AN: Seriously? One review? What happened to all those people who were hounding me to update and liked my story?
Snake Eyes continued to press on Kamakura's chest while his other hand pushed in on points on the young man's back. Everyone was rewarded when Kamakura was finally able to draw in a complete breath of air. There were sighs of relief from everyone as Kamakura continued to breathe in full breaths of air, even after Snake Eyes took his hands away.
Snake Eyes quickly made signs to Tiger Claw and the boy left quickly, coming back with a stretcher. Together they lifted Kamakura as steadily as possibly onto the stretcher and then they carried him to Kamakura's room, placing him on the bed. Snake Eyes quickly did a check over and after he had sustained that Kamakura was out of danger he signaled Fire Storm to enter the room.
Fire Storm obeyed; hating himself for shaking while he entered the room. Snake Eyes did nothing, aside from moving to the door and shutting it. Fire Storm heard the lock and sighed, looking towards the bed where Kamakura was looking at him with wide eyes.
"I'm sorry," Fire Storm blurted out and Kamakura huffed softly before motioning slowly for Fire Storm to come closer. Fire Storm perched precariously on the bottom of Kamakura's bed and stared at the blue ninja, "I guess I should explain, huh? Why I'm so jumpy and don't like being pushed around or grabbed?" Kamakura gave him a 'You think?' look and Fire Storm sighed, "Okay, I'll tell you everything. First off, I'm not a cobra soldier, I never have been and I'm also the younger brother of Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow."
Fire Storm was never more thankful than that moment that Kamakura could not talk after he made that statement.
"I can't believe you left him in there with Kamakura alone!" Jinx shouted at Snake Eyes, completely riled up and Tiger Claw wisely started distancing himself from the two until he was safely in his own quarters. "He pulled an unsupervised Dim Mak move on Kamakura! If he had struck harder he would have broken Kamakura's ribs or caused some internal damage. You know how dangerous Dim Mak moves are to begin with, never mind the fact that that particular move is only to be used in the most desperate cases of self-defense, which is why those techniques are not taught until level five. Surely you don't sanction—?"
Snake Eyes clamped a hand over Jinx's mouth and made a sign with his other hand, signaling her to be quiet. Then he drew both his hands together, making the signs for Kamakura and Fire Storm before drawing the two together.
"You hope that this incident, never mind the pain it caused Kamakura, will help the two overcome their differences and become friends?" Snake Eyes nodded and Jinx snorted. "You have too much faith in that. Kamakura will not forget this and as soon as he gets his body back under control he is going to kill Fire Storm."
Snake Eyes shrugged a 'maybe' before turning and walking to his own quarters. Jinx watched him with narrowed eyes until she heard a door open and Tiger Claw stuck his head out to look about the hallway before looking her way.
"What are you looking at?" She snapped at him and Tiger Claw ducked back inside. Jinx drew in a breath, hoping to calm down but when that failed she went back to the gym to take out her frustration on the punching bag.
"Thank…you," Kamakura said, control over his faculties slowly coming back to him. He felt as though he had grown up considerably over the past half hour; it was amazing what the truth did to a person. "I can see… that it was not easy telling me… but I am glad I know the truth now."
Fire Storm nodded, he also felt as though a weight had been lifted after he had unburdened his past on Kamakura in a more controlled way than he had with his brothers. "I am truly sorry for what I did to you. I didn't know that move, I had only seen it done before and even then I wasn't thinking when I used it."
Kamakura raised his hand to Fire Storm, "Apology accepted."
Fire Storm blinked at the offered hand, stunned for a moment before he smiled and shook Kamakura's hand. "Friends?"
Kamakura grinned, "Friends."
Elsewhere, a white figure moved about the mats slowly, letting his aching muscles adapt to their new freedom of movement. Freedom? What a joke. They may let him out of his dark cell but he was by no means off the hook. They watched his every move, like a cat with a trapped mouse. Everywhere he went they followed, waiting, watching to see if they owned him once again.
He knew he had preserved a piece of his mind from the brainwashing, he just was not sure how much was himself and how much was theirs now. He would not until he met Fire Storm but he was not sure if he wanted to see the boy. Fire Storm was the key to the preserved part of his self and meeting the boy would unlock how much of his former self existed. But not knowing how he would react to such a memory overload could very well put the boy on Cobra's hit list and that must never happen.