Disclaimer: If Naruto was mine, do you think I would be a poor student? I don't think so! And yeah, it's in that tone.
A little golden blur ran past the shinobi Academy; it was a barely six year old child in a dirty orange sweat shirt and black khaki pants- of course, made for kids. It was impossible to miss him and everybody in the village knew him- how so? Easily, he is the son of Konaha's lovable Yondaime and the cutest child alive- Naruto Namikaze.
Over the years, the whole village has grown to love the hyperactive blob of sun mainly because of his bubbliness and honesty. Not only that; the boy had the Uchiha's heirs, Hyuuga heir, Jiraya-sama, Yondaime and Sandaime wrapped around his tiny finger- all it took was his one grin and they all ran to him.
But today the young Namikaze seemed troubled, which didn't happen all that often. And he had a good reason to wear such pensive and dark look on his ever cheery face; for the past week, young Naruto has been hearing a voice. Today more often than yesterday.
Eight days ago, he was playing on a playground with some pink haired girl; she was teased a lot about her forehead and she was crying awfully lot, so Naruto, out brave little hero, decided to step in. Sasu, who was all gloom and doom because Naruto wanted to play with other and not him, left home quickly.
While Sakura, the pinkette, Ino, Sakura's friend and Naruto played in the sand, a gruff sound chipped in his head.
'Having fun, kit?' Naruto thought of it nothing, and responded kindly. Sakura and Ino gave him weird looks that he didn't notice.
But later on the voiced appeared more often- while he ate, slept, played and even when he was speaking with his friends! It was so unfair, having to split his mind in two! And whenever he responded other people gave him those nasty looks! He didn't like, not at all!
That was probably the reason he didn't tell Dad and Mom yet; he didn't want for them to look at him that way also!
He was freaking out by now, and the voice kept telling him to calm down, but he didn't know how! He wasn't scared of the voice; hey he was the Naruto Namikaze! And the voice was , it did bother him a little that all his friends thought of him as a weirdo. Well, except Sasu; Sasu was still the same. That though brought a smile to little blonde's tanned face. Still cuddly and huggy as ever… Weeell, not when daddy is around… or K'ashi… or Hina-chan… Then he's all glare and stare and…
K'ashi! Yes, if he told K'ashi about then K'ashi could stop the voice!
Filled with determination, Naruto walked back to the local park and stopped under a tree. Seconds later, a silver headed teen, with a blue mask covering his whole face, but his right eye, appeared.
"K'ashi!" Kakashi's eye went 'U', menaing he was smiling.
"Yes, Naru-chan?" Naruto, momentarily forgetting the annoying suffix, grabbed him around his legs and gave his most adorable pout.
"K'ahsi, thewe some weird voice in my head!" Kakashi paled his one visible eye widening. He crouched down to the blonde's level.
"What?" He asked, starting to panic. There's no other explanation- it had to be Kyuubi. The damned fox that took lives of half of the villagers was trying to corrupt their precious sunshine!
"An' it talks and evew body thinks I'm cwazy, an'…" Naruto continued babbling, but Kakashi paid it no mind. He had to tell sensei this, who knows what it meant! Maybe the fox will possess the blonde angel and… "An' it's happy an' he says he wants to be my fwend!" Kakashi's black eye zoomed in on Naruto's sparkly and innocent ones.
"You want me to make it go away?" Naruto paled, before he started reddening with anger.
"No! No, no, no, no!"
"Why not, it could be pretty bad.."
"He wants to play!" Naruto yelled. "An'when I have an ouchie, he makes it stop and he says funny twings an' makes me laugh an' woves me! I want to know 'im" Kakashi and Naruto stared one at another, before Kakashi broke a small smile; he patted Naruto on the head.
"You know what? Why don't you tell your otou-san about it? I'm sure he'll help." Naruto turned shyly to the ground.
"He won't think I'm weird?" Kakashi chuckled.
"Naru-chan, your otou-san is the weirdest person alive."
The lithe blonde nodded, thinking back how whenever nice ladies gave him a candy or a hug- which he loved so much! – he started yelling and throwing pointy things at them, which is like, weirder. Even weirder than a voice in his head, Naruto concluded with a smile.
"OK!"
And the nine-tailed fox chuckled behind Naruto's mind walls, thinking how everybody was in for a surprise. Such a nice surprise.
A/N: The next chapter will tell you the story about how the heck Kurama got into Naruto's tummy. So, no previews!
Eun-nao: We shall see about it. Personally, I adore the pairing, but I am trying to connect Naruto with everybody that's connectable. Comprehende?
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The Sasuke Interlude will be on tomorrow- see you then!
Ja ne,
The ever-grateful enRei