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Post by Zephel on Apr 22, 2009 20:26:54 GMT -8
Zeph continues brushing the dango, fully focused on doing his job since Furukawa's beside him...and can knock him unconscious any time if he started a chat. So, he resolved into using his telepathy, sending messages to Kida's mind.
'Really, Kida, don't talk when he's watching you. As for the uiro...well, simply said, I have a strong dislike for cakes...and uiro seems to be in that category. Its chewy, its sweet, and its colorful. How can I NOT hate it. Furukawa said, to make it, one needs 'gentle' hands or what-not...and, well, I don't possess that.'
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Post by Kida on Apr 22, 2009 20:37:21 GMT -8
Kida expected to glance to her side and see Zephel's mouth moving in time with his words. It wasn't. Gah! He was talking in her head! Shaking off that weird feeling it gave her Kida listened to his words. Err, but wait, if he didn't want her talking in front of Furukawa then how was she supposed to reply? Project her thoughts?
Kida didn't really have experience with this but she tried anyway. So...it's a cake? Though the thought struck her. If he could hear that just now, what stopped him from hearing all her thoughts?
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Post by Zephel on Apr 23, 2009 16:46:41 GMT -8
'Stop being paranoid, I won't be rummaging through all your thoughts intentionally.' Zeph shot Kida a quick glance before finishing to brush all the dango, and puts the small bowl and brush down on the table beside the grill. 'I can't even find the on-off switch, it's just...randomly working on and off. Fortunately, my telepathy's not even advanced, so I can only hear the outline of your thoughts...not deeply, so don't worry about your privacy being invaded. ...And yes, uiro is a cake.'
Zeph paused for a moment, wondering if that thing he made yesterday WAS a cake... It's so bright with the colours, Zeph doesn't even ask twice of what exactly is that thing. 'Wait. I don't know, I'm not sure. You'll see once you make it.'
Almost right on cue, Furukawa grabs three trays and handed two of them to Zephel, who then gives one to Kida. "Let's just finish collecting all the dango first." Furukawa is already on the job, seizing almost half of the skewers already and puts it on the tray, all the skewered-dango neatly stacked on top of each other.
Then, after his tray is packed, the chef walked his way through the busy rush of the other chefs, calmly passing the crazy shoutings to head towards the front of the kitchen. "Hurry." Zeph noted Kida before he too finished loading his tray and tries to follow behind Furukawa, strongly hoping none of the chefs pulled him to do anymore bonus chores for a bit since the tray he's holding mightly likely spill the dango all over the floor, even by a sudden jerk.
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Post by Kida on Apr 23, 2009 17:18:58 GMT -8
GAAH! THERE! Right there! He'd heard! Well....then...Don't hold me responsible for what you hear!! She felt sorry that he couldn't control what he heard, really it must get disturbing and irritating after a while. But at the same time it kind of freaked her out that he could hear her thoughts. Some of them anyway.
Of course, while she was pondering all of these things, Zephel and Furukawa were already on the move. "Damn it, Kida, pay attention! she scolded herself. As quickly as she could she piled up the dango onto her tray attempted to follow them. It was very difficult in the crazed kitchen, dodging people here, swerving around others there.
It was like a bizzare obsticle course. Just when Kida was about to give a sigh of relief at safe passage one of the other chefs backed up without looking behind him. Nooooo! Kida tried to stop, felt the dango on the tray shift and....closed her eyes. When she dared to crack open one of her eyes, thankfully, no one was looking at her. Hell, no one has even stopped. And as if luck had FINALLY noticed that she existed only two or three dango had fallen off the tray.
Fate, you fickle bitch....Jeez. And Kida hurried after Zephel.
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Post by Zephel on Apr 24, 2009 18:29:03 GMT -8
"Great, your survive." Zeph monotonously said as soon as he turned around to see Kida rushing towards him. His tray has been placed on a counter there, just so the waiters and waitresses outside can simply collect the dango at will to give the customers. He steps to the side to let Kida passed him and gestured for her to put her tray down.
"That's the whole point of making heaps and heaps of dango." He cocked his head to the path they just walked through. Just when Zeph is about to turn to his mentor, Furukawa smacked his large palm to Zeph's shoulder, shocking the silver-haired. The large man then glared furiously at him before turning to Kida.
"Hayaku." He said, his voice sounded rough and impatient, then returned to his beloved snacks corner at the back of the kitchen...which means having to go through that excruciating obstacle course yet again. Zeph rolled his eyes while sighing, watching how easily Furukawa got through all the crazy rushing chefs around him. "Huh, of course it's easy for him, he's part gorilla..."
After muttering that, he glanced towards Kida. "Come on. He wants us to hurry up." Then, with a hopeless heave, Zeph put his hands in front of him as a sort of defence, since it's the only shield he has at the moment, and hurried past the hectic kitchen. ...In fact, he looks like he's walking right into a war zone...
But well...he ain't so lucky. One chef noticed Zeph walking past him, and took hold of the boy's arm, pulling him towards one of the tables there... Of course Zeph ain't so lucky, when did he even own luck anyway? 'Damn my noticeable hair...'
Apparently, there's a knife...and a large slice of meat there on the table in front of him. And according to how the chef gestured at him while yelling something in Japanese, Zeph took hold of the knife, detected Kida in between all the chaos, and cocked his head to the back of the kitchen, hoping she gets the message to move on to Furukawa.
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Post by Kida on Apr 24, 2009 20:45:11 GMT -8
Kida groaned dismally at the idea of having to go back into the sea of chefs. Seriously! Wasn't this like a fire hazard?! A health code violation to have this many damn people in one kitchen! She tried to to manuver through the people and get towards Zephel. Then he just up and disappeared in the distance! Thankfully before the irritation could get to her Kida spied Zephel's silver hair. He'd been abducted it seemed.
Just great, she had to deal with gorilla man on her own? That was if she could get to him. Dodging people, weaving around trays and food Kida could only think about how glad she was martial arts was helping her. Of course she hadn't exactly studied to avoid trays of all things, but it was helping.
Talk about fend for yourself, jeez. They weren't even murmuring 'sorry's when they did run into someone. Like when someone thought it would be funny if they wacked her in the back of the head with a pot. In the process of feeling the pain Kida barely dodged another cook, but got a nice little swat to the ass. Having no idea who had done it, she couldn't retaliate. Instead she channeled her anger into a few hard elbows and shoves that got her way through. Breathe, breathe, breathe.
She stopped at Zephel and almost growled out, "You're not coming?" she asked in reference to Furukawa.
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Post by Zephel on Apr 25, 2009 8:28:43 GMT -8
"Jeez, you look like you just gave birth." Referring to her tone of voice, and her slightly red face due to her anger, Zeph raised a brow. With a knife in his grip, he's forced not to show emotion...annoyance originated from the inbeciles that constantly kept rushing behind him and elbowing/hitting/bumping to him in the process, especially.
Her question managed to calm him down a bit, and a respond to that is a rather sarcastic "Aw, you want me to come with you? That's so sweet." remark. Zeph is pretty sure that would get at least a glare from her, but eh, like he can control his tongue in this temporary stoic mode of his.
Clutching the knife tight, he stared sharply at the large piece of meat laid in front of him. Readying his arm, the silver-haired swiftly slashed his way to the meat, so fast that the stroke of his hand could only be seen as blurs. A few seconds passed, and Zeph placed the knife beside the meat. Even after all those seemingly eye-gawking cutting motion, the meat appeared undisturbed at all.
"Nanda kore wa?!!" The earlier chef that snatched Zephel hollered angrily at the silver haired, slamming his fist to the table. Just as he did that, the meat NOW could be seen being sliced, as piece by piece fell to the side, right till the end of the final section. The chef shut his mouth tight, staring at the sliced pieces of meat.
"And that is why they won't allow me to bring my sword here." Again with his sarcasm, Zephel walked passed Kida to get himself stuck withing the tides of chefs, but then evaded the rushing trays of food and several kitchen equipments swaying around him. It took him a full minute to arrive at the back of the kitchen unscathed...hopefully with Kida in tow behind him, because by the glare that Furukawa is currently shooting him with, Zeph needs a tyro to hopefully abort the killing aura the gorilla man is emitting.
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Post by Kida on Apr 25, 2009 19:50:58 GMT -8
Giving birth, hah, no way she was that mad. But she was close.
"Oh yeah. Sweet as salty acid." she hissed back. Kida was waiting for him to finish whatever it was he was doing so they could get back to Furukawa. Unfortunately she felt the pinch of envy when she saw the way Zephel handled the knife so simply with the food. Working weapons had never been her forte, but she would have liked to.
Then he left for Furukawa. Damnit, again?! This time she muttered, "Fuck it." Elbowing and pushing her way through, not caring who was in the way. In the process she actually knocked some guys plate over. Well at least they got a taste of their own medicine. The guy turned around and started swearing (she thought) at her in Japanese so Kida just flipped him off and kept going. Then Gorilla man looked angry. She crossed her arms with an irritated yet bland expression and just waited for the stupid orders.
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Post by Zephel on Apr 26, 2009 21:21:07 GMT -8
Unfortunately, Furukawa's expression only hardened at the sight of Kida, much to Zeph's dismay...because that means, he has to apologize. "Damn...ugh... ...Gomen..." Scratching the nape of his neck to let this awkward word out of his lips without feeling the usual amount of uneasiness, Zeph quickly reverted his eyes away from Furukawa's piercing daggers.
"...Tasukete yo." Furukawa's voice is deep and rough...but somewhat held a rather sympathetic tone just now, which totally contradicts of how sharp his glare is at the moment. Zeph slightly smiled at his mentor's chosen words, glanced at Kida behind him and nodded. " Come on. Let's make some uiro."
Furukawa makes way for the two to reach the table and reveals the ingredients he placed there. Rice flour, empty bowls, jug of water, smaller bowls of sugar and several other bowls with different coloured liquids and powders in each of them.
"...Damn it. Let's just get this over with." Reaching for a new pair of gloves from a newly-opened plastic wrap, Zeph takes his time wearing them with a sigh.
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Post by Kida on Apr 27, 2009 14:28:04 GMT -8
Kida raised one eyebrow when Gorilla man spoke once again in words she couldn't understand. At this rate she'd have to learn more then just a few random words of Japanese. Kida felt proud just to know that Zephel kept saying some sort of apology.
"What did he say?" she asked. Looking at the ingredients on the table however, gave her another question. "Uh...How do you make cake out of liquid?" Didn't you need batter or something? Well, at least this Uiro thing looked like it would indeed be colorful.
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Post by Zephel on Apr 28, 2009 17:35:55 GMT -8
"He asks us to help him, that's a good enough reason for me to kept working in this place." Admitting that rather honestly than he intended, Zeph cracked his knuckles...seemingly like he's about to face something grotesque...when in reality, it's just making a cake.
"Okay, Kida. Here's the basic explanation on how to make the damn thing, cause I really can't make it as well as how I define it." Glancing at the ingredients, Zeph noticed Furukawa is already beginning to make it by grabbing a packet of rice flour and topple the flour into a vacant bowl.
"See, uiro is not exactly a cake, it's like...a type of chewy sweet, I guess. Simply said, you just dissolve the powdered rice there with water and mix it with heck a lot of sugar. Then, just steam it using a steam pan and you're done. ...Hm. It DOES sounded easier when I said it." Grabbing his own empty bowl, Zeph pulled the rice flour packet from Furukawa and carefully pour it inside the bowl.
"I guess the hard part is shaping the dough. It always falls apart into pieces when I did it, no matter HOW I did it. ...Must be the hands."
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Post by Kida on Apr 28, 2009 20:15:54 GMT -8
At that Kida glanced at Zephel's hands. "They look fine to me." Not crippled or anything. Funny, the way he had used that knife earlier it looked like he had excellent control of his hands. Slowly, obviously unsure she started to copy him and pour the powdered rice into the water, watching it dissolve. Then added sugar. A heck of a lot of sugar, hmn? Kida put in a little more then decided that was still not enough and added more.
"Like that?"
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Post by Zephel on Apr 29, 2009 3:56:49 GMT -8
Zephel took a glimpse of Kida's bowl, then turns to his own, adding the sugar while sniggering a bit. "Yes, exactly. ...Oh, hey." The silver-haired stopped adding more sugar in his bowl and gestured for Kida to look at Furukawa.The quoted gorilla man seems to be waiting for both the teenagers to look at him. When they did, Furukawa motioned his hand to one of the bowls with the colorful liquids there, apparently trying to explain one by one substance inside the bowls. And by explaining, meaning by simply just calling what name each of the liquid is. "'Matcha." He partly lifted the bowl with green murky fluid inside it. Then, he gestured to the bowl next to it with a pinkish color, "Sakura." Next to it is a rather reddish paste, which Furukawa called, "Azuki." Then, he pointed at a tart-looking mushy substance in a bowl beside the azuki, which presumably emitted the strongest aroma out of all the bowls, "Yuzu." The remaining two bowls, crimson-toned and limpid white are respectively mentioned as, "Ichigo. Shiro."Zeph nodded at each bowl Furukawa gestured at. Yesterday when he made uiro, the large man didn't even explained what each of the liquid is, so Zeph just simply mix everything up...NOW he knows why it crumbled to pieces...
"Kida, I think those are the flavours of your uiro." Zeph blinked at the different-coloured bowls. "Let's see...matcha is green tea. Sakura is...well, that tree in japan with the pink petals. Azuki...I'm not sure, but I think it's red bean paste or something. Yuzu is some sort of mandarin orange or...something. Ichigo is strawberry, and shiro...I have no idea what the hell that is."
Just as Zeph is done explaining, Furukawa opened the steam pan's cover, smoke rushed out of it like fat white slugs as gorilla man grabbed a pair of thick oven gloves and used it to pull something out of the pan, placing it in Zeph and Kida's view.
When the vapour clears, three beautifully-made hand-sized uiro cakes could be seen settling on a steamy aluminium plate-thing, all differently-colored too. Pink, green and white...persumably sakura-flavoured, matcha-flavoured and shiro-flavoured. A few droplets of water vapour embellished the uiro, truly making it looked rather appetizing even Zeph gaped.
"Whoah. ...Seriously, he did NOT make them this perfect yesterday. Wow, maybe it's because he has his faith back today...considering I totally destroyed it last night."
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Post by Kida on Apr 29, 2009 14:40:43 GMT -8
"I'm familiar with Sakura, Ichigo and Shiro...but that's cherry blossom and...white?" What the hell was flavored 'white'? The scent of the actually liquid itself was a little too sweet for Kida's taste, but she'd deal with it. What she was really worried about was how the liquid plus the goo was supposed to turn into a cake like the ones Furukawa was holding up.
They kind of looked squishy too. Jello plus a lot more sugar... she thought. "I get the feeling it's not gonna be in tact that long." she said, referring to Furukawa's faith. Kida wasn't sure she'd be able to shape them as well as Gorilla man had.
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Post by Zephel on May 1, 2009 19:35:11 GMT -8
"Let's just try to make it and see what happens." Zeph suggested, already diving his hand inside the bowl and tries his best to mix it without having the urge to pull his hand away and just punch the dough. This is exactly why he detests uiro so much...it's the gooey concoction. It's flaring up his need to give a clout on something, only that he can't, since it needs to be treated 'gently'.
Zeph glanced at the several colorful bowls, surprised himself that he's staring at the white-coloured one. It's making him curious yet disgusted at the same time...his first guess of where that liquid came from is some sort of animal fat or something. Ah hell, like he's going to eat it anyway.
So he grabbed the shiro-filled bowl, much to Furukawa's astonishment, and starts pouring the substance inside his bowl. This is revolting...confecting something he's not even sure what the hell it's made from, and a strange flavor to boot. Shiro...must find out the source of the flavor after this. Thankfully, he's wearing latex glove to avoid it in contact with his skin.
Zeph continues kneading the mix, the ecru-colored dough slowly turning to a pale white texture, sort of similar to a piece of cloud now actually...if it wasn't so soft and sticky. "Kida, I swear, if I killed anybody with this, you're the eye-witness I didn't put a single drop of poison in it."
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