12 Days of Kenshin

Lina: Yes! Only four more chapters to go! I hope you're all excited for the last one, it's going to be really really good. Hehehe. Oh, and this is for Prjct.WAR: READ THE DESCRIPTION! Thank you. Sorry, just spazzing right now.

Day 9

The day was December 22nd, Kaoru had just woken up when she realized something, they haven't made taffy yet. Yes, taffy was something that the Americans made, mostly, but she wanted to try it. She never had it before, and that's why. She got dressed and gathered everyone in the kitchen. Megumi had patients, so she couldn't come. But Dr. Genzai was there.

"Now, you're probably wondering why you're all here," she started. They all nodded. (Tae and Tsubame were of course at the Akebeko, but provided the ingredients and slab.) "Well, we are going to try and make taffy. It's a traditional thing in some American homes. First you heat up the taffy so that it can be cooled on a cold slab. Then you take pieces and start stretching until it gets glossy. Let's try it," she said, excitedly. Sano and Kenshin looked at eachother.

"Hopefully she won't start the place on fire, like you did, Kenshin," Sano whispered. "What was that?" Kaoru asked, glaring at Sano. He backed away. Kaoru pourred in the sugar into the boiling pot of water, then the food coloring and other ingredients, such as vanilla and so forth. She then let it boil for awhile, and then pourred the hot sticky stuff on the buttered slab, which Yahiko had fun buttering up. They all buttered their hands and watched the sticky pile of goo form into a nice circle on the slab. They waited a couple of minutes for it to cool and then began pulling. Sano's part got stuck all over his hands.

"Ack! What's going on?" He asked, trying to eat off the goo. Yahiko was pulling it fine, so was Kaoru. Kenshin had his almost finished when the others had just started. It was turning into a light pink color, since the flavor was strawberry. Everyone stared at him as he was pulling faster than the speed of light. (Figure of speech... do not read literally)

"Wow, Kenshin, have you ever pulled taffy before?" Yahiko asked, in awe.

"No, I never knew of this taffy before now. It's just fun, that it is," he said, smiling. He layed down his piece on the slab and formed it into a line. Yahiko, Kaoru, and Dr. Genzai all finished after that, and Sano was still trying to get the taffy off his fingers, but had most of it off. "I'm never doing this again," he grumbled. They all started cutting the taffy with knives. Yahiko kept eating pieces.

"Hey, leave some for later," Kaoru snapped. He popped one in his mouth and stuck his tongue out with it on it. Kaoru sighed. They wrapped each piece in pieces of clear paper. "Now, that was fun wasn't it?" Kaoru asked, smiling. Sano just left the room.

"I guess he didn't have much fun because he got hot sticky goo all over his hands," Dr. Genzai said. Everyone laughed. Ayame and Suzume came over later to try some and so did Megumi, Tae, and Tsubame.

Lina: In case you were wondering, we do a lot of our own taffy making during the winter the same way, which is why I wrote this chapter. Hehe. Plus I'm running out of ideas. Lol Oh, you will find out what presents they got eachother, soon. And you will also get clues in the next two chapters!

Kenshin: (eats taffy)