Hours were slowly passing by. Specially because they woke up early, and it was one thirty when they decided to get lunch. The last day of their trip they decided to go to the center of the town with their car.
They window shopped, bought some souvenirs and went to the game center for about an hour. Then they got hungry and decided to get a ramen.
"Gee, it's so hot today" Kurosaki complained when they ordered their meal.
"Well you are not the only one that's melting here. I know what you mean" Teru sighed "I can't wait to get back to the hotel and take a shower."

Today was one of those unusually hot days. It was fine till around eleven a.m. and when they were at the mall. But when they left the building the sudden change of the temperature hit them hard. There was no summer breeze, or any place that was cool enough. And since it was too hot outside, the mall was now probably the most crowded place around.
"Wanna go to the park, it's near. There is a lake too." Teru spoke breaking the annoying silence "It could be more comfortable than at the streets, and I don't wanna leave yet."
"Yeah sure" the man agreed lighting up a cigarette.
Teru gazed at him for a moment. He looked so damn sexy, nonchalantly wrapping his lips around the white cigar, inhaling and exhaling the smoke. She was absolutely against smoking, but she couldn't help but being mesmerized by everything he did.
"What?"
"O-oh Nothing!" she blushed and turned her head, blessing the God for sending a waiter with their food at that moment.
"Sun must have hit my head. What am I thinking".

"Where is that park?"
They walked around for more than half an hour after they finished their lunch. The day was getting hotter and hotter by each minute passing. Teru guessed it was probably over 35 degrees celsius. And now she couldn't remember where the park was.
"I know it's somewhere around here." she sighed and looked around "I'm sorry, we'll get there fast."
"I need to sit down, or I'll pass out. And so will he. Too much window shopping for this time of the day" she thought rubbing her eyes. She noted her cheeks were hot, and she was sweaty. She took a napkin from her pocket and wiped her forehead.
She glanced at him and noticed his neck was covered in shining sweat, and his hair was moist from it, but he seemed to take it good. She swifted her head forward and she felt like a bolt shot trough her temples as her vision got blurry. She blinked a few times, declined to herself that she was unwell, and continued searching for the park.
"I know, It's there" she pointed to their left, across the street" We cross the street, go forward at that crossroad, and it's there.
"Okay then" Kurosaki nodded
She held to his shirt, dizziness getting her completely "Finally" she sighed "I need water. My stomach is weird". They slowly got to the zebra crossing. Kurosaki stopped, noticing that light changed to red, but Teru didn't. She absent-mindedly started crossing the street.
A honk was heard a second after. She was snapped out from her thoughts, and widened her eyes noticing what was she doing and she froze. It took only a few moments for Tatsuku to realize what was she doing, to reach out for her furiously and pull her back by her arm.
"What the hell are you doing!" he yelled as he turned her around to look at her face "Do you wanna die?"
She held on to his shirt as dizziness got to her. She tried to blink away that, but it felt like she was on a merry-go-round just a second ago. She couldn't help but lean her head on his chest.
"Teru?"
She didn't answer
"Hey, what's wrong?" he pulled her by the shoulders and lifted her chin up to look at her "You are burning."
"It's nothing" she answered not wanting to worry him "I'm probably just tired, and thirsty." she sighed.
He pulled her back in his arms, letting her lean on him, frowned and sighed. She felt him rub her back carefully.
"It's not nothing. We'll get a bottle of water when we cross the street. C'mon the light is green."
He held her by her shoulders, holding her closer to him and giving her support. Now he saw the park, and he hoped that she could keep up until they reach it.
"She is sweating, her cheeks are red and her hair feels like on fire. We should find a place to sit. It's too hot now." He thought clearly worried. They looked around and realized there are no shops anywhere near. The closest one was across the park.
"The shop is at the end of the street. Can you keep it up?" he looked at her, while they walked slowly under the hot sun
"Yeah I'm just dizzy. The park is close. I'll sit, drink some water and be good as new." she smiled
"Ok. Don't faint on me" he managed to smile, covering how worried he was.

She sat down at the closest bench, under the shade of the tree, and he put down a few paper bags that he carried instead of her. Teru lifted her feet on the bench, bending her knees and leaning her head on them trying to ease the headache and nausea that grew more and more.
"You sit there" he crouched in front of the bench, patting her head "I'll be back in a minute. We need to cool you off."
She only nodded.
"Love you" He kissed her forehead and ran to the store.

She threw her head back, and closed her eyes. She couldn't take tha uncomfortable feeling in her guts. She decided to take one paper bag and prepare it, just in case, so she took one and put what was inside into the other one.
And she was right to do that. As soon as she thought about that, her body flew forward and shook. Her legs were parted, and her elbows on her knees as the burning sensation went all over her throat. Her eyes watered, and her nose started burning too, and she felt she was loosing it. Another bolt went trough her head.
"I won't eat ramen any time soon" she stated wiping her mouth, and lifting her head up to breathe. She closed the bag and looked around for a trash bin. A few meters away. She sighed and bent her head forward. Her sight was getting blurry, and she felt like on fire.
"Teru!" she heard familiar male voice calling her. Lifting her head she saw a furious Kurosaki running towards her with a bottle in his hand.
The sight he saw was scary for him. A heavy breathing Teru, looked like was about to faint any second, with a deformed bag in her hand, that he only assumed it was her lunch from today. He ran for his life, and as soon as he reached her he sat down and cupped her cheeks looking at her face.
Her cheeks were burning him, her eyes were watery and partly closed, her breaths were heavy.
"What happened? Teru tell me whats wrong. All of it!" he said partly mad at the situation.
"I vomited. My head hurts. Dizzy. Can't see." she said not arguing about her needing to tell him everything "And it's like I'm on fire. Sorry."
He hugged her limp body and sighed. "A sunstroke" he thought "And she is sorry. Idiot".
Then she felt a comfort of his chest leaving. He opened a bottle and gave her to drink, then took a bag from her hands and threw it away. She greedily drank water in big gulps.
"We'll cool you off and take you to the hospital. It's near here somewhere. And no more walking for you" he said calmly, rubbing her back and shoulders as she drank.
"Do I have to go?" she said like she was scared and disappointed when she managed to part from the water.
"It would be better for you. Sunstroke isn't easy, and you probably got that."
"Shouldn't I just cool off?" she asked pouring a bit of the cold liquid in her hand and then cooling her forehead and cheeks with it.
"In that case I should strip you right here, and cool you off. And you wouldn't want that, right Teru?"
That obviously had and effect on her, as she blushed and agreed with an "Okay".
"Give me just five more minutes to come to my senses. The air is getting colder." she said leaning on his shoulder.
"Okay" he sighed and took the bottle from her hands and poured it over his palms. Then he gently started cooling her burning body down as he went over her cheeks, neck, collarbone and forearms with his wet hands. His palms lingered on her skin and it felt good.
"I love you" she whispered.

Kurosaki walked in the hospital, with Teru that held on with her arms around his neck. A nurse approached them soon and he explained everything. Soon after that they were in a ordination.
"You did well cooling her body and letting her rest." the doctor said writing something down
"Well the first thing that came to my mind was that she was on the sun too long"
"And that is why she vomited. Under that much heat she shouldn't eat too much or too heavy food because she can't keep it." doctor said handing them a piece of paper "There. Since her temperature is going down quickly, and she is feeling better and didn't faint, she can rest at home. At her state it isn't necessarily to stay here, and I'm guessing she doesn't like it. But you need to check her temperature often tonight and in the morning. If it does rise, she should go to the hospital. And she should take this tonight and after eight hours again. Twice should be enough."
"Ok doc" Kurosaki said rising up "That's all, right?"
"Yes." he smiled "Take care of your…I'm guessing sister"
"Ah…girlfriend" he smiled back, and Teru blushed. This was the first time he said it out loud to someone.
"Oh" the doctor simply said apologetically "Sorry. Well I hope you get all better till the morning."
"Yes. Thank you doctor." she said bowing a bit "I told him I don't need to stay, but he insisted to come."
"Well he was right to come. You shouldn't complain about having a caring man like him beside you."
She smiled back with a "Yeah" and thanked him again as they closed the door headed towards the exit.
" I told you I was fine" she said proud of herself for not being too weak.
" Still I had to get you checked up" he said grabbing her by the shoulder with one hand and holding bags in the other – I would feel guilty if I didn't took you. I was very worried Teru."
She hugged him by the waist
" No need to really. But thank you anyways."
" Teru you almost got hit by a car, almost fainted so I had to carry you here,you vomited and your temperature was probably around thirty-nine degrees at one point. And you expect me not to worry. What do you take me for?"
" Ah…" she sighed "Well I guess for my boyfriend, huh?" she grinned at him and he ruffled her hair and kissed her.
"Should we get going. You need to rest" he said softly
"Yeah. It's around six o'clock right? I wanna take a shower." she sighed
" Wanna take it together?" he grinned
" Wanna go skinny dipping in the ocean?" she raised an eyebrow at him
" Sun really hit your head? I like it" He laughed, and that made her blush
" Go bald Kurosaki. You can bathe on your own" she said
" Maybe, but..." He lowered his head and breathed at her ear and neck slowly, which sent a shiver down her spine "Can you?"
" Yes I can!" she yelled blushing, and walking faster. Kurosaki laughed of how cute she was.
They walked to the car, and the heat was bearable. Sun was slowly setting and the wind was pleasant on their skin. While they walked Kurosaki constantly glanced at the blushing girl. He might be mocking her, but even now while he is smiling he is still watching over her. He looked at her, noticing everything she did. Trying to notice if she was wavering, uneased or sweating. Nonchalantly touching her hand or cheeks whenever he got the chance just to check her skin temperature.
They got into the car and headed to the hotel. Radio was on and Teru happily started singing to the course of Ronan Keating's "When you say nothing at all".
You say it best, when you say nothing at all...
Then a buzzing was heard. Kurosaki found it in his pocket and glanced at the screen to look ho was calling. He handed it to Teru, who looked at him confused
" It's Riko. Put her on the speakerphone" he said while Teru took it, turned the radio volume down and answered the phone.
" Hey Riko!"
" Oh Teru it's you. Where is that lolicon?" she asked while her voice was muffled
" I'm right here you old hag. I'm driving so you are on the speakerphone."
" This old hag will make your life a living hell if you call her like that one more time." she said annoyed while Teru laughed
" I have one troublemaker right here with me Riko. You are not needed for that" he smiled while Teru frowned, not liking his joke.
" So guys how are you doing, any new troubles?"
" Not really" Teru answered " The two who attacked me didn't show up again. And today I only overheated my head so I gave some trouble to Kurosaki
" Wait. You were attacked? Lolicon, why am I not informed? I told you to take care of her." Riko yelled at Kurosaki, while he rolled his eyes.
" Shut up hag. She is fine now. They won't attack again. I took care of that" he interrupted her screaming, annoyed, not taking his eyes off from the road.
" Wait. You took care of it?" Now Teru interrupted him, confused. She didn't even knew he saw them.
" Well yeah. I kinda met them last night when you were already in your room. And I kinda took my revenge." he said bluntly, like he just answered what was the weather like, while Teru watched him with a blank stare.
" Anyways I should have known that. Now we are completely positive that they are still tracking you two. I thought they quit that already. What did they looked like?"
" They seemed to be quite stupid. They were Japanese. They drove a black car, and looked like normal people, nothing unusual really. No guns or something like that."
" And I saw them once before that. They looked like tourists. Do you have any new information?"
" Not really. I assume that Akira and the co is behind this, he is the one who doesn't give up." she said sighing, while Teru froze at certain persons name "We are gonna discuss that today before the real meetings start. My main meetings are at the noon and shouldn't last long, but I have my helpers and friends here that help me clear your matter. We decided to meet early today and try to track some people today."
" Now when you say early, isn't it around six a.m over there?" Teru looked at the watch in the car.
" Well yes. And I should head to the meeting soon. I just wanted to see If you had any news, and as I assumed you did. Seems like I'm not informed now, am I?" she asked accusingly.
Teru and Kurosaki looked at each other and tried to hold their laughs in. They both thought the same thing. Riko had no idea about how much she was uninformed.
" Why are you not saying anything? What's going on, is there more?"
" N-nothing Riko." Teru answered innocently "Nothing really. Were sorry we forgot to tell you."
" Hm, ok. But you are still suspicious to me. And Teru, when we meet, we will have the talk!" she said emphasizing last two words "Till then, take care. Be carefull on your road back tomorrow. Kurosaki I'm counting on you."
" You can count on me Riko" Kurosaki said, taking Teru's hand in his, going over her knuckles with his thumb. That made her blush and smile at him.
" No way I'm gonna let something bad happen to my dear slave, am I?" He finished, looking at Teru with a genuine smile.
Teru smiled back at him
" Don't worry Riko. My master takes good care of me."
" That sun really hit your head hard, huh? You aren't gonna yell at him? You leecher watch out for her tonight, and don't try anything while she sleeps. I can't kill you now, but we will see each other the day after tomorrow."
" Nah. You know I will kill him Riko." Teru said grinning at Kurosaki, who sarcastically mouthed "Really?". She stuck her tongue out at him, and pointed at the road, showing him to watch the road instead of her.
" Ok, I gotta get going now. See you soon. I'll call you tomorrow."
They ended the conversation, and Kurosaki turned the radio volume up a bit.
You can't tell me it's not worth dying for. You know it's true, everything I do, I do it for you...
Teru leaned back, took her shoes off and lifted one of her legs making herself comfortable. She looked trough the window, he kept his eyes on the road, and her hand in his.

FINALLY DONE! :O

Sorry for not posting last weekend. It's just that it's last week of school and is't a living hell. I have a bit more work to do this week and then finnitooo, I'm all yours :) Along with other chapters, I'll work on the M rated chapter/oneshoot that I'll post when it's done :))
Thank you everyone for revewing...lara, ohshcinugirl, ai etc...I can't reply, but here i say" Thank you and I'm so glad you like it! :) *hug*
And it seems I'll be doing a Maid Sama! story after this :D YEEEEY I'm so glad that there are people who like M.S...It's right next to D.D in my favorite manga list :D along with other few...
Please review and tell me was it worth the wait :)))