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 Fourteen

Neji. The one who had done all of this to her. Made her a complete mess. The one who was responsible for all of the pain and sadness that she had been through for so long. He was standing behind the one who saved her. Sasuke.

Sasuke Uchiha, who she had tried to stay away from and push away.

Who's eyes were filled with fear because he didn't want to lose her.

The one who was currently stopping her from ending her life because he wanted her to be alive with him.

She couldn't take it.

Sakura felt herself becoming overcome with a strong urge to fight and hurt Neji. The only word that she could think of to describe her feelings towards the man she once loved could only be summed up into one word; hatred.

She hated him. She wanted him to die and she wanted it to be painful.

But no matter how much she wanted to just stare at the evil man and picture him in agony, now was not the best time.

Adrenaline flooded through her veins and she quickly grasped the railing with her free hand and started pulling herself up just as she saw Neji pull out a shiny silver knife from underneath his jacket.

"You need to get away from my girl and go back where you belong. To your broken hopeless family."

The statement was directed towards Sasuke. She felt him grip her hand a bit tighter before he wrapped his arms around her waist and hoisted her over the railing.

"Run Sakura." Sasuke ordered, pushing her behind him as soon as he got her feet on solid ground.

His expression hardened as he sized up the man before him.

"No…I can't." she pleaded, her hate vanishing, replaced by a different unpleasant feeling.

Desperation.

She couldn't leave him to fight her battle for her. If he got hurt then it would be all her fault and she would never be able to live with herself.

"I said," he began again, his tone bordering on the edge of harshness.

She watched in horror as he pulled out a medium sized pocket knife from his flannel pajamas pants.

"Run."

Sasuke lunged at Neji, swiping the knife in a slicing motion a mere inch from his neck. Neji took a fast step back and dashed passed Sasuke, heading straight towards her.

Shit. Shit, shit, shit. She should have ran.

Sakura turned on her heal as fast as she could, but it was like a dream.

When someone or something is chasing you and your legs feel like lead and aren't functioning properly.

She just wasn't fast enough.

Neji grabbed her bicep roughly and yanked her back to his chest. She felt the cold sharp metal pressed dangerously against her skin.

"Forget it Uchiha. It's useless, fighting for something that has such little value in the first place."

Sakura wanted to elbow him in the chest, but the fear of getting her throat slit prevented her from struggling against him. He would do it. He would kill her, she knew it.

"Drop it." Neji ordered, referring to Sasuke's pocket knife.

At first, it looked like Sasuke wasn't ever going to back down. But then something in his facial expression changed.

Sakura watched as the weapon slid from his shaking fingers and clattered on the cement below.

This was it.

They had lost.

Sakura was still filled with the strong urge to live and escape, which was ironic considering she had wanted to give everything up and die only moments before.

Maybe she hadn't really wanted that. Maybe she was just waiting for someone to save her.

Neji removed the knife and started to back away, his hand still clutching her arm painfully.

"I'm sorry Sasuke." she whispered and she began to slowly back away, Neji leading her.

"Don't apologize." he smirked.

Sakura had not expected that. Who was he to be so cocky when this was happening? What was wrong with him?

A gut wrenching sound filled her ears and she turned around to see Neji violently convulsing, his body sinking to the ground, revealing Sasuke's mother. She was holding two tazers and they were placed on both sides of Neji's ribs.

Her emotions were hard to read as she kneeled beside him, continuing to inflict pain onto him. Pain that he obviously deserved.

Her expression was angry and vengeful, but her eyes were hurt and scared.

"Mom, stop. That's enough." Sasuke said softly as he took a slow step closer.

Tears began to pour from her eyes.

She did not stop. She pressed the weapons harder against his chest.

At first Sasuke didn't know what to do, but when he saw blood spurting from Neji's mouth and nose he ran over to his mother's side and pulled her away.

Sakura turned away, her stomach churning painfully like she was about to be sick.

She could hear Sasuke trying to stop his mom's crying behind her, but the sobs were quickly drowned out with the sounds of sirens.

Police. Ambulances. They were pouring into the parking lot of the apartment complex.

She couldn't be here. She wanted to escape from all of the eyes and all of the questions that she knew were going to come. She was so sick of god damn questions and unwanted attention.

A few nosy neighbors were peering sleepily outside of their doors. It wasn't long before a few women screamed at the site of the body, unmoving and surrounded by a pool of blood.

Sakura walked briskly over to her door, only to come face to face with her shell shocked parents.

She couldn't hold them in anymore.

Surprisingly, despite all of the crying she had been doing earlier, fresh tears came to her easily as she buried her face into her dads chest and cried.

The rest of the night seemed to go by in a blur.

Neji was confirmed dead on the spot, and was placed in a black body bag and hoisted up onto a cart.

Sakura couldn't answer any of the questions the cops had thrown at her. She was in shock.

Luckily, Sasuke came to her defense and began to retell the story. He left out the part about her attempting to jump, and instead said they had planned to meet in secret later that night to talk.

Sasuke's mom gave him a look which he ignored.

"Sakura come inside sweetie." her mother's soft voice was like music to her ears.

She obeyed and turned to go inside, wishing that everything was a dream, and she hadn't really just tried to kill herself. Sasuke hadn't almost gotten hurt because of her, and her ex-boyfriend wasn't really being carried off in an ambulance.

But unfortunately. It wasn't. It was too real. Getting her wish didn't feel as good as she thought it would.

Sakura had never looked forward to sleep so much in her life.

Poor Sakura ): Poor Sasuke ): Good riddance Neji (;Can you say lemon next chapter? I CAN.

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