Author's Note:

*sighs*

Hello...

Sorry that this took a little, I didn't had a lot of motivation and inspiration lately and as it finally came back...I had no internet anymore (because of travel)

This chapter is not very eventful either and not to mention, rather short.

I'll try my best to get the next chapter over a bit more faster.

I still hope you can enjoy this one..

Thanks for all the Reviews on the last one, I really appreciate it qwq

Now onto Review Replies!

Chyscake: Oh, that's very nice to hear. Don't worry, it's enough what you said. And I know the feel of not knowing how to express feelings qwq. Hope you'll like this chapter as well.

Ena-Ena Till It Hurts: I already sent you a PM owo and I am very glad you like the story! Thanks for telling me qwq.

pepe: Oh! Well that's certainly a nice thing to hear, I am glad! Sadly the Shokugeki will happen next Chapter...I hope this is not too much of a let-down.

Arrow3ss: Hm, I still have to learn and research a lot about culinary world. I mean Shokugeki is a great start, but I don have to make search some things for myself as well. But well yeah, Lola strongly believes you're better off alone in culinary industry. Something that will play a role later on of course.

aominesshi: Oh I love replying to Reviews, because I am so glad to read them and I just have to. Firstly, YES you're absolutely right thanks for telling me...I messed up there and accidentally switched but yes Kenshin is 116th Generation and Harumi 114th...I changed it right away. Again, thanks so much for noticing qwq. Glad you like Mona aaaand to the Author's Note revealing everyone's parents...Hm. I don't really feel like it. It feels so...Taking away a little mystery (not much mystery, granted but still...) All parents will make an appearance sooner or later and get revealed one by one. However if people really want to know, I can sent them a PM...so as I am going to you :) Also don't worry about the long Review, I appreciate it and I am glad you read this story qwq

Well then...Happy Reading I guess

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"Hello!"

Without a knock or any other sign that she would come in, Lola stormed into the building.

Widely grinning she stepped in and right behind her followed Mona.

The people of course flinched at that sudden noise and looked up from their pans and pots.

Not that Lola Nakiri cared.

With confidence, higher than a mountain, she made her way to the chosen destination, not minding the looks she earned at all. Mona remained where she was.

"Nakiri Lola."

Lola's grin only grew as a boy her age approached her with his hands on his hips, ready to fight anytime.

He had wild, medium length, purple hair. His eyes were brown and he wore red, expensive-looking Chinese attire. Notable was also, that he didn't seemed to be very tall. Lola, for example, was taller than him.

"Good Day to you as well, Hojo." Lola cheerfully greeted, completely ignoring the clear resentment the boy held towards her. "Well, uhm...could I talk to your sister please? It's a club related manner."

"All club-related manner can be taken care of by me." The boy firmly responded.

The atmosphere was thick and not one of the other club members said any word. They just stared at the scenery in front of them, awaiting what would happen next.

Lola snickered, while her twin yawned way behind.

"Oh, well if that's the case..." She stopped laughing and only gave the boy a calm, but challenging smile. "Interested in a Shokugeki against the transfer student?"

The boy felt fire burn up in his chest. His muscles stiffened at it's warmth and his eyes widened at that proposal.

He could not hide his interest.

Another chuckle from the black-haired, sly fox in front of him.

"I knew that would catch your interest. You're the type of guy to get all fired up at her entrance speech."

The Sixth Plate - A Japanese Flute playing French Waltz

"It's done."

Harumi couldn't help but to let out a surprised gasp as she saw what was displayed in front of her on the table.

Kenshin next to her spoke out her thoughts. "Is...Is that Coq au vin?"

"B...But with Sake?" Harumi continued. Coq au Vin was a classic French dish, with the basic idea to have chicken braised in wine. The usual wine to go was Burgundy, but in France there were variations in nearly every Provence.

"Correct!" Kimiko Yukihira, who was under consideration of joining the French Cuisine RS, said. "I mean, Sake is basically rice wine. I call it 'Coq au Sake, with a slight touch of Soy Sauce."

"Hmph." Hurriedly giving her face the critical look again, Harumi took a spoon. "If it tastes well is a different question."

As the heir to a French restaurant branch, she of course knew what a Coq au vin was and also how it had to taste. And she surely won't go easy on some transfer student.

With her dear father she had traveled trough the provinces of France as a young child, experiencing one exquisiteness after the other. French cuisine was utter perfection in her eyes and she took it very serious. Not to mention Coq au vin was one of France's signature dishes. Her expectations were high.

But once again, her critical expression vanished.

To make way for the pleased face she made, as her tongue tasted the sheer deliciousness of the chicken braised in Japan's most famous rice wine.

Judging by Kenshin's overwhelmed but happy face, he liked it as well.

Kimiko grinned only confidently. "And how is it, Tsujimoto-Senpai?"

Kenshin also expectingly turned to the RS' president, who couldn't help but let out a satisfied sigh. "You mixed a little soy sauce into the Sake and braised the chicken in it, just like how a Coq au vin has to be prepared."

Now, Kenshin spoke up. "Also you used Shiitake Mushrooms to fit the Japanese Flair but kept the onions and potatoes!"

Kimiko nodded. "I enjoy fusing cuisines. Granted, I may should have go with truly traditional French cuisine to join the RS, but this way, it's just much more fun to me, you know?"

While Kimiko told them about that, Harumi and Kenshin just took bite after bite, fastening with each one.

At some point an image slowly started to appear around them:

They felt like being two nobles allowed to witness the meeting of two Royals.

A beautiful Japanese princess entered the ballroom. She had long, silky white hair, in which she wore a clip that looked awfully a lot like a shiitake mushroom, and her eyes were as brown as Soy Sauce. Instead of the frilly ball gowns that everyone else was wearing, she was dressed in a Kimono with cherry blossoms on it.

The Japanese princess met up with the French prince, standing right at the end of the room, surrounded by the Japanese and French nobles. He wore the finest clothes and had a warm, elegant voice.

So nobody complained that the prince was basically a rooster.

And then Japanese princess and French prince started to dance. Even though they just met, they swirled around the room in such a perfect way, that someone clueless would swear that they had practiced this beforehand.

"Such a pretty display! Such a bedazzling performance!" The enchanted Kenshin and Harumi swooned at the same time.

"We can call ourselves lucky to even be allowed to witness this. What a honour!"

And so they just simply watched in awe, the dance between French and Japanese Cuisine.

"Ah!"

Harumi teared up her eyes as she found herself back in the real world.

Did she just got reduced to mere nobility instead of royalty?

Had she just felt honoured to eat a dish?

The dish should be honoured to be eaten by her!

But still, Harumi couldn't doubt it.

What the transfer student served to her, was worthy for her dear Research Society.

"Amazing, Yukihira-Senpai!" Harumi heard Kenshin exclaiming. "It tasted splendid!"

Addressed only laughed. "Well, I am glad to hear that!" She then turned to the person she wanted to impress. "Tsujimoto-Senpai?"

"Tch." Harumi flipped her blonde hair, but after she did so her expression softened a little and she muttered. "I can only agree to Kenshin-Kun."

The grin on Kimiko's face grew.

"Well, well.." Harumi grunted. Her voice got louder as she announced. "You proved your worth, Yukihira Kimiko! From now on, you're part of the French RS!"

Kenshin cheered while Kimiko proudly yelled. "Glad you liked it."

As if they knew that the timing couldn't be more perfect, the door opened and the Nakiri Cousins made their second appearance in the French RS that day.

"Oh you're back." Kimiko called out and also Kenshin and Harumi drove their attention to the two.

"That's right." Lola smirked, while Mona only nodded. "And how did the test go?" Lola then teasingly asked her cousin.

Kimiko retorted immediately. "What do you think?"

Lola only responded with a chuckle and moved to the important things. "Anyway, the Shokugeki is arranged!"

"Who are we up against?" Kenshin curiously asked while Harumi expectingly raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms.

"Yeah, yeah don't thank me for my heart work." Lola dramatically sighed, which resulted in a headshake from her cousin and an eyeroll from her sister. "The Chinese Cuisine RS."

"Ha...Hah?" Was all Kenshin could say, while Harumi's eyes widened a little. "A Cuisine Clash you say?"

"Sounds exciting, doesn't it?" Lola purred and glanced to Kimiko, who didn't complained at all. The honey blonde rather wondered what kind of chef the so called Chinese Cuisine RS would send against her.

"B...But she's not going to battle it's president...r...right?" Kenshin stuttered.

"Battling the president would be Tsujimoto-Senpai's job, so no." Lola put her hands on her hips. "She is battling one of the best students the RS has to offer, but still a fellow first year."

"Sounds fair." Harumi now brought herself into the conversation again and moved the topic a little farer. "You say, the Shokugeki is already arranged...However, we did not offer anything to give up yet."

"Oh, I did that for you." Lola nonchalantly shrugged.

Harumi yelled. "WHAT?!"

"You put duty into my hands, what did you expect?"

Mona finally took a step forward. Her emotionless red eyes looked exactly at Kimiko as she revealed. "In case of a loss for the French RS, Yukihira Kimiko not only has to apologise for her speech at the entrance ceremony but also has to take her sayings back."

The room was silent and Kimiko's eyes grew bigger, as she clearly didn't expected something like that. She felt how Lola, Harumi and Kenshin stared at her. One of them knew what was going on in Kimiko's mind right now and the other two wondered what Kimiko said in the entrance speech.

"Oh, and Tsujimoto Harumi has to give her designer Purse to the Chinese RS' president." Mona added, not reading the atmosphere at all.

"Excuse me?" Kimiko said while Harumi roared. "What?! You offered my purse?!"

Ignoring the angered Harumi in the background, Kimiko looked to Lola and then back to Mona with a not understanding face.

"Who the hell wants such a humiliating apology from me?!"

"The one you're going to face, Kimiko." Lola responded. "You know, you got a lot of people angry with your speech."

Immediately recalling her first meeting with Kaori Hayama and Mika Aldini, Kimiko crossed her arms. "Well, I did plan to win either way...such pointless mockery only gets me more fired up."

"That's typical, Kimiko." Lola smirked.

Kenshin broke the family bonding. "What do we gain?" He looked at Mona, who delivered right away. "The standard bout place for the Chinese RS in the upcoming Moon Banquet Festival, as well as assisting for said Festival and a few kitchen tools."

The anger finally went out of Harumi's face. "Their Moon Banquet Festival Bout is always so central...That is...tempting." Kenshin whispered.

"Moon Banquet Festival?" Kimiko asked her black-haired cousin, who only waved off. "Not important right now, you'll see soon enough. The actual purpose is still the club's reputation after all."

"I'll give it my best!" Kimiko promised, after turning to her new RS' president and underclassman. Kenshin's face lightened up even more, while Harumi muttered. "Good to hear."

"That's the spirit." Lola clapped her hands together and loudly announced. "Well then, the Shokugeki will occur in four days and the main ingredient for it is fish! Be ready, French Cuisine RS!"

Kimiko only half-heartly cheered with the others. She still was asking herself, who the hell was the next person who questioned her right to the first place?!

-.-.-.-

The reactions to Kimiko's Shokugeki were varied:

The first ones she told about her Shokugeki were Chieko and Yasu, who Kimiko met infront of the dorm, as they had just returned from the gardens.

"A Shokugeki?" Chieko questioned quite surprised. Kimiko only shrugged. "Yeah, I mean, why not?"

"It is pretty soon." Yasu said. Chieko nodded in approval but interest undeniably started to gleam in her teal eyes. "Well, who are you up against?"

"Someone of the Chinese Cuisine RS, I'll do the Shokugeki in the name of the French RS, you know."

The two others exchanged looks, before Chieko responded. "French cuisine against Chinese then? Sounds interesting." "If there's anything we can help you with let us know." Yasu spoke up and gave Kimiko an encouraging smile.

"Oh I appreciate that offer." Kimiko politely said. "But this Shokugeki is also challenging my honour. So, even tough I am sure you two could be great help, I'd like to do this one on my own."

"Okay, alright then." Chieko quite determinedly put her hands on her hips and smiled. "Just know that we got your back and we'll defiantly come and cheer you on!"

"Thanks."

Mika's reaction was not so calm.

"No! No! No! No! Yukihira! How could you do that?!" She slammed her fist on the table and made a face as if Kimiko had insulted her.

"Eh..." Was all Kimiko could respond, being quite overwhelmed by that reaction.

"Your first Shokugeki was supposed to be against me! Does my challenge mean nothing to you?! Also! Who dares to demand an apology from you, when I am the one who shall teach you some manners?! Why didn't you challenge my RS?!"

"...my cousin organised all of this. I had nothing to do with it. Besides, what RS are you even in?"

Mika's face went red. "Aaargh!" She took a deep breath to calm down a little and looked at Kimiko again. "Well, then at least make sure to win this thing. Because you're not going to take your claim for the top spot back, before facing me!"

Kimiko chuckled, she liked this fiery girl more and more.

"Sure thing, Mika-chan!"

"DON'T CHUCKLE! Oh and..." She looked away and mumbled. "I am in the Don RS by the way."

Hideyoshi and Daisuke's reaction was something completely different to Mika's.

They actually got pretty excited.

"Really? A Shokugeki? That soon?"

"Way to go, Yukihira! Hey, maybe one of us is going to host it!"

Alice who heard the news from Lola, texted Kimiko that she's pretty lucky getting a fish theme, considering her familiar ties. In her text she also remarked, that Kimiko is so much like her father.

Satoshi only shook his head at the news and walked away chuckling.

Lastly, Kimiko told Hiroshi, who nearly spit out his tea.

"A Shokugeki?! And you shall apologise for your speech if you loose?!"

"That's what I said."

Hiroshi sighed. "And here I was, trying to hold back Itoko-chan and her mindless, bold challenges because I thought you need your time to fully arrive in Totsuki."

Kimiko giggled. "Well Shokugekis are part of Totsuki as well, so you could say I am learning this school's ways."

"But Shokugeki should be like...concern number 25 in your first week, Kimiko-San!" Hiroshi cried.

"Hey look, I'll be fine." Kimiko assured with a honest smile. This boy was stressing himself more over this Shokugeki than she was. "The only thing you should worry about right now is what seat you will snatch in the arena. Leave everything else to me, alright?"

Hiroshi pressed his lips together. "If you say so...but you see Kimiko-San, the Chinese RS is very strong. It has a lot of members and all of them are very skilled. Who are you up against? And how familiar are you with French cuisine actually?"

"I love cooking French. I mean I always just did it for fun and my own purposes, as our diner doesn't has any use for French food of course, but well, I do feel safe enough. About my opponent, I still don't know. One of their aces, Lola said." Kimiko also took a sip of the tea, Hiroshi had poured her in beforehand.

Hiroshi shook his blue head and sighed once again. "Oh Kimiko-San, to think you would get yourself into such a thing that early."

"Again, I'll be fine." Kimiko repeated her promise. "You don't think, I would let someone walk all over my honour like that, don't you?"

"You really are confident. Your speech certainly wasn't a joke." Hiroshi mumbled before giving up his light scolding. "Well, as you said, all I can do is come and watch, which I'll defiantly do. And even tough it's not really a question of luck...Good Luck."

"That's what I want to hear! I appreciate it, thanks."

On that very same evening, Kimiko already started to experiment with fish. Granted she still had time. But the fact that someone wanted an apology for her words, was just so low to her, that she just was so determined to stomp whoever there was to stomp into the ground.

Not even Mika and Kaori demanded such nonsense.

Like who was this person, not being able to accept some concurrence?

"I'll show you where my words come from." Kimiko muttered, while slicing up Tuna. "No one underestimates me!"

-.-.-.-

There were reactions, that Kimiko didn't witnessed.

One of them taking place in the Nakiri Mansion.

A pink-haired boy with tanned skin and leaf-green eyes stormed trough the fancy building in search for a particular door.

As he reached it, he opened it up and called trough the room. "Hiraku-Sama!"

The boy standing at the window, turned around. Flame red hair, noble violet eyes and a squid between his teeth.

Hiraku Yukihira.

"What is it, Hayama?" He calmly asked.

"You did told me that your sister just recently entered Totsuki..." The other boy panted, being exhausted from running.

"Yeah, and?"

"I heard the most recent news...Yukihira Kimiko will be doing a Shokugeki in the French Cuisine RS's name." He held out a tablet, on which the online edition of Totsuki Sports was displayed.

"Kimiko? French Cuisine RS?" Hiraku repeated and walked up to the other boy. He took the tablet out of his hands and looked for himself.

"Upcoming Shokugekis" was the headline for that special section, that informed the readers about less important Shokugekis, that didn't had the worth to get a full article. Hiraku quickly looked over all the names, from which most of them didn't rang any bell. Then he finally found his sister's name. It was at the bottom of the list, as it were still pretty fresh news and also had a remark behind it ("More Info about to come").

"You're right! Kimiko is having her first Shokugeki...But why in the name of the French Cuisine RS?" He called out after reading trough the thing. His eyes wandered to the other boy again, who was breathing normally again. "I just defeated the RS's president, didn't I? Why is my sister joining forces with them? Why would Kimiko care?"

"I have not the slightest idea." Was the response and a mumbled. "She's not my sister after all."

"Guess we'll have to look ourselves then! Hayama, take a note in my calendar, please. We'll defiantly going to watch this."

"Done."

Another reaction, Kimiko didn't knew about, happened in the enemies' territory.

The Chinese Cuisine RS.

It was empty, due to all of the students being at home already, except for two.

One of them laughed so loud, that it was probably heard by the birds way up there in the sky.

"You demanded an apology? You're going into a Shokugeki for an apology?"

A blonde teenage girl patted a boy one year younger than her on the shoulder. "Oh, you should work on your temper."

"You're the one to speak." The boy grumbled. "Hey, my outbursts have class, okay? And I get angry about important things." The girl shot back with a smirk.

"You didn't heard that speech, so of course you don't understand."

The boy freed himself out of the girl's arm and crossed his arms.

"I'll make sure to let this girl know her place."

"I still think, you're a little overacting." He heard a yawn behind her.

Author's Note:

I'll try to finish Chapter 7 as soon as possible (also I am very excited to write a Shokugeki) but Research has to be done and will probably take up the most of my time.

Well, as always...

Thanks a lot for reading and hopefully I can greet you again next chapter

Have a wonderful week!

Author's Note End