Warning: Chapter begins with a rape scene. Read at your own risk.
Sakura nearly passed out from the lack of oxygen she was receiving. Zabuza took the pillow from her face and allowed her to breathe. Sakura gasped loudly and started to cough as she retrieved oxygen.
They were on her bed. Zabuza was on top of her. She was completely naked. His pants were undone with his harden member sticking out.
"Say it." He demanded.
"I-I can't…" Her voice was trembling with fear.
Zabuza took out his knife and drew the blade toward her area. The tears poured down the corners of her emerald eyes.
"Please! Don't hurt me!" She cried out.
"Say it then bitch."
"I'm begging you…" Sakura nearly choked on her spit.
"Say it or I'll shove the blade right up your pussy!" The man yelled.
"I want you!" Sakura yelled.
"You want me to what?"
"I want you to fuck me." She let out. The tears wouldn't stop falling from her eyes.
Filled with satisfaction, Zabuza put up the knife. "That's what I wanted to hear." He placed his hands on both of her hips. "Now be a good girl." He forced his member inside of her. Sakura bit her tongue trying not to scream. She would be punished if she did.
Zabuza grabbed a handful of her long pink hair and pulled it hard. He brought his face down to her neck and bit into her skin until she bled. The crimson red liquid dripped down onto her shoulder. Moments later that seemed like forever Zabuza finally came to his breaking point and released his warm liquid unto the girl's stomach. After her caught his breath whispered into Sakura's ear.
"You're worth spending my money on."
Zabuza straighten himself out and left out of her room. He got what he wanted and no longer needed to be there.
Sakura stood up from her bed. Her legs were wobbly. Pain shot throughout her lower body. She tried her best to walk to her bathroom but fell at the doorway.
"Mimi! Mimi!" The child yelled as she ran toward her mother. Riri pushed all the hair from her mother's face and slapped her on the cheek. "Up! Mimi up!"
"Go back under the bed Riri." Sakura grunted. "I'm fine."
"Up! Up! Up!" The child yelled. She slapped her mother's face again.
"No Riri." Sakura said. Her emerald eyes were shut.
"Sleepy?" The child asked.
"Yeah…"
"Monster hurt Mimi."
"I'm ok sweetie…" Sakura could feel herself get weaker and weaker.
"Riri hide under bed!"
"You did a good job Riri."
"Mimi sleepy!"
Sakura could hear her daughter's tiny footsteps walking away from her. Sakura tried to open her eyes but she was too tired. She felt a blanket cover her naked body. She also felt a tiny pair of lips on her cheek.
"Night-Night Mimi."
Those were the last words Sakura heard for the night.
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"Did he use protection this time?" Hinata asked.
Sakura shook her head no.
Hinata covered her mouth with her hands.
The two teens were sitting at lunch. Both their plates were untouched.
"Why is she doing this to you?"
"Because she's nothing but garbage."
"Did you go to the health unit?" Hinata asked.
"Why do I need to go there?" Sakura picked up her face and looked at her Hyuga friend.
"Sakura, it's just in case he had something."
"I'll be fine. Riri's health is more important than mine."
Hinata brought her face closer to the Sakura's. "What if he had… you know… HIV or something?" She whispered.
Sakura's green eyes grew wide.
"You can die from that if not treated. Then who will take care of Riri?"
The pink haired girl started to bite her fingernails.
"I understand you are saving money to leave and for your child, but it won't hurt to care for yourself."
Sakura whipped the single tear that fell from her face with the sleeve of her gray hoodie. "Ok. I'll go to the doctor." She said.
"I'll pay half of the bill." Hinata said.
Sakura shook her head. "I got it."
"But I insist." The Hyuga said smiling.
The pink haired girl found herself smiling as well. "You are the best friend anyone could ask for."
"What are friends for?"
Before Sakura could say anything she was interrupted by a loud voice. Both girl's looked up and saw Tayuya and Suigetsu blocking Sasuke and Naruto's path.
'Oh boy... Another conflict.'
Sakura and Hinata silently watched as the four teens went on with their episode. When it was over Sakura stood up with her tray in hand. "I think I'll just go to class a little earlier today." Sakura said.
Hinata stood up with her tray as well. "I think I'll do the same."
Both girls dumped their trays in the large trash can then exited the cafeteria, on their way to their next class.
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A few days went by. The job at the Torei's was tiresome but it was worth it. The dancers didn't get to keep all of the money they made that night. Once their shift was over with they had to cut out 30% of the cash. 15% for the club owner and the other 15% was split in between the bartenders, security guards, babysitters and DJ's. Most of her money was taken away from her mother. She would hide a few bucks inside her mattress, knowing that her mother never stepped foot in her room. The nights Sakura wasn't working she was dealing with cruel treatment from her mother most of the time. Zabuza made his stops unsurprisingly. He would just pop up whenever he felt like it. Saki got paid, Sakura was raped and Riri hid away.
Tonight was another night Sakura was off from work. She was in the kitchen fixing dinner. Riri was sitting in the corner stacking the can goods on top of one another. Saki was sitting in the living room watching tv while smoking a cigarette. When the pink haired girl finished cooking she fixed a plate for her mother and brought it to her.
"Well it's about time. I'm starving here." Saki said taking the plate from her daughter. She sat the Styrofoam plate in her lap. "Where's my drink?"
"I forgot it." Sakura answered.
"Now I could be eating my food and start choking and die because you were too stupid to fix me a drink. How dumb can your ass get?" The woman snapped.
"I'm sorry."
"That thing in there is the retarded one but you make her seem like a fucking genius. Go get my drink." Saki spat waving her hand for Sakura to get moving.
Sakura bit her tongue to not say anything. She quickly walked back to the kitchen and fixed her a glass of ice water. Before Sakura brought the glass back to her mother she looked over at her silent child. She was now lining up the same can goods she was playing with as she was cooking. Sakura looked at the ice flowing inside of the glass she held. She curled up her lips and spat out a wad of spit into the glass. She mixed it with her finger and brought it to her mother.
"Here you go." Sakura said with a straight face.
Saki snatched the glass and took a large sip from the glass.
Sakura walked back toward the kitchen with a smile across her face. She fixed Riri and herself a plate of food. They had to sit on the dirty floor and eat. Saki forbid that they sit at her kitchen table. She said they were lucky enough to eat with dishes. Riri pushed her cans to the side as she saw her mother with her plate of food.
"Hungry." She said.
"I know sweetie. Mimi sorry for taking so long." Sakura handed her a spoon. Her tiny fingers grabbed a hold of the spoon. She scooped up some of her rice and stuck it in her mouth. The child chewed the food and then swallowed.
"Yum yum."
Sakura started to eat as well. She felt as if she hasn't eaten in days.
Once they were all done eating, Sakura cleaned the entire kitchen then upstairs with her daughter. She fixed them some warm bath water. Sakura slightly fought with Riri who didn't want to wash her hair. After a few minutes Riri gave up and let Sakura wash it.
"You must like dirty hair." Sakura said letting out a sigh.
"Riri wanna wash Mimi hair too!" Riri yelled.
"Sure. Just let Mimi finish your hair."
When Sakura finished rinsing her hair she applied the shampoo for her daughter and then let her scrub her hair. Sakura's scalp felt as if it was on fire as Riri rubbed the soap into her hair. It must have been from the last time Zabuza was there. He nearly ripped locks of her long pink hair out. She shivered from the thought of him on top of her. His hands touching her skin. His blade against her skin.
Sakura shook off the thoughts. She noticed she didn't feel the tiny fingers in her hair. Sakura turned around and looked at her in confusion. Riri took the suds of the shampoo and made a beard on her face. She picked up her little arms and let out a roar. Sakura laughed. The pink haired girl then rubbed her child's wet hair with a warm smile.
"I wouldn't make it without you Riri."
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Sakura was aggravated. This was the week to present your project to class and neither she nor Sasuke even had started a discussion about it. She had a few notes jotted down in her notebook but she still needed his part of the work. The pink head girl sat in the library with a few books and papers surrounding her. She hoped that he found the note in his locker that she left. She looked over at the clock on the wall.
4:25
The note said to meet up there at 4 O'clock. Sakura let out a sigh.
'I guess I'll do all the work.'
Sakura only spent a few minutes jotting down notes until she was interrupted from the sound of a bag hitting the wooden table. Her head popped up quickly and saw who it was. Her emerald eyes were wide with surprise.
Sasuke Uchiha.
"You're lucky because I would have just ignored your stupid note." Sasuke said as he took a seat across from her.
The pink haired girl shot him a look. "Just be grateful that I left you that note. I wouldn't care out you passing if I wasn't stuck in a group with you."
"Whatever." The raven haired boy snatched away the paper she was writing on.
"That was rude."
"Get over it."
"Just like I'm supposed to get over you whacking me with the metal door?" Sakura spat out.
Sasuke put the paper down and looked at her. "So that was you."
Sakura grit her teeth. "It would be nice if I at least got an apology."
"I don't apologize."
Sakura brushed off her anger and took back her notes. She went back to writing down notes. Sasuke reached over for the other papers scattered on the table.
"You know a lot about abortions."
"I did my research." Sakura stated.
The pink head girl stopped writing for a moment. She thought back on that day when she found out she was pregnant. Rin was going to take her to get an abortion a few days later until her mother found out. Sakura got the complete opposite reaction any mother would have. Her step-father raped her and the blame was pointed at her.
Sakura snapped out of her thoughts when she suddenly felt a hand brush against her face. His hand was smooth and warm as it touched her skin. It felt just like his.
Just like his.
Like his.
His.
Rin's.
Sakura immediately jumped out of her chair. She stood in surprise from his sudden touch. Her eyes were wide and her body was fidgety. She opened to her mouth to say something but nothing came out.
Sasuke looked at her like she was crazy. "The hell is wrong with you?" He blurted out.
"Why did you touch me? You have no right to touch me." Sakura said. Her head suddenly started to hurt.
"I was wiping the tears off your face since you want to cry out of the blue." The raven haired boy said.
"What?" Sakura touched her face. Indeed, she was crying and didn't even notice. The tears were down her cheeks to her chin. She quickly wiped them away.
"Is there a problem?" The librarian asked as she walked near the two teens.
Sakura opened her mouth but Sasuke spoke before her.
"No ma'am. She's just really stressed out this class project we have to do. We started at the last minute."
The woman stared at Sasuke then looked over at Sakura. "Did this young man do anything to you?" She asked.
Without hesitation Sakura went along with the lie. "No. Like he said I'm just stressed. This project is half of our grade."
"Next time, keep it down or I will have to escort you two out next time."
"We're very sorry for disturbing you." Sasuke stated.
"Just keep your voices down." The librarian said. She took another glance at the two teens then walked back to her desk.
Before Sasuke could say anything to Sakura she quickly grabbed her bag and walked out of the library. She heard Sasuke say something but she ignored it. She started to run down the street and ran until she got tired. She didn't know she was crying but why did he touch her? Sasuke came off as an asshole. He talked to anyone the way he wanted to and didn't care how they felt. Not to mention the incident that happened at school with his girlfriend. But he wiped away her tears when she was crying. For what? Self-pity?
Sakura didn't like any guy touching her at all. But Sasuke's hands felt like his. Smooth and warm.
Sakura leaned against a nearby pole and tried to catch her breath. Once she was at stable breathing she looked at her watch.
5:10
She still had time to pick up Riri.
Sakura started to walk the way to the daycare. As she walked down the sidewalks she stopped at a crossing light.
The Don't Walk the sign said.
Sakura stood at the light impatiently.
'Come on.'
Sakura heard a car pull up on the street next to her. She took a glance at the car with the corner of her eyes. Candy Red Mustang. Sakura focused her view on the cross light. It finally said Walk. Sakura began to walk but was stopped from a loud honk.
The pink haired girl turned toward the Mustang. She couldn't clearly see who it was that was inside the car due to the tinted windows. Sakura watched as the passenger side window rolled down.
"Did you follow me?!" She yelled out.
"Why would I follow a girl like you? I just happened to run into you." The raven haired boy said.
"I really need to go." Sakura started to feel uneasy.
"Get in."
Sakura shot him a look. "What do you mean get in?"
"Meaning I'm offering you a ride which is something I don't do at all idiot." Sasuke said raising his voice some.
"I am not an idiot!" She yelled.
Both teens were disturbed by the honking of a few cars behind Sasuke's.
"MOVE IT!" One driver yelled.
"Fuck off!" Sasuke yelled. "Look just get in the car. I'll take you straight home."
Sakura still had that uneasy feeling. She took a quick look at her watch. She needed to get to the daycare now. She didn't need anyone that worked there to suspect anything. The pink haired girl quickly walked over to the other side of the car and got in.
"About time." Sasuke said. The same car behind him beeped his horn again. Sasuke rolled down his window and flipped off the man before he drove off.
Sakura sat down in the leather padded seat uncomfortably. She held her bag in her lap and had both hands gripped tightly to it.
"I'm not a mind reading you know. I need directions to your house." Sasuke said.
"Huh?"
"Directions. The way to your house you idiot."
Sakura frowned. "I am not an idiot you ass!"
"Just remember I didn't have to offer you a ride."
"I need you to pick up someone before we head to my house." Sakura said.
Sasuke pulled up at a stop light. "Look, just because I offered you-"
"I have to pick up my sister from daycare." Sakura said cutting him off. Not only was she uncomfortable and aggravated but she was now pissed at herself for letting 'sister' instead of 'daughter' come out her mouth.
'He doesn't need to know things about me anyway.' She thought.
Sasuke let out a heavy sigh. "Which daycare?"
"The Children's Place."
They drove to the daycare in silence. Neither of them said a word. Sakura figured that the raven haired boy got tired of the silence since he plugged in his phone to the radio. As he drove he carefully looked back and forth between the rode and his phone to choice a song.
Sakura heard a guitar playing for the intro of the song then it combined in with the instrumental.
'This doesn't even seem like his type of music...' The pink haired girl thought. She listened to the lyrics of the song.
I cannot meet you again, be by your side
I stay with you
Only even when the pain feels
I held to the unfulfilled desire
I stay with you
Only even I was crushed and scattered splendidly
Sakura snapped away from the music when she felt the car stop. She looked out the window and noticed that they were outside the daycare.
"I'll be right back." Sakura said as she quickly got out the car and ran inside the daycare.
Kurenai was in the room watching over the kids play. Sakura signed her name on the clipboard as always. You had to sign in and sign out. Sakura let Kurenai know she was picking up Riri and left in a hurry with her child in hands.
Riri had her tiny arms wrapped around Sakura's neck. When Sakura entered the car and tried to put Riri in the back seat she refused to let go of her mother.
"Riri now is not the time." Sakura said pulling her daughter off of her clothes. She buckled the young child in a seat belt. Riri just flashed Sakura her big emerald orbs.
Sasuke drove off as soon as Sakura sat down in her seat. Once again they drove in complete silence listening to music. The only time they spoke was for when Sakura directed him to her house. When they arrived at Sakura's house she immediately removed herself and her daughter from the car.
"Thanks." She quickly said before shutting his car door. As soon as that car door closed Sasuke drove off.
Sakura looked at her watch.
5:55
The young mother took a deep breath before walking inside her house. She already knew what she was facing when she entered that home.
Hell.
Song mentioned in the chapter: Tears by Itou Kanako
The song is in Japanese btw. I translated the lyrics. Enjoy.
I'm heading to bed. It's 3AM
Sweet dreams.