Hello friends and others! Welcome to the site of my Naruto fics, rants, and overall randomness. I must warn you that I read the manga more than I watch the anime, and I am currently waiting for chapter 442 and read the updated chapter every Thursday - I read the chaps at onemanga.com if you have any interest. They are absolutely amazing. - Now because of this any of my rants may contain spoilers, but I'll be sure to warn of them in the heading in case you guys don't want to read them.
Here is a video that a friend of mine made for me using my favorite song!

Alrighty, that is about all from me. Now go out and enjoy all things Naruto!
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Explanations

Okay, I figured I needed to clear some things up. Not trying to be rude, but just to get the info out and because I was bored and looking for something to do.
First, my fic Liar is not SaixNaruto pairing! I just put it from Sai's perspective because he fit the best. ~I'm not trying to point fingers, but I get that a lot and I personally do not like yaoi and am not trying to promote it.~
Second, in Good Game the people who died were just for the sake of the story to make it flow right. They don't all die in the manga, but I can't promise that none of them do die in the manga since I am not the author.
Third - this is definitely just for me -, my new fic True Self was meant to be about the length of Liar or longer and a serious fic but I messed up and ended with this. I just figured that people might enjoy something to laugh at every now and then from me instead of continual angst and death. I am working on what I meant to do with the fic right now so if you don't like the humor the depressing will be back soon.
Oh, and thank you guys so much for your support and comments! I love them!
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True Self

Naruto grunted in annoyance as his sensei staggered and weaved in front of him. For what seemed like the hundredth time that month Jiriaya had gotten drunk instead of training Naruto like he had said the whole trip was for. Tonight he was so intoxicated that he was barely upright, swaying dangerously with each step but Naruto was to pissed off at him to try and help.

The pair was within a block of the hotel where they were staying when Jiriaya suddenly stopped in the middle of the road. It was so abrupt that Naruto had to backpedal quickly in order to not run into him. Unexpectedly Jiriaya turned around and stared Naruto in eyes, oddly bright and attentive for someone as drunk as he. He looked like he had just figured out the answer to life.

Exasperated and expecting it to be one of his stupid, drunk ideas Naruto testily asked, “What do you want, Ero-sennin?”

Slowly Jiriaya lowered himself so he was level with Naruto’s face. “Why do you act so stupid all the time?” Naruto could only stare in shock as he continued. “We both know that what most people see from you is just a front and you are really much stronger than they think. I have seen what you can really do, is it really worth it to limit yourself to keep up your image of a dumb kid? You really should be yourself more often.”

“Nani?!” Naruto gasped – Jiriaya was never this serious when he was drunk! Why would he now of all times to discuss Naruto’s acting?

Without warning Jiriaya started grabbing at the air, giggling. “The butterflies are everywhere! I have to catch one – they’ll give me good luck with woman.” He told Naruto knowingly.

That was the last straw for Naruto. Without any remorse he bashed Jiriaya up side the head, knocking him cold on the ground. He stared at his prone sensei and plotted what he would do with him know to get back for being so idiotic. “Well,” he muttered as he began pulling Jiriaya along, “you wanted me to show my true self.”

Good Game

Good Game
Just as every child needs affection and attention of some sort to be able to live, every child needs games and activities to be able to grow and shape their personality. Most children fulfill this by spending time with their family and friends, learning from their actions and creating their own, but when a child has no one to turn to what do they do? There is the choice to become a social outcast or to observe, interpret, and come up with one’s own activities.

I chose the second option. That is how I have survived.

For the first part of my life I was in an orphanage and was at least able to learn some basic games and grow with some of the kinder children, but after I was thrown out by the caretakers I had no one. So I learned to improvise.
On my sixth birthday, as I sat deep within the forest surrounding Konoha, I came up with a game that I could play by myself. I didn’t realize then how much it would shape my life – it’s odd how looking back you can truly see how the little things affect our lives.

The game was a simple one; all I had to do was smile. No matter what would happen I had to keep smiling until someone called my bluff and they would win. I didn’t bother to set up a way that I could win thinking that because the villagers always told me they were better than me I would never be able to win no matter how I set it up. Skewed I know, but at that time that is what I believed.

So I’ve been playing my game for the last 12 years and I guess you could say that I am winning. I have had this smile on my face through beatings, failing the genin tests, failing the chunin exam, being stabbed through the lung by my ‘best friend’, Gaara’s kidnapping, and being blamed for every single problem my teammate had with her life. Through Jiriaya’s, Grandmother Chiyo’s, Haku’s, Hinata’s, and Kakashi’s death I kept that stupid little grin on my face. No one expected anything else even though it is inhuman to be able to smile through all of that.

But worse than that I have to admit I’ve been cheating over the years to help everyone else out. Like any other game, it gets boring playing the same thing every day and when it became clear that they would need help to be able to win I would stop smiling. There were times when I would let the tears or anger out and then when someone would come I would hastily smile and say it was all fine, lying through my teeth and trying to get them to understand. No one picked up the discrepancies. I even went so far sometimes as to show skills that according to other’s knowledge I had no right of knowing. When I would beat Sasuke at practice and Sakura would only hit me for hurting him or when I defeated Atkatsuki the win was attributed to others that only helped on the sidelines who were more popular heroes than the demon container.

It was infuriating. No matter how high the odds were stacked against me in my game I would always win. No one could see the real me, the animal I really am on the inside no matter that I stopped just short of ripping out their throats at times.

I’ve said before that the little things that happen are what really shape and change our lives and because of those ‘little things’ here I am on my 18th birthday standing atop my father’s head carved into the cliffside of Konoha. Little things add up over time and become a mountain that I am facing this day, the official end of my game. For twelve years exactly I have played this game and no one has seen what was right in their faces because it was not what they wanted to believe. Today I am going to take my prize for winning at long last.

One last time I closed my eyes and took a deep breath reviewing the current state of things. Sasuke is the current Hokage after Tsunade was killed by Danzou who was in turn was killed by Sasuke. Sakura is ‘happily’ married to Sasuke as he sleeps with whoever he wanted to. The original Rookie 9 is down to only five – team 7, Ino, and Kiba. Team 11 was broken forever by the death of Lee and Gai leaving Neji to become the caged bird he used to compare himself to while Tenten had deserted the village after Tsunade’s death. I myself was supposed to be under house arrest for a trial that was supposed to take place today. I was to be charged on accounts of killing the previous Hokage and leader of the special ANBU force, Root, with only torture and death to come after.

Slowly I let my breath out, letting all of my worries flow out at the same time. I formed a Rasengan in my hand with that breath and once it was gone from my body I shoved the ball of chakra deep into the head of the Yondaime, crumbling the once solid stone. I plummeted down to the ground with the debris, landing on both feet with five tails swirling behind me and a sixth forming steadily.

As I fell to all fours and gave into the Kyuubi’s chakra all I could think was good game.

Liar

Everyone knows that Sai lies. The first time he had lied to his new teammates they had missed it, but had picked up almost everyone after that. After a while he realized it was pointless to try to lie to them and just kept up the habit a...

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