summary: why do I even bother? you guys will love this one like the other few last ones
"speaking"
"thinking"
on with the story
at Totsuki, a school for chefs where there is only about less than 1% of its first years managed to get to the second year and even lesser getting into the third year and graduate together.
right now, the 92nd Diamond Generation has graduated as only 20 of them had survived to the end of their school year. everyone had set out to achieve their dreams as chefs, but for two certain individual graduates, they stayed together to blaze through the sandstorm of the cooking world.
Yukihira Soma, the Trickster of Totsuki, and the Fire Dragon who protects the Headmistress of Totsuki. Nakiri Erina, the God Tongue, and the Cold Ice Queen. these two chefs have brought up a larger storm in the cooking world together and cause it to grow even larger with even more possibility of cooking.
in the Totsuki's head office for the Headmistress of Totsuki.
Nakiri Erina, freshly graduated from her own school after just a month, is now handling mountain loads of paperwork that needs to be signed by her for the new students who will be the new 96th generation of Totsuki, their numbers are 972, but we can all guess that only half the number will manage to reach their second year.
"This is quite the number of students, Erina-sama" said Hisako, Erina's best friend, and secretary. the master of Chinese medicinal food had graduated and stayed by Erina's side dedicating her life to support her at all times.
"yes" replied Erina while checking a few student papers and seeing where they were from. "may of which are from downtown Dinner areas"
"I believe that the storm of the cooking world is attracting more and more future potential chefs, huh?" said Hisako with a smile as the number of students who are wanting to join Totsuki was increasing by the passing years.
"seems so" said Erina before she started stamping down on the papers, accepting the students into her school. it took about 3 hours for Erina to review and accept transfer papers while also being careful not to accept any who has bad elements in them.
after finishing, Erina leans back against her chair and stretched her arms up, hearing her bone joins making popping sounds from doing the paperwork.
"that should be the last of them, right?" asked Erina to Hisako who nodded with a smile.
"you have about an hour of break time before having the meeting with Senzaemon-Dono with the elders about Totsuki's faculty budget limitation meeting," said Hisako, reading Erina's schedule that is set into a phone tablet.
"an hour, huh?" said Erina looking at her office's ceiling before smiling as she takes out her phone and started dialing a contact's number.
"I'll be going to make some tea and snacks for you, Erina-sama" said Hisako as she went to the door, knowing that Erina will be having a private conversation with the certain someone she is contacting on her phone while having that happy smile of hers.
Erina pressed her phone against her ear as she had a happy and anxious face to the voice of the person who she is calling. it took a few rings, but her call got connected to the number she dialed.
"hey, Erina" said a voice on the Phone's speaker as it is Soma's voice. "how's your day?"
"I'm having a fine day," replied Erina with a smile while looking at the ring on her left ring finger as the violet gem on the ring shines beautifully. "how about you, Soma? things alright in South Korea?"
"the place is a bit like Japan...except the fact that I'm still trying hard to understand their language without the help of my cousin here" replied Soma with a chuckle as Erina giggles a bit.
after graduation, Soma and Erina stayed together as both just couldn't settle on being apart. therefore, the 92nd Generation's First Seat Alumnus decided to propose to Erina for the two to get married and she accepted, happy to be married to her childhood best friend and the love of her life. right now, after their graduation. Soma had gone to South Korea for a work job with his cousin who needed help with his restaurant.
Soma has been in South Korea for about a week, but for the two engaged couple, it felt like years that they had been apart, their love for each other can't be contained at all. so every single day, Soma or Erina would call each other, wanting to know-how is the other doing even if they had just called after 30 minutes.
"Remember to wear a coat outside, Soma." said Erina to Soma in a stern voice. "at this time of the month in South Korea, the temperature can go down about -6.1 and go down even lower, understand?"
"I know, thank you, Mommy" replied Soma with a small laugh as Erina can be such a mom when she is worried about him during their time away. Erina puffs her cheeks a bit to hear Soma's reply before that pout disappeared and is replaced with a smile to hear his laugh that just made her happy.
"When will you be arriving back to Japan?" asked Erina, anxious to know when her Fiance will come back to Japan to be with her again.
"hmm...my cousin needs some work on his place for a few more days, so..." replied Soma while his voice is trailing off a bit "I would say about another week"
"then, I'll get ready to pick you up after this week, ok?" said Erina, wanting to meet him as fast as she can when he arrives back to Japan.
"ok, I'll be waiting to see your beautiful face and smile again, Erina" Replied Soma as Erina knows that he has a smile right now. "I love you"
"I love you too" replied Erina with a happy smile before the call got hanged up.
Erina looks at her phone as she got a message sent by Soma, the message showing a photo of him in South Korea with his cousin, the young man having a happy loving smile in the photo with a text that says 'i can't wait to meet you~!' on it. giggling a bit, Erina replied to the message while adding a kiss emoji and love as well.
"I can assume that he will be back at a week's time?" said Hisako who came in with a tray of tea and snacks.
"make sure to empty my schedule next week, Hisako" Erina told Hisako while smiling at her phone, Soma had sent a message, telling her that he wants to spend the whole week with her after getting back.
"I'll be sure to empty it, Erina-sama" replied Hisako, knowing that the loving couple wants to be together after they get reunited. she placed the tray down and pours some tea into a cup for Erina who message Soma about how she misses him very much, to which the message got replied with how Soma misses her addicting smell which made her blush and made her message 'pervert' to him.
in South Korea, at a Japanese restaurant.
Soma got Erina's message about him being a pervert as it made him smile and he typed a message back which is 'i know, but I'm your pervert, aren't I?' while adding a wink emoji. a message was sent in reply as it showed an embarrassed emoji.
chuckling to see the reply, Soma typed a new message saying 'being here just for nearly a month is making me forget how you taste Erina. how so sweet your tongue is', he sends the message and got a reply from Erina who sent gibberish words that he knows is because of her being embarrassed and can't control her actions very well.
Soma smiled as he typed one more message before hearing his cousin calling out to him.
"hey, Soma! break's time over!" said Soma's cousin from the kitchen station. "hurry up and greet some customers!"
"got it!" replied Soma who typed his message and sends it to Erina before he pockets his phone and went out. "alright"
Soma heads out as he greeted the customers that came into the restaurant while using their native language, even though his language could use some lessons.
the day turned to night as the Japanese Restaurant is closing up.
"wa jusyeoseo gamsahabnida! dasi oseyo! (thank you for coming! come again!)" said Soma, bidding goodbye to the customers who came to eat into the restaurant for the day. Soma takes the signboard in and flips the open sign to close as it's time to close the restaurant for the night. heading in, Soma slides close the door and stretched his arms up.
"Thanks for the hard work, cousin!" said Soma's cousin who is in the kitchen, cleaning up the dishes, and dirty cookware. "I can finish up things from here"
"you sure?" replied Soma as his cousin just raise up wet thumbs up before going back into cleaning the dishes. "alright then"
Soma heads to the back as he washed the sweat on his face, throw in his wet clothes into the basket, and went into the bathroom upstairs to take a warm and relaxing bath.
after the bath, Soma heads into the guestroom where he had been sleeping in for the past weeks. settling in on the bed, Soma looks at his phone as he got a few messages from Erina about him being stupid, perverted, dumb, and annoying. he chuckled as he scrolled down and got the message of Erina missing him very much and wants him back already.
"I guess being apart so much can drive a couple in love with each other insane, huh?" said Soma with a few chuckles before he texted a message to Erina, him missing her just as much and how he missed her smell, he missed sleeping with her, he missed waking up to seeing her beautiful, peaceful sleeping face. he sends the message and a few seconds later, Erina messaged back about how she loves him and misses him just as much. "I'm so lucky to have her"
messaging 'i love you' 'i miss you' and 'good night and I hope we see each other in our dreams'. Soma turned off his phone and yawned before going to sleep.
the next day quickly came as the restaurant got opened up by Soma's cousin.
"time to start another big day," said Soma's Cousin who stretched his arms and yawned before going back in to prepare the ingredients for the restaurant. as he is going in, he saw Soma walking down the stairs still in his sleeping clothes. "hey, cousin. your clothes are all washed up now. I put them at the usual place"
Soma wobbled back and forth before he suddenly fell and made his Cousin look shocked.
"hey! Soma!" Soma's cousin ran to him as he held him up and sees Soma's face a bit red than normal. "damnit!"
at Nakiri Mansion, Erina is having breakfast with Azami, Asahi, Mana, Senzaemon, Alice, Ryo, Leonora, and Soichi; all four came in yesterday for a visit with their family. they all had a wonderful and peaceful breakfast when Hisako came in and excuses herself to speak to Erina.
"what is it, Hisako?" said Erina as she took her cup of tea and sips it.
"Erina-sama, Yukihira's cousin just called and said that he had fainted this morning!" said Hisako as this shocked Erina to the point that she instantly spits out her tea right at Alice who is sitting across her.
"WHAT?!" exclaimed Erina in shock while Ryo is wiping away the spitted tea on Alice who is wet and disgusted.
back with Soma
the young man is settled down on the bed with a wet cold towel on his forehead, Soma having a fever caused him to collapse and unable to work.
"man...having a fever...sucks," said Soma while taking ragged breathes in and out.
"just get some rest while I'll call in the local doctor," said Soma's cousin as he takes the wet towel on Soma's forehead and dips in a bowl of ice-cold water, he wrings the excess before folding it and placing the towel back on Soma's forehead. "I called in your Fiance's friend and asked her to tell her that you got a fever and collapsed"
"oh boy..." said Soma, knowing how Erina will react to hearing him being sick or getting an accident or any of the sort.
"just sleep and you might feel a lot better when you wake up," said Soma's Cousin as he went out to get the doctor. Soma looks at the ceiling as he sighs a bit before looking at his phone on the table beside him, it's been beeping with messages the moment he got on the bed. he reaches for the phone as he tried 2 times because his vision was getting a bit blurry because of the fever, but after the third try, he finally got it.
opening the phone, Soma sees that he has 66 miscalls and 53 messages from Erina, all about asking him if he is okay, why is he not calling, why didn't he listen to her advice, and why did he even go to South Korea in the first place. all in all, the God Tongue is extremely worried about him. he typed a message down as to tell Erina that he is fine, and his cousin will go and fetch him a doctor. but just as he was about to send the message, Soma's vision got foggy to the point that he is feeling drowsy.
Soma focuses his vision on his phone as his thumb went for the send button and pressed it, sending the message to Erina before the man's vision blacked out and he fell asleep.
Soma was asleep before the man slowly wakes up to the sound of a plane's engine running. he grunted as he slowly opened his eyes and sees that he was no longer in his cousin's restaurant, but rather on a plane.
"where..." said Soma as he slowly got up and sees that he is in a lounge area of a jet of some sort. Soma looks around and sees the Totsuki symbol on a nearby food cart and it answered every question that is in his head. "oh...the Nakiri Private Jet"
Soma yawned a bit as he got up from the bed that he was sleeping on, he looks around and found no one in the room with him. he looks around before he smelt something delicious coming from the end of the room where there is a door that has the word 'staff only' written on it.
"must be the chefs on the jet," said Soma as he looks down and found a pair of slippers for him to wear. he went to the door and peeks through the clear glass and finds that there is something cooking, only that the chefs weren't the ones who are cooking but rather Erina herself. the Headmistress having a stern and concentrated look as she was shaking a frying wok a few times, cooking fried rice with it in the traditional Chinese way before she throws in spices of 4 varieties in the cooking then recontinued shaking the wok a few more times. "wow, never seen Erina that serious on cooking other than when we were at BLUE"
"you should be on the bed, you know," said Hisako who appeared behind Soma with a deadpanned look. Soma nearly yelped a surprised scream, but he kept his mouth shut, knowing that he might alert Erina in the kitchen. "what are you doing?"
"eh? well..." said Soma as he tried to think what is going on. "I don't know?"
Hisako sighs as she shakes her head before giving Soma his phone back.
taking back his phone a bit dumbly, Soma opens it and sees that he has 98 miscalls from Erina.
"uhh...what's going on here?" said Soma as he scrolls through the messages finding out why did she call even more than before.
"I don't know" replied Hisako "maybe it's because of the terrifying message that you had sent to Erina-sama"
"terrifying message?" said Soma while looking confused as he looks at the messages that he sent and realized that his previously sent message to Erina before the miscalls had some mistypes on it.
"Erina, help me, I'm dying, I blood, all is gone," said Hisako, as she is speaking out the message that Soma sent to Erina that terrified the blonde princess of Totsuki. "do you have any idea how scared that you got Erina-sama to be? she got scared to the point that she had a panic attack, you know"
"oh..boy" said Soma as he made a mental note that if he ever gets sick, never message to Erina because he typed the wrong words on the message to her.
"get in there and tell Erina-sama that you aren't dying then pray that you won't be dead if she doesn't take a knife and kill you herself," said Hisako as everyone knows that Erina doesn't like getting pranked about a life and death situation.
"yeah...i try my best" said Soma with a sheepish chuckle.
a few seconds later, Erina came bursting out of the kitchen while pushing forward a food cart.
"Soma!" she exclaimed as she pushed the food cart to the bed where she had placed Soma on, but found it empty. "Soma? Soma?!"
Erina looks around before she looks at Hisako who points at the opened swung door as Soma was standing near it before his face got hit by the door when Erina swung it open.
"h-here" said Soma, his face red as his hair before the man falls back and got knocked out from the door to the face.
an hour later, Soma woke up as he finds himself on the bed again only that he has a few bandages on his face.
"man, that was one way of getting knocked out," said Soma while rubbing his nose as it hurts a bit because of the face slam with the door. Soma slowly sat up but realized that he could not because of a certain someone sleeping on his chest.
Soma looks down and sees Erina sleeping on him, the Totsuki Headmistress having a peaceful face while resting on his chest.
"no wonder I felt very comfortable sleeping," said Soma as the two were at peace when they sleep together. he caresses her head a few times before to her face. Soma glance at a window and sees that the jet is flying in the clouds of the night. "I guess I'm going back home early"
Soma heard Erina's moan as he sees that the blonde princess is waking up.
Erina lifts her face up and rubs her sleepy eyes before she saw Soma looking back at her with a smile.
her eyes blinked once before twice and then thrice, realizing that Soma is awake, Erina lunged her arms around him and pulled the man into a tight hug.
"Soma!" said Erina with a glad and relieved voice.
"hey," Soma greeted Erina while placing a hand on her back and pat it a few times.
Erina soon separates from the hug and looks at Soma's face who smiled at her, only to get a slap to the face.
"ow! what was that for?!" said Soma before Erina started hitting him repeatedly while looking angry.
"stupid! pervert! dumbhead! dog! pranker! jerk!" said Erina while hitting Soma repeatedly but her fists didn't even hurt the man so much because of how she has fragile hands than him. "I hate you! you scared me! I hate you! you are a jerk! you think it's funny to scare me half to death!? I hate you! I hope you die!"
Erina keeps on hitting and yelling at Soma who just gets all the hit and yells without a fight back.
"I hate you! I don't love you! I hate you!" exclaimed Erina as she started crying now. Soma's chest gets a few hits by Erina's hands before they stopped and grasp his shirt hard. "i...hate you..."
Soma looks at Erina before he reaches his hands and pulls her into a hug to which she starts to push him away.
"let me go..I don't want your hug...I hate.." said Erina before Soma lifted her chin up and takes her lips into a deep and passionate kiss.
Erina mewled in the kiss as her hands started hitting his shoulders a few times before they slowly stopped and circle around Soma's neck, pulling the man closer to deepen their kiss. after 5 minutes, the two separates from their kiss as their lungs need air.
"Sorry, I had a fever and I couldn't see what message I sent to you," said Soma in a soft voice as he wipes away the leftover tears on Erina's cheeks before he pecks her forehead. "I'm sorry for scaring you and worrying you so much, Erina"
Erina sniffles a bit before Soma caresses her cheeks and gave her nose, then lips a quick kiss.
"I hate you," said Erina as she now had an adorable pout to Soma who chuckled.
"I know," said Soma, knowing that the 'i hate you' is an 'i love you' from Erina as it's how she says it in a bad mood.
Soma caresses Erina's cheeks before grabbing a few strands of her hair and sniffs the addicting lavender scent coming from it.
"today is lavender, huh?" said Soma, knowing that Erina uses a variety of shampoos when taking a bath.
Erina sniffles a bit before Soma pulls her in a comforting warm hug.
"I'm sorry, ok? I'm sorry I made you cry" said Soma as he kisses her cheeks and then caresses her back a few times. "I'm really sorry, Erina"
Erina leans close to his hug as she holds him tight before saying "stay with me this entire year and don't leave me anymore"
Soma sighs with a smile as he patted Erina's back a few times before giving her cheeks a kiss and then said "alright, I promise"
before long, the two separates from the hug before Erina pushes Soma down on the bed before she started stripping off her shirt.
"uh...Erina?" said Soma with a sweatdrop and an awkward smile.
"I'm sealing that promise with your body, and I'm going to make sure that you won't ever leave me again," said Erina as she drops her shirt to the floor before she pressed a button near the wall and it made the covers slides around the bed separating them from the other area.
"oh boy" said Soma as Erina started to unhook her bra and drops it next to he shirt before going down and takes Soma's lips for a make-out session.
the Nakiri Private jet flies through the clouds and the peaceful night, going back to Japan and bringing home its occupant within.
that's a wrap!
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