Disclaimer: I own nothing InuYasha.

Author Note: Mucha gracias to Bonnafied (check out Runaway by her and her story The Fast Track which is written and found with BleedingNissa who is on her favorite author's list to get to her. They both have Ayame and Koga as a main couple and are both really recommended).

I'll Remember You

Chapter Three

I towel dried my long, sunset-toned thick hair and pulled my black pleated mini skirt up to my hips. I threw a white belly-exposing tube top on and hung the towel over the rod to dry. It was impossible to see the mirror under the layer of steam so I exited the bathroom and placed my makeup bag on the dresser in front of a huge mirror. "Bathroom's open" I stated the obvious to Koga as I applied colorless gloss that made my lips shine. I smeared emerald eyeliner under my bottom lid but black on the inside to bring out the dark circle around my eyes. With a little bit of blush and eye shadow and mascara I was ready to go.

To cover up my wild look I grabbed an extremely light, figure hugging, white jacket and threw my hair up into a ponytail after drying it with my bangs brushed to the side as usual. With my free time, I painted my nails (both fingers and toes) with sparkling silver and waited for Koga to finish. By the time he was done the polish had the chance to dry its second coating and I threw my black elevated sandals.

His body was dripping wet as he emerged with only boxer briefs on, tight against his butt and "manly" region. I tried to ignore the want to push him back onto the bed and hold him down while I kissed all over those sexy washboard abs. He slipped on some light jeans with multiple holes (they didn't come that way but he'd taken a knife and sandpaper to them) although there were a few unintentional oil specks.

Somebody knocked on the door and I quickly jumped up to answer it. I was eager to put a distance between us and loosen the sexual tension I had for him. I needed to be distracted and Kagome with InuYasha was just the trick. She smiled warmly up at me just as Koga threw on a crisp, figure-hugging wife beater. Funny how things worked out, before Kagome and InuYasha he didn't have a clue what he was going to wear and now he suddenly knew. She eyed me, "Ayame you look so sexy! What happened to my conservative friend?"

"She's on break; she needed to live a little." I joked back.

"I like your wild side Ayame. Who knew the little innocent girl I had grown up with and spent so many years with could look this amazing and actually wear the outfits that Sango and I had chosen for her?"

"Maybe I'm not so much wild as I am sympathetic and I wanted to wear this so you and Sango wouldn't throw a fit. Maybe I wanted to please my friends. Maybe that's the reason I put it on but maybe, somewhere between my good doings and my ideal of conservativeness having flown out the window, I actually turned to like it and how I look in it." I said with a small smile.

"Are Sango and Miroku ready yet?" Koga interrupted.

"Let's check!" Kagome decided as she spun on her heel. InuYasha wrapped a protective arm around her waist as he walked in unison with his new girlfriend. I giggled and held out my arm, bent at the elbow, towards Koga, "Shall we?"

"We shall." He nodded and hooked his arm through mine as we followed shortly after. The inside of Miroku and Sango's room was a mess! We had walked in right in the middle of a war as Sango chucked shoes at Miroku's head.

"If you ever touch me again you sick pervert I will make you pay so hard that your great-great-great-great-great grandfather will feel it!" Sango screamed in fury with red cheeks and a death glare. Her free hand was balled into a fist and she was so overcome by madness that she hadn't even take the time to see who Miroku had opened the door for.

"Sango, I'm afraid we have guests and it would be terribly rude to fight in front of others. They must not worry themselves with our quarrels." Miroku said as elegantly as possible.

"Oh no, please do continue, we were obviously interrupting something." I said with a wave of my hand and a smirk.

"Oh," Sango stopped and looked confused for a second as she looked over us, her group of friends, that had somehow managed to appear out of thin air, "hey guys, I hadn't noticed you had gotten here. If I could just find my one flip flop I'd be ready... now, where did I put that...?"

She pondered as Miroku turned around and picked up one waving it in the air, "Would it perhaps be the one that you had recently just chucked at my head? It looks exactly like the other one you're holding...."

"Yes, that's the one." Sango plucked it from his hand and slipped it on her foot. It was now that she looked around at her surroundings. "When did this place get to be such a mess?!"

"Somewhere between 'I'm going to kill you in your sleep' and 'don't you ever touch me again pervert'." Miroku offered helpfully.

"Which reminds me..." she thought out loud before thumping her palm against the back of his head evilly, then becoming calm again as she looked towards the rest of us "Are you guys ready to go then? I hope I didn't hold us up because I know how busy these places can get. Anyway, I'm ready for some Princess Royal food so let's get moving!"

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After eating we decided to head back our rooms to ditch the proper covering we had dawned earlier. I threw off my jacket and Koga took off the black tee that he had worn previously, leaving him looking sexy in that tank top, contrasting against his tanned skin. I wanted so badly to wrap my arms around his one and just feel the bulging muscle.

"Hey pretty lady." Somebody called out to me as our group walked. I didn't pay attention, figuring that the call was directed towards Sango, Kagome, or some other girl. I never expected it be towards me, though. "Hey, sweetheart, I'm talking to you." A guy fell into step beside me and I looked over, a little shocked. "Yeah, you; I'm Hiten and I was wondering if there was a chance I could get you to go to my party tonight?"

"I don't believe I –"

"Ayame would love to!" Kagome cut in. "In fact I'll copy down your number and make sure she'll be there. That is, only if the rest of us are allowed to attend your party as well."

"Sure thing babe." He nodded as InuYasha let out a low growl and pulled Kagome back towards him. She and the stranger exchanged information as InuYasha watched desperately.

"Hey, you look gorgeous, you should smile." He said as he turned to me before he turned and walked back to his little group of guy friends.

"He was Hiten alright, hittin' on Ayame." Koga rolled his eyes.

"Whoa, slow down captain, the jealousy is becoming overwhelming." Miroku smirked.

"I'm not jealous!" Koga growled.

"I'm going to have to agree with Miroku on this one." InuYasha pointed out.

"Us girls are going to go shopping. I'll text you then and we'll meet back up, okay?" Kagome asked as her eyes flashed from Koga to InuYasha and then glanced to and fro again. InuYasha nodded and agreed, getting the point.

Narrator Point of View

Once the girls were out of sight InuYasha started up the conversation again. "Look Koga, stop trying to hide it. It's kind of obvious you're jealous over guys talking to Ayame. Maybe we could work something out, ya know?"

"No, I don't know InuYasha, because I'm not jealous over Ayame." He defended.

"Look Koga, Ayame's sexy, just get with her already. You've known each other for so long and you know she'll be gone after this summer, right? You have one last month, our last month here at the beach, to make a lasting impression on her. You have one last month to actually get the chance to be Ayame's boyfriend and you're too egotistic to admit you like her and finally go out with her." Miroku pointed out.

"She's my best friend, guys, what am I supposed to do? I don't want to leave her with me getting with her and ending up having sex or something only to leave her in the end. Honestly it's going to be hard enough watching my best friend walk away from me without even the slightest glance back, I'm not going to be able to take it from her as a girlfriend either, it'll only make things worse." He mumbled.

"Koga, get your head out of your ass!" InuYasha exclaimed, "One month isn't much time at all! Get with Ayame and give her the best month of her life before she leaves! Maybe for once you should stop caring about that damned friendship and take it a little further, Ayame's wanted to for years!"

"What?" Koga stopped in his tracks and both of the other boys' eyes got rather large. The secret they'd promise to keep had now flown from InuYasha's mouth in his moment of persuasion and they couldn't take it back now.

".... Wha-what?" InuYasha stuttered, trying to play cool because he couldn't think quickly enough. He was still stunned that the words had slipped from his mouth even though he'd managed to keep them shut up for so long. Ayame was going to kill him!

"Ayame's liked me and wanted to be more than friends?" Koga asked innocently.

"You didn't hear it from us!" Miroku cut in.

"You guys knew this?" his confusion grew.

"Maybe...." the two replied in unison.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he shouted, causing others to stare at the group of three. He didn't care though as he continued, "You didn't think that maybe, just maybe, that would be helpful information and that if you'd told me years ago I wouldn't have been so scared to death of trying to hook up with her?"

"Honestly Koga, you went through so many girlfriends that it wasn't even funny. I don't understand where you thought we would have gotten the time to tell you and it broke Ayame's heart and confidence to see so she didn't want you to know. Even Miroku and I didn't know whether you liked the girl or not." InuYasha explained.

"Of course I liked her! I was crazy about her! I still am crazy about her!" Koga said excitedly. Once the statement was out a pause filled with silence filled the group. Koga took a deep sigh and tried to stop the overflowing information that was flooding his brain currently. He couldn't believe everything that he was hearing. Ayame, his best friend, wanted him too.

Ayame Point of View

"Hey Koga." I greeted as I came upon him. He was sitting on the short wall that separated the beach from the boardwalk with his high ponytail blowing slightly. He glanced over his shoulder with large, innocent blue eyes and I smiled at the picture. The sun was going down in front of him and the bright colors before it would sink into the ocean made him stick out more than usual.

The rest of the group was enjoying ice cream at one of the tables but I had taken the chance to slip off to the wall with Koga, holding an ice cream for each of us. He took them both while I climbed up, and then handed the one over to me. It didn't matter which one I got since both of us loved vanilla.

The waves crashed and rippled forward with white tips bouncing up and down before it sucked the body of water in and threw it back out again. The water was green and blue yet clear all at the same time and it was gorgeous with the dying sun reflecting upon it. There was a comfortable silence but I broke it calmly, speaking more to myself than anything. "Next year I'll be looking out into different ocean waters by myself."

"You'll make plenty of friends in no time at all Ayame." Koga assured.

"I don't know if I want new friends because I'll have to live with the fact that nobody could ever replace you guys." I sighed.

"But they can keep you preoccupied so it doesn't hurt as much. Us however," he spoke, referring to the group as a whole, "will not be the same without you. We'll constantly be reminded that a large part of our group has left."

"I'm not that chunky, am I?" I joked.

"You're as thin and healthy as possible but you're personality was huge and irreplaceable. I've gotten so used to a group, a life, with you in it that I don't know how I'll be able to do when you leave it." He continued. For the longest time we'd both just been staring out into the never-ending ocean but now I couldn't help but break that gaze to look over at Koga. His face held a saddened expression and I scooted beside him and grabbed that arm that I had wanted to for so long now as I rested my head on it as well yet continued to lick my ice cream.

"Guys, that party is going to start soon!" Kagome came over to tell us.

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I woke up with my head pounding and I groaned. I couldn't remember anything from last night and now it was coming back to haunt me. I had gotten root beer several times but not once had I touched alcohol. I grabbed my head harshly, trying to push the harsh pressure out so my head wouldn't explode.

"Headache?" a voice asked and I squinted my eyes open to see Hiten in front of me. I nodded and fell back down onto the couch I was on. Headache was an understatement, I felt like little creatures were going to burst and come pouring out of my ears, nose, mouth, and eye sockets. But sure, let's go with headache.

"You're quite the partier." Hiten concluded as he came back with two Tylenol and a water. I sat up and swallowed the offered pills.

I clutched my head, "What do you mean I'm quite the partier?"

"Last night you were crazy. You were dancing with every single guy and downing that whiskey like it was nothing. I've never seen a girl be able to hold her Jaeger so well before, props to you." He congratulated.

"Where's my friends?" I groaned.

"The one muscular one stormed out after you started grinding against all those guys and two others left, I think their names were Miroku and Sango? But Kagome and InuYasha just left a couple of minutes ago to get some breakfast." He explained.

Something was wrong; my friends would never leave me alone with a complete stranger. "Look, I'm going to head out of here and try to find them."

"I think you need to stay," his tone was harsh and my eyes grew slightly before he calmed down and added, "until your headache gets better."

"No, I'm leaving now." I stated firmly and got off of the couch. All my clothes were intact, although my skirt was turned the wrong way a little, and I was able to locate my shoes right by the foot of the couch. I put them on quickly before getting up and walking to the door. With a last goodbye towards his angered direction, I left.