[Backdated to 21st] Before all the explosions...

[evokingfool]

Characters: Minato Arisato and Urotsuki (chainsawn) [CLOSED]
Setting: Kitchens, and then to Floor 12 (projections).
Format: Action like a boss
Summary: In which Minato and Urotsuki make boxed lunches in the kitchen, and then eat them while watching worlds being destroyed. Nothing strange, just spending time together.
Warnings: Project floor’s depiction of world destruction. Will update as necessary.

[Between everything that happened, as well as his recent return from his world, Minato decided up follow up on a promise. After making arrangements with Urotsuki, he’s now in the kitchens and ready to start making boxed lunches with her.

Other than the basics, like rice and vegetables...]

What do you want in your lunch, Urotsuki-chan?

[Beside, this is a good thing to do. It helps him relax and he get to spend time with another person.]

Comments

[chainsawn]

.. I want those cute octopus sausages.

[ She's pretty specific, but it's one of those small things she loves despite how blank she seems about everything. Granted, she loves the idea of boxed lunches in general - especially the idea of someone making them with you or for you, that's what makes it so special. It's been a long time since someone has ever done that for her, so she's more excited than she seems.

The counter's a little high for her since she isn't all that tall, but she's already trying to find some meat herself. ]

[evokingfool]

[Minato enjoy having boxed lunches. While he sometimes buy his lunch, he love it when a friend make one for him and his dormmates. The days after Shinjiro-senpai joined SEES was the best, cooking-wise.]

Octopus shaped sausages? Hm...

[He's already starting to cook the rice, so he can help find the sausage.]

The sausages should be with the other meat.

[Actually, what kind of sausages would they be? Normal? Chicken? Beef? Mystery meat?]

...Do you need a stool?

[chainsawn]

I'm fine.

[ Despite still looking like she's having trouble reaching things. But she keeps trying, and when - after a few moments - she still can't reach it, she instead pulls her arm back and seems to focus for a moment. Said moment later she's.. well.. double her original height and way skinnier. At least she can easily grab the stuff now before returning to her regular self, holding the sausage. ]

.. I wonder how to cut it like an octopus, though.. [ Talking on like nothing happened just now, yup. ]

[evokingfool]

[He just blink and stare. Did she just...? That's one of the more odder things he got to watch.]

I think we have to cut them and then we cook the sausage pieces. When it's cooked, the legs will curl up.

[chainsawn]

[ Did you say the word "cut", Minato.

Because Urotsuki already has her chainsaw out and is making it roar, ready to cut the sausages.. or more likely, at this rate she'll just cut the kitchen counter into two, whoops. ]

[evokingfool]

[He's about to get the knife when he saw the chainsaw. Quickly, he speaks up and firmly says.]

Urotsuki, we cut them with a knife. The chainsaw is harder to use for cleaner cuts.

[Minato never used them before, but he knows those small blades would just wreck the sausages.]

[chainsawn]

.. Really..? But I like it better this way..

[ She sounds like a little kid that was just denied its candy, honestly. ]

[evokingfool]

Really. If we use the chainsaw, it won't be easy to make the octopus's tentacles compared to a knife. It's too big and unwieldy for octopus sausages.

[See?]

[chainsawn]

Hmm.. that sucks.

[ But even so, it doesn't sound too disappointed anymore, she just makes the chainsaw disappear again. Sure, she loves to use it, but she wants octopus sausages more than that right now, so it's fine. ]

Do you have a knife then..?

[evokingfool]

They should be in the drawers.

[La la la, going over and taking out two knives. He looks over at her.]

Do you want to learn how to make them?

[chainsawn]

...

[ For a moment she glances between the knives and Minato, but then she shakes her head a little. ]

You do it. [ It's no fun without chainsaws. ]

[evokingfool]

Alright. You can prepare the other dishes for our lunches instead.

[Minato put down one of the knives. With his free hand, he pick up a sausage and start cutting it. Hm, how did it go again. You cut like this...]

[chainsawn]

[ Urotsuki is just going to do what she thinks is the most fun - arranging the food in the lunch boxes! Because really, half of the fun of a lunch box is making it look cute, right? She's currently making these.. ]

[evokingfool]

[After he's done making two octopus sausages - they need to cook them in oil for the tentacles to curl up now - he glance over at see what she's making.]

That's cute.

[chainsawn]

I like pigs. They're cute.

[ That's apparently her judgement of her work, since she nods a little at it before turning to look at what Minato did. ]

.. Not as cute as octopus sausages though.

[evokingfool]

They are cute... It's too bad we're going to cute them.

[He's cutting out another octopus, moving the knife carefully.]

[chainsawn]

Well, they're food. You can't keep them like this forever. They'll start to rot and look all weird, and by that time they won't taste yummy anymore.

[evokingfool]

[And he's done. There's enough for both of their lunch boxes. Minato check the cooking pan with oil in it, holding his hand above it to feel the heat.]

Yeah. That's why we admire them first and then we can eat them.

[chainsawn]

... Will it be long before we can eat them..?

[ Apparently waiting for him to finish, she lifts herself up until she can sit on the counter, swinging her legs back and forth a little as she watches him. ]

[evokingfool]

It shouldn't take long.

[Okay, where are the oils... There we go. Sizzling time!

Urotsuki can watch and see how the octopuses' tentacles gradually curls up as they're cooked. Minato make sure to move them around with a pair of chopsticks, so they're not burnt on one side.]

[chainsawn]

[ She actually is watching.. more intensely than anyone else would watch something as simple as cooking, really. She looks like she's taking all of this very seriously and watching with great attention.

It's apparently pretty interesting to her, somehow. ]

[evokingfool]

[After a short while, they're all cooked and Minato take them out of the pan once they're done. One by one, his chopsticks pick them up and place them in their lunch boxes.

Look at the cute lil octopuses.]

[chainsawn]

[ Oh no, Minato. Better make sure she doesn't just shove them all in her mouth or something, since at the moment Urotsuki is hanging above the lunchboxes like a shark that just spotted some tasty fish.

.. Probably for the best to just get moving before there's no more lunch before you even reach the floor. ]

[evokingfool]

[Nope, not just yet, Urotsuki. After he's done, Minato close the lids on the lunchboxes and pick them up.]

Time to go to the floor.

[LUNCH UNDER THE HOLOGRAPHIC STARRY SKY OF WORLD DESTRUCTION...]

[chainsawn]

[ But her food.. :(

Fine, fine, she'll be an obedient girl and go to the floor instead without munching it all away first. But she does hold out her hand when he says it's time to go. ]

Let's hold hands. [ She'll probably insist even if he turns down the offer. ]