~~Radiance~~ - A Love Live! X Reader Fanfiction

Chapter 6 - ~~Service~~

One short walk from everyone and all I can say is that this is a marvelous kitchen! There's probably hundreds of ingrediants lining the walls, I bet Maki has probably never eaten the same thing twice.

"Wow... Look at this! Delisauce, spicy musturd, soy sauce, ranch, this is an absolute paradise for condiments and sauces!" I say, probably more estatic than anyone in the world has ever been for ranch dressing and its cohorts.

"Hey, this isn't a mueseum you know. We're here to cook." Nico unusually says. "We're here to cook for your favorite people right?". Quite a suspicious add-on if you ask me, I feel like she's got a bit of a split personality between idol life and reality.

"Yeah... so... what do we fix?" I ask.

"...I thought you were picking (Y/N)." she says to me.

"Oh yeah... ummm....." I draw a blank for way too long.

"Do you have any idea what to make?" she askes, suspicious.

"Well... Not really... And..." she looks intently to me "I also don't know how to make food for the life of me".

"Oh..." her facial expressions shows her swapping between a few emotions "Well I do! I can help you."

"Aw, that's sweet" I blush a little bit "...Can we just do something simple then?"

"Do you know how to make sandwiches?" she askes, almost patronizingly in a way.

"Of course I know how to make sandwiches, how could I mess that up?" I say, not quite reaching the future thought that I'll find some way to mess it up.

"Alright then. Let's get what we need." we start shuffling around shelves and cabniets and fridges for everything necessary and dropping them by the counter, the only thing we need now is the bread.

"There it is" we say unintentionally in sync, we both reach our hands to it only to realize that not only are we both after the same bread, but that our hands are intertwined over it. The only response from either of us? Silence and blushing, my two favorite things I've noticed. Eventually though, Nico does grab the bread.

"I-I got it, (Y/N). Let's get cooking." she smiles at me as she sets out the bread, but this smile slowly fades once she looks across the table. "Why do you have peanut butter?".

"I thought we were making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches?" I say.

"No you dummy, I don't think that really qualifies as a nice dinner." she criticizes me.

"Are you implying that PB&Js are not of the standards set here?" I reply furiously.

"KInd of, yeah." she says slyly.

"I will let you know that PB&J sandwiches are likely the most satisfyingly simple creation ever made, I have eaten likely hundreds in my young life and I don't plan for that to change anytime soon" I say.

"...That's fine then, but can we not do that today?" Nico tries to ask nicely.

"...Alright, I guess it's good to try something new sometimes." I say. It's impossible to say no to any of these girls, I refuse to believe otherwise. I set out the bread. "So... you put the meat on first, right?"

"It doesn't matter what you put on first (Y/N), no one will notice." she says.

"Okay..." I put some ham on mine, that's always what my mom use to make when I was in elementary school. I follow it up with some musturd. "There's no specific order to put condiments in, right?"

"...(Y/N)... Of course there isn't." she says.

"I'm doing well right?" I ask, I'm really self-concious about the most simple task ever I know but if I mess it up I'll look even dumber.

"Of course you are, it's basically impossible to do wrong" she says. "You must love the sound of my voice if you keep asking questions~". I blush and brush that part of the comment off.

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"I think I've got it!" I say. My meal is an utter masterpiece of the culinary arts. It has everything you would ever need to classify something as a sandwich without getting weird looks. Nico looks over.

"Good job (Y/N)! You're really growing, maybe one day you'll be able to meet my expertise~!" Nico says. I look over to her side and she already has three done and another on the rise, they look tastier too. I'm not gonna waste my breath asking how that was even phyiscally possible.

"...I think you've got most of these girls' dinner under control..." I say as an idea hits me. "Can I make Maki's sandwich?"

"Maki's sandwich?" Nico blushes. "W-Why so specific?"

"I don't know..." Nico stares through my statement, I think she thinks I have some huge crush on Maki. "W-Well, I worry she doesn't like me very much... I wanna see if that would make her think more highly of me". Nico smiles, I think she relates to me a little bit.

"Well, if you want to know a secret... Maki really loves tomatoes, put those between the bread and she might fall in love with you." Nico says. That last part makes it seem like a joke but I'll trust her on the first.

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The sandwich is already looking great, Nico's finishing up her last one but dare I say this one almost meets up to her quality standard.

"Aaaand done!" I smile at the sight of my greatest creation.

"Nice job!" she cracks a smile back at my own. "One more thing though, Maki would like it way more if it was toasted".

"That sounds easy enough" I say with likely too much confidence. I put the meal in the weird heating gadget and am ready to watch the fireworks.

"I think Maki is gonna be proud of you, (Y/N)." Nico says to me, putting her hand on my shoulder. It's kind of weird though with how short she is.

"You really think so!?! Wow... I never imagined that all I had to do to clear any potentail bad blood was make a nice sandwich" I say.

"Sometimes life is like that (Y/N)." Nico says. "Maki is somehow both easy to please and hard to please at the same time."

"Yeah, I think I've noticed that a bit..." I say.

"Y-You're on fire (Y/N)!" Nico says.

"Thank you, I... oh my gosh!" I look back and see the area burning. "Get the fire extinguisher!!" I yell at Nico, but she's already out of my sight.

"Don't worry, I'm already on it!" she runs back from the doorway and puts it out with the extinguisher. Thank gosh rich folk have those sitting around, this house and everyone inside it could have been in danger.

"Phew..." I wipe some sweat off of my face.

"What's going on!?!" Maki runs in to see Nico with the fire extinguisher and me sweating intensely.

"Umm......." I grab an oven mitt to pick up the burnt sandwich with. "I-I made this for you".

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Author's note: Wow... Sorry for the over twenty day long wait but school is finally over and we're looking at a bright future of (hopefully) consistent updates! I never expected going into this silly chapter that it would be the longest so far, but here we are. XD. Also, here's a bonus cut line that I was thinking of including when (Y/N) finishes the first sandwich but decided against.

"Good job (Y/N)! You're really growing, maybe one day you'll be able to bathe by yourself" Nico says.

Anyway, I saw the news about µ's appearance at the 9th anniversary Love Live party! I'm so hyped to see all of my favorite girls return in such a grand way, Love Live and µ'sic forever!