Bound to You (Naruto)

Chapter Five

Kabuto returned to Orochimaru's underground lair within the Land of Sound after gathering intel from a recent chunin exam he'd participated in, it had been a little over two years since Orochimaru had brought that girl. It frustrated him that Lord Orochimaru left without warning and came back with some weak girl that served no purpose. Surely, she'd be dead by now. Lord Orochimaru wasn't in the habit of keeping things that had no use. Night had fallen as he broke through a clearing of trees near a small crystal-clear pool at the base of a waterfall not too far from the underground lair. His gaze was drawn to the water's surface and his heart stuttered in his chest as he spotted a young woman with soft subtle curves, wearing a simple silken white gown that fell just past her pale thighs. Her hair fell down her slight frame in perfectly tousled silvery blonde waves. She danced beneath the moonlight with a smile humming an eerie tune looking like a moon fairy.

It was the same girl! He retrieved a kunai from his ninja pouch and darted forward, he'd warned her if she tried to escape he'd kill her. He hurled a kunai at her with a deadly accuracy and his eyes widened in awe as she spun and caught the kunai in her hand with a slight squeak of panic. Her colorless eyes were wide with terror as she frantically scanned the surrounding area.

"Tsuki?" Kabuto froze as he heard Lord Orochimaru's voice from the shoreline. "Come here."

The girl vanished from view in an instant, her body flickering out of his line of sight. When the hell did she get so fast? He watched as she reappeared on the shoreline and his heart began to race as he spotted Lord Orochimaru at her side, his snake like eyes latching onto him in an instant.

"Ah, so you've returned, Kabuto?"

Tsuki's colorless eyes flit in Kabuto's direction and she took a tentative step behind the older shinobi with the long straight black as night hair and the deadly stare. Her body was trembling as she hid behind Lord Orochimaru. Kabuto reluctantly joined them on the shore line.

"I thought she was escaping." He admitted with a slight bow of his head to Orochimaru.

"I believe I had instructed you not to kill her." Orochimaru's voice was an angry hiss.

Kabuto stared in awe as the starlight girl lightly tugged on the back of the large purple rope tied around Lord Orochimaru's waist. Did she have a death wish? He was clearly angry. What was she trying to do?

Orochimaru sighed, but his anger seemed to dissipate, "That's enough for tonight, Tsuki. Go back to your room."

Tsuki bowed her head somberly, but knew better than to protest. She stepped forward and returned the kunai to Kabuto only to jump as he lashed out and caught her wrist in a painfully tight grasp and wrenched her closer to him. The kunai she'd handed him had blood on the blade, yet when he inspected her palm, there wasn't a scratch. There was something strange about this girl. He didn't like how close she appeared to be to Lord Orochimaru or that she seemed to have become skilled in his absence. Was she trying to take his place?

"Sorry for startling you, I thought you'd been injured." He lied swiftly as he released her from his grip leaving a dark purple hand print around her dainty wrist.

"Goodnight, Kabuto-san." She bowed her head politely before disappearing back to the lair as she had been instructed. This only irritated him further, he couldn't stand how soft spoken and spineless the girl was. She was scared of everything.

Kabuto looked to the pale androgynous man with the piercing gaze wondering why he kept the girl around. Lord Orochimaru didn't seem to have an interest in such things as carnal desire, so he couldn't be keeping the girl around for her body. He'd never informed Kabuto of any kind of experiments or tests, though he did have the girl in the lab often when she first arrived. It was obvious from her speed and agility that Lord Orochimaru had personally been training her, but why?

"Anything that caught your attention?"

"What? Of course not, she's weak and useless." Kabuto looked up startled.

Those snake like eyes narrowed into a glare, "From your findings. Not about the girl." His voice was an angry hiss. Why was he so protective of her?

"Ah." Kabuto handed over a stack of cards he'd stored information on from his experience during the chunin exam, "Nothing really."

"Good work." Orochimaru said after a moment of flipping through the intel and returned the stack of cards before heading off in the direction of the underground lair.

They walked back in silence as Kabuto wracked his brain to figure out what Lord Orochimaru could possibly see in such an infuriating girl. From the moment he first met her, he hated her, everything about her. Her soft sweet voice stirred him up, the fear in her freakish eyes every time he was near her always made him want to bully her and most of all he despised how close she was to Lord Orochimaru.

On the path ahead, glowing in the starlight was Tsuki kneeling next to a dying deer with tears glistening in her eyes. Her dress, the ends of her hair and her hands were drenched in blood. She turned as she sensed their approach.

"Help." She sniffled.

Kabuto smirked, waiting for Lord Orochimaru to lash out at the girl for disobeying his orders and wasting her time with something so trivial. Instead, he was surprised as Orochimaru approached the girl and placed a hand on her head.

"It's too late, Tsuki. You're just wasting time, prolonging its suffering with your futile attempts to save it." He swept the blood covered girl into his arms before turning to Kabuto. "Put it out of its misery, Kabuto."

Kabuto did as he was bid, ending the deer's suffering as he looked to the odd pair. Who the hell was this girl? What was she to Lord Orochimaru?

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