Disclaimer: I do not own anything in the Naruto series, the only characters Akumu, Jigoku, and Tengoku are my characters.

{Deviants and Demons}

I yawned, pulling the covers over my head. Orochimaru would be sending his little minion Kabuto out to get me soon. Music was playing softly over my radio; the song was slow, calm. Almost as if the radio didn't want me to go get a new mission from dad; to leave for lord knows how long again. I stretched myself out, flipping onto my stomach trying to fall back asleep and suffer the consequences later. My mind fluttered happily to my best friends' faces, happy and carefree. Like the song playing on the radio the two drifted into my mind, our happy times together were making me smile. I was half way into sleep, my mind floating in between reality and fiction in a fog, when a loud pounding echoed in my mind.

"Akumu! Get up before I unlock your door and drag you to Orochimaru myself!" Kabuto yelled. His voice was already like a nails on a chalkboard, he had to make it worse by directing such a disturbing voice towards me? As I climbed out of bed I growled lightly, 'I already hate you Kabuto, do you really want to add so much insult to the injury I'm going to give to you?'

"Shut up you worm, I'm up!" I yelled towards the door as I went to my dresser and grabbed my clothes I had set out the night before and went into the bathroom to shower and change. I ran the shower, enjoying every minute of the hot water against my skin, knowing that I probably wouldn't be able to shower so luxuriously for some time. Missions from my father were just that way sometimes. I could hear Kabuto trying to get inside my room, eventually I knew he would.

I rinsed my hair free of shampoo and I heard the door to my room open. I rolled my eyes and in an instant Kabuto was at my bathroom door ordering me to open the door. I ignored him again, turning off the water and grabbing a towel from beside the sink. I started drying myself when I heard Kabuto trying all of his keys in the lock of the bathroom door. "Oi Perv! I asked my father not to give you the key to my bathroom." I pulled my top over my head, "So stop trying to sneak a peek at me and wait outside my room, I'll be out in a minute." I pulled up my pants and then fixed my weapons pouch around my right leg and headband to my waist and grabbed a hair tie before running out of the bathroom.

Kabuto wasn't waiting outside my room like I asked but instead was sitting on my bed with an annoyed glare on his face. I glared back and grabbed my brush from my vanity and quickly brushed through my long black hair. I saw him shiver in the reflection of my mirror and glared at him with my blood red eyes. I turned annoyed now by his creepy smile, "Ok what the hell are you still doing here when I asked you to wait outside?" I got up and headed towards the door when I was pushed against the wall.

"Little Akumu, you've got your mother's figure you know." Kabuto said his evil grin spreading as I fought the urge to vomit. He pressed his body against me and smirked as he saw the hatred grow in my eyes. He gently ran his fingers through my hair, his bony fingers tracing my neck. My teeth were exposed and I was growling at him when I felt a sharp pain just below my ear where his finger was. As soon as the pain appeared it was gone but something warm and wet was slowly running down my neck. Kabuto spread his fingers over the substance and then brought it into my view. There on his dirty finger was blood, my blood, running down his finger. He smirked again and licked the blood off of his finger, "Your blood tastes the same too, though it's tinged with bitterness." He smiled and leaned forward and whispered in my ear, "Your hatred is on the weak side, I would think you would absolutely hate the one who stole your mother from you."

"I do hate you Kabuto, but my father needs you just as much as he needs me right now." I grabbed him by the throat and threw him to the ground. "Watch your back, he won't need you forever." I spit on his face and then got up and walked out the door, ignoring his calls as he followed me to Orochimaru's office. I knocked on the door and walked in without waiting for a response from father.

Inside his office was dark, lit only by a lamp on the desk he was sitting at. Jigoku turned as I entered giving me a warm smile as I walked closer. A girl turned to acknowledge me; her hair was long, blonde, her eyes were sky blue, almost translucent in the dim, gloomy light. I nodded shortly at her; she turned her attention back to Orochimaru as I stood in between Jigoku and the girl my father began to speak.

"Aside from your escapades last night, how did you all sleep?" Orochimaru asked a smile creeping across his face. I blushed slightly, father loved to joke at my expense and the girl beside me didn't really know me that well. Orochimaru leaned back in his chair accepting our silence as a good sign. "Good, now then." He slid three folders toward us and again leaned back in his chair, "I have a mission to give to you three."

We picked up the folders and I skimmed the paper before me. A boy with dark eyes looked up at me. His hair was also dark spiked back and though he was strikingly handsome for such a young boy his eyes held coldness; a darkness that seemed to emanate through the picture and sent shivers down my spine. I looked at the name: Uchiha, Sasuke. I looked up at my father who was looking at us expectantly.

"He's our target?" I asked. The girl and Jigoku looked up from their copies at the sound of my voice. Orochimaru smiled and nodded and stood up to circle around us. Kabuto stood beside him as Orochimaru smiled at us. I calmed another shiver looking into my father's eyes. I knew he wouldn't intentionally hurt me, but that didn't fix the fact that he'd hurt anyone who might get in his way. For now I was safe, for now I was his precious daughter.

"You must deliver a message to the boy, and also administer the curse mark to him." He said looking directly at me. I nodded and he continued, "He needs to know that I can help him achieve his goals and gift him with the strength to do so. Your mission will be complete after that, though you are welcome to continue through the Chunin exams. We may need your help in the destruction of the leaf village."

"Understood Lord Orochimaru." We said in unison bowing to him. He nodded and stepped aside allowing us to depart, the girl and Jigoku left and as I went to leave as well my father held out his hand for me to stay. I stopped and looked up at him; I was going to have even less time to get ready and Jigoku was going to bug me about it all the way to the leaf village.

"I wanted to know why you were late this morning." He said pulling me back towards the desk. The morning flashed through my mind and I growled lightly. He sat down and looked at me concerned.

"I was held up by someone." I said hatred dripping from the word.

"Who? I'll be sure to have them punished." Orochimaru said his face now an aggravated scowl.

"I don't think you'd punish him. You never have before." I said sitting down in the chairs that were set up in front of his desk. I heard Kabuto shuffle in the darkness behind me and I ground my teeth together. "I personally think he should be executed but your health is far too important to me than his miserable life, though I would appreciate a new lock to my bedroom." I raised an eyebrow at my father expectantly, and then glanced back toward where Kabuto was standing.

My father sighed and gave Kabuto an annoyed look as he nodded in agreement. "I'll have the lock changed while you are away, and I'll have a word with Kabuto about his discretions." I stood up and bowed.

"That will do for now," I said glaring at Kabuto as I turned, "Though I can't be held accountable for my actions should he try something like this again." I heard Orochimaru mumble an agreement and I left without another word. As the door shut behind me I heard hissing and Kabuto's scared voice pleading with my father to spare his life. Satisfied, I trotted down the hallway back toward my room.

"My dear Akumu, I have taught you well, haven't I?" a voice chuckled in my ear. I turned around but there was no one there. I called out to the voice but it didn't respond. I shook my head and continued on my way, the voice's laughter ringing in my ears, like the villain of a terrible nightmare following me into the darkness.