I Got Hots For My Rival~ Itachi Modern AU [NWA Winter'14 1st Place] REVISED

Chapter 20

~Anna's POV~

"Dad! Emily! Come onnnnn!!" I flailed my small arms impatiently and ran the rest of the pedestrian bridge quickly, not waiting because I had Marcus to meet.

It was a few weeks after my monotonous friend Itachi left here, for Japan. I wouldn't say I won't miss him but like he never really talked much so it wasn't making such a difference. I would really miss my rivalry with him though.

So, well, during vacations one day, Marcus, my new rival, challenged me to a stakeboarding round and invited Emily and dad came along because some adult had to be around. I just turned eleven so I got my parents to get me a stakeboard as well. Mum was at home with Eric and well, she was really fat for some reason so dad told her to stay at home.

Dad was verrrrryyyyyyyy slow, because when I had hopped off the last stairs, he hadn't even started ascending them. Emily was halfway through. I sighed at their laziness but continued on alone, not wanting to make Marcus wait in the park alone.

I could see the park gates in the distance and started running but stopped when I spotted three familiar kids. Jacob, Ronald and James. They were two grades older than me and bore extreme resentment for me since I had rejected to Jacob's confession. I was just ten, what did I know about love and passion. I avoided him ever since.

"Oh my pearl. What are you doing here?" Jake asked, noticing me even when I was trying not to be noticeable. I looked back to where dad and Emily were and dad was tooo far still but Emi was nearer.

"Nothing that should concern you." I answered simply and started to walk past him but the cronies blocked my way.

"Should I ask again?" I glared at the smirking bully with all my might. "This face doesn't suit you my dear. It will only give you wrinkles." Even though he was a kid of thirteen, probably fourteen, he gave off a much older aura.

"Like I said, it doesn't concern you!" He rolled his eyes then looked behind me and grinned.

"Alright then, I will just ask her." James and Ronald made way to grab Emily and she started crying on spot.

Where was my dad? Old man!

"You leave her alone!" I yelled in defense for my friend who had nothing to do with anything.

"You tell me then."

"I am going to meet Marcus." I finally answered. The happy look he had all this time went away and in its place came a very angry one. "Now let her go."

Jake smirked and nodded to his friends, "alright." I sighed in relief but my breath was caught in my throat when I heard my friend's scream followed by tyres screeching to a halt.

"WHY DID THEY DO THAT?!" I yelled at him when I glanced upon Emily's motionless body on the road far away.

"No time to think, you go too!"

Eh?

I had no time to absorb what was happening because just a second ago I was yelling at Jacob and just a second after it, I was myself on the road, between the cars zooming past and starting to stop. However, one semi was speeding with no intentions of stopping and I had no sense of what was going on which had paralysed me, so I just closed my teary eyes and waited.

I felt just a push. It felt that simple to my closed eyes. But when I opened them, my world was red. The push I felt was my father protecting me from harm. What about him? What would happen to anybody hit by a semi?

Jake and his friends were nowhere in sight once the police arrived and I lost two of my most important people that day. Marcus was attentioned by the noises so he came by the place of accident and comforted me, all in vain.

"Anna you killed me." I heard Emily's voice. "I was innocent."

No...

"Anna I died because of you."

No please...

"ANNA!!!!"

I opened my eyes and coughed, sitting up immediately and grabbing the dustbin by my bedside and vomitting out everything that I had eaten before my sleep. It wasn't ending. My breathing became laboured and through my noise I had woken up Tim who was dutifully beside me all the while.

"Anna take a deep breath." He advised but the things going in my head and my dream of what had happened was preventing me from any calmness. I felt my heart skip a few beats and I clutched it tightly, looking at my brother before my eyes rolled to the back of my head and my body went limp.

~Itachi's POV~

I felt extremely guilty now. I was the one who had pushed Anna to tell me about some of her past and now that I made her remember it, she must have dreamed about it, which must have stressed her enough to have another attack. Seeing her unconscious and so pale made me sick, not to mention guilty as heck.

I wasn't able to sleep so I had decided to pay Anna another visit and when I got to the hospital, this dreadful news was what I received. I felt really gutted.

"Don't worry yourself about it." I felt Timothy's hand on my shoulder, assuring me.

"I made her remember the bad past and because of that now she is..." I spoke truthfully, my eyes downcast the entire time. Before I could receive an answer from Timothy, the doctor exited Anna's room and sighed. Both of us were on our feet immediately.

"She'll be fine. Don't look so pale or I will admit you both as well." Doc laughed and waved us off. One odd doctor.

Doc mentioned Anna would wake up in a few hours but she didn't and eventually I started feeling drowsy, sitting in one place. Tim advised me to head home but I couldn't convince myself to go and I ended up falling asleep there.

~Anna's POV~

Uggghhh my chest.....

"I am so hungry..." I didn't know I had spoken it out loud until I got a response.

"Want me to call the doctor?" I lazily glanced at my brother and shook my head.

"Help me sit up." Once I was sitting, I rubbed scratched my itching throat, asking the question stuck there, "what happened?"

"You...don't remember?" Tim raised his eyebrows.

"Should I?" But I was really lazy to even listen so I just looked away and then my eyes widened. "The hell is he doing here?!" I whispered-asked my brother, looking at Grizzly's sleepy form. Tim laughed.

"You had an attack and he just happened to visit and felt really guilty about it for some reason so he ended up staying." I made the sense of what he told me in my head and remembered what I had dreamed about.

"He made me remember the past." I said in a slow voice but Tim caught that. "And Marcus."

"Come to think of it, isn't that Sasori kid in your class quite a look alike to Marcus?" My brother asked. I smiled.

"Only the hair colour. Marcus' eyes were blue and his hair were more dis-shelved than Sasori's. Ah they were always up in the air like his spirits."

It felt good remembering him.

"You still remember him so clearly. Thats a good thing no? You might find his love in somebody else."

Even thought Timothy meant that in a general way, my eyes automatically wandered to my rival, sleeping soundly in a chair next to my bed.

Love, for me, was a very dangerous thing.

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Reader-samas, sorry 😞

I have no excuse but just let me tell you that my depression is eating up all my energies to write, draw and even eat ;-;

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