Meyyu: Hiya guys! I WAS going to post this at Christmas but, I'm lazy XD Yes, I was planning to publish this in December, and here we are in June...Wow...

Tsubasa: ...Can we start?

Meyyu: Yea.

Rumi: Meyyu does not own Yumeiro Patissiere. She only owns the story plot, the OC's, and the awesomeness used in this story.

Meyyu: Yup! Oh, by the way, their shall be a time jump in here.

Lovely Complex

" Ichigo! " A couple of voices say at once. I turn around instinctively. There was five girls all running toward me. Wait a minute...

" Taka-chan?! Yocchan! Haruhi-chan?! Kagome-chan?! What are you guys doing here?! " I demanded. When they finally reached me, they all glomped me.

" Can't...breathe! " I choked out. They finally got off.

" So, what are you guys doing here? " I asked.

" This school is actually two schools. One is for the super-talented bakers, such as yourself, and the other a high school. " Haruhi-chan says.

" So that means... " I started.

" We're going to be going to the same school again! " The girls cheer. Maybe life wasn't going to be so bad after all.

Kashino's POV

Five years. Five years since we left the leader of Team Ichigo at that school. That was the biggest mistake of my life. We haven't heard from her for five years. By now, she probably is dating the emo-looking guy. UGH! After a year, everything shifted back to normal, like how it was before Amano. But there was still a lonely space where Amano usually worked. Every once and a while, we would hear how the school she was attending was ' More popular than ever thanks to a certain transfer student! ', as the news reports put it.

" Kashino! Stop day-dreaming and HELP US! " Hanabusa shouts. " We are going to the Supreme Patisserie Grand Prix, and you are day-dreaming! "

" Sorry. " I reply simply. We were representing St. Marie in a huge patisserie competition. There must be a single team from each school and their branches. This means we face a whole lot of other people. One of those teams will be from the school that Amano is attending. Maybe, she would be that team. I sigh as I started tempering. I mentally slap myself. Its Amano's fault. She promised to visit, and she hasn't. She had the power to contact us, but didn't. She doesn't care about us anymore. Why should we care about her?

Ichigo's POV

" Here comes the queen~ All dressed in red~ " Sana sang playfully to the tune of Here Comes The Bride.

" Sana, you're going to get detention if you keep singing that. " Kaito teased.

" No teachers going to put the son of the director into detention. I'm the one who signs their checks. " He laughed.

" Touche. " Kaito replied.

" Stop it you guys. " I laughed, as I walked down the halls. I was now in my last year of school before college. In those five years, my hair has grown to my waist, and has become wavy. I also grew taller. In those five years, I grew better and better at baking and cooking, and was one of the top students at this school. So, in turn, everyone started calling me the pet name of Queen. It was kind of cute, so I didn't mind it. The boys have been calling me that ever since we were kids so I was used to it.

I went into my dorm, and went to my laptop instantly. Sitting on my first window that was open, an email with the recipients as Kashino, Hanabusa-kun, and Andou-kun. That email has been open for five years. I have an email typed up and ready, but I couldn't bring myself to click send. It was too cruel to tell them to forget about me, then just randomly show up. If I wanted to make due on my promise, I couldn't contact them at all. All I could do was pray that they would actually forget about me, and moved on. I don't want them suffering like me because they missed me. I miss them more than anything. They were my family. It kills me not to see Kashin- I MEAN Team Ichigo! Ya, thats what I meant.

" ICHIGO~! " A small voice shouted. Vanilla. She doesn't talk to Chocolat, Cafe, or Caramel either because we both agreed that we should make a new beginning for ourselves, and forget our past. " Snap out of it! Quit your day-dreaming! The results are down! " Vanilla yelled. That woke me up. I grabbed my dorm keys, and ran out of there. I- after tripping- went into the Main Hallway ( students named it the Great Hall as a joke ) where all announcements were posted. I pushed myself through, and searched the board for the list. There, front in center in its crowning glory was The List. I peered at it, and let out an inward scream of victory...Inward...Scream...Of...Victory...I've been spending too much time with Kagome-chan. But, I was happy. We won first place in the Test of the Jesters. The Test of the Jokers is when you have normal class, but someone is observing your group, seeing if you have what it takes to go into the competition. My group-as always- won. Next, was the Fight of the Jokers. We would go on our first competition against another school. So, we would fight them, and once we won, then it would be the Battle of the Jacks, and so on. For the Fight of the Jokers, we would be facing the Paris branch of St. Marie. The whole competition was basically St. Marie branches vs. Académie De Douceurs' branches, with a couple of small cooking schools sprinkled in. The two major schools were and have been bitter enemies for years, and this is just a ' friendly ' way of competing.

Not ten seconds after I looked at the List, I was attacked by a rather familiar group of people.

" Ichigo! This is great! We won! " Kaito cheered.

" We should start practicing as soon as possible..." Tsubasa said aloud. I nodded in agreement.

" I think we should study our competitors first. " Sana said.

" I vote competitors! " Kaito and I said together. Tsubasa nods as well. We all go back to my dorm, and I make some popcorn. We set up the video tape of all of our competitors, flopped on my bed ( it was big enough to hold five people ) and pressed play. We watched as the film goes through countless contestants. They flipped by in a blur. At the end, there were interviews of each group. Once again, I was uninterested, until I heard the voice that haunts me every single night.

" REPLAY THAT! " I order. The boys look at me startled, but does it. I scramble off the bed, and go right up to the T.V., soaking in their appearances.

" So, is it true that you lost your team leader five years ago? " The interviewer asked. The three on the screen nodded. " How are you coping with that? Do you still miss her? " This time, the blonde and chocolate eyed boy answered.

" Actually, we're completely fine without her. She was very clumsy, and tended to be a weight on our shoulders. We forgot about her a week after she left. Wasn't her name Ringo or Remon or some other fruit type? " He asked. The other two- the green haired and the black haired ones- looked a bit uncomfortable. " Oh yea! Her name was Ichigo! " The boys behind me were murmuring curse words about the boys on screen.

" Ichigo? " Tsubasa said, right next to me. " Are you okay? "

" I'm-I'm fine. Can I just be left alone for a while? " I asked quietly. He nodded, and the boys filed out. Before the door slammed, Tsubasa said something that I would never forget.

" Its okay Ichigo. We'll beat them, and then they'll realize that you were the one that didn't need them. They needed you. " And with that, he exited the room. When the door closed, I collapsed onto the floor, sobbing. I knew what Tsubasa said was wrong. I needed them. I needed him. I needed Andou-kun, Hanabusa-kun, and above all, Kashino. Then, came the realization that killed me. I knew it for a long time, but never admitted it. It was the real reason why I never visited, why I never sent that email, why I never called them.

I was in love with Kashino

Meyyu: IN NO WAY AM I TO BE BLAMED FOR THOSE WHO WERE RAGING AT THE END! c:

Ichigo: I can't even...

Kashino: JUST HAVE HER CONTACT US GODDAMIT!

Meyyu: NO! MY STORY! *grabs story and strokes it* Myyyy stooorryyyyyy.

Kaito: BYE!