And back s'more! Guess what? I'm going to finish this today, and update it very slowly…probably over a month. Don't cha hate me? (grins)
Good thing I am, tho, because otherwise you'd have to wait forever some more.
Disclaimer: nope, nuh-uh, not gonna say it. Why would I want Inuyasha when I have a Fuzzy to squee over? (grins)
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Chapter Six: Cooking Calypso
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Inuyasha skidded into the kitchen at exactly 12 noon. He was holding three glass mixing bowls, a large bag of flour, and a carton of eggs.
Kikyo, Kagome, and Keade all regarded him skeptically.
"This is the first challenge. The girl to bake the best cookies gets the point. And no, they're not chocolate cookies. You have to guess my favorite."
From the doorway, Sango rolled her eyes. They didn't have any peanut-butter in the factory, how would any of the girls bake his favorite cookies? She had used up the last of it in a batch of pudding the week before.
Kikyo immediately whipped out a bag of sugar and set to work. Obviously, she planned on following a traditional sort of sugar cookie recipe. The way that she hesitated before she broke the eggs on the side of the bowl only showed to Sango that the girl had never made cookies in her life.
When she added four more eggs to her bowl, Sango sighed. Inuyasha would definitely be taste-testing these all on his own.
Keade threw two eggs into the air with her bowl. As they hovered, the eggs lined up to crack on the bowl on the way back down. Keade caught the shells in her left hand when the bowl landed on the counter. Sango blinked and stared as the woman produced a cookie cutter from kami-knows-where and continued making her gingerbread cookies.
Maybe…maybe Sango could try…ONLY Keade's cookies.
Kagome looked around, hunting through all the cupboards and nooks in the kitchen before finally stopping and frowning, hands on her hips. Leaving, she returned some time later with a…
…a jar of peanut-butter? Sango grinned, That's right. Kagome told me yesterday that her favorite cookies were peanut butter. The girl continued to follow a recipe that was guaranteed for success, and Sango left the kitchen. She would just have to gloat at Inuyasha over her superior knowledge as to the turnout of the competition.
Miroku ran into her in the hallway outside the kitchen. "How's it going?" he asked.
"Kagome's guaranteed to win," Sango said with a smile.
Miroku sighed. "That's great. Kikyo rigged up my room with barbed wire and lard. The faster she's out of here, the better."
"…lard?"
"For the sliding," Miroku explained helpfully.
Sango narrowed her eyes. "No one tries to kill Miroku except for me," she muttered darkly, heading off for Kikyo's room.
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Inuyasha walked into the kitchen, led by a delicious aroma. Well, at least one of them can cook.
"What smells like chocolate chip cookies? I thought I said NO chocolate chip cookies," he said, trying to be gruff.
The three girls looked at each other. "OH!" Kagome exclaimed suddenly, and the other two turned to stare at her. "I have cookie-scented shampoo," she explained.
Inuyasha nodded skeptically. "Oh…kay…how about those cookies, then?"
Keade presented him with perfectly formed gingerbread cookies.
Kagome put forth a plate of nice-looking peanut-butter cookies, some of which were burnt.
Kikyo held…a monstrosity.
The dough was a mess of uncooked egg yolks and Crisco, with hearty amounts of sugar poured over the top in an attempt to make them look solid. She had obviously scraped some of the goo off the pan to make the cookies look circular.
"Try mine first," Kikyo said darkly.
"I'm going to…wait for that salmonella," Inuyasha replied quickly. "Keade, how 'bout those gingerbread men?"
Keade held out the plate. Nervously, Inuyasha took a bite. I didn't think what would happen if one of them couldn't cook…Kikyo's out.
The gingerbread was perfect, just as any cookie made by a grandmother-aged woman is perfect. Keade had gone for the one recipe that it took an entire lifetime to learn, and she had nailed it. Unfortunately, Inuyasha couldn't stand the strong taste of gingerbread.
"Nice, Keade…but not my favorite," he said, choking down the last bit of the cookie. "Kagome, are those…peanut-butter?"
She nodded. "I…well, that's my favorite, so I figured that if you hated them…all the more for me,"
Inuyasha resisted grinning. Which reminded him…
Reaching over, he selected a cookie. It was crunchy, as could be expected with burnt edges. The peanut-butter flavor was perfectly mixed into the cookie, and was just the consistency that his mother used to make them. Inuyasha savored the rest of the cookie, before turning to look at…
Kikyo's cookies.
He couldn't even pick a cookie up, and used his fingers to hold as much…dough in his hands as he could. Opening his mouth, he dumped it in.
Having never eaten raw eggs in his life, Inuyasha could now comfortably say that he had done so. The cookies were the most god-awful thing he had ever experienced. Feeling like he had dumped a fish-tank and all its contents into his mouth, he tried his best not to gag or spit it back out.
"Who wins?" Kikyo asked, one eye wider than the other with menace.
Is that a threat…?
"K…Ke…"
"Inuyasha, recall how I washed ye clothing," Keade intoned, also menacing forward.
Kagome—whom he would have desperately loved to name the winner—reclined against the counter with a downcast expression.
"Keade," Inuyasha said at last. Kikyo…there was no way she could win, but he owed it to Keade for saving his pajamas and getting him back on Shippou's good side.
Kagome quietly left the room as Kikyo beat up the hanyou, brushing a hand across her face as several hurt tears fell from her eyes.
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awww…poor kag-chan. Her cookies were the best. Inu's such a loser. (lol)
so…there you have it. Two chapters today to make up for the extended non-updating, and slow from here on out. THIS SITE is doing stupid things again, like taking away all the URLs on bios and such…bear with me, I never know what's going to be deleted from my chapters…
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