Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Shibo awoke to darkness. Her body felt heavy from her neck down. She groaned and stood up, stretching.

"This isn't even my room, anyways." She wandered out to the foyer of that floor, and jumped down from the railing.

Orochimaru was sitting in the gray, beat-up couch, reading a book. He heard a 'thump' coming from the tower. He walked over to see what it was, kunai at the ready.

Shibo had landed on her feet, but slipped, and fell onto her knees. She got up, and fell right back down. Orochimaru ran over to her, and helped her up.

"Are you alright, Shibo-chan?" He asked. She shook her head,

"I think my body is still recovering…" She groaned. Kabuto walked over with a pair of leg braces. Shibo looked at them, and offered her hand out. He gave them to Shibo, and she slipped them onto her kneecaps.

Orochimaru looked at her knees,

"Are they still weak, Shibo-chan?"

"They have their moments…" She jumped up and walked to the kitchen. Kabuto grabbed her shoulder, and pointed towards the heaven load of food on the bar. Shibo drooled for a minute, then calmy walked over.

She grabbed every piece of meat, with some syrup,, of course. No, the WHOLE BOTTLE. Kabuto was about to reject, but Orochimaru shook his head,

"She needs the sugar, or she'll never wake up."

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Orochimaru walked into the closet that was, at one time, his. He grinned, and walked over to where his old jackets are. He slipped one on,

"IT FITS!" He danced around in the closet, forgetting Kabuto was there.

"M-m'lord…" Orochimaru turned, his face showing pure anger.

"GO GET FOOD."Orochimaru tossed Kabuto one of his poorly kept jackets. It was thick, and a bit, bloody.

"I-In this, m'lord?"

"It fits you, not me…" Orochimaru shrugged, and continues to try on every single bit of clothing. Kabuto sighed, and left to the small general store in the village.

Shibo watched Orochimaru, and giggled. She sat on the floor in her black with white snakes thick yukata. Orochimaru looked at her, and smiled,

"I guess…thinks are coming back to me now that…I'm up here again." He looked down. Everything here, he had once forgotten. How? How could he have forgotten?

"Dad, what was it like?"

Orochimaru looked at her,

"What was what like?"

"Being alone, too. What was it like?" Orochimaru looked out the window at the other end of the closet, and sighed.

"It was tough…I missed you, Shibo-chan, I truly, truly did…" He turned back to her. She nodded, and looked down.

"I knew they were wrong. They don't know this side of you…" She looked up, crying,

"No one but us…" Orochimaru walked over to her, fell to his knees and hugged her.

"Don't cry… that's all I ask. Just don't cry…"

Shibo sobbed into his shoulder. The last eight years had been bad on them both.

But as Orochimaru started to think about it more, she'd been through worst than he had. He held her head, and started crying a little. He hadn't cried in years, ever since…

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A seven year old Shibo appeared, in chains, with several ANBU guarding her. This was her third week being a prisoner in Konoha.

And she didn't do anything. She didn't harm anyone, steal anything, NOTHING.

"If anyone knows Orochimaru, tell him we have his daughter with us, and he MUST come to Konoha for her." The guards took Shibo back to the cell. It had a bed, sink, toilet. It was in the hokage tower that she was held. Her cell? A simple room with windows overlooking Konoha.

She growled at the guards, and ran over to her bed. She started crying into the pillow, beating the wall.

"I WANT OUT! LET ME OUT!" The guards didn't listen- no, they didn't WANT TO listen- to this brat scream about going home.

No one knew why Sarutobi had demanded that she'd be in a room in the tower. But, Sarutobi wanted to talk to her. He remembered seeing Shibo only once before, and that was when Ai and the twins visited from the north. They were nothing but infants at the time.

Even that time, Orochimaru remained distant from everyone except his family. And Ai, she seemed to be hiding something. She rarely talked to people, and she spent her time in Orochimaru's mansion near the outskirts of Konoha. She played all sorts of music, and sang, too.

So now, with Shibo, Sarutobi had hoped to lure Orochimaru in with the most precious thing that he could possibly obtain. And once Shibo met her father, he was to be killed immediately after.

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Orochimaru glared at the scroll, and threw it into the fireplace. It was a report from someone who visited Konoha. He had feared that this would happen.

He thought that they would have turned his daughter against him. And this report had made him very upset. He feared that this person who was brought out every day was a fake.

"I can't believe this!" He stood up, and punched the wall. He stomped down the halls to the outside of his new hideout, and went out to find the closest thing to kill.

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They went through this for a year before Shibo was let go. They gave up. They decided that it would be better if Orochimaru found her dead, but Sarutobi knew his former student's mental stability. Orochimaru had already lost the only woman who ever said willingly 'I'll bear your children' and one of his children. Losing the last one would send him over the edge, and they didn't want to lose Konoha for a child.

So, Shibo roamed from town to town to town, looking for her parents. Her father had sealed her memories two years before, so she can't remember anything. Only her name and her ninja skills. Nothing else. Oh, she also knew how to use her eyes.

Thos blood red eyes of which she could tell anything. She was the only one who had them in the world.