Under the Scalpel
A/N: This one is for Ami, seeing as my knowledge of Kabuto is limited I had to add in some 'old friends' to help me with this. Enjoy! Though I'm not sure that this turned out as well as I would have liked and may require a bit of revision in future.
Kabuto had seen some strange and horrific things in his life while working under Orochimaru, but this took the cake. Orochimaru was participating in a staring competition with a very young, blond haired, blue eyed child and was losing horribly. Against his will, Orochimaru's eyes momentarily snapped shut. "Ha! I win! Now you owe me that favour that you promised if I won, which I did!" Naruto bobbed his head excitedly.
Orochimaru-sama doesn't take that from anyone. He will refuse, as though that little brat could convince him otherwise. "Very well, what is it that you want?" Hell has frozen over… or someone ironically stole Orochimaru-sama's body.
"I want to follow you around for a week; a friend of mine spoke highly of you." Naruto grinned, cautiously leaving out that the highness referred to his placing on Anko's 'Murder Slowly and Painfully' list.
"How do I know that you aren't a spy sent by Konoha?"
"Please, as if they'd ask the person who trashes their precious village daily to spy on you."
"You have a point, agreed." This is odd. He never agrees to things like this. "Kabuto, come, my experiments need to be checked."
"Orochimaru-sama, why are you allowing the child to follow us when he could be a spy?" Kabuto asked quietly.
Orochimaru carefully stepped out Naruto's hearing range. "Kabuto-kun, I'm surprised by your lack of knowledge. Naruto-kun is doing research of his own here, no doubt to better perfect his 'pranks' affects on the villagers... Although, I have heard that the ANBU have been having trouble with him and Anko-chan lately…" This is not going to end well. The boy is already a monster in his own right, but to give him more inspiration like this? Hopefully dealing with some of the experiments will take this off my mind. Orochimaru flicked out his scalpel and leisurely twirled it with a serpentine grin while facing his experiment. "Now, do you like cheese?" Kabuto's eyes widened as he noticed that Naruto was studying Orochimaru carefully while frantically searching for ink and brush and with a flourish Kabuto presented them.
"Ah, thanks! You might want to lay off the frosty bastard demeanour back in Konoha, ANBU are starting to ask questions." Kabuto felt an overwhelming surge of jealously as his master chuckled coldly and patted the blond affectionately on the head. Now it's personal Uzumaki. I don't know what you did to Orochimaru-sama, but I'll find out! He never did notice the manipulative and knowing smirk that Orochimaru snuck his way.
