"You're a disgusting ugly bitch and I can't stand you!" A vase flew across the room, crashing into the wall and just barely missing the pink-haired whore.

"I-I didn't mean to! I didn't realize where the money was coming from!" Sakura cried.

"Look around us! Just look at this room! I provide, and provide, and provide for you, and all you ever do is slut around and be a loose cannon!"

"B-but Sai, I-"

"Shut the hell up!" He smacked her across the face like an angry fat man swatting a pesky fly. "Go to your corner and think about what you've done!"

Through choking sobs and desperate sniffs, she uttered a broken "W-which c-corner?" as she wiped the tears from her swollen eye.

"The one with the bucket."

The bucket corner. She hated that corner. She had to strip down to nothing but her socks and sit on top of a rusty bucket-a bucket that contained her urinary and digestive waste. It smelled awful and the metal rim dug into her skin, and most of all, she had to look at that fat muffin top that always formed when she sat, and she hated that flab of fat. Sai hated it even more. She cried at the thought.

She also cried from what happened. How was she to know? That the man offering her money on the street wanted her body. She honestly thought he was paying her for helping him walk home. 'But he was so healthy looking... I should've questioned it. He wasn't old, so I should've questioned it-why would a healthy man like him need help walking home? Not to mention, of course his house wouldn't be a love hotel... I'm dumb,' she thought, hot tears trolling down her face. 'I'm dumb, and I'm a dirty whore...' She broke into tears, crying herself to sleep, the tears making plip plop sounds as they splashed into the bucket, with an occasional thud from teardrops that fell on her excrement.

Sakuwa-chan: I hope you liked it! Not a usual pairing I write about, but one I love! Even looking past Sai's abusive behavior in the anime, I love how the two do in fact care deeply for each other and look out for each other. It's beautiful the way Kishi portrays Sakura as being this hopeless (but highly attractive) girl at the mercy of angry but emotionless Sai's wrath. I hope I was able to encapsulate their relationship together, and put a little bit of a romantic twist on it!