Truth and Lies

by tygro

Naruto has been raised in a world of deceit. Son of a captured Iwa nin, he is lied to about his background and his life. Raised as a tool, what will happen when he discovers the truth?

1. Chapter 1

This is my 2nd Fanfic and im still relatively new to this so be nice. Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

Yondaime sat calmly behind his desk, contemplating the future in which he would not be in. Soon, it was only a matter of days, before the kyuubi arrived to Konoha, pillaging and destroying the village. He had already decided and known how the only way of defeating such beast is. By sealing it. He had known and accepted this long ago, for in exchange for sealing the beast he would lose his soul. He knew that he had to seal it into his son. His unborn son.

But that wasn't what was bothering him. He was worried about his son's well-being. Knowing that the villagers wouldn't be grateful for the sacrifice that both he and his son have made, he has made a plan. Though intricate, he was sure that it would work.

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October 10th

Standing ontop of Gamabunta's head, Yondaime now had a clear view over the village, or what was left of it. All around him, he could see death and gore. He could hear the shouts of his fellow shinobis, calling each other to retreat. He had already, informed Sandaime of his plan. Looking into the eyes of Kyuubi, he flashed through several hand-seals. It was done. A dark and powerful creature which could only be a shinigami appeared behind him, dwarfing the existence of all around it with its powerful aura. The creature's hand, reached into Minato's soul, dragging it out ever so slowly and painfully, while with the other hand doing the same to Kyuubi. Screaming silently in pain, a thin line of blood trickled out of Yondaime's mouth as he fell back to the ground, his own child clenched in his chest.

Around, dozens of shinobis came to aid their fallen leader. However, they were too late. The baby, lay their ever so silently, still in the arms of the dead man. Sandaime, quickly arrived to the scene. Holding the baby gently he made his way back to the hokage tower. Tomorrow they will grieve for another fallen leader.

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3 days later

It had been three days since the death of the Yondaime, and as the Yondiame wished, the Sandaime, Sarutobi, was already putting the Yondaime's plan into action. Of course, the council knew and approved to it. The plan was rather well thought out in Sarutobis opinion as he puffed into his pipe. He knew that his son would be badly treated in Konoha. However, it would be too suspicious if his son suddenly left without a trace. Therefore, they will 'replace' the Namikaze (Is that the right name?) boy with another. This boy, according to Yondaime had to fit in perfectly.

During the Shinobi War, several Iwa shinobis were captured and interrogated. Most of them were killed after interrogation or died during it. However there was an Iwa nin, whom happened to be pregnant at the time. They, of course locked her up instead of killing her. That was nine months ago, however, on the day before the kyuubi attack, a child was born. The boy, happened to also of had blond hair. This fitted in perfectly with Yondaime's plan for this child was none other than the child of the Iwa's Kage. A boy with great potential which can easily be brain-washed and lied to into becoming one of Konoha's greatest tool. The real Namikaze boy will leave the village and be personally trained by Uzumaki Kushina and some other Jounins to become the next possible Hokage. He would come back in 15 years time.

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6 years later, Naruto age six.

Naruto had recently achieved the rank genin, and as promised was given several scrolls as well as a raise in his allowance. He smirked ever so slightly as he entered his apartment. The apartment itself was quite ordinary with a single plain bed in one room and a kitchen in the other with a table to eat on. He sat down on his bed, sighing in relief as the muscles in his legs relaxed. He sat down reading the scrolls. The first few were jutsu scrolls which contained a couple of low leveled offensive jutsus. He continued to rummage through the new stash. He soon came upon an elemental scroll which gave instructions on how to test what type of elemental chakra a person has. He continued to look. He finally came upon a tattered scroll. Unlike the other ones, it was messily written with rips in the corner. He opened it up, curious as what was in it. Noting that it was a letter, he scanned through the contents before reading it properly.

Dear Naruto,

I am Namikaze Minato, otherwise known as the 4th hokage or the yellow flash. I don't have much time but I'll try and make this as simple as possible. I AM YOUR FATHER! (srry, was watching star wars recently and couldn't help it) You may not know but there was no coincidence with the fact that your birthday was on the same day as Kyuubi's defeat. For you see, Kyuubi was an immortal demon, well as immortal as they can get, and I could not destroy or kill him physically. Therefore, I was forced to seal him into a baby. And that baby was you. I'm sorry for the burden in which you carry but you were the only choice as I couldn't trust anyone else, or have the heart to give this burden to anyone else. For this I'm truly sorry. I know that the villagers will hate you, but you must understand that this is for the best.

I must go now. Good luck, son.

Yondaime

P.S. Don't worry about the demon bothering you, I made sure that it is safely locked up so that it cant harm you.

After reading the scroll, he lay on his bed in silence. Rereading the letter over and over again in his head. It made sense. The strange seal near his abdomen. The strange glances and hateful looks from the villagers. But most of all, what made the most sense was how the council was treating him. He wasn't sure what they were doing. They were either training a powerful tool or protecting the hokage's son. He didn't know but it didn't matter. It finally made sense.

Hopping off his bed, he made his way to the training area where he can train his new jutsu. Still, something was bothering him. He continued training.

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2 years later

Naruto jumped from tree to tree silently. The wind blew against his face as he traveled past ancient trees which dwarfed him. His chuuin green Konoha jacket and normal shinobi attire blended into the surrounding perfectly. He continued to jump. Once he completes his mission, he will finally be able to attain the rank jounin at age 9. His mission was relatively easy, kill a missing-nin, come back with the head and sword and then he will receive the rank. Normally, this was left to hunter-nins to do but this was an exception. Unlike other shinobis, Naruto was forced to be a solo team. The means that because of his 1-man team status, he had to take special tests assigned by the council and hokage. The missing nin which he was to hunt down has been in the bingo books for a while, though not strong, he had the tendencies of escaping death quite a number of times. Looking at the picture of the nin that he was given, he dashed off into the forest.

It took 3 hours to track down the shinobi using the little resources he had. He found him in a small village near rain. Naruto followed the shinobi until they reached a safe distance away from the village. Throwing a couple of kunais at the shinobi, be made a couple of kage bunshins in the cover of the greeny foliage. The missing-nin, otherwise known as Aoi, quickly deflected the kunais with the raijin.

Sending out some kage bunshins, Naruto analyzed his opponent, making mental notes about his weaknesses which seemed very many and easy to exploit. Hmmm…Relies too much on one hand…too arrogant and emotional at times…depends too much on the sword… as Naruto continued to list down Aoi's weaknesses, his clones were beginning to get overpowered and were quickly dispelled. Aoi, sensing a disturbance in one of the tree tops quickly threw a kunai, aimed to draw out his opponent.

He could see, after throwing the kunai that it worked. His opponent seemed to be a konoha shinobi. A very young one at that. He could already tell that this wasn't an ordinary shinobi. Judging from the clothes and stance in which the shinobi took, he would say that the boy was rather strong and experienced for his age. Nevertheless, the boy would die at his hands. Preparing his sword, the raijin, he slid himself into a basic kenjutsu stance. Better end this quick.

By now, Naruto had created several clones. Signaling for the first two clones to attack, he stood back. The first two quickly closed in the distance between them and were soon in striking distance. The first one, jumped up attacking the man from above whilst the other attacked from below. Dispelling one of them, he was punched by the other. The punch, he could tell, was chakra enhanced, though not powerful enough to rival a certain sannin's one, it was enough to know Aoi off his feet. It was then that Aoi realized what was happening. Behind him, was another clone. Too slow to stop or block the clone, he was brutally kicked towards another Naruto. This time, however, he was ready. Quickly switching himself with a log, he prepared himself.

The two hits were more powerful than he expected. He could feel his muscles aching and bruising from the impact. Grunting in pain, he charged towards Naruto. However, as he sliced Naruto, he disappeared in a cloud of smoke, blocking his view in all angles. Outside, Naruto finished his final handseals. "Kaze no Yaiba". Instantly, blade of wind entered the smoke, billowing it away, only to reveal another destroyed piece of wood.

Annoyed, Naruto let down his guard. This proved to be a deadly mistake. Aoi, taking advantage of Naruto, quickly striked Naruto in the head. Luckily, Naruto withdrew fast enough to make most of the attack miss him. Unfortunately, the sword made contact with his left eye, instantly frying it. Stumbling back, Naruto felt his eye. It was completely fried, he couldn't see anything from the eye.

Looking back at his hands, he saw, to his amazement that there were now slits. Without warning, the slits opened up to reveal a mouth. Looking at his other hand, he saw that the same thing had happened to the other hand. Seeing as he had no time to worry about such a thing now, Naruto quickly performed a handseal. "Tajuu Kage Bunshin" he whispered as hundreds of clones surrounded him. Using them all, they all attacked at once. It was only a matter of time before Aoi was defeated and killed. Taking the stolen sword and the head, he quickly dashed off to Konoha, wondering what the slits in his hands were. By now, the tongues of the mouth had licked off the blood on his hand. Deciding to test out the mouths, he willed the mouth to close itself. Noticing that it did just that, he began to test it out more.

Finally, after an hour, he reached back to Konoha. Making sure he hid his hands, he entered the Hokage tower. Waiting for the Hokage to finish his meeting, he couldn't help but wonder. This must be a bloodline…But I don't remember learning about any bloodline like this. Nor do I think that the Yondaime had such a bloodline. Strange…

Deciding to keep it secret, he entered the Hokage's office.

"This is the sword that you requested, the raijin," placing the sword carefully on the Hokages desk. "The mission was a success, I have disposed of the body as you asked and brought the head to the back.

Placing the sack where the head was in on the table, he continued his report. "The mission was successful though in the process I was severely injured, resulting in the loss of my left eye." Indicating the now patched up eye.

"Is there anything else?" asked the Hokage.

Ever so hesitantly, Naruto replied with a firm "No".

Nodding, the Hokage handed over the Jounin jacket. "I will see what we can do for your missing eye. You will be informed within a week. You are dismissed".

Walking out of the door, Naruto made his way home to rest.

4 Days later

Naruto stood in the middle of training ground 18. After searching the Konoha library, he came to the conclusion that this wasn't a Konoha bloodline. This led to the conclusion that this was either a new one, which was unlikely, or was one from another village, which too was unlikely.

Searching up the various villages bloodlines that Konoha knew of, he soon came across the ones from Iwa. This section, he noted was rather large compared to the others. Probably because of the amount of captured shinobis from there which they could test and write information on. It was then that it clicked. At first, it seemed absurd but he knew that it was very well possible. Looking through the vague descriptions and capabilities of the bloodlines, he came across the one that he was looking for.

Name of bloodline???

Type of bloodline: Offensive, involves the hand

Class: Class A

Description: The user can create explosives out of the 'mouths' in the hands. Explosives are usually creatures which can move around, thus making the explosives even more deadly. Thought to have different 'levels' in which the user can achieve.

It was then that Naruto started to get more suspicious and paranoid. He knew that the council had something to do with it and he didn't like it.

Stopping his training, he turned around to see a chuuin standing before him, panting slightly.

"The Hokage requests your presence at the Hokage Tower" he said while taking a couple of deep breathes before leading Naruto to the Hokage.

Upon entering the room, he saw Uchiha clan head, seated opposite to the Hokage. They seemed to of been having a deep conversation before he entered. Noticing his presence, their conversation abruptedly stopped. The Clan head turned around, acknowledging Naruto's presence.

"You sent for me, Hokage-sama?" asked Naruto as he entered the room. He could feel the Uchiha's eyes looking at him.

"Yes, come and have a seat" the Hokage gestured vaguely to the seat near the Uchiha.

Sitting down, though quite uncomfortably he looked up just as the Hokage continued.

"Recently, an Uchiha has been found dead of unknown reasons. This Uchiha was a man by the names of Uchiha Shisui. He was found dead recently and it seems that his eyes are unharmed. Clan head of the Uchiha clan," gesturing to the man next to Naruto, "Has agreed to implant one of Shisui's eyes into your damaged one. The Sharingan is in the 3rd stage meaning it has 3 tomoes. If you would please, sign this contract."

Pushing a piece of paper to Naruto, he offered a pen which he accepted. Reading through the contract quickly, he signed it with little hesitation.

"Good, we will start the procedure tomorrow, for now have some rest. Meet us at the Hospital waiting room tomorrow morning. You are dismissed." He said as he turned back to the Uchiha, seemingly in another deep conversation.

Naruto left, excitement boiled up at the thoughts of another eye. A powerful eye.

2 days later (after implant)

Naruto woke up groggily as sunlight splashed against his face. Opening his eyes ever so slightly, he couldn't help but admire the surgeon's handy-work. He could see much better than before, everything seemed more clear and precise.

Going through his normal morning chores, he noticed how the sharingan was permanently on. He could feel it digging into his rather large pit of chakra. Adjusting the cloth of his headband, he soon made it so it blocked his left eye. Leaving his apartment, he dashed off to the Hokage tower for missions.

Upon entering the tower, he was greeted by guards and the receptionist. Soon he came to the area where all the shinobis acquire their missions, whether it was a D-ranked to an S-ranked. Walking in, he came upon the hokage. Next to him was a chuuin who was holding a list which presumably held all the missions that were available.

"Ahhh…Naruto-kun, we were expecting you to be here, going to try and test out your new eye?" asked the hokage with a small smile on his wrinkly face. "Well, your in luck, we have just received a new mission from a konoha businessman. He was apparently robbed of a rather important document by a group of Iwa shinobis. Your mission will be a group mission consisting of you, Kakashi and Yamato. Your team captain will be Kakashi, he will inform you of the details." Gesturing to 2 other anbus whom revealed themselves from the shadows of the room.

Naruto frowned ever so slightly. Those two were way above his level, why was the Hokage sending him with them? And why isn't this a team mission? Normally, even in infiltration missions, he would be sent alone but for this one it didn't make sense. Sighing, he mentally added this piece of information to his growing conspiracy theory which up until now couldn't find any evidence of proving.

Naruto walked up to the two other anbus. Both dwarfed him. Looking at them, he could tell that these two were probably one of the strongest shinobis in the village.

"We are going to meet up at the west gate, I will inform you of the mission details as we go along" the man in the wolf mask said as he disappeared in a whirl of leaves. Seeing this, the other 2 followed, both disappearing.

Walking out of the west gate, the man name Kakashi began to talk. "Okay, this mission will be an S classed mission. It will involve 2 things. As you know, the first one is to retrieve the document from the Iwagakure scroll room. However, the second mission involves assassinating another man. Luckily, this man isn't a shinobi, but he does have shinobi guards. This man is a member if the Iwagakure council who has a lot of influence in the council. He might just start another shinobi war if we aren't careful. We will devise a plan when we reach our destination"

Jumping from tree to tree, the group made good progress. It was soon the 4th day and they were arriving to their destination. Iwagakure, from what Naruto could see, was perhaps the dullest place he had ever seen. Built on rocks, the buildings seemed to of blended into the ground almost perfectly. The monotonous tone completely contrasted with the bright colours in which Naruto was used to seeing in Konoha. In the cover of some boulders, the three began division their plan.

"For this mission to work efficiently, we should split up. I'll go alone and take down the man. He will be on the other side of the village. This will obviously cause some commotion and draw the attention of the Iwa shinobis. You two will go from the other side and enter the scroll room which is next to their kage tower. Understood?" He whispered as he drew a map of the village in the dirt.

Nodding, they split up.

Naruto and Yamato calmly waited in the south side, hiding under the shadows of a tall tree. They can see the gate from where they were standing. Waiting for their captain signal they waited in silence. Suddenly there was a crackle in the head phones and a voice. "Mission succeeded, currently engaging enemy shinobis. You may proceed with the second part of the mission."

Nodding, the two dashed off, quickly taking out the guards without drawing too much attention. Speeding past the now deserted buildings, they came arrived to a wide stone building. It was the scroll room. Signaling for Naruto to enter, Yamato guarded the entrance.

Entering the cool stone room, Naruto quickly lit a torch. He knew he didn't have much time. Performing a kage bunshin, 10 Narutos were now in the center of the room. Signaling them to start searching he indicated an area in which they can search. The scroll room, he could see, was quite big. The room was littered with scrolls of all sorts, each neatly stacked in a rack. Noticing that he still wasn't making much progress, he created more Kage bunshins to help the search. Soon a clone came back to him holding a scroll. This scroll however wasn't the one that the mission was looking for. It was labeled Nendo Clan Techniques (I dunno Deidera's clan name so im calling it nendo or clay.)

Intrigued, Naruto hastily opened the scroll. Inside was a list of jutsus and fighting techniques of the Nendo clan. Quickly reading through it, he hid it in his bag. Grinning, Naruto sent the clone back to search for the document.

It took about another 5 minutes before they had finally found the scroll. It was relatively new, maintaining its clean and white quality. Taking the scroll back to Yamato, they quickly left the village undetected. Meeting up with Kakashi a couple of miles away from the village, they quickly left for Konoha once more.

Handing over the head of the businessman and the scroll, the received their pay and left the building, each to their own separate ways.

Naruto, walked towards the training area. Walking into training area 8, he took out the scroll and began to read it, every so often looking at his slitted hands. Hmmm…interesting. Getting up, he gathered some clay.

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Okay, that's the first chapter of my second fic. R&R plz. Tried to make it a bit longer than the other one but its only a bit longer…

For those whom are still confused, Naruto ISNT yondaime's son. It was all part of the plan.

Happy to answer questions, know that some of it isn't described in enough detail. Anywayz, till next chapter.

Ja ne