Yes, Yozakura x Minori, I really like this pairing and their relationship.

I hope you're going to enjoy it, here we go !

One more day at Gessen Academy, the place where the purest shinobi girls are trained in order to be good shinobi and fight against the evil ones.

However, it's also a place when the friendship between those girls is as hard as diamond but with the power and the beauty of lightning.

Within the elite squad of this shinobi school, an even more powerful relationship is going to rise between two of its members, the most mature one, Yozakura, and the most childish one, Minori.

This relationship is called... Love.

Spring, Minori's room.

The little Minori is still sleeping with the purest face expression you can imagine, no one is able to be insensible to that.

"Minori ! Please wake up !"

Expect someone who became tired of her comrade's laziness.

"Um... Tired... Sleep time..." Answers the still sleeping Minori.

"Still sleep time ? It's almost lunchtime..." Says Yozakura, without knowing the real strength of this sentence.

"Lunchtime ?! Yes, I'm hungry ! Let's make some pancakes !" Says an exciting Minori by jumping out of her bed and leaving her room under the eyes of a sighing Yozakura.

"I hope she's not going to turn the kitchen into a disaster area again, let's see what she's doing." Yozakura thought, in turn, leaving her friend's room, before telling herself "I hope she'll grow up soon, looking after her is even more exhausting than any king of training, maybe I should be more strict...".

Kitchen

Yozakura's finally found her friend in the kitchen, unsurprisingly, she's cooking.

"Let me guess, pancakes ?" Says Yozakura, who obviously knows what her friend is going to respond to her.

"Yes ! Pancakes are so tasty !" Happily answered the pigtails girl, who then completes her sentence by saying "I'm going to make a lot of them !".

"No, you're not..." says Yozakura in a dry tone of voice that turns Minori's full of joy face into a sad-looking one.

"Eh ?! Why that ? My pancakes are yummy..." she says, looking at Yozakura with puppy-dog eyes.

Yozakura, even if she can be tough, can't deny Minori's pancakes are delicious, but she only tells her "last time, because of your pancakes, I needed four hours to clean the kitchen, enough is enough, you're only going to finish this one and that's all !". After yelling at her, the short-haired girl was about to leave the kitchen when she heard something.

A noise, a noise she knows well, a noise she used to hate but she now misses very much.

It's Minori, sobbing, about to cry.

Before she could ask her what is wrong, Minori yells "YOU IDIOT !", startling Yozakura.

"I'm making pancakes for everyone ! Not for only me ! I make people happy with them ! What's the point making them just for me ?!" says Minori with an unusually serious expression on her face.

"I..." Yozakura doesn't know what to say, she's not used to dealing with an angry Minori, she realizes that she was doing a mistake, yelling at her little brothers and sisters was rarely the right thing to do so, perhaps it's also the case for someone like Minori. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't get angry, make all the pancakes you want, but please clean up the kitchen when you finish." she finally says.

"Don't worry, I will !" answers the little shinobi her face full of joy again.

Yozakura is leaving the kitchen, sighing and thinking "Jeez, she knows how to get what she wants, I'm no match for her...".

A few moments later, Gessen's corridor

Yozakura is going to the kitchen, hoping Minori cleaned the kitchen.

She's now about to come inside, "I knew it..." she desperately said in a low voice by looking at the upside-down kitchen, when she saw Minori looking for something into one the closets.

"Minori ? What's the matter ?" she asks, Minori then looks at her with a worried face, as she was in distress.

"I was going to clean up my mess, but I don't what product I should use..." she says, she's actually doing what Yozakura asked her, of course, the blue-haired girl is surprised, she didn't think she would.

"I see, move, I'm going to show you the right products, and help you, but just for this time." Answers Yozakura with a smile on her face.

"Really ?! Thank you ! I'll do my best !" Says Minori.

When the cleaning is finished

"Finally, it's over... I'm tired..." Yozakura tells Minori, exhausted.

"Here, a pancake !" Responds Minori, offering one of the pancakes she's made.

"Thanks, I really need this." Yozakura said before starting to eat her meal, then Minori does the same.

However, Yozakura, for no particular reason, takes a look at her friend, who's eating in a very childish way.

Yozakura is used to seeing Minori like this, but this time, without knowing why, she cannot stop looking at her, actually, she doesn't even notice that it's already been almost twenty seconds she's been looking at her.

When she finally noticed that, she can't help blushing, Minori also noticed her friend was acting strangely and innocently asked her "Something's wrong ? My pancake isn't tasty ?".

Yozakura quickly answers "Of course it's tasty, I was just... thinking..." but wasn't able to complete her sentence.

"Thinking ? About what ?" Minori asked Yozakura, that's exactly what Yozakura didn't want but she can't really blame her friend, she was the one who was acting weird after all.

Yozakura obviously doesn't know what to say, she doesn't even know why she was looking at her like that, she thinks and thinks again...

Then she realized the reason.

She thought Minori was cute, very cute.

"There is no way I tell her that !" she told herself, so, she thought about another answer.

Then, she gives Minori this answer "I just hoped you will never change."

The pigtails girl was confused, she doesn't really know what her friend was talking about, but despite that, she joyfully tells Yozakura "Don't worry, I won't ! I'm happy as I am right now !".

That sentence puts a smile on Yozakura's face, probably the most cheerful she's never had, 'thank you, Minori." was the only she could say.

Both of them don't know yet, but today is the beginning of their love story.

Thanks for reading.

It will be a short series (no more than five chapters I think), but I will probably write other series about other pairings, if you have any suggestion, I'm interested.