Chapter 1: Fool's Bakery
Minato wakes up to the sound of his cell phone ringing. He sleepily reaches for the phone and answers it. It was his best friend and business partner Yu Narukami.
"Minato you coming to work today or what?" Yu practically yelled in his ear.
"hu what are you talking about; what work?" he replies not fully understanding the situation yet.
"the bakery are you coming in today or what man?"
"oh yhea the bakery how could I forget." he replies coming to his senses. "course I'm coming in when don't I?"
"Then you better hurry up and get here; your late and we have 12 orders of Jack Frost Balls piled up and your the only one who can make them bro."
"OH SHIT, I over slept." says Minato looking over at the clock. "I'll be right over bro."
With that Minato quickly hung up the phone without waiting for a reply and leaped out of bed. He quickly got dressed in his favorite shirt, (a white T-shirt with blue sleeves) and blue jeans. Rushing out of his room he entered the kitchen where Yukari and Aigis where sitting around the table talking and eating breakfast. He begins to rush past to the door when Yukari stops him.
"Oh good your finally awake. I made breakfast, you want some?" she asks.
"No time gotta get to the bakery I'm late." he states opening the door. "Not really hungry anyways" he added as he slipped out the door and closed it behind him.
Yukari sighed out in disappointment and sunk back in her chair. Clearly upset over not getting to spend time with him.
"Don't worry Yukari I'm sure he'll come around, it will just take him time" Aigis comforted her.
"I hope so" she pouted back.
Else where in the apartment parking lot Minato leaped onto his black motorcycle and started up the engine. He pulled out of the parking lot and sped down the road towards the bakery.
When he arrived he entered to find Yu behind the front desk on the phone with a costumer.
"Hello this is Yu with Fool's Bakery, may I take your order" he spoke into the phone. Noticing Minato he smiled and waved him back towards the kitchen.
Minato hiked over counter next to Yu, waved back at him, and went trough the door leading to the kitchen. Once inside he grabbed his apron, a regular white apron only with their company logo on it (which is the fool arcana card), off the stand, and put it on. He then went to work on his locally famous Jack Frost Balls, which was just a hardened chocolate ball with cream cheese and cookies inside and white frosting surrounding the outside.
Minato was just finishing up on his master piece when Yu walked into the kitchen. Yu let out a sigh of relief and smiled turning his attention to Minato.
"Glad you could make it partner, I was getting worried I would have to cancel the order if you didn't show up, or worse try to make Jack Frost Balls myself."
"Are you kidding there's no way I would let you bring shame to my master piece by letting you make it" Minato replied smiling.
"Ouch, am I really that bad at making them?"
"oh yhea, you are" he said finishing up with his creation.
"Ha ha, maybe but I would like to see you try to make my delicious Izanagi Chocolate Cupcakes" Yu stated.
"L-lets just agree to stick with our respected specialties, eh partner" Minato replied laughing.
"Agreed". Yu smiled and went over the fridge grabbing some eggs and a carton of milk.
"Whatcha makin?"
"Thoth vanilla cake".
"neat".
Yu went to work on his cake while Minato took his Jack Frost Balls out to the counter. Storing them in the special container below the counter to keep them cool he stayed out to man the counter incase some costumers showed up.
After a short while the costumer that ordered the Jack Frost Balls showed up to pick up her order. Minato greeted her friendly and got out her order. The Woman smiled and paid Minato, he put the money in the cash register gave her, her order.
"real hungry hu?" he said trying to make small talk.
"oh no not really, I just have a lot of people showing up for the meeting" the girl replied "And they all love this place's chocolate balls, whoever the chef is a real genius for creating such good chocolate balls".
A large smile grew on Minato's face, the same smile that always grows there when someone compliments his cooking. "Your looking at him" he stated proudly.
"Who?" the woman asked confused.
"T-the chief your looking at him, I'm the one who makes the chocolate balls". He answered.
"Oh good for you" she said leaving.
"Now is that any way to treat a genius" Minato muttered under his breath. "still" he thought "she did call me a genius to begin with"; And with that thought his smile returned to its original size.
The rest of the day went by without any important occurrences, and finally it was closing time. Minato decided to chat with Yu a bit in the parking lot outside the bakery. "Sooooooo" he said starting the conversation. "Soooo what?" replied Yu.
"So how are things with you and Marie, hu Yu?" Minato asked.
A deep red blush appeared on Yu's normally composed face. "I-I really don't want to talk about that with you".
"Ha ha, looks like some one was kicked out of the house again. Is that what happed, you forced to stay with Yosuke again? Hu Yu?" he asked loving the reaction he was getting from his friend.
"N-no its not that, we're on good terms right now, but things are getting more and more serious each day" the blush stayed on his face but a smile appeared to go along with it. "A-any ways lets change the subject shall we, how are things going with you and Yukari, are you dating yet or what?" he asked the blush disappearing and the smile growing wider on his face.
This time it was Minato's turn to blush "W-what thats Yu I can't hear you, anyways gotta go bye" he stammered as he leaped onto his motorcycle and turned on the engine and quickly drove out of the parking lot, leaving a laughing Yu behind him.
Things between him and Yukari where complicated, it was obvious that she liked him but Minato was a little unsure about the age difference now between them. Yukari was now a full grown woman where as Minato was still a 18 year old teenage boy. She eagerly agreed to let him live with her after his return and he had been staying with her for over a year now; but things were still weird between them. It was not as if Minato was no longer attracted to her, if anything he was even more attracted to her now more mature body, he just felt like he shouldn't try anything with her because she would probably be uneasy with being someone so much younger then she was. Minato shook his head and pushed all these thoughts to the back of his head as he drove home.
By the time he got home it was around 8 o'clock but he was feeling pretty drowsy as usual, and decided he would call it a day soon, after a quick meal of course. When he got into the house he noticed Yukari without Aigis sitting on the couch watching TV. "I'm home" he called placing his keys on the counter and walking over to the fridge.
"Welcome home" she called from the couch.
"No Aigis tonight?".
"No she's on a Shadow Operative mission with Mitsuru".
"ah".
Minato got out the ingredients he would need and quickly made himself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He walked over to the couch and sat down on the opposite side from Yukari. He silently nodded at her then began eating. After awhile, not being able to stand the silence any longer Yukari broke it.
"Sooooooooo, how was your day working at the bakery"
Minato's chef smile crossed his face as he began to swell with cooking pride "Some old lady called me a genius for making such good Jack Frost Balls" he said proudly.
"Oh thats great to hear, so hows Yu doing?"
Returning to his regular self "Fine" the said, his smile vanishing.
"Well thats good to hear" Yukari responded trying to scoot closer to him.
Minato scooted father away from her and asked a question he knew would get her to leave him alone. "So how was your day Yukari?"
Yukari excited that he was interested in her imminently started to reply. As she did so Minato nonchalantly pulled his headphones up over his ears and turned on his favorite song, Burn My Dread, and tuned her out. When she inquired about the headphones he insured he that he was still listening and that she should just continue her story. When in reality he wasn't listening at all while he finished his sandwich. After he was done he got up and said "Thats great Yukari but I'm beat, night".
Lying in bed Minato recollected the days events and concluded that it was just another great day working at his and Yu's Fool's Bakery. He then drifted off into one of his deep sleeps.