I'm sorry, I kinda had writers block, but at least I got this one done. Ummm..... I dont have much to say, so go ahead and get reading!

... Oh, and Enjoy chapter 7 of Vibrations!

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Vibrations: Chapter 7

Interaction

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A robin tipped its wing tips, making him turn in place. He dived down lower, and with a few flaps of his wings, alighted alongside a raven.

'How is the boy?' the robin asked as he began to preen his feathers, before ruffling up his feathers and staring down at the Blond haired boy called Naruto.

'Still unnerved from the events that happened yesterday.' Replied the raven as sun shone on him, making his near-black feathers shine blue.

'Really.' Responded the robin, looking at the boy with sympathy. The two birds seemed to have taking a liking to following the boy, and they happened to catch what had happened the day before. When they saw the boy covered in red chakra, they knew that it was not him that caused it, neither was it the boy that caused the chakra pulse that had killed the female ninja. They had seen when the boy wallowed in despaired, and felt a slight pang of sympathy for him. 'Poor boy.' Added the robin.

'Yes, poor boy.' Then the two birds went back to watching the said boy, as he played with his chakra.

It had been only a few hours since the fiasco with the over dosage of chakra output. In those hours, Naruto had managed to envelope half the leaf with his chakra.

The Chakra control exercises that Iruka-sensei had given him went into two stages. One was to fully envelope a leaf in his chakra, and the last was -using the chakra surrounding the leaf- lift the leaf up with no other forces. So far, he had been successful completing half of the first step.

The place Naruto had come to practice was now on the opposite side of Konohana, away from the clearing that he used to go to. He couldn't stand being there, because it reminded him of the event that had taken place.

This clearing that he now practiced on was slightly smaller then the other he had used. It had a small shack as one of the walls of the clearing, the wall facing the city. The shack was a worn down outpost that used to hold ninja equipment as backup. In fact, it still held several kunai and some storage scrolls. Then there were the walls of the clearing on either side of the shack, the few trees and bushes filling that roll. The trees in front of the shack, though, were much bigger in size then the others around it, for some reason unknown to Naruto.

Presently, Naruto sat on an overgrown tree root, panting and sweating as he looked at the wilted leaf in his hands with grown hatred. "I hateyou! You stupid leaf!" Naruto growled, tearing up the leaf.

The boy jumped up, and grabbed a new leaf from one of the small bushes to his right.

Each time he a leaf that had started to wilt, he tore it, and got a new leaf from a different bush. Naruto knew that problem rested with him, but he couldn't stand to work with one of the closely related ancestors of any of the problematic leafs.

'This had been so much easier when I first started!' thought the boy, 'It's probably because of chakra exhaustion.' He sighed and threw away the leaf he had just picked into the dense vegetation. He was tired of working, tired of trying to accomplish something that he was making no improvement on. Right about now, a warm cup of ramen on this cold fall day, and some comfy covers sounded like the perfect thing to cheer Naruto up. Just thinking the thought made Naruto smile. He jumped up, and bounded towards the village.

Naruto waved at the unlucky Chuunin that needed to guard the gate through this cold day as he made his way through the village walls.

The layout of Konohana spread wide and far out, separating the taller buildings throughout the town, making some buildings almost touch the village walls. There were a few areas where the buildings didn't breach the ground area; the park was one of them.

The park was one of Naruto's least favorite places to go, because as he saw the children playing with one another, with their families, it reminded him of what he could never have. But as he stepped through the cold, he led himself there, because it was the shortest way back home.

He looked about the plain of grass, shivering as he took his first step upon it. The bright morning sun that had started the day disappeared behind the line of trees, and the cold air from the north brought in a rolling fogbank, which condensed into the ice-cold dew that was now resting on his sandals and bare feet. Naruto brought his hands up, breathing into them for warmth. He started to quicken his pace, leading his footsteps towards the buildings ahead, when he knocked into someone he hadn't noticed before.

"Ow!"

"Sorry!" Naruto looked down, and saw a mass of pink underneath him. He got up quickly and offered his hand.

"Thanks." Muttered the girl, grabbing his hand as he lifted her up.

"My name's Naruto." Said Naruto to the girl.

"Mines Sakura." The girl brought her head up, looking at his face, and then stopped, recognition filling her face. "You're in my class." She whispered, her eyes gone wide. She slowly backed away.

Naruto blinked his eyes, pretending to not see her fear of him as she back away, "Sakura," he said, rolling her name of his tongue, testing it, "it's a pretty name."

"Thanks." She said, not able to hide the surprise out of her voice. This was not like the Naruto she had been expecting. Sakura looked behind her, wanting to get away from the boy. She said the first excuse that came to mind, "I gotta go, my mommy's gonna get mad at me if I don't get home soon." And with that, the pink haired girl ran away.

Naruto sighed, watching as the pink form of Sakura disappeared into the afternoon fog. "Nice meeting you, too." He muttered, sad and disappointed.

He headed towards home, his heart heavy. He sighed again as he passed through an empty street. His footsteps echoed around the buildings, making the scene seem lonelier then it should have been.

But since Naruto, was, of course, Naruto, he couldn't let the conversation keep him down long. He started to skip along the street, thinking of his next goal of the chakra exercise. Hopefully tomorrow he would be able to completely cover the leaf in chakra… hopefully.

That night, a cold frost settled over the town, but the air was fresh and crisp, and the sky was full of stars.

It had been a week since Naruto's encounter with Sakura- outside of school, of course- and the week had brought nice weather. It was sunny almost every day, and the sun warmed up the town. There had been no bad incidents, and the town seemed more cheerful. Although, the week had taught Naruto that he had no skill in the manner called patients. He had gotten nowhere far to completing his goal with the chakra exercise, and had stopped for the rest of the week. Today should be different, though, because Naruto was planning to start again.

It was almost time for class to start at the academy, and Naruto sat in the back, looking over the class.

Today there was a new assistant teacher, the 13th one, and maybe, if Iruka was lucky, the number would not incline to 14… Yeah right.

This assistant had silver hair, a ninja headband, and a green chunnin vest. This version of the assistant teacher was called Mizuki. He sat where every other assistant sat, right in front of the desk.

Naruto snorted as he thought of the poor assistant teacher sitting down there. A few of the kids in this class had formed a group. They were called the Annoying Squad. They made it their job to annoy the new assistants so much, that they would leave. There had been so many assistants lately, that they had split each person to an assistant. Today's assistant was Narutos. Poor sucker, he was going to wish he hadn't stepped foot in this class at all.

"Now class," Iruka stepped up front, "This is our new assistant teacher, Mizuki. I convinced him to come down and view our class. If were lucky, he might even choose to become our permanent assistant teacher. So please be on your best behavior." Please, please, please! I don't think I could take any more of this. Iruka thought.

Iruka turned around to the blackboard, and started to write on it. Naruto was waiting for his signal, a boy in the middle row holding up his left pinky finger. The signal would be given only when the assistant teacher was not looking at the class, that way, Naruto would not get in trouble for it, as the teacher and assistant would have no prime suspect.

With very careful aim, Naruto would throw a rock that would land in a can that was attached to the rafters. The can was on a lever, and it would lower the lever, raising the other side, spilling a can of paint that was halfway balanced on that side of the lever. The spilled paint would travel along a pathway, and as it went along it would push the path down, causing pulleys to pull the strings attached down. The pulleys one by one would release other pulleys or mechanisms, all carefully timed. The result? White paint would spill onto Mizuki, then feathers, and even a chicken mask. The final result? A chicken Mizuki, in theory.

Naruto peered down into the middle row, wondering why the signal had not been given. In any moment now, Iruka would turn around and their chance at getting the assistant teacher would be gone. The reason that Naruto knew that was because he had looked over the teachers schedule for today, so he could plan everything perfectly. He had given the instructions after looking at the schedule to a boy with brown hair, called Inuzuka Kiba.

Naruto looked up at the bucket, then the stone in his hands. He thought about throwing the stone up anyways, and decided against that. He would not risk getting in trouble, and having the only teacher who liked him in the entire academy mad at him.

It was 2 more minutes before Iruka turned around, showing what he had written on the board.

Naruto sighed as he thought of his missed chance. He didn't want to check the teachers schedule again, it had taken him nearly a half hour to plan to see it yesterday, and five people to work to distract Iruka. This would take too much time out of his training with his chakra. Naruto shook his head, clearing his thoughts, and stared intently on Iruka.

"Ok class, for today, we will learn the history of our Nation, and the geological difference that the land was back then compared to now…"

During lunch, Naruto ran over to the swing before anyone could take it. Deciding that it would be better if he didn't eat lunch, Naruto didn't bring any leftover ramen today.

The sun kissed blond stared out into the courtyard, looking at all the kids as they sung and danced, gossiped and stalked. One boy went unnoticed as he came up behind Naruto and placed his cold hands on Naruto's shoulders. Naruto yelped and fell forward into the damp grass.

As he got up, Naruto could see the boy, hunched over in laughter. "That wasn't funny!" Naruto complained.

The boy stood up straight, but his face still in a fit of giggles, "You… you should've seen your reaction."

Naruto just pouted and crossed his arms.

"Anyway…" continued the boy, "We were wondering if you would like to join us for lunch."

Us? Naruto looked behind the boy, and found two of his classmates standing behind him. Upon a little observation, Naruto identified Nara Shikamaru, and Akimichi Chouji. When looking back at the brow haired boy, he recognized Kiba.

This had been the first time anyone had invited him over for lunch. Naruto heart beat rapidly as he thought of having them for friends. Naruto smiled warmly, his first true smile at the academy, "Sure!" then, thinking that they might only want to trade lunches with him (as he had seen so many kids do) he added, "Um… I don't have any lunch, though…"

"That doesn't matter." The brown haired Kiba said, "Follow us. We normally eat somewhere else."

"Where do you guys eat?" Naruto questioned.

"You'll see." Grumbled Shikamaru.

Naruto followed them into the school.

The group arrived at the roof of the Academy building. Naruto looked around in awe, "I never knew there was a place like this up here."

The view was much more spectacular then one would think it would be from a four story building. The building was level with the majority of the treetops that were behind the Academy. The view made the forest look like a carpet of bright fall leaves. A breeze ruffled a few leaves off of their designated spots on their branches, and flew them away, up past Naruto. Naruto leaned his head forward; enjoying the way the wind caressed his hair and face.

"Come on, Naruto!" The loudest of the group, Kiba, called.

Naruto, of course, didn't hear, but he turned around after the breeze dispersed. Chouji was waving at him from the corner of the building, the one facing the Hokage monument. Naruto jogged on over to them.

"Do you guys always eat here?" Naruto asked, his curiosity peaked.

"No," answered Chouji, "We used to eat down in the courtyard, just like all the others. Then one day, Kiba decided to take a shortcut to the bathroom-"

"-And got lost." Shikamaru added, making Kiba blush from embarrassment, "He eventually winded up here-"

"-And I showed them where to find this place!" Kiba put in, his embarrassment forgotten in his excitement and joy at obviously being the first person to discover the rooftop.

"We eventually decided to eat here for lunch. And so far, none of the teachers has given us any problems." Finished Shikamaru.

Naruto looked at all three standing in front of him, each expressing a different feeling. Kiba, who had his eyes filled with pride, Shikamaru, who had crossed his arms in a bored expression, and Chouji, who was smiling happily. Finally, he looked around the rooftop, from the carpet of leaves, to the Hokage monument, which stared down over them protectively. "It has an amazing view."

"Yes, it does." It was Chouji who spoke.

For a while, the three students ate in silence, an awkward atmosphere in place now that a foreign presence had joined them for lunch. Naruto sat, watching them eat, and sometimes glancing around to view the scenery. The quietness wrapped itself around their presence, allowing for a sense of peace, before- surprisingly- Shikamaru found it to be his job to break the peaceful silence.

"Naruto?"

Naruto looked at Shikamaru, whose lips he saw moving out of the corner of his eye, "What?"

"Can you not tell anyone about this place?"

Chouji and Kiba both glanced up, hearing the topic of Shikamaru's conversation. Chouji spoke after Shikamaru finished, "It would be nice to know that it will be quiet up here for awhile."

Kiba added his two cents, "Yah! I wouldn't want you to get the credit for my discovery!"

Naruto smiled and inwardly chuckled as he read what Kiba said on the matter, "I won't tell anybody."

Kiba, not satisfied, pushed Naruto for more, "Do you promise?"

Naruto frowned slightly, wasn't his word enough? He looked at the three kids his age stare back at him. This would be the first promise he made to someone besides himself. Naruto thought, and came to the conclusion that this promise would make him part of the group, another friend. Not just one friend for Naruto, but three. More friends than he could've hoped for. Naruto looked at each academy student in the eye, before breaking out into an enormous grin that threatened to leave his face. Friends… "I promise."

At 2:30 pm, you could see Naruto walking outside the gates of Konohagakure. At 3:00 you would see him in the clearing he had now favored.

Looking into this clearing made him remember the other, because of their close resemblance.

Unwillingly, events from the night in the other clearing passed through his mind. He tried to intervene; to try to clear his head, but he made no difference. Withdrawing his struggle, Naruto gave in as the torrent of memories swept him up into a place far past where he was. The only three redeeming memories in that torrent, was when the Hokage had recognized him as a citizen of Konohana, and had clothed him and allowed him to ride on his back, and the day after, when the stuffed dragon was found on his doorstep, put there by the Hokage. But even so, with those comforting memories, there was far too much blood dying the visions red. Unnoticed by Naruto, a single tear slipped from his eye, and fell -sparkling like a diamond- to the ground.

It was around six o'clock when Naruto decided to go home, extremely exhausted from practicing so much with chakra. The sky had turned a beautiful shade of red, and even though the color was close to blood red, in Naruto's eyes, nothing in nature looked ugly. The red blanket of sky held one star, twinkling at the distance.

Naruto looked up, and spotting the star, whispered a rhyme that he had heard someone at the orphanage (when he used to live there) mutter;

" Star light, Star bright,

The first star I see tonight.

I wish I may, I wish I might,

Have the wish I wish tonight."

Naruto closed his eyes, and muttered his wish.

As he left the clearing, an echo of his voice tumbled around the leaves; "I wish"…

Thats a wrap!

I hoped you liked it, I added more dialogue to this chapter then any of the others. I hope you like that Naruto is finally starting to make friends, anyways, please review. Um....

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