What a Woman Deserves

"Shouldn't you be at work?" A slurred voice inquired mockingly, jabbing the sleeping Sakura in the neck, "Or do you think you can just spend the whole day sleeping?"

Sakura winced at his touch. Why did he like to see her hurt so much? Why did he like to cause her pain? What was it she had done to deserve this kind of treatment? She was tired of it all, so tired.

She stood up angrily her fists clenched until her knuckles turned white and pressed firmly on the dark wood of the table she had fallen asleep at. "Sasuke, why don't you be a man?" She said through clenched teeth.

"Bitch!" He said grabbing her roughly on the arm and jerking her around to face him. Sakura's eyes filled with fear, "I'm more of a man than you deserve!"

"Sa-Sasuke, don't you care about your child?" The reference to the life growing inside her only made him angrier. He raised his hand to her, striking the side of her face. The force caused her to spit out blood, and she could feel her face start to swell.

His uncaring hands threw her to the side, and she was barely able to catch herself on the table. Sasuke went to the fridge and pulled another beer out of the fridge before slamming the door. She slowly lowered herself to the floor holding her breath so as not to cry in front of him.

Luckily she didn't have to wait very long. He immediately went to their bedroom and slammed the door shut. Sakura crawled outside to the courtyard. She hugged her knees under the large oak tree and rocked herself as she started to cry. "I-I c-can't do this anymore!" She silently cried out to the gods, pleading them to tell her what she had done to deserve this kind of treatment. Surely there had to be something.


Haruno-Uchiha Sakura was a very skilled medic-nin. She was a hard worker and was quickly going up in the ranks at the clinic. Yet, as of late everything took a dive. She was constantly late, and couldn't focus on her work, which was dangerous, the job of a medic-nin could never be taken lightly.

The head team of Special Medic Team 9 couldn't understand it. Something wasn't right, and today was the final straw. She, Maito Emi, would get to the bottom of it if it was the last thing she did. She couldn't have one of her medics causing any harm, especially one as talented as Sakura.

Emi's gut instincts told her to be on her guard, there was no telling what would happen with an Uchiha involved. She opened the gate of the Uchiha household and stepped inside. Her eyes fell on Sakura who was rocking herself like a child crying. She ran to her younger subordinate there was something definitely not right.

When Sakura looked up Emi saw the fear, the dried blood, the black eye. She understood all too clearly. Sakura was being abused. That pathetic, no good, down right lousy guy. She had seen this thing before at the clinic, but there wasn't much she could do in those cases. This time was different. No one hit her medics and got away with it. No one!

"You're trespassing, woman." She heard a voice from the porch. "Leave! This doesn't concern you!"

Maito Emi stood up to her full height, which wasn't very tall. She wasn't much taller than a child, but she was a Maito, she wasn't about to be afraid of some no good husband. "Bull shit it isn't, you drunken coward!" She said eyeing the half empty beer in his hand.

He smirked cockily as he stepped off the porch, "Big words from such a small woman. Do you have the abilities to back them up?" He threw his beer to the side, and it shattered into hundreds of smaller pieces.

"Emi-sempai…" Sakura grabbed her wrist, "Don't."

"In the words of my dear brother, 'A nice guy's gotta do what a nice guy's gotta do.'" She said smiling at her medic, "I won't hurt him much, Sakura-chan." She pulled away from Sakura and placed herself into a defensive fighting stance.

The odds were in her favor today. Any other day she would not have tried to go up against Uchiha Sasuke alone, but today he was drunk, he had been up all night, and it was obvious to her that there was no way he was in any condition to fight. Drunken Taijutsu took a very special kind of person, and it was clear that Sasuke was not.

He lunged at her practically blindly and left himself completely open to her attack. She would end this scuffle in one move.

"Black Lotus Punch!" She cried out as she dodged to the left and punched him in the face as he went by her. The force of the blow left him instantly unconscious, and he landed on a heap in front of Sakura's feet.

"Sa-Sa-Sasuke!" Sakura's eyes went wide, "Emi-chan… Is he dead?!"

"No, Sakura, I didn't kill him. He's not worth killing. I want to see to it that he is punished."

"No, please, I'm the one to blame, it's my fault, I deserve to be treated this way."

How could she be saying that? She deserved to have a husband who cheated on her and beat her around? "Sakura, in all the years I have known you, in all the years you have been employed under me in the clinic, you have been faithful and loyal to him in all aspects. Women were created to be loved and cherished by men, not to be used by them." She placed her hands on Sakura's shoulders. "Sakura, I'm going to ask you to do something very brave. I'm going to ask you to leave Sasuke, if you don't do it for yourself, I want you to do it for your child."

Sakura looked up at the older woman. She was right she had to leave, she had to do it for her child.


All right, that's the end of chapter two, I hope you all enjoyed it!