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Title: What's for breakfast?

Day/Theme: Oct. 28, 'jam tomorrow'
Series: Bleach
Character/Pairing: Ishida Uryuu, Inoue Orihime
Rating: PG
Warnings: Weird food combinations

28. jam tomorrow

Inoue Orihime's cupboards always had something in them. She always said it was because she ate a lot. Which made sense.
However, the contents in question usually didn't.

You could count on her cupboards to have an assortment of condiments. Mayonnaise, soy sauce, chocolate sauce and wasabi. Some vegetables. Yams, corn and leeks. Other things. Bananas, fish cakes, noodles, eggs.
And while a normal person might struggle to come up with a perfectly normal food, Orihime had no such inhibitions and made whatever she pleased.

Somewhat a problem when someone came over to study for the night and had to eat breakfast with her.

Ishida cast a wary eye over the assembled breakfast ingredients Orihime had laid out. Pickles, wasabi, radish.
And toast.
There was other stuff as well, such as bean paste, honey, jam and this black stuff called marmite, but Uryuu just couldn't get his head around the fact that Inoue ate the assortment of foodstuffs in front of him TOGETHER and for breakfast.

"Ishida-kun! What do you want for breakfast?" Inoue chirped in front of him, smiling brightly. "Don't forget that we've also got to make lunch as well!"

"Uhhh..." He hurriedly pushed his glasses back up his nose, "I can buy my own lunch before school Inoue-san. I wouldn't want to impose on your hospitality." He knew his protest was rather weak, but Inoue had already moved onto the issue about what to have on her toast.

"Hmmm... Maybe pickle and honey. Or maybe wasabi and... Ishida-kun, what are you having?" she sprang the question upon him suddenly.

Ishida stuttered for a moment, readjusting his glasses while surveying all the possible palatable options.
"I think I will just have toast and tea." He smiled weakly at her bright one.

"But what should I have on my toast? We have all sorts of things." She picked up the jam and the pickle jar, weighing them up. "Jam and pickle? Or what about marmite and radish?"

"What about radish and pickle?" he tentatively suggested a combination.

"Too bland," she picked up the marmite and set it down next to the pickles with the jam. "Jam and wasabi, possibly," she moved the tube of wasabi over to the three jars.

"But what about marmite and jam? But the jam shall be for tomorrow's breakfast in the miso, so... marmite and wasabi it is!" Orihime enthusiastically dug her knife into the jar of marmite, completely ignoring Ishida's somewhat green face. "I always have jam tomorrow."

"What about today? And yesterday?" Ishida bit into his slice of toast, thankful it didn't have any concoctions resting atop of it.

"Marmite yesterday, jam tomorrow and wasabi today." She happily smeared both pastes onto her toast and started digging in.

"That makes no sense at all, Inoue-san."

"It makes perfect sense to me. Waii~! It's good!" Inoue chewed happily on her toast, not even vaguely aware of the nauseous look that her house guest had on his face.