The Voice Inside
Summary: Ever since the attack when he was young, a voice started to speak to him. Should he listen to the voice that cries for revenge or should he ignore the voice to protect the lives of the people who have harmed him?
Disclaimer: I do not own anything Naruto related or the song "Mordred's Lullaby"
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A light-skinned man of below-average stature with grey hair, with a long and thick goatee and short spiked hair, also had a three lines running vertically under outer corners of each eye, which stretch down into his face until they reached his cheeks, he has pronounced cheekbones, a prominent crease across his forehead, a few wrinkles, a wart near his left nostril, and a few liver-spots, was sitting down doing a large amount of paperwork.
This man is Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Third Hokage, hailed from Konohagakure's Sarutobi clan. Together with Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane, he was the student of the first two Hokage, Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, and the teacher of the Legendary Sannin Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru as well as the third man to hold the title God of Shinobi, along with Hashirama Senju the First Hokage, and Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki the Sage of Six Paths. His job as Hokage was one of slow deliberation and accursed paperwork much of the time, smoking a pipe and generally taking things slowly.
Wanting to take a break from the unnatural amount of paperwork, he decided to check on Naruto Uzumaki, a boy who he saw as his own grandson. Naruto is the third and current jinchūriki of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, he is also a maternal descendant of the Uzumaki clan, and unknowingly to Naruto, and he is also the son of Konoha's Yellow Flash, a legendary shinobi who became the Fourth Hokage. Naruto should be seen as a hero not due to who is parents are, but due to the fact the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox cannot harm anyone as he is locked up, sadly most of the village do not see him as a hero, but a the Fox itself.
Looking with the crystal ball, he saw something that brought chills down his spine and red filled his eyes, he rushed out his office. In the crystal ball showed the young Naruto being attacked by the people he saved. Hiruzen was very nearly there, fear had filled his heart. What if he doesn't make it? As he cursed his faith in his speed increased as he approached a howling crowd.
About 70 villages shouted and screamed in triumph as 8 Shinobi beat viciously on the young boy. They stopped as their Hokage landed. Not from respect, but because they expected reward. The killing intent rolled out of the elderly man before them. It extended from him, the air felt thick and they began to choke. It seemed as if the night had just got a lot darker somehow. Naruto was laid near the crowd covered in his own blood, one can't even see the blond which look a dark red with all the blood; Hiruzen could feel the tears fighting to fall. This people harmed this innocent child, who is protecting them all. These beings had to be taking from his sight before he did something.
"Take them to Ibiki." He spoke in a harsh tone to his Anbu, as he walked to the bloody boy, "Tell him to give them the Special Treatment."
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Hush child, darkness will rise from the deep
And carry you down into sleep
Child, the darkness will rise from the deep
And carry you down into sleep
Floating in mid-air, pure darkness surrounded him.
Guileless son, I'll shape your belief
And you'll always known that your father's a thief
And you won't understand the cause of your grief
But you'll always follow the voices beneath
Son? Thief? Voices? Naruto didn't understand what this voice was saying.
Loyalty... Loyalty... Loyalty… Loyalty... Loyalty... Loyalty... Loyalty... Only to me
As strange as this sounds, but Naruto could swear that he saw some shadows starting to dance in the darkness.
Guileless son, your spirit will hate her,
The flower who married my brother the traitor,
And you will expose his puppeteer behavior,
For you are the proof of how he betrayed her loyalty
What in the world is the voice trying to say? What it trying to tell me something?
Loyalty... Loyalty... Loyalty… Loyalty... Loyalty... Loyalty... Loyalty... Only to me
He feels arms seemly holding him. He feels warm, comfortable, and love? He has never felt this other than with the old man.
Hush child, darkness will rise from the deep,
And carry you down into sleep,
Child, darkness will rise from the deep,
And carry you down into sleep.
The darkness and love around him slowly disappears as the voice still sings.
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"Naruto, are you ok?" the old man asked Naruto when he noticed the young boy waking up.
The eight year old looked around noticing that he was in the hospital, again. He signed then remembered what had just happened and replied "Yea! Old man, I'm fine I just had a weird dream."
"What kind of dream." The older male asked as he looked to Naruto.
"Well, I felt like I was floating and it was dark and there was a voice it was singing some song about loyalty, darkness, and the voice called me it's son." Naruto said trying to remember everything that had happened, his blue eyes closed in thought.
Hiruzen looked to Naruto rather shocked and a little scared "The voice? Could be the Kyuubi, but if it is why would it call Naruto it's son? I have heard that Shukaku has connived it's jinchūriki that it's his mother, to have control over it's host. Maybe the Kyuubi is like Shukaku."
"Naruto, don't listen to the voice." He said with a very serious face and voice. Naruto just nodded, shocked by his tone and expression.
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Unknown to Naruto within his mind, there was another conversation happening.
"It has been a long time, since the last time we met. Hasn't it Kurama?"
Be hide large bars pair of large red eyes widens in shock at the person in front of him.
"You."
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This is a somewhat rewrite, but I didn't change anything big. Please review.