||| [T] h e [C] a f e |||^Itachi Uchiha^|||-Chapter Two-

Chapter Two: Forest.

"Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. "

~ Anonymous

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Mariko froze.

"Hello…" She said out loud, as she had approached the forest, she had dropped her groceries.

The rapids of water in the background had led a calm sensation to the haunted scenario. She stood in front of the tree where she had heard the noise and called for the man again.

"Dude you're freaking me out please just come out, I'm not going to bite." There was a crunching noise behind her. She whipped her head over her shoulder to see a man dressed in a long black cloth, he stood beside a pine tree, his hands placed down by his sides. He had worn a straw hat with small spike-like ballsdangling in front of his face.

"Ah you showed yourself." Mariko smiled at him. She walked a bit closer to him, the dried up leaves of fall hissed under her feet. A cold gust of wind blew past her face and the mans. His cloak swaying in the wind like one of a vampire after feasting upon his victim. She reached out to touch him back but he backed away and staggered a bit before dropping to one knee and clutching his stomach. She spotted a trickle of blood on his hand. He raised his head to hers.

"You're hurt." She spoke softly. Distant voices rang through the forest.

"Iheard somethingover there, it must be him." At that moment the man raised his head up at her. Another gust of wind blew and the straw hat whipped of his head and flew into the moonless sky. She caught sight of his face. He had a strong jaw line with raven coloured hair which framed his face; hehad also pale thin lips. She moved her eyes up to his. They stood there for a moment, passing unspoken words.

'Who are you?' She wanted to ask. There was a snapping sound.

She flicked her eyes behind her.

"Hey you!" A few people had called out; two Silhouettes have appeared from behind a bush. She looked back at the mystery man but he was gone.

Someone grabbed her shoulder, "Hey have you seen anyone down here?" She shook her head and turned around. She was greeted by a man wearing an Anbu cat mask. She felt a bit light headed and walked back to her groceries. She crossed the path through the forest she used to get home. In front of her feet she saw the hat the man was wearing. She crouched down and picked it up straddling it in her hands beside her basket. Maybe if she saw him again she'd give it back to them.

The walk home was just as quiet as it was the walk to the shop, she opened the door to her house and placed the groceries on the ground and pulled her cat out of her jacket and gentle placed her on the ground. Misuki automatically ran over to the basket and attacked the package of fish.

Mariko looked at the hat and smiled slightly as she placed it on the kitchen counter.

That night two unforgettable things had happened.

She had got a job, and she had met a man in the forest.

Mariko laid across the wooden floor rubbing her stomach in complete satisfaction.

Misuki cuddled up in her pillow.

"Do you think I'll see him again?" She spoke to Misuki. "Maybe not..."

Mariko hoisted herself up and blew out the candle's flame that provided light. She marched herself up the stairs and into her room where she got dressed in her night clothes and went to wash her face in her bathroom. After she felt completely refreshed she played around with her hair. She had reddish brown pin straight hair with a lot of choppy layers, and big green eyes. She messed around with her hair, teasing it a bit. It was no longer then a few inches from her shoulders. She picked out a few twigs out of her hair and flipped her head upside down and whipped it back. She blew out the candle in her room and grabbed a book from her shelf and snuggled under her blankets. Her eyes flickered over to her alarm clock which read 11:26 p.m. She yawned and her cat snuggled up on the end of her bed after twenty minutes of reading her book she placed it on the nightstand beside her bed and blew out the last candle in her room and shut her eyes.

"Good night Misuki,"

There was a comforting silence, "And good night....mom..."

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On the other side of things.

A man with dressed in a black and red clock appeared from behind an old building. His eyes drooped slightly as he clutched his stomach, he made his way to the inn.

"Hi a man named Kisame Hoshigaki was registered in this inn, do you know what room he might be in?"

"He's in room 234 on the second level." The inn keeper spoke from behind a dirty magazine. He hadn't even looked at the man dressed in black.

"Thank you." He said on a mono tone voice. The man turned to the left and walked down a hallway and up a flight of stairs and down another hallway. He counted the numbers in his head until he reached to his and his partner's room. He knocked twice and the door opened. A man with sea blue skin looked down at him; he had a tooth grin and had only been wearing a towel around his waist.

"Wow, Itachi what happened to you?" Kisame raised an eyebrow to the man wearing black.

"Nothing," Itachi spoke as he entered the room and sprawled across the inn's beds. He claimed the one without his partner's cloths thrown every where.

"C'mon Itachi don't be like that." Itachi stared at the ceiling, bearing no emotions as he counted the yellow stains on the wall.

"That's disgusting..." Itachi said as he cringed his nose, his index finger pointing at one of the stains.

"Did you kill that man?" Kisame took his hand and brushed his thick blue hair back but it immediately stuck up again.

"Yes." Itachi answered. Again with no motions.

Kisame shook his head, how could someone be so cold.

"Were leavening tomorrow."

"Okay..." Kisame said as he got dressed and leapt onto the bed.

There was a crack.

"But before I go I have to visit this cafe."

"You and your hobbies." Itachi half smiled and turned on his side. His hand still holding his stomach.

Itachi hadn't thought twice about the girl he meet in the forest.

A/N;

:)

Itachi half smiled

*giggle*

Thanks for reading!!