Title: Normal

Rating: PG-13 (or at least that is what I want to keep it at!)

Rant: Disclaimer (that's enough right?)

Notes: Second chapter lil short but that ok need to update somewhat and I had to change the summary of the story so you get this....Don't worry it will get better I promise!!!
Itachi and Akira had turned into fast friends. They had met at the train station a few more times before they started to hang out regularly. It wasn't too uncommon to see one of them with the other not far behind. Akira was the happiest she had been in months, and her family trademarks were showing up more and more then just the whisker marks on her cheeks.

Akira had always been drawn to manga and other forms of comic books, they are just something that she picked up one day when a friend recommended one and she can never go a week with out getting a new one on her hands.

Itachi had become somewhat interested in them because every time him and Akira just hung out at her house it seemed as though she would produce the books right out of thin air. He started to read a couple of the titles that she had at home, but she was soon dragging him to the book store to spend hours bent over a small book filled with graphic pictures, word bubbles, and action words. Itachi didn't really get the concept of them but they made Akira smile and that was a good thing; he liked seeing her smile.
Itachi sighed and put the manga down that he was reading on the coffee table in front of him. They were both sitting on the floor with the table pulled close to the couch so that they could lean against it. It was a nice day outside and they had already taken a small run. Both their families wanted them to still train in the shinobi way so they decided why not together and make it somewhat enjoyable.

He ran a hand through his hair and stared up at the ceiling. It was only when he sighed again did Akira look up.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Just a bit bored." Itachi said falling back so that his arms stretched to the back of the couch cushion.

Akira looked at him through the corner of her eye, she blushed a bit when she noticed his shirt was riding up a bit as he sat there and stared at the ceiling. But when she turned the page and then looked back there was an extremely well drawn scene between two characters that she could have done with out at the moment making her blush even more.

"I'm going to get a glass of water, what one too?" Akira asked as she put the book down so that it still kept her place and stood up.

"Sure," was all that she got from Itachi who didn't move.

Akira sighed and walked out of the room thankful that Itachi wasn't looking at her for once. The blush made her face hot and she knew it was very noticeable.

Itachi waiting until he couldn't hear her foot steps in the hall before sitting back up. When he brought his hands back they held an envelope. It was meant for Akira, but this morning they had been kind of rushed and he didn't have time to give it to her then and shoved it in the couch just as she grabbed his hand and dragged him outside.

He fiddled with it in front of his eyes, he was nervous about giving it to her. It was tickets to a concert in the Village of the mist. It would be almost like a date for both of them and that was what Itachi was hoping for.

He heard Akira coming because she was singing in an off key voice that made Itachi smile. He folded the envelope in half and stuck it in a page later on in her manga that she was reading. Now all he had to do was wait.

Akira came in and sat down next to him and handed him the glass she was still humming the song.

"Where'd you hear that?" Itachi asked as he looked at her as she began singing again.

"My brother had it on in his room. Every time I hear that song I get it stuck in my head." Akira said as she put the glass on a coaster and picked up her manga again. Itachi did the same but he kept glancing at her.

The plot of the story was getting to her and she started to lose herself easily with in the characters again when she turned the page and something fell out of the book onto the table in front of her.

She looked at it for a moment and then looked over at Itachi. She had read through this manga a few dozen of times and she never really had something fall out on her and all the pages were there. She looked to Itachi again and he seemed to want to try to put the book through his eyes by staring at it long enough. Not wanting to find out what would happen if she bothered him she picked it up and opened the envelope.

There was a note there and something else she took out the note and unfolded it. She was taking her time with it and poor Itachi sitting next to her could hardly contain himself as she opened it slowly and then started to scan down the small note he had written explaining what it all was and that he wanted her to come with her to the concert. She sort of blinked at the paper then took out the tickets and looked at those for a moment before she turned to him and they met eyes for a moment.

The moment only because she had pounced on him squealing and hugging him. Itachi laughed.

"So I guess that means that you'll go with me?" Itachi said through a laugh.

All that Akira could do was squeeze him tighter and nod against his chest. Itachi looked to the ceiling again and smiled.
That's it for Chapter two there is more coming and the more that comes the better the story will be so please bear with me on this one I really am trying but with stories you can never predict what will happen....Maybe you can...donno

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Nikole StarGazer