apartment and leaving the dumbfounded Ninja Monster with some homecooked food in front of his own door.
Confused he found some sandwiches that were somewhat burned with the cheese on them having made them a soggy fatty mess. Not wishing to waste food he quickly scarfed it down and left the basket in front of Tomas door. He was unsure if that was enough and finally decided to call out to her.
"Thank you for the breakfast. I feel full of energy already." he called out to her and left to go on the search for the Ninja from the day before. He had things to work through that were unfamiliar to him and maybe some good old fashioned violence could help him make up his mind.
In her Apartment Toma was sitting on the floor. Her reactor was threatening to overload. And every time she thought she had it under control a new wave of emotions threatened to overwhelm her.
"Why did you have to thank me for that mess.... how can i be helpful if i cant get something like that right." she wondered out loud and buried her face in her hands. Her subroutines picked up the slack in the meantime preventing her momentary lapse of focus to compromise the defenses too much.
Still there were sharks out in the water keeping watch and they started circling closer.
