Meet again?

I entered my homeroom, receiving a death glare from my teacher, Anko. I smiled shyly, hoping to be able to get away with not being in class for the first ten minutes. She came up to me, looking down at me.

"Where have you been?" Anko asked me, "Melody said the bathroom but it's been an awfully long time..."

"I was in the bathroom...I..." I went up to Anko's ear, "Got my...um..."

"Oh..." Anko said surprisingly, "O-Oh...Okay…Sorry, I should have known. You are always a good kid, should have realized it was a good reason...Go to your seat."

I lightly nodded and went over to my desk, right beside Melody. Melody giggled, realizing what excuse I had used to get the teacher to stop harassing me. It was always a good weapon that a girl had tucked away in her arsenal. Anko began to write some words on the chalk board, while Melody wrote a note and passed it to me.

So, spill the beans. What happened with Itachi? Was he mean to you? Did he hurt you? If he did I would so kick his ass, you know I would!

I put a pen to the paper that Melody gave me, thinking of how to respond to this.

Good luck getting past Kisame if you went to kick Itachi's ass. That would be a funny fight to see. However, there is no need to worry; Itachi was very nice to me. He didn't tell me why he was sad but he told me that he was going to be okay. That was enough for me.

Anko turned around to look at her notes and the students to make sure that everyone was paying attention. She turned back to the chalkboard and I slipped the paper onto Melody's desk. I saw her eyes widen at the response I gave her. She wrote on the paper again and gave it to me.

Bullshit.

I lightly smiled and wrote again on the paper that was beginning to run out of room.

I can prove it.

I gave it back to her. She looked to me, lightly moving her hand, saying to go ahead. I looked around the room, making sure that no one was looking at us. We were at the back of the room so there was no reason to worry about students behind us. However, if people saw me with this necklace, they would get the wrong idea. Not to mention kill me to get it.

Cautiously I pulled the necklace out from my shirt, putting my hand around the pendant to show Melody, and try to hide it from everyone else. Melody's eyes widened and her mouth dropped.

"...He..." Melody whispered, "Gave...that...to you?"

I nodded and I quickly put the necklace back underneath my shirt. Melody ripped out another piece of paper from her notebook and began to write on it. I knew she would be shocked that I had this necklace. I mean who wouldn't be? This was Itachi Uchiha's, one of the hottest boys in school, the popular kid, the student council member...This was his necklace. This was something that a geek like me should never see let alone wear. Melody slipped the paper onto my desk and I opened it up.

I don't even know where to begin, but girl you have some explaining to do. Like why he would give you something like that. You better tell me the whole story at lunch you hear?

I lightly nodded my head, showing Melody that I was agreeing to her. We then looked to the chalk board and began to write down the note that Anko put on the board. Waiting for lunch to approach.

. . .

Lunch time approached and I went to my locker, happily getting out of Gai's gym class. God, I hated gym. Sure I was flexible and I was good at gym but I just never enjoyed evaluating how good you were at physical things. Plus, Gai is way too obsessed with gym.

I began to unlock my locker when I heard girl's squeal. I looked behind me to see the entire Student Council walking together towards the cafeteria which was right down the hall from my locker. I could see them all enjoying the attention and it made me roll my eyes. However, I saw Itachi and my eyes locked onto him. Kisame had his arm around him, laughing at some joke. They began to pass me by and I wondered if Itachi was going to look at me too. Or if he regretted his decision to talk to me.

However, to prove my thoughts wrong, Itachi's eyes looked around the room and fell onto me. His eyes widened but softened and that made my eyes widen. As he got closer to the doors he turned back to Kisame and took his arm off of his shoulder. He said something to Kisame and began to walk back. I looked back to my locker, hoping he wasn't coming to me so directly. However, as the girls shrieked, I saw to the right of me, Itachi going into a classroom that was open. He looked at me and motioned for me to follow him. He shut the door behind himself and the girls went up to that door, wanting to get in, but it seemed like he locked it.

I grabbed my lunch from my locker and shut it. I looked at that door and slowly began to walk away from it, headed away from the cafeteria. I knew this room, it had two doors on either side of the set of lockers that mine was a part of. I slowly went closer to the other door. I stood in front of the door and lightly turned the door handle form behind. It opened and I went into the door way, quietly shutting the door and hoping no one saw me enter.

The room was dark but some sunlight came in from the windows. I turned around and saw Itachi sitting on a desk and lightly smiling to me.

"Lock the door." Itachi whispered and I quickly locked the door.

"Girls! There is another door!" A voice shrieked from outside and I could hear the sounds of girls hands banging on the door.

I sighed and went up to Itachi, who rolled his eyes. I wondered why he wanted to meet with me like this. But at the same time it was exciting. A popular kid wanted to meet with me. I had never felt so special in my life. I lightly brushed my bang behind my ear and looked into Itachi's eyes.

"Doesn't this get annoying?" I began the conversation, "All the girls?"

"Oh yea...Sometimes I stay in rooms like these, just to get away from it all..." Itachi replied, making me question my sanity. This had to have been a dream, "Anyways, I came to get the necklace back. Did your friend freak?" He smiled at the thought.

"Oh yea, Melody freaked out. She wants explanations." I chuckled and his smile never dissipated. It was so nice to see him smile, I don't understand why he hides it so much, "You should have saw her face when I showed her the necklace. If we weren't in class I would have laughed my head off."

"I'm glad." Itachi told me, "Never really had a purpose to that necklace until now."

"But it's a symbol of your family. Don't you want to be proud to wear something like that?"

"Yeah...sure..." Itachi looked away, "As if I could really be proud about being an Uchiha..."

"What?"

"Nothing." Itachi got off of the desk and lightly put his hands around my neck, reaching for the metal chain, "Thanks for taking care of it..." He began as he took the necklace off and put it back around his neck.

"Of course. Now to get out of here. Seeing as how the doors are...um...occupied...We have to find another way out."

"Easy enough."

Itachi went over to a window and propped it open. He looked over to me and I could feel some sort of sadness begin within me. After we went through that window, I would never be able to talk to Itachi like this again, he would be gone. I must have been silly to think that we could be friends. You just don't mess with social standings.

"Um...Suine?" Itachi asked as I snapped out of my thoughts, "You okay?"

"Um yeah...I'm fine." I faked a smile but he just raised an eyebrow.

"Uh-huh...sure you are."

"I am, I swear!" I began and I looked down, "I was just wondering-"

"If we'd ever meet like this again?"

"...Y...Yeah..." I felt my breath leave my lungs and I could feel sick to my stomach. I already knew the answer, "Never mind..."

"Don't worry Suine..." Itachi told me as he came closer to me, "...Sure it might be a little difficult because I can't be seen with you."

"I know...I mean I'm a geek and you are a...well you are you. And people like you don't smile or laugh or joke around or have secret meetings or hang out or become friends..."

"With people like you..." Itachi sighed and rubbed his eyes, "Yeah this is a bit more difficult than I thought but...even if I can't be seen with you or do any of that stuff...I still think we could be friends."

"R...Really?"

"Yeah...in secret. So don't go thinking that I just used you or something stupid like that. I'm not that kind of guy, though you might think differently. Basically what I am trying to say is...we can still be friends and we will meet again like this."

"You really are...different than what I thought you to be."

"What did you think of me?"

"That is for another meeting, Itachi...Right now we have to get to the cafeteria. Melody will flip out if I don't show up."

"Hm...so will Kisame..."

Itachi and I went over to the window and I looked out of it. Thank god that we are on the first floor; otherwise we would have been screwed. I lightly put my foot out of the window frame, feeling around until I felt the grass. I then jumped out of the window and Itachi followed me, shutting the window behind us. We were now outside of the school and began to follow the front of the building to the side, where we could get into the cafeteria from those doors. When we got there, Itachi turned to me.

"Okay, I'll go in first," Itachi began as I listened to every word he said, "Then wait a bit, wait until I get in line for the cafeteria food, then come in. No one will suspect a thing if we go by that. I'll see you around, Suine."

"See ya..." I lightly replied and he went into the back door.

I quickly went up to the back door and looked through the very small window. I watched as Itachi began to look around for his friends and slowly head towards the cafeteria line, trying to not cause any attention to the back door. However, our plan was going to be ruined.

"Hello, Suine..." A familiar voice said from behind me.

I turned around and felt my heart sink. There was one of most famous bullies in this school, the girl bullies actually. I'd rather have the student Council then these girls. There were a couple fourth year girls, a couple third year girls and last but not least three first year girls. I didn't know them all but I knew the girls in third year.

Mika, the short blonde haired girl with dark blue eyes. Touhou, a long green haired girl with brown eyes. And Alice, the white haired girl with dark purple eyes. Each one of them hated me, with a passion. They hated the fact that I was smart, that I was a geek. Geeks were always easy targets for bullies like them. Let's just say I went home with a couple of bruises and lowered self-esteem thanks to these girls.

However, I soon realized that the voice was neither of their voices. In fact, it was a voice that sounded exactly like Karin's. And sure enough, Karin was a part of their group. In first year and already a bully, great.

"What do you guys want?" I asked, "I haven't done anything..."

"Oh we know, but since Karin joined the group, we decided to give her one person she would like to...start her year on..." Mika laughed, "And she said you."

"M...Me?"

"You, who always protected Sakura from me...It's my turn to strike back." Karin began to say as I could see the girls slowly coming closer to me.

I didn't want to get hurt again, not again. I quickly turned the door handle of the door to the cafeteria and ran inside the cafeteria. I knew they would chase me, and no one would stop them. As long as you were not popular, they would get away with chasing you and hurting you. I looked behind me as I continued to run, seeing the girls come flying through the door, to catch me. I could feel the eyes of everyone in the cafeteria on me. But it wasn't until after that I knew it wasn't because I was running, it was what I was going to run into.

I bumped into something, and I fell to the ground. I thought I would hit the floor but instead I fell onto something warm and soft. I looked to the ground to see that I fell on none other but Itachi. My eyes widened and I quickly shuffled myself off of him, still sitting on the ground. He lightly flipped his body around and his eyes widened when he saw that it was me.

"...S.." Itachi began but I felt something grip my hair and tug on it, pulling me back.

I yelped in pain and I could feel the tears build up. I knew that I was not going to make it out of this pain. Melody wouldn't make it in time and Itachi can't do anything. I was going to get beat up, again.

"Look at this." I could hear Karin's voice say above me as the tears fell off of my cheeks, "You ran away instead of accepting your fate and you hurt one of the most popular kids in school...You cannot get away unpunished. I'm going to make an example of you." Karin began, "Any of you decide to mess with us, stand up for others, or hurt any one of the popular crowd, this is what you will get!"

"Suine!" I heard Melody's voice boom out.

I looked to Itachi, helplessly, and I could see something I thought I would never see in his eyes, pure anger. But was he angry at me or at the girls behind me? I closed my eyes when I saw the others in the cafeteria turn away from the scene. I waited for the punch, for the pain to kick in. However, I heard gasps from the people in the cafeteria and I reopened my eyes.

I saw a pair of legs standing in front of me, wearing the boy's uniform. I didn't see Itachi on the ground anymore and somehow I knew that he was the one standing in front of me. What on earth is he thinking? I heard Karin's voice yelp in pain.

"If you just let go you won't be in pain." Itachi told her and I wondered what he was doing.

I felt the pain disappear along with the pressure of Karin's hand on my hair. I looked up to see Itachi's pissed off eyes staring at Karin who held her wrist in pain.

"I heard that you were a bully, why are you protecting this girl!?" Karin began, "I don't understand, I was hurting her for hurting you."

"She didn't hurt me." Itachi angrily said as he lightly held a hand out to me, "She can't hurt anything." I lightly took his hand and he pulled me up from the ground, twisting me around so I was facing Karin who looked pissed, "Starting right now, this girl is under my protection. If any of you sons of bitches decide you want to hurt this girl, you will have problems with me, do you understand!?" Itachi's voice echoed through the cafeteria and the girls began to look afraid at Itachi's anger, "Do you understand!"

"Yes..." Karin said out of fear and I felt something cold find its way around my neck. I looked down and saw Itachi's necklace.

"Just so you remember..." Itachi told off Karin and her gang, "Now get out of here before I get an idea to kick your ass. And I don't give two shits that you're girls..."

Karin and her friends gave me a dirty look but then stopped the moment I felt Itachi's hands fall onto my shoulders. They quickly left the cafeteria which now felt like silence was the only thing the kids knew. I could feel Itachi's hands begin to tremble; now he was scared? He gave a look to the people in the cafeteria and they all began to go back to their own business, whispering about what had just happened.

I felt Itachi's hands leave my shoulders. I lightly turned around and saw that Itachi went out of the cafeteria's front doors. I looked through the cafeteria and saw Melody's surprised eyes staring at me. She nodded to me and I went after Itachi, leaving the cafeteria to wonder why a popular kid had stuck up for a geek, why Itachi stuck up for me.