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Fourth Floor Common Room; Wednesday Afternoon (after classes)

There was a sign tacked up on the doorframe of the common room.

In Japanese, it read: //"Saotome Ranma! If you come anywhere near this room, I will rip your heart out with my bare hands and then force the twins who are supposed to be keeping you away right now to eat it raw!!!"//

Below that, in English, it read: "Happy Valentine's Day, everyone. Please don't mind the mess."

Because, in the common room, in a flurry of activity, panic, and the occasional string of angry Japanese, Setsuna was trying to make an ultra-special, uber-chocolatey and perfect and impressive and amazing cake. She even forced herself to break the eggs. It was...an interesting experience, to say the least, but she was determined that she was not going to mess up this opportunity to prepare for Ranma the best honmei-choco imaginable.

[[ s'open, but Set might be very violent toward criticism ^_~ ]]

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Ami needed to cook. So Ami headed for the common room. And saw the note. And almost died of laughter.

"Hi Setsuna! What a lovely sign." Ami giggled because really she could not help herself.

Setsuna did take into account the few people, like Ami or John or Chad, who could read Japanese, so she wasn't terribly surprised or bothered that such a threat would be seen by one of them. She didn't bother looking up from here she was trying to make a little rose out of chocolate, tongue darted past her lips in concentration. "It's very important," she said, "that he has no idea that I'm doing this..."

"I could tell." Ami grinned as she put some bags on the table. "Would you be horribly offended or inconvenienced if i also used the common room to cook?"

Setsuna shook her head a little. "Not at all. I've made a bit of a mess, but, for the most part, all I've got left is the cake, so I'll just be sing some counter space and the oven."

"You are baking?" Ami remembered their first conversation, and how Setsuna said she was not that into cooking of baking. "Cool. I am mostly wrapping things and cutting things and well, stuff." Ami - not very articulate about her plans apparently.

Henry almost totally disregarded the sign in Japanese. He figured it was for another club.
"Good afternoon, Setsuna!" He looked around. "What are you making?"

"I picked up some sushi, too, for dinner, but, yes, I'm baking." There was a gulp following it. "I...I couldn't just get Ranma any old thing for Valentine's Day; I had to make sure his honmei-choco is very special, and it would mean nothing if I just went out and bought something, y'know? With enough perseverance, I have successfully created cake before." Yes. Created. It totally seemed the right word to her at the moment. "It's just...rather difficult. A challenge, perhaps..."

Setsuna frowned at another lopsided chocolate rose, and then looked over the Ami for a moment. "Are you giving Billy any special honmei-choco? I...this is my first time ever having anyone to give any to. Even giri-choco! It's all a little nerve-wracking, really..."

"Oh! Henry! Good!" Setsuna, with a smear of chocolate across her cheek, quickly set down...something, it was a little indistinguishable, and wiped her hands idly on the apron she wore, with little puffs of flour emerging. "I was hoping to catch you. I have something for you!"

"Challenges are good." Ami said, as she started cutting up veggies and making rice.

She contemplated the choco question. "There will be chocolates yes. I am making some."

Setsuna smiled lightly. "From, like, scratch?"

Ami nodded. "Well, from chocolates melts, designed for making chocolate." She showed Setsuna her molds (http://store.chocart.com.au/product_images/1699_ebay_635.jpg) and fillers (http://www.streichs.com/images/foundation/candywriters.jpg).

Setsuna looked significantly impressed. See, Ami was the type of girl who knew this sort of thing; Setsuna, on the other hand, had no idea what the hell she was doing. "Can I...use some of those?"

Ami mnodded "Sure. Do you know how to do this?"

Setsuna blushed slightly. "No, not really..."

"It's easy, all you have to do is melt these" she handed Setsuna a bag of dark and milk chocolate melts. "Then, paint them on the mold thickly, put the filler in and fill the rest of the mold with the melted stuff." Ami pointed at the various things she was describing as she described them. "There is chocolate and raspberry filler."

Setsuna nodded, carefully listening to Ami's instructions and thinking that these will be a perfect addition to her cake. Shoulders lifted slightly, Setsuna thought that she could almost hug Ami right now. "This is really neat; thank you, Ami!"

"You are welcome. I really don't mind, and it is always more fun to cook and bake with company."

"That's true," Setsuna smiled warmly again and tried to push out all sorts of thoughts that were invading her head right now about Konoka-Ojou-sama's inclinations for cooking and, if she were still in Japan, is this something they might be doing right now? But thoughts like that, especially in leui of Konoka-Ojou-sama's gift this morning, were dangerous thoughts to have.

"I think working with someone else will make me a little less nervous, too, which is good."

Because she was nervous. Terribly nervous. Tonight...was going to be a very big night....

"Aw, don't be nervous, it will all be good." Ami smiled warmly. While she was horribly nervous about tonight as well, she was not about the cooking.

"Yeah, I hope so..."

Setsuna? Definately not nervous about cooking either. She wondered if Ami would respond like that if she knew the real reason Setsuna was so nervous.

After all, when you got right down to it, Ranma would eat practically anything. The cake could turn out burnt, the sushi dry, the chocolate too bitter, and it wouldn't matter a lick to him, really...

Henry looked surprised for a second. "Oh! Hold on! I'll be right back!" He rushed out of the room.

Ami, who had no clue why Setsuna was nervous, smiled broadly and continued cooking. Soon there was a large assortment of sushi, chocolates and a number of other things. Ami also started assembling a tray of tea things.

When Henry came back in, he had flowers (http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/images/plants/iris.jpg) for Ami, as well.
Henry gave a somewhat embarrassed incline of the head. “Happy Valentine’s Day.”

Ami was kind of startled as she hadn't really gotten anyone anything. "Oh. Thank you Henry. That is very sweet of you. I am sorry i didn't' get anyone anything this year." she said sadly. "but i will make it up to you later. What's your favorite desert?"

[ooc: omg you picked the mun's fav flowers, woot]

Setsuna blinked a few times at where Henry was just standing a moment ago. Ohhh-kay...What was that all about?

Henry rushed back in with a single-flower (http://www.theafricangarden.com/Gladiolus%20carmineus.jpg) bouquet. "Happy Valentine's Day."

Henry put his hands up in a stopping gesture. "No, it's all right. I didn't expect anything in return."

[ooc: Really? Fantastic! Henry was hoping to find something that fit Ami, but I think he succeeded on a different level! XD]

"No really, I insist. But you have to tell me what you like in a desert." Ami smiled at Henry.

[ooc: nodnod. totally made me smile. which after the stupid snow i needed, thankee]

Well, if she insisted...
Henry gave a bit of a smile. "I'll eat anything that has chocolate in it."

Ami nodded. "chocolate got it.` I officially owe you a chocolate dessert." She grinned.

Henry laughed. "Thank you very much."

"You are very welcome." Ami grinned and put the flowers in her hair.

Although she was taken a little aback at first, a smile soon crept onto Setsuna's lightly blushing face as she gingerly recieved the flower. "Ohhh," she gushed a little, bringing it to her nose for a quick sample of its scent. "Arigato, Henry, it's lovely."

And perfect for accenting a ponytail for the moment. Now there was flower and flour in her hair...

"And, now, for what started this whole thing," she said, turning around briefly to grab a small box of chocolates. "For one of my very best pupils. Happy Valentine's Day."

Henry looked a little shocked. "Thank you!" It was chocolate. His one true weakness. (Y'know, aside from all that Edward Hyde stuff.) He inclined his head a little. "Thank you very much."

Setsuna noticed the shock and, accompanied with the inclination of his head, couldn't quite tell if it was a good sort of shock or a bad one. "You're very welcome," she said with a bob of her head. "In Japan, it's a tradition for a girl to give all of her male friends small tokens of chocolate for Valentine's Day, but this is really the first time I've ever had male friends to give chocolate to."

"I was just a little surprised. Thank you." He gave a self-depreciating smile. "In London, it is-" he amended- "it was tradition to give gifts anonymously on Valentine's Day. It was a way to save any embarrassment." He chuckled. "However, I've gathered that it means something entirely different now to receive gifts from an anonymous sender on this day."

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Fourth Floor Common Room; Wednesday Afternoon (after classes)

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