Ishi was pleased to see Robin fall when her kunai hit. She was getting more and more accurate. The female half-demoness looked up in surprise, drawing out the kunai.

"Brat…the hell do you think you're doing?" Robin asked in a shaky voice. She started to stand as Ishi threw another kunai.

"You came to take me back." She snarled, "I'M NEVER GOING BACK THERE!"

"Brat-" Robin hit her knees again as a third kunai barely missed one of her black braids.

"Don't call me that!"

"Ishi…we all want you to come back. Dead-last's going crazy being worried about you and the lazy bum is fidgeting because I didn't bring him."

"Shut up!" Ishi screamed, walking over and kicking out one leg to hit her in the face. Robin blocked, but she coughed as she moved.

"Would I lie to you about that?"

"Yes, you would. Just to make me go back and endure more torture, you would lie to me."

"God damn you!" Robin suddenly grabbed Ishi's shoulders, flipping her onto her back and sitting on her.

Her forehead protector fell aside and Ishi found herself staring into a third eye on Robin's forehead. Suddenly, Ishi could see herself standing in front of Naruto.

"I'll go get her; I don't need your help. It's not like Kyubi will be any help in Sound anyway." She heard Robin saying, her eyes locked on Naruto's surprised and semi-anguished face.

Suddenly, things shifted, to a scared little child. It was Robin, and Ishi could only assume it was from before the girl had joined the academy. She was being chased by the same men who had attacked Ishi.

"Come back, little demon," One called with a laugh, "Come back so that we can kill you!"

"NO!" Robin sobbed, tripping as the fake ANBU began to rip off her clothes and cut her. The burning came next, a brand of the kanji "bakemono" pressed into the back of her right leg. Then, there was a giant eye in the small of her back.

"Let me go!" The little Robin sobbed, "L-let-"

"Let her go."

"Make me!"

The wooden stake came down hard into Robin's chest, blood spurting forth. Even through the memory, Ishi felt the pain in her own chest, as the small child fell backwards with glassy eyes.

Then, the bastards did the unthinkable. They left the child-Robin there. They left her for the wild animals to pick away her flesh.

Ishi's eyes stung with tears. "R-Robin-chan, I never-"

"That's because I didn't want anyone to know." Robin tore her gaze away, glaring at Hideaki, "Orochimaru, you stay away from this girl. She's coming back to Kohona with me."

"One memory won't convince me to come back. If nothing else, that distances me more and more from Kohona." Ishi pushed Robin off of her, "Doesn't it hurt you still? The fact that your own village…"

"They were NEVER my village!" Robin snapped, "They were never my village and never my people! They MURDERED the only link to my people! Slaughtered him like an animal, they did!" The girl was near hysterics now. "I…I don't blame you at all, Ishi-san…." Ishi stared, starting to wrap her arms around Robin, "I don't blame you at all. But…this bastard…he'll use you in ways they never thought of."

"Robin-chan." Ishi hugged her a little more, looking up at Hideaki. "Please, can she stay? She's been abused as well…" She ran her fingers over Robin's hair.

Hideaki nodded. "Of course she can stay. If, of course, she swears her loyalty to us."

Robin glared at him, "My loyalty isn't something I give away freely to snakes."

"Robin-chan, please…" Ishi begged.

"No. I'd rather he torture me to death than swear anything to him."

Hideaki snapped his fingers. "As you wish, Jaganshi."

And then, the Nin took the girl away. Ishi stared with wide eyes.

"I…I don't understand. Hideaki-san, her story, it…"

"I know," He knelt beside her, sliding his arms around her. Her head rested on his chest and she closed her eyes as he held her, "But, this isn't a house for strays, Ishi-chan. This is a ninja village and we can't take in traitors."

No, they couldn't. Ishi began to see the light. But, at the same time…