"Oh Masaya stop it." I laughed whacking him on the arm. He laughed.
"Ouch! Ouch, that hurt."
"Oh my god, really?"
"No!" He laughed. I smiled looking up at him. He looked down at me, straight in the eyes.
"Ichigo, you know I'll love you forever." He kept staring at me; straight into my eyes.
"I know, Masaya, I know." I leaned up and kissed him passionately; my heart fluttered inside my chest.
"Hay, I wanna show you something…" I grabbed his hand and skipped off the trail we were on and went deep into the woods. Until finally we hit the meadow I'd been waiting for us to reach. Some times when I just needed to get away from everything; school, studying, those awful teachers that loved to stress you out, I'd come here. Lay in the grass and stare up at the sky. It was so beautiful here; it was almost like this place didn't exist. It was so peaceful ad magical and beautiful, that it felt like if you reached out ad touched it to quickly or spoke to loudly, it would all disappear from your eyes. This was my secret place; my favorite place in the entire world. And now I was going it share it with my favorite person in the entire world, the person I loved. I loved back up at Masaya as I pulled him down into the grass with me. I laid down on my back and stared up at the sky. He followed me.
I looked over at Masaya; he was already looking at me. When our gaze met he smiled, he gently pushed a strand of hair behind my ear then dropped his hand. We were so close, I could smell his sweet breath. I wanted so badly to kiss him…
"Masaya, I-"
"Ichigo." Masaya said, only it didn't sound like Masaya at all. I don't remember him cutting me off by saying my name, either. I gave him a confused look.
"Ichigo, wake up."
I slowly fluttered my eyes open and groggily squinted at the blurry figure standing over me; shaking my shoulders.
"Ichigo wake up." The blurry figure slowly turned into Ryou. I rubbed my eyes and stared back up at him.
"What?" My voice sounded a little low and hoarse from just waking up.
"We have to leave in about," Ryou looked down at his watched then dropped his hand back to his side. "Ten minutes." He finished. I didn't realize that he was sort of leaning over me until I went to sit up and our noses were almost touching. I felt this tingly feeling I my stomach. I looked up into his eyes. He seamed to be feeling something to. It reminded me of our kiss yesterday. I blushed then laid back down. He looked at me a little confused a little surprised and almost a little hurt that I had pulled away; but he stood up straight and pretended to try and fix the top button on his shirt a little awkwardly. But I had to pull away, I felt like I was cheating on Jake. I felt the back of my eyes pinch as I thought of him, but I tried to shrug off the feeling. I can't brake into hysterics every time I even think about him.
"Where are we going?" I tried to distract my thoughts.
"New York." Ryou answered like it was nothing. I looked at him, my eye brows shooting up.
"As in, America? The big apple, New York?" I questioned, just making sure. He sort of laughed.
"No, as in Russia." He said in a fake voice, then rolled his eyes. He turned around to leave the room and as he was leaving he started talking again. "Pack a couple bags, we'll be stopping at the caiman islands and Arizona after."
"What for?" I asked, very, very confused. Ryou stopped at the door and turned around ti look at me.
"We've got to go find our former mew mew's, remember?"
I took fourteen hours, and I had thrown up twice since we landed but we were finally in New York. I rubbed my forehead and waited for ha aspirin I had just taken to kick in. Ugh, who knew ha airsickness could be so horrible?
I was tugging along my luggage as me and Ryou walked out of the JFK airport. We were gunna take a cab into Manhattan. Pudding had some type of business on west 45th street right a time square. I'm pretty sure Ryou said she was a well-accredited hairdresser or something. Wow, imagine Pudding, a hairdresser? I couldn't. I'm really happy for her though. Apparently she's pretty famous. I had tried to look her up on google when we landed at some wifi café thing, but couldn't find her. Eh, maybe she wasn't as famous as Ryou thought she was.
The limo driver that Ryou had hired was leading us outside to where the limo was parked. The man looked like he was in his late forties. He was pretty tall, like six foot-ish, and had a bit of a four o'clock shadow. I could see his graying salt and pepper hair from under the sides of his uniform cap. He kept yawning and rubbing his eyes. I looked closely at the dark purple circles under them. Jeesh, I hope he didn't fall asleep on us while he's driving.
We got to the limo and the man took our sue cases from us and went around to the trunk.
"Ryou? Did you really need to rent a limo? Why couldn't you jus call a cab like everybody else?" I said, gesturing to all the people around us who were getting into cabs themselves. They were all staring at us; well the limo at least. Ryou shook his head and jus gave me a look.
"Because we aren't just anybody else… Well a leas I am." He smirked as the driver came back around and opened the one of the doors for us. Ryou slid in and put his feet up on the little bar across from him. Then laced his fingers and put them behind his head.
"You coming?" He asked me. I rolled my eyes and got in. Since when has Ryou been conceited?
"You know your pretty full of yourself, right?" He laughed, but put his feet back on the floor.
"Hay, when you're the owner of the second most famous stock industry in he world? Call me." I crossed my legs. Wow, this whole Tokyo stocks thing really got to his big fat head. Okay, I didn't mean that his head was fat, or abnormally big; it's just that he was being pretty full of himself. I rolled my eyes then shut them. I leaned my head back and tried to fall asleep; he last thing I needed was motion sickness too…
"Oh Masaya stop it." I laughed whacking him on the arm. He laughed.
"Ouch! Ouch, that hurt."
"Oh my god, really?"
"No!" He laughed. I smiled looking up at him. He looked down at me, straight in the eyes.
"Ichigo, you know I'll love you forever." He kept staring at me; straight into my eyes.
"I know, Masaya, I know." I leaned up and kissed him passionately; my heart fluttered inside my chest.
"Hay, I wanna show you something…" I grabbed his hand and skipped off the trail we were on and went deep into the woods. Until finally we hit the meadow I'd been waiting for us to reach. Some times when I just needed to get away from everything; school, studying, those awful teachers that loved to stress you out, I'd come here. Lay in the grass and stare up at the sky. It was so beautiful here; it was almost like this place didn't exist. It was so peaceful ad magical and beautiful, that it felt like if you reached out ad touched it to quickly or spoke to loudly, it would all disappear from your eyes. This was my secret place; my favorite place in the entire world. And now I was going it share it with my favorite person in the entire world, the person I loved. I loved back up at Masaya as I pulled him down into the grass with me. I laid down on my back and stared up at the sky. He followed me.
I looked over at Masaya; he was already looking at me. When our gaze met he smiled, he gently pushed a strand of hair behind my ear then dropped his hand. We were so close; I could smell his sweet breath. I wanted so badly to kiss him…
"Masaya, I wanted to show you something." I pulled away, as hard as it was and sat up. I looked around for the loose soil where I had buried it. My eyes found I and I stared to dig up the dirt. This place wasn't just special to me because it was magically beautiful. When we first got here, to England, I buried apart of myself in this meadow. A part I swore I'd given up and never go back to.
I glanced over at Masaya, who had a confused and curious look on his face. Probably cause I was digging in the dirt. I smiled at him and he smiled back. I stopped myself, fully aware that I was dreaming. You know that part in a dream, right before you wake up? When you realize you're dreaming and can sort of control what happens. I stared crying.
"Masaya!" I jumped on him into a huge hug, tears streaming down my face. He looked almost startled.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!" I cried and buried my head into his shoulder.
"It's okay, it's okay." I shook my head furiously.
"No, It's not okay… What happened to you was all my fault." I whispered. Suddenly my arms that were wrapped around his back felt wet. I pulled myself off of him and looked down at my arms… They were covered in blood. I looked up a Masaya, crying even harder.
"No, Masaya! No!" But I knew I couldn't do anything to stop it.
"You lied to me, you said you loved me, you said we'd be together forever… Why'd you do this to me?" His face looked hurt and broken. Blood was flowing out of his eyes and mouth and ears and even more so on his back.
"Masaya, please! I didn't mean to, I swear; I do love you! Please, don't leave me!" I shook his shoulders then wrapped my arms around him again. I wanted to be in his arms as long as I could before I woke up; Even if it was like this.
"You lied to me, you lied to me…" His voice was getting lower and lower as he blacked out.
"I'll always love you. I'll love you forever- I promise." I sniffed. I felt the rest of him go limp. I started crying harder as I rocked him…
"I'll love you forever, even if it's just in my dreams…" I managed to whisper through my sobs. I kissed his forehead. His body felt cold...
"We're here." I looked up, confused. Had the sky just said?...
"Ichigo?" I slowly fluttered open my eyes, coming back to the real world. I started crying. Here I was trying all I could to avenge Jake when I never once tried to do anything about Masaya- my true love. I cried harder. But how could I? There was nothing I could do.
"Ichigo?... Are you okay?" I looked up at Ryou, and tried to wipe away the tears on my cheek with my thumb, but more just kept on falling. I sniffed. I miss Masaya, more than anything. Even… More than Jake. What happened to Masaya was my fault- I did that to him.
A hand went under my chin and lifted it up; it was Ryou's. He wiped away more tears with his thumb then kissed my forehead. I looked up at him. I didn't know he had a sweet side.
"Thanks," I whispered. I wanted to kiss him. We were close enough already; I could feel his breath on my face… I started to lean in and close my eyes; he did the same. I stopped myself. What was I doing? I couldn't do this. I opened my eyes and looked at him coming closer with his eyes shut. I felt like a horrible person, but didn't stop myself from lowering my face so that his lips would meet my nose