Disclaimer: I do not own any recognizable characters as those are the work of people more creative than I am. And... they're making all the mony for it considering the fact that i get nothing out of this other than a few moments of entertainment that satisfies my muses. the song belongs to Creed, I'm just borrowing it.
A/N: This is a combination of the Naruto/Minato father/son kick my muse has been on... and one of my favorite songs... Only someone as oddball as me could make a good sweet song seem sad ne? Anyways, enjoy and tell me what you think of it.
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A baby cries in the middle of the night, but none stir in the orphanage to quiet the child, or to wipe away his tears. A ghostly sigh echoes through the room where the babe is in a lone crib, all by himself. A shimmer of light glistens into focus beside the rambshackle crib where the dirty blonde-haired, blue-eyed child lays, crying his heart out.
The shimmering light morphs into a young man with wild blonde hair, and deep sapphire eyes. He is handsome, yes, and bears a striking resemblance to the child squalling for much needed loving care in that dingy crib. In a move that should not be possible, the man reaches into the crib and picks the child up, cradling the tiny body against his translucent one lovingly. The ghost, for that is what the man is, manages somehow, to bathe, clothe, and feed the child.
As he rocks the boy in his strong arms, the man sings in a deep, but soothing baritone voice filled with the love the child would have known every moment had he lived.
Hush my love now don't you cry
Everything will be alright
Close your eyes and drift in dream
Rest in peaceful sleep
If there's one thing I hope I showed you
If there's one thing i hope I showed you
Hope I showed you
Just give love to all
Just give love to all
Just give love toall
The baby quiets, listening to the voice of the one who he knows loves him and snuggles into the chest of his father. The man smiles softly, sadly as tears start to fall down his cheeks. Yet, he still sings his lullaby.
Oh my love... in my arms tight
Everyday you give me life
As I drift off to your world
Rest in peaceful sleep
I know there's one thing that you showed me
I know there's one thing that you showed me
That you showed me
Just give love to all (x3)
Let's give love to all (x3)
Just give love to all
Let's give love to all
With his son asleep, the man gently places the child among the ratty sheets in his so-called crib and covers him snugly with the tattered blankets they'd left for him. With sadness in his eyes, he gently caresses the babe's tiny whisker-scarred cheek and places a tender kiss on the little forehead of his one and only son, his heir, his legacy.
Hesitant to leave, but knowing he must, the blonde once known as Namikaze Minato, the Yondaime of Konoha, village that existed to harm his living legacy, says his last goodbyes to the child he never wanted to leave behind.... his precious baby boy...
"Sweet dreams Naruto... Daddy loves you very much..."
With a shimmer, he fades, then disappears, an apparition that was just a memory left in a locked box in the memory of an amitious, determined little future shinobi he'd never live to be proud of.
