Aaaahh I'm so sorry this took so long..! ;A; I just haven't had motivation to write ahaha... You know that feeling when you have so many ideas but just no motivation to do anything..? But don't worry, the new chapter is finally here!

Haise sat behind his work desk while reading some papers. But no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't focus on working. All he could think about was Juuzou and that kiss… He sighed deeply and leaned back on his chair. Akira noticed man's behavior and went to him.

"What's wrong, Haise? It's not like you to have your head in clouds", woman sat next to him. Haise woke up from his thoughts and turned his gaze to Akira.

"Oh, Akira-san… Don't worry, I'm okay", he gave her a nervous smile and started to look again at the papers.

"Hmm is that so?" Akira raised her eyebrow and looked closely at Haise. "I'm probably not the best at these kind of things, but to me it looks almost like you're having problems with a girl or something". Haise froze and dropped the papers from his hands.

"W-what? That's very funny, Akira-san, but it's nothing like that", Haise laughed nervously and started to look at the papers again.

"Oh really?" Akira giggled a little. "Then why is your face so red?" he pointed his finger at man's face.

"N-no it's not!" Haise protested, turning his head away from Akira. Older woman laughed a little.

"So I was right. Tell me Haise, what is the problem? You can tell me", she asked and smiled gently. Haise sighed, turning towards Akira.

"W-well, okay then… There's this one person… I've known them for some time now and we're friends. But lately I've had these weird feelings towards them…" he paused for a while, and then continued. "And today when I went to see them, I just…kissed them. Just like that. And after I realized what I had done I just ran away and now I don't know what to do. I- I don't want to ruin our friendship. And I don't know if I can even look at them ever again", Haise finally finished and covered his face with his hands.

"Oh wow…" Akira breathed, not really knowing what to say. "It looks like you've gotten yourself in to a trouble. But if they're your friend, I think that if you just apologize to them, they will forgive you. And who knows, maybe they even have feelings towards you", she gave Haise an encouraging smile.

Haise thought a while about what Akira just said. What if Juuzou had feelings towards him? But that's just impossible. They're talking about Juuzou here. As if he could have feelings like that.

"..Impossible", Haise muttered in a low tone. Akira looked at him questioningly. "That they would have feelings towards me... That's impossible. They're not that kind of person who could have feelings like those. I'm not sure if they even know about those kind of feelings…" man shook his head.

"Hmm?" Akira looked at Haise, as if she had just realized something. "That person sure sounds interesting. Could you tell me more about them? Are they someone from the CCG? Do I know them?" she asked a bunch of questions and Haise looked at her a little surprised for a while.

"Err, umm, yeah, they work in the CCG. And yes, you know them…" Haise muttered. "I'm sorry but… I don't want to tell more…".

"That's okay, I understand", Akira smiled and stood up from the chair. "I'm sure if you just try enough, he will return your feelings. He may be a problem child, but as long as there's someone to teach him such things as love, everything will turn okay", she said and winked at Haise before went back to do her own work.

Haise froze still, looking after Akira for some time. 'Did she find out..?' he thought, turning towards his table. Once again he took the papers to his hands, still thinking about what Akira just had said. 'As long as there's someone to teach him how to love, huh..?' a little smile came to man's face. 'Maybe I can do that. No, I will do that. I'll do anything to make Juuzou feel the same way towards me as I feel about him. I- I will make him mine.'

Juuzou was sitting on the hospital bed and watching the TV. It was so boring, just sit there without doing anything. He just wished they could fix his prosthesis as soon as possible so he could get out of here.

"Where that nurse is? This is taking too long…" he muttered as he kept changing TV channels. He had asked the nurse to bring him some paper and pens so he could draw, but half an hour had already passed. Juuzou shut down the TV and lied down.

"Even Haise left… I want him to come back, it's so boring here", man pouted and shook his arms in frustration. After he had calmed down a little, he touched his lips, remembering what had happened this morning.

"What was that? Why did you kiss me, Haise? And now because of that there's this weird feeling in my chest… It's because of you I feel like this. Come here and fix this, Haise…" he rolled to his side and took his pillow, hugging it gently. "Please come here. I want to see you…".

It took about few hours after Haise was done with the paper work. There wasn't other things to do for today, so he could go home. Quinx squad was done with their work too and they were waiting for their mentor.

"Yo, Sassan!" Shirazu greeted the other man as he saw him coming out of the office. "Hey you see, we were talking about stuff and well, we'd like to go eat out somewhere. After all we did good job yesterday so we're kinda earned that, don't you think?" yellow haired man said while scratching his neck.

"Oh, well…" Haise said and looked at the four youngsters. "Sure, if you want to", he then agreed, and he could hear Shirazu's and Saiko's happy screams, and Tooru's as well. "Ah, but could you wait for a while, because I should go see Juuzou…" he said and felt a pat on his shoulder. He looked behind him and saw Akira.

"Go get him, tiger", Akira said in low tone and winked at Haise again, until disappeared from the scene, waving her hand to the quinx as she went past them.

"A-Akira-san…" Haise mumbled with a little blush on his face and looked after the woman. Whole quinx squad looked after her a little confused. "Uhh, so, I'm going now, so just wait for me here, okay?" Haise stuttered, starting to almost run towards CCG's hospital side.

Juuzou had finally gotten the paper and pencils, and he was humming happily while drawing. He was still bored, but this was better than just watching TV. After some time he heard a knock from the door.

"Come in!" he sang as he continued drawing.

"Umm, hi, Juuzou… Is it okay if I come in..?" Haise asked while looking inside the room behind half-opened door. Juuzou dropped his pen when he heard Haise's voice and immediately turned his face to other man.

"Ooh, Haise~!" he exclaimed happily and waved his hands. Haise smiled and entered the room, closing the door behind him.

"Oh, you're drawing. Can I see?" Haise asked while he sat down to the chair next to the bed.

"Yeah, sure!" Juuzou said and showed his drawings to Haise with a big smile. Haise took drawings from Juuzou and looked at them for a while.

"They're very nice", he smiled and returned the papers to Juuzou, who took them and put them to the table. Haise looked at the other man nervously, and didn't really know what to say. He knew he should apologize, but he just didn't know how.

"It's nice you came back, it's so boring to be all alone here. And I got sad when you left so suddenly", Juuzou pouted.

"Ah, right, sorry about that…" Haise apologized and scratched his neck. Juuzou hadn't mentioned anything about that kiss. Didn't it bother him? Or was he just trying to forget the whole thing, and didn't want to talk about it? Whatever it was, Haise knew he had to apologize.

"Juuzou, about this morning… I'm sorry…" he said a little nervously. Juuzou tilted his head.

"Sorry about what?" raven haired man wondered, looking at Haise with a little confused gaze.

"Well, you know, that kiss… I'm so sorry about that. I don't know what got into me", Haise turned his head down apologetically.

"Oh, that. Don't worry about it. It doesn't matter…", Juuzou said and Haise turned his gaze back to him.

"Doesn't matter..? I kissed you and you say it doesn't matter?!" Haise said with a loud tone, what startled Juuzou. "Ah, sorry, I didn't mean to yell…" he apologized immediately. Juuzou looked at other man with his eyes wide open for a while, until he turned his head away.

"No I mean…" Juuzou mumbled, twitching stiches on his hand nervously. "It doesn't matter...if it's you…" he continued and a small blush came to his face. Haise looked at him, astonished. What did Juuzou mean with that?

"What do you mean..?" Haise asked. Juuzou shrugged his shoulders, while still twitching his stiches.

"I…don't know… I mean… If it would have been someone else, I'd probably punched them or something…" he rubbed his arm. "But when you did it… I was kinda surprised at first, but I didn't hate it… Actually, for some reason, I wanted it to continue…" Juuzou finished, blushing now even more.

"O-oh…" Haise breathed, feeling a blush on his face too. "But…you pushed me away…".

"Ah, well, that was because… It just surprised me so much. I didn't know what to do… But I- I didn't mean to scare you away or anything…" Juuzou explained, turning his head away from other man. He was so nervous he didn't know what to do. He hadn't been nervous about almost anything ever. Juuzou felt how his heart was bounding in his chest, faster and faster. It was just so weird and new, he was so confused, and even a little bit scared.

Haise was speechless. He didn't know at all what to say or do. Did this mean Juuzou actually had some kind of feelings towards him? He wasn't sure, but what Juuzou just said, made Haise incredibly happy.

"I've…had these weird feelings lately…" Juuzou started to speak again. "When I'm with you… I get this weird, warm feeling. I don't know what it is and it feels weird, but at the same time it makes me very happy…" after Juuzou finished, a big, relieved smile came to Haise's face. He reached his hand to caress Juuzou's cheek, what made other man to turn his head to meet Haise's eyes.

"I think… I know what that feeling is", Haise said with a calm smile while caressing other man's cheek. "And that feeling… Is called "love"", he brought his face closer to Juuzou's and touched other's forehead with his own. After he said that, Juuzou looked at Haise with his eyes wide open and pulled his head away. Love? Could this feeling really be love..? Juuzou didn't know. He didn't know anything about that kind of thing.

The only kind of "love" he had ever experienced was when he was with Big Madam and it hadn't left him any good memories about that feeling. He had heard few times when Shinohara-san told to his wife that he loves her, thought. And he did know that in fact love was the feeling you get when you really care about the other person. But Juuzou hadn't ever experienced that kind of love. So did this mean… He loved Haise..? But how could that be possible.

"Juuzou, are you okay?" Juuzou woke up from his thoughts when he heard Haise's voice. He looked at the other man, puzzled and confused.

"But what… Is love..?" raven haired man murmured, turning his head down slowly. "I don't know anything about it…" he said in a low tone and started to twitch his stiches again. Haise looked at him for a while, until he moved his hand again to Juuzou's cheek, turning his face towards his own.

"I can teach you", he said with a small, gentle smile, until he moved his face closer to Juuzou's, closed his eyes and kissed him. Just like the last time, except now Haise knew what he was doing. Juuzou was a little prepared for what was coming, but still got surprised. But this time he didn't push Haise away. He too closed his eyes and responded to the kiss.

They stayed there like that for some time, just kissing and embracing each other, almost forgetting the passage of time. It felt like this was something they both had wanted to do for a long time. And they both felt in deep of their hearts, that this was the start of something new and amazing between them.