Summary: AU—Both followed the sight of the tray hitting a male with red-hair in the head in which Yui gasp at, eyes dilating in dread. She covered her mouth with her hands and held her breath in for a split second. Oh god...Why did I throw the tray and...he's mad. Oh god, he's looks really mad right now!

Characters: Sakamaki brothers, Mukami brothers, Yui K.

Genres: Romance, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort, Family

Rated: T

Grand Opening

"...Argh! That stupid little spoiled brat...It's the weekend and he...Ordering yours truly around like that, how dare he!"

A male with red hair huffed at the end of his little rant. His breath could be seen crystal clear as for it was a cloudy day with a side-dish of gentle but chilly wind. It was a Saturday afternoon with dark gray clouds roaming about in the skies signaling a chance of rain, which bothered him a bit. But the bustling amount of people around the male sure didn't seem to mind. He couldn't believe the amount of people crawling around the streets despite the high chance of rain. If his brother hadn't order him around in the first place he could have been at home, all warm and cozy, playing video games.

He heard his reddish-brown haired brother walking beside him sniggered and glanced beside him. His green eyes almost like the hue of emerald gems glared. "The hell are you laughing for?"

"It's just amusing to see you rant like that, that's all Ayato. That's one of the trait I absolutely love about you~"

Ayato turned away from his brother, comically sticking his tongue out in disgust and replied back. "That last part sickens me...Anyways, why are you even tagging along?"

"Eh," his annoying brother drawled out. "You don't enjoy my company?"

"Just get to your reasoning already!"

"I asked you to buy some macaroon for but I honestly don't trust that you would actually buy my sweets for me."

"Oh, good for you. I actually wasn't even going to buy them for you in the first place.

"Ah...what a cruel brother I have..."

Truly his brother was annoying. No. Both of his brothers were absolutely annoying as hell itself but he could live with it. From time to time, though he would never ever admit out loud, he enjoyed both of his brother's company no matter how annoying they could get.

"Oh look, we're here."

"Ha, let's just hurry it up...no fucking way..." He started to slightly tremble in rage. A few meters ahead was a crowd surrounding the destination, a sweets and bakery shop. Chattering reached his ears about how it would be worth the wait despite the shop being full at the moment and how it was the best shop in the town.

"Hey...you can't be fucking with me right now!"

"Hmm...Kanato did say something about this shop being the best. It's his favorite place to shop for sweets."

"And you didn't tell me in the first place," Ayato shouted in annoyance.

"Well, you never asked~"

"Gah! You've got to be joking with—" A notification sound from his phone interrupted.

SweetsManiac: P.S The line will be long and sometimes the shop is full.

"Are you...This spoiled brat...sending me out on a cold day. Hey, Laito where do you usually buy your macaroon—" He turned beside him to see his brother gone, a confused look plastered on his face. Then he heard a giggling, green eyes taking in the sight of his brother flirting. "Gah, whatever! I'll just wait."

Ayato got closer to the crowd, feeling the googly eyes from females, even from a few males in the crowd, and looks of envy coming from mostly males. He smirked to himself a bit. Most girls would swoon, flock, fight over him, even those who already a lover of their own. He found it ridiculous, especially the girls who are already in a relationship. But he didn't really mind. He didn't mind playing along with them. After all, he got to see their teary faces whenever he finished playing with them. For him, a brokenhearted expression on a girl's face was a truly grand sight to behold, sweet glorious victory.

"Heh..."

Ridiculous, that couple over there is already arguing. From a peripheral view he then saw the boy storm off elsewhere but the girl didn't go after the boy, she turned her attention over to him. His predatory green eyes was now locked on a target. Hmm, I guess I'll play along just for a bit.

Like hell he would never strive to be in a serious relationship. The phrase "serious relationship" was dead to him, a lie and a fake, even the idea or process of striving for one.

"Yo, are you here alone?"

"Y-Yep, and you?"

Che, such a lie but I guess I'll put up with her for a while. Besides...

The girl had spouted out a rotten lie and he would have snapped at the girl, but he didn't mind it anymore. He was now very used to it; after all, he had encountered plenty of lies in the past up until now.

...I always get the reward I want.

Surrounded by a small crowd of girls, Laito secretly watched over his brother, a bit displeased with him.

"We really have to fix him up somehow..."

"Yui, Azusa, take a break for now," in a new sweets and bakery shop, a male with short pleasantly messy black hair who seemed to be the manager of the place announced as he placed a plate of chocolate cake underneath the glass counter top.

"Ruki...cookies and...cake..."

"We finished everything just in time," a female's voice called out. The swing double doors decorated in white that lead to the kitchen opened and out came the ones known as Yui and Azusa in waiters clothing. Azusa, with curly black hair and bangs slightly past his eyes, had a platter of chocolate chip cookies with raisins. And Yui, with wavy blonde hair, had a platter of cheesecake with raspberry cover the entire surface and raspberry sauced dripping down the sides. "Should we put in the window display or under the glass counter tops?"

Ruki nodded approvingly at the appearance of the cake and cookies,"Put them on window display."

Once finished with the work, the three took their place on the stools that only surrounded the sides of the long counter. The middle part of the counter was for the displays and the cashier area. The counter ending right up against the wall which creates a half circled shaped space for the cashier, so the space wasn't super tight. Plus, the half circle area was connected to the kitchen, a swing door dyed in complete light-pink.

"I hope Kou and Yuma quickly arrives soon. It's almost time for the opening..."

"No worries Ruki, I'm sure be on the time," Yui reassured, looking through the long glass window with a look of surprise presented on her face. She couldn't believe the amount of people crowding around the shop across from this one despite the weather. "Wow...look that. There's a ton of people around the shop across from us even on this type of weather. I hear that shop is the best in town—Ah, a-are you okay Ruki?"

Yui nervously chuckled. It seemed to her that she unnecessarily riled him up.

"Best shop? It's no time to be admiring them Yui, they are now our rivals. We should be trying to steal away their costumers right now...and it's time for the opening right now. You two know what to do right? You must...Treat the costumers...You must..."

"Big sister...he's..."

"Ah...My bad. Just nod Azusa, like we always do..."

Her comment had triggered this type of Ruki to appear. And whenever this happens, they would always use nod attack which was super duper effective because he doesn't pay much attention if whether someone is truly listening to him or not and just rambles on and on.

The bell chimed, signaling someone opening the door which caught the attention of the trio.

Yui's pink eyes lit up as two familiar faces, they had been waiting for, loudly barged into the shop, a male with blonde messy hair with bangs slightly covering his right eyes and the other with messy brown hair. Bother were already dressed in the appropriate attire. Now the whole family was here and it was time for the grand opening. Yui couldn't help it, that a large smile was taking over as an enthusiastic expression lighted up on her features.

"They're finally here Ruki! It's time for the grand opening!"

"Did you guys miss us~"

"Kou, Yuma! I told you two to not oversleep. Do you two not know how...You two have really caused...You two will make up for..."

Now Yui and her three siblings were kneeling on the floor, facing the lecture wrath of the eldest sibling Ruki.

"Yui...you...what did you say to him," Yui's sibling, Yuma, accused her as she felt him headlock her and received a noogie from him.

"I really didn't mean to set him off, I'm truly sorry," she retorted back as her other two brothers, Kou and Azusa, just nodded at Ruki.

Once Ruki was finished with his ramble he raised a brow at his young siblings kneeling on the floor.

"Why are you all kneeling? It's time for the grand opening."

"..." No one retorted back; they just heavily sighed.

...

"Eat as much a you like everyone, all the food is free~" Her brother, Kou, shouted, making all the customers cry out in glee.

The grand opening was going great. Though, it would have been more exciting if there had been people anxiously waiting and crowding around the shop for it to open but it was great. Yui couldn't even contain her wide smile as she served sweets and bakeries and took orders.

Working with her siblings in a sweets and bakery shop was just the best but there was one thing she could not do and that was taking orders or serving male customers. Having a slight phobia of males, with the exception of her brothers, she just could not handle it. Hmm, I hope no one notices.

"Here you go!" With a broad smile, she served a family of three, a table around the middle area aligned right against the windows, a large strawberry cake with strawberries creating a circle shape on the surface topped with chocolate sauce and received thanks.

It was then that a table with a couple of boys around her age, behind the family she just served, called for her, though Kou was already their waiter.

"Hello there, I'm here already so I'll be your waiter~"

"We want that waitress to serve us."

"Since I'm already at your table, I'll be serving you so please tell me your orders~"

The polite side of Kou seemed ready to break any second. She could hear it and see it. She had a feeling he just might blow up. And at the thought of damaging their shop's reputation, she gripped the silver tray, used to carry around the food, with both hands and started off with a stutter,"I-I can—"

The bell of the door chimed. Then a gruff and loud voice.

"Everyone stay still! I have a gun and I'm not afraid to use it! I'll be robbing all of this shop's food!"

Everyone in the shop froze still, some raised both arms in the air and children cried.

In Yui's mind, she mentally screamed,"Who robs a shop with a gun when it's giving out free food?"

"Sorry, I have to go now."

"Yeah, see ya."

After the girl gave Ayato a kiss on the cheek, she was gone in a flash. Ayato heavily sighed, glad the girl was gone and on another note he, of course, got her contact information. And as expected, once the girl was gone, others began swarming around him.

"Hey what's your name?"

"Are you in a relationship?"

"Please go out with me!"

There wasn't much difference with the crowd around the shop, if any, it just grew larger. Ayato peeked through the shop's window as it was still completely packed. It would be a million years later before he would even get to enter the shop at this rate. And guess what else? He even saw a few tables occupied by people, women to be exact, who were already freaking done with their food and just made googly eyes at some waiters. Are you kidding me right now? The waiters aren't even doing anything about them!

But thankfully for him, he was already surrounded with girls, toys. He inwardly smirked at the girls flocking around. I guess I'll just play—

As if able to read his mind, Laito embraced him from behind and commented,"Nfu~That's not what we're here for~ Don't forget why we're here for Ayato."

"Don't remind me! That stupid spoiled shorty..." He irritatedly rolled his eyes at his brother's reminder, getting triggered. "...And get off of me already—"

"Look, that sweets and bakery shop is getting robbed!"

"Huh? But isn't it their grand opening? I heard all the food are free in there."

"Yeah, and that there's no limit to how much you can get! I wanna check that place out..."

"Well, the police should be here soon."

"The fuck? Who the hell robs shops that's giving out free food? Free? Free...Free food…," Ayato mentally scoffed but then he just remembered something fabulous he heard about the shop from across of this one. It was having a grand opening. "Hey Laito, you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Are we really going into that shop?"

"No duh! You think I'm going to pay for that maniac's food treats when it's free over there," Ayato sassed and grabbed his brother by the forearm, jaywalking across the busy street and igniting a few honks from cars here and there. "To that sweets and bakery shop that's being robbed!"

"You're being way too reckless Ayato…," Laito commented.

"Just hurry it up Laito!"

The honking of cars persisted even more.

"Get off the roads, you're blocking traffic! Geez, teenagers these days..."

"Hey you, calm your child down!"

Yui gulped as the robber headed towards her area. In the table she served mere minutes ago, the young boy was uncontrollably crying his tears out. The mother and father were both trying to tone done the crying down a bit but it was futile as the robber was already on the case, slamming down a hand on the table, making the child cry out even more, and stared down at the parents.

"Aren't you two his…

Yui was freaking out at the moment, perspiration dripping from her forehead, zoning out, and unable to stop trembling.

"...parents? Hurry up and do something about it or else...

"Waaahahh! D-don't h-hurt mama and p-papa!"

The child's cry stopped her from fully zoning out. She was now somewhat composed, well, at least she could clearly think again. The shop will definitely get a bad reputation if we can't protect our customers. I... She closed her eyes tightly; she inhaled and exhaled.

"Shut your trap kid—"

"Please stop it, you're upsetting our costumers! Our staff will not tolerate this s-so please get it!"

And instantly right after she shouted, she felt the hard glare coming from the robber. She could feel the killing intent coming off of the guy, picture the extremely pissed off face the robber was probably showing right now. Oh lord, please don't kill me.

"You, what did you just say?"

"Yui," she heard Kou call her name in panic.

She snapped open her eyes, seeing the pissed off male taking a step towards her. With the intuition possibly being attacked by the robber daunting her, Yui, in reflex, swung her tray at the advancing male, aiming for the head. "I'm sorry!"

"Huh? What do you—You bitch!" The man dropped down to his knees, clutching his head in pain but didn't stay down for long. The male was now back on his feet, staggering a bit and menacingly staring down at Yui. "You'll—"

This time around Yui rapidly threw the tray at the attacker. And unfortunately for her, the attacker ducked and the bell of the door chimed.

Both followed the sight of the tray hitting a male with red-hair in head in which Yui gasp at, pink eyes dilating in dread. She covered her mouth with her hands and held her breath in for a split second. Oh god...Why did I throw the tray and...he's mad. Oh god, he's looking really mad right now!

The victim was now glaring around at her direction, more precisely...Huh? He's not glaring at me?...at the man in front of her.

"You red-head over there! What the hell is wrong with you entering a shop that's being robbed! Now stay still unless you—"

"Bastard, were you the one who fucking threw that tray at yours truly!"

She opened her mouth, about to apologize about accidentally throwing the tray, but then from behind her she felt Kou's hands on her mouth, stopping her from saying anything as he whispered,"Geez, quit being so sincere for once. It's a very good thing you hit that red-head over there."

"Hey listen to me while I—"

"Che, just answer mine fucking question!"

And so, a cruel fate was soon bestowed upon the robber.

"This guy...this is a robbery here—Argh! My balls!"

"Nfu, nice shot Ayato~" Yui's vision began to blur. She heard many voices and sounds, a familiar voice she somewhat recognized...Was that the voice of Kou's friend? Laito was it?...the sound of the tray clattering on the floor, police bursting into the store, and the cries of relief from the customers that comforted her as she blacked out.

...

"Che, if there wasn't a robbery we could have gotten the damn sweets and bakery already! That stupid robber, if he didn't lie about having a gun someone could have screwed him up earlier," Ayato complained, walking back home along with his brother. After an eventful day, not really, it was getting close to night.

Soon after the police had arrived at the scene the manager of the shop had declared to close for the day and have another grand opening the next day which would be open at six-thirty in the morning and closed at six in the evening. And best of all, the food was still going to be free.

"By the way Ayato...Kanato told me to tell you to arrive by six-thirty at that shop to get the free sweets."

"Hah? How did he...even know—Bastard, why did you tell him about it!"

"Nfu~My bad~"

"Like hell I'm going to wake up extra early for that!"

In the living room of a house, the Mukami's house, five siblings out of the six were watching a horror movie while a certain blonde rested in her room she shared with Azusa, well, she was supposed to be resting but she felt she didn't really need it. She felt quite healthy and energetic already so she was in the kitchen preparing some dessert for both herself and her brother, washing all her worries away about the robbery; cooking was a wonderful stress reliever for her.

"Ruki...cake...I smell...delicious cake..."

"What? I didn't make any cake. It was just popcorn."

"Hah? You sure Ruki? The lights to the kitchen is still on."

Kou nudged Yuma who was near the doorway to the kitchen. "Go see what it is—"

Yui peeked her head out the doorway,"Anyone want dessert?"

"Gayaah!" Everyone shrieked in unison.

Yui ended up getting lectured for the second time of the day. "Yui, you're supposed be resting...You need to...After that knock-out...need..."

"Little kitten earned herself a lecture, haha~"

"Hang...in there...big sister..."

"Pfft haha! I feel like you're the one who's always triggering him accidentally."

Yui just nodded and nodded, entering back into the kitchen. Not another one...If only that robbery never occurred. I mean, just why would someone rob a shop that isn't charging anything yet and even on a grand opening at that!

"Yui, are you listening to me?"

"I am!"

I hope there will be tons of customers tomorrow.