Loyalty to my mother
Summary: He was raised to destroy the village that dishonored his father and destroyed his mother's homeland, but when trapped in the object of his hatred and placed under the surveillance of the Hokage's beautiful assistant, Naruto's unbreakable will starts to shake...
Meanwhile, Kushina wishes for son's happiness and questions if what she's doing is what Minato would've truly wanted….
Somewhere in the edge of Fire Country….
A 6 year old boy slashed a straw dummy clean in half with a rusty kunai, panting all the way. His fists were bloody and gnawed to the bone, several men twice his age in a pile behind him being the cause of that. Not one of them would be getting up anytime soon without medical aid.
Clapping filled his ears. The boy turned to see his mother smiling at him as she headed over towards him.
"All right, my big, strong man!" She said. "That's enough for day. Time for bed."
"I'm not sleepy, mommy!" Naruto hollered as he fought in vain to escape his mother. He knew it was pointless, but his child's pride made him refuse back from anything without a fight.
"Like, no!" Kushina hissed at her stubborn son. They ran around circles for several minutes before Kushina smirked.
She then started running backwards, quickly catching her son
Kushina picked up her son and started singing him a lullaby as she walked over to his bedroom:
"Hush, child
The 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"
She laid him in his bed and kissed his forehead as her apprentices Kurenai, Anko and Shizune appeared to help aid her in putting Naruto to sleep. As usual, he was as stubborn as an Akmichi in an all-you-can-eat buffet when it came to resting.
"I can still train!" Naruto fought. "I'm goanna be stronger than daddy ever was, then no one will disrespect us again!"
"Guileless son, "Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty
I'll shape your belief
And you'll always know that your father's a thief
And you won't understand the cause of your grief
But you'll always follow the voices beneath…."
Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty only to me"
Kushina's mind then flashed towards the two people she despised the most; her brother Sano and Megumi, the woman who had seduced him into selling out her husband and homeland to those three advisors. Her blood boiled as she clenched her fist.
"Guileless son, Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty
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!
Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty only to me"
Naruto started closing his eyes, but the memory of how the men outside had badmouthed his father spurred him on. He needed to get stronger faster, so no one would dare mock his family again.
"But, mommy!"
Kushina smiled softly at her son. He had his father's unmatched determination and her stubbornness…a perfect mix, she thought.
"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"
"Some fights aren't worth fighting." Anko reminded her surrogate brother, stroking his hair as Kurenia stroked his cheeks and Shizune got his teddy bear.
They each kissed him of the cheek before they moved away to allow his mother to tuck him in.
"Guileless son Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty
Each day you grow older
Each moment I'm watching my vengeance unfold
For the child of my body, the flesh of my soul
Will die in returning the birthright he stole!
Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty only to me."
Kushina truly was impressed by her son's progress. He was as strong as his father had been as a Chunnin and no one could last him in a fist-fight. At this rate, he'd be able to annihilate the false 'will of fire' without breaking a sweat by his 13th birthday.
"I'll lick then all, mommy…" Naruto yawned with a smile on his face as he finally closed his eyes and rested his head on the pillow.
Kushina, tears in her eyes, kissed her son once more before finishing her lullaby.
"Hush, child
the darkness will rise from the deep
and carry you down into sleep…."
Kushina turned off her son's lamp as she headed towards her own bedroom, wiping the tears from her face. Her apprentices stayed behind to give her space and make sure Naruto fell asleep.
Before lying down, Kushina looked out the window and stared at the lights of the village not too far. The same village that was the object of her hate, her son's training and that the one man she ever loved had died protecting.
"Minato…" she whispered towards the sky. "Your wishes will be fullfilled."
Author's Notes
The song is Modred's Lullaby by Heather Dale.
Next time: Along with Kurenai, Naruto infiltrates Konoha to begin his family's revenge and meets both his first true friend along with the future love of his life. Sano and Megumi are revealed and details of what really happened that fateful night are revealed…
Vengeance in Konoha: Naruto's Academy days begin!