Redsnidget: Here the Second part for Chapter Fifteen! Enjoys! Merry Christmas to you all and Happy Chanukah and Kwanzaa whatever holiday you are having!
Toriko belong to Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi, OC belongs to Redsnidget.
In Hotel Gourmet, The view from the Restaurant at the ninety seven floor. The Chef start to taste the BB Corn that Toriko brings back along with Terry. "D…Deliciousssss! The cleanest feeling going down the throat! This is the first time I have eaten popcorn! This contagious love makes me swallow too quickly! Once upon a time, this snack was named popcorn by the Gourmet nobility. Blue-blood Corn! Also known as BB Corn! This great feast! Thank you very much Toriko-san!"
As Komatsu start to thank the Glutton King to start to notice many dirty dishes that Toriko consumed.
"My Full course's appetizer! Chew it better to experience the taste, Komatsu!"
'YOU ATE SO MUCH?!' Komatsu have a jaw-dropping moment at the sights of pile dirty dishes up higher.
"Incidentally, BB Corn is a Staple food of Terry's. He's eating it happily everyday!" Toriko smiles, bit glad that he finally found something for his wolf friend to eat.
"EH?! That's not meant for dog food! Even in this five star restaurant, they never put in quality food and yet Terry has such a luxury, Wow!" The Chef gasped.
"Anyway…Komatsu..From here on I'm going to the city. Are you coming too?" Toriko asked.
"Eh? The City? Where is this city?" Komatsu blinked.
"…Gourmet Town." Toriko answered before chug down another drink.
"MANPUKUTOSHI GOURMET TOWN!? I'LL GO! I'LL GO! Oh! I'll go unload some money from the bank!" Komatsu is in one of his fanboy's moments, ignore the waiters and chefs who work in Hotel Gourmet whose protest on this about another vacation and need him there to cook meals for them to serve.
"By the way, where is Kai-chan?" Toriko asked as he looks around for the red-haired woman, plan to take her also.
"Ehh..Kai-chan? I've no idea since she have some business to attend…" Komatsu started to calm down to remember where his childhood friend is.
"Sunny…Why are you taking me to this area?" The Heroine narrows her eyes at the rainbow-haired male since they're in the country of healing and life. Heck she could be helping Komatsu back at Hotel Gourmet to cook lunch for Toriko but not able to do this due to the Third Heavenly King.
"Oh honey, since you and I are going to be future husband and wife—" Sunny start to rant on about beauty and all while Kai twitch her eyebrow.
'Since when do I agreed being yours…'
"And this is why this place is great for you to get your skin handle with. Don't worry; I'll handle the money issue so have fun! I'm going over there to get my skin cleanse!" Sunny smiles brightly at her then ran off.
Kai just stood there in silence, stares at where Sunny has vanished off to then groan, facepalm. "Great..Just great…I guess I've to take advantage of this." She muttered to herself, not sure where to go then shrugs, start to walk toward the Onsen.
"Hi, I would like to take a bath in this area please." Kai smiles brightly toward the female worker who is nearby there who smiles back, nod.
"Welcome! This is Onsen for Skin whitening water and certainly has the Skin darkness removing 'Melanin Gourami' swimming in it. Do you wish to bath in it?"
"Mmm, that does sound delightful to be bath in…do you have any onsen that would fix my dry, dirty or old dead skins?" Kai asked.
"Of course, you could take that down right down the road over there."
"Thank you!" The Heroine grins before skips down the road where the worker direct her in, humming softly as she admire the scene before her since this is her first time came here as she never seen many people with injured or old people wandering around.
Once she arrives to the right Onsen, She told the worker there to put it on Sunny's tab since he was paying for them both after all. She start to wearing swimming suit since she's not comfortable doing this nude as she slide in to sigh in blissful.
"Oh my…this is…" Kai groans in pleasure by the hot water hitting her skin as if it was perfect temperature for her. She felt something prick against her skin cause her to open her icy blue eyes to stares at the doctor fish surround her skins to eating the old skins or dirty skin away happily cause her to giggles softly, wiggles her finger around the fish to stroke them lightly before they swim away.
She start to close her eyes to enjoy it in silence as she start to rethinking about what happen in her life time as she slowly start to remember her memory of the time when she first met Komatsu.
A small red-haired girl sneezed as she shivered slightly while huddle herself into a ball as possible since she's in a dark alley, hiding away from the world to keep herself warm. She is starting to regret what she have done to run away from her adopted dad who have done nothing but treat her like a daughter he never has…Even thought she hate that new name he gave to her.
Reed? Come on, its sounds like a male name at least. She frowns slightly as she ponder on that situation as she try to remember why her father always give out crappy names to every animals that was held up in the cell.
Slappy the Muscle Crab, Longneck the Giraffebird along with many odd names in that herd, Shaggy the Meteorsaurus…She even stop her father from called that poor Hyanpanther cub Mr. Snuggles and called him Rikky.
She snapped out of her long thought to hear a shout and jeering cause her to slowly get up from her spot to walk out of the dark alley to take a peek to see a small boy that seem to be smaller for his age try to grab the red ball from the tall boy who seem to enjoy torture the crying boy.
She frown as she glance around for anyone who willing to go help that small boy out but no one came cause her to sigh as she start to walk up toward the short orange hair with brown eyes child who noticed her quickly.
"What do you want? Do you see I'm busy!" he barked, looks like a snot brat who demands everything in his plate without even try.
"Give the ball back to him or I'll kick your ass."
"you say the bad word! I'm telling mom on you!" The boy gasped.
"Don't care what your mommy is thinking!" She smirks before start to kick him in the painful spot cause him to yelp, curl up in the ball start to crying in the pain as the small boy looks in shock yet concern if he was next victim to that.
"Here."
The small boy blink in surprise to see his familiar red ball appear before him to shyly take it in his hand, muttered. "T-thank you…I'm Komatsu…" His widen eyes stares up at the icy blue eyes girl who smiles brightly.
"Kai." She responded back, decided she like that name, better than Reed. Komatsu invited Kai into play with him as they start to hang out together, tell each other their secret and make a promise together to join the cooking class.
Slowly they grew up together, took the Chef class together even thought they're in different class and yet pass together. One day, on Komatsu's birthday. Kai have finally found a perfect gift for her long time childhood as she grinned at Komatsu who eyes her warily.
"Close your eyes Matsu-chan!" She order/ask/forced at same time because she's that good.
"Um..A-alright…" Komatsu closed his eyes as he felt Kai grab his hand to set something hard in his hand.
"Alright, you may open your eyes~"
He did that to see a rectangle box with a simple Red bow on top of it as he looks up at his friend who grins and encourage him to open it in excitement as he eagerly open it to gasp loudly.
"K-Kai-chan…yo-you didn't…!" Komatsu said with happiness.
"Happy Birthday!" Kai cheered, glomped her small future chef to be as Komatsu start to tear up at the sight of this beautiful carving knife that shimmering brightly and polish enough with a tiny red bow on the handle, ready for first cut.
"Eeeeh….Why are you even doing here?" Kai gasped at the familiar Blue haired glutton, noticed that his left arm is missing cause her to frown slightly, wondering what's he have went through.
"Even Kai-chan is here?!" Toriko exclaimed, gasped at her.
"Of course! I invited her here." Sunny humphed before kick the chair for Kai to join the group of many males who seem to be injured or wrapped in bandage like mummy expect for one person.
"Thank you for waiting." The Waitress smiles and set down the bowl full of fruits, "Here are your Cuticle Berries." She left them be to do other business.
"Strawberries that make you eat and make your hair shiny? Really Sunny? What more do you need from this island?" Kai sighed then pluck one strawberry to take a bites.
"They have the effect of causing hair growth and stimulate hair growth. And it's also said they can even cause people with no hair to grow some…" Toriko muttered, eyes the fruits as Sunny smirks, pick one up to take a bites.
"'Life' isn't really just a place to come when you're injured or sick to get healed..There's a lotta beautifyin' ingredients here..It's totally got max value for coming to, right?" Sunny look at Kai.
"Fu…so you're here for Cosmetic Reason..I never thought Sunny, one of the four heavenly kings, was such a girly and meager…" A Tall pale-skinned man with blonde hair, but his most notable traits is that his body is completely covered in scars snorted.
"You'd better cut that out, Match. He'll knock you right over." Toriko laughed.
"Is that really your only goal?" Teppei, a green colored hair with a pompadour hairstyle male raise a eyebrow, "I know because I've meet so many Bishokuya, but Sunny..Your eyes..They're completely the eyes of someone who's come 'hunting' something.."
"Eh?" Kai blinked, glance over at Sunny who stiffen slightly in silence cause her to think Teppei might be right…
"Say, who are you?" Sunny look at Teppei who have a shock expression on his face cause him to snort, "I tell a lie. I know you. Teppe, you're famous."
'Teppe…?' Teppei and Kai think to themselves with a blank expression on their face.
"It's true..I came here to get information about a certain 'ingredient'..! to get a hint about what will be the final ingredient in my 'full course', Dessert!"
'Then why the hell am I doing here if you're looking for that!?' Kai still have a blank expression on her face.
"HOO- you decided on an ingredient for desert, did you, Sunny? You've finally assembled a full course!" Toriko looks up from his drink.
"What'd you come to 'life' to do, Toriko? N…HUH?" Sunny blinked, started to notice the giant wound on Toriko's left side.."WHAT!? You, THAT WOUND! You ain't got an arm!"
"You just noticing it now…?" Kai give Sunny a looks while Toriko thinking the same thing.
"Hahaaaan….so you came to heal that huge wound…? But even if this is the country of healing, it's impossible to get back a missing limb…right?" Sunny smirked, start to realize why they're here for.
"My master may be able to do something about it." Teppei piped in.
"Master? Who?" The heroine asked, curious.
Teppei smiles at her, answered her question, "The Saiseiya…Yosaku!"
"Wha!?" Kai and Sunny have a shocked yet surprise expression by whose the Master is.
"Actually, we have people with serious injuries beside Toriko…we want to ask for them to be healed as well.."Match sighed.
"AH! That's right, Takimaru!" Toriko turn his face toward the person named Takimaru to grins, "You said you wanted something right!? That guy'll have 'medicine' where he's at, too, won't he? Yeah! Medicine that heals all sicknesses!"
"Ah..ha…that's true..if he has some I'd be delighted, but..but even if he has it then..I don't have the money to buy it, so…" Takimaru looks nervously by this.
"FREEZE!" Kai stand up cause the males to look at her in startled as Kai start to remember something. "I'm so stupid for not notice something! YOU! You didn't drag Matsu-chan into this situation!? Did you!?" the Red-haired female glares down at the Glutton who flinch by her glares.
"..Erm…Y-yeah, I did….But he's alright! He's heading back to Hotel Gourmet to creating the Century soup for all of us!"
"Century soup…?" Kai blinks, seem to missing the story behind it as her phone start to vibrated as she grab the cellphone to flip the lid to press the button to talk in her phone. "Yellow? Ah, Matsu-chan!...Eh? You want me…Alright then, I'll grab them and see you there…Hello? Hello…He hung up on me…" she frown at the phone then look at Toriko who grin sheepish.
"You're clear…for now…" She narrow her eyes then slap on Sunny's shoulder "Thanks for the Spa. I gotta to go help Matsu-chan with the soup!" She start to walk away to find a ride back home and grab some ingredient also…
'What the hell is going on…Did something happen when I'm here…?'