Chapter 8

A few weeks later, Neji was putting his bike in the garage, just having returned from one of his photo shoots. It was late, already eleven in the evening, and he had to say he really wanted to go to bed now. He had just parked his bike and turned around to walk out of the garage, when he suddenly noticed someone was standing in the door opening. And his heart skipped a beat when he realized it was Mizuki standing there.

"…What are you doing here?" He asked.

"Well I said I would come back." Mizuki said smirking. "So here I am. We can pick up from where we left."

"Go away Mizuki." Neji said. "I said no, I don't want this."

He was looking for a way to escape, but the only thing he could try was knock Mizuki over and make a run for it. But that was probably as useless as trying to break a stone wall.

Mizuki suddenly grabbed Neji by the arm and pulled him close.

"Last time, I think I was about to undress you. Do you want me to do that here or inside?" Mizuki said smirking.

"Stop it, I'm serious." Neji snapped. He then pulled his arm loose and hit Mizuki in the face, and tried to get past him. He just had to try to run back to the house.

Mizuki now grabbed Neji and pushed him behind some bushes that were in the front yard. He immediately pulled off Neji's shirt.

Neji felt his heart beating in his throat now, as he tried to push the huge man off of him.

"Leave me alone!" He then yelled, looking at Mizuki furious. As he felt Mizuki's hands fidgeting with his pants, he started hitting the other on his chest. "Stop it!"

But Mizuki didn't stop. He managed to open Neji's pants and grabbed Neji's cock painfully.

"You'd better not try anything or you'll ruin any chance of ever getting a child." He said to Neji.

Neji gasped in pain now, and then looked away, biting his lip. He knew that if Mizuki would penetrate him it would be even less painful then what he could do to his organ. So he decided to wait for the other to let go. It was a wonder he could still think this clear.

"..Just don't do this to me Mizuki." He then said.

"And why shouldn't I? You have a gorgeous body, so I would like to fuck it. So I will." Mizuki said, squeezing Neji's cock again and then pulling Neji's pants down.

Neji gasped once more, closing his eyes. He opened them as he heard a bike coming closer. He quickly called for help when he saw Mizuki's hands going towards his mouth.

"Someone help!" He yelled. "He-!" He made sure he screamed into the hand that was now covering his mouth. He hoped that someone would find them, and he hoped even more that it would be a cop. Or a group of people. One single person probably couldn't take Mizuki on.

Mizuki was silent for a while, but when he thought the person had just biked off, he hit Neji and turned him around, making Neji sit on hands and knees. But when he wanted to pull his own pants down, he was suddenly hit in the head and then pushed away from Neji.

Neji quickly jumped up while pulling his pants up, and then saw it was Sasuke who had come to help. Without thinking he grabbed Sasuke's hand and started running. But within only a few seconds, Sasuke was being yanked away from him, and when Neji turned around, he saw Mizuki hitting Sasuke in the middle of the face.

"Don't hurt him!" Neji yelled, while Mizuki was cursing against Sasuke. He ran back to the two of them and pulled Mizuki away, only to receive another hit in the face. He then came to the horrible conclusion Mizuki wouldn't let them leave. As Mizuki was hitting Sasuke, Neji quickly dialled the number of the police. This was going too far.

Sasuke tried to block Mizuki's hits, but it wasn't working. When he tried hitting back, he received a fist right on his nose and he could swear he heard it break. As Sasuke was stumbling he looked at Mizuki.

"How dare you try to rape Neji!" He yelled.

"How dare you interrupt?" Mizuki yelled back, hitting Sasuke in the face once more, and then in the stomach. While Sasuke grabbed to his stomach, Mizuki suddenly stood behind him and grabbed his arm painfully. "One last warning idiot, go inside and let me have my fun with Neji, or I'll break your arm once more!" Neji was now quickly finishing his call with the police officer. Just when he hung up the phone and wanted to run back to Mizuki and Sasuke, the horrible sound of breaking bones was being heard.

Sasuke had trouble not to let some tears of pain run down his face and tried his hardest not to scream. Having gone through a broken arm before didn't seem to make it any less painful. But it did take away the pain from his almost certainly broken nose. Sasuke turned around and with his normal hand, hit Mizuki in the face, then grabbed to his broken arm. Fuck it hurt.

"Mizuki stop it!" Neji yelled, as he ran towards Sasuke and Mizuki, just at the moment that Mizuki hit Sasuke on the head hard and Sasuke fell down onto the ground, probably unconscious. Neji's eyes were filled with worry as quickly sat down onto the ground next to Sasuke and checked up on him, worry overwhelming him for real as he saw how badly Sasuke was bleeding.

"I told you this would happen if I saw that fucker again!" Mizuki yelled, pulling Neji away from Sasuke to finish the job so he could go back to Neji again.

"Stop it Mizuki, he's already unconscious!" Neji yelled as he just tossed himself in front of Sasuke and held him close to his body, protecting him.

Mizuki now just hit Neji instead and hard too. And then once more. He was furious, his face red from anger.

Neji let out a groan and moved his hands in front of his face.

"M-Mizuki stop!" He yelled. It was like the other was going crazy. He quickly crawled back and got up, stumbling a little.

Mizuki now put a foot on Sasuke's head and glared at Neji.

"Now if you don't want me to break his skull you get back here and undress!" Mizuki yelled.

Neji looked at Mizuki for some seconds, and then walked back to him. He hated the fact that no one could see them behind these high bushes and that everyone safely stayed inside of their own houses. He bit his lip as he saw Mizuki leaning down onto Sasuke's head, so he quickly pulled down his pants, moving his eyes from Sasuke's not moving form, to Mizuki.

"Good. Now get your ass here and bend over." Mizuki hissed.

Neji bit his lip as he walked over to Mizuki, who was standing close to the wall of the garage, and he bent over, leaning his arms against the wall.

Mizuki pulled down his pants, even leaning a bit of his weight on Sasuke's. He grabbed Neji's hips and right before he wanted to push in, yelling was heard and Mizuki was once again pulled away.

Neji sighed in relief as he quickly stood straight and pulled up his pants. The police had come just in time. At least four police men were needed to put handcuffs around Mizuki's wrists. Sasuke was being put on a bran card: luckily the ambulance had come as well.

A police officer came to Neji and made him walk to their car. He then started asking questions and asked Neji to come with him to the police station.

As Neji stepped in one of the police cars, he put his head into his arms. How did he ever let it come so far?

Sasuke let out a moan as he woke up and felt his head throb. It didn't take long before he felt his face and especially his nose hurting and also some parts of his body. Sasuke didn't really remember why he was feeling this way and when he opened his eyes and saw the white hospital room, he frowned slightly. Not much was coming back to him.

"Thank god.. you're awake." Someone said next to him, and when Sasuke looked up, he looked into Neji's guilty looking eyes. "..How are you feeling?" Neji asked.

Sasuke let out another soft moan and shook his head.

"What happened?" He asked, his voice hoarse.

"You caught Mizuki on me and he attacked you." Neji said, sighing.

"It's a wonder the police found you two so soon, else you could have been dead." Itachi, who was in the room together with Deidara, said.

Sasuke looked at Itachi for a while and then at his sheets. He vaguely remembered something like that, but he could only remember having seen Neji with his pants down and Mizuki standing there.

"I don't remember much.." Sasuke said and as he wanted to move his arm, felt it was in cast. Did Mizuki break that, or was he really so out of it that he had dreamed that his arm had healed already?

"...He broke your arm." Neji said, sighing.
Sasuke frowned a little but then stopped frowning immediately.

"And my nose.. right?" He asked, looking at Neji. He was feeling pretty crappy.

Neji nodded.

"Yeah.." He then said, sighing. "He beat you up until you were unconscious."

"..How are you?" Sasuke asked. If he remembered Neji with his pants down and Mizuki was around, then something bad had been going on.

"..He tried to rape me, but both you as the police came just in time." Neji said. "I'm fine." Itachi frowned a little to Neji now. He had heard something from the story, but this part Neji hadn't let out before.

"Good, I'm glad about that. How about those bruises?" Sasuke asked, seeing Neji's face was black and blue.

"They're just bruises." Neji said, shrugging. "Really, you should only be worried about yourself."

"I'm fine. A couple of broken bones won't kill me obviously." Sasuke said.

"Thank god they won't." Neji said.

"What's going on between the two of you, if I may ask?" Itachi asked, pulling up an eyebrow.

Sasuke looked at Itachi now. He hadn't exactly told Itachi about Neji. They had barely talked at all the past month or so.

"...Neji's my boyfriend." Sasuke said.

Itachi was silent for at least five minutes now, not really believing what he was hearing. What the hell.

"..I never thought you would ever start with a boyfriend." He then said.

"Neither did I. Neji just happened to come along." Sasuke said. "He was also the reason I didn't completely flip out that time you couldn't come because... you two broke up." Sasuke said, pointing to Deidara and Itachi. "..Obviously that break up is out of the picture now."

Itachi nodded.

"Yes, we made up again." He said. "I'm happy you found someone Sasuke."

"So am I." Sasuke said and gave Neji a quick smile. "Although I continue to break things for him."

Neji chuckled a little as he saw the look on Itachi's face.

"Sasuke storms into my room without knocking, not all my previous sex partners accepted that." He explained. "Especially after he started screaming at them to leave. And this time he actually saved me from a guy that has been threatening me for some time."

"That's so romantic un." Deidara said, a huge smile on his face.

"I promise I won't get into fights anymore." Sasuke said as Itachi gave him a stern look. He knew Itachi was worried out of his skull now.

"Good." Itachi said, nodding. He then chuckled a little. "So you still didn't learn how to knock hm."

"Nope. And it got me Neji. Besides, it was your idea to storm into his room and have sex with him." Sasuke said smirking.

Itachi gave Sasuke a smirk back.

"I know." He then said.

"That was you?" Neji asked Itachi, pulling an eyebrow up in amusement. Had Sasuke actually been planning things out with his brother?

"I called him because you were annoying." Sasuke said, giving Neji a playful smirk.

"Itachi has a strategy called 'just do it' un. That's how he got me." Deidara said and grinned.

"So how did the two of you get together?" Neji asked Deidara, smiling a little. Deidara actually looked like he wanted to tell.

"Itachi asked me out out of nowhere, I just knew him through some friends. And we dated like forever before he tried anything, but when he finally did, it was 'really' good un." Deidara said. "If Sasuke is anything like Itachi then you're lucky. Especially if he has the same skills in bed." He wriggled his eyebrows at Itachi now.

Itachi rolled his eyes a little and Neji actually had to laugh now, something he rarely did with others around him.

"I think it runs in the family then." He replied.

Sasuke grinned at Neji now.

"But I still have a question. When can I get out of the hospital?" He asked.

"I have no idea." Neji replied, frowning a little.

"I think I heard the doctors say that you could leave tomorrow, they want to check up some more things before you can leave the hospital." Itachi said.

".. But I have an important test tomorrow." Sasuke said. If he wouldn't pass that test his grades would drop dramatically.

"Just call the school and explain what happened, they will understand." Itachi said. "It's not like you'd be able to concentrate with your headache and pain in your nose."

Sasuke was silent. He'd rather do that test when everyone else would. He knew the tests his school gave to people who couldn't make them on the actual day, were really a lot harder.

"You'll fail when you try to make that test Sasuke." Neji now said.

"I'll fail if I don't do it." Sasuke corrected Neji. He looked at his boyfriend and then at his brother. He knew they were gonna talk him out of it anyway.

"Sasuke, you know your school will understand." Neji said.

"I also know I have to take an even harder test if I don't go tomorrow." Sasuke snapped now. He looked to his sheets.

"I think you can do that." Neji said, giving Sasuke a slight smile.

Sasuke looked at Neji and then sighed.

"Fine." He said. He then closed his eyes for a while. The light in the room was making his headache worse.

Neji leaned down and gave Sasuke a kiss onto his forehead.

"You should sleep." He then said.

Sasuke smiled a little at Neji now and then nodded.

"I think I will. You can all go home if you want." Sasuke said.

"I'll stay here." Neji said, as he held Sasuke's hand. Itachi meanwhile stood.

"I'm sorry, but we have to leave." Itachi said. "I'll visit you tomorrow again Sasuke. I need to go to my work again tomorrow and it's getting late." He gave Sasuke a wink and ruffled his hair.

Sasuke nodded at Itachi.

"It's fine. I'll see you tomorrow then." Sasuke said and then nodded at Deidara as well.

"Bye Sasuke un. Feel better soon." Deidara said.

"See you tomorrow." Itachi said, nodding to Sasuke, and they then left the room.

Sasuke looked at Neji, who was still holding his hand.

"Thanks for staying." He said.

Neji nodded to Sasuke.

"It's fine Sasuke." He then said, pinching into his hand a little.

"Don't be gone when I wake up." Sasuke said and then closed his eyes. He was asleep in less than five seconds. He needed that sleep.

Neji sighed a little as he looked at Sasuke and stroke through his hair. He closed his eyes as he felt the panic that had been in his chest for some time getting heavier. Instead of giving in to it, he pushed it away. He shook his head and let it lean onto his free hand. It would be best to ignore it for now.

Two weeks later, Sasuke walked into Neji's room (without knocking of course) to ask him something. He was silent for a while though, when he saw Neji laying on his bed, reading a book. He was wearing a thin kimono, his legs were bare and his hair was loose, hanging over his back and shoulders. He couldn't help but feel in love when he saw Neji like this. Sasuke laid down on the bed as well and pulled Neji closer a little.

Neji looked at Sasuke now.

"Hey." He then said. "What's wrong?" Mostly when Sasuke pulled him close like this, something was wrong with him. He was stressed, angry or sad, at least in need of someone else.

"Nothing. I just want you near. You look really good." Sasuke said and put Neji's book away.

Neji took a deep breath now as he looked at Sasuke for a second, before pulling his book back.

"Thanks." He then said, opening his book again.

"..Come on Neji, I wanna spend some time with you." Sasuke said, pulling away the book again and when he put it away he kissed Neji's neck. And then again. All the while he had an arm around Neji's waist.

Neji bit his lip as he felt panic bubble up inside of him. Shit.. To try it in a different way, he turned to Sasuke and kissed him on the lips, but did it as roughly as possible. He didn't feel like this soft and caring love making. At all.

Sasuke pulled back and grinned at Neji.

"I don't want to have sex, I want to spend time with you." He said and pushed Neji on his back then kissed his neck softly again.

"Sasuke I don't feel like this stuff." Neji said, as he shook his head, slightly pushing Sasuke away. He felt like he was being suffocated. And not a little.

Sasuke frowned now.

"Why not?" He asked. It wasn't like he always felt like it either, but they hadn't ever quite done something like this. Sasuke felt like they needed to go through that step.

"..Just don't do it." Neji said, as he sat up and pushed Sasuke fully off of him. He started breathing a little heavier. God.. this was going wrong..

"Why not Neji? We've been together for more than a month." Sasuke said, looking at Neji.

"I know." Neji said. He then was silent, staring ahead of him.

"So why don't you wanna do it?" Sasuke asked, feeling his heartbeat race. This could only be bad news.

"I'm just not fond of stuff like this." Neji said, shrugging.

"Yeah but.. I love you.." Sasuke mumbled, looking Neji in the eyes. The last time he ever said that was to Itachi... and that was a long time ago as well.

Neji's head snapped to Sasuke now, and suddenly he got off of the bed.

"Get out of my room." He then snapped, as he started to breath faster than before.

Sasuke frowned now as he looked at Neji. That was not quite the reaction he had expected.

"..What?" He asked.

"Just get out Sasuke!" Neji suddenly yelled, not looking angry anymore, but now panicked. When he saw Sasuke was not complying, he suddenly rushed towards his wardrobe and pulled his suitcase out, and started to throw things in it like mad.

Sasuke got up now and walked to Neji.

"What are you doing?" He asked, feeling panicked as well. Neji was acting so weird.

"Leaving." Neji shortly said, as he walked out of his room and into the bathroom, getting his toothbrush and shower products from there.

"Why? To where? Neji would you just talk to me?" Sasuke asked, following Neji.

"Sasuke no." Neji said. "Stop talking." He then hurried himself into his room again, looking more stressed every minute.

"Well where are you going? You live here, there is no other place you could go to." Sasuke said, following Neji once again. He would so not stop talking. Heck he just confessed that he loved Neji.

Neji turned around to Sasuke once he was in his room and put the last things into his suitcase.

"Sasuke stop it, just go away!" He suddenly yelled. "I don't want you to say shit like that to me! Just stop it!"

"Telling you that I love you is not shit Neji! Where the hell are you going!" Sasuke yelled back now.

"Shut up!" Neji yelled, as he shook his head heavily, grabbing to it in the process. "I'm going to America! And don't expect me back soon!"

"What! You're leaving! For how long?" Sasuke asked, trying to calm himself down. He looked at Neji confused now. And hurt. He was definitely hurt.

"Just get out Sasuke!" Neji yelled, as suddenly tears from frustration came into his eyes. "GET OUT!"

"No! I told you I love you and you leave!" Sasuke yelled back at Neji again. "If you're leaving then what about us!"

Neji let out a frustrated scream now, grabbing to his head once more and hiding his face from Sasuke. After he had panted for a few seconds, he suddenly walked to his wardrobe again and started to put on pants and a t-shirt, while wildly searching for some socks.

"I don't get it. Neji talk to me. What about us when you leave?" Sasuke asked. "You can't just leave like this."

"Shut up!" Neji just yelled, while putting on the socks he had just found, his shoes following. It was like he wasn't listening to what Sasuke was saying, or at least not thinking about it. Answering obviously was not an option.

"So what, are you breaking up now Neji? Is that what this is?" Sasuke asked. He didn't believe it himself, but he had to ask.

Neji put on his jacket now and then grabbed his suitcase, dragging it out of the room with him, together with the bag he always took with him.

Sasuke just kept following Neji.

"Ok... I just need a yes or no. When you leave here, are we still together?" Sasuke asked, worried about the answer. Neji was really acting weird.

Neji didn't reply once more as he just stormed out of the house and slammed the door shut behind him. He then made his way towards the bus stop, to take the first bus to the airport.

Sasuke just stood in the hallway, staring at the door. He figured he had gotten his answer. He admitted his love for Neji and he was dumped. And in a cruel way as well. Sasuke quickly went to his room, not wanting Kiba and Naruto to catch him with tears in his eyes. He dialled Itachi's number.

Within just a few seconds, Itachi answered his phone.

"Hey, is something wrong?" He asked.

"I need to come to your place for a few days.." Sasuke softly said. He was almost whispering, trying to hide the obvious hint of him being hurt in his voice.

"What happened?" Itachi asked, a tone of worry in his voice.

"Can I first come over?" Sasuke asked. "..If I talk now I... I just need to come over first."

"Ok that's fine." Itachi said. "Deidara is not home now anyway."

"I'll be there soon. Bye." Sasuke said and already hung up the phone. He packed some stuff, then left to Itachi's house.

A little later, Sasuke was standing in front of Itachi's door, his eyes red and swollen a little from all the crying he had already done. He was breathing heavily and ringing the doorbell over and over again. Sasuke was having another panic attack and he needed Itachi to open up 'now'.

A few seconds later Itachi opened the door and immediately pulled Sasuke inside, hugging him close to his chest, trying to calm him down, while shushing him. He knew that the calming down had to be done first before he could start talking with Sasuke.

Sasuke threw his two bags away violently and grabbed Itachi tightly as he started crying and breathing even more heavily. He was shaking and was almost ripping Itachi's shirt. He felt so angry because he was so upset.

Itachi just stroke through Sasuke's hair, continuing with the shushing noises. He had no idea what had upset Sasuke this much, but it was bad. Even worse than normal.

Sasuke kept crying until he suddenly pushed himself out of Itachi's grip.

"I n-need to punch something." He said, almost snapping. He threw a vase on the ground and then stormed into the living room. At moments like this he didn't care if it were his own stuff or other people's stuff he broke.

Itachi sighed as he followed Sasuke and grabbed his arm, taking him with him to the garage. He already had a punching bag hanging in there, one he had bought some weeks ago. He gave Sasuke a slight push towards it and urged him to go for it.

Sasuke didn't need any more then that as he just started hitting the punching bag like mad for at least ten minutes. His knuckles then hurt and his face was bright red. And then he started hitting weaker and weaker and started crying again, before he stopped and almost sank to his knees. Once the anger was gone, hurt would take over again.

Itachi quickly walked to Sasuke and then took him with him to the living room again, as he put him onto the couch. He stroke over Sasuke's back and then looked at him.

"What happened Sasuke?" He then asked, guessing Sasuke was ready to get it out of his chest now.

Sasuke put his head in his hands for a while and shook his head. He then just stared at the ground.

"Neji left.." He softly said.

"..Why?" Itachi asked, as he gave Sasuke a look of compassion. He knew exactly how it felt.

"..I don't know..." Sasuke answered, shaking his head. "... I told him I love him.." He softly said. He knew Itachi would understand how big of a deal it was.

"...And then he left?" Itachi asked, frowning. God.. Sasuke admitting something like that was the same as giving a rib away.

Sasuke nodded.

"He yelled at me, that I shouldn't say shit like that and I had to shut up and then he left." Sasuke softly said. "He said he was going to America and wouldn't be back for a long time."

"Do you have any idea why he said that?" Itachi asked, surprised that Neji would just do something like that.

Sasuke thought for a while before he spoke again.

"He said he was afraid to admit to his emotions once. I guess that could have something to do with it." Sasuke said.

"There's a high chance it does." Itachi said, nodding. "If he doesn't want to admit his emotions and you tell him that you love him, he may have gotten a panic attack because he loves you too."

"..I don't know. He left. He obviously didn't wanna fight it and try anyway." Sasuke said.

"Perhaps it scared him." Itachi said. Sasuke had calmed down more times if he tried to explain the behaviour of others. But this point was so sensitive, he had no idea if it would work now.

"Don't defend him." Sasuke snapped now. "Even if he was scared, he left and he left me after I told him I love him. I had rather cut my own head off then tell him if I knew he was gonna react like this."

"I know Sasuke." Itachi said. "I'm just trying to show you that whatever his reasons were, it can still be that he never meant to hurt you like this. I hope for that."

"Well but he did." Sasuke snapped, looking away now. "He did hurt me. And not just a little." He never admitted being hurt. Ever. But this time it was just too much.

"I can imagine Sasuke." Itachi said, nodding. "I know how you feel."

"I guess I was stupid for falling in love so fast anyway. I've only known him for a few months." Sasuke said.

"Still." Itachi said. "He was more special than the other guys you've been interested in."

".. I know. What did you do when Deidara broke up with you?" Sasuke asked, needing advice how to deal with this.

"Well.. I wouldn't recommend you to what I did." Itachi said. "The best thing for now is searching distraction. You won't forget this soon, that's for sure. If you want you can stay with me and Deidara for some days, just to relax a little and get some distraction."

"I didn't bring my stuff here to leave tonight again." Sasuke said and looked at Itachi. "Thanks for always being there for me Itachi."

"You're welcome Sasuke." Itachi said, nodding to Sasuke. "Let's watch a movie tonight."

Sasuke nodded back and sat down more comfortable on the couch. He knew he was gonna think of Neji a lot tonight. But Itachi had calmed him down once again. Sasuke was sure that without Itachi, he wouldn't even have been alive to meet Neji. He was just gonna have to deal with losing Neji as well the upcoming time.