It started with a note

This is a little IOU to sasukeloves. This story idea is hers. I read it from her story Notes in a desk. I recommend the story it was a little interesting.

A/N: Oh my goodness! How long has it been since the last time I updated? I'm so sorry that it's been so long. I've been meaning to update sooner but I never found the time. I will remedy that.

I wake groggy and shift around restlessly for about twenty minutes before officially declaring myself awake. I sit up and look around the room pathetically, trying to get a feel of what time it is. I know it's gotta be early because it's not very bright out but there is still a bit of light peaking through the curtains.

Now is the time that I wish I had my own cell phone or maybe a watch would be okay too but money is tight and those are luxuries I just can't afford. No matter, I think things will start looking up from now on.

I can't stop the smile that spreads across my face. I have a friend. Konan, she's always been so nice to me and was always the closest I had to a friend but I was too afraid to be hopeful but now... she wants to be my friend! Itachi even said so. Why would he have to lie?

And Itachi... wow. What is a girl to think? All this time my mysterious note leaving friend was really one of the most popular boys and school-and one of the most nicest? This is all too much and so quick! It almost seems too good to be true.

I sneeze and frown, now noticing that I feel like shit. Maybe I caught some cold. Probably from freezing over in the woods last night.

"How do you feel, dear?" someone asks.

I jump and look at the nurse standing at the foot of my bed. She is older with graying brown hair and kind blue eyes. She holds a tray of food in her hands.

"I'm sorry," she says nicely, "I didn't mean to frighten you. I brought you breakfast. You must be starving."

As if my stomach has a mind of it's own, a growl erupts from my belly and I blush, lowering my head. "Uhh, yes ma'am."

She laughs sweetly, "Ohh guilty as charged." she puts the tray on a bed pan and lays it on my lap. "How do you feel?" she asks again, while smoothing out my bed sheets.

"Sick." I answer and take a bite of the food, cringing at the taste. The nurse laughs.

"I would assume so, you were outside in the freezing cold for so long. And what is with that look?" she gives me an expectant face, "Eat up. It wont kill you, I promise. But, you do look a bit thin, you should probably eat a big lunch when you get home."

I look up from my 'food' with a surprised look on my face. "I can leave today?"

The nurse smiles, "Of course. The doctor just wanted to keep you here over night to make sure your fever went down and it did a little after 3 o clock this morning. You just have a common cold now. No need to worry." she stops as if thinking of something before she continues, pointing to herself, "I'm Rachel. I've been watching over you since you got here last night. My shift is about to end and I wanted to bring you something before I went home."

I nod slowly. "Thank you, Rachel. I'm sorry you had to go through so much trouble for my sake."

Rachel pats my arm. "Oh don't you worry about that, darling. I'm happy to help. But," she looks over at me with a really kind smile, "A thank you is always appreciated. Thank you, sweetheart."

Something on her side beeps. She pulls up a little device and glances at it with a concentrated look. "Well, my shift is over, hun. Is there anything I can get for you before I go?" she looks up at me.

I shake my head but then think of a question. "When can I leave?"

"When your mother comes back to sign you out." With that, she gave me a sweet smile, a little wave and quietly left my room.

Mom picks me up a few hours later. The moment I'm out of bed, her arms are around me. She sobs into my shoulder and holds me tightly against her. "I-I had-d no idea y-y-y-you felt that waaaaaayyyyyy!" She sobs.

I don't respond but hold her close, happy to have her arms around me, to see that maybe, just maybe she does love me and she does care about me. Maybe she never had the chance to prove it to me and now she feels really bad about it.

I lower my head a bit so my lips were at her ear, "I love you, mom."

She pulls back and kisses me multiple times each time saying, "Oh, I love you too. I love you so much."

Somehow, I knew she meant it. My mother never showered me with as much love as she did the day I came home from the hospital. She stayed home from work and spent the entire day with me. Talking about what I have been going through all these years and how she can make it better. She called out for pizza and we watching old movies from when my dad was around. I watched mom hold me in her arms all the time and call me her reason for existing. I never knew how much she loved me.

The next day, Wednesday, mom woke me up and asked if I was ready to go to school. If I wasn't ready, she assured me it was fine to stay home, but I thought that maybe I should go. I need to get out and move about. I don't want to have mountains of homework to return to and there is people waiting to see me.

The news yesterday did a little segment on me, which I'm not looking forward to facing at school but, Konan... she'll be there and maybe even Itachi. He did say they want to be my friends and maybe helping me out is what friends do for each other.

I get ready and walk to school slowly, almost dreading it. I'm scared that everything will be like it used to be... and I'm also scared that it wont be anything like I hoped. Please, who ever can hear me, let me make it through this day. Please.

"Hey." Someone touches my shoulder. I jumps and spin around. It's Itachi and Kisame. Kisame kinda hanging back, seemingly giving us space to talk. Itachi pulls his hand back with a little apologetic smile. "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you."

I shake my head. "It's fine." I say lightly. I wanted to ask him, if what he said in his letter was true, that he wanted to be my friend, but I'm scared that maybe he'll reconsider or think that I'm weird or maybe he only said it to be nice, he didn't want to actually be friends with a little girl like me.

The horror must have shown on my face because he smiles lightly and pats me on the shoulder, "Hey, don't look like that. I'm not that scary. Besides, Konan has been talking about you nonstop. She's gonna want some kind of inauguration for you into our group. It'll be somewhat humorous, I think. That and you'll get to see Hidan and Deidara bicker like a married couple." he attempts to ease my frightened mind.

I try to calm down, for both our sakes. "That sounds like fun."

Itachi laughs humorlessly. "Yeah right." he stops. We are in front of the school, people are looking over at us. He gives me a little nudge toward the school's front entrance. "You'll be fine. We're here for you."

I nod and take my first steps toward my school, and hopefully to a new, better life not only in school but hopefully out of it too.

A/N: Well? Whatcha'll think? I know it's been so long sinse I updated any of my stories, but I'm trying to remedy that, as I said previously. So here is another chapter. I think I'm nearing the end so see ya!