Cooking Quest

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Who: Nano Shinonome and Yukiko Amagi
Where: Pisces Ward, Apartment 10-02 (Nano's place)
Summary: Caroline wants Yukiko to take some cooking lessons from Nano.  Yukiko gets to learn to cook, Nano gets to feel more human.  Everyone wins.
Warnings: Yukiko will be attempting to cook things.  Thankfully, robots are immune to poison.

To say Nano was a bit nervous about tonight would be a gross understatement.  It's the first time she's had someone over to her apartment since coming to Hinoto-Ri, so she's spent the whole morning nervously shuffling around getting things ready.  Yukiko seemed nice enough when they spoke briefly on the phone earlier to set up the meeting, but Nano wants to make sure everything goes perfectly.  She's used to visiting with people back home, but this is her first time having to do it alone with none of her friends around.  But it is important to make new friends, and that's something she'd resolved to work on since coming here, so she's decided to bite back her apprehension and just power through.

All that's left is to wait for her cooking partner to arrive...

Comments

sweet. now the hard part of having her screw up somehow

[gigglesnortpriestess]

Yikes, that...must've been a feat in itself. But what Nano says makes the young woman believe that she has been doing it longer. And no, not questioning that wind up key.

"Whoever taught you must be really good. Or did you learn on your own?"

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"I taught myself. I have a lot of recipe books and things at home."

Which is also true. And whatever else she can do is probably what she was originally programmed with, so there's that. Nano smiles as she beats the eggs together, throwing the shells in the garbage.

"Are the vegetables ready?"

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"Ah, yes!"

Seriously girl, don't forget the mission at hand and cook a decent meal without anyone passing out.

"They're ready at any time."

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"All right, the rice should be ready by now."

Nano heads over to the rice cooker, getting it out of there and pouring it into the skillet with the vegetables.

"Now all we have to do is stir-fry them together and put it in the middle of the omelette we make!"

[gigglesnortpriestess]

Wait...so that was it? No fancy tricks or special ingredients needed? Granted it didn't take a lot like the now dubbed Mystery Food X did but it was such a small amount of things needed.

So don't mind Yukiko being in awe of all of this.

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"Amagi-san...?"

Nano, on the other hand, isn't quite sure why this should be an occasion for that level of amazement. Instead, she seems mildly concerned, wondering why her cooking partner is just staring.

[gigglesnortpriestess]

Trust her Nano, you don't want to know how cooking goes back in Inaba.

"I'm ok, really."

Whoops, sorry about that sensei. Spacing out is bad.

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"I'll work on the vegetables, then. You know how to make an omelette, right?"

Nano's just making sure here, since Yukiko seems worried. All things told, it's probably the easier job, since it's really just spreading the broken egg yolk around the pan and waiting for it to solidify.

[gigglesnortpriestess]

It's the fear of screwing up. Something WILL happen at some point in time because this...all suddenly too good to be true.

"Oh, yes I do."

Ok, making that will be easy. And Yukiko watching over it like a hawk.

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Nano switches places with Yukiko, watching over the vegetables and rice in the other pan and beginning to stir fry them, adding little bits of vegetable oil and spices here and there as she takes small tastes along the way. She shakes the pan back and forth as she goes, lightly tossing the rice to mix it in.

[gigglesnortpriestess]

Don't mind Yukiko pulling out something from her sweater pocket. It looks like a mini notebook of some sort and obviously writing something down.

It looks like she really wants to do this the right way after all...

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And after a few minutes, Nano's all set.

"All right, it's ready! How does the omelette look?"

[gigglesnortpriestess]

That...is one nice looking omelette. While the look is great, it all comes down to the taste. There doesn't need to be a reminder of Yukiko passing out after eating Rise's spicy omelette rice again.

"It looks really good! Now to try it and see how we did."

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"Right! Just one more thing to do, and then it's all ready to eat."

Nano carefully lifts the pan she's been working with, pouring the rice onto one side of the omelette and folding it over.

"There! You can put some ketchup on top if you like to eat it that way. I like to draw little smiley faces on mine."

[gigglesnortpriestess]

Smiley faces? That was something she hasn't really done since she was little. Instead of a big blob or a smiley face, she actually drew a cute little puppy face on it.

"How's this?"

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For all her politeness and proper behavior, Nano can also be surprisingly childish sometimes. Blame the naivete of only technically being alive for about a year, and living with an eight year old girl almost exclusively during that time. She giggles a little as Yukiko draws on her omelette, smiling and doing a smiley on hers too.

"It looks wonderful!"