"Are you alright?" the paper read. The girl sitting beside me held the paper up. I stared at her; she was definitely a whole lot different. For one she looked less scary.

"Yea… I'm alright. Much better than yesterday," I told her. She just nodded and passes me the tray of food. Dang this girl can cook….bacon, toast, egg and a cup of coffee, what else could you ask for? She then held up another paper.

"You are going out? Aren't you scared I'm going to steal your things and run away?" I asked replying her question. She just shook her head and wrote again.

"You are not bad, so I trust you. I will be back soon," she wrote. "Don't trust me so easily kiddo," I whispered but she was already out of the room. I heard a door outside open and close.

That girl needs to learn how to differentiate bad and good people. I sigh and ate my breakfast while my brain wondered back to the night before.

Flashback

Last night I was caught up by Reo's man, they were looking for me to settle a battle. It was a stupid battle actually, his girlfriend tried to cheat on him and flirt with me instead. However it seems those goons mistook it the other way around and this is the results of it, me wasting my precious time not to mention energy to fight with them.

"Hyuuga, how nice of you to man up and fight me," the bald one said while the other just smirk and settle down on the bench.

"How stupid of you to want to fight me," I replied him emotionlessly. Surprisingly those guys were calmly facing me, something was wrong. Usually they were stupid enough to be blinded by anger and come barging up to me like a bunch or gorillas. Instead they just smiled menacing towards me.

"No, you are the stupid one Hyuuga," he said pulling out a knife. Right, I forgot. Street fight didn't have any rules; I got to remember that I belong to the streets now.

Baldy came charging at me at full speed and stabbed me on my right chest. Lucky me I guess. Ignoring the stab I took the opportunity and threw him over. He laid on the ground in a daze. Before I could attack him, his buddy came to his rescue holding me from behind, seriously they need to learn the word fair play. Baldy gained back his pace and came at me full force, punch and kicks. At least he forgot the knife, I thought faintly. Once they were satisfied taking turns beating me up they threw me on the wall causing me to lose conscious, I saw them pull out a gun and took an aim at my head. This is a great way to leave this world definitely. Before I lost my conscious I saw the boys backing away as petite figure came to view holding up…is she holding a gun? Then she was kneeling beside me. She caressed my beat up face and pulled me up to my feet.

"Who is she? She's kinda strong," I though before I fell unconscious.

When I woke up I found myself shirtless and nicely bandaged up. Now where the hell am I? It's definitely not a hospital nor a clinic, so where am I? Before I could come up with a solution the door opened and a brunette came in. It might be because I was still in a daze but at that moment all I could think of is how absolutely stunning she was. She had a perfect hour glass body, long curly hair, an innocent face and a gentle smile…but her eyes were unreadable in some way, like she was hiding something.

She came up to me; she was holing a notepad at me. "I'm Mikan; I brought you to my house yesterday. Are you hurt anywhere else?" it wrote. I stared at the paper then back at her. She saw my confused face and wrote again, "sorry I can't talk but I can hear" it wrote. I read it them realization struck me, I was being a bastard.

"You patched me up well, no worries. Sorry about that, I was being insensitive," I said feeling a bit guilty I avoided eye contact with her. Did I just apologies? I never did that before. I looked up to her and she seemed genuinely happy, I wonder why?

"That's good, get some rest while I make us some breakfast." She said and went out of the room. Soon I heard the sound of pots and pans. Who is this girl? Why is she helping me? There is always a price for everything; I wondered what she was going to ask from me before I drifted off.

End of flashback.

I looked around the room as I ate my breakfast, it was neat that was for a place that looked like a library than a room. There was a desk with a laptop and a few books neatly arranged according to size. Then there was a large bookshelf, loaded with books, there was barely any space for more. The whole room seems to be made to stock up book… the only thing that was not related to books was the bed. Other than that, it was filled with reading materials, magazines, story books, mangas and a whole lot of stuff. Is she some kind of book worm?

I placed the empty tray on the floor and went towards the bookshelf, I pulled out a manga. Seriously? This is the latest edition that just came out yesterday… I didn't even get a chance to get my hands on one since it was all sold out. The next thing I know I was too indulged in the book and didn't hear the front door open and close. I felt a light tap on my shoulder, and I was dumb enough to flip the person towards the bookshelf on impulse. The person landed back first and hit the shelve making all the books fall one by one. As I took a closer look I saw it was the brunette girl from earlier lying unconscious under the avalanche of books.

"Shit,"I cursed and pulled her out of the mess. The wound on my hand ached warning me to stop but I ignored. The girl didn't deserve what I did to her…damn instinct.

She groaned as I pulled her out, pain was evident on her face.

"I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to do that…that was real stupid of me. Are you hurt? Did you break anything?" I asked as I cradled her supporting her body. If it wasn't because I was feeling guilty of what I have done I would really appreciate our position.

She slowly opens her eyes, wincing at the pain as I slowly shifted her. Well a person with a fragile body like her, it's a wonder she didn't pass out. She shook her head slowly; I think that meant she was okay.

She blinked for a bit then something caught her eyes, her eyes widen and she quickly stood up then she smacked me on the head. I stared her, what the heck was that for?

She pointed at my wound that seemed to have opened, soaking the bandage crimson. She stood up quickly, wincing a bit then she pushed me towards the bed. She gave that stare that clearly said that if I move I will be dead meat. Before she left, she fished out the manga I was reading and passed it to me then she disappeared out the door.

She was one weird girl, one minute she is in pain the next she is hopping around like an energizer bunny threatening me. I remembered the worried look she gave me when she say the blood and couldn't help but smile.

A total stranger cares for me, when my own family shuns away from me. The world really works in a strange way.