AN: Second update for tonight. Man translating is difficult. So fluffly, fluffy chapter for you. I really am not good with all the mushy stuff but I have to try it as well. Anyway tell me what you liked . I know it is too short but I hope you will forgive me that. So yet again, give me review with wild ideas or what ever you wish to tell me in review or PM!

Chapter 6

The sun was settling down behind the horizon and it painted the sky in its golden reddish color. They had arrived to the beach that was located outside Karakura town. When the cab pulled to the parking lot Byakuya opened the door to Renka as a true gentleman should. He took her hand and helped her out of the vehicle. They walked to the sand and stopped for a while to admire the scene. Renka smiled like a little school girl. It had been a long time since she had been at the beach; she usually had no time to come here. When she stepped on the sand she took of her flip-flops and explored the sand with her toes. It felt nice and she felt joy and laughter bubbling inside her. She chuckled a little and smiled to the man beside her whom was intently watching her with his intelligent steel grey eyes. Renka ran to the shore and wet her feet on the water on this shoreline. She laughed, she welt great. Here she was in a secluded part of a public beach with the man she was secretly and hopelessly in love with for a long time. The atmosphere was both mysterious and romantic at the same time.

Renka wanted to hug Byakuya for just taken her to this place, but she decided to calm herself so she would not do anything inappropriate. She smiled again and walked back and forth on the shoreline. Byakuya had wanted to come here for a walk and a talk. Renka was anxious and exited. She had no idea what Byakuya would wish to discuss with her. What if the man would tell her that it had been nice to know her and that she would not need to return to the office of Kuchiki International on Monday and she would never see the man again. Renka stopped and looked at her companion. Byakuya was watching her, the settling sun and the small waves that her feet were making on the water. Only now Renka realized that they were the only people here. Byakuya's gaze was steady as if the man was thinking what to say and Renka decided to stay and wait. Byakuya had invited her here to talk.

Byakuya was watching the shore; he thought that it was good that there were no one else around here in this part of the beach at this time of the night. He could finally have the opportunity to spend time solely with Renka, just the two of them. He did like Renka's special kind of friends, and they were a fresh breeze in his own suffocating and boring life. He was extremely satisfied that his instincts had told him to ask Renka to the ball.

In reality Byakuya had long time ago noticed his effective secretary. She had always been punctual, polite, neatly dressed and had always hidden her tattoos, those marking that had been beaten to her skin with needles. The reminder of the woman's racy youth. Now that he had opportunity to spend more time with Renka in her own environment he had noticed that the woman was still a bit of wild thing to tame, though it she was not too wild to handle. Renka was the fresh breeze of life that Byakuya had always wanted to live. He was thirsty for more. Renka was like fresh oxygen for a drowning man and Byakuya kept wanting for more. When they had spend time in "The Bony Grasshopper", the place where Renka had been with her fiends Byakuya had realized new emotions inside him. One of them had been jealousy. He had wanted to take Renka away so Aizen Sousuke could not have a chance with her. Not even with Hisana had he felt jealousy and now when he was analyzing his own emotions more closely he realized that what he had felt with his previous wife had been admiration. And Hisana had taken advantage of it, leaving him as an empty shell. He had kept his soul empty since Hisana had taken divorce and gone to America with another man. Now that open space inside his heart was being filled by this fiery woman in front of him. By a woman whom had been beside him for months, a person whose real self he had only managed to scratch on the surface. He had seen life and fire that was burning his core when he had seen the red haired woman dressed in that fiery red ball gown. The image of Renka that night was burned inside Byakuya's mind.

Byakuya watched the woman on the shore playing with the water and hearing her laugh. It made Byakuya smile with simple happiness. The sunset made Renka's red hair look like burning silk strings and shine even brighter. Byakuya wanted wrap his arms around the woman's hips and watch the sunset with her. What he wanted the most was to steal a kiss from her luscious lips.

Byakuya knew that they were moving too fast in this matter. It had been only yesterday morning when they had been only a secretary and a CEO. Now they were more than that and Byakuya wanted to be more than that. He straightened himself and walked determinedly smiling towards Renka and watched her dance on the water.

"Looks nice, I guess you do not often come here?"

"Try it, it's great." Renka smiled. "I was last here when I graduated from high school."

For Renka's big surprise Byakuya took his shoes off and socks off and threw them on the sandy beach and walked bare toes next to Renka immersing them in wet sand. Byakuya smiled and a small laugh emerged from his throat. Renka stopped and stared. Byakuya turned to look at her and took her hand in his own.

"I have noticed you a long time ago, but I did not see what has been in front of me and I let everything to go their own flow. Then there came the invitation from Shihoin. When I saw you, my gut said that now would be the time to act and do something. I usually trust in my instincts in business, but I rarely do that in relationships. Now, I believe that I was right when I did it. Renka, in the last 24 hours you've got me thinking that I could really share my life with someone again. I like you Renka, you as yourself, no let me rephrase it differently. I found myself falling in love with you. I hope that you could be this close to me at work. I want to see you always so happy and so full of life. So what I'm trying to say is that, can you think of falling in love with me someday. I know that I am normally cold and difficult to read, but it is because of the past. "Byakuya looked at Renka with his grey eyes that showed the woman that what the man was saying was true and honest. Renka knew that Byakuya was a person who would never speak personal matters if they weren't important.

Renka, however, only stared the man. She would not form a single word from her mouth so astonished she was. Then she realized that if she would not open her mouth soon and say something to the man he might leave her for good. Heavens goodness sake the man had just confessed to her. She looked at Byakuya in the eye and smiled.
"You do not have to ask me to fall in love with you; I've been at it for a long time. Probably been ever since the moment I met you for the first time. When I got a position as your personal secretary, I was happy and my feelings for you grew stronger and stronger. But having these feeling only inside me made me staying there more difficult, it went to that far that I had planned to resign myself and find a new job. I thought you would never be able to feel the same feelings toward me and see me more than Rukongai rubbish. "
"No, you never have been that and never will be. Renka, really did you mean what you said? If this is the case, you made me happier man. Right now I am so happy that I do not know what to do. In my past my feelings has never been mutual. "
"I mean it Byakuya; I could have never said anything before because of our positions in work and that I just thought that these feelings were only one-sided."
Byakuya didn't respond. He touched gently Renka's face and pulled the woman to embrace, lips touched next to each other as the first shyly asking permission, and in the end the couple found themselves kissing of gentle, spectacular, but passionate kiss. Behind them the sun fell behind the horizon. The kiss lasted for a while and they both smiled happily to watch other.

"So what from now on? I don't kiss guys if I am not having a relationship with them. "

"I told you that I want to meet you outside work as well, and I could probably say that this is a beginning of a lovely future for us, don't you think. Next time when I introduce you in social life I will not be adresseing you as a secretary, but as a significant other. So just that you know. I am thinking that this is going to be an adventure that I am never going to regret." Byakuya gave another smaller kiss on her lips.

"An adventure for a lifetime huh? You ready for the ride?" Renka smiled and laughed.

"I have to as long as you are burning the fire."

AN2: Next chapter hopefully tomorrow asap. Sorry for this being so short but I really wanted to concentrate on this couple only. So on with the show, you review and I write . Thank you.