Curses of my Father

Chapter 1 – In the Beginning

Orochimaru sat in a small house hidden away in the land of the sea on a place called Demon Island. He wanted to be out learning new jutsu but instead he was inside watching over a toddler that saw him as her whole world. "Daddy! Can you read me a story?" the little girl called out as she ran up to him and grabbed onto his leg. She smiled up at him with missing teeth from her last attempt to be like him. She looked exactly like him except that her markings were red and her eyes blue.

"Sure what story do you want to hear today Athena?" Orochimaru asked the little bundle of smiles.

"Can you tell me about Mommy?" Athena asked suddenly, it wasn't the first time that she had asked about this since she became old enough to talk.

Orochimaru frowned but told her a sugar coated story about how he had met her mother during one of his missions out to the land of the sea. The truth was that her mother had just been some village whore he liked to sleep with, and when she became pregnant she only carried the child because he asked her to. When she child was born he had taken her away from Mother Island and now 6 years later here was his child, strong willed and curious as hell.

"Was she pretty daddy?" Athena asked him softly. He nodded slowly as her mother had indeed been beautiful; it was part of what had drawn him to her. That and her unbelievable amount of chakra she could maintain a fight against him for close to 3 hours before she even began to get tired. He had loved her talent for jutsu but she wasn't suited to be around him, she was after all in his eyes beneath him.

Athena smiled and ran off to play again, she loved spending time with him but she also knew when he just wanted to be left alone to research from old, obscure texts. He smiled softly, she was indeed a good child and she made him feel like he had done something right. He may be seen as an evil monster by many but in truth he just had been twisted by the events of his own life.

Soon enough he would be teaching his daughter all that he knew and he only prayed that she would be as strong as him without the Sounin title that he held. He also wondered what her summons would be as he had snakes at his disposal. He remembered Jiraiya had frogs and Tsunade had slugs, he also knew that one of the ninja's in the leaf village had dog summons.

He watched out the window as Athena was actually practicing Taijutsu against one of the trees by the house, she was already trying to train herself and that thought made a sick twisted smile appear on Orochimaru's face. Perhaps it was time to start training her already and finding a way to twist her to do exactly what he wanted.

Orochimaru got up and went outside and began instructing his 6 year old daughter in her training. This would be the beginning of a long and difficult road she would be travelling down. It would be long, hard and difficult but only time would tell what side of the line between good and evil she would end up on.