Ingredients in a Deck Recipe
Chapter 10: Four days of peace
It was a rather peaceful four days for Kuro after that strange tag duel with Jaden and Chazz, during those four days, he mostly rested and partook in classes, he didn't duel in the slightest, heck, not once during those four days he brought his duel disk with him whenever he walked from his dorm room to the main building.
Students and even some school staff would stare at him in a confused manner, almost as if they thought something was wrong with the Sushi-themed duelist, he couldn't care less if he was being honest...Except if Jasmine was around.
"...This I just think about her?" He asked himself as he was laying on his bed, surprising even himself with his train of thought, he didn't know why he was putting Jasmine's opinion of him into consideration, although he was quick to answer his own confusion.
"Granted...She did ate my food with me...Willingly too...She's also really honest...Smells like flowers...Passionate like an ocean" Kuro continued to speak to himself as he began to list off various things about the steadfast Strawberry blonde. the positive things about her anyway, he stared at the ceiling of his little Slifer Red Dorm with an absent-minded tone, he felt confused and muddled with himself, as he thought more about the female Obelisk Blue student.
She was like a rose to him, it was extremely cheesy to him but it was an analogy nonetheless, while Jasmine did certainly looked pretty, she could be down right prickling and stinging, all Kuro needs to do, is to hold her in the right way so he wouldn't get his fingers bled.
Kuro had a tinge of fear within him, he hasn't spoken to Jasmine for four days straight after he didn't visit her dorm room for the supposed surprise, he was sure it was going to be out of his comfort zone, but what does Kuro know? Jasmine didn't give him the exact credentials he needed to visit her, her letter didn't have an address or a dorm number, so it was impossible for Kuro to figure out where her room was exactly.
Nevertheless, Jasmine must be down-right furious, she probably must've been waiting for hours for him to show up, only for him to no-show her surprise, Kuro frowned in a guilt-stricken manner, he hates it when someone has to wait a long time for him, rule three of cooking, never keep your customers waiting or else they'll get impatient and unhappy, it was the most simplest but the most breakable of the rules of cooking.
"Should apologize to her...Going to...Today." He said to himself regretfully, making a mental note for himself as he finally stood up from his bed stretching his body as he got dressed with the usual Slifer Red uniform.
Jasmine was a thought-provoking person for the Sushi-themed duelist and he wasn't sure why, he rarely spoke to girls around his age, like he stated before, he was more focused on cooking, feeding his sister and father, but now for the first time in his life, he met a girl that could linger in his mind naturally, being as stubborn as she was in real life.
Perhaps there was one thing to figure out why Kuro kept thinking about her.
it was a whole week has passed since Kuro arrived here and already it was kind of eventful for the Shadowed Helheim Sibling, he wasn't really used to such hastiness especially during the start of a school year.
To get his mind off of the Strawberry Blonde known as Jasmine, Kuro decided to look at his deck, his Sushi-Samurais were as plentiful as the food they represented and were inspired by, he can't help but smile at them, the Sushi Samurais were a gift from his mother, a whole deck of them were from his mother, out a respect for his mother, he didn't add a single other card to it except to the new Sushi Samurais that arrived in the mail some time ago.
Kuro didn't question how his mother got them nor how she could afford them considering that she was a housewife for his father.
He hasn't seen anyone else with the same Sushi Samurai Cards, even in a duelist-occupied place such as Duelist academy, it was almost as if the Sushi Samurais were made solely for Kuro to use, it was a selfish thought but it was an observation made by the Shadowed Duelist, the cards probably costed a fortune, that's why other people are not using them, or the reason why none of them have it.
He exited outside of his dorm room, the afternoon mild climate was soothing for the Sushi-Samurai Duelist as he sighed outwardly, looking onto the top floor of the Slifer Red Dorm, he saw several fellow Slifer Red students, they were dueling among themselves, The Shadowed Helheim Sibling noticed that Jasmine wrote him another letter after four days of not scribbling down some words on a piece of crumpled notebook paper.
With a curious but somber look, Kuro looked into the letter that Jasmine sent him, no doubt it'll be her calling him off and saying that he was biggest and dumbest oaf she ever met, Kuro couldn't help but feeling like he deserved such an insult over his refusal to see her for those four days and apologize for keeping her waiting.
Hey...Sorry for not giving you...The detailed whereabouts of my room, even though I know yours.
...Don't question that last part.
Anyway, the surprise was something unimportant anyway, unless you still want it of course.
If you do, meet me at the Card Shop today, I'll be there all day with my friend Mindy
See you then Kuro.
-Jasmine
P.S. Bring your duel disk
To both his genuine surprise and heart-warming relief, she didn't insult him or denounce him as an friend, in fact, she even referred to him by his actual name, not some strange demeaning nickname, it once again brought a blush to Kuro's face, he stashed this letter along with the other one he stashed with during the day where the advancement exams were being held.
"Heh...At least she admitted that her plan was a little flawed." Kuro said to himself as he scratched the back of his head, reading the letter word for word and putting attention on the fact that she practically made Kuro go on a wild goose chase.
With an actual goal and task today, Kuro went back to his room, to get his duel disk and deck of course, before heading off to the main duel academy building, more specifically, the card shop, he hoped that Jasmine didn't have something devious planned for him, this was the first time that Jasmine and Kuro will be hanging out in public, instead of the private shroud of night.
Kuro made it to the Main Duel Academy building, he noticed that some duelists were happily dueling against each other at the courtyard, it mesmerized Kuro as he saw that only students of the same dorm were dueling each other, they weren't going to test boundaries and duel someone in a higher dorm? Granted...Kuro only dueled the pair of Obelisks because he had to, it wasn't like he had a choice in the matter...
The Shadowed Helheim Sibling walked into the card shop, he has never really entered in here before besides the quick glance he had several days ago, noticing the pair of Obelisk Blue girls, they were talking to one another until Mindy notice the Sushi-themed Duelist by the corner of hey eye.
"Oh Hey Jasmine, its your servant! Kuro!" Mindy said with a giggle causing Kuro to be a little irked from such a name, Jasmine turned to see the Sushi-themed Duelist meet up with them, she placed her hands on her hips as Kuro felt a hot blush on his cheeks, Mindy giggled more as she whispered some quiet remarks to her Strawberry Blonde friend, Kuro knew for sure that Mindy was making fun of his embarrassed posture.
"You know...Kuro, up close and with the lights on, looks kinda hot, I'll give him a solid eight out of ten, you're very lucky Jasmine, don't mess this up!" Mindy whispered with a little small smile on her lips, Jasmine scowled at her friend, not wanting to deal with Mindy's constant rating of boys.
"Did you tell Mindy...About our...Deal?" Kuro asked awkwardly as he cupped his hands together
"Yep, well...More like Mindy and Alexis figured it out themselves, considering that I wasn't really...Subtle about it." Jasmine replied as she folded her arms, pausing for only a moment as her raven-haired friend chimed in.
"I mean, she slammed her dorm room door for one and tripped up several times in the dark, we live near each other so its kind of easy to hear something like that." Jasmine growled in annoyance as it made her case a little bit worse than before.
"How are you feeling today Kuro?" She asked, trying to change the topic so that Kuro wouldn't think her as a clumsy girl.
"I'm feeling fine...What was the surprise you were planning to give me at your dorm?" Mindy gasped in surprise upon hearing Kuro's words as Jasmine groaned in frustration when Kuro inadvertently just spilled the beans.
"Awww! You were going to invite him to your dorm Jasmine? That's so romantic!" Mindy said with delight in finding out Jasmine's plans, Jasmine huffed loudly in response as she pouted, folding her arms as she saw Kuro blushing even more so.
"S-Something...Romantic?" He chirped, his voice being weak and a little bit shuddered from Mindy's remarks.
"It wasn't going to be romantic at all! I was just going to give Kuro something...Its nothing special." Jasmine defended, attempting to brush off Mindy's words
"What was it then if it wasn't 'Romantic at all?'" Mindy asked as she made air quotes around Romantic at all.
"I'll show it to you right now, I was just going to give Kuro a card that I got from the duel store, thats all! Nothing crazy or whatever your applying Mindy!" Jasmine said as Mindy giggled to herself, clearly enjoying that she was frustrating her friend.
"You have a card for me? Thank you...I...I...I'll repay you the favor some day!" Kuro said a little louder than he wanted it to be, with his sheepish state, his words were disjointed and off-key, mentally slapping himself as he felt like he was getting more and more awkward by the second.
"You don't have to be so serious Kuro jeez..." Jasmine responded but her tone quickly changed into a more gracious tone as she looked at the thankful Kuro
"Eh, don't worry about it Kuro, I mean, its something that fits into your deck, so I think its best if you would have it..." Jasmine noticed that Mindy was holding back a chortle.
"Not that I need it of course! My deck is already to good!" Jasmine continued, acting more abrasive so she wouldn't get chewed out by her friend Mindy, she waited for Kuro to take the card from her, with some restraint, the Sushi-themed duelist took the gift with careful hands.
"It's one of your Sushi Samurai Cards, or at least a support card of it, I found it when I bought some packs some time ago, I thought you would like it." She said nonchalantly as if it didn't meant anything to her, dismissing the card like it was nothing.
Kuro looked upon the card with some wonder, he never really bought card packs before as he was content with his deck, coupled with the fact that he got new cards in the mail, he never really bothered questioning about it for Maria also got new cards with this method.
"Sushi Samurai-Tanutoki?" Kuro read the card, it was a adorable-looking Tanooki with its cat-like ears, bushy-striped tail and all, except in this case, its tail was made of different colored nuts, one stripe was made of auburn almond, another stripe was made up of walnuts and another was made up of roasted peanuts, it brought a sense of familiarity to the Shadowed Helheim Sibling.
"Yeah, your monsters have very weird names..." Jasmine complained as she scoffed under her breath, Kuro didn't seemed to be fazed by her words, retorting back to the strawberry blonde with a defensive tone
"Well, its better than just...Crawling dragon...Its like a effect monster with flavor text..." Kuro said making a little pun, causing Jasmine to groan in annoyance once again.
"Is making food puns natural with you?" She questioned as she gave a slight glare to the Shadowed Helheim Sibling,
"I think so...I never really thought about it...Anyway, Jasmine and Mindy...Why did I need to bring my duel disk?" Kuro asked as he showed the two Obelisk Blue girls his duel disk, wondering why he even brought his gear to begin with.
"You know Alexis Right?, She's been hanging out with Jaden Yuki lately, the guy you dueled with some time ago in that tag duel against Chazz and his friend, so we're kind of left in the dust for now...So for the meantime, lets duel together!" Jasmine insisted as Kuro blushed once again for like, the twelfth time? It was getting ridiculous, even for the Sushi-themed duelist himself.
"I never really spent time with a girl before." Kuro unwittingly blurted out, trying to explain his case but only making it more awkward for himself than before.
"Excluding the two dinners I had with Jasmine!" Kuro added, trying to correct his statement as Jasmine gave the Shadowed Helheim Sibling a disapproving look.
"Oh so you had two dinners with Kuro? Why didn't you tell me Jasmine? I thought it was a one night stand kind of thing!" Mindy chimed in, causing Jasmine to fold her arms against Kuro for he inadvertently spilled the beans once again.
"I should really stop talking..." Kuro finally said, feeling absolutely defeated as he had a guilt-stricken frown on his face.
Author's Note: sorry for really short chapter...I really need to step up my game...Hopefully next chapter though it'll be better and worthy, I've been struggling with coming up with good ideas and duels, so be patient with me xD, Anyway, I'll see you guys later, thank you reading.