Chapter 11 (okay so that last one was really 10, I entitled it wrong gomen nasai!)
And before they land :lessons in cooking:
"hrm…" Chibiusa pondered as her nose began to pick up a sweet smell, coming from the kitchen of course. Being the curious little kitten she was she followed the scent to the kitchen to find Nuriko happily chopping up various foods. "Hey Nuri-chan" Chibiusa greeted happily as she gave off a small smile. "Hey Chi" Nuriko looked up from the vegetables to respond to the 'pink haired princess'. "Why are you cooking? I thought that Hotohori had people that would cook for us." She walked over to where Nuriko was standing. "Yea but the food always tastes better when it's made by someone you know right?" Nuriko smiled at her. "Your right," She agreed. "in that case can I help?" She finished. He nodded slightly at her.
Chibiusa had been cutting some carrots that were to be going on the peripheral part of the dish for decoration, which could also be eaten if wished. There seemed to be an invisible tension between the two, like one that wasn't really there but it had seemed like it from the silence that was emitting from the two. Nuriko glanced at her and then dropped what he was working on. Chibiusa sighed as she looked down at her now deformed carrot. 'These don't look too good.' She thought sadly. 'Food should just be for eating.' She sighed once again. Suddenly she could feel someone's hands come over hers and also someone was now behind her, griping her hand which was over the knife. She looked to the left slightly and found herself now gazing at Nuriko's face, which was awfully close. She blushed.
"You should try to make the cuts more evenly," Nuriko started to control her hands cutting each piece of the carrot to look the same width as the last. He then removed her hands so she started cutting on her own. "That's it" Nuriko smiled sweetly at her. "T-thank you" Chibiusa sputtered out still blushing a tiny bit.
"Chi, would you come over here and try this?" Nuriko asked as he pointed to a soup and then held out a spoon. Chibiusa stuck her finger into the soup that was on the spoon and then put it in her mouth. "It's good!" Chibiusa said happily, "You could try about two more of these though." She held up some leafs that were meant for seasoning. "Your right, I forgot!" Nuriko said with an expression of surprise on his face. She returned back to her cooking station. "Your looks good too Chi." He added on afterwards. Chibiusa smiled to herself. "You would make a good wife someday." He smiled slightly, and for the second time in the day, she blushed.
"Food everybody." Chibiusa informed everybody who was out on the deck. "I feel sick." Tasuki said as he walked up to her. "Oh come on, you can stay at the lunch table long enough to eat!" Chibiusa smacked him in the back. Tasuki moved forward a bit. "You're not making this any better." He turned back to her. "Sorry" Chibiusa shoved her hand behind her head. "You made lunch today right?" Hotohori asked her. "Yea me and Nuri-" She was cut off. "I'm sure that it will taste wonderful." Hotohori smile softly at her then walked inside to meet all of the others. "ah…" She watched him sit down at the table and make small conversation with everybody else. "This whole cooking thing is really confusing." She tilted her head and scratched it a bit. Nuriko suddenly tapped her on the back. "Are you going to go get the food or what?" He asked with his hands covered in cooking gloves and holding a steaming pot. "Oh!" She realized as her face suddenly turned a light shade of pink. "I'll go get it!" She bowed in apology. Nuriko's hand hit her head. "Don't bother, I already asked Chichiri and Tasuki to go get it…" He trailed off as he strayed his direct attention from her. "Tasuki are you crazy!" Chibiusa's eyes suddenly widened as she started running towards the so-called kitchen. "Where are you going?" Nuriko yelled at her in question. "Tasuki's sick he'll throw-up in all the food!" She yelled one final time before she swept around the bow to get to the other side of the boat. Nuriko stood there in thought about what Chibiusa had just said. "…shit…" He thought as he still held the steaming pot.
"I'm here no need to worry the food will be fine!" Chibiusa reassured as burst open the kitchen door. "Daa?" Chichiri sounded in question as he held a dish with some of the previously made food on it. Tasuki was no where in sight. "…but Nuriko told me that Tasuki was helping carry the food…" She was now realizing that she had every reason to be embarrassed for bursting in so suddenly to find someone who wasn't even there. "He's asked Mitsukake for medicine for his sickness no da." Chichiri told her happily. "What, but didn't he already ask-" "seven other times today da?" He finished her sentence. "yea" She agreed with what he had said.
"Now let's eat everyone!" Nuriko was standing up from his seat, which was at the head of the table. "and remember me and Chi worked really hard on this dinner" He took Chibiusa's head in his arms causing her to blush. "so I don't want to hear any bad remarks on how the food tastes!" Nuriko suddenly turned demonic. "Cut it out Nuri-chan" Anyone could tell that she was a bit embarrassed by the whole 'Chibiusa made dinner' deal. "Well now that you want me to let go." Nuriko blinked once at her and then tightened his grip he had on her. "Hey!" She sounded a bit agitated. "Stop flirting and start eating!" Tasuki suddenly yelled from the end part of the table but then you could tell that his sickness took him over again as he bent over to his left while holding his mouth. "Ack!" Tamahome, who had been sitting next to Tasuki, said. "Not on me, not on me!" He started to freak out. Mitsukake started to chuckle at the incident. "Hey its not funny medicine boy!" Tamahome shouted in anger. Chibiusa couldn't help it and laughed a bit herself before she finally got to sit down while some of Hotohori's servants served the food. "Finally I was starving no da." Chichiri said as he picked up his chopsticks, and then a pinch came to the blue-haired man's arm. "no da?" Chichiri looked over to find Hotohori as the holder of the hand which had pinched. "Not until we say grace." He nagged as if he were Chichiri's mother. Everybody stopped and looked at him. "Grace?" They all moaned unpleasantly.
"ugghh…" Tamahome and Tasuki groaned as they pushed the plates away from their bodies. "EAT" Nuriko stood their encouraging them to finish what they had started. "No way…If I eat anymore, I'll explode." Tamahome glared at Nuriko. "Oi! Nuriko how much of this food have you eaten anyways?" Tasuki asked but didn't face Nuriko, he was too stuffed to even move. "a plate" He said proudly. "Whaa?" Tamahome and Tasuki were confused. "We ate well over five and you sit there yelling at us when you only ate one!" Tamahome got in Nuriko's face and was yelling. "I'm the one who made it so I get privileges." He argued with a slight bit of a poutish look on his face. "Let them go Nuriko I can barely eat anymore myself." Chiriko butted in. Nuriko patted Chiriko on the head "Your stomach is smaller so you're free to go." He smiled. "Really?" Chiriko asked hopefully with big teary eyes. Nuriko only nodded. "Now back to you two." He turned back around and sent a death glare at Tamahome and Tasuki who had scared expressions on their face. "You two can go if you want." Chibiusa suddenly told the duo. "They can?" Nuriko asked. "Give them a break they've just about exploded themselves. She smiled softly at him. "Thank you!" Tasuki and Tamahome hugged her and then ran as fast as they could out of the dining room. "What about me?" Hotohori mumbled with a fork in his mouth and, yet another, unfinished plate in front of him. "No, keep eating." Nuriko seemed to be handing glares out by the second on this day. "Yes." Chibiusa slid in and sent Nuriko's deadly glance back at him. "My hero." Hotohori said sarcastically.
Howdy! Should be working on getting information on Japan for her "International Cuisine" project eh heh heh well I updated aren't you all happy for me! This story has gotten the most reviews out of all of my stories! bows thank you all for the reviews but I must ask for more! MORE MORE! coughs sorry. Ughhhh Saiyuki's song called "Domino" has been playing ALL DAY and there's nothing I can do about it because Its stuck in my head . falls over I hope that you all enjoyed the chapter!
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