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Author Note: Guyss... it's getting towards SPRING! Winter is my favorite season but I'm ready to ditch the freezing cold and long sleeves for some mini skirts, shorts, and tank tops! I need a job, I wanna go on a summer shopping spree with my college bitch, and we haven't hung out in forever. Ah, found my prom dress for this year! It's red (blue and red are "my colors" apparently?). I'm ready to open the pool back up but it's frozen solid (we didn't put a cover on it and it's dirty yet teasing... *tear*).

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I'll Remember You

Chapter Seven

I had ditched everybody else. The group had went to check out some of the places around to eat and scope out a new restaurant while I slipped my way back onto the bus and towards our hotel. Once I arrived I took my hair down, forming loose curls, and changed into a small black mini skirt, sexy black high heels, and a tight, low-cut, red belly shirt. I would be the first to admit I looked slutty but this was my vacation and I wasn't about to have it ruined.

I reapplied makeup and made my way to Paradise with a large smile on my face. A few guys made remarks, a few girls made faces, everybody stared. One pair of girls in particular was staring at me with snotty faces on, right outside of Paradise. I nodded towards one of the girls, "I love your eye color," then towards the other one who was there, "and you have gorgeous hair."

With that said they gave me smiles and I made my way into the Paradise hotel. It wasn't hard to find Rin's room, since she had texted me all the necessary information. With three small knocks I was heard and Rin eagerly flung the white door open. I stepped inside to the much larger room that resembled an apartment with a balcony, pull-out couch, two beds, a small kitchen area, and a fair-sized bathroom. Rin's hair was sticking up everywhere with static and she had yet to put in contacts. Her outfit consisted of worn jeans and a baggy shirt.

I decided that I needed to get started right away. First came the outfit, for fear that her clothes being pulled over her head might mess up her hair and smear makeup. I pondered as I shifted through the many articles of clothing, most of them were boyish and almost all were conservative. I pulled out a loose yellow skirt that was thin and flowed halfway to her knees and a one-shouldered tight white shirt with a small bow created from two small strings on the shoulder, which held a scrunched looked for the inch of material. Thanks to white flip flops, the shoe hunting wasn't hard.

Now with the hair.... I bit my lip as I brushed it out and began straightening it. Once it was completely straight I flipped the hair outwards to look kind of wild. Within an hour I had her finished, makeup on and everything. Her honey colored eyes shimmered brightly, without the glare of the glasses, as she admired herself in the mirror, turning and doing a couple spins. The short petite girl shifted her sparkling up to me, a large smile on her face. "Ayame, I've never looked so nice in my life. Thank you so much for everything. I never knew I could look so... pretty."

"Rin, you were always pretty, you were just hiding it underneath all those baggy clothes and the glasses. You just didn't take the time to actually try to look as girly as possible because, quite frankly, I'm sure you had better things to do. If you decide to change something make sure it's the use of contacts instead of glasses. Contacts are so much more comfortable and you don't have to worry about losing them as easily and I can see your eyes a lot better." I smiled and the small girl wrapped her arms around me and hugged me tightly.

"I believe I'm ready to go now, Ayame, are you?" Rin asked as she grabbed a yellow tote. I myself had a small black purse that contained my personal license and information and my credit card, as well as regular cash and my ever loved camera. I nodded and we walked out of the room and hotel looking like millionaire models.

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The boardwalk was interesting and by the time we got up towards the amusement park at the end we had arms full of bags and purses full of numbers from various guys. This was the beach and I was teaching Rin, as well as starting to learn for myself, how to dress sexy and (since it was the beach and you could get away with it) how to dress slutty but not too slutty.

My bag contained an assortment of clothes. Some of the outfits were adorable bootie shorts, preppy but hot shirts, sexy shoes, and etc. and other bags contained corsets, fishnets, combat boots, and more. To say the least, my sense of fashion wasn't limited. Rin, however, seemed prone to pick up happy colors and outfits, which reflected her personality.

"What's a pretty lady like you doing out here struggling with all these bags?" a smooth voice asked, a familiar voice as well. I turned my head to look at the guy and I burst out in a huge smile as I attempted to hug him with all the bags, which ended up jabbing into him and me. I hadn't seen him in so long. Died silver hair, amber colored eyes, and tall sleek build, he was almost too perfect.

"Sesshomaru, I haven't seen you in forever!" I exclaimed. His hair was a lot more well-kept than InuYasha's although they both kept up with the unique colors. Although they strived to be different from each other neither was willing to change from silver dye. They denied that they liked the other sibling having the same color but I always thought it was some undeniable bond that they had but just wouldn't share, whether they realized the bond or not I didn't know.

"It's been quite the time. I figured I'd take a break from college and dad said InuYasha went down to the beach. I didn't want to disturb him but I thought it sounded like a good idea nonetheless; I haven't had much time for fun anymore. All this lawyer stuff is taking all of my time. I have to sit in at courts and listen and study 24/7, it's so time consuming it's driving me crazy." He sighed.

"It's hard to believe that just a couple years ago we all decided to create some punk band of trashy teenagers that were rebelling against their parents. And we did rebel quite well as I recall, I've never met anybody who has had as many detentions, broke as many laws, and came in contact with as many authorities as we have. Everybody's parents were tripping all over themselves and Gramps just brushed it off with 'kids will be kids'." I giggled, and then realized my friend who seemed very interested in the man before me. "I almost forget, Sesshomaru, this is my new good friend, Rin. We've decided to start looking for love."

"Hello," she smiled at her as she blushed. He turned back to me with a slight frown as the last sentence finally processed, "what do you mean you're looking for love Ayame? I thought you and Koga were a couple or something like that. I mean, I always figured you two would became something more than just friends... surely you have, right?"

"I waited so long for Koga. I think that was my main flaw in life, I always assumed Koga and I would get together. Everybody always thought that we'd be something more than friends and I was too busy waiting on that chance in between his girlfriends to actually find a boyfriend for myself. But yeah, I'm done waiting around for that boy to decide what he wants in life, I'm moving on." I smiled lightly.

"Damn right you are Ayame; you're moving on the whole other side of the world. If we get lucky I might actually see you in Pennsylvania sometime since I'll be transferred into some college in America in order to get a better law degree and work more cases. I'll have more and better opportunities over in America and I can't let that slip from me." He explained.

"Hey Sesshy..." I muttered in a sweet, small, sing-song voice.

"Yes?" he sighed with a dull tone.

"My arms are kindda getting tired and so are Rin's." I pouted.

"Fine." He mumbled and he took a majority of the bags from both of us, although there was too many for him to carry by himself (at least not in one trip). I smiled giddily with a few bags dangling off of my arms as I cuddled my new sexy combat boots against me. My smile was filled with pride and victory since a large portion of the weight had lifted from my arms.

"Here's the plan: we're going to head back to my hotel room and drop our bags off then go shopping down the other side and make sure there's nothing good we missed in any of the stores. At the end of the night I'll be sure to help Rin carry all of her things back and we'll mark them so we don't get confused about who purchased what." I informed as my companions agreed.

We arrived back at the small hotel and I opened the room I shared with Koga. The room was empty, as I figured it would be and we dropped everything off, using a permanent marker to correctly identify each of our possessions. With that done, we made our way down the other end of the boardwalk and I decided to make a conversation with Rin, since Sesshomaru was more quiet than anything, especially since his life wasn't very exciting anymore.

"So, what ever happened between you and that boy? Tell me everything about you guys from the beginning. This is what girlfriends do; we dissect relationships and problems for each other so get used to it." I giggled with a smile. Talking, however, was absolutely no problem for the happy-go-lucky teenager who was glad to speak of it.

"Well Taro Nikko and I have been together for almost a year now. He always got so pissed off with me because I never actually gave him any sex or anything but I just couldn't. I can't explain it but something was holding me back. As it turns out, Taro was into pretty much every girl and had cheated on me numerous times but I didn't want to leave him. For the past two weeks I've been trying to fix an unsolvable relationship. It hurts, but I knew it all along anyway. Finally, the night we met, he broke it off for good but... I don't know but I don't want to be single." Rin sighed.

"Being single isn't a bad thing," Sesshomaru spoke up quickly since he, himself, was a man of a single status, "it teaches you to be independent and, eventually, I think it makes you stronger than you would be with another. Personally, relationships cause you to get attached and it'd be a lot easier for me to just not get emotionally attached to a person only to have to separate from them."

"I'd rather take the risk." Rin challenged with a dare in her eye as she looked over. "It might hurt but it could be the best thing that ever happens in your life. I believe that with every break up you only get stronger and it's too nice being in a relationship to not be. I'd take the pain and the hurt in the end because as long as they love me now, are holding me now, care about me now, that's all that really matters to me." Rin smiled as she looked down at her feet.

"Ayame!" somebody called as they ran up and I looked to see Hiten standing in front of me with a goofy grin plastered on his face. My body froze, the last thing I wanted to do was deal with somebody who had slipped me drugs. Sesshomaru felt me tense up and narrowed his eyes at the boy but Hiten didn't seem fazed at all.

"What do you, of all people, want?" I spoke with disgust.

"I just want to hang out with you Ayame, you're a beautiful girl." He frowned.

"I know what you did to me Hiten!" I growled with my eyes full of fury.

"I didn't, I couldn't. Please believe me Ayame that that wasn't me. My friend told me about it when you passed out and said he wanted me to have some fun but I'm not like that. I didn't want to hurt you Ayame and I was afraid you might pass out or something if you left. Honestly, I had enough time to do whatever with you, but I didn't." he pointed out.

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At the end of the night Sesshomaru ended up walking Rin to her hotel since it was on the way to his own and we planned to get her the clothes tomorrow. Hiten walked with me to my room though and was carrying all the other bags I had managed to pick up while on our walk throughout the night. I opened the door and it swung open to reveal Koga and some brunette making out on the bed, him without a shirt on. I hated it, I really hated it, but I pushed it to the back of my mind.

The two jumped apart, shocked, as Hiten and I walked in. He placed my bags on the floor with the rest of them and the two lovers quickly regained their composure. Koga's eyes narrowed at Hiten, "What's he doing here?"

"We spent the night walking down the boardwalk with Rin and Sesshomaru." I shrugged. "I picked up a lot of clothes and he carried them for me. Sesshomaru is working all day and all night now; this is his first real break since he first entered college." I informed.

The girl on the bed gave me a disgusted face and she checked me out. Hiten quickly spoke up, "I know what you guys must think of me since Ayame said you guys figured out about the drugs but that wasn't me. My friend had done it and informed me only when she was finally passed out. I honestly wouldn't do that to anybody, I couldn't hurt a girl like Ayame." Hiten explained.

"Who's she?" the girl on the bed snapped with a nasty tone.

"Pleased to meet you too, precious, I'm Ayame Wind." I smirked. "Anyway, I'm heading back outside because it is beautiful out so you guys have the room to yourselves."

Hiten and I walked back outside and Koga trailed shortly behind, leaving the girl on the bed in the room behind us. He grabbed my arm lightly with those blue eyes looking into mine. You were all over her Koga and she was all over you, it's nice to know how easily a kiss can replaced from me to with another girl. Thank you Koga, for giving me a reason to let you go.

"Ayame..." his voice was soft.

I wasn't a genius but I was smart when it came to things, beyond average. Still, I wasn't anything out of the ordinary nowadays; I was just another kid in the world. I wasn't the top ranking, but I wasn't low on the charts either. Intelligence was divided among the human race and some gained more than others, there was no doubt about that.

I had mad a lot of stupid choices in my life. I had broken laws far too many for somebody of my age. I had bent the rules until I pushed too far. I had driven my Gramps nearly mad some days, and he wasn't even strict about matters. I drove my best friends crazy with worry and I even scared myself have the times because I want to insane and dangerous lengths for fun.

I pulled my arm free and gave Koga no expression. My face was as placid as a professional poker player. I turned my head away and started walking back towards the beach. I was walking away from Koga and my heart wasn't jumping to go back, my feet didn't want to turn around, my mind was screaming at me. He didn't come after me, just stood there. I was leaving Koga behind, and that was the smartest thing I had ever done.

Heartbreaking chapter, isn't it? Turns out Ayame's giving up on Koga but of course the month and the story aren't up yet. I already know how the end is going to be but I'm acting going to wing everything in between. I'm horrible at planning so I don't even bother. Also, I'm sorry you guys don't have a character guide but when the story is finished I will have one as the last chapter, just so you can remember the people and not be confused if you ever re-read or think about it.