Me: Happy Mother's Day Everyone!

So, this chapter is extremely short, and I apologize. Although, this is just a little bit of Dylan and Ichigo fluff, because I think Dylan is an adorable child and perfectly harmonizes with his mother's optimism. After all, he is a very obvious Mama's boy ^_^.

This chapter is pretty plotless, just a little drabble for mother's day. Hope it makes you smile!

I do not own Yumeiro Patissiere!

Mama's Mysterious Magic

Lynne: 5

Dylan: 2

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"I didn't do it!" Lynne cried, darting into the kitchen, quickly taking refuge by attaching herself onto her father.

Kashino and Ichigo had just finished making sweets for a get together with their friends the next day, when Lynne announced she didn't do something. The daddy's girl quickly tried to get her father on her side. "Lynne... What did you do?" Ichigo asked, sighing exasperatedly.

As if on cue, Dylan stumbled into the kitchen, his eyes brimming with tears. His cheeks were splotchy red, and he whimpered. Upon sighting his mother, he toddled over to her and allowed her to scoop him up into her arms. "Oh Dyl, it's okay. Mama's here." He snuggled his head into her shoulder, murmuring incoherently, all the while wetting her shirt with his tears.

Kashino narrowed his eyes at the blonde girl, who was still holding fast to him, "Lynne, what did you do to your brother?"

"I didn't do anything!" She argued. When getting steely gazes from both her parents, she confessed, "w-well, I yelled at him... a little."

"Lynne, you know your brother is sensitive..." Ichigo began.

"He wouldn't leave me alone! T-then..."

"I'll take care of this," Kashino sighed, "Come on Lynne, you and I are going to have a talk."

Lynne already knew a 'talk' could never be a good thing, but nonetheless followed her father who was leading her out of the kitchen. Ichigo meanwhile, still had a crying toddler to deal with.

"There, there, it's okay," Ichigo soothed, smoothing down his blond hair, "Mama's got you..."

He looked up, finally asking tearfully, "I-is Lynnie ma' a' me?"

"No, she's not. Don't worry sweetheart, Lynne was just a little upset, that's all."

Dylan tried to wipe the tears from his eyes, though they still streamed down his cheeks, "I sad Mama. I-I didn' mwean to mwake 'er upset."

"Don't feel bad Dyl! Cheer up, it's alright! Don't cry anymore."

Though, Dylan didn't seem to be close to stopping. It reminded Ichigo of when she was small. Many times, she cried because she messed something up, whether it be spilling flour or breaking dishes. All of which took place in her grandmother's patisserie.

She would run off to the stream just behind her grandmother's backyard and cry to herself. It was sad, because her parents rarely came out to get her. However, it was her grandmother that always came to her rescue, cheering her up with that special sweets magic she seemed to always have...

"Hey Dyl, I wanna tell you something." He looked at her questioningly, which was enough for Ichigo to go on, "Mama's got a special magic to help you stop crying."

"M-magi?" The boy repeated awestruck. He loved the idea of magic, only 2 years old, he already loved superheroes to bits and pieces, and he definitely wished he had magic like them.

"Yes, Mama's got special magic, the kind that makes you smile, even when you want to cry! Do you want me to show you?"

He nodded eagerly, and she smiled, setting him down on the counter. "Well, let's make some super special dream coloured sweets then!"

There was no doubt in Ichigo's mind that Dylan's favourite food in the whole wide world was strawberries. She assumed that he got that from her, and was quite ecstatic about it. His older siblings' adored candy and chocolate and so many other sugary things, which she expected also came from her, but that was beside the point. She was happy that Dylan liked a snack food that was actually healthy, and let him eat it all the time.

She had actually refrained from letting the child have candy, hoping that he would never develop the taste for those sorts of things. At 2 years old, she had started introducing him to sweets she made. For her kids, she made sure the sweets she made them had a regulated amount of sugar. If they were just like their father, she definitely didn't want them having sugar. She thought she went hyper from too much sugar; her husband could go absolutely insane.

For today, Ichigo was going to treat her youngest child to a sweet tooth kind of dessert; one her grandmother made her almost as often as her strawberry tart.

One of Ichigo's favourite sweets in her childhood was cake pops. They were like bite sized cakes decorated all cute and served like lollipops. She had no doubt in her mind that Dylan would absolutely love them as well. After all, he shared many of her likes.

"We're going to make yummy sweets for the two of us, okay?" Ichigo said. Sure enough, Dylan agreed wholeheartedly.

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Ichigo made the vanilla batter by herself, since she knew it would be too hard for a toddler, but he was content to sit on the counter beside the stationary mixer and watch her. When the cake was finally baked and cool, Dylan looked quite excited about it, thinking now was the time he was going to get to eat his mother's amazing sweets.

However, he was seriously shocked when she helped him washed his hands and then got him to help her crush the cake with his fingers. He was confused as to why they would be destroying such a spongy, delicious treat, though; there must have been a reason.

After all, magic didn't make much sense in general.

"Mama, why we cwushing da cake?"

"We're making cake pops, that's why!" She replied chirpily.

"Wha' a cake pwop?"

"It's like a lollipop made of cake! They're extra yummy," Ichigo assured him, ruffling his hair, "You excited?" He nodded, giving her a small smile. She was glad he was no longer sad.

"Do you wike cake pwops Mama?"

"Of course I do! Your great grandmother used to make them for me all the time!"

"I wuv her," Dylan said simply, continuing to squish the cake in his fingers.

Ichigo stopped to stare at him. "Why Dyl?"

"Cause she swound 'ike you!" He babbled happily. Ichigo was quite touched by this, though didn't say anything. "Is dis good Mama?" Dylan asked finally, pointing at the crumbled cake.

"It's perfect Dyl, I'm going to show you how to make cake pops!"

To make a cake pop was quite simple, you had to take cake and roll it into a ball, poke a stick inside and dip it in melted chocolate or icing. Ichigo got Dylan to help her with the task of making the little cake balls, treating them almost like they were making mini-snowballs. Dylan himself poked all the cake pops with sticks while his mother dipped them in red dyed white chocolate. "Watch what Mama does," Ichigo sang out, playfully touching the boy's nose.

She took circular black sprinkles and stuck them into the hardening chocolate, finally topping the cake pop with green fondant, shaped like leaves. "It wooks like a stwaberry!" Dylan squealed happily.

"Yeah! A strawberry cake pop! What do you think Dyl?"

The boy's eyes were wide with delight and he happily accepted the treat from his mother. She watched as he put it in his mouth, clearly delighted. Chewing and swallowing, his smile was huge, "It's good Mama!"

It really was like magic to the little toddler. His mother really did have the power to make him smile, even when he had been crying! That was the magic of sweets, which he got to experience firsthand.

Ichigo was content when her son was happy, cheerfully finishing decorating the remaining cake pops for them to eat later. "Hey, what's going on here?" Kashino asked, coming back inside the kitchen.

"Mama made cake pwops!" Dylan exclaimed happily, he held a new one in his hand, "Dada wan' one?"

Kashino stooped down and happily accepted it from him, "I sure would little buddy! Did you help Mama?"

"I did! I did lots!"

"What's that?" Lynne came in from all the noise, and when she saw there were sweets involved, she was immediately interested.

Dylan was still kind of wary of her, since she had made him cry. The blonde girl saw his hesitation and sighed, "I'm sorry Dyl," she said finally, "I didn't mean to make you sad."

Finally the boy smiled at her, "It okay! I fo'give you..." Sheepishly, he extended a cake pop toward her, "You wan' a cake pwop?"

"Sure!" She agreed delightedly, taking it from him and quickly gobbling it up, "Ah! It's delicious! Did you make it?"

"Mama made it!" He said happily, standing up on his tip-toes. "It has spwecial magi!"

"Special magic?" Kashino asked.

"Special magic, just like your great grandmother, right Dyl?"

"Jus' wike gweat gwandma!" He cheered happily, stuffing another cake pop in his mouth, "Mama magi!"

Me: I hope it was okay! It seems kinda empty for some reason...

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