p class="MsoNormal"Chapter 2/p
p class="MsoNormal"'Quit staring at him,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki stared at the note her ex just threw on her desk. She glanced at Deidara and smiled. Yes, she and Deidara broke up about six months ago./p
p class="MsoNormal"'I can't he just spoke in French,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki wrote back, she glanced back up to look at the raven haired male standing a few row across from her and two rows in front of her. Itachi continued to read in French the romantic language, all the while looking extremely attractive. He took his seat./p
p class="MsoNormal"'Yea, Yea, I can speak French too,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara wrote./p
p class="MsoNormal"'I certainly hope so, this is French class,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki wrote down. She giggled at Deidara's face as he read the note. His face scrunched up, as he glared holes in to the paper./p
p class="MsoNormal"'Ha ha very funny,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki looked at Itachi, his eyelashes fluttered up and down, as he took notes./p
p class="MsoNormal"'Have you ever noticed that Itachi's eyelashes are so long they give him an almost softer look?'/p
p class="MsoNormal"'Too bad he is as soft as a porcupine,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara was referring to Itachi's cold attitude. He's known throughout the school as the "Ice prince", Ice because of his lack of emotion prince as if he looks weren't obvious enough. Yuki saw him more as a mysterious knight./p
p class="MsoNormal"'You are so cute when you are jealous,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"'Why shouldn't I be hmm? I am so much better than the 'Ice prince''/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki rolled her eyes, Deidara will never change./p
p class="MsoNormal"'Girls think you are the 'Art prince,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"'That's right I'm the master of Art,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara drew I picture of him doing the victory sign./p
p class="MsoNormal"'There you go again showing off your art,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"'But I don't want to be a prince,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"'Oh, and what would you like to be,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"'A knight!'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki looked at Deidara questionably she never told anybody that she saw Itachi as a knight, not even Deidara./p
p class="MsoNormal"'I'll explode anybody that will get any my way. I'm joking about the knight part,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"He drew a picture of Itachi flying in the air because of an explosion that Deidara had made. There was a close up of Deidara. He had a cat like smile on his face his middle and Index were near his mouth./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki rolled her eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal"'How exciting,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"'Baby, I'll be your Prince on a shiny white motorcycle.'/p
p class="MsoNormal"He then drew a picture of him on a motorcycle, with Yuki clinging on to him. He looked heroic, Yuki looking like a damsel in distress, was saying my Hero. Itachi was in the background looking all beaten up and inhuman like and screaming curses. All of the art work animated./p
p class="MsoNormal"'Speaking of motorcycles I miss my mine'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki didn't write anything back/p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara was talking about when he crashed his bike. Four months ago Deidara got into an accident, were he could, of lost his life. She remembered sitting in the hospital waiting room, everything was white, white rooms, white walls, white chairs and white people. She was scared./p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi stood by her as she, cried. He didn't do much just stood there and watched her. After a few minutes of crying she felt a hand on her head and Itachi whispering that Deidara will be all right. She felt at peace with Itachi's touch as cheesy as it sounds, she felt like he was there to protect her./p
p class="MsoNormal"'I was so worried,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki finally wrote back./p
p class="MsoNormal"'Nice to see you care,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"'Of course I care why wouldn't I, I love you Deidara,'/p
p class="MsoNormal""Yuki, Deidara pay attention," Their French teacher shouted, in French, "If your conversation is important then please read it out loud and in French,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki frowned the teacher was harassing her; she glanced at Deidara who was snickering, then back at the teacher. She had a smug grin in hopes that she trapped Yuki. Just like how Yuki corrected in pronunciation with 'amour'. She embarrassed her pretty badly./p
p class="MsoNormal"Standing up, Yuki began reading the note from the point where she mentioned Deidara being a prince, all in perfect French. The teacher glanced at Yuki./p
p class="MsoNormal""Is that all?" the teacher asked in Japanese./p
p class="MsoNormal""There are pictures as well," Yuki said in French, she held the paper showing the pictures. She glanced at Itachi he was staring at the pictures, a broken pencil in hand. Everybody knew Itachi and Deidara never got along, so it wasn't odd to see Deidara blowing up Itachi in drawings anyway./p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara burst out laughing, "I drew those pictures, yeah," He pointed to the note./p
p class="MsoNormal""Shut-up Deidara, Yuki stop disrupting my…" The teacher spoke in Japanese./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki interrupted, "Teacher we are in French speaking environment it would be better if you spoke in French," Yuki spoke in French before switching to Japanese, "Or are you afraid that your pronunciation will be off,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"The class laughed except for Itachi who only smirked a little bit but it was too small for the human eye to see./p
p class="MsoNormal"The school bell rang, and Yuki ran out of the class before the teacher could give her an unnecessary detention./p
p class="MsoNormal"Around lunch time Yuki sat alone near a window staring outside. Itachi was walking back to the school, after a mysterious disappearance during English class actually he never made it to English class, after French. It was quiet upsetting but he normally sat behind Yuki so she couldn't take glance at him freely, though she could hear his voice, whenever Sensei-Kakashi picked him to read, stories, poems and other none important things. It was the most Itachi ever spoke in his life, Yuki was sure of it./p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara grabbed a chair close to Yuki spun it around so its back was facing her, than plopped down next to her./p
p class="MsoNormal""Stop drooling un, it's pathetic yeah," Deidara said. He sat facing her./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki turned towards Deidara and smiled. "I'm not drooling. Just thinking over things,"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Does it start with an I and with a chi?"* Deidara asked resting his chin on the back of the chair./p
p class="MsoNormal""How do you know, it could be French class?" Yuki said. She wasn't but hey she said "could be."/p
p class="MsoNormal""Speaking of French class," Yuki smiled she managed to distract Deidara, "You are in so much trouble if the French teacher catches you,"/p
p class="MsoNormal""I won't get caught, she can't brother me about what happened today because when I see her tomorrow, today would be in the past, and tomorrow will be in the present, so she can't bother me about it in the future,"/p
p class="MsoNormal""You know what tomorrow is right hmm?" A little confused on what Yuki just said./p
p class="MsoNormal""What?" Yuki asked uninterested./p
p class="MsoNormal""It's Valentine's day," Deidara grabbed the head of the seat excitedly./p
p class="MsoNormal""That horrid holiday," Yuki said moving her face closer towards Deidara./p
p class="MsoNormal""I wouldn't call it horrid yeah," Deidara said with a smug grin, "It's our one year anniversary,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki giggled, "Deidara we broke up remember,"/p
p class="MsoNormal""I know but I like to believe that we still going out? So did you get me anything for Valentine's Day," Deidara said eagerly trying to keep his cool./p
p class="MsoNormal""Of course I did, how could I forget?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""How about instead of Valentine's Day chocolate, how about a Valentine's Day kiss un," Deidara once again had a smug grin./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki went deep into thought; she glanced up as if the answer would magically appear up in the air "Okay, close your eyes,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara looked surprised but closed his eyes anyway wrapping her arms around Deidara's neck she leaned in so their breaths mingled./p
p class="MsoNormal""Remember Deidara this is because I love you," Yuki whispered, before giving him a light feathery kiss…on the nose. From afar it would look like the two were kissing Yuki making all the moves./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki giggled at Deidara's frown. Someone slammed the door shut waking Yuki and Deidara from their own world./p
p class="MsoNormal""What was that hmm?" Deidara asked peeking behind his shoulder while holding Yuki's arm./p
p class="MsoNormal""I don't know," Yuki was also peeking behind Deidara's shoulder looking for the culprit, "I was too busy kissing you to notice anybody else," Yuki teased./p
p class="MsoNormal""Kissing me on the nose is not what I meant," Deidara grumbled pushing Yuki's arm./p
p class="MsoNormal""Pish Posh, I gave you a kiss and your still getting the Valentine's Day chocolate," Yuki faced the front of the class./p
p class="MsoNormal"The class bell rang everybody took their seats. Itachi took his usual seat behind Yuki. Yuki smiled at least he was back then frowned for math class./p
p class="MsoNormal"Now one question remained was how she going to give Itachi his chocolate without making it obvious that she likes him. Oh well tomorrow was another day./p
p class="MsoNormal"English class the next day was the same as yesterday, boring except for Sensei-Kurenai giving the lecture instead of Kakashi-Sensei and Itachi was in class./p
p class="MsoNormal"Kurenai did the same thing she did last year, every student picked up a poem they liked and read it out loud. Itachi read a simple poem broadly. Deidara read his poem that sound just as goofy as last years./p
p class="MsoNormal""At least it doesn't sound like he is asking her out this time?" Itachi said glaring at Yuki's back. Yuki burst in to laughter at memory./p
p class="MsoNormal"Classes went surprisingly quickly, the students shuffled to their last class of the day that was theater./p
p class="MsoNormal""Good afternoon youthful students," Gai-Sensei said making his usual dramatic entry. He struck a dramatic pose and his gleaming white smile at his terrified student./p
p class="MsoNormal"Gai glanced at all the girls in the class, his pearly white teeth blinding everybody in the front row, "It is Valentine's Day and I have yet to receive youthful chocolate from my youthful students," He did another dramatic pose, "How can I compete against long time rival without any chocolate?" Another dramatic pose./p
p class="MsoNormal"The students ignored Gai some girls were giggling at the thought of their crushes receiving their chocolate, others looked nervously around afraid of rejection, but excited all the same. Yuki glanced at Itachi. He sat a few rows behind her; his eyes were closed, his cheek resting on his fist and one foot rested on the chair in front of him. He looked like he was sleeping./p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"He still looks beautiful," Yuki thought watching him through the corner of her. He opened his eyes and made eye contact with her. Yuki blushed quickly and turned so she was looking at Deidara, her hair attempting to hide her blush. She didn't notice Itachi, smirk at her feeble attempt./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki reached into Deidara's bag./p
p class="MsoNormal""Don't eat them all un," Deidara smirked, pleased that Yuki was giving him attention again, "The girls gave them to me yeah,"/p
p class="MsoNormal""You don't even know half of girls who gave you the chocolates," Yuki pulled out a small box with a giant pink bow and light pink poke dots, the name tag read Sakura./p
p class="MsoNormal""I know her un," Deidara said pulling the box out of Yuki's hand and reading the name tag, "She is one of Sasuke's annoying fan girls,"/p
p class="MsoNormal""I wonder if it's for you or Itachi," she glanced behind her, Itachi wasn't looking at them. He once again had his eyes closed and this time a very annoyed look on his face. A timid girl that was sitting next to him handed her chocolate, Itachi glared. The girl, she fought the tears that were streaming down her face. Apparently Itachi rejected her, "He has being rejecting a lot of girls, maybe Mrs. Haruno is one of the rejected ones," Yuki joked, she watched the girls he rejected the only safe way to give him chocolate now was putting it in his locker./p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara frowned at the thought of being Itachi's second place, "I hope not un," Deidara hated being second place compared to Itachi. Itachi closed his eyes again not even looking at Yuki's gaze./p
p class="MsoNormal""Only one way to find out," Yuki looked back at Deidara and took the box out of his hand, "Eat it," She took a bite of the heart-shaped-bite-sized chocolate (A/N: isn't that a mouthful), "Here Deidara, it's for you, it's store bought," Yuki joked she fed him the rest. It was really handmade./p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara gave her a side way's glare, not enjoying her joke.*/p
p class="MsoNormal""Don't eat the one you gave me yeah,"/p
p class="MsoNormal""I won't I gave it to you," Yuki bought store chocolate for Deidara. One because she hated Valentine's day, two she wanted to buy some for herself and three it would have been too much work to make two correct Valentine's chocolate./p
p class="MsoNormal""Hey, you could feed me the chocolate un," Deidara flirted. A paper ball hit him on the head and landed on Yuki's lap. Deidara turned to glare at Itachi who still had his eyes closed and looked very, very bored./p
p class="MsoNormal""Excellent," Gai-Sensei said pointing at Yuki, "Yuki will play as Snow White,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki stared at him questionably but Gai ignored it. This is what happens when she doesn't play attention in theater, she gets stuck with a random role./p
p class="MsoNormal""Who will play the youthful prince?"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Most of the male hands went up, Deidara wasn't one of them. Yuki glanced at Itachi; he wasn't looking Gai he was staring at her with half-lid eyes. He was impossible to read, he was also one of the males that wasn't eager to play the prince./p
p class="MsoNormal""Sir…Itachi will play the youthful young prince," Gai said eyeing Itachi. He jabbed the air with his finger in Itachi's direction, giving him a dramatic look./p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi gave Gai an irritated look but got up from is comfortable position./p
p class="MsoNormal""Come up you two," Gai said excitedly, tears coming out of his eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki got up and walked with Itachi toward the stage. Itachi grabber her waist and helped her up. Yuki blushed at close content with her crush, but hid it as Itachi climbed on stage. Itachi glanced behind him and smirked./p
p class="MsoNormal""Here are the scripts," Gai handed them the scripts./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki scanned the script, Gai had written it, she could tell because of the over use of the word youth, dramatic poses and over dramatic emotions./p
p class="MsoNormal""Can we improvise," Itachi said, he sounded like was going to do it weather Gai said yes or no. Itachi threw the script on the floor. He hardly even glanced at the book./p
p class="MsoNormal""Go head, the theater is full of improvisation," Once again a dramatic pose, "Keep the play youthful," He jabbed the air again pointing towards Itachi./p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi gave him a side way glare as Gai sat down. Yuki opened her mouth ready to give her role to someone else. Maybe that pathetic girl that was now crying./p
p class="MsoNormal""You are Snow White," Itachi stated it was like he was reading her mind stopping her from giving up the Snow White role./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki stared at him. She had feeling Itachi wasn't going to let her off the stage unless she played around./p
p class="MsoNormal""Um…yes, I am," Yuki put the script down on the floor, "Could you be my Prince Charming?"/p
p class="MsoNormal"There was a long pause. Yuki looked up and gasped Itachi had a dark aura surrounding him./p
p class="MsoNormal""No," He finally answered./p
p class="MsoNormal"Ouch, Yuki winced that hurt. Even if it was just a play she would have loved to hear Itachi saying he was her Prince Charming. It would have made her day or week./p
p class="MsoNormal""I am someone greater, someone more powerful," Itachi continued./p
p class="MsoNormal"Wait, what? Where is he going with this play? She glanced at Gai he was on the edge of his seat looking excited he was enjoying this turn of events./p
p class="MsoNormal""Your Prince Charming sit's on sidelines, the place where belongs," Itachi growled taking large steps closer to Yuki, "He crossed the line once long ago, and I wanted him dead,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki stepped back scared of the dark man./p
p class="MsoNormal""Are you saying you are the poison apple? Are you saying you wanted me to wither away? To stay asleep, and never taste freedom?" Yuki turned around, so wasn't facing Itachi. She wasn't sure how much she could handle. Her heart felt like it was leaping out of her chest./p
p class="MsoNormal"A dark chuckle from Itachi, he was standing right behind her, "I wouldn't let you wither away, I would feed you and water you, so that you wouldn't wither away," His hand moved around her waist, one hand covering her eyes, "I would be your invisible shield, keeping you safe, keeping you mine," Itachi growled, the last part, pushing her closer./p
p class="MsoNormal""SHUT-UP UCHIHA!" Deidara shouted from the crowed./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki turned her head to see Deidara, but Itachi still had his hand wrapped around her eyes, so she couldn't see him. Itachi pushed her closer, leaving no room between them./p
p class="MsoNormal""Deidara," Said Gai, "This is a theater keep your opinions to yourself till the end," Gai sound serious, he was liking Itachi's performance. Yuki was not acting her body was acting the way Itachi was leading her, "Continue on Itachi, Yuki,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi released Yuki a slight bit, Yuki walked away from Itachi. Her heart beating ten times faster she was sure everybody could see it./p
p class="MsoNormal""Then I would be lonely in my glass grave, It would be like a steel cage, and I would be alone and lonely. Is that what you would like?" She moved to the other side of stage and stared at him./p
p class="MsoNormal""If that is what keeps you mine then yes," Itachi began walking towards her./p
p class="MsoNormal""What are you?" Yuki stepped back, "If you are not my prince, and if you are not the poison apple, that has put me to sleep, what are you? Are you human?"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi paused, and thought about her question, "Yes, I am human," He began walking once again till he was in front of her. He tilted her chin so she was staring into his onyx brown eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal""You're evil," Yuki whispered but still loud enough for the theater hall to hear. Part of her was wishing everything was real, she had to remind herself this was all a performance./p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi smirked and placed an arm around Yuki's waist. Yuki looked away hiding her blush. Her, Standing in Itachi's arm reminded Yuki just how breakable she could be. He was strong, Yuki could feel his muscles clench every time she moved. If he wanted to he could break her into two. Or maybe Yuki was exaggerating a bit, though she did enjoy it./p
p class="MsoNormal"He placed his other hand on her cheek so she was looking at him at his eyes. They are onyx Yuki noted (As if she didn't already know that) this was the first time she saw his eyes up close. She could see each separate eye lash. God she loved his eyes. Yuki blushed again and cast her gaze down. She was going to wake up and this will all be a dream./p
p class="MsoNormal""It's unfortunate," Itachi finally spoke reminding Yuki that it was a play, "I have watched your lips get soiled so many times," Itachi wasn't staring at her he was staring at her lips, "by your Prince Charming," Itachi wasn't staring at her. He glared at Deidara through the corners of his eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal""If…if my prince as woken me how…how come I haven't realized," Itachi was back at staring at her again, "How come I haven't woken up? I wish to be woken up! I wish to be saved from this loneliness! I would love to woken…" before she could finish Itachi pressed his lips against hers./p
p class="MsoNormal"She stared wide eyes at Itachi as he kissed her. His eyes were closed, she could see the bangs that framed his face tickle his cheek. He was the only thing she was concentrating on. Was he honestly kissing her? The heartless Uchiha, (Yes, Yuki thought the Uchiha was heartless)/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki's hand subconsciously collide with Itachi's right cheek, he let go of her. He stared at her with ice cold eyes. He hardly winced when she had hit him he was holding his right cheek, with no emotion just that icy stare. Why did he kiss her? That wasn't even on Gai's script./p
p class="MsoNormal""Excellent," Gai flashed his white teeth in their direction. Itachi glared at him while Yuki stepped back afraid of Itachi's next move./p
p class="MsoNormal""Snow White?" He was looking at her again he spoke softly./p
p class="MsoNormal""You are not my prince," Yuki decide to keep on with the play, that's what Itachi was doing, "You should not kiss me," Not that she didn't enjoy the kiss. They were very warm for a man who was supposed to be made of ice. When he kissed her it was more satisfying than any kiss she has ever gotten. She had to admit she wanted another one, but not so soon. That's it time to get off the stage before she lost control./p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi wrapped him arms around her, while she was walking off the stage./p
p class="MsoNormal""Don't run," Itachi growled tightening his grip on her waist./p
p class="MsoNormal"The Theater Hall was quiet for awhile. She could feel Itachi's toned chest on her back move up and down with each passing breath. The only sound she could her was Itachi's quiet breathing near her ear./p
p class="MsoNormal""Please let go," Yuki begged trying to pry Itachi's hand off of her waist. She was doing acting this was getting ridicules./p
p class="MsoNormal""No," Itachi whispered moving nuzzling his face in her hair, "Your mine,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"He turned her around so she was facing him again, an arm around her waist the other under chin tilting her head so she was staring at him. Yuki could feel her lips tingle…ok maybe she did want another kiss./p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi leaned in and Yuki closed her eyes, "Your mine," Itachi whispered./p
p class="MsoNormal"The bell rang and Itachi pushed away. Yuki frowned as she watched Itachi hop off the stage./p
p class="MsoNormal""Good show," Gai said, continued on with an awful rant about youth and theater, "Oh Itachi show more emotions while you are on stage," Itachi grabbed his stuff hardly even looking at Gai./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki stared at him before realization clicked. She jumped off the stage. Deidara held her stuff waiting by the doors of the theater./p
p class="MsoNormal""Hold my stuff for a while," Yuki told him searching in book bag and pulling out a small box chocolate./p
p class="MsoNormal"She ran into the hallway to see Itachi walking towards the school doors./p
p class="MsoNormal""Uchiha-san," Yuki shouted./p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi stopped and gave Yuki a sideways, irritated glare./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki paused maybe it wasn't the brightest idea to give Itachi the chocolate. Oh…well too late to change her mind now./p
p class="MsoNormal""This is for you," She threw the box of chocolate to him. He caught it in one easy swoop, "Thank you for saving me last year,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi nodded before walking away. He would probably give it to Kisame like the rest of the chocolate he will find in locker but at least she gave it to him./p
p class="MsoNormal"'Quit staring at him,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki stared at the note her ex just threw on her desk. She glanced at Deidara and smiled. Yes, she and Deidara broke up about six months ago./p
p class="MsoNormal"'I can't he just spoke in French,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki wrote back, she glanced back up to look at the raven haired male standing a few row across from her and two rows in front of her. Itachi continued to read in French the romantic language, all the while looking extremely attractive. He took his seat./p
p class="MsoNormal"'Yea, Yea, I can speak French too,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara wrote./p
p class="MsoNormal"'I certainly hope so, this is French class,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki wrote down. She giggled at Deidara's face as he read the note. His face scrunched up, as he glared holes in to the paper./p
p class="MsoNormal"'Ha ha very funny,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki looked at Itachi, his eyelashes fluttered up and down, as he took notes./p
p class="MsoNormal"'Have you ever noticed that Itachi's eyelashes are so long they give him an almost softer look?'/p
p class="MsoNormal"'Too bad he is as soft as a porcupine,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara was referring to Itachi's cold attitude. He's known throughout the school as the "Ice prince", Ice because of his lack of emotion prince as if he looks weren't obvious enough. Yuki saw him more as a mysterious knight./p
p class="MsoNormal"'You are so cute when you are jealous,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"'Why shouldn't I be hmm? I am so much better than the 'Ice prince''/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki rolled her eyes, Deidara will never change./p
p class="MsoNormal"'Girls think you are the 'Art prince,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"'That's right I'm the master of Art,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara drew I picture of him doing the victory sign./p
p class="MsoNormal"'There you go again showing off your art,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"'But I don't want to be a prince,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"'Oh, and what would you like to be,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"'A knight!'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki looked at Deidara questionably she never told anybody that she saw Itachi as a knight, not even Deidara./p
p class="MsoNormal"'I'll explode anybody that will get any my way. I'm joking about the knight part,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"He drew a picture of Itachi flying in the air because of an explosion that Deidara had made. There was a close up of Deidara. He had a cat like smile on his face his middle and Index were near his mouth./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki rolled her eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal"'How exciting,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"'Baby, I'll be your Prince on a shiny white motorcycle.'/p
p class="MsoNormal"He then drew a picture of him on a motorcycle, with Yuki clinging on to him. He looked heroic, Yuki looking like a damsel in distress, was saying my Hero. Itachi was in the background looking all beaten up and inhuman like and screaming curses. All of the art work animated./p
p class="MsoNormal"'Speaking of motorcycles I miss my mine'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki didn't write anything back/p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara was talking about when he crashed his bike. Four months ago Deidara got into an accident, were he could, of lost his life. She remembered sitting in the hospital waiting room, everything was white, white rooms, white walls, white chairs and white people. She was scared./p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi stood by her as she, cried. He didn't do much just stood there and watched her. After a few minutes of crying she felt a hand on her head and Itachi whispering that Deidara will be all right. She felt at peace with Itachi's touch as cheesy as it sounds, she felt like he was there to protect her./p
p class="MsoNormal"'I was so worried,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki finally wrote back./p
p class="MsoNormal"'Nice to see you care,'/p
p class="MsoNormal"'Of course I care why wouldn't I, I love you Deidara,'/p
p class="MsoNormal""Yuki, Deidara pay attention," Their French teacher shouted, in French, "If your conversation is important then please read it out loud and in French,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki frowned the teacher was harassing her; she glanced at Deidara who was snickering, then back at the teacher. She had a smug grin in hopes that she trapped Yuki. Just like how Yuki corrected in pronunciation with 'amour'. She embarrassed her pretty badly./p
p class="MsoNormal"Standing up, Yuki began reading the note from the point where she mentioned Deidara being a prince, all in perfect French. The teacher glanced at Yuki./p
p class="MsoNormal""Is that all?" the teacher asked in Japanese./p
p class="MsoNormal""There are pictures as well," Yuki said in French, she held the paper showing the pictures. She glanced at Itachi he was staring at the pictures, a broken pencil in hand. Everybody knew Itachi and Deidara never got along, so it wasn't odd to see Deidara blowing up Itachi in drawings anyway./p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara burst out laughing, "I drew those pictures, yeah," He pointed to the note./p
p class="MsoNormal""Shut-up Deidara, Yuki stop disrupting my…" The teacher spoke in Japanese./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki interrupted, "Teacher we are in French speaking environment it would be better if you spoke in French," Yuki spoke in French before switching to Japanese, "Or are you afraid that your pronunciation will be off,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"The class laughed except for Itachi who only smirked a little bit but it was too small for the human eye to see./p
p class="MsoNormal"The school bell rang, and Yuki ran out of the class before the teacher could give her an unnecessary detention./p
p class="MsoNormal"Around lunch time Yuki sat alone near a window staring outside. Itachi was walking back to the school, after a mysterious disappearance during English class actually he never made it to English class, after French. It was quiet upsetting but he normally sat behind Yuki so she couldn't take glance at him freely, though she could hear his voice, whenever Sensei-Kakashi picked him to read, stories, poems and other none important things. It was the most Itachi ever spoke in his life, Yuki was sure of it./p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara grabbed a chair close to Yuki spun it around so its back was facing her, than plopped down next to her./p
p class="MsoNormal""Stop drooling un, it's pathetic yeah," Deidara said. He sat facing her./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki turned towards Deidara and smiled. "I'm not drooling. Just thinking over things,"/p
p class="MsoNormal""Does it start with an I and with a chi?"* Deidara asked resting his chin on the back of the chair./p
p class="MsoNormal""How do you know, it could be French class?" Yuki said. She wasn't but hey she said "could be."/p
p class="MsoNormal""Speaking of French class," Yuki smiled she managed to distract Deidara, "You are in so much trouble if the French teacher catches you,"/p
p class="MsoNormal""I won't get caught, she can't brother me about what happened today because when I see her tomorrow, today would be in the past, and tomorrow will be in the present, so she can't bother me about it in the future,"/p
p class="MsoNormal""You know what tomorrow is right hmm?" A little confused on what Yuki just said./p
p class="MsoNormal""What?" Yuki asked uninterested./p
p class="MsoNormal""It's Valentine's day," Deidara grabbed the head of the seat excitedly./p
p class="MsoNormal""That horrid holiday," Yuki said moving her face closer towards Deidara./p
p class="MsoNormal""I wouldn't call it horrid yeah," Deidara said with a smug grin, "It's our one year anniversary,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki giggled, "Deidara we broke up remember,"/p
p class="MsoNormal""I know but I like to believe that we still going out? So did you get me anything for Valentine's Day," Deidara said eagerly trying to keep his cool./p
p class="MsoNormal""Of course I did, how could I forget?"/p
p class="MsoNormal""How about instead of Valentine's Day chocolate, how about a Valentine's Day kiss un," Deidara once again had a smug grin./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki went deep into thought; she glanced up as if the answer would magically appear up in the air "Okay, close your eyes,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara looked surprised but closed his eyes anyway wrapping her arms around Deidara's neck she leaned in so their breaths mingled./p
p class="MsoNormal""Remember Deidara this is because I love you," Yuki whispered, before giving him a light feathery kiss…on the nose. From afar it would look like the two were kissing Yuki making all the moves./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki giggled at Deidara's frown. Someone slammed the door shut waking Yuki and Deidara from their own world./p
p class="MsoNormal""What was that hmm?" Deidara asked peeking behind his shoulder while holding Yuki's arm./p
p class="MsoNormal""I don't know," Yuki was also peeking behind Deidara's shoulder looking for the culprit, "I was too busy kissing you to notice anybody else," Yuki teased./p
p class="MsoNormal""Kissing me on the nose is not what I meant," Deidara grumbled pushing Yuki's arm./p
p class="MsoNormal""Pish Posh, I gave you a kiss and your still getting the Valentine's Day chocolate," Yuki faced the front of the class./p
p class="MsoNormal"The class bell rang everybody took their seats. Itachi took his usual seat behind Yuki. Yuki smiled at least he was back then frowned for math class./p
p class="MsoNormal"Now one question remained was how she going to give Itachi his chocolate without making it obvious that she likes him. Oh well tomorrow was another day./p
p class="MsoNormal"English class the next day was the same as yesterday, boring except for Sensei-Kurenai giving the lecture instead of Kakashi-Sensei and Itachi was in class./p
p class="MsoNormal"Kurenai did the same thing she did last year, every student picked up a poem they liked and read it out loud. Itachi read a simple poem broadly. Deidara read his poem that sound just as goofy as last years./p
p class="MsoNormal""At least it doesn't sound like he is asking her out this time?" Itachi said glaring at Yuki's back. Yuki burst in to laughter at memory./p
p class="MsoNormal"Classes went surprisingly quickly, the students shuffled to their last class of the day that was theater./p
p class="MsoNormal""Good afternoon youthful students," Gai-Sensei said making his usual dramatic entry. He struck a dramatic pose and his gleaming white smile at his terrified student./p
p class="MsoNormal"Gai glanced at all the girls in the class, his pearly white teeth blinding everybody in the front row, "It is Valentine's Day and I have yet to receive youthful chocolate from my youthful students," He did another dramatic pose, "How can I compete against long time rival without any chocolate?" Another dramatic pose./p
p class="MsoNormal"The students ignored Gai some girls were giggling at the thought of their crushes receiving their chocolate, others looked nervously around afraid of rejection, but excited all the same. Yuki glanced at Itachi. He sat a few rows behind her; his eyes were closed, his cheek resting on his fist and one foot rested on the chair in front of him. He looked like he was sleeping./p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span"He still looks beautiful," Yuki thought watching him through the corner of her. He opened his eyes and made eye contact with her. Yuki blushed quickly and turned so she was looking at Deidara, her hair attempting to hide her blush. She didn't notice Itachi, smirk at her feeble attempt./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki reached into Deidara's bag./p
p class="MsoNormal""Don't eat them all un," Deidara smirked, pleased that Yuki was giving him attention again, "The girls gave them to me yeah,"/p
p class="MsoNormal""You don't even know half of girls who gave you the chocolates," Yuki pulled out a small box with a giant pink bow and light pink poke dots, the name tag read Sakura./p
p class="MsoNormal""I know her un," Deidara said pulling the box out of Yuki's hand and reading the name tag, "She is one of Sasuke's annoying fan girls,"/p
p class="MsoNormal""I wonder if it's for you or Itachi," she glanced behind her, Itachi wasn't looking at them. He once again had his eyes closed and this time a very annoyed look on his face. A timid girl that was sitting next to him handed her chocolate, Itachi glared. The girl, she fought the tears that were streaming down her face. Apparently Itachi rejected her, "He has being rejecting a lot of girls, maybe Mrs. Haruno is one of the rejected ones," Yuki joked, she watched the girls he rejected the only safe way to give him chocolate now was putting it in his locker./p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara frowned at the thought of being Itachi's second place, "I hope not un," Deidara hated being second place compared to Itachi. Itachi closed his eyes again not even looking at Yuki's gaze./p
p class="MsoNormal""Only one way to find out," Yuki looked back at Deidara and took the box out of his hand, "Eat it," She took a bite of the heart-shaped-bite-sized chocolate (A/N: isn't that a mouthful), "Here Deidara, it's for you, it's store bought," Yuki joked she fed him the rest. It was really handmade./p
p class="MsoNormal"Deidara gave her a side way's glare, not enjoying her joke.*/p
p class="MsoNormal""Don't eat the one you gave me yeah,"/p
p class="MsoNormal""I won't I gave it to you," Yuki bought store chocolate for Deidara. One because she hated Valentine's day, two she wanted to buy some for herself and three it would have been too much work to make two correct Valentine's chocolate./p
p class="MsoNormal""Hey, you could feed me the chocolate un," Deidara flirted. A paper ball hit him on the head and landed on Yuki's lap. Deidara turned to glare at Itachi who still had his eyes closed and looked very, very bored./p
p class="MsoNormal""Excellent," Gai-Sensei said pointing at Yuki, "Yuki will play as Snow White,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki stared at him questionably but Gai ignored it. This is what happens when she doesn't play attention in theater, she gets stuck with a random role./p
p class="MsoNormal""Who will play the youthful prince?"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Most of the male hands went up, Deidara wasn't one of them. Yuki glanced at Itachi; he wasn't looking Gai he was staring at her with half-lid eyes. He was impossible to read, he was also one of the males that wasn't eager to play the prince./p
p class="MsoNormal""Sir…Itachi will play the youthful young prince," Gai said eyeing Itachi. He jabbed the air with his finger in Itachi's direction, giving him a dramatic look./p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi gave Gai an irritated look but got up from is comfortable position./p
p class="MsoNormal""Come up you two," Gai said excitedly, tears coming out of his eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki got up and walked with Itachi toward the stage. Itachi grabber her waist and helped her up. Yuki blushed at close content with her crush, but hid it as Itachi climbed on stage. Itachi glanced behind him and smirked./p
p class="MsoNormal""Here are the scripts," Gai handed them the scripts./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki scanned the script, Gai had written it, she could tell because of the over use of the word youth, dramatic poses and over dramatic emotions./p
p class="MsoNormal""Can we improvise," Itachi said, he sounded like was going to do it weather Gai said yes or no. Itachi threw the script on the floor. He hardly even glanced at the book./p
p class="MsoNormal""Go head, the theater is full of improvisation," Once again a dramatic pose, "Keep the play youthful," He jabbed the air again pointing towards Itachi./p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi gave him a side way glare as Gai sat down. Yuki opened her mouth ready to give her role to someone else. Maybe that pathetic girl that was now crying./p
p class="MsoNormal""You are Snow White," Itachi stated it was like he was reading her mind stopping her from giving up the Snow White role./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki stared at him. She had feeling Itachi wasn't going to let her off the stage unless she played around./p
p class="MsoNormal""Um…yes, I am," Yuki put the script down on the floor, "Could you be my Prince Charming?"/p
p class="MsoNormal"There was a long pause. Yuki looked up and gasped Itachi had a dark aura surrounding him./p
p class="MsoNormal""No," He finally answered./p
p class="MsoNormal"Ouch, Yuki winced that hurt. Even if it was just a play she would have loved to hear Itachi saying he was her Prince Charming. It would have made her day or week./p
p class="MsoNormal""I am someone greater, someone more powerful," Itachi continued./p
p class="MsoNormal"Wait, what? Where is he going with this play? She glanced at Gai he was on the edge of his seat looking excited he was enjoying this turn of events./p
p class="MsoNormal""Your Prince Charming sit's on sidelines, the place where belongs," Itachi growled taking large steps closer to Yuki, "He crossed the line once long ago, and I wanted him dead,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki stepped back scared of the dark man./p
p class="MsoNormal""Are you saying you are the poison apple? Are you saying you wanted me to wither away? To stay asleep, and never taste freedom?" Yuki turned around, so wasn't facing Itachi. She wasn't sure how much she could handle. Her heart felt like it was leaping out of her chest./p
p class="MsoNormal"A dark chuckle from Itachi, he was standing right behind her, "I wouldn't let you wither away, I would feed you and water you, so that you wouldn't wither away," His hand moved around her waist, one hand covering her eyes, "I would be your invisible shield, keeping you safe, keeping you mine," Itachi growled, the last part, pushing her closer./p
p class="MsoNormal""SHUT-UP UCHIHA!" Deidara shouted from the crowed./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki turned her head to see Deidara, but Itachi still had his hand wrapped around her eyes, so she couldn't see him. Itachi pushed her closer, leaving no room between them./p
p class="MsoNormal""Deidara," Said Gai, "This is a theater keep your opinions to yourself till the end," Gai sound serious, he was liking Itachi's performance. Yuki was not acting her body was acting the way Itachi was leading her, "Continue on Itachi, Yuki,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi released Yuki a slight bit, Yuki walked away from Itachi. Her heart beating ten times faster she was sure everybody could see it./p
p class="MsoNormal""Then I would be lonely in my glass grave, It would be like a steel cage, and I would be alone and lonely. Is that what you would like?" She moved to the other side of stage and stared at him./p
p class="MsoNormal""If that is what keeps you mine then yes," Itachi began walking towards her./p
p class="MsoNormal""What are you?" Yuki stepped back, "If you are not my prince, and if you are not the poison apple, that has put me to sleep, what are you? Are you human?"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi paused, and thought about her question, "Yes, I am human," He began walking once again till he was in front of her. He tilted her chin so she was staring into his onyx brown eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal""You're evil," Yuki whispered but still loud enough for the theater hall to hear. Part of her was wishing everything was real, she had to remind herself this was all a performance./p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi smirked and placed an arm around Yuki's waist. Yuki looked away hiding her blush. Her, Standing in Itachi's arm reminded Yuki just how breakable she could be. He was strong, Yuki could feel his muscles clench every time she moved. If he wanted to he could break her into two. Or maybe Yuki was exaggerating a bit, though she did enjoy it./p
p class="MsoNormal"He placed his other hand on her cheek so she was looking at him at his eyes. They are onyx Yuki noted (As if she didn't already know that) this was the first time she saw his eyes up close. She could see each separate eye lash. God she loved his eyes. Yuki blushed again and cast her gaze down. She was going to wake up and this will all be a dream./p
p class="MsoNormal""It's unfortunate," Itachi finally spoke reminding Yuki that it was a play, "I have watched your lips get soiled so many times," Itachi wasn't staring at her he was staring at her lips, "by your Prince Charming," Itachi wasn't staring at her. He glared at Deidara through the corners of his eyes./p
p class="MsoNormal""If…if my prince as woken me how…how come I haven't realized," Itachi was back at staring at her again, "How come I haven't woken up? I wish to be woken up! I wish to be saved from this loneliness! I would love to woken…" before she could finish Itachi pressed his lips against hers./p
p class="MsoNormal"She stared wide eyes at Itachi as he kissed her. His eyes were closed, she could see the bangs that framed his face tickle his cheek. He was the only thing she was concentrating on. Was he honestly kissing her? The heartless Uchiha, (Yes, Yuki thought the Uchiha was heartless)/p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki's hand subconsciously collide with Itachi's right cheek, he let go of her. He stared at her with ice cold eyes. He hardly winced when she had hit him he was holding his right cheek, with no emotion just that icy stare. Why did he kiss her? That wasn't even on Gai's script./p
p class="MsoNormal""Excellent," Gai flashed his white teeth in their direction. Itachi glared at him while Yuki stepped back afraid of Itachi's next move./p
p class="MsoNormal""Snow White?" He was looking at her again he spoke softly./p
p class="MsoNormal""You are not my prince," Yuki decide to keep on with the play, that's what Itachi was doing, "You should not kiss me," Not that she didn't enjoy the kiss. They were very warm for a man who was supposed to be made of ice. When he kissed her it was more satisfying than any kiss she has ever gotten. She had to admit she wanted another one, but not so soon. That's it time to get off the stage before she lost control./p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi wrapped him arms around her, while she was walking off the stage./p
p class="MsoNormal""Don't run," Itachi growled tightening his grip on her waist./p
p class="MsoNormal"The Theater Hall was quiet for awhile. She could feel Itachi's toned chest on her back move up and down with each passing breath. The only sound she could her was Itachi's quiet breathing near her ear./p
p class="MsoNormal""Please let go," Yuki begged trying to pry Itachi's hand off of her waist. She was doing acting this was getting ridicules./p
p class="MsoNormal""No," Itachi whispered moving nuzzling his face in her hair, "Your mine,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"He turned her around so she was facing him again, an arm around her waist the other under chin tilting her head so she was staring at him. Yuki could feel her lips tingle…ok maybe she did want another kiss./p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi leaned in and Yuki closed her eyes, "Your mine," Itachi whispered./p
p class="MsoNormal"The bell rang and Itachi pushed away. Yuki frowned as she watched Itachi hop off the stage./p
p class="MsoNormal""Good show," Gai said, continued on with an awful rant about youth and theater, "Oh Itachi show more emotions while you are on stage," Itachi grabbed his stuff hardly even looking at Gai./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki stared at him before realization clicked. She jumped off the stage. Deidara held her stuff waiting by the doors of the theater./p
p class="MsoNormal""Hold my stuff for a while," Yuki told him searching in book bag and pulling out a small box chocolate./p
p class="MsoNormal"She ran into the hallway to see Itachi walking towards the school doors./p
p class="MsoNormal""Uchiha-san," Yuki shouted./p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi stopped and gave Yuki a sideways, irritated glare./p
p class="MsoNormal"Yuki paused maybe it wasn't the brightest idea to give Itachi the chocolate. Oh…well too late to change her mind now./p
p class="MsoNormal""This is for you," She threw the box of chocolate to him. He caught it in one easy swoop, "Thank you for saving me last year,"/p
p class="MsoNormal"Itachi nodded before walking away. He would probably give it to Kisame like the rest of the chocolate he will find in locker but at least she gave it to him./p