Title: Ramen Contest. And the winner Is…
Rating: T
Pairing: Kukai x Utau (Kutau)
Utau groaned. Why and how did she end up hear of all places?
Oh yeah. That's right. She stupidly challenged him to a contest of glorious ramen.
She really couldn't live down the fact that she had been beaten in a contest of ramen eating by a boy.
Not just any boy.
Sohma Kukai.
She sighed again, leaning against the green wall of the ramen shop.
The very shop where they had first met.
The blonde suddenly found herself walking down a memory lane of just her and him.
"Hey, what's a chick like you doing here?"
She looked up, pausing midway from her bite of ramen.
A brunette.
"Eating."
He seemed to be around her age. Maybe older.
"Well, you sure eat a lot for one person."
Again, she stopped.
"What's wrong with eating so much? I have fast metabolism so I get hungry quite a lot." She replied.
He merely grinned, eating on what seemed to be his fifth bowl.
Jeez, this guy could really eat.
Like her.
"Anyways, what about you? You eat a lot too."
"I'm always running about. I play a lot of sports, so I guess I get hungry easily too."
"Oh. I see."
She slurped onto the last of the noodles.
"Oyaji! Another tonkotsu ramen!" "Oyaji! Another Miso Ramen!"
The owner of the store smiled. "One Tonkotsu and Miso ramen coming right up!"
Utau blinked and looked over to the brunette.
She sweared that the bowl he had was half filled.
"I eat fast." Was his answer.
Miso ramen was placed in front of her.
"Oh, you like Miso ramen?"
She nodded.
"I like Tonkotsu ramen. Have you ever tried it?"
She shook her head. "I've only ever had Miso ramen."
The brunette looked shocked.
Then there was a sound of sliding bowls.
"Have mine. The ramens really good. I've had Miso ramen before, but not as much as Tonkotsu ramen!"
And before she could say "hey!", he dipped into the noodles.
She sighed and looked down at his- or what originally what was his.
Taking a cautious look, she dipped her chopsticks in and pulled out a few noodles…
"Oh!"
It was good. Really good.
Maybe on par with Miso ramen.
Grinning, she started to wolf it down.
"Told you its good."
"Mmm"
"My names Kukai, Sohma Kukai!"
"Tsukiyomi Utau. Nice to meet you"
"Nice to meetcha too!"
She chuckled as another memory popped up.
"Hey, Kukai?"
"Yeah?"
"What do you think of the rising star Hoshina?"
"Oh, Hoshina? That new singer?"
"Y-yeah"
"Hmm...well, i can't say much i guess, cause i haven't met her. But judging from magazines and TV, i guess she's got talent. She's also very pretty, but nobody knows what the top half of face looks like, since she always wears that butterfly mask. Have you seen her face?"
Utau smiled mentally as she shook her her head. "No. I guess not. But i do know that she probably wears the mask, so people won't bother in the public."
"Yeah. I guess so. She's smart."
Again she chuckled. The boy still hadn't found out that she was "Hoshina"
The blonde sighed as she slumped over sofa of the recording studio.
She had finally just finished her last recording for her newest album: Black Diamond.
After a box of chocolate and lots of taiyaki, her brother agreed to play for the feature song in her album.
"Sanjo-san, I'll be going now."
"Okay then. Thanks for your hard work Utau-chan!"
Yawning, she waved good bye to her manager, pressing the down button for the elevator.
The doors opened and she stepped inside.
She sighed. She was bored and had nothing on her schedule for the day.
I guess I'll go shopping then she thought. Her stomach growled.
Eat, then shopping she smiled.
The elevator "dinged" and she walked out, happily humming to herself.
"Hey! Tsukioymi!"
Looking up at her surname, she saw a grinning boy, waving enthusiastically at her.
"Kukai!" she gasped. "What are you doing here?"
"Hmm? Oh, I came to see my friend."
"Oh, you have a friend here?"
"Yeah. Ikuto's his name."
She blinked in surprise. "Ikuto? As in Tsukiyomi Ikuto?"
"Yeah! …oh he has the same surname as you. It'd be funny if you were related to each other-
"Yo, Kukai"
"Sohma-kun"
Utau turned around to see her two brothers.
"Hey, Ikuto! Tadase! What's up?"
"Nothing…what are you doing with Utau?"
This time, Kukai blinked. "Huh? You know Tsukiyomi?"
"Well you see Kukai…they're my-
"Utau's our sister."
Kukai blinked. And blinked. And blinked.
Utau waved her hand in front of him. "Uh…Kukai?"
Ikuto promptly wacked his head.
"I-Ikuto (nii-san)! What was that for!"
"Utau asked you a question."
"Huh? OH yeah…I'm just surprised…that's all. I mean, who knew that you were siblings?"
The three siblings sweatdropped. When they transferred, didn't he listen to them saying that they were siblings?
Kukai grinned. "Cool! So that means no need for introductions! Speaking of which, why are you here Utau?"
"Erm…I…came…here to…see Ikuto with Tadase?"
Kukai took it as an answer. "Oh really?"
"Yeah…"
Mentally, Utau facepalmed
That boy could be so dense sometimes, thought Utau.
"-tau…Utau!"
She blinked. "Oh, Kukai! Didn't see you there."
He grinned. "That's okay. Come on, I'm starving"
She flicked his forehead. "Says the person who took 10 minutes to arrive."
A grin was her only reply, as the two walked into the ramen shop.
"Hey…Utau?"
"Yeah?"
"Um…."
"Kukai? What's wrong? Why are you red?"
"Er…"
"Do you have a fever?"
"N-no! Um its just that…Ithinkireallyloveyou."
"…"
"Utau?"
"…"
"Hello?"
"Idiot."
Smile.
Grin.
Kiss.