Suddenly it's different

Kisame had walked the both of us home that night and helped us get our minds off of Itachi and Yuka's encounter. It was harder for him to get my mind off of that topic, seeing as how I just had a revelation of my affections towards him but somehow he managed. Kisame stayed with us that night, sleeping on the couch. Melody asked him too, she felt that I would need to have friends around me and she was right. Melody even got Mira to come and tuck me into bed, giving me a kiss goodnight on my forehead. We had no idea what had happened to Itachi but we knew; we could feel that it wasn't good. Something she said changed him.

I stood outside on the balcony; staring out into the bright blue sky. The sun shinned its beautiful bright light all over the entire neighbourhood. The streets were empty even though it was 8 in the morning. I could always tell when it was a Saturday. However, I wasn't as lucky as everyone else in town. I had to work; at a little café shop down the street called Morning Brew's. I heard Melody rummaging through our fridge inside and I smiled, I was happy to be working at the same place as her.

I ignored my sad thoughts of Itachi, at least for now, and went back inside to see Melody look at me with a shocked face. Just like me, she had our uniforms for the café. There was a black headband with white ruffled cloth at each end that we had to wear on top of our heads. Around our neck we had to wear the same styled band as the headband but as a chocker necklace. After that the dress began, which started a bit after our shoulders, it was made to stand there on our shoulders. There was a strip of the same styled band as the headband around the top of the dress, but after that the style changed. It was a black dress that had long sleeves that were tight at the top of our arms but loose by the time they reached our wrists. The sleeve widened at our wrists and a white ruffled material covered the entire inside of the sleeve. At our chest was a white bow that was tiny but added to the cute look. At our waist was a white half apron that started at our waist and ended half way down the dress, with a big white bow tied on the back to keep it up. After the apron the black dress continued until it reached a bit above our knees. Just like the sleeves there was ruffled white material that covered underneath the black material. The last thing to our uniform was black high heeled boots that ended right at our knees.

"We have no milk again!" Melody's shocked face was explained and I chuckled. Suddenly, a moan interrupted us and we looked to the couch to see Kisame roll over. My eyes widened as did his when he looked at me.

"Huh…This is some messed up dream…" Kisame said as he looked to Melody and then rolled off the bed, "Why are you two dressed like this!?" Kisame stood up, holding back the redness that came to his cheeks.

"Don't get excited…" Melody rolled her eyes and I chuckled, "It's for our job."

"Your job?" Kisame asked and I nodded.

"Of course, we have to get money somehow. We pay Mira back for giving us this home and we have other people to pay off as well." I told him as Melody looked to me.

"We do?" She asked.

"Well, we do have to pay Itachi back for the dresses…" I continued and the silence entered the room again. I wanted to avoid using his name, at least for this weekend but it was worse when we ignored his name. It made it hurt more, "Look I can say his name-"

"Of course you can…" Kisame began, "We are just worried about you…I mean after the way he treated all of us…We just didn't want to bring up any hurt feelings."

"He hasn't done much as of now." I told them both but Kisame looked away.

"He's done enough for me." He sighed, "He never looked at me that way…He never treated me like that."

"Like what?" Melody asked and I could see the sadness in his eyes.

"Like I was one of them…Like the student council, like his father…" I put a hand onto his shoulder and I saw a tear stream down his face, "It hurt. He ignored me like I was never important to him..."

"You know you're important to him." I started, "I'm sure he'll get over it…He's just got a lot on his mind…We have to give him space and time."

"Do you think so?"

"I really do…"

"Suine! We are going to be late! We have to go!" Melody screamed as she looked at the clock we had hanging up on our kitchen wall.

"Oh!" I yelped as we both ran to the door.

"Can I come?" Kisame asked and we both turned to him, "Not to watch or anything…In fact, I'm actually looking for a job so I would like to see if I could work there."

"At a café shop?" I asked him and he nodded.

"Tips would be a great way to get more money."

"Well…I guess we can talk to boss…"

"Thanks!"

And just like that we all walked out of our house and went down the street to the café shop. When we got to the shop, Kisame was totally shocked by the classiness of this place. It was filled with golden booths with elegant white tables. The room was filled with plants to give the room a more elegant look. Straight ahead from the entrance doors was a red carpet that led up to a podium with a hostess there. Her name was Shiki, a wonderful brunette that loved to smile.

"Oh!" Shiki's high pitched voice shrieked in happiness, "Melody, Suine! I'm so glad you guys are here! Whose your friend?"

"This is Kisame Hoshikage; he wants to talk to boss about being a butler here." Melody told Shiki whose eyes widened at him.

"You want to be a butler?" Shiki told him and he nodded, "That's great! You are the first boy who wanted to be a butler here; boss has been looking for one forever now! She knows that having a guy in here will bring the girls around here but like I said no one came. I'll take you to her office."

Kisame smiled and followed Shiki. Melody and I went past the podium and into the back where the lockers were. We began to put our jackets in the locker when suddenly; Kisame was pushed into the locker room by our boss. Our boss wore the same uniform as us; seeing as how she goes on the floor sometimes to help us out. She had short purple hair that barely ended in the middle of her neck. Her dark blue eyes stared at us with so much happiness I thought that she was going to burst like a bubble.

"You guys are amazing!" Our boss, Kana, told us and we smiled, "Bringing in this guy was an amazing idea!"

"Well he asked about it, it was more his idea-" I tried to say but Kana interrupted us by coming up to us and holding our hands.

"We are going to get so much more money now that the ladies will want to come here to see Kisame-san! He is cute, young; we will finally get all the younger females in here now! I cannot thank you guys enough! But I am so happy that you wanted to work here Kisame-san." Kana began and he smiled.

"Well I need some job to pay the bills and I get to work with friends so it's a bonus. Thank you for allowing me to work here." Kisame told her and she squealed.

"This is perfect. Here-" Kana ran off into another room and came back with a black suit for Kisame, "This is your uniform! Suit up everyone it's time for our shifts to start!"

Kana walked off, more like skipped off, to her office and Kisame turned to us. We all began to laugh at Kana's reaction.

"What happened? You were gone for two seconds." Melody told him as he sighed.

"I went in there, saying I was looking for work then she rushed me off here once she asked who sent me." Kisame began and we laughed some more.

"Well suit up, we will teach you the ropes here. I hope you enjoy it here Kisame-san." I told him and he nodded.

"I will."

. . .

Kisame walked home with us, with a huge smile on his face. He carried his uniform home as he walked back in his old dirty clothes. But that didn't matter to him; he not only made money he had one of the best times working with us. I had to admit, I enjoyed having him at work too.

"Hey do you want to sleep over again tonight?" Melody threw out that suggestion, "We all have work again tomorrow and I'm sure we can use the company still."

"Yes…I would like the company as well." I told Kisame and he smiled.

"Okay but let me just stop at my apartment and pick up some clothes." Kisame told us, "But you aren't allowed to come in, it's a pretty bad apartment and I don't exactly trust all the guys that live there."

We all nodded in agreement and enjoyed the walk home together. Once we were home, Melody and Kisame began to rummage through the board game closet-Melody's closet that is- while I stood out on the balcony again, watching the sun turn the sky into a light purple. The sunset was always so beautiful but tonight it made me feel different. I tried so hard all day to stop my heart stop from thinking about how Itachi was but it was harder than it seemed.

As I stared off into the sunset, playing with Itachi's necklace, all I could think about was that something was going to be different on Monday at school. And I was going to hate every second of it.