Shiho approached the door to Yzak's hotel room with her duffel bag over her shoulder. She barely had a chance to ring the bell fully before the door swished open revealing an impatient Yzak.

"How long does it take you to get ready?" Yzak said grumpily.

Shiho raised her eyebrows at him with eyes widening at his little temper tantrum he seemed to be throwing. He was wearing his shirt and pants from earlier, already removing his tie and jacket the moment he entered the room from the visit with Athrun.

"So am I officially on duty or off?" she asked without answering his question.

"Off, why?" he replied walking away from her.

She entered the room and walked up behind him, smacking him gently in the back of the head.

"What the hell was that for?" he asked rubbing his head lightly.

"For being such a pain in the..." she stopped short seeing the death glare Yzak gave her.

"You have some nerve," he yelled back at her.

"Oh would you stop acting like a spoiled brat. I don't have the energy to play these games with you today," she said tossing her bag on the made bed that had been meant for Dearka.

"Whatever," he replied calming down as he tossed himself back on to his unmade bed.

"Look, I'm going to take a shower and relax. Would you like to join me or would you prefer to pout on the bed," she mocked heading toward the bathroom.

It didn't usually take her much to coax Yzak into following her around. For all the times he's made fun of Dearka for acting like a puppy dog around pretty girls, he was no better. He could only thank the heavens that Dearka never saw this weak side of him.

He tossed the remote he had grabbed back on to the table and hurriedly followed Shiho into the bathroom as she turned the dial to shower. He watched her slowly undress from her uniform that she wore down to Aprilius in their little facade they created in order to spend some time alone together without any ship or work related emergencies. Her hand gently moved through her dark brown hair, pulling the maroon scrunchie out and allowing her hair to fall straight down like soft flowing silk.

Yzak moved behind her and began to kiss her neck as she moved one arm around the back of his without turning from her spot. His hands ran down her sides before he gently twisted her toward him. She followed his directive as she always did and faced him. Their lips met almost brutally as the need for one another increased. Her hands began working on the buttons to his shirt, one by one revealing more of his creamy white skin.

Slowly he worked her closer to the shower, neither of them releasing their lips from one another. Once Yzak was able to finish disrobing, they both moved into the warm water and she began to wrap herself around him. He lifted her up against the shower wall as the water flowed over their bodies. They both felt the satisfaction from one another as he kept her pinned against the wall, bodies moving faster and faster.

Her fingernails scratched his pale back leaving red marks as he thrust deep inside of her. She could barely breath, his warm breath tingling her skin. As unnoticeable sweat formed over their bodies and the water temperature rising, Yzak moaned with pleasure until neither of them could keep the rhythm any longer. Their orgasms being more than either of them could handle.

Shiho began to fall limp from the exertion they both put forth as he slowly lowered her from the wall. She kept her arms around his neck and her head on his left shoulder, her legs now feeling weak. He carefully held her up as the water continued to fall on them before he reached over to hit the dial to the off position.

"I think we're wet enough," he said as an obvious innuendo.

Shiho just moaned her agreement not wanting to let go of him. Slowly he bent down slightly making Shiho feel unbalanced until his free arm swooped under the back of her knees to pick her up. He walked her out of the shower motioning for her to grab the towels on their way out of the bathroom. She did as he instructed and allowed him to carry her to the made bed. He gently put her on top of the comforter and began to dry her off with one of the towels, as she lay almost motionless from the event.

He used the other towel to dry himself off a bit before picking her up again and moving her to the bed he had already been lying in before she had arrived. As soon as he put her down and made his way into the bed with her, she moved closer to him and yawned before closing her eyes. Yzak made sure the alarm was set appropriately and hit the light switch off before closing his own eyes.

In the quiet darkness Yzak could hear Shiho's calm breathing as he moved his mouth closer to her ear.

"I really do love you Shiho, even if it doesn't always seem that way," he whispered in an attempt to let her know that he knew his own faults.

"I know you do, even when you are having a fit. And I love you too, even when I give you a hard time about those fits. Goodnight," she said with a small smile that he was unable to see in the pitch-black room.

"Goodnight," he replied with a softness that was rarely heard from his voice.