mm mm good! hopefully.

[spareglasses]

Character(s): Oerba Dia Vanille, Okumura Rin, and Okumura Yukio
Location: The home-ec room!
Rating: PG?
Open/Closed/Finished: Closed
Summary: It's been a long time coming, but the Okumura brothers finally decide that it's high-time to teach Vanille how to make some sooshee.

It's been several months since Yukio's fishing adventures with Vanille at the beach party, and he can't help but wonder how time has simply flown by. Another year has come and gone (as had a birthday), and now that Rin's by his side once more, the world seems a little more... normal. The other good thing about having Rin here? Yukio can finally have proper and positively delicious Japanese food again.

Sure, Yukio's decent in the kitchen, but his brother is the real chef of the family, so it only seemed right to invite the other Okumura for some sushi making fun. Plus, having another person around might allay some of the, ah, awkwardness he feels around Vanille--or so he hopes. With Rin in the equation, there's a good chance his plan could simply backfire.

In any case, he's alone in the home-ec room preparing the supplies, sleeves rolled up and a smile on his face.

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[demonizes]

Cooking of any sort was always a welcomed pass time for Rin. Especially when it replaced time that normally was forced dedicated to studying class material. In fact he's got a rather sing songish gleam about him once inside the home-ec room.

"You may be a genius with books but as far as the kitchen's concerned you sure are a dunce eh Yukio? Lessons on how to make sushi??" Rin snickers, obviously letting the simple request go straight to his ego without understanding the underlying intent his twin had.

"It's a pretty simple dish, but that's what big brother's here for, you'd be lost without me."

[brightens]

They had talked about it, before, but it had been so long that Vanille had honestly almost forgotten everything about 'sooshee' that Yukio had already taught her; almost everything about their afternoon at the beach party had stood out a little more than the explanation. It isn't very hard to stay busy around Garden, between classes, studying and training— it was honestly a little monotonous for someone like her, which was why an invitation to take some time off and do something fun was a welcome distraction. She couldn't say she kept her nose in books all of the time, but his classes this quarter weren't as easy as before, and took a lot more effort than she was used to.

Right on time, Vanille walks (nearly skips) into the Home Ec room. It'd been a while since she'd taken the class, but, she was actually rather familiar with it... The class was over, her visits were not. "Ah... Hi!"

[spareglasses]

"I know how to make sushi, nii-san," Yukio grumbles as he lays a cutting board on the counter. "Did you already forget what I said? Someone else is coming to join us, and she--"

Well, there she is!

At the sound of Vanille's voice, he turns to face her and offers her a warm smile and a wave. Briefly, Yukio shoots Rin a glance to see if his brother even remembers him mentioning the additional company or if he'd just latched onto the idea of "little Yukio needing help" and drowned out the rest.

"I'm glad you could make it, Vanille. This is Rin, my older brother." Technically younger now because of time compression, but he keeps mum on that matter and gestures toward the other all the same. "Nii-san, this is Vanille. I don't know if you've already met..."

[demonizes]

"...Why didn't you tell me a-" rather attractive "-girl was coming??"

He only looks over to Yukio, as if the younger hadn't mentioned this very fact not but a minute ago. With his poor listening skills and Vanille taking what little attention span he had though, there wasn't much hope for retention.

"...Nope." Rin would have definitely remembered a girl like Vanille, or, at least a girl who wore clothes like Vanille.

[brightens]

The smile and wave are returned— and followed up with her practically bounding over to Yukio to give him a sort of half-hug. "Of course! I wouldn't miss this for— well, anything!" She needed a break, and she wanted to learn about sooshee. Missing it was unthinkable, unless something absolutely life-threatening had come up. The quick greeting it followed up by her taking a few steps closer to Rin, inspecting him.

"Mm, nope. I don't think we have, either." Of course, it wasn't like she was against making new friends (exactly opposite that, in fact!) so she gave the (now) younger Okumura twin a big smile and extended her hand toward him. "Nice to meet you!"

[spareglasses]

Yukio returns Vanille's embrace a little less gingerly than he had done in the past, but he turns away the second her attention is on his brother, his cheeks stained a faint pink. Once he's sure that problem is resolved, he heads to the refrigerator to get the rest of their supplies, while the other two get acquainted.

Sure, Rin may be the expert chef here, but somehow? Yukio's under the impression that if his brother had been left in charge of getting the supplies and making the food that they would've ended up just eating popsicles or something instead--even if given a shopping list. So as he has little desire of messing up this little gathering, Yukio took it upon himself to do the shopping.

By the time he's brought everything out to the counter, it's pretty crowded there. Yukio's pretty happy with what he's managed to find (including some sushi grade fish, much to his delight!), and he turns back to Rin and Vanille.

"He may not look it, but nii-san's actually pretty good in the kitchen. I thought he could help us a little tonight."

[demonizes]

"Nice ta' meet you too!"

Sudden third wheel syndrome? Nope, Rin's still sort of caught in the moment of meeting someone new. Though he does send Yukio a look, because dammit why does he always get all the girls.

Though he probably would have been caught up in his own little dream world about Yukio asking for his help, the popsicles and candy would have just been a necessary addition to the shopping list had Yukio given him one. Really for being the older twin by birth, people never trusted him with much responsibility.

"Oh-so you wanted me to teach the both of you how to make sushi then!" Listening skills are probably a large contributor to that afore mentioned trust issue.

[brightens]

Vanille wouldn't really have complained about candy and popsicles, but she still wasn't sure what exactly went into sushi other than fish— Yukio had explained it, and had explained it well, and even though she'd listened, her mind had been a little preoccupied with the fishing they were doing, at the time, to really retain any of the information. "Umm, yep! Yukio told me about it, before, but I've never heard of it, so... I'm really curious."

Abandoning her position beside Yukio, she did a quick tour of the counter with their ingredients laid out before circling back around to Rin. "That's okay, right?"

[spareglasses]

"Of course it is," he replies, perhaps a little more eagerly than he really should have. Yukio catches himself a second later and turns away again, pretending to fuss over the sheets of seaweed. He's probably over-thinking his reactions, and considering his previous behavior around girls... Something like this isn't too out of the ordinary. His brother wouldn't pick up on anything... Right? Right?

"Is there anything in particular you wanted to try?" he asks this of Vanille, but in the meantime, his gaze keeps drifting to Rin, self-conscious. "Everything on the counter is free game.

"He--" Yukio ribs his brother to get him to focus and stop getting lost in his crayon-colored dream land in which everyone needs his help. "--could probably give you flavor combinations you could try, if there's something in particular you're interested."

[demonizes]

"You've never had it ever??" While Vanille's touring around the supplies, Rin's washing his hands and putting on one of the cloth aprons that were stored in the closet for when class wasn't in session. If he had that hair clip Suguro had given him, he'd probably be using it now to keep his bangs off his face. Though it wasn't completely necessary.

He didn't get a chance to answer the second question though thanks to Yukio's eagerness: to which he gave the 'younger' twin a perplexed look for. His silence alone would be symbol enough that the gears were already starting to move.

"Oi-!!" Of course that was before he got the strike to his side. He'd left his dream land a few minutes ago, and it wasn't crayon colored! It was water colored. Regardless of that, reflex alone made Rin shove his twin back, probably a lot harder than he intended.

[brightens]

"Never-ever! We always cooked our fish, where I'm from." She hadn't even ever thought of eating them without cooking them. There were tons of different ways to prepare them, of course, depending on how you wanted them to taste, but uncooked had never really crossed her mind before. She was looking over everything laid out, almost inspecting them. It looked just like normal fish, cut up similar to how they would have done it, except that it was thinner than they would have done it. She was sure there had to be something special they did to make that taste good, though— by her imagination, it wasn't going to be very delicious at all.

Seemingly unaware of their little squabble, she takes one last look at the ingredients before turning to them both. "Um, well... I don't really know what everything is, so, whatever you think is the one that tastes the best, that's what I want to try!"

Because Yukio's opinion is important!

[spareglasses]

Rin's shove in response to his jab is quite a bit rougher than Yukio had been expecting. He actually stumbles a little before he rights himself, giving his brother a brief but dirty look. His cheeks color momentarily before clearing his throat and turning his attention back to the items on the counter.

Being the more mature one around here, Yukio's just going to pretend that nothing had happened.

"I actually prefer sashimi, which is the raw fish by itself," he replies to Vanille's query. Yukio points as some of said raw fish before his finger goes to hover over something green and paste-like. "You just dip it in some soy sauce mixed with wasabi, which is what this is.

"But I know you mentioned you didn't seem to keen on the idea of eating raw fish..." His gestures at some crab, shrimp, and eel. "These are pretty good for cooking and putting in sushi, too.

"Of course, we can always just cook some fish to put in your sushi, too."

Rin better step it up; Yukio's going to be stealing the cooking spotlight at the rate he's going!