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It's Cooking Time
Part 11
After the sudden confession before he went to shower, Milo finally out of his bathroom with a blue polo shirt and black simple jeans. He groaned, what the hell did he just say earlier? Did he just admitting that he was not really care about the gender as long as it was Camus? Well… he knew the lad inside and out but he never thought that… is he bisexual now?! He pondered… anyway he still had cooking to tackle so he decided to put the new self-discovery behind. He grinned, let's the preparation began.
Meanwhile…
Shun was happily checking all his to do list, the job was easily done as soon as he used his assertiveness which was rare. He was wondering if he needed to do this often. He chuckled, the look of horror on everyone's face as soon as he barked his orders to the older God saints was pretty entertaining.
"Good to see you enjoying yourself then, my vessel." Hades let out a grin.
"Do I become more and more like you?" Shun realized, did he? He found out in horror. Did he lose his self then? Another chuckle could be heard from the God of Underworld as he made a ghostly pat on Shun's head.
"Do not worry, you and I are different person, what you just learn is just something that you need in later life. All of you will have a lot of years to live; I don't want you all in Ackeron so soon. I already said that, right?" Hades smirked lightly. "Besides, if you die so soon, I couldn't visit the earth as I please."
"I have a feeling you are just avoiding you underworld task…" Shun raised one of his eye brown as he looked at the God blankly. His 'master of vessel' let out a small laugh before he shrugged.
"It's boring down there; the specters could do everything since I had managed all the system. Unless special cases like you guys; Rune and the three judges are more than enough for it. I don't need to be there to make decision,." Hades grinned before adding. "Which by the way, will be on the next 100 years or so…"
"I don't know if I should thank you or let Athena kick you back to Acheron." Shun groaned. Really? Stuck with the God and the Gold saints for another 100 years or so?! His headache was back.
"My sous chef!" The call from his back made him sighed; he spun around as he muttered under his breath. "Here we go…" He found a grinning Scorpio saint entering the kitchen door and made his way toward him. He knew the blue hair lad was also one of the troublemakers on his list so he was bracing himself for it but he was surprised when Milo grin disappeared from his face.
"Shun, I need you to do something."
"Uh, sure, chef?" The Andromeda saint said in uncertainty.
"Good. Could you buy this thing on the list tomorrow morning? It mainly octopus and squid though, the other is vegetable. The entire ingredient can be bought here in Tokyo." He said. "And please do tell the other I'll be out fishing." He winked.
"Huh? Fishing?"
"Yeah. Oh, you need to prepare the squid, octopus and vegetable base on what I write in the instruction. See you tomorrow afternoon."
"Eh!" Before Shun had any chance to talk, he teleported out and his cosmos immediately gone from mansion perimeter. "… ok, that is really weird…"
Saint
Seiya
At night, another take away food… (Since the kitchen was just finish and they needed to let the smell of freshly construction odor out for a while)
"Pizza?" Shaka questioned after the vote. Really… since the kitchen blast a week ago, all they eat for dinner was a takeout and some more than not, was western food as they were easy. But when you eat western style meal every single night, it was common to be bored of it even though it was not the same dish everyday but still… he really wanted some rice dish… and it seemed his train of thought was share by the other Asian ethnic.
"Can we order something with rice?" Shiryu uncharacteristically groaned, he was not that fuss about food but being a Chinese born who also grew up in China, he missed his rice for dinner.
"We already agree to vote and we vote pizza." Deathmask grinned.
"That was not really fair, you do realize most of you are western, so when we voted for eastern dish, you all were going western." Mu for once also frowned and complained.
"That's not true. The only mandate from Athena for us is to be eating together on dinner time (except if you are on the mission). You can have eastern food for breakfast or lunch when you are doing your errand or training, right?" Aphrodite reasoned.
"But still, dinner is a little different, I don't mind western food but can we order sushi today?" Seiya suddenly cut, it's been a while since he had sushi take-out. Everybody seemed to be in delight hearing the word 'sushi' and in unison they all looked at Saga, Shaka then to Camus as they all sweat dropped.
"Oi, budget guys, sushi?" Deathmask who was the closer one to the telephone was ready to search for sushi restaurant phone number.
"I don't think…" Camus paused before he looked around. "Wait, where's Milo?"
"Eh? So that's why it is so quiet." Aiolos had joined back into the dinner time and decided to skip his part of cooking since he didn't had the whole ingredient (and after begging to Aphrodite to buy him another sustromming to no avail) finally took notice of the missing soldier.
"Where your hus-" Kanon couldn't finish his tease due to the suddenly lower temperature in the room, plus a snow was starting to fall and the windows were starting to froze.
"Camus, stop lowering the temperature!" Shion glared at the young Aquarius saint as the boy couldn't help but stopped. "And Kanon, stop being childish." He gave another threatening scowl at the younger twin as the older one sighed.
"So, can we order the sushi?"
"Based on food budget, no, we can't. We do have additional budget from Athena for her well… this cooking task…" Saga said as matter of fact.
"What? So you guys prepare everything based on the budget? Including the newly added feature like grilling machine, tent or etc?"
"Yes, Hyoga. We are. So as long as we are within the budget, Athena didn't really mind about the change in mansion garden or dining room. She said she just want to feel the culture." The Aquamarine hair saint confirmed. On the same time, the other who was already presenting their dishes nodded while the other who hadn't, began to ponder about decoration when their turns comes.
Ah, so that's why… Shun groaned inwardly. They should really tell him earlier, as he made enough fuss about the damn changing dining/decoration/kitchen/garden thing…
"Well, the budget is quite big then. By looking at the additional things you guys already done before."
"Actually we made calculation our self. Each of us should present it to Athena though. She said something about business training." Aphrodite groaned.
"What! So I have to make calculation!" Aiolia gave out a groan, he didn't really like paperwork.
"Simple calculation…" Shaka added.
"I think Milo had already presented his and his budget was quite minimum compares to other… where is he anyway?" The older twin said
"So Sushi?!" Deathmask had been annoyed, still standing near the telephone, pizza and sushi pamphlet in hand and he was feeling a little hungry. Damnit, gossiping saints!
"He said he's going fishing." Shun said.
"A what?!" Asked most of them in unison. Beyond the confusion, Deathmask had been talking in the background. "Yes, yes make it 20 portions. Uh huh, yes, yes a toku-jyo (the high premium level of sushi set that usually cost more that ¥10000/$100) Thank you." He didn't really care about the budget; let that be the accounting team problem, and they should thank him that he was still ordering for them instead of ordering only for himself mwahahaha.
Saint
Seiya
Meanwhile… the morning near Milos island
The blue hair saint was looking at the sea slightly, he always appreciate his solitude sometimes, far away from the other and just sat near the ocean and let his mind drift elsewhere. He was born and trained here, and not like the other he was not really an orphan. His mother had died giving her life in exchange for his, his father who was also one of the pawn soldier that stationed in Milos tried to raise him alone, but it proven to be difficult with his destiny as a gold saint. At two, Shion, the papacy finally took him to Sanctuary but the papacy had made sure that his father still got a report and even photos of him.
At seven as he passed as a gold saint but still a green horn gold saint, he was stationed back to Milos and was back under his father's care. Maybe that was why he was more affectionate or maybe he felt a little bit lucky. His father who already retired was now a fisherman and had thought him a lot and for tomorrow dinner in Japan, he would be preparing what he ate during his childhood and giving a little taste of his home and triggered some memories to some people…
"Milo?" A middle age man walked toward him as he stood from his position, spun around and smiled.
"Dad." He smiled as he walked toward the man.
The next day... Kido Mansion...
Shun was in the middle of preparing the squid that he just purchased from outer side of Tsukiji market, he was removing all the skin and cuttlebone from it. So many squids… he sighed, and… Milo would like him to remove the ink sack intact. He had a feeling the older saint assumed everybody could do that? He had tried to remove its beak and ink sack to no avail. He could hazardly remove the beak but as soon as he moved into the sack, it broke and ink was everywhere so he just let it on hold for a while and maybe asked the Scorpio saint how to actually do that.
Next he moved to the octopus that had been tenderized and braised, after making sure the octopus had finally fork-tender, he looked at the written paper that had been hand to him by Milo yesterday. Mumbling lightly, he finally took some wine and poured it into the pot. Moving away to take the vinegar, he put it some into the pot with oregano. Ugh… he forgot to close the heat! Quickly he put out the fire and was back to reading the instruction. Huh? So just like that? It's finished? Did Milo want to serve boiled octopus? He pondered.
"Are you cooking alone?" A voice came to the kitchen caught his attention.
"Oh, yes, Camus-san, Milo-san wants me to prepare this ingredient; he gave me the instruction but em…" Shun was wondering if he needed to ask for help as Camus looked at the pot of octopus. His eyes suddenly soften.
"…grilled octopus…" The God saint was blinking lightly, he was braising octopus but why did the ice master said something about grilling? But anyway he still needed to cut the veggie as Camus looked at the half cleaned squid head. "What happen to the head?"
"Oh, Milo-san asked me to take the beak and ink sack out but I don't know how to do that." He said sheepishly. Without a word, the long hair saint moved toward the sink and carefully washed his hands. He was back toward the bowl and carefully took the squid head and gently pulled out the sack and carefully cut it before he put it intact into a new clean bowl.
"Come, this is how you do that." He said as he took another one and began to show the younger male how to cut and removed the beak.
"Oh, I see." Shun finally began to try to pull it out too but on his first and second tries, the ink burst out. He yelled in delight after the third try. "Thank you! I thought I was going to wait for Milo to return." Camus suddenly gave out a thin smile that made him double took. Is he just smiling? The ice master looked at the young saint as he was caught off guard and then cleared his throat.
"I'm guessing you can manage now?"
"Uh, yes, I think so." With that, Camus nodded and walked toward the new freezer. Silently taking grape flavor ice lolly which made Shun questioned him. "Ice cream for breakfast?"
"… It's hot so yeah…" The older male said as he finally walked away from the kitchen, licking his ice slightly.
"Chuckle, excuse to check on Milo's dish maybe?" Hades who was watching the interaction in silent finally spoke which almost made Shun jump. He almost forgot about his constant companion.
"Augh, stop doing something like that." He frowned lightly while Hades gave out another chuckle.
To be continue…
Authoress note: Adding one original character but he won't be interfering as he come and go.
