TLW: I know, I know, I am a baaaaaaaad wittle wolf. –Covers face in shame- I am so sorry, for those of you who have been waiting for this next chapter of the story, thank you. It's just I have been waiting for my mind to put this chapter together and I wanted to make sure that it was just right. So here it is. I will make sure to have the name of the songs and stuff at the end like last time.
Disclaimer: no, I don't own them, stop reminding me. –Huff-
Sasuke- 17
Naruto- 17
Itachi- 26
Fugaku- 47
Mikoto- 42
Iruka- 30
Kakashi- 30
Neji- 17
Gaara- 17
"Talking"
'Thinking'
Chapter 4. The Dream
After Sasuke had gone to bed, he had the strangest dream.
He was in a dark place, he didn't know where he was going, but he just followed the music he could hear playing. It was soft music (1.) guiding him like light house through the darkness. Sasuke could see in the distance a light. The music led him, echoing around him as it got louder the closer he went to the light.
After following the music for what seemed like hours, but must have been minutes, Sasuke came upon the beam of light he had seen from afar. In it sat a piano and a blond boy who was playing the enchanting music. Sasuke felt drawn to the sound, like the mice to the piper, he couldn't seem to fight it. Not that he really wanted to.
"Naruto?" Sasuke asked as he got closer to the light he was able to see a blond haired boy sitting at the piano.
The boy didn't pause in his playing; he just kept going without missing a beat, nodding his head to the music like Naruto had done when he had played.
"Naruto" Sasuke said, knowing for sure that this was Naruto. He walked closer to him, yet he still didn't seem to notice him.
"Try again…" the blond boy said. His voice was deep, and seemed a little rough. He finished the song and looked up, Sasuke gasped as he took a step back at the sight before him. Instead of Naruto's beautiful blue eyes, fiery red ones gazed back at him in their place.
"Who are you?" Sasuke asked.
The being before him chuckled, then started to play another song instead of answering, it seemed like the one before, soft and captivating.
"You dare to play me…and not know who I am?" Suddenly there was a change in the music (2.), becoming dark, and angry, then going soft. The boy stood up and faced Sasuke, his red eyes seeming to glow in the darkness, as if trying to suck in all the light and Sasuke into them.
Even though he wasn't touching the piano it still continued to play, starting to get quicker and then suddenly hitting the deep notes over and over before going soft once more, then seeming to repeat the pattern. It played without anyone touching the keys.
Sasuke thought over what this person, what Naruto could mean by this statement. Then his mind slowly came to a conclusion.
"Kyuubi?' he asked hesitantly.
The being before him grinned with feral canines showing in his mouth. "The one and only" he said.
"How can you be here? You're just a piano." Sasuke said.
Kyuubi slowly walked around Sasuke as the music seemed to get even deeper. "Don't you listen to anything my master says? He told you that piano's have souls, 'to create such music' I think is what he said." He rested his chin upon his hand as if thinking the words over. The music seemed to be slammed out of the piano, the deep notes ringing in the silence. It seemed strange to Sasuke to see this being saying and doing all of this in Naruto's body.
"Master?" Sasuke asked, even more confused.
Kyuubi paused in his movements.
"Yes, master is what I said." The music slowly died off. "Hmm you still don't get it; I can see it in your eyes. I am not your 'average piano' I guess is something I could say. I am…a demon. Or at least that is what you humans would call me."
"Then why do you look like Naruto?" Sasuke asked.
"Because I don't really have a form, apart from that of a fox. And the only one I can recall is my masters, so I took his form." He touched his chest.
"Didn't Naruto say that you belonged to someone in the past? Or something like that." Sasuke wondered.
Kyuubi scoffed at his question, "he just created me, and I was never his favorite. I was the last one he made before he died. Then I was given from one person to the other, as if I was nothing of worth, and in they're eyes I wasn't. Then my master found me." He smiled as he said this.
"He actual saw my worth, which is ironic considering the fact that he's blind. But I feel that my master is slowly slipping away from me, I have tried my best to keep him with me, but my power can only do so much. So knowing this," he turned around to face Sasuke. " I will not tolerate someone such as you to play me, if you thought what you felt before was bad, just try to play me again." He grinned evilly at this.
"Why do you think I was passed on from owner to owner? I killed them." He laughed at this, "they thought to play what they could not control, and they were all heartless. I hated for them to touch me, but Naruto, he found me when I was at my worst, and yet played me as if I was at my best." He walked over to the piano and gently touched it.
Sasuke took in all that was said. "What do you mean that he doesn't have much time?"
Kyuubi sighed, "My master, he is…" he stopped and slowly started to fade. "Looks like our time is up…stay away from me." He whispered, and then it was all dark.
Sasuke sat up in bed gasping. He felt the sweat roll down his face and onto his neck.
"What the hell was that all about?" Sasuke asked.
Then he heard the piano playing, he looked over at the clock. 7:15 it read in the morning light.
He got out of bed and followed the sound; it was the same music from his dream. He walked into the hallway and saw his parents and brother sitting on the stairs and living room listening to Naruto play.
Naruto was smiling; Sasuke slowly walked down the stairs, his parents didn't even seem to notice him. He started to walk towards Naruto, but the closer he got the more he started to feel ill, 'it was just a dream!' he thought as he got closer.
Then just like when 'kyuubi' had started to get angry, Naruto's playing went dark and deep. Sasuke seemed to be forcing his next steps the closer he moved towards Naruto, then, just when he was a foot away, Naruto turned to him and stared at him with red eyes.
Sasuke gasped as his legs gave out from under him. When he looked up Naruto was looking at him with his normal blue eyes.
'Must have been my imagination' he thought.
"Sasuke are you alright?" he mother asked. His father said nothing, Itachi didn't even seem to notice, or he didn't care, which was not unusual with him.
"Sasuke, are you ok?" Naruto asked. He reached out a hand trying to feel where Sasuke was. At first Sasuke was hesitant to take the hand, but when he reached out and gripped it, the pain and sickness seemed to disappear as if it had never been.
"Yeah, just tired I guess" he said as he was pulled to his feet.
"I should start breakfast" his mother said as she rose from the couch from were she was sitting.
"I need to get ready for work" his father said as he too, got up and went to go get dressed.
Only Itachi stayed behind, sitting on there stairs. He had an interesting look on his face and seemed to be deep in thought.
Naruto suddenly looked over to where Itachi was, how he could know that Sasuke didn't know.
"Itachi…if there is anything you wish to talk about, know that I will always listen and never judge, who knows, maybe we have the same problem." Naruto said.
Itachi just got up and walked back to his room without a word.
'What was that about?' Sasuke thought as he heard the door to his brother's room slam close.
"Sasuke are you really ok?" Naruto asked with a concerned look on his face.
"Yeah, don't worry about it." Sasuke said.
"Kyuubi can be a bit of a bastard, he doesn't like people to be around him." Naruto said as he rose from where he sat.
"You know your piano is possessed?" Sasuke asked shocked.
Naruto just gave him a 'duh' type of look.
"Sasuke, this is my piano were talking about here. And it isn't 'possessed', it is as it is. Kyuubi just happens to live here is all." Naruto said patting the piano.
Sasuke looked from Naruto to the piano. "Why were you playing those songs Naruto?" Sasuke asked.
Naruto turned to him and smiled, the corners around his eyes crinkling a bit. "Because he was feeling lonely, and wanted me to play them." He said.
Sasuke opened his mouth to say something when he was interrupted by his mother, "Naruto don't forget you need to ta-"
"I won't!" Naruto said, cutting his mother off on what she was going to say. He turned to Sasuke,
"I have to go get ready for school." He said, before he calmly walked towards the stairs.
Sasuke was just left with more questions for answers.
School was an interesting experience to say the least. Naruto had become an over night celebrity, everyone wanted to meet the blind boy wonder. If it hadn't been for him and Gaara then Naruto would have been swarmed by them all.
Naruto wasn't fazed by it, he calmly greeted everyone. He didn't act cold and treat them as if they were an annoyance. 'Which they are' Sasuke thought. He talked to them as if they were the most important person at that moment. So that just made people want to meet and talk to him all the more.
Sasuke sighed as he sat down at the lunch table, his head resting on top of it. The girls, swarms of them, were almost too much for him to take.
"Poor Sasuke." Naruto said. Patting the top of the Uchiha's head, he was eating with the other without missing a beat. Gaara just calmly ate his lunch, shooting the occasional glare now and again at people.
Sasuke just hmphed at Naruto's actions. Though he did have to admit that what Naruto was doing felt good, Naruto had started to rub the back of his head in a massage.
Things were going pretty good, and Sasuke was almost asleep when their lunch was ruined by one Hyuuga Neji.
He calmly sat in front of Naruto who only smiled at him, even though he couldn't see the glare sent his way, he could feel it.
"Uzumaki" Neji said in an icy tone that would have frozen hell.
"Neji" Naruto said calmly. He rested his chin on his hand and just seemed to relax.
"It looks to me that you seem to know what you're doing on a piano, compared to those lack wits that don't even deserve the honor to even be in the same room as one." Neji said coldly.
"Well I wouldn't say that, all those people have way more potential in their little pinky then you do in your whole body." Naruto said, still smiling.
Neji seemed to snap at those words, "What the hell do you mean? Those idiots don't seem to know that first thing about notes, from what I heard. Yet I played each note perfectly." He hissed.
Naruto sat up from his position, "what you say is true, there music was quite awful, yet, while you hit every key, it sounded even worse to me." He said.
"You're speaking nonsense, while talking in riddles." Neji growled at him.
"Or maybe you're just not listening." Naruto replied, seeming unfazed. "I could strike the same key for hours, yet that will not make music, just an annoying sound that people will wish to silence. It is what the player puts into that strike that makes the music. You hit every key, your timing was impeccable, the song was played, and yet I heard nothing worth listening to. While theirs may have been awful and they could use a few more lessons, I would take that music over yours any day of the week." Naruto said.
"Tch, the things you say are nothing but idiotic ramblings to my ears. What does a blind fool with broken ears like you know about music?" Neji snapped.
"Apparently a lot, or at least, that's what the papers all over the school have to say. Maybe you're just pissed off by the fact that you weren't even mentioned while Naruto's name is being buzzed all over the school like juicy gossip." Gaara said.
"Or maybe your upset that their is someone better then you and it is just eating you alive to know that maybe you aren't the best out there." Sasuke said, smirking.
Neji was fuming, how dare they say that to him. They knew nothing of what he had to go through to be able to play as well as he did, and yet this handicapped idiot had the gall to say that he wasn't even playing!?
"Neji, I really don't want to be enemies with you, I would rather be friends." Naruto said softly.
To Naruto, Neji felt like someone who was lost, now that there was someone who could be better then him, he was losing his place, his purpose in life. That was a horrible thing to lose.
"Why the hell would I want to be friends with trash like you!?" Neji said as he slammed his palms on the table top.
Naruto just smiled, "well apparently a whole bunch of people would, but I know they only like me for my music. But if you want a true answer, well these to guys might have the answer, but even if they gave it to you, I don't think you would be satisfied." Naruto rested his chin in both hands now.
"Neji, how about we do this. We will both play the same song, and who ever plays it better will be the winner ok?" Naruto said.
"Pfft and what does the winner get?" Neji asked, more calm now.
"I don't know food or something? It really doesn't matter to me, being my friend would be enough for me." Naruto replied.
"Fine, but if I win you have to drop out of the competition." Neji said.
"Ok, then we will play against each other in a week then. Is that ok?" Naruto asked.
"Yes, it will be perfect." Neji smirked.
"Wait! What the hell are you thinking Naruto? Why would you risk something like that?" Sasuke asked.
"How do you know that he wont cheat or something?" Gaara asked.
"Because I trust Neji to be fair and not go back on his word, just like I won't go back on mine." Naruto said.
"Your either too trusting or just plain stupid, which is basically the same thing." Sasuke said.
Naruto ignored Sasuke, "you pick the song ok?"
"Fine, so in one week we will have a play off then." Neji moved to leave.
"Wait! Shake on it!" Naruto said, holding out his hand. "To seal the deal" he continued.
Neji looked like he would rather touch trash, but he shook it never the less.
"Good luck Neji." Naruto waved as the boy walked away. Neji just ignored him.
"Naruto, why would you do something like that?" Gaara asked. Sasuke was wondering the same thing.
"Because, this way we can get this rivalry out of the way. You guys may not have heard it but…Neji is very sad. He needs friends, not leeches that just drain his soul to nothing. So if I can be his friend and make him happy, then that's something I can leave behind before I die." Naruto said leaning on his hands.
"The same goes for you guys, if I can make you guys happy, then my life won't be wasted." Naruto had a peaceful look on his face.
"Naruto, you sound as if your dying or something" Gaara said.
"Huh, guess I do don't I?" Naruto said as he got up from the table.
"Come on, we need to leave for class." He said.
"But the bell hasn't ru-"
'RING'
"-ng. Never mind, let's just go already." Sasuke said as he got up to lead Naruto class.
Their classes moved to different periods during the week, so after lunch they had English, and after that P.E. but instead of what they normal did in their P.E. class, they were going to practice 'dancing the youthful dance of youth' or so their teacher said. And no one really wanted to argue with the busy browed man.
"So my class of youthful students, we shall be learning ballroom dancing" groans were heard after this sentence. "Now, now class. We should have a positive outlook on this; think of how wonderful and youthful you shall look performing this at the next dance. They others shall weep with the envy of your youthfulness!" he started crying tears that seemed to pour out of his eyes like waterfalls. "Oh I can just imagine the beauty of this mournfulness! So pair up, I know there are more boys then girls in this class, so you shall have to taken turns with the girls, now everyone to the wall." They all lined up at the wall, waiting to be called out.
"Hinata, please step forward please." The quite small girl walked forward liked asked. She seemed to be playing with her fingers, pressing the points together and not looking up to meet anyone's eyes.
"Who would like to dance with Hinata?" Guy asked. No one really seemed to want to dance with the girl. The looked every where then at her.
The girl began to blush from embarrassment.
"I will" Naruto said. He nudged Sasuke to take him up; Sasuke just shook his head and did what Naruto wanted. Once there Sasuke let Naruto go and walked back to the wall.
Naruto careful reached forward and with Guys help got a hold of her hand. "My lady, may I have this dance?" he asked bending over her hand as if to kiss it.
"U-u-u-m, y-y-y-yes." Hinata said, stuttering greatly. Naruto took up the proper position as Guy started the music. As soon as he heard the music, he swung into action, leading Hinata into the dance.
"Have you ever danced before?" Naruto asked smiling, he eye had his eyes open, the deep blue seeming to pull her into their dark blue depth and trapping Hinata into them.
"N-not much" she replied. Everyone watched as Naruto gracefully led Hinata in the dance, the girls sighed with envy, watching as Naruto twirled her.
"Really? Because if I didn't know better I would have thought that you had done this a thousand times" Naruto said as he smiled.
"No, I have you to thank for that" Hinata couldn't take her eyes off of Naruto's they were so beautiful.
"You must be very beautiful" Naruto said, graceful twirling her with the music.
Hinata blushed a deep red at this, "what m-makes you say that?" she asked.
"Your voice, it's so lovely, so you must be too." He grinned; as if she was suppose to know this obvious fact.
Sasuke noted that Hinata seemed to be losing her stutter while dancing with Naruto.
"You are too kind" Hinata whispered.
"No, I'm not. I am just saying the truth." He said and then the song was over. Everyone clapped when they were done. Hinata seemed to wake up from a dream and looked around, as if shocked to be in the gym.
"Now that class is an excellent example of youthful beauty!" Guy had tears pouring down his cheeks. "Now who shall be next to dazzle us with their dance?"
"I want to dance with Naruto Mr. Guy!" the girls said as they raised there hands. Guy went to the task of deciding who would dance with Naruto and who would dance with the rest of the boys.
"Hinata, flowers aren't meant for shadows, I hope you remember this." Naruto said before he was snatched up by his next partner.
Hinata could only gaze at the boy as he started to dance with the girl.
'I think I'm in love' she thought.
Sasuke looked over and watched Naruto as he danced, while Sasuke danced with some annoying girl who kept saying how wonderful he was. He had tuned her out ages ago.
This time Naruto danced with his eyes closed.
TheLadyWolf: Ok, here it is. I will most likely pick up from where this left off ok? But tell me, what you do guys think of it so far? Come on! Don't hesitate to review; I love it when you guys tell me what you think of my work. I hope this one was pretty good, I will try to get the next chapter out soon, but I have to make another one for another story before I do. Oh, I hope that you guys liked it, so till then, or we meet again in my other stories.
-TLW
'Moonlight': Adagio sostenuto –I hope this is right . - it's by Beethoven just so you know.
'The bells of Moscow' this kind of song is more in the deeper notes, but I like it and I think it suits how Kyuubi is feeling and acting. -nods-