It was just a bit over an hour later when Chizuru found herself walking apprehensively up the stairs, towards Ryu's bedroom door. She stopped at the entrance, taking a deep breath, and flung the door open as was her usual custom.

"You look the same as usual," Ryu commented good naturedly, observing Chizuru as she stepped into his room with a determined step.

"Well it's comfortable," Chizuru replied defensively, looking down at her hand me down t-shirt from her brother, and baggy track pants. "You don't look any different either!" Chizuru retorted noticing Ryu lounging in a relaxed manner on his bed in a simple black undershirt and sweatpants, casually reading a magazine.

"This is what I usually wear at home.." Ryu replied emphatically, laying down his magazine next to his pillow. "It's comfortable." He reinforced, nodding his head once.

"Then why are you commenting on my appearance!" Chizuru retorted good naturedly, "PLUS! I got my sexy battle underwear on!" Chizuru exclaimed with an air of superiority.

Ryu's ears perked up as he heard this and gave a slight grin.

"Oh, I'm looking forward to this," he commented appreciatively, standing up and advancing towards Chizuru eagerly, almost aggressively.

"Wait..Wait" Chizuru panicked a bit at Ryu's sudden advance, looking startled like an animal cornered by a predator, holding out her arms as Ryu stepped towards her. "I'm not quite ready for this."

Ryu slowed down and took a more gentle approach, opening his arms invitingly. "I just want to hold you." And he suited words to action by embracing Chizuru in a warm embrace, holding her head to his shoulder.

Chizuru slowly relaxed in his warm embrace, feeling his heartbeat against her own, and the gentle rise and fall of his breaths as she took in his body scent; a mixture of the soap he used in his recent bath, as well as the familiar scent of his that reminded her of grassy fields and tatami flooring. She could feel the tension that she didn't know had gripped her ebb away.

"Ok, I'm all good now," Chizuru mumbled into his shoulder. Ryu responded by patting her on the back, burying his nose into her hair. "Hey that tickles a bit," Chizuru replied to the action.

"Your hair smells good…" Ryu commented in a soft voice from above her head.

"Yeh..I used the new shampoo I bought," Chizuru replied into his shoulder.

Ryu separated himself from the embrace to look deeply into Chizuru's eyes, before leaning himself in to kiss her on the lips. Chizuru responded by meeting his kiss, lips parting slightly to invite his exploring tongue into her mouth. This continued on for what felt like minutes but probably only lasted seconds, before they both had to catch their breath.

"You taste good too…" Ryu commented, licking his lips appreciatively.

"Wow, that was a very adult thing to do." Chizuru replied breathlessly, feeling a bit weak in the knees, only being held up by Ryu's embrace.

"We're about to do much more adult things too," Ryu replied.

"Oh.." was all Chizuru managed to reply, before Ryu leaned in for another kiss, this time inviting Chizuru's tongue into his mouth until they both became breathless again.

"Can I take your shirt off now?" Ryu asked stoically, but as Chizuru knew that was more of a sign that he was really anxious, and this knowledge raised her mood quite a bit.

"Yeh, be prepared for my battle underwear to knock you over!" Chizuru replied, apprehensively but quite excitedly.

"I'll look forward to it." Ryu replied warmly. And with that he took a hold of the hem of Chizuru's shirt, began to pull on them as Chizuru raised her arms up, assisting him to slide them off her in one smooth motion, expecting to see some colour of fabric that Chizuru had selected, black being what he had guessed. But his guess of colour had turned out quite wrong, in fact there wasn't even a hint of colour.

Now out of all the skimpy bras and ridiculous outfits he was imagining Chizuru to select, being faced with the straight fast ball of her bare breasts right off the bat was not what he had expected.

"Surprise!" Chizuru exclaimed proudly, "that knocked you over didn't it." Chizuru commented happily, seeing Ryu's stunned expression.

Ryu could only stand there with his mouth slightly agape, gazing intently at her delightfully bare breasts.

"Well..?" Chizuru asked, feeling a bit embarrassed now, feeling his gaze burning into her flesh, deciding whether or not to cross her arms to cover herself. "Don't you have anything to say?"

Ryu tore his gaze from her breasts to look up at her mischievous expression.

"I love you Chizuru…" was all he could say.

Chizuru, suddenly feeling very embarrassed, covered herself with her arms and blushed. "Don't say that all of a sudden!" she blurted out.

Chizuru couldn't stay embarrassed for long, as Ryu, seeing her embarrassed and covering herself, felt a pang in his heart, and a stirring of the region below him. He bent down to scoop Chizuru up by the legs and back in a princess style hold, amidst protests of "put me down! Put me down!" by Chizuru, and carried her to his bed and lay her down gently. Before further protests by Chizuru, Ryu had climbed up on top of Chizuru to cover her mouth with his own in a florid of passionate kisses.

"You're very aggressive," Chizuru gasped out, when Ryu finally gave her some respite for air, breathing deeply himself.

"I've been wanting to push you down on my bed for a very long time now," Ryu replied her solemnly.

"That sounds a bit scary.." Chizuru replied, about to jokingly call him stalker or rapist before "Ahh!" Chizuru suddenly cried out, Ryu had put his left hand on her right breast and was cupping and massaging it gently. Ryu was examing the breast with great concentration, giving it a light squeeze now and then, feeling its soft suppleness, running his hands over the silky smooth skin before moving his hand to the other one to do the same.

"That kinda tickles," Chizuru giggled out a bit at his curious touch, "Do you like my boobs?" Chizuru asked shyly and with a bit of playfulness in her voice.

"Yes. I love them," came Ryu's straightforward reply, just enjoying their touch in his hand. "Does it feel good?" he asked inquiringly.

"Your hands are a bit rough," Chizu replied.

"I'm sorry, it's because of batting practice," Ryu said, holding his hand away from her now, examining his palm looking at the rough patches where countless blisters had formed and toughened the skin over his baseball career.

"Na it's a good rough, comforting, just tickles a bit sometime." Chizuru replied. "You can put it back," Chizuru said, grabbing back his hand to replace them on her breast, enjoying the feel of his rough hands in pleasant contrast to her own smooth skin.

Chizuru could feel Ryu had resume his exploration, feeling his fingers gently circling her delicate pink areola, feeling the tiny bumps lining the skin, watching in fascination as her nipples hardened with his touch, causing Chizuru to close her eyes and hold her breath a bit as she enjoyed the sensations. After a while Chizuru opened her eyes, and smirked a bit as she saw the look of intense concentration on Ryu's face as he explored her breasts.

"Are they really that fascinating?" Chizuru asked playfully, poking his cheek, causing Ryu to tear his eyes away from her breasts to look at her face. "You've seen them plenty of times before, we use to take baths together all the time."

"That was when they haven't gotten bigger yet.." Ryu replied seriously, "And they didn't become stiff like now." Ryu explained, giving her erect nipples a gentle pinch causing her to gasp a bit.

"They've grown very nicely haven't they," Chizuru replied, indicating her chest in which Ryu nodded in agreement. "But I'm sure your nipples get hard, in fact I bet they're hard now!" Chizuru exclaimed, tugging on his shirt and pulling it up to reveal his bare chest with a flourish,

"See! Yours is hard too, hahaha," Chizuru exclaimed delightfully, seeing his dark nipples standing out on his tanned chest, using her free hand to playfully poke Ryu's nipples which have indeed stiffened up.

"That's because you make me very sexually excited," Ryu replied her solemnly.

"Wha-! Stop saying such things so easily!" Chizuru replied embarrassed, giving him a light slap on the chest, before letting his shirt go to fall back on him.

Ryu stood up to the side of the bed, grabbing the hem of his shirt and pulling it off him. Chizuru watched the sight unfold next to her intently, feeling her face become warmer as she took in his muscular, well-toned abdomen and chest. Sitting up to face him, Chizuru found herself involuntarily reaching an arm up to feel the muscles on his chest, tracing them softly before looking up to realise that Ryu was watching her patiently.

"Uhh, do you want to taste my boobies now Ryu?" Chizuru asked hesitantly, but breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Ryu's eyes light up at the proposition. Usually it was hard for people to tell what Ryu was thinking because he was generally quite expressionless, but Chizuru had known him long enough that she could tell his feelings just from his eyes, and right now he was definitely excited.

"Yeh.." Ryu replied stoically, but Chizuru knew he was very eager. Chizuru reached up to cradle his head with her hands and gently pulled him towards her chest, lying back down slowly in the process. She closed her eyes in anticipation as she felt his warm breath tingling her skin.

Chizuru had been expecting Ryu to go straight for her nipple, but opened her eyes in surprise to look down at him when she felt him licking the sides of her breasts instead.

"They feel like mochi, but they taste much better," Ryu replied, answering her inquiring gaze.

"What does it taste like?" Chizuru asked curiously.

"Like you." Came Ryu's simple reply.

"What does that mean.." Chizuru was about to reply, but then she felt Ryu's mouth encircling one of her nipples, suckling on it gently causing her to gasp. "Oh my, that feels reaaaallly good." Chizuru managed to breathe out, wrapping her arms around his head to her chest. She could feel his tongue flicking the nipple, causing pangs of pleasure to be sent directly to her pelvis and head, closing her eyes to enjoy the feeling.

"The other one now?" Ryu asked, after a couple of minutes of stimulating one of her breasts.

"Yeh.." was all Chizuru managed to breathe out, not realising that she had been holding her breath. She used the arms wrapped around Ryu's head to direct them to her other breast, feeling him curiously explore the sides of her breast with his lips and tongue, before focusing his administrations on her nipple.

Ryu noticed the rise and fall of her chest as her breathing became quicker and quicker as he administered to her breasts, hearing tiny sighs coming from her which kept encouraging him. But he became concerned when she appeared to hold her breath for an extended amount of time, causing him to let go to look up at her inquiringly. Chizuru had her eyes closed tightly with her mouth open, breathing coming back to her slowly as she relaxed back into the bed.

"Are you okay?" Ryu asked, concerned, brushing the hair away from her face.

"Yeh..just felt too good, I think I need a rest now," Chizuru replied, opening her eyes to look at him.

"Ok" came Ryu's simple reply.