A Yumeiro Patissiere Fan Fiction:

My Jealous Knights

Me: Hello Everyone. My Pen name is Blueberry Yami. My nickname is Berry-chan. This is my first Yumeiro Patissiere fan fiction. I hope you all enjoy it.

Ichigo: Why is the title "My Jealous Knights"?

Me: Because your "knights", the Sweet Princes, will of course, be jealous.

Ichigo: Then why not name it "My Jealous Princes"?

Me: Um... because... I...

Kashino: Look who got burnt.

Me: S-Shut up Kashino! You devil! (_ I start to chase him.)

Ichigo: Teehee, Berry-chan does not own Yumeiro Patissiere.

~Chapter 1~

"Good afternoon guys!" The cheerful brunette greeted her friends.

"Good afternoon Ichigo-chan." Hanabusa greeted first.

"Hello Amano-san." Andou greeted second.

"Yo." Kashino said last.

"I want to eat lunch!" Ichigo moaned, pointing at her mouth. "Why do we have to go to the front of the small bulletin board for the Chairman's announcement? Can't he use the speakers like he always does?"

Vanilla hit Ichigo's stomach with her spoon.

"Ouch! Vanilla!" Ichigo shouted. "What was that for?!" She rubbed the place on her tummy that Vanilla hit.

"Nothing." Vanilla giggled. "I just thought that if I hit your stomach you'd be less hungry. I guess I was wrong." Everyone laughed, making Ichigo start to chase Vanilla around, angrily shouting her spirit's name every ten seconds.

"VANILLA!"

Vanilla led Ichigo to the small bulletin board with the Sweet Princes following them. There was a stage on the right side. When they reached there every middle school student was there, chatting and asking each other if they had any idea what the Chairman's announcement was. The gang placed themselves at the front of the crowd, next to Rumi and Kana.

"Hi Ichigo." Rumi waved. Ichigo waved back with her free hand, her other hand holding on to Vanilla's ribbon.

A few minutes later the Chairman arrived with a megaphone. Accompanying him was Ayema-sensei and another male teacher. The students became silent. The chairman positioned himself on the center stage, standing by a podium.

"Good afternoon students." He started. "Thank you for coming here. Let's get to business shall we. For starters, you do know that the Cake Grand Prix has already ended."

At the phrase, "Cake Grand Prix", Team Ichigo's chocolatier quickly reacted. Ichigo and the other two stepped back, just as the spirits did.

The Chairman continued, ignoring Kashino's reaction.

"But that doesn't mean you won't be given a chance to show your talents. The F'Faure Academy is giving us funds to host a contest."

Ichigo tilted her head. "F'Faure Company? What is that?"

"The F'Faure Academy, is an arts company." Chairman explained. "It accepts various talents in any artistic aspect you can think of. Whether it is baking, playing the piano or even sculpting. They train those talents and support their students even after they graduate."

"Wow." Ichigo breathed. That school is perfect for Natsume. She's great at everything.

"The contest is called Amore Destinia. It is a love cooking competition. We have sent out surveys through the internet on which girl the majority of middle school wants to date."

So that's what it was. I wonder who? Really? How vulgar.

These were the reactions of some students. Team Ichigo, of course, had no idea. About any of this. They've been so busy with the Cake Grand Prix that they haven't been using the internet lately.

Everyone stood there eager to know who the "lucky" girl is.

The Chairman gulped. "Do not worry. I have screened the students. Those who have..." He hesitated for a moment. He looked somewhat embarrassed. "...negative relationship histories are not allowed to join the contest."

"I wonder who that girl is." Andou wondered aloud.

"I feel very sorry for the poor sucker that our schoolmates have chosen." Kashino added.

"I hope our schoolmates have good tastes." Hanabusa wished, looking at his reflection on his pocket mirror.

The team looked at him.

"You're not planning to join are you, you narcissist?" Kashino asked meanly, pointing an accusing finger at the stricken rose prince.

"Depends. Besides, I'm bored." Hanabusa said. "But oh well, I'd rather go on a date..." He pulled Ichigo next to him. "..with you Ichigo-chan." He tapped her nose, which immediately turned into a nice shade of strawberry pink.

"H-Hey! I told you that-" Kashino said, but he was cut off quickly.

"That intra-team relationships are not allowed." Hanabusa said, pulling up air quotes. "The Prix is over already. So there's no stopping me. Right Ichigo-chan?"

Ichigo looked at her two friends and unconsciously nodded.

"WHAT?!" Kashino shouted, ready to pounce on Hanabusa.

"Kashino!" The Chairman shouted. Kashino froze. "Be quiet please." He scolded. Kashino nodded and back away behind Andou.

"It's because you're so yappy Kashino." Chocolat scolded as well.

Kashino turned away.

"Now back to the topic at hand." The Chairman started once more. "The girl, who has taken up 63.25% of the total votes, is..."

Imaginary Drum roll please...

"Amano Ichigo."

The entire middle school body stopped moving. Jaws have dropped, girls have fainted, boys have cheered. The sweet princes looked furiously at the Chairman, who was gazing at Ichigo, who was loudly screaming.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH?!"

One loud scream later...

"What do you mean her?!" Kashino shouted. He was already at the front of the stage, ready to pull the Chairman's feet off. The Chairman backed up, dodging Kashino's hands.

"I cannot do anything about the votes Kashino. I don't want to do this either." He explained.

Hanabusa pushed Kashino out of his way and asked, "Then why are you? This isn't fair to a fragile girl!"

F-Fragile? Ichigo thought, finally recovered from the shock. Well, so-so.

"Why would anyone vote for this Cake pig?!" Kashino exclaimed, pointing at the Cake pig.

Cake Pig?! How many insults was Ichigo going to receive exactly?

"She's too young to be someone's girlfriend!" Andou said in a fatherly fashion.

"She isn't even mature enough to wake up on her own every morning. She can't handle dating a stranger!" Rumi added.

The protests went on for a solid 5 minutes, which was for Ichigo, 5 minutes of verbal abuse and lowering of her self-esteem.

She put her foot down.

"BE QUIET!"

Everyone became motionless. Even the Chairman was surprised.

"I'm not a little kid! You are NOT my parents and I am going to cooperate with the contest!" She pointed out.

Her inner mind was smacking her head and telling her, "Are you crazy?! You idiot!"

Oh wait. I was wrong, sorry. It wasn't her inner mind. It was Vanilla.

Vanilla repeatedly hit her partner with her spoon, Caramel and the others were trying to pull her away and telling her to calm down.

"You prideful cake glutton!" She kept shouting.

"It's Cake-eating champion!" Ichigo protested, rubbing her sore head.

The sweet princes surrounded her. Ichigo readied herself for a scolding, which she never was.

"What are you thinking Amano?!" Kashino shook her by the shoulders.

"I-I d-d-don'-t-t-t k-k-know-w-w" She tried to say, her voice as wobbly as her body.

"What do you mean you don't know?!" Kashino kept shaking her. Chocolat was behind him telling him to stop. Of course he didn't listen.

Hanabusa grabbed Ichigo's arm and pulled her to him. He rubbed the girl's dizzy head and asked her, "Why did you do that Ichigo-chan?"

Ichigo turned red. She bowed her head and whispered. "It was more of a reflex. Since everyone was treating me like a kid. I wanted to be more independent like you guys."

Rumi took her friend away from Hanabusa and hugged her tightly.

"My best friend is so cute! But I think you're great just the way you are." She said, hugging Ichigo tighter.

Kana joined the hug as well.

Awwwww. What a touching friendship scene.

Kashino's a jerk for breaking it.

"This doesn't prove that you're mature at all." Ichigo looked up and pouted.

"What do you mean?"

"Doing something stupid by yourself just to prove you're mature doesn't make you mature at all."

Kashino turned and walked away. Chocolat followed him hurriedly, looking at Ichigo, who was close to tears.

"Kashino YOU DUMMY!" She barked, sticking out an annoyed tongue.

She turned to the Chairman, who was calling her.

She left her friends and they went to the Chairman's office. Vanilla was nagging her the way there.

"I'm not so sure about this Ichigo."

"Nothing's going to go wrong. Trust me."

Ichigo looked at Vanilla with big brown begging eyes. Vanilla sighed and sat on her friend's shoulder.

"Fine. I trust you." She raised her hand and Ichigo shook it with her index finger.

"Thanks."

They reached the office. Ichigo took the right seat in front of the Chairman's table.

"Okay Amano-san. I know that inside you don't fully agree to this. Am I right?"

Ichigo nodded shyly. She had to admit going on a date with a complete stranger wasn't something a 14-year-old girl would dream of.

"Of course. But right now, I need you to do this. Not only for my sake but the school's sake. Even yours."

He looked at her with heavy and serious eyes. Ichigo gulped.

"S-School's sake?"

The Chairman stood up. "Yes. The entire school's sake. The school..."

He paused, he covered his mouth and traced a line to his moustache and tugged it. He continued.

"...is in danger of getting shut down."

Kashino was walking in circles inside his room. Hanabusa, Cafe and Chocolat were getting dizzy just watching him.

"We're all worried Kashino. You don't have to trot all over the room to prove your point." Chocolat complained. She sat down on her bed and tried to look away to avoid getting dizzy again.

"I'm not trotting!" He exclaimed, clearly in a bad mood.

Hanabusa sighed and looked into his mirror.

"You're making my beautiful eyes spin Kashino. Please stop that."

" 'Please stop that' your ugly face!" He mocked in a girly tone.

Hanabusa dropped his mirror on the table. He picked it up stood up and showed it to his roommate.

"I am not ugly. You are ugly. What kind of man makes a girl cry?"

Kashino gritted his teeth. "Aren't you worried? What if she was serious?"

"She's not serious. And besides..." He made his bangs fly. "... even if she did say yes," He smirked.
I'm pretty sure I'll be the one who'll win her heart."

What the heck is this rose prince blurting out? ((A/N: Jealous Kashino?))

The tension was at a dangerously high level. The Sweet Spirits are slowly hiding behind their beds.

"What do we do Cafe?" Chocolat whispered, tugging her friend's sleeve.

"Why are you asking me?" Cafe took her hand off. "I can't stop that." He pointed at the fight in front of them.

"You're a MAN aren't you?" Chocolat snapped. She knew boys had high pride, no matter who they are. It was a common weakness.

"But..."

"AREN'T YOU?!" Chocolat didn't give him a chance to answer.

"I am but..."

"Stop it with the buts! Well I'm not surprised, the Chairman did think you were a girl when the guys sculpted you in Marzipan."

She watched Cafe flinch. Gotcha, she thought.

She counted in her mind.

3

2

1

Cafe clenched his little fist, flew up and looked down at her.

"I am a man!" He cheered. With that, he flew towards the feuding boys.

"Brothers, we should handle this argument like-

-f MEEEEEEEEEENN!"

Kashino swatted him like a fly. He watched the blue spirit fall into his laundry. He chuckled a little but just a little.

Hanabusa smacked him on the head before he good get a good long laugh.

"That's for hitting Cafe-kun." He ran to get his spirit from the dirty clothes, but being as sensitive and OA as he is, he grabbed a pencil and used that to lift up his dizzy friend. "Are you alright Cafe-kun?" He asked worriedly. Cafe's eyes were still spinning when he answered, "I'd rather not act like a man anymore..." Hanabusa set Cafe on his table, only to be pushed by Kashino. He fell into his roommate's laundry basket. He stood up and rubbed his face, throwing away the sweaty undershirt dangling on his nose. "My beautiful face!" He screamed. "It's infected!" He grabbed the towel, facial scrub (i don't know why he has facial scrub on his desk so don't ask) and alcohol on his desk. He washed his face then wet the towel with alcohol to wipe away the suds. He looked into his mirror and rubbed his "disinfected" face once more. "That's better."

"Narcissist." Kashino coughed. Hanabusa glared at him angrily, he squeezed his bottle of alcohol and it splashed on Kashino's face. Kashino felt his eyes burning, he ran around trying to wipe the alcohol off with any cloth he could find. It didn't help ease the pain though.

"My eyes!" He kept yelling. He pushed Hanabusa to the floor. "This is all your fault!" Hanabusa put up his sleeves and barbarically tackles Kashino to the floor. You all know what happens next.

Chocolat's jaw fell to the floor. She quickly put it up and sighed. "Why do I have to do everything by myself?" She asked herself. She flew to out the open window and knocked on Andou's window, which was right beside theirs. Caramel opened the window.

"Hi Chocolat-desu!" She cheered, then she closed the window again. "Can you come later-desu?"

"Why? This is urgent!" Chocolat demanded. She tried to open the window but it was locked.

"Andou isn't in a very good mood right now-desu. Maybe later-desu." Caramel explained.

"Can you at least let me see him?"

"Sure-desu!"

Chocolat went in, Caramel told her to hide behind the textbooks as so not to disturb Andou. Chocolat almost laughed when she saw Andou, but Caramel covered her mouth. Instead, after Caramel let her mouth go, she whispered, "What's wrong with him?"

He was on under his bed, he was cuddling a stuffed koala bear and crying. "My little girl is going to get a date! Boohoo."

"I feel like I've seen this before." Chocolat giggled. She began to reminisce the time when they went to Ichigo's house.

The sweet princes were baking in Mrs. Amano's kitchen. Ichigo and her mom were having a nice talk between mother and daughter.

Mom: So Ichigo...

Ichigo: Yes?

Mom: Which one of them do you plan on marrying?

Ichigo: EEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHH?!

Mom: Aw, Ichigo's blushing.

Ichigo: W-What are you saying M-Mom?!

Mom: Don't deny it Ichigo, you're bound to like one of them. Who is it? Is it Hanabusa-kun? He'll make a great son-in-law, he's such a pretty gentleman too. Or is it Andou-kun? He's a kind boy. Family-oriented and sweet. Maybe Kashino? He seems tsundere to me. The way you two fight makes you look like a married couple. Teehee!

Ichigo: Tsundere? What's that?

Mom: It's a term from the anime Natsume loves. In which "TSUN" means cold or bitter and "DERE" means all lovey-dovey and sweet.

Ichigo: I don't get it. Why is Kashino tsundere? He's more like 100% TSUN with 0% DERE.

Mom: I can't believe you were born so dense.

Dad: Mom! What are you talking about? Waah! My daughter's getting married! Boohoo! I don't want that! She's too young!

Mom: SHUT UP DEAR!

I always figured Andou would be the protective type. Chocolat thought. She completely forgot about her main purpose. Good thing they heard a loud crash.

Andou stood up frantically, "WHAT WAS- OW?" He hit his head on his bed frame. Chocolat flew towards him. His eyes widened. "C-Chocolat? W-What are you doing here?"

Chocolat snickered. "Nothing." She put her hand before her mouth and smirked widely. "I was just watching you sulk."

"Y-YOU WERE WATCHING?! CARAMEL!" He turned to his shivering partner.

"I'm sorry Andou." She whimpered, hiding her face.

"OK!" Chocolat tried to direct the attention to her. "Andou! You have to help me! Your two friends are trashing their own room."

"They're what?!"

"Wow. Are you deaf? I just told you! Alright let's say they're watching a peaceful romantic comedy together while telling each other how important they are to each other. Yeah, that's right!"

Wow. Sarcastic much? So, Andou went into his friends' room.

Let's go back to Ichigo shall we?

((Don't worry, you'll find out what happened to them in a little while))

Ichigo was back in her room, trying to organize her thoughts. Vanilla was sitting on the bed beside her, looking worriedly at her friend.

Flashback:

"The school… is in danger of getting shut down." Those were the words that caused Ichigo to give in, the words that made her realize how much she loved her school.

She stared at the Chairman, waiting for him to say, "Oh silly you! I was just joking! Stop being so serious!" Unfortunately, he never did.

"Y-You're j-joking r-r-right?" She stammered, too scared to hear the answer. The Chairman lost his smile and a sad expression took place. He sat back down and exhaled.

"F'Faure Company is not sponsoring this contest. But they are the reason why the school is holding this competition."

Ichigo felt like her chest was going to explode. "Calm down Ichigo." Vanilla whispered in her ear. Ichigo didn't have the ability to do so even if she did want to calm down.

"They want to buy this school, and turn it into a F'Faure school. We said no of course, however…." He stopped to pull a piece of paper from his pocket and he handed it to Ichigo, who slowly grabbed it.

It read:

Dear Chairman,

I would like to inform you that you don't have the sufficient funds to pay us your… how should we call it, oh, I got it, DEBT. We have given you many chances Chairman, however, if you don't give us our money, I have no choice but to get your precious school from you. I am not a devil. I am nice enough to give you some sort of extension. I'm giving you two weeks. Fourteen days. Three hundred thirty-six hours. That should MORE than enough time for you to get enough cash to pay your debt. This is your last chance Mr. Chairman. Don't waste it.

Let me remind you, I'll be waiting.

Sincerely yours,
(signature) Pres. Martin Faure

Attached was a receipt, for 490,600,098yen. ($ 500,000)

"F-F-F-Four hundred million yen?!" Ichigo and Vanilla gasped.

"Why does the school have a debt of almost Five hundred million yen?!" Ichigo was standing up now, flailing the receipt and letter in the air.

"That doesn't matter!" The Chairman shouted. Ichigo slowly sat down, whimpering in fear. She has never seen the chairman like this.

"The important thing is that now we have paid half of the debt."

Ichigo thought for a moment.

"490,600,098 yen divided by 2, so that's 340300… 00… 00… um…" She scratched her head. She and the subject Math weren't the best of friends.

Vanilla twitched.

"It's 245,300,049 yen! Where did the 3,403,000,000 come from?"

"Sorry! I'm not good at this!"

"Then how do you take measurements?"

"I just know. It's different with sweets."

The Chairman banged the table. The two kept quiet and quickly sat back down.

"Sorry…" They whispered. The Chairman looked at them then sighed.

"It's okay and Vanilla's right, we need more than two hundred million yen. That's why we held this contest. I searched the internet and found out that love and relationships is what this generation is interested in. The dating game was a perfect idea and the fact that this school is filled with patissiers and patissieres, I knew sweets-making would be good touch as well. We're going to sell tickets, 200 yen each, so they can watch the competition. We're going to make the competitors pay 300 yen each as an register's fee. With us having more than a million students and the number of students, we'll be able to pay that debt. So that's why Ichigo," He held both her hands and his eyes started to beg.

"You have to help us. PLEASE!"

Ichigo stared at him, what a horrible pressure to be put upon a young girl! She was panicking. Her mind was scattering in her head.

In the mind of Amano Ichigo:

What should I do?

Let's make a GREAT decision okay Ichigo?

First, G means Give thought about the problem.

Okay, so they problem is the Chairman wants me to be the prize for his contest.

Next, R. Review your choices.

So… I either have to say "yes" or say "no". Easy.

Now, E means Evaluate the consequences.

If I say "yes" I can help save the school but I have to date a complete stranger. I don't want my dad to go crazy and the Rumi, Kana and the Sweet Princes will kill me!

On the other hand, if I disagree, the school may get shut down and then we'll have to leave and everyone's dreams including mine will be ruined!

How frustrating. What was the next step? Oh yeah, A, A means Assess and make a decision.

Wait, what? NO, IT'S TOO EARLY!

But if I should choose I'd say….

Back into reality…

"… YES! I'LL DO IT!" She shouted.

"WHAT?!" Vanilla's jaw dropped to the floor with her spoon. She started complaining but Ichigo didn't hear her. She was too busy being hugged by the Chairman to notice.

"Thank you! You're a gift from heaven Amano Ichigo!"

End of Flashback

What about the last letter? Simple. It was what Ichigo was doing right now.

T – Think it over.

Ichigo had her face trapped on her pillow, Vanilla telling her that being too nice is different from being an idiot.

"Sorry Vanilla. I didn't have any other choice. I couldn't let my reluctance get in the way of everyone's dreams."

"But can't someone else do it?"

"And make them experience the punishment that's supposed to be mine? I'd feel way to guilty."

Vanilla decided to stop arguing. A mature Ichigo is something she isn't used to.

"COME BACK HERE CHOCOLAT!"

The two both turned around. Ichigo opened the window to see Kashino running around trying to grab Chocolat, who was trying her best to fly away.

"K-KASHINO?!"

Kashino turned to them, his attention suddenly redirected itself to the confused brunette.

"Amano!" He ran up to her. "What did the Chairman say?"

"Ah! A-About that…" The words disappeared from Ichigo's mouth. How was she going to say that she actually agreed. She was too young, she can't die yet, she hasn't fulfilled her dream yet.

"Yes?" Kashino asked, his foot tapping on the floor as a sign of impatience.

"A-About that… I totally forgot! I have to go see Sensei." She grabbed Vanilla and stuffed her in her shirt pocket. "Okay got to go, bye!" She slammed the window shut and she ran out her room. She started running towards the garden, Kashino saw her and started chasing her, Chocolat was tailing him from behind.

"Oi! Amano! Come back here!"

"No!"

"Ichigo! W-W-Where a-are we g-g-going?!"

They chased each other for a very long time, Kashino eventually gave up, he collapsed on the bench and tried to breath. Chocolat was just as tired.

"For a-a *breaths* C-Cake Pig, she can-n run r-really *breaths* fast." Kashino panted, he wiped the sweat of his forehead and slumped down.

"What do you think happened?" Chocolat asked, she finally got back her normal breathing pattern.

Kashino covered his eyes with his arm. "I don't know." He yawned. "I just hope she didn't do anything stupid."

Chocolat snickered. "As stupid as what you and Hanabusa –"

Kashino jumped to his feet and cut her off. "SHUT UP!"

"It really was funny. Maybe I should tell Vanilla."

"DON'T YOU EVEN DARE BRING THAT UP AGAIN!"

He stormed off, leaving Chocolat with a very amused expression.

"What was that about?" She flew away in the opposite direction. She evilly grinned. "They did look like a cute couple."

Hanabusa and Kashino: C-C-COUPLE?! What is she talking about?

Me: HI-MIT-SU! (SE-EC-RET!)

Kashino: Why won't you tell me?! I'm the one involved!

Me: Because you bullied me earlier.

Kashino: What a childish reason.

Me: Says the boy who's never honest with his own feelings.

Hanabusa: Would you at least tell me?

Me: ((Why did I have to have a crush on him?)) Uh… sure.

Hanabusa: Thank you Berry-chan!

Kashino: That's so unfair!

Me: Don't worry Kashino, I'll tell both of you at the same time.

Kashino: Really?

Me: Yeah! On the next chapter!

Hanabusa and Kashino: WHAT?!

Me: Bye guys! See you next time! (the two boys are screaming "WAIT!" in the background)