Note: in the grim situation right now, I hope this fic at least can put a smile on your face. Thank you for all reviewer and readers.
Warning: grammar and vocabulary error
Dislaimer: none of the character below are mine, they are copyright of Masami Kurumada. I'm only borrowing for fanfic sake
It's Cooking Time!
Part 31
By the time Deathmask had re-entered with trolley of cannoli, the broken tables and chairs had been cleared and most of the saints had been either leaning on the bars or sitting on the terrace area. Only the God and Goddesses sat on the lone table undamaged. Shion and Minos were the only two that stay near the table. Two pistachio flavor cannoli were placed in front of Hades and Persephone, one red color cream cannoli was placed instead on Athena. The teen take a tentative bite. Quickly her face lit up, it good and sweet and… strawberry? She never thought her saint knew her favorite fruit?
The fourth guardian walked toward Minos first as he took white cream cannoli without any topping in it. The judge could already sniff vanilla on it. Later he walked to Shion as he gave him another white cream cannoli but this time with yellow fruit in it. Deathmask personally delivered the cannoli one by one after that from Dohko the oldest to Seiya the youngest. They all noticed something, the cannoli had different filling. To their surprise, it was personally catered to their own favorite fruit or flavor. The Cancer saint however, quickly walked out from the dining room without saying any words.
"Deathmask is so caring." Persephone said out of nowhere and chuckled while most of the saints either blinked their eyes in confusion or widen their eyes. Deathmask with the word of 'caring?' There would be storm outside tonight.
"Oh? Why did you say that?" The teen goddess asked. She was curious on why her cousin said that. She had also noticed that the Cancer saint was more or less civil but there was little sign that show him that he actually cares about the other. Maybe to Aphrodite or Shura occasionally; he did seem to respect the older one but he usually avoided or dismissed the younger one.
"Ah, you see. In Italy, food is an expression of love. It is how you show those around you that you care for them. And making that many variety of filling must be painstakingly difficult, not to mention time consuming."
"Oh."
Outside at the terrace… the words indeed spread quickly…
"Is that why I got apple flavor?" Milo grinned. So glad that his senior had actually care for them.
"Yours is not hard to guess." Aiolia chuckled; he got one with salted caramel in it. Damn, Deathmask really noticed it, huh? "What yours, Camus?"
"Sweet rum with chocolate." The Aquarius saint almost felt ashamed to admit, so his secret sweet tooth craving had been exposed by Deathmask… Mu visibly quieter and seemed to think about something, he finally stood and walked out with his share of cannoli.
"Mu?" Alderbaran was wondering about what had happened, putting his finished mocca flavor cannoli plate aside, he was about to give him a chase but was stopped as he felt a tug on his wrist.
"Leave it." Shaka said, enjoying his last bite of matcha flavor dessert.
Back to the kitchen…
Deathmask sighed in relief, 'That went well.' He let out a fine smile; the other canolli flavor left on the kitchen was his favorite cream cheese and Shun's choco chip vanilla flavor. Someone had just walked in into the kitchen. "Oi, your the table." He said without looking.
"I already had one." The person said and Deathmask widen his eyes in shock as he spun around. "You!"
"I got my favorite, chocolate cream." The youngest gold saint said, letting out a smile.
"Whatever. Leave me alone, will ya? I had to clean the mess here." The Cancer saint let out a gruff respond. Silent occurred inside the kitchen, Deathmask assumed it was enough to chase the lad away, he moved to the pan that he used and began to scrub.
"Mask…"
"OH, PLEASE!" The blue hair saint screamed inside his mind, he thought he had driven out his junior away. The scrub on his hand had begun to move over the pan with unnecessary vigor.
"I'm sorry." The scrubbing suddenly stop, Deathmask blinked, he didn't expect any apology from anyone, much least from Mu. The older man began to clean the pan once again but without any previous force.
"You didn't owe me any apology."
"I have… it was overdue. I'm sorry that I dismissed you so easily when you were back as specter."
"… You just did your job back there."
"I was attacking with no hesitation at all." There was a bitter chuckle came from him.
"I'm evil through and through."
"You won't be a gold saint if you are." He said.
"…"
"Thank you." Mu was ready to walk away, but once again he turned around and added. "For caring." Deathmask cursed loudly, the cat is out from the bag, and there was a slight flush of red adorned the blue hair saint for once.
The next day…
It was his turn to cook and he had an urge to bash his head into the nearest wall in annoyed. Problem was he, 1. should cook with his brother; 2. was asked to choose all the furniture for the dining room with all the utensils that needed. Thankfully, the dinner for them was postponed until the new chairs and tables are coming. And that is also where the headache began. They were inside the huge furniture store that had a linked business with Graude Foundation.
Saga had been gritting his teeth several times trying to be patient. While Kanon was his twin, they had never ever able to agree with the design, color, motif, you name it. Everything he had chosen, his brother had chosen the opposite.
"Kanon, it's better to choose the lighter color." Saga began for umpteenth times trying to keep his temper in check.
"Our dining room will be better with darker color!"
"For Goddess shake! Light brown is a better color with the dining room wall!"
"The dark brown is more compatible with the bar table!"
To make it worse (whoever idea it was), Camus and Shaka (who since entering the shop had opened his eyes as not to drag any unwanted attention) were also there to make sure this shopping didn't go beyond the budget. The youngest saint had been on the edge since five minutes ago, he really wanted to launch his ice coffin and Shaka had been murmuring and in the brink of explosion if their seniors kept this going longer. But both were not so keen on taking double attack of another dimension or galaxian explosion.
Saint
Seiya
"Do you believe that they are twin?" Camus murmured. Yes, he was that bored, initiating a conversation.
"No… you and Milo however, pass as one." A blink, as his companion glanced at him.
"Are you trying to pick a fight too?" The ice user said, dead-panned.
"Just stating a fact." The blonde saint paused. "And because I need a little distraction, I'm this close on launching tenbu hourin dai ikkan hakudatsu." A not too lightly smack on his shoulder made the older man yelled in surprise. "What's that for?!"
"Providing a distraction." Camus said flippantly, the Virgo saint frowned. "Why didn't we bring Aiolos?"
"Because he is on a mission. Although I don't think it is necessary for Athena to send four gold saints all together. Papacy said something with remnants power of Campe."
"A dracaenae?" The ice master frowned. He didn't want to do anything with dragon like beast. The last time he and Milo had with pearl dragon was troublesome enough.
"Athena is being too overprotective?" Lately there was no solo mission however easy the mission was. After that centaurs' mission that took Camus down, their goddess insisted they go at least, in pair. But that also mean their goddess became more vulnerable; their defense was spread. True, there were the bronzie. They were also capable of defending Athena but still they were teens. The gold saints all agreed that they should be doing what teens should do instead of worrying life and death.
Camus finally looked back and sighed, the twins were still going on and on, this time about the chairs model. He gritted his teeth, he really wanted to do something instead of wasting time standing around with nothing to do and something caught his eyes. He tugged Shaka who was crossing his hands waiting in annoyance for both twins to agree on something.
"Oi."
"What?" The man close to God glanced at whatever his friend pointed at and let out a smirk. "Why not?" Both men walked away from the fighting 'couple', as long as they could 'observe' the interaction from a far, it was enough.
Back to the mansion, the place was empty; Athena and most of her saints had been out. Hades was also nowhere nearby. He was back with his wife to underworld yesterday after the goddess practically pouting and literally dragged him down. The God had no complained whatsoever since he also got emergency news from Tartarus.
Shun being house sitting today, was playing the game on the console. A horror genre game remake about zombie's survival. On the screen, his character was screening around the small table in the police office setting and was about to move out before the door suddenly opened with a bang and the zombie came in.
"GAH!" A sudden yell behind him made Shun also screamed in surprise, his controller was thrown upward, and thankfully it was bluetooth so no cable was attached to the console. The character in the game almost bitten but he quickly took the controller back and aimed the gun toward the head and with 3 rapid bullets, the zombie was down to the ground. He shot another bullet just to make sure it was dead. He pressed 'pause' then turned around just to see Shura patting his chest.
"Shura-san, you surprised me!"
"Geez, what was that?" Instead of replying, his eyes were more focus to the screen.
"Oh, this is a Resident E 2 remake (change of title)."
"Horror game?"
"Kind of." Shun nodded slightly. Shura finally moved to the windows and draped it with curtain; he also turned off the light. Finally going back to the sofa and sat down in this dim living room.
"Um, go on?" He said gesturing for the teen to keep playing. The teen was eyeing him weirdly at first but let out a shrug as he sat back and began to move his character back. It was good for several minutes until the library; the sound of the character crushing to the ground was enough to make the gold saint let out another reaction. The Andromeda saint gritted his teeth more because of Shura's reaction instead of the floor crushing sound as the Capricorn saint leap up and yelled out a 'shit!' "That was not good for heart!"
"…" Shun paused the game once again and looked at him blankly.
"What?"
"This game is full of jump scares, Shura-san. If you want, I can change…"
"No, no, go on, I'm actually intrigued."
"All right." Shun was back to the screen but he let out a little grin, now then he supposed he should made his character walked to the hall to meet the lickers or Mr. X.
To be continue
Note:
Campe: a dracaenae/she-dragon with the upper body of a woman and the deadly scorpion-sting tail in place between the legs. It was set by the Titan Kronos to guard the Hekatonkheires and Cyclopes trapped in the pit of Tartarus but later was slain by Zeus.
Pearl Dragon: a reference of Saint Seiya episode G
Resident E/Licker/Mr X: gamer/fans of RE should already familiar with this XD
