Dont kill me! I no i no, long time no see well u see days they turn into weeks... weeks they turn into months and well i sorta lost inspiration for a while but ive got it back now! :D well anyway here you go


Chapter 12- eventful full last day

Ichigos pov

I slowly opened my eyes as I came away from my dream land and took in my surroundings. White walls, bedside cabinet the girls, I guess I'm back in my room. I don't remember coming back up here last night, I must've fallen asleep on the beach. Oh yeah that's right I was watching the sunset with Shirogane-san, I must of fallen asleep just after that since I can't remember anything else. Wait, how did I get back up to my room? Oh I don't no and it's too early to think about things. I rolled over and blinked a couple more times. Zakuro who had been reading on her bed looked up at me she gave a light smile before looking back down, I guess that's her good morning then. I stretched my arms and yawned sitting up.

"Oh look who's finally awake" I heard mint say, I looked over to see her walk out of our wardrobe.

"Good morning to you to mint" I said and she rolled her eyes.

"Sleep well?" she asked and I nodded.

"That's not surprising" mint replied and I heard lettuce giggle from across the room. I looked at them confused. What are they on about now?

"Huh?" I asked and mint, lettuce and Zakuro looked at each other.

"What is the last thing you remember from yesterday?" mint asked. What are they getting at? Oh well ill find out soon enough I guess.

"Um watching the sun set with Shirogane-san" I answered still confused and mints smile widened.

"So if you fell asleep on the beach how did you get here?" mint asked with an eyebrow raised and I shrugged. Mint sighed and hit herself in the head.

"Shirogane-san, Shirogane-san brought you up here" she said and Zakuro rolled her eyes. I looked up, so that's how I got up here.

"Well that was nice of him ill have to thank him" I said with a smile.

"So your not going to get flustered or anything like normal?" mint asked and I looked at her confused.

"Why would I?" I asked with my head tilted to one side. Mint sighed shook her head and started to walk away.

"No reason" I heard her mutter and I shook my own head before smiling.

"Anyway, its are last full day today I'm going to make the most of it" I shouted punching my arm in the air before jumping out of bed and running into are bathroom.

Normal pov.

It must have been the earliest that any of the mews had been at the hotel cafe. Keiichiro and Ryou where sat happily drinking coffee and talking but looked up they sensed someone coming to see the girls.

"Well this is a surprise am I still dreaming?" Ryou asked sarcastically pinching his arm and Zakuro rolled her eyes.

"well its nice to see you girls up so early, we can get an early start on the beach today, so lets go and get breakfast "keiichiro said and pudding nodded enthusiastically running off ahead of them shouting "yay na no da puddings hungry!".

Once the guys had finished their breakfast they grabbed all their stuff and headed straight down to the beach.

Once they where on the beach they set up all their things before going off and doing there own things. Lettuce took pudding exploring in the rock pools to try and keep her entertained, keiichiro was sat with a book but was also watching the others enjoy themselves with a smile, Zakuro and obviously her follower mint where sat down in the shallow water just talking and relaxing and Ichigo was up on the beach laying on her towel sunbathing.

Ichigo was in very happy mood with the sun beating down and warming her, the sound of the waves, nothing could make her happier and she let out a sigh of content. Well that was until a shadow blocked her view of the sun and caused her to get some goose bumps.

She reluctantly opened her eyes and looked up to see no other than Ryou who was wet and shiny from a swim.

"Do you mind your blocking the sun" Ichigo whined and Ryou rolled his eyes.

"It's your last proper day here and you're spending it lying around being a lazy baka? That's no different from what you do at home, you should do something more fun" he said and Ichigo sighed with an annoyed expression on her face.

"This is fun! And I'm not a lazy baka!" she said as she sat up and crossed her arms.

"Why don't you come for a swim?" he asks and Ichigo closed her eyes and stuck her nose in the air.

"Why don't you stop blocking the sun and I'm fine here thank you" she said and Ryou sighed with a role of his eyes.

"Fine then" he said and Ichigo felt arms snake around her back and under her legs and her eyes snapped open.

"H hey, what are you doing?!" she exclaimed as Ryou started walking towards the water. Ichigo noticed they where getting closer to the water and started panicking.

"Put me down! Let me go!" she shouted while she started struggling but Ryou wasn't letting go.

"Jerk! Put me down! Gaahhh I don't wanna go for a swim!" she shouted like a child while the other mews finally looked over at the commotion.

"Noooo Shirogane-san~!" Ichigo shouted while kicking him.

"Ha-ha we've only just got here and there already all over each other" mint said with a snort. Ichigo let out a shriek as she noticed Ryou step into the water and instead of trying to get out of his grip started holding on and trying to climb her way higher to stay away from the water.

"Nooo!" she shouted as she watched the sandy beach get further away with mint grinning at her and waving.

Ryou stopped when he was about waist deep and started trying to pull Ichigo off of him who was now half way over his shoulder and slightly behind his neck.

"Noooo stop it!" she yelled as he continued trying to pull her off.

"Strawberry let go! You're going in one way or another so we can do this the easy way or the hard" Ryou said as he let her go and waited for her answer. Instead of answering Ichigo pulled herself up higher and grabbed hold of him even tighter then she already was.

"Noooo, I don't wanna let go, please take me back Shirogane-san you're the best boss ever!" she shouted and Ryou rolled his eyes.

"fine its the hard way then" Ryou said deviously as he started tickling Ichigo sides, Ichigo's grip loosened slightly as she laughed but that was all Ryou needed before he pulled her off of him and threw her, Ichigo only had time to scream before she disappeared under the water and a splash of water was in her place.

The mews and keiichiro who where still on the beach had gathered at the edge of the water to see how things would turn out, they sat waiting for Ichigo to come up and when she did they all had to laugh at the expression on her face.

Ichigo finally appeared from the water, her hair dripping in her face and a very annoyed frown on her face. She looked to the beach to see the other mews laughing at her and she ground her teeth together before glaring at Ryou.

"That's it, PAYBACK!" Ichigo shouted as she launched herself towards him which was quiet easy for her due to her cat genes. She landed on his side and Ryou lost his balance and fell into the water, Ichigo jumped off just in time so she wouldn't go under.

Ryou came back up and looked at her to see her laughing at him and an evil smirk came onto his face as he pushed his hair out of his eyes.

"So that's how you wanna play" Ryou said and Ichigo stopped laughing, a nervous expression coming onto her face. He only had enough time to gulp before Ryou jumped to wards her, grabbed a hold of her waist and pushed them both under the water.

Under the water Ichigo gave Ryou a disapproving look which he just smirked at before he pulled them back up to the surface. Because of the way Ryou had knocked them under the water they had gone out deeper and Ichigo was now out of her depth. Ryou held her up so she didn't have to keep treading water and she glared at him.

"I hate you" she said while Ryou just gave a laugh and rolled his eyes.

"Not the best time to say that really is it?" he asked as he put his hand on her head and dunked her under. Ichigo came back up and breathed in deeply before she looked at Ryou with a glare and tried to dunk him under but since he could still stand and she couldn't it wasn't really working.

"It's not fair! I can't reach the floor and you can!" she complained while he just smirked at her and flicked her noise.

"Not my fault your so short" he replied and she growled at him, he sighed before dragging her further back to shore so she could to stand.

"There better midget?" he asked with a smirk and she glared at him before crossing her arms and smiling sweetly at him.

"Yep thank you very much Shirogane-san and for you being so nice ill let you have a shot at getting me under" she said and she raised an eyebrow at her. He new she was up to something and he was curious to no what so he took a leap towards her. Just as he was about to knock her under she slipped out of the way, he growled and managed to keep his balance so he wouldn't go under when he felt a weight on his back.

"Strawberry what are you trying to do?" he asked and she smirked.

"This~!" she sang happily sat on his back as she jabbed his side with her hand. He wobbled slightly and fell forward a bit and growled as he heard her laughing. A smirk soon came back onto his face as he crouched down a bit and reached over his shoulder grabbing Ichigo's arm.

"Huh?" She said as she looked at her arm which was suddenly yanked forward and another hand grabbed hold of her waist pushing her upwards as well as the other hand throwing her forwards. She let out a scream as she hit the water head first.

"There both getting very competitive now" lettuce commented as they watched to two trying to drown each other.

"Ichigo should just give up its obvious Shirogane-sans going to win" mint said and pudding agreed.

"Yeah, boss man is super strong Na no da! Pudding shouted while making macho poses which the others laughed at.

"Yeah but Ichigo's faster" Zakuro commented and mint shrugged while pudding shouted again.

"Yeah Ichi's speedy Na no da!" she shouted and the others looked at her.

"So who are you betting on to win then?" lettuce asked and pudding put a finger to her head in thought.

"Ichi-onnechan of course Na no da!" she said happily.

"Nah she's going to loose, everyone who thinks Shirogane-sans going to win raise your hand" mint said and she as well as keiichiro and lettuce raised there hands. Mint then looked at Zakuro.

"So your betting on Ichigo then?" she asked Zakuro who nodded. There attention was turned back to Ichigo and Ryou though when Ichigo came back up sputtering water.

"SHIROGANE!" she shouted at the top of voice with a very annoyed expression on her face. She jumped back onto his back and smirked.

"Lets see you fling me off this time Shirogane" she said and Ryou rolled his eyes at her childishness. She was clinging into him tighter this time so he couldn't just fling her off and then an idea came to his head and he started falling backwards. Ichigo realised to late what was happening and was already submerged under the water. Ryou quickly stood back up so Ichigo could stand back up.

She came back up gasping before she just smirked and him and disappeared under the water.

"What's that strawberry up to now?" he mumbled to himself when his leg was pulled out from under him and he fell into the water. Ichigo came back up and was laughing and gasping. She was to busy laughing that she didn't realise that Ryou hadn't come back up yet, that was until she was suddenly lifted out of the water when Ryou stood up and was now hanging over his shoulder.

"H hey!" Ichigo shouted as she started to hit his back and kick him.

"Put me down Shirogane-san!" she shouted and she felt Ryou shrug his shoulder under her but she couldn't see the smile that had come onto his face.

"As you wish" he said before he released her and she fell off his shoulder and into the water. She came up spluttering and glared at him. Both of them where breathing heavier now. Ryou tried to use this to his advantage and swam towards Ichigo who noticed and quickly started swimming out deeper to avoid him and in no time they were both out of there depth.

"Giving up yet?" Ryou asked as he treaded water while facing the cat girl who was also treading water.

"Not unless you surrender" she replied while her head went under the water a bit.

"Maybe we should go in a little shallower" Ryou suggested and she nodded before the two swam back in shallow enough so they could both stand. Ichigo smiled before putting her hand to her head in thought.

"Ok Shirogane-san ill make a deal, ill surrender on one condition" she said grinning at him, Ryou simply just raised his eyebrows at her waiting for her to finish.

"You give me a raise" she stated standing proudly with a smug smile on her face, that was until Ryou started laughing. She glared at him before letting out a battle cry and jumping towards him, hands out stretched infront of her ready to push him down. She made contact and Ryou started falling but her plan went wrong when he grabbed hold of her wrists and pulled her under with him.

Under the water Ichigo opened her eyes and her face immediately blushed red. She was basically on top of Ryou and her face was incredibly close to his. She quickly pulled her wrists free and pulled away standing up. Her face was still very red. Ryou came up just after her and smirked.

"Is there something wrong with your face its all red" he asked and she hissed at him.

"Why won't you go down already!" she half shouted and Ryou's smirk grew as he walked towards her. Before she got the chance to ask what he was doing he started tickling her.

"S st stop t t this is c ch cheating!" she managed to get out through all her laughing.

"Ill only stop if you surrender" he teased and Ichigo looked like she was about to burst out crying even though she was laughing.

"O ok" she managed to say before Ryou stopped tickling her and a every annoyed expression came onto her face.

"That wasn't fair" she stated clearly very annoyed and frustrated as she turned her back to him and marched out of the water. The mews sat at the shore line couldn't help but laugh at the expression on her face as she marched past them back up to her towel and sat down with her arms crossed.

"See I told you he would win!" mint said happily and the others laughed at the triumphant smile on Ryou's face as he to exit the water. They all got back up and followed Ryou up the beach to where Ichigo was sat and they all sat in circle.

"What's wrong Ichigo lost again?" mint taunted and Ichigo glared at her before turning her back to the group. The mews decided it was a good time to have lunch since the water fight had taken up most of the morning. During lunch Ichigo became her happy cheerful self again, mainly because of the food and was now happily joking about the water fight that had happened earlier that day.

"I totally would've won if Shirogane didn't cheat and he knows it to!" she said happily smiling proudly as Ryou rolled his eyes.

"Think whatever you want strawberry I still would've won whether I tickled you or not and it wasn't cheating, it's not like there where any rules" Ryou stated and Ichigo rolled her eyes.

"Whatever" she said as she happily munched on a cake. After lunch lettuce and pudding went swimming, Ryou and keiichiro disappeared to some place and Ichigo was sun bathing again... well that was until another shadow blocked the sun. Ichigo opened her eyes and looked up to see mint and Zakuro stood above her smiling down at her and she instantly became nervous. She slowly sat up slightly leaning on her elbows.

"Hey guys um can I help you with something?" Ichigo asked as the two girls sat down in front of the nervous strawberry smiles still on their faces.

"So, it looked like you where having fun with Shirogane-san earlier" mint stated raising an eyebrow. Ichigo not getting what mint was implying replied with:

"Well you can't really call it fun since I lost" Ichigo replied with a frown.

"That's not what we meant" Zakuro stated raising an eyebrow at Ichigo who finally got what they meant and her face turned slightly red.

"N nooo" she stuttered as mint and Zakuro's smiles grew.

"Well it sure looked like you where when you where climbing all over him" mint said teasingly as Ichigo's face turned redder.

"I didn't really think of that at the time I did it" Ichigo said embarrassedly.

"Well even if you didn't think it, you sure looked like you where enjoying it" mint said again as Ichigo stubbornly crossed her arms, her face still very red.

"I was not!" Ichigo said.

"Well you did willingly throw yourself onto his bare chest" Zakuro commented slyly.

"Well I was concentrating on trying to get him under the water at the time" Ichigo said nervously as she fiddled with her fingers.

"So do you like him?" mint asked smirking and Ichigo's mouth fell open before she got over her shock.

"NOOOO!" she shouted a bit too loudly and some of the people on the beach looked over at the blushing strawberry. Mint and Zakuro laughed slightly at the girl who was still blushing.

"I'm going for a walk" Ichigo mumbled before she stood up and ran to the other side of the beach where there weren't many people. She sat down on the sand and let out a sigh of relief as she closed her eyes and listened to the sound of the waves.

It was quiet late in the afternoon when keiichiro and Ryou appeared back on the beach from there mystery walk and the other mews minus a strawberry where all happily sat around talking.

"Oh look who's back" mint stated when she seen the guys coming at the other mews looked over to see them as well.

"Sorry we where gone for so long, we had something to do" keiichiro said apologetically he went and sat down on the other side of Zakuro.

"Don't worry about it "lettuce said with a smile as Ryou nodded at her.

"Hey where's the strawberry?" Ryou asked when he finally noticed the loud mouthed cat girl wasn't among them. Mint pointed over to the other side of the beach where you could see a figure laying in the sand, the beach wasn't as busy as it was earlier so it was pretty easy to see her.

"Ill goes get her" Ryou said as he started walking off in the cat girl's direction. Mint stifled a laugh.

"He would" she muttered under her breath but due to Ryou's cat genes he heard her but he simply just rolled his eyes.

Ryou got to the other side of the beach to see Ichigo curled up in a ball sound asleep. He sighed and nudged her with his foot.

"Oi strawberry wake up" he said but Ichigo didn't wake up. He tried again and spoke louder but her still wake up. He sighed and rolled his eyes and he looked around them. An idea came to his head and he smirked as he walked over to the waters edge and scooped some water up in his hands before walking back over to the sleeping cat girl, he crouched down to her level and threw it in her face. Ichigo jumped up her eyes wide.

"NYAAAA!" she shouted before she came to her senses and looked up glaring at the person who had woken her up...Ryou.

"What was that for?" she asked annoyed and he sighed.

"I had to wake you up somehow" he replied and Ichigo continued to glare at him.

"So wake up Ichigo isn't good enough?" she asked an eyebrow raised.

"No, I tried that it didn't work he replied and Ichigo blushed slightly with a sweat drop.

"Oh..." was all she said as she scratched the back of her neck in embarrassment.

"Get up baka and come back over with your friends" he said before he turned away and started to slowly walk back towards the others. Ichigo sat there for a moment before she heard her name being called. She looked up to see Ryou had stopped and was looking at her with a small smile.

"You coming?" he asked and she gave a small smile back.

"Yeah" she replied as she got up and walked towards him, a light blush formed on her face when she remembered her conversation with mint and Zakuro.

"Is something wrong?" Ryou asked looking at her pink cheeks with an eyebrow raised.

"N no" Ichigo replied as she finally caught up to him.

"Then come on" he replied as the two walked back to the others in a comfortable silence. When they got back they both sat down and joined there friends in the circle, now that they where all there keiichiro began speaking.

"since its our last night Ryou and I decided that it would be fun to have a BBQ and a campfire and make the most of our last night on the beach, that's why we where gone for so long today" keiichiro explained and the girls smiled with excitement. Ichigo was trying her best to ignore mints stare which was drilling into her.

"Yay a campfire! We can sing the campfire song song Na no da!" pudding shouted punching her fist in the air with excitement as everyone else sweat dropped.

"we will also come to the beach tomorrow morning and leave in the afternoon, that means we can at least spend part of our last day on the beach" keiichiro said and the girls nodded. While keiichiro and Ryou started to set up the campfire the girls wandered down the beach talking to each other.

"I can't believe this is our whole last day" lettuce said with a sigh.

"This vacation has gone to quickly" mint added which got some nods.

"Pudding doesn't want to leave, puddings having to much fun Na no da" pudding said as her bottom lip trembled and the other mews smiled gently at her.

"Well we still have this evening and tomorrow morning" Ichigo said positively trying to get the normal lively atmosphere back.

"We could always hang out more when we get back as well" lettuce added which the others agreed with.

"Anyway lets enjoy the time we've got left" mint said and puddings smile grew.

"Yeah pudding wants to play Na no da!" pudding shouted as she ran ahead of the others. They noticed that the campfire was lit now so they started heading back up the beach towards the guys.

"so what do you girls want to do?" Ryou asked as he looked up at them, a bored expression on his face.

"oh oh I want to play hide and seek na no da!" pudding shouted a large excited grin on her face.

"er pudding how can you play hide and seek on a beach?" mint asked as the other girls tryed to stifle their laughter.

"easy you hide, I thought you would've known that mint na no da" pudding said eyeing mint curiously who glared at her while the others laughed.

"so who's playing then?" pudding asked looking at everyone, Zakuro and mint quickly went and sat down next to keiichiro.

"ill just watch pudding" keiichiro said when her gaze landed on him. She then turned her gaze on the three remaining, lettuce, Ichigo and Ryou.

"you wouldn't want pudding to cry now would you na no da?" pudding said, her bottom lip trembling with her huge puppy eyes as the others sighed and looked away guiltily.

"fine" Ichigo said and pudding immediately turned happy again.

"yay boss-man can count na no da!" pudding shouted as she quickly ran off.

"where am I supposed to hide?" lettuce asked as she looked around and Ichigo shrugged.

"I don't no Im just gonna run" Ichigo said before running off down the beach and disappearing.

"ah ichigo-chan wait up" lettuce shouted as she started her way down the beach as well. Ryou counted to 30 and when keiichiro said it was ok he got up and started down the beach.

"Okay i'm coming!" he shouted. He was only about half way down the beach when he seen green hair emerging from behind a rock and he shook his head with a smile.

"Lettuce I can see you" Ryou said and lettuce came out from behind the rock a sheepish look on her face.

"I was never good at this game" she said with a laugh before she started making her way up the beach towards mint, Zakuro and keiichiro. Ryou walked further down the beach before looking around with a sigh.

"Hmm if I was a hyperactive monkey or a baka strawberry where would I hide?" he asked himself when heard someone speak behind him.

"I'm not a baka strawberry" a voice said from behind a rock formation and he smirked.

Ichigo carefully peaked out from her hiding place but she couldn't see Ryou anywhere taking this as a good this she lent back against the rock with a sigh of relief.

"You'll have to be more quiet else he'll find us" she heard a voice whisper from beside her. She nodded her head before leaning back against the rock with her eyes closed. That's until she realised she didn't hide with anyone. Her eyes snapped open and she turned her head to the side before letting out a squeal.

"Found you" Ryou said with a smirk as Ichigo frowned got up, and started stomping her way back up the beach.

"baka" Ryou said under his breath with a shake of his head before he got back up and started searching again for the hyper monkey. Ryou had been searching for about 20 minutes and was not in a very good mood when he heard the girls laughing. He looked up at them and his eyes narrowed in annoyance as he took in the small monkey that was sat with them. He growled and started walking up the beach. The mews heard him coming and looked up. Pudding turned around and pouted at him.

"why are you up here?" Ryou asked annoyed and pudding crossed her arms.

"Cause boss-mans so bad at this game I got bored na no da" she stated and Ryou breathed in deeply trying to calm himself down before he sat down.

"so what should we do now?" Ichigo asked while the others shrugged and keiichiro finally spoke up.

"Well the BBQ's ready so you can decide while we eat" keiichiro said and every one started munching down on the yummy food. Once everyone was finished keiichiro brought out some marsh mellows which they cooked over the campfire and much to every ones surprise, not, pudding ended up getting it all over her face.

"That was really yummy" Ichigo stated happily as she rubbed her tummy and the others agreed.

"Pudding liked the marsh mellows na no da!" pudding shouted as lettuce helped her get the marsh mellow off her face.

"Did you even get any in your mouth?" mint asked disgusted and pudding nodded with a grin the sticky marsh mellow all over her teeth and mint shivered with disgust.

"Hey look the moons rising" keiichiro said as the girls looked over to where keiichiro was looking to see the moon appearing from behind the water.

"Wow that looks so cool!" Ichigo said happily while the others gazed on. Keiichiro got out a camera and smiled at the girls.

"I thought now would be a good time to take some group photos" keiichiro and the others agreed as they took pictures of everyone in groups and as pairs doing different poses, keiichiro then put the camera on a timer and took a group picture of everyone. At the end of the picture taking everyone was in a good mood and laughing.

"Well I think we got enough pictures" keiichiro said as he quickly flipped through them smiling while the others laughed and mint wasn't too impressed. In most of her pictures pudding had jumped in and ruined them but the expression on mints face was very funny.

"did you even get one decent picture of me?" mint asked and keiichiro nodded as mint sighed with relief.

"hey does anyone want to go swimming?" keiichiro asked and they all looked out at the water which was now almost black with the moons reflection on it.

"Yeah na no da!" pudding shouted and the others laughed as they started heading down the beach.

"last one ins a rotten egg na no da!" pudding shouted as she started running and ichigo started running to.

"well im not going to be the rotton egg!" ichigo shouted as she over took pudding who pouted.

"yay i win" ichigo said as she happily stood ankle depth in the water, the others all entered as a group so there wasn't really a loser.

The group just swam and relaxed in the water... well tryed to, its quiet hard when theres a hyper monkey that just wants to play.

"pudding do you mind!" mint snapped as she shielded her face from the onslaught of water coming from pudding who was jumping round in circles hitting her hands on the surface causing splashes.

"oops sorry mint na no da!" pudding shouted before carrying on, mint sighed and moved away from her and lettuce soon followed her while giggling. Mint had to put up with out Zakuro as Zakuro had followed keiichiro was now happily talking to him while swimming. Ichigo was floating on her back and looking up at the sky and Ryou was swimming not to far away from her.

"I'm cold, I'm going to go back up the beach now" Ichigo said as she stood and started walking out of the water, the others didn't really acknowledge her as they carried on with their own activities but unknown to the cat girl two blue eyes where following her movements.

Ichigos pov

Even though the water looked lovely it was pretty cold, I mean its still warm but every things always colder at night anyway. I grabbed my towel and wrapped it around my shoulders before going and sitting behind the camp fire. The hot flames instantly warmed my chilled skin and I sighed happily. I looked up when I heard foot steps to see Shirogane-san putting his towel over his shoulders and walking over to me with a small smile.

"Hey" he said and I smiled.

"Hey" I replied before looking back into the fire as I felt him sit down next to me.

"you ok?" I heard him say and turned my head to the side slightly to look at him with a smile.

"yeah thanks" I replied as I felt a warmth in my cheeks and I realised I was blushing. The reason being Shirogane-san, the flames reflecting in his blue eyes and making his wet blond hair look even brighter as well as casting shadows across his face, he just looked to handsome... why am I thinking that? He's my boss! Arg ichigo pull yourself together he's going to realise that your blushing in a minute, look away! look away now! I demanded myself as I dragged my eyes back to the fire.

"looking forward to going back home?" he asked and an image flashed through my head as a frown came onto my face but I quickly smiled hoping he didn't see it. going home meant seeing Aoyama-kun again and I really really don't want to see his face again.

"yeah" I said but even I could tell it wasn't convincing my voice sounded strained, I looked at Shirogane-san out the corner of my eye to see him staring curiously at me and i blushed again. Damn why do I keep blushing seriously!

"whats up?" he asked, ok quick, think of something to say anything but the truth come on ichigo think!

"the sky" i replied and i cringed slightly. Yeah great ichigo, perfect. I looked nervously at Shirogane-san to see him roll his eyes.

"come on ichigo tell whats wrong, promise I wont laugh" he said, I looked at him and noticed that he did look concerned. Maybe it is ok to tell him.

"well when we get back ill have to see that jerk, i don't want to see him and then when we get back to school every ones going to be talking about it. I hate that" I said and looked down out of embarrassment.

"he wont come near you, you remember zakuro's fret don't you? And if he comes near you he'll have to face me" I heard Shirogane say and I felt my heart flutter. I hugged myself tighter as I felt the blush come back. Why is this happening to me... there's no way I like him, no way. Ok no time to think about that answer him.

"yeah but still, at school ill have to see him and I really don't want people talking, talking always starts rumours" I stated when I felt a hand on my shoulder. I looked up into his eyes and felt a like shock go threw me.

"just ignore them, your a mew mew and there just annoying teenage girls that will talk and gossip about rubbish, whatever comes out of their mouths is just nonsense there not even worth your attention" he said and I smiled slightly.

"i guess" i said as i looked away from him. I swear my heart is beating like 100mph, whys it doing that, i only looked into his eyes. I've done that before and never felt like this what's wrong with me.

Normal pov

Ryou looked at Ichigo worridley, she was acting stranger then she normally did.

"Ichigo, if anyone bothers you ignore them or tell the other girls, I'm pretty sure Zakuro could get them off your back for you" Ryou suggested and Ichigo nodded not looking up at him.

"Ichigo why are you so worried about this, you shouldn't even be thinking about him he's not worth your time" Ryou said and Ichigo slowly looked up at him again.

"because I don't want to be reminded of what he did, every time I see him I'm going to think of that, of how I foolishly let him walk all over me, actually thought he loved me, I was pathetic, look at the way I acted in front of him, I acted like a stuck up child who had broken her favourite toy and was waiting for it to magically fix its self, I was so stupid" Ichigo said as she hung her head. Ryou looked at her shocked but his expression soon became annoyed.

"Ichigo look at me" Ryou said and Ichigo slowly lifted her head to look at him.

"You are not stupid or pathetic or any other insulting thing you called your self, you didn't no he was cheating, you did what every other girl would do, you didn't no any better. He's the baka, why would he cheat on someone like you, someone who risked their own life to save there's, someone who is no where near perfect, your clumsy and annoying but that's the way every likes you, your fun and loving and you protect people, there's not many people around like you so if he cheated on you for some ordinary girl, he's the stupid one he's the one that's lost something amazing" Ryou said and Ichigos eyes widened and she blushed more.

"do you really think that?" Ichigo asked slightly stunned by his words and he blushed slightly but kept his composure as he nodded.

"thank you Shirogane-san i feel much better now" Ichigo said with a smile and Ryou smiled back at her.

"good im glad, i don't like it when your sad, I prefer it when your being annoying" Ryou said and Ichigo pouted causing him to laugh slightly.

"I'm not annoying!" she said while pouting and Ryou contined to laugh.

"yeah you are but you wouldn't be you if you weren't" he said and she smiled slightly at him.

"well i'd prefer to be annoying then a jerk" Ichigo said sending a sly smile at him and he rose an eyebrow at her.

"I'm not a jerk" he said as he pretended to be offended.

"yeah you are but you wouldn't be you if you weren't" she said as she sent a smile at him and she shook his head though he was smiling also. Ryou stopped shaking his head and looked up at her as she continued to look at him. Their eyes met and an electric shot went through both of them. Ichigo felt embarrassed by his stair but couldn't get herself to look away, his eyes where just so mesmerizing and she could feel her heart pounding faster in her chest. Ryou also couldn't bring himself to look away from her chocolate brown orbs and before either of them realised, they where getting closer towards each other.

Ichigo noticed Ryou moving his head towards her and she then realised that her head was moving towards his, her heart beat increased as their lips met. He had kissed her before but those times he had been teasing her and she hadn't kissed back. Ichigo had closed her eyes and kissed him back, it didn't last for long but it was short and sweet. The kiss ended when they heard the others coming up the beach and they quickly jumped apart. Both of their faces flushed. Ichigo looked over at Ryou before the others got there and gave him a small smile.

The rest of the evening had gone by quiet fast with other fun little activities the whole time ichigo had been avoiding Ryou though she kept sending him small smiles. Soon they had put out the campfire and had bid each other good night as they all headed back up to their rooms.

Once the girls where in their room ichigo pulled Zakuro off to the side.

"um Zakuro can i talk with you for a minute?" ichigo asked nervously and Zakuro nodded with a smile as they left the bedroom and went into the main room.

"so what did you want to talk about?" Zakuro asked curiously as ichigo looked at the floor a blush on her face.

"you no me and Shirogane-san left the water earlier and sat up by the campfire?" ichigo startedand Zakuro nodded.

"well i felt different, my heart was beating really fast and I couldn't stop blushing and then..." ichigo started but stopped.

"then..." Zakuro tryed to encourage her as ichigo's blush darkened.

"we kissed" she said quietly and a smile came onto Zakuro's face.

"did you like it?" Zakuro asked and ichigo's face now looked like a strawberry as she nodded.

"Zakuro" ichigo started before fiddling with her fingers before she looked up at the girl who was smiling down happily at her.

"i think im in love with Shirogane-san"


There you haveit over 6000 words so i hope i made it up to you guys :3 i would like to thank all my readers for sticking with me and my reviewers for reviewing :D well i hope you liked this chapter :P ill try and update more regualary! :D well plz review and thanx for reading XD

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