Note: Nope, I'm not dead yet! And yes! I'm continuing the sequel of Driving Lesson with… It's Cooking Time. While I already tortured Hyoga, this time (while Hyoga was off on his meditation in North Pole), Shun will be hosting I mean in charge of the cooking time. And no, the idea was not about cooking lesson but something else with result of another hilarious fic (I hope…)

Dislaimer: Copyright owns by Masami Kurumada, all character reserved to him

Warning: I'm very sorry if there any error or grammar mistake on the story, English is my third language.

It's Cooking Time!

Part 1

'Now what!' That was the only thing that crossed his mind, sure Hyoga had already told him about his driving lesson or well... more like driving disaster… The garden seemed to be through a lot of hell with some people who was driving like crazy. Like… Shun looked at several gold saints. Most of them could be seen groaning lightly. Sure enough; they were waiting for another crazy order form their 'O Holy Goddess'. He sighed, the boy was not sure now which from his skill should he share with the seniors. A chuckle came from his side where Hades' soul smirked evilly toward him. The Andromeda glared, now should he be humiliate too in front of a God?!

"Ah, everyone present?" A female voice which definitely belonged to Athena snapped him out. All present gold saints which mean all 14 of them finally stop their grumble and or whisper. "Hello, my lovely saints." She said sweetly, too sweet actually. The green hair boy knew, should she was alone, she already smirked evilly…

"Athena." Shion finally said addressing politely.

"Shion, we are not in Sanctuary, drop the formality and I already insist to call me with my name." The purple hair Goddess said showing a little displeasure, the ex gold saint smiled before he spoke again,

"I'm apologize, Saori-san."

"Well then." She paused before she looked around. "As you know, ahem the driving lesson was well…"

"A disaster?" Deathmask chipped in before he was elbowed by his Pisces friend.

"More or less." She let out a giggle.

"But aren't you mad at us?" Shura asked cautiously, after all he did break and slashed the garden into two… not to mention Shaka had behead Athena's statue in his way driving around.

"No, no I think, it's ok. Garden can be replaced but you, my saints are not. I'm glad no one injured except maybe for your student, Camus." By this time the Aquarius showed no reaction but his best friend could see his shoulder stiffened a little.

"I apologized for his tardiness, Ath- I mean Saori-san."

"Oh, no need. Just tell him to come back. Beside we can make another exciting experience." The Goddess said again smiling; no not evilly, more like smirking when you want to prank someone. 'Uh-oh' was the only reaction crossed their head…

"Shun, you do quite skill in cooking right?" She said while looking at the boy. Shun could only gulp in nervousness before he uncertainly nodded. Saori could see Hades grinned in anticipation.

"No way! I am not cooking!" Aiolia said without even realizing. Quickly he clampped his mouth with his hand.

"This is not cooking lesson, right, Saori-san?" Dohko asked politely.

"Hey! I can cook just fine, thank you, I don't need him to tell me how to cook!" Deathmask glared at Shun.

"Italiano pride?" Here comes a snide remark.

"I heard that you, insect!"

"Scorpio is Arthropod! How many times should I tell you about this to your little monkey's brain?" Milo said calmly although his vein popped slightly.

"Why you!" DM was ready to launch before both Pisces and Capricorn restrained him.

"You should not address him like that." Shaka suddenly said as everyone quiet down.

"True, Milo." Mu added.

"To me, you are all monkey." Veins popping… Mu felt face first to the ground. "Other than that, he is a crab." No one knew why he provoked.

"Shaka! Don't make it worst!" Saga said eyes twitching. Camus could be seen rolling his eyes while Shion face palm.

"Boys!" Athena voice finally caught all attention. "No, this is not cooking lesson." Collective sigh could be heard. "Most of you come from different country. Now I want every single one of you, one by one cook something for dinner. Shun will be your assistant."

"Huh?!" The green hair saint stared in disbelief. Cooking with gold saint! More over several of them are dangerous. He stared nervously toward Saga to DM then Shaka and Camus then Aphrodite. He shuddered, maybe he should be going to North Pole with Hyoga, and at least there were no crazy Goddess…

"So to make it fair, we start with Aphrodite." A gasp!

"But! Athena!" The beauty Goddess bearer started.

"No excuse. I can't wait to sample Sweden dish." She said before walking out from the room to well… maintain her Kido's kingdom. What else?

Saint

Seiya

Cooking time with Aphrodite…

Shun was grumbling under his breath as he took his green apron from his room. Why him?! What did he do to deserve this? He sighed when finally walked toward the kitchen to find his ex-enemy turn senior already inside. He gasped.

"Wait, Aphrodite-san!" He stated loudly "What are you doing?" The Pisces bearer didn't even stop his humming as he took another pink sheet.

"Oh, hi Shun, nothing." The sky blue hair lad grinned slightly before he pulled the paper and skillfully pressed it onto the ceiling. "If she want me to cook then at least let me decorate the kitchen into something that I can admire."

"But! Aphro-san, you will only cook for one day!"

"So?"

"… nevermind." This would be his first headache… he was sure every gold saint who cooked after the lad would be screaming after seeing the kitchen turned into nursery room for girl…

"Done!" The older lad said grinning mischievously. "Now then why don't we start the cooking?"

"What should I do then?" Shun asked with a hint of excitement in his voice, after all he love cooking and if he could learn one or two dish from other, it would be a plus. Beside how bad this could be?

"Hem, first stop is to…" A paused as Shun nodded listening intently. "To buy Surströmming!" Aphrodite said as he walked outside and leaved the boy face plant onto the floor…

2 hours later… after much waiting in Kido's mansion…

"Shun!" The today chef finally strolled onto the common room where some saints were enjoying their free time. The green hair saint looked up from his book while the other present saints stared at them in curiosity. "Come on, we got cooking to do!" He said in singsong voice while carrying a plastic bag on his right hand.

"You finally ready?"

"Ja! (Yes in Sweden) Come on now!" He said as he walked toward the decorated kitchen.

"Ja? (Bye in Japanese)" Shun looked at the other saints who either ignored him or shrugged, groaning lightly he finally walked toward the kitchen. Minutes later after several preparations, Shun finally found himself helping with meat grinding. "What meat do I grind right now actually?"

"That? Dog meat."

"WHAT!" Shun literally ran back and planted himself into the ceiling. A chuckle

"Kidding, kid. 2:3 pork and beef meat." He said while peeling and grating onion, he humming while taking a saucepan and began putting some butter and started to heat the onion. Shun sighed before he continued his task… he stared horrified when Aphrodite put the bowl of already soaked bread into the mixer.

"Is that how that suppose to work?"

"Uh huh." The Pisces grinned before he turned on the food processor, when the bread became more like porridge, he took a large bowl and poured all of it inside and added the already fried onion. Shun just crinkled when he poured eggs inside, salt and pepper. So far the Andromeda didn't stop the older lad since he was also unfamiliar with Swedish dish but he gasped in horror when the lad put the whole nutmeg and cardamom into the concoction.

"Wait! Shouldn't you ground the nutmeg and cardamom first?"

"Huh?! Bah it's too troublesome… maybe I should put it into the food processor as well." He paused before taking out the nutmeg and cardamom with spoon one by one from the porridge; he dumped all into the processor.

"Chotto! (Wait)" Swiftly the young lad took off the plug while Aphrodite looked at him in annoyed…

"Why did you do that?" He groaned in irritated as both hands crossed on his chest.

"Use crusher like this!" Taking manual seasoning crusher out of no where.

"But that's manual."

"This mixer will be dead in no time if you use it to ground nutmeg!"

"Che… fine, you crush it. I'm not taking any risk to ruin my manicure." Sweatdrop could be seen on Shun's forehead as he sighed and manually crushed the seasoning… finally after several minutes, he took crushed/grounded seasoning and added into the bowl.

"Now what?"

"Simple, put the meat into it and mix with hand." A paused "And you do that, I'm not going to make my hand dirty." He hummed before taking a spoon. "Use this for measure to form meatball." Aphrodite then went to the table, poured himself a glass of water and fixing his makeup. Shun could only look at him with his blank stare before sighed in defeat and mixing the meat… oh to be kind and gentle… by the end of this experience, he wondered what he would turn out…

Half hour later…

"Aphro-san, it's ready." The green hair lad said as he turned around and found Aphrodite was painting his fingernail. Wasn't the nail was blue earlier? He wondered quietly as he spotted the green nail.

"Oh already? Too bad, my nail hasn't dry yet." A paused. "Make a sauce for it, dump that butter, beef stock, and flour into the pan then add salt to taste. Don't worry, I already portion out."

"Ok…"

"After it simmer and reduced, dump all the meat ball and tadaa finish when it brown."

"Fine." Shun did all the order while Aphrodite blew his nail but when he saw Shun put the meatball in, he paused from blowing 'did I forget something? Hemm… bah nevermind' he grinned.

Saint

Seiya

When everyone finally heard dinner time was ready, most of the gold saints crinkled in despair. They all knew that their Pisces friend definitely was not a good cooker, if they needed any advice in fashion or body/face care; Aphrodite might be the first person to see… on second thought… that would be suicidal… To say the room was extravagance would be an understatement. Silverware was put perfectly on the dining table and rose's banquet also positioned in several locations. Too bad for roses allergic people, but on second glance though, the flower seemed fake… As everyone sit down, came the chef of the day, with his complete chef attire while most of gold saint either jaws drop, face palm or rolled his eyes.

"Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. A wink. May I present you with a starter." As soon as he said that, Shun came with cough sous chef attire, and a trolley of… well was that bread? "Let me introduce tunnbröd, potato and onion. For the filling is 'drumroll' Surströmming!"

"Canned food!" Deathmask shout in annoyed. Whispered issued.

"I knew this will turn out like this…" Kanon murmured under his breath.

"So much fuss for canned food?" Seiya groaned. Yep, the God saints except Hyoga were all here.

"May I explain?" Aphrodite said calmly with his slightly visible vein. "Surströmming is actually some delicacy from Sweden which was rarely consumed, and I hope you monkeys (referred to the boys) be grateful that I make some effort to actually buy it this time." A glare as everyone silenced. "Now, this starter should be consumed in open air so why don't we move outside?" The Pisces grinned evilly which made everybody gulped and Saori began to think this was not her best idea either…

Once everyone outside, there were cold milk line out and of course the previous trolley contained bread, onion and potato were placed perfectly beside the table.

"Now, who wants to open the can?" Aphrodite said as he put the can down onto the table.

"Shouldn't you do that yourself?" Milo was eyeing the older boy suspiciously.

"Bah, fine then… Deathmask, honey…" Aphrodite began sweetly while the said boy began sweating and moved backward, suddenly the Pisces glare hard. "Can you help me with this or should I just blackmail you?"

"What! Why me?" The blue hair saint almost beam out a laser from his eyes.

"Okay, then this photo –" Before Aphrodite could say anything, the photo was shredded. "Oh well, I still have the memory." He smile wickedly.

"Fine!" followed by grumble, the said saint finally walked toward the can and took the can opener. As soon as he presses the opener into the can, liquid quickly explode with foul smelling filled the air. Most of the saints were gawking and or holding the neck like they were poisoned. While… Aphrodite was already moved far far away from the said table with hand on his nose. Poor Deathmask was found, not far from the table, fainting… Athena could be seen holding her nose and walked toward the current 'chef'

"Wham im tham!? (What is that?)"

"Fermented herring." Aphrodite said casually as he walked toward the table with nose pincher (that came out of nowhere) and then finished the opening of can. After that he was taking knife and wood board then carefully sliced the herring into small cube, ignoring his unconscious 'best friend' on the floor. "This is how you eat; make a tunnbröd sandwich with potato, onion and surströmming. Then wash it with cold milk. Smaklig måltid (Bon appétit!)" He grinned before taking a small plate and placed the already finished sandwich on the center before he made another sandwich.

"Um… now um boys, why don't you take one plate each?" Simultaneously all saints looked at her as is she was growing another head, then all head turned toward the eldest which already sweat frantically. Both elderly saints shook their head.

"I'm not young anymore…" Dohko suddenly holding a walking stick out of nowhere and acting like an old man "Cough see?"

"I got… kid and … grandchild to manage." Shion said looking toward Mu. The lilac hair saint could only avoiding eyes contact and suddenly find his feet interesting.

"Don't worry, it's enough for everybody." Aphrodite said with singsong voice as he and Shun (one hand on the nose) took the tray and came toward the saints one by one.

Seconds later…

"What happen?" Deathmask finally woken up from his 'sleep' was looking around and finding most of the saint black out or turned green, Camus and Shaka could be seen standing but a blank stare was visible in Camus' eyes and Shaka's cosmos seemed to be different like they were fainting in standing state. Aiolos was unexpectedly also still standing and munching the sandwich happily.

"This is actually not bad, Aphro." He said actually enjoying it.

"See?" The boy chuckled nervously with sweat drop visible in his head, he never thought there is people who can actually enjoy that thing… as he pondered, he finally realized his best friend was awake. With one plate left on his hand, he grinned and took the food toward the boy. Another screamed issued…

To be continued…

Note: next up… dinner still continue with Aphrodite as chef and Camus begins his chef career! Review will be much appreciated!