3 years passed, 3 years of sulking, troubled thoughts, tormented feelings and an exasperated Ukitake telling him to go see her as he would regret leaving things half-heartedly like that. Although when he first told Ukitake of the occurrence he received the most painful punch for laying his hands on a child even if it was just a chaste kiss. His friend made his life hell for the first few months practically being his conscience which left over half of Sereitei confused and Nanao pleased.

"She abhors me, she defienetly abhors me now" for that reason he received a painful punch in the gut, hoisted over a shoulder and thrown into the Senkaimon he had no choice but to cross as it was the day the cleaner passed. Yet cowardly, he masked his Reiatsu and hid but gradually curiosity ate him away so he went in search for her and found her being followed by a group of thugs, tempted to warn her the second one groped her, the 6 males were left groaning on the ground as she calmly walked over them as she flipped the page of the Kido Textbook he recalls Isshin created.

Kyoraku paled, oh she defienetly learned her lesson the first time.

"You do realize that when you're nervous your Reiatsu flickers, right?" he glanced up and found a pair of wide brown eyes looking down at him unimpressed "what are you doing here, Kyoraku-san?" so she didn't hate him…or it may be a trap to lead him to a sense of security and then finish him off quickly. No, no, no she wasn't like that at all, but his heart was thundering in his ears all the same and he fled. "What's with him?" Kyoraku ran a hand through his face, why did she have to grow up to be so beautiful? Kami, help him because he was on the verge of jumping her…

"No!" he dropped to a crouching position and shook his head to clear his head.

"What are you doing acting like some madman? If it wasn't because no one could see you, you'd have many spectators" Yuzu stated with a frown in place.

"You defienetly hate me, I can't face you after I did—!" her hand covered his mouth while looking very red, he found that reaction very cute and she sighed out.

"At first I thought you were trying to get under my skin, but then you're not really that kind of person who would put such heavy pranks on a girl you barely knew" she said "I started to think about your skittish behavior a few weeks before you left and it was uncanny to Onii-chan around Rukia-chan…I brushed that thought away not only because I was human, I wasn't even a teenager yet so it was really impossible. But then I remembered Otou-san and Kaa-chan so I couldn't really be one to judge"

"…" did she hate him or not? He was usually good at reading people and their intentions, but he got nothing with this girl.

"…Then my heart started jumping all over the place," he perked up at this "I would get really out of breath out of the blue and my knees weren't able to support my legs, I even got ticklish feelings in my stomach" Yuzu grumbled "and it's not funny, it was bad enough Yoruichi-san teasing me about it!" yet he couldn't help but chuckle as she hadn't really changed. Well then, a man could only stay composed for so long after receiving such a cute confession. "But!" she panicked seeing that he had grown confident.

"Hm? What is it?" he questioned amused as he managed to corner her against the wall while her face seemed to grow pinker to the point it became red. Yuzu's legs trembled yet she desperately willed herself to stay on her feet and nearly jumped in joy when she was able to accomplish it, "well? What was it?" her heart stopped as he was leaning in so close, his lips brushing against her ear as his warm breath fanned her neck making her shiver.

"I can't do anything without feeling guilty unless Onii-chan and Kukaku-kun agree to it." Yuzu stated determined, why not her father? Well, anyone could see that predictable reaction to this so he groaned lightly leaning his forehead against her shoulder, she defienetly had given him quite the job to take, Kukaku would be quite the problem and don't let him get started on Ichigo.

"Well then" he said smirking lightly "I'll take this as a motivation gift" his hand grasped her chin lightly as his hand traveled towards her neck as his fingers curled at the nape on the tresses of her soft hair while his thumb brushed against her lower lip. Yuzu's face flared up with a blush as his lips brushed against hers and unlike the last time he didn't just give her a chaste kiss rather, an adult kiss with tongue and all leaving her disoriented and breathless. "To have something to look forward to after they slaughter me" he said playfully while her blush darkened as she became unable to stand on her own.

All things considered…she certainly looked forward to that as well and tried to wonder how everyone in Soul Society would react.

Meh – Matsumoto would tell her afterwards.