Background: Livejournal community 30kisses works where the writer writes fics based on 30 different themes provided and for each theme there has to be a kiss in it, 'kiss' being open to interpretation. I randomly took 10 themes to write 10 drabbles that flow as a complete story, so there'll be 10 of them.

A/N: Yes, I know 500 years ago they celebrated Valentine's Day in a very different manner and what we have now is a very modern development, but it wouldn't work if i stuck to historical accuracy, so please just pretend otherwise.

5) "ano sai" ("hey, you know…)

A week ago, Tenpou had casually mentioned to him, "It will be valentine's day in exactly one week's time."

Kenren had replied, bewildered, "What the hell's that?"

"It's a festival celebrated by lovers in the world below to symbolize their union."

"Ok. And how would you know that; I thought you only read about their wars?"

Tenpou shrugged. "I read books regarding many different aspects of human life."

"So why the special mention?"

Another careful shrug, eyes guarded. "Nothing in particular."

Kenren knew Tenpou well enough to understand that "nothing" meant "there's something and you better go figure it out yourself, I'm not explaining."

So Kenren did, asking around until someone had provided a slipshod sort of explanation to it. He sure as hell wasn't going to go into Tenpou's library to read, god forbid. He'd been told vaguely, "It's sort of like when lovers express their love for each other, and give gifts like flowers and chocolate and cards, and say things like 'I love you', and there's something about kissing, and it's their special day you see."