Course 2: You've been accepted!
"Tarundarou!" The voice shouted. All eyes glanced back and forth between Fuji with his knife in hand to Sanada with his sword in hand.
Fuji turned his gaze towards Sanada and continued to glare in his general direction. Sanada glared back relentlessly. The glaring contest continued for a full minute without blinking, and there was an unusual tension in the air. The kind of tension that made the air feel heavy, as if there are lives on the line and the victor of the contest would decide their fate.
Of course, Fuji lost because he was so hungry that he fell over just as the suspense was increasing. Ryoma, who had reentered the room just as Fuji had dropped Gin, chuckled a little.
"Ah, he died." Niou stated flatly as he reentered the room, even though it was completely obvious that Fuji was alive. Yagyuu retrieved Fuji's knife, while Ryoma put out the burning fish and rescued Gin from 'his' otherwise gruesome fate.
"Why is Fuji-senpai so attached to this spoon?" Ryoma wondered a loud. This started a random conversation about pets which eventually lead to Niou restating that he had a pet weasel named Gingles (1) and Yagyuu muttering something about having a pet fish forced upon him by a certain tensai.
Eventually, which in this case means right after the group got some water in a bucket, Fuji woke up and glared at everyone in the room. Why? He was hungry, tired, and sopping wet! And Gin was missing.
"Oi Niou-senpai, give me that!" Ryoma growled as he swiped a familiar spoon from Niou's clutches. "Here's your pet spoon." He sighed as he tossed Fuji the spoon. It looked as good as new, not that Fuji had any idea what it would look like if it was new seeing as he found it on a book shelf…
"Ehem! Distractions aside, I forgot to mention who your judges would be. I'm terrible sorry." Sakaki announced.
"Let's see… The judges will be Kikumaru, Sanada, Hiyoshi, and this person." Ryuzaki said cheerfully as she gestured towards the door. Nanjiroh Echizen walked in. He was shaved, in a French looking tuxedo type thing, and seemed to be carrying a conductor.
"EH?! Oyaji, what are you doing here in that French tux?" Ryoma shouted.
"That's not nice. I wanted to stay home a play with Karupin, but they mentioned free food so… By the way, look who dropped by looking for ya!" Nanjiroh teased.
"Who the heck are you talking…?! Ryoga, what the heck are you doing in Japan?" Ryoma shouted.
"Yo Seigaku, how's it going? And why's he wet?" Ryoga said cheerfully in English as he pointed towards Fuji.
Kirihara glanced to Yagyuu for a translation, and Yagyuu, being the gentleman and all, complied.
"Looks like you guys are having fun cooking? To answer your question, Chibisuke, I'm here to learn how to cook. Duh." Ryoga commented playfully.
"Huh?" The kidnappees asked.
"Fshhhhhhhhhhhh… You guys didn't know? You're at a cooking school. I thought it was obvious…" Kaidoh muttered.
"Enough! You guys better get cooking because Fuji-kun looks like he'll kill for some food." Shiraishi sighed.
Atobe sweat-dropped and quickly made another burnt fish dish. Meanwhile, the members that weren't judges returned to their rooms. After all, there was nothing else to see except those guys terrible attempts at cooking. Or so they believed.
Nanjiroh eyed the dish suspiciously as he and the other judges took pieces of the fish and attempted to ingest them.
"Hmm… This dish is… How would you say it? Terrible! This is a disgrace to delicious-ness! You suck!" Nanjiroh shouted. Behind him Kikumaru clutched his throat dramatically making it seem like he was choking, Sanada made a face, and Hiyoshi gagged. They all angrily held up signs that read "This sucks!" with large frowns.
Atobe stared at them with a scared expression as Fuji went to collect his ingredients. He messed around with different ingredients and eventually concocted three interesting looking sauces which he poured on separate pieces of bread with a bowl of soup. Where'd the soup come from?
The judges tried the food and Nanjiroh turned to Fuji. "This was Derrrricious! Wonderful job! You've earned yourself some food."
Behind Nanjiroh, Kikumaru grinned, Sanada nodded approvingly, and Hiyoshi gave the group a thumbs-up. They held up signs that read 'That was tasty! You're pretty good at this.'
Fuji cheered and attacked an apple almost right away. Kintaroh… I bet you guys almost forgot about him. Anyway, Kintaroh watched Fuji with an upset expression. He got food! When do I get some…? Kintaroh thought grumpily.
Atobe, inspired by Fuji's dish (not that he ate any), decided that he would use his awesome scissor skills to create an amazing dish and set to work cutting away at some of the fruits available. Eventually he made a really fancy mountain shaped fruit platter.
Nanjiroh tried and piece while the others munched away. "This is…"
Atobe backed away and hid behind Fuji, who glared at him and cursed Yagyuu for not giving his knife back.
"This is Derrrrrrricious! Well not really, but you get some food anyway! Congratulations, but mada mada dane!" Nanjiroh said cheerfully. Kikumaru grinned less enthusiastically, while Hiyoshi and Sanada nodded in agreement with Nanjiroh. They held up signs that read 'Nice try. Hope ya do better next time.' Where do they get these?
In his room, Ryoma's 'stolen line' senses caused him to sneeze. He glared at the wall angrily, but that wasn't satisfying so he stood up and shook his fist at the ceiling while he yelled, "Curse you, whoever you are! You stole my line! It's copyrighted!"
Yagyuu looked up from his book and glared, while Momo stopped mid-bite of his bowl of ice cream. Niou jumped a little, which caused Gingles to bite him. Kirihara messed up while playing his favorite game, Shadow the Hedgehog.
"Echizen-kun, you're line isn't copyrighted yet." Yagyuu stated flatly.
Niou grumbled about Gingles needing better training and set to work teaching Gingles not to bite people unless someone said, "DOOM." Kirihara growled a little, but was sympathetic because everyone constantly stole his lines, to the point where he'd make up a catch phrase and it would be stolen. By Niou or Marui.
"Echizen, don't do that! You almost made me knock over my ice cream! What else are you guys planning for Kikumaru-senpai's birthday?" Momo said. His question was rejected by the rest of his roommates and he was shoved into the hall to make it seem like they were planning something.
Once back in the room, everyone took turns bothering Ryoma, except for Yagyuu. He made Ryoma run twenty laps around the school. Ryoma got back fifteen minutes later and sat on a chair and was sipping a can of Ponta, when…
"Doom!" Niou muttered causing Gingles to attack Ryoma's shoe with a burst of fury.
"Niou-senpai, what are you trying to prove?" Ryoma sighed. His shoe had a bite mark on it. Niou chuckled evilly and the group went back to whatever they were doing.
Back with the kidnapees, Kintaroh twitched as Atobe devoured a banana. Kikumaru, Sanada, Hiyoshi, and Nanjiroh walked over and started eating too, which was kinda funny because they were supposed to be the teachers in a way… This caused Kintaroh to stare at the food, which in turn made him hungrier. He pulled out his stress ball and started squeezing it. Amusingly enough, the stress ball had a little meter on it which slowly turned green.
Nanjiroh picked up a piece of bread and proceeded to make a sandwich faster than you could say 'ice cream.' Fuji cheered, took the sandwich, tore it in half, tossed Atobe the other half, and started eating the sandwich, which caused Kintaroh to squeeze his stress ball faster. The meter on the ball turned red and something seemed to start beeping. Kintaroh continued squishing (smashing/pulverizing) his stress ball until finally the meter turned dark red and he snapped.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! I can't take it any more!" Kintaroh screamed and he grabbed the pan that he was carrying on his back. There was a lightning flash and flames shot up around Kintaroh, much like what happens when Taka-san goes into Burning mode, only Kintaroh's eyes seemed to glow red during the power up sequence. What happened to his racket? Ask him…
Anyway, he rushed over to the table with such a fury that everyone jumped back. Hiyoshi even pointed a banana at him as if it was a gun. Somehow Fuji had gotten his knife back and was holding it nervously in front of him.
Kintaroh ignored them and grabbed a nice fresh piece of meat and a head of cabbage before rushing over to the cooking area.
He tore the skin off the meat as if it was paper and chopped it into uneven slices and tossed them into his pan with a little oil. Then he attacked the cabbage with the knife, cutting it into bite sized pieces before also tossing that into his pan as well.
"Wow. Who would have thought he was so passionate about this sort of thing?" Atobe asked as everyone left in the room watched in fear and/or amazement.
"Is he human?" Fuji said nervously.
"I don't think I'm doing this fast enough! Come on!" Kintaroh yelled as he added a pinch of salt and some soy sauce. When you're cooking, almost every dish needs salt or else it won't taste right!
After getting over their initial shock Nanjiroh and the other judges walked over to their judging table and waited patiently for Kintaroh to finish cooking his dish. Their plan to get Kintaroh to cook something had worked.
"Here! Can I get some food yet?" Kintaroh said as he set his dish in front of the judges. They didn't reply, but instead Nanjiroh and the judges tried some of the stir-fried cabbage and beef. We'll just say the meat was beef even though I personally think it could've been pork.
"Hmm… Hmm…!!" Nanjiroh glanced up from the dish with a sharp jerk; it almost looked like someone had poked him.
"This dish is…… Delicious." Nanjiroh said. As he said delicious sparkles and such appeared around him, scarring Atobe for life because Nanjiroh doesn't look good in a French tux with sparkles around him. He looks like an insane gay person, not that we know what one of those looks like.
Behind the said sparkly gay-looking person, Sanada looked surprised and actually gave Kintaroh a thumbs-up, Hiyoshi smiled a little, and Kikumaru grinned his 'I love the world!' grin. They held up signs that read, 'FOOOOOD!'
"What the - ?" Atobe said. Fuji turned away and laughed uncontrollably.
The judges glanced around in embarrassment and put those signs away. They took out the correct signs and help them up. These read, 'An almost perfect dish! You sure you're not a pro?'
Kintaroh beamed, then rushed over to the table and devoured the onigiri.
"He's really good at cooking. Why do you think they sent Kintaroh here?" Hiyoshi whispered to Nanjiroh, Kikumaru, and Sanada.
"Who knows? Maybe they want him to be a better cook." Kikumaru muttered.
"Why don't you cook something, Kintaroh-kun?" Sanada asked.
"Because I'm hungry and I'd probably pass out before I finished making the onigiri. Besides, there's some right here!" Kintaroh stated in before devouring more onigiri.
After they'd eaten a reasonable amount of food, the kidnappees were dragged to another room and forced onto chairs.
"Now that you've eaten you're fill, for the moment, we need you to pay attention for just a few more minutes. Then I'll leave and you guys can celebrate Kikumaru's birthday. By the way, you've been accepted!" Nanjiroh said.
Kikumaru wheeled a cabinet in front the kidnappees, and opened it with karate stomach-level punch, while Nanjiroh pulled the cloth off a box-looking ting to reveal a golden cow head plaque with glowing red eyes.
Puri, can 下克上 (Gekokujyou) be applied in cooking? Maa… Gekokujyou!!!!
Yay for Niou's birthday! Hiyoshi's birthday is today! YAY!
The italicized speech means the person is speaking in English from now on, ok? That way I don't have to put 'in English' every time… I wonder what would happen if I actually tried to make these dishes…
(1) Gingles is pronounced like jingles except with a 'g' instead of a 'j'.