Today marked the one month anniversary since Hitsugaya Toshiro's first arrival into her life. It is also the day before she finally gets to start baking treats for her cooking course at Seireitei High School. She is going to bake a cake. However, there is one problem: she doesn't know how to make one. "What are you doing Hinamori?" Hitsugaya asked, watching the raven haired girl laying out the ingredients on the counter table.
"I'm baking a cake," she replied, walking to her school bag and pulling out a cake recipe book she bought from the bookstore nearby. Opening it to a particular page, she set it on the counter. Just as she left to gather the baking tools, Hitsugaya took the liberty to read what cake she is trying to bake.
"You're making chocolate and vanilla marble cake?"
After laying out all the tools on the counter table, Hinamori replied, "Yes, I am."
"What for?"
"To practice for tomorrow. At school, our sensei is going to do a short lesson and demonstration on how to bake a cake. For our assignment, we are to make one ourselves."
As he was speaking, Hinamori started putting on her pink apron and tied the ribbon together into a bow on the back. "Hn, so you're learning to make one now so that you don't have to mess up later on."
"Yeah."
"You're also doing that just in case yours taste bad. You want to give a slice of yours to Kira."
Just like always, he got the right answer. Noticing the suddenly shy girl turn a little pink, Hinamori slowly nodded with agreement. "Yeah."
"I figured that much. At least you're doing something good for yourself."
"Well, that's because you're always thinking of ways to get me to confess to Kira. So, I decided to give you some sort of a break for once."
"I am thankful for that."
"I really am glad Obaa-san let me use the kitchen while she is out with her friends."
"Are you sure about that? What if you cause a house fire or something?"
"I won't make one. As long as you're with me, you'll keep me out of trouble, right?"
Folding his arms over his chest, the heavenly guardian narrowed his eyes to stare at her. "Who do you think I am, a firefighter? Don't expect me to pamper you all the time Hinamori."
Ignoring his comment, the raven haired girl replied, "Shall we start then Shiro-chan?"
"You're not even listening and don't call me that!"
Following the instructions with her pointer finger, she mentally read it. On the other hand, Hitsugaya too is mentally reading the instructions. Once finished, he turned his attention to the raven haired girl to find her clueless of what she is supposed to do. "It's your first time baking isn't it?"
"Ah hai..."
Sighing with defeat, the heavenly guardian held out his hand to her. "Here, let me help."
Nodding with agreement, she handed over to the book and listened to what he has to say. "To start things off, you need to make sure you have all the ingredients on the table, okay?"
"Ah yeah."
Reading the ingredients from the recipe, Hitsugaya stated, "What you should have is 225 grams of room temperature butter, 225 grams of caster sugar, 4 eggs, 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract, 225 grams of plain flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 50 milliliters of milk, and finally 50 grams of sifted cocoa powder."
