Disclaimer: I do not Own Naruto

Editor: Gijinka Renamon

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Chapter 4: Revelations

Naruto's funeral was a small and very sad one. It was dark and depressing with a rain storm that lasted the whole day. The Kohona 11 (except Naruto and Sasuke, that is) showed up to throw an orange flower on his coffin.

Ino tried comforting Hinata but she was sobbing uncontrollably. Tsuande was there and Jiriya held her, but was so sad that himself he didn't try anything. Kohonanmaru came to pay respects to his "boss" and "rival". Iruka was the one so say the eulogy. Temari who had been in town came as a "thank you" to him for "fixing" her brother.

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Meanwhile…

Naruto jumped from tree to tree as fast as he could. He was about an hour away from finding his parents. He didn't care about subtlety at this point, and slammed down hard on the tree branches as he went, cracking them and sometimes sending them falling to the ground.

"Almost there" he thought to him self as he sped towards the cavern where Orochimaru was.

"Ah, Naruto-kun, so good of you to join us." The snake-man said as the semi-blonde landed in front of him. Naruto threw the bag with the council's plans and Kagi's head at the sannin.

"There's the proof, now please tell me." The ex genin said anxiously.

"Well done Naruto." Orochimaru said as Kabuto handed the semi-blonde a folder filled with paper. Naruto rifled trough the papers.

The nothos anthropos (1) Project is an attempt to create life alternatively. All attempts save one failed. Each version of life would die after being removed form the tube or, after a certain number of days all of their cells would break down and kill them. We attempted to fix that problem in the "X" series where the creatures received an enhanced regenerative rate we copied from Kabuto. Unfortunately, the regenerative properties were highly unstable and caused blood clotting. The Project was scrapped when the Yondaime Hokage Arashi Kazama destroyed the lab where the testing took place. The only result of the "Y" series had been taken by the Yondaime who believed it was human.

"What the hell?!" Naruto yelled angrily. "You said I'd find my family!"

"Keep reading Naruto-kun keep reading." Orochimaru said his voice eerily calm.

After discovering the child was not human, the Yondaime decided to destroy it. But before he could do so The Kyubi no kitsune attacked his village. After several hours of fighting and the decimation of his ninjas. The Yondaime sealed the Kyubi into the "child" and soon died. It is believed that only Arashi and his wife knew of the "child's heritage" and they both perished in the attack.

Naruto's eyes were wide with shock.

"Is it…." Naruto asked having figured it out.

"True?" The sannin finished for him "Yes… all of… it after all why did you think Arashi sealed the demon into you? It was because you didn't deserve a life, he thought it would kill you…your whole life has been my grand way of telling Arashi fuck you." Orochimaru's face twisted in a sinister leer as he said this.

(Editor's Note: Woah…didn't see that coming.)

Naruto dropped to his knees. "No….I-it can't be true….it just can't…" But deep down, he knew it was. All the feelings of loneliness and despair it was because he was never even remotely human. And what of his old dream to become hokage? It was nothing more then a recycled version of the snake's ambition.

"What about the Kekaki Genkai?" He asked softly.

"That's just a lie Kabuto thought up to disguise you receiving some of your…..donors jutsu."

"D-donors…?"

"Myself, Arashi, the shodaime, the Nidaime, and to a much lower extent, Kabuto." The snake said with a grin. "I'm done with him; you can do what you wish, Sasuke."

The Uchia looked at Naruto as he drew his katana and placed it on his neck

"I always wondered where you got the power to fight my curse seal; it makes sense now that I think about it, you were borrowing it like a leech". Sasuke swung his Katana aiming to chop off the Semi-blonde's head.

But before the blade connected, Naruto disappeared in swirl of leaves.

"Damn it!"

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Later…

Naruto sat in a tree while a clone bought him new clothes. Normally, he wouldn't have bothered having just bought new clothes but he didn't want any connection to any of his "donors". He now wore a longer black robe that covered his face down to his mouth. Under it he wore black baggy pants and black short sleeve shirt with the kanji for "forlorn" on the front. After getting his new clothes he wandered for the next two days not stopping to eat or sleep.

He eventually found himself at Kohona where in his bewildered state he had entered. He walked up to the statue of the 4th hokage.

"The cause of my suffering." He said out loud as he pulled out his Katana, which had a kunai tied to the hilt to help with combat. He looked it over as he walked to the edge of the "greatest ninja ever"'s face, then he dropped the Katana and watched it fly down the monument. He blinked a few times then he decided to end it and did the only thing he had left in him. He jumped.

….so….yeah…….and a cliffhanger…..I'm… gonna go…. Hide…..in…my reader proofroombye….. (Takes off running)

(EN: That's it? What a rip off!)

(1) False human in Latin