Chapter 2 – Dratted cake…
Disclaimer: Same old
After a moment of panic, Suoh took hold of himself. Where and how to bake a cake? His ninja training did not involve cooking. A serious flaw, he reflected, when his One belonged to a family well-known to be composed of impossibly intelligent gourmets who knew every way to twist others around their little finger. Furthermore, cooking classes happened to clash with his course on "Analysis of the themes of exile and loss in 11th century Japanese literature"(1).
Sure, there were rooms in the campus designed for cooking classes and he could probably find an empty one, but that would not take him very far.
He would keep his word, and not simply buy a cake.
But what would he do?
Two minutes later, he was sprinting off, an idea having sprung into his mind.
- Here you are, Kaichô, Ijûin," Suoh announced, entering the student council room with a trolley on which were placed tea and an angel food cake.
A pale golden, saliva-inducing, perfect angel food cake, still warm.
- Suoh!" Nokoru exclaimed, at a loss.
He had not expected Suoh to produce a cake that actually looked like one, and certainly not inside of an hour. Yet he was sure Suoh had stuck to his word.
"There Be A Trick To It", he thought.
Meanwhile Akira's eyes were gleaming to the point of invading his face and he clapped his hands madly, pachipachipachi.
- Amazing, Takamura-senpai!
Suoh smirked. Managing to make Nokoru look nonplussed felt nice.
Still dubious, as if he expected the cake to taste salty instead of sweet, Nokoru served himself, then took a small bite.
- It's good, actually," he said, obviously surprised.
- Actually?" Suoh teased.
- It tastes like Duklyon's angel cake, I think," Akira declared.
Suoh nodded.
- It comes from there. But I did bake it. I asked Higashikunimaru-senpai, who works there, to let me put it in the oven and take it out afterwards.
- I see," Nokoru said. "That's the trick."
- Ooooh, that's amazing, Takamura-senpai!
Suoh managed to keep a straight face. Akira did tend to repeat himself, but his ever-readiness to praise others was one of the things that made him most admirable, in Suoh's opinion.
- Their cake is not as good as yours are," he assured the treasurer truthfully.
(1) Er… I know nothing of Japanese literature…