"Heheheh….." Furihata Kouki couldn't stop smiling. It had almost been a week since the training boot camp hell had ended, and Furihata wasn't all that concerned about how he didn't make much progress over that week. He had realized that training in those situations was a bit too stressful and Furihata trained a lot better when it was just him and the team.

However, this revelation wasn't what had Furihata smiling so much that his cheeks began to hurt. It had to do with an activity he was going to be doing now that practice was over. Something he was very excited for: his first date.

"That's gross Furi, stop smiling like that," Furihata turned around to find Fukuda and Kawahara. They were both giving him very suspicious looks. Was he that obvious? Sure he was smiling a little bit, but was he really making such a goofy face that Fukuda had to call him on his shit?

"Eh?"

"Yeah, what's up? You're not usually this chipper after practice," Kawahara scratches and itch on his head, looking over at Fukuda who looks back and shrugs. Well, Furihata was a bit weird to begin with.

"Uhm well…okay, don't tell this to Kuroko or Kagami b-but I have a date with Aka—Seijuro-san today," Furihata whispered, his eyes on Kagami and Kuroko's position. They weren't within hearing distance at the moment, but Furihata certainly didn't want them sneaking up on him. Especially Kuroko since he had a knack for that. Well, there was a long pause before Fukuda and Kawahara spoke again and when they did, Furihata had to shush them.

"What?"

"Shh! Shhh, oh my God, shut up! N-Not so load please!" Furihata's heart nearly leapt out of his chest when the two of them suddenly exploded. Now the Kagami and Kuroko pair were walking their way and Furihata knew he had to explain things quickly.

"P-Please understand, it's not that I want to hide things from K-Kagami and Kuroko but A-Akashi-san is the enemy right? We have to beat Rakuzan and I don't want them to hate me f-for dating Akashi-san. E-Especially Kuroko-san! There's…there's hard feelings between them! I-I'll tell them later, s-so please understand—"

"Tell who what?" Kagami asked, placing himself into the conversation without a care. Furihata supposed he was making a big deal about it himself, but dammit Fukuda. Dammit Kawahara; couldn't they express more self-control?

Furihata pleaded silently that Fukuda and Kawahara would keep it a secret that he was dating Akashi. He was terrified of what they would think of him if they knew. To his relief, with an exchange of looks, Fukuda and Kawahara figuratively bit their tongues.

"Oh it's nothing."

"Furihata just has somewhere he has to be," It wasn't a lie, but it wasn't the whole truth. Kagami narrowed his eyes but thankfully, he didn't push the matter, he just accepted it as it was.

"Hmm…alright. Me an' Kuroko got a date so see ya tomorrow," Kagami said and Furihata had only blinked before Kuroko disappeared from Kagami's side.

"Eh? Where'd he go?" Kagami said and sort of looked around widely before noticing Kuroko flagging him down from around the gate. It was just his hand, he wouldn't show his face. Furihata could just imagine why. If Akashi announced it that he and Furihata were dating to all of his teammates at Rakuzan, Furihata would probably die right there on the spot.

"Thank God Kagami's such an idiot," Kawahara said after the silence had dragged out long enough. Furihata let out a sigh of relief. That was too close for him to like.

"Amen," Fukuda said in response before looking at Furihata.

"You better tell them soon. I don't like lying to my teammates," Fukuda added harshly, making Furihata flinch. But he had to agree. It left a bad taste in his mouth.

"I-I will! But first I at least want to go on my first date with Akashi-san. I-I want it to make sure it's official before I make a bigger ass out of myself than I have to…"

After that, Furihata split ways with Fukuda and Kawahara. They were going home, and he was going into town. He was a bit lonely not walking home with the like usual, but not that, or the close call could dampen his day for long. He had a date with Akashi.

When he got off the subway and arrived at the meeting place, Akashi had yet to arrive so he situated himself in a position where he was sure Akashi would be able to see him even with all the people around.

"Ah…I said Akashi-san instead of Seijuro-san again," Furihata sighed, he still couldn't get used to using Akashi's first name. Akashi had told him when they became a couple that Furihata was to call him Seijuro. Furihata agreed, but it was hard. It felt a bit weird considering the difference in their class. Akashi was rich and Furihata was…pretty darn poor. He could get by, but only with the necessities.

"Hey cutie, are you alone?"

"Huh?" Furihata looked up from his watch to find a relatively handsome blonde man looking at him. Well that was odd.

"M-me?"

"Who else would I be looking at?" The man asked, raising his eyebrow in a way that made it completely obvious to Furihata that the man thought he was as dumb as a brick. Maybe this guy just thought he was easy pickings?

But it was weird! Really weird. More and more guys had been approaching Furihata lately, coming way too strongly onto him. Actually…no one had approached Furihata before Akashi had, especially not girls. Well, there was this one creepy old dude one time, but Furihata tried really, really hard to block that memory out.

"U-uhm…sorry but I-I'm waiting for someone," Furihata smiled, shrinking away when the guy stepped closer. He shouldn't have picked this spot just because Akashi could see him. It only meant other people could see him too…people like this guy.

"That's okay. Just uh…~ Let me keep you company until this joke arrives," and Furihata wasn't happy at all that this jerk called Akashi a joke. Akashi was no joke. He really wanted to tell this guy to step off, but he was taller than him and frankly, Furihata was starting to get a bit intimidated…

"I dunno who would leave you alone out here, a cutie like you would get snatched up right away," the man said and Furihata could feel his skin crawling. What the hell? What was with this guy? And the other guys before him too. Was there some change that Furihata had gone through since his gay awakening?

"You know, you have a really nice ass," The man whispered as he leaned in his hand reaching up to touch Furihata and Furihata could only cringe away. He squeezed his eyes shut and wished Akashi would get here soon.

"Excuse me. Please don't touch Kouki-kun," Furihata nearly jumped out of his skin when he heard that voice. He slowly opened his eyes to find that Akashi had grabbed the blonde's wrist and Furihata could hear his bones protesting under the pressure of Akashi's grip.

"A-Akashi!"

A/N - Darn, I skipped the action seen. I was originally going to have this chapter be smut, but I decided against that. Instead we get hero Akashi. I did have to do some planning for future chapters so I had to take another break from the story, but this time I was planning for the story. I hope your happy, I just made the story a bit longer than it was originally going to be.

Well, I'll see you next time!