This is an updated version of the prologue, I started reading the books of Harry Potter and wanted to make the main character look a little more cannon before she changes and trust me she does.

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Being a snake isn't always bad thing…

Prologue: How it began

Linda Potter has quite frankly had a terrible life. Since the day she could walk she was forced to perform choirs around her 'home' like a slave and was forced to live under the stairs in a cupboard. Her 'family' was little more than a bunch of simple-minded idiots… Actually, that's giving them a compliment.

Let me rephrase that: A bunch of simple celled mindless morons.

Anyway, they forced her to do things no young child should do. And if she made a single mistake her Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia would physically abuse her and let her heal without even taking her to get medical attention at a hospital. This in turn left her with multiple broken bones that never truly healed; her uncle and aunt ever so kindly started encouraging her 'Lovely' cousin Dudley to abuse her and as a reward treated him like royalty.

They called her names like, Freak, Demon and Murderer. She never knew why they called her that but it created something that no six year old child should feel.

Pure and unadulterated: HATRED

So here she is, small, fragile and broken, six year old Linda Potter, sitting with her crooked legs held tightly to her bruised and battered chest. Protected behind a pair of full circle glasses, lay light, green eyes that once held a beautiful twinkle now dull to the world. Her long, black hair neglected, grew and fell down to her ankles. A lightning bolt shaped scar rested on her forehead, marking her rounded, pale face. Covering her body was a small was ragged and torn grey dress, hiding most of the abuse her so called 'family' did to her.

'Why do they do this? I didn't ask to be here!' She thought franticly, hearing the sound of heavy foot falls. Signifying her Uncle Vernon coming closer to the door, that blocks her from her freedom.

Holding her hands against her ears in an attempt to block out the sounds she panicked and thought 'Please! Anyone? HELP!'

As if answering her prays a small crack in space opened beside her leaking large quantities of light. Apparently the light was bright enough to be seen under her door as she could hear Vernon's fat fingers fumbling around with the locks on her door.

Looking at the crack she could somehow feel that her prayer had been answered and the light that had once left her eyes was now sparkling with possibilities. Without a second thought she stood up at her height of 3 foot and 8 inches and forced her small hand into one of the cracks and pulled it open, revealing a long and seemingly never ending tunnel of light. Grabbing the only stuffed toy she had which was a long silver snake she closed her eyes and jumped into the light, not watching the hole behind her close with an angry Vernon cursing up a storm.

She just held onto her snake for dear life as she continued to float through the endless bright world. Until she felt her back touch a warm fluffy carpet before passing out, not caring about where she landed as the mental exhaustion no child should have took effect and left her in the sweet, caring arms of unconsciousness.

Orochimaru's POV

Konohagakure

5 minutes before

Orochimaru was having a fairly pleasant day; his student and adoptive daughter had just made Tokubetsu Jonin leaving him ecstatic, of course though she did then drag him to the nearest Dango shop to celebrate. Leaving him slightly broke and a satisfied Anko that had put a bit of a dampener on the day.

Returning home from the shop he had said goodbye to Anko as she had wanted to go off and tell her friend about her promotion. He entered the apartment which he shared with his daughter and fell back onto his couch with a sigh.

Pondering what to do with the rest of the day he came to the decision to test out an experimental Jutsu. Normally one would go to a training field for this but the Jutsu he had started designing was based off of the summoning techniques so their wasn't that much in the ways of risk. The Jutsu was designed to reach across the dimensional plane in an attempt to pull an object from another dimension. The seals used were made with the soul purposes of filtering what could be brought through the Jutsu, letting only inorganic matter to be pulled through. The issue was that the seal had been written wrong; it also had a seal that would react to emotion of the wielder and the emotion of whatever it pulls through.

The technique was only supposed to pull objects through not beings with emotions, forcing the system to ignore the seal and only accept an organic creature with emotions.

"Might as well give it a whirl, what could go wrong?" He said, unintentionally mocking Murphy's Law. Standing up he went through the appropriate hand signs and forced his hand onto the floor while drawing more Chakra than intended. Kanji spread from below his hand until it encompassed his entire room and released a large cloud of white smoke and a soft thud could be heard.

Waiting for the smoke to clear Orochimaru was panting heavily, confusion clear on his pale face. Using his arm as a fan, to clear the smoke revealed a small child barley five or six years old. A dirty and torn dress covered her body with long black hair making spirals on the carpet her eye's hidden behind full circle glasses closed as she slept peacefully. In her small and malnourished looking arms was a pushy of a silver snake locked in a death grip, looking closer he could see that her body was quite damaged. Whether the damage was from his Jutsu or something else didn't matter at the moment, he scooped her up gently and rushed to the hospital.

Half way there he was intercepted by the Hokage, several ANBU and his adoptive Daughter Anko.

"Orochimaru, what was that Chakra surge from your apartment?" The Hokage asked with a worried look on his face. Orochimaru was indeed his prized student but he was always rather worried he would turn rouge in his search for power. Noticing the hurt child in his arms the ANBU tensed and placed their hands on the Tanto's strapped to their backs.

"Sensei, as much as I would love to tell you what it was. I currently have an injured child in my arms and want to get her to the hospital, once I have a doctor look over her I will be more inclined to explain this predicament." He finished as he turned and continued on to the hospital, leaving a shocked Kage in his place. The only other time he had heard Orochimaru with a worried tone of voice was when Anko was injured gravely as a child.

Signalling to the ANBU to dismiss them-selves he followed his student along with the young Anko to the Hospital.

Arriving at the hospital they found the Snake Sannin sitting by the bed of the child with a doctor performing a diagnostic Jutsu on her. Noticing the presence of the Anko and Sarutobi he explained that he was performing an experimental Jutsu to pull objects across dimensions and ended up summoning her when it technically shouldn't be possible.

They were brought out of their conversation when the Doctor began ordering several nurses to prep an emergency operation room. Orochimaru caught the doctor and asked what was going on.

"She hasn't received her injuries due to your Jutsu. If anything you saved her!" He exclaimed as they followed the Gurney through the hospital as they gave the doctor confused looks. Pushing through the doors to the operating theatre the doctor stayed behind with the trio and decided to explain what he meant.

"Her body shows heavy and I mean heavy, signs of physical abuse across her body. Several of her internal organs have been badly bruised and several of them ruptured, her bones have been broken multiple times and have not been given any form of medical treatment. Leaving them to heal in angles and positions that could cause great pain for her, this was mainly obvious along her arms and legs but her ribs are completely mangled." He said it all while suppressing a growl, how could someone do something like this to a child.

Heavy amounts of K.I. (Killing Intent) was being leaked from the trio in rage, they managed to reign in their emotions in as they were in a hospital and could probably put the staff off their work.

"That is just the start; she has high amounts of dust inside her lungs that her small body couldn't filter out due to her body lacking any proper nutrition which forced it to start feeding on itself. She appears to have never received any kind of medicine for common diseases apart from those a normal baby would receive leaving her vulnerable.

Whoever was taking care of the little girl would be dead if I ever see them. Feel proud Orochimaru-Sama, you saved her from a terrible fate." He said in an approving voice before entering the surgery leaving the three people fuming.

Sitting by the seats next to the door they waited in an unbearable silence for two hours before the doors finally opened pushing out the gurney that was pushed in there those long hours ago. Resting on top of it lay the same girl that went in before but with some noticeable differences. Her arms and legs were no longer crooked and her breathing was much steadier and less laboured than before, her skin was already becoming a healthier colour while connected to I.V drip. Her arms, legs and chest were all covered in bandages with slight protrusions in the wrappings, signifying the use of splints to help her body recover. Her silver snake toy lay beside her with a tiny drop of blood lying on its head.

Following the bed back to the room they asked the doctor for the report.

Raising his hand and giving the peace sign while smiling he said "The operation was a complete success; her body was cleaned of any impurities both internally and externally. Her bones were fixed completely but will need a splint for tonight to let them settle, her organs were repaired and nutrition and vaccines are being provided through the drip connected to her arm." He motioned to her arm which was steadily receiving the formula.

Turning back to the relieved Ninja he became serious and continued "When she wakes up I suggest you be careful, she has been physically abused but we don't know what kind of effects that could have had on her mind. She may not be very trusting so have a Yamanaka help her if she becomes frantic." He said as he turned to leave.

The Hokage turns to Orochimaru and Anko with a grandfatherly smile on his face and tells them that he is entrusting the girls safety to them due to him summoning her. After he left Anko turns to her adoptive farther and says.

"Well then Tou-san, it seems you have a knack for helping young girls out when in danger. Me, a few years ago, and now this sleeping little enigma." She said as she sat next the child, leaning on her bed and started playing with her long hair as she rested her head on her arms.

He just chuckled in response as he started thinking, 'Anko has grown brilliantly, but she needs to learn to take care of herself while at home alone and she doesn't have many friends. It seems I may be getting another daughter soon.'

Turning to his daughter he asked "She is going to need a proper family soon, I feel kind or responsible for her wellbeing so after we get things straightened out. How would you feel about asking her to become your sister?" That got her attention as she stopped playing with her hair and sat straight up looking at him with wide eyes.

Anko was an orphan at a young age and always dreamed of having a family, so when someone actually wanted to adopt her she was ecstatic. That happiness became glee when she found out her new father was one of the most famous people in the element countries. But she always wanted a younger sibling but her father couldn't take care of two people at the same time. But now she was of age to care for someone without her Dad looking over her shoulder every five minutes to see if she herself was ok.

Turning her head back to the sleeping girl she stroked a strand of hair from her eyes and couldn't help to say out loud.

"Your big-sis and Dad is here now, no need to cry again. We'll protect you." She said with a gentle smile on her face mirrored by Orochimaru.