Recap
"You wanted to see me Professor?"

"Cut the crap Ryu." he snapped. Ryu looked at him taken aback. She looked closed and noticed that he was gripping the life out of his arms. "What happened to you?"

Ryu looked down. "I uh...I fell." she lied.

"You fell?" he asked. "Ryu you're one of the most graceful players on the soccer field, people like you don't just fall." Kakashi sighed and pushed himself off of his desk. "Did Deidara hit you?"

Ryu looked away and forced herself to blink back the tears and swallow down the bile that threatened to come. "No Professor he didn't." she lied.

Kakashi walked forward and took a hold of her chin, turning her head to look at him. "Ryu, I'm your teacher and I'm a friend, you can tell me what happened." He said his voice gentle. His touch ignited her skin, making it grow hot and tingly. She didn't want to lie to Kakashi, all she wanted to do was break down and cry, tell him everything. Instead she pulled away and turned her body do she couldn't see him. Kakashi growled a little and furrowed his brow in frustration. "Ryu did he threaten you?"

Ryu shook her head. "I'm sorry." And she ran out the door and into one of the bathrooms. She launched herself into one of the stalls and puked her guts up. She puked even though there was nothing in her belly, even though she was choking on her sobs. When her dry heaving ceased, she leaned against the stall's wall and grabbed some toilet paper and ripped a piece off. She wiped her mouth and forehead and cheeks off. Ryu felt hurt and alone, and a little scared. She remembered when Kakashi had touched her face, her hormones had gone crazy, like a flame ignited from Kakashi's skin and licked across her own, fanning out from her face to her toes. Deidara had never made her feel like that. But Kakashi was a teacher there could never be anything between them, and as he said, he was a friend. Ryu was sure that there was nothing meant by him touching her face…or the protective growl. But what was she going to do about Deidara? She had no idea why he acted the way he had this morning, and it scared her, so much so that she was afraid to go home. Why would Deidara push her down the stairs and hit her? She remembered what he had looked like and shivered. His face was pale, but red with rage, and his eyes were glossy with hatred.

A knock on the stall door startled Ryu to attention and she jumped. "Hey are you okay in there?"

"Y-yeah." Ryu stuttered. She stood up and composed herself as best as she could and unlocked the door. When she swung it open a short semi chubby girl was standing there. She couldn't be over five foot six, her hair looked like it was blond that was dyed black and turning back to blond because the color was fading, the ends of it almost touched her shoulders. Her eyes were almost a faded blue jean color, and her left one was covered by a sea of blackish blond hair. She had many piercings, her left nostril, her right side of her lip, seven places on each year, and her right eyebrow. She was wearing a black tank top that said "I Love My Attitude Problem" and a black skirt with black leggings and knee high combat boots.

"You okay hun? You don't look so good." She said scrunching up her brows in concern.

"I-I'm fine." Ryu said pushing past her and walked over to the sink. The girl followed and sighed, she pulled open her Skillet messenger bag and pulled out a small white and yellow bottle and handed it to Ryu. "What's that?" she asked cautiously.

"It's cream for those bruises." She said with a smirk. "It works wonders on bruises and cuts, but it's going to hurt like a mother on that busted lip." Ryu took the tube with a grateful smile and started to apply the ointment to her skin. "I'm Ashley by the way."

"I'm Ryu."

"So what happened anyway?" Ashley asked lighting up a cigarette. She pulled her self up onto the counter and crossed one leg over the other. "Want one?" she asked holding out the package of smokes to Ryu.

Ryu shook her head and winced when she moved her finger over her lip. "I had a minor disagreement with a flight of stairs." Ryu muttered.

"Uh-huh, and I'm Paris Hilton." Ashley scoffed and blew out a puff of smoke into the air. "Look honey, I want to help you, abusive boyfriends are the worst, but if you wont let me in there's nothing I can do." She said with a shrug.

"Why do you want to help a complete stranger?" Ryu asked turning her head to look at her. Her tone was harsher then she meant it to be.

"Because I know what it's like to be abused." Ashley said with a smirk. She put out her cigarette in the sink and dropped the butt in the trash. "Well I'm not going to interfere if you don't want me to but at least take my number incase anything comes up." Ryu sighed and nodded Ashley ripped off a piece of paper from a note book inside her messenger bag and a black Sharpie and she wrote down her number.

"Oh here." Ryu held out the tube of ointment.

"Keep it." And with that Ashley walked out of the bathroom and down the hall.

"Ryu!" Daiza called when she got home. She had been out of class for nearly four hours now, but she decided to do a little shopping, and she had picked up something for Ryu.

"She's not home yet." Hinata said. She was pacing by the phone and she looked really worried. "Deidara's not back yet either." She mumbled biting on her thumb nail.
"Whoa, Hianta, what's wrong?" Daiza asked setting her bags down on the couch.

Hinata looked at her then at the floor, she began pacing again. "This afternoon, when Ryu and Deidara came down…I think Deidara pushed her down the stairs." Hianta said, Daiza was about to protest, but Hinata went on. "She said she fell, but Ryu doesn't fall."

"If he hurt her I swear I'll hang him by his toes." Daiza said through clenched teeth.

"Daiza please don't do anything, if that is what happened Ryu doesn't want us to know." Hinata protested.

"She's right Daiza." Sakura said walking in and sitting beside Daiza's bags. She had heard the story when she, Tenten, Neji, Sasuke, and Kiba had come home. "It's not our place to meddle, if something is going on Ryu will tell us on her own time. Besides we don't even know that he really pushed her."

"That's right." Tenten agreed. "Deidara loves Ryu, he wouldn't just push her down the stairs, we have to get all of the facts."

Daiza fell on the couch with a pout. "Fine, fine, get off my back." she complained. Ryu walked into the house and ran right up to her room. "Can I be worried now?" Daiza asked. She along with everyone else had caught a glimpse at Ryu's bruises, bruises that you do not acquire from falling down stairs. Daiza got up and walked up the stairs after Ryu, she walked down to her and Deidara's room and knocked on the door gently. "Ryu?"

"What?" Ryu asked opening the door. Her eyes were still pink from crying, and her lip was just beginning to close up. She looked like shit.

"What happened?" Daiza asked.

"I fell."

"Bull shit Ryu, tell me what the fuck happened right now, or I'm going to go beat the shit out of Deidara." Daiza threatened.

Ryu looked down the hall a little nervously then pulled Daiza into the bedroom and locked the door. "Please don't do anything after I tell you." Ryu said cautiously, Daiza looked at her and nodded once. "This morning Deidara got mad because I was wearing jeans that were a little too tight and he grabbed my bag, I fell down the stairs." Ryu said slowly, her voice low, she shouldn't be telling Daiza this, but she couldn't lie to her.

Dai clenched her fists tight. "Why did you lie to us?" she asked. Ryu just shook her head and looked away. Daiza walked out of the room calmly and down stairs, she could hear the guys all talking to Deidara out in the front yard, trying to figure out what had happened. She walked outside and walked right up to Deidara and punched him square in the jaw. He stumbled back a little then looked at her, his eye glowing with hatred. "What the fuck is your problem?" she asked.

"Did she tell you?" Deidara's eyes flashed up to their bedroom window and he saw Ryu standing there looking at them. As soon as his eyes met hers she turned and walked away. He was going to kill her.

"Don't you ever dare thinking about hurting her again!" Daiza shouted jumping on top of him. They fell to the ground, and Daiza proceeded to punch his face over and over again.

"Daiza that's enough." Kiba said pulling her off of Deidara who's face was swollen with a few cuts from Daiza's rings, and a black eye.

Deidara stood up and walked inside slamming the door, he walked up the stairs and into his room. Ryu was sitting on the bed with her book open and working on the homework Kakashi had assigned. "Ryu?" Ryu looked up at him, her eyes were wide and fearful. "Oh man." Deidara walked over to her and sat beside her. Ryu automatically moved away. "Ryu I'm so sorry. I don't know what came over me." he said touching her cheek lightly. She flinched but she didn't move or whimper, she just closed her eyes. Deidara put her book on the bed behind her and he pulled her onto his lap and held her. "How can you ever forgive me?"

Ryu let a few tears leak out. "I already have." she said as she wrapped her arms around him. "There's no way I can not forgive you." Deidara smiled a little and kissed her head.

"I love you Ryu."

"I love you too."