The God's Chef ~Intoxicating Desire~ BETA

Chapter 16

'Was that really necessary?' Rei recalls herself becoming a stuttering mess when she tried to answer Dojima's sudden confession. Remembering how foolish and red she must have been, she cringes. 'So stupid.' Wanting to wipe the memory out of her mind, she couldn't. Walking through the door to Tsukasa's room, she takes off the hair tie. With the excess weight now gone from the top of her head, Rei sighs with pleasure. Right when she was about to open the door to the dining room, it flies open to reveal a frantic silver head.

"Oh, Eishi!" Jumping in shock, Tsukasa pulls Rei into a tight embrace.

"Rei! I 4hought something happens to you!" Squeezing her close to him, Rei wraps her arms around him and gives him a gentle squeeze. "I heard the announcement about some kind of gathering but that was some time ago! Did something happened to you before that? Or..." Realising her, he inspects Rei all over.

"Nothing bad happened." Smiling at the worried Tsukasa, her heart skips a beat. "I just had something to deal with, friend problem you know." Walking into the dining room, many dishes lay over the long table. "But after that announcement, I had to visit Gin-sensei."  Sitting down on a chair, Tsukasa follows. "Basically, he wants me to bake something for the students who pass on the last day of the camp. The alumnus will cook and I'm in charge of making the dessert for everyone by myself." Sighing, Rei rests her head on her hand. "It'll be so troublesome. I have three days left to think of something that will not make anyone faint from my oh so godly food and to top it off, I need to create some kind of breakfast dish fit to be served by the resort. With egg as it's main ingredient, I have until tomorrow morning 6 o'clock to ponder on some kind of food that will meet my tutors expectations." Sighing yet again, Rei slumps back on her seat.

"I can help you with that." Playing with his fingers, Tsukasa tries to help the ravenette.

"I can only have you be my taste tester. But, before any of that, let's eat." Looking at the food with bright eyes, Rei looks at one with sparkling eyes. "If you don't mind me," Picking up a mini beef Wellington, she places it in front of her and picks up the gold knife and fork.

"I--I listened to what you said before. I tried to make everything better to suit your taste." Looking at Rei chewing a piece, he begins to eat another dish that he made.

"It's better," Rei sets her fork and knife down between the dish. "But, you still didn't master the art of puff pastry as yet, however it is better than before. Just remember that your not making some kind if pie but beef Wellington. Makes it less fluffy so the crisp will be more prominent that way. The mushrooms are nearly perfect and the beef is is okay." Taking another bite, she continues to eat.

"So what will you give it? As the God's Chef?" Wanting to know how good his food is, he looks at Rei who stopped eating.

"Welllll," Looking away from his eyes, she picks up a glass of water that she saw close to her. Lifting it up close to her lips, she says softly. "I'll give you an 84 out of the total." Leaving the total out, which is 300, 100 being the puff pastry the other being on the mushroom paste and the last on the beef, Tsukasa was only lucky to have Rei judge easy compared to how she usually judges back when she was with Azami.

"84 out of 100? That's not bad." Putting his right fingers on his chin, it was his first time to receive such a low grade in his life.

'If only he knew it was out of 300.' Putting down the cup, Rei continues to finish the dish. "Yep, not bad since I judged it." Saying it truthfully, Rei's mind wonders off to the recipe that she will create for tomorrow. 'Eggs, egg benedict? Scramble eggs? Omelets?' Filling her head with many dishes featuring eggs, none comes to her liking.

"Hey Eishi," Catching Tsukasa staring at her, she looks away with a blush. "Do you know of any egg dishes for breakfast?" Pulling a lock of black hair behind her ear, she looks down at her hands.

"T--there're quiches." Suddenly bringing the up, Rei's ears perks.

"They use puff pastry don't they?" Resting her thinking fingers on her chin, Rei looks intensely at the beef wellington. "If I can substitute that for something else then maybe that can work out? But what?" Trying to recall what she wrote in her journal back in her room in the dorm, she regrets to bring it along with her. "Puff pastry, I can use....." Trailing off, black eyes stares at the dark coating around the beef. 'Mushrooms...' "That's it!" Dragging her seat behind her, Rei stands up abruptly. "I can use mushrooms instead of the puff pastry! I never tried it out before but I'm pretty sure I'm going to need to adjust my original quiche recipe quite a bit. And since I'm going to need some big round mushrooms, portobello is the way to go. I need to write it down in my book when I get back. Well, that is if it turns out well."

Looking at the excited Rei talking to herself gleefully, Tsukasa smiles as he witness a new side of Rei he need saw before. Feeling his heart thumbing loudly in his heart, his white orbs trails at the back of the jumpy ravenette. With her long waist length hair swaying behind her as she move, Rei suddenly pulls it up and ties it in a high ponytail.

"Oh! Eishi if you don't mind I'll be using your kitchen for the moment." Turning on her heels, Tsukasa blushes deeper when he sees the moonlight capturing the picturesque scene. With long black fringes framing her face, the rest of her hair is messy yet very neat to admire at the same time.

"Sure," His voice came out like a whisper in the air. But with Rei, she heard it clearly. Turning around, Rei opens the fridge.

"I'll eat the opera cake later when I finish and after the judging tomorrow. It's too good to waste such a great cake." Tsukasa looks away with a deepened blush from hearing her praise.

"Let's see... you have prosciutto, spinach, asparagus, cheese and lastly eggs, perfect. Now, I wonder where the balsamic is? Does Eishi even have balsamic in the kitchen. But at least there's olive oil." Pulling out the ingredients Rei thought that were useful, she goes on into the cuboards.

"If you need anything I'll go and get it for you." Standing up from his seat, Tsukasa decides to make himself useful.

"Really? Thanks!" Turning around with ingredients in her arms, Rei flashes a bright smile. "Then can you get me some gruyere cheese, portobello mushrooms and what else...." Resting the ingredients down, she stares at anything else that she might need. "Okay so, I think that's it. Bring anything else that you think might go with eggs and portobello." Digging into her pocket, she pulls out her keys to her room. "Here, see what you can find in my kitchen." Throwing the keys to Tsukasa, he fumbles to catch it but caught it in the end. "Thanks again." Smiling, Rei turns away and begins to prepare her dish. Tearing his gaze away from her, he leaves to get what she wanted.