"Now say 'ahh' for me, Ruka," Shizuru said with a small amused smile, as she held a small piece of pink cotton candy up to her date's slightly-pouty lips.

"No. I don't want to and you can't make me, bubuzuke," Haruka replied with a light huff as she crossed her arms over her chest, and turned her face away from the confectionery treat being held up before her lips.

"Aww, but Ruka it tastes so good," Shizuru replied as she put the piece of cotton candy into her mouth, and felt the almost sinful pleasure of the candy melt in her mouth.

Haruka watched Shizuru eat the treat out of the corner of her eye, and found that she had to hold back a soft moan herself, at the sight of Shizuru licking her moist lips clean of a stray sticky piece of cotton candy. Haruka then swallowed a small gulp, as her mind wandered to the thought of licking Shizuru's lips clean for her.

Stop it! Bad thoughts, bad thoughts Haruka. Let's not even go there...yet, the blond found herself thinking as she quickly shook her head, to rid herself of her naughty thoughts.

Shizuru looked over at Haruka with a curious tilt of her head, but Haruka just held up her hand and waved off Shizuru's silent inquiry as to what was on Haruka's mind.

Like I'd ever tell her that, Haruka silently mumbled to herself.

Haruka then cleared her throat a little, before she said in a slightly-grudging tone, "maybe...I will have a bite of that cotton candy. But just a small piece!" Haruka quickly added as she turned to face Shizuru.

Shizuru's garnet-red eyes lit up, as Haruka finally decided to try out some of the confectionery treat that she had chosen for them both to share. For a little while there, she had thought that she had messed up somehow not even an hour into their first 'official' date, and that Haruka really wasn't going to have a good time with her today.

Silly me, Haruka is just being her regular half-grouchy self. I'll just have to work extra hard today to try to get her to come out of her shell. And I think I know a perfect way to start things off, Shizuru thought mischievously to herself.

"Here Ruka, eat this piece," Shizuru said, as she pinched off a small bit from the cone of cotton candy that she held in her hand, and then brought the small piece up to Haruka's lips.

Haruka's violet-coloured eyes opened wide, as she saw Shizuru's finger dancing playfully before her lips. Not being one to back down from anything presented directly before her, Haruka steeled her nerves and not allowing herself to think about it any further, she leaned forward and wrapped her lips around Shizuru's fingers.

Shizuru had to stop herself from letting out a soft gasp at the feel of Haruka's lips wrapped around her fingers, and the feeling intensified within her when she felt Haruka's tongue begin to lick the cotton candy from her fingers.

Haruka almost felt her eyes roll upward into her head, at the taste of Shizuru's candy-covered fingers entered into her mouth. She had to work hard to bite back a low moan, and then she just couldn't resist gently licking the tips of Shizuru's fingers to get the taste of every last bit of candy from Shizuru's fingers.

Finally after what seemed like a small eternity to both parties, but what was really only a few seconds, Haruka slowly pulled back and gently released Shizuru's fingers from her lips.

When she looked back up at the Kyoto-beauty, Haruka was slightly surprised to see a delicate pink blush dusting lightly across Shizuru's cheeks.

Haruka could then feel her own cheeks quickly heating up, and she raised her hand to quickly cover her mouth as she let out a nervous cough into her fist.

"So uhh, let's continue on and see the rest of this festival!" Haruka exclaimed as she looked off to the side in slight embarrassment. She was then slightly surprised when she felt Shizuru lightly loop arms with her, and she looked over at the chestnut-haired girl to see a sweet smile lighting up Shizuru's face.

"Wherever Haruka wants to go, I will be more than happy to follow," Shizuru replied, as she briefly rested her head against Haruka's shoulder, before raising her head and looking straight into Haruka's flustered face.

"Right right! Uhh, this way then," Haruka replied as she tried to get her jangled nerves back under control. She had been mesmerized by the feeling of Shizuru pressed so closely against her, and the look of pleasure and contentment shining in her honey-haired friend's eyes.

Is she really so happy just being out...with me...am I honestly making her so happy...I hope so, because...I'm enjoying being here with her as well, Haruka thought quietly to herself, as she began to lead Shizuru further into the large festival that surrounded them.

They ended up doing many things that day. Like riding around on tea cups that spun quickly around and around in a never-ending circle, that almost had poor Haruka throwing up into the grass by the side of the ride. Shizuru ended up rubbing her back in gentle sympathy.

They then tried something a little more...sedate...with Haruka trying her best to catch Shizuru a goldfish or two, using only a very small poi/scooper and failing miserably at it. Shizuru did her best not to giggle as Haruka got ever more and more infuriated at the quickly darting little fishes. She then had to almost bodily drag Haruka away, when the blond looked like she was about to just start grabbing the poor fishes with her bare hands.

To try to make the blond feel better about her failed fish-catching attempts, Shizuru bought them both a scoop of ice cream. Shizuru's own was green-tea flavoured, which Haruka did her best not to make a face at. Shizuru saw her attempt anyways, and teasingly poked Haruka in her cheek as light 'punishment'.

Haruka felt a light blush stain her cheeks at being caught so easily, and she took a large bite out of her own rocky-road ice cream, and immediately almost bit her tongue off at the massive brain-freeze she suffered as a result.

Shizuru beginning to feel bad at all the seeming misfortune befalling Haruka on their day out, leaned forward and lightly licked some stray ice cream from the corner of Haruka's lips.

This did nothing of course but to cause Haruka's brain to instantly melt, halting the brain-freeze in its tracks, but also causing poor Haruka's temperature to shoot sky high. She ended up squeezing her fist tightly and crushing her cone, causing broken cone and ice cream to drip slowly down her hand.

After making a quick stop at a restroom to clean her up, Shizuru led Haruka out to the one place that she figured the blond would be able to just relax, and fully enjoy the end of their day. The sun was already beginning to set painting the entire park in varying hues of golden light, as the two slowly approached the large ferris wheel situated at the back of the festival. The view from the top would be stunning as the setting sun would coat the city around it with it's fading glow, and the fireworks set to go off would light up the swiftly approaching night sky in beautiful shimmering colours.

As Haruka and Shizuru walked towards the large ferris wheel, Haruka felt her hand start to lightly twitch as she debated with herself on whether or not she should reach out, and hold Shizuru's hand in her own. She had avoided doing it all day so far, not because she didn't want to do it in public. She couldn't care less what others may think. No, she hadn't done it yet because she was terribly shy about it, and wondered if Shizuru herself might have an issue with holding hands in public.

But most of the day had already passed, and they were about to go on their last ride of the day. Haruka had a slight feeling that Shizuru was feeling a little badly about some of the stuff that had happened to her today.

Strengthening her resolve Haruka decisively reached out, and with a light and gentle touch wrapped her fingers around Shizuru's hand, causing the chestnut-haired girl to start slightly as she looked over at Haruka.

Haruka felt a bright blush cover her cheeks but she didn't let go of Shizuru's hand, and in fact lightly tightened her grip on the honey-haired girl's fingers.

Shizuru felt a bright smile pull up the corners of her lips, and she lightly squeezed Haruka's fingers back.

Haruka felt a satisfied grin work its way onto her face, and she opened her mouth to make a small comment on how much she had enjoyed her day out with Shizuru, when an unexpected and unwelcome voice suddenly cut through the air before the walking pair.

"Well well, Natsuki. It seems that we weren't the only ones who decided to come out to the festival today," the coy voice of Nao spoke up, as Shizuru and Haruka looked forward to see both Nao and Natsuki standing before them.

Nao was standing in a slightly cocky stance, her arm wrapped tightly around Natsuki's arm, while Natsuki herself was doing everything in her power to look everywhere but at the pair before her.

So, now the two couples stood facing off before each other, one with their hands still tightly clasped, the other their arms connecting them to one another, the slowly setting sun playing witness to the charged silence that swiftly descended upon them all.

AN – Hope you all enjoyed this chapter! Please review to let me know what you all thought~! =3