Title: "10 Different Ways to Say I'm Sorry"

Summary: AxMAU. If High School is filled with heart-ache, imagine collage. Going to college means facing Aoshi Shinomori again. Can Misao really face her past sins? I'm not good at summaries, but this is pretty good.

Disclaimer: I do not own Michelle Branch's Lyrics or rights to the song Goodbye To You. I don't own Rurouni Kenshin. All I own is my T.V.

A/n: This is chapter three. I have gotten a lot of reviews for this, and I would like to thank all my reviewers! THANK YOU! COOKIES FOR ALL LATER! I want to put more Aoshi in this chapter. I'm not sure if they will meet any times soon. It has to be perfect so if you have a suggestion for how they could meet, tell me. On with the story, the song for it is called Goodbye To You, by Michelle Branch. Great song.

Chapter Three: Grateful Hello's, abrupt Goodbyes

I've been searching deep down in my soul
Words that I'm hearing are starting to get old
It feels like I'm starting all over again
The last three years were just pretend
And I said,

Chorus:
Goodbye to you
Goodbye to everything that I knew
You were the one I loved
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
(not all of the song)

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August 4, 2004- Dorm Block D-12:35pm

Misao stood at the foot of her dorm building, staring at its massiveness. She had never seen a place so huge. She glanced at the paper rose that Soujiro had made her before she left the train. She would remember his kindness always. He was just another soul trying to get by with a cheerful mask. Misao reached down, and picked up her blue backpack. It was time to face reality. College life was going to begin.

As she paced the hallways until she found her room. She opened the door and found that her roommate had not shown up yet. Misao sighed with relief. She had not wanted to make friends, not yet.

Misao set down her bag, and glanced around the spacious room again. Suddenly she felt trapped. As if the room was eating her alive. She had to get out. Leaving her backpack where it had fallen Misao walked away quickly. Her footsteps lead her in the direction of the nearest coffee shop. Hot coco was the only cure for claustrophobia, or at least it was for Misao.

Same time as before-Dorm Block C-Room 223

Aoshi stood in the doorway of his room watching his new roommate clean. Interest was flaring in his usually unemotional eyes. Shaking the thoughts of how odd it was to see a full grown man clean, Aoshi walked into the room. He was intent on getting his bag, and leaving before his cleaning roommate saw him. Aoshi, however, was not so lucky. The little redhead saw Aoshi before he could make his escape.

"Hello Aoshi. Where are you headed?" Kenshin asked with a small smile. Aoshi closed his eyes in frustration, and didn't open them until he was sure that his eyes showed no emotion.

"I am going to work out. I will see you later tonight." With that said Aoshi left the room with the grace of a deadly cat. Kenshin merely stared in his wake. Aoshi was a character that was for sure. What kind of character he was, that is the mystery, the mystery known as Aoshi Shinomori.

The Street Outside of "The Bean"- 1:00pm

Misao stared deeply into her Grande cup of coco, before glancing out the windows of the coffee shop. Her breath halted in her throat when she saw a tall dark man pass. Time stopped, as did her mind; then the moment passed as quickly as the man did.

Inside Mark's Fitness Center-1:10pm

Aoshi was in a hurry. If he did not get there in time, then he might miss her. Aoshi furrowed his eyebrows when he thought this. A part of him wanted to miss her; to never see her again, but he had to. She was all he had left, all that he had to look forward to.

Aoshi stepped into the fitness center and stared at the back of a tall young woman. Her hair was long and ebony, it flowed down her gracefully arched back in soft waves. Her hair alone was the envy of every female in the vicinity, and the women hadn't even seen her radiant face. Even Aoshi was breathless even by glancing at her back.

As if she physically felt Aoshi's cold eyes on her, she turned with an alien grace.

"Aoshi." A smile lit her heart shaped face. Her pomegranate red lips were glossy, and complemented her sparkling maroon eyes. The epitome for beauty, a goddess.

"Megumi, it has been a while. How are you?" Aoshi asked in a monotone. This did not bother Megumi; however, "I am wonderful. How was your trip home?" Aoshi winced as if physically hit. Megumi knew how to get to the heart of every matter. Sometimes it was a blessing and sometimes it was a curse.

"I did not see her." Megumi's sparkling eyes suddenly were doused with ice cold water. He had mentioned "her" and Megumi would always envy "her", because she was the only one who had managed to take Aoshi's heart; the problem was she had never given it back.

Megumi was running a hopeless race against time, one she would lose.

TBC

And it hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time
I want what's yours and I want what's mine
I want you
But I'm not giving in this time

Goodbye to you
Goodbye to everything that I knew
You were the one I loved
The one thing that I tried to hold on to
The one thing that I tried to hold on to

And when the stars fall
I will lie awake
You're my shooting star

A/n: And that's it for chapter three. I hope you liked it...