Tobi sat up and stared at her for a minute. Then he pulled his mask up to just above his nose. Blood was pouring out of his nose. He put a hand to his face. He opened his mouth to speak but it seemed like no words would come out. Then, "Y-you hit me!"

"Well that's what you get for preying upon innocent, young girls!" Yoko sang, and back-flipped out of the way as he appeared next to her and aimed a punch at her face. But then he appeared above her and kicked her in the stomach.

Damn!

On top of that, in midair she managed to twist in such a way that she landed on her right leg and heard a sickening crack come from it. She rolled onto her back, her face a mask of horror and pain- she had never broken a bone in her life!

Tobi came to stand next to her. She grabbed her club, which had fallen nearby and swung it at his head. He caught it easily and tossed it somewhere behind him. He looked down at her strangely. Yoko sensed that he was disturbed. At what? At hitting her? He knelt down beside her.

"Don't touch me!" She ordered, as fiercely as she could muster. When he ignored her by inspecting her leg she produced her clarinet and jabbed it at his face, "Eat splinters, creep!" he responded by taking the reed out, and breaking it in half. She glared at him, "Ya know, that was my last reed! I hope you're planning on whittling a new one for me, buster!"

"Please try not to move," He begged, "You'll only hurt yourself even more,"

"B- but what else am I supposed to do?" She stammered. Her lip trembled the way it always did before she- oh no! Not now! Not here with this strange man! But the tears came anyway.

"Ah! No, please don't cry!" He pleaded, "I'm sorry for hurting you, okay? Don't worry I'll take you back to the base and fix your leg. Then you'll be alright!" She could hear the grin in his voice and giggled at it, "There, that's better," He constructed a makeshift splint out of a strong piece of wood and his scarf. Then he lifted Yoko onto his back.

"What's your name?" He asked.

"Yoko,"

"Hmm, Yoko-chan," He said as though it reminded him of something.

"Yeah, and you're Tobi-san, right?"

"Yup,"

"Hey where are we going anyway?"

"We're going to meet, Deidara-san and Zetsu-san. You've already met them,"

"Oh no!"

"Don't worry, they won't hurt you,"

"How do you know?" She asked miserably.

He glanced over his shoulder at her, "Because I won't let them," She could hear that grin in his voice again.