A/N: Can't say that I'm feeling any better, but I feel like I owe you some quick updates. So…here you go :D

(kidloco) – Where were you during the last two chapters? :O

(butterfly) – THIS is a review. Thank you, and you make a good point. This is the point of Robin: She's basically Sakura's foil character. Robin would never hit Naruto or scold him in a terrifying manner. You'll see in this chapter.

(Lonely Athena) – I hope you don't get too many heart attacks lol. Naru x Rob has only just begun :D

(Tahkz01) – Read this chapter ;) Thanks for caring about me, though.

(Akshobhya) – Thanks for the criticism. I really mean it. So what do you want, then? More taijutsu or genjutsu?

(Zatheko) – Naruto won't be with Sakura until a long time later. Hopefully, you'll still be here by then

(The Keeper of Worlds) – You're first! :O College is no excuse ;) And what was creepy about the opening? Me being down, the dumbass who suggested Naru X Kush, or the future foreshadowing?

(Whore who keeps bugging me about Naru X Kush) – Yes, I read it. It was well made, but the coupling felt wrong. It really rubbed me the wrong way. At least Minato wasn't bashed! :D

But please don't bug me about this anymore. This is a Naru X Saku story, and I really support Mina X Kush.

"Kakashi what?!" Naruto screamed at the villager. The villager cried out for help.

"Naruto, calm down!" Robin told him, putting a reassuring hand on his shoulder. Naruto released the villager.

"Did you just say that Kakashi left the village?" Sasuke asked the villager.

"Yes, I'm sure! He left me this note to give to you guys!" the villager said as he shakily handed the letter over to Sasuke.

"What does it say?" Sakura asked him. Sasuke read it aloud.

Dear my little champs,

I know you guys won't forgive me, but I've decided to leave with Rin. By now, you should already know why. I owe Rin that much, and this is the least I could do for her. Do I hope for your forgiveness? Yes. And if you choose not to forgive me? Well, since I'll probably never see you again, I guess it doesn't really matter either way. Please don't try to find me. We're somewhere you'll never find, so it's inevitable trying to find me. I hope you manage to capture Yajai and free the Hidden Leaf Village from his genjutsu. Good luck.

Your ex-mentor, Kakashi.

"We gotta go find him!" Sakura told the crew. Sasuke shook his head.

"Didn't you hear?" he asked her. "Kakashi doesn't want us to find him. Not to mention that he's in a very secluded area. There's no point trying to go look for him."

"So you're saying we shouldn't try?" she asked him in disbelief. "He's been our sensei for as long as I can remember! He—"

"Sakura-san," Robin said to her gently. Sakura gave her a death glare, in which Robin only stared through. "You can't make him—"

"What do you know?" Sakura shouted at her. Sasuke pulled her back a bit, but that did little to calm her down. "Do you have any idea how important he is to Team 7?! It's not like you'd understand, anyways!"

"Sakura-san, I know that—" Robin started to say before Sakura nailed her across the face. Hard. Robin's body slammed against the ground. She was unconscious now.

"Don't you dare call me Sakura-san. You're just kissing up to—"

"Sakura, that's enough!" Naruto screamed at her. He did it again. He screamed at her. Why? Because of that stupid know-it-all, Robin.

Sakura matched Naruto's gaze, and what she saw was not the same gaze Naruto gave her when they were kids. This one was full anger and hatred.

"I had enough of this façade. Stop acting as if this is Robin's fault! It's not her fault. Why are you treating her like a traitor?"

Sakura immediately dropped her hatred, which was replaced by self-pity. "Naruto, don't you see? She acted like she knew everything about this team when she doesn't know a single thing! She's just trying to kiss up to you because she...well, because she likes you! That would—"

"I love her!" Naruto yelled in her face. That was it. Those three words were the killing blow. Naruto looked like he regretted saying that, but he kept ranting.

"You don't know her at all! You don't know the hell she's endured! Her childhood was much worse than mine!"

Sasuke had to hold him back before he got violent. "Naruto, calm down! She's Sakura, remember? You used to like her, remember?"

That sentence made Naruto laugh. Hysterically. "Don't give me that bullshit, Sasuke." Naruto pointed a finger accusingly at Sakura. "It's true, I did like her. No, I loved her! But you know what? No matter what I did, whether I presented her with flowers or threw parties for her, it was never acknowledged! It was always 'Sasuke-kun! Sasuke-kun!'"

Sakura started to tear up, not in self-pity, but because of the truth in Naruto's words. She never acknowledged his kind gestures when they were younger. When Naruto failed to retrieve Sasuke, she blamed him for it. What right did she have to wish for his love?

"Robin actually loves me! I know she does!" Naruto screamed with a hoarse voice. He was starting to crack up.

"How do you know for sure, Naruto?" Sasuke asked him. Naruto, wiping his tears away, took a deep breath as he retold Robin's backstory.

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"She's pretty hot, isn't she?" a young boy asked his friends when he saw young Robin walking home from school.

"Yeah, she is. Nice sets of breasts, too," another one added with a devious grin.

"What do you guys have in mind?" the third one asked.

The first guy answered him. "Let's follow her."

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"Robin!" a young blonde girl screamed joyfully as she ran up to Robin.

"Minzi!" Robin exclaimed with a smile as she ran up to hug her best friend. Robin and Minzi were practically sisters. They did everything together. They studied together, they gossiped together, they gardened together. They did everything together. They were the bestest of friends.

"Are you going home?" Minzi asked Robin.

"Yeah, I am. My dad will be angry if I don't get home by five o' clock."

"That's still thirty minutes away," Minzi answered her. "Say, you want to take a quick walk before then?"

"A walk where?" Robin asked her slyly. Minzi giggled.

"How about to the park? Then we can go home together."

"Sounds good to me!" Robin answered her with a grin. "Race you?"

"You're on, you raven-haired brat!" Minzi teased with a poker face. The duo started sprinting towards the direction of the park, greeting their peers and random strangers as they ran by.

When they neared an alleyway, the three male stalkers departed from the alleyway's shadow and halted the two girls.

"Um, can I help you?" Minzi said.

"Fuck off, ugly," the front guy shouted at her.

"Hey, don't talk to my friend like that!" Robin shot back at him. The boy slapped her across the face.

"Don't use that tone with me, you slut. From now on, you're our bitch."

Robin knew what was coming, and naturally, so did Minzi. Minzi jumped up and bit the arm of the front guy, making him cry out in pain.

"Ah, get this whore off me!" the boy yelled to his companions.

"Run, Robin!" Minzi ordered her, her voice muffled with the boy's arm in her mouth. Robin shook her head and tried to go help her, but Minzi wildly shook her head.

"Run, Robin!" Minzi screamed at her! "Run!"

Robin tore herself apart as she tried to think of what to do. Following her friend's last wish, she decided to run, and the only thing she saw when she looked back was a kunai dug deep in Minzi's throat.

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"Let go of me!" Robin shouted to her violators.

"Not happening, babe," the boy said.

"You killed my best friend!" Robin screamed as she spat on the boy's face. He took it calmly.

"Who'll miss her, anyway?" the boy answered her with a hearty laugh. His buddies did the same.

Robin couldn't hold back her tears anymore. The thought of her best friend, her sister, sacrificing her life to save hers was unbearable. There were rivers of salty water falling from her eyes and she didn't know how to make it stop. To add insult to injury, she knew that she was about to get raped.

"Aw, don't cry, babe," the boy said with a devious grin. "Here, we'll make you feel all better." Her clothes were torn. The boy and his buddies' pants dropped down. And, just like that, she lost her virginity at the mere age of 13.

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"Get out of the house!" Robin's dad yelled at her.

"Please don't make me leave, dad!" Robin begged him.

"No! I don't need a stain on this family! Having random sex like that…I didn't raise you that way!"

"I told you I was raped!"

The dad threw a tantrum. "Get out NOW!"

Robin, without anything left to say, ran away with tears in her eyes.

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"Some food, please?" Robin begged a woman.

"Get off of me, heathen!" the woman scolded her. "How dare you touch me, you beggar?"

"I…I'm sorry. I'm just really hungry. I don't know how long I'll last at this rate…" Robin said softly.

The woman scoffed. "Good. Go ahead and die. It's not like anybody would miss you." With that, the woman left.

Robin didn't cry. She hadn't cried since she was kicked out. There were just no tears left to shed. The worse had already come. There was nothing left to cry about.

"Oh look, the dealers are here," Robin said normally as a gang armed to the teeth arrived. Ten minutes later, she was hanging off a lamppost, on the verge of death.

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"Where am I?" Robin said as she sat up. She seemed to be at a rather rich house. Her injuries were treated and there were cookies and milk on the table next to her. She didn't care if she was allowed to eat it or not, she was too hungry to care. She started gulping down the food one by one until she heard a woman laugh.

"Hungry, are we?" the woman asked her sarcastically.

"Please don't hurt me! I'm just really hungry, that's all!" Robin said as she guarded herself. Looking up, she saw the woman smiling at her.

"Honey!" the woman called to someone. "The girl's awake!"

Footsteps could be heard coming down the hallway. A rather handsome man appeared next to his wife. He gave his wife a quick kiss before he turned his attention to Robin.

"Ah, you're awake!" the man said with a bright smile. "Good! You're injuries were very bad. If we hadn't found you during our evening walk, you would probably be dead by now!"

She didn't know why, but Robin started to sob. Just seeing this much happiness in a person was overwhelming for her. The wife made her way to Robin and embraced her. Robin jumped a bit at the touch, but eventually eased up. It was nice to be under her embrace. The woman smelled like cherry.

"There, there, darling, there's no need to cry. You can stay here for as long as you want."

"B…but I'm a big hassle to take care of. I eat a lot, I'm not very feminine, and—"

The man laughed. The two females looked at the man in confusion. When the man stopped, he sighed.

"Ah, she sounds just like you, honey," the man said to his wife.

"Shut up, nitwit," the woman said with a laugh. The joy those two shared made Robin smile for the first time in a long.

"What's your name, sweetie?"

"My friends call Robin. Nice to meet you."

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Robin," the woman said with a very bright smile. Robin smiled back at her with an equally bright smile.

"Well, let me introduce ourselves. I am Kushina Uzumaki, and this is my husband, Minato Namikaze."

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"Do you see now?" Naruto asked his peers. Nobody dared answer him. Sakura wasspeechless. She was so jealous of Robin that she didn't even ask her about her past.

Robin, who was already awake, cried heavily. Naruto tried to tend to her, but she kept on crying.

"Why are you crying, Robin-chan?" Naruto asked her as he placed his hand on her cheek. She held his hand firmly.

"There has only been three happy moments in my life," Robin answered him in a rather uneven tone. "Everything else was hell for me. F…first was when I met my friend, Minzi."

Saying her name made Robin cry twice as hard. Naruto had to pick her up and place her head on his chest to sooth her.

"My second happiest moment was when Minato and Kushina adopted me. I was so grateful for their help. I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for them. I love them to death, and I would do anything to get them back."

"I do, too, Robin," Naruto said as he gently stroked her raven hair. "Though I didn't know them in real life, I love them just as any son loves his mom and dad."

There was a silence to let everything soak in.

"My third happiest moment…" Robin trailed off for a second. The group waited for her answer. She placed her hand on Naruto cheeks and gave him the biggest smile she could.

"My third happiest moment…was when I met you, Naruto."