Kinda short chapter...but you try writing for six hours straight to get details right and see how you like it :P. Well...have fun!
That was...weird. I couldn't help but wonder what was up with that girl at lunch. She had seemed like a brat at first but then she had apologized. Hmmm, ok...and what was with that blush? Did she get in trouble with someone after she hit me or something? I kept mulling over it the whole school day, but I had a feeling that I was missing something important. Something that would help everything make sense...I walked by the table that the girl had come from in the first place. A table with sorta-weird looking people that didn't even bother to glance at me as I passed them, but I did hear what they said, and my stop at the garbage can near them furthered my understanding about the weird behavior of the girl.
"So did Deidara go apologize to that girl?" A guy with silver hair asked a red haired guy and a really weird looking pale-bluish skinned guy, "Yes, if I am correct he was over there just a moment ago." the red haired guy said. "What a moron! I can't believe he actually hit a girl! How could he not have realized she was a girl! Especially with what I've been hearing about her." The blue guy said, raising his eyebrows as if to indicate something. But at this point I wasn't really paying any attention to them anymore, he? Wait...what were they talking about? I dumped the remains of my lunch into the trash and headed towards the door, not realizing that someone was following me.
She stopped me just outside of the doors to the lunchroom, her blue hair catching my attention instantly, her face was apologetic. I wondered at first why she had stopped me, and then I realized that she had been sitting at the table with the boys...I just hadn't noticed her. "I would like to apologize for my friends behavior earlier. They are not well behaved." I blinked at her words, she spoke so formally. "It's fine, it wasn't really much of a big deal...I did hit her back." I said, realizing at the confused look on her face that I said 'her' instead of 'him' I guess I still didn't really understand it right, "...I understand that you are confused about something...Deidara is not a woman, but a man." the blue haired girl said, "Ah...ya, my bad...so she-he...is a guy?" I asked, blushing in embarrassment...she sounded so much older than me. She nodded, and I let out a small sigh, "This day has just not been going very well for me...sorry, I keep getting so confused..." she looked at me calmly as I spoke, and it seemed for once that someone was actually listening to me. "That is fine, Don't worry about it. Would you like to sit with us for a while? Even though you have already finished eating?" she asked me, sounding very sincere.
I nodded and tried my best to smile...I really should be trying to make friends. So I followed her back through the doors to the table where her friends were to find that all of her friends were staring at me, six pairs of eyes watching me make my way over to the table to sit with them. The nerves came back in full as I walked behind this girl...the one I realized that I didn't even know the name of. I kept my eyes lowered as the blue haired girl slipped onto the bench next to a Orange haired guy that actually looked quite old for his age. I sat next to her and glanced up nervously at the guy sitting across from me. It was that guy from this morning! The creepy guy! What was his name...? Hitichi... Hitachi...Itachi! I swallowed the lump that was quickly forming in my throat and tried to keep my eyes averted as the girl introduced me, "Everyone this is..." she glanced at me, "...Ami, right?" I nodded, my cheeks feeling hot, "She will be sitting with us for now on so treat her with respect and don't do anything stupid." she said, with a slightly threatening smile aimed at the guys at the table.
"AMII! Tobi is so excited to meet you! Tobi thinks you are really pretty! Will Ami be Tobi's best friend!" A voice squealed from behind me as someone hugged the life out of me, pulling my hood off in the process. I felt my cheeks redden even further as my eyes opened wide in shock and I tried to see who in the world it was. Black hair came into my view as the guy looked over my own shoulder at me, black short spiky hair and really big babyish black eyes catching my view dead on. "Uhmm..." I mumbled, but found that I didn't have to answer as this...Tobi had already moved on to another subject, I subject that I, at this moment, really didn't want to talk about. "Is Ami dating Deidara-sempai! Is that why Ami got hit? Hitting girls is bad! That made Tobi sad that sempai is so mean to his girlfriend!"
"Ummm..." I mumbled, but then he spoke up again, "Tobi really thinks that Ami should get a new boyfriend! How old is Ami! Tobi is really old but Ami can be Tobi's girlfriend is Ami wants to!" I felt my face twitch a little, who was this guy? I hadn't even been able to answer anything he had said or asked so far! And he had been there two minutes! "Tobi is in Ami's first class, so if Ami wants to be Tobi's girlfriend Tobi will walk Ami to her next class!"
"Hey, lover boy. Knock it off." the silver haired guy said, looking across the orange haired guy and the blue haired girl at Tobi who was hanging over my shoulders, still hugging me. "You sound like a freakin idiot!" silver head scoffed, before disappearing behind orangey-head again. "I would like to introduce you to my friends...That is Tobi as you probably already know, this is Pein..." she nodded at the orange head, "...this is Hidan." She pointed to the silver haired guy, "...this is Kisame and Sasori..." indicating the blue skinned guy and the red head, "...and this is Itachi." She pointed at the black haired guy that I had seen earlier fighting in the hall. "So sorry that I have forgotten my manners, I did not introduce myself earlier, I am Konan." She concluded, looking at me as if expecting me to say something, "Nice to meet you all..." I mumbled, hoping that was good enough. She nodded at me with a slight smile and said, "You may sit with us whenever you want." before turning and engaging in a deep whispered conversation with Pein.
Lunch was...interesting...after explaining to Tobi why I didn't want him as a boy friend and why I didn't want a boyfriend I had to deal with Kisame's continual winking and flirting and the glare that Itachi chose to send me every once in a while, not to mention Hidan talking about something called Jashin that sounded sort of creepy. I walked to my last class of the day by myself, this had been one of the only classes I was excited about, and I just couldn't wait until it started. When I entered I was...of course, late. But what I didn't expect was that the only empty seat was next to a very blonde head of hair that I had wanted to avoid for the rest of the day...what luck.
I couldn't tell who was more shocked, him...or me. I sat down of course, I had to sit down, otherwise it would look like I was afraid...and I was. But no one was supposed to know that, I couldn't let them know, or let him know, for that matter. The second I set my bag down there was a glare on his face, and now that I knew that he was a guy, I could tell by the set of his jaw and his features that he really was a guy. I wondered how I hadn't noticed that before...
I was nervous for some reason now, and that really sucked, plus it looked like he was mad, maybe he had heard Konan and I talking in the hallway earlier, maybe that was why. I felt my face turning red slightly and I kept my eyes on my hands, not wanting to look up at him. I had my hood off, and I was starting to feel really self conscious now. In the end I did have to look at him after a while, because the teacher told us that to get to know people, we had to draw the person sitting next to us. Well...just great...we also had to ask them questions about their personal life and introduce them the next time we had class by showing the picture in front of the class and talking about them. Just lovely...I already hated it.
After the teacher had explained what to do I turned to Deidara, expecting him to just glare at me and not want to do it, but he already had his sketch pad out and had drawn an outline. When he noticed me looking at him he looked up, a weird look on his face that I would have guessed was irritation or anger. "What? Don't move, I'm drawing you." he said, his voice indeed sounding slightly irritated. "Oh...sorry. I hadn't realized that you had already started..." I mumbled, turning back into the position I had just been in. He was quiet for a moment, and I realized that I couldn't hear his pencil scratching on the sketch pad. "Somethings not right..." he mumbled, the weird look on his face intensifying as he studied me. I looked at him sideways with my eyes, a little confused as he continued to stare at me. "...Hmmm..." he made the little noise as though it was an afterthought, and I realized that he had made that noise a couple of times before, it was just that I hadn't noticed it before now.
He reached out slowly, his fingers brushing against my cheek as he slowly moved a piece of hair from out of my face and put it behind my ear. My body froze up and a blush rose instantly to my cheeks. His fingers lingered there by the side of my face for a moment as his eyes locked onto mine and I could hear my heart beating in my head, causing my mind to stop working momentarily. The weird look he gave me was sucking me in. When he looked away and his fingers moved away from my face he mumbled softly, "...now don't move...hmm."
That was how my first day of my junior year of school ended. With Deidara drawing me in our art class, his darkly clad gloved hands moving in curves and lines across the paper, me having to draw my eyes away from his hands awkwardly when he looked up to catch the glances I gave his artwork, a slightly arrogant smirk on his face. I didn't realize it then but that was the day I fell in love with Deidara, the first day that I met him.