#I just like the mental image of Yata's whole family leaning over his PDA

[ridiasfangirlings]

Munakata's birthday is coming up and s4 wants to throw a surprise party for him and everyone has to help out. Last minute issues got Fushimi working in the kitchen for one last dish and he can't cook. Yata is away and can't come to help in person but they can talk through phone. How would it end up with Yata instructing Fushimi through phone but not being able to see what is going on?

You know that one meme with the 'put two cups of water on the stove' picture and the person puts two glasses of water on the burners, imagine it like that XD Imagine Fushimi just muttering irritably into his PDA while Yata tries carefully to explain to him how to do some proper cooking. Say it's Munakata's birthday and the whole squad is working really hard to throw a surprise party for him. Kamo was intended to do the food but then there's some emergency like his kid is sick while her mom is out of town and so he has to take a leave of absence to go look after her. Everyone else is busy with either work or their own assignments for the party and as it happens the only person who's free to take last minute kitchen duties is Fushimi. The squad are aware that Fushimi lives off takeout and Caloriemate but they assume he must know how to cook, Fushimi's so talented it can't be that hard just to make a couple dishes.

Fushimi ends up standing there in the kitchen just staring at the notes and ingredients Kamo left for him, trying to figure out how to turn the stove on and just generally flailing because he doesn't cook. Normally he would have Yata come over for this kind of thing but Yata's also out of town visiting relatives and Fushimi doesn't want to admit to anyone else that he doesn't actually know much about cooking. Finally he decides that he doesn't have a choice, he needs to make something, so he pulls out his PDA and calls Yata. Yata initially thinks it's kinda funny, like ha yeah right they put you in charge of the food but then he realizes that Fushimi is serious and Yata knows better than anyone that Fushimi has never cooked for himself in his life.

So now Yata has to instruct Fushimi via phone as to how to cook Munakata's birthday dinner. I imagine it wouldn't be entirely without seeing what's going on, like they can use video chat or Fushimi sends pictures so that Yata can get the full idea. Imagine Yata doing all this while like sitting in the living room at his grandmother's house and his siblings want to know what he's doing, then Yata's mom overhears and soon like the whole Yata family is working together to try and walk Fushimi through simple cooking. Yata actually does pretty good with this too because he has a general idea of how to handle Saruhiko when it comes to stuff like this, like you gotta praise him when he does something right and don't get him on the defensive and he'll figure it all out. Fushimi starts out pretty frustrated but Yata slowly mellows him out by just going over things step by step as logically as possible, like Fushimi can follow guidelines easily so he should be able to follow this. In the end Fushimi does manage to make a decent meal and he's secretly very proud of himself, he even let Yata talk him into not taking out all the vegetables.