[hanakotoba] Yellow Poppy
Title: Yellow Poppy
Author: Luna (dreamweavernyx )
Pairing: Kikujima
Genre: Crack
Notes: Part of the Hanakotoba collection.
Request for Alice (aliciaswr ).
The yellow poppy represents success.
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attempt number one.
The first time Fuma cooks, Kento honestly doesn’t know what to expect.
He’s never known that his bandmate can cook. But hey, they’re boys. Kento knows every boy - especially a Johnny - should have enough skill to at least boil a cup of instant ramen. Right?
Wrong.
Fuma defies the universal truth that all men have enough ability to at least boil cup ramen.
Kento finds himself running down the stairs with one sock still on, as he smells something distinctly rubbery and strange wafting from the kitchen.
“What’s going on?” he yells as he rampages down the stairs, skidding to a halt on the tiled kitchen floor.
Fuma looks up sheepishly from the suspiciously smoking pan on the stove.
“Well,” he says, “I was trying to boil milk to make cocoa, but I accidentally knocked the shelf and the vinegar bottle dropped and its cap flew off-”
Kento groans, and walks to the stove, picking up a spatula to poke around inside.
“So the vinegar was poured into the milk you were boiling.”
“…Yeah.”
The spatula is lifted up, and a strange clump is hoisted up from the dairy concoction and placed gently on a paper towel.
“Eh…Fuma?” says Kento, poking at the cooling lump.
“Yeah?”
“…I think you just made plastic.”
“…Eh?!”
~
attempt number two.
Kento stumbles down the stairs, rubbing at his eyes. He hates catching colds - it makes his vision blurry and he can’t see properly.
However, even with his terrible eyesight he sees somebody in the kitchen.
“Who’s that?” he mumbles blearily, rubbing his eyes.
“I’m just making some soup,” laughs Fuma, as he bustles around a pot, “I heard chicken soup is good for colds.”
Kento mumbles incoherently as he slumps down at the small kitchen table, waiting as Fuma gently ladles out some soup in a bowl and places it in front of him.
Mumbling a drowsy thanks, Kento reaches for the spoon and begins to scoop up a spoonful of soup.
Even in his sleep-befuddled mind, he realizes something’s wrong.
“Fuma,” he starts hesitantly, “soup…isn’t supposed to be this thick, right?”
He pokes at the soup with his spoon, and realizes that it feels almost exactly like jelly. Soup-coloured jelly. With weird bits floating in it.
He blinks.
Waiiiiiit a minute. Those aren’t weird bits.
Gingerly he fishes out the chicken feather, and wrinkles his nose. Sighing, he pushes the bowl away and drops the feather to the table.
He’ll rather just take his cough syrup and go back to bed.
~
attempt number three
Hokuto waves happily as Kento walks in.
“Glad you could make it for the sleepover,” he says cheerfully. “Fuma’s making cookies now.”
Kento’s face drains of colour rapidly.
“Fuma? Making cookies?”
Hokuto nods happily, having had no prior experience with Fuma’s cooking skills (or lack thereof) before.
“Hokuto,” says Kento extremely seriously, “I’d advice you to start worrying about the fate of your oven.”
As if on cue, right at that moment a giant bang sounds, and both boys run to the kitchen to see Fuma standing sheepishly looking at a smoking oven.
“..Oops?”
Hokuto stares in shock at the oven, while Kento sighs and heads for the fire extinguisher.
~
attempt number four
“Fuma.”
“Yes?”
Kento pokes at the noodles suspiciously with a chopstick.
“Are you sure these noodles haven’t expired yet?”
“I don’t think so,” says Fuma confusedly. “Why?”
“…It’s trying to digest the chopstick.”
~
attempt number five
Kento looks suspiciously at the innocent-looking muffin Fuma places before him.
“…You sure it’s safe?” Kento asks warily, giving the muffin a once-over for any suspicious glowing.
“Yes!” Fuma nods emphatically.
Kento pokes the muffin. It doesn’t move, or squeak, like Fuma’s previous attempts at cooking.
He sniffs it.
It smells alright.
Slowly, hesitantly, he picks it up and takes a small bite. When he doesn’t die, he looks back up and grins.
“Congratulations,” he says cheerily, “it’s edible.”
Fuma whoops.
All the same, Kento reminds himself, never let Fuma near the kitchen again.