Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Dreams Come True ❯ Chapter Five: I Don't Like Apple Pie ( Chapter 5 )

Chapter Five: I Don't Like Apple Pie

After school, Mina found Mokuba again. He was sitting on a bench near the playground, reading a book, his legs swinging because they didn't touch the ground. Mina stopped a minute, smiled, and cocked her head. He was such a funny little boy. She liked him a lot.

"Mokuba?"

The boy looked up and grinned, jumping off the bench, running to her, and hugging her around the middle. Mina hugged him back, then shouldered her backpack. "Ready to go?"

"Yeah. Hold on, lemme get my stuff, kay?"

"'Kay."

Mokuba grabbed his book and his backpack and walked on ahead of Mina on the way to the house. Mina kept flipping through a cookbook she had borrowed from the library.

"Hey Mokuba?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you think Seto'd let me bake an apple pie in your kitchen?"

"APPLE PIE?" Mokuba grinned and jumped up and down. "Who cares what he says, I love apple pie!"

Mina resisted the urge to laugh.

"Allright, Mokuba, we'll convince him."

At the house, Mokuba ran around announcing his presence.

"IM HOOOOOOOMEEE!!!!!" He grinned and ran into the kitchen. "Come on, Mina! We have a pie to make!"

A rather disgruntled Kaiba (tired from tons of paperwork, no doubt) entered the kitchen a hour later, only to find it completely blown out. Mina and Mokuba were just putting the pie in the oven, and Mokuba was covered head to toe in flour. Mina had a large spot on her nose, but otherwise, she was flour free. Mokuba caught sight of Seto, brightened, grinned, and ran out.

"I'll go change!"

Kaiba sighed and looked at Mina, who was sweeping the flour off the floor.

She's cute like that-when she doesn't know somebody's watching her. Bet she doesn't even know about the flour on her nose.

He pinched himself. Stupid thoughts, always getting in the way. He didn't need anyone-and certainly not Mina. He had only asked her to the ball so Mokuba wouldn't sulk.

"Oh, hey!" She had noticed him. Kaiba winced.

"Hey…" He looked at her, quite small in stature, and at the huge mess in the kitchen. "Here, let me help." He felt noble today. In three long steps he had crossed the distance between them, but he didn't count on the puddle of water.

He slipped and fell forward, knocking her over too, and they landed in a very awkward position for both of them. Mina was flat on her back, and Kaiba was on all fours, over her. Mina's eyes widened terrifically and she blushed.

Kaiba quickly sat up. "Er, sorry."

Mina sat up also, breathing like a rabbit. Kaiba then did something very untypical of himself. He leaned forward…

"Here, there's a bit of flour on your nose…" He gently took it off with his thumb, then his hand moved to her cheek, it rested lightly there, stroking her hair behind one of her ears. Mina looked slightly afraid, and gave a sharp intake of breath. Kaiba woke up.

"Gone now." He stood. Mina did too, and absentmindedly put the spatula in the linen drawer and the baking mitt in the cutlery drawer. Kaiba smiled inwardly. She was a little more than shaken. She was a nervous wreck.

"Want some apple pie when it's done?" She asked in a strangely reverie-type voice, smiling at him. Kaiba saw the warning signals of puppy love and he narrowed his eyes at her.

"No. I don't like apple pie." With that, he swept out of the kitchen, leaving Mina alone.

She sat down on a chair and stared at the ground, trying hard not to cry.

She had flour on her cheek.