The Bakery
Girls, I finally wrote. 
Thanks to the Prompt-Roll-Call, I've been struck by inspiration!!
Here you have the actual result ;)
× Title: the Bakery
× Author: yukichan_tb
× Length: 978 words
× Pairing: Junba
× Rating: G
× Genre: friendship / romance.
× Thanks to: arashiislove , mongo_o_o, usermmt, lycchy, yuelnaye, jellybean6972, felixkeep for their partecipation in my project ^^
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~ Introduction ~
There is a little bakery in Tokyo which is very popular despite its small size: it’s neither affiliated with an important brand, nor it’s part of a big industrial baking process… there’s only an old owner and a couple of assistants, but this three-person-team pulls in more customers than any other bakery in town.
What makes this place so peculiar is hard to describe, but surely each one of those workers has his merit.
The owner is an unmarried old man who had been working as a baker for his whole life, putting all his time and energy into this job until he finally managed to open his own store: his greatest satisfaction.
He had worked alone for a very long time, until he finally admitted to be aging and allowed himself to hire a couple of assistants to help him in his job…
The first one was Matsumoto Jun.
A high school student who was looking for a part-time occupation and one day he entered into his shop, asking to be hired without any warning.
“I really love cooking and I’m sure I’ll be a good baker as well! Just let me try for a little while sir!” This was what he’d said at the time. And that little while became 4 years and a half.
Actually he had worked as a part-timer only for the first six months, since he quickly became a regular employee.
Because after having had a good looking young man working into his shop, it was almost impossible for the old owner to go back as it was at the beginning. Unless he would have been willing to lose half of his customers, all those female students or adoring housewives who started attending regularly his store everyday just glancing and staring at that gorgeous assistant…
Besides that, he really liked Matsumoto-kun: he was a good guy who did his best every day. He had no reasons to deny that job to someone who loved it so much.
The second apprentice arrived straight afterwards the first one, when the first groups of high school girls started to invade the little store everyday, and Jun wasn’t expert enough to handle a lot of customers, even with the owner’s help.
So he asked one of his classmates if he wanted to lend a helping hand as well… and that’s how Ohno Satoshi joined the team. He had worked as a simple part-timer for much longer than his friend though, because the old man wasn’t really sure about him: he wasn’t a talkative person and most of the time he didn’t even seem to be listening when other people were talking, which made him almost useless for serving customers. Yet, he was a very creative person and if he was in a good enough mood, he was able to create unique artistic pastry, like a professional patissieur. And this was his game point.
They were really a unique team: the grumpy Kitayama-san, the perfectionist Matsujun and the absent-minded Ohno-kun.
All three of them were very good in baking as the old man had taught all he knew to his younger assistants, and there wasn’t a single customer who had stopped going there after having tried their products.
They also went along very well with each other, despite their own peculiar nature… no one else would have fitted well in that team. And for this very reason, when the owner announced that he was going to employ a new assistant Matsumoto felt really surprised and a bit disappointed as well.
“Why is that, Shachou? We don’t need anyone else in here! We have always been perfectly in sync with each other and we can perfectly manage the work load...”
“YOU surely can manage it.” Replied the old man in a calm and serious tone “But not me. Not anymore.”
Matsujun looked at his boss, not sure of what he was implying.
“Look at my hands” he continued in a tired voice “I’m old. I’m weak. I can’t knead well as I was used to do in my youth… there isn’t a little strength left in these arms! You said well before when you said that we have always been in perfectly in sync, but I can’t put up with you anymore…”
“But you can still serve the customers!” protested the baker, not accepting the idea to work in that shop without the man who taught him the job.
“Are you saying that this ugly old man is supposed to attract customers?” he let out a sad laugh “I’m sure that I’ll scare them away in a couple of weeks, or less… No, in order to serve customers we need someone fresh, joyful! Someone that gives you happiness just by smiling at you, and makes you want to come here more and more often… or at least this is what I thought when I first saw him.”
“Him? Do you mean that you already have chosen someone? Without even telling us anything?”
Jun felt irritated by those words, he didn’t like to be left out when it came up to important decisions! With all probability, Ohno wouldn’t have minded at all, but him…
“Don’t put up that face, little kid! Don’t forget that I am the boss here, and I can still do what I want!” grunted the owner “Anyway you’ll meet him tomorrow, since I told him to start working right away… and you’d better to behave nicely with him! I don’t want you to scold that guy for any little mistake he’d happen to make!”
“So have you employed an ordinary inexperienced apprentice?” Matsumoto got nervous once again. “He’s not going to get in our way while working, isn’t he?”
“Don’t worry! Masaki-kun is really a nice boy! I’m sure you’ll like him!!”.
Jun let out a disconsolate sigh: he hadn’t replied his question at all.
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This is my first fic in 2011 after quite a long hiatus... I hope I'll be able to persevere *_*
...and if you hadn't partecipated to my Prompt-Roll-Call yet, have a look HERE!! ;)
Thanks to the Prompt-Roll-Call, I've been struck by inspiration!!
Here you have the actual result ;)
× Title: the Bakery
× Author: yukichan_tb
× Length: 978 words
× Pairing: Junba
× Rating: G
× Genre: friendship / romance.
× Thanks to: arashiislove , mongo_o_o, usermmt, lycchy, yuelnaye, jellybean6972, felixkeep for their partecipation in my project ^^
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~ Introduction ~
There is a little bakery in Tokyo which is very popular despite its small size: it’s neither affiliated with an important brand, nor it’s part of a big industrial baking process… there’s only an old owner and a couple of assistants, but this three-person-team pulls in more customers than any other bakery in town.
What makes this place so peculiar is hard to describe, but surely each one of those workers has his merit.
The owner is an unmarried old man who had been working as a baker for his whole life, putting all his time and energy into this job until he finally managed to open his own store: his greatest satisfaction.
He had worked alone for a very long time, until he finally admitted to be aging and allowed himself to hire a couple of assistants to help him in his job…
The first one was Matsumoto Jun.
A high school student who was looking for a part-time occupation and one day he entered into his shop, asking to be hired without any warning.
“I really love cooking and I’m sure I’ll be a good baker as well! Just let me try for a little while sir!” This was what he’d said at the time. And that little while became 4 years and a half.
Actually he had worked as a part-timer only for the first six months, since he quickly became a regular employee.
Because after having had a good looking young man working into his shop, it was almost impossible for the old owner to go back as it was at the beginning. Unless he would have been willing to lose half of his customers, all those female students or adoring housewives who started attending regularly his store everyday just glancing and staring at that gorgeous assistant…
Besides that, he really liked Matsumoto-kun: he was a good guy who did his best every day. He had no reasons to deny that job to someone who loved it so much.
The second apprentice arrived straight afterwards the first one, when the first groups of high school girls started to invade the little store everyday, and Jun wasn’t expert enough to handle a lot of customers, even with the owner’s help.
So he asked one of his classmates if he wanted to lend a helping hand as well… and that’s how Ohno Satoshi joined the team. He had worked as a simple part-timer for much longer than his friend though, because the old man wasn’t really sure about him: he wasn’t a talkative person and most of the time he didn’t even seem to be listening when other people were talking, which made him almost useless for serving customers. Yet, he was a very creative person and if he was in a good enough mood, he was able to create unique artistic pastry, like a professional patissieur. And this was his game point.
They were really a unique team: the grumpy Kitayama-san, the perfectionist Matsujun and the absent-minded Ohno-kun.
All three of them were very good in baking as the old man had taught all he knew to his younger assistants, and there wasn’t a single customer who had stopped going there after having tried their products.
They also went along very well with each other, despite their own peculiar nature… no one else would have fitted well in that team. And for this very reason, when the owner announced that he was going to employ a new assistant Matsumoto felt really surprised and a bit disappointed as well.
“Why is that, Shachou? We don’t need anyone else in here! We have always been perfectly in sync with each other and we can perfectly manage the work load...”
“YOU surely can manage it.” Replied the old man in a calm and serious tone “But not me. Not anymore.”
Matsujun looked at his boss, not sure of what he was implying.
“Look at my hands” he continued in a tired voice “I’m old. I’m weak. I can’t knead well as I was used to do in my youth… there isn’t a little strength left in these arms! You said well before when you said that we have always been in perfectly in sync, but I can’t put up with you anymore…”
“But you can still serve the customers!” protested the baker, not accepting the idea to work in that shop without the man who taught him the job.
“Are you saying that this ugly old man is supposed to attract customers?” he let out a sad laugh “I’m sure that I’ll scare them away in a couple of weeks, or less… No, in order to serve customers we need someone fresh, joyful! Someone that gives you happiness just by smiling at you, and makes you want to come here more and more often… or at least this is what I thought when I first saw him.”
“Him? Do you mean that you already have chosen someone? Without even telling us anything?”
Jun felt irritated by those words, he didn’t like to be left out when it came up to important decisions! With all probability, Ohno wouldn’t have minded at all, but him…
“Don’t put up that face, little kid! Don’t forget that I am the boss here, and I can still do what I want!” grunted the owner “Anyway you’ll meet him tomorrow, since I told him to start working right away… and you’d better to behave nicely with him! I don’t want you to scold that guy for any little mistake he’d happen to make!”
“So have you employed an ordinary inexperienced apprentice?” Matsumoto got nervous once again. “He’s not going to get in our way while working, isn’t he?”
“Don’t worry! Masaki-kun is really a nice boy! I’m sure you’ll like him!!”.
Jun let out a disconsolate sigh: he hadn’t replied his question at all.
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^____^
This is my first fic in 2011 after quite a long hiatus... I hope I'll be able to persevere *_*
...and if you hadn't partecipated to my Prompt-Roll-Call yet, have a look HERE!! ;)