Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Disclaimer: I own nothing InuYasha.

Author Note: Urgh! I always make so many freakin' mistakes! I'm sorry guys, I really am! My parents keep bitching about me being in my room but I love to write, God forbid! I don't understand why I can't have MY privacy, I don't judge and bitch about what they decide to do with their lives....

*Warning – I'm changing the rating to Mature!*

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I'll Remember You

Chapter Eight

Everything fades into beliefs. Even in science, if you don't believe in it, it really isn't true. Everything spoken and written in this world is man-made. The time, the measurements, the language... none of it really exists; it was simply created to make us have a purposeful, manageable life. Our lives were built upon the creation of nonexistent things. I scooped up some grains of sand as I pondered about life.

Last night Koga had just as easily moved on with another girl and I was ready to move on with Hiten. We had spent a little while just talking and getting to know each other and he really was a decent person. At the end of the night I ended up rigging a way to climb up to Rin's balcony and slept outside. When the small girl had found me she let me inside.

I had yet to head back to the hotel room that I shared with Koga. Rin let me borrow a small orange bikini that made my tanned skin look nice and my breasts were practically falling out of it from her lack thereof even though she had gotten it too big and decided to let me keep it since she was a size three anyway and the bottoms would slip a little but the top was a little too big as well. I borrowed matching orange flip flops and we two headed down to the beach, Rin clad in a yellow halter bikini.

With Rin by my side we made our way down to the beach and I sighed as I got up, ready to confront my interrogative friends. We went to the spot our group had claimed ever since our arrival, which was almost a week and a half to two weeks ago now. Koga was lounging on a chair staring out into the ocean. Rin and I kicked off our flip flops and headed into the water. Sango and Kagome rushed over as soon as possible and walked back out with us. Kagome was the first to start firing off questions. "Ayame, what happened? Koga said you had left with Hiten and never came home!"

"You didn't have sex with him did you?" Sango asked with her eyes wide.

"No, I promise I didn't. We talked on the beach a little afterwards and then I told him to go home. He offered to let me stay but I ended up climbing up Rin's balcony and staying there because I'm not the type of girl to sleep over at random guys' places." I explained.

"It's true; I found her sleeping on my balcony this morning." Rin giggled.

"I didn't have the confidence to actually confront Koga. Last night when I walked in he was making out with some snotty little girl on the bed... they were all over each other so I just left, it was all I could do. I made up my mind right then and there that I'm over Koga, I don't have the time to get my heart broken, I have a great summer with my friends to look forward to." I shrugged.

"He didn't say anything about that part..." Kagome said, gaping.

"Of course you left, you had a damn good reason to! I wouldn't want to be stuck in the bed that he and some girl had just been all over each other on! That's ridiculous Ayame, I'm really sorry. I never thought Koga was that much of an asshole..." Sango mumbled.

Narrator POV

"Koga, everything will be good." Miroku said, him and InuYasha dripping wet since they had just freshly emerged from the sea to go comfort their good friend now that the girl he wanted so badly and never stopped thinking about had just arrived.

"I'm sure she'll apologize, Ayame's a nice person." InuYasha pointed out. "And, although she's been acting a little more wild and exposing than usual, she's still Ayame and Ayame is not a whore. You don't know, maybe she didn't even stay with him."

"Ayame won't apologize." Koga muttered.

"What?" Miroku asked to the non comprehendible answer.

"I said that she's not going to apologize." He growled, annoyed.

"Why not?" InuYasha asked, dumbfounded. "She better apologize after what she did to you! I mean, you're worried sick and you were ever since she had left earlier that day. You even wanted to walk alone and apparently went back to the hotel early!"

"She's not going to apologize because... because... because when she walked in last night I was on the bed without a shirt and some random girl was on top of me. We were all over each other and she walked in just went my shirt had came off. Anytime later and she would have seen that Koga Ookami was no longer a virgin." He explained.

"Wait, what? You're not even a virgin anymore?" Miroku asked, shocked.

"I'm still a virgin... after I saw Ayame I just couldn't go through with it and I told the girl to leave about ten minutes after Ayame did. If Ayame would have never walked in, or if she would have walked in just a little bit later, we both would have been naked and having sex." He closed his eyes and rubbed his temples.

"But you didn't sleep with her?" InuYasha double checked.

"Ayame walked in too early to even come close. Not one article of clothing ever left that girls body. I told her to get lost and that I never wanted to see her ever again. I don't know what it is about Ayame, I shouldn't have felt bad. A lot of people have sex, and most aren't even virgins so why do I feel so bad just because I see her and know I'm making out with somebody else?" he wondered aloud.

"Maybe because you have feelings for her..." Miroku suggested.

"I know I do and I can't deny it. Ever since after that kiss I've been looking to get her off of my mind but nothing is working. I don't even know what to do with myself half the time anymore. My whole life is one big confusing mess." He grumbled.

Ayame POV

I giggled with my friends as some boys came over and started flirting. Sango and Kagome were taken but joking around with the guys nonetheless. Luckily, Miroku and InuYasha had yet to notice. Well, at least they hadn't noticed but now they were running through the water as fast as they possibly could and tripping over waves. It was almost comical as Miroku was tripped by a waves and face planted, rolling him back towards the waters edge again. InuYasha was determined though and we floated on top of a wave and watched as it broke on InuYasha, watching only his legs appear above the sea level, kicking for dear life.

Miroku had finally got up as InuYasha regained his footing and just as a big waved was coming InuYasha bent down, ready to go under and, at the last minute, Miroku placed his foot on InuYasha's back, surprising the silver haired boy, and pushed himself over the way, pushing towards the girls. The stunned InuYasha had just lifted his head back up and the next second the wave crashed into him again. Miroku was lucky enough to make it although InuYasha was back at the edge of the water with his head on the ground and butt in the air, feet on either side of his face as he pushed a mouthful of salt water out angrily.

"I'm not sure if you are aware of this or not but this little brown haired one, Sango, she's my girlfriend and she's happily taken so there is no need for foolish boys like you guys. I'd greatly appreciate it if you got a life and found a girl who isn't taken so I don't have to punch any of your ugly ass faces in." Miroku threatened with a deadly look in his eye.

InuYasha, who somehow managed to make it back over slipped a protective arm around Kagome's waist and pulled her close. "Kagome here is taken too and it's not like any of you pathetic little mama babies even had a chance with her in the first place. Even if Kagome were single and desperate she wouldn't aim as low as something like you guys." His cockiness shined through with every word as he sent then a million-dollar smile and a look that said 'I dare you to do something'.

"However, Rin and I are completely single and looking, just to throw it out there." I sent a wink to the boys who deciding that backing off from the taken girls would be their best choice. Rin giggled as I threw an arm around her shoulders. Within a few seconds another topic crossed my mind and I completely ignored the group of boys behind me as I turned to InuYasha. "I saw your brother here last night! He walked around with Rin and me and eventually Hiten, too."

"You mean that Sesshomaru guy? He is a total dream. I mean, did you see how gorgeous he looked? He was so perfect. Oh, and he was so polite too! It must be hard to have grown up with such a good looking, hard working, and intelligent, sweet brother. I hope your parents didn't play favorites with you guys since he's some pretty hard standards to live up to." Rin gushed.

"Hey! I'm good looking and intelligent and sweet!" InuYasha growled.

"Oh, he's a total hopeless romantic." Kagome smiled.

"I am not!" InuYasha blushed.

"I bet Sesshomaru is." Rin sighed with happiness.

"I'm better than a hopeless romantic!" InuYasha quickly covered.

"InuYasha, just leave it." I gave advice.

"But-but-but..." he said with big eyes.

"I know, I know, but sometimes we just need to let things go." I said with a sympathetic pat on the back. "I was thinking we could invite Sesshomaru out to eat tonight or something, along with Rin. They're both totally awesome and, as we all know, this is my last summer...."

After finally getting InuYasha to agree to my wants I headed in for the beach. I opened a water bottle and quickly downed half of it before grabbing Kagome's oversized black sunglasses and plopping down in the seat beside Koga. Just because he was no longer a love interest didn't mean we couldn't talk as friends still. "So how was last night?"

"That girl left a couple minutes after you did and I stayed up all night watching television until I finally passed out. To be honest, it was the worst night I had since I had first gotten here. I thought that making out with somebody would make it better but it really didn't." he sighed.

"Oh, well that kindda sucks. Hiten and I walked down to the beach last night and we talked to get to know each other more. Around eleven he went back to his hotel room and offered me to stay but I refused it and ended up climbing Rin's balcony and falling asleep on it. I was afraid to come back to the room and disturb you and your friend." I explained.

"Ayame... a lot has happened between us within such a short time period. You are my best friend and I really do not want to lose that. I know I've done some really stupid things to damage our friendship but please don't hold it against me. I know I had hurt you and messed with your mind and I'm sorry, I never meant to, but please don't stop being my friend because of it." Koga begged.

"Koga... of course we'll stay friends. No matter what, we will always be friends. We have too much history to just forget about each other. You've always been a big part of Gramps life so you were a big part of my childhood too and I can't just throw away a childhood friend. I don't know what kind of person you think I am anymore but I haven't changed that much." I pointed out.

He smiled, thinking back to the past. "Do you remember when I got my first girlfriend?"

"I snipped almost all of her hair off because she was such a bitch to me and didn't think that you and me should talk because we were 'too close' to each other even though you explained how we basically grew up together. She hated me so bad and tried to make my life miserable so I cut off that long black hair. I was doing her a favor though, her split ends were hideous." I giggled.

"She never talked to me after that, especially when I took your side." He smiled. "You were so willing to hurt the girls I dated it wasn't even funny. I remember you kicked the one girl's ass because of it and everything, and you won."

"That's because, behind your back, all your girlfriends had trash talked me. But, anyway, you weren't so sweet and innocent there yourself Koga." I pointed out with a stern look. "Anybody who ever complimented me ended up with a death threat and that time the one boy hit on me you slashed the tires to his car, not the mention the first time we ever met Miroku and he grabbed my ass... you had him bleeding in no time at all so don't try to make yourself so great."

"You were and still are my best friend; I couldn't let stuff like that happen to you. I didn't want you to get with some completely jackass and most of them wanted sex anyway. I didn't want you ending up with a child and horrible life and I didn't want you to regret your first time either." He said softly.

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"Woo! CHICKEN NUGGETS!" I cheered as I rushed to the kid part of the salad bar. Everybody in the restaurant gave me a funny look but I didn't care. I placed chicken nuggets and French fries on my plate, as well as shrimp off to the side and a hot roll with honey butter. I quickly sliced the roll in half and smeared the whole packet of honey butter on it before shoving it in my mouth. It tasted so good and I hadn't eaten in forever so my stomach was flipping with pleasure.

"Calm down, you're going to hurt yourself over there." Koga said as he watched me greedily shove mouthfuls of the roll in while scrunching my nose at him. He smiled and shook his head before continuing with his own plate as I moved on to my nuggets and fries.

"You can get chicken nuggets and fries anywhere, yet it's the first thing that you decide to go for... you're a strange one Ayame." Kagome sighed. Within a few minutes both Koga and I were done and I decided that I was going to race him. He sped up walking so I stuck my foot out and Koga tripped just as a swinging door opened. He threw his arms in an 'X' over his face and smashed into the door, which a server was coming out of to restock the seafood stew. Thrown off balance the dish and the water went everywhere. I gasped as soup spilt all over the ground and quickly helped Koga up.

I ran over to the server and helped him up. "I'm so sorry, sir, I accidently tripped my friend and he happened to hit into you and – Hiten?" I questioned as he repositioned his hat on top of his head again and face me a cheesy smile, a large brush burn on his cheek.

"I work here in the summer." He announced proudly.

"Oh... sorry about the... yeah." I mumbled as I looked at his drenched outfit and the stew covered carpet. Okay, so I really didn't feel bad. Personally I thought it was pretty damn hilarious, I was just glad that I had gotten the chance to finally get out of it. So many times I'd been stuck in similar situations only with no escape and ended up kicked out but Hiten wouldn't do that to me because he liked me.

"No worries. I have to get new soup though; I'll go inform the chef and the clean-up guy so he can get this mess taken care of. It was nice seeing you Ayame, you look as beautiful as always and we'll have to hang out again sometime soon, I really like hanging out with you." He smiled before disappearing back into the kitchen as I said my goodbyes as well.

"He really does like you...." Koga noted with a sigh.

"Yeah, I know, and he's not a bad guy himself. I mean, we obviously started off on the wrong foot but I got to know him a little then and we had a great time. He teaches little kid soccer and lives with his mother, since his father abandoned him at birth, and he wants to become a pediatrician. He knew somebody who we thought had slipped me drugs would turn out to be a sweet, innocent guy?" I asked and Koga himself seemed quite shocked.

Back at the table, Rin and Sesshomaru were locked in a conversation. The contrast of the two worked adorably with Rin and her ditzy bubbly personality and Sesshomaru's now not-so-Stoic-anymore yet undeniably large vocabulary use personality. Whether she understood him or not, she enjoyed listening to him, and he enjoyed talking to her as well, that much was obvious. Kagome, Sango, Miroku, and InuYasha were busy laughing over the previous situation, faces turning red.

"Shut up," I pouted, "it was an accident."

"No it wasn't." Kagome pointed out.

"The waiter part was." I argued.

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"Ayame, I'm glad you decided to give me another chance, it really does mean a lot to me." Hiten said as our whole group hung out later that day. Each person seemed to become more interested in just one other person nowadays though but nobody seemed to really mind. "Ayame... I know this is coming kind of soon but you said you only had one more month before you were leaving so I just was wondering if you would possibly, maybe, kindda wanna go out with me?"

"Hiten... I'm sorry; I'd like to know you a little better first." I responded quickly. I didn't know why I hadn't agreed, Hiten was a great guy, beyond great, and summer romance was what my journey here was all about, that was why I had given him a second chance. Yet, when it came down to it my mind or heart, maybe both, really didn't want it.

His face held a hurt expression although his eyes darkened with want and hate. He turned to look up at me, those piercing eyes staring at me. "I'm sorry Ayame but I think I'm going to head home and just think about some things... I'll check up with you guys another day."

"Okay Hiten, I'll see you later." I forced a smile, like nothing was wrong, and waved to him as he turned around and headed the opposite direction. Those eyes... he had actually scared me when he turned his head towards me. He looked like so psychopathic killer.

"Ayame," Koga broke me free from the blackened thoughts. I turned to look at him, "would you be okay with all of us going to the amusement park tomorrow and just hanging out and riding the roller coasters and water rides and everything? I'm assuming you and I will be paired up, since everybody else is either in a relationship or working on it."

"Sounds good to me." I smiled.

Basically the next chapter is going to be all about this amusement park trip, right? Well, not only. Just so you guys are prepared, there is a truth and dare in the next chapter so prepare yourself! Sorry, I had to spice things up somehow because it's been far too emotional and not funny enough for me. I believe I'm going to start dating the day I update my chapters....