Ryuzaki Sakuno sighed as she looked at the mess she had created in the kitchen of her house. She was asked to bake her sempai, Fuji Syusuke, rice cake as a gift of saving her when she had fell down from the staircase of her school. Sighing again at the sight of the messy kitchen, Sakuno was thankful that her grandmother was out to meet up with an old friend of hers. If her grandmother steps into the kitchen and saw what she had did, she won't want to know what her grandmother would make her to do.
Knock knock!
Hearing the sound of the front door being knocked, Sakuno quickly ran towards the door, knowing that the person outside of her house would be her best friend. Opening the door, she smiled at the sight of Osakada Tomoka as she leaded Tomoka into the kitchen.
"Tomo-chan! You have to help me!" Sakuno cried out, "Help me in baking a rice cake!"
Tomoka smirked proudly, "Sure! Leave it to m—what did you just said, Sakuno?" realizing what Sakuno had said, she questioned her again, "Baking a rice cake?"
"Hai…"
"Er… Sakuno?" Tomoka called out, "do you know how to bake one?"
"No…" Sakuno frowned as she lower her gaze to the ground.
"Sakuno, and do you know that we can't bake rice cakes?" Tomoka sighed.
"But…" she pouted even more, "Fuji-sempai said that we could! Beside, baking it is easier!"
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"Bake… a rice cake?" Sakuno repeated, surprised at what her sempai had just told her. Baking a rice cake? She had never heard of ways to bake a rice cake, not in her 13 years of life.
"Aa," Fuji simply smiled kindly as he tapped Sakuno's shoulder, "I want you to bake me, since you know, baking rice cakes would be much easier than the normal way of doing it. Besides, it's safer and faster by baking."
"But…"
Not waiting for Sakuno to finish her sentence, Fuji's smile widen, "Saa, I'll be waiting for the rice cakes you baked specially for me." With that, he waved and left the scene.
Sakuno did not notice the hidden smirk pasted behind the smiling mask of Fuji Syusuke's.
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Osakada Tomoka twitched as she eyed the burned rice cakes in front of her. They had already spent more than three hours 'baking' rice cakes and it seemed like no matter how much they have tried, they still couldn't bake a rice cake which was supposed to be easier to make compared to the normal rice cakes. Every single one they have tried were all burned.
"That's it!" Tomoka snapped, "Stop doing it already! It's impossible!"
"Eh? But…" Sakuno frowned as she tried to talk to her friend, "Fuji-sempai said—"
"Oh Sakuno!" Tomoka sighed, "Just go to school tomorrow and tell Fuji-sempai that you have failed to bake her a rice cake, he'll forgive you! After all, he is the gentle Fuji-sempai we all know!"
"But…"
"No more buts!" Tomoka said as she began to clean up the kitchen, not giving Sakuno a chance to say anything. "Fuji-sempai would forgive you for sure!"
How wrong she was.
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Note: Ok, I don't live in Japan, and I don't know how to make a rice cake. Or is there really a way to bake rice cakes. I don't know. Therefore in this story, just let it be that… we can't bake a rice cake.