Strawberry Cookies: Tatsuma and Aoi

This pairing looks so great together!! I love this pairing! It's very likely that these two will end up together in the series. I wish I can draw them though, but I can't draw... (sigh) Well, this story is not at all related to the story I'm doing now. This is one of those one-shots. This relationship is really innocent, so I wanted to do this for fun. I'll take Tatsuma's and Aoi's relationship to the next level in my other story soon. Anyway, on to the story!!

Disclaimer: I love this pairing so much that I sold it to my sister... worst deal ever!!

Preview: Aoi's making cookies and Tatsuma's helping her. Who knew making cookies would be so much fun?

Aoi looked out the window; it was a snowy, cold afternoon and her friend, Hisui was out doing errands. Aoi sighed,'What am I going to do? It's so boring.'Aoi suddenly had an idea, "I could cook!" she said to herself. She smiled at her idea, "But what am I going to cook?" She pondered at this idea as she walked toward the kitchen.

Dishes were piled over the sink over the sink. Pots and pans were unclean and Aoi sighed as she looked at the mess. "Great," she said to herself, "Another mess to clean." Aoi pushed her black hair and tied it into a bun. She grabbed a sponge from under the sink, wetted it, and poured soap over it. She began cleaning the dishes.

Aoi smiled as she remembered the time when she first baked the cookies. It was with her mother named Aina. Her mother was very much like Aoi, shy sometimes, a great leader, determined, strong willed, and she was also beautiful.

"Aoi, I'm going to teach you how to make cookies!" Aina exclaimed to her daughter, who was only five at the time. "Making cookies Mommy?" Aoi asked her mother, who was grinning as she was taking things like a whisk, pots and pans, a huge spoon, a mixer, a medium-sized bowl, a large sided bowl, a spatula, a long piece of foil, measuring cups, teaspoons, and a bag of baking soda, a bag of sugar, and a bag of flour and brown sugar off the shelves.

Her mother took all these things and put them on the table. Then she looked at the refrigerator and took out two sticks of butter, a carton of eggs, a small carton of milk, and a plastic box of strawberries. Aoi cocked her one of her eyebrows. 'Strawberries? There's no strawberries in cookies. Then why is Mommy using them?' Ania saw her daughter's confused look.

"You wanna know why I'm putting strawberries in cookies don't you?" Ania asked Aoi gently. Aoi nodded. "Sit here kiddo." She patted her hand on the seat next to her. Aoi went to her and sat down. Ania smiled and began talking about her first time giving her husband her cookies. "Do you know what today is Aoi?" The little girl nodded, "Today is Valentines Day, its where girls give boys chocolate."

"Yes, and I was making your father cookies for the event. I really liked him so I wanted to show how much I love him. So wanted to bake him cookies. But I found out that I didn't have chocolate! The only thing left was strawberries! After school I gave him the pink cookies, I was kind of embarrassing to be giving him pink cookies. But he something to me, do you know what he said to me once I gave him the cookies?" Aoi shook her head, fascinated by her mother's story.

Ania blushed and said gently," He said that he love strawberries and I was the first person to give him this kind of gift." Aoi smiled ,"What else did he say?" Ania laughed and said," Bottles up Baby! And he ate all those cookies in one sitting!"

They both laughed. "Why don't we finish making the cookies, huh Aoi?" Her mother looked at her daughter smiling. "Yeah! But I get to lick the spoon!" Aoi exclaimed. Ania laughed and patted her head, "Of course you can."

Aoi wiped the sweat off her forehead. 'Whoa! Those dishes were harder than I thought! Well, let's get to baking!'Aoi thought to herself She looked in the shelves and found all the things for her cookies: a pan, one bag of brown sugar, a bag of sugar, a bag of flour, teaspoons, measuring cups, and a couple of bowls. She put all of those on the table, and then searched in the fridge for the other ingredients.

She found most of the the ingredients but the strawberries. Aoi shook her head in despair, 'I forgot to tell Hisui I was about to run out of strawberries! Well, the Super Market's not far from here. I could walk.'

She walked to her room to find her bright pink coat and mittens, then she walked out of her room and quickly put on her tennis shoes and walked out of the door, locking it.

The snow was quickly piling up as Aoi saw children playing in the snow by building snowmen (or snow women), Many kids were all in snowsuits having the time of their lives. Aoi smiled as she saw them having so much fun, girls and boys were having a battle of the sexes snowball fight, some boys were having snowball fights against other boys, some girls were making snow angels by swinging their arms and legs against the snow.

At the nearest pond, she saw a many parents teaching their little ones ice skating, most off them falling on their butts before even moving! Then Aoi saw couples skating arm-and-arm looking at their partner like they were the most interesting person in the world.

Aoi was so concentrated on one couple who were teaching each other how to skate that she didn't notice a person in front of her until...

"Waah!" Aoi fell hard against the snow covered concrete. "Oh!" exclaimed a gentle voice. She felt a strong, but gentle hand against hers that lifted her up back to her feet. Aoi bowed, quickly apologizing, "I-I'm so sorry! I didn't look where I was going! I'm really sorry! C-Can I make it up to you?" She looked up at her victim, blushing with shame, when she saw him she gasped.

"T-Tatsuma?!" The blue-haired teen smiled at his friend. He held a empty,pink milk carton on his right hand, he wore his usual blue hoody, but if you notice under his hoody, was messy blue hair. "Aoi! Sorry, I wasn't looking!" Tatsuma laughed playfully. "Ah, its okay. I wasn't looking myself." Aoi said, smiling.

After that was awkward silence. "Ah..." "..." Aoi broke the silence, "W-Well let me make it up to you. I'm going to the Super Market. Do you want to come? You can buy whatever you want." Aoi looked at Tatsuma with eager eyes. Tatsuma looked at Aoi with a still friendly smile,"Anything?"

"Yeah, anything." Tatsuma said,"I'll buy strawberry milk then." Then Aoi started to walk past Tatsuma, feeling a tug. "Oh!" She didn't notice that Tatsuma and her were still holding hands. Aoi gently let go of his, letting out the warmth. Aoi blushed, 'His hand felt so warm, I didn't notice!'

Ah, let's hurry! It's closed early on the snow days." Then Aoi walked towards the Super Market in a hurry, blushing. Tatsuma looked at the blushing teen in the pink coat, his face was red. 'So that's what's like to hold hands with a girl feels like.'Tatsuma smiled, jogging in a hurry to catch up with the girl.

They were both met with a rush of warm air inside the Super Market. "It's so warm! Outside was so cold right. Tatsuma?" Aoi's eyes glistered with the frost outside. Tatsuma was just thinking of how pretty Aoi was so he really didn't get Aoi's question. "Wha-What? Aoi?" Aoi looked at him closely, "Are you alright?" "Yeah, I'm fine." Tatsuma said with a smile. Aoi's eyes widened of how Tatsuma's smile made her feel. She blushed,"Well, let's get to work then."

They first went to the dairy section. Aoi looked for the pink and white milk cartons, in a few minutes she handled Tatsuma the small milk carton. "Here you go, strawberry milk." Aoi smiled at Tatsuma. Tatsuma blushed,'Wow is Aoi pretty or what?' "Thank you Aoi." As he went for the cup, his hand brushed hers. They both blushed.

"Ah..." Aoi looked at Tatsuma and Tatsuma looked at her. They leaned closer and closer to each other; their faces were almost touching. Aoi's lips were as close to Tatsuma's,"Ah, Tatsuma I don't think we should do this..." Aoi trailed off, she felt his breath against her lips. Aoi almost fainted with pleasure, her face getting redder and redder by the minute. Tatsuma didn't care, he wanted her; he wanted to grab her by the waist and kiss her, but he liked to take his time.

Aoi felt his hands go around her waist,'Kiss me! Kiss me now!' her evil thoughts invaded her head.'Damn it Tatsuma, stop teasing me! Just do it!'Tatsuma's hands were in the right places, but he was an inexperienced teen in the game of love and had really bad timing.

"You there! You kids! Stop that right now! There shall be no public display of affection here in this store!" Aoi and Tatsuma turned around and saw a very angry employee. He glared at the couple,"If you guys want to make out do it outside, there are people here!" Aoi and Tatsuma blushed, and they both bowed to the employee. "Sorry."

The employee nodded and then said,"Now are you two going outside or are you buying something?" Tatsuma held up the milk carton,"Yes, we are." "Then go and check out quickly, we're about to close." Then employee stomped away.

Tatsuma and Aoi looked at each other,"I'd better get the strawberries." Aoi looked at the aials but found no hintings of fruit. "Why so you need strawberries?" Tatsuma asked. He looked at Aoi curiously. "I'm making strawberry cookies." Aoi smiled. "Strawberry cookies?" Tatsuma's eyes sparkled. "Yeah, my mom taught me when I was little, it was fun." Aoi looked at the asials again with no luck. Aoi grumbled,"Where are the strawberries?"

Her companion pointed to the vegetable place,"It's right there. They've been refrigerating them." Aoi quickly went to it and there it was: strawberries! Aoi smiled at her partner,"Thank you Tatsuma! You're the best!"

Then without thinking, she hugged him! Tatsuma almost fell backward, he felt the warmth of her body against his. 'She's so warm!' he thought, blushing. He hugged her back. 'Kyaa! He's hugging me! He hugged me back! Should I let go? No way!'Aoi thought furiously to herself.

"Hey! What did I tell guys about public display of affection? No showing it!" the employee from before, came back to check if the couple were keeping their hands to themsevles. What he found was this.

Tatsuma and Aoi froze, they were caught in the act! Tatsuma grabbed Aoi's hand firmly. "I'm sorry Mister." He smiled apologetically. "I can't keep my hands off her!" Tatsuma then looked at Aoi with his boyish smile of his,"Shall we go honey?" Aoi looked at Tatsuma with her beautiful smile,"Of course we can darling!"

Then they walked hand and hand to the check-outs. But as they were waiting in line, they heard a little girl behind them say to her mother,"Mommy? Aren't they a good looking couple?!" The mother looked at her daughter with a surprised look,"H-Honey! Don't be nosy!" The mother turned to Tatsuma and Aoi, she had on a I-really-sorry face. "I'm sorry! My daughter really knows how to speak her mind these days." Aoi smiled at the woman,"It's alright." Then Aoi crouched down to the girl's level.

Aoi smiled to the curious girl."To answer your question," She looked at Tatsuma who waved at the girls."Ah, not yet. But we might." Aoi winked at her. The little girl smiled. She held up a peace sign and said confidently,"Good luck!" Then she saw her mother waiting for her at the entrance,"Gotta go! Bye!" The couple saw the little girl run away to her mother. "Next!" They heard the cashier say loudly. Aoi looked at Tatsuma, "Should I pay?" Tatsuma answered with taking out his wallet.

--At Aoi's house--

Things were being put together and cooked as the young couple were qiuckly mixing the batter of eggs, butter, sugar, and bright red strawberries. Aoi carefully cut off the green stem of the strawberry. Then she cut the strawberry into bit-size pieces. "Whao!" she heard Tatsuma exclaim.

Aoi looked at Tatsuma, fearful that he had cut himself, but she didn't see that. What she saw would get her to laugh her pants off. Tatsuma had his whole entire face covered with the batter! She saw have that look of what-in-the-world-happened? Aoi laughed when he tried to get up, but he fell back again! Now the bowl was on top of his head!

Tatsuma saw Aoi laugh, he smiled,'I must look a total idoit right now!' "T-Tatsuma! You look very-very-very..." Aoi couldn't finish her sentence, she was to busy laughing!

Tatsuma couldn't help himself either,"Ha-ha-ha!" Aoi gained her composer and helped the "injuried" Tatsuma up to his feet. Apparently, he was trying to make another batch of cookies! But as he tried to out it in the oven, he tripped! The battered cover Tatsuma looked at aoi with a grin,"What do you think of my new look?" he asked her. Aoi blushed,smiling. She grabbed a cloth from the counter and wiped away the sticky, pink batter.

"It's a great look for you, Mr. Mysterious Transfer Student." Tatsuma smiled and leaned over to kiss her. 'Oh, man! Tatsuma's going to kiss me! What do I do? What do I do?!' Aoi's thoughts of running away and other things just abandoned her. She felt his hands wrap all around her, she felt his hair against her face, his strong chest against hers.

Aoi was really red in the face, she closed her eyes, warm lips were over hers, Aoi almost couldn't stand up, her knees were weak, and she was about to fall down, until Tatsuma grabbed her gently into his arms.

They were this close, lip to lip until...DING! The timer rang for the cookies to be done.

Aoi and Tatsuma sighed, it seems that everytime they got close to each other, something always happens. Aoi smiled and grabbed her oven mitts over the counter and out them on. She then gently pried open the steamy, oven door; hot air came quickly to her face. She covered her hand over her face and got out the pan of hot, baked cookies.

Aoi looked at Tasuma who looked very hungry. His eyes sparkled, she felt excited by that look. 'So this is what it means to cook for someone you really care about, huh mom?' Aoi grabbed the large bowl on the kitchen table and scraped the pink cookies in it. Tatsuma quickly went to the bowl and grabbed a cookie.

"Ouch!" he said, nursing his injured hand. "I forgot to tell you it was hot." Aoi grabbed two cookies with a napkin and gave one to Tatsuma. The smell of strawberries filled the room.

"Yum!" They exclaimed, the soft cookie was delicious, it tasted like... well, strawberries! Tatsuma looked at Aoi and eagerly said "Can you make some more for me? They taste great!" Aoi smiled at the eager teen and said with happiness, "Of course! Only for you!" Aoi got closer to Tatsuma, who had a piece of her strawberry cookie in his mouth and gave him a strawberry-filled kiss.

That was so cute!! I love this pairing! To me, they belong together, and they might be a couple later in the series!! I hope so! I'm a bit surprised that noone made a fanfic about them!! Yeah, I made the first Aoi and Tatsuma!! Well, I really like this story, about Tatsuma's penchant for strawberries and Aoi cooking, its really great! I think this is a great romance story! If only people would draw them together...sigh. I really can't draw so maybe that's why people are too lazy or less artisic then they think. I wonder... what would their kids look like? They're such a cute couple!! AOI AND TATSUMA FOREVER!!

See-you next story... bye!!