Cinderella; Once In A Plot Twist

🌮Chapter 18🌮

"Sa-ku-ra." Sasuke bopped her on the head with a bowl. "Stop spacing out and let's start cooking."

Sakura came to with a shake of her head. Goodness, she had such wild thoughts! "Hey I'm the sensei here, you shouldn't hit your sensei on the head you know."

"I won't if she doesn't space out. Here." The dark haired male handed a green apron over while he slipped on a purple one. Does one need to tell how incredibly hot Sasuke is with an apron on rolled up sleeves and hairpins in his hair?

Before she spaced out again Sakura moved to wash her hands. Sasuke did too and they got started.

"First we soak the skewers in water." Sakura began but was cut off by a curious Sasuke.

"Why?" He asked.

Sakura wasn't expecting the question, simple as it was, so she didn't find words to say for a moment. "W-well I guess it's to allow them to penetrate the dough easier. Aaanyway, let's mix the rice flours together in a bowl now." Sakura recited from the imaginary recipe she had in her head.

Once again Sasuke cut in with a question. "What's the difference between the joshinko rice flour and shiratamako sweet rice flour?" And boy did he need to stop because Sakura didn't really know the answers to his questions!

"Then let's add sugar for taste." Sakura evaded the question.

"You evaded my question." Sasuke pointed out.

"I know!" Sakura snapped much to the boy's surprise. She cleared her throat  to cover up her blunder. "That's an assignment for you."

Sasuke crossed his arms. "How original."

"Aaanyway! We should add the water now to mix the dough."

"Shouldn't the water be hot though?"

"Oh that's right. I forgot."

Fortunately with an electric kettle it didn't take more than three minutes to boil enough water to mix the dough. Mixing the dough was a different ordeal on its own for how was one supposed to mix hot dough with bare hands?

"The water wasn't supposed to be that hot." Sasuke unhelpfully provided. At this point he was the one teaching his teacher.

"Gee thanks for the information." Sakura mumbled sourly while Sasuke chuckled.

"You're really bad at this, aren't you?"

If Sakura was any other person she would have panicked at his words. But she was Sakura so she calmly replied him. "I told you before didn't I? I'm only good at cinnamon buns."

"Then kneading dough should be easy for you." Sasuke provided. Now Sakura panicked. True to his words, if she could make buns that perfectly then kneading doughs should come easy.

"Er em- I-"

"Easy." Sasuke rescued her before she fainted on the spot. "Let's use spatulas until the dough gets warm enough to knead with our hands. You can tell me the recipe while I perform the tasks. Deal?"

How can somebody be so cool and organized? Sakura's eyes sparkled. "Deal! But Sasuke, I thought you didn't know how to cook." She observed.

"I don't. Somehow this just comes easy to me. And I read the general recipe online so I have a vague idea what I should do and not do." Sasuke replied absently.

"That's a genius for you. Kyaah! Sasuke-kun is just so handsome!" Inner Sakura gushed.

After kneading the dough they rolled them into balls and boiled them. Then they skewered them and the dango was ready! All that remained was the sauce but before that they taste tested what they made.

"Hmm." Sasuke hummed. "It tastes like chalk." He deadpanned.

Sakura spat her dumpling out. "But we followed the recipe, how come it tastes like this?"

"I think we didn't let it boil enough. We took it out too early. And it tastes like normal dango. Are you sure you aren't missing an ingredient or something?" Sasuke asked and Sakura sweat dropped internally.

She knew this was coming. Despite having the recipe she couldn't quite replicate Hinata's cooking no matter how she tried. Was she missing an ingredient? She didn't know. "I'm not. Let's start all over again, we'd get it this time."

And so they started all over again.

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