Disclaimer: I don't own Shokugeki no Soma. (Otherwise, Soma would already date someone)
Author's Note:
Thanks for your reviews, dear readers! They mean a lot for me!
When I I first started the story, I thought about making it primarily Soma×Female characters drabble collection. But turns out writing aboug another couples is also fun.
To tell you the truth, however, I sometimes have a problem with coming up with couples that do not involve Soma . Jeez...
But let's not think about this! Here is the continuation of Takumi×Megumi couple! And as a bonus I mixed in some Soma×Megumi!
Hope, you won't kill me...
Heated Love Rivalry.
Step 1. Use the ingredients for "Stubborn & Shy".
Step 2. Mix them together, while looking out for fangirls.
Step 3. Sometimes the male component is not confident enough. You can easily solve the problem by adding a certain guy into the mixture. Someone really close to the girl and very, really and utterly dense.
Step 4. Remember, a small amount of jokes from younger brother also helps.
Step 5. Make sure, the girl is not killed by fangirls.
Takumi Aldini rarely lost his cool.
That was part of his charm. Even when he was cooking or just walking in the school corridors, you could see that calm and relaxed expression on his face. But right now...
"NOT FAIR!" Takumi fumed, pouting like a child. He was pacing around the room. His younger brother was laying on his side, watching his brother's antics. "When?! How?! WHY?!"
He was acting like the little boy, who was not given his dessert.
And Isami was well aware what caused such behaviour.
"You know," the brunette spoke half-jokingly. "If you didn't wait for three whole months..."
The younger Aldini was cut off by his brother pointing his finger at him in threatening manner.
"Don't. You. Dare." He pressed on every word.
Takumi returned to his fuming. How was it even possible? When did this day go so wrong?
He was just heading towards the Polar Star Dormitory to "accidentally" run into a certain blue haired girl. And what happens next? He learns from her frineds that "someone" asked her out. And what was the worst thing? Exactly that they knew who it was! Dang it!
" I guess, someone has just defeated you in the first battle." Isami spoke up, creating the most awkward silence only a sibling can. Suddenly, Isami's forever relaxed expression broke into cold sweat, clearly feeling the waves of destructive aura coming from the blonde student.
Takumi breathed in, calming himself down.
"I just don't get it..." Takumi whispered, looking into the window. "I was completely sure to eradicate any motivation to ask Tadokoro out."
"You mean, when you used Mezzaluna and cut the meat into tiny pieces right in front of all seafood realted clubs?" Isami shrugged, remembering how scary Takumi looked. The brunette had to admit, watching his brother reduce the whole liver into a pile of meat pieces while talking about how "easy it was to slip his precious tool". Isami chuckled. "And that's because they started seeing her in different light after Autumn Elections?"
"And that's what I don't understand!" Takumi exclaimed once more, putting his brain to work. "Who's got such a big death wish...?"
Isami looked nervous, unknown to his older brother.
"Someone, who is really close to Tadokoro..." Since she was not the girl to go with the first guy met.
"Someone, who is not part of any seafood orientated RS..."
"Someone... Isami?" Takumi looked at his sibling, slowly making his way to the exit. "Why are you sweating so much?"
"Oh, just... Wooh, so hot in here..." Isami started waving his hand. A small piece of paper fell out of his sleeve.
'OH FUUUUUUUUUU-' Isami internaly screamed as Takumi lifted the piece.
The brunette looked really anxious, internally screaming. Takumi started reading the small message written on it. Just a few words: "Tree. 12:30. Meeting. Secret. Tadokoro."
Isami calmed down a little. He didn't write the name whom he wrote it to. Maybe...
AndI under all of them was just a simple answer "Sure", after which followed the signature of the person.
"Yukihira..." Takumi whispered with his eyes radiating fire. "Isami, what the he-"
Takumi turned to his brother only to see him gone.
"GET BACK HERE, TRAITOR!"
Tadokoro Megumi was still a really shy person. Even after surviving the Hell Camp, Autumn Elections (im which she made it into the eight), Stagiare and even fighting against the Elite Ten to bring down the Nakiri Azami's regime... She still was...
Naive
Awkward
Somewhat clumsy
And the same girl, who almost failed in her studies...
"Tadokoro-chan! Look!" She was pulled out her thoughts stream by the forever cheerful voice of Yukihira Soma. In his hnads were two ice cream filled cones. "This place is amazing! I can't believe they have new flavours for ice cream. Their names though are quite confusing."
Megumi looked at the two balls of cold dessert and blinked confused.
"What are they called?" She asked, taking a bite. It was a picture of cherry, strawberry and mint.
"Lover's Kiss." Soma said nochalantly, ignoring the bright blush on her cheeks. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and stared somewhere else. For a few minutes, he just stood silent before turning to Megumi and grinning with his classic Yukihira smile. "Tadokoro-chan?"
She gulped. That smirk of his usually meant something bad... He turned her head to the onject he was staring at a mere seconds ago. The advertisement of new attraction "Roller Catastrophe" glowed in neon lights. Shaking, the girl looked at the grinning student.
"Are you thinking what I am thinking?"
Before Tadokoro could even open her mouth, she was already carried by Soma towards the destination.
"And here we meet, Yukihira..." Takumi whispered in his most dramatic tone, apparently getting love stares from some girls... and guys. (Let's not fprget about that guy from Italy, okay?)
"Oh, yo, Takumi!" The red haired teenager just waved at him, completely ignoring the whole inportance of the scene. It was hard to calculate the time to get into the line to sit here. Right with Tadokoro next to him. He wanted to make her feel safe and hoped she would sit on the middle seat. "Cool. Thabks for saving this one."
As Yukihira landed his posterior on the middle seat, placing himself between Tadokoro and him, Takumi's heart could be heard breaking.
'Just keep your cool, Takumi.' The blonde student told himself. Thpse two might be sitting close, but the real competition would be the ride! If he showed how unwinded je would be during the ride, it would impress Tadokoro. 'That's right. All i need tp do is to keep my face straight and...'
"UWAAAAAAA!" Both students on the left screamed at the top of their lungs. Takumi rinned victoriously. Showing the fear in front of a girl was equal to the suicide. Well, that is what he thought before looking closely. He looked Tadokoro's ar, which held onto Yukihira's instead of safity elements of the cart.
'Does that mean that she will always feel safer with Yukihira rather than anything or anyone else?' The blonde thought. As the ride came to an end, he heard some infatuated comments from several girls, standing in the distance. He looked in the classmates's direction only to find both of them laughing like little kids. Should we say that it was blow to his pride?
"Oh, look at those two..." Some woman cooed.
"They are just like us two back in good old days, right, Haru?" Some grandma elbowed her husband jokingly.
"Hey," some girl scolded her boyfriend teasingly. "why do you never laugh at my jokes that much?"
"Where did Takumi go?" Tadokoro asked, looking at the spot, where a certain Italian boy stood seconds ago. For some, reason, she felt that he wanted to say something important. "ah, Yukihira?"
She turned to see Soma, starting a small Shokugeki with some of the stand owners. She sweatdropped at the starting scene.
Isami Aldini has always wanted to be of help to his brother.
Growing up with the belief that Takumi was superior, his younger brother considered it his duty to help him in whatever way possible. That's why, seeing how long Takumi was beating around the bush, the brunette decided to give his brother a small push.
But looking at the despressive pile of human flesh his sibling has turned into right after entering the room, Isami thought that giving a push was not the best idea.
"Ehm, onii-chan?"
"...Yeah?" Takumi asked back, his face pressed into the pillow.
"Why are you giving up so easily?"
Those were not the words Takumi expected. He would hate, if Isami tried to pity him, sure. But right now he was accusing him of giving up?
"W-what do you mean?'
Isami smirked innerly, understanding that he has got this.
"I mean, did you already decide that you can live peacefully with Yukihira as a..." he looked right into his brother's eyes. "... winner?"
The first tick mark appeared on Takumi's face.
"Although, now it would be logical for Yukihira to consider himself the winner in everyhing"
Another one on Takumi's forehead.
"Tell me, nii-chan..."
SLAM!
Isami blinked confused at the empty space his older brother has just left. While the brunette could praise himself for such fast method of getting Takumi back into the fighting spirit...
"I feel like I have just put somoen in grave danger." He whispered looking at the nigh sky. "Nah, I am just imagining things."
The previouys day was lots of fun for Tadokoro Megumi.
While at first she was really embarassed and unsure when Yukihira barged into her room and offered to go out somewhere together, the braid-wearing girl didn't regret a thing. When you think about it, she rarely regretted her interactions and actvities with Yukihira. Sure, he should work on his tendency to force feed her with his experiments, but still he was probably the closest person to her. Those thoughts made her blush.
As she was enjoying the memories of yesterday's events, she failed to see that the better part of her class started gathering near the windows.
"Is that Takumi-kun?" one of the girls asked. That actually got Megumi's attention.
"Look! So many flowers!" Another one squealed gleefully.
"Wait, is that a table?" Someone asked, narrowing his eyes to see. He took a breath in. "Is it me or it really smells with..."
"Are there only two chairs?" For some reason, shivers started going up Tadokoro's spine. Something deep inside was telling her to run. And yet a stronger voice of curiosity commanded her to come closer and watch.
Down on the ground, Takumi checked all the preparations once more. Sure that everything was in order, he started the show.
With the push on the button, the small audio system played the spanish guitar music. In an instant, Takumi tore off the school uniform, revealing a classic suit with white gloves. The move, apparently, sent some of the watching girls into a nosebleeding coma and made the guys growl at the show-off act. The blonde student, just like a magician, pulled out the bouquet of red roses from nowhere and ran towards the building. Putting all the power into his legs and arms, Takumi used a small trampoline under the window to jump up high, facing the studnets in the classroom.
"Tadokoro Megumi..." He whispered, stepping into the class in the bright light of the day. He sat on one knee, handing her the flowers. With a gentle smile and charming glint in the yes, he took her hand. "Would you like to have a date with me... now?"
Her face was burning bright red. The words couldn't find their way to leave her mouth and form the answer.
"I... Wha-... I..."
"So, that's yes?" Tadokoro could not even come up with the answer.
Takumi just smiled wider, before lifting her from the floor and running out of the class. Although jumping out would be more dramatic and make the whole scene even greater, Takumi wouldn't risk the well-being of is love interest.
Little did he know, thatby the whole act he has officially made Tadokoro the target of approximately 378 girls (and those were only the members of his fan club). Carrying her towards the table, Takumi failed to see all the glares that were sent towards the poor girl.
"I finally did it..." Takumi thought happily.
"I am so dead now..." Tadokoro thought, shaking. She saw some girls, a;ready sharpening their knives. Wait, did those girls just make a voodoo doll of hers? She gulped as they sat her small copy on fire.
The duo of Isami and Soma, watching from afar, sighed loudly.
"I guess, we overdid the jealousy part..." Isami shrugged.
"Your brother really loves getting on a high horse." Soma chuckled, watching the pair eat. "Isami?"
"Yeah?"
"Just tell your brother not to hurt her." Yukihira suddenlu spoke. Isami eyed his frined confused. "And he should already deal with those fangirls of his. I think, those three" he pointed at the small group of girls, standing hear the tree. "are trying to ask Nao for some curse on Tadokoro."
"How did you?"
"She has been following me recently. No idea why." Yukihira shrugged. Whatever aura of wisdom and guardianship was gone. "Come to think of it, some of my things have gone missing too."
And while everyone around was deep in their own thoughts, Tadokoro just sat at the table, trying to understand one single thing.
"When did my life take such a turn?"
When i decided to write about you and Takumi, Tadokoro-chan!
This chapter didn't come out as good as I hoped(
Sorry, guys!