Sakura has some red bean mochi and happily offers to share it with Hayato, but he bitches about how sweet stuff is FOR GIRLS and she shouldn't have dared to presume he'd want any. She feels bad, but promptly eats the whole thing while he's working through his tsundere routine. Noticing that he actually wanted some, she promises to leave some for him next time. Sakura wonders why he pretends not to like sweets but the reason is, of course, that it's a kiddy thing and he doesn't want to be seen as a kid. She tells him that she'll offer him some of all her sweets so everyone will think he's just doing it for her. He brings HER some sweets to thank her, and says that thanks to her kindness he's decided it's okay to be himself, so he no longer cares if people know he likes sweets. They decide to remain pastry pals. 4/5


S time. Sakura has developed a Pavlovian Hayato = dessert reflex where she gets hungry when she sees him, lol. He says he wants to take her to a bakery... like, on a date. Because he likes her. And she says she'd never thought that someone as mature as he is would be into her, and he says they're both mature and anyway we can be ourselves together. She agrees. Support: Pastry pairing!