The Book of You and I || Uchiha Itachi (DISCONTINUED)

Chapter 25 - She Is Not Alone

Shina woke up with sticky eyes. She sat back on the hotel bed, rubbing her sticky eyes and fixed her disheveled hair, tying it with her black hair tie in a ponytail. She took in her surroundings and saw Itachi's bed beside her with the said man on the bed. She stood up and peered over Itachi and saw him peacefully sleeping, softly breathing in and out. His onyx hair was out of its red hair tie and was sprawled over the pillow.

"I should take a bath. I'm still wearing my kimono."

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Shina was just about finished with tying her Konoha headband on her bicep. She proceeded to open the bathroom door and saw Itachi rubbing his eyes and let out a yawn and covered his mouth. Shina sheepishly smiled, "Good morning, Itachi.". Itachi's head turned over to Shina and replied with a deep, husky, morning voice. "Good morning, Shina." Her smile grew wide with a tint of pink on her cheeks.

"Good morning.. You should wash up, I'll head down first."

 He watched her walk away with her back in front of him.

 As Shina headed down, she looked at her surroundings and headed to the cafe the inn owned, she saw no one was there other than herself and two bartenders who has silver and red hair.

 "Strike!" The red-haired bartender looked at Shina with heart shaped eyes. Shina turned to look at him and awkwardly smiled at him, "G-Good morning," the bartender tapped the silver boy behind him, saying, "Look, Allen-kun, it's a pretty girl." He gave him a smug grin whilst tapping the boy. He turned around and saw Shina, who looked awfully confused. "Lavi, that's Shina-sama. You're acting very indecent." The red-haired man, Lavi, just shrugged. He turned around and asked Shina what she wanted. Shina replied with just onigiri and green tea.

 "I'll be back with you order, ojou-san*~" Lavi winked and jogged back to the kitchen to retrieve her food. Shina stared at the seemingly fifteen year old boy who was wiping the glasses for other customers. 

 The boy noticed Shina's stare and smiled to himself. "It's nice to meet you, Shina-sama. My name is Allen Walker." He turned to look at Shina with a soft smile on his face. Shina took a look at his appearance. Allen looked of average height with a lean, muscular physique. He has shoulder-length gray/white hair, silver/gray eyes, and his skin is somewhat pale. His eyebrows and eyelashes are the same color as his hair. Allen has an unusual scar on the left side of his face that starts as a pentagram on his forehead, trailing down in a line that severs his eyebrow and mars his eyelid, and hooks slightly at his cheekbone and follows his cheek down close to his chin. It also has an extra line of scar tissue that runs parallel to his lower eyelid.

 Shina narrowed her eyes at him, "You're not a normal person, are you." Shina rhetorically asked, already knowing the answer.

  "I'm not considered to be a normal person, also Lavi, the person who took your orders," Allen said, showing a cross mark in his left hand. "I'm not considered as Shinobi though. I'm part of the EU; Exorcism Unit."

  Shina blinked, "Exorcism Unit?" The male nodded. 

 "The Exorcism Unit are right hands of the Reapers. We exorcise people who have fallen to depravity or in other words, helping with the Gate when the Reaper isn't present." He explained, tracing his cross mark. "We are people chosen by Kami. He gave us a gift to aid you, this world's reaper." He smiled, "However, we're only human. We have no other power than letting souls free in the world right now. " Shina nodded, understanding the situation.