<acronym title="Hello!">"Kon'nichiwa!"</acronym>Sato said to her by way of greeting. He looked around and realized that there weren't enough people for everyone to have a team of three. He grabbed Eve's hand and held their hands aloft in the air, shouting, "There's not enough for everyone to have three people; we're going to be a duo!" The RA laughed dismissively and said in her thick Southern drawl, "Your loss! But go right ahead!"<br/><br/>He grinned at Eve and said, "I'm Sato--who are you? And more importantly, we have to make a dish an RA will eat. So I'm good with spices and anything with bold seasoning--I'm also good with savory dishes. What are you good at?"<br/><br/>He didn't want to admit his weakness was baking or desserts. Desserts tended to be the most impressive and require a lot of technical skill...and worse, the RAs were offering chicken. If Sato did a savory dish, it would have to be<em>better</em>than the chicken already on offer by the RAs...the judging for savory food was going to be really tough. Baking was a science and art; it was one he struggled with a lot.<br/><br/>He put his hands on his hips and said, "No matter what we make, we gotta earn that fried chicken!"<br/><br/>He was excited to be working with someone already. Would they be friends? Rivals? It was so hard to say this early, but at minimum they needed to impress. People that didn't impress early probably were the people that were going to get kicked out early in the semester...