She watched and waited. She waited as time flew by. She watched the little kids run by yelling and playing like if there was no tomorrow. She once was like those little kids playing, and laughing. She watched the old people walking hand and hand. It made her sick to her stomach to know she was getting older. She wished how she could be a kid again. How carefree they are, and how they didn't know what love or heart break was. She wished for it all to come back. The time, the people, the everything. She wished it all back every day, every time she got a chance to. She was only young, not to young but not to old; but she was still young enough to not know fall in love so quickly, but she was old enough to know it can't be helped.
She waited and waited but there was no show. It soon got to dark to be out alone, but she waited more. She knew they were gonna show up, she knew they wouldn't leave her waiting, she knew they would have called if they couldn't show up. Part of her was glad if they didn't show up. Another part was sadden by how they have been treating her lately when they would hang out. She felt left out. Someone and a 'Someone' of there own, and she had no one. The kissy faces they made to each other, the things they would say to each other. It all made her sick, it made her fell like she was left out all the time. She was tired of being with them all the time, but couldn't help it. They were her friends and she couldn't say no to them. She felt a tear fall from her eye. They had forgotten about her, all of them. No one called, or texted her that they couldn't make it.
The wind blew, it left a chill down her spine. She looked down at her cell phone. 9:23 is what the time was. She wait 3 hours for no one to show up. She shook her head and stuffed her cell in her bag. She looked around one more time before heading to her car. She hoped that the guys playing basketball didn't see her, she didn't need boys like them to be calling her stuff or following her to her car. She hurried to her car but was stopped by the same guys she didn't want to see her. She looked down and tried to walk away, but one of the guys grabbed her arm and pulled her back.
"Where do you think you're going baby?" One man said. He touched her face and she flinched. She pulled her face away from the guys hand.
"Oh, she a fighter. Just my favorite type." The man that was holding her from leaving said. He pulled her closer to his body. He put one of his arms around her neck and touched her legs with the other one. She knew not to fight back, cause if she did she might get killed. The only choice she had was to yell and when she was about to the man covered her mouth. Panic set in when she felt one of them working his way up her leg and another on unbuttoning her pants. She tried screaming but she doubted no one could hear her muffled yells. She closed her eyes hoping it would end quickly. She left tears falling down from her face. "Look she's crying!" They all laughed.
"Maybe we should give her a real reason to cry." She bit down on her lip, knowing what was gonna happen next. She felt her pants fall down to her ankles and one of the men about to take off her underwear, but then stop. "Who the fuck are you? Hey what are you doing?" She heard the man yell. She was to scared to open her eyes and see what was happening. A few seconds later she was let go. She fell to the floor, she still didn't open her eyes. She heard foot steps coming closer to her. She opened her eyes but didn't look up.
"These kinda guys make me sick. They're idiots. Trying to rape a poor girl cause they can't get any one."
"They make all guys look bad. There's no point in them living, I say we end they're life's now."
"Shut the fuck up Deidara. Now lets get the fuck outta here now, before the fucking cops come by."
"Wait what are we gonna do about this chick?" The guy called Deidara pointed down at her. She finally looked up. She was shocked to see who was in front of her. These were the guys who saved her life? She asked herself but why? Why would they stop and help her? "Say girl what's your name hmm?" Deidara was speaking to her but she could reply back. Her mouth was dry. She tried talking but nothing came out. Deidara looked over at the guy with long dark hair. He looked to familiar to her, but she couldn't remember his name. He just shrugged and look down at her. His cold dark eyes left a chill going down her spine.
"Well girl what the fuck is you-"
"Hidan shut up. Don't talk to her in that language. She's been through enough right now, she doesn't need you to speak in that language to her." The long dark haired man was sticking up for her or what? Itachi Uchiha. That was his name. Sasuke's older brother? The same brother that ran away after his family died except him and Sasuke. Why was he helping her? What would he even be doing in this town again? And who were his friends? And more importantly why did they help her?
"Don't tell me what to fucking do. I'll say whatever the fuck I wanna say." Hidan looked down at her, she looked away and got up. She looked down at her pants and was surprised to see someone had put them back on with out her noticing. "Well girl what the fuck is your name?" She stayed quiet before she could answer.
"I-Ino Yamanaka." She looked up and smiled a little. She looked around at the bodies lying on the floor. Were they passed out or dead? She wonder. "W-why did you guys h-help me?" Ino was shaking.
"Did you want us to let you get raped or what?" She looked at the one with blond hair. He had a similar hairstyle to her's. She was trying to remember his name. Deidara? Wasn't it? She thought to herself.
"Um. No I was just asking that's all." She looked back down. "That was a stupid question to ask them." She said in her head. She looked back up. She heard her cell ringing. She searched the ground for her bag. She found it and pulled out her cell. "Sasuke? Why would he be calling me?" She was shocked that her would call her? But then she thought again. It could of been Sakura."Hello?"
"Oh my gosh, Ino. I'm so sorry we couldn't make it to the park. Something came up. I really hope we didn't keep you waiting there."
"It's okay. I didn't even go. I was gonna tell you but I had lost my phone." What a total lie. They had he waiting for 3 hours and she all most got raped cause they didn't show up. But she couldn't tell Sakura that. She couldn't tell anyone that.
"Okay, thank goodness. I'm using Sasuke's cell cause mine died, so I gotta go but I'll call you tomorrow. 'Kay?"
"Yeah, that's fine bye." They hung up. Ino threw her cell back in her bag. She looked back at the guys who saved her. Deidara had a confused look on his face. Hidan looked like her didn't give a fuck what was going on. and Itachi had no emotion on his face.
"You just lied to your friend. That's not good." Deidara said. Ino looked at him then back at the ground.
"Yeah? Neither is leaving someone waiting for 3 hours and then not showing up or calling say they couldn't make it. But it's late I better get going home." She took a step and all most fell down if it hadn't been for her grabbing onto Itachi's arm. She blushed when she looked up at him.
"It doesn't look like you can walk. You shouldn't drive then. You might pass out while driving." Itachi looked over at Hidan and Deidara. "I'm gonna drive you home. You two follow me in the car." He looked down at Ino who was still holding onto his arm. "We'll take your car." Hidan and Deidara looked at each other then back at Ino and Itachi. Ino let go of Itachi and tried walking again, then fell down. Her legs were still shaking and she couldn't walk with out falling. She felt Itachi pick her up. She looked at him in the eyes then blushed. "Where's your car?" He asked her. Ino pointed to where her car had been parked. Itachi walked to it. Hidan and Deidara looked at each other.
"I say we leave him there. Better yet, follow him then when we get to the house take off without him." Deidara said. He had a big evil grin on his face.
"How long do you think till he fucks her?" Hidan asked him. They walked to they're car. "I'm driving. I say tonight he will. Let's fucking leave him there"
"Me too. All the chicks he's dated all ways end having sex with him after the first date. So it could happen. Plus he saved her, so she owes him."
There was nothing but awkward silence going on between Ino and Itachi. It made Ino really uncomfortable. "What's with you choice in music? The all American rejects, really?" Ino didn't answer she just watched as Itachi changed the station on the radio. But why was she letting him? She never let anyone else touch it unless she said to. It was just something about him that made her feel like she couldn't move, or talk. "Now here's some music you should be listening to not that silly little five year old music." He had stop on a station she didn't even known she had. "You better leave it here, or next time I see you I'll make you listen to music that will scare the crap outta you."
Next time he sees her? What? Was he planing on them meeting again?
"Who's the band playing?" The only words she asked. Nothing about them seeing each other again like he said or him changing her radio.
"Nothing more. They're not very popular right now so I doubt only a hand full of people know who they are. This song they're playing right now Fell in love with a ghost is my favorite. Maybe one day I'll take you to one of there concerts." He grinned when he said he was gonna take her to one of they're concerts. Ino was in shock. Did he really just tell her that? She looked down at her lap. She felt her cell vibrating in her bag but she didn't really feel like taking it out and checking who it was.
She picked up her head and pointed to the street on the left. "Make a left here, then it's the 3rd house on the right." She really didn't feel like going home right now. With her parents out on a business trip and being gone for who knows how long, she didn't want to be alone. She would had normally called Sakura or Hinata or someone to come and sleepover; but with what happen today, she really didn't feel like being with her friends right now.
She let out a sigh when they pulled up to the driveway. She looked down then at Itachi and smiled when he looked her way. She didn't expect him to smile back and he wasn't going to. She waited till Itachi turned off the car before she got out and when she did she almost fell when she took a step. But she didn't know why? She stopped shaking when she got in the car. She leaned back against the car and waited for Itachi to come and give her the keys. "Thanks. I mean for everything. If you and your friends hadn't shown up who knows what would had happened to me." She smiled at him then looked down when she received her keys.
"Don't mention it. We just really hate guys who are like that... well I do anyways. Deidara can be like that but only when he's really drunk same with Hidan." They both looked over at the street when they heard a honk. Ino frowned knowing she was gonna be left alone. But for some reason a part of her wanted Itachi to stay and not leave. She looked up at Itachi and waved goodbye. He didn't say anything, he just walked away.
"Okay so when he passes that plant right we take off. Got it?" Deidara and Hidan had been planing on leaving Itachi there thinking he was gonna get lucky with Ino. "Okay on the count off three drive...One... Tw-"
"Fucking three!" Hidan had step on the gas and took off. Ino's jaw dropped when she saw Itachi's so called friends and left and didn't wait for him to get in the car. She looked over at Itachi who stood still. He didn't say anything he just stood there.
"Uh... what just happened? Did they just really leave you behind?" There was still no answer from Itachi. There was silence for about five minutes before Ino spoke again. "Are they gonna come back for you?" She just saw Itachi shake his head no. "Gezz what great friends they are." She thought to herself for a moment until she head Itachi speak.
"Those fucking morons. They always end up doing this to me with every girl I see. Oh when I get my hands on them this time." He turned and looked at Ino who was still leaning against her car. "Yeah, I'm sorry about this. They always end up doing this to me with almost all the girls I see." What was he saying? They do this to all the girls he dates? But him and Ino are nothing. They weren't dating? So then why would they leave him there? Ino shook all those questions out of her head and looked over at Itachi.
"Well you got some really great friends there." There was another silence between them. "Well if you want you could stay here till tomorrow." Wait. Did she just ask him that? What made her say such a thing? I mean a guy staying at her house without her parents being home? If they found out they would have killed Ino. She waited for his answer. She had remembered she had gotten a text from someone. She pulled at her cell and looked who it was from. It was Sakura she didn't feel like reading it right now, she would read it when she got Itachi's answer.
"No." The way he said no made Ino freak out."I couldn't. And plus wouldn't your parents get mad?" He looked over at the street and let out a sigh. "I can walk. Where I'm staying isn't to far from here." He took a few step to the street then stopped when he heard her say no.
"No, I will not let you walk. And my parents haven't been home in weeks. They're out on a business trip. Plus I owe you for saving me, so you have to stay." She freaked out with what she just said. She was making him stay with her? Why was she so determined on making him stay. When he didn't answer she walked over to him and grabbed his arm and tried pulling him inside her house. He let out a soft smile when he saw how determined she was on getting him to stay, so he let her win this one. He picked her up and walked to the door. He took the keys from her hands and opened it. He looked down at her. She was a apple red colour. She was blushing insanely. He then snapped. Why had he picked her up? Why did he smile when he saw her face? Why was he letting some little girl make him stay at her house? But one question he kept asking her was why did she want him to stay with her?
He carefully put her down and turned on the light. He looked around and saw a big empty house and she was living here all by herself while her parents were away? This place is much to big for one person her age to keep up with. How would she buy food and keep everything still on? He looked down at the blonde girl who was standing perfectly still. She hadn't moved since he put her down. Maybe she was freaking out more then he was and she was. She felt dizzy and light headed. She was afraid to much thinking that if she did she would fall or pass out. She waited till her dizzy spell went away before walking to the sofa to sit down. She looked over at Itachi who was still standing by the door way. She looked at him then at the other sofa she had for him to sit down. He walked over to the sofa she was sitting on and sat next to her a little to next to her. They're arms were touching each other. She blushed when he sat down. She looked at the clock. It was 11:09. She wonder how long she had stayed at the park after what had happened and how long it took them to get to her house. It usually takes her only 10 minutes to get to her house from the park.
Ino took out her cell phone and read what Sakura had sent her. But without noticing she was reading it out loud. "Hey Ino, do you think you could come and stay over for awhile? Me and him got in a fight. I really need someone to talk to." She phased then check at what time she had sent it. "10:51? Just what I need someone talking about how much they miss they're special someone and how much they love them." She begun to reply to her text saying " 'I'm sorry Saukra tonight's not a god night. Maybe tomorrow Kay?' Smiley face and send." Without noticing she had read it out loud again. She had looked over at the Uchiha boy who looked like he was in his own world. "Come on I'll show you where you'll be sleeping for night." She jumped up happily and grabbed Itachi's arm. They walked down the hallway and stopped at a door painted red. She turned the knob but it didn't open. She reached for the top of the door and grabbed a key that was hind in there. She opened the door and reviled a room painted red with black strips. Itachi looked around the room. A picture on the dresser caught his eyes. He picked it up. It was of Ino when she was younger with an older black hair boy. Ino turned around and saw the picture he was looking at. "That's my older cousin. He was staying here. That picture is pretty old, I'm surprised he still has it..." She let her voice trail off. She walked next to Itachi and looked at the picture. She felt her eyes water up, she softly smiled and walked back to what she was doing. "He was like older brother to me. He took me almost everywhere he went. I loved him only the way a sister could love her brother. Of course we weren't blood, he was only staying with us cause his mom and my mom were best friends and when she died he needed somewhere to stay... so we let him stay here." She closed the closet door and placed the clothes she had on the table next to her. She watched as Itachi looked around the room some more before giving him the clothes.
"Where is he?" Itachi asked her. He stopped walking when he got to the nightstand and saw some pictures on there. He picked up the three that caught his eye at first. The first one was of Ino, her cousin, and what he was guessing her parents. The second one was of Ino and her cousin again. He had her on his shoulders and she was crying, but he was laughing. The last one was of Ino and another women with light brown hair and hot pink eyes.
"He's out seeing the world with his fiance. The chick in the picture you're looking at is her. They've been engaged for 9 months already and they plan of getting married in November. She was a really nice girl. I would call her big sis and I was her little sis. She was actually like another mom to me." Itachi flashed her the picture of Ino on his shoulders. "Oh, that picture. I had fell and hurt my knee he was trying to make be stop crying and trying to get me to laugh." He put down the pictures and turned around to face Ino. She had some clothes folded in her hands and a big smile on her face.
"You can wear these to sleep in if you want. You look about his size. And tomorrow you can wear anything he has in his closet. Not like he's gonna miss them or know if they're gone." She grabbed the shirt and unfolded it and put it up against his chest to see if it would fit. Ino say him move closer and saw that his arm had twitched like if he wanted to grab her. She put the shirt down and took a step back when she saw that he was only inches away from her. Why was he moving closer to her? When he took another step she back up and handed him the clothes and begun to walk to the door. "Oh and the bathroom is down the hall on the left. I'll be in the living room if you need me. Bye." She flashed him a smile and walked away. She could feel her face heating up, she was blushing bad. She stood by the sofa and looked back at the hallway to the door where Itachi was. When he closed the door she went and sat down and begun to text back Sakura.
"What did I do? Why did I keep moving closer to her? What the heck was I thinking?" Itachi laid back on the bed and thought to himself for awhile. He had heard his cell phone ringing. He forgot that he had it with him. He looked to see who was calling. "What do you want?"
"I heard you were back in town. Is this true?"
"Yeah it is. I'll being staying here for awhile. I'll be going to the same high school as you."
"You won't last. You'll leave just like back then. You'll never change."
"You so sure about that? Wanna make a bet?"
"Sure. Why not. What happens when I'm right?"
"Whatever you want to happen."
"Hmm. If I win you got to leave for good."
"And what about if I win?"
"Unlikely to happen. But if you do.. You could stay as long as you want and whatever else."
"Hmm. Then you got yourself a bet little brother"
He hung up the phone with no other word. He was determined to win. He wasn't planning on leaving anytime soon anyways. He looked down at his cell and grin a big evil grin. "Hm. You're on Sasuke. And I'm gonna win."