"Ugh why do we have to get so many ingredients for this Japanese cheesecake." Riku whines as him and Asami were now walking together after school as they were on a mission to the supermarket to get the ingredients for tomorrow's booth.
"You were the one who suggested to the whole class that you wanted Japanese cheesecake. So the only person to blame is yourself." She says as he scratches the back of his head when he remembers.
"Oh yeah hehe.."
"But still I didn't think that it needed this much ingredients. I'm just always so used to eating it, not helping to bake it." He complains as Asami could just roll her eyes.
"You're a slacker and you don't help. Pick a struggle Maeda." She said as he groans and lightly pushes her away.
"You're so annoying Kudo." He mumbles before grinning because he knew that what she said was true.
Riku stops walking all of a sudden as it weirded Asami out. She looks back at him who was staring at something as his eyes were wide open.
"Why'd you stop walking-" she wasn't able to finish her sentence off as Riku had dragged her into a corner so they could hide.
"Hey what's the big idea?!" She exclaims as he shushes her.
"Shh, I'm trying to spy on someone right now." He says as she furrows her brows together.
"What?!"
The girl looking over as she tries to see who Riku was spying at.
"Who are you spying?" She asks.
"That guy that's wearing a suit. He's my umm maths tutor. He helps me with my other assignments as well. This is my first time seeing him out on the streets." He says as Asami tries to find a guy wearing a suit.
After much looking, she finally sees a man wearing a suit. He looked like he was in his late twenties. He wore glasses, dark brown hair that was styled. He was the most gorgeous person Asami has ever seen in her life. She didn't understand what it was about him but his visuals were so astounding that he looked as if he came straight out of a book. How did Riku find someone like him as a math tutor?
"And why is that weird exactly that you're spying on him?" Asami says.
"Because he's always so secretive with his life. I want to know what he does when he's not working." Riku says.
The man that they were spying at was Soren. They watched as he walks over to a flower shop.
What was he doing at a flower shop?
A woman went out of the flower shop. Seeing by the looks of it, she must be working there because she was wearing an apron whilst holding onto a watering can, about to water the flowers outside.
"Soren. You're here again. I haven't seen you in a month." The woman stated as she smiles at him.
"Miss violet. Sorry that I haven't visited, I've been really busy. My students aren't making it any easier for me." Soren replies.
Riku scoffs when he hears that. He knows that him and his friends were a handful but he didn't need to tell someone about it 😒.
"How many times do I need to tell you to not call me miss. We're the same age Soren." Violet says.
"I feel more comfortable calling you miss." He replies.
Riku could see that he had a sad smile on his face as he says that. He wonders what this woman has to do with Soren and if she's connected with his past.
"The same as ever I see. Why'd you come by to visit." Violet asked as she waters the plants.
"(To see you) I came by to get some new flowers." Soren says bluntly.
She looks at him in confusion. "What happened to the ones from last month? They can't die that fast." She asks.
"One of my students broke the vase and stepped on the flowers when he was running around the place. They're basically dead now, so I came by to get some new ones." He answers.
Riku grimaces. Soren was talking about Ryo and Sakuya. Those two were playing tag in his office and Ryo had knocked down the vase and Sakuya had stepped on those flowers, breaking the stem. You could imagine what a hay day it was for them when Soren found out.
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"Geez Soren. You can't even keep a flower alive for two months. But anyways, come inside and pick the flowers that you want to get." Violet says as she heads back inside the flower shop.
"It's wasn't my fault this time? It was my infuriating students." Soren complains as he enters the shop.
Hmph, that still wasn't enough proof for Riku to get a better understanding of Soren's past.
"Was that his girlfriend?" He hears Asami ask. Riku looks over at her.
"No. He doesn't have a girlfriend. He doesn't have the heart to fall in love. He's a heartless bastard." Riku answers.
"Well you don't know about that you stupid Cupid. By the way that they talked to each other, it's obvious that they had some history in the past. You can't just judge him and say that he's heartless because of the way that he acts towards you. What if he's just faking that to hide something." Asami reasons as Riku thought about it.
Was she the Cupid here or was it him? Because Riku just doesn't understand anything. Maybe he was still a long way to becoming a good Cupid.
They then see as Soren and Violet left the flower shop as the lad was holding onto a new bouquet of flowers.
"Thanks again miss Violet for helping me." Soren thanks as the girl shakes her head.
"Thank you for visiting Soren. Makes sure that you keep them alive." Violet tells him as Soren nods his head.
He was about to say something but stopped as he stares at the girl. That sad look never leaving his face.
"I'll see you some other time Violet." He said as that made the girl smile widely.
"Hey you called me just Violet for once." She says. Her smile contagious as it made Soren smile softly as well.
That's the first time Riku has ever seen Soren smile in his two years of being his disciple.
They then see as Soren bid his farewell before leaving. At that moment, Riku knew something.
Violet must have been a special person to Soren and that his advisor must have had some sort of feelings for her. But everything was just far too blurry for Riku to come up with a conclusion.
"Umm Maeda, hate to break it to you but we really need to buy these ingredients before it starts getting dark." Asami reminds him as this snapped Riku out of his thoughts.
"O-oh yeah. You're right. Let's go and get them." He said as the two of them then continued their way to the supermarket.
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It was the end of the day as Riku and Asami had finished their 'grocery' shopping. The two of them were now deciding over who should bring the ingredients home.
"I'll just take the ingredients home so you don't have to." Riku says as he was about to hold onto the plastic bag when Asami beat him to it.
"No I'll do it. I insist. Besides, my aunt would be picking me up soon so it's easier for me to bring these home." The girl says.
"Oh. Alright then, thanks Kudo. I'm going to be leaving now." Riku thanks her before he walks off.
Once he was out of her sight, Riku summons his wings before flying off as he heads to the headquarters.
Did Asami want to bring the ingredients home because she knew that his arms were injured... Riku thought that he hid his injury well, guess not.
Just the thought of it had managed to make him smile without him noticing.
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*knock knock!
"Come in." Soren calls out as Riku enters his office.
The lad when he sees Riku entering his office couldn't help but to raise a brow at him.
"Why are you here Riku?" He questions.
"My arms hurt. Could you help me heal it. I can't go back home like this or else my parents would freak out." Riku says as he walks over to Soren. Like a small kid that goes to their parents because of a bad injury.
"*sigh, alright then. Show me what the injury looks like." He says as Riku pushed his sleeves up to reveal the big bruise on his arms that had started to turn a dark shade of purple. Different from what it looked like earlier in the day.
Seeing his injuries made Soren widen his eyes as his glasses fell down.
"Goodness, what did you even do to even get this purple bruising." Soren asks as he went through his drawers to get his magical first aid kit.
"I got hit by a football. It flew out of the field and my first instinct was to cover my face so it wouldn't get hit." A lie just slips out of his mouth so easily like that.
Soren wraps a bandaid around his arms. Riku didn't know what he was doing. But he knew that the bandages were magical.
"There, it should heal by tomorrow morning. Just make sure that you're wearing a long sleeved shirt so your parents won't know about it." Soren says once he was done wrapping the bandages.
"Thanks Soren!" Riku cheers as he stares at his arms.
"Now shoo, get out of my office. I want to read my book in peace." Soren says as he ushered Riku to leave. Riku could see that by his desk, a new vase has been placed there, accompanied by the flowers that Riku had seen him buy earlier. This made him smile.
"Ok thenn, I still have some business to finish here. I'll see you some other time Soren." Riku chimes before leaving his office.
He then flies over to his department.
The department for the Cupid of Ludus; the Ludus love lab.
Riku greeted everyone once he had arrived there. He barely visits because he always does his missions late since he's busy slacking off most of the time, but hey at least he gets the job done at the end of the day.
Riku walks over to his desk cubicle as he goes through his drawers to fetch his pencil case that he left behind.
"Oh Riku, what are you still doing here?" A senior Cupid asks him.
"Just grabbing my pencil case that I left behind. I've just been going to school with a single pen." Riku showing him his pencil case before grinning.
"You silly kids." The senior laughs before shaking his head.
Seeing as no one was around besides him and the senior Cupid that was in the room, Riku decided to ask him something.
"Sunbaenim, could I ask you something." Riku says as the senior looks over at him as he was packing his things up.
"Sure thing Riku. What do you want to ask?"
"Do you know what department Soren used to work in before he became an advisor?" He asks as the senior looks at him in surprise.
"Has Soren never told any of you kids?" He says as Riku nods his head a no whilst pouting.
"He didn't work in any of the six departments of love." He explains as this only confused Riku.
"What do you mean? Then what department did he work in?"
"He worked in the department of scissorhearts. The Cupids that specialises in cutting the wings of other Cupids." He tells him as Riku looks at him in appal.
"Soren was always a special kid, he never displayed any sorts of emotions so the higher ups thought that he'd be the perfect person to work as a scissorheart. Everyone even gave him a nickname you know Riku? They all called him the wingless wisher. Because he was a Cupid that didn't have wings." The senior says.
The more information Riku learnt about Soren, the more he understood why Soren never wanted any of them to know anything about him.
"B-but he has wings now?" Riku says. How could Soren be called the wingless wisher when he isn't wingless????
"Something happened in the past. But that's not on me to say. The higher ups gave him a second chance to atone and they finally gave him his wings and made him switch departments so that's why he works as an advisor for newer Cupids who gets scouted. But everyone including Soren all thinks that he received his wings as a form of punishment."
The senior ended it there as Riku stared at him deeply traumatised.
"Ah is that so. Thanks for telling me then. I need to start heading out now!" Riku stated before flying away.
He needed to tell his friends all of this. If he was traumatised, he needed to traumatise the rest of his friends as well HAHAHA.
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