"Akatsuki High School Romance''

Chapter One The Very Beginning. ..

  Chapter One  

It’s raining again...’ You think to yourself as you look out of the window a little upset. You’ve been at Akatsuki High for three weeks now and it’s always rained when you have to walk home. With a sigh, you take off your bag, hold it above your head for shelter and made a quick dash out into the heavy showers. You can still feel the water leaking through, so you’re still getting wet. It doesn’t matter though. You don’t live that far away.You stop. You haven’t gone a long way, but you see someone. Sitting under a tree that’s fully covered with leaves, even in Winter, Itachi’s one of the boys from the school.

It must be dry where he is, because his blazer is undone and drooping over of his shoulders. He makes no movements to try and warm himself. He just sits comfortably staring up at the greying sky, his long dark ponytail flowing loosely to his side. It’s Uchiha Itachi. Older than you and very popular at the school. You have already heard a lot about him, but have never seen him in person. He looks pretty good.   Anyway, you don’t have time to stand there dawdling. You’re getting soaked. So, you carry on home. Once you get there  you find a note stuck to your door."Hey _______ ^^,Hope you have your keys. Gone to his <3 house for the week. Food’s in the freezer. Have fun and don’t make a mess,Love Mum."You screw up the letter and toss it aside. You hate it when she goes to his house. She goes there all the time. The place just always fells so empty with only you being there.

You rummage around in your bag to see if you actually have got your keys with. No good. They’re not there. You are locked out.You go back to the school hoping it will still be open for people to do homework or something. It has to better than staying out in the rain. That guy’s still there, you notice. He might be popular, but you think he could move every once in a while. You get to the school. That’s locked too. Well, it looks like you’re pretty much stuck. It’s getting really bad now, the rain. You look over at that tree again and the boy under it. Wow. He looks dry and in no hurry to move.    No more trees around either. It looks like you’re just going to have to risk going over and talking to Itachi."Hi." You say, now standing over him, trying to look your friendliest. "Mind if I sit with you? I’m kinda getting wet." You laugh a little. He changes his gaze to stare coldly at you. You stop. You really don’t like the way he’s at you. It’s almost as though he wishes you to be dead. You sit down next to him uncomfortably, despite this; it’s not like it’s his tree anyway... now he’s just staring at the sky, emotionless again, like the first time you saw him. He’s ignoring you and it’s making you feel even more uncomfortable than you did before.

You’re going to try and start a conversation with him. "So, you’re Uchiha Itachi... Huh?" You ask."Yes..." Is his blunt answer. He doesn’t look at you as he says it. There’s an awkward silence again. You don’t know if you should keep trying, or go out in the rain without anywhere to stay. You just sit there, still making an effort to be friendly to this emotionless jerk."Aren’t you cold?" You ask, a little concern in your voice this time. Itachi’s still sitting there as good as topless. It takes him a little longer to answer this time but, he does have a lot to say."Getting cold would be a weakness that I don’t need." He explains. "I’m only waiting for the rain to stop." You’re about to ask if he can’t do that properly dressed, but then he does something you don’t expect.   He hands his blazer to you, actually looking your way this time. "You’ve been out in the rain. Dry yourself. I’ll be leaving soon anyway.""Itachi-Sempai! What are you thinking? If you’re leaving soon, you’re going to need your blazer. It can’t get wet." As you finish, he throws the soft, dry blazer over you. "Itachi-Sempai..." You whine, tossing the blazer to the side, only to find Itachi putting on a long black cloak he must have been carrying around. It has red clouds on it.

You start to dry yourself with the blazer now. Satisfied that Itachi isn’t going to freeze to death."I’m going now." He tells you. The rain hasn’t stopped yet, but it is slowing down. Still, you don’t want Itachi to get caught in it."Wait!" You demand, bing him by the arm. He gives you a sharp look. You let go. You can tell he’s going to need some convincing. "Well, maybe you shouldn’t go just yet, Itachi-Sempai. You’ll get wet and you might get a cold or something... we could talk if you want..." Itachi turns from you again."I won’t get a cold. If you want someone to talk to, go home. You’re only annoying to me." He makes his way to leave. This time you grab him by the ponytail and tug. He quickly turns and grabs you firmly by the wrist. His eyes have gone red, with black marks in them. You’ve heard rumours from fan-girls, that these are passionate eyes that Itachi will only show to someone he loves. For some reason, you’re thinking they may have gotten it wrong. Either way, you got him to stop."I can’t go home." You tell him. "I’m stuck out here." He let’s go of your arm roughly. He doesn’t look like he has any interest in what you’re saying though. His eyes haven’t changed. You start to feel different looking at them too. Your surroundings change. Everything goes red and there are buildings you hadn’t noticed before. Then there’s Itachi. He is standing right in the middle of everything, dead bodies all around. As far as you can tell, he’s the one that killed them. You’re more than a little shocked by this. Suddenly, it all fades away."That, is what it means to not be able to go home. Killing your entire clan would make you a bit hated there." Itachi runs his hand through his hair as you stand there, still in a scared daze. "I don’t care if you’re alone and I don’t care if you don’t have any place to stay. Just don’t follow me." This time he walks out into the rain."Itachi-Sempai!" You call out and run at his back with a hug. Now you’re both getting wet and you get the feeling that Itachi’s about to kill you. "It must of been so hard for you after you killed everyone. You must of felt so lonely and not accepted by people." You look up at him. He looks down at you, as emotionless and unimpressed as ever."Your name. What is it?" He questions. So you tell him, _______ _______. "_______. I feel nothing like that and I never have. It is stupid of you to even suggest it. Now let me go." You do as he says. "If you’re thatdesperate, I will sit with you."   You both go back to the tree and out of the rain.

You talk about whatever it is you want to talk about, but then the conversation goes dead. You look up at the sky. It’s still raining. "You know Itachi-Sempai? With it being Winter and everything, I wish it would snow. It’s just so white and innocent." You look on dreamily as you say this. Itachi’s blazer over your shoulders, even if it is wet."It will never snow here." He says, expressionlessly. "If snow is innocent, then it won’t come near this school. Not with all of the darkness around it." You would have asked Itachi what he means by this, but you’re too busy spacing out about snow. The rain starts to stop in that moment. Just as Itachi has finished what he was saying. "Are you going now then?" Itachi asks eventually."I told you." You say. This time, you’re the one not looking at him. "I can’t get into my house. I’m stuck out here." Your eyes don’t leave the sky. Not now that it has started to gently fade to dark blue."Wait here." Itachi tells you, before walking away. You make no move to stop him this time. He returns later, with fresh clothes, a sleeping bag and some food. You don’t have any idea where he got this stuff from. But with that, he leaves for the last time. After eating, you settle down, once the sky goes dark, to sleep under that lovable and sheltering tree.