All I Wanted

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Kabuto looked on in shock as the blonde boy consumed another plate of sushi before quickly ordering another one, the fifth one since he entered, since Kabuto entered.

It wasn't the impossibly frightening speed at which the sushi disappeared but the endurance and love for the wasabi that truly fightened Kabuto.

"Obaa-san," Naruto's high childish voice called. "Can I have another plate and more wasabi?"

The old lady promptly appeared with three trays stacked together and a bottle of wasabi in the other, a wide grin stretched on her face. "Coming, dear."

Kabuto stiffly took a seat and looked away from the horror. With his eyes averted, he cautiously asked, "Naruto, how do you like the village?"

Naruto took his time to savor the rush before answering in a thoughtful voice. "It's good. I haven't seen the entire village but from what I've already seen, I think I'll love this place."

Kabuto slowly nodded. "That's good. I just met with the Otokage. He wants to meet you."

Naruto merely grunted as he stuffed another wasabi-coated sushi into his mouth.

The silver haired teen sighed. Now came the hard part. "So let's go Naruto-kun."

Naruto froze, half of a sushi in his mouth. The boy looked down at his plate of sushi and back up at Kabuto.

Kabuto could see the battle within Naruto and stayed silent.

"Now?" Naruto mumbled around his sushi.

Kabuto nodded slowly.

Upon seeing Kabuto's nod, Naruto looked down at his sushi and proceeded to stuff his face again, as though purposely ignoring Kabuto's presence.

Kabuto frowned. "Naruto-,"

"Obaa-san," Naruto called loudly, interrupting Kabuto as though to deny the teen's existence. "Can I have another tray?"

Kabuto's eye twitched.

Naruto pouted as Kabuto dragged him by the arm out the shop, with an apology to the shopowner, and down the street towards the dark building situated on the other side.

Strangely, most people tended to stay away from the ominous building, leaving only ninjas or the mentally retarded that did not know the dangers.

Personally, Naruto was scared but he had enough control over his body to not show it.

The guards parted silently to let Kabuto through.

The corridors ahead had no windows and no light source. It was pitch black as they made their way deeper and deeper into the hideout, or Kage office, in this case.

Naruto couldn't help but allow a shiver to overtake his control. His vision was completely useless. All he could hear was the echoing footsteps of him and Kabuto and several other noises, which he didn't want to know about.

After many stairs, turns, and doors, Kabuto finally stopped in front of a dark wall and took a deep breath. Naruto couldn't see anything but he felt Kabuto look down at him.

Naruto squeezed Kabuto's hand reassuringly. "I'm ready Kabuto-san."

Kabuto smiled. How strange it was that the person who should be the most worried was the one reassuring others. With a chuckle, he formed a series of hand seals and slammed his palm onto the flat wall.

With a gasp, the blue current of chakra illuminated Kabuto enough to see that it originated from him. Kabuto's eyebrows were furrowed in concentration. Within seconds, a grinding sound filled the hallway.

Naruto scooted closer to Kabuto and entered the illuminated area. He looked around the hallway. Strangely, with the illumination, the rest of the hallway became even darker.

Naruto looked back at the wall channeled with chakra. There was a distinct door outline carved into the wall. Kabuto stopped his chakra and grasped Naruto's hand.

"Orochimaru-sama is waiting. Let's go."

Naruto was only vaguely aware of a shift of presence within the dark room when a figure flitted into view and a sudden pain exploded in his stomach. There was no time to react or even process what had happened before Naruto descended into darkness.

Kabuto watched with wide eyes as Orochimaru attacked Naruto with a punch to the stomach. The teen quickly rushed forward to catch the unconscious seven-year-old before he hit the floor.

Orochimaru straightened out of his offensive crouch and looked down at Naruto with calculating eyes.

"What took you so long Kabuto?" The snake sannin asked, disapprovingly.

Kabuto bowed his head. "Apologies Orochimaru-sama. Naruto was…occupied."

Orochimaru waved his hand, dismissively and reached down to Naruto. With his forefinger and thumb, he turned Naruto's face this way and that with a satisfied smile. After checking the face from several angles, the pale fingers slowly slid downward.

Kabuto's eye muscles were experiencing a lot of exercise today.

The snake sannins fingers lifted Naruto's dirty rags with distaste and bent to examine a shimmering red seal.

As if fluctuating, the seal appeared and disappeared unsettlingly. At rare times, a vague red mist would appear and gradually dissipate.

Orochimaru observed this with an excited expression.

"This is really amazing." Orochimaru chuckled. "I wonder…"

Kabuto's expression immediately changed to defensive. With the long past he experienced with Orochimaru, he knew exactly what was running through the snake sannin's mind.

"Orochimaru-sama," Kabuto interrupted. "I believe that experiments now would not be wise. Naruto was close to unstable in Konoha. I believe that if were to go through the trauma and experiments, he might not survive even with the Kyuubi."

Orochimaru contemplated this and nodded in agreement. Kabuto breathed a sigh of relief. Orochimaru paused and slowly turned around.

"Kabuto-kun,"

Kabuto flinched at the suffix. It was never a good sign.

"Have you taken to young Naruto-kun?"

Kabuto's eyes slowly rose to meet the golden slitted irises. "Of course not Orochimaru-sama. I would not betray you like that."

Orochimaru's lips thinned in a smirk as he looked at Kabuto with smugness. "Is that true Kabuto-kun?"

Kabuto didn't reply. He understood Orochimaru enough that he knew he shouldn't continue at the moment. Orochimaru's smirk widened and he turned his back to Kabuto with a laugh, as if mocking him and flaunting his power.

Kabuto bowed his head again and waited for Orochimaru's laugh to subside.

"Kabuto."

"Hai."

"Take young Naruto to the medical center. I would like to take the first safety procedure this afternoon."

Kabuto gulped for he understood the meaning, but he had no choice but to accept. He picked Naruto up and teleportted to his medical office.

"Orochimaru-sama, the preparations are ready."

Orochimaru smirked at Kabuto. "Wonderful. Let's start." His pale fingers disappeared in a flurry of seals before he fingers blazed with chakra fire.

He slammed his fingertips onto the seal on Naruto's stomach and burrowed underneath the skin. Trickles of blood flowed from the five holes.

Orochimaru licked his lips in anticipation and turned his fingers in a circle, creating a circular wound around the Kyuubi's seal that joined the five holes together.

Immediately, a haze of red chakra escaped the seal and targeted the wound.

Orochimaru withdrew his fingers coated in blood and flew through another set of hand seals. A small blue chakra point appeared on the pulse point of Orochimaru's wrist. Five other similar chakra points began appearing one by one at the tip of each of his fingers. Once they were all assembled, chakra lines extended from the pulse point to connect to the other five points, making a complicated web of buzzing chakra lines.

Orochimaru's eyes were wide with anticipation and excitement as he plunged his hand into the area within the circular wound and twisted.

A feeling of coldness appeared in his feet.

Naruto slowly opened his eyes and waited for his eyes to adapt.

'This darkness is so much like the place Kabuto-san took me.' Naruto's eyes widened. 'Kabuto-san!'

The memories of the encounter with the Otokage rushed back to him. The boy's head whipped around in desperation to protect himself should the man still be near.

But there was nothing to see except the dark void around him. There was no way to move forward or backward because there was no ground, no floor to rely on. There was nothing beneath his feet.

The feeling of coldness crept up to his waist. The bottom half of his body felt numbly cold.

Naruto pulled his arms to his side and tried to warm up his legs to no avail. The coldness crept upward with each passing second.

The boy didn't know how long he was suspended before an excruciating pain blossomed in his midsection. This sudden pain brought on an unbearably burning feeling, again starting at his toes.

Despite the circumstances, Naruto breathed a sigh of relief. The burning should have drove away the cold numbness but despite the logical thoughts, the heat and cold seemed to work together to bring Naruto even more pain.

Non-existent flames licked his skin, building hotter and hotter flames by the second while the cold numbness was freezing his insides by the second. The two opposite forces of nature along would have brought a considerable amount of excruciating pain but with them both working together, the pain Naruto felt had bordered on death.

For some reason, Naruto couldn't move, he couldn't see, and he couldn't scream as the pain intensified.

Naruto didn't know how long he laid there enduring the pain. It wasn't like he could do anything. But after the shock of the pain passed, he realized that the pain mostly focused on his stomach.

But there was no use in knowing a piece of information like that. He had no use of it when he was being both being burned and frozen alive.

Naruto opened his eyes and tasted something metallic and liquid erupt from his mouth before the pain sudden vanished, leaving him stranded in the middle of the dark void without any comfort.

A geyser of blood erupted from the blonde boy's mouth.

Kabuto secured the straps and watched in worry as Naruto coughed up another mouthful of blood. The teen felt a hand placed on his shoulders and restrained himself from shrugging it off. The smell of blood wafted off the fingers to Kabuto's sensitive nose.

"Keep a careful eye on him Kabuto. I have a good feeling about him." Orochimaru sneered and disappeared.

Kabuto shivered, now that Orochimaru was gone, and looked back at the frail boy strapped on the bed.

Even he, the right hand man, didn't know what Orochimaru had planned for him much less done to him. Kabuto's features turned down in a frown as he bit his lips in frustration.

He hated to be kept in the dark.

And he hated experiencing these strange emotions.

Kabuto hadn't been given any time to contemplate these strange feelings he had towards Naruto. It could be called a protective feeling, a feeling of ownership. He didn't like it at all when Orochimaru decided to experiment on something that was, in his opinion, his.

But he had always followed Orochimaru loyally, though there were times when he thought otherwise. Orochimaru was, in a way, his creator, his savior, his master. But he had always disliked the way Orochimaru had treated his gift like it was a kunai, using it when he felt like it and ignoring it when he found others of similar talent.

Kabuto bit hard down on his lips. He would find a way to keep Naruto safe, alive, and preferably sane.

A glint of a plan flitted through his thoughts and he considered it briefly.

Kabuto's features stretched into a mischievous grin.

The end of another chapter.

It seems young Kabuto's experiencing some strange emotions. but DON'T JUST TO CONCLUSIONS!! I haven't planned any pairing just yet. I have this inability to write romance without destroying the entire story. So forgive me. Those who are fans of kabutoxnaruto and those who are not, please keep on reading. There might be a little fluff in the future but I, like i said, i haven't created any romance.

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