Still haven't found a beta. I sent a few requests, but none have responded so far. Thanks for your guys' reviews! I feed of them! Muahahahahahahaaa. *Cough*Cough* Not really. Anyways, in other news, we have a new character being introduced, no, he isn't an OC like Perrie, you guys will recognize him. That I am sure of. Anyways, thanks for hanging on for so long. I have another excuse! This computer gets slower to respond as I move the mouse. In about an hour, the mouse doesn't move... Its not as bad as having that other virus, but still quite annoying. I really need to get a new computer, or super duper anti virus software. Anyways, if your still reading this, than thanks ^.^ I think that I might finally be getting back on the ball again. But I still need to manage my time better. But enough with my personal life, on with the show!

"Speach"

'Thoughts'

"Demonic/Higher Power speaking"

Vibrations Chapter 8:

Facing Temptation

It was noon; a couple of days after Naruto had made his first friends. The academy was full, and it was time for lunch.

Chaos would ensue.

Kids poured down the small staircase like a waterfall from the door. Naruto barley survived, and his legs had gone numb for several seconds before the chorus of vibrations subsided, and the grass and dirt acted as a muffler.

He had decided today, that instead of watching his… friends (the word still hesitated through his brain every time he thought it, too overcome with emotion to think properly) eat, he would practice his chakra exercise.

The sun kissed blond darted through the masses of students, intent on taking a few leaves from the tree the swing was hanging from. As he plucked the leaves, he thought he heard a whisper of otherworldly words. Whispers that he couldn't make out. Sorry. Naruto thought to the tree, before turning around and heading for the staircase, heading back into the academy and allowing his feet to travel down the path he now knew so well on their own.

Maybe the guys could help me with my training! Thought Naruto, Maybe they could teach me how to complete it!

With that hopeful thought, the blonde opened the door to the roof.

"Hey, guys!" Naruto called down to the group situated near the corner of the roof.

Kiba looked up, "Hey, Naruto, welcome back!"

Naruto would never get tired of hearing that.

The blond walked over to the group, and sat in between Shikamaru and Chouji, "Sorry I'm late."

"Its fine." Replied Chouji.

"We saw you going out with the others towards the eating area. We thought you weren't going to join us." Said Shikamaru.

"Nah, I just had to get this!" Naruto replied happily, holding out his hand so that each boy could see the leaf, "Sensei gave me a chakra control exercise. I have to envelope the leaf with my chakra, then lift it."

"Really? I had to do that a year ago." Said Kiba.

"You did?" Questioned the blond. "What about you two?" Naruto asked Shikamaru and Chouji. Naruto was dismayed when they both nodded their head, "Am I the only one who didn't get this?"

"Probably not." Mumbled Shikamaru, "We had the training before you only because we come from a family made up of ninjas."

Naruto's eyes fell, thinking about family. Just that simple word filled him full of hope. But he knew he would never get what he wanted. He glanced back up again, "Could you guys help me?" he mumbled.

"Sure!" Kiba was more then happy to. "Whacha' stuck on?"

"I can envelop half the leaf with my chakra, but from then on, I can't."

"Show us." Chouji asked.

Naruto shrugged his shoulders. "Fine." The boy attempted to cover the leaf in chakra, closing his eyes as he dove into the depth of his reserves.

As the other boys watched on, they felt a mass of chakra enveloping around the stem of the leaf, before prodding its way upward. What they couldn't see was the mass continuing and starting to shake, unstable. The chakra closed halfway around the leaf, the other half of the leaf still bare. The line where the chakra ended and the bare part began was not clear though. There were wisps of chakra lacing outwards, trying to enclose the rest of the leaf, but failing. Somehow, Shikamaru was able to sense that.

Naruto opened his eyes, looking at his friends, "Well?"

Shikamaru was the one who answered, "It looks as if too much of your chakra outside of your body allows the chakra to become unstable, preventing it from going further."

Naruto blinked his eyes, catching what the other boy had said, but was confused as to why that was. "How'd you know all that?"

"I listen, here and there." Responded Shikamaru mysteriously.

Naruto sighed after watching Shikamaru unintentionally state his problem. His problem was something he could not help, nevertheless… "So what do you think I should do?"

"I think you should get the smallest amount of chakra you can get, and spread it the thinnest you can over the leaf."

"Ok." Naruto responded, and he continued to do just that.

Naruto stole as much chakra as he could from the amount he had on his hand, without withdrawing it completely. He then began to spread it out over the leaf, and found, to his surprise, that it stretched entirely over the leaf. Naruto blinked, then began to lift up the leaf, everyone watching him.

Before it got half a centimeter, the leaf wobbled, and the stem dipped and fell back onto his palm. A split second after that, the chakra vanished into the environment, and the leaf ended back fully on his palm.

"That's better then what I did when I first got help on that." Muttered Kiba, before taking a bite of his sushi.

"Keep practicing, the second part is always harder. Or at least that's what happened to me." Said Chouji, his words directed at Naruto.

"Thanks, I will." Naruto replied.

The corner of the rooftop quieted down as the boys ran out of things to say. The sky overhead was clear, and the sun was in the center of the sky, as if it was centering itself around the boys.

Naruto had never asked Kiba why he had never given him the signal, for his prank on Mizuki, and Naruto figured that it was because Mizuki always kept an eye on the class. He was the first good assistant teacher. But something about pranking -even if his first and only prank was never fulfilled- felt right to Naruto. The thought put behind it, and the complexity of the mechanics of the prank. Something about pranking made him want to do it again, maybe to see the reactions of the students. Besides, it seemed as if it was a great mask, a way of deception.

Maybe it was one of those reasons, or all of them, or none at all, that made Naruto say what he said, "Do you guys want to help me with a prank?"

Needless to say, there was a lot of mischief going on up on the roof that day. But only twenty minutes after, the bell rang again, and the boys ducked down into the building once more.

The rooftop grew silent again, in the absence of the usually loud boys. The only sound came from the howling wind. The sky above was quickly being covered with clouds, dark and menacing on the horizon. The air began to have a buzz-like quality to it, as if electricity hung in its depths. The birds watching Naruto flew away, ducking below to find safety in the hollow of a tree. The incoming rainstorm would last for a while, they figured.

"Did you see what that boy did?" asked the robin.

"Yes." Said the raven, landing in a tree hollow "It was… incredible. That may be why some humans and human cities feel weird when we come near them."

"But I know we have whatever it was." Argued the robin, alighting along side the raven. "I've felt it, even if it was not in such an amount."

The two birds though over it, busying themselves by preening their feathers of the rain.

"Do you think…? Do you think maybe, that we might be able to do that if we tried?" asked the robin, his black eyes glowering with an emotion that was hard to interpret in the coal depths of his eyes.

The raven's beak opened, and a harsh, raspy sound left his throat. It took awhile for the robin to realize that the raven was laughing.

"Good joke. You almost had me going there for awhile." The raven said after he had gotten his laughter under control.

"Yep, it was funny, alright." The robin did not look humored, but the raven never noticed. What if humans weren't the only ones to do those things? What if ravens and robins and foxes and bears and dear could learn to use what the humans called chakra? What then?

It was 2:30, and Naruto's class had just ended thirty minutes ago. Naruto was now prowling around the streets, trying to find something interesting to do in the safest hours of the day of his schedule.

The streets of Konoha were busy, and it was not to say that Naruto was safe from the glares. He never was. As long as there was someone on the street, there was always a glare.

Naruto's feet took him past the main districts, and into the edges of the village.

Naruto had never been to this side of the village. In the day he had always been at the academy or at Ichiraku's. At the night it was normally too dangerous to wander around, period. But even in the longest of his spare times, Naruto had never led himself in this direction, for their was an aura about it, one an ninja-in-training would probably never understand until they were out of the academy.

Now Naruto found himself to be traveling around the area. Finding weapon shops for ninjas he never knew existed, restaurants that carried fast healthy food, and clothing stores that held all the necessary clothing for civilians and ninjas.

Naruto wondered why he had never wandered around in this district before, and found himself regretting that he never visited this area before, because, surprisingly, he was getting little to no glares aimed in his direction. For once, Naruto found himself liking a place, not only for its looks, but the people in it.

Naruto smiled a true smile as he walked down the roads. For even if no one paid attention to him, no one looked like they despised his utter being, either.

His feet soon left that place though, after walking around in circles for a while, and he found himself nearing a clearing. In fact, it was several clearings, each one blocked off from each other by a part of the forest or a section of chain linked fences.

Naruto neared one clearing, peering between the links of the fence, and gasped at what he saw.

There were three logs stuck in the ground near the center of the field. The two outer logs were covered with fabric and hay that seemed to have been made quickly and recently to resembled humans. A half circle of trees outlined part of the clearing, the other part outlined by the chain linked fence Naruto was starring through. But that was not what had gotten Naruto excited. What had gotten him excited was the black clothed man staring at the middle log. The man seemed to go into some trance, before spinning his hands in handseals so fast that Naruto could not make out a single one. His handseals were done in under a second, and in that second, the man had jumped high up above the ground. The man appeared to take a deep breath, before blowing out a billow of fire. A fire so hot that the middle log was not charred, but burned to ashes. As the man came down, there seemed to be a brief flicker near his arms, before the man finally came to a rest on the ground. Naruto looked back at the logs, and tried to keep his mouth from opening in shock at what he saw. It seemed as if, in that brief millisecond where it seemed to flicker near that mans arm wasn't a flicker, but the man throwing kunai he seemed to have pulled from thin air. The two logs that looked like men had kunai embedded in every inch of the men's bodies, at least its front. The logs now looked like metal.

After the brief glint of awe died out in Naruto's eyes, he began to think of what that man had just done. And he shivered in fear.

The destruction that the man had just caused, without even looking winded, scared Naruto. Was that what others could do after training; that display of power that didn't even take away any noticeable amounts of energy from your reserves?

Power like that… If he could harness it…

A tendril of thought slipped into Narutos mind, being from another source. If he had that power, think of what revenge he could cause on the village! With all the pain and suffering they had caused him, they would finally get what they deserve: punishment for their sins. Maybe torture, maybe death.

In that instant, Naruto became what the people feared, a demon.

Naruto reared on the thought. That thought, that hideous thought that turned him into what everyone called him, that proved the villagers right; that proved, that he was a demon.

Naruto came back to his senses and that thought was rebuked. He was repulsed by that thought. He was repulsed that he had even thought it! What good would it do, to become what everyone feared when he only wanted to be liked, loved, if he dared to think that.

Naruto no longer cared about the ninja, who had spotted him and was slowly heading towards him. He only cared what he had thought, and what he had thought was evil. What scared him the most, was himself. What he never knew, was that the thought had not come from himself. The thought had come from a fox that thought he was so sly and clever, from a fox who was still in pain from the fall of his pride. That fox was still enraged at what had happened years ago, for he was never one to let go of things. Grudges hung onto his mind like dirt to a new white carpet. But everything has a turn back. For every grudge, the burden on his back had become heavier; his mind grew old, and his heart numb, until one day, when his heart refused to respond at all, physically and mentally, and the demon was finally born.

But the boy knew none of this at all, and he refused to consider the fact that it was supposedly a temptation; although that temptation had failed, utterly. What the fox would never know, was that it was this attempt that made the boy turn away at all his future attempts. That, if he had just waited a few days longer, he would have succeeded in his seducing.

But the fox was to know none of that.

The boy, too overcome with emotion, did not know of the vibrations the mans footsteps made, until a hand was placed on his shoulder.

Reality snapped back into place.

"Ahh!" The boy yelled, turning to face the man. Fear of himself was quickly replaced by fear of the unknown. A man with coal black eyes stared into Narutos ocean blue ones.

The man paused for a bit before speaking, "Who are you?"

Naruto managed a throaty rasp, "Naruto."

The man looked down at the boy, and kneeled to his height, "I'm Uchiha Itachi."

The absence of noise was almost defining to Itachi, " Do you know where we are?" His voice carried on, but in the silent mind of Naruto, the words were mouthed out.

"No… Itachi-sama." All of Narutos bravado and cunningness failed when he was in this mans presence. He knew that this man- Itachi- was not one to be trifled with. He also recognized the name, Uchiha, and corresponded it with one of the symbolic families in Konoha.

"You do not have to add any title."

"Ok."

Itachi moved on to another subject, "These fields are for training." He gestured around the two, "Ninjas can practice jutsu or taijutsu, or any other type of training there is here. They can even request the area to be fenced off when they rent the field." Itachi pointed to the fence behind him that blocked the field he had just used, "Ninjas training should not be interfered with, unless the person that does interfere has a death wish."

Naruto did not know what Itachi was trying to say for sure, but he suspected that it was the friendly way for saying, 'don't spy on me or any other person again', "Sorry Itachi sir, wont happen again."

Naruto bowed his head, in fear of being ridiculed, but when he spied upward at the mans face, he was surprised that the man was lightly smiling. But it was a smile so small that few could read it. 'What?' "I don't know what's so funny to you." Naruto spoke, now slightly offended because the man seemed amused at what he said.

Itachi answered, "You are the last person I would expect to act like him."

"Huh?" Naruto cocked his head, confused.

"Never mind." The man stood up, standing well over two and a half feet above Naruto, "Do you need help getting home?"

For some reason, this struck Narutos pride. "I can get home myself, thank you."

Naruto started to walk away from Itachi, realizing he had no idea where he was going, when Itachi called out, "The village is the other way."

Naruto never heard him, but for some reason, his face flushed and Naruto turned around, "I know where I'm going!" But it was said only to reassure himself.

For an hour, Naruto traveled around the woods, hopelessly confused. His mind wandered to the plan that he and his friends made, the prank that they were going to pull on the substitute, Mizuki. Naruto chuckled inwardly, but put his focus again back on getting home. He traveled around the woods for some time more, when he came to a clearing he recognized, and despised.

The clearing where he killed a woman.

Naruto fell to his knees, and cried.

The most intense feelings he had boxed, and now, with no one as a witness. He let it out.

It would be an hour more before Naruto was ready to go home. And in that hour, as he viewed down at his hands, he saw the red blood that he had imagined, for so long now, was dripping into the ground. His soul unscarred.

Naruto wiped the mucus and tears from his face, relieved.

Maybe he would come back here again; for he had not visited this clearing in nearly a month. And, after all, he had discovered many things here about himself, hadn't he?

Naruto followed the path that he had not traveled for many nights. Glad that he finally recognized where he was. He was disappointed to learn how far he still had to go to get home, but he didn't mind the travel, for he had many things to think about.

As Naruto walked home that night, his soul was refreshed, cleansed with tears.

The night was still young, but Naruto lay in his bed, reflecting all that had happened, and all that he had learned this day. He silently chuckled in his mind when he thought back to what they had planned for Mizuki. It was going to be one heck of a week, Naruto figured. Full of screaming girls and spiders, and maybe, just maybe, they might have a new substitute when all was done.

His mind blatantly soared over the events that had happened at the clearing. Not needing to review what had happened. For his soul had given himself a presence of peace, and all that needed to be thought on the matter had been thought of. He did though think of Itachi, and he wondered whether or not he knew the man, for Uchiha sounded like a familiar name. Then his mind remembered.

At school, during the roll-call that was now becoming second nature for Naruto to respond to, an Uchiha Sasuke was called. Narutos final thought, before sleep took him to a different place, was him wondering if both of the Uchiha's were closely related.

Then Naruto dreamed.

In case you guys are wondering, Naruto's dream will be in the next chp. It seems as if this part of the story (where Naruto is a young kid) is going to be allot longer then I thought. Sorry about that. And for you guys impatient about Naruto learning of the fourth... well.... let me just say, Naruto's dream will be important to you. I had Naruto go back to the clearing, because I thought that he wouldn't come to terms with what happened until he actually faced his fears head on... Or in this case, the clearing head on. Even after all this, Naruto will still have some doubts. But he wont recognize them for what they are. At least, not yet.