A/N: Hey everyone, sorry for the wait. Thanks again all my reviewers for supporting my story. Well, just like my last chapter I had some difficulty starting this chapter since it was Ryou's point of view. I also changed the idea around so, yeah it's a little different from what I had in the last chapter. Ryou has no idea on where he's really going to take Ichigo for their date, but a movie at the café doesn't sound so shabby either. What could possibly happen on a movie night? The Masaya idea from the last chapter will be in the next chapter. (More info at the bottom.) Here you go!

Disclaimer: I do not own TMM, The Notebook, or any other movies. But I do own the movie, "When Hearts Collide"

…Chapter six Ryou's POV…

"Ouch!" I murmured and shook my hand, hoping the pain would leave. Another paper cut I presumed and examined my right forefinger, laying down the piece of paper. It was a bright red but no blood had left the small cut on the tip of my finger. I sighed, staring down at the piles of paper that laid scattered all over my bed. I knew I shouldn't have done this but to be perfectly honest, I had absolutely no idea on where I was going to take Ichigo on our so-called date.

This may sound ridiculous but I had actually done research on where to take her. The papers that were scattered all over my bed were actually places I thought might be interesting to go. I picked up another sheet of paper and named off the places that were listed, "The Zoo. The aquarium. Horse-back riding." Were a few, "So I guess taking girls to anything that involves animals is fun?" I asked myself.

KNOCK! Someone tapped lightly on my door. "What?" I answered. Keiichiro opened the door, smiling. He shifted the small mug in is hand and entered all the way.

"Your tea." He handed me the cup. I stared down at the light brown liquid for a minute. "Ryou," Keiichiro picked up one of the papers. It was a flyer for the amusement park. He read some of the attractions and grinned. He gave me this suspicious look and waved the paper in his hand, "Are you planning on going somewhere?"

I blushed, "Yeah."

"Oh really?" Keiichiro chuckled softly, "With who?"

I blushed again. I hated blushing. It made me seem so vulnerable, "Someone." I replied, taking the mug and chugging down some of the bitter liquid. Keiichiro didn't put anything in it, I guessed.

"Does this certain someone happen to be one of our employees that is pretty cute, clumsy, and has red hair?" Keiichiro asked playfully.

"Yeah," I looked down at one of the papers, pretending not to hear, "That one." I mumbled. Keiichiro began laughing. I blushed more but hid it with the sheet of paper.

"Ryou's going out with Ichigo." Keiichiro sang and danced out of the room.

"I AM NOT!" I yelled as soon he was out of my room. I got up and slammed the door, crossing my arms. A small pout was spread across my face and I shook my head. I was not going out with Ichigo; I was just going on a date. It's not the same thing. I mean, I can go on a date with Lettuce but we wouldn't be going out.

I felt something warm run down my hand and I looked at my finger. It was bleeding. It must have been from the paper cut from earlier. I pressed my forefinger to my thumb, stopping the bleeding for the moment. I opened the door and headed down the hallway to the bathroom. Washing the blood off my hand, I opened the medicine cabinet and took out a Band-Aid.

The door to the bathroom burst opened and Keiichiro poked his head in. The look of laughter was still spread across his face. He smiled real big at me and pretended not to know I was in here, "Oh Ryou, I did not realize that this very bathroom was occupied." He said, his expression changed to shock. What an idiot!

"I'm done with it." I replied, wiping my finger dry and then wrapping a band-aid around it.

"Yes, well I really didn't need to use the bathroom but I have some wonderful news." He smiled again. I hung around him too much to know that he was quite a smiley guy. But this smile was creeping me out a little.

"Um, let me guess, you just saved a bunch of money on your car insurance by switching to Geico?" Ha! I made a funny. I seriously needed to stop watching those dumbass commercials.

Keiichiro gave a dumbstruck look and shook his head, "Um no. But, I'm leaving tonight and I wont be home until tomorrow morning. So I'll see you later and have a nice time tonight." He threw me the keys to the café, "Bye." He turned and left.

"How was that wonderful news?" I wondered and watched him start to walk out of the café with a small suitcase in his hands. He turned and waved at me. I waved back from the top of the stairs and he trotted out the door, with one of his wide smiles on his face. Just what was he inquiring about tonight. My face twisted into a disgusted look and I left, retiring back to my bedroom.

… An hour had past and I shifted through more papers, pondering on what to do. I stared at the laptop screen and read over date ideas. I must have had issues to be actually taking this so seriously. It was just Ichigo! I was asking her to hang out for a while not to marry me. I typed a couple more words on the keyboard and pressed search. I clicked on a website that appealed to me most and read what it had printed down. 'For a simple and nice date, a movie is always the best way to go.'

"A movie," I asked myself and thought about it. It would be nice to just chill out at the café for a while and then maybe we could go out for pizza or something simple. I nodded, that plan might work out pretty well, especially with the weather pretty bad. It wasn't necessarily terrible, but the weather was looking a little bad. Wind shook the trees, while small gray clouds spotted the sky with anticipation of a light rain.

I cleaned up my room and got dressed for the day. When the time was right, I called Ichigo and told her the plans. She had no problem with them and said she would be over in an hour. The real dilemma now was what movie to watch. Whoa, I had totally no clue what to watch! I looked down at the DVD case I had and browsed through some of the videos.

"The Notebook"- A sappy romance? I set it back in the case and frowned. That wasn't mine!

"The Exorcist"- A horror movie? It might be a little too scary for Ichigo.

"Scary Movie 2"- A comedy? Well what if Ichigo thinks it's a little disgusting? That's attractive.

"War Of The Worlds"- An action movie? Spooky in yet action like. Ichigo might get bored and/or freaked out.

Either one of these movies worked. But I didn't take any chances. I'd just wait until Ichigo got here to pick out a movie. In the mean time, I mind as well call and see if there were any close pizza places open. I was fine at first as I walked down the stairs to the café. Then I really started thinking. I was actually going on a date with Ichigo. Yeah, sure I was fine about it, but that was just the problem, I was fine about it! I normally would've been asking myself if I was out of my mind.

Ichigo was my rival but now I was asking her on dates and going on walks with her in the rain. My face started to heat up and my heart rate sped up. What was my deal? I shook my head and pushed away the thought of me liking her. I just wanted some things to change. We needed to grow up and stop acting like we used to. I picked up the phone that hung on the wall and flipped through the phone book I brought down with me. I leaned on the wall and started to dial a number.

"Ryou?" A voice asked as it entered the café. I looked up at Ichigo. She smiled happily. I smiled back welcomingly and got off of the wall.

"You're early." I mentioned as she took off her black sweater and hung it in the closet.

"Yeah, I'm sorry. I was kind of kicked out of the house. My parents are having some company over," Ichigo laughed, "So what movie are we watching?"

"Um, well about that," I rubbed the back of my head, "I wasn't sure which one we were going to watch so I decided, why don't you pick one out?"

…Ichigo stared down at the movies in my room and pressed her finger to her lips, trying to decide. "Hmmm," She reached for a movie. I sat on my bed, fiddling with the TV remote.

"How about this one?" She asked pulling out a movie I didn't even recognize.

"What's it about?" I examined the cover as Ichigo turned the DVD around to read the back. "'When Hearts Collide'. What the hell?" I wondered, snickering at the lame title.

"I think it's a romance. When did you get this movie?" Ichigo looked up at me.

I shrugged, "It's not mine. I've never seen it before. It might be Keiichiro's…" Oh Keiichiro! This was his dirty little plan wasn't it? Damn him, damn him to…

"I think it looks cute. It's about a girl and a boy who absolutely hate each other then one day a wizard comes and forces them to love each other for the sake of the world. Soon, when the spell wears off they learn to like each other." Ichigo explained.

"Sounds like a chick flick." I replied.

Ichigo gave that weird grin that creeped me out, like Keiichiro, "I have a little idea." She sat up on my bed, still smiling.

"Oh really?" My gaze shifted away from hers.

"Yeah, I'm daring you." Ichigo said slyly.

"To do what?" I asked, my gaze still not catching hers.

"I dare you to get through this movie and if you do, I'll buy the pizza." Ichigo leaned closer to me.

"I don't think so. It's going to be filled with girly romance and I'm not really into that stuff." I scratched the side of my head.

"Oh come on, free pizza." Ichigo urged.

"No." I said simply.

"Chicken." Ichigo taunted.

"Am not." I protested.

"Are too." Ichigo poked me in my shoulder.

"Am not." I argued.

"Are too." She argued back.

"Am not."

"Are too."

"Fine I'll do the stupid dare, but you have to promise if I get through this movie that I can order whatever I want on the pizza." I crossed my arms.

"Deal." Ichigo agreed and held out her hand. I started to shake it but she squeezed it hard, pulling me close to her face, "But if you don't get through this movie, you will be forced to watch every chick flick with me for the rest of the week." Then she shook my hand.

"Wait, I didn't agree on that." I stared at my hand.

"Too late, you shook on it." Ichigo laughed, kneeling down to the DVD player. She opened it and set the silver disk in its place. I sighed and pressed the play button on the remote. Rolling her eyes, Ichigo mentioned, "It's not going to be that bad." Yeah right.

About half way through the movie my eye began to twitch. This movie…it…it was so disgusting. No, not disgusting, disturbing was more like it! We were right in the part where the girl, who I didn't even catch her name, was going to give up her life to save the guy or something like that. But he kept telling her not too.

I looked over at Ichigo. She was hugging her knees to her chest, while tears were held back in her eyes. I rolled my eyes but then gave a sympathetic smile, "Ichigo, are you going to be alright?" I asked and elbowed her in the arm.

"No!" she sniffed while tears began to roll down her cheeks. Her expression changed dramatically and she hid her face in her knees, sobbing.

"Hey," I said softly and leaned towards her, putting my hand on her shoulder, "What wrong?"

"This movie…is so sad." She cried.

I wanted to tell her that it really wasn't. That the movie, first off had some terrible acting and it was going to end with a happy ending. I mean this wasn't Shakespeare, it wasn't going to end up like Romeo and Juliet, with both of them dieing in the ending. But, I guess girls were sensitive like that. (A/N: It's true, we are! At least most of us are.)

"It's okay." I cooed, "Everything will be okay in the ending."

"Yeah, b-but it's not okay right now." Ichigo mumbled, her face still buried in her knees.

"You're going to miss the good parts if you keep crying like that." I shook her shoulder lightly, "It's going to be fine."

"Really?" Ichigo looked up at me and wiped her eyes.

"Really." I smiled.

"Ha! I can't believe you fell for that!" Ichigo laughed pointing. That was uncalled for. I cocked an eyebrow and gave that same dumbfounded look Keiichiro had earlier. Ichigo giggled and laughed still pointing at me. I didn't get it!

"What kind of stupid trick was that?" I yelled.

She stopped laughing a second and eyed me, "I just wanted to know your reaction. Anyways, that was fun. Let's go get that pizza now." Ichigo hopped off the bed.

"That was not fun. It was stupid." I grumbled, getting off the bed as well.

Ichigo ignored my comment and stretched out her arms, "Have any good pizza places in mind?"

"Just the one down the street." I responded, following her out of my room.

"That sounds good. Let's check out that place and go from there." Ichigo opened the closet and grabbed her jacket. She opened the door to start heading out, but rain poured down and made huge puddles in from of the café.

"Its raining." She stated.

"Thanks for pointing out the obvious. Guess we're eating in." I suggested with a shrug.

"Yeah, I guess so." She threw off her jacket and shrugged as well, "I'm thinking maybe, Chinese or Thai?"

… I could have sworn that pizza would have been a good idea. Ichigo picked up her chopsticks and twirled them around on her finger then poked at the orange chicken on her plate. The movie that we popped in this time was nothing that I recognized either. Something about cars, I think I got it when I was younger. Though, I didn't pick it out. Ichigo chewed on the chicken then looked up at me, "What?" she asked, her cheeks turning pink.

I swallowed and looked away. I didn't mean to stare at her. I shook my head and looked down at the plate of food I had, "It's nothing."

"No really." Ichigo said with her eyebrows raised, "Is there something on my face?"

"No. I uh, I was just staring." I replied honestly and looked down at my food again.

"No way!" Ichigo hollered. I didn't think she'd take it in such a surprising way. I was just looking.

"Huh?" I looked back up at her. She was staring at the TV as a red car raced by on the screen. Ichigo glared at the television set and shook her fist, "That guy was so cheating." She yelled again. I smiled and laughed quietly to myself. She was still young and naive. But that was why I liked her.

"That was so stupid." Ichigo leaned up against the bedpost with her arms crossed. I yawned and set the food on the floor. I wasn't bored, just a little tired. It was still early but something was making me a little tired. Maybe it was because I stayed up all morning looking up date ideas or maybe because I didn't sleep to well last night. I leaned against the other end of the bed and pulled my arms behind my head. I shut my eyes and dozed a minute. Then I felt something on my chest. I quickly opened my eyes and stared down at what it was.

"Ichigo?" I asked, noticing her red hair.

"Hmm?" she murmured.

"You okay?" I asked and stroked her hair.

"Just…a little tired." She murmured again.

"But you were just up bouncing around a minute ago." I yawned.

"That was about an hour ago, Ryou. You slept for a while." Ichigo's voice trailed off and her breathing began deep and long.

"Really?" I asked.

"Uh-huh." She breathed slowly.

I grew tired again and my eyes began to droop. They soon slowly shut, but Ichigo woke me again.

"You never got through that movie." She mentioned.

"Eh?" I inhaled deeply.

"You owe me a week of sappy chick flicks." Then she was out and asleep on my chest. That was unfair! She was the one who didn't finish the movie. I yawned once more and my eyes began to shut. The only sound there was was of the rain hitting the window. Silence and sleeping beauty on my chest, a guy could get used to this.

…To be continued…

A/N: 8 pages! Whoo, a new record. Thank you everybody for supporting my story so much! I love you all! Anyways, sorry for such a long wait. Finals are coming up and I had a lot of homework during the week so, once again sorry. Now, onto the story. Ryou has finally realized that he has some type of feelings for Ichigo; he just needs to figure out what to do with them. Ichigo is still working on her jealousy but Masaya ends up getting a class with Ichigo at school. He wants them to be friends but what if he wants more then that and how will Ryou react? What about Mint?It's all in the next chapter! Until then- KTHM