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Misao woke up that morning when she felt a finger rubbing up and down her arm and knew exactly who it belonged to. She snuggled closer to him and breathed in his wonderful scent. She opened her eyes to look up to gaze at Aoshi. Not surprised to find him awake, Misao again, like every morning she slept over, asked, "What's wrong Aoshi?"

And like every time, he answered the same. "Nothing." In the same monotone voice. But she knew he wasn't. Instead of starting an argument again, she snuggled closer to him. But it didn't last. She felt him trying to get up and like every other time, she tried to hold him down. But he got up anyway. Grumbling, she flipped to her side and watched him walk to the bathroom and close it.

Misao sighed, knowing that there was nothing she could do. Before, she would wake up next to her sleeping boyfriend, Aoshi, watching him sleep. She'd spend nights watching him sleep. She'd kiss him, sometimes waking him up. Sometimes, she'd even wake up to find his grey green eyes watching her sleep. Even though Aoshi never did talk much, and probably never would, she knew he loved her. But now, everything was different. She'd wake up to find him awake and staring at the ceiling. And now he hardly talked at all. Misao knew something was up, she just wasn't sure what or how to get Aoshi to open up to her.

At first they had started out friends, they had shared a special bond. Both of their parents had died, and they had both been raised by the same man. But soon that bond had grown even more bright and tighter. Even though it had token Misao years to earn Aoshi's trust, she did. They soon became more than friends. Aoshi was the first to leave. Being two years older than misao, he had left for collage along with the money his parents had left him. It was enough to pay for his collage and more. Aoshi had told misao that when she was done with school, he'd be waiting for her.

But those two years seemed like twenty years instead of two. But finally with Jiva's permission, she packed up her stuff and set out to find him. Knowing actually what collage aoshi went to, Misao surprised herself and others as she made it into the same collage. Misao was able to find a dorm, with a great roommate. It wasn't until two nights later that in the middle of the night, there was a loud knock at the door. Being the deep sleeper she was, her roommate Kaoru had opened the door.

It had been Aoshi. At the sound of his voice, Misao had shoot up in bed. In the door way was Aoshi. She had knocked down Kaoru and jumped on Aoshi. Never had she been that happy in her life. And without thinking, she had kissed him, tongue and all, hugging him to death.

They had gone back to his apartment. They had talked away the whole night, or at least Misao had. Everything had fallen into place after that. She would sleep over at his apartment sometimes and they'd go jogging in the mornings or sometimes she'd walk with him to his classes. Not being the morning type, Misao had signed up for afternoon classes while Aoshi had morning classes.

But most of that had changed. They didn't do all the things they used to do. And god damn it, she was going to find out why.

But how? Aoshi wouldn't talk to her. He didn't talk to anyone. So who would he talk to? Who?... YES

And that was when it hit her. If Aoshi was to talk to someone, it would probably be someone who would listen, someone who wouldn't judge. Not a stranger but maybe a kind homeless person? Misao couldn't help but grin wickedly. Rubbing her hands together in anticipation, she sat up in the king size bed and grinned to herself. Misao and Aoshi always walked to the bus stop together, even though he had more than one car, he enjoyed walking, but anyway, if a homeless person would ask for a dollar, Aoshi would give him ten. One time, Misao had overslept and Aoshi hadn't woken her up so ass she chased down the street for him, she had tripped into some bushed and heard him chatting away with an old homeless guy. Never had she heard so many words come from Aoshi, and he had sounded happy.

Misao was grinning non stop. Even though she knew it would be wrong to deceive Aoshi in such away, she felt like she had no choice left. If Aoshi was hiding something from her than she would find out. Unable to contain herself, Misao started laughing at her well laid out plan.

"Are you alright Misao?" she quickly stopped laughing, forgetting that Aoshi was near. She smiled at him, "I'm fin…" oh? Misao couldn't help but watch him shrug his naked shoulders. God he looked so good. That was one thing in their relationship that hadn't changed. He was still tall and gorgeous. She loved the way his raven hair fall into his eyes, how tall and perfectly built he was, and no matter how monotone his voice could get, it was still sexy. He was all hers. But not for long. If she wanted to keep Aoshi, she had to get him to open up to her.

Misao huffed a determine sigh. She would get Aoshi to open up, even if it meant going against everything she stood for. She had given him the chance to let her in, but now it was her turn.

"Misao?"

Misao almost jumped when she came out of her thoughts to find Aoshi only an inch away from her face.

"Umm…"

"Are you okay"

She couldn't help but smiling at that. He did care. "You do care." She teased, knowing, that Aoshi wasn't one to show affection.

He rolled his eyes and started to move away. Misao wasn't going to let him get away that easily. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him back down.

"Kiss me." She grinned

"Misao, if you…" he began but she cut him off.

"I said kiss me, now!" misao said, closing her eyes and pushed her lips at him, waiting for the kiss she so wanted.

She felt a quick peak on the lips from him.

Angrily, she opened her eyes to look at the expressionless face of her so called boyfriend.

"That's not a kiss, I said to…" but before she could finish, he wrapped her up in his arms and gave her the strong passionate kiss she had wanted, but to her demaze, it only lasted a sec and than before she could grab him, he was out of reach.

"We have to go, or we'll be late." He left the room with those final words.

Now Misao was defiantly determined to get through to Aoshi, no matter what.

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Down the street walked a couple, one a foot taller than the other. Misao loved walking to get breakfast with Aoshi. Every day before Aoshi's classes, they'd go get something to eat before heading to the bus stop.

Like every other day, as they walked, hand in hand, (Misao's doing not Aoshi's), they turned heads, well at least Aoshi did. Misao was used to people looking at them. Aoshi either didn't care or didn't notice.

They proved that opposites do attract. Misao wasn't short but sure as hell couldn't make it in the modeling business. Aoshi was tall, very. She was energetic and was always smiling. She was carefree. Aoshi, on the other hand kept to himself. He was quiet. Misao felt proud to walk down the street hand in hand with Aoshi, even though she had to force him to, she knew that deep down, he liked it. She was sure of that.

They entered the little sandwich shop that they always went to and sat at their usual place in the far corner. They ordered the usual and began eating when their food arrived. And like usual, Misao did most of the talking, and in response, he nodding, as it was a sign that he was listening.

As Misao was finishing her story about how she and another one of her friends had skip classes, she spotted Kaoru running down the street. Misao waved at her as she was walking by, shocked, Kaoru smiled back and turned to come in. at the same time, Misao felt Aoshi get up from her side.

"I need to go, I'll see you later." She watched him pay for the food, gave her a quick kiss on the cheek and left. Aoshi wasn't a people person. As Aoshi left the store, Kaoru sat down across from her, a smile on her face. Misao could tell she was as excited as her. Misao couldn't wait to tell Kaoru about her plan.

"You go first." both girls said before turning into a fit of laughter.

"Alright, guess what just happened." She could tell Kaoru was about to explode.

"What, you got a tattoo?"

"No. Kenshin asked me if I wanted to have diner with him tonight!" both girls shrieked, turning a few heads. They quieted down and tried to calm down.

"He what? Oh my god." Misao couldn't believe it. Kaoru had been chasing Kenshin around fro years, and now he finally had asked her out.

"I know isn't it great? I totally have to go shopping. You have to come. Anyway what about you what up with you." She asked, clearly still excited about her date.

"Okay, you know how Aoshi's all quiet and how I complain about him not opening up?" she asked.

"Yeah…." Now she was getting interested. Misao was always talking about aoshi but something was up.

"Well, I've got a plan."

Misao explained everything to Kaoru, from that morning to how she came up with her plan.

"Are you sure it the right thing to do, I mean wouldn't that be lying to him?" she asked, not sure that that what Misao was planning was right. "I mean, what if he finds out that you lied to him?"

"That's a risk I'm willing to take. Anything to save our relationship." Misao knew her plan would work, it had to.

"Alright, let's go look for my dress and we can see what we can find to disguise you."

Both girls walked out of the store, with bright hopes in their minds.