I'm taking a small break from my other Naruto fic, Shadowstealer, to bring to life an idea thats been nagging me for awhile now. It's in the main characters POV. Basicaly, its a modern day Naruto fic, with a few characters that are the descendants of the characters of the Naruto world. Enjoy!

Something wasn't right. I could feel whatever power was inside me flicker, as if trying to cast a cosmic glow on the walls of my room. Then, I felt pain shooting through my head. It was as if it was tearing apart my thoughts, searching for something that wasn't there.

I closed my eyes, willing the pain to go away. What I didn't know, was that my eyes had already been closed for nearly six hours. I opened my eyes. The pain had disipated, leaving only the dream in which it had existed. The dream was already fading too.

A rusty summer breeze blew gently through my open window, cooled only slightly by the night. I guess summer hadn't been hindered by the fact that school still had a week left. Not that it mattered, because our finals had finished just yesterday, now all that was left was... nothing.

We'd give all our textbooks back, clean out of lockers, say goodbye to school and hello to summer. How all that could dragged in over a week was beyond me. Well, there was the end of the year dance, and the barbecque, but that was it. Those were the only two things to look forward to before summer.

The wind died, and all that was left was a black cloak littered with diamonds. The cloak was withering though, as the first signs of sunlight cracked over the mountains.

Quietly, I slipped into a tee shirt, pants, and my pair of white Nike sneakers. Then, I leapt out the window of my bedroom, and fell two stories to the ground below.

I landed easily. Yeah, thats right. I jumped out of my bedroom window two stories high and landed, completely unharmed. That was one of the strange things about me. That was one of the signs that I knew the power that I feel in my dreams is real.

I walked across the lawn, and as soon as my feet hit the sidewalk, I began to jog. The top of the sun was showing quite clearly now, and I saw what looked like a crow fly off in the distance.

About a half hour later, I snuck back into my house, and showered, dressed, grabbed my school bag, and headed back out for school.

I always headed to school early because I loved the quiet emptiness of it, and I always could keep my private thoughts safe. Only when the hall was full of secrets being revealed and emotions trailing behind did I lock up my secrets. The school wasn't completely empty though. I passed through the entrance and into the hall of my eight grade class.

I couldn't see her head, but she had the body of an athelete. She wore shorts just above the knees, and white sneakers similar to mine.

Then, she slammed her locker door shut, and I saw her face. She was pretty, gorgeous, no, beautiful. Her raven hair went slightly below her shoulders,her lips were a deep pink, her cheeks held a rich blush that made me think of treasure. And blue, grey eyes that I wanted to explore.

I ran a hand through my hair, which hung only a few inches above my shoulder, and couldn't help but finally realize how we both had black hair. She walked away, her feet echoing softly in the harshly lit halls.

I approached my locker, and it was only as I opened it that I realized that the one that had been empty next to me this entire school year was the one the girl had opened, probably putting her school bag away.

It struck me curious as to why someone would move or transfer to a different school when there was only about a week of school left. I shrugged it off though, figuring I might as well go and talk to who I was already hoping I would share Freshmen classes with next year.

I disposed of my school bag in my locker then strode in the direction of the girl. She'd turned a corner, probably heading for the library, I guessed.

I rounded the corner, and I caught a glimpse of her raven hair through the door of the library. Not knowing why, I broke into a jog. I reached the door quickly, and opened the door.

Pitch blackness was what met me on the other side. "Hello," was all I managed to say before there was a flash of light, and pain. I yelped, grabbing my head. Then, instantly the light was gone.

It wasn't possible. The library was gone, and I found myself standing on what could only be a battlefield. Everything was black and white, as if someone had greedily taken all the color of the world.

There was destruction everywhere, proud buildings had been destroyed, bodies lay strewn like all of a child's favorite toys, and it looked as if none of it ended. The destruction sprawled to a bland line of white that had to be the horizon.

I felt like God, for I was standing on an ocean. An ocean that held nothing but quiet death. I didn't want to be God. Then someone spoke, "This is your generations future if you do not awaken the power that runs through your blood."

I whirled around, and gasped, for I was staring at what looked like an older version of myself! He wore strange clothes, that had a strangely familiar symbol on the front.

Then the man disappeared, along with the sea of destruction I stood upon.

I was on my knees, and I felt myself falling forward. Blindly I caught myself with one hand. No, that wasn't right. I hadn't caught myself, she'd caught me.

I opened my eyes, and they instantly focused. I was more aware of every tiny action in that library than I ever could have been. And I saw her mouth forming words before she'd even spoke them.

"Are you okay."

"I'm fine."

We'd said it at the exact same time. I'd somehow read her mind. No, I'd read her lips. My hair had fallen into my face and all I could see of the girl who saved me was those same pink lips, and one of those blue, grey eyes.

I brushed my hair out of my face, and instantly I felt my senses return to normal. I looked at the girl who'd caught me.

"Thanks, uhh..."

"Oh, you're welcome, and the name's Caitlyn, Caitlyn Swann.

"Uhh, Reed, Reed Gates. And thanks again."

I sat up realizing I was on the floor just in front of the door. I looked at Caitlyn, and thought I saw her look at me with a flicker of suspicion.

"What?"

Instantly, the look was gone. "Nothing, just thought I saw... never mind. Wait, what happened to you?"

I just shrugged, using it as a cover to hide that fact that I was struggling to decide what really had happened to me, and whether to tell her or not.

I stood up, feeling a little weak, and I had to make a bit of an effort to keep my balance. "You need to go the nurse?" Caitlyn asked.

"Nah, I'll be fine in a minute."

"Really, how do you know?"

"I don't I just do, but then again nothing like this has happend to me before."

"So, you wanna go to the nurse or not?" She sounded slightly annoyed by my indecision.

"No," I replied, "The only thing that even hurts is my head, and you caught me before I could even hit it on the floor so I don't know what a nurse could do."

"Yeah well, be careful, I may not be around to save you again, if I hadn't seen you come in from the anatomy section I wouldn't have even known you were having an episode."

My eyebrows arched. "Wait, you saw me come in from the anatomy section?" Caitlyn nodded.

"But I collapsed as soon as I took a step in, and the anatomy section is over there." I pointed across the library to a group of shelves laden with books almost one hundred feet away.

I watched as a look of unease set itself into Caitlyn's face. It was the look of someone whose lie had been torn to pieces with brutal reality. "I move pretty fast," she said simply, her voice not matching the look on her face.

"Yeah I bet you can," I said glancing at her calves, where she definitely packed some muscle, "because you look like you're in pretty good shape.

I saw what may have been the slightest deepening of red in her cheeks, before she said, "Well, I see ya later." Then she brushed past me, opened the door, and was gone.

For a while I just stood there, trying to absorb what had just happened to me. I'd seen an older version of myself, and yet the clothes he wore whispered of a different time and place. And that battlefield looked somethig like the Battle of Gettysburg. (The biggest battle of the Civil War.) I remembered what my history teacher had told me, "When the battle was over, the bodies were so thick you could walk across the entire perimeter of the battlefield without touching the ground."

I shuddered. Then the strange sensation of what had happened to me after I'd woken up. Everything had been so sharp and focused, and I'd been able to answer the question just by seeing the movement of her lips.

I wasn't stupid, I knew something was going on. I heard a door slam near the back of the library, and I felt something strange. Somehow I sensed a cold danger, something that was evil enough that it could tear me apart. And yet, I accepted it self-conciously, with an equally cold indifference. It was as though I knew I could handle what was coming, but that wouldn't be easy.

I didn't care what my instincts told me. I this was about the power inside me, then i didn't want to stick around to see who was gonna walk around that corner.

I slipped out the door and back into the hall, which now had trickles of fellow students running about. I strode quickly down the hall, and with a sense of relief rounded the corner. Whatever danger I'd felt before was quickly fading.

The crowd of students thickened, as the bell rang. I caught sight of my best friend Cole. Cole was tall, only a few inches away from six feet. He was about half a head taller than me and my average height. His locker was below was a few doors down from mine.

I approached, "Hey Cole, you checked the new girl yet?"

Cole slammed his locker with his History textbook in hand, "Yeah," he grinned, "she looks pretty cute, don't ya think."

I grinned, "Yeah. To bad I'm supposendly taken." I rolled my eyes, because that was practically the pre-Freshmen law. If you like a girl, and she like you back, then boom. You guys were a couple. Her name was Alexis, and she was pretty, smart, athletic, the entire package. The only problem was we both were slightly shy around each other.

We both knew we harboured feelings for each other, but we chose not to show openly. At least... not all the time. Cole, who's actually a bit of a player, was always telling me what to do when I was with her.

I didn't know that soon it wouldn't matter. That everything was going to fall apart.

The bell rang for the final time of the day, signifying the last day we would truly have to do any kind of work. Tomorrow would be the dance and the barabeque right after. Of course, we'd be cleaning out our lockers and turning in textbooks, so I guess I lied when I said we had no work left to do. The day after would be a short one.

We'd say our goodbyes, promise to meet friends later, and then head for at least one of the several summer vacation parties that had become a legendary tradition since the first grade.

The sun was still high in the sky when we walked out the doors. "You feel like grabbing a burger with Alexis before you head home Reed?" Cole asked.

I rolled my eyes, "Cole, even if we went, I know you'd tag along, trying to read me verses of your little Bible of Picking Up Chicks, that you carry around in that big head.

"Hey," snapped Cole, faking offense, "That book is the holy grail of getting girls, don't soil it with your sarcasm."

I laughed, "That's a another thing Cole, you say the weirdest things sometimes."

He punched me in the shoulder, "Yeah well, I guess girls like it when boys say weird things."

"Yeah, because it only proves that you two must be from another planet," a female voice called. Alexis appeared, with long, fiery, read hair that went almost to her waist. Her green eyes spoke of intelligence, and indeed, if it hadn't been for Alexis and setting up, 'study dates' with me, I don't think I ever would've passed Algebra.

I smiled playfully at her, the thought of Caitlyn that I'd been keeping at the back of my mind quickly diminished. "Yeah well Alexis, I came to Earth just for you," I said.

"Aahh, so sweet," she gushed, interlacing her fingers with mine. I let my eyes let off of Alexis's pretty face just to taunt Cole. "See, I don't need your so called "Bible," to make a girl go gaga.

"Hey," Alexis said, punching me in the shoulder, "I was not going gaga over your one little line."

I rubbed my shoulder, faking a pained look. "Everyone is punching my shoulder, what'd it ever do to you?"

"Aah, don't worry," Alexis said, then whispered, "It's you right one I like to lay on during our study dates."

I could feel my face heating up, and Alexis knew perfectly well what she was doing. She knew how I would react when she whispered like that. As if daring me to explore whatever secrets she held.

We walked across the pavement, heading onto Main Street. Our little hideaway town of Stony Falls, Idaho was small. Only about thirteen hundred people lived here. I loved it too. Everyone wasn't necessarily friendly, but mostly we all got along great.

Then a thought creeped into my head. But with small towns, secrets aren't too safe, because if they're spilled, they don't have to spread far before everyone knows.

Once again, I felt the power inside me flicker, and then it flared when I saw Caitlyn. Unless these powers were somehow making me delerious, I could've sworn I saw her eyes go from blue-grey, to a crimson red.

Then she turned, and all I could see was, I had to admit, her nicely formed bottom riding along as she walked.