For Your Sake

A Shokugeki no Souma fanfiction by Chyscake

Shokugeki no Souma and the characters (c) Yuuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki

WARNING: This Isshiki-centric fanfiction contains slight AU (in which Isshiki Satoshi has a personal assistant and some of the settings and names in the fanfiction are not canon due to the fact that some details are not yet revealed in the manga), features an OC, and might contains some misspelling and incorrect grammar usage due to my limitation as non-native English speaker and the absence of proofreader. I can assure you I did my best, but I will apologize beforehand. However, in case this fanfiction managed to delight you or if you have some suggestion or correction, please leave a review. Thank you very much and please enjoy the story.

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Once upon a time, a girl sat there under the rain.

Her tiny body shivers as she curls up, trying to keep warm. Her teeth clatters. People walk by under their umbrella, paying no attention at the girl who is most likely only 3 years old. No one saw her, except for him.

He walked out from the gate—the very gate where the little girl sits. He is protected by a big pink umbrella. In fact, the umbrella is so big that the little boy who is probably the same age as her had difficulty handling it. She looks up only to find the boy staring at her. He crouched a bit and grab her arm. "You are wet," he said. "Where are your parents?" the boy added. The girl shook her head. "They left me here," she said. "They told me they are not coming back."

Droplets of rain hit the earth with more force than before. The little boy gather all his power and yank the girl until she stands up. She is shorter and thinner than he is. The boy pulled her under the umbrella and walk with her into the house. "You should take shelter for now. Who is your name?" he asked.

She doesn't answer and the boy considered to ask one more time, but she suddenly spoke. "Hanami Kirara. Just call me Kirara." The boy smiled at her.

"My name is Isshiki Satoshi. Let's be friends!"

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The birds chirp happily and the sun shines brightly. Today is Saturday. A girl sat up on her bed, trying to gather her consciousness. However, upon the realization that today is not a school day, she plops down back to bed. She could feel herself fading back into the dream world when a very loud and cheerful voice erupted from the brass cone in the room.

"GOOD MORNIIING!!"

The girl screamed and fell off the bed with a loud thud. "Are you awake, Kirara-chan? Today is such a good day! It is the perfect day to go out and take care of the garden!" the voice emerged from the brass cone again. The girl, Hanami Kirara, sat up and rubs the throbbing part of her head which is covered by black strands of hair. Tears pooled on her baby pink eyes. Her consciousness has now seeped back into her mind and she stood up before dashing out from her room. "ISSHIKI SATOSHIIII!!!" she screamed as she ran down the stairs. "GET YOUR BUTT HERE, ISSHIKI SATOSHI!! I WILL PERSONALLY KICK IT FOR YOU!!"

"Ah, while my butt is already here, I will be very thankful if you don't kick it," said the male with the trademark smile on his face. Hanami frowns as she realized that he only wears his fundoshi and a towel draped on his shoulder. "... I should be getting used to this by now, but why..." she mumbled. Isshiki laughed. "That's right, Kirara-chan. You should get used to this by now. Afterall, it has been years!"

Fourteen years to be exact, the girl thought. That's right, ever since Isshiki Satoshi took Hanami Kirara into the household as his personal assistant, they are always together. Of course, at first Hanami was not really Isshiki's personal assistant. She was just Isshiki's homeless playmate and that was just one of Isshiki's trick to get her into his household. But surprisingly, Hanami studied really hard and in the end, she managed to be a proper assistant for Isshiki.

Doesn't change the fact that she is only so-so at cooking, though.

Hanami stares at the male in front of him. "You better wake me up for a good reason," she whispered. As usual, Isshiki doesn't take the girl seriously. Hanami blame this on her voice. Her voice is high pitched, weak, and tiny. Not the kind of voice that emits the feeling of authority. Isshiki took off the towel around his shoulder and wipes Hanami's face with it. And Hanami understands. She just woke up and hasn't washed her face yet. Maybe there was some drool on her face.

But it doesn't mean that Isshiki has the right to wipe her face with a sweat-drenched towel.

"GGGROSSSSS!!" Hanami screamed and pushed Isshiki away. She tries to wipe her face with the sleeve of her t-shirt, but a bit of the sweat already got into her mouth and she screamed more as the salty taste of Isshiki's sweat spread in her mouth. "GROSS GROSS GROSS!!!" Hanami shouted as she ran to the kitchen to wash her face and mouth. Satoshi followed her while laughing. "Don't be like that, Kirara-chan. To sweat early in the morning is good for—"

BBURSTTT.

Isshiki stopped talking as apparently Hanami had sprayed a good mouthful of tap water on his face. A mixture of water and saliva dripped from his chin. "That's what you get for messing with me," said Hanami with a smug grin on her face. Satoshi keeps his smile, but Hanami could see a dragon behind him. "That is no way to treat your boss, Kirara-chan," said Isshiki. His voice is deeper than usual. But it doesn't affect Hanami at all. "Since when are you my boss? Wasn't it you who said something like..." said Hanami before she does a cute pose and looks up at Isshiki with big sparkly eyes. "'Kirara-chan is my friend, not my assistant!'" she said with squeaky voice.

"That's it!!" Isshiki shouted as he tackles towards Hanami. The girl screamed, pushing Isshiki away. She knows what the male is planning. Afterall, she lived with him for fourteen years already. Isshiki keeps trying to tickle Hanami's waist as she keeps twisting and pushing Isshiki away. And Isshiki almost got her when suddenly someone coughed.

"Ahem..."

Both Isshiki and Hanami stopped their fight. On the doorway stood the members of Polar Star Dormitory. Everyone stared at them and turned back.

"Sorry for disturbing you two," said Ibusaki as he and the other members walks out from the kitchen. "THAT'S NOT IT!!" Hanami screamed. Oh God. How many times has she screamed today? It's not even 7 AM yet!

"Thank you for your understanding, Ibusaki-kun!" said Isshiki as he smiles and waves at the fellow dorm members. Hanami's head throbs and she grabbed Isshiki's shoulders. "Huh? What are you—"

Crack.

Isshiki's agonized scream filled the kitchen. "W-will Isshiki-senpai be okay...?" asked Tadokoro. Yoshino shrugged. "Judging from the sound, it seems Isshiki-senpai got his eggs cracked. Again," she said. All the male in the group winced. "Poor senpai..." Marui whispered.

Meanwhile in the kitchen, Isshiki Satoshi is curled into a ball on the floor. Hanami sighed and pulls him up. "I am sorry," said the girl. Isshiki laughed—still a bit tearful though. "It's okay, Kirara-chan. I am not mad. Now, what do you want for breakfast?" he asked. The girl smiled. "Do you really have to ask? You know I will eat everything you cooked for me," said Hanami. "Even strawberry flavored dried squid tentacle?" asked Isshiki.

"Ah, if you are talking about Yukihira-kun's experiment... I actually like it."

Isshiki stood there, confused as Hanami went ahead to call other members of the dorm for breakfast. And he smiles. That assistant of him never ceased to amuse.

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"Satoshi-kun, I recalled telling you that I am going to take bath after breakfast."

"Uh-huh."

"So why did you follow me all the way to the bathroom?!"

"It has been years since we last bathed together, why don't we do it now?" Isshiki asked with his trademark smile. Hanami squints at him. "Satoshi-kun, the last time we took bath together was when you were still in junior high school! And I literally made everyone screamed because you didn't tell me it was a men-only bath!!" the girl shouted desperately.

It is an example of how memory won't fade easily. Isshiki went for a school trip and as an assistant, of course Hanami went along. Truth to be told, Hanami is not a true Tootsuki Culinary Academy's student. Sure, she wears Tootsuki uniform and attends classes, but she never enrolled to any school and she understands why. It was how Isshiki household keep their assistants and maids. The assistants and maids got educated at home, but there is no certificate proofing that they are educated. This means if they betray or leave the household, they will have difficulties making a living outside. No one wants to hire 'uneducated' people, anyway.

Back to the story, they went for a school trip. And out of habit, they went to bath together. Isshiki forgot that it was a men-only bath, Hanami doesn't realize it was a men-only bath, and all the boys inside the bath went frenzy upon the view of Hanami Kirara's naked body. Damn young boys and their hormones. That was so chaotic that both Isshiki and Hanami had to escape without the chance of taking their clothes along. Just imagine two butt naked children running while screaming into the hotel lobby. All the guests in the lobby screamed, Isshiki and Hanami screamed more, and Nakiri Senzaemon had to apologize for the chaos.

"It was a very long time ago, right? And this time no one else is going to make such a chaos. Or could it be..." Isshiki paused for a bit. "... could it be that Kirara-chan cannot contain herself when faced with my naked body?"

What. Wait. What?

Hanami hates to admit it, but Isshiki Satoshi is one damn fine male human specimen. His wavy light brown hair is soft to touch, his skin is fair and flawless despite the fact that he spent his days tilling the soil under the sun, and his eyes—don't let Hanami start talking about Isshiki's eyes—are so... beautiful and mesmerizing, for lack of better word. Completed with nice body, cute smile, and politeness, Hanami understands why girls (and older women) all melted like heated butter in his presence. And to be very honest, even Hanami gets weak in the knees when she saw Isshiki's exposed skin. But there is no way she would admit it. Nope. Nuh-uh. Nada. Step over her dead body first.

She gathered all her courage and said "N-nah, I had fair share of your naked body when we were younger." This caused Isshiki to raise an eyebrow, obviously amused. "It was a long time ago. I have grown since then, you know?" he whispered. "Maybe you want to see my..."

"It's exactly because you have grown up that I don't want to see you naked," said Hanami before Isshiki had the chance to say something indecent. Isshiki nodded. "You got a point. Anyway, you should take a ba—"

Isshiki was interrupted by the ringing of Hanami's cell phone. The girl took her phone out from her pocket. Isshiki peeked at the screen and frowned. On the screen is written 'Isshiki Ayumi'. Hanami stares at Isshiki, giving him the 'should I pick this up' look, and Isshiki sighed and looks away. Hanami took that as an okay and slide her finger across the screen to accept the call. "Good morning, Ayumi-sama," she greeted. "Good morning, Kirara-san. How are you two?" the female on the other side asekd.

"Satoshi-sama is doing very well and so do I," Hanami answered and almost burst into a laughing fit when Isshiki made a disgusted face upon hearing his name with the suffix '-sama'. "Do you want to talk with him, Ayumi-sama?"

"No, thank you. That child never pick up when I called," said the woman. "Oh my, I will tell him to treat his mother nicely then," said Hanami. Isshiki Ayumi laughed. "If only Satoshi is as polite as you, Kirara-san!" she said. "Anyway, the reason I called is... ah, I have to apologize because it is so sudden, but Isshiki household is having a family gathering today at 4 PM and I would like Satoshi to come. I am sorry that this is so sudden, Kirara-san. I thought my stubborn husband already told you two, but turned out he was waiting for me to tell you..."

Hanami blinked. "Ah... I will try my best to convince him, Ayumi-sama. But I cannot promise anything..." said the girl. Isshiki Ayumi sighed and said "it's okay, thank you and sorry for troubling you, Kirara-san. I wish you can talk him into coming. I have to go now, please inform me if you two are coming, okay?" Hanami instinctively nodded and bowed deeply. "Okay, Ayumi-sama. Please take care," said Hanami. "You too," said Isshiki Ayumi before she ended the call. Hanami looks up to find Isshiki Satoshi glaring at her with an almost out of character annoyance. "... what?" asked the girl. "What did my mom say?" Isshiki asked.

"Isshiki household gathering," said Hanami and Isshiki's sour face went even sourer. "I will not go," said the boy. "Geez, come on! Make your mom happy!" said Hanami. "Nope. No way. If I go there, they will either badmouth you or try to marry me off to a distant cousin. You know that I hate both," said Isshiki. 'He is almost as stubborn as his father' is what Hanami thought, but she doesn't say it out loud. One dragon behind Isshiki is enough already, no need to summon another one.

"You know... your mom is a nice person," said Hanami. "When no one in the family support me being your personal assistant, not only she supported me but she also took care of me and made sure I am not getting kicked out from the house," she added and glanced at Isshiki whose expression soften a bit. "Even now, she occasionally sent us pocket money and canned food. If I have a mom and she is that kind, I will make sure I shower her with affection whenever I can."

Hanami glanced at him again. Isshiki's expression is now ridden by guilt, but it was still not enough to make him let go of his stubbornness. Hanami sighed. How would people react if they find out how childish Isshiki Satoshi is? Everyone knew him as a cheerful boy who is also very polite, but he is actually childish, weird, cunning, and he rebels a lot in a unique way. Isshiki only open up to a small number of people, for example Polar Star members. But he only shown his true face to Hanami. As a result, Hanami understand his character inside and out.

The assistant gave up. There is only one thing she could do to make sure he will attend the gathering. She swallowed hard before saying "If you agree to attend it, I will take a bath with you now."

Isshiki's expression wavered a bit. "... if we wash each other's back too, we have a deal," said Isshiki after a long silence. Hanami grins. "Deal," said the girl. Isshiki's face turned bright again and he entered the bathroom in a rush. Hanami sent a text message to Isshiki's mom to confirm their attendance before walking into the bathroom and prays that her heart is strong enough to survive this whole bath session.

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Thank you for reading until the end of the first chapter. If you have any suggestion, question, or correction, please let me know. I will try to finish the next chapter as soon as possible. Please bear with me!