Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to their rightful owners. No copyright infringement intended.

Requested By: sasuXsaku33

Beta: Kaya Kazaki

Authors Note: I know right now it seems like there are major plot holes in this story but it is not a one-shot. If you would be so kind as to stick around till the end things will make sense. Though perhaps not in the way one may expect.

It Wasn't Me, It was the Voice

Chapter 1

"Naruto? It's bedtime, lights out!"

Naruto jumped as he grabbed the little box and shoved it under his bed before his parents came in. He knew it was wrong, his dad told him specifically to never touch, let alone steal, artifacts from his home office but Naruto couldn't help himself. It was there on the bookcase, shinning in the late afternoon sun with gems stuck onto the box; it just looked so cool. He snatched it and stuck it down the back of his pants before his father walked in and sent him off to bed with the promise that he'd come and tuck him in.

"Naruto I said to be in bed not beside it." His father sighed and shook his head, his blonde hair messy and tangled. He was in desperate need of a shower, having worked in his office all day researching, translating and writing about all the foreign artifacts he dug up on his expedition in Egypt.

"Honey leave him alone you, know he has boundless energy like you." His mother smiled and blew her little baby boy a kiss. "But get in bed baby, its ten o'clock already and a growing boy needs his rest."

"But I'm five!" Naruto pouted but with one warning look from his mother all the bite went out of his bark. "Okay Mommy." Naruto nodded and climbed into bed, resisting the urge to laugh at that fact that his parents knew nothing of the stolen box and this was just another normal night's procedure going on. "G'night, Daddy!"

"Goodnight Naruto." His father gave him a tired smile from the doorway. "Do you want a story or have you tired yourself out running around the house disrupting my work?" He raised a chastising eyebrow at his son.

Naruto waited until his parents shut off the lights, closed the door and walked down the stairs before clamoring out of bed. He didn't bother turning back on the lights. Instead, he groped under his bed until he found the small box and pulled it out. It glinted in the moonlight and cast weird, foreign symbols all over his bedroom but he was too enthralled with trying to open the box to notice.

Inside the box rested a single fang. It was pale white with a bit of dried blood caked onto the tip. It rested on a dark blue satin pillow with a small piece of paper beside it that read: Don't touch! Don't ever touch!

"A tooth? How boring…" Naruto scowled since he expected something more exiting that a tooth to be locked inside. Disinterested; he began to look at the box in a new light. Since it was just a stupid tooth, no one would notice if he just threw it away and stuck his chubby little fingers in the box to grab it.

"Nice box though…maybe I can-"

As soon as his fingers wrapped around the tooth, it began to glow a deep crimson red and burn his skin.

"AAAOOOWWWW!" He screamed and tried to shake the tooth out of his grasp but the tooth began to merge into his fingers, melting his skin. His heart pumped widely as adrenaline rushed through his veins causing him to panic.

"MOMMY! DADDY!" He screamed, tears streaming down his face.

Within seconds his father burst through his bedroom door.

"Naru-FUCK!" He stared wide eyed at the scene before him; there sat his son holding his bleeding hand while an eerie red glow emanated from his body.

"Daddy…" Naruto whimpered, the pain becoming too much for him to bear and he collapsed on the ground, the tooth still slowly lodging itself into his skin.

"NARUTO!" It was his wife's worried voice that spurred him into action and he leapt at Naruto with all the intensions of grabbing him and carrying him to the hospital.

But that isn't what happened. As soon as he touched his son the red glow began to seep onto his skin and burn his flesh. Within seconds it had covered his body and his skin started to boil. The only sound that escaped his lips was a low hiss. The pain...

"Nar-AAAHHH!" Kushina stood shocked in the doorway, her eyes darting from her unconscious glowing son to her now steaming husband. She took one step into the room and that was all it took for the red glow to start oozing towards her.

"Minato…" Her voice broke and tears began to well up into her eyes before she realized the red ooze half way towards her. "Naruto?"

"G-go…" Minato groaned, trying in vain to tell his wife to leave; that there was nothing she could do to save them.

But Kushina ignored his warning and stepped further into the room, avoiding the red ooze to sidle alongside her son, Naruto. Terrified, she reached out for her boys. As soon as her fingers came within inches of them, her fingers tingled; burned.

"N-Naruto! Minato! What's wrong with you?!" She sobbed and tried to touch Minato's shoulder, but as soon as her fingers brushed it, blackness swarmed her vision.

It was bright, so bright. Kushina winced against the harsh light. As her eyes adjusted, she gasped. For sitting directly in front of her sat a massive fox nearly two stories tall, with brick red fur and nine swishing tails behind it. It was relaxed on the ground, a malicious smirk on its enormous face.

"Hello, mortal. I suppose you came with those other blonde fools." He greeted. Kushina took a step back as cold fear chilled her. One side of its face pulled up in a grin, showing a missing canine. Desperately she tried to get a hold of herself and her surroundings but she couldn't pull her gaze away from the massive fox in front of her.

"Kushina?!" Came a new voice, starting her out fear. She twisted her head around and saw with great relief Minato standing behind her. She smiled; hope welling up inside of her at the sight of her beloved husband.

He noticed the fox and let out a small yelp and stumbled back, tripping over an unconscious body. Wearily he glanced down at the body he stumbled over and nearly fainted at the sight of his son laying there perfectly unharmed. Quickly he bent down and scooped Naruto up into his arms.

"Honey? Where are we? Who is that? That thing can talk!" Kushina pointed at the fox who merely laughed loudly. She couldn't tear her eyes away from the horrendous sight.

"You dare speak with such disrespect in my presence? You, mortal, are very audacious. After so many centuries of sleeping, two strong and healthy humans would make a filling meal. Perhaps, I shall devour the child next." He purred in a deadly tone. "As a dessert."

Kushina gasped in horror, but Minato glared at the fox and forced himself to appear calm and collected, though inside he was shaking in terror."I know what you are. You are the legendary Nine-Tailed Fox from the East. The Kyuubi no Kitsune." Minato said and stepped up beside his wife and jostled her. Surprised at the fact that his voice didn't wavier, his confidence grew in his ability to get his family out of this mess.

"Oh my baby!" She cried and took Naruto into her arms, cradling his head to her chest while kissing his forehead. "Naruto baby, wake up honey wake up." She cooed.

The Kyuubi raised an eyebrow at the scene presented in front of him with the mother and her child and the father standing beside, ready to protect them. "Oh? You are very knowledgeable for someone of your species, human."

Kushina looked at Minato in fear. She didn't like the look on his face; it was a look she recognized as him about to do something reckless and dangerous. Fearfully she cradled Naruto closer to her body.

"And I know exactly how to stop you."

"You do do you? How interesting…" Kyuubi's eyes drifted to Naruto and his mother. "How about this? I won't eat you or your wife if you give me the boy as a snack. After all he's the one that caused the…situation you are placed in now." Kyuubi's lips turned up in a cruel imitation of a smile.

Kushina stepped back and clung to her husband's arm and glared at the fox. No one threatened to harm their boy and got away with it. Hand over their baby to this thing just so they can get away? How cruel is that? She would never sacrifice her son like that!

Suddenly, the fox stood up on all fours.

They thought the fox was huge lying down, it was positively colossal standing up. It could have easily crushed them both under a single one of its enormous paws. Kushina swallowed thickly and adjusted Naruto still unconscious in her arms. This was not looking good.

"Then you understand the sacrifice you must make." He growled, leaning in to stare at Minato with his blood red eyes. Minato gritted his teeth in disgust while his wife clutched at his arm worriedly.

"Sacrifice? What's he talking about?" She whispered as he wrapped an arm around his wife in an attempt to comfort her and their unconscious son.

"There was once a ten tailed best, known as the Juubi. It was powerful; unstoppable. A man known as the Sage of the Six Paths split its power into ten beasts and cast the Juubi's into the sky, creating the moon. It was just a legend; I never imagined it to be real." He breathed deeply and began to nervously rub his wife's arm. "The only way to stop these things is to seal it up. You can't kill it, only contain it. The lesser demons, the Ichibi the one tailed and Nibi, the two tailed and such can be contained in specially made jars. The higher-ups all the way to the eight tails can be sealed in intricate scrolls and magical items." He rolled his neck, almost as if the act itself will pull them all out of this nightmare. "The most powerful, the Kyuubi, can only be contained...in a living being. And requires a human life to do so." He explained, his eyes boring a hole in the Nine Tailed Fox's forehead.

Kushina's eyes went wide with horror."You don't mean..." She breathed just as the Kyuubi let out a loud, roaring laugh that made the ground vibrate and echo around in the empty space. She winced as the sheer volume made her hears ring.

"That is right foolish woman; the man has chosen to be a sacrifice to seal me away, once more! And he will use you as a receptacle!" He roared.

Kushina pulled away from her husband in disbelief."No. No that's….that's absurd! Minato?" She stared at him pleadingly and searched his face for the reassurance she needed.

Kyuubi paused and studied the blonde man, taking in his stiff posture, clenched jaw and hard eyes.

"I will not use my wife as a sacrifice." He declared and reached for his wife's hand. Slowly she grasped his fingers knowing if he wasn't going to use her, but then who was he going to use? He himself said it needs a human life.

Kyuubi raised his eyebrows in an expression of realization. "Oh, so you intend to use the boy, do you?" He asked conversationally as though he were merely asking how many sugars Minato took in his tea.

Minato didn't respond.

"Minato...you aren't planning on using Naruto...are you?" She croaked and turned slightly protecting Naruto's body with her own. He didn't meet her eyes and remained silent, his jaw working and eye twitching.

Understanding exactly what his silence meant she again jerked away from him and sheltered her son with her own body. "Have you gone insane?! You want to use Naruto, our son, as a container for an ancient beast?!" She yelled and clenched her fists. "You can't! He's too young! I won't let-"

"There's no choice!" He snapped and glared at his wife, immediately silencing her. His blue eyes were brimming with tears, he didn't like this anymore than she did but something had to be done and this way the only solution. Kushina let out a chocked sob and dipped her head, tears flowing down her red cheeks as she stared at her beloved baby boy as she sank down to her knees.

"He will destroy everything we love if we don't do something…if we don't try." Minato whispered but it sounded like he was trying to convince himself just as much as his wife.

Kushina refused to meet her husband's pleading eyes, there was no way she was going to agree to sacrificing her baby. If this was the only way he was going to do it without her consent, how could he even think she would go along with it? How can he ask the mother of his son to do such a thing? She sniffed, her heart breaking down the middle. Slowly she raised her head and halfheartedly looked around, hoping for a way out of this place. But there was none. They were just floating in a white space, there were no doors, windows, flooring or even sky; it was just existence.

Minato blinked away his tears and turned to look at the demon.

Kyuubi sneered, knowing full well that Minato was going to go against his wife's wishes. "If you think that I will let you cage me again so soon after I have gained my freedom you are sorely mistaken, mortal." He barked and swiped at him with razor sharp claws, but he dodged and began speaking in a strange-tongue; it was the incantation to seal away the fox.

Suddenly, the fox froze in another attempt to attack them, and tensed. "You mortal! How do you know those spells?! They are ancient, lost to the ages!" He snapped before convulsing violently and cast a withering glare at Minato.

"I'm a historian and a part time explorer." Minato answered simply, and went back to chanting the strange language as he slowly made his way over to his wife. His heart broke at that look of pure unaltered hate she directed him.

"Stop." She whispered.

Minato wavered but continued to chant.

"Use me instead. Leave my baby out of this." She caressed Naruto's cheek but her gaze never broke.

Kyuubi used Kushina's distraction to his advantage and swiped at Minato, but missed by an inch. "DAMN YOU!" He hissed and spat, his saliva covering Minato and slowly starting to burn his clothes.

"MINATO! Use me instead!" Kushina laid Naruto down on the ground and stood in front of him. "Stop using my baby!"

Unwillingly she gained the demons attention instead and he turned to face her. "He can't stop once he started woman." He growled, his eyes darting between Minato still chanting and Naruto lying helplessly on the ground. "Move aside."

"No." She held her ground and stared right into the eyes of Kyuubi.

"Move woman." He hissed again, slowly stalking up to her, his tails flicking behind him strategically distracting Minato.

Kushina shook her head and cast one last loving look at her baby boy still unconscious behind her. "I will not abandon my baby. You want him you're going to have to take me first." She spoke calmly and surely. Her husband had already betrayed Naruto in her eyes and she wasn't about to do the same. Naruto needed at least one loyal parent.

Kyuubi gave no warning before he pounced on Kushina and swallowed her whole, coughing a bit as she punched, kicked and gorged at his insides but soon enough she would stop fighting as his stomach acid ate away at her, completely devouring her whole. Just as he moved to paw at Naruto, something shifted and he looked down to see his massive paws slowly disappearing.

"I'm done." Minato declared proudly and looked around for his wife. "Kushina I'm do-Kushina?" Worry and panic began to overtake him as he spun around but saw no indication of his wife, only Naruto still lying on the ground and the slowly disappearing demon.

Kyuubi turned to grin maliciously at Minato. "That may be mortal. You may have sealed me inside that boy but I have eaten you're wife." He purred his eyes glinting. "And judging by the fact that I'm not yet gone you're boy isn't as strong as you thought." With that said he jumped on the shocked Minato and devoured him just as quickly as his wife.

OOO

Jiraiya stared down at the child he was now responsible for and heaved a heavy sigh. Naruto was still unconscious and tied down to a stretcher but his parents were zipped into body bags. It was best that he was still unaware of what happened but it didn't lesson the situation one bit. It only made it more complicated.

"Sir?" Jiraiya glanced down at the young woman staring up at him. "I know this is a hard time for you but will you be riding with the child to the hospital?"

"No. I'll take my own car…I have some calls to make." He sighed wearily before glancing around at the busy scene. It was now around one A.M but the street was live with the flashing lights of police cars, ambulances, endless headlights of SUV's and houselights of inquisitive neighbors. He didn't think there was one person left asleep on the street as soon as word of the Uzumaki's murders got around, which didn't exactly take that long. Wearily he clambered into his own vehicle and tore after the ambulance. After a few seconds he pulled out his phone and dialed, praying that someone would answer. He angrily pressed the end button as a voice mail began to play.

"Damn it, Kakashi, pick up your god damn phone!" He growled to himself. He dialed again and was relieved to hear it pick up on the third ring and swerved slightly, earning a loud curse and blown horn from the car next to him. He indulged his anger and flipped the driver off; right now he could easily beat the crap out of anyone who crossed his path. That included stupid drivers.

"Kakashi, get down to the hospital. Something's happened. "He was lucky, normally he had to call three or four times before he actually answered.

"What?"

"I'll tell you at the hospital."

"I'd rather you tell me now so I can deem whether or not I want to go down to the hospital or not."

"Naruto's parents are dead."

"I'll meet you at the hospital."

OOO

Jiraiya watched as Kakashi and Iruka walked into the hospital, hands shoved into haphazardly thrown on winter jackets with scarves barely covering their throats. Obviously they rushed out of the house and made haste to the hospital.

"Thanks for coming." Jiraiya greeted stiffly, sipping his coffee. He'd been there only twenty minutes and had already located the best coffee shop in the hospital and found out that Naruto was healthy, just unconscious. They were going to keep him there for observation and later in the morning, after the police had conducted their investigation back at the house they were going to come and question him.

Kakashi nodded and glanced around the waiting room, it was empty and slightly depressing with the bright paint and wall liners. The heavy smell of antiseptics and bleach only added to the glum atmosphere, it was as if the hospital itself was trying to remain neutral to all the pain everyone suffered.

"How is Naruto?" Iruka asked and rubbed his hands together to try and get some warmth back into them. It had started snowing on their way over making the ride and mood even more depressing. "Is he okay? What happened? Where's Minato an-" He stopped talking at the dark look Jiraiya sent his way.

"They're dead." He said emptily; he couldn't break down. Not now. Not when there was paperwork to fill out, people to talk to, and things to get done.

"What happened Jiraiya?" Kakashi asked and looked at the older man. Jiraiya was old, but not stupid. On the contrary the man still had his wits about him despite being old enough to collect pension.

Iruka shifted. "So what happened?"

"I'm not entirely sure."

"Then what do you know?"

"I think something is trapped in the boy."

Iruka and Kakashi's brows turned down in suspicion; they all knew what Minato did as a profession but they also knew the man could attract trouble like no other. Once they found him hiding an illegal killer snake in his basement. Needless to say they talked him into handing it over to the government. Immediately.

"Which boy?"

"The newborn born fifteen minutes ago. Beautiful baby girl. She has brown hair and eyes-what do you think Iruka?" Jiraiya derided and shifted, trying to relax himself.

"What? What is that supposed to mean?" Kakashi demanded.

Jiraiya glanced around the empty waiting room and lowered his voice. "Minato had a lot of…dangerous artifacts in his office. And I found a suspicious box in Naruto's room."

"So? We all know the kid's always-"

"I think he stole it from his father's office. And when he opened it he unleashed whatever it is that killed Minato and Kushina."

Iruka rolled his eyes and shook his head disbelieving. "And where the hell is this magical creature that was somehow trapped in a shiny box?" He snapped then winced at the harsh tone in his voice. They were all a little high-strung at the sudden death of their friends but that was no reason to start going at one another, especially Jiraiya who's had years of dealing with freak happenings. After all he himself is a historian and has been around the world, if anyone's seen it all it would be him.

Jiraiya took a gulp in his now cold coffee in an attempt to moisten his dry throat. "In Naruto." The room seemed to drop a couple degrees.

"You're shitting me." Iruka said, not quite ready to believe the outrageous claim Jiraiya had just made.

"No."

"Naruto killed his parents?" Kakashi said, incredulously.

"No…the thing in Naruto killed his parents."

Kakashi snorted and looked around. "I need a drink."

OOO

Naruto woke to the sounds of a mildly annoying beeping sound and a woman speaking. "I genuinely think its best."

"Are you sure Tsunade? He's a child, only five years old."

"I know but given the special circumstance its best. Legally and…morally."

"Really? Morally? I can see the legal s-"

"Jiraiya you asked for my damn opinion and I gave it!"

"Mommy?" Naruto croaked as his eyes finally peeled open and drowsily he looked at one face, then the other. "Grandpa?" He mumbled sleepily and rubbed his eyes.

Tsunade, the doctor snorted and glanced at Jiraiya. "Grandpa?"

"It was his father's idea." He muttered, slightly annoyed at being called Grandpa in front of his old friend. "Technically I'm just the Godfather." He clarified. "Hi Naruto. How do you feel?" He asked and took a seat at the end of the hospital bed.

Naruto rubbed at his eyes again before shrugging. "Tired…and hungry. Where am I?" He looked around at the hospital room, eyes going wide. "Where's Mommy and Daddy?"

At that Tsunade and Jiraiya exchanged a look before Tsunade cleared her throat and put on a fake smile on her made-up face. "Hello Naruto I'm Doctor Tsunade."

"You wear a lot of make-up." Naruto stated staring at her his blue eyes wide in awe at the red lipstick, eyeliner and eye shadow all piled onto the doctor's face.

Tsunade's smile twitched but all she did was nod and grit her teeth. "Naruto, honey how do you feel? In any pain?"

He shook his head 'no', attention already focused on the window and the blue sky. "Where am I?"

"In the hospital. Now do you remember anything?"

"No, where's Mommy and Daddy?" He persisted and itched at his arms.

It was then Jiraiya took a deep breath to steady the nerves before looking Naruto in the eye. "Naruto, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this…but…your parents are dead."

"What?"

"Yes. I know this is hard for you but…I love you Naruto. Remember that." And then Jiraiya left, he couldn't bear the look in Naruto's eyes, the betrayal the accusation that stared back at him bold as ever. When he got halfway down the hallway he heard Naruto's wail of pain followed by Tsunade's cry for help. He didn't look back.

OOO

Later that evening Jiraiya met Kakashi and Iruka at a bar all in need of liquid help at the moment given the tragic situation; in hindsight they probably should have stayed home that give since the barman had set the television on the local news station and they were talking about the tragedy that befell the Uzumaki's late last night.

"We're at the scene of the murders and as you can see the police still have the entire house blocked off. They aren't releasing further information surrounding this horrible case but witnesses have stated that they saw Naruto Uzumaki, the son of Minato and Kushina Uzumaki being taken to the hospital. No one so far has been arrested for the murders of Minato and Kushina as of yet."

Iruka shook his head at the television and directed his attention to his old friend. "So what are you going to do? He's your responsibility now isn't he?" He asked, nursing his drink of whiskey and coke.

Jiraiya took a deep breath and sighed. "I'm going to put him in a psychiatric hospital."

"What?"

"I spoke to his doctor. She thinks that Naruto may be…it would be best given the circumstances."

Kakashi eyed his friend and took a sip of his Gin. "The circumstances being?"

"That despite what I think happened the police strongly believe Naruto killed his parents and if I agree to put him in a mental hospital under twenty-four hour care they won't get involved in his life. After all what can he do if he's locked up right?"

"But the boy's only five, how can they think that?" Iruka scowled.

"I don't know but if I refuse on his behalf he will be sentenced to juvenile hall till he reaches the age to be transferred to a prison then sentenced there for life."

"Still…that poor kid. He's only, what? Five?" Iruka rubbed his eyes. "He's too young to be dealing with all this shit."

Jiraiya nodded sadly. "You don't think I know this?" He ran a hand down his face then rested his chin on his knuckles. "If that monster is inside of him the best place for him would be a place with the capabilities to handle people hearing voices in their head. No matter how I think of it that's the best solution."

"I still don't believe there's a 'demon' in Naruto." Iruka scowled. "I think someone broke into their house, murdered Minato and Kushina and framed him."

"Why would someone do that?" Kakashi asked and downed the remainder of his drink and signaled to the bartended for another.

"I don't know." Iruka grunted. "I just can't believe their gone…"

OOO

"Wake up Boy."

Naruto groaned but didn't wake.

"Wake up, Boy, wake up. It's time to wake up."

This time Naruto shifted and groaned, finally forcing his eyes open to look for the person pestering him. But he saw no one in the weak morning light; it was just him and the sound of the heart monitor beeping. He swatted his ear irritable in a lazy attempt to get rid of the annoyance.

"Funny."

Naruto jumped and looked around. The room was empty. "Who…who's there?" He whispered and pulled the hospital blanket up to his chin as his gaze swept the empty room.

"Finally. I thought you'd never wake Boy."

"Where are you?" Naruto asked, his voice breaking.

"In you my pet. In you."

Naruto looked around the small hospital room again. He gnawed on the tip of his thumb betraying his age of a child barely old enough for kindergarten.

"Don't you remember?"

"Remember what?"

"Of course…you were sleeping."

"Mister this isn't funny." Naruto scowled and glared at the empty space around his bed. "Stop it. I'm going to tell my Da…" He trailed off, suddenly remembering what Jiraiya and his doctor explained to him yesterday.

"Ah, you remember don't you? You're parents are gone now. Dead. How sad."

It was then a nurse walked in followed by Tsunade, just in time to hear Naruto start wailing. "NO! MY MOMMY AND DADDY ARE ALIVE! ALIVE!"

"No they aren't boy, they are dead. I saw them with my own eyes. Dead. You'll never see them again."

Naruto stared down at the white sheets pooling in his lap, his normally bright eyes dark with horror. HE clutched at his head, shaking it from side to side hoping to stop the voice. "SHUT UP SHUT UP! STOP SAYING THAT!"

Tsunade stared at Naruto for a few seconds before waving to the nurse to hold down the boy before he started getting violent again and pulled the syringe she had waiting out of her pocket. After the way Naruto acted up yesterday she decided it would be best to sedate him for the move. After all it took three nurses to sedate the small boy and two of them got injured in the process. She didn't think it wise to take the risk. Naruto was being transferred to the care of Orochimaru, the Doctor at Kyoto's Mental Hospital and the man was known for his lack of patience with violent patients. Though that thought worried her but she banished it from her mind; she had enough on her plate anyway.

It took all of one minute before Naruto stopped struggling and the nurse could release her hold on him. "What was that about?" She asked softly, eyes trained on the now drowsy little boy on the bed.

"I don't know." Tsunade stared at him, worry etched in her face. "I really don't know."

"Should…shouldn't we do something then?"

"No. He's not our problem anymore."

"Ma'am! H-"

Tsunade scowled. "Silence! Get back to work!"

The nurse bit her lower lip in worry; clearly the boy was having problems how could she be expected to just ignore it? And he was so young too! Just a little babe, it hurt her heart to just hold her tongue.

Tsunade saw the pained look on the nurse's face and sighed. "I'm just following Jiraiya's orders. He doesn't want anything done in regards to his talking to himself. Leave it be Shizune."

OOO

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