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"Kabuto..." Orochimaru thought as he fiddled through numerous papers scattered across his desk. It was time for his monthly checkup. Even though Kabuto was the medic-Nin, Orochimaru liked to see how well his subordinates were improving from time to time. He called Tayuya, instructing her to immediately send Kabuto to his room.
"Damn snake ordering me around all the time..." She mumbled once she thought she was out of earshot. Her words were quickly responded to.
"What was that, Tayuya?"
"N-Nothing, Orochimaru-Sama..."  She said nervously as she sprinted the remaining distance towards the stairway leading to Kabuto's room. She knocked on the door, and walked in, without permission. "Kabuto-San?" He was sitting on his bed, staring out into the dark night, as if in a transe. "I've never seen him like this" She thought. "Oy, Kabuto-San, snap out of it!" She approached him, and out of instinct he quickly pulled out a kunai and it was at her throat in an instant.
"What do you want?" He said softly. The annoyed tone of voice, contrary to his usual sarcastic one, was very unnerving.
"Well, uh, Orochimaru-Sama wanted to see you, about a check up...or something like that..." She had stupidly left her flute in her bedroom, not thinking it neccesary, and she was now trembling in the hands of her masters right-hand man.
Kabuto cringed at the words. "A check-up? Not now. I can't." He dropped his arm from Tayuya's thoat, and stared into nothing. He turned his attention to the floor, and sighed, as he disappeared to see his master.
"He looked almost sad..." She thought as she scampered back to the solitude of her room, to practice more melodies.
Kabuto knocked on the door, unaware of what the future held.
"Come in." The familiar voice echoed through the large, quiet room. Kabuto entered, and kept his eyes on the floor.
"You wanted to see me, Orochimaru-Sama? Only the moonlight streaming through the large window lit the room, creating a very intimidating atmosphere. Under normal circumstances, Kabuto was immune, but...
"Your checkup...did you forget it was today?" He smirked as he turned around towards the teen. "Kabuto."
The boy nodded and removed his shirt. "Kabuto?!" Orochimaru's eyes widened as he recognized the wound on the boys shoulder. The one he had given him a few days back. "Kabuto, why haven't you healed that yet?!" He was silent. "KABUTO, ANSWER ME!" He yelled, in frustration.
"...I wanted to remember...my place." He said quietly. A silent tear streaked down his face, reflecting the moonlight and making it excrutiatingly visible, contrary to Kabuto's wishes.
"Leave...Now."
"O-Orochimaru-Sama"
"Get out. out, Out OUT OF MY SIGHT RIGHT NOW!!" He was practically screaming by the time Kabuto slinked out of the room.
The medic-Nin shut the door, in time to hear an array of items crash loudly onto the floor. He thought it best to get away quickly, so he ran back to his room, cursing himself the whole way. He ran past the sound five, not caring at the moment what they thought of him. Or what anyone thought of him, for the record. Orochimaru hated him, so what did it matter anymore?
"GRAAA!" Orochimau was in a sudden fit of rage, but he wasn't really sure why. Seeing Kabuto like that, made him incredibly angry. If someone else had hurt his partner like that, he would have killed him upon sight, but... "Why should I feel sorry? He deserved it! I needed to distinguish our roles..."  He thought. But another voice in his head told him, "You hurt him... he was crying. Why did you do that to him?" "Damnit..." Orochimaru laid his head in his hands, and tried to think, but the voices were too distracting, like he couldn't tell right from wrong anymore...like he himself was...hurt."
It was a sleepless night for the both of them, but Orochimaru was snapped out of his thoughts when a knock was heard. "Orochimaru-Sama?" It was Kidoumaru. He didn't want to see Kidomaru right now. He just wanted to be alone."I've got the mission reports, like you asked, Orochimaru-Sama."
"Get out, Kidomaru."
"H-Hai..." "Geez, what's with him, anyways? Kabuto-San as well, they've both been acting strange this last few days... I'll go talk to him, I suppose." He descended the stairs to Kabuto's room, knocked on the door, and entered the teen's room. "Kabuto-San? I need to talk to you."
"Go away. I hate you." He spat.
"What's your problem man?" He went up to the medic, and saw that his face was stained with tears. "K-Kabuto-San?!! What the--" Kabuto's voice cracked, and he turned to Kidoumaru.
"I said, get---out..." Kabuto began to tremble and he put his face in his arms.
"Kabuto-San..." Kidoumaru had never seen him like this. He looked like a child, well, moreso than he was. "What's happening to you?"
"O-Orochimaru-Sama...he....he hates me." Kabuto broke down sobbing into the spiders arms. Orochimaru, meanwhile, was upstairs, helplessly listening to his subordinates cries, covering his ears to try to block it out. It hurt him too much, inside... to listen.