Author's Note: Early Valentine's Day Special! Kabuto has a special gift for Orochimaru.

Time check: Sasuke's first Valentine's Day with Orochimaru and company.

Thanks again to ilvecoffee-n-narutoYOUTH and anyone else who helped mewith/gave me their input on this chapter before it was posted.

Chapter 4: Chocolate

In the last few years Orochimaru had made it mandatory for his minions to present him with gifts on Valentine's Day, whether they wanted to or not. Most of the men complained about giving Valentine's gifts to a man, but in the end they would have done it anyway since their Lord Orochimaru was always in a good mood any day he received presents. The more presents he was given, the better a mood he was in so overall it was to everyone's benefit to participate.

Rather than opting to join in a group gift as most of Orochimaru's underlings usually did, Kabuto always gave his Lord a gift personally. Out of all the people who worked under the former Sannin, Kabuto had been looking forward to this day the most all month. Today was Valentine's Day and he was sure this year he had picked out the best gift for Orochimaru. Generally speaking Kabuto's gift usually was the one that he ended up liking best but this time Kabuto was sure the gift was something he would really like. He couldn't wait to see the look on the man's face when he opened the gift. Even more than that, he couldn't wait to see the look on a certain other person's face when he found out what the gift was.

Walking slowly up to the master's chambers the medical nin thought about how happy the gift would make Orochimaru. Approaching the door he knocked lightly knowing the man inside would hear it and know who was there without announcing himself.

"Kabuto have you come to bring me my present?" the voice inside the room called expectantly.

"Yes, my Lord. May I come in?"

Kabuto waited for permission to enter the room and walked right up to Orochimaru who was lying on his bed comfortably. Orochimaru examined the large box like a child trying to guess what was inside before opening it. After a short time the pale man broke the ribbon and proceeded to unwrap the brightly colored package. Inside the present was a smaller rectangular black box. When he opened the second box he was surprised to find ….

"Chocolate Sasukes!" Orochimaru cried happily as he looked at the chocolate figures. There were three chocolate sculptures in total. Each one was about the length of his elbow to his fingertips and as wide as the length of his hand. Every piece had its own unique outfit and dyed white chocolate eyes to resemble the Sharingan. Kabuto pointed to each one individually as he described the flavors.

"Each one is solid chocolate, my Lord. This one on the left is pure bittersweet chocolate. The one in the middle is semisweet chocolate with a little red bean paste mixed in. On the right is a dark chocolate raspberry one. Are they to your liking?"

"This has to be the best chocolates I've ever been given! Not only do they look like Sasuke-kun right down to the eyes but the flavors reflect his personality perfectly. How did you come up with the ideas for the costumes Kabuto?"

Kabuto grinned widely and mischievously. "That's the second part of the present. You'll see what I mean when you take the chocolate box out of this one."

Curious to see what Kabuto meant by the cryptic sentence Orochimaru did as was suggested. Hidden underneath the box of chocolates was an envelope. He carefully opened the envelope and out spilled photos of Sasuke in the same outfits as his chocolate minis (among others). As Orochimaru was cooing over the "cute" photos Sasuke barged into the room without knocking.

Yesterday Kabuto had informed Sasuke that he was expected to give Orochimaru a gift for Valentine's Day. He had no intention of giving the snake man a gift. In his mind he was only there to learn from the Sannin and become stronger, not to please by giving him gifts on frivolous holidays. Valentine's Day back at Konoha was a nightmare for the popular boy and he thought that now that he was part of a group of criminals that would be the end of dealing with such nonsense. Since he had to do something, (Orochimaru had hinted that he wouldn't teach him a new jutsu if he didn't receive a present from the boy) Sasuke had spent the morning catching snakes that were near the lair and decided they would be good enough for a gift. After all, he was told he had to give a gift not a good gift. Now seemed like as a good a time as ever to get the whole gift giving thing over and done with.

"Here's your damn gift. Now when are we going to start working on a new jutsu?" Sasuke demanded angrily not aware of what was going on.

Orochimaru had not moved to take the gift from the boy and it was becoming frustrating. Sasuke glared angrily at his new master expecting some kind of response.

"Ah, Sasuke-kun, for today why don't you wear this outfit instead?" Orochimaru asked while gesturing at one of the pictures from Kabuto.

"Where the Hell did you get something like that? What the Hell am I wearing?" Sasuke shouted indignantly, not at all satisfied with the particularly high quality embarrassing shots of himself. The shock also caused him to drop his present allowing the snakes to escape from the box.

"Don't you remember modeling these outfits Sasuke-kun. Didn't you cooperate with Kabuto for these pictures? They're the ones for the chocolates models."

"What chocolate models? What's going on? Kabuto what did you do to me?"

Now Sasuke was panicking. He had no memory of dressing in those ridiculous outfits and he certainly would not have posed for any pictures no matter what he was wearing. Not for Orochimaru or Kabuto anyway and what was this talk of chocolate models? When he finally got a glimpse of the three chocolate sculptures that resembled himself, Sasuke cursed and then stormed out of the room to hide himself for the rest of the day. This also allowed a few of the snakes to gain access to the rest of the lair which scared a few unsuspecting minions throughout the afternoon.

This was the moment Kabuto had been waiting for all day since the Uchiha brat had started causing problems for him some time ago. This was his revenge and it just made things all that much better that Lord Orochimaru was getting enjoyment out of the "present". It didn't matter that Orochimaru was confused and Sasuke had dropped his present allowing the snakes to slither about inside the room trying to escape. Kabuto was determined to explain the whole thing only to Orochimaru, eventually. More than likely he would find that particular jutsu very interesting.

Author's Note: Next month there will be a white day follow up chapter to be posted on or close to the day, March 14.
Following this note is an alternate ending to this chapter written by my Beta ilvecoffee-n-narutoYOUTH.

Kabuto knocked three times before entering his master's chambers, carrying a medium sized box with him. Orochimaru was lying peacefully on his bed and looked up when Kabuto came in.
"Oh, I see you've brought my gift. Gimme! Gimme!" He said with a (very Michael Jackson like) smile.
Kabuto had to bite his tongue to keep himself from bursting into a fit of his maniacal laughter (he was currently in a contest against Light Yagami for worlds most psycho laugh, but now wasn't the time to practice).

"Yes Lord Orochimaru. I'm sure you'll find it to your...liking." Kabuto couldn't help himself and soon began his maniacal laughter, Orochimaru joining him after a few seconds. When their laughter died down, Orochimaru blinked a couple of times before asking,
"What were we laughing at?"
"Nothing my lord, nothing at all." He handed Orochimaru the Valentine's gift. Kabuto smiled (smirked) at the look of amusement on Orochimaru's face as he ripped the wrapping off the box.
He pulled out a long, thin box-like thing and started flipping through it.
"Kabuto. Where did you get these pictures?"
"It's the Mr. Sasuke Calendar™! And it took me forever...along with the lives of a few henchmen to get these, but don't worry, I replaced them!"
"MY VERY OWN MR. SASUKE CALENDAR™ !"
Kabuto smirked. "Look at what else is in the box."

-Help me, it's dark and I hear laughing-

Sasuke stormed down the halls of the lair, carrying a writhing bag in his hands. His foul mood was clearly evident on his face. Stupid Orochimaru and his stupid Valentine's Day.
"Happy Valentine's Day Sasuke!" One of the nameless henchmen (or women) he passed said, which was an extremely bad idea on their part.
"RAAAH!" He grabbed the henchman by the front of their shirt and threw them across the corridor. They flew against the wall then landed in a heap on the floor.
"Whyyyyyy!" They moaned as Sasuke walked away.
Sasuke paused when he heard them moan and something just snapped in him. He stalked over to them and began to repeatedly roundhouse kick them in the face. When he felt like he was done, he struck a pose in front of them and yelled,
"Road House!"

Instead of knocking, Sasuke just rolled into Orochimaru's room and threw the bag he was carrying onto his bed.
"Valentine." Sasuke muttered and turned to leave, but Kabuto grabbed his wrist.
"Lord Orochimaru has something he'd like to say to you."
Orochimaru slowly climbed out of his bed and made his way towards Sasuke and took his hand.
"What the hell do you think you're doing!" Orochimaru just kept smiling.
"Now Sasuke-kun, I know that we may not always see eye to eye, and sure, we've had a few misunderstandings─"
"Misunderstandings?" Sasuke looked incredulous now. "You tried to rape me!"
"Please Sasuke, that was just sex you didn't know you wanted." He dismissed Sasuke's accusation with a wave of his hand. "anyway, so we've had a few misunderstandings, and we don't always get along, but who does? So we have our differences, so we feel different things, but that's what makes us people and not experimented-on mutant infants. Never mind that though, and I can't think of a person more than you that I'd be willing to spend the rest of my life with, so Sasuke,"
Orochimaru got down on one knee and pulled a ring (the other gift from Kabuto) out of one of the flaps in his dress.
"Will you marry me?"
"What the **!"

Orochimaru jumped up. "I take that as a yes!"
They heard the shutter of a camera as Kabuto took a picture of them.
"I never said yes" Sasuke started, but was interrupted when Orochimaru started screaming himself.
"We will announce it to all the villages, and to every corner of the world: We're getting married!"
Kabuto grabbed Sasuke's arm and pulled him out of the room and down the corridor.
"You're going to look fabulous in the dress." Kabuto said with his most perfect maniacal laugh yet.

Beta note: I had really fun writing this alternate ending. I don't usually do things like this (and i haven't written fanfics in a while), so it was a nice change for me. It was actually pretty relaxing for me to write this, so i guess i feel my best about writing when i'm actually having fun with it. Anyway, i hope you enjoy and keep reading the story!