A/N: I was eating ramen and thinking "I hate it when the noodles soak up all the soup, then makes you not want to finish it" when this hit me. I also remembered how some of the Hyotei guys cook at home. Plus, I've been watching a lot of Lucky Star. Now, let's hope I can write this and still have soup in my food left. I was in the middle of updating Unseal when I did this.

Opinions on food and games

"Buchou, for once, can't you let the school serve Japanese food? I'm tired of having to get up earlier than usual to make my own lunch."

Atobe looked up from his plate, watching Hiyoshi pull the lid off his bento. He didn't know what was so bad about western food, he grew up eating it.

"It's different for people who actually grew up in Japan, Atobe."

It was Oshitari this time, poking at his own food with his fork. He sighed at Atobe's questioning gaze, setting the silverware down, folding his hands. "For example, Hiyoshi." Said boy looked up, chopsticks in his mouth. "You only eat traditional meals at home, right?"

"It depends who's cooking, but most of the time, yes." Hiyoshi said, poking at the soba noodles in the tiny blue case. "I only cook traditional meals, while my brother, on the rare times that he's allowed in the kitchen, tries to mix them together." Oshitari nodded, about to continue his explanation, when Gakuto cut him off.

"You cook at home?" He asked through mouth fulls of cake. Hiyoshi nodded, moving his food away from his messy sempai. "Weird, most people here don't bother since most of them have chefs." He smirked, glancing at Atobe.

"I think it's best to prepare food yourself, that way you know exactly what's going in. I don't like people making my food for me unless I trust them." Hiyoshi said, setting his chopsticks down. He wasn't going to finish eating anytime soon, it seemed. Choutarou blinked.

"But don't you go to Jackal-san's family restaurant with Akaya-kun and Zaizen-kun?" He asked, and Hiyoshi's eye twitched.

"That's because Akaya drags us there whenever we're in the area. Why do you think we try to avoid meeting up in his area?" He paused, a sudden thoughtful look on his face. "Hey, don't you just hate it how when your waiting for your ramen to cool and the noodles soak up all the soup?" Shishido groaned.

"Man, I hate that. It looses it's flavor and it's too soft." He said, tilting his head back in his seat.

"Then you don't want to finish it,but you don't want to waste it either." Hiyoshi said, and Shishido nodded in agreement, taking a bite out of his cheese bread.

"But then when you try to eat it before that happens, you end up burning your mouth." Choutarou added, earning a laugh from his shorted friend.

"I did that once, and I learned my lesson." He said, and Choutarou laughed. "But it's either that, or you keep blowing it, and even if you do the soup will disappear. Cup ramen too, it's just not as hot."Atobe raised an eyebrow.

"What on earth are you talking about?" He asked. His teammates looked at him, then exchanged looks.

"Ah that's right, I bet our 'king' has never had ramen or cup ramen before, seeing as your always eatin that stuff." Shishido said, pointing at Atobe's tray. Atobe frowned. "I bet you don't even use a microwave. You've got someone to cook for you, after all."

Hiyoshi stared at him, before turning his attention back to the conversation. "By the way, Shishido-sempai?" Shishido looked at him. "Doesn't cheese bread count as a snack? Why eat it for lunch everyday, it doesn't seem filling."

Shishido thought for a while. "I wouldn't call it a snack, it could count as lunch or breakfast. I guess it just depends on who's eating it and at what time. As for why I eat it for lunch, well, it's better than what they serve here." He looked at their captain, who was glaring at him. "And i don't care if it's made by five-start chefs or whatever, Atobe, it sucks."

"It could be that your just not used to food like this." Oshitari said, sitting down. While they had been talking about food, he had gotten up to put away his tray. "I understand Hiyoshi, since his family does the cooking themselves, and I doubt Shishido could afford stuff like this-

"Oi."

"-so it's likely that, if they had a similar upbringing to you, this conversation wouldn't be happening."

"Or it could have, seeing as Akaya would find some way to storm into my life." Hiyoshi said, staring at a little flower-shaped cookie his cousin snuck into his bento, twirling it around on a toothpick. "I'm sure Hikaru would bother me regardless of status, since he doesn't care about that kind of stuff." He tossed the cookie into his mouth.

"Okay, back to the conversation at hand," Oshitari continued. "Unlike you Atobe, all of us, minus Kabaji, grew up here in Japan. Some of us," He gestured to himself, Gakuto, Jirou and Choutarou. "Might be used to these kinds of things. Others-"

"I don't think I like being categorized as 'other' sempai." Hiyoshi said, but Oshitari ignored him.

"-prefer simpler things." He finished. "Though you have to wonder-"

"Okay, back to talking about food." Shishido cut in, throwing a straw at Oshitari. "What were we talking about? Oh right, the sandwich." He hummed, earning a few snickers from around the table. "I guess it depends on what you put in them. Cheese is used in most sandwiches, so I guess it could count as a lunch, but if it's by itself, I dunno."

"What about a sandwich with strawberries in it? Some people told me it's more of a dessert than lunch, but I've always considered any sandwich a snack." Hiyoshi said, placing the lid back on his bento and shoving it into his bag. Shishido crossed his arms.

"It depends, is it only strawberries, or does it have something with it?" He pointed out. "Like, are there other fruits with it? I doubt you'd wanna eat a sandwich with just strawberries. Bananas work well, or kiwis."

"If we're talking about fruit now, I prefer apples. Unless you mean flavoring, then it has to be strawberry." Hiyoshi said. Choutarou hummed.

"If it's flavors, I think I prefer mint." He said. "Or vanilla." Atobe looked up.

"How did this conversation go from changing the school's menu to favorite flavors?" He sighed. Hiyoshi shrugged.

"You can join in at anytime, you know. I'm sure some of us would like to hear you opinion..." He trailed off, realizing that hardly any of them really did. Atobe huffed.

"I don't care much for sandwiches-"

"Of course." Shishido rolled his eyes, turning his head to avoid the glare he recieved.

"-but if it's flavors, I guess I prefer..."

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"... and so the conversation went like that."

Shinji rolled his eyes. He stopped wondering a long time ago how the minds of his friends worked, now he was rather relieved. If he kept thinking about it, he'd simply give himself - and possibly other people - a headache. It'd probably be worse if Kamio had decided to join them.

He took a sip of his soda, his knuckles digging into his cheek from how he let his head rest on them.

"You shouldn't have asked in the first place, look where it lead." It was Hiyoshi's turn to roll his eyes, swishing around his drink in it's cup.

"I couldn't help it, do you know what time I have to get up to make my lunch before morning training?" He asked. Shinji thought for a moment.

"I'm surprised you haven't keeled over yet, considering-"

"Considering you think three in the morning is a good time to call."

"Three in the morning is a totally reasonable time to call a friend."

"Three in the morning is a horrible time to call a friend." Hiyoshi said, horrified. "My god man, what are you doing up so early that you need to call someone to talk about the color of you cat?"

Shinji shrugged. "Gaming. I was up all night on a quest and there wasn't a save point for another six maps." He didn't need to add that he was using a rather vague walkthrough for the game, only because that could give Hiyoshi doubts about whether he was really a genius or not. "My hands are still sore from holding the controller for so long." Hiyoshi raised an eyebrow.

"What game were you playing anyways?" He asked. Shinji paused, and drew out the silence longer than he should have. "... You were playing Legend of Zelda again, weren't you?"

"So I haven't beat the game yet, it's not my fault it got boring after five straight days of playing." He huffed. "I admit, Skyward Sword is fun, but it's so long! I don't think I'm even halfway through the game. I'm still in the Lanaryu Mining facilities."

"What part?" Hiyoshi asked. He wasn't that far into the game either, but two heads were better than one they always say.

"Um, I'm inside the temple already, but i got stuck with on the part with the mining carts."

He sighed, this was going to take them a while.

xXxXxXx

So the topic went from food to games. It happens, right?

The part in the game that they were talking about is the same part I'm stuck at. It's true though, a game does get boring after about three days. That's why I decided that, since we got PokePark 2 only a few days ago, why not beat it in less than two days? I succeeded. Actually I started it only the other night, and I'm now on the final boss. But hey, Darkrai can't be that hard can he? ... Can he?

I kinda failed when I tried updating Unseal, as you can see, since I started typing this and got really into it. So wait a little longer for that one people.