Sunako and Kyohei stood in the middle of the kitchen shocked. Sunako's shock was attributed to the fact that her brilliant plan had backfired, and Kyohei's was credited to the fact that he had just said the one thing that normally he would have never said. The awkward silence between the two grew, and grew, and grew...

'Um, alright. Well first you have to wash your hands, and then we can get started, I guess."

"Uh, o-okay" Kyohei responded hesitantly. He walked over to the sink and washed his hands. When he turned around Sunako was pulling objects out of the box and placing them on the counter.

"Do you have everything you need?" he asked drying his hands off.

"Um, yeah I think so. Oh wait, can you get the eggs and butter for me?"

"Yeah sure." Alright who is this and what has she done with Sunako Nakahara? Where's the screaming, or the blood? Not that I'm complaining but this is getting too weird.

"Alright here they are. So what do we do first?" He asked placing the items amongst the rest of the stuff.

" Ah well, Can you get the flour, baking soda and salt into this bowl while I get the oven ready and start the rest of the stuff?" she asked handing Kyohei a large silver bowl. He looked at it and then back at the stuff on the counter. Crap all of the labels are in English. This would happen to me. Well maybe I can get it right, I mean it can't be that hard right?

Turning to the ingredients on the counter he picked one up. Hmm this looks like flour. Now let's see, it says 2 ¼ cups. Okay that wasn't that bad. He glanced over at his companion. She was fiddling with the buttons on the oven. Alright, what next? Hmmmm, salt ½ tsp……… What the hell is a "tsp"?

"Hey, what the hell is a 'tsp'?" he asked over his shoulder. He heard his companion sigh.

"Where is it?" Sunako asked, seeming to suddenly materialize next to him. He started at her sudden appearance, and numbly pointed to the spots.

"Oh that. That is a teaspoon."

At his blank look she sighed once again. Reaching forward she grasped a bunch of silver spoons. He was confused when he noticed that his back was suddenly warmer and he started when he realized that it was because her body was pressed up against his. She was flipping through the spoons she held as if looking for something. He could feel his face start to heat up slightly as he felt her press more firmly against him and he could feel the curves of her body. Finally after what seemed like an eternity she held up two of the spoons.

"Alright, now you are going to use these measurements for the salt and baking soda. All clear?" she asked a hint of a smile in her voice. He nodded, not trusting his voice to not crack, and then she moved away from him. He felt a twinge of disappointment as she moved away, and his back tingled from the contact of her body against his. He watched her as she walked over to the mixer and started adding things into the big bowl. We had a mixer? Alright now this is the salt and I add 1 'tsp' of backing soda to the bowl and ½ a 'tsp' of salt. That wasn't that hard, he though, adding the remaining things into the bowl.

"Alright now what do I do with this?" he asked holding the bowl in front of him.

"Bring it over here and I'll add it to this stuff. Then all that's left to do is make them into balls and put them in the oven."

" 'Kay. This doesn't take very long does it?" he asked walking over to where she was with the mixer.

"No not really. That's why I wanted to try and make these while Takenaga, Yuki and Ranmaru were out," she replied while slowly adding the dry ingredients into the mix.

"Alright now we have to make the mix into balls and place them on these sheets."

Kyohei watched as she reached in and grabbed a little of the mixture and started rolling it into a ball. Silently he mimicked her movements as best as he could. Together they worked in silence until both of their trays were filled. Sunako placed the last cookie on her tray and turned towards the oven. Walking over to it she opened the door and places her tray on the top rack. She turned to see if he was done and was startled to see that he was standing in front of her holding his tray out for her to take. Silently she reached out her hand, grabbed the tray and turned to deposit it into the oven. Turning back around she froze as she noticed that Kyohei hadn't moved away from her. In fact it seemed like he had moved closer to her. Risking a glance up her breath caught (wow that's corny…) as she met his gaze. His amethyst eyes bored into hers, his brilliance blinded her, captivated her, and sent her emotions into chaos. His eyes drew her in and held a look of confusion, though about what she didn't know and quite frankly at the moment she didn't care. Neither one of them noticed that they were slowly moving closer together until they were only inches apart. She held his gaze, not knowing what was happening, and not really caring. He was stirring up emotions in her that she thought she had buried too deep for them to ever resurface. She was scared, nervous, confused and… excited. She could feel his breath against her skin and she slowly shut her eyes as he drew closer still. She waited anxiously not knowing what was happening. Time seemed to sand still as the two of them stood there, closer to one another than they had ever been before. She could feel the rush of air on her skin, felt the tension in the air and she could feel the heat radiating from his body…

"Sunako-chan! Kyohei! We're back!" (a.n. heh, perfect timing right?)

The two of them sprang apart as if they had been burned and Kyohei darted to the other side of the kitchen just as Yuki and Takenaga walked through the door.

"Sunako-chan what are you making?" Yuki asked. He was a little surprised that Kyohei was in the kitchen but he shrugged it off. Takenaga, however, noticed more than his happy-go-lucky companion. First, both Sunako and Kyohei were sporting red cheeks, though Kyohei's were noticeably darker. Second, Sunako wasn't in her chibi form. That was a rare occurrence in itself made even rarer by the fact that Kyohei was around. I wonder what happened while we were gone. He thought looking between Sunako's pink face and Kyohei's red one.

"Did something happen with you two while Yuki and I were gone?" he asked. He got the reaction he had hoped for although Kyohei's was far less subtle then his housemate's. His cheeks flamed almost scarlet and he turned his head hoping to hide his reaction, and failed miserably. Sunako just turned on her heel and walked over to the oven pulling out two trays of cookies. Hmmm, so something did happen, and it looks like it wasn't just those two trying to kill each other… maybe Kyohei isn't as stupid as I thought he was, and maybe, hopefully, Sunako is starting to move forward from the past. Maybe now they will start to see how right they are for one another, and maybe… his mental train of thought was cut off as his female housemate walked, although it was almost like she flew, past him. Turning he caught sight of the door shutting and he heard the pounding of footsteps up the stairs. And maybe they just managed to take two steps forwards and three steps back.