Yo all! Nirx here, with a adopted fic! This adoption was approved by Jinx777. I got the first seven chapters from Jinx777, and will upload the other six chapters in a bit after this one!

The Pairing is: Naruto/Erza/Kiba. Don't like it, don't read! All flames will be given to Matatabi to munch on and ignored.

Disclaimer: Like every other author here, I do not own Naruto. Naruto is owned by Kishimoto. Like every other author here, I do not make any money off of this fanfiction.

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Naruto could only stare at the people outside window, his face devoid of any expression as he stood in his dark room, as he watched them.

Mito, one of his sisters, was continually hitting and kicking a training dummy, their father Minato cheering her on from the side. On the other side of the family training ground, he could see his other sister Erza, moving through stances with a wooden sword in hand, their mother Kushina smiling as she directed her into different stances.

Both his sisters looked like mini versions of their mother, with long red hair and light purple eyes, but with three whisker marks on each cheek. Naruto looked like their father, only a lot paler and thinner. Mito was dressed in a white blows, red hakama pants, and white bandages wrapped around her hands and wrists. Erza on the other hand, like to wear armour, with a blue shirt and metal boots.

Seven years ago, on the night he was born, the Kyuubi was forcibly extracted from his mother, who had been weak from giving birth to both he and his two sisters. Luckily Minato had been able to reseal it before it could do any damage, along with just enough into his wife to keep Kushina alive. The fox was split in half, the Yin chakra being sealed into Mito and the Yang into Erza.

Unfortunately, because of the need to train them both so that they would be able to control the fox's chakra, Naruto had been all but forgotten by his parents.

It had started off as small things, like not letting him train with them, telling him to stay out of the way so he didn't get hurt, but it had gotten to the point they had almost gone out for meals and day trips without him on several occasions, only to come back for him.

Kushina and Minato didn't know he knew they forgot him, and neither Mito nor Erza would admit to it either, but he knew.

Then again, it wasn't all their fault, after all he rarely left his room after the third time they told him he couldn't train until after he started the academy.

Naruto didn't like being in the sun unless he had to be, which his family, or at least his sisters, expected was the reason for him being so pale, and also didn't like hot weather, preferring the cold.

In the right light, the young blonde's skin would look almost transparent, the fact it hung off of his bones because of how skinny he was didn't help. The fact he always had bags around his eyes only added to the creepy appearance that, according to his Erza, made him look like a walking skeleton. They didn't know why he was so thin, and his sisters always made sure he would get just as much as they did. The fact was he actually eat more than they did.

Sometimes Naruto felt like a ghost, there but unseen, talking but unheard.

He knew why his parents didn't notice him, at least he thought he did, and although he would never say anything it still made him sad. His parents thought he was weak, between them focusing their attention on his sisters, and his sickly appearance, they had subconsciously justified there blatant favouritism for his sisters.

But there was something that they didn't know, something Naruto had discovered about a year ago that he had kept a secret from his family.

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1 year ago

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He was been taking one of his midnight walks around the forest that bordered there home, he always felt more comfortable at night, and would usually sneak out after everyone else had fallen asleep, when he had stumbled across an injured hawk. It looked to have been attacked by something else, though what that may have been he didn't know, and was bleeding heavily from several deep cuts.

Naruto had known the second he laid eyes on the poor animal that it had only minutes left, though he didn't know how he knew, and slowly made his way over and sat next to the bird. He lay a comforting hand on its head, being careful to avoid the cuts, and trying to give it some comfort in its lost moments. He didn't have to wait long, within a minute of him sitting down, the bird gave one last pained cry, before falling silent and still.

That was when things got really weird.

Naruto was about to get up and leave, knowing that if he stayed out too long one of his sisters might wake up and decide to check on him, when he noticed something odd. Floating above the bird, was a strange, blue ball with a pure white core. At first he had trouble focusing on it, his eyes blurring slightly, but the more he tried to see it clearly the clearer it became.

As he stared at it, Naruto's skin slowly took on an odd grey, almost transparent shade and his eyes snuck slightly farther back into his head. It also appeared as if he was getting thinner, skin tightening around his bones to an almost dangerous degree, and his eyes slowly bled until they was nothing but pure black, even the white giving way to the darker colour.

For about a minute Naruto had just stared at the ball, transfixed at the pale light it gave off shined in his eyes, unaware of the changes, Naruto was suddenly struck with a craving. He didn't know what this thing was, if it was dangerous or some kind of Jutsu he had never heard of, but there was one thing he did know.

The pale blue ball was the most delicious thing he had ever seen, and he was going to eat it.

Slowly reaching out towards it, still not noticing the grey skin on his hands, Naruto wrapped his hands around the orb and pulled it towards him.

It was bigger than he had first realised, about twice the size of a duck egg and for a moment he was worried he wouldn't be able to fit it in his mouth, because something inside told him he needed to swallow the thing whole, but he didn't care.

Bringing it up Naruto opened as wide as he could, not realising his mouth had opened to twice what should have been possible, and shoved the orb in. For a moment Naruto feared he was going to choke as he tried to swallow, the orb seeming to get stuck in his throat, but then he felt it moving and when it passed his windpipe the young blonde took in a deep breath.

Then he felt it.

Naruto knew what chakra was and, unknown to the rest of his family, had unlocked it about a week before. He wasn't a powerhouse like his mum and sisters, but he defiantly had more than what was the norm for someone his age. And the moment the orb hit his stomach, Naruto felt his chakra increase ever so slightly, a cold sensation spreading through his body as it seemed to dissipate inside him and add to his reserves.

The grin that spread across Naruto's face would have terrified even a jounin had they been around to see it, his appearance slowly returning to normal.

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Present

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It had taken some experimenting, but in the year since then Naruto had discovered that the orbs would appear when something died, and would regularly keep his eyes out on his nightly walks. He had never actually killed anything himself…yet, but the orbs, or 'Soul' as he had started calling them, would linger for about an hour after something died.

He learned that everything but bugs would produce a Soul when they died, though if they were big enough like a tarantula or one of the mutant animals in the fenced off forest at the edge of the village there would be one. The more chakra something had when it died, the more it would increase Naruto's own when he eat the Soul, and almost every animal living in the forests around Konoha would absorb at least a little from the surrounding area over their lives.

He also found after that day he was able to see the Souls in living things, especially people, and some would look different from others. Had had seen red Souls with black centres, those ones for some reason always made his mouth water the most, even though he had never tasted one. He also saw some that were blue, but had red bleeding into them in places, leading him to believe that the red Souls were originally blue, but something had changed them.

All Ninja he had met had red spots on their Souls, some more than others, even his parents.

Then there were his sisters.

Naruto knew about the Kyuubi sealed inside them, knew that its chakra was split in half between each with just a little inside his mother to keep her alive. That was why he was only mildly surprised to see two Souls inside them, each have one blue and a red half the size that it should have been.

He sometimes wondered what it would be like to taste the Soul of a Tailed Beast, if they tasted different from the ones he had eaten from normal animals, but knew the chances of him ever getting the chance were near zero.

The only other Soul he had seen that was different from the norm was his own, that instead of being blue, red or something in-between, Naruto's Soul was a dull grey.

Turnng away from the window, Naruto moved to sit on his bed in an even darker part of his room, before looking at his hand in concentration.

He watched as it turned grey and skinnier than usual, clinging to his bones, and when that was done a light blue glow rose from it and into the air above his outstretched hand. The glow formed into a solid ball, then slowly started to shift until it looked like the hawk he had found the year before but with red eyes, the first of many he had since added to his 'collection'.

This was a another trick he had learned, though Naruto didn't know how or where the idea had come from, and would usually practice while his family were busy training without him. Naruto was able to summon the creatures of the Souls he eat, though it took the same amount of chakra to summon them as what they had added to his reserves when he eat them, so it could be a little draining. But once they were summoned, the energy constructs would do anything he asked, and were able to interact with things around them as if they were real.

He was also able to see through their eyes, which he found was very useful at times, and when they disappeared the chakra used to make them would return to him instantly.

He called them 'Spirits'.

As the bird finished forming and looked like the really thing except for the blue colour and red eyes, he was working on speeding up the amount of time it took him to summon something, Naruto brought his hand up and slowly rubbed the back of his finger along the hawks neck.

Sometimes, when his thought would take a particularly dark turn, Naruto thought that his Spirits were his only friends and would often speak to them, even if they couldn't speak back to him. Whenever he felt lonely, he would summon one just so have something there, something he could trust.

His sisters tried to interact with him, every day they would offer to help him train after their parents left, but Naruto always kept them at arm's length. He knew it was stupid to blame them for what their parents were doing to him, knew that it wasn't their fault and that they tried to convince them to change their minds regularly. But every time he saw them, Naruto was reminded that his parents loved them more then him, and it both saddened and angered him.

So he kept his distance, ignoring their attempts to reach out to him, but no matter how many times he refused they never gave up. 'Stupid Uzumaki Stubbornness' as people liked to call it, it was a trait all the women of the clan were born with, and his sisters were no expectation.

Turning his full attention to the Spirit Hawk on his wrist, Naruto let out a sigh, still listening to the sound of his family outside.

"Sometimes I wonder…would I be better off just leaving? My parents don't even want me, they think I'm weak…but that isn't how parents are supposed to act…right?"

His only reply was a slight tilt of the neck, the hawks red eyes staring at him, waiting for orders.

Letting out another sigh, Naruto waved his hand and the bird dispersed into the air, the chakra returning to him.

"Naruto-Onii! It's Erza, open the door!"

Slowly getting to his feet, having not moved from his seat on his bed for the last three hours, Naruto made his way over to the door without making a sound. He opened it just enough so that one of his eyes could be seen from the outside, the sudden light making him squint slightly, and stared at his sister without emotion, not missing the way she got uncomfortable under his gaze.

"What do you want?"

Shaking her head, and frowning at herself for reacting to her own brother in such a way, Erza cleared her throat and straightened up, looking down at him from her slightly taller height.

"It's dinner time, mum made ramen!"

Naruto's eye narrowed slightly at her words, and internally he shook his head at her excitement. It wasn't that he didn't like ramen, it was his second favourite thing to eat after Souls, but their mum made ramen every day. There was a limit to how much ramen someone could eat before it got old, and for Naruto that limit was reached about two years ago.

"I'm not hungry, I'd tell you to pass that on to mum and dad, but I doubt they will miss me."

"But-!"

Before she had time to say anymore, Naruto closed the door and slid the bolt into place, locking it.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Naruto-Onii! Come out! Please! Naruto-Onii! Mum and Dad want to talk to you!"

He ignored her, and not believing that their parents would actually asked for him after being all but forgotten since his sisters started their training, he moved back over to his bed and sat in the same place as before.

He waited for a few minutes while Erza continued to bang on his door, thanking the fact his parents had placed reinforcement seals everywhere in the house so the door didn't give under his sister's assault. When he heard her finally stop and walk away, he let out a deep sigh, only to freeze when the sound of several footsteps reached his ears.

Knock! Knock!

This time, instead of banging, the person on the other side simply knocked gently, before speaking just loud enough to be heard on the other side.

"Naruto-kun, it's mommy, your father and I need to talk with you, so come and have dinner."

Frowning, Naruto got to his and moved back over to the door, and opened it like before so that only his eye could be seen from the other side. He took in the form of his mother standing in front of him with a smile on her face, and the frowning Erza stood behind her with her arms crossed, and wondered if he could just close the door again and ignore them both.

Unfortunately he knew the door, seals or not, would not hold up to his mum if she decided to break it down.

"I'm not hungry…"

Naruto wondered if the look his mum gave him was supposed to look as condescending as it did to him, or if adults in general really thought kids were that stupid, and needed to be talked down to.

"Please Naruto-kun, you know you need to eat, you're already so thin."

He was also surprised that his mum actually new he was thin, or that she knew anything about him other than his name.

When he still didn't open the door any wider, Kushina started to frown, her arms crossing over her chest as she stared at him.

"Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, you open this door right now and sit your but down at the table! Your father and I need to talk to you over dinner."

Letting out a sigh, Naruto finally relented and opened the door just wide enough for him to step out, before closing it behind him before either Kushina or Erza had time see inside.

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Kushina could only stare at her son for a moment in worry, his ever sickly appearance always made her worried he would break in half if a strong enough wind hit him, and she often wondered if they should take him to the hospital for a check-up.

Both she and Minato had noticed something was wrong with their only son when he was a baby, even took him to get tests, and that was when they found out Naruto born with a genetic deficiency. Not only that, but before Naruto, it had never been seen before in the Elemental Nations. From what they had been told, Naruto's body didn't break down food properly, meaning that no matter how much he eat, he would always look like he was being starved.

They had actually named it after him.

Apparently, as close as the doctors could tell anyway, it was a result of him being effected by the Kyuubi's chakra while still in the womb. Mito and Erza were fine because they each had half the Tailed Beasts chakra sealed into them less than an hour after birth, but Naruto didn't,

They had actually been told that the chances of him living passed his sixth birthday was less than 40%, and that they should distance themselves as much as possible to make it easier for them. At one point they had even suggested that they give him up and put him in care, not that they would ever do such a thing.

As years went by they were forced to watch as their son appeared to waste away more and more, with nothing they could do to stop it, and despite hating it had started to distance themselves from him more and more.

When he had started asking to be trained with his sisters, Kushina had felt her heart breaking at the expression on his face when they told him no. But what else could they say, his body was fragile, and while he had now passed what the doctors told them was the danger age, he was still too young and weak for his body to train without causing more damage.

But they also knew he wanted to be a ninja, just like both of them, and just like his sisters, so they told him he needed to wait, that they needed to focus on Mito and Erza so they could control the fox.

She often wondered if it wouldn't have been better to have told the three the truth about his illness, after all they had been honest about the Kyuubi, but in the end both she and Minato had agreed not to tell him until he was older. Telling the girls about the fox had been easy, they just had to explain it in the right way so that it sounded more like a power boost until they were older and could go into more detail.

But for Naruto, it was different.

After all, how do you explain to a child that his own body was basically trying to kill him?

She knew Mito and Erza knew something was wrong, the worried looks they gave Minato and her whenever Naruto was in the same room as them, and more than once she wonder if they should just tell the two girls, but that wouldn't be fair to Naruto. So the tried to act like they didn't notice just how thin Naruto was, or pale, and had instead tried to focus on Mito and Erza to take their minds off of it.

But then a new problem had arrived, one that weighed heavily on both Kushina's and Minato's chests.

After Naruto had passed the danger age, Kushina was looking forward to getting close to her son without being afraid that he was going to die without warning, but by then it was too late. Naruto had closed himself off from them all, locking himself in his room, refusing to talk to them unless necessary, sometimes the red headed Ex-Jinjuriki worried that he might actually hate them.

He had been getting slightly better over the last year, actually putting on a little weight, though he was still white as a ghost.

It was for this reason that they had decided to start training him with his sisters before they all started the academy next year, slowly at first of course, not wanting to risk his health. If Kushina had her way he wouldn't step within ten feet of the academy, and would gladly wrap him up in bubble wrap and never let him leave the house, but she knew he wanted to be a ninja even if it might be the only thing she knew about him.

She doubted he would have the Uzumaki Solid Chakra Bloodline, his body was so weak it might actually kill him if he did, but they had set out a training schedule for him that wouldn't put him at risk.

Actually, out of the triplets, only Erza had the bloodline. Mito was more interested in Taijutsu and seals, taking more after her father. But Erza was a natural at solid chakra manipulation, and was even able to form full armour and weapons using it. The most Kushina was ever able to use it for was her infamous chains, which while useful, was not as impressive as her daughter. It wasn't uncommon for the Uzumaki bloodline to skip a generation, some people got it, while others didn't.

It was there hope that by including Naruto in the training, it would bring them all closer, and mend the gap they had formed between him and the rest of the family.

Nodding when he finally came out of his room, Kushina gave him a small smile, before leading both of her children down to the dining room. Mito was already sat at the table, and smiled at them as they walked in, sending a small wave to Naruto was he took his seat across from her while Minato brought in the ramen.

It was actually because of Naruto's illness that the family had ramen so often, the fatty broth was full of extra calories that, while not a problem for a ninja that trained often, were not the healthiest of foods. Unless that is, your body wasn't able to process food normally and you needed all the extra calories you could get, like Naruto.

Now, while it was her favourite, along with Mito and Erza's, even Kushina could get tired of the deliciousness that was ramen. But it was best thing they had found for Naruto to eat, so she made sure that he had it at least once a day, and because they didn't want to tell him he was sick until he was older, that meant they all had to have the same thing.

Taking her seat at the end of the table, Minato taking the one on the other end, the Namikaze family started to eat in silence and the only sound heard was the slurping of noodles and broth. While they were eating, Kushina kept sending her husband looks over her bowl, her eyes moving from him to Naruto, motioning for him to get on with it.

Finally relenting, Minato put his chopsticks down and cleared his throat to get everyone's attention, before turning to face their son.

"Naruto-kun, your mother and I have been talking, and we think you are ready to start training with your sisters. Of course we will have to take it easy, they have been training for longer than you after all, but by the time you go to the academy next year you will be ready."

Naruto had been expecting a lot of things, but this was definitely not one of them.

Why now, after all these years of denying him training, were they suddenly willing to teach him? Part of Naruto couldn't help the warm feeling that spread out from his stomach at the thought, they were finally going to teach him, they were finally accepting him! But those feeling were quickly pushed down to make room for something different, and the main thing he felt was suspicion.

He narrowed his eyes was his sisters started grinning, talking about all the things he would get to learn and how much fun it was going to be training together, but Naruto blocked them out, focusing on his parents as a frown crossed his lips.

Naruto had been training himself at night since before he had discovered the Souls, proving to himself that he didn't need them, that he could make himself strong without their help. He would sooner stab one of his own eyes out before letting his parents take credit for all his hard work, which would be like letting them win.

"I don't want your training."

All conversation around the table stopped at his words, four sets of eyes turning to him in confusion, before his father let out a slight chuckle, seeming to think he was making a joke.

Naruto had never made a joke in his life.

"Very funny Naruto-kun, but seriously, we are going to start you on a light workout program tomorrow to build up your stamina, and in a few weeks after you are used to that we will start working on unlocking your chakra. Then-"

"It wasn't a joke, I don't want your training, and in fact I don't want anything from you."

He saw his father's words dying in his throat, a look of shock on his face when he realised that Naruto was serious, and before anyone had time to say anything the blonde continued.

"I begged you to let me train with Mito and Erza for years, and every time you brushed me off without a second thought, so I started training myself years ago. So you can take your training and shove it up your self-righteous arse, right next to that stick you had put there."

"Naruto-kun! Watch your language, you don't use words like that in this house!"

Turning to look at his mother, her face had gone a little red face in her anger, Naruto was able to keep the indifference both on his face and in his voice.

"Fuck shit bastard bitch bugger asshole wanker cocksucker."

The shock on her face at his words would have probably made someone other than Naruto laugh.

"For seven years you ignore me, and all of a sudden you want to act like a real family? Why, what changed all of a sudden?"

Getting to his feet Naruto made to walk away, only for Kushina to try and grab his shoulder as he passed her, stopping him in his tracks.

"Naruto-kun we are going to talk about this like a family, sit back down!"

Shrugging her hand off with surprising strength given his weak and skinny appearance, Naruto turned to look at his mother with a glare full of so much hate, it made her entire body freeze in place.

"I don't need, or want, your training. Just leave me alone and do what you always do, forget about me so you can focus on Mito and Erza, I'll worry about myself."

Without another word he left the room, not even looking back at the worried faces of his family, and the now tear filled eyes of his mother.