Title: Trapped

Summary: Sakura has been in an abusive relationship with Neji for 4 months now. She can't find it in herself to get the courage to break away from him. She loves him, she doesn't want to leave, or be left. Sasuke Uchiha transfers to their school in the middle of the year. Sasuke may be an asshole, but he knows the proper way to treat a lady, and he takes an immediate disliking to Neji due to his own abusive family history.

Rated M for physical and sexual abuse, future sexual content, language, and the over all mature nature of the story.

Chapter Four

"No way…" Sakura was speechless. She didn't know what to do. 'Gone..it's..all gone?'

The devastated teen stared down into her empty drawer where all of her money had been.

It was a Friday night and she needed a little something to help Neji pay for dinner somewhere. They always split the bill. Neji would be angry if he had to pay for everything.

However, now she had nothing. Nothing. How was she supposed to pay for food and clothes? What about bills? She would eventually get her electricity cut off, and then get kicked out completely. This was horrible.

"Who could have done this?" She asked herself as she slumped down on her bed and stared at the floor, trying hard not to cry.

Yet again something that she had been depending on had just up and left. She just couldn't keep anything could she? Soon enough, Neji might even leave her. He wasn't a bad looking guy after all. He could get other girls. Speaking of him, why was he even with her? Now that Sakura started trying to make a list of positive qualities that she offered him she could find none. As a matter of fact, all she could list were negativities.

She gave him nothing. And he gave her everything. Suddenly she felt a rush of emotions over come her and she stood swiftly before picking up her bedside lamp and ripping its plug from the wall. She sent it smashing into the wall beside her. 'I hate myself.'

"Sasuke," his mother began one afternoon at dinner. "You know what we need?" she asked, motioning her fork at him while she spoke.

Sasuke raised an eyebrow at his mothers quirky behavior while he remained silent.

"A maid." That nearly made him choke on his steak.

"Are you serious..?" He asked her, his tone held a hint of amusement that suggested she was just messing with him.

"Why would we need one of those? We're capable of cleaning our own house."

"I know." She informed him with a huge smile. Okay, now he was suspicious.

"Alright, enlighten me. Why do we need a maid?" He asked, sure he was prepared for anything and everything she could throw at him.

"Well, I saw that cute girl with pink hair from next door asking for applications at the grocery store today. She could always work here." She said, her voice getting a bit lower with every word, trying to hide her little scheme.

Sasuke sighed, his mother was always trying to hook him up with random "cute girls"

"Mom, how would that even-" he paused, placing his fork down and temporarily forgetting about his meal. This seemed to surprise his mom a bit, but she was still waiting for the rest of his sentence.

Sasuke forced himself to not attack his mom with too many questions. It was hard, because he wanted to know so much.

When would she start? Did his mom ask her? Would her boyfriend freak out? She was cleaning a house with another guy living there. And Sasuke knew he was good looking so..

There was so much to consider.

Instead of commenting on Sasuke's strange, strained facial expression his mother continued to look at him like he was from another planet. She reached across the table and placed a hand on his forehead.

"Are you feeling okay? You're acting…weird."

"Yeah." he answered, surprisingly, sounding believable. Sasuke always was great at putting on an emotional mask. It made his life so much easier.

He stood, feeling frustrated but managing to hide it long enough to place his empty plate in the sink and kiss his mom good night.

He returned to his room, picking up the gaming controller and unpausing it, attempting to distract himself. He didn't want to get involved with that girl. But he did want to help her. Help her, without getting involved with her. However, that seemed impossible now as he concentrated as hard as he could on his game. She just wouldn't get out of his head. He couldn't understand why he was making this such a big deal.

She was just another girl after all.

The familiar sound of breaking glass reached his ears and he quickly paused the game to listen. At first he thought maybe one of his mother's plate's had fallen again, but then he heard the yelling.

It was coming from next door.

Sasuke placed the controller on the bed and swiftly made his way over to the wall, pressing his ear against it to listen better.

"I'm sorry I can't come, I just don't have any more money. It's all gone."

He recognized the voice immediately. It was Sakura. And she sounded afraid.

"You should have found a job by now. If you were more responsible instead of fucking around like a child you would have your own income. This is your fault. Don't come crying to me because someone stole all of your precious money that your worthless parents left when they deserted you."

"Neji please.."

She hated it when he talked bad about her parents. She knew he must be angry about them leaving too, that was one of the ways she knew Neji cared about her. Along with his jealousy and control issues. But atleast he cared about her.

"I'm sorry I know, I'm trying to find a job now. I'll get one don't worry."

Sasuke heard a door close. He was about to assume that Neji had left until he heard light talking again.

"Well since we can't go out…"

Sasuke stopped listening immediantley. He knew what the sultry tone of Neji's voice meant. He quickly went back to his game, feeling worse than before and wishing he had minded his own business to begin with.

AN: Okay, so it's seriously almost been a whole year since I've updated this story. But I haven't been completely ignoring it. I have all of the chapter summaries typed up, but just not the chapters themselves. This story seems to be pretty popular so I'm going to try my hardest to start updating again. Feel free to yell at me for being a shitty updater :P

Also, I haven't written/read Naruto fan fiction for awhile, nor have I watched it recently. So I hope I've still got the characters down well enough to write about them. If not, I'll work on that too.