****Winner of the Most Popular Naruto Fanfic Watty Award 2013/14**** **Currently being rewritten as the original is old and awful in this author's opinion** A coming of age story about a young Ninja, confused and hurt by the instances in her past, struggling to find her place and figure out what it all means. Can the kindness of a new Village warm a heart that time has taught to be cold and cruel? Can new friendships replace broken bonds, lost to the past? Is it safer to stay, or is it safer to run? A story not about one's physical strength, or of obtaining great power, but a story of overcoming and learning to change as old wounds heal.

Lies. Some are so tiny and insignificant, one may brush them off without so much as a second thought, never to be thought of again. Other lies are intricate, sinister. They're woven into such an elaborate and cunning web, that they wrap themselves tightly around someone and distort the truth in their very lives. Nothing is ever what it seems, but when the lies are so well hidden in such sweet words, how can one see that they're caught in the web? Aurienne Walker has always been an honest person. Riah Shiraki has always been honest as well. The two just can't seem to get along however, as Riah is not to be trusted. He's different from Aurienne and her classmates. His kind, though graceful, beautiful and full of eloquent speech, were not what they seemed. Aurienne had been raised to know better and see past their deceitful ways. She would never fall for their vile farce. But as time goes on, Aurienne will find herself stepping away from the morning sun and disappearing into the cool embrace of the night in the search of honesty. Under the watchful eyes of the moon and the stars, can Aurienne and Riah untangle themselves from a web of complicated lies that have been spun over the course of many years? Or will they both fall victim to the spider, who has awoken now that they have begun to struggle?

Two and a half years after she left the Leaf Village, we find Ashley hot on the trail of the Akatsuki. Ordered to gather as much information as she can, Ashley abandoned her training in her homeland, the Land of Ambience, to pursue the members of the criminal organization. When she finally returns home, her friends are over joyed to see her again, Kiba especially. Back together again, Ashley and Kiba are happy to continue where they left off. But what will happen when one terrible decision tears them apart again? Will they be able to make it through? Will Ashley's friends ever understand her reason for leaving them again? More importantly, is the darkness in her heart, courtesy of Hakuba the Ten Tailed Wolf, real? Does Ashley truly wish to join the other side and leave everyone she ever cared about behind? And how will she react, when the Ninja World is on the verge of the biggest War in history?