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~Itachi's POV~

She needs to be careful in these kind of situations.

"Shouldn't you have stopped her? I mean, the place is crowded with guys." Amalie told me once Anna had forced her way into the crowd of students, which could be very dangerous.

" Even if I did, she would do it anyways."

" But still-"

"T-the place i-is t-too crowded-d. We c-can t-take the lo-long way t-to cla-lass." Anna spoke appearing out of the crowd. She's stuttering. Something's wrong.

"Are you-" Amalie started but was cut off.

"C-come on. H-hurry up o-or we will-l be late-te." My eyes narrowed at the girl and now I was sure something was wrong. Not many things can spook her like that.

I watched Anna walk to the class with hands rubbing her arms probably trying to soothe herself and on close inspection, it looked like she was trembling. She didn't care if she was walking alone. She seemed like she just wanted to be away from here. When she was out of sight, both Amalie and Sasori faced me with a dead look.

" I suggest we check out what's going on." I said and both nodded in agreement and followed me in the crowd.

" Its only a fight. What was she so scared about?" Sasori commented. Glancing here and there, I spotted a familiar face, beaten up Dudesuke, but he couldn't be the reason to her odd behaviour.

"He got beat. That's odd." Amalie said and we all went to Dudesuke to get him some medical attention.

" Who did this to you?" Sasori asked as Amalie went to pick the beaten classmate.

"I.......don't know......" He replied and there was blood, all over his face.

I looked around the crowd for some sort of answer when it came on its own. "Hey! What do you think you're doing?!" Someone shouted and although I didn't know the person, he seemed awfully familiar. Copper eyes, dull blackish hair. Maybe he's....... Shit!

My suspicions became clear as two more boys stepped from behind that leader boy. So it was him.

"Amalie take him to the nurse, we will finish things here." I said to Amalie and she nodded making her way out of the crowd but was stoppeod.

" Oh girl. What are you just trying to do?" The boy said appearing in front of her. I could see how Sasori was reacting to this.

" Back off." She threatened.

" A brunette and smart-mouth. Just my type. I'm Jacob by the way." He took locks of her hair in his hand and played with them. Amalie had both her hands occupied with Dudesuke but her face said she wanted to kill this man right here right now. But before anything could happen, Sasori tapped Jacob's shoulder and when he turned his head to look at Sasori he punched Jacob across the face. That must have hurt.

" Hands off her." Sasori spoke in a deadly tone.

" I suppose she's taken." Jake said wiping the blood off his torn lips.

" You bet she is." Smooth move. Poor Amalie was red as a tomato.

" I guess I was a little late. Oh well, there are always others." Jake shrugged and stepped besides Sasori. " I will let you all go today, since I'm not in the mood."

" Like you can even lay a finger on any of us."

" There IS one I can." He smirked and I knew very well who he meant.

" I won't let you hurt her." I interrupted in a serious tone.

" As protective of little Anna as always, aren't you Weasel." He said and went to where he came from, the crowd dispersing with him.

" You knew him?" Sasori asked.

" Who was he?" Amalie asked.

" Anna's worst nightmare." Both their faces darkened but soon came to realization that we had a bloodied friend with me. " Let's hurry and get him medical attention." We took him to the nurse and she immediately started bandaging him.

" You could've just left me." Dudesuke said after a while.

" Anna would have pounded us if she knew we left someone who needed help." Amalie said smiling a little.

" Thanks. I guess, I owe you guys one."

" Hey, what are friends for."

" You all go to class. You'll get scolded because of me."

" Well you're right at that. Take care. Bye." We all waved bye to him since he would be taking rest of the day off and continued our path towards class.

~Annas POV~

I arrived home, slammed shut the front door and hurriedly went to my room, tossing my bag on the bed and shut the door with a thud. I couldn't control myself right now and due to this mistake, my brothers will eventually find out something's wrong.

Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? WHY?!?! Why!

I slid down the wall of the dresser and buried my head in my knees and stayed that way, until my phone started ringing.

Konan.

Pick it or not? It must be something related to today. If I do pick it, then she will ask so many questions. If I don't, I can start boycotting them all. Think. I will see what she wanna talk about.

" Hello?" I asked.

" Hey Anna."

" Yes."

" Are you alright? Your voice-"

" None of your business." I replied rudely and cancelled the call and took out the service sim card out of the phone and buried it deep within my useless belongings.

No calls. No texts. No communication. Just their safety. I am willing to live alone if it means my friends' safety. I'm not letting anyone die again.

~Timothy's POV~

"Hey Max, have you seen Anna?" I asked my baby brother when I stepped into the living room.

"She arrived from school. Seemed angry. If I were you, I wouldn't bother her right now." Max replied with a bored tone, eyes fixated on his video game.

" Angry? I wonder what happened."

" Ask Itachi-nii. He seem to know everything about sis."

"I will ask her first, if there's no response, I'm gonna ask Itachi."

"K." I sighed and marched to my sister's room and knocked on the door.

" Anna." I called but there was no response. I knocked again. " I need to talk to you. Open the door." What the hell is wrong now. I called on her phone to see if she was even awake but it was saying 'powered off'.

"Did she respond?" Max asked when I came and sat on the couch.

" No."

" Call Itachi-nii."

" Why not just go to him?"

" He's not at home at this hour."

" How do you know that?" Max just grinned and I let it go since I was concerned about Anna too much. But Max is probably right. I should call Itachi first.

I went back in my room and dialed Itachi's number and waited for him to pick up. Thank goodness he did.

" Hello?"

" Hey, Itachi. Its Timothy."

~Annas POV~

What's wrong with Timothy today?

" At least tell me what's wrong?" He pounded on the door for 100th time!

I sighed and stood up from my crouched position in which I had been for past six hours and went to open the door.

" Stop the pounding. Its hurting my head." I replied opening the door and immediately getting engulfed in a hug by my brother.

" I know what happened." I didn't say anything to this. What was there to say? " Did you eat anything?" I shook my head slightly and he sighed. " Come on." I followed him to the kitchen and sat down thinking of ways I can detach myself from my family. Timothy was cooking.

" Don't even think about running away for our safety."

" I wasn't thinking that."

" Oh ya? Then what?"

" N-nothing that should concern you." He sweat dropped. I sighed and chewed on my bottom lip.

" Why is your phone powered off?" Tim asked as he placed a big bowl of ramen in front of me.

" Do I really need to tell you? You're smart enough, figure it out yourself." I said eating the ramen.

" You complemented me?"

" It was an insult."

" Hmm? How?"

" That you don't know how to use your brains." He laughed heartedly which made me feel a little better but not the best.

" Well at least I have brains. Eric doesn't have them. Max don't need them-"

" I HEARD THAT!" Max yelled from the living room.

" And you-"

" Ya?"

" You didn't have them too but Manny and I experimented and fixed some brains in you."

" Are you implying that I'm Frankenstein?"

" Could be. I dunno."

" Manny had brains?"

" Ya he had."

" You said had."

" You did too."

" Your fault for not noticing."

" I noticed."

" Stop arguing. I know I'm right." Tim sighed and that's when the bell rang.

" MAX! Can you get that?!"

" K!"

" Whoever it is, deal with them. I'm going to sleep." I said and made my escape to my room.

I closed the door, went to the bathroom, changed in my sleeping clothes and closed the lights. I went to the window to pull the curtains but stopped when I saw Itachi in his room, studying.

My day was screwed because Jake appeared. I had planned to 'talk' to Itachi but that went right out of the window when I saw Jake's face. I planned so much today but everything had to get ruined. I sighed lightly blinking away tears that threatened to fall and laid on my bed, to sleep.

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