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Manami grabs her by the hair once they disappear behind the doors of the Okiya. It is empty, for once, and Sakura instinctively knows that this is the day off that they all have, that no one will come for her if she screams or pleads or bellows.
Sakura yelps, as Manami yanks her hair again, the first sound she's made in thirty minutes, immediately gripping the woman's wrist to try and stop the pain.
Manami just pulls tighter, yanking her head up so Sakura can look up into her blue eyes.
"I know you think you're tough, little girl. I know you think you can take me. And yes," Manami smiled, a little crazily, "You probably could. But…can you take them?"
Sakura's mouth is dry as she notices the one-eyed, sharp-tongued man she's come to know as the leader of the-men-from-next-door.
He smiles at her.
It terrifies her.
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