Sugira wakes up with a muffled scream first, after a night of fighting a fever and what seems to have been nightmares. (No one's been stupid enough to approach trap central).

The seal unfolds rapidly, racing like fire across his skin, and his eyes when they snap open are gold and terrified.

Chihiro has not slept. She's sitting with her back to a wall and a knife in her hand, tucked close to her body. She starts when he wakes, and eyes the seal warily.

He gradually wrestles the combating waves of fear and rage under control, forcing the seal to recede, and then looks to Chihiro, eyes now red with the sharingan, and chokes out, "Are you two okay?"

"I will survive. Orochimaru did something to the Kyuubi's seal, but Naruto is not dead yet."

...'Will survive' is not what he calls 'okay.'

He drags himself up and over to look at Naruto's seal - but there's nothing he can do. Still, Naruto seems to be in less of a crisis situation than last night...

"We need to get to the tower. We have both scrolls. There should be at least someone who can summon medical help and a seal master..."

His sharingan deactivates on its own as a wave of exhaustion crashes through him.

"We should wait until you recover more fully. One of us will have to carry Naruto. This location is secure."

He's too exhausted to argue, so he just slumps. He's... Really, really worried, about both Naruto and Chihiro, but...

His specialty does not lend itself well to healing spells. He's just... Going to have to work around that.

"Did he say anything, after biting me?"

"He said, 'Do take care of my vessel. I had quite a bit of fun with this test. I look forward to seeing what you three become'."

...Right definitely the same fundamental person as both Mirsha and Aramir. Unfortunately seems to be more in Mirsha's 'antisocial' personality-space than Aramir's 'technically prosocial'. He'd been relying on previous familiarity with the template a lot to predict Orochimaru's actions, so...

"I don't know what that means," he says after a few moments, frustrated, "Not even what he wants us to think." And it's true, just because he's gotten inside an alt's head before doesn't mean Orochimaru isn't still incredibly frustrating.

"...I do not know, either. I do know that he was expelled from Konoha for unethical experimentation."

"Great," he deadpans.

How unethical do you have to get for Konoha to kick you... Though that's admittedly also the thing that got Mirsha on Sugira's radar.

"Kakashi might know more..."

"Likely. This was during the period he was active Anbu."

He nods. "We'd want to tell him everything, anyways."

Chihiro nods.

"...I took some of your weapons. To set the traps."

She hasn't mentioned his notes, presumably she wouldn't have told him if she'd stolen those - 

"Alright." A pause, and, "Thanks, for..." Helpless shrug.

"We are a team."

He nods, and settles in to rest.

Naruto starts to stir shortly thereafter.

Oh. Good. Hopefully he's in better shape than Sasuke.

He doesn't seem injured - but says something feels weird with his chakra, when Sasuke helps him go through checks.

...He can't use his clones. Or his wind-style. And he's back to square one on tree walking...

This sucks.

He can walk, at least. And they won't be able to solve these problems with the time or resources they have now. The best thing is to make a run for the tower.

Definitely.

His sharingan's going to be less useful than normal; he discovered while re-memorizing spells that using it (or any chakra) causes Orochimaru's seal to flare a bit. He can suppress it, but... It's something he'd like to avoid risking.

How fast do they feel confident moving? If they just take off teams might hesitate to mess with them, and the competition should be thinner now...

They should move as quickly as they can sustain. They'll have more success outrunning an ambush than outfighting one.

He nods - he's ready to go, as is Naruto.