And then.... [She looks down slightly, her hands dropping from her hips.] I really thought you were bad news when I saw you like that. I didn't want Shiemi or I to have anything to do with you, but...after everything that happened, when Ms. Kirigakure told us you'd been given a death setence...I realized that I didn't want to see you die.

[Which isn't something she had admitted before -- not that Rin would know that.]