Land of Sound {[RP]}

[Lord English]

Contains Otogakure. The above ground is still rice farmland and has some machines but not many. Otogakure is underground and spans to the edges with name entrances.

[Lord English]

Orochimaru managed them across the border, she still wanted down despite being incredibly weak. He sighed and looked down as they had to get out of the trees, passing into rice fields. He snaked through them with ease. Ryū ended up biting him on the neck, him letting go from not expecting it. She fell off and tumbled a bit, taking a deep breath as she landed on her back. She had a bruise on her forehead, her right knee, and on he left hip from the tumble. She felt the Kikaichu moving to try to mend it, her standing herself up as she said, “I want to go on ny own!”
Orochimaru looked at her and folded his arms, he knew she wouldn’t get far. He let her and watched her start running, he made sure to stay right at her side even if they were only going twenty miles per hour. He watched her stumble after a while and moved to get her up but she forced herself up. She tried to keep going. Orochimaru thought it was pathetic and said, “You are just going to get hurt this way.”
Ryū ignored the warning and her foot ended up sinking into one of the hidden entrances to Otogakure. She felt her body twist and she tried to catch herself but fell into the hole face first, nabbing a root and smacking into the wall as she felt her body fall down still and the root slipped from her hand. She smacked her back onto the ground beneath her and just laid there as she took in ragged breaths. Orochimaru stepped down calmly and kneeled next to her. Ryū said, “say I told you so…”
Orochimaru stopped and just hesitated. He was going to say it but now he didn’t want to. He instead carefully picked her up and took her down in the rest of the way and started walking towards the village that he has.

[Lord English]

Ryū held onto him and was set onto a stone table. She finally released despite being in pain. Orochimaru moved and took collected herbs from a drawer, placing them into a bowl and crushing up the leaves. He then placed them into the top of a kettle made specifically for brewing that he had procured on one of his ventures. He opened a different section as he went to a storage holding the kettle as he opened a tap to the water reserve. It drained into the kettle and he shut it off when it reached the top then he took it to a handle that it could hang from above a nearby fire. He let it sit there and he walked back to her and looked over her body. He then said, “When you are ready, we will begin training. I will be teaching you some very important Jutsu, and then we will meet with others for a mission.”
Ryū gazed at him and said, “I nission?” Her hand grabbed onto his, him pulling gently away as he was uncomfortable with it.
He nodded and said, “Yeah. I will tell you later.”

[Lord English]

Ryū rested for several hours, she had been being given herbal teas until she felt better for the time. Orochimaru even made a meal for her to get her strength up. She thanked him and had eaten it but waited for him to eat before doing anything. Instead, Orochimaru said, “We are going to train…”
Ryū shook her head and said, “Why? You haven’t had anything yet.”
Orochimaru shook his head and said, “You will train, I will eat. Run up and down that nearby cave shaft and dodge the venomous snakes as you do so.”
Ryū got up, still very sore as she looked down the shaft. It was dark in there and the fact she would need to dodge poisonous snakes was going to make it worse. She stood up fully and walked to go into the shaft and started running at top speed, feeling things latching onto her and it creeped her out, her kikaichu throwing sounds so she could see. The so called ‘snakes’ were just roots. She started to try and dodge the roots sticking out. She ended up making it to the end of the corridor but she was a bit dizzy. She ran the whole way back and felt them stinging on her ankles as she tripped over them. She got back to the main room and she dropped to her hands and knees, more sore than before. She wondered what the hell was on those roots.
Orochimaru smirked and had already finished eating. He looked at her and said, “Sleep hard…”
Ryū was down and out for a dreamless sleep. Her body twitching. Orochimaru gave her the antidote but knew it wouldn’t wake her up for a while, just leaving her there.

[Lord English]

Orochimaru took the opportunity to strip Ryū while she was asleep. He replaced her clothes with sound based clothes, a black skintight that ran from ankle to neck and to her wrists, a tan t-shirt, and that distinct purple rope tied into a bow. He had to fight through her swarm of very confused and angry kikaichu and managed to take off her grate and the eye tubes out. He was looking at the holes and he set the metal to the side. He looked and poked his fingers in just to see how bad it was. He waved away the angry swarm and went to a different room.
He knelt to a kid he had captured on a previous venture, they looked up at him and were crying. He checked the skin color and looked over the eyes just to make sure they were good. The kid cried more and kept eyes trained on Orochimaru. He moved over and grasped a scalpel, the kid started to scream through a gag in their mouth. He was just about to cut when he heard a sound.
Ryū had woken up and screamed at the fact of missing grate and tubes that she could feel. He returned to her and she panicked still as she said, “WHAT THE HELL?!”
Orochimaru looked at her and said, “I was trying to help you, calm down.”
“WHERE ARE NY TUBES AND GRATE?!” She was shaking and pushing herself to sit, him coming over and pushing her down.
“It is alright,” He assured her and said, “I have them nearby. Let me show you something so you won’t need them anymore.”
“WHAT?!” She snapped, staying down but sounding like she was calming, hissing through her teeth as the adrenalin went down.
He spoke plainly, “Living Corpse Reincarnation. If the host is unsuitable, it will be a about three years until you will need to switch. If you find the perfect body, you can live through their entire life time with theirs or your face. But you must perform it perfect the first time.”
Ryū was completely unready for hearing such a thing then said, “Isn’t that… well… inossile?”
Orochimaru smirked and said, “No. Not at all. It is how I am still alive.”
Ryū froze in thinking on it. She tilted her head back and said, “So… I could lile foreher?” Orochimaru nodded and went back to the other room, bringing over the tied up child he was going to cut the face off of. Ryū forced herself to stand up, it was horribly painful. The kid was already dressed in the same outfit she was put into and she felt the face with her hand. She then said, “I will give it a shot.”
Orochimaru smirked and said, “I will help you.” He stepped behind her and placed his hands onto her shoulders, he took a deep breath and said, “Focus yourself into your jaw. I will disconnect it so this will hurt for a moment. Then swallow them.”
Ryū turned her head and said, “The huck you want ne to do?!”
Orochimaru turned her head gently back forward and placed fingers where her jaw connected to her skull and shoved it. The bones popped and cracked as it came out of place and she yelped in pain. She wanted to collapse but he was forcing her to stand as he grabbed her shoulders again. Her loose jaw moved and flopped, the edging of her skin allowing the bottom jaw to nearly slide out of her mouth.

[Lord English]

Orochimaru didn’t wait until she was recovered and just said, “FOCUS! Place your chakra into your mind.”
Ryū twitched and placed her hands together in the snake seal, using it to focus her chakra as she tried to center it on her mind. She took a deep breath as she tried to ignore the pain. Then Orochimaru started channeling chakra into her, making her feel more pain as she pushed it into her mind. She felt him shove her head first at the kid.
As she fell, she couldn’t control as her jaw as she felt herself slam into the kid and all went black for a moment. As she focused herself as hard as she possibly could, she began to focus into what seemed to be a mental plane between her and the kid. She moved away from what seemed to be her own mind trying to grasp her. The kid before her was so weak mentally they were getting brought in seemingly without a problem, but Ryū could still feel the pain. She huffed as she grabbed her head in this figment created between them, her feeling herself getting drug out of this state.
She blacked out then came to, able to completely see the walls around her. She took quick gasps of air as she shook, this body was starving where hers had been fine. She could see Orochimaru, him looking at her with his yellow eyes with a smirk. She blinked oddly, eyelids were new. Her tooth bit her lip, lips were new too as she tasted her own blood. She couldn’t really control it well and would most likely need to learn to speak properly. She took a deep breath through her newly aquired nose. That was even more new as she could feel the nostrils flare. She couldn’t smile, but she wanted to, her eyebrows showed her wanted look to him as she stared stright into his eyes.
Orochimaru looked at her then his head snapped to one of the tunnels near the room, yipping being heard as well as a thud every now and again. Tsukiakari was sprinting her way and ended up getting into the room and slowed by tumbling head over heels then sitting at Orochimaru’s feet. She panted and said, “Snake man, Unca Shuka is dying. The team is gather.”
Orochimaru smiled and gave her a small pat on the head. Tsukiakari rubbed into it before taking off again at full speed. Ryū didn’t understand what that was all about but she looked back to Orochimaru, eyebrows cocked. Orochimaru said, “You are going to meet your team.”
He gathered a small pack, it containing food for her to nibble at on the way, and handed it to her. She took out some to start nibbling on it, being careful and trying to not bite herself again. He then placed a purple cloak onto her with a clip in the shape of a music note, him placing on a similar cloak then he handed her a mask. She looked at it and it was in the shape of a black widow’s face. Orochimaru placed on a mask that looked like a snake and he motioned for her to follow as they made their way through the tunnels, heading to where the dog came from.

[Lord English]

Orochimaru knew it would take too long and he turned his head to the wobbling woman beside him as he said, “Get onto my back and I will run us there.”
Ryū looked at him and she blinked beneath the mask as she said, “Alright…” She hopped up onto his back and held on, nibbling at the food bag.
Orochimaru took off at full speed through the tunnels and made sure to hold onto her tight. He made sure they would get to the base in record time. Ryū watched the walls whir by and nibbled as she held onto him. She asked, “Side trip?”
Orochimaru smirked and said, “None really.”
Ryū thought and said, “Then why are we still underground?”
“It is much faster,” He spoke with sheer truth in his voice. He knew he was heading towards a different area that was connected to his village that just happened to be on the way to the Land of Wind. He made sure they would either meet up with, or end up following part of her team that would be showing up.

[Lord English]

Orochimaru and Ryū made sure to cut around the main base in order to take a faster route back to Otogakure. Despite the new and weakened frame, Ryū had tried to help prop him up the entire way back. She wore herself out but managed the whole way back. She felt her insects eating at her and she shook from the weakness. Once they got to the main base she fell to her knees and coughed out a good chunk of blood. Orochimaru looked at her and knew he had messed up a little somewhere but it would be better for her in the long run. He was feeling a bit better and he picked her up and placed her onto a table, strapping her arms and legs down. Ryū looked at him as she watched, her saying, “What’s… happening?”
Orochimaru shook his head as he placed an IV into her arm with the standard saline solution, he’d stolen medical equipment for in Otogakure. He spoke silently, “The body I procured was an Akamichi body…” He grabbed a syringe with a nutrient mix to inject into it. Then he took and prepared normal food.
Ryū thought for a moment and said, “The fuck?! An Akamichi?! You do know what they need, right?! No wonder I have been feeling weak.”
Orochimaru nodded and then said, “I picked the easiest body to start with and didn’t realize until they started thinning a bit too fast.” He cut it up then placed it over a nearby burner to heat it up. He then went over to her and looked over the body to try to figure out if there was more of a way to help her. He decided to try an find something to inject fat just so the body could equal itself out in time. He moved to go find one of the animal pens, them not really doing so well in his section so he would have to keep her there. He went to her and said, “This should keep you alright until I can get what will sustain you for a while.”
Ryū looked at him and said, “I trust you… I don’t care what you put me through… You are of a time before and I trust you.”
Orochimaru did not understand that and took a syringe with a milligram of sleep poison and injected it into the IV then took off to go to the base of the robed figure.
Ryū felt it enter and she fought the sleep. She took deep breaths and wriggled in the straps and grit her teeth just to attempt to stay awake until he returned.

[Lord English]

Ryū stayed attached to the table and her mind faded in and out, trying to work against the poison and feeling the pain. She had blood running down out of her mouth from the insects trying to gnaw. She then yelled, “out… OUT!” They funneled out of the hole and she could hear them. They were starving. She took a deep breath and said, “You can’t take my last bits… Go find sustenance elsewhere! Go kill assholes at home for all I fucking care!” The swarm took off and left one female in her so they could track back to her body. Ryū huffed, feeling accomplished but she was starting to give out again. She pulled at the restraints and felt her wrist pulling, her skin rubbing on it. She grunted and pulled at it as her wrist crackled and she felt it pop. She grunted and then pulled again, her wrist starting to bleed a little as she forced her fingers to flatten up. She heard her hand crunch and pop as she got it to get out. She yelped as she looked at it and her vision blurred. She tried to focus herself as the pain was erased by a slight rush, she was starting to like this. She took her hand and reached to her other hand and forced her thumb and wrist back into place. She hissed in enjoyment as she heard the popping as the bones were back into place. She smirked and instead of untying her other wrist, she started to work and pull it out like the first one. She rocked her head back as her wrist popped out of place and felt the needle of the IV pinch a little bit. She began to chuckle as she pulled it harder until it all popped out and she could pull it loose. She flopped over forward and the IV pulled to fall over as well. She gasped as her ankles popped and groaned. She popped her hand back into place, reaching over to the IV to put it back up. She looked back and pulled back to undo the ties on her ankles, force popping them back into place as she hissed in delight. She saw the syringe with the poison in it and was enjoying the feeling of fighting it off. She grabbed it and placed it into the IV, putting it in at a small amount. She felt it go into her and she felt weakened, fighting going to sleep as she hissed out in sheer excitement. She smiled and took a deep breath, looking for other things to place into it as her vision blurred again but finding nothing, she popped her wrists in and out of place for the hell of it for a few minutes. She fixed herself when she was done and grasped the food that had been set on a burner to warm. She placed it right into her mouth from the container it was heating in. She hissed at the burn and tingled, her throat burning as she tried to take most of it before it had a chance to stop burning. She took a deep breath and smirked, knocking the container off the burner as she grabbed one of the left out kunai and began cutting into her arm then placing the cut over the burner to sear it shut. She was in sheer ecstasy as she backed up and held the IV as a way to stay up, gripping it but then moved back to make more cuts in different places then seared them shut with the fire. She took a deep breath then shivered and sat down, back against the wall as the IV was pulled with her. She took a shakey breath and thought about what she just did and how good it felt. She wanted more. She wanted to see others react. She wanted to go back to the leaf and share her pain. She ripped the IV out of her arm and used the burner to close the tiny hole, a bruise forming on it. She stood herself up and placed the kunai into her pocket as she whispered to the female in her body, “Let off the signal…” The insect sent a signal that spread out wide. The swarm hadn’t gone too far so it returned to her and she heard them complaining about not getting far. Ryū spoke to them, “Patience… I will take you to the leaf… Then you may feast upon our enemies…” She grabbed the cloak and mask, placing them on as she nabbed some unmade fruits that were in storage, placing them into a small sack. She started running out, gnawing on fruit on the way as she tried to keep herself up besides being shakey still. She made a bee line for the tunnels that Orochimaru had taken her through to get there, heading straight for the leaf with blood lust on her mind.

[Lord English]

Orochimaru made sure that Ryū had followed him the whole way back, always peeking over his shoulder in a way that was covert. He got her back down into the sound village, walking her back to the table he had her strapped on. He pointed at it and said, “You will be back onto there and I will be doing as I was going to do. Your body needs a certain amount of care that it can’t get from you normally.”

Ryū took a deep breath and looked at the table, the cold slab she’d been tied to before. She looked back over at Orochimaru as she removed her mask and set it aside. She wanted to speak, and before she could fully figure out what she wanted to say, she spoke, “I have been figuring out the body on my own based on what I know. The Akamichi need a larger amount than most for their chakra, right?” She stepped over to the slab and her fingers carefully untied the top left, slipping the belt from its latch and off the prong. After sliding the belt out of the buckle, she’d do the same to the top right with just a shift of her body. Then she’d kneel down and repeat the same to the bottom right and shift to the bottom left to do the same. Once finished, she would stand and place herself against the slab and raise her arms to be buckled back in. She was somewhat proud that her lips were no longer tripping up her speaking.

Orochimaru gazed over her and admired her willingness to get in despite not truly knowing what he was going to do to her. He did give her a nod to note that her information was accurate, reaching up and grasping her wrist gently as he put it where he exactly wanted it to be before using his other hand to take the belt and pull it tight so her wrist absolutely could not move. He even jerked her arm to be sure it wouldn’t budge. He did the same to the other wrist and her ankles, and for good measure he put the slab up off the ground with a small pillar. Then he took an IV needle and placed it into her left arm on her inner elbow as he was careful to place it so it wouldn’t bend or get ripped out. He then taped it in place using medical grade adhesive.
Ryū watched him carefully, her eyes following each movement as he had strapped her in. She felt the tug and hissed slightly at the slight pain in her wrist from it. She liked it. She bit onto her lip, feeling the cold needle enter her arm and be made to stay, the adhesive gripping her firm. She made her eyes watch his, as if looking for something other than the clinical strapping up and something more, better. She took in a deep breath, all her muscles relaxed and her veins unconstricted, even when her feet could no longer touch the ground. She decided to ask a peculiar question, “Are you going to place poison into me again?” She tried to stop biting her lip but the question only made her teeth want to tear at the skin more.
Orochimaru pulled over a bag full of saline with a tube attached with it nearly at the bottom of the tube. He hooked it up right as it was about to start dripping out and then turned his head to her as she asked him a question. He twisted the tube into place carefully as to not rotate the needle in her arm and made sure the drip was on even so it wouldn’t flood her system nor give her too little. He finally responded, “Yes, I am. Is there a problem with that?” His eyes remained focused as he grabbed one of the needles and placed it against the top of a vial, pressing it in before pulling the plunger to fill the syringe with the sleep poison inside. He jabbed it into the tubing and carefully began to feed it into the saline.
The saline felt cold as it entered Ryū’s body, a soft shiver as it moved through her arm. She shook her head in response to the question asked to her question. She had no problem with this at all, she welcomed it and wanted it badly. She didn’t like that reminance of focus even though she knew he looked into her eyes. She forced herself to stop biting her lip as she watched him nab the syringe and fill it with that sweet poison. Her body moved a bit in anticipation as she tried to hide her squirming. Then he placed it into the tube. She could feel the difference as the temperature was warmer with the poison in it. She pressed her head back against the slab and took in a deep breath, her fingers twitching slightly every now and again. She ended up staring at the ceiling, grey rocks and their rippling shadows beginning to blur as the poison took near immidiate effect. She exhaled heavily and almost sounded jagged as she tried to fight off the sleep. She rolled her shoulders forward and back as she tried to focus, but the words came out of her mouth in hushed whispers, “More, put in more.” She was having trouble fighting it off as it was but it was an exhillerating feeling as it pumped through her.
Orochimaru gave a somewhat worried glance, watching her fight it expecially once the entire syringe had been emptied into it. He could tell just from her respiration that she was fighting it hard. The motions were just hints that she’d need to let it wear off first but her breathy demand hit his ears. He glanced her over once more and thought about it. He extended his pointer and middle fingers on his right hand, keeping them together as he pressed the tips against her jugular to feel for the pulse in her vein. He silently counted in his mind to find her heart was racing but not to full extent, it was clear the sedative was keeping the heart rate down despite her being very excited about it. He decided it was alright to give her another full dose. He pressed the syringe into the sleeping poison vile again and filled the syringe once again completely full before moving back to the tube and injecting the sedative slowly. Then he stood back and watched her carefully.
Ryū had enjoyed the touch of his cold fingers to her throat, holding still for him so he could get a read. She noticed he seemed to think on this a moment before he fulfilled her request, her kikaichu sleepily crawling out of the holes in her hands to find other places to rest, thinking this was completely insane. It wasn’t to her, it was exciting and adventurous. She felt the next syringe get injected and she felt the sweet bliss as her vision blurred further, her rocking against the confinements that held her tightly to the slab. She breathed deeply and tried to keep her eyes open, having trouble with it now but she was not going to let it happen. She didn’t feel enough of what she wanted though. She wanted to feel some pain, real physical pain. She called out to him, “Hit me! Cut me! Come on!” She writhed agianst the elevated platform and waited for a comply.
Orochimaru watched her actions carefully and when her sudden outburst came, he was a bit shocked. He had to think on this, deciding it was best not to for right now. He instead stood there and let her scream her demands at him, him waiting for the sedatives to begin to slightly wear off which would take about thirty minutes so he could begin to do it again.

[Lord English]

Ryū seemed to stay rather riled for the duration of the thirty minute wait. She looked at him and said, “Come on… Place it in… Make it hurt!” She was just watching as Orochimaru stood there staring, her rage beginning to build from his inactivity. She pulled against her restraints until her flesh was raw and starting to leak her blood. She watched as Orochimaru stepped towards her and his hand reaching to take her pulse. She whipped her head down to bite at his hand, him letting her as she bit down. He was tougher than she was so she couldn’t even break the skin. She growled at him like a beast and muttered through his hand for him to hit her.
Orochimaru couldn’t believe she was acting this way but a part of him was very interested in this animalistic showing in her love of pain. He pulled his hand from her, noticing she let go nearly immidiately. Then he looked among his vials and found a nerve irritant that would burn but not harm her in small doses. He checked on the saline bag first then feeling alright to let a drop in, he did. He carefully watched the odd colored drop meld into the saline and soon the color was lost in the mixture.
As the irritant hit her system, she screamed loud enough for her insects to act up. They came from their hiding spot to get ready to fight but returned to their hiding hole in confusion at nothing to fight. Ryū kept her screaming as it echoed far into the tunnels, her excitement welling as she pulled harder against the restraints and this time managed to snap them off as she bled. The IV ripped out of her arm and she looked up at Orochimaru from the table, her feet still bound and unable to get loose.
He thought quick and used a high dose of sedative to calm her down, filling a syringe and injecting it directly into her. She moaned out when the syringe was jabbed into her throat, her calming as he injected it in. He ripped it from her throat and placed a gauze pad onto the hole as he patched it up. Ryū looked over at him as she calmed nearly completely down and only the irritant remained. She felt the burn and whispered to him, “More burning… please…”
Orochimaru rejected by simply tethering her back up, grabbing chains and nailing them into the table so her arms could not get free again. He placed the IV back into her arm and injected neutrients so she could continue to regain the body and keep it. He had no plans on her loosing this body until she had to, making it as comfortable for her to be in it as possible and formulating a plan.

[Lord English]

Ryū was silent for a long time after her outburst, taking deep breaths and pretty much glaring at Orochimaru. He decided it may be best if he were to put some sort of muzzle on her to keep her from biting. He decided to go talk to Hatake about it, leaving her to her own vices. Ryū’s eyes watched as he walked out into the dark tunnels and away. She found this as an opportune time to call out to her insects, whispering as she figured out their communication. She whispered to them, “Find some things… Inject it into the tube… I need the rush… I think he left the burning stuff there…”
The Kikaichu swarmed over to the syringe and checked it out. They were torn because they knew their master wanted it but they had a feeling it was dangerous for her. Giving into her commands, they grabbed onto the syringe and picked it up. They flew it over to the tube and aimed at the plastic, missing on their first fly by. They turned it around and this time took a slow approach to the tube. This time they placed it in, slowly and surely. A few of them went to the end and started pushing the syringe in, managing to place it in slow enough that it burned but wouldn’t kill her.
Ryū clenched her teeth and pulled up against her restraints. “Oh yes! That is the good stuff!” She hissed out and looked at her precious insects. “You are marvelous… Such good little bugs… Go tell the Kidaichu to feast in Konoha… Take a little and I will be here…” The insects left after the syringe was empty except a grouping just big enough to give her her fixes. She smiled and said, “Even better… Another!”
The swarm flew up and picked out and syringe, tearing a hole in the tube. Ryū saw that and said, “Take it OUT!” The swarm moved fast and yanked the tube out, pulling her skin only a little and managing it out just before the air got to her. She sighed and shook a bit, looking at her swarm as she said, “Direct injections from here on out… I need that fix…” The swarm placed the syringe on the table it was from and debated listening to her anymore, she was placing herself in unnessiccarry danger.