Bound to You (Naruto)

Chapter Two

A/N: Warning, there's some content that some people may find a bit disturbing or distressing... just wanted to give everyone a heads up...

Over the years, Orochimaru continued on with his goal, researching the mark and the Towa clan in his spare time. He kept the girl, imprisoned on a remote island, in a prison below ground under 24-hour surveillance. Occasionally, if the girl were under stress he'd get a faint fleeting feeling, but so long as she wasn't in life threatening danger, it would subside. According to Towa Clan legend the mark was to identify soulmates, which was completely laughable to him. However, the fact that his life was tied to that weak child, was not a laughing matter.

In his time researching, he'd gained many loyal followers, but also a few enemies along the way, the girl was a constant risk and their bond was unbreakable. He'd hoped that once he found a vessel to try his body transfer jutsu on that the mark would stay with his old body, but once he'd completed the first transfer, the mark seared onto the hand of his new body.

As he was working in his lab, he felt his stomach churn uneasily, something was wrong with the child. He could feel her terror all around him and his heart started to race inside his chest. Was she in danger? Was the remote island discovered by one of his enemies? Her breathing was being restricted. There was pain, so much pain, something was terribly wrong. Swearing under his breath he dropped what he was doing and took off. After about ten minutes, his body returned to normal, but he sensed a disturbance with the child and continued on his way. Something was terribly wrong. Her psyche had been broken, she was in physical and psychological agony. The island wasn't safe for her anymore.

It was normally a week's journey to get to the island, but he could make it there in as little as two days if he was determined. On the second day of the journey, he knew something was wrong with the girl, his body felt oddly sluggish and weak as he arrived at the prison.

"Lord Orochimaru!" He was greeted by one of his subordinates, Orion, the man he'd left in charge of the prison, a young man of twenty and three whose powerful earth style jutsu helped create the island fortress. "What a surpri-."

"Where's the child I left here eight years ago?" Orochimaru hissed.

The young man seemed taken aback by the directness but thought better than to question his clearly agitated superior. "Same place you left her. Would you like to res-?"

"Take me to her." Orochimaru glared causing the young man to pale and jump to action leading the way through the maze-like fortress.

They twisted and wound their way deep into the ground through the underground tunnels before stopping at a small guard's station to get the key to her cell from the guard on duty. When they stopped in the guard's station Orochimaru noticed the guard on duty had a few scratches on his face and appeared to be nursing a black eye and a deep wound to his chest. It looked deep and was still bleeding, though he suspected it wasn't a fresh wound.

"What the hell happened to you?" Orion asked in awe as he looked to his subordinate.

"That stupid, bitch. She's crazy!" The guard growled before turning to face them he paled when he spotted the shinobi with the straight black as night hair and the leering eyes. "Ah, Lord Orochimaru." He bowed politely.

"Tsuki, did that?" Orochimaru asked skeptically, the docile whimpering child he'd left here eight years ago wasn't capable of such damage.

"She's refusing her sedatives now." The guard grumbled, "And seems to have awoken an affinity for wind style."

"Sedatives?"