Chocolates

[honou_no_izumi]

Title: Chocolates, Omake
Characters: Ankh
Fandom: Kamen Rider OOO
Rating: G
Summary: Eiji thinks he could boast about getting Valentine chocolates from Hina. Well he was wrong!

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He seemed so happy, guess she made the right decision to not give him any home made chocolates. Then again the other day Ankh had been insistent that he would not accept any gifts of chocolates from her. But she had thought, she would not want this year to be the only year that she did not give her brother any Valentine chocolates—Hina shook her head. Ankh was not Big Brother!

Then again right now..., Hina glanced again towards Ankh's back as she mused silently. Despite right now it has been Ankh in that body and not her brother, Hina could not help feeling as if a part of her brother was awake within Ankh. She might have imagined it but—aside that first time Ankh tried to kill her—there were many times that she felt like that. Like that time when Ankh had used the candroid to bait the fat person possessed by a Yummy out of the café or those other times when she had thought she felt Ankh watching over her, somehow she had a feeling like it was her brother that was watching over her. That's silly. Brother Shingo is still alive, he's just asleep right now. But still...

"Hina-chan! Did you hear me?"

Hina blinked as she finally took notice of Eiji, screaming at her while wearing that adorable cupid costume. "Yes?"

"Why did you give Ankh that?" Hina blinked at him before looking at Ankh.

"Why not? It would have been a pity if he didn't get any chocolates... and I told him if he helped out with the café I'd make him something special."


To Hina's surprise she glimpsed Ankh giving Eiji a boastful look while still being so giddy about his ice cream. Even more after she heard him speak.

"Hear that, Eiji! At least there is someone who appreciates me!"

Hina blinked. Did something happen between these two? She walked closer and saw that in between eating his ice cream, Ankh also ate the lunch she had prepared for him. She had remembered to not gave him anything poultry—eggs aside—since the last bad reaction, and even that had been eaten properly!

"Ankh! You ate the lunch I've made for you!" she exclaimed in surprise. Ankh had looked smug.

"Of course! After you've given me this wonderful chocolate ice cream, it's outrageous if I do not do something in return for that! You've just made me realize you're not just ridiculously strong than any other human but you're a good cook too!"

Hina felt her cheeks coloured. Did Ankh just gave her a compliment? She stared at him in wonder. Ankh was smiling at her! If not because of his hair and the different appearance than Shingo, Hina would have thought it was her brother smiling back at her. Shingo always loved getting chocolates from her, he even ignored her teasing over not having any girlfriends at his age. Seeing her brother smile had always been a common thing, it's only when Ankh appeared that she rarely see the smile on her brother's lips anymore. What does this—

"Hey! Why are you so sweet to Hina? You barely—"

Ankh suddenly hissed at Eiji. "Off with you! Today I prefer to not consider your existence in my presence! I see you're jealous of my chocolate ice cream, well you're not getting it! Shoo!"

Hina felt tempted to laugh but this would be rude as she turned to look at Eiji.

"Wha—why you! I didn't even want your ice crea—Ankh! Why did you suddenly extremely harsh on me today?" Eiji exclaimed as Hina detected a slight whining in his tone. Hina snorted as Chiyoko-san tried to scold Ankh for his rude treatment over Eiji.

"Don't ask me, I'm not the bad guy." Ankh replied again as he went back to enjoying his ice cream.

Seeing Eiji on the verge of tears, Hina hurriedly rushed over her to divert himself to serving the customers instead. Peace was then somewhat restored for a while. Though somehow, Hina realized despite everything... perhaps she found something that could allow her to get closer to Ankh.

Somehow... that made her happy. She did ended up succeeding in giving Ankh a Valentine chocolate. Even if it was in the form of ice creams!