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Chapter 7: Examination

"Today's the day," Kabuto mused as he sipped his tea carefully. Placing down the cup, he began to flip through the thick book that was lying next to breakfast.

"The day for what?" Sasuke asked coldly, hating every moment of having breakfast with the mysterious white haired man who would randomly offer snippets of important information and rarely elaborate ending up in him being left in the dark which was one thing that Sasuke hated the most, not having the slightest clue of what was going on around him.

"That girl's time has come," Kabuto added with a smirk, his eye never leaving the page of the book.

Sasuke visibly paled, "What the hell are you talking about?"

"Her training will begin today. Orochimaru-sama wants to make her strong for when he takes over," Kabuto explained briefly as he took out his pen and scribbled something down into the book. "These days you seem to be caring about something other than getting stronger. I'm surprised, Sasuke-chan." He lifted up his face to reveal a bemused smirk, one that Sasuke had been seeing a lot of lately.

"I don't know what you're talking about. Stop using me as a source of entertainment," Sasuke snapped as he pushed his plate of half eaten eggs and toast aside and stormed out of the room.

"Why so defensive?" Kabuto chuckled to himself as he sipped his black coffee.

"Hey, eat your breakfast. You'll need it today."

Tenten lifted her drooping head to see the raven haired boy who had visited her so many times during her time caged in this small, cramped cell. A small smile graced her lips, "Hey, you came again." She glanced at the tray of stale, almost decayed bread, and smirked, "And I'll take my chances without the fungi they call bread."

"Your hair has gotten longer," Sasuke commented out of the blue. It was true, the girl's messy, unruly dark brown hair now reached just below her shoulders.

"You're random today which means you know what they're going to do to me today!" Tenten smiled as she struggled to sit up. Her smile seemed to give of an air of excitement which suprised the raven haired boy.

"Why do you treat this like a big game?" Sasuke questioned grimly as he took his normal seat against the opposing wall.

"It makes it seem easier to get through that way. And more fun," Tenten replied almost cheerfully.

"You're lying to yourself, aren't you?" Sasuke narrowed his eyes as he glanced at the 'happy' brown haired prisoner who looked like she hadn't eaten in weeks.

"Nope, I'm just a happy person by nature," Tenten continued to grin goofily, even more as she knew it was angering the raven haired boy.

"You piss me off," Sasuke jumped up from his uncomfortable seat on the cold floor and stormed out of the dungeon.

"Maybe I should try harder to make my small number of visitors to stay longer," Tenten mumbled softly and almost sadly to herself.

"I hope you're not tired. We have a lot of work to do today," Kabuto sing-sang almost as he strolled over to the door of Tenten's cell. He opened the door with the key and walked towards her. "Hmmm, de ja vu, ne? But this time will be different," the white haired man grabbed hold one of her chained down hands and slipped a black bracelet onto her thin wrist and proceeded to do the same thing on her other arm. "You seem different today, Tennie-chan, you're not struggling anymore. It almost sucks the fun out of it." To finish the job, Kabuto clasped a black choker around her neck.

"Screw you," Tenten muttered as she glared at him. "What the hell are these for? I doubt they're just for accessorizing."

"Smart girl," Kabuto smirked evilly. "These will help me control you."

"Joy," Tenten murmured sarcastically, "You're such a pervert." A sudden electric wave ripped through her veins and she was overcome with pain. As she clenched her throbbing abdomen, she glanced up at the white haired man who was smirking down at her and holding a remote like object in his hand.

"Watch that tongue of yours, dear," Kabuto warned lightly. He leaned down once more and unlocked the chains on her arms and legs, "Don't even think about running away. Unless of course, you want a stronger shock."

Tenten bit back her string of insults but kept her glare steady. It took all her energy to not start spitting out curses at the white haired man who was smirking at her evilly. It took even more energy for her to not to attack him or try to run away, but she didn't want to get shocked again so she tried her best to stay calm and level-headed. However she couldn't help but thinking, that this wasn't what she meant by wanting her visitors to stay longer. In fact, she would rather that Kabuto not visit her at all, but she never got what she wanted.

"Now, follow me, dear," without so much as a backwards glance, Kabuto made his way out of the cell and out of the dungeon area. He didn't need to turn around to see if the brunette was following because he knew that she was smart enough to do what was best for her even though she could get out of hand at some moments.

Following silently, Tenten observed her surroundings and took note of what halls they walked through and soon she had the whole route in her head. She figured that she could maybe use it to find away to escape this maze of a fortress.

The dark hallways that the two ninja were travelling through began to narrow and the number of torches hanging from the walls began to slowly lessen. Pretty soon, there were portions of the hallway that were so dark that one wouldn't have been able to see his hands.

"Hmm, maybe I should have brought a torch," Kabuto mused out loud. The dark haired girl forced any sarcastic reply down her throat as she knew that he was merely tempting her so that he could punish her again.

After a couple more minutes of walking through the dark corridor, Kabuto stopped in front of a large metal door with what seemed to be a padlock hanging from it. Tenten raised an eyebrow at the giant lock but said nothing as Kabuto delicately shoved a old fashioned key into the padlock and jiggled around. When the padlock snapped open, Kabuto took it out and opened the large door with his other hand. He motioned for Tenten to go in first before he followed inside at put the padlock on the door but this time locking it from the inside.

Watching him curiously and with a little fright, Tenten commented with dry humor, "You know that's a fire hazard."

Kabuto turned to face Tenten when he was done, a smirk planted firmly on his pale face, "Always the one to brighten the mood, aren't you? So positive about everything. Well, we'll just have to break that and let your real emotions out."

Tenten felt herself unsciously backing up, trying to get farther away from the sadistic man, "What do you mean by that?" She questioned, her voice shaking with every syllable.

"Don't worry about that dear," Kabuto walked over to a small sink that was located in the corner of the room. As he washed his hands and slipped on some latex gloves, Tenten took the time to carefully observe the room.

There was what seemed to be a doctor's examining bed on the right side of the room, a large paper draped over the bed (probably, to keep it clean for every new 'patient') and next to the bed was a large machine that she had never seen before. Other than cabinets of supplies on the left side, the room was pretty much empty and bare. The walls had an incredibly bleak and soulless white color on them and the tiles on the floor with a smooth and shiny white. In fact, Tenten noticed, everything was pretty much white or gray.

The only thing that actually popped in the room, was a black door on the far end of the room that was located next to what seemed to a window. As she stared at the black door, Tenten knew that she wasn't going to like what was going to happen in there.

"Tenten, get up on the bed," Kabuto ordered as he grabbed a clip-board from the counter and took a seat in a stool. For a second, as she climbed up onto the examining bed, Tenten felt that she was actually at a doctor's appointment, except that the doctor was extremely creepy.

Kabuto jumped up from his seat after scribbling something down on the papers that were clasped tightly to the clipboard and set the clipboard down in his seat. The white haired man approached the large, gray machine and began furiously typing something and not before long, a compartment opened in the machine. He reached into the little space and pulled out a couple of wires, all with suctions on one end and attached to the machine by the other end. "I'm going to wire you up and we're going to measure the amount of chakra you have."

Tenten swallowed hard as she watched the white haired man come towards her with the wires, hoping that it would cause any pain on her part. Unfortunately for her, her hopes were in vain.

A/N: I was thinking about how ironic it is that i absolutely HATE Kabuto and yet he's one of the main characters of this story. Didn't really see that one coming... :)

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