(A/N: Thank you so much for the reviews, they're so nice that I want to metaphorically explode. Really though, you guys our great now take another chapter of Kono/Kura/Haru x Shin goodness)

"And he's been like this….how long?"

"Since an hour ago, thanks for coming Ayano this date things really getting to him"

"It's not a date!"

"True, Shin really hasn't gone a date since….well ever"

"Really!? I didn't that Nii-san was that much of a NEET"

"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!"

It all started just an hour ago. Shintaro was preparing for his not date with Konoha; they'd scheduled to meet at the park square where they'd walk to the movies. All had been good until he reached the door which is where the ever chipper voice of his sister found a way to his ears

"You're meeting Konoha in that?," she asked in disbelief while staring at Shintaro from head to toe.

"...What do you mean by that?," Shintaro looked down at himself.

He wore the same thing he wore everyday- a black undershirt covered by his red jersey jacket and tan pants. Of course he did find the decency to not wear his favorite slippers instead slipping into a pair of black converse he had laying around.

"First date in….uh...long time let's just say and you wear the same thing you wear everyday. Poor Konoha," Momo sighed.

Shintaro frowned, but looked at his clothes again. Was Momo right?

'Course not, this isn't even a date remember?' a harsh voice told him in his head.

'But….what if Konoha got all dressed up...and here I am looking like…..this?' chided another, softer, voice.

"I say here's what you should do..Shintaro? Hey!," Momo calls to him, but Shintaro says nothing back.

He doesn't even realize he'd been moving at all until he felt himself back on the soft cushion of his warm bed. He folds himself back into a "burrito" of sorts as he covered himself in his various blankets.

He couldn't help but be a bit peeved at himself. Since when did he care if Momo pointed out his less that stellar use of fashion?

'Since Konoha asked you on a date'

Since when did he care what he wore outside?

'Since Konoha asked you on a date'

Since when the hell did he care about how Konoha saw him'

'Since Konoha asked you on a date'

"Argghhh," Shintaro groaned tossing in his bed.

And so that's how he spent the next hour with his eyes scrunched as he endlessly argued with himself.

Ayano tapped her foot as she stared at Shintaro. She'd been almost in disbelief that Shintaro would agree to a date with anyone; he'd always been too anti-social or maybe just too disinterested to do so. She came over having the plan to cheer her good friend on for his first date, but instead was met with this.

Ayano couldn't suppress a small giggle.

"Well I can't say I didn't expect this," she said.

She didn't give Shintaro a chance to say anything back before she grabbed a hold of the soft covers then flung them into the air no longer able to conceal Shintaro's body. A distressed yelp ripped from Shintaro's throat as he scrambled to get the covers back only to crawl right off the edge of the bed. He groaned as his body collided with his unforgiving floor. Opening his eyes, he found Ayano standing over him with an ever so delighted smile.

"Are you ready to stop being so mopey?," she asked with a tilt of her head.

Shintaro said nothing causing Ayano to shake her head.

"I'll help you if you just comply," she went on to say.

Shintaro stayed true to his silence, but after a moment nodded his head with a sigh.

"Good, now come on I'm sure you're almost late and knowing Konoha…..," Ayano trailed off not having to remind Shintaro of how bad Konoha's worry tendencies could be.

Shintaro could clearly remember the last time Konoha had gotten separated from Hibiki and Hiyori for only ten minutes and was already reduced to tears - with his upper lip quivering rapidly- only for him to practically entrap the two in a bone crushing hug when the kids came back to him with more or less confused faces.

Shintaro took the outstretched hand Ayano had offered him allowing him to stand up still dressed in his normal clothes.

"See what I was saying? There's no way he can go see Konoha in….well that," Momo waved up and down at Shintaro.

"Sorry I don't happen to be an idol that just gets handed clothes on a whim," Shintaro snapped causing Momo to pout at her elder brother.

"Buutt I know you have something a bit nicer," Ayano butted in.

"He/I do?," the Kisaragi siblings asked in disbelief.

Ayano started rummaging around Shintaro's closet with her tongue poking out of her lips and eyes furrowed. Her eyebrows lowered more every time her hand grabbed onto an object only to find it was just another black shirt or empty soda can. How and why did Shintaro need so many smashed cola cans in his closet was none of her concern (at the moment). Almost ready to give up on her search, Ayano plunged her hand inside of piled junk one more time though this time she felt familiar material held together with a zipper in the middle. She pulled her arm out immediately coming out with her, a jacket; oddly enough, a jacket Shintaro wasn't familiar with.

"With how much money we spent on these I can't believe you don't wear it…..it's amazing it's still clean Shin," Ayano said with obvious astonishment lacing her voice.

'Money? huh…..oh it's that thing' Shintaro remembered.

In Ayano hands was another stab at the Mekakushi Dan's attempt at being discount power rangers. The jacket itself wasn't all bad; It was a mixed color with half being red including the whole hood and the other being white with random lines of red here and there. Every member of the cafe got one-of course with their own assigned color. While Shintaro had worn it once under the encouraging gaze of Ayano, he didn't care to wear it again seeing as he felt more relaxed in his plain jersey and he had zero desire to be part of said discount power ranger group.

But damn with the situation he was in, the jacket was looking better with every blink of his eyelids.

Momo watched with wide eyes as he brother actually accepted the jacket without a fuss. He removed his beloved jersey and let it fall to the bed. As Shintaro pulled on the jacket, Ayano had also handed him a pair of black jeans. When all was said and done Shintaro looked...presentable. To Momo this was already amazing, so might as well not ruin it.

"I have to say, I approve on this one," Momo thumbed up.

"Hmm….but don't you think somethings missing?," prompted Ayano.

"What now?," Shintaro groaned.

Ayano giggled and unwrapped her signature red scarf from around her neck saying," Nothing bad Shin, just some good luck let's say".

Shintaro stood stunned while he allowed Ayano to wrap the scarf around his neck. His neck instantly felt warmer and a sweet nectar like smell that could only be described as Ayano filled his nose. He had to admit he did feel calmer; like his friend would be helping him the whole way.

"Perfect"

Besides the nauseating sunlight blaring down on him and the annoyingly sweet laughs of children clogging up his ears, Shintaro actually found himself excited to go out. After that left his thoughts though he was sure that the world was going to end because he was Shintaro Kisaragi and nothing about going outside should please him. At least it shouldn't, but then he looks forward and sees Konoha's large form sitting on one of the benches in the park. His face looked delightfully excited as he fed crumbs to the pigeons walking around his feet. Shintaro paused his walking as he felt his heart do something peculiar. It was like it stopped for a split second, skipping a beat was it called?

'Guess I'm still nervous' Shintaro inhaled in taking in more of Ayano's familiar scent from her scarf.

Shintaro didn't get a chance to walk any further before Konoha turned his head over to him. Upon seeing him, Konoha jumped up causing the pigeons to fly off. Blinking, Shintaro watched Konoha jog over to him slowly but surely gaining momentum until he jumped into the air. Shintaro tried to move back, but it was too late. Konoha had already fell onto Shintaro pushing the shorter boy back onto the ground.

"K-konoha," Shintaro groaned with scrunched eyes.

His left eye flickered open so he could look up. Konoha sat happily on top of him. A light smile tugged on the white haired boy's lips that reached up to his reddish eyes. Ah there it was again- that weird pause in his heart beat. Man, what is wrong with him today?

With confusion and slight embarrassment battling each other in his mind, Shintaro was too out of it to notice his giant of a friend leaning down slowly. 'Maybe I really am sick? I should've never let Ayano talk me into this. Why just-huh?'. The pause in Shintaro's thoughts were caused by the feeling of something warm and strikingly soft against his cheek. 'Lips' his mind supplied '...Konoha's lips?'

On instinct Shintaro shoved his way up bumping his head against Konoha's in the process. The two grabbed their own hands with mild pain pounding from the middle of their foreheads. Konoha looked more like a kicked puppy than anything with his sudden tight lipped frown.

"D-did I not do it right?," Konoha questioned.

"What? Do what right?," Shintaro asked back.

Konoha tapped his fingers together," The kiss….on dates you're suppose to kiss each other right? Mary told me so. She said even though people kiss each other on the lips it's okay to kiss on the cheek if you're new to it….and I've never….."

Shintaro's face flared up with heat and he didn't want to even think about what his face looked like at the moment. He sighed while averting his eyes from Konoha.

"N-no, it was fine…..it was nice….," he grumbled," just warn a guy first"

It should be considered comical how quickly that sentence changed Konoha's whole demeanor one again. His frown flipped back into his ever so ecstatic smile.

"Konoha?," Shintaro prompted after a moment of silence.

"Yes?," Konoha perked up.

"...Can you please get off of me now….people are….people are starting to look," Shintaro said as bits and pieces of conversation about them became more louder.

"Are they shooting a movie?"

" Live action anime? Look at the guy, he's totally in cosplay"

"Must be a BL those are becoming popular now a days"

"Ah the youth of the day"

Shintaro could die.

After the fiasco in the park Shintaro was able to walk to the theatre with Konoha freely (seriously, they were stuck in the park for some time trying to explain to everyone that his friend tended to be a little too touchy feely and no they're not filming a boy's love live action movie).

"So, what movie are we seeing anyway? You said you already got tickets," Shintaro wondered.

"Mhm," Konoha fished his pockets to bring up two tickets," it's to the new movie Shinigami Record, I thought you might like it".

"Shinigami...Record," Shintaro repeated,"...I think I've heard of it...oh wait no I remember"

Some time ago, while searching through the vast space of the internet, Shintaro had came across a movie trailer for the aforementioned movie. From what he could gather, it was about a snake goddess - at least the way she was portrayed made her out to look so - that fell in love with a human. Seemed like another bullcrap love story that his sister would fawn over rather than himself (and yet that doesn't annoy him at all when he reminds himself this was Konoha's idea).

"That's okay right Shin?," Konoha spoke up.

"Y-yeah," was Shintaro's quick reply.

Thankfully, the walk to the movies was uneventful at best. No one was staring at them anymore (well maybe a few that paused to gawk at Konoha's choice of clothing). Konoha did insist on holding his hand though. With that puppy dog face of his he pleaded over and over before Shintaro had no choice to give in. Let it be known that Shintaro would never admit how nice it actually felt. Konoha's hand was much larger than his own, so it felt like a warm mitten that wrapped around his hand. Maybe this date would actually have hope.

At least it did have hope until Konoha ordered food for them. The look on the movie employee's face will forever be embedded in his mind as he took down Konoha's order.

"Ah….I'll have…..five hot dogs, two jalapeno dogs, three large popcorns, an icee, oh you sell corn dogs? three of those then, three packs of sour patch and uh…..," Konoha paused in his ramble to glance at Shintaro," a large cola for Shin! The biggest cup you have!".

Is it considered bad if Shintaro just collapsed right there?

'That's it, there's no way I'll make it through this movie at this rate' he scratched his head. Shintaro exhaled while leaning back a bit only to hit a wall….no wait not a wall that's a person.

He was going to apologize, key word in that phrase being was because looking up he met with mischievous yellow eyes and a smooth voice that greeted him with a ," Well hello there Shin, I didn't think I'd be meeting you here. How adorable do you look~?"

Oh no

Oh God no.

If Ayano's scarf had even the slightest hint of luck this would not - could not- happen.

"Shin? My my you're so stunned you're speechless. I have to say that's a feat even for me," the voice continued to speak on.

Shintaro felt - he didn't want to admit it but warm- arms wrapped around his midriff and hugged him tight so he couldn't go anywhere.

"K-Kuroha? What the hell are you doing here?," Shintaro hissed. Couldn't he just worry about getting through a day with Konoha? Why did he have to worry about the snake too?

"Heh, I'm not bashful so I'll tell ya' the truth Shin, I was just curious about your date," Kuroha said.

"Does a day go by when you wake up and decide not to make my life more harder than it already is, leech," Shintaro groaned.

"Fraid not Shin," Kuroha smirked showing off his oddly sharpened teeth.

"...Shintaro?," another voice brought Shintaro back to his other predicament: Konoha.

Konoha was standing in front of the too with his hands filled with all kinds of lovely junk food and holding a large cola in his hand. His childish face shone with confusion. Kuroha inspected the other from head to toe with a less than impressed expression.

"You Konoha?," Kuroha asked.

Slowly, Konoha nodded his head.

"Hmph really Shin," Kuroha shook his head then smirked at Konoha," listen buddy, thanks for bringing Shin here and everything. I'll be taking him off your hands now"

"What?"

"Layman's terms this little date you have going on, is now mine and Shin's date," Kuroha reiterated.

That drove the nail into the wood for Konoha (who was finally catching on to Kuroha's intentions). He shifted all the food to one arm -how strong was he to lift that much in one hand like it was air?- then set it safely on the ground and held out his other hand with palm stretched open wide.

"Give him back...please," Konoha said.

"Hmmm nope," Kuroha denied.

"We're on a date that's suppose to be for two people"

"Yeah two people, Shin and I"

The banter went back between the two for minutes that felt more like painstaking hours. The two acted like children at best fighting over a toy. Actually seeing Kuroha so childish was quite amazing; if he wasn't the one in the middle of it he might take the time to laugh at the black haired boy. Finally, something else snapped in Konoha as the hand that was so patiently waiting to be handed Shintaro reach out and grab his arm. Kuroha countered by grabbing on the other arm before Shintaro could be ripped away from his hold.

It became a pseudo match of tug of war. Ironically that was Shintaro's least favorite game and it wasn't anymore tolerable when acting as the rope between the two man-children. What could possibly make it any worse was the fact of how strong they both were. Shintaro thought no one could match Kono's strength, yet Kuroha was holding his own quite well; it didn't do wonders on Shintaro's body though. It felt as though his arms were going to rip off any second and God he actually had to close his eyes and bite his lip to muffles and cries of pain that might slip out.

Just when he swore his arms were going to pop off like a doll, an all familiar "Shintaro!?" came from the entrance of the theatre.

The two pony-tailed boys lessened their hold on Shin to look towards the newcomer. Black hair with those grayish brown eyes and the eye catching spot like birthmark under his right eye, there was no mistaking; even more so made unmistakable when a much shorter girl stopped next to him with black twin tales and an almost bored yet almost pissed out expression that was her natural or "default" face.

God strike him now for ever listening to Ayano.

"It actually is Shintaro," Takane- the girl with the perpetually pissed off look- commented," do I even want to know what situation you've gotten yourself in this time?"

While she talked she pointed to both Konoha and Kuroha. Seeing Konoha's face must have sparked some recognition for the two as Takane's mouth opened in an O formation and Konoha's eyes opened wider.

"Ah, hello Ene," Konoha looked from Takane to Haruka," you must be on a date too"

It took one milli-second for Takane's face to flush a deep red just at the word date. Then, it took a total of five seconds to tackle Konoha to the ground; Shintaro was only thankful he did get taken down with him. Takane was attempting some sort of glare. Said glare lost it's impact between her gaudy blush and obvious embarrassment.

"N-not a date, N-not e-even close, UNDERSTAND?!," Takane yelled.

"Y-yes," Konoha looked on the verge of bursting into tears any second.

During Takane's "Tsundere freakout", Haruke took the time to greet Shintaro properly.

"Shin, I didn't expect to see you here," Haruka smiled then looked at Kuroha," are you a friend of Shin's?"

"Tch, like hell I am. I'm his boyfriend," Kuroha rolled his eyes not giving even an ounce of politeness Haruka had shown him back," we were getting our date started before you guys butted in".

"W-what?," Haruka's face twisted into a mix of confusion, suprised, along with something else Shintaro couldn't place.

Though Shintaro was more interested in what the mysterious third expression was, he did take his now free arm to slap Kuroha ( the height difference was too much though resulting being akin to a swat right to the middle of his face).

"Hauka, pay no attention to this idiot, I'm not a date nor dating this pompous asshole," Shintaro said.

"Right I forget, Shintaro would rather take that weakling on a date," Kuroha hissed and pointed at Konoha.

The second of relief that brightened Haruka's face darkened once again.

"I see…," Haruka mumbled," well I'm so sorry we dropped in our you like this"

"Don't worry, it's really not what you think," Shintaro waved.

Silence fell over the three as only the background arguing (was Takane still yelling at Konoha?) was the only thing to be heard.

"So...Shin what movie are you going to see?," haruka broke the Silence.

"Oh, uhm Shinigami Record," Shintaro said.

"What luck so am I~," Kuroha smiled.

Shintaro glared up at Kuroha. 'More like you probably stalked me to make sure we went to the same movie like the weirdo you are' he thought.

"Uh same," Haruka said making Shintaro freeze once again.

Konoha, Kuroha, and Haruka all going to the same movie that included staying in an enclosed dark room together; Why did that not sound like a good idea in any universe? Kuroha as well looked less than enthused at the prospect. Shintaro felt Kuroha hold even more tightly onto his arm.

'Note to self, never go on another date again Shintaro, this is where it gets you'