Vikki: My new story, please enjoy, I, as you all know, don't own Yumeiro Patissiere. By the way, the title, in love, in french is referring to the males. Which means it means that Kashino and Satsuki are in love with Ichigo. Enjoy! *handsome smile*

Fangirls: KYA!

Vikki: *sigh* And just so you know, this is pretty roughly written, as it was one of my first attempts as a writer and I would like to keep it the same in reminder of my first stage of improving.

In love

First chapter:

Two Confessions in One Day?


Amoureux

Premier chapitre:

Deux declarations d'amour pendant un jour?

-Normal POV-

The sweets princes and the dense Ichigo were slightly stuck. Stuck on a project they were working on. What project? Baking, of course, after all, this is St. Marie academy, school for the culinary arts.

Each group had to design and bake a cake representing love. It could be any kind of love, filial, friendship, admiration, romantic, anything. Our friends in group A were busy pondering what concept their cake would portray.

Kashino was actually trying to find a way of doing this without his obvious love for a certain brunette being revealed to the whole school, while Satsuki was trying to show his feelings for Ichigo clearly seeing as she blew him off all the times in the past. Ichigo was trying hard to figure out a way of showing their 'love cake' and Andou was trying not to fail while working with two love-sick fools and a girl who frequently messes up baking. Not that he didn't believe in her, he was just trying to prevent accidents.

Suddenly, and idea struck that dense head of Ichigo's. "Why don't we do a white chocolate cake? We could add some rose essence and decorate it with candy sakuras." the oblivious girl said while smiling her lovely grin which was known to everyone.

"That's a wonderful idea, Ichigo-chan and we could even put strawberries, to refresh the flavour!" proposed Andou with a smile if his own.

"But what would it represent? If you were thinking with that thick head of yours." asked Kashino with a stoic face but curiousity was actually overflowing in him. He crossed his arms as he looked over at Ichigo expectantly.

"Mou! Leave me alone! Anyway, I was thinking that the chocolate, which is given on Valentine's day could portray the sweetness of young love, seeing as to how white chocolate is the sweetest kind. The rose essence adds beauty to it, it also represents love, as roses are given to express feelings of love and the sakuras show the beauty of it, sakuras are Japan's pride, after all." she said with her finger in the air.

"What about the strawberries, Ichigo-chan?" asked Satsuki, very politely with an impressed smile, probably wanting to say that they would mean that he loves her, hence her name, Ichigo.

"Hmm..." she said, thinking. "We could use the sour strawberries Rumi-chan likes so much to express the occasional bitterness and sadness that love can make one feel." she finished with her finger now on her bottom lip. Soo cute... Two people thought, guess who?

"Genius, amano-san!" exclaimed Andou with a refreshing smile on his face.

"Ichigo-chan's amazing!" said Satsuki with his signature smile. "A-arigatou", she replied with her head lowered in embarassment as she rubbed the back of her neck.

-Nearby in group B...-

"That, ugh, thing Ichigo is in their group too. Who does she think she is? Being nothing but a beginner but pulling doen the Sweets prince's average in the process?" said a red head while tossing her hair.

"We have to take her out of the picture, then, three of us could live happily ever after with the sweets princes!" said the purple haired one with a giddy smile on and shivering out of excitement.

"But only three?" one asked with curiousity. "We could share Hanabusa-sama, after all, he does act like a host." replied the last one with her finger on her lip, deep in thought. 'Nah, I'll have Hanabusa-sama to myself, since I'm clearly the prettiest.' was what she was thinking.

-Back to group A-

"Let's start!" said Andou with a wide grin spread across his face as he prepared the tools and ingredients.

"Ne, Ichigo-chan, I love Ichigo" , said Satsuki kind of hoping she got that.

"Oh? I like them too, especially the sweet ones!" she replied with a very sweet smile.

Satsuki sighed and thought 'Once again, denseness prevails', while lowering his head in failure and defeat.

Kashino remained with a pokerface while tempering the white chocolate.

'Hah! Shut down again, I still have a chance!' He thought happily, inwardly mocking Satsuki. Andou was clearly very entertained as he was snickering, trying very hard not to fall over and laugh until he exploded. Ichigo continued to slice the strawberries, Satsuki was sculpting sakuras, Kashino was tempering chocolate and Andou was dipping the cake into the rose water mixed with syrup.

When the cake was finally done, it was amazing. It was covered in white chocolate, with beautiful, pink sakuras adorning the top, strawberries complimented the pink hue of the sakuras and the scent of roses could be faintly smelled around it.

"Sensei, group A is done!" said Ichigo with a proud yet modest smile (clearly proud if you looked closely, that is).

"This is amazing, the presentation is A, now what is the concept? What does it mean to each of you? Ichigo-chan" she said with a very impressed smile.

"I have never been in love before, but it sounds wonderful and I do want to experience it someday. Despite this fact, this cake represents how much I long to feel it." Ichigo concluded with a soft and distant smile mixed with a hint of sadness.

"Amazing, Ichigo-chan." sensei commented with a soft smile if her own as she scribbled things down in her clipboard. "Andou-kun?"

"I was thinking of my first love and how amazing it was. I was trying to give these feelings of happiness, the sweet taste of the cake in general and occasional sadness, the somewhat bitter strawberries to whoever was going to eat this cake." Andou concluded with a small, thoughtful smile which quickly turned into a sweatdropping face as a couple if girls fainted.

"How thoughtful, that's expected if our great Andou-kun. Hanabusa-kun?" sensei continued.

"This cake holds my feelings of love toward a certain girl, who shall remain nameless, (A/N-But you all know already, right?) and I believe that just one taste can make you understand the depth of my feelings and how much I care for her." Satsuki said with a soft, heartwarming smile. "How touching, Hanabusa-kun, Kashino-kun?" sensei said.

Kashino sighed, "I made this cake thinking of Amano, I love her." he said with a serious face while girls gasped and screamed

"NO!". Kashino then turned to Ichigo.

"I really do love you, truly. So please, let me be your first love, the one who will love and be loved by you." he continued with a completely honest face on, leaving our dense princess speechless. "Please, don't answer right away, because I would like to think for a while that you will." he finished, looking down whereas Satsuki was crossing his fingers, praying that the object of his affections would not be taken away right in front of his eyes. Ichigo nodded slowly after a while of thinking things like 'No way this is real!' and 'I don't know if I like him! Kashino!'

"Good enough for me." answered Kashino to her nod.

"Kashino-kun, that was very sweet. You're not usually this open, though. A, At the top again, group A" , said sensei as she left with a smile on her face. 'Amano-san really has a great impact on them, life here in the academy just got way more interesting.' she thought while walking out of the room, dismissing the class. Our four main characters walked out of the room to their next class, but not all of them had it together.

-Next class-

"Je suis allé(e) is conjugated using the verb être, and j'ai joué is conjugated using avoir. Now, using être, you have to make the connection between the subject a..." the teacher droned. French class, Ichigo's worst subject.

Andou was placed in the same class as Rumi while Satsuki, Ichigo and Kashino were grouped with eachother. Kashino was too busy furiously jotting down notes to notice that sensei was scolding Ichigo as usual, but this time, it wasn't about sleeping, it was her recent grades.

"This reminds me, would anyone like to tutor Amano-san?" sensei asked with a now composed face. Satsuki and many other boys raised their hands, in attempt to be able to spend time alone with our dense princess. All except Kashino, that is...

"Kazehaya-san, if you don't mind, please tutor her after classes every day for an hour until her grades improve. I was actually thinking about picking Kashino-san, but it's okay, it wasn't mandatory." said sensei with an intelligent look on her face followed by a sigh.

"Wait, what? I-I mean pardon?" Kashino asked/screamed with a surprised look on his face.

"It's okay, it's not mandatory, so Kazehaya-san will be taking care of that." she repeated with a smile. "No, I can do it, if you want", Kashino replied with an indifferent look. "That's very thoughtful of you, but Kazehaya-san looks quite eager to help Amano-san." sensei said with a caring smile.

'I can't spend time alone with Ichigo-chan, but at least Kashino can't either.' thought Satsuki with a sigh.

'Ugh, damn! I should've been paying attention! I'll bet that jerk Hanabusa's smirking right about now,' thought Kashino, fuming.

After French class, the two unhappy boys and the oblivious girl met up with Andou and Rumi to go to their next class, geography.

"Drone, drone ,drone", said sensei, or that's what Rumi and Ichigo heard. Andou was attentively paying attention to the lesson, as was Satsuki, except his attention was directed to Ichigo. Kashino was again furiously scribbling notes but more attentive to his surroundings, he silently vowed that he would never let an opportunity like that slip away again, like they say, carpe diem, seize the day.

Satsuki decided to write a note, because boredom+watching girl you like = note to girl. He quickly scribbled down a few words and asked Rumi to pass it to Ichigo. Rumi, being as nosey as she is, decided to have some fun. She began to slowly open up the note, watching Satsuki squirm trying to silently stop her. Rumi laughed and mouthed 'just kidding' and passed it to Ichigo, who was next to her. 'from him' Rumi mouthed, pointing at Satsuki with her thumb. Ichigo nodded and proceded to open the note.

'r u bored?' it read. Ichigo jotted down a 'yes' and passed it back to Satsuki. Satsuki opened it and smiled. Kashino was watching and wrote a note of his own and threw it at Satsuki. Satsuki opened Kashino's note. It read 'stop flrtin, rmembr the pact?'. Oh, the pact. Not too long after Kashino had discovered his feelings for Ichigo, about half a year ago, Satsuki came up to him.

-Flashback-

"Kashino, Andou and I already know that you love Ichigo-chan." Satsuki said with a dark face.

"And? What about it?" asked Kashino with his pokerface on. "I love Ichigo-chan too… And I'm going to fight for her, so let's both make a deal." Satsuki continued with a neutral look on his face.

"What deal?" asked Kashino, full of curiousity, but not showing it.

"We can do anything to make her fall for us, but we have to play fair, no lying or cheating." said Satsuki with a solemn face.

"Okay, but I'm not going to let you win easily." Replied Kashino. "Oh yeah, and no flirting, or any tactics during class, unless it's confessing." finished Satsuki.

"Fine, fine. I doubt I need to though" Kashino said, arms crossed. 'Ugh, that put a dent into my plans…' thought Kashino secretly.

"Great, ja ne?" Satsuki said with a smile as he bid good bye and ran back to the building, the academy. That's how the competition began…

-End flashback-

'okay, okay…' Satsuki wrote on the note and passed it back to Kashino. Kashino looked at it and smiled in victory, then he went back to jotting down notes. 'Gomen, Ichigo-chan', scribbled Satsuki on a piece of paper, then he passed it to Ichigo who smiled back at him.

-After school and after Ichigo's tutoring-

"Come on, Ichigo-chan, let's go to the rose garden, up that hill", Satsuki proposed, pointing at a hill, where students seldom go.

"Okay!" Ichigo replied cheerfully as they ran up the hill. The rose garden was beautiful, lush, green grass, vibrantly colored roses and the tallest trees anyone's ever seen."This place is amazing!" exclaimed Ichigo with in amazement as Satsuki laughed.

"Ichigo-chan, I love you, more than anyone and I don't want to share you with Kashino, so please, become my girlfriend, if you can return my feelings." Satsuki said with a solemn face kneeling as if he were proposing while lowering his head as he spoke more and more, in fear of rejection.

"C-can I reply another day? I need some time to sort out my feelings" said Ichigo quietly, also looking down.

"Of course, just promise me you won't get all weird around me , 'kay? That would hurt a lot." He said as he got up and started to lead her down the hill. "Promise", she replied with a smile.

When Ichigo left, Satsuki whispered to himself "I'll be waiting for the day, even if I'm rejected…"

-End-


Vikki- The next chappie might be the last one, so please review and vote on my pool to choose who Ichigo'll end up with. Show your friends, let them vote too! If there aren't sufficient votes, I'll just pick. But please review and tell me if it's good! The poll will close a week after the first voter. I like Satsuki better, who do you like? *friendly smile*

Fangirls: KYA!

Vikki: *thoughts* ugh, how troublesome… I hope people review, unlike my other stories…