The Fourth story for the fourth day of this blue flame week. I hope you guys can enjoy it, oh and for guest, thanks for your concern, but as long as someone still enjoy it, I think it was fine with me. Please enjoy and review.
Prompt: Cooking.
Beta: Goo.
Disclaimer: Ane and Brs aren't mine
In a certain room which only illuminated by a desk lamp located near the bed and laying on the bed with her long black hair splayed all around the bed is a blue eyed girl with Mato Kuroi as her name. Her body felt limp, her eyes are unfocused, and she felt like her energy was drained away from herself as the time kept moving. She can barely hear the sound around her as her mind was only focusing her remaining energy to stay in her body and doesn't leave it. But what she can do? As every second passes, she can feel herself become weaker and weaker and there is nothing she can do to stop it. Now before all of you get the wrong idea, this girl isn't on verge of dying or anything like that, no, nothing like that happened, she just...
*GROWL*
Hungry...
A sigh escapes her mouth as Mato closes her eyes and tries to force herself to fall asleep, yes tries, because with her stomach demanding for her to follow it in order to satisfy its request, but right now, she doesn't have the ability to fulfil her stomach request. Earlier, after coming back from a very tiring day at school, Mato found out that her house was empty and this confuses her since she doesn't receive any calls from her parents about this. When she explore her house in hope of finding a clue about the where about of her parents, she found a note in the kitchen that say her parents were visiting her relative house and will back tomorrow and this make Mato feels annoyed at her parents, because guess what? They don't even left food for her and although her fridge is filled with many raw ingredients, Mato isn't exactly good in kitchen. She has lost count about how many times she wounded her finger when trying to cook and worse, she even blew up the stove and after that Mato comes to one conclusion. Mato Kuroi and kitchen is a forbidden combination.
And here she is, tired and hungry from the day and what she only want at this moment is to end this day with a nice sleep, but her stomach won't allow her to go to the dreamland until Mato is able to fulfil its request and this frustrates her. She doesn't nearly have enough money to buy any food from the grocery store and she has no doubt in the fact that she will destroy the kitchen in her house if she tries to cook something. And this left her with no choice, but to do nothing and suffer the wrath of her stomach which doesn't even allow her to close her eyes with continuously growls.
*BEEP* *BEEP*
Mato glances at her cell phone on the desk beside her bed and sees it vibrating a few times, meaning someone is trying to call her, maybe it was her parents? If so, then she can gladly give them a piece of her mind for leaving their daughter without any food, do they want to starve her?
But when her phone was in front of her face, she can sees who is calling her and she is a little disappointed when she knows that it wasn't her parents, but instead someone else, but Mato decided to answer it anyway, especially since she knows that this person would not stop calling her even if she doesn't answer it.
"Yo Mato" A loud and cheerful voice greet her after she decides to answer the phone and placed it next to her ears and somehow, hearing his voice caused a bit of energy come back to her body and it also caused a small smile appears on her tired face.
"Hey Rin" Mato replied and she can clearly hear the sound of his chuckle from the phone, looks like hearing her tired voice really amuses him, she wonders why?
"You sound pretty tired, plus I can hear your stomach growling from here" and this causes Mato's light blue eyes to widen before her eyes look down at her stomach with her free hand rubbing it... Wait a minute...
Mato growled when she heard a familiar laugh coming out from her phone. Damn him and his liking to tease her. But wait a minute, how can he know that her stomach is growling while the truth is he can't hear it, or is it just a coincidence?
"Anyway, your parents called me some minutes ago and told me about your condition. They say they are sorry for forgetting to cook dinner for you and they asked me if I can help you find food... And I am already in front of your house" And his last statement causes all the energy that had disappeared to return to her body as Mato quickly sits up on her bed and opens the curtain of her room window (which is located next to her bed) and like what he said, she already can see a black haired boy in front of the door of her house with his dark blue eyes already staring at the window of her room and upon noticing her, Rin instantly waving his hand at her.
"Wait there" and Mato quickly runs out of her room, not even remembering that right now she is just dressed in her usual pajamas, a blue t-shirt with white star image on the center plus a brown shorts. When finally reach the door of her house, she quickly unlocks it before opening it to see Rin Okumura standing in front of her house, dressed in a black hoodie and jeans plus a pair of red sneakers with nothing, but a phone in his hands. At first he looks surprised when his dark blue eyes are staring at her (not mention his cheeks reddened for a reason that she doesn't know), before the surprised expression vanished and his usual grin appears on his face.
"Aren't you looking cute in those clothes Mato?" And his comment finally makes Mato remember that she was still in her pajamas and she can feel her cheeks heating up a little because of this, but she quickly shoots a glare toward Rin, who is only chuckling after seeing her expression. After apologizing and scratching the back of his head, Mato finally lets him come in before leading the way towards the living room of her house.
"Do you want a cup of tea?" Mato offers after both of them are entering the living room of her house. At first Rin only inspects her living room before his dark blue eyes are staring at her and another grin appears on his face.
"I would like a cup of tea, but can you lead me to the kitchen too? Your parents told me that there are some ingredients that can be used for cooking in the fridge and I would like to make a dinner for us" Rin replied making the black haired girl blink her eyes a few times. Making a dinner for them? Who? Him? Rin Okumura? Rin Okumura, one of the delinquent students at their school? Rin Okumura who often comes late to school, likes to doze off and spacing out in class, and getting an abysmal grades? Rin Okumura is actually going to cook a dinner? It... It just... It just unbelievable...
"What?! You don't believe I can cook?" Rin exclaimed when his dark blue eyes see an unconvinced look on the black haired girl's face and when the girl's expression remains the same like that for a few seconds, Rin lets out a sigh. Well, he guesses that it was a little hard to believe him, a kid full of trouble, actually can cook and even when he made a lunch for both he and his brother, everyone always think that it was his brother who made the lunch, not him. But it was fine, because with this... He can surprise this girl with how good he is with the cooking utensil.
"Fine then, just lead me to the kitchen and you'll see just how good this Rin Okumura is" Rin said with a confident grin on his face while Mato only raising one of her eyebrows and letting out a sigh before start to walk towards the kitchen with Rin following her closely behind. She just hopes that nothing will explode this night.
Shocked is the only thing that can describe the black haired girl's expression right now as her wide light blue eyes staring at the sight in front of her. She can't believe what her eyes are seeing and what makes it worse is this isn't fantasy, it was reality. And what causes Mato Kuroi, the usually quiet girl who can control her emotion better than anyone become shocked? Simple, the fact the she just sees that...
Rin Okumura is actually really skilled in cooking...
She has seen it with her own eyes, how he opened her fridge and muttering about what he should make with these simple ingredients, how he picks up some carrot, garlic, onions, and peppers plus two chicken containers, mushrooms, and various bottle of sauces, how he grabs a knife and starts to cut the vegetables and chickens into fine shapes, how he picks up the biggest frying pan in her kitchen and puts it on the stove before pouring an oil in it, how he puts all the ingredients into the frying pan after the oil is hot enough, how he starts to cook it with a spatula and sometimes pours the sauces into the frying pan, and how he looking at her right now with his usual grin on his face.
"Believe me now?" Rin asks while poking and stirring the ingredients in the frying pan and Mato only can nod her head as her mind still processing this new information, information about Rin Okumura, the delinquent student of their school, actually can cook without any problems and what's more, nothing blows up while he is cooking.
"Could you please prepare the plates?" Rin asks again with his dark blue eyes keeps staring at the big frying pan and making sure that all the ingredients will be coated with the sauce perfectly. After hearing his request, Mato finally snaps from her shocked state and quickly walks towards where her parents keep all their plates. After she retrieved two white plates and two silver forks, Mato turns around in time to see Rin flipping up the frying pan, causing the contents of the frying pan to leap into the air before falling back down into the frying pan and she can't see anything spilling from it which means, not a single ingredient missed the pan.
"Why did you do that?" Mato asks once she sets down the plates on the counter next to the stove, so Rin can easily move the content of the frying pan into the plates.
"It was the best way to make sure that all the ingredients will be coated with the sauce perfectly, because if the ingredients aren't coated with the sauce perfectly, then the taste will be different. Anyway, it will take some time before the sauce sinks into the ingredients, so why not make the tea now?" Rin said before turns his head toward her and give her a smile. Mato only nods her head and opens another counter to retrieve two white cups before she set it down on the table and walk towards another counter to retrieve the tea bags.
"So, why you decide to learn cooking?" Mato asks once she gets the tea bags and puts it down on the table before walking towards where her mother thermos is located. If she is not wrong, there should be enough hot water in there for making two cups of tea.
"Well, you know that my place is full of males and that none of them can cook properly, right? So, I got this crazy idea about me being the chef of our little family" Rin explains before start chuckling as his mind recalls his own experience back then when he still a little kid. Mato, who is listening, nods her head once as a sign that she listening to his story while her hands hold up the thermos and pour the hot water into the two cups.
"At first I couldn't make anything delicious as I always put too much salt in or even forget to put other spice in, but as I kept training all day, finally I was able to create something delicious and surprised all the men in my place" Rin said before flipping up the frying pan once again and like before, nothing of ingredients fall into the floor. Mato finally turns her head towards him, who already turned off the stove and starts to put the contents of the frying pan onto the plates, and she can't help, but wonder how he can be so good in cooking while he almost fails in all of his class (well, there is no cooking class in their school, so it is understandable).
"Besides, by seeing the happy expression of the person who eats my dish is enough to make me happy and want to continue cooking" Rin admits before giving her another grin. Mato only closes her eyes for a moment before open them again and givesthe black haired boy a smile.
"I think that is a nice reason"
Although surprised by the sudden smile at first, Rin quickly replied her smile with his own grin before picking up both plates and sets them down on the table while Mato puts back the thermos on its original place as the tea is ready now. Another grin appears on Rin's face when his mind thinks about something that could be used for achieving his purpose.
"And, I want to make sure that my future wife will at least gain some weight instead of being skinny and weightless like she is right now" and the next thing Rin knows is a pan soaring towards him before hitting his forehead which makes him fall to the ground with an annoyed Mato Kuroi (who obviously the one throwing the pan) giving him one of her glares and Rin can only let out a nervous chuckle.
Well, at least for now Mato knows that her boyfriend is an amazing cook and that fact alone already makes her quite happy as it means she also knows him better than before.
