Ino was delighted when Sakura told her about the date that would happen on Thursday. Unsurprisingly, she immediately agreed to help her friend to find an outfit for the date. It has always been some kind of a tradition between them: every time one of them had a date they would spend the night before at each other's house to find the right clothes. It usually ended with them staying the whole night, chatting away until the early hours of the morning.

The blonde arrived at 8 pm on Wednesday night, more excited than even Sakura was.

"I'm so happy! I feel like you haven't had a date in ages!"

She wasn't wrong. Ever since she entered medical school, Sakura had to put her love life on hold. With her studies that took most of her time, her friends who wanted to see her and who she wanted to see, she had a choice. And she chose her friends. But now, meeting Shisui, and a few years into her studies, she was convinced that she could manage all of that.

And with Ino being on a happy relationship with their friend Hinata, none of them had a first date in while, so it was no wonder that the tall blonde was so excited.

"Hurry and come in, I've made some burgers already," the pink haired smiled, opening the door a bit more so the Yamanaka could enter.

"Oh, I love you, you know?"

"Of course I do."

After Ino had settled down, they ate their dinner, watching the old Friends serie on Ino's demand.

"So, you know, I've been rewatching Friends for a few weeks now, and since you told me that your date would be a nice, cosy one, I remembered that outfit that Rachel wore on this episode. You know, the one where she was watching Ross' monkey and lost it? She was wearing a white jumper, a pleated skirt and high knee socks? You could totally rock that style and I know that you have at least one white jumper and a pleated skirt on your closet!"

Sakura did remember that episode because she always paid attention of Rachel's style. Even in the nineties, that girls knew how to dress, and in 2019, she still would be considered as stylish with the same clothes. Funny how the style from decades ago always comes back.

"You know, I love that outfit! And I could wear my white sneakers too!"

"Yeah, but you should let your hair down. It's finally getting a bit longer."

"Yeah, sure."

The rest of the night, they spend it watching Friends, choosing the make-up she would be wearing the next day, talking about Ino and Hinata, then about Sasuke and Naruto and when would they finally realize they were both gay and in love with each other?

They fall asleep on Sakura's couch, the laptop's light putting them to sleep.

When they woke up, they took a nice and healthy breakfast. After a nice hot shower, Sakura packed her clothes in a bag, planning to put them on before her last class and chose a nice comfy outfit for the rest of the day. Ino gave her a big kiss on the cheek before departing, wishing her good luck with the "sexy detective Uchiha."

Sakura was grateful when her day of class passed fast and without any drama. She changed into her date clothes in the University's bathroom before going into Dr. Orochimaru's class. When she entered the classroom, the professor wasn't there yet even though the room was full with students. The pink haired woman found an empty seat next to one of other friends from the uni and hurried there.

"Hi, Cee! It's been a while, how are you doing?"

The blond smiled at her, making room for her on the desk. "Yeah, it's been a while. I've been sick with the flu for two weeks."

"Ah, tough luck. You okay now?"

"Yeah, I am." He then looked at her from head to toes, "Are we back in the nineties or something?"

"Let's just say that I shouldn't be watching Friends anymore."

Dr. Orochimaru finally entered the class, his sole presence making the whole room going silent. The Dr. Orochimaru was a very strange person who was creeping anyone out. Sakura never asked him any questions when there was something she didn't understand, preferring asking another professor. This man really scared her, and she would rather never do anything that could put his attention on her.

This class was two hours long, and even Cee's warm presence couldn't make the time go faster. Maybe it was because she was so impatient for it to be over so she could finally see Shisui again, or because she was checking her watch every minute, or because, somehow, Dr. Orochimaru was even more in a bad mood than ever before, but this last class of the day was pure torture.

Still, Sakura made sur that she took notes of everything that the professor said. She would be damned if she were to mess up this class. She would have to work hard if she wanted to stay under the Dr. Tsunade Senju tutelage.

When Orochimaru finally dismissed them, Sakura quickly put her things in her bag, told Cee goodbye and was out of the door before the man could answer her.

Sakura found Shisui quickly. He was leaning on his car, watching as the crowd of students was leaving the campus. She couldn't help but smile when she saw him, dressed in jeans and a nice shirt and well kept Timberland shoes on his feet. He looked confident at first glance, but as she got closer, she could see him fidgeting a little, as if he was nervous. She thought it was cute.

The smile that appeared on his lips when he spotted her made her smile wider and she skipped a little at the end to join him.

"Hi," she breathed.

"Hi! You look really nice."

She blushed a little at his compliment, bitting her lower lips to stop herself from smiling even wider.

"Thank you. You look handsome too."

He smiled once again, and she felt herself melt. "Shall we go, then?" he opened the passenger's car door for her and with a smile as a thank you, she let herself in the car.

Sakura has been a little nervous at first, scared that the trip to the restaurant would be awkward, but they easily fell into conversation. Shisui asked her how her day went, and she was happy to tell him. She asked him about his day in return, and he told her that they had a hard time on a case at the police station. Sakura knew that these kinds of things were confidential, so she didn't press when he didn't explain further.

When they arrived at the restaurant, Sakura was happy to see a small, cozy restaurant, with very few people. The staff were really nice and welcoming and took them to a nice table, filled with light garlands.

The night couldn't have gone better in Sakura's opinion. They had talked for hours until the restaurant had to close. The food has been delicious and affordable, and she insisted on splitting the bill in two. When Shisui took her home, she invited him in for a cup of tea and a hot chocolate for herself.

They talked again for hours. She told Shisui about her childhood with Naruto and Sasuke, how she befriended Ino a few years after meeting the boys, how, in middle school, Naruto and Sasuke had a big fight and Sasuke distanced himself from them for two long years. She confided in a teasing voice that she suspected that the both of them were starting to realize their romantic feelings for each other back then, and that that fight was the result of some sexual tension. She lamented that they still weren't together but that she was working on it. It made the detective laugh because he suspected something between the two of them too, as did Itachi.

She also told him about her studies. How she met Tsunade Senju and how she was doing an internship under her tutelage. She told him the silliest thing, like how she suspected Dr. Orochimaru to be a criminal, doing the worst experiments during his free times.

She told him how she was closer to Naruto's parents than her own, how she lived with them for most of her high school years. How the mayor, Minato Namikaze, was the housewife in the house, and how happy the home life was in this family.

In return, Shisui told her how he was practically adopted into Itachi and Sasuke's family after his own parents died. He told her how it was growing with his two cousins, how Sasuke had the biggest brother complex ever, how he used to follow him around at a point — which made the pinkette laugh so hard because she couldn't imagine Sasuke following someone around like a chick.

He told her about the things that made him want to become a detective, how the case of his parent's death was never resolved, which made him want to bring peace to the families of the victim by giving them the story around the death of their child, mother, father or siblings.

They talked about the most random things too: their favorite food, their favorite TV series, their favorite songs, which song they liked to dance on the most, if they put milk or cereals first in their bowls, if they wet their toothbrush before putting the toothpaste on…

They talked until the sun rose and Shisui slowly closed the distance between them and asked in a breathe, "Can I kiss you?"

And it made Sakura very emotive for some reason, because no one has ever asked for permission and it shook her that Shisui was actually waiting for her answer, not moving, not coming closer, just waiting for her to say yes or no.

And because she has been imagining this moment every day since meeting him, because she wanted him to kiss her, she nodded.

Meeting him halfway, their lips met in a very sweet and soft kiss. It lasted only a few seconds before they separated.

They looked at each other for a moment, neither talking and met again for another kiss.

One kissed turned into two. Then a third and a fourth. She quickly lost count once there were tongues involved, and she didn't remember when she took her jumper off, but she didn't mind at all. All she could think of was Shisui, and his kisses, his touches, and how she wouldn't have said no if things were to escalate further.

That is, if her alarm clock didn't ring at the exact moment she was going to take Shisui's shirt off.

Sakura realized that she was in her bra —with the rest of her clothes still on — but she wasn't ashamed of embarrassed at all, especially with the way Shisui was looking at her.

They both laughed and Sakura gave him one last kiss. "I cant' believe we talked all night."

"Yeah, it's already time to go to work."

He took her in his arms, neither wanting to move from their spot. Shisui was warm, and she wanted to stay like this all day. Especially when she hadn't slept at all and her day at university was going to be very tiring.

Shisui has dropped Sakura in front of the campus, envious that she had the chance to change clothes, unlike him. He was going to get teased like hell at work, but the night he just spent with Sakura was worth it.

They shared a few lingering kisses in his car before Sakura had to get to her class, and Shisui didn't want to make her late.

"I'll call you tonight."

"I'll wait for your call, then."

And when she smiled at him, it was blinding him.

When he arrived at work in the same clothes as the day before, he only got a raised eyebrow from Itachi, but Genma and his other colleagues weren't so nice and teased him all day long.

It was a long day, and he was very tired when the night finally came, but when he thought of the night before, and when he heard Sakura's voice as she picked her phone up, he was very happy.

Hi!

I'm sorry I'm late, it's been a really busy month, I didn't have vacation this summer, thanks to the internship I'm doing for the end of my studies. But it's okay, because I actually like what I'm doing there, even though I have a shitty schedule and that I come home at 8:30 pm and all I do when I come back is eat, take a shower and then watch an episode of a serie before going to sleep.

I still can't wait to have a normal schedule again, but I have amazing co-workers who love to make jokes and I laugh every day at work.

So, here is the chapter, a bit late, and I'm sorry. But I think it's the longest chapter yet! Not long for normal standards, but still.

Here is the first date! I'm sorry that there isn't more dialogues, I felt like it was better to describe it, it felt more natural than forces dialogues, you know?

I hope you enjoyed it! Please, let me know what you thought!

And again, if there are mistakes, I'm sorry.

Alexiessan.