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Catch me, don't let me fall,

I'm waiting for you

Catch me, I'm falling

The world is slipping away

What I thought I knew

Isn't true

I'm falling, won't some one save me?

They walk right by, they refuse to see me

I'm almost to the ground... no ones going to catch me...

There are bushes and twigs trying to hold me,

But they break...

The ground feels hard against my back

No one caught me, they let me fall...

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" NARUTOOOO!!"

A blond boy in orange was running faster then a monkey being chased by five lawnmowers, ten hedge clippers and two pairs of scissors-which was basically what was really chasing him. He looked over his shoulder and saw what looked like half the town behind him.

" Crap! I didn't think they'd get THAT pissed!!" Naruto jumped to dodge a shuriken some one threw. He know what might have caused this, it was either the fact that last night he put on the mountain with the Hokage's with peanut butter and bird feed... pigeons... the damage they can do...If you didn't know any better, you'd think that the mountain side was really that white... or it could have been that random stick on the ground, Oh well, things we never know...

Naruto jumped to a treetop and made a copy of himself. The copy jumped down and ran far away in the direction farthest away from were he wanted to go. It worked. Because his copies are flesh and blood, they all thought it was the real thing. The crowd, which happened to have a strong bloodlust about them, followed the copy away. Naruto laughed at them and jumped down, right in front of the four people who knew that the copy wasn't Naruto.

" Hi Sakura, Hi Sasuke, 'lo Master Iruka, Master Kakashi... Heh heh heh..." Man, if looks could they'd be burying him right now...

A pink haired girl with a red-ish Chinese-ish outfit with white rings on it and a pair of black spandex under had her hands on her hips and a sour look on her face.

The boy with black hair and a blue shirt with a wide collar had a pair of shorts with those glove things had his arms crossed and a look of boredom, but a weird look of amusement as well...

The black haired man and the white haired man both were standing right to front of Naruto, but they both had VERY different ways of showing disappointment. The black haired one had a very pissed look. the white haired one was smiling a smile that was a mile wide, not a good thing.

" Naruto, do you know whats going on?" Kakashi asked with the air of some one just finding out that half the town was trying to kill a boy and the other half was gasping at the bird-shit mountain side.

" Ummm... would you believe me if I said no?" Naruto asked, sightly moving tot he right, which Kakashi moved as well. This left Iruka to move to the left and the kids to move in front of him. Naruto was trapped like a rat.

" No, we wouldn't!" Sakura yelled putting a finger very close to his face.

" Thought not..." Naruto sighted. Kakashi bent down to see Naruto's face better.

" Naruto, why?" Kakashi wasn't smiling now. He sounded disappointed.

" Well... last night I wasn't really looking forward to doing that but I had a sudden surge of energy and I got the feeling that if I didn't use it, I would blow up... I wonder were it came from." Naruto put extra force on the last part. Sakura and Sasuke had no idea why, but Kakashi and Iruka knew. Kakashi nodded to Iruka and left all of a sudden. Iruka put his hand on his shoulder and backed off a little.

" Naruto, come with me, were going to go talk to the Hokage about this." Naruto nodded and went with him. Sakura stomped the ground with her left foot.

" This always happens! Naruto does something and he says something weird, we have no clue what about but the adults seem to understand, they take him to Hokage and nothing happens to him! Grrr... I don't know about you but I'm going to follo- Hey! Where'd you go-?" Sakura saw that Sasuke wasn't next to her anymore. She looked up the street and saw that Sasuke was already following Naruto and Iruka to the Hokage's. Sakura ran and caught up with him.

" I'm going to find out about this." Sasuke said as they landed on the Hokage's windowsill. Sasuke stopped Sakura and they listened in...

" So Naruto, tell me again why you did that?" The Hokage's voice said.

" I told you! I had a energy surge and I needed to do something big to let it out! I think the fox is getting a bit stronger..." Sasuke clapped his hand on Sakura's mouth to stop the gasp that she was about to do, but it took all his power to keep his gasp in.

*// The fox... do they mean the nine-tailed one? I thought that it was dead... and what does Naruto have to do with it? //* Sasuke focused back on the people inside as he removed his hand from the now starry eyed Sakura.

" Naruto, the seal on the fox it strong, I don't think it's breaking free..." Iruka's voice drifted to them.

" But, I almost broke the seal when I took the stroll to pass the test to become a ninja..." Naruto's voice sounded VERY worried. Sasuke and Sakura now were holding their breath.

" Look, the fox sealed in you isn't going to break free from your soul without a fight." Kakashi sighed. Then someone stomped their foot hard, most likely Naruto.

" My soul?! I'm starting to wonder if it's my soul at all... there are times when I..." Naruto stopped before he finished. Sakura and Sasuke left and fast. After about five minutes of running, they stopped outside the school.

" Naruto's... the... fox... I... can't... believe... it..." Sakura bent over to catch her breath. Sasuke sat down and panted as well.

" I thought that something wasn't right... If any other kid had been alone, someone would of did something to help that kid... But, they never cared about Naruto, the dirty looks and everything else they gave him, all the adults knew, but they never told us..." Sasuke faded out of talking as both him and Sakura entered a train of deep thoughts. After about ten minutes of quite thinking Sakura spoke up.

" Shouldn't we... you know, tell others? So they know..." Sasuke looked up at her.

" I don't think so. If we told others, we'd have to say how we found out, and listening in on the Hokage doesn't work well... Plus, I think that the adults were forbidden to tell us kids about the fox in Naruto, so..." Sasuke ended without finishing again. Sakura sighed.

" I better go home and think about this... Naruto's the nine-tailed fox... " Sakura sighed as she headed home.

" Hmmm... I wonder, what would happen if the whole town knew... Naruto..." Sasuke left as well. but unknown to them... some kid walking by happened to hear the whole thing...

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Me: Hmmm... Yep, that deep.

Naruto: ?

Kakashi: What's with the poem?

Me: It's a metaphorical summery of the story told in the first person.

Sasuke: Who's saying it?

Me: If you read more of the chapters then you'll find out. Everything in the poem plays a part and means something.

Kakashi: When did you write this?

Me: Spanish class, I didn't feel like writing in a different tongue.

Naruto: Ummm, I knew to learning, but... aren't you suppose to listen and write Spanish in a Spanish class?

Me: Yeah.

Sasuke: Sooo...

Me: Hey, I can get board.

Kakashi: Hmmm... Review if you want this to go on.