One

"You little bitch come here." His voice ran through the house. He found me in the cupboard. "Come here." He growled.

What have I done now? I asked myself as I closed my eyes waiting for the belt to hit me. But then the door opened. My brother came home. He lives on the other side of the city. He works and goes to Uni. He only comes back during the holidays.

"Hiroshi, please go to your room." Dad said. Kyoto didn't get beaten up. They love him. They are proud of him.

I pleaded for him to help me. But he just walked away. Why does my family hate me? I didn't have the guts ask my father what I did wrong.

Then I felt a hand slap me across the face. It stung so bad that tears came down my cheeks. Then another and another.

I couldn't take it any longer. "Please stop, it hurts!" I begged him. Tears came down faster.

But he didn't stop; he just kept on hitting me. The house carried my cries and pleads. I could hear music playing in Hiroshi's room.

After my dad finished using me as his punching bag he picked me by my hair and dragged me up the stairs and threw me in to my room.

I cried on my bed for a long time, wishing that someone would get me out of here. After an hour the music in my brother's room stopped. The garage door opened and a car came in. I groaned. Mum is home.

If someone gets my dad angry he doesn't take it out on the person, he doesn't use a punching bag. He uses me. If I accidently break something I get hit.

Mum isn't much better. Every time I do something wrong she yells at me. (Only when dad is at work.) Every time I get a B on my assignments she would say, "Is that all? A monkey can do better."

Mum would come up to my room and show me Hiroshi's work. He is good at everything.

But mum didn't come up this time. She went to find dad. I have a bad feeling. Usually those feelings a right… A minute later I heard my father's footsteps coming up the stairs.

Not again I thought. I grabbed my jacket, shoved a few things in to a bag then opened a window and jumped out.

Where will I go? I asked myself as I can towards the bus stop. I noticed a unfamiliar black van parked outside of the house.

It felt like I've walking for hours. I was hungry thirsty, tired and sore. I walked through the park. Not going in any direction. Then a man stood in front of me. "Looking for a good time?" The man asked. He was aroused and drunk.

I shook my head and tried to side step him but he was too fast. He grabbed my wrists and pushed me up against a tree. "No woman refuses me?" He sounded angry.

I was too weak to even struggle. He ripped my cloths so my breasts were bare. He looked greedily at them.

Man he must be really desperate to rape some stranger.

When he finished he zipped himself up and ran off. I sank to the ground. I was in real pain now. "Someone help me please." I screamed out. But no one came. I curled up in a ball and cried myself to sleep.

The next day I was still in pain. I couldn't even get up. I stayed there. Then I realized that my friends usually walk along here to go to school.

And just on time I could hear their laughter come my way. I tried to crawl behind the tree.

"Mai, Is that you?" Usagi asked as she spotted me. I froze and slowly turned around. I didn't want them to know.

"Mai what happened to you, are you alright?"

I shook my head. My throat was so dry I couldn't even speak. I tried to get up but I just collapsed.

"Hanzo, come over here." Usagi called over her boyfriend. Hanzo pulled away from his mates and walked over to us. He saw me and gasped. "Mai-san, are you alright?"

I shook my head. "Can you pick her up and take her to my house." Usagi said.

Hanzo gently picked me up and carried me to Usagi's house. When we got to the door Usagi opened the door and let me and Hanzo in then closed the door behind her.

Usagi's mother is a work at home doctor. "Wait here." Usagi said as she went in to her mother's office. I could hear their conversation.

"Usagi, what are you doing home?" Her mother asked.

"Mum, I was walking to school when I spotted Mai laying under the big tree. Her cloths were ripped and it looks like someone used her as a punching bag. Please mum you've got to help her?"

I squirmed, trying to get out of Hanzo arms, but he was too strong and I was still a little sore.

"Let me go, I'm better now let me go." I pleaded. "No you are getting checked over." Hanzo sounded like a concerned father. Well he does have a younger sister.

I didn't want him to know because he is Hiroshi's college mates. Usagi's mother came in to the room and gasped in shock when she spotted me. "Mai, sweetie, what happened?" I shook my head. I didn't want to tell her.

"Usagi, bring some cloths down so she can change." Usagi didn't need to be told twice, she bolted up the stairs.

"Put her down on the couch in my office, Hanzo."

I was gently placed on a soft comfy couch. The good doctor sat down next to me and examined me.

"Hanzo call her parents and let them know." Hanzo nodded and went over to the phone.

"NO!" I screamed. Usagi's mother turned in shock. "Why not? They must be worried."

I sighed. "No, they hate me."

"Why would you say that?"

I explained to them what my parents did to me. Hanzo swore under his breath and Usagi's mother frowned in anger. "You can stay here." She said and pulled me in to a hug. It was the first time I felt loved and cared for. It felt wonderful. I cried so hard.

Hiroshi's POV

I was at work doing some filing when my mobile went off. It was Hanzo. "Hey what's up?" I asked.

"It's your sister…" He explained and I bolted out of the door, nearly knocking my boss over. "Taniyama-san where are you going?" he called out

"My sister." Was all I said over my shoulder. Don't care about my job; I care about my little sister.

I know that I let her think that I didn't care but I did. Our father is a body builder. He could have me on the ground in three seconds flat if he wanted to.

I ran to my friend's girlfriend's house and knocked franticly. Usagi opened the door.

"Hiroshi-san, she's in my mum's office."

I followed her in to the office and saw Mai curled up on the couch her eyes were red from crying.

I slowly walked up to her. "Mai." She looked up and her eyes widened and she moved further away from me. I sat down and burst in to tears.

"I'm so sorry Mai; I Wish I stopped him from beating you. I was a coward. I should've gotten you out that house. Please forgive me." I cried with my face in my hands.

Then I felt someone hugging me from behind. "You are not a coward. They just liked you better. Everyone is afraid of dad." Mai whispered in my ear.

I smiled then I turned to the doctor and said, "I'm going to take to my apartment. She can stay there."

Usagi's mother nodded. "Call me anytime."

I nodded.

"Wait, what about her cloths?" Usagi asked. "Mum and Dad are going out tonight so I'll sneak in and grab a few things. Mai, make a list of the things you need and want."

Mai nodded. She scribbled a few things down on a piece of paper then handed it to me.

"What about school?" Hanzo asked.

"I'll call them and tell them that Mai won't be going for a while so she can heal. You ready Mai?"

Mai nodded and leaned on me for support. As we walked to the front door Mai thanked Usagi, Hanzo and Usagi's mother and apologized for the trouble. But they just hugged her gently and said, "That's what friends are for."

I opened the passenger side door and gently eased her in to the car. Then I got in to the driver's side and drove off.

At my apartment I let her go in first she looked around. "Do you like it?" I asked putting her back pack on a chair.

She nodded her head. "Come this way and I'll so you where you can sleep."

I led her down the hall and in to the last room of the hall way. "This is your new room. Oh crap I've got to go back to work with you be okay here on your own?"

Mai smiled and nodded. I returned the smile and gently hugged her then I raced out of the door. Happy that my sister is save.

That was a long chapter. 4 pages long.

Oh and I used the names Usagi and Hanzo from 'Tail of the moon' I don't know why, I just did.

Anyway I hoped you liked this chapter.