Author's Note: White Day Special! Orochimaru has a special gift for Kabuto and Sasuke.
Thanks to ilvecoffee-n-narutoYOUTH for her work as a Beta for this chapter and the alternate ending she provided for the previous chapter.

Also Happy Birthday to fanfiction writer Arabella Cauwell (Raiku-hime) who was born on White Day!

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

Chapter 5: White and Orange

Part 1: White

One month had passed peacefully for Kabuto who was enjoying the frequent absence of a particularly annoying underling. Knowing that his time with his Lord was less likely to include a rude, unannounced interruption from that person was very pleasing to Kabuto. The amount of work he was actually able to get done and the number of experiments he was able to accomplish had increased exponentially and the medical nin was proud of that fact. Today in particular would be a good day given it was White Day. Every year Kabuto had only expected to receive one of two things from Orochimaru as a return gift in thanks for whatever he had been given on Valentine's Day. As he was thinking about this the former Sannin walked into the lab with a large scroll Kabuto could only guess had something to do with his White Day gift.

"Kabuto since you have gone above and beyond to please me this year I have an equally good gift for you in return. I also decided to go with a two part gift but you'll have to search the compound for the second part. It shouldn't be too hard unless they've all killed each other already."

"They? You mean I get a group of test subjects to experiment on this year! That in itself is more than I could have hoped for and you're telling me there's more? Whatever have I done to receive such gracious gifts my Lord?"

Orochimaru smiled in such a way that any normal person would have been very creeped out, but this Kabuto we're talking about so there was no reaction. You know very well what you've done and you do it so well I expect you to do it again very soon. Until then why don't you look what I stored inside this scroll for you."

Kabuto reached out and took the scroll with anticipation. 'Best White Day ever', he thought silently as he released the present from the scroll. Then he screamed happily "This is exactly the bodies I needed for my collection and they are better specimens than I could have gotten myself! Thank you my Lord, thank you!" He couldn't stop himself from giving Orochimaru a giant hug. For a moment Kabuto looked like a child on his birthday rather than dutiful servant.

"Glad to see you're happy and you can save that kind of thanks for later. Have you seen Sasuke-kun around today. I still have to give him his present."

Kabuto pouted as he added the three perfectly white corpses to his own scroll with the rest of his collection. He didn't want to think of the little Uchiha brat today. "One of the others mentioned seeing him sulking near a clearing behind the hideout. Now if you'll excuse I'm going to go find the rest of my present before it's too late."

"You're sure you don't want to see the look on the boy's face when he sees the present?" Orochimaru teased, knowing full well of his servant's displeasure with the boy.

"That's alright, I'm sure you intend on telling me all about it later. If it's something he doesn't like he'll just come find me to accuse me of giving you the idea anyway."

Part 2: Orange

Exactly one month has passed since the Valentine's Day "incident" that sent Sasuke virtually into hiding in a fit of rage. Every day since Sasuke had seen Kabuto's gift for his new master he had been avoiding both men on a constant basis as if they had the plague or something. Needless to say most of the young nin's training had become on a mostly independent basis. In fact, Sasuke had spent so much time away from the hideout it's a miracle he wasn't discovered by Leaf Ninja and brought back to Konoha. Seriously, he even complained about his situation to the people in the local village and practically told them where the hideout was.

Regardless of that scenario and the current situation, Orochimaru went out to find Sasuke so he could give his apprentice the gift. Just to make sure the boy hadn't already run off, he checked the Uchiha's location with every minion he passed by. Apparently Sasuke hadn't finished sulking or whatever it was he was doing because he hadn't moved far from the spot where everyone thought they had seen him. Now that he had found what he was looking for Orochimaru approached the boy without caution.

"Sasuke-kun there you are. I've been looking for you."

"What the hell do you want?" Sasuke demanded angrily.

"You're not still mad are you now?"

He had been hoping Sasuke's anger would have lessened at least a little by now. 'It's been a month. How long does he plan on staying mad,' he thought. Obviously the young man's ability to hold a grudge was being grossly underestimated. He did only join Orochimaru because it would help him with his revenge after all. There was no response from Sasuke. In fact he looked more annoyed than ever.

"You do know what today is, don't you?" Orochimaru asked curiously. He wasn't sure if the boy had lost track of the days altogether.

"Monday?" Sasuke questioned unsure of where this was going.
"Yes, but what's special about this Monday in particular?"

"How should I know. Is it some other annoying holiday?"

Orochimaru just giggled softly before answering. 'Of course Sasuke-kun would find romantic holidays annoying. I guess he's still just a kid after all.' "White Day is not an annoying holiday. It's a day to show appreciation for the gifts you receive on Valentine's Day. So this is your present."

"Why are you giving me a present? Only girls get presents on White Day and I only gave you a Valentine's present because I had to, not because I wanted to. Besides, didn't the stupid things all escape?"

"If you were around more often you would know I had all of the snakes captured and put in a tank in my room. They are all accounted for and only three people died when trying to catch the poisonous ones. Whether you believe it or not, I actually liked the present, even if it can potentially kill me. Now open your present and I promise we'll start training with a new jutsu tomorrow."

Although Sasuke was still angry at the snake man, (especially because of the subject of whether or not Orochimaru considered Sasuke a girl or not was not addressed,) the temptation of learning a new jutsu was more than enough to get him to open the present. At first all he saw was a giant orange box with orange tissue paper inside and what looked like an orange colored present. He was already willing to hate the present. After his falling out with Naruto he had come to hate the color orange since it reminded him of his former friend. Thinking about this only made the shock of what was in the box intensified.

"Is this some kind of a joke?" Sasuke cried out after pulling the present out of the box. What looked like a doll that could be mistaken for one of Naruto's shadow clones was now on the forest floor in front of Sasuke amidst a pile of tissue paper. To make things worse it was life size.

"I thought this would help motivate you during your training. Since Kabuto once worked for a puppet master I had him help me. It can actually fight with you and is nearly indestructible so you can use it over and over again without worrying about it breaking. Sometimes it will even speak the way Naruto-kun did. I thought you could try training with it today until we can work together tomorrow."

Sasuke was too in shock to respond. He just stared at the doll on the floor and nudged it with his foot. The doll immediately called out "Believe it!" which made Sasuke jump at the sudden outburst. Orochimaru then activated the jutsu that allows the doll to act as a training partner and promptly left Sasuke alone with the creation so he could see if Kabuto ever found the rest of his present.

After a few hours of fighting with the doll Sasuke managed to get it to follow him into the hideout. Orochimaru had never explained or left instructions on how to turn the thing off so Sasuke was left frantically searching for the man with it in hot pursuit. By the time he had found Orochimaru with Kabuto he was exhausted. The doll was stopped and both men proceeded to make jokes about Naruto being too much for Sasuke, how good Naruto must be for him to be breathing so heavily, etc.

Sasuke threw a series of fits and tried to give the doll back but it was useless. Orochimaru believed it to be his way of hiding how much he would rather see the real thing, and Sasuke was too proud to admit in public. Kabuto suggested that if the doll could give him this much of a workout it would be to Sasuke's benefit to hold on to it for when no one was available to train with him. Not that it had been mentioned before but the doll could be modified to use jutsu to provide more of a challenge.

"Just pretend it's someone else if it bothers you so much" Orochimaru suggested. "No matter what, eventually it will just follow you if you try to get rid of it. You should just get used to it" Kabuto pointed out.

After some more protests (especially about the following him around aspect of the doll) Sasuke eventually gave up and took the doll with him to his room. Later that night, Orochimaru had decided to go to the boy's room to see if he had calmed down at all. Quietly he crept up to the door and opened it just a little. The light was off and there was no response so it seemed as if the young Uchiha had already fallen asleep. It didn't really surprise Orochimaru after seeing how tired he was when he last saw him. Considering if the boy really was exhausted there was little chance of him getting caught, the former Sannin stepped into the room.

He quickly lit a few candles from the nearby desk so as not to flood the room with light and wake the sleeping person. Almost as quickly he had to extinguish the candles and escape from the room. It wasn't because the boy was really awake or anything like that. Orochimaru just didn't want to wake the boy from the hysterical fit of laughter he could feel coming on. From the angle of the doll it was clear that while Sasuke was sleeping the Naruto doll had rolled off the chair it was in straight into the bed. His apprentice had unconsciously started hugging it in his sleep like it was some kind of teddy bear. Obviously if he had woken the boy up with his laughing Orochimaru would have been faced with yet another month of the boy avoiding him. However, that wasn't going to stop him from telling Kabuto what he saw. More than likely this would become a habit and the medical nin would get a chance to see this sooner or later.

Author's note: Hope you enjoyed this chapter. I know it's a little longer than most of the other chapters and I altered my writing style a little but I hope it was still worth reading. Anyway as a side note I'm not sure if I'll be able to get another chapter up during April and in the mean time if anyone has any ideas/topics you would like to see in a future chapter just put it in a review and you may see it become a story.

Next update will probably be at the end of the month or the first week in May. Also included will be a list of what countries the people reading this story are from.