Reina had never known a world beyond Orochimaru. From the moment she could walk she followed him through underground corridors and dim laboratories, learning discipline before kindness and obedience before love. By fifteen she was quiet, sharp, and emotionally restrained, believing her father was the only person who truly mattered. One night while sorting through his things she found a worn Leaf Village headband hidden away, stained and old, and on impulse she wore it around her neck. When she asked Orochimaru about it he only said it belonged to a weak traitor from Konoha, yet he never took it back, which made Reina feel there was something he was not telling her.