Red Velvet Romance
Summary: Sango is an aspiring pastry chef in the morning and an undercover agent at night. Miroku is her pastry shop's regular patron. Under a circumstance, Miroku seeks the help of Sango. What can red velvet cupcakes do between these two souls? Will romance bloom? AU.
This is a story told in snippets.
Chapter 1
Her Life
Sango was in her playground – the pastry shop in which she had inherited from her mother after she had died a year ago. She guessed that she got her trait of being a pastry lover from her. She always had a passion for baking and her mom was a good mentor. She had started her day early to do the mise en place for the ingredients of her specials for today and started baking with the help of her best friends, Kagome and Kikyo who were all working part time in her little pastry shop – Rouge Patisserie.
The three of them grew together since their houses were just a few inches away from each other. Since her father had died after Kohaku was born because of his work as an undercover agent, it was always her mother who brought them up together, until she had died of heart failure last year which made her the sole proprietress of the said pastry shop. She felt that her Mom just waited for her to graduate from her culinary art degree before she had finally stopped fighting for her illness. She sighed sadly as she looked at her baked goods that were now being cooled at the cooling racks occupying the whole table.
I miss my Mom. She solemnly added. Her thoughts were interrupted as she saw the door opened and revealed her brother.
She smiled as she saw her brother, Kohaku, the only family she had entered the kitchen in his high school uniform. "Nee-chan, I'll go to school now. Bye." He said as he got two red velvet cupcakes from the cooling rack. "Okay, but…" She said, "that would be $5, Kohaku." She informed him, pointing at the cupcakes he was holding with both hands.
Kohaku groaned as he rolled his eyes, "Nee-chan you're such a business-minded person. I'll just take the counter work later when I get back from school!" He said as he ran towards the door. She heard him greeting Kagome and Kikyo who were busy on their work setting up the shop.
She smiled to herself as her brother left. Seeing Kohaku always reminded her of their father. He died as a hero – protecting his subjects from the gunshot from the criminal that they were chasing. It was just sad that Kohaku didn't even get the chance to grow up with a loving father but their mother would always tell tales about their father's heroic deeds.
She snapped out of her thoughts when Kagome entered the kitchen, calling her name. "Sango-chan, we should display the cupcakes outside. Our regular customers are looking for them." She said, smiling.
"All right." She transferred the red velvet cupcakes to the tray and arranged them outside for display.
R&R
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