Day 5: The Dinner: Part 2
Evening had finally come.
The entire street where the restaurant was on was closed off exclusively for the dinner guests and other VIP. Crowds of people, including newscasters, paparazzi, and bystanders filled the outer ends of the street as they wait for Geese Howard and his guests to arrive.
The Kitchen, Inside The Restaurant
Meanwhile, Kyo, Iori, and everyone else waited impatiently for their exclusive guests to arrive. King was sharing her drinks with Blue Mary trying to calm their nerves; Chang was sweating with nervousness so much that Choi had to dry his suit three times already. Shingo was pacing back and forth across the floor to the point he was starting to make a groove in the tiles, while Yamazaki, Goenitz were having a smoke. Billy was biting his nails at the thought of screwing up around his boss Geese.
"Why is everyone so nervous?" Bao asks everyone, while he continues cooking tonight's meals.
"Oh, I don't know…the fact that if something goes wrong Geese would have our hides?" Kyo responds.
"I'm not nervous…it's everyone else in here that's putting me on edge," Blue Mary lies as she took another drink.
"Oh come on, wimps, its just Geese! You think that putz is going to ruin us that badly even if one tiny thing goes awry? Pfft, don't make me laugh," Iori says, rolling his eyes.
"Wow…there sure is a big lack of confidence in here right now…" Bao comments.
Kyo checks his watch. It was almost time for the guests to arrive.
"Okay everyone, Iori and I are going out to the front. You guys just stay here until you're called upon," Kyo says as he and Iori exit out of the kitchen and head toward the front.
Restaurant Lobby
Once in the main lobby, both men notice someone just outside the front doors.
"Someone's at the door…" Iori says, seeing the silhouette of someone just outside.
"Think its Geese?" Kyo asks.
"The hell I'd know," Iori says with a shrug.
Both men went up to he doors and prepares to open them.
"Okay, on the count of three, we both welcome him and his guests with open arms," Kyo says to Iori.
"Whatever," Iori says, rolling his eyes.
"One…two…three!" Kyo says, before opening the doors of the restaurant.
"Welcome to the Yaganagi Bistro & Steakhouse!" both men says simultaneously, before stopping to see who they were talking to.
It was Ash, wearing a dress, and carrying a purse. His hair was done, and overall he was looking…unusually sexy.
"Oh my, you two are soooo kind. I'm giving you two an extra tip after dinner," Ash says with a giggle.
Both men stare in horror at what they were seeing.
"Oh, I almost forgot, Geese and his men were right behind me when I pulled in. They should be walking inside any second now," Ash adds before walking inside toward an empty table.
After taking a few seconds to try to regain their train of thought, both Kyo and Iori look at each other.
"Can I kill him when we're done?" Iori says to Kyo.
"Be my guest. Why'd you ask?" Kyo says.
"I don't know, he seems to like you more anyways, so…you know…" Iori says, trailing off.
Before Kyo could respond, the doors flew open again.
The main guests have arrived.
Geese Howard in the flesh, along with Wolfgang Krauser, Mr. Big, Rugal Bernstein, Krizalid, Zero, Orochi, and Igniz followed in from behind. All of them were wearing very expensive suits, polished shoes, and other various high-class accessories.
"So, this is the place we'll be dining at tonight. Hmm…looks decent so far," Geese comments as he surveyes the area.
Kyo and Iori quickly went to greet the guests.
"Welcome to the Yaganagi Bistro & Steakhouse!" Kyo says, trying to sound professional.
"Your tables are this way," Iori says, for once sounding like he gave a damn, escorting the men to their tables.
As the men walk by, Rugal stops next to Kyo and whisperes in his ear:
"Make it good."
"Gee, thanks," Kyo says with a slightly nervous laugh.
Kyo walks over to the head table and notices that King and Blue Mary had already taken the initiative and were already there taking the men's coats as Iori sat them.
"So far…so good…" Kyo says to himself.
The Kitchen
Minutes later, Kyo peeks inside the kitchen.
"We're ready to start serving the appetizers and drinks. Is everything ready?" Kyo asks everyone.
"Here's the wine!" Chang says, grabbing the bottle of wine and walking over to Kyo, when suddenly…
TRIP!
…he stumbles over his own feet and falls forward, the bottle of wine flying in the air.
"OH NO!" Kyo yells as he went to try to catch the bottle, but it flies over his head and out the kitchen door.
"Got it!" King says from behind Kyo, as she ends up catching the bottle in the knick of time. "No way I'm letting this bottle of expensive wine get broken," King says as she turns around and goes to serve it to the guests.
"Are you trying to give me a heart attack?!" Kyo says to Chang, sounding a bit frustrated. "Never mind…where's the salad and bread sticks?"
"The bread sticks are ready…don't know about the salad…I think Mr. Billy was taking care of that," Bao says, who was at the stove stirring some soup while standing on a stepping stool.
As if one cue, Billy returns to the kitchen rolling a wheelbarrow full of freshly dug up lettuce and tomatoes.
"Who's freakin' idea was it to have me use my cane to hoe vegetables in some garden I've never noticed in the back alley before?" Billy says as he dumps the vegetables on the counter.
"Wow…now that's fresh salad…" Kyo says, an eyebrow raised.
Dining Area
About fifteen minutes later, the restaurant was beginning to fill up with other guests and officials who wish to broadcast the entire dinner.
"How's everything out here?" Kyo asks as he walks up to Iori.
"Okay I guess…except for Ash, who kept asking if he could try our…sausages…" Iori says while shuddering at the thought.
"…Ew…" Kyo responds. "And Geese?"
"He's being interviewed by some officials right now," Iori responds.
"Anyways, its about time to get the head chef to go present our guests tonight's menu," Iori continues. "Go tell the little bastard to get his scrawny butt out here, pronto."
Kyo nodded and returned to the kitchen.
The Kitchen
"Hey, Bao, you ready to present the menu to the our guests?" Kyo calls out as he enters the kitchen.
No response.
"Bao? Bao! Where are you?!" Kyo calls out.
Shingo appears seconds later and runs up to Kyo.
"Kyo-san! Bao's stuck in the toilet!" Shingo says to him in.
"He's WHAT?!" Kyo yells out.
"Yeah, Bao was criticizing Yamazaki about his unorthodox cooking methods, and I guess Yamazaki got mad, so he took Bao and shoved him headfirst in the back toilet!" Shingo explains.
"You've got to be kidding me…" Kyo mutters under his breath.
At that moment, Yamazaki returns to the kitchen. Kyo glares at him.
"…What?" Yamazaki says, pretending to not know what he has done.
"Great, just great, now who's going to present the main menu? Where's Goenitz, he could do it!" Kyo asks.
"He went to the store to pick up some more supplies," Choi says from across the room.
"Damn…what about Chang?" Kyo asks next.
"I think he went into the back to take a dump just now…" Billy responds.
"Oh god…" Kyo says.
"I can do it, Kyo-san!" Shingo volunteers.
After a long pause of doubt, Kyo sighs and gives in.
"Fine…just don't screw up!" Kyo says, placing his palm on his face.
Dining Area
Minutes later, Shingo confronts Geese and his men at the head table. He clears his throat nervously and begins to speak to them.
"Uh…ahem…greetings gentlemen, I am the Lead Chef's assistant, Shingo. Um…here is what we got on our menu tonight!" Shingo began, handing out menus to everyone around the table.
"Is that so?" Geese says, looking at the menu.
"Oh yes. In our steak section, we uh…have Brondon Loil…I mean London Broil! And uh…we have tasty soups, like our Rich and Hearty Nicken Choodle Stoup…Oops! I mean Chicken Noodle Soup!" Shingo began, messing up the names of the food items as he read them from nervousness.
"Hmm…how are the Bistro Beef Burgers?" Zero asks Shingo.
At that moment, Shingo sees from the corner of his eyes a live cow trying to walk out of the kitchen into the dining area, but Yamazaki stops it by hitting it in the head with a frying pan before dragging it back inside.
"Uh…pretty rare?" Shingo says with a cheesy smile.
"Would you recommend New England Fish and Chips?" Igniz asks.
Once again, Shingo sees from the corner of his eyes Choi trying to wrestle a very large fish that was flopping out of the kitchen. Choi gets it under control and rides it back inside before anyone else would notice.
"Well…its uh...very…fishy…" Shingo says with a shrug.
Before Shingo would further embarrass himself in front of the guests, Bao finally appears next to Shingo, wearing a completely new outfit from what he wore earlier.
"Bao! You're here!" Shingo whispers to the short chef.
"Yeah…I was finally able to get my head unstuck out of the toilet after using a nearby plunger on myself," Bao whispers back, a slightly frustrated look on his face. "I'll take it from here, thanks."
Shingo nods quickly and runs back into the kitchen, letting Bao finish taking the orders.
Later…
An hour later, Bao, Blue Mary, and King brings out everyone's orders. Shingo and Goenitz were also serving the other guests throughout the restaurant. Chang and Choi were washing dishes, while Billy and Yamazaki were looking after Bao's desert.
Meanwhile, Kyo and Iori were calculating everyone's orders at the cash register in their back office.
"Let's see…if we count up everyone's orders throughout the restaurant this evening…we should rake in about $10,000," Kyo says, ticking away at the register.
"Including the money we still had leftover, I'll be finally rolling in cash," Iori says with a wide grin.
"You know…its funny that our individual businesses failed, but when we combined forces from start to finish, we succeed," Kyo comments.
"Heh, nothing can ruin our dinner now," Iori comments.
The Kitchen
Sometime later, after everyone from the kitchen had left momentarily, Ash walks inside the kitchen and takes a look around.
"Hmm…where are the cuties Kyo and Iori? I want to congratulate them on such a fine dinner," Ash says, before stopping at the stove.
"Hmm? I smell a cake in the oven…but its almost time for desert. Tsk tsk...it'll never get done at this rate. I'll just turn the heat up a bit and be on my way," Ash says, cranking up the oven's temperature to 'Volcano'.
Ash then proceeds to leave he kitchen.
Dining Area
At the end of the dinner, Geese and his guests were ready for desert. The entire restaurant staff was around their table getting an evaluation from Geese.
"I must say, I was skeptical about this place, but so far everything has been great. If the dessert is good, I'll throw in a huge bonus for your efforts," Geese says to them.
Iori's eyes chime with dollar signs at the thought.
"It should be just right now! I'll go grab it!" Bao says as he rushes off to the kitchen.
But Bao rushes back to everyone seconds later, a very panicked look on his face.
"What's wrong? Where's the dessert?" King asks.
"T-T-THE KITCHEN'S ON FIRE!" Bao sputters out.
"WHAT?!" everyone, restaurant staff and the guests alike says simultaneously.
"The hell?!" Iori says as he and Kyo rush toward the kitchen and bursts inside to see everything set aflame.
"OH NO! WHERE'S THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER?!" Kyo shouts out.
"Fire extinguisher? You mean that wasn't shaving cream I used?" Chang says from behind.
The fire began to spread across the restaurant quickly thereafter.
"EVERYONE RUN!" Shingo shouts like a little schoolgirl.
Everyone in the building rushes out of the restaurant, and witness the place Kyo, Iori, and everyone else built go to pot in minutes.
Later…
While the fire department was taking care of the burnt-down restaurant, the entire kitchen crew sat on the curb and sulks.
"All that work we did…" Kyo says with a sigh.
"All that money…so close to my hands… and the extra leftover going to pay off the property damage…GAH!" Iori growls angrily.
"Master Kim's gonna kill us when he hears about this…" Choi says to Chang.
"Yeah…and that fire extinguisher foam left a rash around my face…" Chang says as he itched his reddened face.
"I need me a drink…" King sighs.
"Me too…" Blue Mary says as well.
"My boss Geese isn't going to like this at all…" Billy gulps.
"All of that expensive meat, now gone!" Yamazaki says with frustration.
"This is just terrible…" Goenitz says.
"What now, Kyo-san?" Shingo asks his teacher.
Before Kyo could answer, Bao walks up to everyone. They all look up to see the little chef carrying a black box of some sort.
"What's that?" Kyo asks.
"It's a black-box camera. It contains footage up to the start of that fire in the kitchen. Wanna see?" Bao asks everyone.
No sooner had he finished asking, everyone huddles around Bao to see the tape.
Bao plays it, revealing Ash the one who caused the fire.
"WHY THAT DAMN FRUIT-LOOP! HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS!" Iori yells with anger. "IF IT ISN'T ONE THING IT'S ANOTHER!"
Simultaneously, everyone looks over at Ash, who was sitting not too far from the rest of them. Ash gulps and began to scoot away from them.
"Um…sorry?" Ash says with a cheesy smile, before getting up and running away.
"GET HIM!" Kyo yells as he and everyone else began pursuing Ash down the street.
No sooner after the chase had started, the limousine that Geese and the rest of his gusts were riding in was zooming down the street trying to run them down.
"THAT WAS THE WORST EXPERIENCE EVER, AND I DIDN'T GET TO EAT MY DESSERT! I'M GOING TO SUE THE HELL OUT OF YOU GUYS! YOU'LL NEVER WORK IN THIS TOWN AGAIN…" Geese yells as he stuck his head out he window during the entire chase.
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