I don't own Naruto
Note: this story is about what happens in the run-up to my oneshot Sealed Revenge as requested by yume-hime. The first chapter is short sorry about that and I don't know when chapter two will be up because for some reason won't let me upload documents to the site.
It's a Cold and It's a Broken Hallelujah
Chapter 1
The citizens of the Village hidden in the leaves gathered in front of the Hokage tower for a very important announcement from the village councillors the first of its kind in six years.
It was six years to the day when Jiraiya the toad hermit and Uzamaki Naruto had brought Tsunade-hime back to the village to become the Godaime Hokage after a prolonged absence, now on that very same day six years later the people of the ninja village waited to hear the name of the new Rokudaime Hokage while still mourning the loss of the last.
"Ok let's do this" said a man who stood dressed in the robes of the fire shadow at the very top of the Hokage tower, beside him stood his perverted-sensei. Deep blue eyes looked up at the faces carved on the Hokage monument. Tsunade-hime's stone carved face looked down on him from the cliff top giving him support in spirit. Jiraiya the super pervert followed his students gaze and smiled sadly at the face of his best-friend, the granddaughter of Ichidaime, the first Hokage of Konohagakure no sato and the female student of Sandaime the third.
"She would be happy it's you Naruto" The old pervert said to his nineteen-year-old apprentice. Naruto looked out from under the red and white Hokage's hat observing his sensei with his bright blue eyes; he smiled and turned to face in the direction of the crowd preparing for the moment when he would stand before them as their leader.
"This is my dream ero-sennin and I'll never forget the friends I lost on the way here" he said then looked Jiraiya dead in the eye "and I won't ever fail to protect the ones that are left, believe it" the tone of his voice was so confident and serious that Jiraiya couldn't help but believe him.
Turning from his sensei Naruto walked into the view of the villagers to be met with a roaring cheer and then, just as Tsunade had done six years before, He removed his hat revealing to the crowd that Uzamaki Naruto was indeed the Rokudaime Hokage, believe it!
The celebration of the new kage was short lived for Naruto, straight after the announcement he was herded into the kage office and almost fainted at the amount of paper work Tsunade had left him 'old hag' he thought then slumped pathetically in his seat and began to tackle the ever growing pile.
Forms, forms, more forms, the occasional mission application or report, complaints about meaningless little things, important agreements from the new counsel 'who ever reads these things anyway' Naruto thought to himself making a mental note to get Shikamaru put on the council, at least the lazy genius wouldn't write much and make Naruto read pages and pages at a time. The pile seemed never ending but after reading, stamping and sorting exactly 3692 papers, he eventually got there.
Three in the morning was the time at which the exhausted Rokudaime stumbled into his room in the Hokage mansion, tired and grumpy he removed his Hokage robes and got changed for bed, fully intent on collapsing onto the heavenly pile of comfort that was his bed. Unfortunately for the sleep-deprived teenager, it wasn't to be, for just as he sat on the edge of the fluffy mattress a knock came at his door.
"Naruto-sama!" The voice from the other side of the door sounded familiar but his sleepy brain found it hard to put a finger on it. He sighed heavily, 'I guess it can't be helped ne?'
"What is it?" The door swung open to reveal a very flustered looking man with huge caterpillar like eyebrows and a bowl cut hairdo, he was wearing green spandex revealing himself to be no other than Gai a very…. extraordinary ninja.
"Gomen ne Naruto-sama!" he said again only this time Naruto could see his face, though he couldn't say that was any sort of improvement, he actually preferred the door.
"A pack of foxes are heading towards the village gates, what should we do?!" Naruto's face, which had straightened into a serious expression when he first laid eyes upon the flamboyant shinobi, fell into his famous are you stupid look.
"Let them in baka!" He yelled to the hyperventilating Gai,
"But Hokage-sama, the villagers…." Gai never got to finish that sentence as Naruto's eyes had turned red and he was now standing facing the panicked leaf ninja.
"The villagers what Gai-san? Fear foxes? Don't pretend you don't know about it, they have come for me Gai, they will do nothing to the village, the village have accepted me of all people as Hokage for kami's sake" Naruto growled, "now, I'll say it again, let… them… in!" Gai turned white and after muttering a quick 'Hai! Hokage-sama' he fled the seen.
'Yare yare, in Shikamaru-san's words, it would be nice if this didn't turn into something troublesome, ne fox?' Naruto got a chuckle in response from the voice in his head.
'Troublesome indeed, Naruto-kun, troublesome indeed, we both knew they would come'
'Question is will the others accept it' again laughter was the reply
'Humans fear that which they don't understand, and therefore they can not understand, the question is what will you do if they turn Naruto-kun? Will you run, will you stay or will you seek revenge, which side are you loyal to? Which side accepts you..' the demonic voice faded and Naruto inwardly frowned at his unwilling companion,
'Why do you even ask fox? Living in my mind, you already know all the answers, even better than I do myself.' Naruto received no reply and left his room silently praying that the night would pass quickly to allow the young Hokage even an hour of sleep but yet again fate would prove, it just wasn't to be.