30 Day OTP Challenge
"I'm going to like the me you found… After all, I like the you who found her"

Day 21- Cooking/Baking

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A/N: It's like this prompt was written for Persona 4 XD Should be a fun time :) Regardless, enjoy :)

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"Why can't I put peppers in it again?"

"Because we're making chocolate, not curry"

Yu was teaching Rise to cook. Well, not cook, bake chocolate. Yu had to, it was a matter of survival. If he was going to be with Rise for another year he couldn't eat another Durian and Habanero Chocolate Surprise. It was more pepper than chocolate… The young couple was in Yu's kitchen, both making up chocolate. They'd opted to use powder (Walk before you can run, right?) Yu's looked almost perfect. It was the right consistency, had a good colour and (perhaps most importantly) had no spices anywhere near it. Rise's was slightly discoloured and a little too thin, but it had the right flavour at least. She somehow wasn't satisfied…

"But it won't taste good… it'll taste just like every other chocolate" Rise moaned.

"That's not the point, it's the thought that counts"

"Yeah, but what's better than having handcrafted chocolate that you'll remember forever?"

"Chocolate I can actually eat?"

Rise made her 'I'm so done with you' face and flicked some of her runny chocolate at his face. She was a surprisingly good shot as it hit him square on the nose.

"You want to stop messing around and get this into a mould?"

"No" Rise said, hurling another blob of chocolate at Yu's face. This one got him on the cheek. "Now I'm ready!"

Yu smiled. She was in a playful mood today, which wasn't uncommon. It was nice to see though. He was leaving in a few weeks, so to Yu it was relieving to see she hadn't lost her upbeat demeanour in the possibility of his absence. He simply left the chocolate on his face. He was used to getting messy in the kitchen so a little chocolate on his face was nothing to him.

"Then get it in the mould" Yu said, matter of factly. The kitchen was one of the areas he was dead serious as well as in the TV… And while working at the day care. God knows you needed to be careful there…

"But it's not ready yet!" Rise pouted.

"Yes it is"

"It's still runny…"

"It'll set and then you won't have a problem" Yu smiled. "We're leaving them in there overnight so it'll set just fine."

"If you say so…" Rise was still sceptical, but did as Yu said regardless. After they put their creations in the fridge, they leaned back on the countertop resting after a job well done. The kitchen was a mess. They'd used a lot of stuff to measure things out and there was sugar everywhere after an accident that Rise had with the bag.

"We should clean everything up… Dojima'll kill me otherwise." Yu said as he pushed off from the countertop and started cleaning up. Rise joined him after a sigh.

"Did you not like my chocolate?" Rise asked as she began sweeping the sugar into a dustpan.

"What? It was fine, a little gooey but like I said, that'll sort itself out"

"No… Not right now. The ones I gave you on Valentine's day… Did you not like it?"

Yu looked over at Rise. She looked like a kicked puppy, all eyes and sadness. He couldn't lie, it wasn't the best chocolate he'd ever had…

"It was… alright…" Yu said sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"You hated it, didn't you?" Rise looked crestfallen now that the truth had come out.

Yu didn't really know how to play this… He figured honesty was the best policy at all times, so he should just be straight with her.

"I'm not going to lie, it wasn't good."

Rise gasped. It seemed like a hurtful thing to say but Yu cut her off before she could start berating him.

"But" Yu said. "I ate all of it, because it was from you. You could have boxed the worst chocolate on earth and I still would have eaten it."

"Senpai…" Rise's face had developed into a full blush.

"Next year, just tone down the durian" He joked. Rise laughed along with him.

"I'll try, maybe next time I'll use soy sauce or something" she said between chuckles.

The pair finished cleaning the kitchen while making more conversation about various things. (More stuff was thrown at Yu when he mentioned Marie's chocolate but Rise got over it pretty quick). The two moved around each other expertly, never once bumping into each other. They were completely in sync. After only about ten minutes, the kitchen was clean.

"Done!" Rise shouted excitedly. "How long till it's ready?"

"We're leaving it in there overnight, remember?"

"Oh yeah… I'm such a weirdo…" Rise giggled as she leant against her Senpai. It was at that point she noticed not everything was clean… "Your face is still dirty"

Yu hadn't even noticed the chocolaty goop still on his face.

"Oh yeah…" As Yu moved his hand to wipe it off, Rise stopped him before he could.

"I got it…" She said as she moved her face closer to Yu's.

She placed her lips on Yu's cheek first, right where the sweet liquid hit him. She started suckling on it slightly while simultaneously using her tongue to get as much as she could off. His cheek was fine, it just tickled a little bit. It was when Rise moved to his nose and did the same thing that it was kind of… odd. He didn't object though, it made him feel warm inside...

As Rise pulled away from his face, she instead moved into his chest for a hug. The lovers wrapped their arms around one another in a simple embrace. Rise looked up at Yu and said one word.

"Yummy…"

It turned out to be a pretty good afternoon.