Okay so thank you guys so much for over 100 views! I definitely thought this would be a fanfic that barely anyone would read and it would get lost in the many other Free! fanfictions. Thank you for the review (you know who you are) you have no idea how hard I was smiling. It is what caused me to work on chapter 5 last night and this morning. And yes I was up to about 1 am writing most of this chapter so lets hope that it doesn't suck. And I have a RinHaru fanfic that I want to post but I don't have a title for it ugh... But anyway here we go!

Walking hand in hand to the restaurant in town with the best strawberry cake, it was Nagisa's favorite and he got to choose after all, Rei started to brainstorm what could be causing the sudden coloration of the world. His logical brain working through any and all of the possibilities. To start it off they clearly shared something special. But what was that something special? There honestly weren't many possibilities that made sense in this current situation, something that was hard for Rei to accept. That was one of the reasons he went into science, everything could be proven by fact and logic. Sadly this was something that either had no logical explanation or was just something Rei didn't know how to solve. It truly wasn't beautiful, you know except for the colors and Nagisa.

Once they reached the restaurant they could see that it wasn't very full for a weekend night. Add that to the list of surprising things that happened today, although this wasn't as important as the other things that happened. Once inside a hostess welcomed them and showed them to their seats, a booth around the middle of the restaurant. Not once did either of them let go of the others' hand until they were seated. The restaurant was nice, pastel colors and calming pictures on the walls. Their waitress came to take their drink orders not long after they sat down, water for them both. Before the waitress could leave Nagisa quickly asked if they could get a slice of strawberry cake. Rei could only think of how much Nagisa must like his cake. He didn't even think about stopping him. After all Rei did just randomly walk up to him in the middle of a cafe, ask him to come back to his lab with him, and then on top of all that kissed him. It was turning out to be a pretty weird day.

"Rei-chan? Have you thought of a reason why this happens? You were concentrating really hard on the way here." Nagisa inquired taking a drink of his beverage.

"No," Rei shook his head as he answered, "I can't think of any logical explanation at the moment."

"Couldn't we just say that it's magic until we find an actual answer." The comment provoked a laugh from Rei, how could anyone believe in anything like magic? There were no facts to ever back it up. It was just something that existed in fairy tales. Right?

"Sure, if that's what you want."

The waitress came back with Nagisa's cake and asked if they decided on what they wanted for dinner. They both decided on some western food. But the waitress did not take this as her cue to leave as most of them would have, you know leave and go enter the order so the kitchen knows what to make. But no she decides to start chit chatting with the boys at the table. She seems to be leaning towards Nagisa. Not only metaphorically but actually leaning in towards him.

After a couple minutes of this painful attempt at flirting or whatever you want to call it Rei decided he had had enough. What could he say to get her to leave but not insult Nagisa at the same point in time? Sadly, at that moment his mental filter decided to stop working so he blurted out the first thing that came to mind, "Could you please leave? My boyfriend and I are trying to have a nice date." He ended it with a halfhearted thank you as the realization of what he just said began to sink in and the waitress walked away with defeated look on her face. Well earlier today he did think that when he asked Nagisa out for dinner it did seem a bit like a date.

Nagisa was clearly also surprised at what his new friend just said. Was it just an attempt to get the waitress to leave? Or did this really mean they were dating now? He personally hoped it was the latter of the two.

"Rei-chan did you really mean that? Are we really boyfriends?" And in an off-handed whisper he said, "Not that I would mind."

Stuttering was clearly all Rei was capable of doing as he tried to explain why he just said what he did. "U-uh I was just trying to g-get her to leave you alone. You seemed like you were very uncomfortable." He honestly would be very happy if what he said was true, but did Nagisa return his feelings? He did hear the other whisper something but he couldn't figure out what he actually said.

"Thanks. I was getting a bit uncomfortable, I've never had many girls try and hit on me." Rei was a bit shocked by that statement. The boy sitting across from him was cute, beautiful (in both looks and personality), and just an amazing person. The whole atmosphere of the table seemed to change to a more serious one. After a couple minutes of an awkward silence Rei broke it.

"I really can not think of any logical explanation to this. It's crazy. There's supposed to be a solution for everything!"

"Rei-chan is there a logical explanation for love? Or falling in love?"

"Well there are theories about why we fall in love with certain people. There is the one about how we fall in love with people who our body thinks would help produce successful offspring. That's one of the most well known ones. But personally that wouldn't make sense with any of the homosexual relationships."

"So there isn't any logical theory of why I fell in love with you?" It was true, you could almost say that Nagisa fell in love at first sight.

"Wait wha-" Rei got cut off by the arrival of food and Nagisa pointing out.

"Yay food's here!" On the tray there was their main course and a slice of strawberry cake for Nagisa. Rei was still dumbfounded by what the other had said when his food was set down in front of him.

"This food is really good!" Is what Nagisa was trying to say but with his mouth full of food it sounded more like "Chis chood ish rwly cood!"

"Nagisa! Don't talk with your mouthful!" Rei scolded his new friend.

With a swallow Nagisa replied, "Sorry Rei-chan." And he went back to eating, clearly not noticing how his earlier comment affected Rei.

Did he hear right? Did Nagisa pretty much say he was in love with him? This was so confusing for Rei. It didn't help that Nagisa just brushed it off as if it was practically nothing. Rei had to play it off as he wasn't just thinking about the one comment. He could do that. Or maybe not.

"Rei why do you look so worried? Or is it confusion? Either way, why?" This was the first time in the day that Nagisa had dropped the chan at the end of his name. And Rei clearly wasn't very good at hiding his emotions.

"Nagisa did you really fall in love with me?" The question didn't even seem to faze the other boy.

"Yeah." All that was going through Rei's mind was, 'Is this how he confesses his love to someone? With a slightly off handed comment and then when questioned about it answers with yeah? What's that about? It really isn't beautiful.'

"I thought I might have been when I first met you but I was sure of it when you kissed me. There was a sort of spark I guess you could say." As Nagisa said this he was smiling the whole time. The thought clearly made him very happy. Rei grabbed the other boy's hand turning the world vibrant again like before.

"That's great because I feel the same about you." They smiled at the other clearly overjoyed.

"So Rei-chan does that mean that I get to be your boyfriend?"

"It would be an honor to have someone as beautiful as you as my boyfriend." This dinner did turn out to be a date afterall. The night was just getting more and more surprising as it went on. Especially after they let go of the others' hand to finish their food. Instead of the world turning back to black and white it stayed colored except it wasn't as vibrant. The colors seemed muted, like someone turned the opacity down to around 50% of what it had been. Rei decided to add that to his mental list and to also remember to write it down in his journal.

The rest of the time at the restaurant was spent with Nagisa doing anything he could do to get Rei to laugh. It was a good night.

I hope no one was too OOC. But I hope you guys like this chapter! I would definitely appreciate it if you guys reviewed and told me what you think I could do more of or do less of. Anyway thanks for reading! I'll see you in chapter 6!