Irish Twins and Foxtail Millet

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Disclaimer - (Cause fanfiction is tricky ground and I hope not to offend the creator of the original story and get sued)

This is a fanfiction, a work of fiction. It is an unofficial, non-canon alternate story based on Riichiro Inagaki's story "Dr. Stone". Most of the media - such as the images and video's used in this fanfiction - are from the web. Thus, most of them aren't mine (because I really, really can't draw) unless mentioned. To fit the story, images are also edited by the photo editor. So they aren't mine, just edited.

Have you ever written something from the back of your head, and then realise oh sh** these were someone else's words. Yeah, that just happened to me, my disclaimer no less. Anyway, like 40% of this disclaimer belongs to KairuSui from quotev

Also if you own a picture or Video that I found online, and you either want your name added, or me to take it down. Please contact me and we can talk it out.

P.s. I also ask that you do not copy my work and publish it onto any other website (I jump around on a lot of fanfiction websites...) If you're gonna use my idea, please ask me (I'll 99.99% say yes unless you're super duper rude). If I don't contact you within a week, then just assume I'm giving you the all clear and go for it. Just remember to credit me.

I will be writing out scenes even if my Oc isn't in them. As long as she's mentioned, or influencing the characters in some way. This may seem a bit annoying. But that's just how I write. I like to embed my characters into the story line.

Warnings: Spoilers for episode 8, Slow burn, slight nakedness

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Today's Special

Nothing brings people together like good food.

~Harrel-Aged Creations

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{Third P.O.V.}

"Donburako, donburako..." Sukhman began chanting as she collected the sand.

"Who are, Momotaro?!" Chrome shouted. "Don't drown." He yelled after.

Senku's eyes widened as he asked, "You don't know Dragon Quest or Monster Hunter, but you do know Momotaro? Who taught you?"

"Hey, you know Momotaro, too?" Chrome asked, surprised.

"Ruri-new told us about him." Suika answered.

"Come to think of it, why do you know about gorillas? Are they out in the wild?" Senku continued to question.

"I've never actually seen one." Kohau answers.

"I don't think anyone's ever seen one." Rika agreed.

"But there's a gorilla in Momotaro, isn't there?" Chrome asked.

"No, there isn't!" Senku shouted.

"He used millet dumplings to win friends, remember?" Chrome tried to remind him. "A bear, a lion, a gorilla, and an alligator."

"What kind of wild-ass Momotaro is that?!" Senku questioned, eyes nearly popping out of his head. 'Was it meant to be an easy-to-understand story to teach about dangerous animals?'

"I heard all kinds of stories from Ruri-nee, too. Come to think of it, I think I learned all my big words from Ruri-nee, too." Kohaku says.

'Ruri... Just who are you?' Senku questions. Senku chuckles, "I'm low-key interested in this Ruri chick. We really need to make the cure-all and save her, whatever it takes."

"What do you mean, you're interested in Ruri?" Chrome asks, a little panicked. "What does that mean, Senku?"

"Senku, Senku, Senku-sensei..." Kohau calls him, making the universal come here motion. "Chrome seems to have a crush on Ruri-nee." She whispers into his ear.

"So that's what it was. Here we go." Senku says, making a sleazy face.

"And Chrome's such a child." Kohaku says, as she and Senku walk away, leaving behind Rika, Chrome and Suika. "I like how oblivious he is."

"What are you guys talking about?!" Chrome shouts from behind them. "Damn it, who are you calling a child?!"

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"So the black sand we got from the river turns into this 'iron' stuff?" Suika asks, looking into the pot that they had dumped all the collected sand in.

"Yeah." Senku affirms. "Mix four parts iron sand to one part coal, and bake."

"Hey, that's easy." Chrome says. As they weigh the sand and coal on a stick that is hanging onto a tree by a rope. The rope's splitting the stick into fifths. With four on one side, and one on the other.

"It's a lot harder than it sounds. It's not like making clay pots. The highest temperature we can get by burning the wood is 700 degrees. But iron making, Turing iron sand into iron, requires 1,500 degrees."

"That's not even close enough." Kohau says.

"Yeah. That's a difference of 800 degrees. What are we gonna do?" Rika agrees.

"The answer to that is quite simply bunny." Says Senku.

Rika tilts her head in confusion as the nickname. 'Is he calling me small!' As realization stricken her, her eyes narrow. "Don't call me bunny!"

"We blow like hell." Senku continues on, completely ignoring her. But he honestly hadn't ignored her, he actually classified that nickname into one to use again, if he ever wants to annoy her, like with Kohau.

"We have to give it as much oxygen as we can. We'll send in a ton of air. And double the flame's damage output from 700 to 1,500." He says. Throwing everyone a pump made out of leather, sticks and a Bambi pipe.

"This thing blows air?" Kohau asks, amazed, as she squeezed the two sides to gather. "With something this useful, I could probably do it by myself."

"You can make that claim once you've done. We're never going to have enough manpower." Said Senku.

After doing it, the rest realized what Senku had meant. With the constant motion of opening and closing the flaps to pump air into the clay oven to raise the heat of the fire, it didn't take long for all five of them to get tired.

"Damn it, my arms are killing me!" Chrome said, panting.

"I know. My arms feel like they're gonna fall right off." Rika agreed.

"Don't you dare take a break! It'll get cooler!" Senku shouted at them.

"How many more minutes are we doing this?" Kohaku asked.

"Roughly... another... twenty to thirty hours." Answered Senku between pants.

"Iron making is insane!" Chrome, Kohau, Rika and Suika exclaimed at the same time, Chrome even crying a bit at the news.

Soon, Suika couldn't go on anymore and collapsed onto her back, exhausted.

"Don't push yourself, Suika!" Kohau told her, as she forced her arms to keep pumping at the same time. "Take a break."

Rika nodded, agreeing. "Kohaku's right. You're still only a child. You shouldn't push yourself too hard."

"I still can't make myself useful." The poor girl thought sadly.

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Later that night, all you could hear were the kingdom of science's pants and wailes as a dark smoke from the fire rose high into the air.

"It looks like they're up to something really gruelling." Ginro observed from the top of a house. "I-I... I think I'm going to help-"

"No, Ginro." Kinro said at once. "Don't abandon your post. Rules are rules."

"Come on." Ginro pouted. "Just because you already had a golden spear made for you... I want..."

"A thing?!" Kinro exlaimes. "That's incredibly low, Ginro!l

Ginro jumps down and throws his spear to the ground. "Swap spears with me, then." He says, reaching for the golden tipped spear.

Only for Kinro to move it away from him, and closer to his body. "No." The older brother answers.

"I'll settle for gold, even though that's kin for gold instead of gin for silver." He tries to plead.

"No!"

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By the time morning came, the entire kingdom of science was exhausted. Senku and Chrome had collapsed onto their sides, Suika was on her side, and the bunny and the lioness were curled up into tiny balls, asleep.

Once everyone had gotten up again, they broke down the clay oven to reveal... that the sand was still sand.

"It didn't work." Rika said sadly. "Was all of that for nothing than?" She cried.

"Manpower is our top priority." Senku said, glaring at the sand. Chrome behind his open mouth. "The kingdom of science needs more citizens."

"I may have an idea..." Rika smirked, a certain blond named after silver in mind.

When they found him. Little Ginro was fast asleep, having no idea about what was to come. Dreaming about his silver spear. "The spear... Kinro..."

His small form was soon covered by an ominous shadow, which turned out to be the shadows of Senku, Rika and Chrome.

"I knew it. We almost have Ginro." Senku chuckled, having a large sleazy smile on his face.

"Good." Said Chrome, copying his expression. "This is working in our favour!"

"Too bad Kinro won't be that easy." Rika said, pouting.

"We're using the bait that is science to gain manpower!" The two scientists finished in unison.

"Quit calling it bait, both of you." Kohau glared at them.

"But it's not like the whole village is going to appreciate a shiny spear." Senku said, getting serious again. "We need intel about what people want."

"I'm good at that kind of thing!" Suika said excitedly raising her hand. "I can turn into a watermelon, so I can go anywhere without being noticed!" She said, poping her small body into the shell of the watermelon, amazing everyone.

"Not bad." Senku chuckled. "All right, Great Detective Suika-dams, we call on your services to find us manpower for ironmaking."

"You got this, Great Detective Suika!" Chrome shouted encouragingly.

'Great Detective Suika...' the girl repeated in her head happily. 'I'm going to make myself useful!' She thought excitedly, bouncing across the bridge.

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Later that night, she enthusiastically told the citizens of science about her discoveries.

"I went to listen in on people to see if there's anything they want." Suika said, as they cooked their fish. "First, the dazzling sisters, Garnet, Sapphire, and Ruby."

"Ah, the prettiest girls in town." Kohaku notes.

"What those three want..." Suika begins,

"I'd appreciate it if it's something we can make with the technology of this age." Senku says in the background.

"...is a boyfriend!" Suika exclaimes.

"And that's something we have no chance of making with science!" Senku shouts, eyes nearly popping out of his head.

"Garnet wants a strong man, Sapphire a handsome man, and Ruby wants someone who will feed her." Suika says, explaining the three girls types.

"They're perfectly faithful to their desires." Kohau says, slightly disgusted. She then chuckled, "If you ask me, you're quite an attractive man, Senku. But I don't think you're the kind of "handsome man" that Sapphire's asking for."

"Look at them, saying whatever they want." Chrome says, munching on a fish. "This is the problem with women. That's why I hate women."

"You're such a child, Chrome." Kohaku laughs. "Ruri-nee and I are both women, so do you hate us?"

"True. I'm also a woman too. So do you have your own sister?" Rika asks, tone deadly sweet, as she comes up to stand beside Kohaku.

"Kohau, I don't think of you as a woman." Chrome says, treading dangerous grounds. ""You're a gorilla." He then turns to Rika, "and your nothing but a child."

He then takes one look at the girl's faces, and bows down and apologizes, butt naked. "I'm sorry."

Senku could have sworn that he saw both girls' heads blow up to the size of air balloons.

"Honestly. I'm only 10 months younger than you, you know." Rika says, puffing up her checks and pouting.

"10 months? I guess that would make the two of you a pair of Irish twins." Senku says.

"Irish twins? What's that?" Rika asks.

"Irish twins are a pair of siblings born less than a year apart. Thus, making the two of you a pair of Irish twins." Senku says, explain the term. Once everything has calmed down again, he goes on. "I think I have a shot with the one who wants someone to feed her. What does she want?"

"A feast, like fish and stuff." Suika answers. She then remembers something else related to that topic. "Speaking of feasts, Ganen, the biggest glutton in town, said he's bored to death of eating grilled fish everyday. He's been looking for something new to try."

Senku chuckles, "I knew you could do it, Great Detective Suika-sans." He complements. "I can already see the scientific bait we need to get them on our side."

"Are you actually going to cook for them?" Kohau asks, surprised.

"What does that have to do with science?" questions Chrome.

"It has everything to do with science." Senku answers, looking at him from over his shoulder. "Food is science."

"It is?" Rika asks, tilting her head.

"Of course it is. Where do you think the umami of the fish you eat every day comes from? It's glutamic acid and inosinic acid." Senku says, he then turns his attention to Suika and her puppy who are playing with a long green plant, with fuzz growing out from its top. "Suika, what is that, anyway?" He asks.

"This is my friend Chalk's favourite toy. Dog tail millet!" The girl in question answers.

"You mean foxtail millet." Senku corrects. "That might work." He says, standing up. "We might be able to make the world's most delicious dish that everyone in my old world loves."

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The next day, they begin the process of collecting the foxtail millet.

Kohau goes in with her knives and severs them. Then Senku, Chrome, Rika and Suika collect them.

Soon they had baskets full.

"Wow. This sure is a lot." Rika notes, looking at the large collected pile of the green plant.

"We're gonna need a lot." Senku says, "We're making gourmet survival food from scratch. Now that's exhilarating."

They then begin pounding the foxtail millet against a slab of stone.

"We aren't actually eating this foxtail millet, are we?" Kohaku asks. "I think I'll pass."

"Is it even safe to eat?" Rika asks, looking at how thick the fuzz is. "I don't think it's chewable."

"We're whacking the hell out of it to husk it so we can eat it." Senku says, answering the girls questions. "Foxtail millet is genuinely ten billion percent a grain. It's a primitive millet."

"It looks nightly nasty." Kohau says, looking at the finished project of the grain they'd collected.

"It's covered in furry stuff." Suika observes.

"Kinda reminds of that stuff that grows on trees." Rika says, poking it.

Chrome then came back with a large pot full of water. The girls then poured the foxtail millet into the water. With Senku mixing it in as it was poured.

They then drain the water and are left with the grains.

The next step is grinding the grains into a fine powder. Which they did with two slabs of stone.

"It's a cycle of inspiration and trial-and-error. Food is a perfect example of science. We now have wheat flour, or rather, foxtail millet flour!" Senku says, looking at the finished product.

The five of them high fives, celebrating the fruit of their labours.

Then. The actual cooking began. "Toss in wild bird eggs, and tenderize it using potassium carbonate." Senku says, through the two aforementioned ingredients in. He then began kneading the mixture into a dow. "It's a dish of science, discovered accidentally by some nameless Mongol sometime around the fourth century." He then looked over his shoulder at the twins. "I guess there was some crazy nut like you two, who would try anything. Even in the fourth-century Mongolia."

Senku then rolled the two into a thick cylinder and the. He chopped that into several circular pieces, each about an inch thick. Then he bowled water and threw in a bird, bones and other herbs. Suika even there in some fish and garnishes into a separate bowl.

"Th-This sent..." Chrome says, starting to drool.

"It smells so good." Rika says, a slight blush appearing on her cheeks.

"We had a name for this stupidly good scientific food 3,700 years ago." Senku says, preparing a bowl for everybody. "We called it "ramen."

"But this is actually foxtail millet, isn't it?" Kohau questions, starring it around with the chopsticks.

"I'll make sure it's safe! It's the duty of a sorcerer not to be afraid of anything new!" Chrome yells, and then takes a big bite. His eyes then widen to the slides of saucers. "I-It's good!" He shouts. "Dude!" He said, continuing to eat without stopping.

Seeing his reaction, the other three decide to try a bite as well.

"It's so chewy and slippery!" Suika exclaims. "I've never had anything like it!"

"I can't believe such a thing would exist in this world!" Kohau says, amazed.

"It's so good~" Rika moans out, as she slurps up the noodles.

Senku being the only one close enough to her to hear the sound, blushes a little.

Recovering enough to laugh at their reactions, her chuckle thinking, 'I guess I'll dig in, too. It's been 3,700 years since I've had a proper meal.' He takes a bite, only to have the exact opposite of a reaction as others. He slams the bowel down on the ground and thinks, 'It wasn't proper at all. What did I expect from foxtail millet? It's so damn crumbly, and it has a horrible, builder aftertaste. I guess it's edible if you think of it as medicine. Then again, for them, I'm sure it's the food of the gods. This'll work. Foxtail millet ramen!'

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The next day, they build a cart and carry their ramen shop to the bridge. Suika goes above and beyond by playing a shell.

"What's going on?!" The village chief demands.

"Something smells really good!" Ganen says, and follows the smell.

Other people such as ruby and a child also follow.

"People have waged wars over pepper. That's how fundamental food is to civilization. I'm going to colonize this village with the scientific food that is ramen." Senku smirks, making his sleazy face.

"I have no idea what colonize means. But it sounds bad." Rika shivers.

"You look like the villain." Kohau tells him bluntly.