The days went by fast as Nagihiko grew closer to Rima. It began to feel just as it was before.
They were spending time together walking downtown passing various shopping centers, while Rima talked about their past.
Utau was across the street from them, browsing through the windows for something to catch her eye. She was puzzled and turned to cross the abandoned road when she noticed both Rima and Nagihiko. She could use some help, therefore she called, "Rima!"
Rima whirled around seeing her friend picking up the pace towards them. Once she got hold of her breath she spoke,
"So help me out." Rima glared at Utau who stood before her placing a stern hand on her hip.
"Why?" Rima asked in a bored tone.
Utau sighed exaggeratedly and shifted her blonde bangs to the side, "You know Kukai's birthday is coming up, and I want to get him something."
"And…well… this is my chance to get him to… like me."
Rima gave a surprised expression.
Utau turned her head away hiding her blush, "Wow, I can't believe I just said that."
Rima stifled a laugh, "I think he already likes you, just tell him how you feel."
Utau scoffed, "You think I'd do something so ridiculous?"
Rima nodded agreeing that it wasn't Utau to be going around asking guys out. Utau noticed Nagihiko, "Oh, you're here too. I could use a guy's opinion."
Nagihiko didn't really want to be part of it either and just gave a lazy smile.
Rima shook her head, "You're rich. Why don't you just buy him a car or a house?"
Utau glared back and Nagihiko added, "If he already knows you like him maybe that's already a gift as it is."
Rima smiled and nodded at the thought, "See?"
Utau rolled her eyes at the gesture and began to stomp off, "Fine. I'll just buy him something horrible." As Rima and Nagihiko watched Utau they gave each other a look and decided to help her, before she raids all the shops here.
They caught up with her as Rima guided Utau into a sporting goods store. Rima felt like an insult to the sport environment with her wearing a pink dress. At least Utau wore a t-shirt and jeans, and as for Nagihiko he's already a guy so he blended in with the store.
Utau took a big sigh as she took a glance of all the different sections in the store. She turned to Nagihiko, "So you're a guy pick something."
"Well..." was all that strayed out of Nagihiko's mouth.
Rima added to the idea, "What Nagihiko likes, might not be what Kukai likes."
Utau continued smacking on her gum, "And?"
A few young teenage girls appeared behind Utau shyly giggling.
"-And then Kukai obviously won't like his gift." Rima finished.
Utau shifted her position feeling uneasy hearing the girls' voices behind her. She just knew they were talking about her. She adjusted her hat a little more over her eyes, hoping her identity wouldn't be caught. Then she changed the tone of her voice, "I guess I'll try and look for something."
The girls stopped giggling and pointing and turned to walk away. All that was heard was rude comments.
"That's not her." Along with, "She has better style than that." Utau was offended and wanted to turn and shout at her fans for dishing out her disguise.
Rima held in her laughter feeling her cheeks get sore from smiling while Nagihiko couldn't help but grin.
"What?" Utau snapped at both of them. They just turned away and laughed it off. Rima loved how she and Nagihiko would share their smiles together.
They spent several minutes in the store walking through the different sections.
"This is so boring!" Utau whined.
"Boring? We're doing all the work here, while you've been sitting on this kayak, texting!" Rima was annoyed.
"Maybe we should try a different store?" Nagihiko offered.
"Or we could just forget about this idea completely." Rima was tired of scanning through items.
Utau got up, stretching her legs, "Okay, okay, okay! Let's go somewhere else." She took the lead and led them out of the store. Once they were outside Utau looked up at the sky, noticing dark clouds rolling in. She ignored the weather; they'd be out of here in no time.
"But first," Utau smiled, as she noticed a shop a few stores away from them, "We have to check out this place."
Rima sighed, "No we-"
Utau interrupted, smirking, "If you see something you like I'll buy it for you."
Rima lightened up and dashed down the sidewalk to the girly looking store, which had loads of people inside. Utau quickly picked up the pace and followed Rima.
Nagihiko was left standing there alone. There was no way he wanted to go inside with all those wild shopaholics. He waited outside the store taking a call from his mother.
Back in the store Rima and Utau was jammed pack with all the business the store was receiving. They had to push people to get through the racks and shelves of clothes. A rude lady bumped Utau as she collapsed onto the ground, being squished with all the ladies above her. She groaned as she felt her hands grow gritty from all the dirt and who knows what was on the floor. She struggled to get back on her feet, but felt like a weighing scale, with all the weight on top of her.
Rima got through the mob and turned around to see Utau helpless on the floor.
Utau stretched out her hand towards her friend, "Rima, please go on without me."
Rima rolled her eyes at her older friend who was being overdramatic.
She grabbed Utau's hand and with a firm grip. She gathered all her strength pulling her out, "Geez, what have you been eating? You weigh a ton!" Rima already felt sweat beading at her forehead.
Utau sneered, "Shut up, you're just too scrawny and weak." A few girls finally begin moving out of the crowd, giving Utau some breathing room. Soon enough, all the grunts and yanks went to waste as Rima tugged her one last time and Utau and she went flying as they landed in a pile of shoes.
"I got it!" Rima glanced at Utau as she was holding a pair of killer shoes. "I want these."
Rima got up brushing off the dust on her clothes. She smelled something weird and took a whiff at her hands, "Yuck, thanks to you I smell like leather."
"Speaking of leather, you like these?" Utau raised an eyebrow holding up a pair of leather boots.
Rima responded too quickly, "Yes!"
Both girls exited out with full hands of bags filled with clothes and shoes. They had big smiles plastered on their faces. "Did we take long?" The older blonde directed the question towards Nagihiko who was sitting on a bench.
He chuckled speaking in a sarcastic tone, "I don't know I fell asleep."
Utau smiled noticing another shop across the street. She locked her eyes on the nice building, "Perfect. I think I know what to get Kukai."
Utau started walking, when she felt no one following her, she tossed her head over her shoulder to see Rima sitting next to Nagihiko, "You coming, Rima?"
Rima lost her gaze from Nagihiko and glanced up at Utau, "I think I'll take a break."
Utau grinned, "Then, I'll take my time." She winked and was off.
"Sorry we took so long." Rima apologized looking down at her feet.
Nagihiko gave a smile, "No problem." Rima looked back up at Nagihiko, as he noticed a stray hair in the middle of her face. In a swift motion he moved it to the side letting it frame her face. Rima shyly looked back down.
She noticed a drop of rain hit her leg making her wince from the coldness. Both Nagihiko and her heard thunder from far. In a second more rain began falling. Nagihiko felt one land on his eyelash blurring his vision for a moment. He blinked it away in a moment.
The rain drops splattered onto the ground heavily. The drops were so huge just having a few drops hit your skin felt like water balloons were being thrown at you.
Nagihiko got up and held out a hand helping Rima up to her feet.
They both heard soft music playing from the restaurant they were in front of. Suddenly Nagihiko started dancing. Rima giggled, "What are you doing?"
"I'm dancing." Rima tried to hide her smiles, but couldn't. She had to admit Nagihiko's dance moves were silly.
"Will the lovely Rima, join me?"
The girl glanced around the people walking by with umbrellas over their head watching. She shook her head, she was too embarrassed. But, finally she gave in and began dancing too. They both laughed. Nagihiko grabbed Rima's hand as both of them could feel the warmth radiating off their hands. He twirled Rima around, and both of them continued dancing to the music being played.
Rima couldn't stop laughing and she didn't know why.
As soon as the music stopped, they were practically drenched to the bone, as their clothes felt heavy from the water. Nagihiko took off his jacket and held it over Rima's head, "Let's go meet up with Utau before it gets worse."
Cars were racing down the street gliding on water. Rima yelped when a car drove by the sidewalk splashing a puddle at the continued running down the sidewalk, something caught the blonde's eye. There, crossing the street was something familiar. She could recognize that small figure anywhere. It was the same boy that caused everything-the accident.
"What's wrong?" Nagihiko asked as Rima stopped in her tracks, but she didn't hear him.
"Hey!" She shouted, but the pouring rain drowned out the sound. She didn't know why, but she felt herself somehow being pulled towards that direction. She didn't want to lose sight of the boy.
Without bothering what was around her, she stepped out onto the road.
"Rima! There are cars coming!' Nagihiko shouted. "Rima!"
Everything was just a rush of sounds for Rima. Everything was moving too fast to catch with the eye.
A loud car honked and a piercing sound of tires skidded to a stop as water sloshed angrily. Rima slowly opened her eyes. And now felt everything moving in slow motion. She realized a car was a few inches away from her face. She was afraid to move. She turned her head to the side and noticed Nagihiko lying in the road a few inches away from her. Rima felt everything go silent as she noticed Nagihiko not moving. She began shaking and felt dead inside.
No words would come out as her mouth was left open. She felt her heart not beating. This couldn't be happening. After how close they've grown to each other. How could it end like this? Rima crawled over to him.
"Nagihiko!" Rima burst into tears and hugged Nagihiko tightly. She sobbed harder, "Because of me you're always being hurt!" The tears were flooding crazily and she gasped for air. It felt like she was swallowing glass. She buried her face in his chest. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry."
She heard a car door open, then felt a hand on her shoulder, "Are you alright, miss?" Rima ignored the person.
"Leave me alone." She couldn't stop the tears. "Nagihiko I'll never forgive myself!"
The tears landed on Nagihiko's pale face, and Rima kept apologizing. She felt colder than ever, like she was slowly freezing to the bone.
She clutched onto his shirt and felt him flinch underneath her.
"Rima." She stopped breathing.
Nagihiko gradually opened his eyes, putting a hand on her cheek, caressing her face. "I love you."
Rima was shocked, that he was okay? "W-what?"
"I remember everything Rima, I love you." Rima gasped looking at him. As he glanced up at her pained expression. There were many questions that could be asked at the moment, but Rima pushed those aside. Nagihiko brushed his hands through her hair, and wiped the tears from her face.
She was at a loss of words as they took the time to share a glance, "I knew you would remember!" They both leaned in and captured their lips in a kiss. Rima missed this more than anything.
More tears fell from Rima's eyes, she was too happy.
A loud honking was heard as Nagihiko and Rima broke the kiss and turned their heads to see a taxi driver roll down his window, "Get the hell out of the road!"
Nagihiko and Rima laughed forgetting they were in the middle of the road. They both got up and moved over to the sidewalk. They couldn't take their eyes off each other.
"You're okay right? You're not hurt?" Rima asked with a shaky voice.
"I'm alright, now that I know everything is back where we left off." Nagihiko smiled giving Rima a strong embrace.
"I missed you." Rima hugged him tighter.
Nagihiko pulled away from the hug, relieved. Rima stood on her tip toes as Nagihiko leaned down, and resumed to what they were doing. Words were replaced by kisses. There was no better way to describe how they both felt at the moment.
Rima wrapped her arms around his neck, as Nagihiko wrapped his arms around her waist to pull her in closer.
Nothing would ruin this moment.
People on the sidewalk continued walking by, as if nothing had happened. Utau rushed out of the store from all the commotion. As she saw Nagihiko and Rima together, she realized everything was resolved. She knew it was a capturing moment, and felt tears sting up in her eyes. But being the person she was, she shook it off, and just smiled.
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Movies
"This is the worst date ever." Utau sighed, but gave a smug smile. Kukai knew she was joking, "That was lame."
"Worst movie in history." They said in unison.
Utau heard high pitched giggling and wheeled around to see a familiar girl. Utau got a closer look and knew it was that stupid Hitomi circled around her friends that were probably as dumb as that her.
"I have to take care of something." Utau told Kukai as her mood dropped just looking at Hitomi's ignorant face.
She casually walked towards her, "I'd prefer to look at you with your swollen face."
Hitomi noticed Utau talking to her, and looked at her. "Excuse me?"
Utau smirked, "Well that's what I heard from Rima. That way you can be the same inside out."
Hitomi was just going to ignore her, but once she heard Rima's name get mentioned she was now interested in the conversation. "Ah, you must be one of her friends that was dressed up as a fake nurse."
"Correct." Utau brushed her bangs from her face, "So I guess you didn't know you lost the game?"
Hitomi shook her head confused. With a hand motion, she swatted her friends off. They walked into the theater ahead of her.
"From what I know I'm on a winning streak."
Utau laughed, "Nagihiko got his memory back, sucks for you."
Hitomi just kept nodding, not being the slightest bit surprised; she didn't let any emotions slip.
Utau continued, "They are already going camping this weekend. Even if you still try to tag along, it's useless. There's no point now since Nagihiko knows you're a liar."
Hitomi exhaled, making eye contact. "I guess you're right." She put her hands up in defense, "I lost. I feel like such a loser now." She shrugged at the thought.
"You're pathetic." Utau said in an irritable tone.
Hitomi's glossy lips smiled, as she turned away and muttered under her breath, "We'll see about that."
A/N: There's no room for excuses. I deeply am sorry for uploading this so late. So deep way below zero. Since there are only a two chapters left, to be honest, it's hard for me to finish. I usually start things and never finish. But I will definitely finish this story, because I want to start another one. xD Just give me about a few days to edit the next chapter and I'll have it uploaded by no time. :)
My responses for last chapter (Hopefully everyone remembers what they said xD) :
shimahiko4ever: That makes me happy, awesome to hear! (: She is creepy! Lol!
SeeingXxViolet: Yes! Yes! That was my goal! To have at least one person that wouldn't mind if Rima and Tadase got together. xD I feel like I succeeded! And I'm also glad you liked it! Thank you. :)
Peachygotit-Kica: Yay! That's great to know! (:
Rikanchu: Hahahaha! xDD Your reviews always make me laugh. And Sorry for the errors! D:
Half Angel Half Evil: Woot! Don't worry I have a few ideas! :)
Blueberryfan10: Hi! And thanks hun! :D
2coolforyou: Thank you (:
Ama-Hinamori-Sohma: Sorry I'm cutting it short. D: I just want to start different stories. And thank you! :D
arkee: Haha! Yeah Hitomi is a weirdo (:
Chocolate covered charas: Yeah she needs to die! xD And Yay! :)
IceCreamDreamSend: Glad you liked it! HOtomi, that's the best one I've heard so far. xD Yay for hugs! :D
123: I'm so sorry! Dx Hopefully this chapter makes up for the wait!
A/N: Thank you everyone for being patient! I love you all! (: Please review if you wish. :D