Pain au chocolat [One-shot]
Title: Pain Au Chocolat
Author: Axraxshi
Pairing: Juntoshi
Summary: If his fairy wants a particular pastry, Jun will stop at nothing to make it for her
Disclaimer: Dont own anything
Warning: Spoilers for Episode 3
"Pain au Chocolat!" squealed his fairy, "Definitely pain au chocolat!"
Takahashi Saeko, a year his senior, with long flowing brown locks and a smile that could stop any man in his tracks, was simply too stunning to be a human. She was a fairy. His chocolate-loving fairy, and the very reason why he became a chocolatier.
"If Saeko wants Pain Au chocolat," shouted Jun determinedly to himself as his fairy left his store, "I will definitely make Pain Au Chocolat"
"Do you even know how to make it," asked his co-worker Oliver, "your training is in making chocolates, not pastry,"
It was as though someone had snatched his dream away and crushed it into a million pieces. Oliver was right, he had no clue how to go about making pastries. Just as all hope was lost, his sister Matsuri came bounding into the kitchen, a magazine in her hand.
"Look!" She exclaimed, "the pastry prince has finally opened a store in Harajuku!"
All eyes turned to the magazine in her outstretched hand, the glossy paper proudly showing a small tanned man in a chef uniform holding out a basket of tantalizing baked treats.
"Ohno?" Cried Jun in disbelief.
"You know the pastry prince?"
"Yeah, he was in from my school. We were the only 2 guys in the arts and craft club, which I joined to get close to Saeko. If it weren't for that club, I wouldn't even be friends with him,"
Oliver nodded, “so this pastry prince is your friend? That’s perfect!”
“Perfect?” asked Matsuri, “Why?”
“I’m going to ask him to teach me how to make Pain au chocolat!” said Jun, “for Saeko!”
That was how Jun found himself standing outside ‘Pain brûlé’, the bakery that has gotten everybody in Japan talking about. The store was not yet opened for business, but the front door was open. Nervous, Jun pushed the door open, a bell signaling his arrival.
“We’re not open yet!” snapped one of the workers, about to throw him out of the store when he was stopped.
“Nino, just because I don’t let you play with your DS doesn’t mean you are allowed to be frumpy towards our customers,” chided the second man. The first simply pouted before returning to the kitchen to sulk. The second man than turn to Jun, ready to paraphrase what his co-worker had said in a more polite way when he froze.
“Matsumoto…” whispered Jun’s classmate.
“Nice to see you again, Ohno,” greeted Jun. The smaller made had changed so much since the last time Jun saw him. The hair that Jun once thought looked like hay was now dyed a glossy shade of brown and gelled backwards. The teeth that were once crooked now perfect. The eyebrows that were once in the shape of the kanji for ‘eight’ now groomed.
Ohno Satoshi had indeed changed so much.
“How can I help the chocolate prince?” laugh Ohno awkwardly.
“I have a favor to ask you,” began Jun, “I need to learn how to make Pain au chocolat. Do you remember Saeko from Arts and Crafts club? I want to learn how to make it to win her heart!”
If Ohno was shocked at his strange request, he didn’t show it. Then again, nobody ever knew what he was thinking. Ohno looked towards the ground, shuffling his feet nervously as he thought about Jun’s request.
Jun wasn’t sure how Ohno was going to react. After all, they weren’t that close in school. He barely even talked to Ohno. If it wasn’t for his fairy, Jun wouldn’t dream of asking just an acquaintance for such a huge favor.
“Ok,” said Ohno at last.
“You’ll teach me?” asked Jun, surprised by Ohno’s decision.
“Yes,” replied Ohno, his face expressionly, “Come by tonight after my store closes,”
“Thank you! Thank you so much!” cried Jun, dashing forward and hugging Ohno without thinking of what he was doing. Giving the shorter man a nervous smile, Jun beamed at Ohno once more before leaving Pain Brûlé.
Ohno stood in the middle of his shop, crumpling the hem of his apron in his sweaty palms. He would have stayed there in shock if Nino hadn’t come up to him.
“Is that him?”
Ohno nodded.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
At exactly eight at night, Jun was back at Pain brûlé, entering the shop just as the last customer left. Tonight is the night! The night when he’ll make the most perfect Pain au chocolat for his fairy.
“Matsumoto,” greeted Ohno, coming out of the kitchen to greet him. Turning to his assistant, he said, “You can go home now, Nino,”
The baker’s assistant gave his employer a two-finger salute while winking at him in a cheeky manner before running of.
“I guess it’s just the two of us then,” said Jun.
“Just the two of us…” repeated Ohno shyly, showing Jun the way to the kitchen.
The kitchen in Pain brûlé was almost identical to the one at Choco la vie, except the racks were filled with bread instead of chocolate. They two ‘princes’ got the work immediately, Ohno getting out the ingredients for the bread while Jun prepared his chocolate.
Ohno was just as brilliant a teacher as he was a baker. Within no time at all, Jun had learnt how to activate yeast and prepare the dough.
“How to you fold this dough into thirds?” asked Jun, struggling to get the sticky dough into the proper shape.
“Like this,” replied Ohno, circling his arms around Jun’s waist to reach pass the chocolatier. Ohno’s front pressing against Jun’s back, the pastry prince grabbed Jun’s hands, helping him work the dough into shape.
Next it was time for the chocolate, “I’m not sure which chocolate is good, so I brought a few,” said Jun, wiping the dough off his hands.
“Show me,” replied Ohno.
Jun took his first sample and was about to hand it to Ohno when the baker held up his hands sheepishly, “My hands are covered in dough, just pop it into my mouth,”
The chocolatier did as he was told. As Jun fed a sample of each chocolate he had to the baker, he could not help but grin at Ohno’s delighted expression. That was the kind of smile he wanted his customers to have, and if his chocolates were able to make Ohno grin like that, he could not be more proud.
It was seven in the morning by the time Jun was satisfied with his creation. The precious pastry were packed neatly in a pretty ready to be given to Saeko .
“I don’t know how to thank you,” said Jun as he was about to leave.
“You already have,”
Surprised by Ohno’s reply, Jun wanted to ask what he meant, but Ohno simply shrugged it off and whished him good luck with his fairy. Box in hand, Jun decided to go straight to Saeko’s house to confess. He must have looked absolutely ridiculous smiling like an idiot as he though about how the pain au chocolat he made was going to melt Saeko’s heart like chocolate on a hot day. How he had kneaded the dough with Ohno pressed against him. How he had shaped it with Ohno’s hands in his. How the chocolate was made from him which he fed to Ohno.
Every time he thought of how his Pain au chocolat would bring the brightest smile to Saeko’s face, all he could think about was Ohno’s sleepy smile.
“Jun?” he heard a surprised voice asking him, “What are you doing in front of my house?”
“Saeko…?”
Jun found himself standing outside Saeko’s house, the precious box of Pain au chocolat in his hands. This was his chance to win his fairy’s heart, His chance to not be the boy crushing on her behind her back. He thought of himself back in his school days when he looked like a little dog chasing something he knew he could never have. However, instead of seeing himself, all he could see was Ohno. Ohno with the longing eyes. Ohno who joined the art and crafts club after him. Ohno who gave him a bouquet for flowers on his graduation day. And then it hit him.
“Jun?”
“I’m sorry!” spluttered Jun, “I have to be somewhere,”
As fast as his legs could take him, Jun ran back to where he was this morning, cursing himself for being so stupid to not realize it sooner.
“Jun?” a surprised Ohno appeared from the kitchen, “What are you doing here? Did you give her pain au chocolat? What did she say?”
“Here!” said Jun, ripping open the box and handing one of the pastry to Ohno, “I made this for the person I truly care about,”
Ohno’s eyes widen.
“Please have it,” urged Jun, holding out the bread to Ohno. Hesitantly, the baker took the still warm pastry and took a bite out of it, chewing it slowly to savor the taste of his 6 years of hard work. But before he could even assess the taste, a third one entered.
Without him realizing, Jun had cupped his cheek and pressed his lips against Ohno’s. After six years of kneading bread, after six years of thinking that he was being stupid, and that his dream will never come true, Ohno can finally tell the whole world that his theory was right - chocolate and bread is the best combination.
‘Ewww! Get a room you two!” cried Nino, shielding his eyes with his DS.
AN:
1) Pain brûlé = Burnt bread (you guys know why)
2) Jun mentioned on TV that if he weren’t in Arashi, he wouldn’t even be friends with Ohno
3) Ohno mentioned in a magazine that he was concerned that his eyebrows looked like the Kanji for eight
4) In the drama, Jun was training in Paris for 6 years, so in this story, Ohno was training to be a baker during the same period of time
5) Yes, I know Jun had a change of heart too quickly
6) Yes, I know the ending sucked.
Author: Axraxshi
Pairing: Juntoshi
Summary: If his fairy wants a particular pastry, Jun will stop at nothing to make it for her
Disclaimer: Dont own anything
Warning: Spoilers for Episode 3
"Pain au Chocolat!" squealed his fairy, "Definitely pain au chocolat!"
Takahashi Saeko, a year his senior, with long flowing brown locks and a smile that could stop any man in his tracks, was simply too stunning to be a human. She was a fairy. His chocolate-loving fairy, and the very reason why he became a chocolatier.
"If Saeko wants Pain Au chocolat," shouted Jun determinedly to himself as his fairy left his store, "I will definitely make Pain Au Chocolat"
"Do you even know how to make it," asked his co-worker Oliver, "your training is in making chocolates, not pastry,"
It was as though someone had snatched his dream away and crushed it into a million pieces. Oliver was right, he had no clue how to go about making pastries. Just as all hope was lost, his sister Matsuri came bounding into the kitchen, a magazine in her hand.
"Look!" She exclaimed, "the pastry prince has finally opened a store in Harajuku!"
All eyes turned to the magazine in her outstretched hand, the glossy paper proudly showing a small tanned man in a chef uniform holding out a basket of tantalizing baked treats.
"Ohno?" Cried Jun in disbelief.
"You know the pastry prince?"
"Yeah, he was in from my school. We were the only 2 guys in the arts and craft club, which I joined to get close to Saeko. If it weren't for that club, I wouldn't even be friends with him,"
Oliver nodded, “so this pastry prince is your friend? That’s perfect!”
“Perfect?” asked Matsuri, “Why?”
“I’m going to ask him to teach me how to make Pain au chocolat!” said Jun, “for Saeko!”
That was how Jun found himself standing outside ‘Pain brûlé’, the bakery that has gotten everybody in Japan talking about. The store was not yet opened for business, but the front door was open. Nervous, Jun pushed the door open, a bell signaling his arrival.
“We’re not open yet!” snapped one of the workers, about to throw him out of the store when he was stopped.
“Nino, just because I don’t let you play with your DS doesn’t mean you are allowed to be frumpy towards our customers,” chided the second man. The first simply pouted before returning to the kitchen to sulk. The second man than turn to Jun, ready to paraphrase what his co-worker had said in a more polite way when he froze.
“Matsumoto…” whispered Jun’s classmate.
“Nice to see you again, Ohno,” greeted Jun. The smaller made had changed so much since the last time Jun saw him. The hair that Jun once thought looked like hay was now dyed a glossy shade of brown and gelled backwards. The teeth that were once crooked now perfect. The eyebrows that were once in the shape of the kanji for ‘eight’ now groomed.
Ohno Satoshi had indeed changed so much.
“How can I help the chocolate prince?” laugh Ohno awkwardly.
“I have a favor to ask you,” began Jun, “I need to learn how to make Pain au chocolat. Do you remember Saeko from Arts and Crafts club? I want to learn how to make it to win her heart!”
If Ohno was shocked at his strange request, he didn’t show it. Then again, nobody ever knew what he was thinking. Ohno looked towards the ground, shuffling his feet nervously as he thought about Jun’s request.
Jun wasn’t sure how Ohno was going to react. After all, they weren’t that close in school. He barely even talked to Ohno. If it wasn’t for his fairy, Jun wouldn’t dream of asking just an acquaintance for such a huge favor.
“Ok,” said Ohno at last.
“You’ll teach me?” asked Jun, surprised by Ohno’s decision.
“Yes,” replied Ohno, his face expressionly, “Come by tonight after my store closes,”
“Thank you! Thank you so much!” cried Jun, dashing forward and hugging Ohno without thinking of what he was doing. Giving the shorter man a nervous smile, Jun beamed at Ohno once more before leaving Pain Brûlé.
Ohno stood in the middle of his shop, crumpling the hem of his apron in his sweaty palms. He would have stayed there in shock if Nino hadn’t come up to him.
“Is that him?”
Ohno nodded.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
At exactly eight at night, Jun was back at Pain brûlé, entering the shop just as the last customer left. Tonight is the night! The night when he’ll make the most perfect Pain au chocolat for his fairy.
“Matsumoto,” greeted Ohno, coming out of the kitchen to greet him. Turning to his assistant, he said, “You can go home now, Nino,”
The baker’s assistant gave his employer a two-finger salute while winking at him in a cheeky manner before running of.
“I guess it’s just the two of us then,” said Jun.
“Just the two of us…” repeated Ohno shyly, showing Jun the way to the kitchen.
The kitchen in Pain brûlé was almost identical to the one at Choco la vie, except the racks were filled with bread instead of chocolate. They two ‘princes’ got the work immediately, Ohno getting out the ingredients for the bread while Jun prepared his chocolate.
Ohno was just as brilliant a teacher as he was a baker. Within no time at all, Jun had learnt how to activate yeast and prepare the dough.
“How to you fold this dough into thirds?” asked Jun, struggling to get the sticky dough into the proper shape.
“Like this,” replied Ohno, circling his arms around Jun’s waist to reach pass the chocolatier. Ohno’s front pressing against Jun’s back, the pastry prince grabbed Jun’s hands, helping him work the dough into shape.
Next it was time for the chocolate, “I’m not sure which chocolate is good, so I brought a few,” said Jun, wiping the dough off his hands.
“Show me,” replied Ohno.
Jun took his first sample and was about to hand it to Ohno when the baker held up his hands sheepishly, “My hands are covered in dough, just pop it into my mouth,”
The chocolatier did as he was told. As Jun fed a sample of each chocolate he had to the baker, he could not help but grin at Ohno’s delighted expression. That was the kind of smile he wanted his customers to have, and if his chocolates were able to make Ohno grin like that, he could not be more proud.
It was seven in the morning by the time Jun was satisfied with his creation. The precious pastry were packed neatly in a pretty ready to be given to Saeko .
“I don’t know how to thank you,” said Jun as he was about to leave.
“You already have,”
Surprised by Ohno’s reply, Jun wanted to ask what he meant, but Ohno simply shrugged it off and whished him good luck with his fairy. Box in hand, Jun decided to go straight to Saeko’s house to confess. He must have looked absolutely ridiculous smiling like an idiot as he though about how the pain au chocolat he made was going to melt Saeko’s heart like chocolate on a hot day. How he had kneaded the dough with Ohno pressed against him. How he had shaped it with Ohno’s hands in his. How the chocolate was made from him which he fed to Ohno.
Every time he thought of how his Pain au chocolat would bring the brightest smile to Saeko’s face, all he could think about was Ohno’s sleepy smile.
“Jun?” he heard a surprised voice asking him, “What are you doing in front of my house?”
“Saeko…?”
Jun found himself standing outside Saeko’s house, the precious box of Pain au chocolat in his hands. This was his chance to win his fairy’s heart, His chance to not be the boy crushing on her behind her back. He thought of himself back in his school days when he looked like a little dog chasing something he knew he could never have. However, instead of seeing himself, all he could see was Ohno. Ohno with the longing eyes. Ohno who joined the art and crafts club after him. Ohno who gave him a bouquet for flowers on his graduation day. And then it hit him.
“Jun?”
“I’m sorry!” spluttered Jun, “I have to be somewhere,”
As fast as his legs could take him, Jun ran back to where he was this morning, cursing himself for being so stupid to not realize it sooner.
“Jun?” a surprised Ohno appeared from the kitchen, “What are you doing here? Did you give her pain au chocolat? What did she say?”
“Here!” said Jun, ripping open the box and handing one of the pastry to Ohno, “I made this for the person I truly care about,”
Ohno’s eyes widen.
“Please have it,” urged Jun, holding out the bread to Ohno. Hesitantly, the baker took the still warm pastry and took a bite out of it, chewing it slowly to savor the taste of his 6 years of hard work. But before he could even assess the taste, a third one entered.
Without him realizing, Jun had cupped his cheek and pressed his lips against Ohno’s. After six years of kneading bread, after six years of thinking that he was being stupid, and that his dream will never come true, Ohno can finally tell the whole world that his theory was right - chocolate and bread is the best combination.
‘Ewww! Get a room you two!” cried Nino, shielding his eyes with his DS.
AN:
1) Pain brûlé = Burnt bread (you guys know why)
2) Jun mentioned on TV that if he weren’t in Arashi, he wouldn’t even be friends with Ohno
3) Ohno mentioned in a magazine that he was concerned that his eyebrows looked like the Kanji for eight
4) In the drama, Jun was training in Paris for 6 years, so in this story, Ohno was training to be a baker during the same period of time
5) Yes, I know Jun had a change of heart too quickly
6) Yes, I know the ending sucked.