Chapter 1: Trouble Brewing in the Surface
Okay first story for this anime so hope you like it. For some reason these two couple have really gotten my interest for some reason, so thought to give this story a shot, so enjoy. Oh and translation for some words:
Il mio amore= My Love
Mi Manchi= I miss you
Mio Signore= My Lord
Bambino= Baby
Correggere= Correct
Perche no= Why not
It was a nice warm day outside. The sun was out and clear blue sky as the birds were chirping. Meanwhile at the Polar Star dorm it was a nice morning, but something did not seem right. The dorm was mostly empty, except for one man with red hair in the bathroom brushing his teeth, seems to be the only one awake.
Hmmm seems like everyone is still asleep, well I suppose that is reasonable since nothing is going on today since it is the weekend. Yukihira Soma was thinking as he spat out the water in his mouth Let's see the guys will probably going to be doing nothing but relax here and the girls all went to Nikumi's place to sleepover. Honestly she should just admit that she enjoys having them around since she didn't deny their idea for a sleepover at her place. Soma was thinking amused by his thought.
"Ah today is a nice day to relax and not do anything, but why do I feel like something bad is coming this way" Soma was wondering out loud as he made his way to the kitchen "Eh probably just all in my head besides there is this new recipe I want to try out" as soon as he said that he heard doorbell ring which made Souma turn towards the door with confused expression.
I wonder who it is at the door? he wonder as he walking to the front door as the doorbell kept ringing "I'm coming I'm coming geez learn to be patient, people are sti-" before he finish his sentence he saw who was at the door. It took him a few seconds to progress what was going on. Why are they here this early? Well 10:35 am is early to some people.
"Not that I am complaining, but why are you guys here Takumi and Isami?" he asked to the two Italian brothers "and what is wrong with you Takumi? You are pale as a ghost or did your brother scared you again? poking fun at the blondes appearance.
"I am not in the mood for your jokes today Yukihira!' Takumi exclaimed
"Okay but can you keep it down people are still asleep" Soma explained
"I'm sorry for nii-chan's behavior, but he seems to be in a sticky situation" Isami said, smiling knowing the situation too well
"Oh okay uh come on in and you can tell me what is going on" Soma said as he opened the door for them to come in.
"Thanks and sorry for what I said earlier it is just I am in a trouble situation" Takumi was saying as he and his brother made their way inside.
"It's alright come to the kitchen and you can tell me all about it. Are you guys hungry? I am about to make some breakfast if you all want some." Soma led them to the kitchen
"Thanks, but I will have to pass on that since I am not really hungry at the moment" Takumi replied
"Same here" Isami added
Soma was wondering what was going on with them. He was debating whether to cook something and have them wait or just ask them what was going on. In the end his curiosity got the best of him and his hunger. Hey curiosity doesn't kill the cat right? Right? Instead he just serve them a glass of water as they took a seat in the table .
"Okay curiosity got the better of me and there is something that you two have to say, so my hunger can wait" Soma said as he stare at the two.
"Ah I think I will let nii-chan fill you in on the details" Isami said as he drank his water.
Isami! I thought we were in this together!? the blonde thought as he was rubbing his hands through his hair frustration clearly on his face "very well, but this might take awhile Yukihira, and just so you know this happened earlier believe it or not." as he saw Soma's expression turn to one as a surprise.
"Okay it all started"
Flashback (Early in the morning)
A phone was ringing in a room very loudly in the morning
"Ugh damn it Isami can you answer that phone already!" his brother yelled out
"Nii-chan that's your phone ringing" he yelled out from the bathroom
Takumi had no choice , but to get up and answer the phone 'who could be calling at this hour, it's too early to receive a call like this.' he was thinking.
He grabbed his phone from his drawer and answered "hello" he greeted in his groggy voice
"Ah Takumi my dear how have you been Il mio amore" the person on the other line greeted
If Takumi wasn't fully awake that voice woke him right up 'no please don't tell me is it? it can't be?'
"Bianca?" he asked
"Correct Takumi. Seems you haven't forgotten about me" the girl known as Bianca giggled
'Crap this isn't good. How did she even know how to contact me? I could have sworn I changed my number before I left to Japan?
"Uhm Bianca how did you know how to contact me?"
"Oh I just dropped by the restaurant and I told your dad how much mi manchi and he gave me a way to contact you!"
'Padre why did you do this to me?' he thought sweating nervously "Oh I see well it is great to hear you again, but I am really busy right now"
"Nonsense I haven't talked to you for how many years and now you want to end it! Mio Signore!" she exclaimed
"Yeah well you know school and my third year here so busy busy busy" he replied trying to end this conversation fast
"Oh I bet it's stressful there! My poor bambino, if only I was there to help you relax"
'Don't use the term bambino like that, makes me feel like a mafia boss!' he was thinking
"Ah yeah well too bad you had to move to Spain with your dad because of his job correggere?"
"Hmm yes, but guess what Takumi my dad got transferred to Japan and turns out we will be living close to that school of yours Totsuki right? Well it's just like a few miles away but still"
In a split moment Takumi was thinking whether the gods were trying to make his third year life in scholl a living hell
'Gah Dios, God, Buddha, Kami whoever. Are you guys trying to torture me here! She was one of the side reason why I decided to leave Italia!'
"Oh I see ahaha" Takumi was laughing nervously
"Yes! Now we can rekindle our relationship!" she exclaimed
"Ah Bianca we broke up a long time ago and you sho-" he was cut short before he could finish
"Yeah, but that was because we both separated from each other in long distance, but now that I'll be close to you we can make things work out right?"
'NO!' he was thinking in his head as he was scratching his hair 'the only reason why I broke up with you is because you were a crazy psycho girlfriend'
"Ah yeah that is true, but I don't think it will work out now"
"What? Perchè no?" she asked. Before Takumi can answer she immediately jumped to a conclusion "Wait don't tell me you, you already have girlfriend don't you!?" she yelled out
Takumi was going to deny it and just tell her that he doesn't love her and that she is crazy and should fall in a ditch and never come out... okay maybe not that last part, but then he saw an opportunity since she never listens to reasons the past.
"Yes I do!I do have a girlfriend" as he heard her gasp on the other side of the phone. "In fact she is smart, pretty and a good chef too" Takumi said smiling and nodding his head as few seconds of silence passed by.
'Did it work?'
"Oh I see, ah this is embarrassing, sorry for trying to make this work between us" she said as Takumi was smiling thinking 'yes thank you! good riddance.' but before he can bid her farewell and change his number again, she said something that he wasn't expecting
"Well if you don't mind I would like to meet her maybe when I am there you can introduce me to her!" she said too cheerfully.
"Oh I uhm I don't know I mean we are both quite busy"
"Oh cmon Takumi I am pretty sure you two can squeeze a date just for me. So you will. Introduce. Me. To. Her. Right." that sounded more like a command than a question and he can feel her evil aura through that tone
Takumi sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose 'there is no going back now' he thought
"Ah yeah I think we can find it in our schedule, just call me when you are here and the dates you are available"
"Alright well I have to go since the minutes are about to run out, so until we meet Takumi-kun" she said the last part seductively as she hung up
Takumi couldn't help but shiver as he turned around to see his brother look at him smiling.
"How much did you hear Isami?"
"Enough to know that my nii-chan has a girlfriend even though he lied just to get Bianca off his back"
"Get dress, I'm going to shower. We're going out" he said as he grabbed his towel
"Where we going?"
"To the Polar Star dorm" he said as he closed the bathroom door
flashback over
"And that is why we are here" Takumi finished telling his story as he drank his water
"So your ex-girlfriend is coming to Japan because her dad works as a businessman and got transfer, and in order for you to get rid of her you lied and said you have a girlfriend." Soma summarized
"Yup pretty much" Takumi replied
"Okay give me one second" Soma said as he drank his water and next thing you know he did a spit take and started to laugh
"Hey Yukihira this isn't funny!" Takumi yelled as he saw Soma laughing and grabbing his ribs "stop laughing!" next thing he knew he heard another laughter to his right and saw his brother laughing
"Oi Isami not you too!"
"Hahaha I'm sorry nii-chan but it's kind of funny that you put yourself in this situation"
"Hahahaha I'm sorry Takumi, but this one is all on you"
Takumi had no choice but to withstand their laughter after ten minutes they both settle down in their chairs.
"So I'll ask again, why are you here?" Soma asked long forgetting his appetite
"Because Yukihira, I need help and I was hoping you have a solution to this problem" Takumi replied
"Well it's simple really"
"Really? What's your plan?" Takumi asked with a gleam of hope in his eyes
Soma looked at Takumi and said "You just need to find a girl and have her be your pretend girlfriend for the day"
The room was silent for a minute.
"Hey that's not a bad idea" Isami said as if it was the brightest idea he has ever heard
"Like hell it is!" Takumi yelled out "How am I supposed to find a girl to be my pretend girlfriend?"
"Your fan club" Soma said
"They are just fans beside I'm not interested in involving them to my problems and they'll probably faint if I even spoke a word to them"
"Hmm you are not being reasonable here besides what makes this ex-girlfriend of yours crazy?" Soma asked the big question
"Oh don't get me started" Takumi replied
"Hm what's going on here?" A new voice came in the room
The three guys turn around to see Erina Nakiri and Hisako Arato in their fancy white and blue sleeping attire.
"Oh yo Erina, Hisako you girls sleep well? Especially you my lady" Soma asked as he walked towards Erina and kissed her hand.
Somewhere around their second year Erina and Soma became a couple, it was slow but their love blossom around the beginning of their third year. After Azami was overthrown and her grandfather was put back into power (thanks to the help of Souma and the gang along with Souma's father Joichiro and Gin) Everything went back to normal with the gang being the new Elite Ten as Soma being the second seat and Erina the first seat. It's unknown why Souma hasn't challenge Erina for the first seat, but that's a question they'll ask later. Anyways Erina could have returned to the Nakiri mansion, but for some reason she couldn't leave the polar dorm so with the permission of her grandfather she was allowed to stay there. Though everyone believed it was because her relationship with Soma, but later she revealed it was because she consider everyone in the dorm an important friend. Hisako comes very now and then and sometimes sleeps over to be with Erina.
"Soma it's too early in the morning for this besides we heard some shouts and laughters and were curious what was going on here" Erina responded as she turned to the Aldini brothers "Morning Aldini brothers"
"Ah morning Nakiri-san sorry if we woke you" Takumi said
"Morning" Isami greeted
"Oh and good morning Arato-san" Takumi turned to Hisako
"Morning" Isami said
"Good morning Aldini's" Hisako greeted feeling like that friend who is always noticed last
"Anyways what was going on here?" Erina asked as she took a seat. Wondering what all the commotion was going on
"Oh Takumi's ex-girlfriend Bianca is coming here to Japan and wants to meet his girlfriend'' Soma answered quoting the word girlfriend.
This caught the girl's attention
"I didn't know you had an ex-girlfriend Aldini-san" Erina said
"I didn't know you have a girlfriend as well" Hisako said curiosity getting the best of her as she sat next to Erina
"Oh well his ex-girlfriend is supposedly crazy and he lied to her saying that he has girlfriend so he won't have to get back together with her" Soma answer as he poured water for both girls
This definitely peeked the girls attention
"What makes her crazy?" both Erina and Hisako ask
Takumi was reluctant to answer but knew he had to tell them so he crossed his arm and sighed.
"Well Isami knows how crazy she is, but I guess I can give you an example. Well there was this one time back at my home in Italy where she slept at our house because it was raining a lot for her to go back home and we gave her the guest bedroom. Next morning I woke up next to her with revealing clothes that showed a lot of skin and Isami was nowhere to be found until I found him in the backyard soaking wet"
"I know I didn't sleep walk because I saw her coming in the room in the middle of the night and next thing I know I'm out cold" Isami added shuddering at the idea"Ah there was this one time when I saw a t-shirt saying 'property of Takumi'"
"Wait what?"
"Yeah when we where at her place and I was looking for my keys"
YOU TELL ME THIS NOW ISAMI!" Takumi exclaimed as he tugging on Isami's neck
"I don't think she wore it in public though. But it was your fault nii-chan, you should have broken up with her sooner before she gave those laxatives brownies to our friends that made them all go to the bathroom really badly"
"How was I supposed to know what she put in there!" Takumi defending himself "Besides I was too busy trying to protect my virginity from being stolen you know!"
"Oh yeah I walked in on her on top of you ready to undress you" Isami said shuddering at the memory of walking in on his brother with his belt off and shirt ripped her hormones must've be off the roof if she was like that. Must be puberty
"Okay we get it she is a girl who is obsessed with you and will do anything just to be alone with you" Soma concluded
"She sounds like a girl you don't want to know" Hisako said shuddering
"Well Aldini-san seems like she was quite a troublemaker, but why didn't you break up with her sooner like your brother said?" Erina asked
"Because she threatened to spread rumors about how horrible my cooking was. And I care about my cooking a lot you know. Plus she can make things believable since she was in the drama club." Takumi replied
"So what are you going to do, you told her you have a girlfriend and she forced you to make an appointment for the both of you to meet her and you don't want to use your fan girls as a fake girlfriend" Soma said
"Like I said their sensitive. I don't want to use them" Takumi said
"Well a fake girlfriend seems like the perfect plan to have her back off for good besides how did you two break up if she threatened you?" Hisako asked
"Ah her dad got transferred to Spain for a job so I ended up convincing her that long distance relationship never worked"
"So luck was on your side that time" Hisako replied
"Yup pretty much, but not this time"
The room was silent for a couple minutes trying to figure out what to do about Takumi's situation. None of the girls at the Polar Star Dorm are here to help except for Hisako and Erina.
"Well nii-chan in case we can't think of anything there's Plan B" Isami patted his brother's shoulder
"And that is?"
"You tell her that you lied because you were too afraid to admit…. that you were gay" Isami said smiling patting his brother shoulder
The room was silent once again
"Isami…. you better be joking about that" Takumi said as an evil aura was surrounding him.
"Ahaha I-I-I was joking nii-chan ahaha" Isami replied
"Hm so all we need is a girl to be your pretend girlfriend and that's all. Right Aldini-san?" Erina asked
"Ah yeah that's the ideal plan" Takumi answered
"Good, so Hisako you can do it right?" Erina asked
Now this surprised everyone in the room especially Hisako
"Wait w-w-what was t-t-that Erina? Hisako asked blushing red
"You can pretend to be Takumi-san's girlfriend right? Shouldn't be a big problem" Erina replied
"E-e-eh what uhm I don't know I uh" Hisako had no idea what to say has her face was blushing red. Next thing she knew, Takumi was in front of her on his head and knees begging. Is he serious!?
"Please Arato-san I'm begging you if you can just pretend to be my girlfriend for the day she can leave me alone for good after this" Takumi was now pleading for his life
Hisako was conflicted she felt sorry for the blonde Aldini brother the way his ex-girlfriend was like, she sounded horrible….. and crazy. But being in a fake relationship with him well it was still a relationship! Right? Besides she can't deny the fact that she had a crush on a certain red-head once but now he is happy with her best friend, so she had to bury her feelings for the said man. Time went by as everyone was getting into relationships and yet here she was still single. She won't admit it outloud, but being in a relationship didn't sound so bad. And here was a guy and not just any guy but Takumi Aldini famous around the school because of his looks and cooking skills, he can get any girl he wanted, so why is he begging for her to be the one to help him?
"Please I promise I'll repay you for this after all of this is said and done" Takumi proposed
"Well what do you say Hisako?" Erina asked again
With a large gulp she closed her eyes "Alright I'll do it, I'll be your…. girlfriend" Hisako replied opening her eyes seeing a happy Takumi as he engulfed her in a big hug
"Ah thank you Arato-san I owe you big time!"
Hisako didn't know what to do she wasn't used to having close contact with guys, but in the end she returned the hug kind of awkwardy and notice how nice he smelled up close. What kind of cologne is he wearing? It wasn't for a while that Takumi realized what he was doing and immediately let go
"Ah sorry Arato-san didn't mean to you hug you so suddenly" Takumi apologized ignoring the blush on his face
"Eh oh uhm don't worry about it" Hisako replied blushing madly realizing what she was doing during their embrace.
"Well now that, that's over with why don't we cook something I'm starving." Cried out Soma rubbing his stomach
"Same here" Erina replied
"I'm getting hungry myself too" Isami said
"How about both you lovebirds" Soma called on the two said lovebirds
Both Takumi and Hisako just nodded
"Man if you two want to make Bianca believe you two are a couple better fix that awkward atmosphere aha" Soma laughed as he went to the kitchen
"It's okay I'll help the both of you out" Erina told them before she went to the kitchen to help out her boyfriend. Isami sensing the atmosphere immediately went to the kitchen as well. That left Hisako and Takumi alone at the table
"So uh Arato-san thanks for helping me out with this you know." Takumi said sitting down on the chair.
"Yeah no problem Aldini-san" Hisako said and now it was silent between the two not even looking at each other. Is this really going to work?
In the Kitchen
"You are trying to set Hisako up with Takumi aren't you?" Soma asked as he getting the ingredients ready.
"C'mon you have to agree Hisako deserves a decent guy, especially since we are all getting in a relationship in our last year here." Erina explained
"And you approved that nii-chan is her type?" Isami asked curious about her answer.
"Well yeah he seems like a great guy and seems like he will not hurt Hisako. Besides she had feelings for you Soma-kun that she had to bury because of me"
"Yeah I was aware, but my heart belongs to you and you only" Soma replied as he rubbed his cheeks on Erina's
"But do you think this fake relationship will turn into a real one?" Isami questioned
"Oh I will make it turn into real relationship in one way or another. I just have to get rid of Takumi-san's crazy ex-girlfriend and they will be a happy couple. I just know it" Erina beamed with glee "think about how adorable their kids would be!" she continued to talk about them
So you are just playing cupid now Both Soma and Isami thought with a sweatdrop.
Well this is the first chapter how was it? I'll probably come back and edit some stuff here and there, but if you enjoyed it don't worry I'm already working on the second chapter so leave a review of what you think and hope you liked reading this.