In the kitchens

[swordofzero]

Suzaku was the only one in the Black Halls common room, which wasn't surprising since he was supposed to be in class. But it was Japanese and Suzaku hated that class, the teacher made him sit with those who were learning basic Japanese and there was no point because it didn't matter how much he tried he couldn't learn it. His head just filled with fuzziness and he couldn't even think properly. Every time he saw or heard a word he would forget it and the constant memory loss made him feel sick.

So he didn't go, it was the only class he skipped and he was sat in the common room of his dorm building drinking a cup of tea. He was planning and going to train after this but for the moment he was enjoying the quiet.

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[swordofzero]

Suzaku looked up at the man who had entered the room. He was older than most the students here, but since Lloyd and Cecile were students as well Suzaku guessed there was no age limit to who the kidnappers took.

As someone who was used to taking orders he had jumped to his feet and was following the man before he thought of questions. "What's the problem?" He asked as they walked up the stairs.

[goodtobetheking]

"I'm afraid I'm having trouble with one of the appliances," he explained, ever cheerful, as he led him towards the second-floor kitchenette. If he was honest, he was surprised the boy was being so obliging, but there were plenty of children here with military training. Plenty of children who were just incredibly helpful, too. It was hard to say which one this boy was just yet.

The corridor outside the kitchen smelled faintly of smoke and charred popcorn. Shōryū smiled without any particular embarassment, and pushed the door open. The windows were all wide open, to let the air clear, and his first batch of popcorn was a smoking wreck of paper and corn in the dustbin.

"Do you know how to use a microwave?"

[swordofzero]

"Oh," Suzaku kept quiet as they moved up the stairs, if the problem was too complicated he probably wouldn't know how to fix it. He wasn't good at fixing things.

However as he followed the man into the kichenette he saw straight away the problem and gave a polite small. "Yes, I do," he went over the cupboard and found another packet of popcorn.

"This button," he pointed, "Are for how long you want it in, this one," he pointed to another button, "Is what setting you want it on, so for popcorn you need it on low and put it in for about a minute," he pressed the relative buttons and then pressed the start button.

"Then you have to listen until it stops popping," he stood back and looked at the man. "Do you not have microwaves where you come from?" It was a strange concept but Suzaku was finally coming to accept that people here came from different worlds.

[goodtobetheking]

"It's a little difficult to introduce them to a country without electricity, unfortunately." Once he'd finished watching Suzaku set the microwave to properly cook the snack, he fished the ruined bag from the bin to examine the instructions again. "Ah, I see where I went wrong, now."

[swordofzero]

Suzaku nodded, no wonder the man had got confused if his world didn't have electricity. "Yes you probably just left it in too long."

He fell silent but did not leave, he better make sure that the popcorn didn't burn this time.