Right .. Chapter two. Sorry about the time skips.
Over the next few days, Sasuke remembers nothing except training. He remembers only Kurami as she gets stronger than she already is with her taijustu, and her balance. Sasuke waits for the day to untie her wrists. He admits in the back of his mind that he is curious at her skills.
He walks into the clinic like room, where Kabuto treats the injured. He sees Kabuto sat on a chair, writing in a scroll, and Kurami sat on the bed in the room, attempting to rebandage her wrist, awkwardly. She senses Sasuke and bows her head.
"Good Morning, Sasuke-sama."
Kabuto looks up from his scroll and smirks at the Uchiha.
"Sasuke-san." He acknowledges. Sasuke looks at them both.
"Hn." He moves into the room, grasping for a cream on Kabuto's desk. He applies some to his shoulder, which he realizes is very painful. He remembers when Kurami managed to kick his collarbone somehow, while she was improving her taijutsu yesterday.
She runs at Sasuke kicking her foot around, to catch his shoulder. He dodges, turning around.
She twists so she is facing him again, and kicks her foot once more.
He catches her ankle, and her knee to prevent her from kneeing him. She smiles.
"Ne, I am getting better, Sasuke-sama?" Sasuke grunts. He flips her foot around, and she tries to keep her balance. She regains it and swings her foot around, aiming for his stomach. He sways backward, and lunges at her. She jumps in the air and lands a few feet away from him. She runs at him again, swinging her foot at his head.
He squats down, but not in time, because her foot collides with his shoulder. He doesn't fall, but he sways, and she feels him get hit. She drops to her knees in front of him.
"Sasuke-sama! I-I'm sorry! I-" He cuts her off.
"Hn." He rubs his aching neck, and her mouth quivers.
"It's my fault, Sasuke-sama. I-I cannot heal you, or help you and I caused this." She looks down.
"Don't worry, I'm fine." He grits through his teeth, still clutching his throbbing collarbone.
"Kurami." He rubs his hands on his pants, removing the cream from them, looking at the girl.
She looks up to his face.
"Yes, Sasuke-sama?" She moves her still bound arms.
"Sparring time." He turns towards the door. She gets up, protesting.
"Sasuke-sama, after the blow you took to your shoulder, you should hardly be-" He turns back to her.
"I'm fine." He walks out the door, and hears her graceful footsteps behind him.
"Sasuke-sama?" Her voice is light and hesitant.
"Hn?" He walks threads his way through the maze like hallways.
"Well .. I have been telling Orochimaru-san of our sparring and of how much you are impoving and so am I and well.. may I start to regain use of my hands, maybe in the next few days?" She moves her hands in emphasis.
"We'll see." He smirks, turning another corner, and walks into the training area. He faces the girl, taking a good twenty steps from her. His hand instinctively goes to his sword.
"Shall I start, Sasuke-sama?" she shifts her feet.
He goes to nod, but remembers she cannot see. "Yes." He says. She nods and runs at him kicking her foot out. It grazes his ribs, not hitting him hard enough to inflict pain. He bounces backwards and kicks his feet out, balancing on his hands.
Today she is wearing a white dress with her burned slightly heels. He smirks, as he sees a kunai pouch on her thigh. She knows she will regain the use of her hands anyday soon, he thinks.
She jumps up and shifts her left elbow out, catching his own. He falls to the side, getting up quickly. He extends his arm, cracking his elbow, and moves to punch her. She flips backwards and runs to kick him again, this time in his leg. She misses, and he sees a slight pout as she does miss. He smirks again.
"Kurami." She stops where she is, and looks toward his chakra signature.
"Is everything okay, Sasuke-sama? Are you hurt? Is it your collarbone?" She looks worried, and starts walking towards him.
"No." He takes out his sword and gently pulls her arm, so she is closer to him. He turns her around and looks at her tied arms behind her back. He slices the ropes. She gasps, as her arms come free.
She brings them to her face, and she strokes her cheeks. She turns to him.
"Thank you, Sasuke-sama!" She smiles at him, stretching her arms.
"Hn." He kicks the ropes aside, and replaces his Katana.
"Show me your skills, Kurami." He whispers, his voice husky. He sees her grin and nod. She is gone in a puff of smoke. He activates his Sharingan, becoming more alert. He hears a swish behind him and turns only to meet needles come flying at him. He moves around, dodging them.
His chest heaves slightly as he regains his bearings. He hears the wind swish from above. He looks up and sees her flying down, her hands forming signs. A sword like his own appears in her hands in a puff of smoke and she drives it down towards him. He rolls away, as the sword slices through the stone. It disperses and she gets to her feet gracefully. She turns to him.
"Sasuke-sama?"
"Hn?"
"When I chipped your sword the first day we sparred, something burned my shoes. It felt like lightning, and sounded like birds .. what was it?"
"My Chidori." He grabs for his Katana, pulling it out of its case. He sent the Chidori through the sword, making the same noise Kurami described.
"I've always loved birds." She whispers. Her hands form signs again and she touches her left hand to the bandage on her right wrist.
Sasuke's Sharingan senses an immense amount of chakra flowing from both arms, into each other. His eyes widen slightly.
Kurami's hand is surrounded by black flowing chakra. It is visible, as it goes up the length of her forearm, stopping at her elbow. It forms into thorn like vines, winding up her pale skin. The chakra pulses, and spreads, lightening to a more maroon color.
"Nensho Yoake, Burning Dawn" She whispers, flexing her now chakra covered arm. The chakra changes color again into a bright red, almost looking like fire, to Sasuke.
"It is supposed to literally burn through human skin, when in contact. But I've never tried it on anyone." She diminishes the chakra slightly, and lunges at Sasuke. He gets up, his Chidori still showing, and attacks her. She throws her arm out, and the blade meets her flowing red arm. The contact throws the two backwards.
Kurami hits the wall, her back arching. She falls the floor, coughing. Her arm is burned and painfully battered and bleeding. She shifts her head towards Sasuke.
"Sasuke-sama?" she asks into the air weakly. She hears a grunt from the oppisite wall and runs to him. Sasuke is in a sitting position, clutching the hand that held his Katana.
"I'm fine." He says, clutching his hand harder. He feels her fingers touch his arm.
"Where is it?" Her fingers trace their way down to his arm. He winces as she feels his hand, and applies chakra to heal it.
"Thank god, Kabuto taught me about healing." She whispered. She finishes healing it and pulls her hands back, one of them clutching her arm. She winces badly at the pain in her arm. She applies the remaining chakra to her hand and kneels by Sasuke.
"How did you know where I was and what I had injured?" His voice cracks.
"Well Orochimaru-san taught me a lot on chakra sensing and voices." She looks down, her arm tracing the remaining burns on her skin.
"Hn."
"Sasuke-sama?" She senses him looking at her face.
"Why did you join Orochimaru-san?"
"I need power, I've killed my brother, avenged my clan, but I need to kill Oochimaru himself." He whispers the last part. She nods.
"How did you get that curse mark?" He whispers, and her hand goes instinctively to her neck, to touch it lightly.
"I was only fifteen, the best in my class, and I had just made jounin in the village Amegakure. I was helping some of the Genin with missions, and he found me on the outskirts of the villiage. Thats were he bit me. I traveled with him, because I hadn't family in my villiage and he trained me. He said my eyes were different. Somehow powerful. He said that I am needed for a special mission. To help train you." She looked down again.
"You had no family?"
"They were murdered .. on a mission." Sasuke inhales lightly.
"Sasuke-sama?"
"Hn?"
"Whom did you leave behind? When you came after Orochimaru for power?" She looks at him, her hands intertwining with themselves.
"Friends. Bonds." He murmurs. She nods again.
"What do you think Orochimaru-san means when he said I'm not allowed to see until you realize why I am to train you and assist to you?"
"I-I don't know." Sasuke moves to stand up, pulling her up along with him. She thanks him and turns to the door.
"I must go to Orochimaru-san and report your progress. Thank you, Sasuke-sama." She blushes slightly, walking down the hallway. Sasuke moves down the hallway, wincing as he flexes his wrist. He turns to a door along the hallway opening it. He see's all three of his teammates in the room today.
Karin comes up to him, latching on his arm, as always.
"Sasuke-kun! What happened to your hand!" She fretts over it as Sasuke pulls away and grabs a scroll from the shelf.
"We leave to get the info, in two days, got it?" He unravels it, as Karin makes a noise, sitting down in her usual spot. Juugo looks at Sasuke and nods. Suigetsu agrees and Karin just 'hmphs'.
"So, Orochimaru says that we should start at Amegakure and work our way through the towns to just outside Konaha. When we get too close, we can diguise ourselves." Suigetsu says, writing on a piece of paper.
"Amegakure?" Sasuke looks up, frowning.
Suigetsu nods.
"Hn."
There is a knock on the door, and Kurami comes in, standing in the doorway.
"Sasuke-sama?"
"Hn?" He looks at her. He sees Karin sneer and Juugo and Suigetsu stare at Kurami.
"Orochimaru asked me to bring you to him." She looks down, hearing Karin snort, and laugh.
"Karin." Sasuke says in a deadly tone. He gets up and walks out the door, after Kurami. She leads him down the hallways to Orochimaru's room, and lets them in, shutting it behind her.
"Orochimaru-san?" He gets up from his chair, and dismisses Kabuto.
"Ah yes, Sasuke-san, have you decided on a day to gather the infomation on the Kyuubi?" He walks towards the two.
"Two days from today. I will take my team too."
"But Sasuke-san, I don't want you to have no one to sparr with on your journey. Why don't you accompany him, Kurami?" He looks at her, a grin on his lips. She looks down.
"If it is Sasuke-sama's wish .."
"I'll bring her along. She has good chakra sensing skills. Better than Karin's." His face remains its usual stoic expression.
"Good, good." Orochimaru goes to grab a scroll off of a nearby table. He hands it to Sasuke.
"Its a map of where you need to stop and gather infomation. Use force if you have to." Sasuke nods curtly, before turning and walking out the door. Kurami follows him, shutting the door lightly. She turns to him, placing a hand on his cheek.
"Thank you Sasuke-sama." She smiles, and she feels his finger trail up her cheek to her blindfold. Her breath hitches slightly. She moves back slightly, and her back touches the cold stone wall.
"Sasuke-sama-" She feels his breath on her face, and his lips move closer to hers. She touches two fingers to his lips, smiling weakly.
"Please, not here Sasuke-sama." She feels him draw back. He frowns. She moves her hand off of his face.
"I.. I should go pack. Good night Sasuke-sama."
He watches as she walks down the hallway to a room not far from his, closing it behind her.
Wow two chapters in one night, I'm impressed with myself. I'm gonna stop now, I needa sleep on this. Tell me if I should continue with it. Thanks.