Izuocha's Love Stories

IZUKU'S BAKERY (CHAPTER 9-10)

CHAPTER NINE

Ochaco's alarm rang as it always did, waking her up suddenly. She got out of bed fairly quickly, which was unusual for her, especially since she had to go to work. She stretched a bit as she got off the bed, heading to the shower to start her day. As much as she liked her work, it was still a pain getting up so early in the morning, especially after a long weekend like that. But this one felt different, she practically skipped around her apartment as she thought of the past few days with Izuku. The warmth of his chest when they had slept, the softness of his lips, his tight embrace. All of these were things Ochaco knew she would never get enough of, it was almost addictive.

She quickly got dressed and headed out, the rain from the day before had stopped overnight, leaving only a bright early morning sunshine and a few clouds instead. She walked in the opposite direction to her work, back the same way she had come the day before. This was a relatively new part of her morning routine, she had picked it up all those months ago when she had first started visiting the wonderful bakery owned by that cute boy that never failed to make her smile and blush in equal amounts.

As soon as she turned the corner her face lit up with joy at the sight of the bakery. Even though it had only been one night since the events that made her cheeks turn pink just by thinking about them, she still missed Izuku and was excited to see him once again.

She entered through the door and noticed that the small bakery was packed with customers. This wasn't a rare occurrence but she found it odd how everyone was just standing around with their coffees, Izuku nowhere to be seen. A few of them recognized Ochaco and gave bright smiles to her. She felt flattered and waved back, before moving to the kitchen on the other room. As she walked, she noticed that there were no baskets around the store and that the shelves were effectively empty, except for a single tray on the central table, which had nothing on it but leftover glaze stuck to it.

"Izuku?" Ochaco said casually as she entered the kitchen, the awkwardness from calling his name completely removed and instead replaced with a feeling of confusion at the bakery's current state.

"Yes?" She heard the familiar voice call from the other side of the kitchen, "I'll be right there!"

Ochaco looked around the kitchen. It was, simply put, a complete mess. There were traces of flour everywhere, opened books on the sides, oven trays with dough and other things she did not recognize, and many pieces of discarded dough everywhere, the trash can already full of it, as well as different attempts at colored glaze.

Izuku ran up in front of Ochaco, but his back to her as he looked in the oven for the bread that was baking. He ran around the kitchen as he tried to cook various things at once, stopping to read the books every other minute.

"What happened here?" Ochaco asked, "Why are they so many people outside?"

Izuku ran back to the oven and opened it, he took out the tray of fresh bread and prepared the basket quickly.

"Ochaco?" He said as if surprised by her presence, "What are you doing here?"

"I came here to look for you!" She said matter of factly, "There's a ton of people waiting outside!"

"Oh no..." Izuku said before running over to the other side of the kitchen, where something was cooking in the fire.

Ochaco took the basket herself and took it outside to the waiting customers. She handed it out and made sure everyone paid before leaving, but there were still many more customers that were left without anything.

"Izuku!" She ran back to the kitchen, "What are you even doing?"

He didn't look at her as he flipped something in the pan, trying to get through it as fast as he possibly could. Ochaco ran over to him and put out the fire.