Chapter 4: Cake Time

Hello everyone I know it's been a long time but I hope to update weekly from now on. I will most likely focus on What Would You Do If I Was Dead?, since it is almost done but I will try to focus on this story as much as possible thus it will take maybe a week to update this story but I will try. I hope you're all safe from Mrs. Rona and have a great morning/noon/night!

In the university's music room, a tall man with short spiky black hair and sharp blue eyes is listening to some music that he had just recorded. His phone starts to vibrate near him as he turns off the music and picks it up. He sees Reo's name pop up and answers the phone.

"Hey Reo-nee whats up?" The man, Yukio, asks.

"Yuki-chan are you busy right now?" Reo asks as his voice was soft and gentle.

"I'm just in the music room right now. I'm not busy though. What's wrong?"

"Well I have something to tell you but I need you to be calm. There was an incident at the daycare today…" Reo starts to explain the whole situation to him.

"YOU WERE WHAT?!" Yukio yells into his phone.

"Yuki-chan I'm okay. Everything is fine. Sho-chan is here. It's okay." Reo says gently.

"Reo you were held by someone who could have killed you. I'm heading to you right now." Yukio says.

"No you're not. You have work remember. I promise you I'm okay. Yuki-chan I called you so you wouldn't be worried not so you can worry more." Reo sighs.

"Reo let me talk to him." Yukio hears Shoichi's voice in the background.

Shoichi takes the phone and puts it in his ear, "Hey Yukio, your sister is okay. He's strong you know."

"I know that. Doesn't mean he wasn't scared and he got hurt."

"It was a light scratch but it's okay. He's fine. I'm here and I'll make sure he gets home safely too."

"You're not taking him home?" Yukio asks.

"I have to file this report and make sure everything is fine at the station. I'll get home a little after your sister does. When will you get home?"

"Straight after work. So maybe after you." Yukio says. "I can ask to get out earlier."
"No stay at work. If you want I can go to you after I finish."

"No go home and be with Reo-nee. I'll send you updates."

"Good and be calm okay. He needs you to be calm." Shoichi whispers it to him.

Yukio looks down a bit before he let out a soft, "Yeah."

"Here Reo, he wants to talk to you." Shoichi says as he passes it to Reo.

Reo takes the phone, "Yuki-chan."

"Are you 100% sure you're okay?" Yukio asks softly.

"I am. I'm safe." Reo smiles, "Baby Yuki won't you play a song for me?"

"I'm not a baby." Yukio grumbles as he puts one of his songs on. It was a relaxing melody with some guitar strings in it.

Reo smiles and listens. "Thank you."

"Are you able to pick up Tatsuya and Taiga? What about Kazunari?" Yukio asks.

"I made arrangements already. Just focus on school and work." Reo explains.

"Fine. Just ...call me when you get home." Yukio mutters.

"I will. Thank you for the beautiful song." Reo smiles. "I'll call you when I'm out. I love you Yuki-chan."

"I love you too Reo-nee." Yukio says as he hangs up. He sighs and looks at his work. "How the hell am I going to focus now?" He groans as his stomach grumbles. "Might as well get some food." He gets up before he hears a knock. "Come in." He sighs and sits down. 'Great just as I was leaving.'

Atsushi comes in with a cake and walks in. "Are you the president of the music video club?" He looks at him.

"Yeah that's me. What did my group do now?" He asks. He's used to his group mates getting into trouble.

"Actually I came looking for you." Atsushi sits down next to him and gives him the cake. "I'm part of the pastry club. And we need to make a music video to show off our sweets for a competition."

"And you want my club to help out?" Yukio asks.

"Yes. In return you guys can eat the sweets. Of course we'll give you guys the credit you deserve as well." Atsushi says.

"I'm sure you guys know how to record and put some music to a video." Yukio looks at him suspiciously.

"You see our club competes in a pastry tournament. And the judges decided they wanted to make things interesting this year so they wanted us to make a music video with everything original. From the music to the actual music video. So I came to ask for help." Atsushi says as he pulls out his phone and shows him the tournament rules.

Yukio reads it and mumbles a bit. "I didn't even know the pastry industry was like this."

"It's okay. I think they just wanted to make it interesting." Atsushi says.

"And when is this tournament?"

"In about two months."

"So you expect my club to come up with an original song, music and lyrics, as well as help record and edit the video of you guys making pastries. All in two months?" Yukio raises his eyebrow as he looks at him.

"The pastry club will help in any way we can. It will be a collaboration." Atsushi says as he gets up. "You don't have to answer me now." He takes his phone. "But the sooner the answer the faster we can start this."

"I'll have to talk to my club mates about this." He says as he looks at the cake. He sees the fork next to it. He takes a piece and starts to eat it. He freezes a bit before he looks at Atsushi. "This is really good."

"Thank you. I made this one myself. Plus there's more of that in our club room." Atsushi says.

Yukio looks at him and then the cake. "I won't make any promises but as long is the rest agree, we'll join."

Atsushi smiles. "Thank you, come on your club members are already in our club room."

"They're what?" Yukio looks at him.

"Yeah our members had already gathered them. They were just scared to come ask you." Atsushi says as a lollipop magically appeared in his mouth.

Yukio groans, "I'm gonna kill them."

"Hmm that wouldn't be good. We need them for the video." Atsushi says.

"Doesn't mean they're gonna get away without a lecture." Yukio got up and grabbed his bag. "Come on. Let's go to your club room." He says.

Atsushi nods and takes him.

A few moments later at the Pastry Club Room

"Alright so for now we'll work on the music. You guys need to start thinking about where you want to film and the type of treats you'll be making." Yukio says as he stands in front of a white board. He had written down the things they needed to do as well as deadlines.

"Hmm are you gonna make it cutesy?" Atsushi asks.

"We don't really do that kind of music." Yukio says.

"Good." Atsushi states as he licks his lollipop and holds out his phone. "Our competition is doing a cutesy music video."

The members and Yukio look at Atsushi's phone. There was a message stating that their rival is making a cute music video.

"How?" Yukio asks.

"Their President used to go to my high school's rival school. They like to brag about it to me to make me mad." Atsushi says pouting a bit. "So I don't want our video to be cutesy."

'Is he a baby or something?' Yukio thinks to himself. "I see well we'll try to make sure it's not cutesy."

"President are we doing something loud then?!" Mitsuhiro asks loudly.

"Honestly what's your vision for this Atsushi?" Yukio looks at him.

"Hmm maybe family oriented. I don't really know what would be interesting." Atsushi thinks. "I know one of the requirements is a theme."

"Well what do you guys make the most? Or what's your best work?" Yukio asks.

"Chi-chin what's our most requested works?" Atsushi asks.

"Hmm let's see." Chihiro pulls out a booklet that had the cover marked as requests, "Our most popular items are wedding cakes and birthday cakes. We also get a lot of chocolate requests as well. Hmm but our best work seems to involve icecream."

"Then how about summer themed?" Yukio suggests.

"That could work. We'd be able to show off our skills since icecream is something hard to work with." Chihiro says.

"Well we have a general idea which is good." Yukio says. "For now let's wrap this up. We'll work on the music and lyrics this week and come back to show it to you all."

"And we'll prepare our dishes. As well as everything else to start recording." Chihiro says.

"Alright guys let's go." Yukio tells his group who groan in not wanting to leave. "Don't be greedy, get up and go back to the room." He glares at them before they walk out.

Chihiro chuckles a bit, "Well aren't they scared of you Yukio-san."

"They get on my nerves sometimes but they work well." Yukio says. "Though I'm surprised you're the president of the club."

Chihiro chuckles, "I let Atsushi do a lot of the talking since he needs to learn to talk to others."

"Chi-chin don't be mean." Atsushi pouts.

"Well it's true. He has a nasty habit of being lazy unless it comes to eating or baking. So he needs to work on that." Chihiro chuckles. "Go on and see if Ryota wants to be in the video. We need a pretty face."

"Hmm but the flight school is on the other campus." Atsushi groans.

'Flight school? I wonder if Kazunari would know him.' Yukio thinks.

"Then text him. Go on." Chihiro says as Atsushi goes to text Ryota.

"Why do we need a pretty face?" Yukio asks.

"We both know good looks get views. Besides he's a model so it will be a bonus for us." Chihiro explains. "You might find him a bit annoying though. Just kick him if he doesn't listen at some point."

"I see. We'll meet up about this later then." Yukio says.

"Thank you Yukio-san." Chihiro thanks him before Yukio left.

Rooftop

Ryota hold Tetsuya on his lap before looking at his phone. "Hmm Atsushichii?" He reads the message, "Ooo that will be fun."

"What is it Ryo-nii-san?" Tetsuya looks up at him.

"Atsushichii wants me to be in his video. Well more like he's telling me to be in his video." Ryota giggles. "I wonder what it's about."

"Maybe a project?" Tetsuya suggest.

"Maybe he wants to throw pies on your face." Daiki smirks.

"So mean!" Ryota pouts as he hold Tetsuya. "Tetsuyachii Daikichii is being mean."

"I wonder if he'll share the pie." Tetsuya comments as he ignores Ryota.

"Hey! Don't ignore me!" Ryota pouts more.

"So annoying." Daiki grumbles.

"Is he always like that?" Taiga asks as he laid his head on Tatsuya's lap.

"Sometimes even more." Daiki says.

"Hey! I heard that Daikichii!" Ryota pouts. "Kazunarichii do you think I'm annoying?"

"Nope you're fun!" Kazunari smiles.

"See someone is actually on my side!" Ryota smiles happily.

Tatsuya chuckles. "It must be so lively at your house."

"We have fun." Tetsuya says, "It's nice when we're all together."

"Yeah, oh crap, Kazunarichii we gotta head back to class soon." Ryota says as he looks at the time.

"Woah time passes by so fast." Kazunari smiles as he cleans up his things.

"We can take your lunch box back home Kazu." Tatsuya offers.

"You sure?" Kazunari asks.

"Yeah. Besides, we'd get home before you anyways." Tatsuya smiles.

"Thanks Tatsu-chan." Kazunari goes to him and hugs him. He leans in his ear and whispers, "Make sure Taiga doesn't worry too much. You know how he gets." He let's go and smiles.

Tatsuya nods slightly before he rubs Taiga's head.

"Come on Kazunarichii." Ryota smiles as he hugs Tetsuya. "Bye bye Tetsuyachii. Bye Daikichii. I'll see you both at home."

"See ya." Daiki pulls Tetsuya close.

"See you at home Ryo-nii-san." Tetsuya smiles a bit as they left.

"Oi Tatsuya, what did the hawk whisper to you?" Taiga asks.

"Oh just to get the stuff ready to make a cake for Reo-nee." Tatsuya smiles.

"Do you think he's really okay?" Taiga asks.

"Sho is with him. He'll watch over him." Tatsuya rubs his head.

At the Daycare

Reo sighs as he sits down for a bit. The majority of the parents already picked up the children. He's taking a break right now inside while Shintaro and Seijuro were outside with the rest of the children.

Shoichi sits next to him and puts his arm around him, "You okay?"

"I will be." Reo leans on him.

"It's fine if you take a break to process this."

"We can't afford me taking a break."

"Reo if you start having nightmares agai-"

"I won't. I promise I'm fine. Listen to me Sho-chan." Reo pokes his cheek.

"How can I believe that when you're shaking?" Shoichi looks down at Reo who looks at his hands. Reo didn't realize he was shaking.

"Okay maybe I'm not fine, but I'm safe now. I have you here. I was saved. The children weren't hurt."

"You know ever since that happened you always tried to put on a brave face for our little brothers. The only one who could see behind that face was me. Reo I became a cop so I can protect you. So you can let that face fall and lean on me. You never have to try to put a brave face on for me."

Reo's eyes widen a bit before he hugs him. "Have I ever told you how much I love you?"

"You tell me everyday before I leave for work." Shoichi chuckles as he hugs back.

"Well I love you so much." Reo smiles and holds on to him. "Thank you for being a good brother to me."

"Always Reo." Shoichi holds him protectively. 'I won't let you be hurt again.' "I'm thinking of hiring security for you."

"I doubt we can afford that. I'll have cameras installed instead." Reo snuggles close to him.

"Reo we need someone here to guard you all. I'll look around and talk to some people. For now I'll make sure a squad car comes by to check on you all." Shoichi rubs his head. Then Shoichi's phone starts to ring. He looks and sighs, "It's my boss. I'll be back in a moment." He kisses his head.

"Go on." Reo lets him go as Shoichi head's outside. Reo watches him before he looks down at his still shaking hands. 'I need to stop shaking. The boys will notice. Ah they'll be so worried. Reo control yourself.' He sighs as he closes his eyes for a second.

"Reo are you okay?" Reo hears someone speak as he quickly opens his eyes to see Seijuro.

"Ah Sei-chan sorry you scared me." Reo sighs in relief.

"Sorry about that. I didn't know if you were asleep but you look like you're in pain. Did the robber hit you? I didn't see him hurt you but I could be wrong. I'll have Shintaro do an exam on you to make sure nothing is broken." Seijuro says as he looks over Reo.

Reo smiles and shakes his head, "No I'm alright. He didn't hurt me. You're so sweet though. Thank you for everything." Reo stands up and bows. "I don't know what I would have done if the children were hurt."

"You are doing a wonderful job already. You care for them so much. Now don't be scared anymore. You will be okay." Seijuro put his hand on Reo's cheek.

Reo blushes a bit before looking away. "Thank you. Ah we should go outside and wait for the rest of the parents." He quickly says.

Seijuro chuckles as he pulls his hand back, "Of course. Ah Kashiwaki is the only one left. Everyone else was picked up. I explained the situation and they all understood what happened."

Reo nods and smiles, "Thank you."

They head back outside as they see Teppei and Junpei holding and looking over Kashiwaki who was just giggling. Shintaro and Shoichi were with them as well.

"Kashi are you sure you're okay?" Junpei asks as he kisses him all over.

"Yeah! Uncle Sei stopped the bad guy from hurting Reo! Uncle Sei told the bad guy he can't hurt Reo and then when we opened our eyes the bad guy wasn't holding Reo anymore!" Kashiwaki smiles in amazement.

"Yeah your Uncle Sei is amazing." Teppei ruffles Kashiwaki's hair.

"Shintaro are you sure he's okay?" Junpei looks at Shintaro.

"Yes. Honestly he was the calmest out of all the children. I assume he gets that carefree attitude from his father." Shintaro says.

"Ah you think so?" Teppei smiles proudly.

"Teppei this is serious." Junpei groans.

"He's alright. None of the children were touched thankfully." Reo says as they go up to them.

"Reo are you alright?" Junpei goes to him and hugs him.

"Yes I am." Reo hugs back as he smiles. "Sei-chan saved us."

"It was nothing." Seijuro chuckles.

"It's a good thing you were here Seijuro." Teppei smiles.

"I wouldn't have been here if you hadn't asked me to come." Seijuro chuckles.

"Thankfully you did come." Junpei smiles as he rocks Kashiwaki.

"Mommy can we go play now?" Kashiwaki asks him.

"We are gonna go home, well Daddy is gonna take you home. I have to go back to the studio." Junpei explains.

"You were at work? Sorry for troubling you two." Reo bows.

"Reo you guys were in trouble, that's not troubling us. We trust you with Kashi." Junpei patted his head.

Reo pouts a bit, "Junpei-chan my hair."

"Let it be." Junpei smiles, "We'll come over this weekend alright?"

"Alright we'll see you this weekend." Reo smiles as they hug again.

"Bye Bye Reo! Bye Sho! Bye Uncle Sei! Bye Uncle Shin!" Kashiwaki smiles happily.

"Bye Kashi/Kashiwaki." The four say as the Kiyoshi family left.