| Naruto Uzumaki |

I yawned leaning back on the couch. It had been hours. The others had gone leaving me and Hinata to ourselves. Itachi sat on the other side of the couch reading a book. It was so quiet. Comforting though.

"NARUTO GRAB SASUKE!" A frantic Sakura yelled.

"Hm?" By the time I could react, an angry Sasuke marched his way past us and to the front door. He snatched it open with force and headed out. Both Itachi and I scrambled to our feet to follow.

"What's going on?" I ask.

"Just get him please!" She cried. "Calm him down!"

"Sakura." Hinata walked towards her friend.

"He knows Hinata!" Sakura says looking her friend directly in the eye. Hinata's small eyes widened with fear as her head jerked towards me.

"Naruto please get Sasuke NOW."

"Let go of me!" By the time we made it outside, Itachi had Sasuke in a Full Nelson.

"Calm down brother," Itachi coos in his normal chill tone. "You're being impulsive ."

Sasuke growled. "Let go of me!" He says again.

"Sasuke what's wrong?" I ask him. Sakura stood alongside me trembling.

"Sakura," Itachi drawled out Sakura's name as if she was a child. "Did you tell Sasuke about your secret dear?" A small smirk appears on his face. I could see Sakura hang her head low.

"Can anybody tell me whats going on here?!" I say becoming fustrated.

"Naruto.." Sakura called my name causing me to look down at her. "My father forces me to have sex with him.."

I drew in a sharp breath before looking over at Sasuke. His eyes looked as if he was ready to attack any and everyone as he struggled to get away from Itachi. Without even thinking, I began walking towards them. In the mist of Sasuke tussling with his older brother, he dropped his car keys. I picked them up. I walked towards the gate only to be tripped and knocked down. Before I knew it, Sasuke was on top of me and Itachi sat on the both of us.

"Naruto, Sasuke." He says. "Calm down."

"How can you be so calm over something like this?!" Sasuke growled.

"Get off me!" I say trying to push up on my hands only for me to collapse back on the concrete.

"Guys please." Sakura's voice pleaded frantically with us.

"Sakura NO!" Sasuke yelled casuing her to jump. "He needs his ass beat and you need to tell your mother what this sick bastard is doing!"

"Itachi GET OFF ME!" I yelled. "You two are making it hard to breathe!"

"Stop trying." Itachi spoke nonchalantly. I frowned.

"I-Itachi please let them up.." Sakura says. He looks over at her and his eyebrows furrow together. "We can confront this together but please keep your composure."

"You're not staying there Sakura." Sasuke says trying to get his brother off of him at the same time that I was pushing up. Itachi sighed heavily and slowly stood up, before reaching his hands out to help Sasuke and I up.

"Then where am I gonna go Sasuke ?!" Sakura yelled at him. Before I knew it, they were face to face. Sakura looked up at him with tears falling from her eyes. She looked like her breath was caught in her throat.

"You know you can stay with us Sakura." He says softly. "I cant let you be around him." He reached up and wiped her tears away. It was weird for me to see Sasuke act such a way towards Sakura. It's like he doesn't care how sensitive he may seem towards her around others. It was clear how he felt about her. I sighed deeply twirling Sasuke's keys around my finger.

"He loves her you know." Itachi whispers to me sticking his hands in the pockets of his jogger sweats. "Otherwise, he wouldn't be this angry."

"Yeah." I say. "We all should confront this situation with her for support."

He looks over at me. "We can take my car." He says. "I'll go get my keys." With that he walked back into the house. I walked over to Sasuke, Hinata and Sakura. Hinata rubbed her best friend's back as Sasuke wiped her tears. He looked at her with something in his eyes. I knew that look anywhere. I looked at Hinata that way. Sasuke was indeed in love with this girl.

"Are you sure you want to confront this right now Sakura?" I ask her. Both she and Sasuke look at me. He moved a few strands of her hair from her face for her before she could speak.

"It's time I do so I guess." She answers softly. "I'm just scared of the backlash."

"It's okay." Sasuke tells her softly. Hinata and I exchange a look and she smiles warmly.

"Okay everybody ready?" Itachi says walking out of the house. We all nodded and got in his car. I sighed and sat back into the seats. I could hear Sasuke encouraging Sakura in the backseat. Itachi looked over at me.

"He's changing Naruto." He says so only I could hear. "And It's making me happy."

"Yeah." I reply. "Me too."

| Sakura Haruno |

Itachi pulled up to my home and I felt my heart drop into my stomach. I was scared. What would my mom say? How would she feel? What would she do? Would she believe me? Would she-

"Are you ready?" I could hear Itachi's voice from the front. I took in a deep breath and nodded sharply.

"But before we get out of this car," He starts. Everyone froze. "Sasuke, please refrain from acting belligerent. Naruto, please refrain from assisting Sasuke in his belligerence. Hinata." He paused and sighed. "Try your best to keep your boyfriend in line. And I'll try my best to keep Sasuke's anger at bay."

Both Sasuke and Naruto grunted.

"That's one thing about the two of you." He says again. "When one gets angry, so does the other. Wrong, right, or indifferent you both are deadly together."

"Tch give me a break." Sasuke says opening the door. "I have self control."

"Barely." Itachi mumbles as he opens the car door.

We filed out of Itachi's car and we made our way up the short pathway to my front door. I removed my keys from my pocket and used them to unlock the door.

"M-Mom?" I called out for her. I stepped in and allowed everyone else entrance. "Remove your shoes." I say quietly.

Everyone began removing their shoes, placing them by the door. My mother walked out from the kitchen, wiping her hands on a dish towel. She smiled. "Hey sweetie. Who's your friends?"

Itachi cleared his throat and stepped forward before I even had a chance to speak. He stuck his hand out for my mom to shake.

"Good Evening Mrs. Haruno. My name is Itachi Uchiha." He says. "I'm Sasuke Uchiha's older brother and guardian." He pointed over to Sasuke who politely greeted my mom. "Over here we have Naruto Uzumaki, Hinata's boyfriend." He smiled. "We're really good friends of your daughter."

"I see." My mom says looking at my group of friends. "Nice to meet you all."

I cleared my throat. "Mom, th-the reason they're here is to support me in what I'm going to tell you."

Her eyebrows furrowed together in concern. "What's going on?"

"Please, let's have a seat Mrs. Haruno." Itachi ushered my mother to our couches in the living room. I sat across from my mom with both Hinata and Sasuke on my left and right. Naruto and Itachi both sat next to my mom.

"Are you pregnant?" My mom asked placing her hand on her chest. "Sakura, there's nothing you should be afraid of to tell me that about. I could never be upset with you, you know that."

I swallowed the lump in my throat as tears hot tears began to sting in my eyes. I shook my head from left to right. "That's not it mom."

"Then what is it sweetie?"

"I-it's about Dad."

"What about your father Sakura?"

I cleared my throat. Sasuke reached over and squeezed my hand reassuringly. Hinata rubbed at my back.

"You can do it Sakura." Itachi encourages.

"We're all here with you." Naruto adds.

"Mom, for the past couple of years..Since 10th grade." I sniffed back my tears looking down at my and Sasuke's entangled fingers. "Dad would sneak in my room when you would either be gone or sleeping, and- he'd, um."

"Your husband would sexually assault her Mrs. Haruno." Itachi adds. "Sakura has been afraid to tell you because she had no idea how you would take it. She felt you'd either not believe her, or it would damage the family far worse then the imaginable. I hope you understand her reasoning for not telling you from the very beginning. I take it that your husband is a very strong man considering the fact that I've often seen bruise marks on Sakura whenever she removes her sweater at me and my brother's home. Also, when we're all playing around, Sakura doesn't like to be too close to us although we're her friends. There's moment where certain words trigger her to freeze and black out and avoid us for days at a time. As friends we forced this information from her which is why we're here right now to support her in telling you this about your husband. Please don't be upset with your daughter."

My mom never spoke a word. She just stared at me. Stared at me with an unreadble expression.

"Mrs. Haruno?" Itachi called out to her but she didn't respond. After a few moments of silence, tears fell loosely from her green eyes.

"I-I'm so sorry baby." She croaks out. She stood up and walked towards me, falling to her knees at my feet. She cupped my face in her hands as she shook her head.

"You are my daughter no matter what." She cries. "My job was to protect you from people like that. I had no idea I would have to protect you from your father. I've failed you as a parent Sakura. I'm so sorry baby. Please forgive me. Don't ever be afraid to tell me anything like that. Do you understand me?"

I couldn't help but cry as I nodded into my mother's hands.

"How long have you known?" My mother looked between Itachi, Naruto, Hinata and Sasuke.

"I've known for about a week without her telling me." Itachi answers.

"I've known eversince it first happend." Hinata speaks. "I was trying to encourage her to tell you then entire time."

"Naruto and I found out today." Sasuke says lowly. "She and I have both been betrayed by our fathers. She never would tell me directly what she meant. I'd ask her if he was beating her and she deny, but when I asked her if he was raping her, she didn't say anything. which lead me into believing I had it right."

"Baby I'm so sorry." My mom repeated over and over as tears fell from her eyes. She held my face as if her life depended on it. We heard the door creak open. Our heads jerked towards the door seeing my father's stalky figure step in. He removed his shoes and walked deeper into our home before he noticed our presence. It was like everything was at a standstill..

| Sasuke Uchiha |

I clenched my fists together. Looking at her father just disgusted me. Everyone sat there quiet looking at him as he looked at all of us. He furrowed his eyebrows and gave a loud grunt.

"What's going on here?" He asked breaking the silence. He looked down at Sakura and her mother. "Are you pregnant?"

Sakura's mother stood to her feet and walked straight up to her husband. He looked down at her clearly unbothered. Before anyone knew what was happening, she'd reared back as far as she could and slapped him across the face.

"You bastard!" She yelled. "How could you do such a thing to our daughter?! You sicken me." She looked at him with such disgust as he held his cheek. Anger evident in his eyes, he raised his hand. Itachi caught his hand before he could strike her.

"Mr. Haruno." He says. "Pleasure to meet you. Itachi Uchiha; a friend of your daughter's.

"Let go of me young man." He snarls.

"I'm afraid I can't do that Mr. Haruno." My brother answers him. "It bothers me how a man such as yourself could not on do something so someone like their daughter and then began to raise their hand to their wife in front of company don't you think?"

The man frowned at my brother before quickly snatching his hand away from him.

"Exactly what did I do to my daughter?" He questions. "I haven't done a thing but love her."

"You're a sick bastard." I couldn't stop myself from saying something. I stood to my feet and placed my hands in my pocket. "Men like you really disgust me. Sexually assaulting someone who thought you would never betray them. Having her afraid of any male contact. You tell Sakura to 'shut up' so often the phrase alone causes her to shut down and shiver. Being too close to a male makes her uncomfortable. You did this to her. How can you live with yourself? How can you sleep at night knowing you took the only innocent thing from your daughter? YOUR FLESH AND BLOOD!"

"Sasuke that's enough." Itachi told me.

"Tch," I turned my head away from them.

"Go wait outside Sasuke."

"Why?" I frown.

"Because I know what you're thinking." Itachi looked back at me. "You and Naruto go. Take Hinata and Sakura with you."

"My daughter isn't going anywhere." Her father says soon as I help Sakura off the couch. I glare at him. "Sakura, sit down."

"He doesn't control you Sakura." I whisper to her. "You can leave."

She looked up at me. "Can I stay with you?"

"Of course." I tell her. "Let's go get your things."

Sakura takes my hand and leads me the long way around to her room. She slowly opened the door and I was greeted by bright pink and black. More black than pink though. I walked around her room admiring the pictures of her and Hinata. I picked one up. She was sitting in Hinata's lap as Hinata had her arms around Sakura's neck. Sakura looked so happy. She looked genuinely happy.

"Ya know," I look up at her to see her looking at me as she stuffed clothes into a Duffle bag. "You're gonna have to add some pictures of me in this room to make it perfect."

She smirked at me. "You're such a loser." She says. "Thank you."

"For what?" I raised an eyebrow.

"This." She says. "If you wouldn't have gone completely crazy, I dont think I would've ever told my mom." Her eyes lowered. We could hear her father yelling and denying everything. Calling his own daughter a slut. Sakura cringed as tears began to form in her eyes.

Without even thinking, I placed the picture down and walked over to her. I held her face in my hands and used my thumbs to wipe her tears away.

"It's okay." I tell her. I placed my lips on hers and pulled her into a hug. "Don't listen to him."

She cried so hard into my chest it made my angry. He was hurting his daughter and he didnt even care.

"I wish Itachi would let me doing something."

"I think Itachi is saving you from getting in trouble." She replies into my chest once her cries subsided.

"You're worth getting in trouble for Sakura." He whispers.

She looked up at me with those big green eyes before I placed my lips on hers once more. She then reached for her bags. I stopped her.

"You're not carrying all of this." I tell her grabbing the bags. She blushed slightly. I took her hand in mine and the both of us left her room. Itachi had Sakura's father's head pushed against the wall with one of the man's arms behind his back. The man cried out in pain as Itachi shook his head and sighed. Giving the man a serious expression.

"Mr. Haruno." He says. "I'm not as weak as you think. I have a good amount of defensive training under my belt and I'd appreciate if you not say such hurtful and disrespectful things about your family. How about you take a walk and get yourself a hotel room."

With that being said, he'd pulled the man off the wall, walked him to the door, opened it snd threw him out closing the door. He turned to Sakura's mother who wiped away tears.

"Mrs. Haruno." He says. "If he returns, don't hesitate to call the police. Tell them you're a friend of the Uchiha. They'll handle him accordingly." He then turned to Sakura and I. "Sakura, a word with you please?"

"O-okay." She stutters before escorting him into the kitchen.

| Itachi Uchiha |

I stepped into the kitchen with Sakura. She reached the the fridge and handed me a bottle of water. After thanking her, I twosted the cap off and took a few gulps before twisting it back on.

"Sakura, are you willing to press charges against your father?" I asked her. Her eyes lowered to the ceramic tile of the kitchen floor. "It's completely up to you."

She continued to look at the floor before she sighed and slowly looked up to me.

"I-I don't want him doing this to any other girl." She says softly. I nodded slowly and I placed my hand on her head. I smiled warmly at her.

"You're doing the right thing Sakura." I tell her. "We're proud of you."

"I feel like I just tore my family apart." She mumbles looking away from me.

"You didn't do anything love." I tell her. "It was all your father's fault. He did something to you that he shouldn't have ever done to you."

She shook her head. Then she walked closer to me and wrapped her arms around my torso pressing her face into my chest in a hug.

"Thank you so much Itachi." She whispers.

"You're very welcome." I say stroking her hair. She's really a good girl and she was the perfect girl for my brother. They're helping each other and I love it. It makes me happy that my brother is finally coming around to his old self.

"Do you have anything recent from when he..." I let my voice trail off not even wanting to say anything. "I know you've been taking showers and stuff but you still have a couple of bruises on you. They're gonna want to do a rape kit. I'll make sure of that. So if he lies they have evidence to back it up."

She cleared her throat as she stepped away from our slight embrace. "Yeah, I usually tie them in a bag and throw them out."

"Did you throw any recent ones out?" I asked her. She shook her head no.

"They're in my room." She says lowly.

"Can you get them?" I ask her. "We can go first thing tomorrow. I'm off."

She nods before moving around me to exit the kitchen. When I walked out I seen Sasuke comforting her mother.

"Mrs. Haruno." He tells her. "You and your daughter are both strong women. I'm sure you can get through this just fine."

"It just hurts that I had no idea this was going on for so long." She sniffs back tears as Sasuke handed her another Kleenex. She blew her nose and sighed heavily. She looked up at me and smiled warmly. "You two boys are really helpful. Thank you for being my daughter's friends."

"You dont have to thank us Mrs. Haruno." Sasuke says with a small smile. "Your daughter is saving us as well."

Us? Is he speaking for himself? I stuffed my hands in my pockets just as Sakura returned from her room with a small black plastic bag.

"I-I'm ready." She says.

"Okay." I say. "We'll be going now Mrs. Haruno."

She looked over at her daughter and walked to hug her one last time.

"I love you so much Sakura." She tells her. "Please come back sooner or later."

"I will mom. I love you too." Sakura replies.

"She will return once everything is done." I tell her. "For right now our Lawyer would like to know that Sakura is being safe and guarded at all times. Knowing that our family has ties with the police force, they will feel she's in good hands with us."

"Yes Yes of course." She says nodding my way.

"Like I said before Mrs. Haruno, if he comes back call the police." I say. "Mention that you're a close friend to the Uchiha family and he will be handled accordingly."

Her mother looked down and nodded slowly. "O-okay."

With that being said, we headed towards the exit. Naruto and Hinata were standing in front of my car with Hinata obviously trying to calm Naruto down.

"Naruto what's wrong?" Sasuke asked. "I can see your canines from here."

"That bastard said something about Hinata influencing Sakura to be a slut." Naruto blinked rapidly as he looked down the street to his left. His fist clenched at his sides.

"Naruto please calm down." Hinata tells him.

"No Hinata." He grunts. "I can't stand for anybody to disrespect my woman, and my friends."

"I'm sorry Naruto." Sakura whispers. His eyes darted towards her.

"Don't you dare apologize for him Sakura." He snarls. "He's a scumbag. This isnt your fault okay?!"

"Naruto, you're scaring her." Sasuke says sternly. I notice him slip his hand in hers and squeeze it tightly.

Naruto finally eased up. "I'm sorry." He says. "It just burns me up."

"And that's understandable." I tell them. "Let's get going."