Title: "Kiss The Girl"

Author: Trinity-chan

Pairing: Sakura Nishihori & Eiji Takaoka

Fandom: GouGou Sentai Boukenger

Theme: #1, "look over here"

Disclaimer: The characters of GouGou Sentai Boukenger and the song "Kiss The Girl" don't belong to me. Boukenger belongs to the Toei Company of Japan and the song "Kiss The Girl" belongs to Disney.

Summary: Sakura and Eiji have their very first date and are a little nervous. So, Souta decides to take matters into his own hands and get them to kiss.

"Delicious." Eiji said as he finished his parfait. "I've never had chocolate before."

"I'm glad you liked it." Sakura said, smiling. "So where would you like to go now?"

"Anywhere but a bookstore." Eiji muttered as he thought back to getting caught in a bookshop by Souta earlier in the week. Souta had caught him reading a copy of some generic dating handbook had teased him endlessly about it, even after they left the bookstore.

Sakura giggled and gave him a sparkling smile. Eiji returned it shyly and opened his mouth to say something else, but was interrupted by the tone of his GouGou Changer going off.

Looking around a bit, Eiji opened the Henshin brace and spoke into it. "This is Eiji," he said.

"Eiji!" Souta's came booming out of the brace. "I have an idea on where you can take Sakura!"

Eiji sighed, wary of trusting Souta. "What is it?" He asked.

"Take Sakura to the Shinagawa Aquarium." Souta suggested. "She is the Deep Adventurer, after all. She'll enjoy that."

"Would you like that, Sakura?" Eiji asked, looking up at her.

"The Aquarium would be lovely." Sakura replied, her dark eyes glowing with happiness. "But Eiji, when did you start taking dating advice from Souta?"

"He just began to give it to me," Eiji replied. He really didn't want to tell Sakura about Souta catching him with a book on dating or how Souta had declared himself Eiji's coach for wooing Sakura.

"I still can't believe that you didn't' take my fashion advice." Souta went on, forgetting all about Sakura's presence. "All I did was offer you some nice clothes for your date."

Eiji's face as a dark scarlet. "Stuff it, Souta!"

Sakura only raised her eyebrow in response to the conversation. Now what exactly would a man who regularly goes on strenuous adventures in leather pants and jewelry know about date fashion? Sakura wondered as she paid the tab.

Frustrated, Eiji shut off his GouGou Changer and then turned back to Sakura. His face was still scarlet. "So, would you like to go to the aquarium with me?"

Her smile was gentle and kind and the flush slowly left Eiji's cheeks.

"I would love to." She replied.

Easily the best part of the tour of the aquarium was the tunnel water tank, a 22-meter tank that allowed visitors to observe the fish from a 180-degree perspective. It was like being underwater.

"Look at all the fish." Eiji murmured. "I've never seen so many fish before in my life. This tunnel seems to go on forever."

"Yeah, it's really something, isn't it?" Sakura said, as they walked along, admiring all the different species of fish. "But it's small compared to the ocean. There must be ten times as many fish in the ocean and at least 2 or 3 times as many species…" Sakura began to fall into a little lecture.

"Oh, for heaven's sake!" Souta muttered, watching them from a hidden spot. "Could he be more clueless?" He smirked, glad he'd brought along his guitar. "Good thing I brought this along. I just knew that I would need it. If Eiji won't kiss Sakura voluntarily, he'll need some encouragement"

"Oh, look over there at the clownfish, Eiji." Sakura pointed to a little corner of the colorful coral reef and the beautiful anemones. There were little clownfish swimming among them. "Aren't they cute?"

Souta smirked and began to strum his guitar, taking a little inspiration from Disney. He took a deep breath and he began to sing…in the most heavily accented English one had ever heard.

There you see her

Sitting there across the way

She don't got a lot to say

But there's something about her

And you don't know why

But you're dying to try

You wanna kiss the girl

Yes, you want her

Look at her, you know you do

It's possible she wants you, too

There is one way to ask her

It don't take a word

Not a single word

Go on and kiss the girl

Sakura was fuming from the moment she heard Souta start to sing. Who invited him? She thought angrily. Who does he think he is? The romance expert? Although she had to admit that his song choice was very interesting. Killing him would have to wait.

Eiji was confused. He wasn't sure if he should thank Souta for trying to encourage a romantic moment or two or throttle him to tagging along. He may not have looked like he was, but Eiji was listening. He did like Sakura a lot. She was beautiful, smart, and confident, everything a man could possibly want in a woman. But how could he show her that he liked her?

She already knows that you like her, Takaoka! He scolded himself. Kissing her shouldn't be rocket science!

Sakura smiled a little sadly. Eiji was obviously very uncomfortable with being out with her. Maybe this date was a bad idea, she thought to herself.

Their eyes met again as they walked along, and then they looked away from one another. Sakura felt a flush creeping up into her cheeks as she admired him watching the fish. Eiji was handsome, intelligent, and he had some sort of aura of mystery about him. There was something dangerous, yet exciting about him. She liked it. It was…intriguing.

Sakura was suddenly yanked out of her chain of thought as she felt Eiji take her small, battle-worn hand in his larger one and give it a squeeze. She looked up at him in surprise.

His smile was soft and warm and Sakura felt her heart melt. He really is too cute.

YES! Souta thought. 'It's working!' He kept singing, hoping to encourage the moment as best as he could.

Sakura allowed herself to drown in Eiji's deep rich brown eyes and he looked into hers. He was surprised at the openness and warmth he saw in them. She took his other hand in hers and they stood there for a moment, bathed in the blue reflecting light of the underwater tanks.

At first, Eiji had thought of Sakura strictly as the strict, slightly overbearing, stick in the mud, stern and serious sub-chief. She rarely smiled (although based on how much she'd been smiling lately, he didn't quite believe that anymore) and sometimes treated him as though he didn't know anything, but he knew that he deserved it. He didn't know everything about the whole SGS business, after all. He needed someone to show him the way. She was beautiful, strong and she had not only helped him, but she'd kicked Quester butt on his behalf. Girls like Sakura Nishihori didn't come along every day, he knew that much.

He got lucky.

Sometimes, Eiji, at least in Sakura's eyes, behaved like a little boy. He could be loud and abrasive one moment, then all shy and awkward the next. It could almost be annoying, but when it was him, it wasn't. With Eiji, it was kind of cute.

For the couple, the moment could not have been more perfect.

Souta was cheering inside.

You've got to kiss the girl

Why don't you kiss the girl

You gotta kiss the girl

Go on and kiss the girl

Eiji leaned his head down at the exact moment that Sakura tilted her head up and their lips met first in a gentle, chaste kiss, and that evolved into a deeper, more passionate kiss. Sakura allowed her arms to slip around his shoulder and she could feel his arms encircling her slim waist.

For the moment, the outside world seemed to fade away and Souta did a fierce little dance of victory. He smirked and then left, making sure not to let them see him.

The kiss ended slowly, the lip contact breaking, but they wouldn't let each other go.

Sakura smiled at Eiji and he returned her smile, pressing his forehead against her own.

"You know, Eiji…" Sakura began, looking up adoringly at him, "I have the feeling that this could be the beginning of a wonderful relationship."