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 Twelve
His unwashed, grimy fingers wrapped themselves around the tall bottle of sake. Fugaku Uchiha really couldn't stand looking in the mirror anymore. What the hell had happened to him?
He used to have a family. He used to be able to stand the sight of himself.
"Daddy, daddy! Ita-san won't play catch with me like he promised." a very young and upset Sasuke pouted up at his father.
"Don't worry Sasuke. I'll play with you." Fugaku reassured him as he scooped him up and over his shoulder.
The young Uchiha let out a fit of childish laughter as he was carried playfully down the hall.
Laughter. It had been so long since he had heard it from anyone. It had been so long since he had heard anything from his family. He missed them, and he hated himself for even becoming involved with these people. These people didn't care about his well being. These people probably even hated him. But it didn't matter anymore, because tonight he was finally coming to a close.
His selfish life would soon end, and he felt accomplished with what he had done only hours ago.
The Haruno girls parents should be on their plane by now. They should be one step closer to reuniting with their little girl and sorting out the misunderstanding.
They would be one little happy family again.
Fugaku took another swig of the mind numbing substance as a very expected knock was heard at his front door.
"Come in." he grunted, not bothering to try and mask his inebriated state.
The sound of crying filled the mans ears and he was by his sons side in a heart beat. "Sasuke what's wrong?"
"I-f-fell." he whimpered, holding his skinny knee closer to his chest with one hand while the other tried to rub his tears away.
"Don't worry, we'll patch you up. That'll make an impressive scar to show the ladies when you're older." he joked, amused at the fact that his small son still thought girls had cooties.
The door opened and closed quietly and not a moment passed before he saw the gun aimed at his heart.
"I knew you'd come." he managed out before taking another drink.
"Where are they?" Neji asked, getting straight to the point. He didn't have time to waste. If what he thought was true he had to get going as soon as possible or he would never get to Sakura on time.
"Dad! Dad?" an older, more grown up Sasuke called as he set his book sack down on the couch.
Math was kicking his ass and he knew how smart his dad was at Math, so asking him for homework help was a given. But where the hell was he?
As he walked past the bathroom he heard the water in the sink running, but it was masking something else.
Sasuke paused in front of the door, trying to quiet his breathing in order to hear better.
It sounded like…crying? But who would be crying? And why?
Sasuke heard footsteps coming towards him but before he could analyze his fathers angry expression he had been shoved against the wall as his father passed, obviously unhappy about something.
Sasuke hesitantly reached for the knob, but eventually decided against it.
No. It was probably a small fight. Not that big of a deal.
He could always get help with his homework tomorrow.
Fugaku cringed at the memory. It had been the first time he had ever hit his wife. He had been drinking that night.
"I sent them back to her. She'll finally have a family again. I gave her a family again, it's the least I could do after everything…after everything I've done."
Neji let out a cold heartless laugh. What was this man on about? What a fool. What a worthless fool.
"So I'll be doing Pain a favor." Neji finally whispered, that sadistic smirk still in place as he began applying pressure to the trigger.
"You'll be doing a lot of people a favor I'm sure." he said weakly, closing his eyes as he pretended he was somewhere else.
"Stay the hell away from my son." Fugaku whispered before a loud deafening sound filled his ears, followed by silence.
His body fell limp and lifeless to the floor, a pool of blood forming around his body.
Sakura tried her best to ignore the whispering coming from the desk next to her. Sasuke just didn't know when to shut up and do his work. No wonder he asked her to help him with math, the guy never stopped bugging people.
She tried to keep the amused expression off her face as another tiny paper ball bounced off her cheek and landed silently on her desk.
She flicked the offending piece of paper away before she heard the sound of the intercom come on. Many student who had been quietly chatting suddenly became a lot more silent as they all tried to listen to the voice that was coming through.
"We need Sakura Haruno to the office to check out, Sakura Haruno to the office to check out."
A few students glanced her way and shot her playful looks of envy before going back to their conversation, but Sakura felt nothing but unease.
Who the hell would be checking her out of school?
No one but your family could do that. It was against the rules.
But her family couldn't be here. They were gone.
Tears formed in her eyes quickly as she stood up and gathered her things.
She felt a warm hand wrap around her wrist.
"Call me when you get home." Sasuke said quietly, confusion evident in his tone. He obviously didn't know what was going on either.
She walked the short distance to the door.
"I wish my mom would check me out. I totally hate Mondays."
"Yeah, my dad would so kill me if I even wanted to skip school. He said I'd better be deathly ill or something."
Sakura closed her eyes, ignoring the emotional turmoil that was boiling inside of her. Why did this even have to happen? Why did the world have to tease her like this?
It had better be one hell of a good reason too.
Her foot steps echoed in her ears as she made her way down the deserted hall towards the front office, ignoring the painful memories that were creeping up on her.
She pushed the door open, finally managing to calm herself down a bit. It was time to get to the bottom of this.
However, all hell broke loose inside of her when she stepped into the office. The tears she had worked so hard to suppress sprang to life again and cascaded down her cheeks.
"Mom…Dad.."
Yeahhh. Another short chapter wahoooo. But oh well, I'm not gonna tell you this next chapter will be longer, because I'm so done with empty promises. :P
Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! (: