[He laughed at that. Konoha wasn't a small lady by any means, and imaging a rather towering woman plopping to the floor from a case of the 'schmoop' was truly something else.]

I wouldn't say embarrassing. That's more than enough to fill a guy with pride.

[Oof. Ahhh... hmm.]

About that... uh, nah, it ain't too different. I'm treated pretty weird for what I like to do. It took me years to start gettin' over what other people thought, though. I was... so angry. I got into a lotta fights.

Sometimes it still bugs me, but I'm better about it. I cook because I enjoy it. It helps my mom take a load off, and Naoto enjoys comin' home to dinner. Oh, but she insists we take turns.