Title: Experience is an Ingredient
Prompt: #16 - Development
Characters: Katou/Iwaki, Yoshizumi, allusion to Masanori/Yasaka [Umaimon Kuwasero]
Rating: G
Summary: Even perfection can be improved upon.
Digression: Soup in Japan (a page with nifty info/trivia I stumbled upon while noodling around, as it were)

Katou sighed happily as he set the soup bowl down. "So perfect!" he gushed. "Just like my Iwaki-san!"

Iwaki's smile hinted at both embarrassment and mischief. "I am nothing so exquisite," he insisted, "and you are nauseating poor Yoshizumi-san."

Katou playfully turned to their friend, intending to torment him further, but the strange expression on Yoshizumi's face startled him. "Are you okay?" he demanded anxiously.

Yoshizumi murmured, "I once tasted this soup in Kyoto. It was the best I had ever been served. But it is somehow even better now."

Two tables away, Masanori Yae caught Yoshizumi's words, and smiled.