Okay, so this is the backstory chapter I said I would post in the last chapter. This one concerns the first time Wendy and Robbie first met, and...well, you need to read it yourself to know what comes next.

Now, about the info: Orochimaru is real, but the slender figure he's with is based on the HideBehind, it even has the same name. Now, if you see Wendy think about the legendary Sannin, that's a group of three people: Orochimaru, another man named Jiraiya and Tsunade. That's it for now, I guess.

After this chapter, the story will not be updated until I have finished the next story chapter. Probably in february, but I can't really promise anything.

I got nothing more to say, so read and enjoy.

(Some years ago, at the Corduroy Clan)

The peaceful clan of the corduroy were reunited for an event, but that's not important at all.

Among the crowd, a pair of girls were running towards a tall cherry blossom tree, whose leaves were starting to fall and being blown through the wind. One of them had long red hair and she was wearing a red dress, while the girl near her had purple hair and was wearing a purple dress.

"You can't beat me, Tambry, I'm gonna get to the tree first!" stated the redhead.

"Not if I get there first, Wendy!" retorted the purpleheaded girl, Tambry, speeding up so she could catch up with the redhead.

The girls continued to run towards the tree, Wendy getting the upper hand and jumping towards the tree as her last resort. A boy with raven hair and black eyes, holding a wood sword, came out from behind the tree, failing to notice the girl until the two crashed.

"Ouch!" they both groaned.

"Yay! I win!" exclaimed Tambry after touching the tree, unnoticing the kids groaning in pain nearby.

Wendy and the boy separated and then got up, the boy removing the dirt from his clothing as the girl turned to him with an angry look. "What were you doing there and why didn't you move away?" asked Wendy, with her hands on her hips.

"I was practicing with my sword, and I didn't move away because I didn't saw you until it was too late." replied the boy. "Besides, It's not my fault you decided to do the frog way and jump towards the tree."

As the two continued to argue, Tambry looked at them and scratched her chin, humming in curiosity. It was not long before they found this out, and they turned to the girl.

"You two have a lot of animosity towards each other, and your anger seems pretty belieavable...you're probably going to get married when you get older!" remarked Tambry.

"Not in a million years!" the kids state in unison, glancing at each other and turning away before crossing their arms.

A long pause happened as the wind started to blow and Tambry crossed her arms, tapping her shoulder as she waited for the expected to happen. "Come on Wendy, we both know you two need to forgive each other." said Tambry.

Although the girl was pretty angry when she said, it didn't change the fact that she was right. "Look, sorry for crashing on top of you." stated Wendy, without bothering to turn to the boy.

"And I guess I'm sorry for not noticing you until it was too late." Wendy rolled her eyes at the boy's response. "Now, if you may, I need to continue my sword training."

With those words said, the girls exchanged looks before walking back to the town. Once Wendy was about to go through the seeminglyendless people standing there, she suddenly remembered something and went running to her house, where she saw and grabbed a wood sword laying on the ground. Once she grabbed it, she looked at both sides before going through a dense patch of bushes around, with Tambry noticing from far away and getting a worried look before going inside the house.

Back with the boy, he was swinging his wood sword around the place, only managing to hit air and nothing else. He then heard something in the bushes, and slowly walked to it and got ready to attack.

Once Wendy jumped out of the bushes, the two kids briefly engaged in a sword fight before Robbie and Wendy realized what they were doing and stopped. "What are you doing here?" asked the kid, narrowing his look and gripping his weapon.

"I remembered that I'm also practicing with swords, so do you mind if I practice with you?" inquired Wendy, showing the boy her wood sword.

He glanced at the sword, and then at the girl with big wide smile, doing this a few more times before speaking. "I'm gonna go practice at the forest nearby."

"Isn't that forest off-limits?" asked Wendy.

"No, I'm going to a safe part of it where I can train in peace." answered the boy in a blunt tone, turning to the girl with half-closed eyes and a blush before continuing. "As for your other question, I guess I wouldn't...mind, if you practiced with me."

"Cool! You lead the way!"

Groaning in frustration, the boy did as told and led the way to the safe part he was going to train at, Tambry coming out of the bushes and seeing the kids go into the forest. Shortly after that, the girl turned to the left and saw a tall, slender figure completely covered in shadows with yellow eyes, and a pale man with long black hair, wearing a plain grey garbs with black pants and a think purple belt tied to a large knot on his back and blue tomoe-shaped earrings.

The man turned to the girl, and morphed his face into that of a snake before roaring at the girl, making the startled girl run away. Once that was done, the man morphed his face back to normal and continued to walk to the forest with the slender creäture. "Clan Leader Dan! Clan Leader Dan!" the girl screamed as she entered the clan

(At the safe part of the forest)

The girl and boy were walking to the latter's training ground, Wendy looking around the forest while the raven-haired boy looked strictly forward and nowhere else. "So, I just remembered we never introduced ourselves properly." remarked Wendy. "My name is Wendy Corduroy, daughter of the clan leader Dan Corduroy."

"I hope your name doesn't include the last part." sarcastically remarked the boy.

"So, what's your name?" asked Wendy.

"Robbie."

"...And?"

"Just Robbie."

"Come on, you gotta have a second name!" replied the girl, the boy groaning and trying to ignore her as she continued. "In all my years, I have never met a single person who has a single name, and if I did, then I believe that they simply don't want me to know it."

"My name is Robbie Stacey Valentino." bluntly stated the boy. "There, I told you, are you happy yet?"

"Stacey? Hahaha! That's quite a funny name!" giggled the girl.

"Halt." ordered the boy, the girl failing to pay attention and colliding with him. "We've arrived."

The duo had arrived at a circular part of the forest, where a pair of dummies, both looking like missing-nins. Upon seeing the dummies, the kids gripped their swords and went running towards them, right before both dummies somehow cut themselves in half and the man from before arrived, the man morphing his hand into a snake and using it as a whip to hit the girl.

Reacting in time, Robbie managed to push himself and Wendy away before the snake whip hit, landing on the ground and turning to see the man morph his hand back to normal. "Who are you, and why did you do that?" questioned Robbie, glaring at the man with a furious look.

"The name is Orochimaru." snarled the man with his smile intact.

"One of the legendary sannin?!" thought Wendy in shock.

"And just what are you doing here?" asked the raven-haired boy, raising an eyebrow as he and Wendy got up and grabbed their swords.

"I just want to give my partner here something to play with, if he doesn't play, he gets bored pretty quickly." answered Orochimaru. "I hope you don't mind if he plays with you, he can get a little rough...and potentially kill you, as well. HideBehind, attack."

From behind the man came out a slender figure, HideBehind, who let out a ferocious roar before running towards the kids, raising his hand and turning it into a punch before slamming it into the ground. Luckily, the kids managed to jump away before the punch hit, and glancing left and right, the HideBehind got an idea and jumped high in the sky, apparently leaving instantly.

As the boy and girl wondered what had just happened, Orochimaru let out a smug laugh and shook his head, the kids remembering he was there and getting ready to run towards him. However, the sound of rumba shakers were heard, which got the kids attention immediately as they tried to figure out the source of the sound. They looked at the sky, the ground, but no source was found.

The sound was heard louder on the bushes, however, so they walked to a random patch of them, the sound getting louder and louder as they got closer...and then the HideBehind jumped out of them and once again attacked the kids.

(Back at the Corduroy Clan)

The screaming Tambry busted the door of the main Corduroy house open, where Dan, wearing a white shirt with a long-sleeved undershirt, black pants and brown shoes with a brown jacket with the kanji for "wood" behind it, was sitting in the middle of the room. "Clan leader Dan, I have terrible news!" exclaimed the girl in a panic.

"What is it?" questioned Dan, opening his eyes.

"A man with pale skin and with a tall, slender creäture is going to the forest!" the man did nothing in response. "And in the forest is a boy!" the man once again did nothing, and Tambry pinched the bridge of her nose before saying what she should have said before. "And your daughter is in danger."

The man got a worried look and got up, ordering a squad of guards to come with him. They, along with Tambry, then got out of the house and looked around for the person Tambry spoke about, instead finding a boy sitting on a rock nearby the forest: Sasuke.

"Wait, what am I doing here?" questioned Sasuke.

Before he knew it, Dan gave the order and the guards started to beat up the teenager, which was presented like a big ball of violence. "No, he's the wrong guy!" said Tambry, grabbing Dan's hand and dragging him to the forest. "Follow me!"

(Back with the kids)

Wendy and Robbie jumped every time the HideBehind slammed his fists on the ground, which was a lot, as Orochimaru watched the battle with his arms crossed and a smug smile. After a while, the HideBehind got ticked off and ripped off a pair of trees, using them as clubs that he slammed on the ground in another attempt to hit the kids.

Once Wendy just barely managed to avoid being crushed by one of the tree-clubs, she got on top of it and held on tightly as the HideBehind lifted it, noticing the girl immediately and shaking the tree so she would come off. Taking the chance, Robbie jumped from tree to tree until he managed to jump strong enough to land on the HideBehind's armholding the tree, somehow cutting it out with his wood sword.

The HideBehind screamed in agony as Wendy jumped from the tree and rejoined Robbie, the kids working together to get on the monster's head. Once there, they both immediately stabbed his face, with a green liquid coming of the wounds as the kids jumped off and landed on the ground.

The creature fell to the ground unconscious, the kids exchanging a high-five before turning back to Orochimaru. "Now that we took care of your little friend, we're gonna take care of you!" stated Wendy.

All Orochimaru did as the kids went running closer and closer towards him was give them a malicious smile as some mud formed nearby him. "Earth Release Shadow Clone!" exclaimed Orochimaru.

"Shadow what?" asked the kids in unison.

Suddenly, a clone of Orochimaru appeared along him and he used the clone to block the kid's attack. Once the attack hit, the clone smirked madly as it dissolved into mud, which then quickly went to Wendy and grabbed her legs, leaving her immobile.

"So, you use your sword with your right arm?" asked Orochimaru, looking at the boy's sword, but more importantly, his arm holding said arm.

"Yeah, but why would you ask that?" snarled Robbie.

Orochimaru somehow moved so fast it looked like he was teleporting and appeared behind the boy, grabbing his arm and grabbing and throwing away his wood sword before speaking. "So that I can do this." he answered as he used both hands to grab the arm.

A crunch was heard as the man snapped Robbie's arm in half, the boy screaming in agony as Wendy found herself unable to do anything but watch. Orochimaru then threw the boy towards a tree, a patch of blood coming from the damaged arm hitting the tree once the boy collided.

Having seen the boy suffer something so horrible, Wendy turns back to see Orochimaru right in front of her, giving her a disturbing glance with snake-like pupils. The girl tried to hit him with her wood sword, but after a few ineffective hits he simply grabbed the sword, took it away from the girl and threw it high in the sky. The man then did a short Snake → Tiger combination and raised his left hand up.

"Hidden Shadow Snake Hands."

The man's hand and arm suddenly transformed into a group of snakes, which extended long enough to reach the sword and somehow break it in pieces with their teeth, giving Wendy the illusion that they were actually eating. Once the sword was nothing more than smithereens, the snake hands returned to normal arm length and they turned back into an arm and hand.

The mud that held her dissipated and Wendy tried to run away, but the man simply extended his hand and grabbed her arm, dragging her back to him. "Now, I wonder how much pain you would share with that boy if I did the same thing to you." remarked Orochimaru, now using both hands to grab her arm.

Unlike last time, Orochimaru didn't snap the girl's arm in two at the instant, he did it as slowly as he could, with the girl screaming as she tried to release herself from his grasp. Luckily, a giant rock came from nowhere and Orochimaru threw the girl away once he saw it, jumping away before it hit him, instead hitting a tree nearby the tree Robbie had collided.

Orochimaru landed on the ground and turned to see Dan and Tambry arrived from the shadows, Dan holding a giant rock, which he shortly thereafter threw towards the man, who once again dodged with ease.

"Stay away from my daughter, whatever you are!" exclaimed Dan.

Orochimaru smiled and dashed towards Dan while opening his mouth and morphing it to look like a snake's, a fierce battle occurring between the two men as Tambry went to check on Wendy. As she checked her pulse and how fine she was gonna be afterwards, Wendy spotted the sword on Tambry's side, and she quickly grabbed it, got up and went running towards the battle. "Hey! That's mine!" whined Tambry.

"This is for Robbie!" exclaimed Wendy as she got closer and closer to the man.

Orochimaru was holding Dan's neck and lifting the man before he heard that, turning to the girl and throwing away the man before replying. "In that case, I won't get in the way." replied Orochimaru with a smug laugh.

Raising an eyebrow in confusion, Wendy shaked it off and jumped towards Orochimaru...who jumped away just as she collided, and instead Wendy had pierced something else, with a horrifying scream of pain being heard as she removed the sword. The one who had been hit...was Robbie, who now had a huge wound in his torse which was bleeding at an alarming rate.

Seeing that, Tambry and Dan went running to the boy as Wendy stood there speechless, glancing at the sword, which was now covered in his blood. The girl then let out a terrifying shriek as she felt something piercing the right part of her stomach, glancing down to see a clawed hand, which soon left the spot.

Wendy fell on her knees and then the ground, managing to turn around and see Orochimaru laugh maniacally as Dan grabbed her, falling unconscious shortly after that.

(Corduroy Clan Hospital, room 45)

The girl woke up, screaming at the top of her lungs from the pain. She then calmed down for a moment after seeing Tambry at her side, and the interior of the room. The girl then looked at her stomach, and saw the right wound was covered by some bandages. "Wendy, don't freak out, you're safe now." assured Tambry, covering the girl's lower half with a bedsheet.

"Where...where am I?" asked Wendy, looking around her room.

"At the hospital, me and your dad brought you and Robbie here as soon as we could." the mention of Robbie instantly caught Wendy's attention, though Tambry failed to notice this. "You both were bleeding pretty badly-"

"Robbie is here?!" exclaimed Wendy in shock.

"Well, he was here-"

"They transferred him to another room? Which room?! I need to know!"

"They...didn't transfer him to another room."

"Then where is he?!"

"Well, how do I put this-"

"Just tell me already! I gotta know where he is!"

"...Wendy, I don't really know how to put this in a way you want to hear it..." Tambry looked away for a moment and she twiddled with her fingers before answering, with her eyes closed and with a sad frown. "Robbie...he's in a better place."

Wendy's eyes became empty, and she became completely shell-shocked, laying back on her bed and hitting her pillow without showing pain of any kind. A long silence passed before the girl moved to see her friend with a worried look. "Where is his grave?" asked Wendy.

(Back at the Forest)

Wendy, accompanied by Dan and Tambry, went to the same place where the kids fought Orochimaru and the HideBehind, with the beast's corpse nowhere to be seen. It didn't took long before Wendy found Robbie's grave, which was located in the middle of the field, with a few writings on it and a large, bronze sword stuck on the ground, with a brown grip. "What is that sword doing there?" asked Wendy before groaning in pain and stopping on her tracks.

Tambry went running to her friend, helping her regain her balance. "Robbie asked us to put it there." answered Tambry.

"Why?"

"He gave us one last request before he passed away: his request was that, when you felt like you were ready to use it, you would take that sword, which he was supposed to use when he got older, and use it as your own." explained Dan. "He couldn't explain us why he requested that or how he got the sword, but there you go."

Having heard that, Wendy glanced at the sword and just...stared, for a while, before speaking. "Can you...leave me for a moment?"

Dan and Tambry were a bit unsure of what to answer, but they still answered "yes" and decided to leave the girl alone, though they did stay at a point where they could see her if anything happened. Believing she was alone, Wendy looked at the ground, her tears hitting the ground as a single question flowed through her mind. "Will I ever get over this?"

(At the present day, Forest of the K.I.A.)

The now teenager Wendy was standing still in front of Robbie's grave, which was now surrounded by hundreds of other graves, motionless and speechless. It was raining, which made it easier for Wendy to hide her tears of anguish, although it did nothing to hide her sniffing, or her groans of pain coming from the still wounded right part of her stomach.

"It has been years since I asked that question. And seeing that I have had a lot of time to reflect on this, I should have gotten over it by now." thought Wendy, grabbing the sword and pulling it out of the ground. "And yet..."

Wiping off her tears, Wendy took out a sheath, put the sword inside it, put ut on her waist, looked at the grave one last time and then put on a straw hat, shortly afterwards walking away without looking back.

"I haven't...and I think...I never will." she thinks, closing her eyes.

The End