Living in Japan!

Chapter 19 - Aren't You a Bit Young to be Dating a Junior?

Ertha's POV!!

I woke up feeling extremely cold. I started shoving the covers off me, groaning. Regan stood up from a chair and came over. "It's so hot..." I complained like a child. She rolled her eyes.

"You're fine Ertha." Saying this she felt my forehead. Her eyes went wide and immediately left the room for sick people stuff. I wanted to put less sleeve and pant clothes on but my body felt heavy and I was sweating.

All I could do was groan and whine, which didn't do much for me.. "Why is she taking do longgggg..." I screamed being the over dramatic princess I was. When my phone buzzed on my dresser. I wasn't expecting anyone so I reached over and grabbed my phone.

On the tiny lit up screen read;

"Itachi-kun <3

New message!"

I couldn't help but smile. This guy is my friend. Plus he bothers to actually text me, besides the fact that I am quite younger than him. My thumb slide open the text.

From: Itachi-kun<3

Hey, I noticed you weren't in school today. Is anything wrong?

-End-

My face heated. Well it would have if I weren't already running a fever. Wow. He cared about me. Then two seconds later, Gaara texted me the same thing. Turns out, Sasuke had too.

If I weren't sick, I would have cried. My friends are so sweet! I texted each of them the same thing. Not because that's all I had to say but I felt pretty speechless. "I passed out after Regan threw a box at me. xD Woke up with a high fever. Regan is taking care of me. Thanks for the concern though! <3." Was the text they recieved.

When Regan finally came back into the room, I was grinning like and idiot. "What gotten into you? Are you hallucinating already?" Regan joked happily as she dipped a towel in water and squeezed it out before laying it on my burning forehead.

I took deep breaths, and closed my eyes. Sleep pulled me in again in a number if seconds. It wasn't bad, I was tired anyway.

"Erthaa." A deep alluring voice sounded, pulling me from my comfortable dreamland. I let out a groan trying to tell the soothing voice to go away.

However, the voice persisted. "C'mon Ertha. I came all this way to see you and this is what I get?" The familiar voice tried again. This time, the voice was successful in lulling me out of my slumber.

When my eyes opened, they saw Itachi peering over at me. He wasn't that far away from me either. Maybe a foot, probably less however. "Good afternoon sleepyhead." A rush of his minty breath washed over my face.

I probably would have screamed but my breath got caught in my throat. He moved away from me and sat on my bed, letting me sit up. "Um. Regan told me that your fever went down. It was nothing to worry about, just momentary sickness from lack of sleep or excessive amount if stress. You should relax more." Itachi commented.

"N-n-not to be rude or anything..., but w-why are you here?" I stuttered nervously. I've never had a boy in my room before. My mind was racing trying to think of what to do about it. He looked away from me and stood. Then he walked to my dresser and pointed at the flowers there that I hadn't noticed.

"When did those get there? Did you bring those? They're beautiful!" I swooned inside. Itachi smiled. "Yea. when I heard you were sick, I thought you might need something to make a sick day better, so." His face turned a little pink.

A smiled took away my nervousness and I nodded. "I'd hug you if I hadn't been sick earlier." He shook his head. "I uh.. wouldn't care..." He looked away. My face turned scarlet as I hugged him briefly.

Itachi had hugged me back. Only then did I realize how much taller he was over me. It made me pout slightly. "You must be hungry. Have you had lunch?" He asked. I shook my head. "Not only have I not had lunch, I passed out before breakfast."

Itachi's once blank face now held the slightest of smiles. "Then let me take you out. I'm quite hungry myself."

We ended up stopping at a
Chick-fil-a place. It was nice. I got some chicken nuggets, and
Itachi-kun got a chicken sandwich. We ate, not necessarily in silence but there wasn't much conversation as we had food in our mouth.

As I took a sip of my delicious Sprite, a familiar nosy blonde idiot came over to us. "Hey
Ertha-chan! It's good to see ya! Why are you with Itachi-san? Aren't you a little young to be dating a junior?" Before I could reply to Naruto's greeting, my eyes bugged out if my head.

I swallowed my food and politely said, "Naruto, I was sick so Itachi took me out to lunch. It isn't a date." Itachi nodded, seeming to be as shocked as me.

Naruto gave us weird looks, and looked us over once more before walking away. To add more embarrassment to the situation, he did the finger "I'm watching you." To us. I let out a groan once he was out of sight. "I'm sorry Itachi-kun, that guys an idiot."

However, Itachi didn't say anything. Then he said something really quietly to wear I couldn't quite hear him, but I know he said something. "I'm sorry what was that?" I asked scared he was mad now.

"Now that I think about it..." He started and my heart sunk. Was he regretting taking me here, the flowers, being my friend at all??? I couldn't stand to think about it. "My friend Sasori's birthday is tomorrow and I need to get him a present." My heart kinda broke because he didn't want to be around me anymore. "Want to come with me?"

I wasn't expecting that at all. He wants hang out with me more? After what just happened, I thought that would be the end of it. We hadn't been horribly close, but this was good. "Yea I wouldn't mind going gift shopping with you."