"That's one thing I hadn't originally planned to have plenty of, yes."

"So that's why you stay here? To train with Orochimaru and gain enough power to kill your brother? Otherwise... you could just leave. If you wanted to."

"I suppose now I could. I don't actually know how to leave this base without blasting through several walls. And Orochimaru has sensors who could track me across the continent."

"You could go further than that, if you wanted to."

"I'd have to return to kill my brother, anyways."

She nods and accepts it.

"We should head back."

"Alright. Down the same hole, or walk back?"

"I'd like to see more of this place. And see if I can figure out opening the doors."

"Alright. I think the problem I had with the doors is they need to identify my chakra, which might be interacting weirdly with your time dilation."

"We could shift, open the door, and then shift back. But maybe not now."

"I'd rather not be gone too long."

She shrugs.

"Lead the way," she gestures, then pauses. "What do I call you?"

He starts leading. "I'm Sasuke. Most people here call me Sasuke-sama. It's an honorific. Just names is probably overly familiar; there's a chance everyone will expect you to use -sama for Orochimaru too. I don't care what you use."

"So it is like Japenese, if not actually that. Interesting. I'll call you Sasuke-sama, I suppose. Sells the appearence of us not working together."

"Whatever." And back to the original arena.

"I'll come see you after his first session. Thank you."

Shrug. "It's fine."

She holds out her hand.

"Whenever you're ready."

Hands can be held, then.

-- and she sends him back to his world. Alone.

And heads towards the suite Orochimaru gave directions to.

It's there. Plain, like everything here is, with comprehensible but few appliances - essentially just a hot plate and some old non perishables. The bed is serviceable, though.

Well. She's been running on nothing for nearly two days. She might as well sleep now. She'd slip back into this world if she fell asleep outside it, so there was no point leaving.

She lies down on the bed and -- hears and feels the whispers pressing forward. The darkness and all consuming abyss.

It calms her nerves -- the familiarity of it. And she lets herself be consumed by it.

She sleeps.

The world hasn't changed while she slept at all, at least.

She eats some food, fiddling with the hotplate. It's not so confusing to figure out and she takes her time.

Then puts her mask back on, she doesn't really want to reveal her identity to just anybody, regardless of which dimension she's in, and shifts back.

It isn't straightforward to feel where she is; she's more a hole in the world to his senses than a person. He wonders if that's her power, or a quirk of her world.

He feels when she returns into her assigned room, a fraction of a second after Sasuke reappears in front of him. Without the sharingan, Orochimaru can't tell times that close apart, so doesn't know if she walked immediately over or took time in her world.

It's mildly vexing.

He has his future vessel in front of him, though, the boy scowling - likely at the disruption to his training, or at how Orochimaru's attention has shifted. He did promise a training session, and putting the boy body through its paces is a good occupation while he mulls over this Akhlys. 

(Their training is rather loud, though barely audible through the thick stone. It is still very clearly what Juliet would consider a cape fight.)