Cancer ↠ Oikawa Tōru

Chocolate Chip Cookie

For the past few days you hadn't seen a lot of Oikawa. But that didn't mean he wouldn't send texts throughout the day while you were at the bakery or even during school. When you passed the gym you overheard a couple of the students talking about the upcoming volleyball Interhigh and how they want to be there to support Oikawa. Then you realized why he was so busy and took a peek inside after hearing that to see how dedicated everyone was to practice.

You watched as Oikawa went again and again on his serving and you could see the beads of sweat run down his face. He didn't seem fazed by anyone around him and he was a completely different person from his goofy nature outside of volleyball. You were inspired by his determination and you thought of a way to wish him good luck.

As well as the team, of course.

So the next day you decided to wake up a bit earlier than normal to get to the bakery and make some sweets for the team. You planned on making some mini tarts and cookies for them. While on the side making milk bread for Oikawa as he's always wanted.

You started off getting a decently heavy pot and putting it on the stove. You whisked in flour, milk and water until it was a smooth consistency. You brought the mixture to a simmer and stirred until it began to thicken. After about ten minutes you set the mixture into a bowl and wrapped it to set aside at room temperature.

You then began on the dough for the bread by getting the bowl of the mixer stand and combined flour, sugar, yeast and salt. The ingredients were mixed for a few seconds until everything was combined. You then added the wet ingredients of egg, milk and half of the mixture you made earlier. You let everything work together and knead for about 5 minutes while you went to clean up some of the dishes.

When everything looked pretty put together, you took a different bowl that was lightly coated with butter on the inside. You lifted the dough out of the mixing bowl and shaped it into a ball to be placed into the new bowl.

You were glad to have woken up so early because the dough needed to rise for about forty minutes. In which you started on a simple chocolate chip cookie dough and made your mixed fruits for the tarts.

During that forty minutes you had made most of the cookies and the tarts were in the oven when you checked on the dough.

When you saw that the dough had doubled in size you punched it down a bit and scooped it out of the bowl into your work surface. The dough was then cut in half and formed into balls again to rise for another few minutes. You checked again on the tarts that were then ready to be taken out of the oven and set to the side to cool down.

You grabbed a loaf pan from one of the shelves and began to butter the pan for the dough. You took the dough and rolled the balls out into an oval shape but not too thin. You folded the dough into each other three times until you made a log. With the newly shaped log you placed it on the pan and repeated the steps with the other dough ball.

The dough rested once again for another forty minutes and in that time you had found a basket not being used to place the sweets in. You arranged the tarts and cookies in a uniformed fashion and cleaned the remaining dishes.

Once the timer went off for the dough you brushed the tops of the log dough with milk and placed it in the oven.

While you waited for the bread you took some time to eat some delicious pastries from the front and ate breakfast in peace. You checked the bread from time to time and nodded in satisfaction as it was coming along nicely.

After you saw that it started to puff up and golden brown along the edges you were able top take it out and let the bread cool.

Once you were sure that you were able to cut into the bread you held your breath, but when the bread didn't deflate you gave a sigh of relief. You let your owners take the other loaf of bread to sell at the front as a special and took the rest into the basket with the other goods.

You checked the time once more and saw that you had plenty of time before practice had ended to give it to the team.

The bosses wished you good luck for the turn out as you left the store and made your way to school.

You held onto the basket nervously as a nervous feeling washed over you. It was the same feeling you would always get when you would prepare a new pastry that you were taught and had to make it for the owners.

But you didn't have time to turn back as you reached the doors to the gym and peered inside. The team was wrapping up for the morning practice to get ready for classes. You saw that some of the fan group for Oikawa was talking animatedly to him and you noticed Jun and Iwaizumi talking to themselves on the side.

You immediately walked over to them and greeted them warmly.

Jun spotted your basket first and wiggled her eyes at you to which you rolled your eyes at but sneaked a cookie for her.

"Who are those sweets for?" Jun said but with a mouth full.

You looked at her in disgust while Iwaizumi rolled his eyes but smiled warmly at her.

"I was actually going to give it to the team," you said as you directed yourself towards Iwaizumi.

He looked at you in surprise, "For us? What for?"

"Well for the Interhigh coming up. More like a good luck gift for everyone," You explained nervously.

Iwaizumi smiled brightly at you, "You really didn't have to do that."

"Oh it was nothing!" You said sheepishly. Jun giving you a side glance look with a smirk to which you ignored.

"Hey guys! We got a present!" Iwaizumi stated to the rest of the team.

Immediately as he said that it seemed that everyone had forgotten their tasks and surrounded you. Even Oikawa left his fan group to come towards you with a bright smile.

"Oh! My sweet [Y/N] has brought us something?" He said happily.

You rolled your eyes at him and went to set the basket on the bench close by. When you took off the cover, the team erupted in excitement. They were ready to grab whatever was in the basket but Iwaizumi held up an arm.

"Let's all get in a line and we can all grab something, okay?" He stated sternly.

The team complied and you watched as they took what they wanted to eat in their own little groups.

Oikawa was standing beside you the whole time and placed an arm around your shoulder.

Goosebumps once again washed over you as he whispered in your ear, "Thank you for making milk bread."

The simple gesture made you blush but you were glad that he had noticed.

Once the team had picked what sweet they wanted and Iwaizumi chose his you watched as Oikawa picked a slice of the milk bread.

He returned back to you and took a bite into the soft food. Oikawa hummed in delight as the pleasant taste filled his senses. You were trying not to watch him but you were anticipating his reaction to your baking skills.

Oikawa sensed that you were looking at him but when he turned to look at you the shift in your eyes immediately went elsewhere.

He tore a piece of the bread and called your name. When you turned to his voice to answer the piece of bread was shoved into your mouth. The action caught you by surprise but you melted from the food in your mouth.

Oikawa smiled genuinely at you, "It's delicious, thank you so much."

Melon: Writing this makes me want to bake so many sweets and now milk bread.