Disclaimer: I own nothing InuYasha.

Author Note: You guys know how I have so many ideas and always end up with a new story so here's a new story but I'm continuing to work on my other stories as well. I just finished a chapter of Forgotten and am 1/3 of the way through Misunderstood. Oh, and I got the title from the Skid Row song because, well, I'm a Skid Row junkie and really needed to write a story with one of their songs. So this story is officially dedicated to Skid Row! :)

I'll Remember You

Chapter One

Summer days were when I came to life, when everything changed for me. Things were no longer bad and everything that had ever gone wrong was set aside because I didn't have time to pay attention. School was out and the beach and late nights were in. I was finally a senior in high school, much to my relief, and I was about to take my first road trip with my friends to the beach.

Kagome Higurashi is probably my closest friend. I've known her since forever and she has the absolutely sweetest personality. Her looks were plain with raven hair and chocolate eyes but she managed to stand out and appear more than beautiful. Sango was my second closest friend. It was hard to say that she couldn't have been my best friend since she was tough and brave and athletic (traits we both shared) but she scarred me from when we were younger. She used to claim I was an Irish wolf demon and that she was a demon slayer. Let's just say for little kids things between us got pretty bloody and maybe that's why we're such good fighters now, because of experience.

Our bags were packed and we were more than ready to hit the road. Gramps wasn't too excited about the idea, nor were the parents of the other girls but they knew it would be the last time we were all together before college and the natural way of life began to tear us apart. The part that made my heart cringe and flutter at the same time was the fact that three boys would be tagging along with us (which we failed to mention to the guardians). There was InuYasha, who basically claimed Kagome and had to be so different that he died his black hair silver and always wore amber contacts. Miroku was crazy about Sango, even though she refused to get too close with him. Koga was... well, everything to me and nothing all the same.

Koga Lee Ookami stands at 6'3'' with long black hair that he always pulls into a ponytail and the most intense blue eyes on his wolfish face. His body is lean and muscular with broad shoulders and bulging arms and an unmistakably sexy arch in his back that made his butt look more amazing. He was the cool, quiet, older one of the group. He was already in college, enlisted in our hometown university. Shakian University was where Kagome, InuYasha, and Sango would be attending. Miroku was going about an hour away and I was moving across the sea to practically the whole other side of the world to Pennsylvania. In reality, our group wasn't breaking up. It was a congratulations trip for them and final farewell to me.

With all of our necessary belongings loaded away in Sango's mother's van we were ready to check into the hotel rooms as soon as possible. The night was dark when we set off, since we thought it would be more fun to drive in the dark and we'd be meeting up with the boys. Sango and Kagome were dead set on hooking Koga and I up before the end of the summer, when we'd head back home and I'd be saying goodbye to everybody.

I wasn't going to return for the breaks because it would be too expensive and I'd have to be working my butt off with making a living. I was starting a life farther away then anybody ever imagined and that's the way I liked it: to myself and without the help from anybody around. I was moving onto my future after this summer, I didn't need reminders of my past.

The moon was full and glowing alone in the pitch black sky. Not even the sparkling stars dared to dance around the intense beauty. In mere minutes we were pulled into InuYasha's driveway and Kagome, in the passenger seat, eagerly jumped out to greet the three boys. Sango followed shortly after but I didn't move, I just stayed in the van with my forehead pressed against the window with my flame-colored hair flowing down to my elbows. I didn't even look towards the group but kept my forest green eyes locked on the moon. It was something there to mock me, something so wonderful but I could never have it, never touch it.

The door slid open and I felt a presence beside me but I didn't turn to see. "Ayame, are you okay?" Kagome's small voice asked and I knew she was concerned about me. I didn't want her to worry or think about me though; it would only hurt her more in the end when she never saw me again. "It's not the end after this, I promise. I'll be calling you and emailing you and Myspacing you and it'll be like you never left. I'll be sure to visit, too." She offered but we both knew that those promises would last a year, maybe two, and then fall flat.

"I'm perfectly fine, Kagome." I replied honestly as I turned to look at her. "I think too much for my own good, I guess."

"Kagome," InuYasha popped his head in the open door of the van, "hey Ayame; look, you're going to ride with me Kagome and in exchange I'm giving Miroku and Koga to Ayame and Sango since the van has a lot more space."

"Okay, that sounds like a good idea." Kagome beamed.

"You guys should date." I said quietly in my flowing soft voice. They both turned to look at me, both blushing a little. I smiled and continued. "I'd like to see you guys get together before I leave, you two are too cute together to not be together. It's obvious you both like each other but seriously, please just get over this friendship ordeal and start dating like you both know you want to."

"We'll think about it, for you Ayame." InuYasha smiled boyishly at me. He held out his hand and ducked his head as he backed away and helped Kagome climb out of the van. Koga climbed in to fill her space and Miroku transferred the last of our bags over to the back of InuYasha's truck before climbing in the passenger seat.

I turned to Koga, "The original plan was to lie down but I'm not sure if you'd want to. The original plan was that Kagome would crawl back here and sleep so we wouldn't have this whole awkward situation but we do."

"That's fine, I'll still to my side." He assured we pulled a lever on either side and pushed the back of the seat down to make a bed with the covers having already been preplaced on the seats. I handed him a pillow and took one myself as I laid down, my feet closet to the very back of the van, so I could still look at the forlorn sky.

I know it shouldn't have mattered, shouldn't have hurt, but I was leaving all of my friends behind. All of the memories I had made with them and all the inside jokes would vanish into thin air. We were going to grow up and go our separate ways. High school was so much further out of my reach than I ever thought it would be and I couldn't help the silent tears that were running down my soft cheeks. I didn't think he noticed but he apparently did since he slid up close to me and slipped an arm under my neck.

He placed the palm of his large hand on the back of my head and pulled my fact into his chest. I used my right hand to clench his shirt in my fist and reluctantly let the tears keep going. He wasn't doing this in a flirtatious way; he was doing it like he always had because he was my friend. Just like my other friends, Koga would become a part of my past, a piece of the old me I was leaving behind.

My tears didn't turn back time though and I was too tired to know even if they had. The noise I heard that woke me up was the sharp crack of a hand against flesh and I grimaced from how painful it sounded. The sky was a kaleidoscope of colors since the molecules had yet to balance out and there were more colors than even the greatest artist in the world could manage. I smiled at the sight, not realizing it and I felt Koga slightly move and tilted my head up to see him.

He was smiling down at me, looking as perfect as always, and his black hair was out of its usual ponytail. I grabbed a chunk of his silky ink colored hair and played with the tips. This was our friendship; it was odd but understood. Not many people could probably figure it out, many thought we were friends with benefits, but we were just a friendship that was unexplainable. I stopped to arch my back and let out of a soft moan of a yawn.

"Guess what sleeping beauty and the beast, we're here." Miroku announced as he turned to look back at us. "Whoa, aren't you guys a little too lost for friends?"

"You wouldn't understand..."I rolled my eyes as I got on all fours and stuck my tongue out.

"You're completely right but I do understand you have a size D bra yet a size 4 waist and the view from here is quite nice." He wiggled his eyebrows.

I made a disgusted face but giggled as Koga's arm snaked around my waist and pulled me back into his lap since he was now sitting up. I didn't know how Miroku got his information but it was correct and part of me didn't even want to know. None of that mattered anymore though because we were at the beach and in less than an hour we'd be in our hotel rooms and unpacking.

I know, I know, I'm so against these "perfect" girls being displayed nowadays everywhere in the media and it brings down my ego a whole lot (considering even though I'm losing weight it looks like my boobs are shrinking although my bra size hasn't changed and that my hips and everything are getting bigger) but she's a story and I want her to be perfect so yeah. It's my story and I want her to be farfetched and better looking than anybody else. :P