The breakfast was delicious and filling but Kurosaki knew that if someone asked him about it ten minutes from now he wouldn't be able to tell them one thing about what he'd eaten.

It was Teru's fault, of course.

Besides bringing their breakfast, the maid had also brought in an entire stack of tourist brochures and pamphlets as well as the day's menu and onsen choices. So he'd spent the entire breakfast watching Teru as she read him each pamphlet in between her own bites. He made special note of the ones that made her face light up or elicited ooh's and ah's and even delighted in her more academic, yet still politely interested, tones when some point of interest was obviously not that interesting.

He particularly enjoyed it when she bounced up and down as she was doing now.

"Ooooh! We should do the azalea fields first. You never know how long the flowers are going to last."

"What? No ziplining?" He tapped a finger on his favorite brochure.

"No, Kurosaki," she said simply with a smile. "No ziplining. Oooh!" She snatched up a lis from the hotel. "And when we get back we can go to the baths!"

He nodded absently and reached out to pick up a lock of her hair. He rubbed the soft tresses between his fingers before giving it a gentle tug. "So we're back to that, huh?"

"Back to what?" She asked absently.

"Back to 'Kurosaki'," he said teasingly and let go of her hair to rest his chin in his hands as he grinned at her from across the table. "You called me 'Tasuku' readily enough this morning."

She knew she was blushing, but Teru kept her eyes on the papers in her hands and tried not to fidget.

"You're fidgeting," he drawled.

"All right!" She ignored his chuckle and threw the pamphlets on the table so she could point at him accusingly. "Why did you ask me to call you by your given name while we...we...? Now I…," she smacked her hands to her cheeks to try to hide the blush. "Now whenever I think it or if I even think of saying it I'll automatically think of...of…"

"Sexy times?" he provided helpfully. He stared at her as she grabbed a glass of water

to supposedly drown her embarrassment. He nodded his head slowly. "You know what I just realized? I am a genius."

That just drew a perplexed frown from the perfect woman sitting across from him. "I know that. So?"

Seriously. The perfect woman. "So," he took her hand and tugged her forward until they were nose to nose. "You're telling me that by waiting to have you say my name until I had you naked, well, mostly naked," he amended with a tap to her nose. "that now you associate it with being naked with me? Hmmm." He stared at her for a moment, then grinned bigger than ever and leaned forward to give her a quick, smacking kiss. "Sweet. Say 'Tasuku' right now and tell me what you're thinking of."

That got him a snicker and a hand on his face as she pushed him back.

He wiggled his eyebrows as she stifled another giggle and blushed as she started stacking the dishes back on the trays. "You just said it in your mind didn't you? Was I naked?" He watched her shoulders shake as he stretched out on his side beside the table and reclined up on his elbow. "Oooh wait, were you naked? I bet you were naked. Wait!" He called out as she stood up and made a beeline for the restroom. "If it makes you feel better I frequently think of you naked when I say your name."

"What did you say? I'm getting ready now!" She called out in a sing-song voice. "I can't hear you."

Chuckling as the door closed behind her, he reached out and gathered the brochures then lay back on the tatami. "Azaleas, huh?" He sighed and tapped the picture, then smiled as he pictured her lovingly tending the blue daisies as school. "Oh, what the hell."