The Buzzing

A Story By:

Kyubi-X

A/N: To all who have reviewed, thank you all so much, you guys are great! And now, the first poll for my story, what kind of a love relationship do you want for Naruto? Do you want…?

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Also, just a little other side note. Last chapter I made everyone in the clan a little emotional, that was just for the sake that they care deeply for their own, they mourned his "death" and celebrated his "rebirth" but for the most part they will remain stoic much like Shino And now without further wait, on with the show…

Chapter 3: Training and Entering the Academy!

Naruto was having a very peaceful dreamless sleep when he was suddenly woken up by a couple of rough shoves. Naruto sat up and rubbed the sleepiness out of his eyes to see that the time was 4:30 A.M and he saw Shino standing over his bed.

"Get up, its time to get your gear and begin your training." With that being said, Shino walked out of the room and let Naruto get up and get dressed, but was surprised when Naruto simply came out in his boxers and a undershirt. Naruto grumbled something about an unholy hour and people shouldn't be up this early as he followed Shino to the armory.

When Shino and Naruto entered the armory room, Shino clicked on a light and Naruto let out a loud gasp at the sight that woke him up completely. The room itself was more like a medium sized warehouse. Rows and rows of shelves lined the room; there were weapons of all kinds from swords to bow staffs. Also, their was all the normal ninja gear like kunai and shuriken as well as their holsters. Shino grabbed a cart and they began to go down the aisle.

"You will get enough clothes to last you for a week; it is your responsibly to keep your clothes clean. Also, you will be given two jackets much like the one I am wearing. You will also receive a pair of sunglasses with you clothing. There are bandages to wrap up your exposed skin if you wish and you will also receive your basic ninja gear. My father wanted me to tell you that you are going to receive the amount of training I received in 7 years in just one year's time."

Naruto gulped at that piece of information and hoped that he wouldn't disappoint his mother and grandfather.

Naruto looked down sadly thinking that he couldn't do it. "Naruto…if you give up, only then have you failed your mother and my father, and if you just give up like that, I will denounce you as my brother."

Naruto looked at Shino in awe as a fire of determination swept through his eyes. "I will not give up, and I won't fail either, I will make you all proud!" Shino nodded and continued to push the cart along putting all of the ninja gear into the cart.

Finally the reached the clothing section and Shino stopped. Naruto looked at him with an eyebrow raised and Shino sighed. "I'm not….much for talking, and I've already said a lot this morning, go pick the clothes you want and get dressed into a pair, also put on your jacket and sunglasses, then I we will take your stuff back to your room, you can grab your gourd, and we will go train."

Naruto sweatdropped thinking, "This is a lot of talking for him? Jeez this guy needs to get out more." With that though, Naruto nodded and went into the clothing section to pick out some clothes. After a little while, Naruto came back pleased with what he had grabbed.

Naruto was wearing a pair of gray shorts that went down to just below his knees. From his ankles to his right before his knees, he had wrapped himself in bandages so that no skin would be showing. On his upper half, Naruto was sporting a grey tank top with a grey jacket like Shino's overtop. Naruto also sported a pair of shades much like Shino's except for the fact that they too were gray.

Shino raised an eyebrow slightly and Naruto explained, "You didn't have any orange, and grey is my second favorite color."

Shino nodded as Naruto threw the rest of his clothes in the basket. Afterwards Naruto and Shino went back to Naruto's room to set the stuff down. Shino showed Naruto how to put on his Kunai and Shuriken holsters. Once Naruto was ready to leave, he grabbed his gourd and strapped it on as he followed Shino to the training grounds.

Shino and Naruto arrived at the first dojo to see Shibi and Kira waiting for them. Shibi simply looked at his son and said, "Come." Shino nodded politely to Kira and Naruto then spun on his heels and followed his father out of the dojo to go train elsewhere.

Kira looked her son up and down and was very satisfied with his clothing, though she wanted to know why he chose gray. Naruto scratched the back of his head sheepishly and again explained that they didn't have any orange and that gray was his second favorite color. Kira grinned at her son and said, "Fair enough."

"Okay Naru-kun, the first thing we are going to work on today is getting you able to talk to your bees. To be honest, it really isn't too hard. Although it may sound a bit cheesy, the way to communicate with insects is to in a sense, become one with them. Although it is a bit easier when the bees live inside of you, it won't be much harder as long as they are near you. What I want you to do is to sit down and cross your legs."

Naruto nodded and did as his mother told him to do. "Now Naru-kun, I want you to close your eyes, right now we are going to meditate. After you have closed your eyes I want you to focus on trying to hear your heartbeat, I want you to think only of hearing your heartbeat ok?"

Naruto nodded once again and closed his eyes, after a while he scrunched up his face in concentration. Kira giggled and said, "Don't focus physically Naru-kun, this is a mental exercise, allow your body to relax and think about hearing your heartbeat, strain with your brain and not with your body."

Naruto nodded yet again and tired once more. "He though only of his heartbeat and after a few minuets, he heard the faint beating of his heart. He concentrated a little harder and soon found himself being able to hear his heartbeat easily."

Kira waited a few minuets before she realized that he was in a meditative state already. Kira spoke with a calm and soothing voice as she said, "Now Naruto, listen to my instruction but don't break your concentration. What you need to do know is focus on talking to the queen bee much like you focused on hearing your heartbeat, you will always be in a meditative state when you speak to your bees, you will just eventually get to the point where it will be a light state instead of the heavy one your in now. Just think with your entire mind that you wish to speak with the queen, when you hear her voice just talk to her in your head and she will understand you.

Naruto concentrated on speaking to the queen and waited for what seemed like hours to him. Finally, he heard the sound of soft buzzing and a voice say, "Hello Naruto, I've been wanting to speak with you."

Naruto saw an image of the queen bee in his mind and he bowed a little. "I consider it an honor that you choose me as your host, I hope that I make you all proud." The queen bee would have smiled if she could as she said, "Don't worry, I have no doubt that you will." With that, the conversation ended and Naruto opened up his eyes to see his mother staring at him.

He gave her a goofy smile and she laughed as she pulled him into a hug. "Good job son! We will practice more with communicating with individual bugs without having to go into a deep meditative state tomorrow. But now we are going to do the hard parts, physical and mental training. After we are done with that, we will each lunch, repeat our exercises and learning, and finally I will start to teach you how to call out your bees.

And so it would go on for a year. Naruto soaked stuff up like a sponge. That wasn't to say that he was a genius in the normal sense, however Naruto was a genius of hard work, and he wasn't stupid to top it off. Naruto knew more than the average student at the academy would, and to top it off he already knew two jutsu's and he could command his bees at will.

If you were to compare Shino to Naruto, Shino would be the stronger of the two, but only because Shino had received more training. However, if you put the two of them working together, they were a powerhouse to be feared…

One Year Later

Naruto smiled as he woke from his sleep. Today was the day when he and Shino would join the ninja academy and start their journey to become ninjas. Over the year Naruto had learned the ins and the outs of the Aburame family. For one, he learned that they were all very quiet people and Naruto had adapted a bit of that quietness himself. Now, he wasn't as stoic as Shino, but he wasn't a loud and noisy brat either.

Naruto got up and got dressed into his clothes. Naruto choose a slightly different outfit from the rest of the Aburame clan. He still wore the same style of gray shorts from when he was young, and he still taped up all the exposed skin on his legs. However, unlike the rest of the Aburame clan, Naruto didn't wear a jacket anymore; instead he wore a gray traveling cloak with an oversized hood that hid his face. Underneath the however, he still wore his gray shades that looked like Shino's.

Naruto's reason for wearing the traveler's cloak was really a very useful one. Because everyone else in the Aburame clan had their bugs hidden inside of their body, it gave them the air of mystery that the clan was known for, because Naruto didn't have that luxury he covered up his gourd with his cloak.

The only place where Naruto could keep bugs was in his arms. He smiled as he remembered the first time that he spoke to the Kyuubi and how he had convinced the beast to "make some room."

Flashback

Naruto was fighting with Shino in a friendly spar that always heated up to a slightly dangerous level. As well as being brothers they made very good rivals for each other and though neither would admit it, they depended on each other to push themselves to the next level and to get stronger.

In this particular fight Naruto was losing very badly after being caught off guard by a bug clone curtsey of Shino. As soon as Naruto had attacked the clone Shino came in and got a good kick at Naruto's head. This caused Naruto to sway on his feet and Shino took the opportunity to rush in and deliver the finishing blow via a punch to Naruto's face.

Naruto blacked out as soon as the punch connected with his jaw and found himself in a sewer that contained a very large cage. "YOU….I WANT YOUR BLOOD…I WANT YOUR LIFE…" A voice called out from the darkness of the cage.

Naruto suddenly found himself face to face with the most fearsome creature in the history of mankind. The Kyuubi looked down at Naruto expecting to see the familiar fear that he got from everyone. However, what happened next shocked the giant demon to its core.

"Shut your mouth you useless ball of fuzz, its about time that you and I got to have a talk." The Kyuubi's eyes widened in surprised, but quickly narrowed in rage.

However, before the Kyuubi could say anything Naruto said, "I'm not finished you dumb oversized fox, I can understand you not wanting to house yourself with my bees however I have a suggestion I think you might want to hear. If I die, then thanks to the seal on my stomach, you will die as well. Because I'm sure that you don't want that to happen anytime soon, allow me to contain bees in my arms, not only will this make me stronger by giving me a better connection with my bees but it can also be used to surprise my enemy."

The Kyuubi continued to stare down at the boy in utter rage. "How dare this insect speak to me like I am a lower being!" The Kyuubi raged in his mind. However, as his anger began to dissipate, the simple truth of the boy's words became clear to the Kyuubi causing the great beast to sigh in defeat.

"Fine…you win, but those stupid bees in your arms only, I am not going to be hearing the sound of those pitiful insects buzzing around all day." The Kyuubi said before he shoved the boy out of his mind.

Naruto woke up to see the worried look on his mother's face as she loomed over him. Naruto gave his signature foxy grin and told his mother the bartering he had done with the Kyuubi. At first his mother had been worried, but when she found out the fox asked for nothing in return, she smiled and took her son to the sealing room to but some of his bees into his arms.

End Flashback

Naruto gave a polite nod to Shino as he made his way to the front gate. Shino nodded back and watched as Naruto pulled the oversized hood of the cloak over his head concealing it in darkness. When Naruto looked back up at Shino all that could be seen was the eerie glow of Naruto's gray shades against the sun.

Without a further word, the two left the compound and made their way towards their first day of school…

A/N: Yeah, I apologize, this is another slightly short chapter, but I decided to dedicate a whole chapter to their schooling experience. Also, I wasn't sure when kids entered the academy, so please don't flame me if being 8 years old was too late or too early. But for the purpose of this story it will fit nicely. Also, there will be more flashbacks showing Naruto's training and experiences with his family so don't worry I didn't forget about that. Other than that I think we are good, so yeah, read and review and vote for Naruto's paring! And also, if you want to pair up other characters like Shino cough cough give suggestions for that too. Until next time, peace!

Kyubi-X