Well, after a while, here I come with a new chapter! Hope you like it, and thanks for the review, I will work hard to translate more chapters of my story.
Enjoy.
Young and Trapped
Chapter 5: Master Chef
"Shidou-senpai, Shidou-senpai" said Karen, trying to draw attention while the blue-haired man ate, as did his wife. "When are you going to tell us your secret?"
Shidou didn't know what to say, he didn't feel that he had done something special, although he was impressed by his cooking skills, his body had a memory, and when using kitchen equipment, it's as if it were an extension of his body; he knew it backwards and forwards.
"Karen, don't be deluded, Shidou-senpai has already told you that it is love when doing things" said as if it were the most obvious thing, Mukuro just smiled and Shidou opened his eyes with an impression. "But since you hate everyone and no one loves you..."
"Ahh, shut your mouth! I asked Shidou-senpai, not you!" she said banging on his shoulder, he covered himself and ended up rubbing his shoulder.
"Well, Karen..."
Shidou thought a little before answering, it's been years since he's cooked, he's only done it out of necessity, not passion.
After marrying a famous idol and having a life of luxury, he had forgotten how he felt when cooking, he had forgotten why he did it.
When was the last time he had cooked for Miku? Christmas, most certainly, but it was also very difficult, since she already had everything and could buy whatever she wanted, there was nothing Shidou could do.
More than making love to her, supporting her when she felt bad, being by her side and loving her.
"Shidou-senpai?" Karen realized that the man had been lost in his thoughts and now he was a little sad.
Had he loved her? He had almost made love to another woman who, yes, had a more voluptuous body than Miku's, but the idol was his wife and if she knew... he could almost see her crying in his imagination, his chest hurt, what kind of married man let himself go and was unfaithful? He was not like that; he didn't remember himself like that.
"Karen... Kaji... he's right."
"Ha! See?"
"Shut up, you fool," she said in anger, but as she turned to Shidou, she smiled again. "We all like to cook here, but we're almost nothing compared to you."
"I'm no good." Shidou sighed, but smiled a little for the girl, she wasn't to blame.
If he thought better, their relationship lately was based on just sex and nothing else, maybe Miku was to blame, but he liked it a lot and now he realized that to show his love, as he used to, he didn't cook anymore, he didn't go out on dates where he worked hard and asked Kotori for help, he didn't do all those details that were on his side.
"Miku, I'm so sorry... Now you must be crying, if you're looking at me. I don't want that, and yet I did this!"
"It's true, Karen... We may all like something, so much so that we may become obsessed and want more of it," he said with slight guilt, though he hid it very well, thinking of his marriage and his Miku, who would never cheat on him, no matter what.
Unfortunately, he was another story.
"But that's not what's important, tastes come and go, but love lasts forever, you strive for it, for someone, yes... someone special."
Kaji smiled and Karen was happy for that answer.
Kaji was very young, had not even begun the career of chef, was still in his last year of high school, but once told him that he was the eldest of three siblings with divorced parents, that he had to work for a living and that he had learned to cook only to feed himself and his siblings too, Shidou put him like his subchef to help pay for his expenses, in addition to noticing his ability.
Karen didn't have this.
"That's very nice, so that special person is Mukuro-senpai?" she asked with a smile and a slight blush, as well as illusion in her eyes.
"I would only do it for the person I love," he replied a bit nervously, thinking of Miku Izayoi, not the person next to him. "And I don't think I've done anything for that person lately."
"Well, go eat, you two, the rest won't last forever and you have a double shift today of your own free will, so regain your strength." She smiled warmly at them, they nodded and went into the kitchen to prepare something for them. "They are very good kids and they admire you more than anyone else. You chose them very well, Danna-sama."
"If I finish this day and if I wake up, there you are, Miku... I'm going to do everything for you." He thought with a will of steel and nodded, was not old or finished by work, thinking about Miku made him feel like a boy again, because when he tried, he did it seriously. "I'll find a way to be with you, there must be something I can do, but for now, I'll work hard at work, I can't leave it at that."
Shidou got down to work, once the shift change took place, congratulated everyone on their good work and got on with the routine.
All noticed that he was in a better mood, he took all this as if it was a practice for when he returned with his real wife.
Mukuro was a charm, he could not deny it, but he was already married and for someone who had sacrificed time, his identity as a man, even his life, shed blood for her, all for Miku Izayoi.
He promised himself while cooking that it would be better, that he would return to being a bit like that insecure boy who had never dated any girl, like that one who didn't know carnal or material pleasure, like that one who could only look at feelings before the body, like that one who didn't look at other women just because his wife wasn't there, like that one who wasn't dominated and tempted by desire, like that one who tried so hard for a woman even life wasn't afraid to give.
He would cook for her, he would take her out, he would spoil her more, he would love her more without having to be intense, he would enjoy her company more than her body, he would kiss her lips more than her breasts, although this would cost him at first, because he was used to being a pervert, but she was also pretty and had been hurt in the worst way, Shidou knew that he loved the idol more than just her sensual body.
He thought that he could do it if he proposed, even if he was living another life and was the only madman who knew that Mukuro was not his wife, that all this was not his life, he didn't lose his head; he was full of promises to his Miku that she should be suffering without him, because he knew that, for her, and for that reason she was offering his body without modesty, Shidou Itsuka was everything to Miku.
That is why cheating on her, hurts.
In the evening, at about 8:30, one of the waiters arrived with the news and told it to Karen: a celebrity had arrived, it was the first time, since they didn't have a reservation and she was accompanied.
"And who is she, Karen? Is she a big woman or a young woman? I hope you don't have such high expectations, maybe you should cook, senpai" said the boy, unsure of himself, it was more pressure to have an important person at a table.
"Don't worry, just think of that person as just another client, all people are the same: they are hungry. Our duty is to satisfy that appetite," he said with a smile.
"It's my favorite idol: Miku Izayoi!"
He opened wide his clear eyes, he couldn't believe it, so without saying anything, he went out of the kitchen to look for his wife.
There he saw her, as old as he was now, but as beautiful as he remembered her, she was the same, she looked happy and her clothes were pretty and her chest stood out, but he was not happy, he clenched his fists and his heart hardened.
That smile, that she was happy and arranged was not for him precisely, it was for the subject who accompanied her, Karen and Kaji saw through the windows of the doors to see that towards Shidou.
The girl was more excited when she saw that Miku kissed her partner, all his control collapsed when he saw that; Shidou had the eyes of a spirit and shed a tear that wiped it away instantly.
He returned to the kitchen with the mood on the floor, he didn't want to talk to anyone, he didn't want to hear anything, his eyes were still yellow and no one dared stop him when he walked out the back door.
He went to sit at the first bench he found, illuminated by the lights of other places he didn't bother to find out what they were.
He was a man and knew everything was wrong, but he assumed he deserved it because he had been an idiot and betrayed Miku, although the woman he saw didn't even seem to know of his existence.
Tears streamed from his eyes and he could do nothing.
"Darling, I love you!"
"Sorry..." he whispered with pain and still yellow eyes, he kept clenching his fists. "I'm sorry, Miku... You gave me everything... Maybe I gave myself too much, and I didn't appreciate it, I haven't valued you enough, I'm so sorry... I let myself go, it's true... And I have someone now that I don't know... Someone who loves me as much as you do, but she's not you, yet... I did those things..."
His voice broke, he had never felt so sad, he didn't know what rejection was, deception, seeing her with another person, seeing her happy, flushed, well groomed and enjoying the company of someone else who wasn't him, all at the same time, he had never felt this pain before.
He smiled with irony, the answer was obvious: Miku was a pervert and daring, perhaps too much, but she loved him alone, he didn't have to worry about those misfortunes, how could they happen to him if he was the only one for Miku?
He covered his face with his chef's hat, he also used it to wipe his tears, he complained of pain, it seemed somewhat exaggerated, but this was too much, it was too much to see that, and he didn't want to put his mind to work on another man touching it, because then he would lose all control!
Shidou returned to leave his hat for the boy, his eyes were red from crying, everyone looked at him with concern.
"Where are you going, Shidou-senpai? Did something bad happen?"
"Should I call Mukuro-senpai?" Karen asked, but he shook his head.
"I want to go home."
Shidou left the place with his head bowed, thinking of all those sweet moments he had had with his wife, all the times he supported her before the day of a concert and the moment when she jumped into his arms, filled with happiness to kiss him and embrace him tightly. All those nice words she said to him.
"Miku, I love you. I love you... I'm sorry, I haven't been the best, but... If only I had another chance, I promise you... I'm going to love you every day, I'll give you all of myself, just like you've given everything of yourself, I know I should have done it a long time ago, but if you forgive me... If I can be with you again, I'll stop being silly and you won't just be my wife, I'll also make you a mother, the happiest of them all".
Shidou fell asleep with no one by his side, he loved no one, only Miku. But she wasn't there.
The rest of falling asleep didn't last long, since he heard a laugh that echoed, that bothered him a lot, but he also became sad, who mocked his pain?
He couldn't keep the guy who was with his Miku Izayoi away, but he would charge the owner of that distorted laugh, he wanted to release his anger and after saving his beloved from DEM Industries, he wasn't afraid to fight.
"Show yourself!" he shouted as he opened his eyes and found himself floating in space.
"A beautiful sight, a bit nostalgic, isn't it, Shidou-kun?" asked that distorted voice, but Shidou clenched his fists and saw that he was in space, could see the earth and other planets, but in the distance. "I understand that you're confused, especially the last 18 hours, maybe more, but..."
"Are you responsible for all this?!" he asked angrily, but laughter echoed all over the place.
"Oh, pervert-kun, I'm not talking to you."
"Huh?"
Now he was confused, but when he heard Mukuro's groans, he turned to see a blue-haired man with a somewhat full body on his hips, his hands were made a fist and looking at a screen where he, with his original body, was touching Mukuro, that's when he realized he had his body back.
"It can't be..."
"I don't know what trick you were using and still use," said the Shidou who was turning his back, but when he turned to the other, he had yellow eyes and a very serious and cold look. "Hoshimiya Mukuro, she is my wife and you pretended to be me, but not only did you usurp my identity, no... You wanted to take over the woman I love too..."
"No! And I'm very sorry, but I didn't do it!" Shidou was wrapped in a golden aura and totally angry, flew towards him and took him by the neck. "Ugh... I'm-I'm serious... I'm-I'm sorry... A-Anyway... I-I love M-Miku..."
"So you already have a woman and yet you did all that?"
He received a punch in the mouth of his stomach, leaving him breathless and was released to let him scream, but he lowered him meters down with a kick in his head that made him scream in pain.
"You'll pay for this, I promise!"
Shidou's body wouldn't fall anywhere, but at that speed and if it got close to the earth, it would become a meteor, the heat would kill it, but it entered a black hole where the other Shidou entered, to appear falling into a random field.
"No matter what powers of spirit you may have, you can't stop me, you bastard!"
Shidou used Mukuro's powers to increase gravity only for the man who was falling, the pressure was so great that when he hit and made a mortal rumble that broke everything, including his bones, this was not the end.
"I feel sorry for the woman who surely loves and trusts you, it is hard to believe that you used my face to take advantage and do all that in my name, as if you were me, but I would never be able to betray Muku, nor will I ever" he said with annoyance and as he directed his hand towards his bloody and broken body, he again increased gravity to dig his tomb with his own body. "You will never do this again, I will never forgive anyone like you who did all that to my wife, damn you!"
"It seems to be your end, pervert-kun," said that distorted voice, deep in his mind it was heard, as well as his laughter. "Yeah, this Shidou is very aggressive, I think you understand him better than I do, hahaha! Well, I admit it was a dark joke, but if you think that with your death you will see your Miku again, do you really think I would leave it so easy for you?"
"Miku... This me is stronger, but I want to see you again and apologize, do everything I promised you, even if you don't know or understand anything that is happening to me, I don't want to hurt you either, I have never wanted to, I know that since you love me, you haven't wanted to hurt me either, you are so good, cute and loving, honey".
Shidou was about to leave, but the earth broke into pieces and a body wrapped in flames wiped the blood from his mouth with a very cold look, his opponent was so surprised that he lost concentration.
"Thank you, Kotori, I owe you many lives already, my pretty little sister."
"Stay still!" At that moment, Shidou could do nothing, although he tried, he saw Shidou coming down wrapped in flames, only the closeness was burning his clothes and increasing his temperature. "It's a little weird to hurt yourself, in a way, believe it or not, I'm not a copy and my powers, well, don't you feel it now?!"
With that scream, Shidou had thrown a sound wave directly at his enemy, sending him flying and rolling on the ground, causing multiple wounds, and nothing covered his torso.
He approached him to burn him with his flames, saw him burn and the process was reflected in his yellow eyes.
"I want to go home now!" he shouted in anger.
"Oh, I'd love to, Shidou-kun, though..."
He felt the danger behind him, the burnt body was no longer so, he soon discovered that this Shidou also had the powers of his sister.
"When I sealed Mukuro I did it on earth, but I met her in the confines of space, and I managed to unblock her heart, it takes much more than this to kill me," said with complete security.
"I don't want to kill you, I just want to go home with my wife, I don't care about yours, although it's so pretty that I understand why you fell in love with her!"
"Thanks for the compliment!" he said before disappearing into one of his black holes, to appear on one side where he kicked him, to repeat the process multiple times and attack his blind spots. "If you love her so much, I don't know why you did all that!"
"Because I am a fool!" he said before a last blow that sent him to the ground, but he regenerated from every wound and rose with some effort, but a bluish purple aura surrounded him. "Ah... I've never been in space, that date must have been a suicide, you're stronger than me, I admit, but... Even if my battle was on earth, have they bent your will for the person you ended up loving? Have you humiliated yourself just to have a chance to change things? I may not have reached the ends of the universe to reach the person who is now my wife, and I speak not of Mukuro-san, but of my Itsuka Miku, although I have not used my powers of spirit in a long time, for her I will do anything, even kill another me!"
Shidou vs. Shidou! Who will win?! Will they return to their worlds with their beloved wives? What is Nia planning? We will see in the next chapter!
