A/N – Don't kill me, but I'm not writing out Sasuke's story again. It's not worth it. All it does is artificially inflate my word count. So… it's glossed over. Sorry.

Oh, and Robin is scary nice.

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Robin sat and sipped at her coffee, looking at the three genin that were once again seated on her couch, Naruto fidgeting in the middle, while Sasuke and Sakura looked uncomfortable off to the sides. Kakashi was reading his book where he stood in the corner, seemingly not paying attention.

"Haruno-chan." Robin said quietly, and the girl quickly looked up from where she'd been staring at her hands in her lap. The look on her face was nervous, confirming what Robin had expected of her. "Would you care to go first?"

Sakura's face fell even further. "Erm… why me?"

Robin smiled serenely and tilted her head to the side. "Naruto-kun's secret is an S-Class one that only he and the Hokage can speak of with impunity. Sasuke-kun's involves the deaths of several hundred people and a traitor to the village. I simply thought it would be best to start with the secret that has the fewest repercussions and is the least staggering. Sasuke-kun shall go after you."

Sakura's mouth gaped and she turned to look at the boys. Sasuke was staring at Naruto in surprise; Naruto, in turn, was just looking at the ground, seeming as miserable as a wet cat.

"Well, Haruno-chan?" Robin's voice snapped Sakura out of her thoughts, and she turned back to face the pirate woman.

She gulped and looked down at her hands, fiddling with her fingers in her lap. Do it quick, she told herself, Like ripping off a Band-Aid. "Um, well… a couple years ago, something weird started going on in my head, so I borrowed some of Ino's psychology books. I haven't been officially diagnosed by anyone, but I'm pretty certain I've got some sort of chemical imbalance in my brain that's causing me to have either schizophrenia or DID. The problem hasn't caused me too much trouble in everyday life, and it actually helped me with mental cataloguing and the like, but it also causes me to act more… violently and rashly than normal. I haven't even told Ino, but if you two are going to tell me even bigger secrets…" She trailed off, still looking at her hands in her lap. The boys, just from what Robin had said, would probably be even more nervous about telling their secrets, so it was best to just get it all out right now.

"So… it's like there's another you in your head? Just a little more violent or something?" Naruto was curious. Of course, Naruto was curious about everything. Sasuke still hadn't spoken, but Sakura supposed that she could respond, right? Right…

"Ano… I guess. It's a little more complicated than that, and it didn't really match up with DID completely, but it wasn't exactly aligning with schizophrenia either. Putting it simply, though… Yeah."

There was silence for a few seconds, and then Sakura felt a pair of arms hug her from the side. Rather than shoving Naruto off like she normally would, she just sat there, blinking in surprise.

"That's actually pretty cool! It's like you always have a friend with you." His voice took an oddly wistful tone towards the end, but Sakura didn't quite catch it in her surprise.

"Thanks?" She trailed off a bit, and then turned her head to the side, looking past Naruto—still hugging her—and ignoring the adults—they seemed content to watch from the sidelines anyway—over at her last teammate. "Sasuke-kun? You don't think it's all that bad, r-right?"

He gave her a measured stare, one which she couldn't break eye contact with. Naruto finally let go, and only several seconds after did Sasuke finally answer.

"At least you'll know you're not the only one with mental problems." He stated evenly, causing Sakura's breath to catch in her throat. What?

Sasuke looked both his teammates in the eye, first Sakura, then Naruto. He glanced at Robin, and then finally fixed his stare on the table. He, like everyone, ignored Kakashi.

He recounted his story in the same manner he had to Robin, not glossing over anything to try and hide something. Sakura's face slowly drained of color as her eyes grew wide, and Naruto's grew stony and suspiciously free of emotion. His fists were, however, clenched; Sasuke guessed it was in anger, considering what he knew of his teammate's temperament. "And so, when I said that there was a man that I had to kill, I meant my brother."

Naruto stared at him, face still curiously blank. Sakura seemed to be blinking back tears, but, then again, she was civilian born, and the massacre of an entire clan would pull at even some Jounin's heartstrings.

"You're letting us help you." It wasn't a question. Naruto's eyes were filled with determination and burned with a type of anger that Sasuke wasn't used to seeing. Naruto was angry on Sasuke's behalf.

Sakura glanced between the two, not that she could really see Naruto's face since it was turned away from her and towards Sasuke, but gulped and, eyes squeezed shut, nodded vigorously. "We're not letting you do it on your own, Sasuke-kun."

Sasuke stared at the two blankly, and then frowned. "This is my job. I can't let anyone else—"

A cough interrupted him, and he turned to look at Robin. She smiled at him, that same knowing smile as always, the one that told him absolutely nothing.

"What?"

She just kept on smiling. Several seconds passed, and all three Genin got increasingly more uncomfortable. Robin finally deigned it time to break the silence.

"I don't suppose you ever thought that perhaps your teammates, your friends, could help share your burden?" Her eyes, closed until then, open slightly. She looked almost lazy, but the look in her eyes was yet sharp. "It worked for me, after all."

She continued to smile, eyes now open. It was… unnerving, to say the least.

"Right." Sasuke turned back to his teammates, much paler than he had been a minute earlier. Sakura and Naruto didn't look much better. "I'll… consider it."

Kakashi glanced up from his book in the corner his shoulders shaking in silent chuckles for a few seconds, and then went straight back to his reading. No one noticed, or cared.

"That's nice." Robin noted in a tone that matched the smile on her face, and took a sip of her coffee.

All three genin felt a cold shudder go down their spines, and quickly turned to look at each other again, trying to ignore the stare coming from Robin.

"Er, right." Sakura muttered, and then poked Naruto's shoulder. "Hey, Naruto? What's your secret, then?"

He froze, and his breath started coming more quickly. His pupils dilated, and his fists clenched. He was panicking.

Sakura glanced around him at Sasuke, and saw that he was staring at Naruto.

"Dobe…" He reached up a hand to Naruto's shoulder, gripping it as best as he could. "Dobe, if you haven't reacted badly to what we've said, we're not going to react to whatever your secret is badly. You… you do realize that, right?"

Sakura took her crush's initiative. "Yeah, it can't be much worse than what we've got. Sasuke-kun and I just admitted that we've probably got mental problems. You can't—"

"Kyuubi." Naruto whispered, staring at the ground. "I'm a Jinchuuriki."

Sasuke and Sakura glanced at each other. A human sacrifice?

Naruto continued, not noticing. "The Academy lied. The Kyuubi didn't die on the night of the attack. It can't die. The best that can be done for a demon is to seal it into something. Usually, a human. In this case, a new born child. That night, me."

Sasuke and Sakura were staring at him now. He ignored them, and kept talking. "It explains a lot, doesn't it? Why all the villagers seem to hate me. Why my apartment gets trashed on my birthday every year. And no one can even talk about it. It was jii-san's way of trying to give me a normal childhood. You couldn't talk about it to anyone that didn't already know. Too bad people taught their kids to hate me anyway."

Tears were coming down his face, and as he reached up to dry them, something he hadn't expected, but really should have, happened.

Sakura was hugging him, and she'd pulled Sasuke into the hug—giving him a small but unexpected glare in the process—with her. Naruto was being hugged from either side by his teammates.

Robin smiled and sat back as she watched the young team comfort each other. She turned her head slightly to acknowledge Kakashi as he came up behind her.

"Did you know that would happen?"

"Know? I can't know everything, Hatake-san. But I had hoped, and I had expected. My expectations were simply proven to be correct."

"Mm." He hummed slightly to recognize her words, still looking at his book. "I think they might be ready for their first C-rank soon."

Robin turned slightly to look at him. "Oh?"

"Yes, I'll be looking through the incoming C-rank requests to find a suitable one for their first. Preferably it would be something like an escort mission with little risk to a nearby area. Of course, I'll also avoid your mission."

Robin raised an eyebrow. "My mission?"

He waved a hand at her dismissively. "The forest escort thing."

"Ah." Robin took a sip from her coffee again, and turned her head to Kakashi oh-so-slightly. "May I come along if I wish to?"

Kakashi glanced down. "I guess it would be possible if we talked it over with Hokage-sama, though I don't know how we'd explain it to whoever hired us. Why would you want to?"

Robin smiled, eyes almost shut in a way that reminded Kakashi of his own smiles. "I have been researching much of your local histories. There are ruins everywhere that I would like to visit, if possible. If one of your missions leads you near some, I'm going to take advantage of the situation and come along without having to beleaguer the Hokage with missions that do not benefit him. I can even come along as extra protection, if an excuse is needed."

Kakashi eye smiled, matching Robin for a moment. "Alright, then. I'll see what I can do."

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A/N- Oh, you guys got some KakaRobin shiptease, since I had some people complaining about that. I'm still not going to pair them, but I'll mock you with subtext.