Title: "The Tenth Thing That Sakura Loved About Eiji"

Author: Trinity-chan

Pairing: Sakura Nishihori & Eiji Takaoka

Fandom: GouGou Sentai Boukenger

Theme: #10 "#10"

Disclaimer: Boukenger isn't mine and neither is the Utada Hikaru song, "Passion"

Summary: There are ten things that Sakura loves about Eiji.

If we remember, that far far away


the future is shining somewhere


we only have to be afraid a little bit


as we sit here under the beautiful blue sky

Beloved colors fill the window

If I can be with you again, before I turn

to the future that is shining somewhere


I want to see our time change


underneath that large sign

There's someone I can't meet again, in this city


So I open the window

If we remember, that far far away


the future is shining somewhere


We can sleep forever under the beautiful blue sky

Before I loved you

I was a child born in winter


Sometimes, I have doubts about


the things that started in the past


Oh I will never ever forget the picture you attached to that New Year's card


It's the things that we can't do


that we long for so much

-Utada Hikaru, "Passion"

Somewhere in Sakura's room there was a list of the things she loved about Eiji. She added something new to the list every day. But she had originally started out with just 10 things she loved about the Dazzling Adventurer, Eiji Takaoka. She knew them well.

Most of them were the basics, his personality, his looks, his smile, his heart…all those things that women tended to look for when looking for a man. But the thing that Sakura loved the most about Eiji had nothing to do with most of him and everything to do with a certain part of him.

What Sakura loved the most was Eiji's kisses. If his actions for her and they way they'd come to understand one another had lured her in, it has his kiss that hooked her. For someone who clearly had no experience in kissing anyone, Eiji kissed like a seasoned, passionate lover. When their lips touched for the first time, it stole Sakura's breath away.

She loved it. It was all consuming, passionate and very intoxicating. It was something new to her, the idea of allowing herself to loose control and just live in the moment. She'd never done that before.

But then again, she'd never fallen so completely under someone's spell before. And she was so completely under Eiji's mesmerizing spell that she knew she had no chance of getting out. But she didn't care. She was happy to be like this, to be so completely and utterly in love that when they were together, especially when they were kissing, the world just faded away.

Sakura even forgot about her crush on Satoru (which was hard to believe, but it was true).

The kisses ranged from sweet and chaste to passionate and all consuming and some of them were so consuming that they often forgot all about where they were and what they were doing. Those were the best kinds of kisses.

And it was when they kissed that Sakura finally felt safe enough to say all the things she could never vocalize. Like "I love you".

She'd caught him completely off guard when she said it for the first time and at his shocked look, she'd simply smiled and said, "Well, you said that you hated it when people held things in. So I decided to let my actions do the taking."

Eiji had smiled and kissed her again and murmured. "You should do that more often."

"Do what?"

"Let your actions talk for you."

She'd smiled and let him kiss her again, reminding herself why she loved him so much.