"Do you really think I should do this Rei-chan?" Nagisa asks Rei that morning. The two of them decided to meet early at the bakery before school to have breakfast and pick out something for their manager.

"Yes. Given everything that you've put the poor girl through I think it's necessary that you purchase an apology gift of some sort for her." Rei says and Nagisa looks at the options.

"Oh! I think she'd like this one!" Nagisa says and points at a strawberry shortcake.

"Are you sure Gou-san would like that?" Rei asks and peers at the boy. "Or are you just saying that because you like it?" Nagisa blushes and rubs the back of his head.

"A little bit of both." The blonde admits and Rei face palms then turns to him and narrows his eyes.

"Nagisa you have to take this seriously!" Rei screams and Nagisa cowers behind his backpack.

"But why?" Nagisa asks. "Gou-chan's never wanted me to be serious before."

"Just because she's never asked for it doesn't mean she doesn't want it!" Rei argues. "You have to read in between the lines sometimes, really analyze a situation to determine the deeper meaning of an exchange between two people. If I have analyzed you and Gou's situation correctly, it seems that your teasing of her has a bit of an affectionate undertone. Although most teasing you do involves affection, the affection you have towards Gou is very verbal, not so much physical, suggesting that your affection for her holds a deeper emotional meaning than the way you tease me and the other guys."

"Nah that's not it I just like to see her get angry when I call her Gou." He says and Rei bangs his head on the counter while Nagisa laughs.

"I swear it seems that every minute I spend with you, I lose five IQ points." Rei grumbles.

"Only five?" Nagisa asks and places his hand on his chin. "I wonder how I could increase that number?"

"You shouldn't!" Rei exclaims beside him.

"Oh come on Rei it could be a fun experiment! I know how much you looove experiments." Nagisa goads and Rei tries to hide his face.

"Not when it involves the risk of me becoming dumber!" Rei argues. Someone coughs and they look up and see the baker smiling nervously at them.

"Can I help you boys with something?" The baker asks. Nagisa gives him a cheerful smile.

"Yeah we're looking for something a girl would like." He says and the baker seems confused.

"A girl?" He asks and Nagisa nods.

"There's this girl I've been friends with forever and I really like her. But I've kind of made her a bit mad lately..." Nagisa says and blushes, rubbing the back of his head. "So I wanted to get her something to apologize." He explains.

"Oh." The baker says, surprised. "I thought you two were a couple." He says to Nagisa and Rei and the two boys blush and Rei face palms.

"Why does everyone assume that?" Rei asks.

"Well we are a couple of good buddies, eh Rei-chan?" Nagisa asks and elbows the boy, raising his eyebrows at him.

"Nagisa please stop you're not making it better." Rei mumbles while trying to hide in his school jacket.

"Okay." He says cheerfully and turns back to the baker. "So which one of these would a girl like?" He asks.

"Well most girls like chocolate." He says. "This small chocolate strawberry cake is a real favorite for most of the young girls that come here." Nagisa's mouth practically waters at the sight.

"It looks amazing! She'll love it!" Nagisa says and buys the cake.

On the train ride to school Rei surprisingly fell asleep. Nagisa arched an eyebrow. "Wow. Usually I'm the one that does that. But that's also because Rei-chan makes such a comfy pillow." He says to himself and he prepared himself from a comment from Rei but got none because he was asleep. "I guess now's a good at time as ever to do this then." He says and takes out a piece of paper and a pencil and scribbles a note onto it and attaches it to the cake box. During school Nagisa couldn't help but smile at Gou from across the room, distracting the red-head who was trying to focus on taking notes. But every now and then she couldn't help but look and see how cheery and cute he looked when he was looking at her. And to her shock, it looked like he was looking at her in almost dreamy longing way. Was he thinking romantically about her? A small, but growing part of her hoped so.

That afternoon after school Rei caught Nagisa on his way to the pool. "Where are you going?" He asks.

"To the pool silly!" He says like it's obvious. "I'm going to give Gou her cake today at practice."

"Nagisa we don't have practice today." Rei says and Nagisa's eyes widen.

"Oh yeah we don't..." Nagisa says. "We had to cancel it because Miss Amakata has a date with Coach and we're not allowed to be at the pool without an adult present."

"They don't have a date!" Rei says. "She had family matters to attend to today-" Nagisa ran past him, towards the street. "Where are you going!" He calls after his friend.

"I'm going to catch up with Gou on her way home!" Nagisa calls to him. "This cake is getting to her today one way or another!"

"Well, as stupid as he may be sometimes one must admire his determination." Rei says as he turns to walk home. Suddenly his phone buzzes. He picks it up. "Rin?"

"Yo Rei." He says.

"Why are you calling me?" Rei asks.

"Well Haru, Makoto and I were curious as to how things were going back at Iwatobi so I was wondering if you could tape a practice and send it to us to watch?" Rin asks and Rei seems surprised but nonetheless excited about this idea.

"Ah, so you want to see the progress that our team has been making and if there are any flaws, you will give us the proper advice to correct them?" Rei asks.

"Yeah... something like that." Rin says. "We mainly just want to see how badly you're all screwing up over there." Rei makes an offended noise into the phone.

"And why would you assume that!" Rei argues. "I'll have you know we are all swimming beautifully!"

"I'll believe it when I see it butterfly." Rin laughs into the phone.

"I accept your challenge!" Rei huffs and hangs up. "Gosh, that Rin always thinks he's so much better than everyone else. I have no idea what everyone sees in him." He sticks his nose in the air for a moment before looking ahead with a determined look on his face and strode home.

Gou let out a growl of frustration and kicked a can off the sidewalk on her way home. "Stupid Nagisa!" She grumbles. "His stupid muscles and sweet smile, gorgeous hair, those pretty eyes..." She started to get a dreamy look on her face then groaned again and shook her head. "Damn it that boy has worked his way into my head!" Speaking of said boy, Gou turned around to find him running after her. She stopped walking and let him catch up.

"Gou-chan." He says breathlessly and bends over, panting. He had clearly done a lot of running. She's about to say something but he holds up a finger to stop her.

"It's Kou." She reminds him and he takes a deep breath and finally looks up at her.

"I know. But I need to tell you something." Nagisa says and Gou felt her heart skip a beat.

"Y-You do?" She asks.

"Yeah." Nagisa says and stands up. "I'm sorry." He says and Gou blinks. She never thought she would ever hear the blonde say that.

"You're sorry?" She asks.

"I'm sorry for making you so mad lately." Nagisa says. "I guess teasing each other has just always been our thing and you still liked me even though I did it so much so I figured you wouldn't mind if I kept doing it." He admits. "I just didn't expect you to get so mad. I don't want you to be mad at me Gou-chan. You're my friend. You're the best team manager the swim club could ever have, and I don't know how the new guys will manage without you next year. Not only do you work hard but you're an incredible friend to all of us. And I want to stay your friend. I've known you since I was little and I want to keep in touch and stay this close with you my whole life! Please don't be mad at me anymore." The last part made Gou's heart jump a bit and she was happy that the boy made such an effort to apologize to her. Maybe he was finally maturing?

"Thank you." Gou says and smiles at him fondly. "I accept your apology Nagisa." He smiles and she turns to continue on her way home. Then Nagisa remembers something.

"Gou-chan!" He calls.

"It's Kou!" She corrects and turns around and finds him pulling a box out of his backpack.

"I know but here, this is for you!" Nagisa says and hands the box to her. She takes it from him and looks at the note attached.

"Thanks for being my first kiss." She reads out loud and blushes as she looks up at Nagisa. His cheeks were dusted a light shade of pink as well.

"To be honest I couldn't imagine it being with anyone else." He admits and now Gou is utterly stunned. Both of their faces turn red and Nagisa can't help but admire how beautiful Gou looks in the light of the sunset, and she's thinking the same about him. She looks down at the box, most likely containing some sort of dessert given the size and dimensions, then back up at Nagisa and can't stop herself from placing a small kiss on his cheek. The boy stiffens in shock and when Gou pulls back to look at him she sees that serious expression that she's never seen on him before, and it's rather attractive. She realizes that in this lighting and with that look, he looks exactly like the man of her dreams. "Gou-chan..." He says, his voice serious and a bit deeper than she expected. Her heart was racing. He smiled that beautiful smile and Gou felt herself swooning. "What was that for?" He asks and Gou blushes more and smiles at the ground.

"A thank you, for being the best treasurer this club could ever have." Gou says and Nagisa chuckles a bit. "And one of the greatest friends I've ever had. To be quite honest Nagisa, I don't think my high school experience would be the same without you Nagisa. With my brother gone, I've been kind of lonely. Sure I have Chigusa but she's not as funny as you are and I don't know something about you just makes my day brighter, and no matter what you seem to make me smile." Nagisa throws his arms around her in a tight hug.

"That is the sweetest thing anyone's ever said to me Gou-chan!" Nagisa exclaims, practically tearing up in the girl's jacket.

"It's nothing Nagisa-kun." She says softly and Nagisa lights up, hearing the new endearment and he picks her up and spins her around. She shrieks and starts to struggle in his grasp. "Put me down right now or I take back everything I said!"

"No you won't!" Nagisa replies and Gou looks at his eyes and sees how bright and shining they are. Nagisa was happier than ever it seemed. "I'm going to make you a promise. From this point on, even if I don't see you, I'm going to make you laugh every day! And since Rinrin isn't around right now, I'll teach you how to swim so we don't have anymore accidental kisses." He says and winks at her. Gou blushed. Nagisa set her down.

"That all sounds so sweet." Gou admits and blushes a bit. "Thanks Nagisa, I'll remember to bring a swimsuit to practice tomorrow."

"Great I'll see you tomorrow then I guess Gou-chan." Nagisa says.

"Yeah see you tomorrow." Gou says and turns to leave.

"Wait a minute. You didn't correct me?" Naigsa asks and Gou looked at the ground and blushed.

"No..." She says.

"Do you like being called Gou now?" He asks and she blushes more.

"Only by you." She tells him and his face heats up. So he decides to laugh it off.

"I guess I can't tease you anymore!" He laughs. "Maybe I should start calling you Kou!"

"Gou!" She replies.

"Kou!" He says.

"Gou!"

"Kou!"

"Gou!"

"Kou!"

"Gou!"

"Gou!"

"Kou!"

"Gou!"

"Kou!" She realized they were now shouting in reverse and she knew from experience that neither of them would stop anytime soon. Their longest lasting record had been five minutes and that's when Rei finally snapped and blew up at them and didn't talk to them for the rest of the week. But without any interference they could go on forever. Someone had to stop it, and that's when she knew she had to take drastic measures.

"Gou!" She shouts.

"K-" He's cut off by her grabbing his tie and pulling him towards her and she quickly presses her lips to his. The kiss is only a quick peck that lasted about two seconds but it takes Gou five to realize what she's done. She immediately lets go of him, her face red as a tomato. "Oh." He finishes softly and stares at her, a dazed dreamy look on his face. "I thought you didn't want anymore accidental kisses Gou-chan?" He smirks.

"It was the only way to get you to shut up!" She yells at him. "It's your fault for being so annoying that I have to take drastic measures!" He doesn't reply, he just stares at her like she's the most amazing thing he's ever seen. It's so endearing she feels uncomfortable. "Why are you looking at me like that? Say something! It was just a little peck to get you to stop talking... I didn't mean anything by it."

"Oh really?" He asks and smirks. "Then maybe I should annoy you more often then?" He asks.

"Then I'll just kiss you more to get you to shut up!" Gou argues.

"Maybe that's what I want!" Nagisa says and the two of them blush horribly. The whole area is silent. All that can be heard are the crashing waves next to them and the occasional cry of a seagull. "Isn't this what you described? Your dream first kiss? You wanted to be at the beach at sunset. Well we're at the beach and it's sunset. I know I'm not the guy you were imagining but since I stole your first kiss from you, as your friend I feel like I owe you a do-over at least..."

"Nagisa..." Gou's voice was barely audible. She gasped when Nagisa wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her into him.

"What do you say Gou-chan? Let me make your dreams come true! I know I'm not what you were probably expecting but-" Gou cuts him off with another kiss. She was going to pull away after a few seconds again but Nagisa held her and deepened the kiss. Gou couldn't believe what was happening. Her dream had come true, she was having a romantic kiss, and with Nagisa of all people. But the most surprising of all was how magical it actually was. Nagisa wasn't much of a strong man, but the way he held her made her think otherwise. She wasn't that surprised that he could hold the kiss for so long, considering he was a swimmer so he could hold his breath longer than most people. Gou however, couldn't, so she broke off of Nagisa, breathing heavily. "How was that Gou-chan?" He asks and smirks a bit. She blushed.

"It was amazing but don't make me have to shut you up like that ever again!" Gou shouts at him quickly before running off towards her house. Nagisa watches her go and a huge grin spreads on his face and he runs in the opposite direction towards his house, jumping, fist pumping in the air and shouting.

"I think she likes me! I can't wait to tell Rei-chan!" He shouts as he runs victoriously down the sidewalk.

A/N: Feedback is much appreciated. Aside from that, stay tuned for more!