Chappie 8!!! Yay!! Sry the update took so long!!! This is my best Kodocha Story I think! Yay!! Must make long chappie...dunno if I even can but that's ok... whatever... I love short chappies!!! Lalalalalalalala..... lalala....lalala... you probably don't wanna listen to my bad singing anymore, so byebye! Lalalalalalalalalalala... did that glass just crack? I'd better stop

Why are you still looking at my a/n?? GO READ MY STORY!!!!

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Rai's View

Rai stared in shock at Naozumi, her eyes wide open.

"But... you are Naof-" she broke off with a sigh. How could I have been so stupid? Sana and Akito probably sent him after me or something, she thought to herself.

"What's wrong? Is it such a bad thing that I'm Naozumi?" he asked.

"Yes. Ok, I'm fine! I don't need you!" she shouted, her voice cracking. She ran back into the hotel room and shut the door with a slam, leaving Naozumi's surprised face.

Naozumi's View

What was up with Rai? He had come all the way there to visit her and she slams the door in his face. He growled at the door, and then gave a loud sigh.

"I don't know what your problem is! I just came to say hi!" he yelled into the door, then stomped away. Suddenly he heard a small voice.

"Why did you come here?"

"To say hi! Why else?"

"Never mind. I'm so sorry. Come in."

Naozumi stared at Rai's face. This time his expression was one of surprise.

Rai' View

What should she say to him? What could she say? She had no idea why he would be here. He hardly knew her! Why would he come to say hi? She looked at him shyly. Come on, think! When the words came out of her mouth, she was not impressed by them.

"Um, do you want, um, something to drink?"

"Sure," he replied his voice friendly. She went to the kitchen, glad for an excuse to be 5 more steps away from him.

"So, what do you, um, want to talk about?"

He laughed cheerfully.

"Anything! Tell me about yourself"

"What do you want to know?" she asked. What was the point of him coming here?

"What are your hobbies?"

"Well, I don't really have any hobbies"

"Then what do you like to do? Are you just a couch potato?" he said with a laugh.

"I guess, I like to draw."

"Really? Can I see one of your drawings?"

"Um, sure." She walked over to her suitcase and rummaged through it. Finally, she pulled out a light blue notebook. She walked over to Naozumi, and he peered over her shoulder. She stepped to the side slightly and turned to the first picture.

It was a beautiful scene, blue waves lapping up onto the beach, and a bright blue sky.

"It's beautiful!" Naozumi said enthusiastically.

Rai gave a shy giggle. "It's sort of my dream land," she said softly.

The next picture was of Sana, a bright smile on her face. Although Sana had been competition for Rai, and they hadn't really been friends, Rai had always admired her.

Naozumi nodded. "It looks exactly like her."

The next picture was of a tree. You could tell it was young, but it was keeling over slightly, surrounded by big strong trees that blocked the sunlight.

Naozumi nodded again. "Poor tree..." he said. Rai laughed. As she flipped to the next page, she tried to skip it, saying that there wasn't any more pictures.

"What was that last one?" He took the book from her hands, while she blushed furiously.

He flipped to the page and it was a picture of himself. It had smudged eraser marks all over it, each line seeming to have been worked on until it was perfect. It showed Naozumi standing tall, gazing off into the distance. His chin was at a determined angle. Naozumi slowly turned to Rai.

"Why did you draw me?"

Rai sighed.

"I-I'm not sure," she said slowly. She turned slowly to look up into his eyes. His gaze was intense.

"You drew me, and you didn't draw Akito? You drew me but not the one you love?"

Rai looked down at her feet again. Her face was bright red, and her eyes watering.

"I don't know why. Maybe-maybe I've just been as blind as Sana as to how I feel. I think, maybe, I wanted what Sana wanted, so I could maybe, for once prove that I could have something she didn't have." She broke down into tears with the last word.

Naozumi put his arms around her, holding her gently.

"Does that mean," he asked slowly. "You love me?"

"I don't know," Rai said, her voice shaking.

"I really don't know. I think I must, but I didn't want to love you, because you are, well, I hate to say this but you are what Sana doesn't want. I didn't want to love you, because, Sana didn't want you to love her. I didn't want to take Sana's trash."

Naozumi's touch suddenly became stiff.

"You think that all I am is Sana's trash? I'm a person, Rai! I have feelings too! How can you be so shallow as to base your feelings around Sana's feelings?"

Rai tried to stop her tears.

"Notice that I was speaking in the past tense. Naozumi, of course you aren't Sana's trash. I-I know that I love you now, even though I hardly know you. I just felt like I was always in Sana's shadow, taking only what she leaves behind."

"But Rai, you are a different person then Sana! You have a completely different personality, and you really don't look much like her at all in my opinion! Be your own person! Listen to your own heart!" Naozumi said, his voice becoming more passionate

"But how can I? I am in Sana's shadow! I am just part of the background. Does anyone really care about me? I mean, two babies on a bench, I wasn't even noticed! I will never really be my own person Naozumi. There is nothing I can do."

(ok ok...I know the baby thing is completely unbelievable...but this is MY story! I'm not sure if I even want it, but that's ok.)

"So how will I know if you really love me? Are you using me like Sana used me? I can't stand this anymore! Does everyone have to be so selfish? Nobody understands that I'm a person too!"

With these words he stomped out of the hotel, back to his own house.

Once he was gone, Rai flopped face down in her bed, loud wrenching sobs shaking her figure. She had ruined it. She had finally realized she loved Naozumi and she had messed it up completely.

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I know, another really short chapter. I think I have writers block...cuz this took me forever to write! I couldn't think of a plot! Ok, now, I LOVE REVIEWS! Im to lazy to answer them right now...but that's too bad. O yeah, and by the way, the reason this update took so long is cuz I went to CANCUN!! It was really fun!!!!! The beaches are perfect there omigod! And I swam with dolphins for the first time in my life!! IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!