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[Open] Because the universe hates him.

He had thought, with the halt of the lightening, that perhaps that meant the weather would be clearing. Instead, he was assaulted with the news that not only was the weather about to get worse, but that inches of ice were to be expected any time now.

Thus, it was understandable that he'd rushed his provisions so he could take multiple trips and make sure he didn't miss anything. It was on his last pass that his luck ran out, and he stared mournfully upward as he pulled his water proof cloak tighter around himself and his hat lower on his head.

Could winter not be finished already?

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There was one small bundle of a boy hidden upon the corner of a building, shivering as he gave a pouty glare at the sky. Granted, he had known the weather was supposed to get worse, but he didn't think it'd get this bad this quickly. After having slipped and fallen as much as he had trying to just get from one building the another, he'd thought of waiting until until that pelting hail wore. It couldn't reach him from that angle, but he sure was starting to feel the cold seep into him.

"Stupid winter..." the youth snorted, eyes narrowed at the grey clouds that were without a doubt responsible for his current predicament.

The figure, once again out when he -shouldn't- be, pulled him off his path. "Sasuke-kun, do you have something against staying inside when the weather is terrible?"

The voice and sudden appearance made him cry out and recoil.
He suddenly remembered how Neji-sensei told this person was very dangerous and that he shouldn't be around him anymore. That was what he said, back then? Yes, something like that.

"H-hey, it wasn't that bad earlier!" he protested almost instictively, trying not to look as shaken as he was. Maybe if he just acts normally, everything will be okay and nothing as bad as Neji-sensei implied will happen, right? Right. "B-besides... you're outside too!" he pointed out, shaking slightly. "I wanna go home but there's all that ice and I just keep falling!" and he shouldn't be seen with the man.

...still, his ex-sensei really didn't seem like that bad a man right now...

"And have you forgotten the art of sticking to things already? Or did I overestimate you thinking you would get to the point where you could use your feet before I saw you again?"

He didn't know what had the boy so jittery, and frankly he didn't care, thus, he ignored it. "I, at the very least, can get myself home with little trouble."

Those eyes had him looking at the iced ground. He had somewhat forgotten to practice that, and it had not even come to his mind that he could use it right now. The mention of overestimating brought a light pang of guilt, but an even stronger of pride. He only looked down for a few seconds before his face scrunched up in that determined expression again.

"W-well fine, I'm gonna go home!" he started stomping off and almost crashed to the ground again. "Yeah, with little trouble, just like you!" nevermind that he almost slipped... He did stop a moment to collect chakra and sue the same trick as he did with his hands. He assumed that one basic principle applied to everywhere!
Now if he could take more than six steps without crashing? It would be marvelous.

Orochimaru watched him, then easily moved from one overhang to another. "You weren't practicing."

"I DID!" he protested, turning around too quickly and spinning a bit more than he intended before righting himself. "I really did.... like.. a few times before... Things happened!" he did feel bad now. After all, he really -should- be practicing more, else.... he wasn't going to get better...

"A few times? That's all? Was 'a few times' even an hour? Less?" He tilted his head, tone mild.

"...less" he admitted, staring at the ground. "I'll.. try harder" somehow even if he wasn't supposed to be his sensei, even if he was a bad man as Neji-sensei said, he felt bad for disappointing his expectations.

"It sounds to me that you didn't try at all. How disappointing."

"...yeah..." he faced away, biting his lip. It was probably better this way, right? If his ex-sensei was disappointed in him. "I guess it sounds like that."

"Well?" He looked at him, expectant.

He looked over his shoulder. It looked like this wasn't going to work as he intended... He did try, right?
"W-well... what?" he blinked, looking slightly sheepish. "I... I said I'd try harder..."

"Saying and doing are different matters Sasuke-kun."

Oh, so he wanted him to do it? "Well then, I'll do just that" he formed a seal, collecting chakra before letting it pool at his feet and walking off.... he did manage ten steps -he wasn't going to mention it was a new record- before suddenly slipping as magnificently as a figure skater without actual skates...

He gave a deep sigh and moved over, catching the boy before he could crack his skull open and righting him. "Could you even feel what you did wrong?"

He groaned. "...chakra fizzled out... pushed too much again" he had learned to spread it more though.

"You have to learn to make it a steady flow before you can do anything else Sasuke-kun." He walked forward and pivoted in place, never once sliding. "See?"

He blinked once, otherwise staring. "..hm.. so I can do that too?" maybe it would be okay if he didn't tell Neji-sensei he had met his ex-sensei... even if he promised...

"Steady flow... I was making that though" maybe there was another trick. He frowned. "I'll try again" he gathered chakra again, as much as he could, and then took a few steps, some more... and he halted before taking another step to collect chakra again and start the process over. "..that..works too, no?"

"You haven't noticed that you release the chakra between steps, have you? Otherwise you wouldn't be able to lift your foot."

"...ah.." he blinked down. So he just did that without consciously noticing? "There,s always at least one foot on the ground to get chakra into, though..."

"Yes, and you're moving the chakra. You don't need to do that. You just focus from foot to foot. You don't move it ALL from foot to foot. It's wasteful."

"AH!" his face illuminated with understanding. So this was what he was supposed to do? He had that same thing happen when he tried climbing walls with his hands when he recalled it.

He gave an embarrassed smile, looking away. "..ehe... I should have noticed earlier..." but he did not. This was why there were people to prod them in the right direction. "Thanks, Orochimaru-sensei!"

He inclined his head slightly. "Now again."

"Right! Now that I know how it's done.." he formed a seal, gathering chakra in order to try again. Once this was done, he took a deep breath and shifted his previous method to that which had been suggested.

Focus one the right foot... then the left. Right... left... This was easier, and he didn't even feel that much drain. How many steps had he taken? "So... that was all there was to it? No wonder people can do that all day!" he was starting to wonder if he had to wait for his chakra pool to grow.

He deliberately moved away a decent amount. "Now come here."

He grinned and hastily stepped forward, hurrying. "See? i can do it!" he even jumped in place exuberantly.

"Very good... Then you can try the next stage. Fill a bath and walk on top of the water without falling in. There is a difference to the method. I'll leave you to try to figure it out."

"Right! I'll do it too!" he declared. "Byebye Orochimaru-sensei!" and he rushed off...presumably to try to do just that exercise. This time he was going to train really hard!

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