This Is Who I Really Am

Chapter 3

So I thought about how much should be in this chapter, but I put more in than I planned because I didn't find a good stopping point :) The pic is of Slyvana, as she's described for part of this chapter.

"Orochimaru!" Sasuke's voice, furious, rang out in the hallway leading to Orochimaru's quarters. Because Sylvana was with him, he couldn't go into the lab, or she'd run off.

The sliding door was thrown open. In it's opening was the rogue Sannin.

"I have a proposition for you two."

Sasuke glared at him.

"Don't worry. I won't hurt her ever again if you both do this."

Kabuto rounded the corner, face bloody.

"I feel as if you two would prefer the offer over what could be done to her." Kabuto looked down at his feet. "Even though the offer is pretty terrible..."

"What's the offer? I'll do it as long as she's not hurt anymore."

"Oh, she won't be."

~*~

Dressed in all black, the pair of little ninjas crept around the giant underground facility. Orochimaru wanted Sasuke to train Sylvana in the way of the Shinobi, and he accepted.

So far, they'd found out that she has major potential, because she controls her chakra well, and can control it better than Sasuke can.

She isn't very good at taijutsu, but Sasuke was going to change that. Her imagination made her a good genjutsu candidate though, as she was already excelling.

Her ninjutsu was needing some refining though, even though she seemed to be skilled in that as well.

Kabuto was currently being stalked by Sylvana, Sasuke just monitoring. She was a natural, whether Orochimaru had taught her anything when she was younger or not. According to Kabuto, over the years she's been somewhat trained by other ninjas, for Orochimaru's protection. Now that he has Kabuto, Sasuke, and the Sound ninja, he doesn't have to rely on her anymore, so for the future he wants her trained to be perfect.

Sasuke didn't think that she needed much more training, just refining.

He didn't notice that Sylvana had taken a kunai knife from the pocket on his leg, and he watched her creep up closer and closer to Kabuto. Before Kabuto realized it, she'd pinned him to the ground and pressed the kunai against his neck, drawing a little bit of blood.

"I think she'll do just fine with the tasks." Kabuto said in a raspy voice, trying to avoid drawing more blood.

"Hey Sylvana, maybe we should practice working with swords now?" Sasuke prompted.

Sylvana jumped up off of Kabuto, and smiled at Sasuke, ready for the next portion or their training.

~*~

"So you hold it like this, okay? Not the way you've been holding out for the past 2 weeks." Sasuke held up his sword, and pointed it towards one of the bamboo trees. Orochimaru told them to practice a lot of their stuff in the forest of bamboo trees next to the hideout.

Kabuto had gotten her a more suitable outfit for a girl, a skirt with side slits, with shorts though she had on bandages on her legs, stockings, and an easy to nice around in sorry with a headband to help keep her hair up and out of her face. She was able to move better in it than the outfit she originally had. Even though she could move a lot better than her original outfit, she preferred the black outfit over her other two. She always kept it when Sasuke tried to throw it away, then burn it, then hide it, etc.

She tried to slice the bamboo trees in front of her, using all her might, but couldn't seem to get it right and chop them down.

"Sylvana, let's go. We can come back tomorrow." Sasuke turned to walk away.

"Baka."

"What?" Sasuke looked at her surprised.

"Baka." She repeated herself. Then she continued to practice with the sword.

"Sylvana, we have to go back." He sighed.

"Baka." She hit the tree again. This time, she made a dent.

"Let's go, dinner should be done, which means Kabuto will be waiting."

"Nii-san baka!" She shouted, and with her next swing, she cut down 3 bamboo trees. She turned and walked over to where a silent and forbidding Kabuto stood.

Sasuke looked at Kabuto, who shrugged. Sylvana looked at them, and grabbed the bottom of Kabuto's shirt, tugging him back home, with Sasuke trailing behind them.

~*~

That night at dinner, Sylvana sat in her chair, and watched the boys as they ate, but she didn't touch her plate. They were having lamb stew, made up of peas, carrots, lamb (obviously), chicken broth, and stir fry noodles. Sylvana loved the taste, but refused to eat anything without noodles or rice.

"What's wrong?" Sasuke finally asked her.

"Baka."

Sasuke sighed. "Why has that been the only thing you've been saying today?"

He never got his answer, because Orochimaru burst in.

"Teach her Chidori, now." Orochimaru glared at Sasuke.

"Why?" Sasuke spoke quickly.

The response was, "Then you'll find out what I can do to the little girl."

Sasuke felt Sylvana freeze. "Alright, when does she need to learn it by?"

"Tomorrow. Or else."

Sasuke turned, and looked at Kabuto, who shrugged.

"That's on you."

"Yeah, I know..." Sasuke dropped his head on the table and groaned.

"It must be hard, having to train her to do certain things..." Kabuto snickered.

"Yeah.." Sasuke looked up at Sylvana, and she threw mashed potatoes in his eyes. He dropped his head back down.

~*~

Night had fallen, and they were on the craggy rock, on the other side of the hideout. Sylvana wasn't tired, not in the least. She'd changed into the black outfit before they left, so it was only easy to spot her hair.

Sasuke, on the other hand, wasn't ready to try to teach her Chidori. Nor did he think that she could learn it overnight.

"Like this, harness chakra in your hand, as much as you can control at once, and run and push it into the large rock I'm front if you with all your might." Sasuke explained, and then demonstrated. He shattered the rock one front of him. "Now your turn."

Sylvana nodded. She started her collection of chakra, but it wasn't all white, like Sasuke's had been. She was collecting darkness, shadows, as well. Sasuke's eyes widened. She collected so much, her long blonde hair was blowing around in the end she had created, and when she got the rock with her collection of chakra and shadows, it exploded into dust, as if it was an atomic bomb going off in only that rock without affecting anything else.

It was completely destroyed. Only it's ashes fluttered in the air.

Sasuke slowly looked from the rock with fear to Sylvana's glowing green eyes.

They hadn't been glowing before.

CLIFF HANGER ENDING. Later :)