||| [T] h e [C] a f e |||^Itachi Uchiha^|||-Chapter Sixteen-
Chapter Sixteen: Letting go might always be the best way
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
~Kurt Vonnegut
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Her P.O.V
He snaked his hand around the front of my chest,
Heart pounding,
And held my hands behind my back.
Unclear vision
A bead of sweat fell down from the left side of my temple. I watched as my chest continued to rise up and down. His arm made breathing a chore. Although my mind seemed to be wide awake; telling me to run. Run as fast as I could. I just couldn't. My heart didn't want me to leave. It told me stay put.
My was throat going dry
"Is this her Itachi no danna?"
So he used an alias,
he couldn't trust me,
typical for an Akatsuki member.
Why had I ever trusted him
"Deidara please go back to the base now. You're scaring her." Itachi began to approach us. Only hate had filled his eyes.
I've never seen him like that before,
but then again,
I didn't know anything about him,
to begin with,
Deidara clacked the roof of his mouth with his tongue, "Believe me she's more scared of you then she is of me."
"Deidara." Itachi groaned impatiently.
"You know I didn't even know you never told her anything about yourself. Especially leaving out that part where your an that you're an S-class nin. Un. How do you ever think you'll form a relationship if you keep lying about yourself? Well now she knows your secret. You have to kill her. Un. All well." and at that moment he let go off me. Not expecting, my body dropped to the floor.
I caught myself with my hands, then kneeled on my left knee and stood up dusting off my not grass stained jeans.
I shrugged my shoulders and turned around to the blonde and poked him in the shoulder.
"He would have told me eventually you know Deidara chan." I glared at him, and then turned back around the face the raven haired man.
"Well I guess I know too much, He's right. Itachi. Kill me." I said placing my hands to my side a smirk began to play on my lips;
He gave me a blank expression, "Are you testing me."
"What the hell do you think?" I locked my eyes with his, "If you really are what you say you are then I'm fine with that. I know-."
"Mariko..."
I just shook my head.
Then I felt a jab in the back of my neck,
And with I swallowed up by darkness.'
~*~
I felt something tickle on my face. I opened by eyes but was then welcomed with a eight legged creature. It's beady eyes stared into mine.
I let out an ear piercing scream as I literally jumped out of my sheets in my room. The lights were turned off. I took a few deep breaths.
Wait was I sleeping.
I fell asleep!
"Crap Onda! Why." My eyes flicked over to a lonely clock.
It read 11:37 p.m.
I immediately jumped out of my bed but soon found myself grabbing on my head.
It felt as if elephants were parading on top of it.
I noticed Misuki was absent; she would usually sleep when I was sleeping but I brushed that off my shoulders and raced down the stairs. Even if was to late maybe I could find the inn he stayed at, but when I came down stairs and saw him sitting on a pillow sipping a cup of tea.
"Oh I was wondering when you would wake up." He half smiled at me.
"I'm so sorry Onda I wasn't at the bridge, I think I got to carried away cleaning and fell asleep." He nodded.
"You were at the bridge, that's where you meet me un." A blonde haired teenager walked out from behind her kitchen door. He held an apple to his mouth.
Throat it's hurting,
It's useless to scream now,
Anyways,
he's the same age as you,
Maybe even younger,
"He promised not to hit you again. Don't worry about him." Itachi obviously found out that I was slightly shaky. He passed me a cup of tea, "You were freaking out and telling me to kill you and then the not so intelligent Deidara."
So he hit me,
There was a childish 'hey' in the background.
"Knocked you out. You've been unconscious for two hours now. Which is pretty good for your recovery, some would stay in a state like that for days." I grabbed my head and mutter something to low for them to hear.
"I should have hit her harder un." Deidara took another bite of his apple and came over to sit beside her, "I love your fridge though. What's your name...Mariko."
"Where's Misuki." I murmured as I took another sip of tea, maybe it would help with the pain, "Do I look weird. My head hurts."
Deidara snickered and Itachi shot him a death glare.
"You're a lot more childish then I imagined." I told him standing up,
"I am a child, for your information." He stuck out his tongue.
"Where's Misuki?"
After a few minutes of calling she finally appeared behind the kitchen door and parading herself over to the blonde. She leapt into his cross legs. "That's strange, Misuki hates all males."
"I have a way with cats." Deidara said calmly as he stroke Misuki's fur.
Mariko chuckled, "I can't argue with that. Misuki loves you."
"Believe me, as childish as he is he can also be pretty evil if you ask me." Deidara smiled proudly.
I nodded.
Awkward silence passed around the room.
"So what shall we do with you, Mariko?" Deidara had a sadistic look on his face, "We can't let you walk around knowing about us."
"Deidara shut up and leave her alone." I started to braid a piece of my hair.
"No, Itachi he's right. I won't tell anyone," I locked eyes with the Uchiha, "I promise. And friends keep their promises."
He nodded and stood up.
"Sorry about everything Mariko." He grabbed Deidara's arm and hoisted him up, "About tonight and everything. You should have never been involved, and."
"Shut up just and tell me when we will meet again." I gave him a sappy smile. I tried to lighten the mood. It didn't work as well as I thought.
"I'll surprise you." And with that the two were gone.
I sighed and left to my room to go back to sleep.
~*~
Itachi's P.O.V
It took all the power I had to stop me from lashing out at the blonde. I know that he was curious and everything but he hadn't made the situation any better, probably worst.
"See it wasn't as bad as you thought it would be. Un." Deidara smiled up at me.
Wrong,
It went horrible wrong.
He sighed deeply, "Fine be like that, and you do realise that in a way I helped you."
"How." He put his hands behind his head and sighed like I already knew the answer to that.
"You were going to leave her, I know you, and if I would have never shown up she would be incomplete depression."
"And how do you know that."
"By the way she acts differently around you. When you came up to her. I kept a good count on her pulse. It sped up. At first I thought it was from fear but instead, she loves you, you know un."
"Don't say foolish things like that."
He rolled his eyes, "You'll one day accept what I've done."
"Stop fallowing me and go back to the base Deidara."
He puckered his bottom lip, when he noticed I wasn't affected he groaned and went away.
I shook my head while thinking of ways of causing him pain as I went back to my inn.
~*~
Things were finally piecing together,
I didn't have to worry anymore,
Now that I knew the truth,
That I longed to find,
All though it was scary,
I now know that it will be all right,
And now I can sleep without fear,
I hope.
A/N;
Hm, what do you think?
The next chapter will be quite interesting now that things are starting to piece together like a jigsaw.
Fun.
*Nervous giggle here*
All well :)
Thanks for reading
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