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Who: Takeshi Yamamoto and Julie Grigio
What: Yamamoto decides to check in on Julie and see if maybe he can get her interested in baseball in the coming month.
When: Late July
Where: Julie's residence
Warnings: Friendship, if you are ready for it come on in~

Yamamoto has made many new friends since coming to Anchor. Julie is one he sees more than any other, usually bumping into her when he goes to take care of the duties he has taken on in the agriculture zone. The last two days his schedule has been switched up; he was getting ready for a date with Hayato and had some last-minute touches to add. So while he was in to do his job, he was in at different times than he would have and had missed seeing her.

That's okay by him, gives him an excuse to stop and say hi and maybe bring up the subject of baseball. He is thinking he'd like to get some people together in the next month to play even if they can't make two full teams it should be fun. He gives a quick knock when he makes it to her place, a big smile on his face.

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He beams, bringing people he cares about together is important to Yamamoto, he believes they are stronger together. And while he knows not everyone will get along he will forever be the middle man trying to make that happen.

"Of course! It's Castella Cake, it's not as good as back home but they got it pretty close."

"Castella cake?"

The way he says it, it souunds like it must be a special kind of cake... but she hasn't heard of it. She supplies them with a couple of plates and a knife and settles down on the couch.

"What makes it special enough to have a fancy name?"

"It's pretty popular in Japan, it's a spongey cake, I wanted the matcha flavor but they had honey which is just as good!"

It is a cake he had a lot growing up, he is not a big sweets person too much sugar with an optimistic hyper kid his dad definitely tried to keep the sugar intake down so it's one that makes him think of home. Yamamoto opens the box, revealing a light golden sponge cake. He slices it and makes sure Julie gets the biggest piece.

"We name all our foods I guess, there's the broader descriptor of Wagashi but there are a lot of those. Back home they make them in little molds so they come out in shapes, it's really neat. My old man used to bring them home as treats."

She can't clamp down on the little 'ooh' sound she makes when the box is opened. That is some nice-looking cake right there. She also doesn't fail to notice she gets the bigger piece, but she has a feeling that Yamamoto did that on purpose.

The first mouthful prompts a very clear sound of approval. When you don't have real cake in a while, it really hits you in a different way.

"God, I haven't had cake in ages," she says, shaking her head. "Last place I was at, there was an old guy who made pastries and stuff. Really good ones. But then he left, and no one took it up."

That "ooh" sound just makes him smile and all the more glad he brought the treat over to share with her. Any chance he gets to find some kind of sweet treat he will be sure to save some for his friend, nothing makes him happier than making his friends happy.

"It's really good, almost as good as the ones my old man gets." It would be better if he could share it with her in the sushi shop, surrounded by the smells of his childhood while his dad fixed them the best sushi in Japan as far as Yamamoto was concerned.

"That would suck, I don't eat them a lot but sometimes you just have to have a sweet, the girls back home used to have a cake day, it was cute. And they were always giving me gifts of sweets. It was really nice." it's called a fan club but he is unaware that most of those girls wanted to date the star baseball player with the big smile.

"You found it here, or..?"

Because she hasn't found anything quite this good knocking around this place, and she really expects him to say that he made it. Julie's own baking skills are definitely not up to this kind of level, but that's only to be expected when flour and sugar are rare commodities in her home world.

Hold on, just give her a moment to have another mouthful.

"Heh, sounds like you were popular."

"I bartered for it while the cruise ship was still here." And he had some left from the night he had it for, so it seemed the perfect gift to bring along.

Judging by her reaction he was definitely right. Watch out world Yamamoto Takeshi is acting almost like he's got a brain.

"Huh, you think so? They used to do it for Hayato too but I'd say Tsuna was the most popular, we were all were around him."

"Oh, cool... I never did go and check that thing out."

It had seemed too good to be true as far as she was concerned, and as much as she doesn't like Anchor that much, she didn't want to end up stuck on a ship in space when being here is probably the only thing that's going to get her home.

Eventually. Maybe.

"Girls don't usually give guys sweets unless they like them, you know. Not that many."

"Oh man you missed out, it had all kinds of neat stuff like a beach and waterpark. We even spent some time goofing off trying to catch fish with our hands, until we caught an alien that yelled at us."

The memory makes him laugh, they arrived when the Daisy Darling did so for Yamamoto and Gokudera it was a natural fixture and the boys both enjoyed the ship to the fullest, he could not have pulled off the date he did without it so in the end, he is grateful the ship was there.

He blinks, scratches a cheek then just grins.

"I guess they were my friends too, I just didn't hang out with them like Tsuna and everyone else."

Nope, he will probably never get it.

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