Cake~ (Sequel)
Title: Sequel to Cake~
Author: mpemba_effect
Characters: Yuzuki/Kyuki (TNH)
Summary: Kyuki eats Yuzuki's "cake."
Challengers other than esanabridges: Can I safely say this is a romance between Kyuki and Kyuki? Or a satire on arrogance?
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"Kyuki!"
It wasn't a pleasant or friendly voice. But since it was calling his name, Kyuki decided that just this once, he would condescend to turn to it. Yuzuki, of course. It seemed that she finally overcame her denial and was ready to admit her feelings to him. That anger and bossiness on her face? The natural turbulence that came with an emotion as powerful as love. He pitied her. It must be horrible to love someone who could never love you back...
Well, everyone else lived through it, right? Actually, they probably just act happy when I'm around so that I won't feel bad. How noble of them. But see, I can tell. It's the pain in their eyes...or something cool-sounding like that. Yeah.
"Eat my cake. Don't worry, Your High Arrogance, the design suits you perfectly."
Okay, that was a reaction I didn't expect. Still, cooking is a sign of love, right? Good. That girl is still sane...
"Ryuu was too lazy to bite through it and Kotone and Mitsuru claimed that I couldn't test it on them because they would be biased."
...That last sentence was a little concerning. What was she trying to test? Knock-out powder? Poison or antidote? No, some sort of bias was involved...Could it possibly be...love potion?
"WOULD YOU QUIT THINKING AND JUST EAT IT, IDIOT?"
...He was Kyuki. He would be able to handle anything she put into it, right? "Fine," he replied, jutting out his chin and closing his eyes, "I, the Great Kyuki, give you permission to-"
"Thanks. I need to go give Miaki hers now." Kyuki blinked at her abrupt departure, then glanced at the small spherical object she had shoved into his hand. "Cake," she had said, but this thing had the consistency of a rock and looked like it didn't taste much better. The (supposedly flour?) on the inside was every bit as hard as the outer glaze. Its only redeeming feature was the fine icing drawing just under the glaze, protected as if by an extremely shiny shell. A drawing of Kyuki, most likely machine-rendered.
He put the nugget-like object in his mouth - no trouble, since Yuzuki had compressed it to the size of his tooth. It was sweet, very sweet. He took a moment to appreciate the taste, then bit down.
Big mistake. Not that he made mistakes - obviously, it was the "cake" that had messed up.
"WHAT IS THIS THING?"
He spilled the strange "thing" quickly into his hand, rubbing along the jawline where he had bit into it. Somehow, even Kyuki's powerful chewing hadn't dented it at all. Ah, no - it had been dented after all. As he turned the marble-like object over, he saw that he had scratched the candy's surface, leaving a white mark cutting through the middle of the Kyuki-drawing's face.
"...Is this some sort of insult?"
<---- Cake~
akilei gets credit for the last line
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Author: mpemba_effect
Characters: Yuzuki/Kyuki (TNH)
Summary: Kyuki eats Yuzuki's "cake."
Challengers other than esanabridges: Can I safely say this is a romance between Kyuki and Kyuki? Or a satire on arrogance?
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"Kyuki!"
It wasn't a pleasant or friendly voice. But since it was calling his name, Kyuki decided that just this once, he would condescend to turn to it. Yuzuki, of course. It seemed that she finally overcame her denial and was ready to admit her feelings to him. That anger and bossiness on her face? The natural turbulence that came with an emotion as powerful as love. He pitied her. It must be horrible to love someone who could never love you back...
Well, everyone else lived through it, right? Actually, they probably just act happy when I'm around so that I won't feel bad. How noble of them. But see, I can tell. It's the pain in their eyes...or something cool-sounding like that. Yeah.
"Eat my cake. Don't worry, Your High Arrogance, the design suits you perfectly."
Okay, that was a reaction I didn't expect. Still, cooking is a sign of love, right? Good. That girl is still sane...
"Ryuu was too lazy to bite through it and Kotone and Mitsuru claimed that I couldn't test it on them because they would be biased."
...That last sentence was a little concerning. What was she trying to test? Knock-out powder? Poison or antidote? No, some sort of bias was involved...Could it possibly be...love potion?
"WOULD YOU QUIT THINKING AND JUST EAT IT, IDIOT?"
...He was Kyuki. He would be able to handle anything she put into it, right? "Fine," he replied, jutting out his chin and closing his eyes, "I, the Great Kyuki, give you permission to-"
"Thanks. I need to go give Miaki hers now." Kyuki blinked at her abrupt departure, then glanced at the small spherical object she had shoved into his hand. "Cake," she had said, but this thing had the consistency of a rock and looked like it didn't taste much better. The (supposedly flour?) on the inside was every bit as hard as the outer glaze. Its only redeeming feature was the fine icing drawing just under the glaze, protected as if by an extremely shiny shell. A drawing of Kyuki, most likely machine-rendered.
He put the nugget-like object in his mouth - no trouble, since Yuzuki had compressed it to the size of his tooth. It was sweet, very sweet. He took a moment to appreciate the taste, then bit down.
Big mistake. Not that he made mistakes - obviously, it was the "cake" that had messed up.
"WHAT IS THIS THING?"
He spilled the strange "thing" quickly into his hand, rubbing along the jawline where he had bit into it. Somehow, even Kyuki's powerful chewing hadn't dented it at all. Ah, no - it had been dented after all. As he turned the marble-like object over, he saw that he had scratched the candy's surface, leaving a white mark cutting through the middle of the Kyuki-drawing's face.
"...Is this some sort of insult?"
<---- Cake~
akilei gets credit for the last line
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