Authors Note: I hope everyone likes this, as it is the first fanfic I've written. ^^' Yes, it is an Orochimaru x OC pairing. Please enjoy, reviews are greatly appreciated and if there's any tips or ideas to make the story better please tell me! Thanks~

WARNING. The story deals with a relationship between a 17 and 57 year old, and future chapters so include graphic-ness..So read at your own risk.

Chapter One: The End?

"I love you,Kairi-chan.. I love you."

Then I heard nothing more. Feeling as weak as I possibly could, I managed to look up at my master one last time. This was the first time I had ever seen him like this: his snakelike eyes filled with sorrow, tears falling from his eyes like a river through the snow; and although I could not hear him, I could still clearly tell what he was saying. 'I love you'. Three little words I always wanted to hear from him yet never did within my seven years at his side. Only now, as I am dying for him in his arms, does he say those words I had longed to hear. This moment was the best in my life, his pain my pleasure..

Ever since Orochimaru took me under his wing I did everything I could to please him. I only once betrayed him when I was still young, yet nothing too major. I helped him reach his goals, not thinking of my life at risk each time. Yet what did I get when one of our biggest victories, killing the third Hokage, was accomplished? What did I get after nearly dying on the battle field to protect him, to save him from the Third's jutsu?

Pain, Lust.. Betrayal... Rape. That is what he gave me, breaking our 'contract' and the respect I had for the man.. I would have done anything for him and he knew that. And yet he still drugged me, raped me in my unconscious state only to do so again once I awoke.

I hated him, despised him; wanted nothing more than to make him cry, to make him hurt like he had hurt me. But most of all, I just wanted him to love and respect me like I did for him. My death, as sad as it may be, was the thing that made that reality.

I watched him cry, tears now streaming down my face. He wanted me to live, I could see it in his eyes. Yet my death was inevitable. "O-orochimaru..sama.. I'm sorry.." I managed to choke out those words to my master, and as my eyelids start to drop I saw him mutter a curse. Then, unexpectedly he bent down and gently kissed me, the kiss as passionate as it could be. My whole body now limp and all senses gone, my eyes closed in one world, and opened in the next.

I awoke in a strange blue-gray world of nothingness, suddenly floating. I looked at my hands only to see the blood had disappeared, my scars nowhere in sight. Everything seemed to be out of sight, only a dull color as far as the eyes could see. Was I in Heaven? Hell? Purgatory? Was it that I was in a beautiful yet bizarre dream, waiting to wake up back in the lair of the snake I once admired? I pondered this for a second, and slowly stood felt as light as a feather, yet strangely planted on the ground that was not there. I started to walk aimlessly forward, the eerie sound of silence drowning out all of my thoughts. That is, if I had any thoughts to begin with.

I had been walking for what seemed to be hours and still no sign of life elsewhere. I sighed a breathless sigh and continued to walk, and after another hour or so I had finally seen something in the distance. What looked like a person sitting by a campfire awaited me, nothing else around them. As I got closer and closer I could see the woman was very young and pretty, and strangely looked familiar..

And then I realized exactly who she was. I froze, the woman noticing me. She stood up and smiled sweetly, bowing. I was too shocked to bow back.

"It's nice to finally meet you, Kairi-chan. Yet sad that you're here at such a young age.." She pushed her scarlet hair out of her face, showing her bright green eyes. I forced myself to bow, feeling lightheaded when I did so. Her outfit the color of a robin's egg, her necklace the same as my own. Orochimaru-sama was right.

I did have a frightening resemblance to Koneko.

I did have a frightening resemblance to Koneko. It was almost as if I were a clone of some sort, or her child.. As I thought this she giggled, her hands neatly folded in front of her. "You have realized how alike we are in both appearance and personality, I can tell.. Yet I doubt you know the real reason behind it. Quite a story.."

"The.. real reason?" I managed to say, standing up straight yet feeling as awkward as ever. She sat down, and almost immediately I sat down across from her, waiting for what she had to say.

"I was very close with the Legendary Sannin when we were young, especially Orochimaru. It was funny, for Orochimaru was actually the shyest of the three, believe it or not. And Jiraiya was actually Jealous of him, because I always hung around him...

A few years after they became Jounin, Orochimaru started to talk to me about leaving Konoha behind.. and he wanted me to go with him. I said yes, of course. I was as madly in love with him as you were--"

"I hate him." I cut her off by impulse, only realizing what I said a second later. Looking away and blushing slightly, I quietly apologized. She just smiled sympathetically and continued.

"Soon afterwards we left Konoha, he having such great ambitions; start up a villiage of his own, one even more powerful than his home.. I didn't necessarily agree to some of the things he dreamed about, yet I was in love, so I just wanted to help him reach his goals. Three years passed and Otogakure bloomed, as well as our relationship." She blushed and giggled at this, then quickly adding on. "I got pregnant with our daughter, and he seemed to have supported me throughout the entire pregnancy, and the year after she was born.. Even so.." Koneko looked at me with a sad, somewhat pitiful look. She couldn't continue, so I spoke for her. Or at least attempted.

"..He killed you.." I said in almost a whisper. She nodded, pushing the hair out of her eyes.

"Only a week after my death, you were born.. Or to be more precise..

I brought you to life."