A/N: So really short chapter here today. Probably couldve put this last chapter, but I didn't. Meh, whatever. Anyway, two things. 1) go read Reaching for a dream by Noodlehammer and 2) I lied about summer being able to make me write faster. school is a way easier time to write. But on with the story!

Hope you like what I have happen to Naruto and please review...I'm lonely.

Naruto sighed as he thought back to his meeting with the fox. Now was not the time to distract himself with what the fox wanted. He had a plan and he was sticking to it. He would retrieve the scroll and documents for Mizuki and show Akira and Itachi he was still important in their friendship.

His plan to take everything was quite simple: sneak in without being caught, leave without getting caught, and get the scroll to Mizuki.

It wasn't the most complicated of ideas, but it'd get the job done.

He breathed in deeply as he watched one of the Uchiha patrols pass by the area. 'Now's my chance,' he thought, 'before they come back.'

He smiled one last time on thinking about how everything would turn out before he set off.

Akira chasing Naruto

"Naruto!" Akira yelled, "Naruto wait!"

Naruto ignored her as he kept running through the forest even though he knew it was a wasted effort. Akira has always been faster then him. Was there anything he could truly do he wondered to himself.

Before he could really ponder that thought though, Akira tackled him in-between jumps which ended with them sprawled out on the ground.

"Now listen here you," she started as she sat on top of him, "you can't just run away from the village like you are. You can't run away from me and Itachi!"

Naruto groaned from her landing and then proceeding to sit on him. "Says who?! You? Itachi? The Hokage? What does that matter?! It doesn't! So let me go!" Naruto yelled as he tried to shake her of of him.

"No!" She shouted back as she bashed his head against the ground in an attempt to stop his squirming.

Sadly it didn't work and he was able to wiggle his way out from under her.

"Just leave me alone, Akira." Naruto said while breathing heavily from their scuffle. "It's better I go. I can't trust myself here."

Akira was confused. "What do you mean you can't trust yourself?"

He turned away. "I just can't."

"That's not an answer!" She yelled back at him as she stood up herself.

"My god why can't you just leave me be?!" Naruto snapped, "you wanna fucking know why I have to leave?! Why I can't trust myself?! Because I've been lied to my whole life. I'm not Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, I'm just Naruto Uzumaki because I'm..."

Earlier where Mizuki was meeting Naruto

"...not Minato's and Kushina's child?" Naruto questioned. "I don't believe you."

Mizuki just laughed. "You can believe whatever you want, but you're not their's. Their child, Menma, was killed by the masked man on the night of his birth." He explained.

"No, I refuse to believe you!" Naruto argued.

Mizuki snorted. "Look, I'm trying to do you a favor brat, but I've gotten get going. So I'll leave these papers for you and be on my way."

And true to his word he left the pages and jumped away. "W-wait!" Naruto shouted after him, but didn't actually follow him. He looked at the documents that Mizuki left and felt himself torn by indecision and doubt.

'C-could Mizuki have been telling the truth?' He thought to himself. "No." He argued aloud. "There is no way he is telling the truth." He told himself resolutely.

"But then again," he started doubting what he knew again, "it would explain a lot."

He looked between the documents and Mizuki before he made his choice. The documents are what required his attention.

What he saw when he read them was shocking.

Mizuki had been right.

Naruto wasn't their child, the one they actually had, Menma, had been killed by the masked man who came and released the Kyuubi.

It was all right there in Minato's handwriting.

It was weird when he read the papers. The first thing he felt wasn't anger, shock, or even betrayal. No, what he first felt was relief. Relief that he wasn't one of them.

Then he thought of what this meant and he did feel anger. Pure unadulterated rage at what they kept from him, at what they lied to him about. That anger rapidly dissipated however and just left him tired.

He started laughing at it all though. A maniacal laugh. "You know what world!?" He shouted once he gained control of himself. "Fuck you and the little game you're trying to play with my life! Couldn't just leave me alone and have one thing could you? You make a mockery of me and everything I do. Why can't you just leave me out of this?!" He shouted.

"Why?!" He shouted again. "Why? Why? Why?" His shouts becoming quieter and quieter until they were a whisper.

Naruto began to sob. "No," he told himself as he tried to stem his crying, "This isn't the time for this. I can't cry. I have to get out of here."

He told himself that but he didn't move from his spot. 'Can I actually leave? Is it worth it?'

He thought on the question for a minute before the answer became clear for him. 'Yes I can, and nothing can stop me.'

At that he took off into the night going in a different direction then Mizuki.

Akira confronting Naruto

"So?" Akira asked. "Why does that matter?"

"Why does it matter? She asks," Naruto mocked before he answered her question. "Because it changes everything! Not just about my thoughts on this place and it's people, but on myself. I don't know who I am anymore Akira."

"You're Naruto, that hasn't changed." She argued. "You're still the same you."

"No, that's not what I mean. I mean my sense of identity. It's been shattered into a million pieces like broken glass. I can't fix it, I have to find a new one." He countered.

"Then find it here. In Konoha, your home." She said, almost pleading. "Why can't you do that? There isn't anything outside of here that you can't get in Konoha."

"Because I just need to get away from it all."

"No you don't! You need friends and companionship!" She protested.

"Look, Akira, nothing you say will change my mind. So just stop and let me go." Naruto said.

"Why should I? You're my friend and I have to be there for you."

"Because you don't have much of a choice." Naruto all of a sudden said from behind her back. "I wish you and Itachi's relationship the best of luck though."

"Wha-" was all she could get out about what was happening before Naruto knocked her unconscious with a swift jab at the neck.

He sent her up comfortably at the base of the tree where she would be found soon if she didn't wake up first before he headed out. He only said one thing before he left; "I'm sorry."