Disclaimer: I don't own Shokugeki no Somi/Food Wars.
Author' Note: An idea has been going for some time. And I just decided to try and write a story like this.
I hope you will not throw stones at me.
"Power Couple of Disgust".
Step 1. Take one passionate young man with strong love for experimenting.
Step 2. Add one obsessive girl, who combines her cooking with love of dark magic.
Step 3. Make these 'ingredients' spend some time together.
Step 4. Brace yourselves, mortals!
Nao Sadatsuka could proudly consider herself the most devoted follower of Nakiri Erina. Nobody knows how the Boiling Witch came to have these feelings for the God's Tongue bearer, but everyone knew better than to try and ask her about it. Seriously, this girl knew how to creep you out.
The day of Entrance Exam was her favourite. Every year she would sit on the perfect spot and watch her Erina-sama scold, critisize and humiliate young chefs. And every time Erina glared with her cold eyes at the next failure of a cook, Nao would imagine herself in the place of the victim.
"She would glare at me with her beatiful eyes~! And then she would humiliate me even more~!" The brunette dreamily said before seeing that most of the students ran away in fear. All, except for one.
The young man with spiky red hair started cooking some simple dish without care in the world. Nao licked her boy seemed so careless with his cooking. And once Erina-sama would taste it, she would verbally destroy him. And Nao would imagine herself in his place.
She watching carefully as this guy put the dish in front of Nakiri Erina. And that was when Nao understood that it was her lucky day. The dish was Furikake Gohan. Nothing to be amused about, especially if you are none other than Nakiri Erina. But suddenly this boy pulled off some trick. In an instant, the dish looked much more alluring, although Nao never understood all these attempts to make their dish look or smell beatiful.
"It was... BAD!" Nakiri exclaimed. But it was nothing like her usual self. She didn't compare it to 'attack from hundreds of ill chickens' or 'being hit by a giant egg'. Usually, Erina would describe how awful the dish was, listing all the things wrong with ingredients or cooking. But to hear something so simple from her?
Nao knew that something was wrong.
Very. Very Wrong...
The next month she saw that guy once more. Yukihira Soma...
That was the name of the new Totsuki enemy #1! She never paid much attention to what others, except for Erina-sama, thought about her. But even she had to admit that what the transfer student said was one hundred percent social suicide.
In the wake of angry yelling at the arrogant freshman, she sneaked to the backstage to see her idol again. It seemed that her assistant was not here... Hence, she would not be punished for violating the restricting order. But even here the two talked. She glared at Yukihira Soma, seeing how easy it was for him to talk to Erina. Almost all the students would feel honoured to have their presence acknowledged by her.
'He is letting himself too much...' Nao grit her teeth, watching this guy so easily proclaim that one day Erina will say that his cooking is delicious. The Boiling Witch knew what she needed to do. If she made this freshman leave, Erina would accept her! She would stand by her side!
"Hello?" Someone asked from behind. Yukihira was about to leave the place, but was drawn to some kind of noise. It seemed to be some silent and creepy cackling or laughter. Near the tree he saw the source. The girl, nearly the same age as his, with jet black hair, a few bangs of which were covering her right eye. "What are you doing here?"
In an instant, the girl was gone. Looking at the back of runaway, Soma just shrugged before saying once again:
"This is really strange place."
Nao was closely watching Yukihira Soma. She watched how he cooked, what type of dishes he could make, how long it took him to make decisions and adapt. Once again, she was convinced that having two-person unofficial club of stalkers with Subaru was not such a bad idea.
His cooking, in a way, reminded her own. He was an experimenter. He followed the recipes, but did so only when was sure in them. She watched him practically attacking that Tadokoro girl with grilled squid tentacles in honey and peanut butter. Well, now she might think about not cursing him.
And the stalking only began.
The witch was furious when she learnt that this idiot agreed to have Shokugeki with none other than Ikumi Mito. And what ingredient? Of course, meat... She couldn't let her chance to bring him down and earn respect from Erina so easily. But she could do nothing to help him.
And that's why she was silently sitting among other students, sending curses in the direction of Meat Master. Most of the students decided to sit as far away from her as possible. And even more of them were keeping the distance when Yukihira won.
Yeah, for some students it was easier to believe in dark magic than the talents of Soma.
One week later Nao was ready.
She saw all ins and outs of his cooking style. And she was going to bring him down. He was not very smart and acted like a dog, ready to bite if given the chance.
She challenged him to Shokugeki. And she made sure, it was done in her favourite way. Loud and clear...
"WHAT THE?!" Marui screamed at the top of his lungs, when he entered his room after the long and tiresome day.
On his formerly clean wall was the writing:
"YUKIHIRA SOMA... I CHALLENGE YOU TO SHOKUGEKI... Be ready to lose your place and... SOUL~"
"WHY IS THIS IN MY ROOM?!"
Erina Nakiri knew about Nao Sadatsuka.
And of course, she was more than sure that this girl would not give up on her even after the defeat. You might call it arrogance, but the queen of Totsuki Culinary Academy knew that noone could resist her.
However, this time the stalker surprised her in a good way. She couldn't help but smirk at the foolishness of Yukihira. Last time he won only because Ikumi chose the ingredient and didn't think about the dish she was cooking. But Nao did...
Yukihira was really an idiot. Without any data on the opponent, he would agree to have Shokugeki. And this is how he got trapped this time. When going against Ikumi, he had better understanding of the dish. But this time they were on the territory of Nao.
Both of them started cooking. But the fight looked nothing like the one Soma had with Ikumi. Nao quickly finished the preparations but the way she was cooking didn't look half as amusing as Ikumi's. She was doing everything slowly and carefully, just like if she was busying herself with some kind of ritual.
Nao cackled silently, sending shivers down other people's spines. Indeed, it seemed that she was busy not with the dish, but some potion. The dark aura around her seemingly made most of the judges nervous. Nao looked at one of them and he instantly sat back into his place, after trying to run away. (You can't blame him for that, can you?)
Finally, both dishes were served. First one to go was Nao's curry. It smelled like someone has died three times in her dish, and judges gulped, afraid to die too. But the moment they took a bite, they just couln't stop. They still said how much it stinks, although stuffing their mouths full with it.
Just like the real potion, her dish would make the judges her slaves. She looked up to see Erina's pleased face. She was going to get this pest expelled and finally take her place near Erina Nakiri. Noone could beat her when foul smell was involved.
At least, she thought so...
His dish didn't smell at all. Nao could easily read how unamused the judges were after tasting her cooking. It worked just like the curse. Until they took a sample of his dish. Instantly, they started consuming it at incredible speed, not even taking a break to say something. That was when slowly but surely the space was getting filled with pleasant smell. But how?
"Just a small trick." Soma smiled, giving her a plate with the same dish on it. "I heard about your technique, and it is really interesting! The horrible smell makes your dishes taste much better, drawing out the best sides of ingredients. But I am also skilled in making disgusting tbings taste good."
She took a bite. At first, it felt like nothing so special. But with every single chew, the flavour and taste were getting richer. She closed her eyes...
Sitting alone in the dark castle of nothingness and despair. Her blood red eyes were glowing. Her long black hair were streaming down her body. She is the Witch. Her awful smells are her protection and home. The undestroyable castle. The one and the only.
She heards the cracking sound. The walls are shaking, the ceiling is getting more and more cracks in it. She draws out her broom, ready to attack. But the enemy is just too strong. The castle is destroyed in one wave of the hand. Her only visible eye widens in shock upon seeing the opponent.
The Devil King in his true form. And the familiar silly grin on his face. She trues to fight back, sending one curse after another, but the monster just laughs it off. He grins widely, extending his arm to grab her whole body.
"Nooooo!" The Witch screams before being swallowed by the Demon.
"The winner: Yukihira Soma!" All three announce, as Nao falls to her knees. Soma comes over to her and starts giving some advice on her dish. But those fall on deaf ears. She is looking at him and sees the Demon of Disgust. Her cheeks are lit on light fire, which Soma is too dense to notice.
"...Anyway, I would be happy to have some experiments with you." He smiles before leaving the place. Suddenly he turns around with a goofy smile. "Oh, and don't forget about our deal."
She could care less about it now. Nao was looking at the leaving boy with a blush. She was smiling affectionately before spotting the other girls, congratulating him. Her facial features instantly got wilder and sharper, the malevolent glow reappeared in her eyes.
'He will be mine...' Her dark aura made the rest of the spectators to run for their lives.
The next day Polar Star Dormitory turned into the real hazardous zone.
Since Nao lost, she had to clean all the walls she has written on. The stuff was not goibg away that easily, so Soma and the others decided to help her. Partially, because they needed their rooms and her aura didn't make it much more comfortable.
Theh thought that after cleaning Nao would leave. And she was going to, until...
"Do you want to try my new dish?" Soma asked Nao, lifting something between dried squid coated in chocolate and fish head in whipped cream. All the residents of the dormitory stood behind Nao and started non-verbally begging him not to do it.
Tadokoro was shaking in the corner of the room. Aoki and Sato hugged each other in fear. Marui fainted, since they were still in his room. Isshiki broke into cold sweat. Yoshino's and his cheerful attitudes were gone. Ibusaki only shrugged before heading to his room.
"Definitely." Nao smiled at Soma. Everyone, except for Soma, paled white, their eyes were resempling plates in size and form. "But only if you agree to help me out with my dish today~"
The other residents were shaking their heads in panic, preying to Kami that Soma wouldn't be that stupid to agree on that. They were his friends and he wouldn't-
"Oh, sure!" He smiled before heading to the kitchen with Nao, holding his arm tightly. He heard the sounds of fallen bodies and turned to see his friends lying on the floor. "What's with them?"
"No idea." Nao shrugged. She smiled pleasently at how easy it was to get close to her new object of obsession. And with a malevolent laughter ringing in her head, Nao headed to the kitchen with Soma.
Now... The Dark Era for Polar Star began...
Kami, save them all!
Okay. I hope you liked it, guys!
If you liked it, then in your comments write pairing you would like to read about. (Not yaoi or yuri.)
By the way!
I had a few ideas for fanfics on this fandom.
1) Taste Trio.
Akira Hayama, Kurokiba Ryu and Yukihira Soma became friends long time before High School. How are their lives going to turn out now? Aggressive and Wild Kurokiba, The Calm and Strong-minded Akira, Adapting and Passionate Yukihira!
2) Another Side of The Table.
What if Nakiri Erina was the one to transfer to the High School? And Soma was one of the Elite Ten Council?