Author's Note:

First of all change of plans…If you've read my profile or if you've seen me write this anywhere in my story, disregard anything I said about the Lemon being on Valentine's Day.

There will be no Lemon till later on because I feel that it's too early and they've not said those three words "ILY". I want them to build a relationship and have some chaos before I go getting 'Jiraiya'd' up and writing some smex.

It would make me feel like I'm rushing the story plus I would run out of ideas of where this story was headed and I don't want to feel that way because I know I'll finish this one.

I'm going back to the twice a month update (15th/16th and 30th/31st) because it seems more convenient, those 4 updates in December were to help me get back on track with the dates.

This chapter is really late, it was supposed to be out on Jan. 31st. I have a lot of explanations as to why, mainly because I was seriously sick, but I will not hinder you from reading by explaining anything else.

I hope that everyone understands. Thank you!

P.S. If you've got time, go check out the Valentine's Day Shorts I published…

"Now you two don't worry! They're safe with Lisa and I. She'll keep them entertained. Go have fun on your date!" Nanao looked at the two men before her, with a huge grin on her face. Shunsui was looking at her blankly, but she knew he was trying to hide his happiness from shining on his face. Jushiro' face had a slight red tinge to it and she knew that he was excited by the smile almost overtaking his face.

The boys were on either side of Nanao, smiling up to the two men. They were both happy that the two were finally going on a date.

"I'll take the boys out to go pick up something to eat and then we'll come back and watch some Kōhaku Uta Gassen and some Gaki no Tsukai."(1)

"Make sure you record it this time because I really want to see it. I don't want to have a repeat of last year when you recorded the wrong show, you perverted female."

"Alright, grump. Have fun!" With that, Nanao shut the door to her apartment and Jushiro looked up at Shunsui, smiling even harder. Shunsui smiled back as he took the younger man's hand and led them down the hall.

"Let's get this date started!"

"So…since we're going to the New Year's festival happening near the dock, I figured that we would need some kimonos, so I took the liberty of getting us some."

"You didn't have to…I have some at home. Wait, is that why Nanao called me over yesterday? She was touching me all over saying that she was testing me."

"Well, I did kinda ask her to ask you your measurement but it seems that she wasn't trying to be inconspicuous. That's just like her though…" Jushiro laughed at the blank look that appeared on Shunsui's face as he talked about Nanao.

"I hope you don't mind the colors blue, brown and green…I thought that they would go well with your eyes." Jushiro laughed again as Shunsui took one of his hand off of the steering wheel and turned to look out the window as they waited a a traffic light, trying to cover up the blush that was already visible on his face. So leaning over, Jushiro pulled his hand away and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Thanks Shunsui. I'm sure that I would love it."

The ride continued on for a few more minutes, jazz music playing in the background from the CD player in the car. Jushiro learned, from Nanao, that Shunsui had a thing for soft jazz, it helped him to relax and unwind, so one of the CDs that he got them was from the Japanese band called JiLL-Decoy association.(2)

As the two walked around the festival, there were many couples walking around holding hands, like Jushiro and Shunsui were doing, and truly enjoying themselves. Jushiro and Shunsui played many of the traditional festival games such as hanetsuki, takoage koma, sugoroku, fukuwari and karuta and at lots of foods like boiled seaweed, fish cakes, mashed sweet potato with chestnut, simmered burdock root, and sweetened black soybeans.

The fireworks were set to go off in a few minutes, so the two were beginning to make their way towards the beach where everyone would go to watch the fireworks when they both heard familiar voices that were arguing in front of a candy stand. Shunsui instantly recognized the orange spiky hair and the scowl among one of the men's face, who had his arms crossed and looked like he was pouting, while Jushiro recognized the blue hair that was sticking up and the sharp blue eyes that were looking his way, not directly looking at him, but more like the orange haired boy standing next to him.

"Ichigo?"

"Grimmjow?"

Both men had said at the same time and looked at each and then back at the two boys who had just turned around and stared incredulously at them. Ichigo was dressed in a dark red and black kimono that suited him perfectly while Grimmjow was dressed in a dark blue kimono that went well with his eyes and hair.

"Ukitake?"

"Uncle?"

Though the boys mirrored their elders face, both Grimmjow and Jushiro started to laugh.

"Is this the mysterious man who you wanted to cheer up?"

"Is this the strawberry that you wanted to pluck?"

Shunsui, Jushiro and Grimmjow started to laugh while Ichigo stood there trying to cover his blush.

"So how did you guys meet?" Ichigo was feeling a little put out of the conversation, and he could tell that Shunsui was thinking the same thing, due to the puzzling look on his face.

"Shunsui, you remember when I left to go get that Gran Rey Cheesecake?" Shunsui shook his head in recognition as he remembered such events. Jushiro was about to continue the story, but Grimmjow stepped in and finished for him.

"He came to your brother's bakery and we're the only ones who make that cheesecake, it was delicious wasn't it? I'm sure Ichigo also remember because I told him about it and gave him a piece." Ichigo started blankly at Grimmjow and that's when they all knew that he didn't remember such thing happening. He pouted and put his index finger on his lips as he looked around, trying to remember.

Jushiro laughed, "Well, the fireworks are about to start, so we're going to go find a seat. We'll see you two later, O.K?"

Grimmjow nodded as the two turned around and started to walk off. Ichigo finally stopped trying to remember and spoke up, "O.K. Hey, Uncle! Don't forget that Aunt Tia's sisters are coming sometime in the future for dinner!" Shunsui just waved to the boy and nodded his head as he and Jushiro continued to walk off.

The two walked until they came across the river, where everyone would gather around and watch the fireworks at. Shunsui wanted to find the perfect spot, and it happened to be an unoccupied tree that was on top of a hill a few steps ahead of them. They would be able to sit against the tree and watch the fireworks, without the branches getting in the way. He dragged Jushiro, who was laughing at his decision to sit at that place. Shunsui sat down, leaning back on the tree and look up at Jushiro who stood there staring at him.

"Come sit down, next to me."

"I don't wanna sit next to you." Jushiro pouted, stubbornly, and turned away looking at the other people who were walking by them and sitting down.

"Where do you want to sit?" Jushiro didn't say anything as he just got to his knees and crawled over to Shunsui, and sat between his legs. Shunsui quietly chuckled and wrapped his arms around Jushiro, bringing them closer to one another, and kissed the side of Jushiro's face.

"Was that so hard? I would have said 'Yes'." Shunsui laughed even harder when Jushiro didn't say anything and crossed his arms together.

Cover the skies...

The fireworks were beautiful and Shunsui was glad that it wasn't some 30 minute show; it was going to be well over an hour long.

"You know that I didn't forget your gift, right?"

"You got me something? You didn't have to….The boys told you, didn't they?"

Shunsui smirked and reached into his pocket, pulling out the gift that was in a blue box with a black ribbon wrapped around it. Jushiro eyed him suspiciously before his eyes widened in realization. He knew where the blue box was from.

"Tiffany's?"

"Yep. Open it." Shunsui handed the box over and watched in anticipation as Jushiro opened it, similar to a child opening presents on Christmas. (It was only 6 days after….)

"This is…."

"Kazuo and Kenji told me that you like bracelets, so I decided to get fancy and go to Tiffany's to get you a wrist chain. Do yo-."

Shunsui was cut off by Jushiro pouncing on him, lips connecting. It was their first kiss. I mean, sure…They kissed but it was usually on the cheek and was quick. Jushiro had told him that he was a little reluctant kissing on the lips due to past experience, and Shunsui fully understood. He had been kissed on first dates, something he didn't like.

"So," Shunsui began, smirking, "Did that mean that you liked it?"

Jushiro returned the smirk with a smile of his own and kissed Shunsui once again. "What do you think?"

This is bad…I'm running out of passion and enthusiasm for writing. That's why this chapter is so bad and that's probably why the chapters keep getting shorter and shorter, but some of them are meant to be short. They'll get long in the future when my writing skills improve, hopefully.

(1) I've heard of the Kōhaku Uta Gassen but I've never really seen it…Now Gaki no Tsukai on the other hand, is the funniest show I've ever seen, especially the Batsu Games. Check it out if you got a chance. If you want some links to the batsu game or if you already know about it and wanna talk, PM me.

(2) I think that this one the first jazz band I really listened to and really liked. I like Jazz, it's somewhat relaxing.