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"What do we do now?" Ichigo asked his father. "It's logical.", The latter announced, turned towards the kitchen and motioned for Hikari to follow him. Obediently, she did as she was told. Ichigo followed automatically. In the kitchen the blonde girl was busy cooking dinner. The black-haired woman helped her. "First of all, she eats with us." Kurosaki just out of the blue. "Okay. Karin? Can you set the table?", The blonde asked the black-haired girl kindly. "B-But I can't accept that! I can ...", Hikari began to contradict, but she was suddenly stopped by Dr. Kurosaki interrupted. "Debt of honor. Today you eat with us. No arguing." "Okay.", The interrupted answered meekly and then turned to the blonde in the kitchen. "May I help? Otherwise I feel uncomfortable when I'm already invited." "Sure, you can. By the way, I'm Yuzu. And this is my sister Karin.", She said while pointing at the black-haired woman, "You can look for the curry in the pot over there? ”Hikari nodded and walked over to the pot so that Yuzu could continue to cut the vegetables for the side dish. The first thing she tried was the curry. "Uh, salty." Was her first thought. In addition, there were impressions like "It should taste different", she was sure, but how? She was standing in front of this curry pot, puzzling, when she suddenly saw snippets of scenes in her mind's eye. Hands that handled kitchen knives, cut precisely, safely, seasoned the dishes in large pots, brought the spoons to their mouths to try the dishes. She could cook, she thought, those were memories of the past. They were only fragments, too little to make any sense of it other than the fact that she could cook, but they were still her memories. A wave of happiness swept over her and for a moment displaced her insecurity. Tears of joy gathered in the corners of her eyes, which she quickly wiped away before anyone noticed them or they fell into the curry, it was salty enough as it was. It might not have been much, but to Hikari it was a sign that her past was not so lost. Then her gaze fell on the curry again. One of her memories had shown something similar. Briefly oriented, she oriented herself in the kitchen, then she found what she was looking for. The potato was quickly peeled and ended up in the pot whole. "Why didn't you cut her?" Yuzu asked next to her. Unfortunately, Hikari wasn't paying attention and was scared. And almost tore the pot off the stove with him. Fortunately, she was able to prevent that at the last moment. "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." "Never mind ...", Hikari said quickly to cover up her shock, "Well, to your question: I found it a little too salty.And with the potato you can fix that a bit, you just have to let it cook too. Even if the potato is gone afterwards and is only good for french fries. Sorry I'm wasting it. ", she added in an apologetic tone." No, no. The whole salt shaker fell in me earlier and I was racking my brains about how to get the salt out of there again. I hope it works. ", Yuzu assured her. Immediately she had a spoon in her hand and tried the curry." Uh, still salty. ", she exclaimed, sticking out her tongue and shaking herself. Hikari giggled. That just looked too funny." She also has to cook until the end to be able to absorb the salt. ", Hikari explained quickly when she had an idea," Do you have a deep fryer? "Yuzu, who couldn't quite follow Hikari's leap in thought, only replied with a puzzled:" Yes ..? "Hikari, who hadn't thought anything about it, just kept going:" Then you can make fries tomorrow. I'll wrap them in aluminum foil later and put them in the fridge. "Still confused, Yuzu simply nodded and then turned back to her side dish. It didn't take long and the side dish and thus the last part of the dinner was ready. Then everything went very quickly. Yuzu carried the pots with Hikari's help In the meantime, Hikari fished the potato out of the curry, wrapped it in aluminum foil and then landed it in the refrigerator When the two men of the house slowly lounged in the kitchen and then sat down at the table, they could eat. "Hmmm ...", said Dr. Kurosaki while he put his nose in He had raised air and sniffed, "... my wonderful daughter has conjured up food. "" No normal father would say something like that ... ", Karin just dismissed this statement, which made Dr. Kurosaki lean down against a huge poster and cry:" Masaki ~~, What did I do wrong ? Our daughters are so cold to me ... "" That's exactly why. ", Ichigo added by snarling at him. Karin also added:" Which normal person has a souvenir poster from his wife ?! Finally hang it up! "It would have sounded like an explanation if she hadn't continued to sound so disparaging." Um ... ", Hikari stood in the middle of this intact family Confused, intimidated and with a pang of homesickness, she pushed all her feelings aside and put on a happy mask in which she smiled and said cheerfully: "Don't we want to eat while it's still warm?"At that moment the discussion ended and everyone sat down again at the table, although actually only Dr. Kurosaki had to sit down again because he was the only one to get up. Everyone politely said" Itadakimasu "and then turned to the food. Yes shortly before Ichigo, the first as always, could take the first bite in his mouth, Yuzu remembered: "Wait a minute! The curry could be a little salty, I dropped the salt shaker! "Immediately, Dr. Kurosaki began his martyrdom speech that he would eat anything his wonderful daughter would cook, even if it was completely salty. Because he ... blah ... blah ... blah ... Then he took Carefully full a spoonful and tried, metal prepared for the fact that it would be too salty, which of course you could tell by looking at it. The others waited for his reaction and hoped that it wasn't really too salty. But they didn't really want to try it themselves. They'd rather leave that to their old man. Only Hikari slowly ate from her curry in peace of mind. Only when Dr. Kurosaki exclaimed in astonishment, "It's not too salty at all! But you managed to fool us like that! ", the others sighed in relief and began to eat. Yuzu was about to say that it was thanks to Hikari when she cleverly distracted her by asking:" What did you put in the side dish? You really succeeded! "Of course Yuzu began to tell her everything, even though she already knew what was in it, since she had stood next to her, but she had achieved her goal of not being put in the spotlight by Yuzu. But only until Yuzu then herself about the curry tried it and even said, surprised: "Hikari-san, you really saved the curry! And then also spiced up, I didn't even notice. "That of course drew all the attention back to Hikari, who didn't like it at all, which was expressed by a slight red sheen on her cheeks." I didn't do anything. ", she mumbled distractingly. But she did not miss Dr. Kurosaki's thoughtful expression, which only flashed for a few seconds but still clearly. She quickly turned back to the meal. She felt at home with this family and made a wish for herself such a place where she belonged.
"So." said Dr. Kurosaki, wiping his mouth with a napkin, although that was pretty much useless, since he had spilled his white Hend on himself too. Hikari suppressed a laugh at the yellow-brown stained shirt as he continued. “Hikari, if my children don't mind, you are welcome to stay with us until your memory returns.” Then he turned to his poster again to cover it with a monologue about the fact that he now has a new daughter. This monologue was completely ignored by the others, who now smiled at Hikari.Ichigo messed up her hair and said reassuringly: "Your memory will surely come back soon." "And if not, you can stay here too. Then at least there will be no more salty curries.", Karin said jokingly. "I've always wanted a real big sister. I only have one brother ..." "I'm sorry that I'm a man." Ichigo replied to Yuzu's statement. They laughed. Even Hikari laughed with her because it was a relief when she could stop wondering where to go.