"Cooking is both my salvation and my greatest nightmare."

Reborn cursed those who even started this idea. He couldn't understand why anyone would even bring this up. Of all forms of tournament that the family could choose, it would be a cooking battle. A cooking battle. Oh, any deity above, save his soul. Although it was quite entertaining, Reborn was not going through anything that would mean him eating certain people's food.

The first one to try was Bianchi, who happily cooked up a full meal fit for fifty people. Of course, the result was a table full of purple dishes, all bubbling oddly and producing questionable odors. Hayato fainted on the spot. Both Ryohei and Tsuna had a taste out of respect, and were sent straight to the infirmary shortly after. Takeshi took them, using the excuse to run. Kyoya disappeared, as well as Mukuro and Chrome, once they saw Bianchi walk into the kitchen. Nana had kindly refused for herself, the girls, and all of the children. Reborn strictly turned the offer down, even if he had to argue with Bianchi for a good twenty minutes.

Hayato, after having recovered from his sister's food, was the next one to try. It was then did everyone understand why Hayato always bought food from the convenience store. The food was oddly flavored, and had more than a few burns and undercooked parts. Thankfully, no one had to taste-test, because upon seeing his work, Hayato instantly scrapped anything that was made from his hands. After that, he made an endless stream of apologies to Tsuna, about wasting food and wasting the Tenth's precious time. Even for Tsuna, it took a good fifteen minutes to calm the silver-haired boy down.

In all honesty, Reborn was happy the girls Haru, Kyoko, I-pin, and Chrome went straight after. The four made their meals all at once, smiling and saying that it should be time that everyone had lunch (Bianchi frowned at that, and seemingly asked the girls why her meals weren't considered lunch.). The four girls cooked up a delicious meal, and all of them ate without fear. They also made preparations for dinner, with the idea of just in case anything happens. Reborn heaved a silent sigh at the edible meal.

After the girls went, everyone to do their duties, and Reborn thanked the heavens above that he was still alive.

Of course, the torture continued as the cooking matches continued. Reborn almost shot Hayato for even bringing the term up.

This time, Ryohei tried, along with Kyoya and Mukuro. Obviously, they didn't make their meals together, but instead held it like one of those competitions you would see on shows. They even insisted on a time limit. Reborn mentally smacked himself for allowing Tsuna to even bring a timer out.

The outcome was quite surprising. Ryohei's was actually edible, though nowhere near his sister's caliber. It was simple, and Reborn decided that he could live off of Ryohei's food, if necessary. Everyone had normal faces when eating his food, so Reborn agreed that Ryohei's food deserved a good few points.

Kyoya's food was, rather interesting. It didn't taste bad at all; actually, it tasted good, just that it lacked meat. When questioned about this by Tsuna, Kyoya only said "I figured that you herbivores could only ever eat vegetables." All of them (even the girls), save for Fuuta, Tsuna, and Takeshi, gave him a glare.

Mukuro's dishes were of decent looks and smell, but they were all oddly sweet. Also, to Reborn's horror, Tsuna and Takeshi both picked up clumps of chocolate and non-melted sugar cubes from various dishes Reborn was sure did not have anything to do with them.

Reborn was cursing his family when Tsuna offered to go next. All of them had a sudden moment of panic, including Hayato and Takeshi. Nana only smiled, and laughed lightly beside them. Reborn quickly found out why, because Tsuna's food was actually rather delicious. Although a far cry from Nana's, Reborn can easily say it was the best food he's had all day, second only to the girls'.

The last one to go was Takeshi. Even so, Takeshi only tried because everyone else had forced him to, with Hayato and Bianchi thoroughly hoping to show that there was someone worse at cooking than them. Their efforts were wasted, because everyone stood slack jawed at what Takeshi had made. They didn't even need to taste it to know that it was good, because even the aroma of the food made them all weak in the knees. When they did try, though, even Nana and the girls grudgingly admitted that they couldn't ever make these divine meals. Kyoya, who almost never ate dinner with them, stayed to fill his stomach with this deliciousness. Shortly after, Tsuna asked Takeshi why the heck his dad never let him help with the restaurant.

Takeshi's reply was: "Well, he says that I take things too far."

Reborn instantly, along with Tsuna, made it law that Takeshi was to cook dinner whenever he was with the rest of them.