Well... I posted it a little sooner than I was supposed to (sooner than 10 hits, anyway), but I'm starting to think I might make it to Valentine's Day after all, so here's chapter fifteen. So sorry about being rushed last chapter. But I'll try to make it up in the review replies. So, here they are. :)

pepperdadog: Your idea was too good not to use. I had thought of changing it slightly, but I figured "Why change something that's already good the way it is?", so I just used it like that. Yeah - Marumaro was probably the best person to walk in on them. Zola was at the inn, Bouquet had just left Sweet Delights, and Shu was... preoccupied. Marumaro had seen Jiro since he was near the front of the store, so it made the most sense for him to follow Jiro. Definitely - If I didn't like other games more because of sentimental value, Psychonauts would be my favorite game. It's my favorite game on the Xbox, anyway. And it's my best accomplishment - save for one figment that I can never find in Edgar's brain, I've completed the game from beginning to end about 15 times. Ooh, favorite character... That is hard. It would have to be a very close tie between Raz and Lili. My favorite place would have to be the campgrounds. Psychonauts is actually what got me started on fan fiction - I had actually been writing my own fan fiction and just never knew what it was. Anyway, I read and reviewed the next chapter of Rapture - good stuff, Pepper. :)

Prince of Tennis' Shaman: I know, it's so sad! I felt so bad for him when I wrote it. :( I always love writing about Jiro, though I prefer game to anime. ;) But, that's another reason I like Episode 39; he showed up in Episode 4, but it didn't seem like he really showed up until 39. I know - I always love mixing different genres together when I write. Yep - let's hope Jiro and Kluke don't kill him somewhere down the road. ;)

Okay, there are the replies. I... actually can't think of anything else to say for a change. So, after the disclaimer, we'll do the story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Blue Dragon. I don't own Sweet Delights either, but I own the idea of it.

Bouquet sighed, looking out at the river. The water had frozen in some places, but most of it had stayed liquid, since it flowed at an even enough pace that it wouldn't become solid. She was munching on an apple she'd brought - from a different stall than the one she got kicked out of - and the bag from Sweet Delights was being held close to her.

The fight, or whatever it was, with Kluke had put her in a bad mood, and Bouquet was starting to rethink her plan. After thinking about it, the thing probably wasn't grand enough to even be called a plan. She sighed again.

She was also starting to think that giving Shu the cold shoulder wasn't such a good idea, either - she wanted to teach him a lesson, that she couldn't be ignored without consequences. But she didn't want to drive him away.

She looked around, trying to see if there were people nearby. Maybe she could bring out Hippo-chan and see what he thought...

"Marumaro, if you so much as speak a single word-"

"Jiro was gonna kiss Kluke, maro! Jiro was gonna kiss Kluke, maro!" Marumaro danced around in a circle as he singsonged, albeit it sounded weird because of the "maro".

Jiro shot up. "I'll kill you!" This was both finishing what he was saying earlier and a response to what Marumaro was doing now.

Kluke grabbed his arm. "Jiro, calm down."

"No, I'm not going to calm down. Not until I get a written and signed promise to not say anything from him!" Jiro said the last part as if it was the nastiest word on the earth.

"No can do, maro! I don't have a signature yet, maro!"

"You what?" Jiro faltered.

"Yep, maro! See ya, maro!" With a quick wave, Marumaro had taken off like a dart from wherever he'd come from.

"That little... I'll tear that pot off his perverted head!" he kicked the napkins he'd been using to clean up.

Kluke still had hers in hand, and was busily trying to clean up the last spots - it was better than thinking about the other stuff going on. "You shouldn't worry about it. Marumaro's just doing the kind of thing he always does."

"He can jump off a cliff if he wants for all I care. It only becomes my business when he gets involved in my personal stuff."

"Jiro, I need to ask you something," Kluke stopped what she was doing. That was mostly because she wanted to pay full attention to Jiro, but she also was also done anyway, though she hadn't realized it yet. "And I need you to be completely honest with me."

"Kluke, for whatever else I am, I don't lie unless it'll save someone's life." Or if I have to say something to get rid of Shu, he thought. "What is it?" he asked aloud.

"If Marumaro hadn't come in when he did... would we... would we have..."

Jiro understood immediately, and cut her off to stop her embarrassment. "Yeah, we would have."

She seemed a little relieved at the fact that she didn't have to finish her previous sentence, but blushed as she thought about what that meant. "So... does... does that mean we're..."

"I don't know," he sat on the table. "I think I'd like to, if you did." Oh, smooth move, idiot. That voice sounded oddly similar to Minotauros. "I probably shouldn't have started doing what I was going to, and I'm sorry for that. Unless you wanted to do it, I mean." he said the last part a little quickly.

"I think I would've. And I think I'd like to, too."

"R-really?"

She nodded, standing now. "Yeah. You should probably get that boxed up." she pointed to the chocolate heart, quickly changing the subject.

"I... Oh, just take it," he sighed, giving up. "It was for you, anyway. Go ahead and read it."

She peeked over at it, then furrowed her brows in confusion. "What are you thanking me for?"

"What isn't there to thank you for?" You just love adding fuel to the fire, don't you? "I'm sorry. What I meant to say is that I wanted to thank you for for tending to that cut I got a few days ago."

"Oh, that?" Kluke was surprised. Even though she'd been worried sick when she saw it and bandaged it, she thought that Jiro would've forgotten by now.

"Yeah..." he blushed, rubbing the back of his head. "So, thanks."

"Do you want to share it with me?"

"What?" he gaped at her. "I made it for you. That's how all this happened in the first place!"

"Well, those things are more fun to eat with someone. If it bothers you that much, think of it as a courtesy for helping me clean up."

"I..."

She was already pulling up a chair. "Look, if none of this had happened, I would've eaten with you once we got back to the inn. So let's just have it now. Besides, Shu acts weird when he sees us together."

I couldn't imagine why, Jiro thought wryly as he sat across from her.

Bouquet unsummoned Hippo-chan as she heard rapid footsteps crunching in the snow. When she looked over her shoulder, she was a little surprised at who it was. "Marumaro?"

He stopped when he heard her voice. "Bouquet, maro? What are you doing out here, maro?"

She shrugged, turning to look at the river again. "Just thinking."

"You should think inside, maro. It's too cold out here, maro."

She looked at him out of the corner of her eye, a smile tugging at her lips. "Yeah?"

"Yeah, maro! Come on back to the inn with me, maro. I've got something really juicy I want to tell you, maro!"

Everyone in the jewelry store stared in shock at the scene before them. The said scene had been going on for quite some time.

"Give me this necklace now!" The boy with short, light brown hair tugged on the accessory.

"Not on your life!" The boy with dark, spiky hair tied up, yanked it back in his direction.

And it didn't seem like it was anywhere near stopping.

"What?" Bouquet stopped dead in her tracks as Marumaro finished telling her what he'd seen.

"Maro!" he nodded. "I was a little surprised, maro. Sure, Shu is jealous, but I thought there was more going on between him and Kluke than Jiro and Kluke, maro. Shows what I know, maro."

Bouquet's hands balled into fists at her sides. How dare she? Kluke had the nerve to kick her out and then do that? That was probably why she'd kicked out Bouquet in the first place - she'd probably known he would come.

Well, that was okay; Bouquet would fix her. The plan was back in action.

Okay, there's Chapter 15. Again, it went up too soon, but I'll go back and reply to any reviews that are written for chapters before this one. Now that I'm thinking I might make it to Valentine's Day, I'm going to try and push forward. I'll probably be updating as soon as the chapter is finished. Next chapter should involve Bouquet's renewed plan, and unless nothing goes wrong, we'll also see if Shu won that little tug-of-war match. So... see you then. :)