Buy a Cake

"Princess, I don't think that's how it's supposed to look." The chubby red bat floated to the right of the blonde haired woman. Without turning her head to look at it she gave a wordless warning, but the bat seemed to miss it. "It kinda looks like…dung."

Rachel's hand shot up and grabbed the bat. She mercilessly pulled at the cheeks of the red bat. "Pr-princess!" the bat whined as she threw him away from her. She looked down at the cake she had baked. Grabbing the directions and looking over them she realized she left out an ingredient.

Her red eyes settled on the mush that was supposed to be a cake. "Mistress, shall we try again."

"Of course Nago. I do not sully my hands with such trivial things, but…" she trailed off her cheeks reddening. "I should be able to this." She put the cake in the trash and went to wash her hands. Afterwards she looked over the recipe once more. It was a simple recipe but it was much too vague. How did sticking a toothpick into the cake tell that it was ready?

She grabbed a bowl from the dish rack and placed it on the table ready to give it a try again. Once everything was mixed she poured the batter into the cake pan. She then took the pan and placed it into the already preheated oven.

She took a seat and waited. Her mind grasping at information she didn't really want to know. Still she was his observer and she would receive glimpses of his life at times. Currently he was looking at a stick with a plus sign on it. She raised an eye brow and decided not to think more on it. The small visions she received quickly disappear as fast as it had come to her.

Her mind when back to the cake she was baking. If the fool did not want it she would thrust it down his throat. He didn't ask for it but that did not matter, he would eat it and he would like it. She had spent a large amount of her morning making the cake for him.

Four failed attempts and one unfinished attempt because Gii had fallen into to it. She sighed to herself at the thought. She was positive that was the one good batch.

Vaguely she wondered when she had begun to show such regard for him. It wasn't as if he deserved it. No, he didn't deserving anything from her. He had almost bled to death saving her. Why should she be baking a cake for such an idiot? Her hand instinctive went to her short hair that barely reached her neck. That day she could have lost her life, instead she only lost her hair.

The foolish man had come through much to save her. Her feelings did nothing but grow for him to the point they peaked and she would never let anything harm him again if she could help it. She looked to the stove and saw that her cake was burning. "This is not possible." She said angered that she had not been pay attention to her task.

Putting on pot mitts she took the cake out and laid it atop of the stove. It was a black pile of something. It didn't resemble the cake at all. She looked to Nago who had efficiently left the room before the cake had come out of the oven. Gii had also followed suit leaving a very pissed Rachel without anything to retaliate on.

With a deep breath she started over once more. This time she followed everything precisely. After thirty minutes she pulled out a white cake that was perfect except it was lopsided. She cursed to herself in a mutter. She wasn't one for vulgar words but she was angry at how easy the direction looked to the contrary they were anything but.

She iced the cake after a while and placed strawberries around the edge. She debated on writing something in the middle and decided to leave it blank. She was not going to have some needless words on a lopsided cake.

She placed the desert on a cake plate with a glass dome. Leaving the kitchen she went and changed into her normal attire. She didn't wear her ribbons any longer since her hair was short. She could have grown her hair out in the years that had passed but she decided she liked it short. Plus, he still called her bunny so she kept it short. After dressing she went and waited in her drawing room.

The fool was late and she was going to make him pay. Hours had passed since their scheduled appointment and she was angry. Furiously leaving the room she didn't take the time to look where she was going. Her eyes were burning into the floor when she hit a wall of flesh. She didn't stumble but she did step back.

Dual colored eyes stared down at her questioningly. "What's wrong with you, bunny?" he had his Blood Scythe in hand and looked as if he had recently left a fight.

"If you do not know what today is then I will remind you as I flog you." Her eyes bored into his with visible anger and a touch of hurt.

"Of course, I didn't forget. I'm not some kind of heartless guy you know. Here." He gave the small vampire a box and she looked slightly shocked. She opened it and inside the small slender box was a white rose. She touched the petals gently.

"You did not pull this from my garden did you." She looked up at the man.

"…" he said nothing.

"Ragna…you did not." She stared at the flower then at him.

"…" still no words.

"Baden Baden-" was the only words that Ragna remembered.


A/N: Sorry its been a while since the last update. Things have been very busy. Ikiwa and I needed a break. I'm not sure when then next chapter will be for this but please look forward to it. PLDT has been on hiatus for a while so that also might take more time. Thank you for reading.

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