This is just a little somethin' somethin' for my best friend Tiffany and for xFallingxCastlexWallsx who wanted something about Rin.
Rin held onto the bags in her arms as she skipped up the back porch steps of the Uzumaki house, popping the door open with her hip as she walked into the kitchen. "Aunt Hinata? Helloooo? Guys? Is anyone here?" She sat the bags down on the counter and breathed in deeply, savoring the smell of warmth and sunshine. She had always loved coming over.
"Rin, hey! Did you bring the stuff?" Kori asked as she hurried into the kitchen, her blonde ponytail swinging out behind her. She made a beeline to the bags and started poking at them, shoving the stuff around inside of them noisily as her mother entered the brightly lit room.
"Rin, what are you doing here?" She asked, coming over to hug the girl and brush a kiss over her cheek.
"Kori and I are making a birthday cake for Karin as a little surprise. Sorry, I figured she would have told you, so if you can't spare the kitchen-" Hinata shook her head at the girl's words.
"No, it's fine. Do you need any help?" Rin shook her head and smacked Kori's hand when it wandered towards the chocolate chips she had brought.
"No, we'll be fine. Thank you."
"Alright, just ask if you need anything." She said, waiting until both of the girls nodded before she left. Rin sighed as she exited and turned back to the bags, pulling out the things she had brought with her and then organizing them on the counter.
"What kind of cake are we making?" Kori asked, leaning against the counter to watch.
"Karin's favorite cake." She waited a bit for some understanding to come from the blonde girl and rolled her eyes when none came. You'd think she would have remembered her best friend's favorite cake. "It's a vanilla cake with peanut-butter frosting."
Kori made a face. "Isn't that kind of boring?"
"Which is why I brought chocolate chips." Kori nodded as if agreeing with such a wise decision, watching as the competent girl tied her thick black hair up in her usual bun and then started measuring out and then mixing all of the ingredients in a bowl. Within moments she had the cake batter practically all whipped up, handing the bowl to Kori so that she could finish mixing it while she got the cake pan out.
"Okay," She said, setting it down and turning back to the cabinets to find the cooking spray, "Before you pour it in-" She cut off when she turned to find Kori proudly pouring the cake batter into the pan.
"Wait! Kori, we have to grease the pan before you pour the batter in." Kori smiled apologetically. "Oh, right. Sorry." Rin nodded and scraped the batter back into the bowl, setting that pan into the sink before getting another pan and setting it down on the counter, turning and finding the cooking spray. She turned back once again and saw Kori pouring the last of the batter in the new pan.
"Kori! What did I just tell you?" The blonde blinked down at the pan as if unsure of how it had happened.
"Um... right. My bad." Rin stomped over and grabbed her arm to pull her away from the pans, pointing to her so that she knew not to move from her spot. Getting out yet another pan she greased it and then poured the batter into the pan. She sighed as she waited for the oven to finish preheating, turning back to put the new pan in the sink.
"So we're going to put these chocolate chips on it?"
"Mhmm." Rin, suddenly having a bad premonition, turned and caught Kori just before she tossed a handful of the chocolate chips into the batter.
"Wait!"
"What?" Kori shouted, "You said we were going to put chocolate chips in the cake."
"On the cake, not in it."
"What's the big deal? In/on, potato/potahto. At least if we cook them it will be all gooey." Rin rolled her eyes and quickly moved the pan into the safety of the oven, figuring a few minutes before the preheating was done wouldn't hurt it.
"If you just toss them on top of the batter like that they sink in and make dents as it cooks. We'll just sprinkle them on the icing when we ice it, okay?" Kori blinked and nodded as she absorbed the new information.
As the cake baked the girls set about cleaning up the mess they had made, washing the extra pans and the other dishes, wiping down the counters and the stove-top. They passed the final few minutes flipping through magazines and chatting.
When Rin pulled the pan out of the oven and sat in down Kori tilted her head, squinting a bit at it. "I thought that the top was supposed to be more... round." Rin nodded and sighed.
"Yeah, the rack in your over is probably tilted. We'll just cut the top off after we get it onto a plate." She said as she got a large plate out along with a long knife. She ran the knife along where the edge of the cake met the pan and then put the plate over the top of the pan, gently flipping it upside down and setting it on the counter.
"Okay, to get it out we need to tap the bottom-" Kori's hand suddenly came out and slapped the back of the cake pan with a force that nearly dented the metal. "Gently."
Kori blinked at her before smiling at her apologetically. "Sorry." Rin waved the apology away and picked up the pan, looking down at the cake that had crumbled into two parts on the plate, another part still stuck to the pan.
"Umm... maybe it will be better when we put the icing on it?" Rin nodded her head and flipped as much of the cake over as she could, cutting off the lopsided roundness on the top. The patched up what they could, making a lump that thankfully would still taste like a cake, and Rin left the icing to Kori since the girl had a delicate touch with it, surprising when you thought about how she had handled everything else up to that point.
They both sighed as they sat at the table, staring at the thing that sat proudly at the center and that looked amazingly like a cake. "Well, that was exhausting." Rin sighed and Kori nodded in agreement.
Hinata came into the room and looked to the cake. "Well girls, that looks nice." Kori shook her head at her mother.
"It may look nice but it's evil. It's an evil demon cake and I hate it." Hinata's lips twitched and she looked to the floor, her eyebrows raising at the complete mess that covered the tile.
"How did so much of the cake get on the floor? There's more there than on the plate." Both girls turned their heads to look down at the absurd amount of crumbs that covered the floor and sighed.
"Evil, evil cake." Kori muttered as Rin got up and got the broom, sweeping up the crumbs into the dust pan Kori held steady as she crouched to the ground. Hinata stood watching them for a moment before she shook her head at them, turning to leave the two girls alone so that they could settle whatever had gone on with the cake.
Rin looked over at the happy little frog clock that hung on the wall and nearly sagged at how much time had passed. How had it taken so long to make a single cake, especially when they hadn't even put the chocolate chips on top of it yet?
"We're supposed to meet up with Karin in about an hour." Kori grumbled to show that she had heard her and flopped back down in her seat, watching as Rin carelessly tossed the chocolate chips on the deceivingly simple looking cake.
"We're going to have to be careful with this so that we don't accidentally smash it since we won't have any time to make another one."
"I'm never making another cake again. Ever. There is a reason that they sell those things in stores."
"When you bake a cake it doesn't usually end up like this. We just had a few... bad moments." Rin defended as she tented some aluminum foil over the cake. Kori snorted and shook her head.
"Yeah, and each and every one of them made me feel extremely dumb. I don't really want that little ego booster to happen again anytime soon."
"It's just because you've never baked a cake before, and they weren't very big mistakes anyways." Kori grimaced as she got up to get her shoes, hopping as she slipped them on.
"Well, we're certainly not ruining this one. If that thing has even one crumb out of place when we get to the training ground I'm going to scream so loud I'll be able to crack the glass in the windows here from there."
Rin shook her head at her and smiled, picking up the plate and ducking her head out the archway to call out her goodbyes at Hinata before following Kori as she continued on with her rant about the evil cake they were currently transporting.
All of the above was based on an absolutely true story.
My bestest friend in the whole wide world and I decided to bake a cake for our friend Missy's birthday and all of the above happened (I was Rin, Tiff was Kori). It took us four hours (yes, you read that right) to make that stupid cake (We were trying to make it look like a castle and be fancy. We failed.)
It isn't that Tiff is a bad cook, and it's the same with Kori. Their mothers did all of the cooking and took care of everything and neither of them really learned. But Tiff has started learning recently and has actually gotten quite good, just like Kori will.
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